Worst Video Game Endings

[-Dragmire-]

Spoilers are not necessarily needed, just list the annoying convention.

For me the worst ones are:

1.It was all a dream/virtual reality and nothing you did mattered in any way(Star Ocean 3 - PS2)

2.main heroine/love interest turns into a tree, main character guards tree for all eternity. (Final Fantasy Adventure - game boy)

 

[unicornninja]

EVERY ASSASSINS CREED GAME EVAR (so far....)

EDIT: Oh, and Clive Barkers JERICHO.

 

[AlternatePFG]

KOTOR 2 or Neverwinter Nights 2.

KOTOR 2, there's sort of an excuse, Lucas Arts gave Obsidian hardly a year to get the game out (right after the first one) and alot of content had to be cut.

But NWN2's ending was just, awful. Terrible, makes everything you did in the game seem pointless. The expansion at least retconned some of it though.

 

[Defense]

Final Fantasy XIII.

I want the fucking developers to explain what the hell happened there.

 

[icame]

KOTOR 2 or Neverwinter Nights 2.

KOTOR 2, there's sort of an excuse, Lucas Arts gave Obsidian hardly a year to get the game out (right after the first one) and alot of content had to be cut.

But NWN2's ending was just, awful. Terrible, makes everything you did in the game seem pointless. The expansion at least retconned some of it though.

Obsidian has a bit of a habit of doing things poorly...

I'm going to go with Bioshock. It's one of my favorite games, but the ending was just disappointing.

 

[Wayneguard]

Condemned... 2... that is all.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Neverwinter Nights 2. Mask of the Betrayer had a far better ending, but "Rocks fall, everyone dies" is a joke for a reason. Also the "evil" ending comes straight the hell outta nowhere, and seems "tacked on"

 

[AlternatePFG]

KOTOR 2 or Neverwinter Nights 2.

KOTOR 2, there's sort of an excuse, Lucas Arts gave Obsidian hardly a year to get the game out (right after the first one) and alot of content had to be cut.

But NWN2's ending was just, awful. Terrible, makes everything you did in the game seem pointless. The expansion at least retconned some of it though.

Obsidian has a bit of a habit of doing things poorly...

I can't really say that though. Since Mask of the Betrayer and New Vegas have some of the best endings/epilogues in recent memory. As far as endings go for them though, it's hit and miss.

 

[KalosCast]

KOTOR 2 or Neverwinter Nights 2.

KOTOR 2, there's sort of an excuse, Lucas Arts gave Obsidian hardly a year to get the game out (right after the first one) and alot of content had to be cut.

But NWN2's ending was just, awful. Terrible, makes everything you did in the game seem pointless. The expansion at least retconned some of it though.

Pretty much this. Though NWN2's ending did at least keep with the theme of the rest of the story: that heroes never really achieve their final victory, and are instead eventually brought low by something they can't defeat, or fall from grace. It's just a shame that your foe was the fucking ceiling.

 

[ZeZZZZevy]

Fallout 3 before they fixed it. (the fact that they had to fix it is proof of its quality)

 

[LaMer]

Borderlands. Seriously, what were they thinking? I was loving the game until the final confrontation.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Hero/protagonist dies at the end, needlessly, or for some lame excuse. Fallout 3 prime example. If there is some message behind it, like crime doesn't pay, or the "ultimate sacrifice" pulled off correctly, (like you knew it would come to it for a while, perhaps) then it can be done ok. Otherwise, no. Or some other funny twist, like Vampire: Bloodlines, all those endings were awesome, even though some bittersweet.

Oh, and finding out the whole exercise was a freaking joke, or for nothing, is a bit of a letdown. Yes, Borderlands, dunno if I'm in b4 anyone on that one, but it's pretty obvious, anyone who has completed it will most likely list it as one of the worst endings ever.

Edit: Hehe ninja'd just as I clicked Post button =P

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Any story that ends with "That tale is yet to be told"

Yeh, right. Like I am going to get to START a RPG with the power to kill Gods.

I'm looking at YOU Kelemvor!

 

[Novania]

Borderlands. Seriously, what were they thinking? I was loving the game until the final confrontation.

Ninja'd
I really liked the game but the ending pretty much killed the game for me.

 

[Krion_Vark]

Any ending of a not that popular game that sets up for a sequel since its just setting fans up for HUGE disappointment. I am looking DIRECTLY at you Metal Arms: Glitch in the System.

 

[KalosCast]

Any story that ends with "That tale is yet to be told"

Yeh, right. Like I am going to get to START a RPG with the power to kill Gods.

Of course you can, you just then trip over a rock and all your gear and experience points falls in the sewer.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Any story that ends with "That tale is yet to be told"

Yeh, right. Like I am going to get to START a RPG with the power to kill Gods.

Of course you can, you just then trip over a rock and all your gear and experience points falls in the sewer.

In some settings, yes that works. In others, like Forgotten Realms... eh, not so much.