Worst... Ending... EVER!

[ManiacRaccoon]

Contact for the DS

Spoiler

The protagonist breaks the fourth wall and accuses you of ruining the end of the game, then you have to punch him until he runs away. Nothing else happens. That's right, the main character yells at you for winning the game.

That makes it the only game I've actually bought and then sold after only one playthrough. Usually I start a new game, even if I wasn't that impressed with the ending. But Contact actually angered me enough to make me sell it less than a week after playing the end. I don't even remember what I bought with the money, I was just glad to be rid of it.

Not to mention, the concept on paper sounds incredibly awesome. A fistfight. With the POPE.

Don't forget evil, if he was just the regular Pope it would seem unfair. It's a fistfight, with the EVIL POPE.

Only thing better would be a fistfight with the space pope. In Space.

 

[SteinFaust]

Borderlands was [HEADING=2]LAME.[/HEADING] which was even worse because the whole game was a crappy, lootwhoring grindquest with a completely uninteresting story.

 

[DarthFennec]

I think if I said ET for the Atari2600, that would be cheating. So I'll have to go with MGS4, really. I don't know though, I lost the story and my sanity way before it ended

 

[Invaderbrim]

Borderlands

Seconded, though it was a little humorous it just seemed like the developers didn't even try.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

In FEAR 2

Spoiler

you get raped by a ghost at the end... yeah.

This isn't a dramtisation people, you actually

Spoiler

get raped by a ghost

 

[jimr1974]

BioShock. Started out good but the ending did nothing for me. It was one of the reasons
i didn't buy bioShock2

 

[AWDMANOUT]

Fallout 3's ending wasn't as much of a cockslap as people say. It was even worse.

Fallout 3's ending.

Fallout 3

OT: Probably the original Fallout 3 ending.

B-b-buttt.... I loved that game... what about Broken Steel?
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Broken_Steel

 

[Yeager942]

I say this whenever this thread gets made, and I'll say it again.

KoToR 2. Dark-side ending.

W
T
F

And it was my first rpg too. I remember obsessively playing that game all summer when it first came out (I was in 5th grade. Stop laughing), and it fills me with the same nostalgia that Fallout, Bladur's Gate, or whatever old-school rpg does with it's fans.

 

[likalaruku]

Final Fantasy Unlimited: everyone but the most annoying character dies.

 

[Dollar Bill]

Let's just say, master chu and the drunkard hu.

 

[RobotNinja]

Red Dead Redemption

Spoiler

I'm at 98.4% completion and can't turn it back on for more than 5 minutes without getting sick of Jacks whiny voice

I think the ending was emotionally powerful, but I too despise Jack. I miss John and his manly voice.

 

[Chamale]

Fallout 3's ending wasn't as much of a cockslap as people say. It was even worse.

Fallout 3's ending.

Fallout 3

OT: Probably the original Fallout 3 ending.

B-b-buttt.... I loved that game... what about Broken Steel?
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Broken_Steel

There's a very good reason Broken Steel is one of the top-rated purchases on Xbox Live Marketplace. It took a game that was excellent, save one giant flaw, and simply excised that giant flaw. That it added 10 levels and extra campaign content was just gravy.

 

[DivineSin]

Goldeneye for N64
Link's Awakening for Gameboy

Great games but the endings made me wanna drink the memory away!

 

[The Madman]

Actually, I'm going to go with Neverwinter Nights 2 as well;

Spoiler

everybody dies.

You might be interested to know that Mask of the Betrayer continues the story actually, and you find out about the fates as well as encounter quite a few characters from the original campaign. Plus Mask of the Betrayer is itself much better than the original campaign story-wise as well as character wise. It's even got proper multiple endings that provide proper closure, go figure!

As for my own pick for worst? Most recently God of War 3. I just really dislike that ending, and what's worse is that I loved everything leading up to it. The ending just ruined it for me and left me with a sour taste to the otherwise awesome past few hours it'd taken to beat the game.

 

[Diligent]

Centipede on the Atari. I got to level 100 and it reset to level 1. What a let down.
Seriously though:

Fallout 3's ending wasn't as much of a cockslap as people say. It was even worse. Everything you had worked for, every change you tried to bring to the Wasteland, every hope and dream you created for your character is destroyed in a storm of plotty doom. To anyone who plays RPGs properly (that is to say, by role-playing as they should), the ending was so terrible it travelled through time and made the rest of the game suck.

A dozens angry Internet rants on the subject have yet to fully express my anger over this issue. I'm seriously considering starting a boycott on Steam to protest Fallout: New Vegas using the same sort of closed ending.

I am right there with you. My biggest problem with the ending to Fallout 3 was

Spoiler

On my first playthrough I had the mutant who was immune to radiation with me. Not 3 hours previous he was running through an irradiated area, and when it comes time for him to step into the radioactive room hes all, "oh no, this is something you must do, it's your destiny" or some BS line like that. I was sitting there thinking, "LIKE FUCK IT IS BUDDY! Get your ugly ass in there, turn of the whatsa-ma-whozit, get out, and we'll hit a bar and find some girls to celebrate...nobody needs to die, asshole!"

So yeah, closed endings to a games that are pretending to be open ended aren't cool.

 

[lightning38]

although i am ashamed for even spending money on the game i have to bring up Too Human...
think the sopranos just with hours of shitty game play before it

 

[Serge A. Storms]

I'll say it, Half Life 2: Episode 2, although I guess it could go down as the "best" ending ever from a game developer's perspective when Half Life 3 comes out in 2016 and sells like a ************. Worst case of mass nerd blueballing since the Star Wars prequels.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Fuck you Atlus, You could have made the end to Persona 3 ambiguous but you have to add that fucking graduation scene. I've never cried during a game, I did then.

 

[the1ultimate]

Actually, I'm going to go with Neverwinter Nights 2 as well;

Spoiler

everybody dies.

You might be interested to know that Mask of the Betrayer continues the story actually, and you find out about the fates as well as encounter quite a few characters from the original campaign. Plus Mask of the Betrayer is itself much better than the original campaign story-wise as well as character wise. It's even got proper multiple endings that provide proper closure, go figure!

Well, I started playing Mask of the Betrayer, but I couldn't get into it. That spirit eater mechanic is particularly annoying, especially if you don't have a healing character and have to rest regularly.

After I heard something about you being unable to

Spoiler

fight the death god and free the souls from the wall of souls, despite it being one of your character's goals in the game

I gave up on the idea of completing the game.

And besides, as far as I gather you are the only one out of all your party who was... displaced from the ending of the original game.

I'd be interested to know if these rumours are true.

B-b-buttt.... I loved that game... what about Broken Steel?
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Broken_Steel

I did specify that I meant the original ending; the one that initially came with the game. Besides which, some would argue that being forced to pay extra to see the real ending with a half-hearted extra campaign attached is even worse.

 

[SimpleChimp]

I might be the only one in here, but i am going to say MGS 2, just because the whole game is a training scenario to train the naked blond to be the next solid snake. Seriously it kind of pissed me off.

I mean i understand that its a "mind blowing" moment, but i spent all my time playing it and then i get into what equates to a holodeck battle with a shit load of metal gear.

Fuck That Noise.