Game endings that disappointed you *here be spoilers*

[Ascarus]

most game endings don't satisfy me ... i typically feel a somewhat let down. especially when you consider how excellent some games pre-release cinematics are.

that said, what aggravates me more than anything is when there is additional content after the interminably long credits role. i hate that. put it at the end or leave it out.

 

[ckam]

A Troper?! Anyways, mine would be ... Halo 2, I guess.

 

[Kapol]

I have been dissapointed by the endings of so many games that I can't start counting them.

I would like to mention though, that the ending of Alan Wake dissapointed me at first, but after thinking about it I managed to make sense out of it. It was brief, but the dissapointment was still there.

I loved that game... Especially the ending! It's so complex, and I love it.

Hmm... As for mine. Just Cause 2. Anyone else who played it will agree when I say the following.

What the FUCK?

I also loved Alan Wake, including the ending. Yes, it was a bit of a WTF moment, but in a good way in my opinion. Plus, there's still that weird line that's said during the tutorial level about "to it's shores I've been" or something like that, and how it could tie into the ending.

Also, I know what you mean with JC2. The ending seemed a bit... rushed. Then again, most the story did anyways. I like how

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at the end you're suddenly riding nukes before sending the last active one right into an oil field, the effect of which you never get to see. It just seemed like it just slamed the ending on near the end.

My most disappointing ending would have to be Limbo.

Spoiler: My problem with Limbo's ending

I mean, suddenly you're back in the swamp area from the beginning, with the only explination as to why being that you flew through a window of some sort. You forward until you see your sister, but no actual interaction further then she sees you happens. I know a lot of people might say "well it's supposed to be for each person to interpret" but I disagree. This is a game that gave no story at all and tried to make itself seem deep. People just added meaning to it that wasn't really there. Even Braid, which had you reading text to find out what was going on, was better in that you could actually get an idea what was happening in some sense.

 

[Nieroshai]

An ending I really hated? Halo 3. Why? Because of the Legendary ending.

Spoiler: Legendary Ending

Master Chief lives but is frozen in cryosleep and Cortana is watching over him. Meanwhile, the ship half floats by an ominous-looking planet that looks mechanized. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yygn_vlH5a4

What's wrong with this ending? Well, maybe it's because, I don't know, BUNGIE ISN'T GOING TO MAKE HALO 4!!! THAT ENDING WAS POINTLESS! Are we supposed to be content that he survived, or do we want to actually know what happened? What adventures he may face? The regular ending wraps up the series nicely, with closure, but then the Legendary ennding goes ahead and says "LOL JK we didn't REALLY mean the series is over. Buy our games!"

The Legendary endings for the Halo games are considered non-canon. Check the Halo 1/2 Legendary endings, they're clearly non-canon.

Did Bungie say this, or are you just guessing. Halo 1 doesn't count because it showed Sgt. Johnson about to die, but Halo 2's legendary showed Cortana being taken by Gravemind. Which happened.
Halo wasn't planned at first to have sequels, but Halo 2 was.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

An ending I really hated? Halo 3. Why? Because of the Legendary ending.

Spoiler: Legendary Ending

Master Chief lives but is frozen in cryosleep and Cortana is watching over him. Meanwhile, the ship half floats by an ominous-looking planet that looks mechanized. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yygn_vlH5a4

What's wrong with this ending? Well, maybe it's because, I don't know, BUNGIE ISN'T GOING TO MAKE HALO 4!!! THAT ENDING WAS POINTLESS! Are we supposed to be content that he survived, or do we want to actually know what happened? What adventures he may face? The regular ending wraps up the series nicely, with closure, but then the Legendary ennding goes ahead and says "LOL JK we didn't REALLY mean the series is over. Buy our games!"

The Legendary endings for the Halo games are considered non-canon. Check the Halo 1/2 Legendary endings, they're clearly non-canon.

Did Bungie say this, or are you just guessing. Halo 1 doesn't count because it showed Sgt. Johnson about to die, but Halo 2's legendary showed Cortana being taken by Gravemind. Which happened.
Halo wasn't planned at first to have sequels, but Halo 2 was.

I'm not sure if they said it but I think the Halo community believes it to be non-canon.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

...Army of two the 40th day.

I'm not saying that the story of either of the games was anything special but the end of 40th day basically makes it clear that you are being punished for playing the game. After 8 odd levels or so the game decides to kill the sidekick for no reason (the one you worked your ass off to save in the first game) then instead of a last boss you get to decided to either kill the bad guy and possibley doom shang hi (its never made clear if the city is destroyed) or you kill your friend and the guy pushes the button to blow up the city anyway but it turns out it was a hoax.

The sad part was that i was actually kind of having some fun up until that part. now i'll likely never play another one of the games again.

I actually liked that one a bit. I enjoy it when the ending of a game is bleak and miserable, or betteryet ending in a personal tragedy (like a certain currently popular game). It's a nice break from "Great work, hero!" or "And then everything died". Even better, do it Mass Effect style, with you still questioning whether the huge decision you just made was the right one. It's a perfect note to go out on, leaving us pondering our choices.

Assassin's Creed Two: <spoiler=Spoilaaarrz>It was totally fine when it was just Past and Future generations fighting past and future Templars, but then they introduced all this sci-fi-religious-complete-bollocks-y-shit and then there's this ALIEN (I shit you not) telling you that Humans are based off a race that came before them or some pointless shit, and that the world's going to end. THE FUCK?!! Way to pointlessly skullfuck something to the point I refuse to play Asslicker's Creed again.[/spoiler]

I liked that one too. The devs took a huge risk, and the question "What the hell were they thinking?" just makes me more excited for part three. The ending almost seems based on scientology, and hearing a version of that story with more stabbing and less bullshit could be interesting (sorry if any of you are scientologists).

yeah no, its one thing to have a bleak ending but not when it makes you feel like you've wasted your time playing the game. Kane and Lynch is another example where once your done with the game you ask your self "why did i go through all of that if i was just going to get shit on?"

In a game you need to feel like you've acomplished somthing wether its saving the girl or helping to destroy the world. In Army of two the 40th day you feel like everything you did was for nothing.

Reach had a good use of bleak ending. (SPOILER) you die but your actions end up saving humanity in the long run.

 

[Neuromaster]

Spoiler: Fable II

For aforementioned reasons. Hell, if you let Lucien blab on long enough, Reaver will shoot him for you.

Spoiler: Fallout 3

Give me ONE good reason Charon or Fawkes couldn't have safely made the trip into the microwave for me.

Spoiler: Mafia II

Wait what? I was ready for the next mission.

Spoiler: DAO's Witch Hunt DLC

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-

 

[Buizel91]

Kotor 2...

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Yey! you killed Kreia and all the Sith!...Now i will just fly away and start the credits, hope your happy!

MW2...

I acctualy thought their would be another Mission...how wrong i was -_-'

Farcry 2...

Don't get me started i wanted to know what happened to the

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Jackel!!!

So many games have terrible endings, best i have seen is War for Cybertron and Halo Reach

 

[Buizel91]

An ending I really hated? Halo 3. Why? Because of the Legendary ending.

Spoiler: Legendary Ending

Master Chief lives but is frozen in cryosleep and Cortana is watching over him. Meanwhile, the ship half floats by an ominous-looking planet that looks mechanized. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yygn_vlH5a4

What's wrong with this ending? Well, maybe it's because, I don't know, BUNGIE ISN'T GOING TO MAKE HALO 4!!! THAT ENDING WAS POINTLESS! Are we supposed to be content that he survived, or do we want to actually know what happened? What adventures he may face? The regular ending wraps up the series nicely, with closure, but then the Legendary ennding goes ahead and says "LOL JK we didn't REALLY mean the series is over. Buy our games!"

The Legendary endings for the Halo games are considered non-canon. Check the Halo 1/2 Legendary endings, they're clearly non-canon.

Halo 2's is,

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You see Cortana with the Gravemind in high charity...where do find her in halo 3? High Charity with the Gravemind...

or is their a different one?

So halo 3's might be

Halo: CE isn't for obvious reasons...

 

[Tukadian]

The original Rampage for the NES. I played through like 8 hours of building smashing with my brother, switching off to stave off arthritis or carpal tunnel, and all we get as a reward for or tirelss efforts? A black screen, small white letters, that simply say "Congratulations." Most anti-climactic ending ever for me.

 

[spartan1077]

RE5:

Spoiler: "RE5 Spoiler of ending

You both do some boss battle with mutant Wesker and then you shoot Rpgs and he dies... He survives gun shots lava and then rockets kill him...no no no no non on nononononono I DONT BELIEVE IT!

Army of Two: 40th day

Spoiler: ARGH

so you go through the whole game with your friend and then you shoot him. Me and my dad played this and he picked to kill me.. p***ed me off

SSC:

Spoiler: ARGH AGAIN

co-op specifically because at the end instead of being able to talk to eachother while in cover yellign something like, " I TRUSTED YOU" and then "YOU WERE TRYING TO KILL ME THIS WHOLE TIME". and then Huh? lets go kill that rat basterd... and you die anyways no matter who shoots who!

 

[PureChaos]

Majora's Mask ending was disappointing. granted the game itself wasnt great overly great but the ending to OoT was great, i was hoping for much more the what MM gave me.

 

[Captain Pirate]

She's not a god either (unless your definition of xis god simply a superior being)z, just part of an extinct and superior race.

Working from memory here:
They created the humans to use as slaves (unlock the Truth video) and when Adam and Eve escaped they rebelled. Then a catastrophe happened which left both races with small numbers, and somehow they know it's going to happen again. Oh, and my bet is on them creating humans through the use of genetic alterations; since they created humans "in their own image".

How? We don't know yet, but that's a perfectly acceptable thing to do in a story that's split into 3 parts. And considering Desmond's entire bloodline are resistant to the pieces of Eden (just like Adam and Eve...) and the pieces of Eden will presumably play a role in stopping whatever the catastrophe may be it was important to take the story back, to rveal just how long this has been going on. Not to mention that it adds to the poignancy of Ezio and Altair being fairly unimportant when it gets down to it (reading the codex is actually pretty sad). Plus, we get an origin for the pieces of Eden.

Thank you for explaining, that certainly clears things up entirely. I understand it fully now, but I am still dissapointed with the ending wholeheartedly, it makes sense now, but it still ruined it for me. It was perfectly fine and awesome with just Templars fighting Assassins in various time periods, and the aline/god/sci-fi/superior race shit was needless.

 

[JaymesFogarty]

Worst: any God of War game in particular but frankly most other games as well
Best: MGS4 (go ahead and flame me, I loved every moment of MGS4's cutscenes)

I agree with you without a doubt. MGS4 is the best send off the characters could have received. I'd go as far to say that it ranks in at least the top three video game franchise endings, (and before you quote me, no, Rising does not count.) Thumbs up to you for your good taste! ^_^

On topic, Bioshock, and Assassin's Creed. Both were a little lackluster, although of course AC2 corrected that with an ending that was infinitely more satisfying, (at least, for me.)

 

[reg42]

-snip of rage-

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT! Seriously man? You felt the need to begin your sentence with "character from game x dies in the climax? AWESOME!"? Seriously?

 

[Tdc2182]

Bioshock 1, The ending was straight of the the FPS game handbook, I typical fight with a typical giant boss, having to use a number of different weapons. It was if they took the ending that was used in every FPS game before it. Nothing new, nothing innovative.

The rest of the game rocked, i loved it, i just wish the ending was better.

Well, if you think about it, technically you did lose the final boss fight.

OT: Worst ending;

Assassins Creed (a pathetic cliff hanger with a VERY long credits)

For that exact reason. I felt like going back in the game and killing innocent civilians, but guess where the game saves? Right before the ten minute long unskippable credits. Part of the reason I no longer own that game.

 

[Tdc2182]

I guess I'm the only one who liked Assassin's Creed 2's and Fallout 3's endings...

Not really. I was fine with them.

Mainly because they basically gave the ending of the second game away in the first game, you know

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By how the Piece of Eden was fucking magic.

And the the whole thing in the second game

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showing you how Adam and Eve escaped and basically making about three hundred references to Adam and Eve. I mean come on people, was the whole Piece of Eden thing completely bouncing off your heads the entire time?

 

[Tdc2182]

Fable 1(normal one) I mean seriously it wasn't satisfying!

Play Fable 2, most anti climatic piece oh shite ending ever.

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Not to mention if you don't kill the main bad guy in time some random douchebag shoots him, ruining whatever possible awesome potential sweet kill it could have had.