The worst video game ending ever
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For real, I came in here for that and it seems everyone is trying to avoid it as if it shouldn't be mentioned. That game's ending literally soured 3 entire games for me. It isnt just this one game had a bad ending and now that one game is soured. This one game ending soured 3 games. It wins hands down for me, there is no competition for it.Lightspeaker said:
I am unsure if it is as you say and it is just unanimously decided it is terrible, or not. I do see people defending it as if other games are worse. It may be for them but Mass Effect 3 essentially ruined more than just one game for me so it easily wins this contest.
I could make an argument for Fallout but it just pales in comparison. Long ago, there was a Jurassic Park game on the SNES that I loved and beating it was hard because you couldn't save. It's ending was the opening cutscene played backwards to the sound of a helicopter. Roll credits. But none compare to Mass Effect.
This is very recent but I absolutely hated the ending to Xenoblade Chronicles X.
Its so lame I'm not even going to explain it, you just need to know that its a copout "we actually can't tie up our story well so here's some extremely vague bullcrap".
And it blows my mind because the rest of the game's lore and universe is awesome.
Its so lame I'm not even going to explain it, you just need to know that its a copout "we actually can't tie up our story well so here's some extremely vague bullcrap".
And it blows my mind because the rest of the game's lore and universe is awesome.
I'm pretty sure you were anointed (or whatever it was) Neverine before you went up the mountain. Elder Scrolls do not know how to finish a game.Saelune said:
OP: Instead of saying the typical ME3 ending, I'm going to say the other two.
The hardest to prove is ME2. It had a fantastic (suicide) mission leading up to the boss. Previous decisions affect your unit's lives. But then the boss happened and you realise how stupid a person stuck on a planet fighting a space faring race is. Then you realise that you wasted your time playing this game because everything didn't matter.
In ME1, the you once again are a person on the ground, fighting something in space. They had to make a telekinetic link between a Taurian and the Reaper, so that your actions could effect the space battle.
Let me point that out again. The Reapers can easily be defeated by those they are telepathically connected to. How is that not a gigantic weakness that we could exploit. Where did this weakness go in the next games? Also, WHY ARE WE FIGHTING SPACESHIPS WITH PEOPLE ON THE GROUDN?
And you know that they only reason they did this was to make your actions on the ground mean something (and maybe a space battle was too expensive and made all your ground efforts pointless).
ME3 ending was stupid but no more than the other two.
Not Mass Effect 3, that's for sure. On the scale of bad endings, that's not even in the same ballpark, but everyone gets all emotional about it so *shrug*.
Anyway, lets see... Deus Ex: Human Revolution had a pretty shit ending after a pretty shit final level. Going from the Tyrant Base and all it's challenges to a level where all your weapons and stealth skills are completely unnecessary, a poorly designed final boss (that makes no sense lore-wise anyway) and then getting shuffled into a room to press 1 of 4 buttons to watch completely unrelated cinematics (that literally include stock footage!) while Adam narrates was... jesus, who thought that was a good idea? In any way?
Anyway, lets see... Deus Ex: Human Revolution had a pretty shit ending after a pretty shit final level. Going from the Tyrant Base and all it's challenges to a level where all your weapons and stealth skills are completely unnecessary, a poorly designed final boss (that makes no sense lore-wise anyway) and then getting shuffled into a room to press 1 of 4 buttons to watch completely unrelated cinematics (that literally include stock footage!) while Adam narrates was... jesus, who thought that was a good idea? In any way?
ME3 seems to be the elephant in the room, but haven't played it. I guess I could nominate the following:
-Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (in that it ends with a cliffhanger that's yet to be followed up, and may never be, not to mention that The Lost Age conspicuously didn't resort to such a tactic)
-The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (in that we skip right from the Pelannor to fighting Sauron's eye for some reason, and then end with a monologue from Gandalf. Not too bad, but it's telling how none of it factors into the actions of the characters, since it's re-using movie footage)
-Super Metroid (in that Zebes is destroyed, the infant is gone, Mother Brain is finally defeated, and...there's nothing to mark the event. Roll credits. Don't let the door hit you on the way out)
-Resident Evil Gaiden (in that we have yet another cliffhanger that's never followed up - granted, the game's absolute garbage anyway, so who cares, right?)
-Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (and yet another unresolved cliffhanger...gee, are you starting to see a pattern here?)
-Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (in that it ends with a cliffhanger that's yet to be followed up, and may never be, not to mention that The Lost Age conspicuously didn't resort to such a tactic)
-The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (in that we skip right from the Pelannor to fighting Sauron's eye for some reason, and then end with a monologue from Gandalf. Not too bad, but it's telling how none of it factors into the actions of the characters, since it's re-using movie footage)
-Super Metroid (in that Zebes is destroyed, the infant is gone, Mother Brain is finally defeated, and...there's nothing to mark the event. Roll credits. Don't let the door hit you on the way out)
-Resident Evil Gaiden (in that we have yet another cliffhanger that's never followed up - granted, the game's absolute garbage anyway, so who cares, right?)
-Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood (and yet another unresolved cliffhanger...gee, are you starting to see a pattern here?)
Not to mention that throughout the game, nearly everyone including their pets tells youRecusant said:
NOT TO OPEN THE DAMN BOX! 
OT: My personal worst ending would be Mass Effect 3. Though I know it's fairly obvious and probably considered lazy to mention so. But everything I put in that whole trilogy man, it is in fact the biggest let down many gamers face.
So to make my response somewhat worthwhile reading, I'll add a number 2, which is XCOM: Enemy Unknown. Because it didn't even happen! By Firaxis' own admission! So screw you guys!
Ok enough jokes aside, basically all of Assassins Creed endings. They just feel very weak and put there to help ensure you buy the next in the series. Never been impressed with them, part of the reason why I put them down after AC3. This is also considering the fact that they have pretty strong stories amongst all that, IMO.
Sudeki. Hands down.
So the game had this kinda interesting shadow puppet show at the very start of the game. For world lore and history, then it's onto the actual game. Maybe the puppets show up from time to time but it was basically kicked to the side for in game cutscenes with the character models.
UNTIL THE END OF THE GAME!!!
At the end of the game you beat the big bad guy, see the final cutscene and then...., Shadow puppets. Yes the puppets come back to say that Darkness has been cast out, that evil never wins and all is right in the world again. Credits.
Oh the characters you actually spent time with? Dunno what happened to them, watch the names go by. The ending was so abrupt it basically ran head first into a brick wall. At mach 5.
So the game had this kinda interesting shadow puppet show at the very start of the game. For world lore and history, then it's onto the actual game. Maybe the puppets show up from time to time but it was basically kicked to the side for in game cutscenes with the character models.
UNTIL THE END OF THE GAME!!!
At the end of the game you beat the big bad guy, see the final cutscene and then...., Shadow puppets. Yes the puppets come back to say that Darkness has been cast out, that evil never wins and all is right in the world again. Credits.
Oh the characters you actually spent time with? Dunno what happened to them, watch the names go by. The ending was so abrupt it basically ran head first into a brick wall. At mach 5.
honestly, it would be tough to top Mass Effect 3. not only is it just a horrible ending in general, but it is the ending to a trilogy and it negates everything that was accomplished over the course of the three games. all of the players choices are rendered irrelevant and replaced with a simple three option, "please pick one" ending.
Pfft Mass Effect 3 is the worst ending ever?CaitSeith said:
God of War 3 is way worse because it did not make sense and you feel like shit playing the game because Kratos selfishly destroyed the world just to kill Zeus. And yet they tried to frame it as Kratos still being in the right with the whole Hope and Fear bullshit.
Oh and there is also Ultima 9.
Mass Effect 3 has not topped God of War 3 and Ultima 9 for me.Vykrel said:
Ghostbusters on NES
On top of it being a terrible game all you get for beating it is a black screen with some misspelled poorly written text.To be honest you could put a lot of NES games here but Ghostbusters stands out
Oh and obligatory fuck Mass Effect 3
Looking back now at how many shitty uninspired boss fights I've suffered through since then I kinda think Lionhead were onto something though
On top of it being a terrible game all you get for beating it is a black screen with some misspelled poorly written text.To be honest you could put a lot of NES games here but Ghostbusters stands out
Oh and obligatory fuck Mass Effect 3
When I first beat Fable 2 I thought it was terrible as well. I mean one hit thats it and I don't even get to kill him myself if I wait too long WTF!!!Shoggoth2588 said:
Looking back now at how many shitty uninspired boss fights I've suffered through since then I kinda think Lionhead were onto something though
The big difference is now you get the choice to walk away instead of sitting on the throne if you went through the extra content.Zemaddog said:
So in a way, it's kinda like the choice in DS1. Commit or walk away. And neither one actually matters in the long run(or maybe it does, depending on how you interpret it).
Maybe not the worst but TLJ
reamfall is pretty bad. Nothing you did accomplished much more the delaying the bad guys and forestalling the end of the world, all of the main characters are pretty much fucked, from what we could tell considering almost nothing was resolved.
Ultima Exodus, at least the NES version.
The ending for all that grinding and dungeon crawling and end game random encounters with murdertastic dragons and balrogs roaming everywhere?
The ending for all that grinding and dungeon crawling and end game random encounters with murdertastic dragons and balrogs roaming everywhere?
Drakengard.thejboy88 said:
Seriously, take your pick. It has five endings, which each somehow managed to be worst than the last. Then again, Drakengard was masterfully designed to intentionally hate on and troll its own players, so I don't know if it really counts.
But between everyone getting eaten by a swarm of demonic hybrid monsters based off your main character's sister, everyone being eaten by a swarm of 30ft tall eldritch space-babies, or your main character and his dragon being shot down by an F-15 after crashing through a rift in time and space into modern day Tokyo to do battle with the 500ft tall mother of the eldritch space-babies via a rhythm game... yeah, take your pick
Alternatively, Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria.
I loved the first Valkyrie Profile, but the ending to its sequel manages to shit all over it by the ending which...
> Sees the first game's main character killed, after traveling back in time to help fight the game's main villain, who also traveled back in time after the ending of the first game.
> Well, technically she isn't "dead" but had her soul fused with the sequels super-lame main character into a new composite character. But she's still basically dead when you think about it.
> Also several key characters are killed and the world is left royally fucked up in a way which will actually prevent the events from the first game of ever being able to happen.
So yeah, it's a sequel that manages to completely negate the original game and kill off the original main character through a stupid time-travel plot.
God of war 3 just for the BS attempt to redeem Kratos after he caused the apocalypse if 4 is actually good I'll pretend that 2 and 3 never happened and Kratos eventually wandered off fed up with his godly duties to start a new life
Ahh, it sounds so simple, I must have been too lenient to her aggressors then, as I treated her like one of my own! You just can't please them all.AccursedTheory said:
Thanks for the heads up. Maybe there will be enough woolly jumpers for everyone this time. Awwww ok *sheepishly picks mic up*tippy2k2 said:
There is something incredibly annoying about the way half life ended with a "here's a little peek, a taster, look how much of this amazing universe and potential lore you are not going to see possibly ever again!" Then slams the door shut in your face. I am still waiting, half life...out here in the freezing cold rain in my dark, lonely room. Staring wistfully through the keyhole, or trying to since they closed the shutter on it.
Fable 3, oh fable 3, what a way to peter out the ending. The last level was bland as anything too. The "darkness" ...always the damn darkness, what has every game got against darkness? No wonder racism has been so conditioned into many people's subconscious! How about fighting the light for once? It sits there smugly upon its' illuminated moral throne judging everyone, time to take it down God of War style.
Anyway, to distance myself from the expectations of the hive mind; Mass Effect 3 didn't bother me with the ending, I guess it was the opposite of over hype, where all the Internet bitching made me expect some horrid slap in the face and piss in the cornflakes ending. But no, just a Deus Ex style thing, nothing insulting really, endings are usually a disappointment, that ending was... marginally above average. Though i found it harder to stay invested as my particular Shepard starting annoying me the more he was overplaying the model leader where almost every convo scene with his team comes off as a weird atmosphere tainted with incessant smugness that pulled me out of the experience as it felt horribly unnatural and cheesified, kind of like early Joss Whedon work.
I think people hype themselves up far too much with these things. They trust marketing blurb too much, overreact when things don't go to expectation. The world is made of lies, mistuthes, sugar-coatings and misunderstandings. Anything else is a sweet blessing. So very sweet. (Not a cynic, a realist!!)😇
I'm gonna go out and pick Metal Gear Solid 5's ending, so much so that it pretty much killed off my love for the franchise.
Jesus Konami, I can't even.
So the whole theme of this game is the downfall of Big Boss, which is huge as his more 'evil' actions practically set up the whole second half of the goddamn franchise. So you keep playing with this inner hope that the events finally transpire which lead to Big Boss becoming ev-oh hey turns out you're not Big Boss, you're a random medic who shielded him from the rocket blast in Ground Zeroes and got plastic surgery and hypnotized to look and act like him.
Literally EVERYTHING, all those 100+ hours of stuff you did in the game, amounts to nothing as instead of witnessing whats supposed to be some of the biggest moments in the entire franchise, you find out your whole existence is to just draw attention away from the real Big Boss so he can do the actual important stuff, and this just randomly happens and the game ends abruptly after, with anything story related being presented through text and audio files afterwards, as in, the cool stuff you thought you were going to experience through gameplay you have to read and listen to.
After all these years, and going through all the MGS games, and knowing this is Kojima's final rodeo with the series; for it all to end on a note like this? I don't even have words
Literally EVERYTHING, all those 100+ hours of stuff you did in the game, amounts to nothing as instead of witnessing whats supposed to be some of the biggest moments in the entire franchise, you find out your whole existence is to just draw attention away from the real Big Boss so he can do the actual important stuff, and this just randomly happens and the game ends abruptly after, with anything story related being presented through text and audio files afterwards, as in, the cool stuff you thought you were going to experience through gameplay you have to read and listen to.
After all these years, and going through all the MGS games, and knowing this is Kojima's final rodeo with the series; for it all to end on a note like this? I don't even have words
Jesus Konami, I can't even.
Fallout 3 prior to the DLC.
Dreamfall, wasn't too happy with this game overall but that ending just pissed me off. It's ok to have some loose threads for sequel baiting but it didn't solve much and left every character in dire straits.
Dreamfall, wasn't too happy with this game overall but that ending just pissed me off. It's ok to have some loose threads for sequel baiting but it didn't solve much and left every character in dire straits.
Heh, I actually loved that ending.Ronald Nand said: