What game has the most anti-climactic or downright terrible ending? *SPOILERS!!!!!*

[Prometherion]

I think Fable 2 has a pretty pathetic ending. I pulled pints, chopped wood and invested in houses and shit to buy decent weapons and such, and then a shitty music box does all the work defeating Lucien then I can choose to put a bullet in his head or let Reaver shoot him.

But Far-Cry 2 and Fallout 3 take home the gold for one similar trait. Self sacrificial suicide... yeah Id rather not... especially for the noble cause of water as in Fallout 3.

 

[pillaysteven]

Ya might want to put spoiler tags man...

EDIT: I have no idea how the hell I didn't see that. My bad :S.

Anyway my vote goes to Prince of Persia (spoilers following)... you basically undo everything you did in the game. Except it's one step worse because now Elika's father is dead. Absolutely ridiculous ending. It'd be like the Prince unleashing the sands again after reversing time in Sand of Time.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Ya might want to put spoiler tags man...

He made it pretty clear in the title that there were spoilers.

The ending that disappointed me most was the ending to Chrono Cross.

 

[RAWKSTAR]

Fallout 3... come on...

 

[Ruzzian Roulette]

Fallout 3, easily.

Battlefield: Bad Company, great multiplayer, shitty final boss and ending.

 

[Hippobatman]

Spoiler: You know which one...

Fable 2. I was so looking forward to THE final boss fight with some dragon or sea creature-thing. But NO, he was just going to stand there, giving me a good bye speech. I thought I was supposed to hear him through before I'd put him down, but then that asswipe of a hero shot him!! I was so pissed I just turned the game off and punched the wall for ten minutes...

 

[Nargleblarg]

I just beat Fallout 3 today ironically (I just got it a week ago)and I was so pissed that I can't beat it and go on with my life in it like in oblivion. I had to load a save and that just always sucks.

 

[HeroOfIsengard]

I am a huge LOTR fan but I have to say LOTR-BFME The ending for both sides sucked, however the game itself was epic

 

[Crono Maniac]

On Chrono Cross, I certainly hope you got the "good" ending at least. The good ending at least has some excellent cinematics, if not closure. But the bad ending is downright awful.

 

[Arntor]

I agree with Fable 2. For god's sake, I spent the whole game buffing out my character in hopes for an epic showdown, but it never came! It WOULD have been funny if I shot Lucien while he was talking (not a lot of games allow you to interrupt a villain in the middle of his monologue) and THEN comes back out as any giant thing where it would force all four heroes to work together to take down, but no, nothing. In fact,

Spoiler

this game is lacking so much epic in places where it could have. For example, why not have a Kraken guard the Spire, forcing us to fight it to escape? I mean, they pretty much rehashed EVERY major point from the first game (The Crucible=The Arena with NO GIANT SCORPION, the Spire=The Prison). Oh, I suppose the Commandant was meant to replace the Kraken, but there's no reason not to have both. Come on, the setting makes even more sense because we're actually in the water this time! Nope, nothing but motherfucking boring-ass rock trolls. I know the magic is supposed disappearing from the land, but it doesn't stop the Hobbes, the Undead, and the Balverines. Why not rip off the headless horseman and make a headless balverine rider? That's not to say I don't like hate the game, but there could have been more. Yeah, yeah, expansions and all that but I don't think that's any excuse. And don't even get me started on the "life simulation".

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Fallout 3, Fallout 3, goddamn Fallout 3.

 

[towncalledmike]

Probably assassins creed. It all got a bit too weird in the last level and then ended far too abruptly. I also think that the twist of your mentor (or whatever) being the villain would have been a bit less predictable if they HADN'T given him long black robes, a scar and a beard, those things just scream 'EVIL BASTARD!!!'

 

[xitel]

Breakdown. Because it was part of a trilogy, and by the end I was SO looking forward to another one, but then BAM, noone buys it and I don't get closure.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. It goes through all this work and then the last mask does the final boss fight for you.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

I agree with Fable 2.

I expected some kind of epic showdown. But then I get there, whip out a music box and that's the fight. Walk up and press a button. Then, in an attempt to add some drama to the ending I pulled out my rifle for the final exposition only to accidentally shoot the guy in the face before he made a dramatic final speech.

The only good part is the choice. It's interesting that they throw you for a loop by giving you the choice to resurrect your sister (and others) in what I had always assumed would be the good ending, or to save all the nameless guys who died building the spire. No choice would leave me satisfied that I was the good guy by the end. At least they have the purely selfish choice if I decide to play the game again as a jerkbag.

 

[Draygen]

Ogre Battle 64, just to be different

Speaking of being different, that game was supposed to have 30-some odd endings. I only got one. The same damn ending no matter what I did. And it wasn't even a good ending. Basically, "You're a great hero, but you think that you have to solve problems with violence, so we are banishing you from the kingdom. And in about a year, the kingdom you have worked so hard to save will be hammered into rubble from the neighboring barbarian kingdoms." Only way to solve problems is with violence? What the deuce? The game isn't called Ogre Peace Treaty!

 

[IceStar100]

I'd have to say turning point. I found it meh but the endding was down right stupit. Make an attempt to live man. Self sacrifice for no reason is stupit.

 

[captain awesome 12]

My vote goes to Fallout 3 and Bioshock. Seriously though, I loved Bioshock and liked the final boss fight against Fontaine, even if it was incredibly easy. Then all the big talk of "choice" and the "morality" was washed away in the 30 second clip that followed. Oh and by the way, those clips were the two most abrupt and opposite endings I've ever seen. Imagine my surprise when after harvesting one Little Sister and saving the rest I got the ending where I unleash destruction on the world. And on the replay I am the hero of the Little Sisters despite the fact that I killed so many people I should be put in an asylum. However, I blame this on the publishers, and on the higher-ups, since the choice was made by them. Bioshock would have had a perfectly good ending had it not been for pressure on Ken Levine's design team to create multiple endings. So shame on you! However Fallout 3's was just plain embarrassing.

 

[captain awesome 12]

I'd have to say turning point. I found it meh but the endding was down right stupit. Make an attempt to live man. Self sacrifice for no reason is stupit.

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty is considered one of the worst games ever, so a bad ending to it was fitting.

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