Poll: Can a bad ending ruin the game? *Spoilers*

[stranamente]

I would say mostly Assassin's creed 1 (I still didn't play the second for the fear... and prize), Oblivion (more than 100 hours of game and that is the ending? Fallout 3 too, thank you Bethesda).
Yeah, borderlands disappointed me too. I thought at least there would be a lot of weapons. An animation like the intro (not the drawings I mean). One cool weapon. Just one. Nothing.
I guess it's hard to make an end, so it's better not to make any.... /sarcastic.

 

[FastFoot92]

Wow Im pretty suprised not to see an Obsidian game here. NWN2 and KOTOR2's endings pretty mch ruined their games. I'd say the games that endings can ruin are RPG's because of the whole emphisass on the story so when KOTOR2 or Fallout 3 does that shit it can make a game unplayable

, Oblivion (more than 100 hours of game and that is the ending?

What?Oblivion doesen't have an ending that's the point

 

[FastFoot92]

Main Quest.
Also, OP if you're going to say Spoilers in the title. Say which game you are spoiling aswell.

Eeh wasnt too bad there was an epic battle,your a hero and you get kickass armor

 

[Socius]

I never played Borderlands so I can't read the OP for fear of said spoilers but I think Fallout 3 without the Broken Steel downloadable content is a shining example.

yupp

 

[Layzor]

No, bad gameplay ruins a game.

 

[The Warden]

Well it DOES leave the final impression, so if it's bad most people tend to complain about it foreva.

 

[MercurySteam]

I'm not really talking about replay value, I mean can an ending make you wish you never played the story campaign? All the games I have played have never pissed me off enough to wish I had never played the game, but Borderlands came damn close to it. You work you way towards a goal to open a vault said to be full of money weapons etc. but when you open it you fight a giant squid boss that I found embarrassing easy, that dropped a useless weapon. I thought to myself that I don't need anything good from a final boss aslong as what to comes next makes up for it. There was nothing but a small xp bonus!

The thing about Borderlands' ending that dissapointed me was the fact that all the characters (with the exception of Brick) went to the planet with a goal, and by the end of the game the goal becomes irrelevant and every character gets the same ending. You'll probaby need to wait for Borderlands 2 or 3 to open The Vault.

Or maybe it will become a series........

 

[jindofox]

How the hell would I know, I never finish anything.

If I somehow got to the end of a game, that means it held my interest all the way through, and it's hard to see how that could be "ruined."

Nonetheless, I picked "I think it can, but it's never happened to me"

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Pretty simple question: Can a bad ending ruin the game?

Borderlands Spoiler:

I'm not really talking about replay value, I mean can an ending make you wish you never played the story campaign? All the games I have played have never pissed me off enough to wish I had never played the game, but Borderlands came damn close to it. You work you way towards a goal to open a vault said to be full of money weapons etc. but when you open it you fight a giant squid boss that I found embarrassing easy, that dropped a useless weapon. I thought to myself that I don't need anything good from a final boss aslong as what to comes next makes up for it. There was nothing but a small xp bonus!

If you believe a bad ending can ruin a game, please include an example.

God damn do I agree.


Its like "You opened the Vault. Gratz, now its closed for 200 years and you get A FUCKING COMMON WEAPON!"

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Main Quest.
Also, OP if you're going to say Spoilers in the title. Say which game you are spoiling aswell.

Eeh wasnt too bad there was an epic battle,your a hero and you get kickass armor

Kickass armor I can't wear because I'm not based in Heavy Armor.

 

[Ryuk2]

Yes.
KOTOR 2 ended with nothing that i wanted.
You kill the bad ... stuff (i don't want to spoil the ending). And that's about it.
I didn't get to know why Ba-something character respected me, why after Dxun they were strange, what was up with that guy who had feeling for me? What feelings? Did he love my female evil character? What i had to learn from the big hairy alien who joined me?
The game had a lot of interesting sub plots, but they didn't end. After i kill the bad one, i don't get to even speak to my crew again.

 

[whycantibelinus]

MGS2. It was pretty bad anyway, but I think it could have got away with it had it had a good or even passable ending. I get the feeling that I will put AssCreed 2 in this category too.

Not AssCreed 2 =-( that ending was super cool and crazy as fuck.

OT: I don't think a bad ending would ruin an entire awesome game like...

Spoiler: Bioshock spoiler

When you are evil in the game and fucking murder all those little girls and then you highjack a fucking submarine with your army of splicers and wreak nuclear havok on the entire planet?!

It just makes me be like "What the fuck?! How the hell did that just happen?" About Borderlands though, it wasn't too heavy on story to begin with so I'd kind of like to know what you thought was going to happen?

Spoiler: Borderlands spoiler

I mean even if you did go into the vault, by that point in the game you were swimming in money and could buy what you wanted. Also since the weapon system is randomized, the drops in the vault probably wouldn't have been as good as what you had on you already, besides Eridian weapons fucking suck anyway.

With Borderlands the reward was the journey, not the ending. So keep on keeping on, fucking go get that loot, and don't worry about the ending.

 

[Dys]

MGS2. It was pretty bad anyway, but I think it could have got away with it had it had a good or even passable ending. I get the feeling that I will put AssCreed 2 in this category too.

I liked the ending for MGS2, the swordfight was fun and the patriots conspiracy wasn't that silly, I mean, reusing a dead villain because he was popular is pretty weak, but it could've been done a lot worse.

I wouldn't avoid assasins creed 2 for the story, while I'm seemingly the only person who liked the original on face value I will concede that the ending, or rather complete lack of was a something of a disapointment, the second ends with a bit of closure (and something happens).

 

[Cherry Cola]

Yes, yes, yes.

AC2 became incredibly awful because of its ending.

 

[JoGribbs]

I don't know if just the ending can ruin an entire game. I've played games with some really terrible endings, but never bad enough to negate the entire experience.

 

[NickCaligo42]

The resolution is an important part of any story--it sews everything up and helps get across what the whole point of the events of the story were, so if the ending is inconsistent or unsatisfying, yes, it can ruin the game. Bioshock had me riveted for hours before I got to the end and all the themes of humanity and transcendence and all the parallels with Paradise Lost just kind of got dropped in favor of leaning on the moral choice system as a crutch.

 

[Rhayn]

To answer your question; yes, it can. Very much so in fact. The ending is the last experience you have of that game, and if that last moment spent with a game leaves you unsatisfied, you'll remember the whole game as such.

As for games I've played that ended badly, Borderlands is of course the first to pop into my head but that's mainly because it was not long ago I finished it. Assassin's Creed also left me feeling quite unsatisfied. Generally speaking, I guess any obvious cliffhanger ending gets me worked up.

As for games that've done it right, Fallout 3 (the vanilla version), Dragon Age: Origins, Call of Duty 4. Those all end in satisfying crescendoes and made me feel like I've really accomplished something.