Lamest game ending
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Oh, Mafia 2 is guilty of the lame ending too.
The final mission is pretty good, but the ending cinematic just trails off. Left me with a huge "but...what the..." look on my face when I finished it.
The final mission is pretty good, but the ending cinematic just trails off. Left me with a huge "but...what the..." look on my face when I finished it.
The worst ones with which I'm familiar have already been mentioned, so I will add my own that I found personally frustrating: Half-Life 2. Yes, it was entirely appropriate for the series, but I expected something a little more than the exact same ending from Half-Life with slightly modified dialogue. The Episodes compensated for it, but at the time I was mightily annoyed.
Also, relevent TV Tropes link is relevant: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWinnerIsYou
Also, relevent TV Tropes link is relevant: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AWinnerIsYou
Syndicate. It didn't have an ending, because to do so would have required another disk so it just dumped you back to the mission select screen.
and noone says a word?
I've seen this comment a few time and never understood it. EVERY Fallout game has a closed ending. Including Fallout 3 so it's not even like people say this because they never played the originals. Nevermind the fact that Obsidian specifically said they did it because they wanted you actions to actually have an impact. Contrast it to Mass Effect 2,Yureina said:
travel to the galactic core, discover what happened to the Protheans, destroy or capture reaper technology
and noone says a word?
Nothing can really beat Siren: Blood Curse.
A game that revolves around subtle psychological horror, stealth and an insectoid interpretation of the classic Japanese 'creepy zombies' in an abandoned town. How does it end?
You travel to an alternate dimension to find a magical sword and a box that allows you to throw mystic blue fireballs, then you fight a giant moth made of legos inside what appears to be a giant spiral of colour like a gyroscope. Once you beat it the outro makes even less sense.
The main boy carries a beat box and plays rock music while fighting eternal waves of zombies with his super powered sword, and for some reason the dad shows up in a desert somewhere entirely unrelated to the plot with a closing to a plotline that doesn't make any sense at all.
More a mindfuck than a failure.
A game that revolves around subtle psychological horror, stealth and an insectoid interpretation of the classic Japanese 'creepy zombies' in an abandoned town. How does it end?
You travel to an alternate dimension to find a magical sword and a box that allows you to throw mystic blue fireballs, then you fight a giant moth made of legos inside what appears to be a giant spiral of colour like a gyroscope. Once you beat it the outro makes even less sense.
The main boy carries a beat box and plays rock music while fighting eternal waves of zombies with his super powered sword, and for some reason the dad shows up in a desert somewhere entirely unrelated to the plot with a closing to a plotline that doesn't make any sense at all.
More a mindfuck than a failure.
Neverwinter Nights 2. Rocks fall. Everyone Dies. All done by a bored narrator over slides. It's insulting that my 20th level characters would be so easily defeated. Although it alludes that they escaped to a different plane, I still feel ripped off since I'm not playing that game, I'm playing NWN2.
Borderlands.
I love the game, it's on my top 10 favirote games ever, but the ending was sudden and anticlimactic.
I love the game, it's on my top 10 favirote games ever, but the ending was sudden and anticlimactic.
The story ending of that was awesome. Sure the idea was a bit annoying, but the way it played out was a thing of beauty.cball11 said:
castlevania lords of shadow. that ending straight up SUCKED. and this is coming from a die hard castlevania fan.
I can't even begin to count the number of NES, Atari, Commodore 64, arcade, etc games which ended with, "Congraturlacciones! You Winner! Game Over!"
Childhood scars, man. Screw you, Ghost 'n Goblins!
Those are the worst endings ever.
Recent games? Fallout 3 as released was infamous with the whole, "No, one of us has to die, you can't send the robot or ghoul or supermutant in," bit.
Childhood scars, man. Screw you, Ghost 'n Goblins!
Those are the worst endings ever.
Recent games? Fallout 3 as released was infamous with the whole, "No, one of us has to die, you can't send the robot or ghoul or supermutant in," bit.
Alone in the Dark, like extra credits said, which is the 'lesser' evil is subjective. I did what i thought was the right thing because it had a slim chance of saving the world and it gave me the bad ending. i reloaded so i could get the other ending, and found out there's no way to win. maybe that works in a greek tragedy but if they wanted to send a message they should have been consistent in that, not shoe-horned it in.
This is probably going way too far back for most forumers, but Kid Chameleon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Chameleon_%28video_game%29] for the Mega Drive (Genesis) has the most anticlimactic ending of ANY game considering how much effort you have to put in to see it. Almost a HUNDRED brick-hard levels to traverse, just to get this;
I may have been a kid, but I still called bullshit.
I may have been a kid, but I still called bullshit.