Bad Game Endings

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:40 pm

I hate bad game endings. I know this is random, but it'd been getting to me. Everyone's complained about the pre-broken steel Fallout 3 ending, so why then did Dragon Age do the same '15 minutes in powerpoint' type of ending? At least Fallout 3 had that awesome-voiced narrator giving badass lines, while in Dragon Age you just get some lame slideshow! And even with a cut-scene, borderlands doesn't give you any real climax... well, after the fight with the monster from Watchmen. All we get is some 12 second clip revealing the angel was *gasp* NOT A REAL ANGEL! Something I assumed was pretty obvious beforehand. So no reveal, and then, no reward- You just got to the Vault, the Vault was opened, you fought the monster from the Vault... then it closes again? ... I guess?

Anybody else feel like ranting about this?
Oh, and sorry if I missed anything I should have spoiler'd.

Fooflyer · Post by **Fooflyer** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:42 pm

the sims had such a shitty endi- oh wait.

I've never really played a game that I thought had a bad ending (well, to the end), so I'm just going to be here and make stupid jokes

Miss Starseed · Post by **Miss Starseed** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:43 pm

Any game that doesn't know if it will ever actually have a sequel that ends on a cliffhanger ending enrages me to no end.

Fooflyer · Post by **Fooflyer** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 8:45 pm

to be continued?

DoNotDelete · Post by **DoNotDelete** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:04 pm

I had an epiphany on this topic when I was younger (and experienced a really unimpressive game ending).

The fun part is playing through the game itself.

If you get a nice ending that's a bonus, but it's not the reason you play the game in the first place.

At least that's how I see it nowadays.

Fooflyer · Post by **Fooflyer** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:10 pm

i think some games need to have an end. I'd much prefer if after you caught the last pokemon, you were experienced to a big CONGRATULATIONS text on the gameboy screen, or at least something.

and there's nothing worse than a bad ending. Putting all that work and effort into something that ends up being so... anticlimactic is more than distasteful.

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:31 pm

DoNotDelete wrote:I had an epiphany on this topic when I was younger (and experienced a really unimpressive game ending).

The fun part is playing through the game itself.

If you get a nice ending that's a bonus, but it's not the reason you play the game in the first place.

At least that's how I see it nowadays.

I agree, the two games I mentioned were both very fun, but I feel that after taking x amount of hours to beat, games need to give the gamer some form of satisfaction, especially when a big part of the game was an interesting plot.

Firestorm · Post by **Firestorm** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:33 pm

I didn't like the end of The Darkness.

Snark · Post by **Snark** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:27 pm

Ame no Akai wrote:Assassin's Creed.

I am still convinced my copy of the game did not have the ending included.

Yeah, that was no way to end a game. Letting you wander through three rooms for a while until you sorta... get the hint.

iconsting · Post by **iconsting** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:28 pm

The ending of Modern warfare 2.

HAY GUYS THIS TOTALLY ISN'T GONNA HAVE ANOTHER SEQUEL HERP DERP!

DoNotDelete · Post by **DoNotDelete** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:31 pm

Snark wrote:
Ame no Akai wrote:Assassin's Creed.

I am still convinced my copy of the game did not have the ending included.
Yeah, that was no way to end a game. Letting you wander through three rooms for a while until you sorta... get the hint.

For real?

They just leave it up to you to turn the game off because there's nothing else to do?

No credits or anything?

That's messed up.

TheOtherMC · Post by **TheOtherMC** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:41 pm

As long as you stretch the meaning of the word "Ending" the entire second half of Indigo Prophecy (Farenheit for you brits) is probably my worst offender.

Petah-Petah · Post by **Petah-Petah** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:48 pm

Sure, it's an early NES game, but imo it's still quite a bad ending. Especially considering the new quest is basically the same thing, but with no Goombas and more Buzzy Beetles.

Trygve · Post by **Trygve** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:48 pm

Assassout's Creed and Prototype.

PS: I am unsure to how I should feel like Phantom Hourglass.

Fooflyer · Post by **Fooflyer** » Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:55 pm

Yeah, no.
Seriously massive spoilers concerning Assassin's Creed ahead:
throughout Desmond's experience in the Animus, he picks up some of Altair's traits, such as pickpocketing (the good doctor's card key) and his Eagle Vision. In the nights overlapping the days spent on the Animus, Desmond is treated to a series of scary red writing proclaiming the apocalypse and what-not. Upon the final usage of the Animus, (the game's end) you are able to use the Eagle Vision. Doing so reveals various writing etched across the floors and walls of the facility in what Desmond believes to be blood. If you read some of Lucy's E-mails, you'd acknowledge that these were the result of other Animus users who had been driven insane and the memories they were experiencing 'bleed' into their own, a severe case of mistaken identity, would could humorously assume.

There are many more secrets to be unlocked throughout the lab's computers and a hint is given to Lucy herself that she is an undercover assassin (missing ring finger, as of which all assassins have and shows concern to Desmond and unwillingness to have him executed at the end game).

Upon using the Eagle Vision on the the wall Desmond's bed rests against, your view is directed at the various languages herelding the apocalypse. Of note is the 2012 prediciton, which collaborates with not only the year the game is set, but also Abstergo's (pretty much future templars) plan to use the Piece of Eden in a satellite to control the entire planet.
There is an ending, you just have to pay a bit of attention, I suppose.
Unless we're talking about the sequel.