The Worst Game Endings - Or How to Ruin Good Gameplay with Bad Writing (Spoilers, duh)

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Seriously though, Fable III is a shit game. There's a few fun moments like when you get shrunk down by two spergy nerds to play as their character in their D&D diorama, but otherwise it's like they systematically removed the humor and everything players liked about the first two games. Fable Anniversary and Fable II are all you need.

Fable 2's ending is pretty fucking trash too.

"Here is the badguy who will achieve escape velocity if you hit him with a level 1 force bolt power" Great final boss you have there!

 

[The Great Citracett]

Fable 2's ending is pretty fucking trash too.

"Here is the badguy who will achieve escape velocity if you hit him with a level 1 force bolt power" Great final boss you have there!

And if you take too long to do that, Stephen Fry gets bored and just caps him with his pistol.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

And if you take too long to do that, Stephen Fry gets bored and just caps him with his pistol.

and you get he mass effect 3 "choices" ending years before mass effect did it

 

[The handsome tard]

Alien Isolation

Love the game and I hope we see an ACTUAL sequel (not that mobile garbage). But I will admit that the ending feels a tad rushed.

Suddenly a surviving alien appears and you shoot yourself and it out the airlock. You are floating aimless in space for God knows how long until the light of a ship fills your visor for a brief moment.

Thats it. Roll credits.

It all feels rushed and I hoped it would connect more with the events of the movies a bit more. Then again, Amanda Ripley's fate is already established, she pretty much dies of old age while waiting for her mother to arrive but I guess we will never get more of her. (who knows, there could be a twist that Wayland faked her death to Ripley or something and Amanda is still out there in some cryo pod.)

 

[Michael Wade]

Marvel rise of the imperfects was such an odd but delightful game. I liked the style, loved the music and the gameplay was a rough fun. The OC imperfect character's were not half bad either, helped most of them were scantly clad chicks. I think a lot of people were thrown off by the lack of big time marvel characters besides spiderman and wolverine. They had the balls to show captain america, hulk and punisher getting their asses kicked in the opening, so that was an interesting hook.

I have mixed feelings on the ending itself as its actually kinda cool and based. it revealed the main bad guy created the imperfects because alien refugees enslaved his planet and he needed an army to take it back. Really the biggest problem with this game was a lack of closure. The fate of the hero's and imperfects is just left hanging after the bad guy gets wacked because EA was stupid enough to plan for sequels.



Call of Duty Ghosts was straight shit. You can skip it after the Title drops and you'll be fine, but if you decide to watch past the credits your treated to a lovely scene of your character being fucked over and tortured by the miraculously surviving big bad, that you spent the whole game trying to kill.

 

[Steinercard]

Dreamfall: chapters. Ten year fucking wait and we get this woke and rushed shit.

>after a 10 year wait the sequel to the sequel rushes through a painfully woke resolution hinging on turning a black Muslim gay and a Mary Sue donut steal OC who replaces the first game's protag and resolves everything the series builds up and foreshadows off screen because Ragnar couldn't be bothered to write an actual ending.
>no one else talks about this so I can bitch about how fucking shit that was.

 

[Michael Wade]

Dreamfall: chapters. Ten year fucking wait and we get this woke and rushed shit.

>after a 10 year wait the sequel to the sequel rushes through a painfully woke resolution hinging on turning a black Muslim gay and a Mary Sue donut steal OC who replaces the first game's protag and resolves everything the series builds up and foreshadows off screen because Ragnar couldn't be bothered to write an actual ending.
>no one else talks about this so I can bitch about how fucking shit that was.

I am so glad I NEVER got invested in that series. the bitching I hear from it is faint but constant.

 

[The handsome tard]

Most Mortal Kombat 4 endings

They are poorly animated (no, it was bad even for the time's standards), most of them are very inconsequential (only a few of them have aspects that carry over to the sequels) and what happens in them themselves is comically bad.

But I guess if I had to pick the "worst" of the bunch it would be the Reptile ending...

I honestly hate endings that just throw "And then you died". Duh Ended
And unlike some MK endings that are MEANT to be comically bad with a "Have a Good Day" at the end of it, this wasnt that.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Dreamfall: chapters. Ten year fucking wait and we get this woke and rushed shit.

>after a 10 year wait the sequel to the sequel rushes through a painfully woke resolution hinging on turning a black Muslim gay and a Mary Sue donut steal OC who replaces the first game's protag and resolves everything the series builds up and foreshadows off screen because Ragnar couldn't be bothered to write an actual ending.
>no one else talks about this so I can bitch about how fucking shit that was.

Longest Journey was good and felt like it was building up to something, Dreamfall comes out and throws the established stuff on it's head with April not being the chosen one after all and so they now building up more stuff with a new character, then Chapters just plain fucks the landing hard.

 

[Steinercard]

I am so glad I NEVER got invested in that series. the bitching I hear from it is faint but constant.

The Longest Journey is a great game that stands on it's own. Excellent female protag who is never mentioned by SJWs because she's not an ideologue and has relatable flaws. The ending was misunderstood as underwhelming by the teens who played it. It's actually suprisingly mature and plays into the title subtly.

Then Dreamfall turned April into a mopy and self absorbed side character we spend ten minutes with before... well did you ever watch The Last Jedi? Rian ripped off Dreamfall big time. And then ended on a cliff hanger. And then ten years later we finally get the game that was supposed to answer all the foreshadowing. But actually fuck that, let Ragnar tell you how gay the Muslim expy is and how his new favourite OC is an aloof dimension hopping mary sue who just has so much sex teehee.

Also the giant cosmic multi dimension altering war that was supposed to be the cataclysmic end of the story just happens off screen because Ragnar ran out of Kickstarter funds. But don't worry. It gets a one line mention in the time skip epilogue

 

[UncleTusky]

Does Okami count? It has a great first ending but then keeps going. The game keeps recounting the story of the ancient hero who slew the dragon Orochi and is not even subtle about how you are retracing his steps. This culminates with a fight against Orochi, he dies, and then.... no credits scene, it turns out there's another half of the game to go because parts of Japan which weren't even mentioned up until now are still corrupted.

The second half has some great moments but the narrative connecting them really struggles and the generic final boss/ending does not help. It's like the developers and artists went "we're having fun, let's keep going!" without realizing that the storywriters were out of ideas and had gone home.

 

[Jerri's Kid]

I am so glad I NEVER got invested in that series. the bitching I hear from it is faint but constant.

The Longest Journey is a great game that stands on it's own. Excellent female protag who is never mentioned by SJWs because she's not an ideologue and has relatable flaws. The ending was misunderstood as underwhelming by the teens who played it. It's actually suprisingly mature and plays into the title subtly.

Then Dreamfall turned April into a mopy and self absorbed side character we spend ten minutes with before... well did you ever watch The Last Jedi? Rian ripped off Dreamfall big time. And then ended on a cliff hanger. And then ten years later we finally get the game that was supposed to answer all the foreshadowing. But actually fuck that, let Ragnar tell you how gay the Muslim expy is and how his new favourite OC is an aloof dimension hopping mary sue who just has so much sex teehee.

Also the giant cosmic multi dimension altering war that was supposed to be the cataclysmic end of the story just happens off screen because Ragnar ran out of Kickstarter funds. But don't worry. It gets a one line mention in the time skip epilogue

Dreamfall had an interesting enough story for me to finish it. I found an Xbox copy in a heavily discounted bin for $6.00. However, it might as well be a walking simulator. I only completed the first three parts of Dreamfall: Chapters because it's incredibly disappointing, but I've read summaries of the story and apparently it gets even worse. There's no nuance to any of the characters like in The Longest Journey. Even the dickhead tenant who lives next to April in that game was sympathetic in some ways. The politics in Chapters is some of the most heavy-handed garbage I've ever seen in a game. I know Ragnar can write more than one good story because I loved The Secret World for a time but I don't know what the fuck happened to him.

 

[Jerri's Kid]

Alien Isolation

Love the game and I hope we see an ACTUAL sequel (not that mobile garbage). But I will admit that the ending feels a tad rushed.

Suddenly a surviving alien appears and you shoot yourself and it out the airlock. You are floating aimless in space for God knows how long until the light of a ship fills your visor for a brief moment.

Thats it. Roll credits.

It all feels rushed and I hoped it would connect more with the events of the movies a bit more. Then again, Amanda Ripley's fate is already established, she pretty much dies of old age while waiting for her mother to arrive but I guess we will never get more of her. (who knows, there could be a twist that Wayland faked her death to Ripley or something and Amanda is still out there in some cryo pod.)

I streamed this game for some friends and EVERYONE hated the ending. Also, as much as I loved the first half of the game, there came a point when I felt that it should have ended sooner. Eventually the Alien becomes more of a nuisance than a threat and you're mostly fighting androids and backtracking through earlier areas. It's still one of my favorite Alien video games.

 

[The handsome tard]

I streamed this game for some friends and EVERYONE hated the ending. Also, as much as I loved the first half of the game, there came a point when I felt that it should have ended sooner. Eventually the Alien becomes more of a nuisance than a threat and you're mostly fighting androids and backtracking through earlier areas. It's still one of my favorite Alien video games.

I feel like Alien Isolation just leaves quite a few of unanswered questions. Hell, we dont even met the queen responsible for the aliens, the directors (or productors) did confirm she existed so it feels like a chunk of the story missing. The real meat and potatoes of the game is the atmosphere and the paranoia of the alien being able to appear at any second to throw a wrench in your plans...tho the downside is that the AI can get a bit random at time (there are times where you are hiding in nearly plain sight and the Xeno SOMEHOW doesnt spot you...and others where you are a relative distance from the alien, hidden well and then the Xeno makes a B line towards you). Besides, the DLC were kind of disappointing, they could have expanded on the ending or at least try to setup a sequel.

Alien Isolation has its flaws, sure, but I just so wanted more of this horror style game with the Alien...We have far too much Aliens based stuff (some of it good, some not) and not enough Alien stuff. Isolation made us actually be afraid of Xenomorphs again.

 

[I.B. Niggin]

Most Mortal Kombat 4 endings

They are poorly animated (no, it was bad even for the time's standards), most of them are very inconsequential (only a few of them have aspects that carry over to the sequels) and what happens in them themselves is comically bad.

But I guess if I had to pick the "worst" of the bunch it would be the Reptile ending...

I honestly hate endings that just throw "And then you died". Duh Ended
And unlike some MK endings that are MEANT to be comically bad with a "Have a Good Day" at the end of it, this wasnt that.

I think this is a double edged sword because the Jax ending is single handedly one of the greatest endings ever.

 

[LazloChalos]

Far Cry tends to have some shit endings.

Spoiler: Ending spoilers

2: You die either way.
4: You killed the only person who was able to wrangle this clusterfuck of a country and sided with two bastards who are just as bad.
5: Everything you went through? All for nothing

 

[Vault Boy]

I generally detest Assassin's Creed Unity, so the ending amounting to making the game the most pointless in the series doesn't really do it any favors. On one hand, I can happily skip the game and miss nothing, but on the other hand going through that slog (and the painfully slow combat) was still a waste of time.

Spoiler: Unity Ending

The premise is that the Assassins and Templars are looking for the remains of a Sage, a human reincarnation of a member of the precursor race that holds way more of their DNA. Both groups sift through the genetic memories of Arno Dorian to find the Sage of the French Revolution era, only to discover that Arno had the body broken up and scattered throughout the Paris Catacombs, thus making the whole game (and its role in the series) a pointless endeavor.

Oh, and Arno's love interest dies anticlimactically, and he ultimately remains as bland as dish water.

 

[TheRetardKing]

I hate it... but I also love it.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

 

[BScCollateral]

I feel like Alien Isolation just leaves quite a few of unanswered questions.

Never played it for reasons of personal autism.
First, I can't stand the first person perspective in games. Give me third person so I can see where I am relative to the environment.
Next, there's an intriguing series of YouTube videos discussing the AI of the Alien. I can't recall a single reference to making it, well, act like a predator.
No bluff attacks, nothing about how it's just eaten so it's not hunting, nothing about going into berserker mode because the player is too close to the eggs, nada. It's kind of disappointing, honestly.