Least Satisfying Video Game Ending

[Zaydin]

Sound off on the game you feel had the least fufilling ending you've seen. For me, it was Draken 2. Watched my sister play that game & beat it & we all agreed the ending sucked.

 

[Dommyboy]

Well, since this is the tenth thread which features the same topic, I'll say what I've always said. The ending to the Hulk game on SNES is horrible.

 

[Syndef]

CoD 5: WaW

Partially due to the ending of CoD 4, which was presented in a superior way, making me see CoD 5's ending as leaving something to be desired.

 

[Stryc9]

Link's Awakening on Gameboy, finding out that the whole game had been nothing but a dream pissed me off so much I almost smashed the cartridge.

 

[Edible Cyanide]

(SPOILER ALERT) Half-Life 1 and 2, I mean their great games, in my top 10 to be honest but in the end (SPOILER ALERT)














Once you beat the final boss in HL1 you get teleported into a tram and Gman tells you to get off it or he'll OWN YO ASS, you get off and THE END
and in HL2 you get esploded off the top of a giant tower. then time pauses and the same prick starts giving you a lecture. THE FUCKIN END

 

[rekabdarb]

resident evil 4... easily

 

[Citrus]

Shadow of the Colossus.

I hadn't played Ico, so I was probably missing out on the meaning of the whole baby-with-horns thing. Also, Agro should have stayed dead. It's not that I didn't like him, but he would have left a greater impression if he didn't come back.

Also, FEAR 2. It's unique, and kind of funny in a twisted way, but it fails as a means to tie up loose ends.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Assassin's Creed. Finish the final boss, get a cutscene with about as much closure as a fucking Star Wars trailer and end credits.
Leaving something open to a sequel is one thing, leaving it more open than HMV's doors during the January sales is just bloody infuriating.

 

[MisterAnarchist]

Shadow of the Colossus.

I hadn't played Ico, so I was probably missing out on the meaning of the whole baby-with-horns thing. Also, Agro should have stayed dead. It's not that I didn't like him, but he would have left a greater impression if he didn't come back.

Also, FEAR 2. It's unique, and kind of funny in a twisted way, but it fails as a means to tie up loose ends.

Shadow of the Colossus had a beautiful open end IMO.
But on topic, I think L4D has a pretty bad ending. You just never stay rescued.

 

[PezNic]

Fallout 3. Basically just went "Grats u win, oh btw we spent all our time developing vats and train stations so we wont bother with a cutscene, but enjoy the slide show!"

 

[Sheik.Bazinga]

alot of bad endings available. but i still hate FFIX for killing Vivi at the end without so much as a cutscene. At least FFX had an overdramatic airship leap.

 

[Whobajube]

Prince of Persia had a pretty bad ending.

 

[Dmatix]

KOTOR 2. the ending just isn't there...

 

[Rednog]

F.E.A.R 2, you don't end up much farther in the story than where the first one left off...I mean really a 2nd game is supposed to continue the story line and not rehash it from a different point of view.

 

[Frybird]

Dreamfall, the Sequel to The Longest Journey.

It is one thing when a game with a bad story has a disappointing ending, but here we have a pretty good and exciting story that....doesn't really have an ending. Its all cliffhangers, and as far as i remember only a single side story really gets resolved.


Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy ends unsatisfying as well, but then again the last third or so of the story is painfully bad...

EDIT: Oh, and i second GOW 2 and Fear 2, but at least Fear 2 had a sufficiently bizarre ending.

 

[runtheplacered]

(SPOILER ALERT) Half-Life 1 and 2, I mean their great games, in my top 10 to be honest but in the end (SPOILER ALERT)

Once you beat the final boss in HL1 you get teleported into a tram and Gman tells you to get off it or he'll OWN YO ASS, you get off and THE END
and in HL2 you get esploded off the top of a giant tower. then time pauses and the same prick starts giving you a lecture. THE FUCKIN END

I really liked Half-life 1's ending. Thought it was very fitting. I don't even know how else you'd want to end that game.

 

[Psypherus]

Link's Awakening on Gameboy, finding out that the whole game had been nothing but a dream pissed me off so much I almost smashed the cartridge.

Forgot about that. And since you reminded me, I'm gonna say that ^