What was the last ending of a game that was genuinely satisfying?

[Kuzlo]

Last one for me would probably be Jade Empire. Finally tried it recently after hearing about it over the years, and although it's just a small cut-scene + text ending I was satisfied.

Actually enjoyed the evil/renegade play-through a great deal more, which (usually play games as the goody-two-shoes) was quite surprising.

 

[Chanel Tompkins]

Blargh. No one's going to know the game I'm talking about, but here goes. The last time I got a really good feeling from beating a game was Fossil Fighters: Champions. You beat up a big, evil wizard guy with dinosaurs to save the world. It is awesome.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

The ending of MW3's campaign was fairly satisfying, if a bit of a ***** to get to. Freeze in hell Makarov, freeze in hell.

People will probably try to leave that out because of the whole "Fuck Call of Duty", but I'm with you.

That ending was so damn satisfying. Which was surprising, coming from the CoD guys.

 

[Emiscary]

Psychonauts had a damn good ending.

 

[Yeager942]

I just beat Planescape Torment recently and I must say that the ending was quite moving. Bioware should've taken notes because that was bittersweet done right.

 

[TheOneBearded]

Fallout: New Vegas in which I get Yes Man to drop General Oliver off a cliff and have Vegas become a powerhouse all on its own.

Any "good" ending in NV and its DLCs (that did't include you being in the Legion because they could all go and stick polls up their asses for all I care) was satisfying and made me feel that the important actions in the game actually had weight.

Oh, and the first Mass Effect's ending was PERFECT. Kill Saren, destroy the Reaper, pull off a sweet ass pose - simply perfect.

 

[Spongebobdickpants]

Bastion. No contest from anything this year that compares to that game.

As for the whole deus ex HR ending being so unpopular this was something i never understood. The entire game was about the ideas of information as power and those controlling it. Each ending allows the player to try to create the society of their desire by wielding (or not) the information

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Journey, of course. That was the most satisfied I'd felt since Portal 2, or Infamous 2.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

I just finished Eternal Darknes: Sanity's Requiem two nights ago. Oh my god.

Goddamn, seriously it's not all that hard to write a satisfying ending to something. As unsurprising as ED:SR's ending was it was still sooooooooo satisfying. Speaking of horror games I recently replayed through Silent Hill 2 and 3 and jesus, talk about multiple good, satisfying endings. Also recently started playing Farcry 2 again, which has a more or less satisfying ending, I like it. Honestly the only other ending to a game I can think of that was bad recently is Rage's ending. That's it.

 

[JasonKaotic]

Portal 2! If you didn't come close to shedding man-tears, you are hollow and I don't like you.

 

[V8 Ninja]

The only one that comes to mind is the Revenge ending in Amnesia. It was the first ending I ever got and it just felt right.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

last game I beat was portal 2 and it's ending was good.

I can't actually remember being dissatisfied with any videogame ending i've had(not saying for certain I haven't, I just can't recall any times), though it's true some(most) do leave it set up for the sequel rather than finishing everything definitively.

Something I don't actually mind. It's the equivalent of the 'dead' serial killer opening his eyes again at the end of a horror movie, or the terminators arm being found. Stuff like that I think is kinda cool, it's only when they don't end up making a sequel that some[not all] of the endings like that feel a little disappointing.

 

[OSHarlequin]

Dark souls. The link the fire ending specifically. A bit of a strange ending story wise, but completing Dark souls was pretty satisfying anyways.

 

[Beat14]

-snip-

Thanks for letting me know, stops me from playing when I'm after something quick paced. I've been after something heavy on atmosphere for a while, appears it's sitting on a shelf looking at me...

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I did like Bioshock's ending(s), even though you either ended up as jesus or skeletor McHitler.

 

[Zx30]

Gears of War 3.

To me, the first one started slow. Then the second one raised the action. Then it was raised further with #3. The enemies kept growing in numbers and becoming stronger while shit started to hit the fan harder and harder. Lives were taken, sacrifices were made, but damn after so much shooting and hell the war finally ended. It felt damn satisfying to just put the controller down like Marcus put his gear down. It's been a long trilogy and it ended well.

 

[cennsor]

this will sound paradoxical, but probably limbo.