Lamest game ending

[Sixcess]

Deathtrap Dungeon on the PS1. It's a long, difficult game and the outro cutscene after you beat the final boss is about 30 seconds long and makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Quick and easy: which game you've played has got the lamest ending to it?

For me personally it was Fable 2. You have somewhat of a big fight with a whole bunch of annoying dudes, then it carries on and you finally win by killing a guy who dies with one attack. It's very anticlimactic.

Instantly thought of Fable 2 when I seen this thread. That ending was pathetic and the game was mediocre. Spend the game gathering companions that only hinder you in the ending scene.

Also Fallout New Vegas's closed ending. I wish they gave you the option to keep playing or would at least make a separate save before going to the Hoover Dam battle.

 

[Yureina]

Fallout: New Vegas.

You can totally tell that they put an ending upon that game because they are going to make some DLC later on. Its disgusting. >_<

 

[mortalsatsuma]

Halo 2, and New Vegas

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Oh, Mafia 2 is guilty of the lame ending too.

The final mission is pretty good, but the ending cinematic just trails off. Left me with a huge "but...what the..." look on my face when I finished it.

 

[Extraintrovert]

The worst ones with which I'm familiar have already been mentioned, so I will add my own that I found personally frustrating: Half-Life 2. Yes, it was entirely appropriate for the series, but I expected something a little more than the exact same ending from Half-Life with slightly modified dialogue. The Episodes compensated for it, but at the time I was mightily annoyed.

Also, relevent TV Tropes link is relevant: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWinnerIsYou

 

[Volothos]

Clive Barkers Jerico

 

[Ashcrexl]

may not be the worst, but it was my first terrible ending. Diablo. setting up a sequel with a quick 20 second stupid as hell cutscene. my little 14 year old self just about flipped out when the game just ended

 

[number2301]

Syndicate. It didn't have an ending, because to do so would have required another disk so it just dumped you back to the mission select screen.

Fallout: New Vegas.

You can totally tell that they put an ending upon that game because they are going to make some DLC later on. Its disgusting. >_<

I've seen this comment a few time and never understood it. EVERY Fallout game has a closed ending. Including Fallout 3 so it's not even like people say this because they never played the originals. Nevermind the fact that Obsidian specifically said they did it because they wanted you actions to actually have an impact. Contrast it to Mass Effect 2,

Spoiler

travel to the galactic core, discover what happened to the Protheans, destroy or capture reaper technology

and noone says a word?

 

[MechaBlue]

Monkey Island 2. It was so lame and unoriginal i nearly had to tear my own face off after how much my friends raved about the game.

Out of curiosity, where else has that ending appeared?

Also, my personal least favorite ending was Bioshock. For such a strong story for a majority of the game, the ending felt rushed and kind of lame all around.

 

[ZombieGenesis]

Nothing can really beat Siren: Blood Curse.

A game that revolves around subtle psychological horror, stealth and an insectoid interpretation of the classic Japanese 'creepy zombies' in an abandoned town. How does it end?

You travel to an alternate dimension to find a magical sword and a box that allows you to throw mystic blue fireballs, then you fight a giant moth made of legos inside what appears to be a giant spiral of colour like a gyroscope. Once you beat it the outro makes even less sense.
The main boy carries a beat box and plays rock music while fighting eternal waves of zombies with his super powered sword, and for some reason the dad shows up in a desert somewhere entirely unrelated to the plot with a closing to a plotline that doesn't make any sense at all.

More a mindfuck than a failure.

 

[JamesBr]

Neverwinter Nights 2. Rocks fall. Everyone Dies. All done by a bored narrator over slides. It's insulting that my 20th level characters would be so easily defeated. Although it alludes that they escaped to a different plane, I still feel ripped off since I'm not playing that game, I'm playing NWN2.

 

[Yureina]

Syndicate. It didn't have an ending, because to do so would have required another disk so it just dumped you back to the mission select screen.

Fallout: New Vegas.

You can totally tell that they put an ending upon that game because they are going to make some DLC later on. Its disgusting. >_<

I've seen this comment a few time and never understood it. EVERY Fallout game has a closed ending. Including Fallout 3 so it's not even like people say this because they never played the originals. Nevermind the fact that Obsidian specifically said they did it because they wanted you actions to actually have an impact. Contrast it to Mass Effect 2,

Spoiler

travel to the galactic core, discover what happened to the Protheans, destroy or capture reaper technology

and noone says a word?

Probably because most people are pretty sure there will be a Mass Effect 3.

 

[Calico93]

Farcry 2
FUCK it was annoying when i finished it, really crap ending, not climactic at all, and didnt let me continue playing, Urgh.

 

[Ldude893]

Didn't play it yet, but I saw the leaked ending for Call of Duty Black Ops.

And I do not like it.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Borderlands.

I love the game, it's on my top 10 favirote games ever, but the ending was sudden and anticlimactic.

 

[Yureina]

Fallout: New Vegas.

You can totally tell that they put an ending upon that game because they are going to make some DLC later on. Its disgusting. >_<

They put an ending on it so your decisions have a final impact on the game. What's wrong with it ending exactly? Every Fallout game had a definitive ending. The vast amounts of different outcomes that can play out are awesome and add a great deal of replay value. Of course though, DLC will be incoming which will probably allow you to keep playing after it's all said and done.

The ending itself is fine. Actually I really liked the ending. What bothers me is that there probably is going to be some DLC, like Fallout 3, that extends that storyline. Now... if there was not, then it would be ok.