Lamest game ending
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Radiata Stories, the human-side ending.
The Silver Dragon, one of two dragons that perpetuate a cycle that wipes out the human race to prevent them from advancing too quickly, becomes empathetic towards humans and prevents the arrival of his counter-part in order to stop the cycle. In order to do so he is forced to sacrifice a girl, Ridley, who would act as a vessel. Thus saving humanity from utter destruction.
No that's not the ending. The ending is that Jack, the main character, throws a hissy fit and kills the Silver Dragon, because of the girl he sacrificed. Who is this girl? Someone Jack loves? Sister? Childhood friend? Nope, a girl he was a knight recruit with, who spends much of her time being very abrasive towards him, that he doesn't even see much of. A completely hateful and bland character.
Does this accomplish anything? Bring her back to life? Save the world? No, she remains dead, the Silver Dragon already saved everyone for you. All you accomplish is killing an ancient and empathetic creature of unimaginable wisdom and power over a girl that nobody likes. Woo.
The Silver Dragon, one of two dragons that perpetuate a cycle that wipes out the human race to prevent them from advancing too quickly, becomes empathetic towards humans and prevents the arrival of his counter-part in order to stop the cycle. In order to do so he is forced to sacrifice a girl, Ridley, who would act as a vessel. Thus saving humanity from utter destruction.
No that's not the ending. The ending is that Jack, the main character, throws a hissy fit and kills the Silver Dragon, because of the girl he sacrificed. Who is this girl? Someone Jack loves? Sister? Childhood friend? Nope, a girl he was a knight recruit with, who spends much of her time being very abrasive towards him, that he doesn't even see much of. A completely hateful and bland character.
Does this accomplish anything? Bring her back to life? Save the world? No, she remains dead, the Silver Dragon already saved everyone for you. All you accomplish is killing an ancient and empathetic creature of unimaginable wisdom and power over a girl that nobody likes. Woo.
Well, I will say Fable 2, since that was a pretty bad fight with the person who had tried to kill you on multiple occasions and killed your sister.
I am kind of mixed on my opinion of Borderlands possibly because the ending seems to go like this:
[spoiler/]You defeat the thing inside the vault only to learn there was never treasure inside the vault, the only thing inside it was some alien monster that other aliens tried to seal away inside it, and the thing helping you throughout the game was a weapon company's satellite that wanted it dead since someone was bound to release the thing.[/spoiler]
I am not 100% sure, but that is about what I got out of that ending. I guess it isn't that bad of an ending in itself, I am just mad that the final boss itself drops piss poor weapons most of the time... and that you can only fight him once per play through.
KOTOR 2 is one that keeps popping up, and I guess I agree. It took my till when I started writing the last sentence to remember the final fight, and that wasn't that great.
I will have to disagree with a lot of people's comments on Fallout 3. I mean, if you decide to be evil, I guess it is kind of lame, but I rather liked the ending where [spoiler/]you sacrifice yourself to finish the work your father started to save the world's water supply.[/spoiler] Granted, the DLC does kind of make me disappointed to learn that only a small basin around the memorial was actually cleansed, but that's not important. I will admit, it sucks not being able to travel around anymore, but that is more of a consequence of the ending rather than the story of the ending itself.
I am kind of mixed on my opinion of Borderlands possibly because the ending seems to go like this:
[spoiler/]You defeat the thing inside the vault only to learn there was never treasure inside the vault, the only thing inside it was some alien monster that other aliens tried to seal away inside it, and the thing helping you throughout the game was a weapon company's satellite that wanted it dead since someone was bound to release the thing.[/spoiler]
I am not 100% sure, but that is about what I got out of that ending. I guess it isn't that bad of an ending in itself, I am just mad that the final boss itself drops piss poor weapons most of the time... and that you can only fight him once per play through.
KOTOR 2 is one that keeps popping up, and I guess I agree. It took my till when I started writing the last sentence to remember the final fight, and that wasn't that great.
I will have to disagree with a lot of people's comments on Fallout 3. I mean, if you decide to be evil, I guess it is kind of lame, but I rather liked the ending where [spoiler/]you sacrifice yourself to finish the work your father started to save the world's water supply.[/spoiler] Granted, the DLC does kind of make me disappointed to learn that only a small basin around the memorial was actually cleansed, but that's not important. I will admit, it sucks not being able to travel around anymore, but that is more of a consequence of the ending rather than the story of the ending itself.
Halo 2, by far. The game itself was a letdown, but I kept thinking that maybe, just maybe, it'd pick up. After the disapointment that came with playing as the Arbiter (remember what a huge deal they made of this? And remember how it was just like playing as Master Chief with different hand textures?), I NEEDED the game to redeem itself.
And then...
"Sir, finishing this fight"
Roll credits.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG!!!
As a runner-up, I'll nominate Oblivion. Gee, that sure looks like a fun boss battle! Can I join in? No? Oh... ok.
And then...
"Sir, finishing this fight"
Roll credits.
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG!!!
As a runner-up, I'll nominate Oblivion. Gee, that sure looks like a fun boss battle! Can I join in? No? Oh... ok.
It's not often that I hate a game that I've never played, but this is one of those times.King Kupofried said:
I'm going to put up another one for fable 2.
You fight a giant rock (spire shard or whatever it's called)then you go to the top of a hill with your comrades. Your dog gets shot and so does you. You then go through something that can only be described as a training stage (it felt like the game was trying to teach me the controls all over again). After that you are somehow teleported to the spire and you walk up to the big bad villain only to hold the A button and then shoot him once (if you wait then reaver shoots him). After that you get to choose one out of three things and everyone else get's teleported to a destination of thier choice.
Never have I seen such an anticlimax (exept for maybe Borderlands) and never have I been so angry over not having to fight the villain.
PS: Can someone also please tell my what the comrades you gathered in Fable 2 did to help you at all? All I noticed was that I had to rescue them at the end and that's all they ever did.
You fight a giant rock (spire shard or whatever it's called)then you go to the top of a hill with your comrades. Your dog gets shot and so does you. You then go through something that can only be described as a training stage (it felt like the game was trying to teach me the controls all over again). After that you are somehow teleported to the spire and you walk up to the big bad villain only to hold the A button and then shoot him once (if you wait then reaver shoots him). After that you get to choose one out of three things and everyone else get's teleported to a destination of thier choice.
Never have I seen such an anticlimax (exept for maybe Borderlands) and never have I been so angry over not having to fight the villain.
PS: Can someone also please tell my what the comrades you gathered in Fable 2 did to help you at all? All I noticed was that I had to rescue them at the end and that's all they ever did.
Assassin's Creed 1 & 2 have big twists, yet very anticlimactic endings.
Some of Silent Hill 2's endings were lame.
Mass Effect had a pathetic ending after about only 15 hours. It didn't even end - you hadn't done jack shit. I was seriously expecting at least another 20 hours of story. You know if that game had come from an eastern developer that they would have done it right and made it all one game (two at the most). Instead, we're getting milked for one game released as three + DLC. It was recommended by a friend, and I'm never trusting him again.
On the contrary, Final Fantasy endings never disappoint.
Some of Silent Hill 2's endings were lame.
Mass Effect had a pathetic ending after about only 15 hours. It didn't even end - you hadn't done jack shit. I was seriously expecting at least another 20 hours of story. You know if that game had come from an eastern developer that they would have done it right and made it all one game (two at the most). Instead, we're getting milked for one game released as three + DLC. It was recommended by a friend, and I'm never trusting him again.
On the contrary, Final Fantasy endings never disappoint.
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Fable 3, its sort of 2 storys. when your rebelling your outside the castle and then suddenly are in the castle and have captured the guy. and the proper ending bowerstone is fucked no matter how much money you put in and its really easy, but i was sad for WALTER!!!!!!!
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Fable 3, its sort of 2 storys. when your rebelling your outside the castle and then suddenly are in the castle and have captured the guy. and the proper ending bowerstone is fucked no matter how much money you put in and its really easy, but i was sad for WALTER!!!!!!!
Bioshock, god that last battle against the hulk.... seriously that all I can think looking at him, and then a poorly rendered completely extreme out of the blue ending, Steal a nuke or get an "adopted" family.... right.... then again, that game ended in Andrew Ryans office to me, they shoud have ended the game there leaving you with a "what have I done!!" feeling, would have worked much better in my opinion
Oh and any game that ends open for a sequal while they dont know if they will get to make one frustrates me no end and ends up in the "lame" catagory no matter how good it might seem.
Oh and any game that ends open for a sequal while they dont know if they will get to make one frustrates me no end and ends up in the "lame" catagory no matter how good it might seem.
And thus a reason why it's lame. The entire story to begin with was half assed story telling and in the end you don't know if the old one is put to sleep and will awaken again one day because of the stupidity of man, or what you're doing is an endless cycle where you yourself have to continue doing it. All you see is you char walk away from the kingdom. Not to mention all the hype up of the Old one thinking there was gonna be some giant epic battle between it, where the ending boss is just a metaphoric blob of a king being nothing but a shell of himself because of his greed. After all the hell I went through in the game I a real ending not just subliminal crap.bismarck55 said:
The 5th ending or the final ending or w/e of Drakengard. Although, Drakengard 2's ending is composed of dialogue over a series of stills. I figured they ran out of budget with the marketting (considering how I didn't even notice it was released) but really? That's it?
Anyway, at the big end of Drakengard: you appear over a modern city (when for most of the game you live in a high fantasy world of dragons and elves and shit) and you have to mash two buttons to fire waves at a giant pregnant woman (who's the mother of giant babys called grotesqueries or gods or something) until time runs out. She dies or something and then you get shot down by a fighter jet. What the fuck?
Anyway, at the big end of Drakengard: you appear over a modern city (when for most of the game you live in a high fantasy world of dragons and elves and shit) and you have to mash two buttons to fire waves at a giant pregnant woman (who's the mother of giant babys called grotesqueries or gods or something) until time runs out. She dies or something and then you get shot down by a fighter jet. What the fuck?
Final Fantasy 8's ending was terrible, nothing but a bizarre acid trip through a plot that made no sense to begin with. Although if you prescribe to the "Squall's Dead" theory, it's pretty cool. Otherwise it's just opaque and confusing visual noise.Fozza said:
halo 2 oh im gonna finish the fight. oh wait you were expecting to play that? I am sooooooooo sowwy but no.
kotor 2 obviously but the time restraints have already been discussed to death.
XIII if anyone remembers that, i loved that game for the first half (you had to find the identities of and kill a buncha people who wronged you somehow) where they made you really work to find just one or two of your targets. then they throw like 10 out of the remaining 11 all into one room at once wearing KKK outfits or something and you just kill them all in 3 minutes. and then the typical cliffhanger BS ending with a half hour unskippable credits scene. great.
XIII if anyone remembers that, i loved that game for the first half (you had to find the identities of and kill a buncha people who wronged you somehow) where they made you really work to find just one or two of your targets. then they throw like 10 out of the remaining 11 all into one room at once wearing KKK outfits or something and you just kill them all in 3 minutes. and then the typical cliffhanger BS ending with a half hour unskippable credits scene. great.