Worst. Ending. Ever.

[Aeonknight]

Did anyone say Final Fantasy VII, yet? Cause if not, you've got to be joking as it's arguably even worse than the depressingly unsatisfying ending of Final Fantasy X because it -

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doesn't even HAVE a fucking ending. "Oh no, here comes Meteor, will Holy save us? Oh no, Holy is attacking Humanity, what will happen? *400 Years Later* Hey look, Nanaki/Red XIII is running along with his kids, awww... wait what? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!"

the ending is subject to interpretation. Like all endings.

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Holy didn't attack humanity, Holy simply let Meteor destroy Midgar. Why? Because the planet judged that not all of humanity was worth saving. After the decay of the planet thus far, if some damage wasn't done it would've resulted in the destruction of the Earth by mankind's own hand. Thus, Holy allowed Midgar to be destroyed.

Skip ahead 400 years:

The planet survives and it's assumed mankind does as well, only mankind learned the hard way to "Go Green" a la big fucking rock hitting your city.

That's what made the ending unique. It was a sort of bittersweet ending, rather than just Sunshines and Rainbows. If nothing else, I can respect it for that.

I could easily find something to knit pick about 6's ending, but I'd rather not.

 

[Owen Robertson]

Fucking Fallout 3. A shit-smeared "Go find your daddy" storyline, an absolutely worthless moral choice at the end that the game literally berates you for making one way, and the most absurd and fucking retarded line of dialog EVER from the super mutant; and that fucking Ghoul REGENERATES under radiation. But we wrote a shitty ending and you're damn well going to have to play it no matter how many logical inconsistence there are. Oh, and if you want a better ending, you're going to have to BUY IT.

One of many reasons Fallout 3 sucked balls next to New Vegas. Fuck Bethesda.

Also Liberty Prime; funny lines, but yay, a big overpowered robot to do all my work. This is what I like. /sarcasm

I have to agree. After pretty much raping Oblivion nightly, I was excited by a new locale, weapons, and entirely different world. I enjoyed about 25 hours of gameplay (by procrastinating the main storyline), then I was less than amused. I didn't even have Fawkes or Charon with me (I had Jericho but that's besides the point) to try to con my way into extra gameplay.

I still loved the rest of the game, so I bought the DLC because I have money for that shit and I'm not stubborn enough to try and believe I can avoid getting fucked by a corporation. Anyone who thinks they "win" by not buying DLC is fucking delusional and bitter.

 

[Krion_Vark]

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.

High School of the Dead is still going on. The Anime might not be renewed for a second season however. And Mahou Sensei Negima the manga JUST ended but yeah I have to say that the ending for it pretty much sucks.

 

[octafish]

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

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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."

To be fair to Twin Peaks and David lynch he never wanted to reveal Laura's killer but the TV executives made him, everything after that was weaker for it.

For me it was the ending of Life. Granted it was rushed and tied up hurriedly, and it did have it moments, such as Crews showing that Zen Philosophy wasn't what got him through prison, but there were so many gaping plot holes and an out of character romance shoe-horned in, it was a terrible let down to a fantastic series.

 

[Infernai]

Game: Final Fantasy X

Are you kidding me? That was the best ending ever:

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THAT FUCKTARD TIDUS FINALLY SHUT UP FOR GOOD AND I'D NEVER HAVE HAD TO SEE HIS UGLY MUG AGAIN!...Shame x-2 ruined THAT little bit though...

OT: I'd have to say...the ending to the last Wayfarers redemption book, Crusader.

Spoiler: Short version

After defeating the big bad, the main protagonist decides that seeing as that bad stuff happened:

Main Character: "Yeah, to make sure nothing like that happens again...I'M GONNA HAVE EVERYONE KILLED AND SENT TO HEAVEN! Bye!"

Everybody in the world: "Wait Wha-" *everyone dies*

Literally..that's the end, everyone dies for a really really REALLY stupid reason. Plus it pretty much turned into full blown "CHRISTIANITY SOLVES EVERYTHING!" by the end of it.

Honestly, if you DO have to read the Wayfarer books, just read the first three. It'll save you ALOT of pain later on..and to be honest the first three books are pretty neat (if containing a fair amount of squick and being slightly cliche at times).

 

[columbianbacon]

If you liked the book its legitimate to dislike the Lord of the rings movie ending i mean specifically how the ring was destroyed. I fully understand why they changed it and agree the modern audience just wouldn't of accepted the book ending but it does leave a very sour taste as it is sort of diametrically opposed to the moral in the book .

I really don't get what you mean by that. In the book, Gollum fell into the Crack of Doom purely by chance. In the movie, the greed that the ring bestoys upon its weilder drives Frodo and Gollum to fight over its possession. Frodo wasn't trying to stop Gollum from messing up the mission. He wanted his ring back. The ring, by its own nature, brings about its destruction.

Although I can see what you mean, any changes from such an old and great work will always taste bitter in the mouths of those who love it. I feel like you should be more gentle with your dispair in this case. HOenstly, I'd be more pissed over the fact that the final charge of the Army led by Aragorn was originally about faith in the book, since they (and the reader) had no idea if Frodo was alive still, but in the movie the editing ruins that.

OT: Mafia (the first one) had a crappy ending in my mind. Yeah, yeah, crime, pay, doesn't etc. I get that. But it just felt lousy.

 

[CyanideSandwich]

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.

Yeah, I second this. What the hell were we trying to find? A weird-ass tentacle monster and NOTHING else? I guess it's the journey, not the destination.

OT: Star Wars: Episode One. Jar Jar Binks wasn't slaughtered...

 

[Akytalusia]

Spoiler: star ocean 3.

the creator of the universe wants to destroy the milky way. the heros think that sucks and try to stop him. not only do they fail to stop him, but only serve to piss him off enough so that he ends up destroying the entire universe instead. the heros lose. if it stopped there, that would be fine, but... immedately after this, they end it with everything being fine. the universe is destroyed, then they wake up and everything is fine. and noone knows how it happened. the end.

one of my favorite games. complete bullshit ending.

 

[AusGamer44]

'The Hairdresser's Husband.'

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Lonesome guy achieves his dream of marrying a hairdresser.She's really beautiful and they're both REALLY happy and in love.

And then she kills herself because she's so happy and doesn't ever want it to end.

ARRRRRRRGH!!!!!!

I was like "WTF?Are You KIDDING me?


WORST ending ever.REALLY frustrating.

 

[arnoldthebird]

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

I was on the verge of tears...such a beautiful game, but to pull that shit off. I thought it was a dick move on R* behalf. And his son was shit, but at least you got revenge

 

[zumbledum]

I really don't get what you mean by that. In the book, Gollum fell into the Crack of Doom purely by chance. In the movie, the greed that the ring bestoys upon its weilder drives Frodo and Gollum to fight over its possession. Frodo wasn't trying to stop Gollum from messing up the mission. He wanted his ring back. The ring, by its own nature, brings about its destruction.

Although I can see what you mean, any changes from such an old and great work will always taste bitter in the mouths of those who love it. I feel like you should be more gentle with your dispair in this case. HOenstly, I'd be more pissed over the fact that the final charge of the Army led by Aragorn was originally about faith in the book, since they (and the reader) had no idea if Frodo was alive still, but in the movie the editing ruins that.

Well like you say its about faith , hope without promise all of the characters are having to just trust in each other and hope without any guarantee, intact most have evidence circumstantial as it is that they are wasting their time but they have the courage to do it anyway. that is what makes them the heroes of the books.
the charge of Aragorn still plays out from his pov to be about faith in the movies , we know the truth but his character cant. it robs it of drama and makes the hole mouth of Sauron completely irrelevant where as in the book that chapter is about the most tense.
But you couldnt shoot the film in the order the book was written it just wouldn't work leaping around in time and effectively becoming 3 totally unrelated stories as the book does. Infact i doubt you would be allowed to write a book like that either today

The issue for me is that by the ring being destroyed it plays out like a win for the good guys like it all culminates in a rocky fight moment, and it just shifts the focus away from the point of you should do what is right even if you loose.

dont get me wrong i dont blame them for doing the film they did it made sense the decisions they made were good. but it doesn't change the base issue of the ending is quite dramatically different and its a reasonable complaint

 

[Vault101]

the second last book in the clan of the cave bear series

it has alot of potential conflict built up...and then it just ends, no climiax, nothing jsut an ending

the last one id finally out but its like of like a half-life 3 scenario...I dont care as much

 

[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

I was on the verge of tears...such a beautiful game, but to pull that shit off. I thought it was a dick move on R* behalf. And his son was shit, but at least you got revenge

the funny thing is I alrwady knew about the ending (more or less) I had it spoilt for me before I played the game

and it still hit me like a ton of bricks

 

[arnoldthebird]

I got it Day One, and if anyone was talking about the ending I just walked away or closed the page. I'm glad I never found out, I reckon it would of lost a majority of it's effect.

I just sat with my mouth open, in absolute shock at what happened. An ending I will NEVER forget

 

[beniki]

Assassin's Creed 2.

Assassin's Creed 1 had this nice story, with some compelling imagery thrown in for conspiracy nuts and nerds with nothing better to talk about to over analyze.

Assassin's Creed 2 builds up the plot, and the mystery, until-

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you get to the end boss, and it turns out it's all about aliens and the encroaching threat of a solar flare.

Wha...?

Well, okay, but I can hardly stab the sun in the back. That's not a problem I can solve using the games mechanics, and I'm pretty sure the resolution will involve watching a cut scene of a guy flipping the switch on a rocket/super laser/mystical hextech orb.

Seems like an odd choice for a game that was built up on religious controversy in the first game, and with all the religious iconography throughout the game. Haven't played any of the games past two... the end kind of lost my interest when the aliens turned up.

If any one would like to educate me about the other games please do so... I'm not above being suckered in by interesting plot twists!

 

[B-Lavaunit]

Dunno if this counts, but the Anime series Berserk...all this buildup and shit about possesion then it just stops...the "bad"guys are even in the show intro...and one of them shows up in like the first 5 minutes of the 1st episode, then the rest is in flashback....then nothing

never been so disappointed by a TV show

 

[Vault101]

Fucking Fallout 3. A shit-smeared "Go find your daddy" storyline, an absolutely worthless moral choice at the end that the game literally berates you for making one way, and the most absurd and fucking retarded line of dialog EVER from the super mutant; and that fucking Ghoul REGENERATES under radiation. But we wrote a shitty ending and you're damn well going to have to play it no matter how many logical inconsistence there are. Oh, and if you want a better ending, you're going to have to BUY IT.

One of many reasons Fallout 3 sucked balls next to New Vegas. Fuck Bethesda.

Also Liberty Prime; funny lines, but yay, a big overpowered robot to do all my work. This is what I like. /sarcasm

I have to agree. After pretty much raping Oblivion nightly, I was excited by a new locale, weapons, and entirely different world. I enjoyed about 25 hours of gameplay (by procrastinating the main storyline), then I was less than amused. I didn't even have Fawkes or Charon with me (I had Jericho but that's besides the point) to try to con my way into extra gameplay.

I still loved the rest of the game, so I bought the DLC because I have money for that shit and I'm not stubborn enough to try and believe I can avoid getting fucked by a corporation. Anyone who thinks they "win" by not buying DLC is fucking delusional and bitter.

its probably best in GOTY form..hell even JUST having "broken steel" , otherwise I would almost say "dont bother" even though I love fallout 3

that said I dotn care about not being able to play after the end (the main story is often my main motivation anway) its more an ending that made sense, and didnt rip your bloody heart out needlessly (I was actually very emotionally invested in the whole thing)

 

[Vault101]

Assassin's Creed 2.

Assassin's Creed 1 had this nice story, with some compelling imagery thrown in for conspiracy nuts and nerds with nothing better to talk about to over analyze.

Assassin's Creed 2 builds up the plot, and the mystery, until-

Spoiler

you get to the end boss, and it turns out it's all about aliens and the encroaching threat of a solar flare.

Wha...?

Well, okay, but I can hardly stab the sun in the back. That's not a problem I can solve using the games mechanics, and I'm pretty sure the resolution will involve watching a cut scene of a guy flipping the switch on a rocket/super laser/mystical hextech orb.

Seems like an odd choice for a game that was built up on religious controversy in the first game, and with all the religious iconography throughout the game. Haven't played any of the games past two... the end kind of lost my interest when the aliens turned up.

If any one would like to educate me about the other games please do so... I'm not above being suckered in by interesting plot twists!

well (this is probably wrong so corrections are welcome)

[spoiler/] in Brotherhood you fuck around some more, Ezio puts the apple in a special place for Desmond to find, which at the end they do..I THINK the god lady you talk too in AC2 is named Juno..for some reason (I didnt get it) she forces desmond to stab and kill Lucy and he goes into a coma so they put him the animus as a kind of life suport

hmm assasins creed revelations after more fucking around Ezio ind altiairs secret libary where i think he put another apple of eden (at the end of his life) where Ezio actualy makes a direct connection to Desmond..and then there are Juno's other god buddies an old guy and another lady...they talk about...stuff

then we get to see the previous civilisation apocolypse in a flashback.....it shows civilisation (I think the ne guided by the god aliens) to be sort white and shiny with an "anciet" look to it..then it gets all blown up which bears a very close resembelance to pompei

aparently we are told somthing important but I dont know what...it was a huge mindfuck and I didnt quite get it all [/spoiler]

 

[Kapol]

I fail to see where only a happy ending can be a good ending. It doesn't need to be sunshine and daisies to be satisfactory. It was a gritty ending grounded in reality. It was never trying to make you feel good. Try telling a fan of Oldboy that the ending sucked, see what kind of look you'll get.

Not to mention it was pretty much the same ending as a the book.

I didn't say happy. I said satisfactory. You can have a sad ending that still satisfies the audience. You can have a happy ending that leaves the audience feeling unsatisfied.

I never saw Oldboy. I'm talking about this movie, not once did I mention Oldboy.

Now, following the book, that's fine, whatever. Maybe the book presented it better. I don't know. But I'm not talking about that either, so that also doesn't matter.

Than I'm confused as to why it seems unappealing to you. I guess if you were bummed out about it's presentation, that's understandable, but the way it did present the ending was why it was so haunting to me. The cinematography, the closing dialogue, the way they left the wife's death a cliffhanger. It was all so straightforward with no restrictions. It was vicious. It was evil. It was unsettling. Hell, it even explained the title in the closing monologue.

By the way you're leading it on, I can only see a "satisfying" ending to you as being the good guys win. It would have been acceptable, but without the main character dying, there wouldn't have been that message and overall theme of the darkness of man to close it out. In a way, the story would have meant nothing without it. Just another action movie.

And I'm aware you never mentioned Oldboy. I was merely using that as an example, as they are sort of related here.

I didn't like the ending either. It seemed very sudden and really out of place compared to the rest of the movie. A lot of the movie seemed obsessed with showing you every little detail. But then:

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the main character that we've been following for the entire movie is dead without showing how. If I remember, they said it was gangster or drug dealers or something like that. But we don't know if that's true because the movie just says 'hey, this character is dead' and leaves it at that.

The wife scene was good, and I'm glad they left it pretty up to interpretation (though I think it leaned towards him having done it). But the sudden car crash scene seemed a bit... pointless. Maybe it was trying to imply karma or some other force going against the killer, but if that was the case, he should have actually been injured instead of being able to simply walk away. It really seemed like something that the movie would have been better with out.

As for the last scene... it was a pretty good scene, but again was one that seemed sudden and, while an interesting look at the character, it was a character that didn't play all that big of a role if you ask me. Not to mention that his story, while personal, really didn't seem to have much to do with the rest of the movie. Yea, it explains the title. But the title didn't seem to have anything to do much with the movie either.

I notice someone said the book tied the philisohpical stuff in with the story better then the movie did. And since that movie sounds like it tried to stay close to the book in story, that may be why. But it just seemed pretty disappointing.

Of course it has been a while since I've seen it. Perhaps I'm forgetting something. In any case, I don't mind dark endings. They're nice to see among the happily ever after, and the main character was a bit of a dick who asked for what happened to him. But the ending just wasn't that good and kind of spoiled the points I liked about the movie.

 

[Lancer873]

Games? Modern warfare 2.

Spoiler

Oh look at that, the guy we've been hunting the entire game got away, but our ally who betrayed us because he wants to be known as the guy who took down the bad guy by himself. Oh, and so, even though he murdered special operation allied forces, and spent million on a PMC to kill them, is somehow still honored as a war hero. Just another reason call of duty is utter shit; in my opinion.

I actually felt that MW2 left me wanting a bit more. It was just badass.

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You weren't trying to become heroes, you weren't trying to right everything that was wrong, you were punishing him, getting revenge. You weren't just going to die off while the man that killed your friends for fame kept on living. If you were gonna die, you were going out doing what was right: killing off the evil bastard. And how do you finish him off? By pulling a knife out of your own chest and throwing it at him while he's beating up your superior officer. That was just badass. The fact that he's still honored as a war hero was a point towards CoD's storyline in my opinion, and it would've been awesome if they had kept up the rather interesting and surprisingly deep story for the next one by keeping up the complex yet coherent moral twistedness.

Sadly, from what I've heard, MW3 takes a shit on all the things that made MW2 even remotely interesting by making the Russians just totally evil and the Americans shining shimmering heroes without a moral fault in their souls. Seriously, fuck that. I was already sick and tired of the gameplay and I might've given the last one a final chance for the subgenre but if they're going to take away the one thing that had me excited for it then I'm not even considering it.