Worst Game Ending?

[Mnemophage]

Going with KOTOR2.

The game was a beautiful piece of story that filled in a niche that was absent in so much of the Star Wars universe. The final sequence should have been an epic undertaking that neatly capped the loose wires sticking out of that brilliant machine. Instead, we got a disappointing huddle of cut content and an ending cinematic that answered nothing and looked as if it was made in a hurried afternoon. Cut content is one of my major gaming peeves; the entire thing was like a friction burn to the imagination: painful, grating, lingering in its disappointment.

 

[Defense]

Final Fantasy XIII has a good and bad ending simultaneously. It does bring the game to a conclusion, but the script doesn't know what's happening by that point and more loose ends are made than tied up before they throw Leona Lewis at you.

Final Fantasy 8.

Because I didn't like any of it - for reasons that would take paragraphs to explain - I therefore condemn the ending as much as the beginning and middle.

As much as I love your FF8 rants, the ending was horrible because the rest of the story was horrible. It focused more around a love story, and saving the world took a back seat plenty of times.

Did you at least like the music?

Drakengard. Every one of the possible endings are completely fucked.

By God, Drakengard.

Those who have played it will know what I'm talking about.

*Cries*

Worst as in low quality, or as in depressing? Because I'm thinking it's the latter, but a shitty ending also works in this context.

 

[FalloutJack]

Final Fantasy XIII has a good and bad ending simultaneously. It does bring the game to a conclusion, but the script doesn't know what's happening by that point and more loose ends are made than tied up before they throw Leona Lewis at you.

Final Fantasy 8.

Because I didn't like any of it - for reasons that would take paragraphs to explain - I therefore condemn the ending as much as the beginning and middle.

As much as I love your FF8 rants, the ending was horrible because the rest of the story was horrible. It focused more around a love story, and saving the world took a back seat plenty of times.

Did you at least like the music?

Isn't that what I said?

*Looks over post*

...Ending, beginning, and middle... Yup, I covered all the bases, story and all. Wasn't aware you were paying attention to my rants. But uhh...yeah, actually. I did like the music. Not exactly a game-saver, but we do love our potent melodies.

 

[Kyrian007]

Someone wrote a lot of words unrelated to the topic of the thread here.

Sounds like you weren't playing multiplayer, so your difficulty was scaled to 25%. No wonder you had it so easy! That's like playing Oblivion with the slider all the way down! Borderlands is supposed to be played with a full party of friends at 100% difficulty, and I assure you, as a soldier-player myself, the healing effect from the sentry gun is vital in major boss fights toward the end.

Anyway, if you'd like to discuss it further, I suggest we direct it to a PM, since this entire post is really totally unrelated to the thread.

Sure, like to. But really? I praise the splitscreen and you ask about multiplayer? Learn to read.

 

[Scout Tactical]

Sure, like to. But really? I praise the splitscreen and you ask about multiplayer? Learn to read.

The fact that you knew the game supported split-screen gaming was not indicative of the fact that you had played it in a multiplayer format. I know plenty of people who strongly support the return of split screen games who would support a game on principle for that feature alone, whether they had played it or not. They assert that less splitscreen titles leads to less engaging party games. LAN parties where you face at screens in opposite directions leave you feeling as though you needn't had bothered to make the trip over. Of course, this is a discussion for another subject.

I was simply giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that you were intelligent enough to form opinions of familiar features without experiencing them yourself.

 

[Morten Dall]

Neverwinter Nights 2, the original campaign. Rocks fall, you die. Damn I was disappointed.

 

[Ophi]

Worst as in low quality, or as in depressing? Because I'm thinking it's the latter, but a shitty ending also works in this context.

Both depressing and low quality, in my honest opinion. The only ending that made any sort of 'sense' whatsoever was ending A, and even that was a crazy stretch. The final boss for ending A was

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A 500 foot child who really likes dancing. Seriously, what?

In the rest of them,

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everybody dies in some cataclysmic complete and total mess involving giant babies with teeth.

What

Seriously, look them up on Youtube or something.

 

[Wayneguard]

Condemned 2. Especially relative to the fantastic conclusion of the first game. Now that I think about it, the first condemned had fantastic pacing and it really did get steadily better as the game went on. Man what a letdown 2 was.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Borderlands takes the cake on this one.
You go through all this shit killing so many bandits, skags, rakks, crabworms, scythids, spiderants, crimson lance and whatever the hell those Guardians are. All on the promise that you will find a vault that contains everything that your heart desires and then some.
Once you finally get there,

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you fight a giant alien vagina tentacle beast thing.

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And that Claptrap you saw at the beginning of the game? Apparently he's an Interplanetary Ninja Assassin now, Kthxbai

A special note goes to Bulletstorm, God of War 2, Assassin's Creed (Take your pick), Half-Life 2, Portal and Mass Effect 2. Not because they have bad endings, but because they desperately make you want to play the sequel!

 

[Adam Galli]

A special note goes to Bulletstorm, God of War 2, Assassin's Creed (Take your pick), Half-Life 2, Portal and Mass Effect 2. Not because they have bad endings, but because they desperately make you want to play the sequel!

I have to agree with you about Assassin's Creed. I'm going insane waiting for the new one because of how Brotherhood ended!

 

[Cazza]

Borderlands it just left a bad taste in the mouth. Also Fallout 3 but atleast it felt epic.

 

[Dracowrath]

The only one I can really think of right now is the good ending of InFamous. I just wanted to walk up to Cole and say "You can trust me dude, I'll always be on your side"