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

[Xvito]

The ending to Super Mario Brothers. I mean "Your princess is in another castle", what kind of a shitty ending is that, I've never played another Mario game since then.

 

[fnph]

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. There's a showdown with the final boss, in which you fight him twice with your parties and then again with Super Sonic. Cue cut-scene, the Master Emerald is recovered, but the building starts to collapseand the portal back home is closing. The characters rush out and barely make it through the shrinking portal. The immediately notice that something is wrong, robots and machines cover the landscape below. So far so not terrible. Then the credits start. That's it. No Robotnik revealing his betrayal and a suitably epic battle. Just the credits.
They're not even good credits, they try to be funny. Sonic and Tails having a conversation about the people who made the game should never, ever be used as credits.

 

[Fbuh]

CHRONO CROSS

Nothing ends a fucking epic world-traveling, demigod-killing, body-switching, dimension-switching adventure like rolling credits.

Also, KOTOR II was pretty lame, too.

You must not have got the complete ending then

 

[starrman]

Far Cry 2

 

[SmartIdiot]

FFX-2. Yawn.

 

[timmytom1]

MIRRORS EDGE! The first half of the game was awesome, you know when you were actually running?
But the second half blew so hard when I beat the last level and saw the ending I felt cheated. It was worse than Halo 2s ending!

For the first time in my life , i think EA got ripped off by dice who did nothing but promise that it would be (a bit) innovative and marketable

 

[timmytom1]

Deus Ex's "join the Illuminati" ending. Morgan Everrett was planning on putting the world through the exact same B.S. that Page and Majestic 12 did, only without guns. (The Illuminati's resources are spread far and wide; politicians, government agencies, armies and the like)

thats kind of the point, its making a philosophical point that even though they operate by different means and they hate each other their goals and aspirations are the same.

anyway theres this ols snes game called pirates something (dont remember th full name). it was a beat em up where you went looking for these stones. at the end of the game the stones get thrown around the world by an explosion or something and the characters go out looking for them.

Dreagonball anyone?

 

[NickNegral]

*goes through his collection*

Everything. Nothing ends well. Why is that this Evil dude/dudette/monster can conquer 99% of the world, but this one little good guy can carve through the entire army/horde/stuff, and still kill this great evil dude/dudette/monster. THIS DOES NOT MAKE SENSE!

Try that shit in real life and the first guy you fight will beat your scrawny ass to a pulp.

But...For the fairness of this thread.

Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3. Yes we get it. Super soldier, aliens, flood(i was expecting a actual water flood), and some dramatic ending with explosions. Yep, seen this before, in every other game. Seriously. Halo isnt special. At all.

Fallout 3, as stated 2000 times already. Yeah, i dont like self sacrafice, considering i massacred everyone who isnt a fixed NPC...

Far Cry 2. Mainly because, its explosive death, or bullet. i figured, go bullet, the other guy is dead, he cant tell on me. But no...we still did it.

Saints row 2. Final boss, was simple. Urban x2, spam, win. Game over.

Prince of Persia. Yay...evil back in the world. after i gotten the final 750 orbs TO UNLOCK THE FINAL STAGES!

LOTR Conquest. OMG Yawn. Complete it both sides. Standard ending.

For once, can the evil guy win. Cant he just go, Look you blonde hair little fuck, this is my world now, im going to eat soup out of your skull...And than have the main guy die, and than reveal that this world is actually Earth, and it is set in our past. Yeah.....

 

[HazukiHawkins]

That and the ending to Ninja Gaiden. You play through what's probably one of the hardest fucking games around, beat that last boss, and what happens.

Ryu: Evil is vanquished. *flies away*
Me: Uh.... WTF RYU!

You know, Racheal was right there, you coulda done.... SOMETHING. But no... just fly away.... jerk.

Just goes to show how little respect Tomonobu Itagaki has for his public. He also grudgingly added a relatively easier difficulty mode for one version of Ninja Gaiden, which he saw fit to name... "Dog Mode". Something about players "expecting to be handed everything"... rather than struggle frenetically for it, presumably.

Returning to the topic, Neverwinter Nights 1 has my nomination. I happened to like Aribeth... 'Nuff said, those who've played it will know what I'm talking about. Also, there was apparently a way to get a somewhat better ending, but it required a high charisma stat and/or persuasion skill, which did not go well with the actual game's relentless marathon of difficult fights and the fact you only control a single character (okay, and a henchman).

 

[Mattallica]

Has anybody mentioned Fallout 3 yet?

Seriously, most games have pretty shite endings to be honest. I was especially disappointed with BG2:Throne Of Bhaal and NWN:Hordes of the Underdark, as the ending of those is based around giving you a fuckload of power and giving you choices as to what to do with it. I WANT TO BLOW SHIT UP!! But no, instead I get some narrator telling me all the stuff I did after the game ends. Joy.

Also, RE:Aribeth, for the "other" ending you have to chat to her in that little village-y place whose name escapes me at the moment until she gives you her ring as a sign of your friendship, then keep the ring until you meet her again during the siege of Neverwinter.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

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.

Well technially it was a gun that killed lucien.

 

[ae86gamer]

fable 2 left me dog less and fallout 3 left me life less. lame.

 

[The_Prophet]

Oh COME ON! What's with all this trolling about fallout 3 ending. It was awesome and it immersed me in the game.

 

[Lucky Chainsaw]

I was disappointed in Bioshock's ending(s)

 

[KoRn_Leader]

Fallout 3's ending sucked. I hated it.

 

[Svenparty]

Has anybody mentioned Fallout 3 yet?

If they haven't then I'll be extremely surprised over the tolerence of a Bad Ending

That ending and the general plot was terrible...Your dad dying for no reason as soon as you find him?...You then going on a conquest to be reduced to the same gooey matter just like every enemy you killed all for WATER.

It's even more terrible that Fawkes,Charon and a ROBOT (ALL uneffected when basking in the deadly green glow) just stand there laughing like the writers that got high thinking about the plot.