So, I got started on Dead State earlier this year and got to about day 50 in game before losing interest and playing some other stuff. Got back last week and decided to finish my playthrough... Which turned out to be a lot harder than expected. When I left off I had completed all upgrades to the shelter, had equipped my main party with all Advanced Combat Vests/SWAT gear and top end firearms and unique melee weapons. On top of that I had 2,000-something food stocked (with a daily drain of less than 90) and antibiotics and fuel for more than two months. Put simply: The game no longer posed a challenge, I no longer needed to scavenge for supplies and there was no hint of an ending anywhere.
Looking around the internet I found out that the end game triggers on Day 86 and decided to make that my goal. Only, since I didn't need to scavenge for anything I mostly passed time doing it to avoid tedious conversations of people getting tired of morale drops (despite morale being over 3000, with a daily drain of 100 if I did nothing but just sleep through each day). Eventually, once day 76 came around I slept through the last ten days just to get through it. The end game triggers and I go to do the "last quest".
And what greets me? A few short conversations and a single still image that very, very briefly outlines the very bare bones of the ending. After having forced myself through the last 10 hours of the game, it almost felt like a slap in the face.
So, what's your experience? Any games which took way too long to finish or that provided deeply unsatisfactory endings. I am not talking about endings you disagreed with, but rather endings that just didn't live up to the effort you put into getting to them.
Looking around the internet I found out that the end game triggers on Day 86 and decided to make that my goal. Only, since I didn't need to scavenge for anything I mostly passed time doing it to avoid tedious conversations of people getting tired of morale drops (despite morale being over 3000, with a daily drain of 100 if I did nothing but just sleep through each day). Eventually, once day 76 came around I slept through the last ten days just to get through it. The end game triggers and I go to do the "last quest".
And what greets me? A few short conversations and a single still image that very, very briefly outlines the very bare bones of the ending. After having forced myself through the last 10 hours of the game, it almost felt like a slap in the face.
So, what's your experience? Any games which took way too long to finish or that provided deeply unsatisfactory endings. I am not talking about endings you disagreed with, but rather endings that just didn't live up to the effort you put into getting to them.