Worst. Ending. Ever.

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columbianbacon

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zumbledum said:
Well like you say its about faith , hope without promise all of the characters are having to just trust in each other and hope without any guarantee, intact most have evidence circumstantial as it is that they are wasting their time but they have the courage to do it anyway. that is what makes them the heroes of the books.
the charge of Aragorn still plays out from his pov to be about faith in the movies , we know the truth but his character cant. it robs it of drama and makes the hole mouth of Sauron completely irrelevant where as in the book that chapter is about the most tense.
But you couldnt shoot the film in the order the book was written it just wouldn't work leaping around in time and effectively becoming 3 totally unrelated stories as the book does. Infact i doubt you would be allowed to write a book like that either today ;)

The issue for me is that by the ring being destroyed it plays out like a win for the good guys like it all culminates in a rocky fight moment, and it just shifts the focus away from the point of you should do what is right even if you loose.

dont get me wrong i dont blame them for doing the film they did it made sense the decisions they made were good. but it doesn't change the base issue of the ending is quite dramatically different and its a reasonable complaint
You seem to have a very reasonable take on it all, things like that always makes me harder to disagree with people. I still prefer the movie ring ending. While I get the rather silly final fight kinda thing, it just seems contrived that the big bad is destroyed by some dude slipping at the wrong time during a beside-volcano dance. Kinda like how the 'common cold defeats the aliens' thing from War of the World pissess me off for some reason, when I know for a fact that it was a legendary author's ground breaking twist ending.

EDIT: Drinking helps the thought process not. I meant to throw in a few lines about how I agree with basically all you are saying in the above. Makes what was written there the less confrontational writing I was hoping for.
 

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The ending to Inheritance kinda ticked me off.

ryanxm said:
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In my defense, I read them in a psychiatric hospital, while heavily sedated and otherwise medicated.
So, you thought it'd be a good idea to read twilight...while in a mental hospital? Because you obviously didn't have enough issues at the time.

In all seriousness? for movies it's gotta be the french film "High Tension" had a pretty bad ending.
we find out the is the murderer, and that she's actually just crazy

Seriously, what the hell?

Books? I hear twilight isn't any better in novel form

Games? Modern warfare 2.
Oh look at that, the guy we've been hunting the entire game got away, but our ally who betrayed us because he wants to be known as the guy who took down the bad guy by himself. Oh, and so, even though he murdered special operation allied forces, and spent million on a PMC to kill them, is somehow still honored as a war hero. Just another reason call of duty is utter shit; in my opinion.
He didn't betray you because he wanted the glory, he was the bad guy the whole time. He felt betrayed by his country and wanted payback.
 

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RAGE, not counting all the technical problems I had with the game. After several patches over some months the game finally worked, I got stuck into it and the game was pretty good. But then the ending snuck up out of nowhere and the final mission was really lame.

I was expecting the plot to lead on a bit more and would have thought the last mission would be awesome. It wasn't, No ending boss and only a single new enemy that wasn't challenging and all you had to do was press a few switches.
 

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yeah....but that doesnt mean I can't curse it for making me depressed!

[i/] your hands upon..
a dead mans gun..and your..
....looking down the sights
your heart is worn, the seams a torn..and they've..
...given you a reason to fight [/i]

ahhh no! *sob* make it stop!....[/quote]

This. Just- just fucking THIS. That has to be the single most beautiful ending song I have ever heard in a game. It sums up the final act perfectly.
Also, as mentioned about the final mission where you play as Jack and get revenge, I have to say that it really fits the tone of the game. It has this feel to it that death is meaningless. Every time a major character dies, there's no romance or drama to it. Everyone dies the same in this game, gunned down for nothing, except for John. So when you kill the F.B.I. guy, it didn't feel like you got revenge on the man who murdered your father. You killed some old bastard out duck hunting. Granted, he was a bastard and I'm glad I killed him, but you really feel like it was a hollow victory.
 

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Borderlands.


You spend the entire campaign travelling to this vault that's supposed to have all this amazing treasure inside it.
And what do you find when you finally get there?
Nothing.
/thread

There is no contest. Borderlands ending was a disgrace.
 

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Oh God, where do I start. Does anyone remember game called Pariah? Mother of all shitty cliffhangers. Not that it was particularly interesting to begin with.
As for the more recent ones I could remember it's LA Noire, Dragon Age II, Fallout 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Also despite my love for the series MGS has some of the prime examples of complicated, confusing, convoluted endings ever.
 

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Well there the anime Big O. What the hell? It didn't make sense at all.
Also the other anime Soul Eater is the worst offender due to the fact the anime did its own thing to seperate itself from the manga.
 

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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

Can't agree more, it ruined my weekend when I completed that game :(

Also, don't know if it counts, as it was just shit overall, but the last book in the Twilight series???? Was she afraid of angering her fans by writing a realistic conclusion???? Absolutely crap ending.
 

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The Shadowlord said:
The Black Magician trilogy had a sort of disappointing ending. Not the worst ending ever. But it felt kind of rushed.

After all the build up for the villains, Akkarin just pegs it, the cliche "take my power" scene commences and then Sonea just kills the Ichani. Then that's it. The epilogue gives it a sort of decent ending, but I felt rather cheated with the final battle. Something of an anti-climax.
Agreed, good build up, then the old "Hum can't think of an ending, just stick in the standard
"hero saves the world thanks to macguffin!"

Film has to be I am Legend (my fault for reading the book!) and now their gonna make a sequel!
 

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Everyone's said the obvious choices, so allow me to throw a curveball: Mario Party DS.
No, seriously. The cutscene begins by fading into Bowser and son tied up with ROPE. A material that can be easily destroyed by fire and sharp things, two resources that the Koopa King carries around with him all the time.
But that doesn't matter. We have all five Star Crystals, and so it's time to see what they make when they combined: a minigame.
Specifically, a Bejeweled clone with triangles instead of gems and half the content. Bowser goes on to explain that he wanted to collect all the Star Crystals because according to Koopa lore, which they have for some reason, "When the Star Crystals fall from the sky, a really fun challenge will be revealed." A really fun challenge? Your species fortells of really fun challenges? Why couldn't it be "the bravest of Koopas will find their wits tested" or "happiness will be bestowed upon he who gathers them?" But no, we're going with the first thing the translator could think of, apparently.
Wait, what? No, I don't want to share the minigame with him, he shrunk me to the size of a coin and left me and all my friends for dead, you idiot!
Oh, and apparently Bowser is an idiot too, because he doesn't take the opportunity to kill them and claim the minigame as his own, because now he really likes the Mario gang, blatantly disobeying a fundamental Mushroom Kingdom law.
But the credits music is really good, so that's alright, then.
 

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Not that this show is particularly good, but if it wasn't for that ending the show would've at least been honest with itself.

I mean, was an overly dramatic ending like that really necessary in a goofy fanservice anime?

[sub]Still no mention of Neon Genesis Evangelion, huh?[/sub]
 

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persona 3 (note i had the psp version without fes)

after a totaly mediocre grindfest of a game, (can you really tell me tartarus was something other than that?) you get a kick in the balls ending where you character just randomly dies from exhaustion (okay that's the only reason i could think of at the time). (at least that's what i thought until i heard of fes) So yes they either released a unfinished game without a real ending and decided to charge extra for it later on or that was the intended ending. Sorry i just annoys me, i expected at least a ending, not just some stupid you mad? moment.
 

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Ragnarok185 said:
Skyrim ending.........

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT SHIT!!!!!!!!
The Skyrim ending was not shit, it was just a disappointment that seemed to end when things were getting good.
 

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I hated the ending to Rage... It spent about 15 hours setting up what could have been quite an intriguing final chapter. Especially if they had brought into it some Authority boss character for us to de-throne... but no... just sent us into a high tech complex. Not even a boss fight, just a sort of short horde mode before ending extremely abruptly with no narrative.

VERY disappointing. More-so based on the fact that I actually quite enjoyed the game.
 

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Assassin's Creed 2.

Assassin's Creed 1 had this nice story, with some compelling imagery thrown in for conspiracy nuts and nerds with nothing better to talk about to over analyze.

Assassin's Creed 2 builds up the plot, and the mystery, until-

you get to the end boss, and it turns out it's all about aliens and the encroaching threat of a solar flare.

Wha...?

Well, okay, but I can hardly stab the sun in the back. That's not a problem I can solve using the games mechanics, and I'm pretty sure the resolution will involve watching a cut scene of a guy flipping the switch on a rocket/super laser/mystical hextech orb.

Seems like an odd choice for a game that was built up on religious controversy in the first game, and with all the religious iconography throughout the game. Haven't played any of the games past two... the end kind of lost my interest when the aliens turned up.

If any one would like to educate me about the other games please do so... I'm not above being suckered in by interesting plot twists!
I was so dissappointed by that as well. It ruined the franchise story for me. I still played it because I enjoy the gameplay, but the story has never been the same.
That kind of twist is just so ridiculous, and makes it so almost everything can be easily explained with some kind of deus ex machina.
 

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Earth 2160. Warning, SPOILERS AHEAD!

You fight against an Alien threat that popped up out of nowhere and discover later that a crazy Scientist is to blame, who awakened these Aliens from a cryogenic Slumber or something. You fight and defeat him and the evil Aliens on their Homeplanet. Ending Sequence: You see a Portalthingy in Orbit above a Planet, it starts to activate and...
Credits roll.

I liked the mass Effect Games so far; Well the third one is bundled with Spyware, but whatever. You know there's an overarching thread to be dealt with eventually, but in game one and two, you deal with a more immediate Threat. I like how they handled this, even in the second Game where you see a Vision or something of a giant Reaper-fleet or something beginning to activate.
You dealt with the Major threat and you're the Hero of the Day because you don't know when the Reapers are coming. So nothing has really changed about the overarching threat: The Reapers are coming to fuck with you and you'd rather they didn't.

In Earth 2160, there is no overarching Threat. You just know that there is something coming out of that Portal in the Moment after the Game stops. Is it a Threat? I dunno. Is there another Earth Game coming out? No.




Borderlands is another Game with a shitty Ending. You fight against the evil Corporation to get to the big Treasure the Angelthingy in your Head talked about.

You defeat the Boss and nothing happens. You get some treasure, but i gathered better Stuff during my Journey. After i beat the Game the first time, i thought it was glitched or something. But no, the angelthingy just wanted me to kill the wimpy end Boss because it's evil and wants to kill everything or something.
Not much of a crowning Achievement. Even from a Story Perspective, you might have just ran around the World, killing random bad Guys until you gathered enough money to retire. You don't have a "chosen one" Ability that enables you and only you to kill the bad Guy. The evil Corporation i fought before was a larger Threat to me then the "Destroyer of Worlds".

I don't get much recognition for saving the World. A few random Weapons, that's it.

Even "Oblivion" was better in that regard. It gave me the Oblivion Gates, which basically lead to Hell. The bad Guy wants to make the World into a hellish Wasteland where everything lives in pure Agony.
For all i know, the Angel of Borderlands is the real bad Guy in disguise and just tricked me. I don't know what the Monster thingy would have done to the World if i hadn't killed it.
The Game is like: "Bad Guys over there, kill them!" and isn't doing a very good Job at that.

Borderlands has a very nice Atmosphere, which makes the lackluster Ending even more jarring.



Bleh.