I like the ending to beyond two souls. That one, where you Jodie(Player choice) decides to kill herself, that made it allllllllllllllll feel worth while. Fuck David Cage.
Your arguably BEST ending.
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Offhand, I'd have to say the Last of Us. It manages to be many contradictory things at once: cruel and hopeful, redemptive and damning, laden with meaning yet quite succinct, unexpected yet dead loyal to the themes of the story it closes. What I find most striking about it though is that
it has all the features of a conventionally happy ending--all the main characters are alive and well and sane and with happy lives ahead of them, or at least as happy as the game's world gets. And yet it is arguably a tragic ending, in part because it takes the classic "sacrifice yourself to save the world" ending and inverts it. Normally, it would be near impossible for the protagonists of a story, who are presented as likable people you can root for, to do that and make it feel natural and yet still present the protagonists as people you can still root for or at least sympathize with, but the ending of LOU does all that and makes it feel like the most natural thing in the world.
It's tricky to pin this down, honestly. Am I counting the whole climactic sequence? The last scene? The post-completion put-down-the-controls-and-watch stretch? The last episode? The postscript season? (Nah, that was rubbish anyway.) Whichever, I think, eventually.
So...
Cowboy Bebop.
It Could Happen To You. WarGames. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. Hot Fuzz. The Other Guys (if only for those credits).
Blackadder Goes Forth. Ashes To Ashes.
Bayonetta. Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005). Wolfenstein 3D Episode 3 (chronologically last). Doom 3. Chrono Trigger (all of them).
(If you pinned me down to one, it'd probably be Cowboy Bebop. That was just perfect in every way.)
So...
Cowboy Bebop.
It Could Happen To You. WarGames. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. Hot Fuzz. The Other Guys (if only for those credits).
Blackadder Goes Forth. Ashes To Ashes.
Bayonetta. Need For Speed: Most Wanted (2005). Wolfenstein 3D Episode 3 (chronologically last). Doom 3. Chrono Trigger (all of them).
(If you pinned me down to one, it'd probably be Cowboy Bebop. That was just perfect in every way.)
Did you get the Broom Closet Ending? The Broom Closet Ending was my fAvorite!
But actually, my favorite would be a tie between The Stanley Parable's "different games" ending and Portal 2's ending. Both settle their antagonists and liberate their protagonists.
But actually, my favorite would be a tie between The Stanley Parable's "different games" ending and Portal 2's ending. Both settle their antagonists and liberate their protagonists.
...you had me worried there for a second.RedDeadFred said:
Although I've argued that:
Take away the last two minutes and I think it ended absolutely perfectly (well...perfect might be a bit much as the show fell apart after Rita's death. It was still a good show after that but it lost a lot of it's mojo after that). My ending was Dexter killing himself because he poisons everything and everyone around him. Him becoming the Brawny man did not happen. That was...uh....indoctrination? Sure, go with that.
Dexter is dead; The End
Dexter is dead; The End
Ever 17's true ending man, Ever 17's true ending. It ties every detail from the previous routes together, solves pretty much all the mysteries leaves you incredibly satisfied. Although all the twists were foreshadowed, they still had enough impact to leave me genuinely wow'd. Now for something that isn't Ever 17, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance had a great ending and looking back on it now, there was no other way for it to end. You'll understand what I mean if you watch it which you should because it's done by Park Chan Wook famous for Oldboy which isn't as nearly as good.
GrinningCat said:
Hell, I even cried when Envy died! I think I'm just a sucker for sympathetic villains.
For movies, I'd have to say Cabin in the Woods
For TV, definitely the third season of Reboot
For games, Mass Effect 1. When Sovereign attacks Citadel station, it's the ultimate "shit just got real" moment and the battle against a single reaper somehow managed to feel more epic than anything that happens in the other two Mass Effect games.
After seeing the assholes in the lab so casually talk about the horrors they're unleashing on their innocent victims for the whole movie, when the horrors get unleashed in the lab it was immensely satisfying to see. I was basically cheering for the remainder of the movie from that point on (yeah, I guess they were actually trying to prevent the end of the world from happening, but still, they were dicks haha)
For TV, definitely the third season of Reboot
For the first two seasons, Reboot was basically just a silly cartoon loaded with shout-outs to geek culture. Then the third season arrived and everything changed. The whole season was one giant story arc. Enzo starts as a little kid, trying to defend Mainframe in the place of Bob who went missing at the end of season 2. Then he loses a game, gets sucked out into the Net, and grows up to be a badass warrior dude traveling from system to system having adventures along the way. He finds Bob, and they find their way back to Mainframe, which has been utterly wrecked in his absence as Megabyte has taken over the whole system, so Enzo (now prefering to be called "Matrix") leads the rebels in a full assault on the principal office. When he finally meets Megabyte, one of the most amazingly epic fight scenes in TV history ensues. After the fight is over and Megabyte is sucked out to the web, they realize that Mainframe is too badly damaged, and despite winning the fight against Megabyte, the system is going to crash. In the very end, Mainframe is saved by the user rebooting the system.
I was absolutely floored by just how much of an amazing epic story they turned a silly geeky kids cartoon into that season. I've heard that there was a fourth season later on, though I haven't seen it yet, and I'm kind of afraid that if I do it won't be as good as season three and it'll ruin it for me. I also have some similar fears about the Reboot of Reboot that's supposedly in early development now.
I was absolutely floored by just how much of an amazing epic story they turned a silly geeky kids cartoon into that season. I've heard that there was a fourth season later on, though I haven't seen it yet, and I'm kind of afraid that if I do it won't be as good as season three and it'll ruin it for me. I also have some similar fears about the Reboot of Reboot that's supposedly in early development now.
For games, Mass Effect 1. When Sovereign attacks Citadel station, it's the ultimate "shit just got real" moment and the battle against a single reaper somehow managed to feel more epic than anything that happens in the other two Mass Effect games.
Some movie endings that really stick out in my mind are:
The Prestige
Shawshank Redemption
Requiem for a Dream (As fucking harrowing as it is to watch, its still a good ending)
Smokin' Aces (I really enjoy this movie for how slick it is)
For a book it has to be the last couple of chapters plus the epilogue for A Storm of Swords. I dont want to go into details since GoT is airing again in the next few months but it is such a glorious series of "Oh Shit!" moments.
The Prestige
Shawshank Redemption
Requiem for a Dream (As fucking harrowing as it is to watch, its still a good ending)
Smokin' Aces (I really enjoy this movie for how slick it is)
For a book it has to be the last couple of chapters plus the epilogue for A Storm of Swords. I dont want to go into details since GoT is airing again in the next few months but it is such a glorious series of "Oh Shit!" moments.
Clannad After Story
Gurren Lagaan the 2nd movie
Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4
The first God of War
Kingdom Hearts (all maybe)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Speed Racer movie by the Matrix brothers
Lord of the Rings movie and book
Harry Potter and the Soul of a Hero by Joe Ducie (a fanfiction)
Nothing in gaming or movies has been good in quite some time. Almost all endings are not satisfying or properly conclusive.
Gurren Lagaan the 2nd movie
Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4
The first God of War
Kingdom Hearts (all maybe)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Speed Racer movie by the Matrix brothers
Lord of the Rings movie and book
Harry Potter and the Soul of a Hero by Joe Ducie (a fanfiction)
Nothing in gaming or movies has been good in quite some time. Almost all endings are not satisfying or properly conclusive.
Clannad After Story
Gurren Lagaan the 2nd movie
Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4
The first God of War
Kingdom Hearts (all maybe)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Speed Racer movie by the Matrix brothers
Lord of the Rings movie and book
Harry Potter and the Soul of a Hero by Joe Ducie (a fanfiction)
Nothing in gaming or movies has been good in quite some time. Almost all endings are not satisfying or properly conclusive.
Gurren Lagaan the 2nd movie
Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4
The first God of War
Kingdom Hearts (all maybe)
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
Speed Racer movie by the Matrix brothers
Lord of the Rings movie and book
Harry Potter and the Soul of a Hero by Joe Ducie (a fanfiction)
Nothing in gaming or movies has been good in quite some time. Almost all endings are not satisfying or properly conclusive.
Riven.
At the beginning of Myst, you're in a New Mexico desert when a book falls out of the sky. You pick it up and fall in (yes, fall into the book) and end up playing two very different but equally weighty plotlines based on family betrayal.
At the end of Riven, in the good ending, all is about done - the books with the corrupt and greedy sons entrapped in them are burned, the insane grandfather is trapped in a separate book, the main character and his wife are finally reunited after months of separation, and the villagers on the collapsing island have been evacuated.
The only thing left is you.
The wife links away as the island begins to get dragged into a bottomless starfield. The main character says thanks, then links away... and you fall into the starfield to a closing monologue. The game ends as you plunge out of the sky (you're OK) into the New Mexico desert where you started.
When you play Myst Online, you see the New Mexico desert in the daytime. You even see where the player character of the first two games landed... there's a big device from the second game broken in the dirt and a huge skeleton of a carnivorous fish from the second game where they fell from the sky alongside the player.
The ending is just so deliciously final, and I really like how it ends where you start.
The ending was SO final, in fact, that the future games had to take up a completely independent storyline uncontinued from before.
At the beginning of Myst, you're in a New Mexico desert when a book falls out of the sky. You pick it up and fall in (yes, fall into the book) and end up playing two very different but equally weighty plotlines based on family betrayal.
At the end of Riven, in the good ending, all is about done - the books with the corrupt and greedy sons entrapped in them are burned, the insane grandfather is trapped in a separate book, the main character and his wife are finally reunited after months of separation, and the villagers on the collapsing island have been evacuated.
The only thing left is you.
The wife links away as the island begins to get dragged into a bottomless starfield. The main character says thanks, then links away... and you fall into the starfield to a closing monologue. The game ends as you plunge out of the sky (you're OK) into the New Mexico desert where you started.
When you play Myst Online, you see the New Mexico desert in the daytime. You even see where the player character of the first two games landed... there's a big device from the second game broken in the dirt and a huge skeleton of a carnivorous fish from the second game where they fell from the sky alongside the player.
The ending is just so deliciously final, and I really like how it ends where you start.
The ending was SO final, in fact, that the future games had to take up a completely independent storyline uncontinued from before.
No, I actually kind of hated the entire last season. It retread old character arcs and had the most uninteresting villain. Not to mention the entire season was about him:tippy2k2 said:
overcoming his need to kill through the power of love. Then in the end he randomly decides that he's too dangerous to be around (even though he just had the revelation a little while back about how he doesn't need to kill anymore). Plus, that hurricane was hilariously bad CGI. Sharknado looked better than that. Honestly, I think the show went downhill after season 4. The only good thing about the last four seasons was Isaac.
I loved the Last of Us' ending. It felt real and didn't go for the expected heart-string tugging.
Breaking Bad had an excellent final season and episode. The plot and the characters were tied up real tight.
Scarface's "Say hello to my little friend!" is a mighty iconic ending, too.
Breaking Bad had an excellent final season and episode. The plot and the characters were tied up real tight.
Scarface's "Say hello to my little friend!" is a mighty iconic ending, too.
In most recent memory I really liked how Saints Row 4 Ended, great big dance off going along with 'This Is How We Do It'. Some real proper feel good shit.
I was tragically unmoved by the ending to Toy Story 3, overwhelmed with this disappointing feeling of; "this is what people are gushing about?"TizzytheTormentor said:
And seconded, fuck yes a million times. Could've just ended it on the second last episode, but hey everybody gets a nice little wrap up.GrinningCat said:
Yeah, I'm in the same camp. And it's because I never gave a shit about Andy or his relationship with his toys. Andy always seemed like some fickle god the toys were trying to appeal to. The toys amongst eachother were great, but that final scene where Andy gave his toys away, I really couldn't have cared less. And I was actually slightly creeped out.MrHide-Patten said:
Why are people using spoiler tags? It's a thread about the endings of games, we can probably take it for granted that there will be spoilers.
OT: Completely unexpectedly (to me) Modern Warfare 3 came to mind. You kill the bad guy in a crazy brawl, hang him from a cable, sit back and have a fag (cigarette). Similarly, Black Ops 1 ends with you surfacing from below the sea to a huge armada. Both really badass and satisfying endings.
OT: Completely unexpectedly (to me) Modern Warfare 3 came to mind. You kill the bad guy in a crazy brawl, hang him from a cable, sit back and have a fag (cigarette). Similarly, Black Ops 1 ends with you surfacing from below the sea to a huge armada. Both really badass and satisfying endings.
Mother 3! Pretty much anything story related mother 3 does the best. The last couple mins can be interpreted in such a wide variety of ways, plus everything leading up to it is so amazingly gut wrenching. It even makes you feel bad for the villain at the end. I'm not going to spoil it here, but everything is so fricken fantastic. And people think The Walking Dead is sad . . .
(Earthbound's ending and MGS3's are close seconds)
(Earthbound's ending and MGS3's are close seconds)
Scrubs season 8 finale is the most thematically amazing ending I've seen.
There were no seasons after that. Shh.
There were no seasons after that. Shh.
Just binge-watched the last two seasons of Burn Notice, and was surprised about how satisfying the series ending was.
It ends with Michael and Fiona in a cottage in some remote corner of the world, trying to decide how to explain himself to Charlie (his nephew and apparent ward) if the question ever arises. Fiona suggests he tell the truth, and the last words were the same words that start every episode.
"My name is Michael Westen. I used to be a spy."
"My name is Michael Westen. I used to be a spy."
Four endings that really stood out for me are: (in alphabetical order)
Bastion
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Persona 4 (of course)
Portal 2
They all wrapped up everything nicely and left me feeling very, very happy.
Bastion
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Persona 4 (of course)
Portal 2
They all wrapped up everything nicely and left me feeling very, very happy.