Well that was.... Anticlimactic

[squid5580]

Wow what is up with the Dead Space hate. Although it may not have been some incredibly deep life altering ending if you have ever watched a sci fi or horror flick the ending was suitable to those standards. Although I am a big fan of the cheesey B movies so it is my own opinion. I didn't have any expectations of an intelligent "keep me up at night pondering it" ending so it didn't disappoint.

For me it's not so much the ending itself, it's the entire final part of the game. Starting midway through Chapter 11, the game loses all atmosphere. Chapter 12 is pathetic. You move a plot item around (forcing the use of the annoyning physics gun) while the game spawns waves of enemies at you in large well-lit areas.

The game turns into Quake 4, basically.

And the final boss was too simple and easy, especially compared to the Zero-G boss fight.

The ending itself was cliche to the extreme, and also makes little sense since you killed the Hive Mind...

I'll also add my vote to Fallout 3. After getting captured by the Enclave, the game is essentially an interactive cutscene to the end. Especially when the last potentially challenging part of the game is cleared for you by a gigantic robot. And then comes the lamest boss in any recent game. And then the lamest ending in recent history.

Seriously, it would be better if after killing Autumn you just got "A winner is YOU!" message and the credits rolled...

I can't argue about the physics gun. That thing was all around crap and I hated using it. I liked the final boss fight. It actually killed me because of the whole pick you up part. I sucked at those. The Zero G boss couldn't touch me on normal (impossible may be a different story). Although my end boss fight expectation bar has been set very very low lately after Fable 2, Fallout 3 and Alone in the Dark.

 

[Dubiousduke]

Great Ending = Mass effect
Horrible ending = Half Life 2: episode 2.

 

[MrGFunk]

So what are the games with Anticlimactic endings have you played?


Bonus question: What are the games with the best end sequences you've played?

Most games from the 16Bit era. e.g.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Sonic's got a microphone. Eurgh.
Super Mario World- Oh look it's all the characters. Whatever.

Beat 'em ups - The story is resolved. Was there a point to the characters having a story. Not really.

 

[Gamer137]

The Gears series is not exactly something I could say has a good story, but the ending was still lamer then I thought it could be. They pulled a Bungie! I swear that the only reason the original bomb was lost was because EPIC wanted a reason to show off a mutated brumak, and to make it an interactive cutscean made it worse. The brumak mutation was completely unnessessary. At least in Halo 3 I was begging to kill 343 Guilty Spark.

 

[Lukeje]

Half Life. What the hell was that whole Xen sequence about?!

Oh, we're not digging this old horse up again are we? Well, it may due to my being one of the few people who enjoyed the Xen sections (even going as far as to saying they were one of my favourite parts of the game, alongside Surface Tension and Questionable Ethics) and also having not actually heard a decent explanation of why they supposedly weren't any good.

As for what the Xen levels were actually about. Well, I assume that as the aliens came from Xen so the best way to wipe them out was to go to their home dimension and kill their leader. I'm guessing that was the deal with that. Or would you have rather had another 4 levels of running around science labs before blasting some totally random boss alien, like in the lame ending to Opposing Force?

Hey, if you enjoyed a shooting game suddenly turning into a First-Person platformer then more power to you. Unfortunately, I did not.

You ask whether I would prefer an ending like Opposing Force. Well, why did there have to be an end boss at all? Surely just closing all the portals would have saved Earth?

But in the end this all comes down to opinions, and it seems unlikely that either of us are going to change ours.

 

[MarsProbe]

You ask whether I would prefer an ending like Opposing Force. Well, why did there have to be an end boss at all? Surely just closing all the portals would have saved Earth?

But in the end this all comes down to opinions, and it seems unlikely that either of us are going to change ours.

I didn't really think much of the OF ending as it just seemed to be mirroring the ending to Half-Life, without the Xen sections of course, in pitting you against a random large alien for no apparent reason. While you could of course argue that the same argument could be levelled at Half-Life. as there never really was a full explanation given as to why you were wacking some large baby faced alien. What self respecting race of aliens places their entire hopes one the life of one specific entity anyway? That would be somewhat akin everyone in your country siezing up if your countries leader happened to kick the bucket. Kind of extreme.

But yet, in the end, it's about opinions. It's lucky the conversation isn't about Portal, then we could be here all day

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Star Wars Battlefront 2's ending was just, dumb. It was on Hoth in the Empire Strikes Back, and it ended with the 501st being victorious. Something interesting would be seeing the 501st after the empire falls.

 

[InsanityWave]

Fable 2's ending was one big slap in the face

Spoiler

i was expecting some kick ass magical fight with fireballs the size of africa but instead that guy dressed up as a dam spanish bull fighter shoots him then says "Oh, were you going to kill him" yes, yes I was then I was going to teabag him kill you, marry your wife, buy your house and tell your child that you died in a tragic cart accident

 

[Podunk]

Another bad ending was that of CarnEvil. After all the horror and drama the main guy starts it all up again? What?? It wouldn't be so bad if they let you keep playing... Ugh... final bosses in arcade games are the worst, because you -know- after you put in that extra 4 bucks there isn't any game left...

 

[CmdrGoob]

You ask whether I would prefer an ending like Opposing Force. Well, why did there have to be an end boss at all? Surely just closing all the portals would have saved Earth?

But in the end this all comes down to opinions, and it seems unlikely that either of us are going to change ours.

I didn't really think much of the OF ending as it just seemed to be mirroring the ending to Half-Life, without the Xen sections of course, in pitting you against a random large alien for no apparent reason. While you could of course argue that the same argument could be levelled at Half-Life. as there never really was a full explanation given as to why you were wacking some large baby faced alien. What self respecting race of aliens places their entire hopes one the life of one specific entity anyway? That would be somewhat akin everyone in your country siezing up if your countries leader happened to kick the bucket. Kind of extreme.

But yet, in the end, it's about opinions. It's lucky the conversation isn't about Portal, then we could be here all day

I think the implication was that the Xen was under Combine control, and the Xen alien was a Combine leader, at least on Xen. You wacked the war leader and therefore stalled the Combine offensive that was coming through from Xen. But the Combine hadn't placed their entire hopes on the life of one specific entity - they were ultimately successful in their invasion anyway.

 

[stubbmann]

Great Ending = Mass effect
Horrible ending = Half Life 2: episode 2.

I wouldn't say that Episode 2's ending was horrible.

Heartbreaking, yes, but not horrible. Probably better than most, really.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

I thought Bioshocks ending (I've only seen the good one) was terrible. Rushed attempt to emotionally engage the player, I would have far preferred an extended gameplay sequence where you visit survivors, or anything to that vague FMV.

FFVIIs ending also felt rushed to me. I wanted a drawn out closure packed with sentimental value. They obviously learned to improve upon that (Final Fantasy 8,9 and 10s endings, 9s particularly was excellent I felt.) but I was very unsatisfied by the end of 7.

The evil ending kicked ass...

 

[bad rider]

Fable 2 is the most disappointing ending for me by far.

Spoiler: Just in case someone doesn't want to know.

I get resurrected, stomp on into the Spire with my best gun expecting some wicked boss fight, and what do I get?

"Here, hold A for a second."

Oh, uhm... Alright.

"Now here's a cheesy 'you haven't seen the last of me' monologue. Feel free to kick his ass whenever you wish."

What? No big boss fight? Ah well, I might as well listen to his rant.

"What, you actually have a decent attention span? Alright then, we'll get the snooty pirate to do your job. Wuss."

How is that anti climatic? Steven Fry was the pirate, so everytime you hear him speak you must savour every sylable.

 

[Fronken]

Halo 2

/thread

 

[jboking]

Great Ending = Mass effect
Horrible ending = Half Life 2: episode 2.

I wouldn't say that Episode 2's ending was horrible.

Heartbreaking, yes, but not horrible. Probably better than most, really.

It felt more like a swift kick to the sack to me.

"Feeling good about launching that rocket with a gnome in it? *advisor* How about now?"

however, my vote is still for halo 2

 

[CmdrGoob]

Fallout 3. Oh god how that sucks.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

How is that anti climatic? Steven Fry was the pirate, so everytime you hear him speak you must savour every sylable.

And I was, until Mr. Cocky Pirate Man decides he'd rather have a conversation more centered on him. I thought Reaver was cool in a hateable way at first, but that little stunt really got me pissed off at him.

 

[bad rider]

How is that anti climatic? Steven Fry was the pirate, so everytime you hear him speak you must savour every sylable.

And I was, until Mr. Cocky Pirate Man decides he'd rather have a conversation more centered on him. I thought Reaver was cool in a hateable way at first, but that little stunt really got me pissed off at him.

What do you mean, he saved you some of your unlimited ammo.You should thank him.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

How is that anti climatic? Steven Fry was the pirate, so everytime you hear him speak you must savour every sylable.

And I was, until Mr. Cocky Pirate Man decides he'd rather have a conversation more centered on him. I thought Reaver was cool in a hateable way at first, but that little stunt really got me pissed off at him.

What do you mean, he saved you some of your unlimited ammo.You should thank him.

You know, I think I will.

I'll pay him that bullet back... To his face.

 

[bad rider]

How is that anti climatic? Steven Fry was the pirate, so everytime you hear him speak you must savour every sylable.

And I was, until Mr. Cocky Pirate Man decides he'd rather have a conversation more centered on him. I thought Reaver was cool in a hateable way at first, but that little stunt really got me pissed off at him.

What do you mean, he saved you some of your unlimited ammo.You should thank him.

You know, I think I will.

I'll pay him that bullet back... To his face.

Thats the christmas spirit!