I was gonna say that but it was more enraging than depressing and if they made it more obvious that ending wasn't really the end it would have been a lot better.amaranth_dru said:
Depressing Endings
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I agree with most of the comments already, however Bioshock Infinite has one of the most emotional endings I have experienced in a while despite it not being a depressing ending.
I don't know how to write a special spoiler message so click below for Bioshock Infinite spoilers, don't click if you haven't played the game though, play the game or ignore this post.
Also, I've been burning through Final Fantasy 7 finally and want to know in a spoiler-free manner if I should prepare for a downer ending. I can deal with them if I see them coming and I know that some characters don't make it but I want to know if the ending is generally considered a "downer."
Also, if I don't get sick of 7, I might try and play through 9 and 10, so if either of those have downer endings that would be great to know as well.
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I personally tend to interpret any kind of emotion, even a good ending, as being depressing, just as I felt depressed instead of angry at the crap ending of Mass Effect 3. Bioshock Infinite's ending was really effectively damaging for me purely because I really didn't want anything to happen to those characters. I remember first rescuing Elizabeth and being on the beach thinking, I know it wont end this way but I really want this game to end with these two escaping Columbia, killing the bad guy, and not bothering to examine the multiverse theory. I know if that had been the ending the massive plot holes would have angered me but I really resisted continuing to play the game because I just wanted to imagine they escaped and went to Paris and were happy. The ending is actually better than that if you understand what the hell happend but the game is so subtle in how it covers so much ground in the last 15 minutes I had to use google to understand the entirety of what happened. Even knowing that the ending is actually very happy, I still felt like crap and even now I really don't want to play the game anymore, at least not until I can get both parts of the DLC. The way the game makes you love the characters in the game makes it really hard to play though the game again knowing how it all ends, which shows amazing writing skills and direction but is still extremely depressing for me. Everytime I see a picture or a video about Bioshock Infinite it feels like I am seeing a picture of a dead relative, I just feel sad because I miss those characters despite them not being gone in any way, the entire game still exists.
Also, I've been burning through Final Fantasy 7 finally and want to know in a spoiler-free manner if I should prepare for a downer ending. I can deal with them if I see them coming and I know that some characters don't make it but I want to know if the ending is generally considered a "downer."
Also, if I don't get sick of 7, I might try and play through 9 and 10, so if either of those have downer endings that would be great to know as well.
I'm going to go with Prince of Persia (the cell-shaded one from 2008).
The Last of Us did the same thing
By the end, the main character undermines everything both he and Elika were working toward, essentially bringing about the apocalypse. For no better reason than to save one character with next to no personality. Which would essentially destroy the world. So he ends up not really saving her at all. And killing everyone else in the process.
And the worst part of it all is that you're asked to do this yourself, fully knowing that it was a horrible decision. Without being given a choice in the matter. I hate it when games do that.
And the worst part of it all is that you're asked to do this yourself, fully knowing that it was a horrible decision. Without being given a choice in the matter. I hate it when games do that.
The Last of Us did the same thing
Joel single-handedly destroys everything he and Ellie were working to achieve. He makes an inexcusably selfish decision and kills a lot of innocent people in the process, which also includes his allies. And for what? So that he can live with her for a couple more months before getting torn apart by a clicker, deluding himself into thinking she is his dead daughter? Ok, I get it Joel, you've lost a lot before, it's understandable you'd be holding onto Ellie now but A> unlike most people, you still at least have SOME family to return to and B> if you could just stop senselessly murdering things for five seconds, you might realise that Ellie's death could have saved a LOT of people from ever losing their love ones the same way you did.
And again, if you want to make the character into a monster and make a stupid, senseless and selfish decision, please don't make me play it out for you. Like making me shoot the surgeon guy. Why? What was the point of that?
I don't thin it was a bad ending. The message was pretty strong and it spoke volumes of Joel as a character. It had its purpose, it did what it was supposed to and it wrapped things up beautifully. It just made me kind of depressed and uncomfortable about being forced to participate.
And again, if you want to make the character into a monster and make a stupid, senseless and selfish decision, please don't make me play it out for you. Like making me shoot the surgeon guy. Why? What was the point of that?
I don't thin it was a bad ending. The message was pretty strong and it spoke volumes of Joel as a character. It had its purpose, it did what it was supposed to and it wrapped things up beautifully. It just made me kind of depressed and uncomfortable about being forced to participate.
AT God said:
Final Fantasy 7 doesn't have a sad ending, 9 is kind of mixed and 10 definitely has a sad ending
Most of my choices have already been mentioned (especially Jurassic Bark and Requiem for a Dream) but I don't think anyone has mentioned Donnie Darko yet. That ending certainly shed tears. The endings of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and Kingdom Hearts left me more depressed then they probably should've.
Quite a few of the mentioned movies such as The Mist sound interesting and I am going to try to watch some of them.
I try to stay away from depressing endings because I do not want to invest all that energy into a story to come away broken and sad, so my sad ending probably aren't all that depressing for most people, but here they are:
The bad endings (so basically all but one of them) in Black Ops II. I never got any of them, but I watched them on youtube. Ouch...
Spec Ops: The Line. Just...okay, can I have a hug now? Please?
Chrono Cross, that secret ending you get where you see everything on fire and the flag being raised.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 would have been on this list, except I knew there was going to be a third game, so they better damn well fix everything! If not, if the ending remains the same, then good God, how depressing. And that secret bonus ending you get after you view all the alternate endings? Talk about kicking you while you're down. All your work was for nothing.
The bad endings (so basically all but one of them) in Black Ops II. I never got any of them, but I watched them on youtube. Ouch...
Spec Ops: The Line. Just...okay, can I have a hug now? Please?
Chrono Cross, that secret ending you get where you see everything on fire and the flag being raised.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 would have been on this list, except I knew there was going to be a third game, so they better damn well fix everything! If not, if the ending remains the same, then good God, how depressing. And that secret bonus ending you get after you view all the alternate endings? Talk about kicking you while you're down. All your work was for nothing.
Seven's ending is a good ending, if a bit lacking in certain areas. Nothing depressing, but you may go, "Wait, what about (insert thing here)?" Therefore, if you really want to see how things wrap up, I suggest watching the Advent Children movie.AT God said:
Nine is a nice ending. It tries to be a bit melancholy, but everything turns out okay.
Ten...ten is a matter of opinion. I played it well after it came out and already knew that there was a sequel coming for the game, so the ending didn't get to me. If there hadn't been a sequel then the game has a very depressing ending. However, there is a bonus ending that hints that things aren't as bad as you're lead to believe, and then the sequel fixes everything if you play it right.
Which felt particularly forced because they're already leaving one hole open in hades and that's fine, but two holes will cause the universe to die.x EvilErmine x said:
A lot of things in the last book annoyed the crap out of me, really. I'm much happier pretending the series ended after "The subtle knife", and it's too bad the series will never be finished.
What makes it worse is that so much of the plot was just left hanging in Dreamfall, so we don't know what was accomplished. To make it worse, fun.com said "Well, we'll wrap up the story in Dreamfall: Chapters, which we'll be getting around to making after we're done with The Secret World...."blackrave said:I think ending of Dreamfall left me most depressed
In The Longest Journey, at least something is achieved, but in Dreamfall...
Lets just say that it left me with sense of injustice.
For a long time, it was looking like Chapters was never going to happen, then another company somehow got the rights and is making the sequel, finally. Are you listening, Valve?
When I think of this, for some reason the first thing that comes to my mind is the ending(one of the endings, really - the "knight's" ending) of the old SNES RPG "Live A Live".
There you play through many different lives, culminating with a story of a knight. And if you follow knight's story to it's end, it suddenly takes such a depressing, tragic, and nihilistic turn that I couldn't help but to weep like a babe. Never done that for any other game... Its mind numbing tragedy that just spirals into utter nihilistic rock-bottom. Heart-wrenching.
A) The movie is Requiem for a Dream. I should have included that.Kanova said:
B) For future reference, there exists a function called Google reverse image search so people can refrain from spoonfeeding others when it comes to very simple to find media. Reading the filename would have also sufficed, as it appears when you quote me, and the name is shown as "requiem-for-a-dream."
Not trying to sound condescending, just telling you how you can find this information from now on. c:
To be fair, reverse image search on certain pictures simply doesn't work correctly. Also, I didn't know I could search for images with images until a couple months ago, and even then it was by accident. Google really needs to advertise some of its lesser known functions...Hazy said:
OT: I really don't like depressing endings for many reasons, the biggest one being that I just don't like being sad/crying. I usually avoid tearjerker series because of this reason alone and as a result have seen very few endings where it is depressing.
But, because I'm making a post, I must have a depressing ending, right?
Well, I'm going to go with the ending to Shiki, an anime series about a village being taken over by vampires.
[spoiler = Just the simple checklist rundown, including the 2 OVAs to the series.]
By the end of Shiki, the following has happened:
-one main character has killed himself to kill one antagonist
-another main has used his own wife for a test subject, torturing her until death
-the last main has turned his back on humanity to help a vampire, thus becoming one himself.
-Pretty much the entire town is dead
-the entire town has been burnt to the ground
-the burning occurred because, concisely put, a mother looses both her children to vampires, holding one dead for weeks on end until it rots in her hands, then goes completely insane blaming it on her father-in-law who became a vampire.
-the town embarked on a witch hunt with some of the most grizzly killing scenes I've seen.
[/spoiler]
yeah... Shiki was kind of messed up.
Besides the already-mentioned Walking Dead Season 1 game that had me in tears, Grave of the Fireflies was depressing as hell and the numbing ending of Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, what about Hachiko? I mean, yeah it's KIND of a happy ending, but:
Also the ending to the short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream":
The game of IHNM is a little happier if played right but the short story's just depressing as hell.
Also also another downer ending would be the book and/or movie "Spider". Such an underrated movie and book.
And what about "Cube"? It's kind of a downer ending too considering
FIRST, like, halfway through the movie the GUY dies and then the DOG dies while WAITING for him and the two meet back up in the afterlife.
Also the ending to the short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream":
The "main" character has to kill the other four characters to piss off AM and to keep him from killing HIMSELF, he turns him into a baleful jelly creature with no mouth, no arms or legs and no POSSIBLE way to let himself commit suicide, forever doomed to be a torture plaything for the machine until AM eventually dies as all machines do, ergo the title of the short story
The game of IHNM is a little happier if played right but the short story's just depressing as hell.
Also also another downer ending would be the book and/or movie "Spider". Such an underrated movie and book.
And what about "Cube"? It's kind of a downer ending too considering
All the characters die except for the disabled guy
Wait is the ending of chuck actually interesting?unLucky500 said:
I gave up at the beginning of the last season because it was getting really, really repetitive.
Should I actually finish it?
Say what!? there was ment to be more? I always thaught it was only the three books. Oh and a sorta spin off set later called Lyras Oxford I think. Please elaborate.Dalisclock said:
I always figure that when you get the "good" ending in Shadow Hearts 1 it essentially stops Shadow Hearts 2 from happening... I don't really want to figure out how From The New World factors into that though... that game is just not remotely as good as the previous two.Arqus_Zed said:
Another note from Shadow Hearts 1 though...
Finding out what happened to Koudelka after her game...man...what a brutal closer...
For my own personal list well... I'm a fan of Yoshiyuki Tomino's early work so...
Most of the heroes die and the main character ends up in a coma with his mind fried
Humanity and The Buff Clan destroy the universe due to their stubborn unwillingness to stop hating each other
All but one of the main characters die tragically, the main character and his love interest both dying before they realized how they felt about each other. Also the one surviving character vanishes in the epilogue
Technically it has a happy ending but SO many characters die over the course of the story it gets kind of silly, all but one of the adult supporting cast bite the dust including both of the main characters parents, his best friend... nearly everyone important in his life... also the main villain ends up a blind amnesiac because apparently Tomino though death would be too good for her
For Non-Tomino works...
Pretty high body count by the end... Jin, Canaan, Nigredo/Gaignan...possibly Kos-Mos.. and that's not even counting sympathetic villains... also there's a good chance that of the whole human race, only the characters you can note as being alive at the end ARE alive
The bad endings are SAD, you can end up with both your best friend and your adopted sister dead and have little left to live for... you can abandon your army leaving them to get slaughtered by the undead... pretty much in every ending but the best ending a great deal of those closest to you will be dead or gone
The "Normal" ending is heartbreaking as even after saving your country your Bodyguard/Possible Love Interest dies from her wounds protecting you, the Under 60 Stars Ending is even worse as you don't even get the hopeful tone of the previous one where you travel the world, instead you just leave the country and never return
I'm not sure it would stop Shadow Hearts Covenant from happening... I mean, yeah, obviously some things would be different, but you would still have the whole Nikolai, Rasputin and Kato thing going on. Speaking of which, while it wasn't exactly "the ending" of the game, the last scene you get to see with Kato and Kawashima was probably equally/even more depressing than the actual ending with Yuri and Alice.PedroSteckecilo said:
And yeah, finding out what happened to Koudelka was pretty brutal (then again, based on the endings you could get in Koudelka, it still could have been worse).
Speaking of Shadow Hearts: From The New World, putting aside everything else that was wrong with the game, one of the things that pissed me of most was that Koudelka wasn't in it. At the end of the first game, she goes to Amerika, in the third game you actually go to Amerika. I figured the most obvious reasoning would be to bring her back as a playable character - but no, not even a cameo!
/rant
Yeah, I think the fact that it was almost completely divorced from the previous two games was one of the biggest issues with From The New World... that and the hugely insipid tone, lack of direction for the story and overuse of the Forest Gump Effect.Arqus_Zed said: