The very first time you went "this is bullsh*t!" after an ending of something.

[BloatedGuppy]

Oh, I got another one! The Sopranos. that ending could have been made out of nearly ANY other moment in the series. When I first saw it I thought it was utter crap.

You are wrong, sir. The Sopranos ending was genius. I think time has reflected very well on it.

I don't know about the first, but this is a gaming website, so I'll nominate Ultima IX. Made ME3 look like a GOTY candidate by comparison. A textbook lesson in destroying a classic franchise, brick by brick. Horrendous from start to finish. Unspeakably bad. Big Rigs bad. ET bad.

I'll also join in with the piling on of ME3, because unlike Origin, Bioware still exists (sort of) and absolutely deserves to catch shit for that travesty.

In television, BSG went seriously off the rails and the last episode was cringe-worthy, and Penny Dreadful ran out of money and ran an award-caliber show off a cliff rather than let it find its natural conclusion.

Oh, and Deadwood, for not having an ending at all.

 

[the December King]

Oh, I got another one! The Sopranos. that ending could have been made out of nearly ANY other moment in the series. When I first saw it I thought it was utter crap.

You are wrong, sir. The Sopranos ending was genius. I think time has reflected very well on it.

I dunno... though my better half shares your sentiment. Maybe it was because of the pacing in which I watched the final season, but I was thoroughly unimpressed... still, perhaps worth a reviewing, with a more charitable disposition.

In television, BSG went seriously off the rails and the last episode was cringe-worthy

Agreed. Though, thankfully, I watched most of the last season through a fog of booze. Softens the blow.

 

[McMarbles]

Spoiler: Lost

The alternate universe was purgatory? *facepalm*

Spoiler: Battlestar Galactica

"God done it. Then Starbuck was an angel." *double facepalm*

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

Probably the matrix sequels.

They shouldn't have continued it. The ending of the first was the best the serious could possibly have offered. I feel the same way about the Modern Warfare and Bourne series. I noticed as I typed that they share a common structural flaw. A first movie that was very successful so they continued on with sequels that were totally planned all along we swear. Even though there are no references or foreshadowing in the first one while the second and third entries reference and foreshadow each other all the time (apart from the worst ass-pulls).

Borderlands. I died a LOT in that game, particularly during the final fight up the mountain to the vault. When I get to the vault, all the bad guys are killed by Cthulu who was sealed inside. This vault has been built up to be very important, so important that an AI felt the need to hijack somebody's consciousness to warn them about it. It's what the entire game has been leading towards.

So why is it the easiest enemy in the game?

I, along with my friend who spent a few summers alongside me, took it down inside 2 minutes using less strategy than we did in the rest of the game. No ducking for cover. No healing. Nothing. We were stunned and confused when it died. Then we just walked back into the cave behind it, gathered some more bullshit lying around that wasn't anything special that we couldn't find anywhere else and that was it. Either end it there or restart. We decided to restart but stopped about an hour into the second play-through and haven't looked back at it since. What a let-down. Though like I said, it really didn't help that it took me and my friend a few years to beat it.

 

[springheeljack]

The ending of the Deathly Hallows for sure I absolutely loathed the ending and epilogue it was such a shitty ending for me.
I think part of the reason for it was the fact that throughout the whole book Rowling was dropping beloved characters like flies so to have it end with such a twee ending was just a bad decision. After I had finished with it I vowed never to touch a Harry Potter book again which I kept until just recently

Halo 3 I was honestly pretty disappointed with the whole campaign though it had it's moments. The whole thing seemed like a retread of the first game in particular but the ending when Sergent Johnson gets got by fucking Guilty Spark of all people?
And how the last scene was basically just a recreation of last scene in Halo. It felt so cheap like they had just given up trying anything new.

 

[Worgen]

I would say it was the ending to Halo 2.

I have never played a game with such a blatant sequel hook, and Halo 2 is the first one I distinctly remember. I make it back to Earth on the Covenant flagship, spout some drivel about "finishing this fight", and then...credits.

Halo 2 was still great, but I was more than a little pissed because it didn't feel like the game had actually reached a conclusion.

Fucken seconded. I've heard they had a bunch more missions planned for halo 2 but time constraints got those cut. Either way you see the cinematic leading up to the final mission then... credits, it is such bullshit. Whats even worse is that the start of halo 3 doesn't have your level on that alien ship. In fact, when halo 3 starts we have no idea how much time has passed since halo 2. For the chief it seems like maybe an hour at most, for everyone else it had to be more since they are all on earth.

 

[Remus]

Penny Dreadful ran out of money and ran an award-caliber show off a cliff rather than let it find its natural conclusion.

That ending really shit the bed. They had all of these brilliant characters, with plotlines just left dangling all over the place. The last season introduced Dr. Jeckyll and his alchemy experiments but did almost nothing with it. The bit with Vanessa could have ended so much better. She had proven to be more than her birthright but she caves to it at the end? Unlikely unless the producers were pushed to wrap the show up. I would have wanted to see an epic battle between two wolves and a vamp but instead one sneaks away to effectively end the show. So much promise just wasted.

 

[Fijiman]

The earliest thing I can think of would be my first time playing Halo. My cousin had brought his 360 and a copy of Halo 3 and asked my brothers and I if we wanted to play. We said yes, but none of us had ever played on an Xbox before nor ever played Halo before. He also wouldn't tell us what half of the buttons did so we were just flailing around while he mopped the floor with us. Suffice to say he was the only one having any fun that day.

 

[AggieJosey]

when i finished The end of American Horror Story:

 

[Silvanus]

Lost. A thousand times Lost. Though, I had been saying it for a while by then.


Also, a minor example, but Quantum Conundrum. A pretty fun game, full of quite intuitive and inventive puzzles, with a terribly underwhelming ending (or lack thereof). It just peters out.

 

[springheeljack]

The ending of the Deathly Hallows for sure I absolutely loathed the ending and epilogue it was such a shitty ending for me.
I think part of the reason for it was the fact that throughout the whole book Rowling was dropping beloved characters like flies so to have it end with such a twee ending was just a bad decision. After I had finished with it I vowed never to touch a Harry Potter book again which I kept until just recently

So you kept the vow right up until the next Harry Potter book (Presumably the Cursed Child) came out, which is not actually a novel, but a screenplay, which isn't Rowling's exclusive work and seemingly goes out of it's way to retroactively make things much worse?

But yeah, that ending was pretty bad. The film did it really badly, but even the book feels like the never ending camping trip. But it's totes ok, because after all that mucking about, we get to see that Harry has given his son a cringy fan-fiction name!

No I still haven't read it. It doesn't interest me at all. I did however reread the first four books to prepare for a Harry Potter trivia pub game.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Don't now if it was the first time I went BS on an ending, but I do remember getting pissed off at the end of Digimon Tamers.

Okay, so the protagonists have sent the D-Reaper packing and all seems well... until the partner Digimon start de-evolving and have to go back to the Digital World.

What. the. HELL?!

And no, I don't care that Takato found another portal, that doesn't help!

Yes, I know this season is "Darker and Edgier" than the rest, this just feels plain mean-spirited!

 

[soren7550]

First? Dunno if I can recall.

Earliest that I can remember? Yeah, that's more doable.

While I kinda want to say Mass Effect 3, I was a lot more confused for quite a bit after that ended before moving onto 'this is bullshit'. So go with the final Divergent book.

Granted, these weren't good or enjoyable books, but at the end when

Spoiler

Tris dies, I got so pissed because out of all the media I've consumed (that hasn't focused on 'lol, no one is safe, anyone can die), THIS was the one that had the balls to kill off its main character.

 

[Gizen]

I'm not sure if I can actually remember the 'first' one, but I can definitely remember the two biggest ones, and one of them was long enough ago that it might've been first but I don't recall.

Digimon season 2. Everything about that ending was horseshit. First off, the final villain is just Myotismon from season 1 again, which is seriously weak considering Myotismon wasn't even the biggest villain from season 1. Then his big villain plan is fairly non-threatening. And finally, they don't even beat him in a fight, they literally beat him with the power of positive thinking. Everybody thinks happy thoughts and it makes his body disintegrate. Like, wtf? That's bullshit. Even as a child I recognized that was utter bullshit. And then to add insult to injury, there's an epilogue after that where it shows all the characters in the future as adults, and none of their adult lives make any sense whatsoever, and frequently conflict with their personalities and character development throughout the show. Just... bullshit.

The other one that was definitely not first, but was pretty big was Batman: Arkham City. I've never been so disappointed by a game in my entire life, especially considering Arkham Asylum is one of my favourite games ever. Not only was Arkham City's gameplay not as good as I'd expected, but holy fuck that ending was garbage. The big villain plan that had been kept a super secret mystery all game and had been built up and hyped up all game was revealed and set in motion and... the entire plan is just for the army of military helicopters that have been flying around all game to start shooting at people. Just... what? Then it's all revealed to be a Ra's Al Ghul scheme, but it's not even a good Ra's scheme. Then he kills the main antagonist up to that point and then commits suicide in a mindbogglingly stupid way. THEN we get to a final, and fairly unnecessary confrontation with the Joker, except he's actually Clayface and that's our final boss. Clayface as the Joker's hired thug to pretend to be him. Weak. And THEN the actual ending has the Joker find a way to commit suicide that's somehow even more mindbogglingly stupid than Ra's and Batman cries over it. Also Batman is retarded and prioritized trying to save the Joker over trying to cure the thousands of people the Joker poisoned. And it's just... Even today I get absolutely fucking livid thinking about that game, and how the entire story was just such complete bullshit.

 

[Fox12]

Don't now if it was the first time I went BS on an ending, but I do remember getting pissed off at the end of Digimon Tamers.

Okay, so the protagonists have sent the D-Reaper packing and all seems well... until the partner Digimon start de-evolving and have to go back to the Digital World.

What. the. HELL?!

And no, I don't care that Takato found another portal, that doesn't help!

Yes, I know this season is "Darker and Edgier" than the rest, this just feels plain mean-spirited!

That's funny, I thought that ending was great. It captured the tone of the series fairly well. I loved seeing Henry turn around and shake his head at his father.

 

[MiskWisk]

Digimon season 2.

Ah. I'd successfully forgotten all about that.
I change my entry to this and curse you for reminding me of that garbage.

*Is still salty over Matt x Sora*

 

[Gizen]

Digimon season 2.

Ah. I'd successfully forgotten all about that.
I change my entry to this and curse you for reminding me of that garbage.

*Is still salty over Matt x Sora*

Yeah, honestly I'm surprised I'm the first person to bring that up.

 

[Smithnikov_v1legacy]

Highlander 2.

I actually took a trip to stay with my brother for the weekend ALL centered around going to the movies together to share in this sequel to one of our favorite sci fi fantasy movies of all time.

*SIGH*

At least the rest of the weekend was good...