Wait, was that the ending?

[NickSettle]

Stephen King's book "Cell" made me cringe. Don't get me wrong, most of King's books end up with that to be continued? But this one just went (and I'm not joking) "Wake up Jakey (or whatever the son's name was), it's your daddy."

Beh

Oh God. . This all the way.
I Loved that book and then we get that?! Basically his teenage son has his brain reduced to that of a babies. .
We've spent the whole book trying to find him, to confirm if he is okay,
and then he is found but is a vegetable.
If only King had put on more line in at the end, along the lines of, "Turns into zombie and kills father" Or "Shows the smallest sight of human reaction" (Just so we'd know it was possible for him to relearn life)

And as others have said.
Assassains Creed, (would have been nice to have a modern day assassain break through the door and say something cheesy like "Come with us" and then fade to credits)
And COD4. .
I wish Grim Fandango had had a bit more of an open ending actually. Even thoguh there is no market for it today it would be nice to have a glimmer of hope for a sequel.

 

[Jaythulhu]

The end to Fable. That was rather a let down. Growing up as a gamer in the 80s, I am still mostly used to end-of-game scenes that are nothing but a picture and text, but in the age of 3d, to run across one from a major developer smacks of laziness.

 

[RexoftheFord]

Ok, I've got an ending that's leaving me with a big "What the fuck" as my thought. About 90% of these entries that are one liners that don't really explain why the ending left them puzzled. So they name the game alone and then go about their way as though everyone in the world knows what the fuck the ending was, and why the fuck it puzzles them. That's truly a puzzling ending.

 

[Che Marlee]

Hard to believe it hasn't been mentioned yet, but Final Fantasy VII. I literally had no idea what to make of it, and then they show Red XIII running five hundred years later. It made no sense, and they took eight years to make a sequel which still failed to completely explain the ending.

Metal Gear Solid: 2
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS IF YOU'VE BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK WITHOUT 3 DOLLARS AND A PLAYSTATION:


I played that game, and at the end I was like "What the fuck? Did that just happen? Was that rose girl real? How far was I playing the game before it became a simulation? Was it always a simulation? And why were the patriots all dead?!

Needless to say, I literally was bothered for DAYS over whether or not I was real. Usually I know the difference between reality and fiction when I'm playing a videogame, but I was completely dumbfounded when I realized that was exactly what the game WANTED me to do at the end of it. I was like "The simulation (game) was of a simulation... and it had never told me?! What kind of mindfuckery is this!?"

Maybe you guys weren't so confused, but to this day I question if my life is happening or not.

Yeah, MGS2 messed with my head too, but also because of the final conversation with Otacon and Snake talking about the Patriots. Dead for 100 years?

 

[manicfoot]

Metal Gear Solid: 2
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS IF YOU'VE BEEN LIVING UNDER A ROCK WITHOUT 3 DOLLARS AND A PLAYSTATION:


I played that game, and at the end I was like "What the fuck? Did that just happen? Was that rose girl real? How far was I playing the game before it became a simulation? Was it always a simulation? And why were the patriots all dead?!

Needless to say, I literally was bothered for DAYS over whether or not I was real. Usually I know the difference between reality and fiction when I'm playing a videogame, but I was completely dumbfounded when I realized that was exactly what the game WANTED me to do at the end of it. I was like "The simulation (game) was of a simulation... and it had never told me?! What kind of mindfuckery is this!?"

Maybe you guys weren't so confused, but to this day I question if my life is happening or not.

Haha that's awesome I reacted the same way as you. In fact, it was MGS2 that sparked my interest in Philosophy. It depresses me how some people completely dismissed the game because it messed with you. Definitely one of my favourite games ever

As for the topic, The Conduit has the worst ending ever. It ends as you're about to go fight the guy who's been doing all the bad stuff in the game. Horrible ending for an average-at-best game.

 

[Call4Duty]

A series of unfortunate events.
The ending is just like, "SO anyway, maybe this series is true and maybe it isn't, and nobody knows what happened to anybody. The end." and I'm left wondering WTF THE SUGAR BOWL IS!

 

[Doom_bringer58]

The second episode in the new season of House, I mean- is he REALLY gonna quit and let Foreman take over?! If he does then it isn't gonna be "House" anymore, it'll just be "Foreman" which involves 10 minutes in each episode where he tries to be House but fails horribly at it

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

Berserk. I haven't seen anything to beat that ending in strangeness.

It makes more sense if you read the manga, the anime 'only' flashbacks the reason why Guts turned into a roaring rampage of vengance.

Apart from HP: The Deathly Hallows's immensly dissatisfiyng epilogue, I can't think of any wtf endings that I know of.

 

[Rottweiler]

Actually, I'd say half of Stephen King's books end in wtf. Maybe more than half. Dark Tower most definitely. Misery was right up there though.

 

[oppp7]

Basically whenever a game ends on a cliffhanger and the next game announced is a prequel (Halo 3, Dead Space...). Also, the epilogue for Deathly Hallows sucked.

 

[IamQ]

Hancock. What made me confused wasn't what happend, but more, why would have an ending like that?

Spoiler

They suddenly out of nowhere make those 2 random thugs, shoot hancock alot of times and then he gts his powers back and kills them. Then there's a scene where he speaks foregin. WHy?

 

[The Riff]

Call of Duty 4.

Man, this chase is pretty fun.
Ooooh shit! Holy shit, this bridge is gunna fall!
Oh, another gun fight? Ok, sounds good.
Wait, what just happened? Did we get hit by a bomb or -- ooooh shit, that guy is executing our dudes!
*head turn*
Oh, a pistol? For me? Gah-hyuck, why, thank you very much.
*totally awesome slo-mo shot*
....What? That's the ending?! What is this shit?
A fun epilogue.

I hate the epilogue on Veteran, it took me OVER 9000 tries to do it.

 

[Mako SOLDIER]

What about the godawful film they made? Seriously, for the ending to THAT they decide to take out the entire climactic ending of the book and save it for the next film, while having the movie ending be nothing more than a literal fade-to-black, seriously, there is no fucking ending! It just stops!

Oh hell yeah, the film was just a horrid travesty in almost every way. If we're talking book to film adaptations it wasn't as bad as the Eragon movie though, which seemed to engage in so much anal loving without consent that it came out all rather coated in faecal matter.

 

[TotallyFake]

Ok, so I didn't check if anyone else put this but "The Departed" had an... unorthodox ending.

I think you're confusing unorthodox with "completely bloody excellent"

And I don't understand all the hate for the COD4 ending? Yes, it did kinda come out of nowhere, but was a spectacularly emotional finale that was completely different from the typical cliche of "they save the day, get the girl, live happily ever after"

 

[TotallyFake]

A series of unfortunate events.
The ending is just like, "SO anyway, maybe this series is true and maybe it isn't, and nobody knows what happened to anybody. The end." and I'm left wondering WTF THE SUGAR BOWL IS!

Sorry for the double post, multiple quotes across pages get confusing.

You've also missed the point. VFD is built around needless secrets and codes piled upon codes. The sugar bowl is entirely unimportant, as is the cause of the fire, the tunnel between the Baudillaire house and 667 Dark Avenue, as is what the parents were doing with a box of poison darts yadda yadda.
The kids decide to move away from all the VFD bullshit and live their lives. You can't know what the sugar bowl is without getting caught in the cycle again. And the reveal about

Spoiler

Beatrice

was masterful.

 

[crudus]

Crackdown

Spoiler: ending

Ok, all the syndicates are dead, now what? My bosses put all of the syndicates into power to create a new world order? Uhhhhh, am I gonna do anything about this? Why should I support people trying to take over the world? As a super powered police officer, aren't I supposed to stop this?

that was a definite kick in the crotch

It's like they had a sequel planned without any foresight the game was going to do well. The only reason it sold as well as it did was because it came with a free Halo 3 Demo. If people are going off of game sales then that game was overrated*. I know people who bought the game for the Halo 3 demo, tried it, and returned it for store credit. I know people who didn't the advertisements for it and still bought the game because of the Halo 3 demo. Is this why the ending sucked? Because they knew it was going to sell? This is not a way to judge whether it is worth making a sequel.

*note: I personally liked the game but it is overrated if you just look at the sales since it was riding the coattails of something else.

 

[Molten Water]

Jumper...It just ends...fucking STUPID movie overall anyway

 

[SonicMTD]

Mirrors Edge.... it had promise build up and then... let's cut to the sisters hugging on top of a building.... WHERE DO YOU GO FROM THERE FAITH!!!? Arn't you still on the run?

 

[Hlain]

The newest Prince of Persia was a bit... anticlimatic. Sure, it shows the selfish human nature and how youre own love is put before everything else, but like the romantic sucker I am I would have enjoyed the more noble choice of the two endings.
Though the semi-old PoP trilogy, ending with The Two Thrones, had a great ending, putting it all together. It was awesome...

Crackdown

Spoiler: ending

Ok, all the syndicates are dead, now what? My bosses put all of the syndicates into power to create a new world order? Uhhhhh, am I gonna do anything about this? Why should I support people trying to take over the world? As a super powered police officer, aren't I supposed to stop this?

that was a definite kick in the crotch

Ehm... That was kind of the point.

Spoiler

The government you have been working for is aiming for a fascistic regime (of some sort) and you have been used as a tool for their hidden agenda.
You should have been working for peace and freedome, but then your employers weren't entirely truthfull.