Worst. Ending. Ever.

[Mr Companion]

The worst ending to a game is easily MGS 4. Whilst Fallout 3 and quite a few others have been worse story-wise at least they don't take 2 hours of desperately boring cutscenes to get it over with.

Drebin gets drunk and depressed, the little girl meets an equally sickening little boy, and then we are treated to something we never ever get to see in MGS which is a massive over an hour long cutscene in which convoluted nonsense plot is divulged to us as slowly as the rotting of a mummified corpse. Thats all I remember and im not about to drag myself through all that again to memorize more so yes I agree with you entirely!

Also two old men fighting, what a climax!

 

[mikey7339]

Red Dead Redemption

no, seriously fuck that game

fuck that game for ripping out my heart and stomping on while sadistically yelling at me and telling my all my hopes and dreams are doomed to fail while punhing me in the face and making me cry

fuck that game

It should have ended right after the barn scene. If they had done that it would have been an awesome ending. What made it absolutely hilarious was when the RDR logo flashes on the screen after the last mission. I was just like....seriously?

 

[RoBi3.0]

Game- Uncharted Drake Fortune. Before I start let me say that I love the Uncharted series it is great but:

Spoiler

The ending of the first game was hella bad. It was anti-cilmatic and poorly explained and every character reacted to it poorly. They kind of just shrugged their shoulders and walked away. I am if a giant black swarm of unexplainedness was turning people in to the monsters from I am Legend, I would have SOMETHING I mean ANYTHING to say about it.

As far as book and Movies go I would have to think about it for a while. I don't come across to many of those that I didn't like beginning to end.

 

[A BigCup of Tea]

Ooh, I just watched Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.

It was a pretty terrible ending, mostly because it didn't really end. It was like "okay, we're going to set up a franchise now by stopping a battle mid-fight and then walking away." We have to wait for a sequel that (1) won't happen and (2) I don't want to see because the movie itself wasn't worth watching.

Oh sweet mother of god this!!! The thing is it wasn't just a terrible ending, it was a terrible film on the whole, it's like they diden't even read the book i actually walked out of the cinema and demanded a refund.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Highschool of the dead and Mahou sensei negima are decent competitors for the prize.

As for games and movies...
Eh, I can't think of anything.

High School of the Dead is still going on. The Anime might not be renewed for a second season however. And Mahou Sensei Negima the manga JUST ended but yeah I have to say that the ending for it pretty much sucks.

Yeah, I was talking about the ending to the anime of hotd.

As for msn, there are still a couple of chapters to go, isn't there? Unless the raws are out, I guess.
Well, it'll still be pretty much impossible for that ending to redeem itself.

MSN I am pretty sure ends with

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Tsuna waking up to find out everyone is dead but her. I am pretty sure that it says thank you for reading at the end of that chapter.

 

[Nulmas]

I can't remember the name of the movie, but that one where there's a rich person that's bored with his life and meets his brother after a long time. His brother tells him to go to a company that will make his life more entertaining. They screw with him the whole movie and in the end he's alright with it. I would have killed someone.

That would be The Game, starring Michael Douglas

As for a bad ending, I'd have to point out LA Noire's whole final act.

The game is pretty well built up until that point. After that it just seems rushed.

 

[Slycne]

Neverwinter Nights 2 original campaign

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Rocks fall, everyone dies. Literally. Conveyed by a narrator over a bad slideshow, no less.

It was sort of retconned in Mask of the Betrayer, but not enough even then.

I came into this thread specifically to see if anyone had mentioned NW2. Coincidentally I was just telling someone in the office yesterday that never got to play through the game due to a bug that they honestly didn't miss anything by getting to the end of it.

 

[Jonluw]

Highschool of the dead and Mahou sensei negima are decent competitors for the prize.

As for games and movies...
Eh, I can't think of anything.

High School of the Dead is still going on. The Anime might not be renewed for a second season however. And Mahou Sensei Negima the manga JUST ended but yeah I have to say that the ending for it pretty much sucks.

Yeah, I was talking about the ending to the anime of hotd.

As for msn, there are still a couple of chapters to go, isn't there? Unless the raws are out, I guess.
Well, it'll still be pretty much impossible for that ending to redeem itself.

MSN I am pretty sure ends with

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Tsuna waking up to find out everyone is dead but her. I am pretty sure that it says thank you for reading at the end of that chapter.

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Then Eva appears with Chao Lingshen. Then there's a caption reading
"The long months and years were certainly not a waste!!
Negima will reach its conclusion in three more chapers!!"

So we haven't reached the ending quite yet.

 

[Ishigami]

Wizards (1977): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCwgQFOEHC0#t=5m

The picture itself I think is pretty mediocre to say the least.
But what really tipped me off was this anti climax showdown. It is probably meant as some kind of irony joke since his brother is the evil technocrat but honestly I think it is lame.
Not to mention at the very end Avatar gets Elinore which makes hardly any sense as the movie never bothered to establish a relationship of that sort between these two characters.

 

[pilouuuu]

No one mentioned the ending to Lost yet?

Really any series could end that way, but it's almost as bad as it was all a dream ending. Besides that most things that really mattered like all about the island was answered in a rushed or disappointing way. In the end it showed that the ending wasn't really planned in advance at all.

 

[deleted_by_strongbad]

Carnivale. It isn't that they didn't execute it well, the show is amazing, from start to "finish," oh wait it never finished. Got cancelled after the season 2 cliffhanger finale.

oh and LOST....gd lost.

 

[esperandote]

GTA Liberty city stories. I don't think anyone minds if I spoil it, after saving your bosses life a couple of times and risking yours several, he pays you half of what he said he would, gives you a palm in the back and tells you not to be greedy.

 

[Cette]

I fail to see where only a happy ending can be a good ending. It doesn't need to be sunshine and daisies to be satisfactory. It was a gritty ending grounded in reality. It was never trying to make you feel good. Try telling a fan of Oldboy that the ending sucked, see what kind of look you'll get.

Not to mention it was pretty much the same ending as a the book.

I didn't say happy. I said satisfactory. You can have a sad ending that still satisfies the audience. You can have a happy ending that leaves the audience feeling unsatisfied.

I never saw Oldboy. I'm talking about this movie, not once did I mention Oldboy.

Now, following the book, that's fine, whatever. Maybe the book presented it better. I don't know. But I'm not talking about that either, so that also doesn't matter.

Than I'm confused as to why it seems unappealing to you. I guess if you were bummed out about it's presentation, that's understandable, but the way it did present the ending was why it was so haunting to me. The cinematography, the closing dialogue, the way they left the wife's death a cliffhanger. It was all so straightforward with no restrictions. It was vicious. It was evil. It was unsettling. Hell, it even explained the title in the closing monologue.

By the way you're leading it on, I can only see a "satisfying" ending to you as being the good guys win. It would have been acceptable, but without the main character dying, there wouldn't have been that message and overall theme of the darkness of man to close it out. In a way, the story would have meant nothing without it. Just another action movie.

And I'm aware you never mentioned Oldboy. I was merely using that as an example, as they are sort of related here.

I'm just going to sound off that for the most part the ending of Oldboy was pretty damn terrible. Not in a "this is depressing" way but more "really that was the villains plot and motive? REALLY?"

No Country for old men just didn't ever tie Tommy Lee Jones into the active plot enough to make his presence even make sense and killing the effective protagonist off screen took every bit of investment out of it. Effective as a statement about how violent lives don't necessarily end in interesting or cinematic ways maybe. Compelling cinema in and of it's self not even a little bit.

It just comes off as the main plot thread getting suddenly dropped and then a pointless side character having a revelation that adds very little. Might give the book a try though if it does tie it all together better.

 

[MetalDooley]

The Dreamers series by David Eddings

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The dreamers of the title are gods.At the end of the fourth book they suddenly decide "hey how about if we use our godly powers to make it so none of this bad stuff ever happened in the first place" and that's exactly what they do

Are you fucking kidding me?I read 4 books to be greeted by that shit

 

[standokan]

No country for old men

Was a decent action/thriller movie until the very end when it wraps up the plot in about 3 minutes then puts in some philosophical bullshit in order to justify it.

I think you missed the point. I suppose I should put this in spoiler tags.

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The ending was supposed to be blunt and unhappy. The supposed "good protagonist" died for greed and stubbornness, and it ended in the possible death of his wife and family.

Tommy Lee Jone's character expresses that whoever the bad guy was had destroyed his view of a good and clean world. So he retired. Because he was afraid of death.

It was a very human and realistic ending.

I agree wholeheartedly, the ending fit the movie's "gritty realism" and to me it really didn't feel that abrupt.

Though I must say I thought

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Tommy Lee Jones was going to die at the end, as "one day away from retirement cop characters" often do.

An interting theory about No Country For Old Men is that

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Tommy Lee Jones is Chigurh (the bad guy), trying to clean up the mess his town has become before he retires whilst erasing all the traces he left behind (I like this theory as a mindblow but nothing more than that).

 

[woodaba]

As much as I hate to say it, KOTOR II.

The Restored Content mod restored and made it frankly, amazing, but the original game's ending was pure gobshite.

Spoiler

Run down a hallway filled with pathetically easy mooks, talk a zombie to death, punch an old woman in the face, your ship comes back to life, and you fly away. Boom. The End.

 

[Iwata]

Evangelion- either you're doing a mecha show with some light metaphysical tones, or "2001: A Space Odissey". You DON'T jump-clutch from one to the other!

 

[Vigormortis]

Hmm...I may have to think on this. Mainly because I can list a LOT of bad endings. I'll try to keep it brief.

Spoiler: Games

Halo 2 - This is one of the most egregious "build up into a sequel" moments I've ever seen in a game. It literally just stops mid-scene to roll credits. Just...what the hell Bungie? I know the campaign was shit, but to end it even worse? Yeck.

Borderlands - Self explanatory. The whole game; dialog, missions, locales; is built on lore and build-up to the mythical "Vault". Once you reach the end? You find out killing the guardian closes the vault, thus meaning you'll have to wait a few hundred years for it to open again. I mean, really? Fuck you Gearbox. If the sequel is yet another "carrot-on-a-stick" story built around Diablo 2-FPS edition, I swear I'll...guh. Just, never mind.

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - Don't misunderstand. I LOVED this ending. It was powerful and emotional. However, to leave us on that big of a cliff-hanger, to then make us wait years to see a conclusion, is just frustrating

Spoiler: Television

Battlestar Galactica (new) - I'm not even sure where to begin with this ending. The entire series was fantastically written. Just phenomenal sci-fi space opera. Hell, it still has some of my favorite season-ending cliff-hangers. (season 3 especially) But, that last episode.... Good lord, what the hell happened? It just felt so awkward. Did NOT fit the rest of the show at all.

Stargate Universe - I know the show was cancelled after season 2 (something that still irks me as it was far superior to the other two shows), but...well...talk about a non-ending. It felt as if, if you were reading the plot to someone, that they just said, "So they all went to sleep and rode off into the blackness of space."

Spoiler: Films

No Country For Old Men - I wasn't that fond of this film. In fact, I'm generally not that big on most of the Coen Brothers films. (I know, how dare I. 'course, I feel Tarantino is FAR more overrated, which earns me just as much ire.) Still, even the most die-hard of Coen fans has to admit this film had a hell of a weak ending. It felt like they realized at the last minute they forgot to cover all of the key, plot points and philosophical discussions present in the book, so they hurriedly crowbarred it all in there in the last five to ten minutes.

War of the Worlds (2005) - I actually loved Spielbergs adaptation of Wells novel. It was dark, exciting, and contemplative (despite it's flaws). Yet, the ending was just awful. Not that I have a problem with a happy ending. It's just that this one felt both ham-handed and illogical. (and I don't mean how the aliens were defeated. that I'm okay with as it was in Wells novel.)

As for books, well, I've read quite a few. (I read a lot) But whenever I've read a book I didn't like, for a bad story or bad ending, I tend to forget it quickly. Purposefully. If I thought about it more, I could probably list some. Just as if I wanted to think on it more I could list far better examples then the ones I've listed above in the spoilers. But, I've already wasted enough time today. So back to work.

 

[rayen020]

firstly in response to the title; thats what she said! ziiiiiiiing1

bad endings?hmmm...

movie;transformers 2
just didn't sit well with me for reason. I don't particularly like the movies in general, but that ending just didn't work for me at all...

Videogame; crash bandicoot 3. Not so much the story ending as the ending gameplay. 1 and 2 were like f-ing endurance challenges. the ending of 3 you were so bogged down with specials and abilities you were an unstoppable marsupial murder machine.

Book;The ending of Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. Just that book. It didn't ruin the series for me but it did ruin that book for me. Of all the Books in the HP series it's the only one i've read once.

These are all only for me. I don't particularly hate any of these properties. They just had endings that didn't sit well with me for some undefinable reason.

 

[A Shadows Age]

Red Dead Redemption

no, seriously fuck that game

fuck that game for ripping out my heart and stomping on while sadistically yelling at me and telling my all my hopes and dreams are doomed to fail while punhing me in the face and making me cry

fuck that game

You do realize that there are two endings, don't you ? look for the question mark in blackwater after you finish off dutch...

are you talking about....

[spoiler/] playing as Jack marston after the finale? in regards to that I'll repost what I said before

ahh but thats the even MORE depressing part of it

SPOILERS

Jack marston became just like his father...a lost soul riding aorund gunslinging..its exactally what Jhon and Abagail DIDN'T want

essentially his fathers past..that asshole FBI guy defined who Jack became, John faild in every way possible, and Im pretty sure Jack isnt happy or living up to what could have been [/spoiler]

No, I'm not. I said two endings. What your referring to is the continuation of the story after John... Like I said, blackwater, question mark, after dutch if I remember correctly, been a while.