What is the most irritating ending?

[Andreas55k]

Persona 4 BAD ENDING!...

I really like how you need to think to get an actual staisfying ending, but first time i played i did not think... and it all felt like a huge Dick move...

I literally went "WHAT!? WHAT WHAT WHAT!??!!!!"
And imediately went on the web to see if i missed anything...

Thankfully for Persona... I did...

And now Persona 4 is one of my favourite games

 

[SoopaSte123]

As for games... I would say that any kind of "congratulations" screen or a "Thankyou for playing!" would be a killer for me.

For some reason this kind of reminds me of a chili contest I had at my college... Every day the dining commons would serve hotter and hotter chili, and you had to eat a whole bowl with only 1 small glass of water. At the end of the last day, instead of a "Congratulations!" or a "Great job!" of any kind, the response I got from the people putting on the contest was "Thanks for eating at the dining commons all week!" It really annoyed me. Of course I knew it was a scheme to get people to eat there, but I didn't need them blatantly telling me. I got a pretty awesome t-shirt from it, but still...

 

[Belzera]

Dragon Age 2 is the most recent ending that has giving me an intense feeling of disappointment.

Seriously, I felt it was like a kick to the nads, it all came way too quickly and I honestly couldn't believe this was the end game even as I was fighting the final boss (who I was totally shocked was the final boss)

Left a bad aftertaste and further dragged down my opinion of the game.

Aye the ending did come too quickly but I did like the mystery presented at the end of it.

Spoiler

The fact that the Warden and the Champion have both dissappeared.

 

[Colour Scientist]

The end of Mirror's Edge.

That and I imagine the end of the Twilight book saga, not that I've read it. But if I had I would've been expecting something less insane, but I haven't. I would never read the Twilight saga... twice.

Oh and Shutter Island, I was expecting something less obvious.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

The worst/most irritating ending I have ever experienced was Fable 2's hands down.

 

[Mister Benoit]

The ending to Y-The Last Man was a bit of a let down...but then again so is life, and I think that was the point.

I actually just finished the series last week. I immediately re-read the Epilogue 2 more times. At first I felt unfulfilled but then I let it sink in and I didn't really mind it. I just felt really bad for Yorick, and the Ampersand bit was ruff. It was nice to see him free at the end with a straight jacket floating in the sky in the Y shape.

The bit I disliked is that they cut Dr. Man off really quick, you were just supposed to accept her fate.

I loved that the series started and ended with Yorick in and breaking out of a straight jacket.

As for me, Fable II pissed me off to no ends. It was the first and last Fable game I will play, that was an utter waste of my time and money.

 

[CainOfNod]

The end of "X-Men, The Arcade Game". My childhood friends and I must have spent hours (and a frighting amount of our disposable income) working to beat that game, only to have... wait, should I put I *spoiler warning* here?

 

[teebeeohh]

well lost would be an obvious choice.
and any civ 5 game i finish on epic(makes everything in the game last forever) after you finish a huge ass game in hundreds of hours and all you get is "gratz you won" kinda makes you feel empty.

 

[Cogwheel]

If it was all just a dream.
Makes me rage

Pretty much this. I'm honestly working on a deconstruction story of precisely this plot device, fueled almost entirely by my irritation. It's that terrible.

 

[The Wooster]

Kafka's "The Castle."

Lost. Mostly for it's obnoxious "It's about the characters" switcheroo when they've been using mystery boxes to drive the narrative throughout.

Indigo Prophecy. For reasons already stated.

Battlestar Galactica remake. "So I was thinking we should abandon all our technology, discard every cultural, scientific and social advancement we've made and doom our descendants to thousands of years of horror and bloodshed."

"That's a great idea, son. Let's do that."

 

[-Drifter-]

Borderlands has one of the worst endings I've ever seen. I don't even want to elaborate on it, it's just... so bad.

 

[The Wooster]

Kafka's "The Castle."

Lost. Mostly for it's obnoxious "It's about the characters" switcheroo when they've been using mystery boxes to drive the narrative throughout.

Indigo Prophecy. For reasons already stated.

Battlestar Galactica remake. "So I was thinking we should abandon all our technology, discard every cultural, scientific and social advancement we've made and doom our descendants to thousands of years of horror and bloodshed."

"That's a great idea, son. Let's do that."

Luddite endings in general.
Surrogates (movie) had a terrible ending. At least in the comic book when the dude decides that since he doesn't like his robotic body NOONE should have an awesome robotic body he ends up paying the price. In the movie everyone is just fucking peachy. Except crippled people. Obviously.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Mirror's Edge. You could hear the budget running out. It sounded like a deflating bouncy-castle with a Scandinavian singer on it.

 

[Sacman]

Harry Potter's ending:

Spoiler: I know this spoiler probably isn't necessary, but...

I wanted him to die!

What else? Erm... Bridge to Terrabithia? Ok I know the entire film is crap, but the ending just sucked.
And generally anything that ends with an 'it was all just a dream' type scenario.

He did... sort of.

For a video game? Cel-shaded Prince of Persia. It just ended on a cliff hanger! FFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-!!!!

For a movie? Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa. You know you have a fail when you wrote a movie to fix the bad ending of a great show and the movie ends the exact same fucking way!!. Thought I must mention that the OVA, "Kids", did heal a little bit of this even if it isn't canon.

For a book? Can't think of one. I need to read some more.

This... I really loved Full Metal Alchemist but the ending just frustrated me to no end... it actually made me so mad that I went off to go read the manga just to see if the ending was better...

also Neon Genesis Evangelion... the ending to the anime looks like it was put together in power point with some concept art, explains nothing and drags on way longer than it should've... than came the movie which despite having awesome fight scenes and great character development as one of it's core elements had the same problem of not explaining crap and also turning into a nonsensical mind fuck for the finale that only served to concentrate pretentious bullshit into a singularity and piss me off...

 

[Gustavo S. Buschle]

The entire last half of Fahrenheit

 

[Kwatsu]

Enslaved, because it completely contradicts the awesome beginning of the game and makes no sense at all. Either the villain is bonkers and doesn't realise what he's doing, or the game just tripped over a rock at the end.

It's worse because I love the beginning of that game, when you're running through that gorgeous post-apocalyptic New York. I liked the chemistry with Monkey and Trip, too. It's just a pity that the ending doesn't have anything to do with them, apart from the fact they happen to be there (if that makes sense; probably not).

 

[Griff Morivan]

I think this one kind of goes without saying, but I'm not going to spoilertag my post. This is an 'endings' thread, so... durr. Spoilers. But!

Halo 2 - Now, I know that Halo is in no way a game about it's story (although the story-lovers of us, the ones who like stories even in story light games (can I get a Mega Man Hola?) don't care and still sorta like Halo) but that was such a bullshit anticlimax. HOLY SHIT EXPLOSIONS! ALIEN WARP HOLES! FUCKIN' CHIEF ON THE COVENANT DOHICKY. "Finish the fight" Credits. ... Uh... What!?

Metal Gear Solid 2 - I am a huge fan of the MGS series, but I hate 2, and I only like 4, where it should have been amazing (because the gameplay is, but the story portion is... fucking weak) But 2's ending was such a colossal clusterfuck. If video game endings that are convoluted and stupid were ancient gods, MGS2 would be the 16th Colossus. SOLID SNAKE SIMULATOR SYSTEM FOR SOCIOTAL SANITY NANOMACHINES WHITE HOUSE ROBOT PATRIOTS I NEED SCISSORS CHILD SOLDIERS ANGSTANGSTANGSTANGST PREGNANT JACK ROSE TITANIC RAIDEN WE HAVE TO FIGHT NOW. I hate 2 in general. It's controls are by far worse than any other game in the series (MGS1 definitely included) The bait and switch was weak, and the story took what was an espionage with-a-twinge-of-woowoo and turned it into a full bore ROBOTS AND NANOMACHINES! Basically waving away Psychomantis, any of the other supernatural shit in it. And then, when 3 was more of a James Bond film than whatever 2 was (Black Hawk Down meets Wristcutters?), they explain Ocelot is the son of The Sorrow, essentially explaining how Ocelot could channel Liquid, only to turn around and NANOMACHINE it. Fuck 2. It put a pall on my favorite series.

MGS4 - This one sort of teeters on so awesome, it's almost fucking horrible. Like, I dig Big Boss coming back. I do. But then he had to go to explaining shit that got stacked up from 2. The patriots, nanomachines, Liquid Ocelot (Something that could have just as easily been 'Liquid possessed Ocelot, but then saw that Ocelot was trying to fuck the Patriots, and was like, Shibby, let's go.' Just... Ugh. This is a good death, Right? For this series, it deserved better.

Fallout 3 - Now, I know this was retconned by the DLCs, but, Fallout 3's original ending was freaking miserable. Especially if you were a heroic character. What is the big pay off for being a paragon in a world coated in evil? Oh. You die. You get fucking microwaved. And if you send your buddy in so SHE can be microwaved? Nope. Game over. Everyone borking dies. Oh, hey, what about the seventeen foot mutant who is sympathetic to your goals, and is totally rad resistant. To the point that you would have to put him in a microwave till he died of starvation? HE could go do i-...what? Destiny? Oh. Right. Yeah. Ever notice how destiny is pretty much synonymous with too-stupid-to-live? It's right next to twoo wuv.

Minecraft - Face it. You stopped playing every world you ever stopped playing because you dug through a wall with four stacks of diamond, ten iron, six gold and your army of pickaxes dwindling, only to drink lava. Shitty end, no?

 

[OliverTwist72]

The ending of No Country For Old Men. Seriously... what the hell? Maybe it made more sense in the book? I just don't know.

It's a black comedy, if that helps at all. It was very un-Hollywoodish and I liked it.

Spoiler

The movie shows off how arbitrary, unpredictable, and unfair the world can be. Carson Wells was introduced as some hotshot but was unceremoniously dismissed just as quickly. Most movie-goers would have assumed that the hotshot would have more effect on the movie.
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Throughout the whole movie, Chigurh is the only one in control. He seems to hold everyones fate in his hands, like his "how much have you ever lost on a coin toss" question to the gas station attendant. But to show off how unpredictable the world is, he gets involved in a car crash and is seriously injured. The boys on the bike are there to contrast Chigurh's darkness by selflessly offering his shirt for free. Part of the ending that makes this movie great is that it can be debated whether he got away or not. It can be either:
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A) Even "The Master of people's fates" isn't above the randomness of the world. And you can hear the sirens closing in on him at the end and it's some freak accident that finally gets him. Or (and the one I like better)
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B) Chigurh is the representation of of all that is senselessly evil, deplorable, and unjust in the world, and it is appropriate that he survives. Not even this stroke of chance seems to destroy Chigurh. He represents everything in the world that Tommy Lee Jones can't understand and is appalled by. And if this is really true Tommy Lee Jones accepts his futility against this tide of senseless evil that is washing over the world today and retires. Tommy Lee Jones at the end when he's explaining the 2 dreams he had are a metaphor for his own police chase about giving up the chase of a dangerous criminal to a safe retirement. When he goes to the hotel room (the one where Llewellyn was killed), he sees the killer and the killer sees him but he walks away rather than risk an engagement. And hence why this is No Country for Old Men.

That aside, I have to say gaming-wise the ending of Borderlands really pissed me off.

Edit: And man that's like a total shift in subjects haha.

 

[DSK-]

Dragon Age 2 is the most recent ending that has giving me an intense feeling of disappointment.

Seriously, I felt it was like a kick to the nads, it all came way too quickly and I honestly couldn't believe this was the end game even as I was fighting the final boss (who I was totally shocked was the final boss)

Left a bad aftertaste and further dragged down my opinion of the game.

I agree. You can't really win either way in terms of the last points of contention and things end up going south. To me that was a completely bullshit ending because everything you fought for goes down the tube and there is no closure the 'story' (not that there was an overarching goal throughout the game).


Also:

Spoiler

What was Leliana saying about the disappearance of the Hero of Ferelden and Hawke not being coincidence? what the fuck does that even mean?!