Game endings that just ruined almost the entire game for you.

[Syndarr]

Drakengard was NOT a great story to begin with, but the endings tanked it and each was worse than the last.

Unless you count the "joke" ending.

I would argue that that's the whole point of Drakengard's endings. "Well, that ending was depressing. Maybe the next one will be better. Oh shit, what? What just happened? THAT WAS EVEN MORE HORRIBLE AND NOW I AM EVEN MORE DEPRESSED." But then, I love Drakengard despite its flaws, so I'm biased and you are not at all obligated to agree with me.

Anyway, Final Fantasy X-2. Not the ending itself, but the way Yuna basically said, before the final boss fight, that everything she had been working for in the previous game had been a mistake. God dammit, Yuna, I LIKED you in FFX, and you pretty much just negated all the reasons WHY I liked you. ...I am still going to play FFX-2 again one of these days, though, because I haven't gotten 100% completion yet. >.> <.<

I'm also going to second Dreamfall, but even though its ending felt like a TREMENDOUS slap in the face, it didn't exactly ruin the game for me, because I still enjoyed the time I spent playing it. It did, however, give me a giant case of blue balls.

 

[NightHawk21]

Can't think of any that were that bad maybe singularity. Shit was so cheesy.

Just finished the Eragon book series though and I found the ending of the last book to be dumb as fuck. The rest of the book is good, but that ending.

 

[Odinsson]

I hated DA:2 from the start (except Varric), but that ending was the single worst ending I have ever played in any videogame ever.

 

[Crazedc00k]

Neverwinter nights 2
i can't do the spoiler tags but the game is pretty old now anyway.
The fact that no matter what you do you have to kill at least 1 of your companions in the final battle.

And still this game was better than a good deal of what passes for 'Triple A' these days.

 

[Crazedc00k]

I hated DA:2 from the start (except Varric), but that ending was the single worst ending I have ever played in any videogame ever.

This exactly. the fact is, your character cannot change what happens ONE BIT, just his position. Even if it was well told, put together, or well written, which it was't, it would still be beyond awful.

 

[TheRookie8]

Dragon Age II's ending bothered me for a multitude of reasons, and FYI, I'm one of the few that loved Dragon Age II.

Agreed. Granted, the ending had a "so crazy it's good" appeal to me, but the epilogue was a little vague and sort of a tease. I mean, they hint at what is happening to the world while you're following Hawke's story, but everyone kind of just says "Whoops! We're too busy to give you details, just keep doing what you're doing!"

Does someone want to clue me in? What is going on with Flemeth, the Grey Warden's, Morrigan and The Warden, Leliana, the Orelsians vs. Ferelden, and the darkspawn?! I'm the goddam Champion of Kirkwall! I should know these things!!

 

[chaosyoshimage]

Dragon Age II's ending bothered me for a multitude of reasons, and FYI, I'm one of the few that loved Dragon Age II.

Agreed. Granted, the ending had a "so crazy it's good" appeal to me, but the epilogue was a little vague and sort of a tease. I mean, they hint at what is happening to the world while you're following Hawke's story, but everyone kind of just says "Whoops! We're too busy to give you details, just keep doing what you're doing!"

Does someone want to clue me in? What is going on with Flemeth, the Grey Warden's, Morrigan and The Warden, Leliana, the Orelsians vs. Ferelden, and the darkspawn?! I'm the goddam Champion of Kirkwall! I should know these things!!

I'll give you the crazy, it was definitely crazy, but I wouldn't say that was quite what I wanted, although like I said, it didn't kill the game for me. And yeah, the rest was just a big vague tease for Dragon Age III. I didn't mind that kind of thing from Mass Effect 2, but that's mainly because I was looking at that one as an Act 2 of a trilogy. DAII was it's own beast and should have ended that way.

 

[TheRookie8]

I hated DA:2 from the start (except Varric), but that ending was the single worst ending I have ever played in any videogame ever.

This exactly. the fact is, your character cannot change what happens ONE BIT, just his position. Even if it was well told, put together, or well written, which it was't, it would still be beyond awful.

While I agree that the ending could have been better, I sort of understand why your only real choice is to pick a side. In order to continue the story for Dragon Age 3, Bioware proabably thought they needed to limit how things would turn out. You know, keep a better grip on major plot events. Doesn't mean it's right, just speculating how the writers might have tweaked it.

The ending did have good moments, though, like when the templars respected me (that's right, kneel dirtbags!)

 

[TheRookie8]

Dragon Age II's ending bothered me for a multitude of reasons, and FYI, I'm one of the few that loved Dragon Age II.

Agreed. Granted, the ending had a "so crazy it's good" appeal to me, but the epilogue was a little vague and sort of a tease. I mean, they hint at what is happening to the world while you're following Hawke's story, but everyone kind of just says "Whoops! We're too busy to give you details, just keep doing what you're doing!"

Does someone want to clue me in? What is going on with Flemeth, the Grey Warden's, Morrigan and The Warden, Leliana, the Orelsians vs. Ferelden, and the darkspawn?! I'm the goddam Champion of Kirkwall! I should know these things!!

I'll give you the crazy, it was definitely crazy, but I wouldn't say that was quite what I wanted, although like I said, it didn't kill the game for me. And yeah, the rest was just a big vague tease for Dragon Age III. I didn't mind that kind of thing from Mass Effect 2, but that's mainly because I was looking at that one as an Act 2 of a trilogy. DAII was it's own beast and should have ended that way.

Here, here! Resolve the plot, like in Origins, and then move on. Well said.

 

[TheRookie8]

Modern Warfare 2 was infinitely stupid in how it made Makarov the main antagonist of the game but decided to SPOILERS AHOY switch the whole thing and make Shepard evil (for no conceivable reason), which I accepted until I realized the end of the game was when you killed Shepard.

WHAT. THE. HELL.

I didn't know you could just introduce a main antagonist and then slip in one that didn't make sense at all, and after the characters accomplishment over the other, roll credits and say that the main antagonist was out on lunch break until the sequel.

I liked the background of Shepard's motivations, though. Revenge against a country for the loss of his soldiers from the previous game, which pretty much makes Makarov nothing more than a plague that he released. You don't blame the fire for burning down your house; You blame the arsonist.

 

[Crazedc00k]

I hated DA:2 from the start (except Varric), but that ending was the single worst ending I have ever played in any videogame ever.

This exactly. the fact is, your character cannot change what happens ONE BIT, just his position. Even if it was well told, put together, or well written, which it was't, it would still be beyond awful.

While I agree that the ending could have been better, I sort of understand why your only real choice is to pick a side. In order to continue the story for Dragon Age 3, Bioware proabably thought they needed to limit how things would turn out. You know, keep a better grip on major plot events. Doesn't mean it's right, just speculating how the writers might have tweaked it.

The ending did have good moments, though, like when the templars respected me (that's right, kneel dirtbags!)

I see your point, but as evidenced by DAO, Bioware can pull GREAT writing out of this franchise. There was never any reason Hawke had to be so invested in the story, and even though the game arbitrarily forces him to care without significant justification, there's no difference in the events of what happens. Hell, you even [spoiler/]fight both Orsino and Meredith, regardless.[/spoiler] Maybe there is an explanation for that, but there is no excuse.

 

[DanielBrown]

I dare not read a single post in this thread!
Anyways, I'd say Dante's Inferno. The entire game was awful, but the ending didn't exactly help.

Spoiler: Dante's Inferno ending spoiler

*show penis* "The End?"

Thanks for that.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Saw II: A mediocre game, which after revealing the ending became a complete joke.

 

[CommanderL]

The Force Unleashed... and the reason I never played the 2nd, I mean the game was average at best and story meh, its a Star Wars story, was never gonna be fantastic, but it was a guilty pleasure in seeing just how overpowered they could make one guy in a star wars universe, so it was entertaining and the story was an amusing look at just how they could try to create a story out of this, link episode 3 to 4 with the biggest mary sue character in existance, I thought I would at least get a laugh out of it... I didn't, it aggrivated me something rotten. The cannon ending anyway, not that the non cannon was any better!

Spoiler

so after all that, your guy dies, the leaders of the "soon to be" rebellion are talking on a planet, they want a symbol for the rebellion that will be in force by episode 4 that boils down to "I know lets use this drawing on the table! perfect!"... WHAT! thats like me starting my own political party and using the shape the toaster burnt on my bread that morning as my campaign symbol!!!

there in starkillers familys old hut on Kashyyyk and the symbol is his faimly crest

 

[Da Orky Man]

Skyrim.

Everything and anything you do in the game has zero, zilch, nada consequences towards anything. That whole business with being some kind of legendary hero means squat, you might as well have just spent a hundred hours walking around the world putting baskets on peoples' heads and it would have left more of a mark than finishing that horribly written main quest.

Same goes for Oblivion.

Skyrim

Spoiler

You walk out of Sovengarde, head held high. What do you get after vanquishing Alduin? Nothing. Not even a thank-you. Really annoyed me.

I actually quite like the way they ended both the games' main-quests like that. Yeah, you've saved the world from certain doom, you're a legend among those who know you, but at the risk of sounding like a cliché, 'life goes on'. The world around you isn't going to drop whatever they're doing just to fawn at your feet. Most of the world don't even know it was you who saved them; they only know it was 'a hero'. Besides, the whole matter of Skyrim's main questline wasn't the pressing business of anyone but the Blades and the Greybeards, and they both know the magnitude of what you did. The ability to simply keep on living in a normalised, more peaceful world is the reward for the main quests.

They could have at least shown some consequence. In Oblivion, you get a massive final battle in the middle if Imperial City, fighting your way through hundreds of enemies, trying desperately to get to the end point. In Skyrim, it's one boss fight where you have immortal help, and it's over.

 

[INeedAName]

Somebody has probably said this already, but KOTOR2. Such an excellent game overall (though it has it's problems) does not deserve such a shitty ending.

 

[Odinsson]

I hated DA:2 from the start (except Varric), but that ending was the single worst ending I have ever played in any videogame ever.

This exactly. the fact is, your character cannot change what happens ONE BIT, just his position. Even if it was well told, put together, or well written, which it was't, it would still be beyond awful.

While I agree that the ending could have been better, I sort of understand why your only real choice is to pick a side. In order to continue the story for Dragon Age 3, Bioware proabably thought they needed to limit how things would turn out. You know, keep a better grip on major plot events. Doesn't mean it's right, just speculating how the writers might have tweaked it.

The ending did have good moments, though, like when the templars respected me (that's right, kneel dirtbags!)

It's not that I had to pick a side that irritated me, it was that one of the main villain's motivation was completely and utterly destroyed by the final scene

 

[ms_sunlight]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Game was quite fun but the hell guys. I'm not gonna talk about it because anyone who played it will know what I mean.

No, I quite liked the ending, because I consider the narrative ending to be confronting the final boss fight. The bit you're talking about is more like an epilogue, a coda. You don't decide the fate of the world - how can you, when the game is a prequel and we know how it all turns out? You decide what kind of man your Adam Jensen is.

The ending I really hated was Fallout 3. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the game, I didn't mind following the nuke-tossing giant robot even though there was no gameplay involved, but why was this pointless character shoehorned in and why should I care if she sacrifices herself rather than me? It didn't work at all for me.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

Final Fantasy 10... I hated it! I would have prefered: 'it was a dream' to that!!