Well that was.... Anticlimactic
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Sorry to ruin your day but the Ico lead creator actually said that the Ico/Yorda reunion on the beach is meant to be a fever dream as Ico lays dieing in that boat amidst the waves.sazzrah said:
Honestly...it's still an amazing ending...just sad
Keeping with sad endings - Half-Life 2: Episode 2 was one of the flat out most "WHAT." endings I've seen. If you had any love for that game series, that ending hit you hard.
Also...was I the only person that liked the Bioshock good ending? I thought it was the only reasonable explanation for why this superhuman assassin would bother saving all these little girls...because they offered him the one thing he had never had in his life: a family. It made perfect sense to me...but I just wish it had been a bit longer.
And I totally agree with the Fable 2 and Fallout 3 ending hate. Though I thought Fable 2 was underwhelming overall, so Fallout 3's crap finale was a bigger kick to the balls to me. Especially comparing it to Fallout 1 and 2's endings.
Really there are only 3 types of endings,
1.happy
Yay we defeated (main EVIL) let's all have pie.
2.Sad
Oh no I or my friends are dead this wasn't worth it...
3.Cliffhanger
I donno Halo 2, you think of one.
(this can actually be many different things)
Although some do it quite better than others...
I just recently beat COD4 that felt like a justified ending. I think that another thing that drives your thoughts for a good ending is that sometimes you like a game a lot, so when it ends you are unhappy about it.
1.happy
Yay we defeated (main EVIL) let's all have pie.
2.Sad
Oh no I or my friends are dead this wasn't worth it...
3.Cliffhanger
I donno Halo 2, you think of one.
(this can actually be many different things)
Although some do it quite better than others...
I just recently beat COD4 that felt like a justified ending. I think that another thing that drives your thoughts for a good ending is that sometimes you like a game a lot, so when it ends you are unhappy about it.
Of the many words that can be used to describe COD4's ending, anticlimactic certainty isn't one of them. Unless you want to try to make the case that it is because the game has so many climaxes, but even then it's not like the ending was dull.Brockyman said:
I'm gonna go with Dreamfall. Mostly because it doesn't really have an ending. Rather, there's a series of cliffhangers with only one or two plot points actually resolved. God knows when/if the conclusion will be released.
Play DDS2, the games basically link together seemlessly. I personally view them as one game, since that's basically what it is.harhol said:
Anyway, the forced cliffhanger at the end of Too Human got my goat, why couldn't they just make the game a 30 hour dungeon crawling epic? I really hate all this trilogy bullshit nowadays.
Final Fantasy VIII had a very good ending, I was really happy and proud of what I had accomplished after watching that (made me teary eyed) and the after-credits skit was hilarious.
Hmmm, no one mentioned Soul Reaver yet?
Seeing all the DDS comments here, I think I really need to go out of my way and hunt for them.
Seeing all the DDS comments here, I think I really need to go out of my way and hunt for them.
That actually makes it even worse, since the game basically has no boss, and a poor ending on top of that.fish food carl said:
Yes, the rest of the game makes up for it and I loved the game, but as far as Anticlimactic endings and end sequences go, FO3 rates high.
Anyone play Haven: Call of the King?
The ending was pretty bad.
I didn't see it coming at all, I assumed there was loads of game left, but no slightly epic quick time boss fight and then even when you win it you get the equivalent of "YOU FAIL."
I'm guessing there might have been a good ending if you collected all of the whatever the hell those things were but frankly, fuck that shit...
Especially as I was promised the game would be an open-ended storyline with multiple paths and endings, instead I got a linear game with a potentially good but underdeveloped storyline.
The ending was pretty bad.
I didn't see it coming at all, I assumed there was loads of game left, but no slightly epic quick time boss fight and then even when you win it you get the equivalent of "YOU FAIL."
I'm guessing there might have been a good ending if you collected all of the whatever the hell those things were but frankly, fuck that shit...
Especially as I was promised the game would be an open-ended storyline with multiple paths and endings, instead I got a linear game with a potentially good but underdeveloped storyline.
I completely agree.JediMB said:
No one told me I had auto-life, I was surprised when I was brought back to life.
The game seemed a little short, despite the fact I put about 50 hours into it >.< It was still a good game, though.
Agreed on all counts.Michael_McCloud said:
I have do disagree with the other posters about Dead Space. I kinda likes what they did at the end. Not as epic as the games listed above (except that turd known as Fable 2) but still a good one in my book.
