I dunno, I think the ending to Pac-Man is much worse than either of those. No character development, and you are just left with the feeling that you just put $30 worth of coins into a machine.
No Right Answer: Worst Videogame Ending Ever
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Mmm I don' mind the GTA III ending, the ending to The Mafia II is .. well.. worse and better. Better as it tells a really good story worse as.. you can't play anymore. Its done 
But there are so many nice cars to drive still.. at least with GTA III you get you know lets go on.
Now Final Fantasy, mmm well.. what can one say about pure sang JRPG's.. you don't have a choice anyway. So really I don't feel FF VII was that bad just yeah lack. Hey JRPG! And with Final Fantasy VIII, yup 8, the plot was so dense with time travel.. it didn't matter anymore.
Now what JRPG actually didn't go all bonkers mad at the end anyway.. how many did go into time travel, time compression, "you are the son of the evil" or better "you heroes did my evil work" ..
Meh bad endings so many options, how about "your winner" yeah or "congratulations for playing this game.."
What is worst how does one define it? If it tells a really good story and then ends up with a rather lame choice of ends or just one rather lame ending.
A game without an ending anyway?
A game that is like lets say.. mmm "you all died" as they put it in NWN.. lovely. Or how about Fable III, oh boy ... nobody cared. Oh sure you are "the hero" .. but the game was so easy that your victory was hollow.
But there are so many nice cars to drive still.. at least with GTA III you get you know lets go on.
Now Final Fantasy, mmm well.. what can one say about pure sang JRPG's.. you don't have a choice anyway. So really I don't feel FF VII was that bad just yeah lack. Hey JRPG! And with Final Fantasy VIII, yup 8, the plot was so dense with time travel.. it didn't matter anymore.
Now what JRPG actually didn't go all bonkers mad at the end anyway.. how many did go into time travel, time compression, "you are the son of the evil" or better "you heroes did my evil work" ..
Meh bad endings so many options, how about "your winner" yeah or "congratulations for playing this game.."
What is worst how does one define it? If it tells a really good story and then ends up with a rather lame choice of ends or just one rather lame ending.
A game without an ending anyway?
A game that is like lets say.. mmm "you all died" as they put it in NWN.. lovely. Or how about Fable III, oh boy ... nobody cared. Oh sure you are "the hero" .. but the game was so easy that your victory was hollow.
This has been fixed by modders who restored the original ending intended by the developers before their game was rushed to hit Christmas by Lucasarts. Give it a go some time, it's pretty good, I mean don't get me wrong it's still rough as it had to be shoe horned in, but it's much more satisfying and actually varies. Crazy part is it actually uses some files that shipped intact with the game but were just deactivated.deth2munkies said:
About this video: I couldn't disagree more about Final Fantasy VII's ending, it's vagueness held an epic power to it, and I feel that in the end that story wasn't about winning or losing it was about what a small part humanity really has in the nature of the world, hence the overgrown Midgar with no signs of life. However, I suppose I can see how the small minded might not grasp this concept (I figured this out when I was 10, so if you're an adult and you still don't get it... geeze), which is why they put out fucking Advent Children, to show you that: Yes, humanity won and Shinra lost, Yes, Holy saved the world, yes, Tifa still has tits.
Also, it's a fucking JRPG, of course there wasn't any Role-playing, just a stat system, it's been that way since Dragon Warrior. Fucking duh.
I don't really consider Mass Effect to have any role-playing, as your options are as follows: Good Guy Greg, Douchebag Steve, Socially Awkward Penguin... Oh wait, I guess you get to decide which Alien you want to fuck, yeah, role play the shit out of that.
Obligatory ME3 reference:
That ending made me want to punch my television. I felt as if my time had been wasted across 3, 30 hour games.
Aside from ME3, I must give the award to shitty ending to KoToR 2. I got the darkside ending, and I still have no idea what the hell happened.
That ending made me want to punch my television. I felt as if my time had been wasted across 3, 30 hour games.
Aside from ME3, I must give the award to shitty ending to KoToR 2. I got the darkside ending, and I still have no idea what the hell happened.
And because I played that on PC I still haven't had the chance to play it, fuck you ubisoft.SpartyTheOneManParty said:
So is Mass Effect 3 the videogame equivalent of Spider-Man 3? Two months in, and NO ONE HAS SHUT UP ABOUT IT! Most movies and games are long forgotten and in the bargain bin by now. It has to say something about a game when someone who hasn't played it is getting sick of all the whining.
That's almost as bad as the ending from Persona 3:deth2munkies said:
You die and everybody forgets the game ever happened.
Fuck those 30 hours.
I have to extremely disagree with everyone so far.
Worst video game ending ever goes to Duke Nuke Forever.
And I knew this after taking my blinders off from the rest of the story after it got to the end.
Nothing Duke Nukem does in the end vindicates what happened through out the game. And it ends in the same boss battle that was in the beginning in DNF. And even then that was the same boss battle from Duke Nukem 3D.
The whole game is basically the dumpster baby of director Michael Bay & current Deadpool writer Danial Way.
All of this crap it ends with Duke Nukem saying he'll run for president. Oh Dear Flying Spaghetti Monster. Duke Nukem as a presidential Nominee after this would be the worse idea ever.
If he were real & a Republican Nominee.
He may hypothetically have more money from his gambling success than any candidate with a Super Pac. But after DNF there's no chance he'd get the women's vote. Santorum, Gingrich, & Cain would have better luck with that. His emphasis on hating aliens may be taken as innuendo for hating foreigners. Especially with how much the DNF logo emphasized the US flag. Duke Nukem is so out of touch with today's voter that Mitt Romney would still be the front runner. And anyone who'd say they'd want to have a beer with Duke Nukem would have to settle for a shot glass of Wine Cooler. Because according to DNF Duke Nukem gets easily drunk on 1 beer.
Anyone can say that "Of course DNF was going to have a bad ending because the whole game was bad". But it was a bad game with an even worse ending. Duke Nukem ending the game while making fart noises with his armpit would have been a better ending than saying he'd run for president. Because in ending as it did I had to take my blinders off to what the rest of the DNF is.
A badly written, overly linear game, that couldn't outlive its previous installments even if it had tried.
Worst video game ending ever goes to Duke Nuke Forever.
And I knew this after taking my blinders off from the rest of the story after it got to the end.
Nothing Duke Nukem does in the end vindicates what happened through out the game. And it ends in the same boss battle that was in the beginning in DNF. And even then that was the same boss battle from Duke Nukem 3D.
The whole game is basically the dumpster baby of director Michael Bay & current Deadpool writer Danial Way.
All of this crap it ends with Duke Nukem saying he'll run for president. Oh Dear Flying Spaghetti Monster. Duke Nukem as a presidential Nominee after this would be the worse idea ever.
If he were real & a Republican Nominee.
He may hypothetically have more money from his gambling success than any candidate with a Super Pac. But after DNF there's no chance he'd get the women's vote. Santorum, Gingrich, & Cain would have better luck with that. His emphasis on hating aliens may be taken as innuendo for hating foreigners. Especially with how much the DNF logo emphasized the US flag. Duke Nukem is so out of touch with today's voter that Mitt Romney would still be the front runner. And anyone who'd say they'd want to have a beer with Duke Nukem would have to settle for a shot glass of Wine Cooler. Because according to DNF Duke Nukem gets easily drunk on 1 beer.
Anyone can say that "Of course DNF was going to have a bad ending because the whole game was bad". But it was a bad game with an even worse ending. Duke Nukem ending the game while making fart noises with his armpit would have been a better ending than saying he'd run for president. Because in ending as it did I had to take my blinders off to what the rest of the DNF is.
A badly written, overly linear game, that couldn't outlive its previous installments even if it had tried.
Personally, I was kind of glad to be done with the story of FFVII. I didn't want closure on the characters because they were flat and lame.
And yet I still keep going back to the game...
And yet I still keep going back to the game...
Ghostbusters, for sure.misterprickly said:
Mk, first of all, when they said Worst Videogame ending ever, I though FFVII immediately. So yeah, I do think FFVII is a pretty bad ending. I can think of worse, but since FFVII is pretty much a big deal or whatever, I can see why people are so upset about it. Me, I didn't like the game that much to begin with (Come to think of it, I think I never finished it; I think I saw the ending on Youtube/Advent Children).
Having said that, FFVII is a JRPG. JRPGs, by nature, are about the story of one guy out there and you follow their story until the end. You don't get to be that guy, you don't get to affect their decisions that much. That's the point. That's what makes them different from Western RPGs like Skyrim and Dragon Age and Mass Effect and stuff. This has been established since FFI so that was kind of a weak argument there. It's like saying the NES Mario games could have more exploration or could have been better if they had been a sandbox game. That's not the point of a Mario game, so no. Moving on...
All sandbox games' endings are not truly the end of a story? Yes, but this is true of almost every single game. The difference is they don't show it. When you save Peach in every Mario game, do you think they just stand still until Bowser recovers and kidnaps Peach again and another Mario game beings? No. I would imagine Mario and Peach go home...maybe argue about Mario gaining a few pounds...maybe Peach refuses to bake him a cake. Maybe Yoshi needs to go to the veterinarian, I don't know! The difference with games like GTA or InFamous is that YOU control what the character does next. It's irrelevant compared to the ending or what happened before it, but again, this is true of almost every ending. That's why most games end with the ending, as redundant as it is.
With GTA3, the character was a mute, emotionless criminal. What did you expect for the ending? For him to break into song, marry the girl and raise a family in the suburbs? No, of course not. Don't get me wrong, I love GTA3 but...I gotta admit: it remained loyal to the protagonist' personality. Contrast this to San Andreas, where the character has a defined personality, goals, flaws and virtues and the kind of ending you get for this game. They're like night and day but, again, it's all in the nature of the game.
Yes, I always thought the ending for FFVII was crap:
1. You "kill" Sephiroth
2. Meteor is still coming
3. Aeris' spirit appears
4. ???
5. ENDING/ NANAKI 500 YEARS LATER
Not a good ending at all.
Having said that, FFVII is a JRPG. JRPGs, by nature, are about the story of one guy out there and you follow their story until the end. You don't get to be that guy, you don't get to affect their decisions that much. That's the point. That's what makes them different from Western RPGs like Skyrim and Dragon Age and Mass Effect and stuff. This has been established since FFI so that was kind of a weak argument there. It's like saying the NES Mario games could have more exploration or could have been better if they had been a sandbox game. That's not the point of a Mario game, so no. Moving on...
All sandbox games' endings are not truly the end of a story? Yes, but this is true of almost every single game. The difference is they don't show it. When you save Peach in every Mario game, do you think they just stand still until Bowser recovers and kidnaps Peach again and another Mario game beings? No. I would imagine Mario and Peach go home...maybe argue about Mario gaining a few pounds...maybe Peach refuses to bake him a cake. Maybe Yoshi needs to go to the veterinarian, I don't know! The difference with games like GTA or InFamous is that YOU control what the character does next. It's irrelevant compared to the ending or what happened before it, but again, this is true of almost every ending. That's why most games end with the ending, as redundant as it is.
With GTA3, the character was a mute, emotionless criminal. What did you expect for the ending? For him to break into song, marry the girl and raise a family in the suburbs? No, of course not. Don't get me wrong, I love GTA3 but...I gotta admit: it remained loyal to the protagonist' personality. Contrast this to San Andreas, where the character has a defined personality, goals, flaws and virtues and the kind of ending you get for this game. They're like night and day but, again, it's all in the nature of the game.
Yes, I always thought the ending for FFVII was crap:
1. You "kill" Sephiroth
2. Meteor is still coming
3. Aeris' spirit appears
4. ???
5. ENDING/ NANAKI 500 YEARS LATER
Not a good ending at all.
Really? Nobody mentioned Ninja Gaiden Sigma?
I played it for the PS3, and for the hours upon hours of toil that game was the ending was just downright insulting: "Oh, yeah, so... nice to meet you. Let me use the teleport ability which I did not use THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE GAME, now that the game is over. Goodbye" Pfff... C'mon!
I so hated that game. For such a hard game I expected an ending worthy of Metal Gear, and instead got a final boss fight that wasn't worth it and a disappointing animation that barely lasts five minutes.
Curse you, Team Ninja!!! Curse you!!!
I played it for the PS3, and for the hours upon hours of toil that game was the ending was just downright insulting: "Oh, yeah, so... nice to meet you. Let me use the teleport ability which I did not use THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE GAME, now that the game is over. Goodbye" Pfff... C'mon!
I so hated that game. For such a hard game I expected an ending worthy of Metal Gear, and instead got a final boss fight that wasn't worth it and a disappointing animation that barely lasts five minutes.
Curse you, Team Ninja!!! Curse you!!!
I feel like, if this is the crux of your argument for why FFVII's ending isn't so bad (correct me if I got that wrong), then it's unfair to say ME3's got the worst ending ever until you've waited to see the DLC/other materials that come out to supplement its own ending. If one game gets redeemed by what the studio makes after the fact to complete the ending, then why not the other? Was FFVII's ending also "the worst ending ever" until Advent Children came out? Or is ME3 being held to unequal standards (and why)?Caramel Frappe said:
Like many people, I'm disappointed in the lack of Kotor 2.
Also, that high pitched "bye" made me shudder, as it should for anybody who has been watching Sherlock.
Also, that high pitched "bye" made me shudder, as it should for anybody who has been watching Sherlock.
Apparently. To tell the truth I didn't think the ending was half bad. I understood what TIM was doing when he should up and made his big monologue and when The Catalyst showed up understood his message and why we got those three choices.Strife2GFAQs said:
The only thing that I will be pissed about with this epilouge is if they somehow make Shepard . . . FUCK I JUST WENT OFF ON A MASS EFFECT 3 TANGENT IN A NON-ME3 THREAD. My bad.
Now on topic.
I haven't played either game but if I had to say worse ending I would go between Too Human and Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. Both had endings that left room for more games. And neither has another game coming out probably ever.
They can't make a Mass Effect movie to tie up the ending in anyway.Caramel Frappe said:
mostly because no matter which choice you make Shepard will die. Kill all synthetics his synthetic heart gets destroyed. Take over the Reapers he gets killed. Synthesis he gets vaporized. if it was sans Shepard then maybe but even then they would have to make 3 different movies one for each outcome then even then make a movie based on other things that shaped the outcome of the game like who lived and who died.