Worst. Ending. Ever.

[putowtin]

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

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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.

Agreed, good build up, then the old "Hum can't think of an ending, just stick in the standard
"hero saves the world thanks to macguffin!"

Film has to be I am Legend (my fault for reading the book!) and now their gonna make a sequel!

 

[Jailbird408]

Everyone's said the obvious choices, so allow me to throw a curveball: Mario Party DS.
No, seriously. The cutscene begins by fading into Bowser and son tied up with ROPE. A material that can be easily destroyed by fire and sharp things, two resources that the Koopa King carries around with him all the time.
But that doesn't matter. We have all five Star Crystals, and so it's time to see what they make when they combined: a minigame.
Specifically, a Bejeweled clone with triangles instead of gems and half the content. Bowser goes on to explain that he wanted to collect all the Star Crystals because according to Koopa lore, which they have for some reason, "When the Star Crystals fall from the sky, a really fun challenge will be revealed." A really fun challenge? Your species fortells of really fun challenges? Why couldn't it be "the bravest of Koopas will find their wits tested" or "happiness will be bestowed upon he who gathers them?" But no, we're going with the first thing the translator could think of, apparently.
Wait, what? No, I don't want to share the minigame with him, he shrunk me to the size of a coin and left me and all my friends for dead, you idiot!
Oh, and apparently Bowser is an idiot too, because he doesn't take the opportunity to kill them and claim the minigame as his own, because now he really likes the Mario gang, blatantly disobeying a fundamental Mushroom Kingdom law.
But the credits music is really good, so that's alright, then.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Mahoromatic

Not that this show is particularly good, but if it wasn't for that ending the show would've at least been honest with itself.

I mean, was an overly dramatic ending like that really necessary in a goofy fanservice anime?

[sub]Still no mention of Neon Genesis Evangelion, huh?[/sub]

 

[zidine100]

persona 3 (note i had the psp version without fes)

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after a totaly mediocre grindfest of a game, (can you really tell me tartarus was something other than that?) you get a kick in the balls ending where you character just randomly dies from exhaustion (okay that's the only reason i could think of at the time). (at least that's what i thought until i heard of fes) So yes they either released a unfinished game without a real ending and decided to charge extra for it later on or that was the intended ending. Sorry i just annoys me, i expected at least a ending, not just some stupid you mad? moment.

 

[Jailbird408]

Skyrim ending.........

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

The Skyrim ending was not shit, it was just a disappointment that seemed to end when things were getting good.

 

[NeferX]

I hated the ending to Rage... It spent about 15 hours setting up what could have been quite an intriguing final chapter. Especially if they had brought into it some Authority boss character for us to de-throne... but no... just sent us into a high tech complex. Not even a boss fight, just a sort of short horde mode before ending extremely abruptly with no narrative.

VERY disappointing. More-so based on the fact that I actually quite enjoyed the game.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

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!

I was so dissappointed by that as well. It ruined the franchise story for me. I still played it because I enjoy the gameplay, but the story has never been the same.

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That kind of twist is just so ridiculous, and makes it so almost everything can be easily explained with some kind of deus ex machina.

 

[Madman123456]

Earth 2160. Warning, SPOILERS AHEAD!

You fight against an Alien threat that popped up out of nowhere and discover later that a crazy Scientist is to blame, who awakened these Aliens from a cryogenic Slumber or something. You fight and defeat him and the evil Aliens on their Homeplanet. Ending Sequence: You see a Portalthingy in Orbit above a Planet, it starts to activate and...
Credits roll.

I liked the mass Effect Games so far; Well the third one is bundled with Spyware, but whatever. You know there's an overarching thread to be dealt with eventually, but in game one and two, you deal with a more immediate Threat. I like how they handled this, even in the second Game where you see a Vision or something of a giant Reaper-fleet or something beginning to activate.
You dealt with the Major threat and you're the Hero of the Day because you don't know when the Reapers are coming. So nothing has really changed about the overarching threat: The Reapers are coming to fuck with you and you'd rather they didn't.

In Earth 2160, there is no overarching Threat. You just know that there is something coming out of that Portal in the Moment after the Game stops. Is it a Threat? I dunno. Is there another Earth Game coming out? No.




Borderlands is another Game with a shitty Ending. You fight against the evil Corporation to get to the big Treasure the Angelthingy in your Head talked about.

You defeat the Boss and nothing happens. You get some treasure, but i gathered better Stuff during my Journey. After i beat the Game the first time, i thought it was glitched or something. But no, the angelthingy just wanted me to kill the wimpy end Boss because it's evil and wants to kill everything or something.
Not much of a crowning Achievement. Even from a Story Perspective, you might have just ran around the World, killing random bad Guys until you gathered enough money to retire. You don't have a "chosen one" Ability that enables you and only you to kill the bad Guy. The evil Corporation i fought before was a larger Threat to me then the "Destroyer of Worlds".

I don't get much recognition for saving the World. A few random Weapons, that's it.

Even "Oblivion" was better in that regard. It gave me the Oblivion Gates, which basically lead to Hell. The bad Guy wants to make the World into a hellish Wasteland where everything lives in pure Agony.
For all i know, the Angel of Borderlands is the real bad Guy in disguise and just tricked me. I don't know what the Monster thingy would have done to the World if i hadn't killed it.
The Game is like: "Bad Guys over there, kill them!" and isn't doing a very good Job at that.

Borderlands has a very nice Atmosphere, which makes the lackluster Ending even more jarring.



Bleh.

 

[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.

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.

Yeah, I was talking about the ending to the anime of hotd.

As for msn, there are still a couple of chapters to go, isn't there? Unless the raws are out, I guess.
Well, it'll still be pretty much impossible for that ending to redeem itself.

 

[kyoodle]

The worst ending to a game is easily MGS 4. Whilst Fallout 3 and quite a few others have been worse story-wise at least they don't take 2 hours of desperately boring cutscenes to get it over with.

 

[Deadyawn]

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.

KOTOR 2 didn't HAVE an ending. It just finished.

OT: DA2 takes the cake for me. I actually sort of liked it up till the third act when it just got really shit. This is what happens when you rush stuff.

 

[Tzatziki3301]

Skyrim ending.........

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

The Skyrim ending was not shit, it was just a disappointment that seemed to end when things were getting good.

Err... which one exactly?

To explain, all of the major quest arcs (each guild, the dragons, the war) has its own ending, as you may come to notice if you have only done the war (or the dragons). The dragons one, depending where you left it, makes sense (Paarthurnax decision, stay with the blades or take your place amongst the Dovr as an equal) and the whole build up to the final fight with Alduin is pretty epic, the Thieves guild one is pretty awesome actually (Nightingales...), as is the Dark Brotherhood.

only one that is a bit weak is the War itself... if you choose the wrong side for your preferences (and race). But then, it has to be like that or the world makes no sense. To the Empire, or the Stormcloaks, you are NOT the all-conquering hero, Tullius or Ulfric are, it's 'their' war, not yours.

 

[Pebblig]

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

Surely that's what made the ending great?

Well I suppose not great, but I felt genuinley attached to John Marston by the end, and I think as part of the narrative it worked well.

I even replayed that ending to see if t wouln't happen ):

 

[Shadey[64]]

Definitely RAGE.

About Borderlands.. I actually really enjoyed the ending for that story wise.

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You go the whole game hearing but whispers of the Vault, of it holding great power (supposedly alien tech). You're warned early on that these are just rumors, but that part seems to slip the mind.. It's a game about treasure hunters, I think most players were picturing the same thing as me, an endless hall of weapons and tech to pick from. Then you're there, you're on victory road headed for that final conflict, and bam! Just as soon as you see it, it's gone, locked away from you forever. You're left standing clueless in front of the ruins of your supposed prize.
To me and my friends, this was the best possible ending. Sure it would've been nice to pick through an armory of alien weaponry.. But whats the point if that's the end of the game?
It was depressing, confusing and left you wanting more.(You yourself feeling these emotions, not your character.) what more could one ask for?

 

[ChupathingyX]

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."

There's a difference between not wanting to make an ending, and not being able to make an ending.

 

[OniaPL]

persona 3 (note i had the psp version without fes)

Spoiler

after a totaly mediocre grindfest of a game, (can you really tell me tartarus was something other than that?) you get a kick in the balls ending where you character just randomly dies from exhaustion (okay that's the only reason i could think of at the time). (at least that's what i thought until i heard of fes) So yes they either released a unfinished game without a real ending and decided to charge extra for it later on or that was the intended ending. Sorry i just annoys me, i expected at least a ending, not just some stupid you mad? moment.

That's funny, I've always strongly disagreed with the majority that hates the ending. I had the FES version, and I decided to not play "The Answer" because I felt the ending was so incredibly satisfying.
I never understood what people complained about.

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I thought it was obvious that you died because you sacrificed yourself in order to stop Nyx. After defeating Nyx's avatar and facing Nyx itself, you get hit hard, but you "withstand the attack", because of the power you gained. It allows you to survive. And in the end, you use "The Great Seal" which ends the fight. It's tooltip says "Unleash the power within you to seal Nyx". But it's cost is all your health, every single one. You give your life to save everyone.

I thought it was a great ending, and I also thought it was incredibly obvious what happened.

 

[Truniron]

While Valkyrie Profile Lenneth is easily one of my favorite games, it sadly has a horrible ending. Here´s the thing: you have a war between two goodly races witch will end with either peace or Ragnarok. At the same time, some of the good gods rise arms against each other and the human world is slowly going to hell because of wars, plagues and tyranny. All of this is totally thrown away only to make the protagonist and her dead boyfriend get united...and then the game ends. Disappointing deluxe

 

[Misho-]

Eye of the Beholder:

Handshake. End. Title Screen.

 

[BlackHazard]

Just from looking at my shelf... Uhhhh - RAGE.

RAGE had no 3rd act.. It was just.. uhhhhhh

Yeah it pissed me off and I paid full price for that game.

 

[Ninjafire72]

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.

Oh god, THAT game... I'm actually on the fence with that one, seeing as how

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Mason(you) was the only one that had managed to emotionally connect with Karina (the girl), and his death made her so upset that all her mystical powers finally burst out of her. It makes sense that she would be upset over his death, and her cry of despair made me feel pretty sorry for her.

But then again, I still don't like how the ending was just so... boring. You crash, you die, girl is sad. The end. It was just so anti-climactic.

Now that I think about it, I don't really see the cliffhanger in the ending. I mean the ending is pretty self-explanatory as to what happens to the main character.