Game endings that just ruined almost the entire game for you.

[Weentastic]

Deus ex wasn't exactly super duper, but the voice over and writing for the ending and the video clips were chillingly well made, if almost a bit expected. Borderlands takes the cake, but it was unfinished anyway so didn't exactly ruin the game for me. I would have to say the Mass Effect 2 is the best example of a game that was really sullied by its ending. I thought it was a decent sequel that did a good job improving on the predecessor (except for the mining probes), but the giant terminator boss was really really......gay. There's just no other word for it than runs-like-a-girl, can't-play-sports GAY.

 

[face_head_mouth]

I guess I didn't answer the question the first time around.

While the final ending to Shadows of the Damned didn't
completely sour me on the game, it was definitely the type of
ending I dislike the most - a safe ending that removes whatever
permanent changes the characters appeared to go through in the
name of setting up a sequel that (the sales for the game
being what they are) will never come.

Arkham Asylum had the same type of ending, but since that
was based on an established comic book franchise (a medium
where long-lasting changes to characters almost never happen)
I was hardly surprised or disappointed.

It was WAY too difficult for me to ever hope to beat as a kid,
but I'm sure that the ending for Ghosts'n Goblins for the
NES would have ruined the game for just about everyone who bothered
to plow through it.

 

[Godhead]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Game was quite fun but the hell guys. I'm not gonna talk about it because anyone who played it will know what I mean.

So much potential. So much wasted potential. *shakes head solemnly*

 

[nsqared]

I dunno. I quite like the MW3 ending. It ties everything up really nicely.

Spoiler

and after everything Price went through, all of the friends he's lost, he finally kills Makarov and ends what he started fifteen years ago.

Only now, what is there for him? He has no enemy to fight. His brothers in arms are all dead. No one will know what he did.

Yes, that's a good point. I guess I wanted more of an after-story. Maybe it's been too long since I played the story through.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Game was quite fun but the hell guys. I'm not gonna talk about it because anyone who played it will know what I mean.

I know they could have done a lot better, but I didn't mind it at all. At least it was a tough choice.

/ending before spoilers.

 

[almostgold]

Bioshock. The game just got worse and worse after 2/3 of the way in, and led to a super shitty ending and boss battle that just broke the feel of the entire game. And if you had harvested just ONE little sister, you got the evil ending.

[/quote]

Well, to be fair, if in real life you kill a little girl and drain her bodily fluids out you wont get many points when you defend yourself by saying "It was ONLY ONE GIRL. I only killed an drained one little girl. I saw like, 25 little girls on my way here. Overall, how can you possibly say I'm a bad guy?"

I always considered it a game finally being harsh with its morality system. You have a temporary slip of morals? Pay the consequences.

Other than that though, I agree with you I felt like I had to slog myself through the last 2 areas, and the final boss was just silly.

 

[sqrlaway]

OT: For me, it's Borderlands. Fucking hell, I do ALL THAT and am promised SO MUCH and I get LESS THAN SHIT as a reward? Fuck off, game.

This *****. Haven't touched it since. Maybe I'm being petty, but Jesus that was so bad.

 

[TehWinged]

I have to say Nightmare House 2. You go through all that shit, fucking outlast a swat team and helicopter, Ride down an elevator to confront the evil doctor, and what does he tell you? All those monsters that killed your friends? Imaginary! Yep, all in your head. That seems to take the theme of "nightmare" too far.

 

[karcentric]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky, not that the rest of the game was much better.

 

[Signa]

I'm going to go with Majora's Mask. The first time I beat it I only had 13 hearts, and only half of the masks. After beating only half of the requisite number of Zelda Dungeons, I was convinced I was at the half-way mark, not the end of the game. Hated it so completely, I didn't want to touch it again until last year. HOLY FUCK was the game better than I remembered. I just needed to set aside everything I had expected for the game.

Also Oblivion blew chunks. Admittedly, I had a glitch with a mod that made the final boss just stand still while his lackies just beat on a bunch of guards, but even if he had been moving around it wouldn't have changed how I felt. I went to hell and back, literally, and all I had to do to beat this guy was walk into a building. Fucking pathetic. And all that is ignoring the fact the ending makes your whole adventure feel wasted. You put all your effort into completing objective A, only to have it auto-fail on you because that's the story.

 

[Zyx150]

Borderlands. No alternate endings, NOTHING HAPPENS, DAMMIT! no reward, JUST THIS PUSSY-ASS BOSS! And of course the Hyperion satellite that reprograms the Claptraps, but SRSLY?? THIS IS AN RPG! STORY IS YOUR MAIN FOCUS!

 

[Zyx150]

Borderlands. No alternate endings, NOTHING HAPPENS, DAMMIT! no reward, JUST THIS PUSSY-ASS BOSS! And of course the Hyperion satellite that reprograms the Claptraps, but SRSLY?? THIS IS AN RPG! STORY IS YOUR MAIN FOCUS!

 

[AnotherAvatar]

I believe if you were to look up the definition for "When an ending totally ruins a formerly quality product up to that point" you will see that the phrase for this is "Indigo Prophecy Syndrome".

'nuff said.

^Sorry about the absurdly dated reference, Doc Brown stopped by with his DeLorean so I figured I'd bring you back something...

 

[malestrithe]

There are one too many in my list but this:

Metal Gear Solid 4.

Spoiler

You just couldn't give Snake a dignified dead, eh Kojima? I guess the chance of MGS5 and the possibility of fans camping outside your house because "whaaa, whaaa, Snake can't die" were too big a detriment?
Well... F you. You take away what could be a pretty epic closure and change the entire world to a pink, sweet, disney-like version so that they could live happily ever after. In fact, forget that... at least Disney had the balls to kill Mufasa at the beginning of the movie and LEAVE HIM DEAD!

that's basically gold there.
Don't get me wrong, I loved Snake but come on >>

Same here. It was a fine ending, but it kept going and going for far too long. Also, when the big reveal after the credits came around, it told me that a character that I've become attached to over the years wasn't even important to his own series. The really important stuff happened behind the scenes, far away from the cameras, and you never hear about it until it's all over.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Worst ending for a game series must be C&C Tiberian Redux, and the game itself ruined the series and sent C&C fans on the warpath against EA.

 

[Lalo Lomeli]

I love how the Drakengard ending is kind of depressive, and then you see how they are alternate endings. "Maybe the next one is better", but noup. Every ending is more depressive until they finally say a terrible "screw you" at the final ending.

The game is terrible, and the terrible endings doesn't seem out of place.

PD: I miss cavia.

 

[crazyarms33]

Skyrim is the most recent game I played where the ending left me shaking my head in disgust. Look, if I spend HOURS doing main quest lines like the civil war, daedric quests, thieves guild, black brotherhood etc I feel like it should in some way relate or affect the main story.

Fable II's ending was also bad. Just...bad.

EDIT: I also didn't like the ending of Dragon Age II. I really liked the game(shocking right?) but the ending just reinforced my feeling that they really didn't know where to go with the story so they just made it a cliff hanger. Quite a let down.

 

[Nico4]

Silent Hill: Homecomings
(Yeah I'm gonna ***** about this game some more.)

It's safe to say I wasn't really a fan of this title...the words "egregious betrayal of the core concept" may have slipped from betwixt my lips on more than one occasion.

If I'm being perfectly honest I could have passed the whole thing off as simply mediocre if it hadn't been for the completely abysmal ending.

Spoiler

The whole game revolves around the God of Silent Hill making a deal with the four founding families of the town of Shepherd's Glen which requires them to sacrifice their children in order to keep the evil of Silent Hill at bay.

(The established timeline of events in Silent Hill makes this plot impossible to begin with but that's a rant for another time)

It's driven home several times that your little brother was the favored child of your family and you spend the entire time trying to find him since he's gone missing. You keep hearing "One of the families failed to complete the sacrifice" blah blah blah.

The "twist" ending is that you took your little brother out on a trip onto the lake and he fell out of the boat and drowned which caused you to go crazy.
That's it...it's the poor man's Silent Hill 2.
Why bother with all that interpersonal motivation and torment bullshit, let's just have the evil entity haunt the town because little Timmy hasn't got his sea legs.

I couldn't agree more. The game was awful! The "twist" just came out of nowhere as well. In SH2, it cmae as a surprise, because of how unstable James can be. As you play that game, you get the feeling that something isn't totally right with James. With Alex, he just seemed totally fine. Nothing seemed wrong with him, so the "twist" is stupid.

 

[Comando96]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Game was quite fun but the hell guys. I'm not gonna talk about it because anyone who played it will know what I mean.

I wouldn't sa it ruined it... just... yeah... the whole last level, once you got past the speech "boss fight" with "whats his name"... just... tiresome boring fighting people who aren't people... completely broke the play style. The boss was... wtf... why am I in one of the weird as shit anime's with an evil person... then the actual end................................................................ FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.

The things that made the game what it was... stopped...

It didn't ruin the whole game but it fucking well tore the pain off of the Walls.