The best ending to a game or franchise you have seen?

[lionday]

Harvest moon its a wonderful life. You die....thats it....the game that mimicked real life in such a way that showed people age and some people die ends in the in the one way it can. The one way it must. The year before you bite the dust you know its coming you just don't know when. Man best thing ever.

 

[Wayneguard]

For me its metal gear solid, I mean the end cutscene is 30 minutes long at it all has such purpose and meaning, It has me feeling so connected to every character and to all the events. And somehow they managed to make an ending that did such a great franchise justice.

Definitely this. Oh how much the answer is this.

 

[dibblywibbles]

seriously it has to be red dead redemption for me.It was easily the most memorable ending to a game in recent memory, if not ever. it was the perfect ending, to an almost perfect game.

 

[EcoHulk]

I really liked the ending to Red Dead Redemption.

Of course I only picked an ending to a game I have played.

 

[OdyCay]

Red Dead Redemption + undead nightmare
also the the Halo 3 and reach endings were epic probly the best
no wait! the witcher 2 endings
i cant dicide

 

[CarlsonAndPeeters]

Shadow of the Colossus. I could go on for ages about how perfect the climax is (the climax coming AFTER the massive final colossus), but that would require heavy spoilers. Team ICO perfectly blends gameplay and cutscenes, familiar mechanics and shocking new ones, tragedy and hope. The juxtaposition would make Doomsday Arcade proud.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Has to be MGS4's, especially when it includes this as a magnificent final boss

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Absolutely wonderful game and series.

 

[00Pyro]

Ok, not a game, but Stephen King's book, The Running Man. If I had to choose a game, it would be Red Dead Redemption.

 

[GeneWard]

Fallout 3, the good ending. It made me feel like such a hero for choosing the path of the righteous man and striking out with great vengeance and furious anger against the evil that was the Enclave.

 

[r0kle0nZ]

Red Dead Redemption was a good ending, but I personally liked the Bioshock endings a whole lot more.

I don't know just sort of stuck out to me as a Narrative Ending compared to most of the general bland, Hero Saves the ______, endings.

 

[The Urban Moose]

Bastion. So much Bastion. I think it was the only ending ever to make me nearly cry tears of melancholy.

Honorable mention also goes to Portal 2, which nearly made me cry tears of joy.

 

[Zakarath]

I'd say Jade Empire is up there; not necessarily for the epilogue but the last few gameplay sequences which were pretty damn awesome.

I'll second whoever said ME1, which was topped off by an awesome song playing over the credits.

 

[Zhukov]

Bastion. I literally cried. I have no idea why, but the emotional impact, since I

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took him with me

, was just amazing. I cried, then I got to the ending, and I did something I never thought I'd do.

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I chose not to save the world

"I sure would like to see the look on their faces, when we dock this thing right on their doorstep." as well as pretty much everything Zia says. Simply beautiful.

Second that. Just finished it last night. It was awesome.

I made the same choices you did. That final gauntlet was beautifully done.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Bard's Tale

Option 1: Fight for the princess you've been trying to save this whole time. Boss Fight.

Option 2: Princess might be evil, don't save her. Boss Fight.

Option 3: Fuck it, I'm leaving. The world's gone to hell but I don't give a shit. No Boss Fight.

Best one's option 3 though the ending from option one is pretty good too...

Bastion. I literally cried. I have no idea why, but the emotional impact, since I

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took him with me

, was just amazing. I cried, then I got to the ending, and I did something I never thought I'd do.

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I chose not to save the world

"I sure would like to see the look on their faces, when we dock this thing right on their doorstep." as well as pretty much everything Zia says. Simply beautiful.

I made the same choices, that game is amasing. It was hard controlling the guy and wiping my eyes at the same time...

 

[Sinful Tyrant]

Agreed! Zhang He knows how to party

 

[Canadamus Prime]

IF they hadn't kept Kratos alive and kicking in GoW 1, I would say that's my favorite ending because it would have enough criteria to pass as a greek tragedy, which is awesome.
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Or even it they'd left Kratos as the God of War and not made any stupid sequels.

 

[The Geek Lord]

The ending to Persona 3 very heartbreaking, a culmination of the games central theme, and the ending song is spot on.

I do believe you mean P3FES... Or maybe the original P3 ended differently than P3P. I dunno.

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Though I raged at Aigis at the end of P3P. "WE JUST SAAAAAAVED THE WORLD" "YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAAAAAAAAAAVE THE WOOOOOOOORLD TO FIND A PURPOSE IN LIFE"

I was thinking, "THAT'S WHAT YOU JUST DID YOU STUPID FUCKING ROBOT WHORE."

Seriously. I hated Aigis and her complete lack of a personality.

Anyway.

Best ending to a franchise I've ever seen would be Ed, Edd, 'N Eddy. No, seriously.

Best ending to a game would be Gungrave. Oh, it was nothing special. Pretty basic plot, pretty basic ending. But there was one thing, just one thing so great about it, that it stands out in my mind even now.

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Basically the plot is, "You were some mobster dude named Brandon Heat. Then your dick of a best friend shot you out of a window because you didn't like him being a dick. You are an eight foot tall zombie armed with armor piercing handguns and a coffin full of machine guns and rocket launchers. Burst into the douche's office and kill him."

So what happens is at the end of the game you fight the final boss (who could be qualified under the trope Giant Space Flea from Nowhere) and then you're in a cutscene! Do you know what YOU, the PLAYER, do in this cutscene? YOU have to push the fire button. You have to push the square button, one last time, and that's the end of it all. There are no prompts. It's just you, Grave, and Harry. Push the button, and you end everything.

And THAT'S how you make a video GAME ending. Make it interactive without fucking quick time events. Or at least do like No More Heroes 2 did where you could go make a sandwich mid-cutscene, then come back and push the damn button.

 

[Ultress]

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I'm referring to the end of the Journey which is the same for at Least FES and Portable not sure about vanilla P3

 

[Burntpopcarn]

COD 4 had the best ending. after roughly a week i finished the game, and i loved the ending. i remember screaming "nooo!!!" when gaz and griggs died, and i thought price was dead too. but i avenged my buddy gaz by shooting ivan zakheav in the face. and then i was all "boom headshot" and then all i remember is kamarov rescueing us and price was still alive! ahh... great memories... i remember shooting terrorists with a machine gun... COD 4 was the best COD campaign wise, WAW is the second best, Black ops is worst when it comes to campaign... everything else.. not so much.

 

[Zeh Don]

I have two:

1. Terranigma.
Re-create the world. Help fill it with life. Explore it. Then, save it. The whole 'one last day thing' still resonates with me.

2. Outcast.
Rapped up the plot, provided emotional closure, packed an emotion punch and still left room for a sequel, all without feeling cheap, rushed or resulting to the cheap 'cliffhanger' ending.
I'll continue to protest for the sequel this game deserves.