What is the most irritating ending?

[-Drifter-]

Well, to be fair, you don't actually have to do it. I just stopped playing.

When a better alternative to an existing ending of a storyline is to simply avoid the entire story in the first place, I think you win the title of, "Most irritating ending ever".

True enough, I suppose.

 

[fragmaster09]

i'll say either

Spoiler

da, i know a place, and Black Op's ending

 

[Xanadu84]

I'm going to stick up SLIGHTLY for Borderlands here. Yes, the ending seems pretty bad, and hugely anti-climactic, but it wasn't exactly the ending. There was a bunch of DLC afterward. Yes, the DLC kind of makes the whole vault hunting thing irrelevant, but its not EXACTLY the ending. It's not much of a mitigating factor. I still think theres an argument that it deserves a nomination. But with the DLC, the Vault kind of becomes a side plot with a weak resolution, and leads into the ending of Claptraps Robot Revolution, which is a MUCH better ending.

 

[Cleariously]

Lucky Star. Jesus christ, that was the most annoying abrupt ending ever.

 

[chach_face]

In all of these bad ending, something happens. Maybe they are bad endings, irritating, lazy etc, but something happens that changes the world, the characters, something. In PoP, the cumulative reward for every last shred of effort is absolutely nothing. You literally undo all the things you did during the course of the entire damn game. From a storyline perspective, if the Prince just sat in the sand for the entire period of the game play, a sequel would be on the exact same footing as if you played the game. And worst of all, the response to the game seems to be that there won't be a sequel to introduce anything relevant happening in the storyline.

Well, to be fair, you don't actually have to do it. I just stopped playing.

I liked the POP ending. the sequels were unnecessary, but aren't they all? (usually)

 

[FallenRainbows]

The fifth ending for the first Drakengard game, it was a seriously "What in the flying fuck!?"

It didn't mesh with the game at all, and the final boss that route was a pain in the ass to beat on top of it.

Is that the one where *spoilerA* is eaten by *spoilerB* and you have to kill *spoilerB*? That ending made me sad, I loved *spoilerB* plus yeah, was a ***** and a half to kill.

Yeah didn't make much sense, still epic ending though. Loved that game, I demand a new gen sequel!

No it's the one where:

Spoiler

You get transported to modern day Tokyo and have to fight a giant, pregnant demon, then after you do an annoying rhythm based boss fight you get shot down by fighter jets.

Wait what?!?!?

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Command & Conquer 4.

Commander (the player, that's you) gets killed and Kane ascends to whatever Scrin heaven he wanted to all along whether you picked GDI or NOD.

 

[Terramax]

Video game ones where you spend 30+hrs to complete a game and it ends with a 10 second videoclip of pointless, near-nothingness.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Trying to think of the worst ending in the history of things that ever ended there's only one that came to mind and trying to think of a worse is proving impossible. [sub]unless you count Lost, obviously.[/sub]

I am referring of course to

Spoiler: Clannad

I've never been effected by anything quite so heavily as the last half of After Story. I watched it all in one sitting and was blubbering like an infant the whole time. (seriously, I had the snot bubble and everything). It was painful in the best kind of way. Then when the last ray of hope in Okazaki's bleak miserable life goes out leaving him with absolutely nothing to go on for they just say "Nope, fuck it. We're gonna ret-con all that sad shit out of the story. Enjoy your happy ending *****."
Nagisa didn't die, Ushio was healthy, even Fuuko came back to life. Okazaki's life is a cavalcade of sunshine and butterflies. Fuck that shit.

Spoiler: spoilers for the movie Repo Men follow but it's still related

The way that I can rationalize away the bullshit rainbows and jelly beans ending they tacked on is by thinking it's like the end of Repo Men. After Ushio died and they both fell down in the snow I can only assume he laid there and froze until Nagisa's parents found him there and took him to the hospital where they found out he would be in a vegetable coma for the rest of his life so they had him put in a morphine dream until he died. At least that's what I hope happened.

If you haven't seen Clannad it is amazing, you should try to watch it. It is one of the best Anime's in existence, and the most heart crushingly sad things in existence too. It's definitely worth your time just stop watching one episode before the end.

 

[funguy2121]

What (in your opinion) is the most dissapointing/irritating ending? After watching many movies, and playing many games, I kind of want to know what you all think.
This includes; Movies, Games, Books, TV shows, and any narrative.

The ending of Dallas was horrible. The devil told JR to shoot himself? OK!

I really didn't like the ending to Dollhouse, but I'll conveniently blame the studio since they cancelled the show super-early after not properly marketing it or getting it on a good night.

Has anybody yet mentioned the 7-hour ending of Star Wars? Or the 2 1/2 hour ending to Indiana Jones? Horrible...

Seinfeld's ending was appropriate but underwhelming.

A.I. First you get the Kubrick ending, then they go, "No, really though..." and you get the Spielberg ending.

I didn't care for Watchmen's ending, but I also didn't like what they did in the comics.

Hannibal. Both the movie and the book. Incidentally, I watched The Silence of the Lambs, then Hannibal, then Manhunter/Red Dragon (both versions), then read through all 3 books chonologically. Naturally I was disappointed in the ending to the cinematic version of Hannibal, especially after I heard that they changed it from the book. Then I read the book version. After the first half of that book, I have no further reason to pay any attention to Richard Harris. Hannibal kidnaps agent Starling, drugs her and hypnotizes her into thinking she's his sister, then engages in mock incest with her before making her his assistant serial killer? Really? Then Barney sees them at the very end and "wisely" chooses to run for it, in a passage that reads like the cheesiest Poe knockoff ever written. In other words, the end to Hannibal (film and novel) = ugh.

 

[artanis_neravar]

The Ending of that new South Park Episode.
They are going into the summer break with THAT?!

Yes thank you, I was waiting for the normal funny ending then BAM! I was depressed

 

[noahd]

All Final Fantasy games: I love this series...but they always build up to an extremely cheesy ending against some unbeatable force that is only surpassed by some unexpected realization or event.

i think you just discribed 90% of the games that were made. it've very few that it's going to be like; "ok, you have to do it, no one else but you can do it, so go too it champ! a lot of games beat around the bush either it's you following a trail that leads you that way, or other things of the sort. a lot of the recent themes i've been seeing are more of everyone else is dead so yeah... do it or we're fucked because we suck. if you look at a lot of the old rpg's you'll find a lot of the time it wasn't you are the choosen one! as you get told throughout the game. it's only in recent years that those types of games been coming out. and with lesser fantasy based, even in the sci-fi, horror, shoot em up, etc games, a lot of the time you're just another one, you're just the guy in the here and the now.

but as i said, a lot of games now a days are going on the choosen one theme. flavor of the generation, i guess. but, you know. it would be an interesting experence playing a whole game just to really find out that you were just a side kick in all of it. or to just play as an side kick, so you have to run after the ai so he doesn't get killed... (reminds me of some shooters where the ai's were too stupid that they could just stay behind cover.)

 

[supermariner]

The film 'the mist' i think its called has a pretty irritating (though hilarious ending)
*spoiler warning*
basically they spend the whole film desperately defending themselves against monsters in the mist
then as they break away in a last bid to escape they drive to see if they can get out of the dense fog. As it happens, the car runs out of petrol and they're still enshrouded. so the main character kills the other four passengers (including his son) with a revolver. then IMMEDIATELY after he does it (i mean like instantly) the mist clears and the army sweep in to help
The End ...

 

[Enrathi]

Jeepers Creepers. The Creeper kills all the police officers in the station, takes the main dude away and takes his eyes. They get chased and only one of them escapes while the other is killed...just for his eyes?

IIRC, the monster in that film just needed to replace body parts every so often as his failed, so he would find someone with the part he needed and assimilate it.

Oh and Shutter Island, I was expecting something less obvious.

When my friend and I saw it in the theater, he leans over as they're still on the boat and guesses the ending right there. So yeah, I guess it was pretty obvious.

 

[chach_face]

Oh and Shutter Island, I was expecting something less obvious.

I previews didn't help.
They said "You'll never believe the ending!" so I went in ready to not believe everything i saw. I hate it when previews do that.

 

[UmJammerSully]

The ending to Eternal Sonata is by far the worst ending to any JRPG I have played. Though it wasn't like the rest of the story was grade A material either.

 

[DustyDrB]

Though I actually loved the game...

Spoiler: Dragon Age 2

The fantasy Nazis are right. Mages will turn to demons for aid in the end. You can count the exceptions to this on one hand. Otherwise, you find that most every mage turns into an Abomination when given a whiff of freedom. They even had Orsino, who otherwise came off as a reasonable man, do this (and then gave us a bit at the end also that tied him to the murderer of Hawke's mother, as if to say "Hey, look! He was a bad guy the whole time!"

You can't stop Anders from destroying the Chantry. You have every reason to suspect him of foul play, but you can't do anything about it. The lesson at the end Dragon Age 2 is that its best to be safe and kill every mage. Sorry, Bethany. I'm sure you'll turn into an Abomination just as I put this knife in your back.

 

[Adamc-mh]

The "Ending" to Red dead Redemption, it was good just left a bitter taste in your mouth.

 

[Keldon888]

I really don't know what all the hate is for with borderlands. Yea the ending was bad, but really how much story was in that game to begin with? Hey you! Go to the Vault! Keep killing bandits and soldiers! That was the entire story, maybe if there was some real depth the ending would matter.

KOTOR2 is story driven and then cuts off with no explanation and all the motivations die out before the last mission and the villains are either useless (nihilus) or entirely too vague as to their goals or intentions to even be a real villain(Kreia).

 

[Monty McDougal]

Knowing with Nich Cage. I really like the movie up till the last 2 minutes. Same with Donnie Darko and Dark Knight.
Bf Bad company 1 and 2. I love the games but they have the absolute worst final levels ever.
The entire movie of matrix revolution as the ending to the matrix series.