Worst. Ending. Ever.

[lacktheknack]

Myst.

"Thank you... feel free to explore."

WHAT? I JUST FINISHED EXPLORING EVERYTHING ALREADY, DAMMIT!

At least if you had Riven, you could immediately pop that in and pretend that it was the same game, thus actually getting a freaking ending.

 

[Scorekeeper]

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

That's why I enjoyed it. Granted, the actual ending came a bit later, not that it made things any better. I just liked it that the ending to a video game made me feel something other than apathy. Any kind of emotional response is better than none at all.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

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.

Yes, someone does not agree with your view on a movie ending. They must be close-minded or possibly stupid. Maybe they were too busy with something else to pay attention . They're probably unhappy when any film ends in any way that isn't the standard gingerbread and butterflies ending that is spoonfed to us by the film industry for all these years.

It amazes me how people can still find a way to get offended by me simply divulging into an off topic movie debate.

Though seeing how you have fifty plus posts and you already 4 warnings, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by your attitude.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

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.

From what you've heard eh?

Spoiler

I actually thought MW3 made the Russians sympathetic for once. Sure MW2 had a load of citizens gunned down, but by Russians. And then they instantly went to war with the US. MW3 has President Vorshevsky, who thinks that the war should end on humanitarian grounds. It was nice to see a sympathetic Russian head of state. At the same time, the US were not big heroes, especially since this time round the group are very clearly implied to have tortured someone you've captured to get information (so it's not just some rogue general), just as the group with people like Price and Soap are just as ruthless.

 

[pixiejedi]

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.

I actually liked the end. The protagonist was not a very nice person and really learned nothing from what he did until the last pages. He kept blaming everyone else for his mistake and eventually earned his end.

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.

Agreed! I've read twilight several times. It was a big guilty pleasure for me that I had to get away from because it just made me feel bad because it gave me an inferiority complex for reading it and a superiority complex for judging Meyers for being so dumb and superficial. After New Moon it all goes downhill on any level, but seriously? What does Breaking Dawn give me to work with? Crap! That's what!


To add something here, I'd say Enslaved. It was fun and I was caring about the characters and then the ending is just for no real reason I could determine. Were they trying to make a big philosophical statement with that? It reminded me very much of 2001: A Space Oddessy in that it acted as if there was a big truth in there to hide that they just didn't want to come up with an actual message.

Other than that most Anime I've ever seen qualifies, I like shojo anime and they always seem a little ambiguous as if they are leaving a door open for another series that never comes.

 

[Composer]

Alan Wake's ending pissed me off because i knew it would just lead into dlc.
dead space 2 agrivated me, he should have been dead! it would have been such a heroic death!
No more heros 2's ending was meh
kh358/2's ending was to lolzy, the last line he says to Xion made me drop my ds laughing, it was sweet but didnt fit at all
Mogworld was alright but i felt Yahtzee could have done so much better.

 

[requisitename]

In my defense, I read them in a psychiatric hospital, while heavily sedated and otherwise medicated.

So, you thought it'd be a good idea to read twilight...while in a mental hospital? Because you obviously didn't have enough issues at the time.

Hah. They were the only actual books I could get my hands on there. There were tons of boring assed magazines, but no other books. One does what one must to distract oneself. *lol*

 

[Vuljatar]

The worst ending of anything ever that I've seen in my entire life is the ending of Battlestar Galactica.

It made me angry. Furious, even. If Ron Moore had been there in my living room, I would have given him a solid punch in the gut. I'm speaking literally. This wasn't me saying "man that makes me want to punch Ron Moore", I was actually, truly angry enough to punch someone I had never met if I thought they had anything to do with that atrocity.

 

[columbianbacon]

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

You seem to have a very reasonable take on it all, things like that always makes me harder to disagree with people. I still prefer the movie ring ending. While I get the rather silly final fight kinda thing, it just seems contrived that the big bad is destroyed by some dude slipping at the wrong time during a beside-volcano dance. Kinda like how the 'common cold defeats the aliens' thing from War of the World pissess me off for some reason, when I know for a fact that it was a legendary author's ground breaking twist ending.

EDIT: Drinking helps the thought process not. I meant to throw in a few lines about how I agree with basically all you are saying in the above. Makes what was written there the less confrontational writing I was hoping for.

 

[PimpHandofGod]

The ending to Inheritance kinda ticked me off.

In my defense, I read them in a psychiatric hospital, while heavily sedated and otherwise medicated.

So, you thought it'd be a good idea to read twilight...while in a mental hospital? Because you obviously didn't have enough issues at the time.

In all seriousness? for movies it's gotta be the french film "High Tension" had a pretty bad ending.

Spoiler

we find out the is the murderer, and that she's actually just crazy

Seriously, what the hell?

Books? I hear twilight isn't any better in novel form

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.

Spoiler

He didn't betray you because he wanted the glory, he was the bad guy the whole time. He felt betrayed by his country and wanted payback.

 

[J Tyran]

RAGE, not counting all the technical problems I had with the game. After several patches over some months the game finally worked, I got stuck into it and the game was pretty good. But then the ending snuck up out of nowhere and the final mission was really lame.

I was expecting the plot to lead on a bit more and would have thought the last mission would be awesome. It wasn't, No ending boss and only a single new enemy that wasn't challenging and all you had to do was press a few switches.

 

[minimacker]

I must be the only person in the universe that actually enjoyed the Matrix sequels.

 

[Innocent Bystander]

yeah....but that doesnt mean I can't curse it for making me depressed!

[i/] your hands upon..
a dead mans gun..and your..
....looking down the sights
your heart is worn, the seams a torn..and they've..
...given you a reason to fight [/i]

ahhh no! *sob* make it stop!....[/quote]

This. Just- just fucking THIS. That has to be the single most beautiful ending song I have ever heard in a game. It sums up the final act perfectly.
Also, as mentioned about the final mission where you play as Jack and get revenge, I have to say that it really fits the tone of the game. It has this feel to it that death is meaningless. Every time a major character dies, there's no romance or drama to it. Everyone dies the same in this game, gunned down for nothing, except for John. So when you kill the F.B.I. guy, it didn't feel like you got revenge on the man who murdered your father. You killed some old bastard out duck hunting. Granted, he was a bastard and I'm glad I killed him, but you really feel like it was a hollow victory.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Game: Saw II and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
Film: Metal Gear Solid 4.

 

[Ragnarok185]

Skyrim ending.........

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT SHIT!!!!!!!!

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

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.

/thread

There is no contest. Borderlands ending was a disgrace.

 

[CoL0sS]

Oh God, where do I start. Does anyone remember game called Pariah? Mother of all shitty cliffhangers. Not that it was particularly interesting to begin with.
As for the more recent ones I could remember it's LA Noire, Dragon Age II, Fallout 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Also despite my love for the series MGS has some of the prime examples of complicated, confusing, convoluted endings ever.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Well there the anime Big O. What the hell? It didn't make sense at all.
Also the other anime Soul Eater is the worst offender due to the fact the anime did its own thing to seperate itself from the manga.

 

[The Night Angel]

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

Can't agree more, it ruined my weekend when I completed that game

Also, don't know if it counts, as it was just shit overall, but the last book in the Twilight series???? Was she afraid of angering her fans by writing a realistic conclusion???? Absolutely crap ending.

 

[Andrewtheeviscerator]

Halo 2 for me, I was so pumped at the end and then...yeah