No Right Answer: Worst Videogame Ending Ever
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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.
Well yeah that ending was bad because...well because that was meant to be the bad ending as opposed to the actual ending. Also, 30 hours?..really? Is that even possible, because my first playthrough was 100 hours though that was because I was set on doing EVERYTHING in that game.Warachia said:
Chris, please stop shouting so much!
I really like the concept of this show. And I like the sometimes strange views. But often it's a pain listening to you, because you can't keep your voice down - even when the discussion is not very heated and you are simply trying to make a point.
It's quite annoying to the point where I don't wanna listen anymore.
That's how I feel about it, anyway. Don't wanna troll, it's just an honest feedback.
I really like the concept of this show. And I like the sometimes strange views. But often it's a pain listening to you, because you can't keep your voice down - even when the discussion is not very heated and you are simply trying to make a point.
It's quite annoying to the point where I don't wanna listen anymore.
That's how I feel about it, anyway. Don't wanna troll, it's just an honest feedback.
I don't know, it was one of the few horror endings for a horror game that was actually, well, horrific.Daili Lama said:
I just wish they'd done a better job wrapping up the story in the sequel. Was a good fun game mechanically, but it shat its pants all over the story.
As far as endings go, Fallout 3 had me raging the most. Okay, not raging, I silently uninstalled it and never played it again.
After walking casually behind Big Bro Robot of Destruction (which could have been made a great and climatic battle, but wasn't), I get to choose between sacrificing a companion or myself to save the region... but can't tell Mr. Immune to Radiation or Mr. Fucking Regenerates via Radiation to flip the switch? Both of whom I have in my party?
Oh, wait, I could do that after buying a DLC. Thanks.
If ME3s ending was a slap in the face to gamers, Fallout 3 was the curbstomp.
After walking casually behind Big Bro Robot of Destruction (which could have been made a great and climatic battle, but wasn't), I get to choose between sacrificing a companion or myself to save the region... but can't tell Mr. Immune to Radiation or Mr. Fucking Regenerates via Radiation to flip the switch? Both of whom I have in my party?
Oh, wait, I could do that after buying a DLC. Thanks.
If ME3s ending was a slap in the face to gamers, Fallout 3 was the curbstomp.
FF7 had an ending.. and it was pretty simple, the planet wasn't turned into a giant crater and, for the most part, everyone escaped in one piece to go on about their lives.
Also do we really need to start comparing JRPG story structure and WRPG story structure concerning "choices"? They are rather vastly different creatures.. and Skyrim style character branching wasn't really all that big a thing with 1997 tech.
Obligatory "ME3 has the worst ending ever and the 'movie' is just going to feebly attempt to explain why it is the worst ending ever" statement.
I'd also argue that at least FF7 and GTA3 have endings, how many cliff-hanger endings for sequels that'll probably never get made to we have lying around these days.
Also do we really need to start comparing JRPG story structure and WRPG story structure concerning "choices"? They are rather vastly different creatures.. and Skyrim style character branching wasn't really all that big a thing with 1997 tech.
Obligatory "ME3 has the worst ending ever and the 'movie' is just going to feebly attempt to explain why it is the worst ending ever" statement.
I'd also argue that at least FF7 and GTA3 have endings, how many cliff-hanger endings for sequels that'll probably never get made to we have lying around these days.
