Worst. Ending. Ever.

[Gizmo1990]

What has been the most dissapointing ending toa game/book/film to you? For me:

Game: Final Fantasy X-

Spoiler

I like FF games for the story. Everything else is a bonus. Say what you like about it I do not care but I loved X until the end. I like cleché happy endings. Luckly X-2 fixed it. Just a shame the rest of it was shit.

Movie: The Matrix Revolutions.

Spoiler

Neo is Jesus. They should have just ended the movie with Keanu Reeves giving the screen the middle finger and him shouting Fuck you at the viewers.

Book: I cannot think of a book I read that had a bad ending but I hated the ending to the last Codex Alera book, First Lord's Fury for one reason. It was the last in the series. And it was soooo good that I wanted more.

Edit: Fixed spoilers so people will not ***** about me revealing the ending to a 12 year old game and a 10 year old movie.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Dragon Age: Origins. The final cutscene and epilogue were fantastic, but the final dungeon from Redcliffe to Denerim was some of the worst level design ever. Forget tactical combat, you can one hit K.O Hurlocks, but only when the game doesn't glitch out and forgets to apply damage to your enemies.

 

[Jonluw]

Highschool of the dead and Mahou sensei negima are decent competitors for the prize.

As for games and movies...
Eh, I can't think of anything.

 

[smearyllama]

Twin Peaks.
There was this awesome several minutes of complete "What the hell did I just take?", and then...

Spoiler

Cooper ends up possessed by Bob

It just kinda ruined the series for me. It was just sorta "Yeah, we have to wrap up the show... Let's just have this happen."

 

[krazykidd]

What has been the most dissapointing ending toa game/book/film to you? For me:

Game: Final Fantasy X- I like FF games for the story. Everything else is a bonus. Say what you like about it I do not care but I loved X until the end. I like cleché happy endings. Luckly X-2 fixed it. Just a shame the rest of it was shit.

Movie: The Matrix Revolutions. Neo is Jesus. They should have just ended the movie with Keanu Reeves giving the screen the middle finger and him shouting Fuck you at the viewers.

Book: I cannot think of a book I read that had a bad ending but I hated the ending to the last Codex Alera book, First Lord's Fury for one reason. It was the last in the series. And it was soooo good that I wanted more.

Just because you like cliche endings doesn't mean the ending was bad . Hell if anything cliche endings are bad . FFX ending was good , FFX-2 ending was bad

OT: fable tw

Fable 2, I mean seriously...

On a side not: Mah boi, use the spoiler tags!

Dammit ninjad , fine then , i won't state the obvious and say Deus : Ex HR , so i will go with dragon age 2 . Terrible terrible stuff .

 

[Marter]

Ooh, I just watched Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.

It was a pretty terrible ending, mostly because it didn't really end. It was like "okay, we're going to set up a franchise now by stopping a battle mid-fight and then walking away." We have to wait for a sequel that (1) won't happen and (2) I don't want to see because the movie itself wasn't worth watching.

 

[DarkRyter]

Fallout 3, without DLC.

FAWKES. STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE.

 

[ZehMadScientist]

School Days anime. Thise who have seen it either agree with me, or must think I am insane for not finding it awesome. God that show was awful.

 

[Pete Oddly]

Fallout 3 had a bad ending? Guffaws abound.

It seems those that adhere to this statement have never played Knights of the Old Republic 2. Fallout 3's slightly weak ending looks like award-winning writing of the highest calibre compared to KotOR 2's drivel.

 

[ElPatron]

XIII, because it was never finished. And I can't read French to save my life, so no comics for me.

I don't know why everyone cries about The Matrix. I liked it.

 

[The Shadowlord]

The Black Magician trilogy had a sort of disappointing ending. Not the worst ending ever. But it felt kind of rushed.

Spoiler

After all the build up for the villains, Akkarin just pegs it, the cliche "take my power" scene commences and then Sonea just kills the Ichani. Then that's it. The epilogue gives it a sort of decent ending, but I felt rather cheated with the final battle. Something of an anti-climax.

 

[Aidinthel]

Neverwinter Nights 2 original campaign

Spoiler

Rocks fall, everyone dies. Literally. Conveyed by a narrator over a bad slideshow, no less.

It was sort of retconned in Mask of the Betrayer, but not enough even then.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Borderlands.


You spend the entire campaign travelling to this vault that's supposed to have all this amazing treasure inside it.
And what do you find when you finally get there?
Nothing.

 

[Vault101]

Red Dead Redemption

no, seriously fuck that game

fuck that game for ripping out my heart and stomping on while sadistically yelling at me and telling my all my hopes and dreams are doomed to fail while punhing me in the face and making me cry

fuck that game

 

[VonKlaw]

It seems those that adhere to this statement have never played Knights of the Old Republic 2. Fallout 3's slightly weak ending looks like award-winning writing of the highest calibre compared to KotOR 2's drivel.

That whole last area in KotOR 2 just screamed "We couldn't be assed to finish this crap properly."

I'll hurl the end of the main campaign of Oblivion in - You get to be the badass hero who stands there and... watch another dude turn into a dragon...

 

[Suicidejim]

Game: The Darkness.

Spoiler

Now, I know, obviously, that they couldn't have had Jackie fight the Darkness and be free of it, it would have ruined the opportunity to make a franchise, but did they have to spend so much of the plot pretending that they were going to let him fight it in the first place? It just felt like a big climactic moment on the horizon, and then . . . oh, we're done.

Movie: Source Code. Now, this wasn't just a case of a movie with a bad ending. No, this went beyond that, to a movie with a perfectly good ending . . . and then they keep going.

Spoiler

So, the hero, who is essentially dead, but with his mind inside a program that lets him relive the last 8 minutes of another man's life, manages to discover the identity of a bomber (the objective of his mission), but begs to be sent back into the program so he can stop the bomber and save the girl he has fallen in love with, despite the warnings that none of it is real, and it's futile anyway. Nevertheless, he stops the bomber, saves the girl, and there are some touching romantic scenes with them together, while the audience waits for the hero to die, finally at peace. The woman he convinced to send him back into the program terminates his life, against the will of her superiors. This was, I thought, the ending, and it certainly did the job. I was quite touched by his determination to save this girl, even though it was futile. But no. Instead, it turns out that he actually changed history and creates a parallel universe, where the bomb never went off, and somehow the hero's consciousness is still inside the man he was inhabiting as well as in his own body, and his sacrifice was no longer a sacrifice at all . . . and meh. I guess some people might prefer the real ending, but I still think a good chunk of that film could have been sliced off at the end.

Book: Stephen King's Thinner. That sort of ending would have worked way better in a short story, but

Spoiler

you just don't have the protagonist fail drastically at his mission and stay cursed anyway after you've sent me through an entire bloody novel. A short story, that's fine, we don't mind if the main characters fail or die, but don't ask me to put emotional investment in this guy only to have him fail anyway.

 

[Scrustle]

Movie: The Matrix Revolutions. Neo is Jesus. They should have just ended the movie with Keanu Reeves giving the screen the middle finger and him shouting Fuck you at the viewers.

What's wrong with the ending of Matrix Revolutions? Neo was obviously supposed to be a Jesus-like character from the very start of the trilogy. I really don't get the amount of hate the Matrix sequels get. I think they were good. Not as good as the first, but still good.

 

[Vault101]

Red Dead Redemption

no, seriously fuck that game

fuck that game for ripping out my heart and stomping on while sadistically yelling at me and telling my all my hopes and dreams are doomed to fail while punhing me in the face and making me cry

fuck that game

ya but that is not the actual ending... there is that whole ending section after that where you play as the son and get to murder everyone in cold blood for revenge that is the real ending... and I found it very satisfying

ahh but thats the even MORE depressing part of it

SPOILERS

Jack marston became just like his father...a lost soul riding aorund gunslinging..its exactally what Jhon and Abagail DIDN'T want

essentially his fathers past..that asshole FBI guy defined who Jack became, John faild in every way possible, and Im pretty sure Jack isnt happy or living up to what could have been

 

[Grey Walker]

Red Dead Redemption

no, seriously fuck that game

fuck that game for ripping out my heart and stomping on while sadistically yelling at me and telling my all my hopes and dreams are doomed to fail while punhing me in the face and making me cry

fuck that game

ya but that is not the actual ending... there is that whole ending section after that where you play as the son and get to murder everyone in cold blood for revenge that is the real ending... and I found it very satisfying

ahh but thats the even MORE depressing part of it

SPOILERS

Jack marston became just like his father...a lost soul riding aorund gunslinging..its exactally what Jhon and Abagail DIDN'T want

essentially his fathers past..that asshole FBI guy defined who Jack became, John faild in every way possible, and Im pretty sure Jack isnt happy or living up to what could have been

Interestingly enough, that's exactly the reason I liked it. Unlike some other people, I really liked the ranching segment, and the ending was a very bitter pill to swallow, but in the context of the game it felt right.

Just looking at the game's stories as a whole, how many of the people John meets have happy endings? Most undergo severe trauma at the lightest, and most end up dead. It's a harsh, depressing message, and a powerful one.

Now if you didn't like it, I understand. I originally hated GTA IV's story because of how depressing it was (I'm one of the few people who keeps a low kill count in Rockstar games), and the feeling that no matter what you do, you'll continually be dragged deeper into violence and suffering until it crushes was pretty jarring.

Different tastes, I suppose.

 

[requisitename]

The worst ending I've ever seen on a movie was Mulholland Drive. Because, what? No, I mean it. What the fuck WAS that? I know that all of David Lynch's stuff is strange and/or surreal, but still. I saw that shortly after it came out and I can honestly say that I have absolutely no idea what happened at the end. None.

As for books.. boy, I'm about to get crucified. I've read the Twilight series and, for what they were, I enjoyed them.In my defense, I read them in a psychiatric hospital, while heavily sedated and otherwise medicated. At that point in time, they were about my speed. When I got to the end, even in my drug addled state, I was.. flabbergasted. I barely made it through Breaking Dawn anyway because it was excruciatingly stupid all the way through to me. At the end of it, though, I really wanted to send hate mail to Stephanie Meyer for wasting my time.