Deus Ex: Human Revolution's ending, mostly because I inevitably had to compare it to the original DX. If there's one thing I hate most in endings/victories it's a lack of any sense of consequence. In HR you just get these Jensen monologues that vaguely describe some things that happened to some corporations, but there's no meaningful sense that anything you did had any effects. Even if it's only a few cut-away shots in the credits of some-post action characters, some kind of epilogue or send off is nice to have. All DX did was slap some awesome music on, give you a minute of action as relevant bits of the facility exploded and hint at some strange dystopian futures caused by your own hand, and that's FANTASTIC.
Has anyone else on this Earth played Section 8? The campaign in that game is probably under 5 hours of work. That one felt... er, hollow. However I picked the game up for toss all and it's very colourful, the multiplayer's quite fun too.
Has anyone else on this Earth played Section 8? The campaign in that game is probably under 5 hours of work. That one felt... er, hollow. However I picked the game up for toss all and it's very colourful, the multiplayer's quite fun too.
I played part of the Section 8: Prejudice campaign just tonight. I gave up around the same time I realised the "mission" I was doing was literally just me replaying the Swarm game I'd done with my friends 10 minutes before, except without my friends. Same map and everything. My friend went through the whole thing to get the shiny armour and doesn't seem to think it was worth it...
Honestly I'm still disappointed the multiplayer has kind of died. I wouldn't mind trying a 32-player Assault game but I don't think there are even 32 people left playing the game.
After Barrett and Fedorava, this just felt too easy. I remember Fedorava handing me my arse on a silver platter, but by the time I fought Jaxon, of course I'd gotten the Typhoon, so it was just a question of finding him and using it.
The final boss of Deus Ex: HR when you have full hacking capabilities is so easy that it's not fun. At all. Walk up, hack, walk back, wait a few seconds, done.
All of that game's boss fights are sub-par, but that isn't challenging at all. It gave an otherwise excellent game a bit of a sour climax.
Edit: Not exactly ninja'd, but the above post is kind of perfect
skyrim. i hate the main story line's ending ... now that im thinking i hate all of the story line's ending the original game! its just ... nothing! no fucking animation no fucking winning thingy nothing at all.
the dragon age: origins. my character was a mage. in the last level i had been killed, violated, raped by darkspawns,killed and killed again, and flewn with 1% of my health left at least a 100 times in each and every part and level of the game, so i expected the last boss to be some kind of really strong dragon, killing my whole party many times. but no. i lost all of my party except the main character early in battle but then i just hitted the dragon while it attacked the soldiers coming. it didn't even attack me!!!
I'm going to have to go with Resistance 2 I think. And I figure it has been long enough since this game was released that you will have played it if you wanted to, so spoilers, HO!
Hale dies! After all the crap he goes through in the game he finally succumbs to the Chimera virus or whatever it is (mostly due to his own insistance on not going to base for medicine) and is shot in the head by his teammate. Overall, Resistance 2 did not seem as good as the first one, but the ending just sucked. I have never cared for endings where you are rewarded for all your hard work by watching the character you have controlled the whole game die.
So I'd also probably have to put Red Dead Redemption in here. And even some of the endings to Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. And Shadow of the Colossus deserves an honorable mention.
So. Much. This. I'm sure I'm not the only person who played this and thought 'right, thats all the mooks out of the way, now here comes the bo... end credits? Wait, what the fuck!?
Ditto Darksiders 2. Considering how many three stage events there are through the game (everything, ALWAYS, three fucking times) I was expecting to have to kill the final boss three times, have him go through like, three evolutions or something. But no. Possibly the easiest boss fight in the game, where without even trying I kill him first time, and I actually said, out loud (to myself) 'Is that it!?'
Mafia II. I was thinking "Oh sweet. Time for one last showdown with the cops and possible leo himself", but then the camera pans up and the credits start and I'm like "What the fuck!?"
There is no middle finger big enough. I drove to at least 9 different gas stations to sell stamps, I cleaned virtual prison toilets, I chaperoned drunk people around at least twice, I color matched cigarette boxes, and this is what I get? Fuck you mafia II, I'm going to go play something that knows it's a game and not a melodrama with random chores thrown in.
The final boss of Xenosaga episode 1. By that time I had done most of the sidequests, and had obtained the super robot summon Erde Kaiser. Erde Kaiser deals 9999 hit no matter what (I believe). The final boss starts off with ???? HP, until eventually numbers start showing up. So I hit the boss till I saw he had like 9000 HP left and used Erde Kaiser. Beat him quite easily.
Always felt kind of awkward about that fight. If I were to ever go back and do that series for whatever reason, I would try to fight the final boss without it, just to make up for what I did.
Final Fantasy VII. After a seriously strange fight with Bizarro Sephiroth, i reached the final boss, used Knights of the Round, the copy attack ability (i forget what its called) and i think Clouds final Limit Break and the boss died! I was disgusted, only later i realised i was supposed to face him without leaving the crater and grabbing all the disk 3 content, without that it might have been a tough fight but seriously, a final boss should never, ever die that easy.
A similar experience. Majora's Mask. The lead up was awesome and the entire game is just so grand I play it to this day. But the final boss fight. Yeeesh. Once you gain that Fierce Deity Mask before the final boss it's pretty much GG.
My first time through Final Fantasy X I made sure to grab everything. Every ultimate weapon, every ultimate limit break, every aeon... all of it. Played more than fifty games of Blitzball (the reason I will NEVER play that game again... ugh)
I went into the Omega cave expecting the game to tear me a new rectum. I was so keyed up I didn't notice how easily I was slipping past the trash in there. When I finally reached Omega I unleashed the move I'd been saving for him the whole time... Three Sister's Delta Attack. Expecting the attack to buy me enough time to burn him down with everyone else's best limit breaks.
The sisters did over 80,000 points of damage, Omega pooped himself and died.
I sullenly wandered off to the end of the game and beat it while barely trying.
Incredibly obvious answer: ME3, pre extended cut. I cured the genophage, united the Quarians and the Geth, beat the Reapers... and all I got was a blue beam of light.
More interesting answer: This one game of Journey, although the term "victory" doesn't quite fit since the game doesn't offer much in the way of adversity. Nonetheless, I spent the whole game guiding some random person through the desert, showing them all the secrets and the glyphs then somehow managed to become separated from them during that final triumphant ascent. I waited for ages on the last ledge, but they never turned up. Walking into the light on my own just wasn't the same.
However, afterwards the person sent me a message over PSN saying thanks. That made up for it.
Up until your last sentence, I could have sworn that was me.
Found someone early on in the journey and we went through everything together... Until the very last point at which we somehow got separated during the rush. Waited at the top, glided back up and down searching but to no avail. Was very disheartening to complete them game without them... But at the same time, I think it says something about Journey that it makes you feel such a strong bond with someone you only share a brief existence with.
Also, I too was going to state ME3 as my least satisfying, but merely because it was the most stark and recent that came to mind. There are quite a few other minor ones...
Wilhelm... I had expected him to be a challenge and found myself extremely disappointed after all the warnings surrounding him. I have yet to do him on a secondary playthrough though, so perhaps I will be more satisfied with the fight at a later date.
But truly, I'm not sure what I would deem my least satisfying in the history of my gaming days. Perhaps the thousands of hours I dedicated to my shaman in WoW; the gearing, research, the hours spent wiping on bosses... to finally become part of something that I could be semi-proud of. Guild was top of the server, we pushed through hard modes, taking server first titles left and right...
But then I just lost interest in the game. 2 expansions later and my Outlands and WotLK glory days are but dust. None of it means anything now. None of it really meant anything in the grand scope of things, and as I've matured I realize just how much of my youth I wasted on something that truly.... didn't matter..
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