Worst Game Endings of ALL Time?

[GuitarSolo]

You want my vote, Resident Evil 4 , great last boss level, but just about the most cheesetastic ending possible.

 

[DMKA]

You want my vote, Resident Evil 4 , great last boss level, but just about the most cheesetastic ending possible.

HUSH YOU.

No, you're probably right, but the game was too awesome for me to notice.

 

[sasaki]

Well, it seems I'm late. Most of the games I'd criticize endings for are covered. Here's another one for the pool of suck.

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos - Archimonde had a lame death. Whisps and an exploding tree. Had to be Hippies... I mean Night Elves. 8|

 

[Sylvine]

Also, Vagrant Story, mainly because I only ever finished it once and there was a power-cut half-way through the ending. Frustrating much?

Frustrating,but the final boss was rather easy ( at least, for me ), so why not just kill the guy and watch it again?

Because VS has one of the best stories out there, and a VERY good ending. No kidding.

Final Fantasy: Dirge of Cerberus (Okay...honestly, Advent Children should have been the end of the FF7 Saga...this dragged it out WAY too much.)

Haven't seen it. And to me Advent Children was just FF:Matrix. Philosophy, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, Philosophy... IMO FF:AC should've NEVER happened.

This is now quoted for being the essence of truth. I loved the ending of FFVII, open to speculation and all ( how can You not like an ending that implies that possibly all humanity vanished from the surface of the earth AFTER saving it?) ... untill FFVII:AC happened. It shredded almost every positive aspect of the game to pieces, destroyed the most believable and fun theories,and that in the process of being a very very very BAD movie. I was crying for FFVII-2 like every other fan out there, now I am because of it.

Conclusion: Sequels tend to suck. Especially if they are films made by game developers

From the department of sucky endings, my Vote goes for Resident Evil 4, as well. And 3. And 1, actually, they were all pretty similar( 2 being the exception, but the exploding was done in 3, anyways.). Why do the endings always has to involve something exploding, for heaven's sake? And the exploding island... cheeeesy. Meh!
'twas a great game, no doubt ( although not a resident evil per se. Leon May Cry much? ), but the ending...ahh... all words are wasted on it.

Also, Breath of Fire 3. Yay, we killed the boss! ...End.

And almost every character ending of the Tekken series. Especially Tekken 5. Come ON. Instead of focusing on a detailed view of Paul's beard, can't You give me more than 15 seconds for each character? But it's still topped by the infamous Bloody Roar 3, where we get STATIC manga screens and some WRITTEN - not even spoken! - text. Yay! Someone, give me a sledgehammer. *sigh*

No, I am not a violent man, no worries =)

~Sylv

 

[GuitarSolo]

You want my vote, Resident Evil 4 , great last boss level, but just about the most cheesetastic ending possible.

HUSH YOU.

No, you're probably right, but the game was too awesome for me to notice.

Yeah i know, it was an awesome game, just coulda ended better.

 

[Killy the Fox]

Deus Ex: Invisible War.
DX1 had a great "less of evils" selection. IW's were just lacking. The personality changes, the way you did it. Just so Meh.

Anachronox. Why? Cliffhanger with no sequel.

Could you believe that selection where you decided to go with the Templars in the end and Alex goes all wacko and anti-tech suddenly? It was so very fake and so non Alex that it made me laugh.

At least in the old Deus Ex you got hints all around and you felt a certain pressure. Here you had options and it was full up to you without a point of no return until you completed an full ending task. It really felt as if your choice mattered big time. I didn't feel that with IW.

Helios ending in Deus Ex. I love watch it. It was very short but it felt very satisfying. I can still only talk pure love about Deus Ex. Still best game ever made in my view.

 

[dave hyena]

Helios ending in Deus Ex. I love watch it. It was very short but it felt very satisfying. I can still only talk pure love about Deus Ex. Still best game ever made in my view.

"For it is the dawning of a new day"

Deus ex's ending was just so good that I sat there for several minutes after completing it just thinking about how superb that game was.

Telling though it is, Deus ex's story was less computer game and more good sci-fi novel.

Half life was fun with a crap ending, but Deus Ex was serious business

 

[Rouge2]

Mario Kart DS, I didn't like the riding in the sunset part that much. I'd perfer the view of the courses in the other games, instead of that games ending.

 

[diarmaidhuthence]

Also, Vagrant Story, mainly because I only ever finished it once and there was a power-cut half-way through the ending. Frustrating much?

Frustrating,but the final boss was rather easy ( at least, for me ), so why not just kill the guy and watch it again?

Because VS has one of the best stories out there, and a VERY good ending. No kidding.

It's the bit where he'd fly off screen and fly back overhead before unleashing his one-hit kill attack. My timing sucks and I can't counter him in time. Poor Sydney though, not a nice way to die.

 

[Bokracroc]

Deus Ex: Invisible War.
DX1 had a great "less of evils" selection. IW's were just lacking. The personality changes, the way you did it. Just so Meh.

Anachronox. Why? Cliffhanger with no sequel.

Could you believe that selection where you decided to go with the Templars in the end and Alex goes all wacko and anti-tech suddenly? It was so very fake and so non Alex that it made me laugh.

I laughed on the outside and cringed on the inside.
I chose to join. I actually though it was a sarcasm option!

 

[Foxlink]

Well, to add to my baaaaad endings.. LOL I'll have to add Tokyo Extreme Racer 2- mind you, I haven't beaten EVERYONE yet, but when you finally beat the 'main' bad guy, you get stuck back at the beginning, and you have to drive FOR EVER, just to find the people you didn't either find or beat before....

=^_^=
-Fox

 

[Myr]

Games with the worst endings ever? Let's see...

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas -- Final mission was lame.

GTA3 (Liberty City) -- Did this even have an ending at all?

Ace Combat 4 -- 3 had a much more exciting series of rediculous missions before the end. 5 also was better at the end, but this game did have a great dogfight mission over the islands launch pad. That just about killed every mission in 3, 4, and 5.

Final Fantasy 8 -- Has got nothing on FF7! Really boring and tedious.

Final Fantasy 9 -- You kill dragons!

Need for Speed: Most Wanted -- And for that matter, all EA games...if there's even an ending at all. NFS:MW's ending was ok, but it's too bad the cops weren't better.

Now I am taking into account games that actually have endings vs. games that do NOT have endings. Games like HL2 and Halo2 I really don't think have endings. They end more as "to be continued" and that's very annoying. I would venture to say that Halo2 had a crappy ending, but HL2 I would say did NOT have a crappy ending. That whole last part with the citadel was very exciting (much more so than the sort of boringness the game got into during the regular story), and when you get up to the top with that huge explosion and time just sort of stops in the middle of the explosion....well, I have NEVER seen that done before in a game. I would like to see more of that sort of play with time. It was really neat the way things exploded and then just slowed to a stop while in progress.

Of course I will never miss the quality of ending we saw back in Super Mario World. Too many games these days just gloss right over the ending. When's the last time you got a parade of Yoshis and Nintendo characters?

 

[Solaris]

Worst endings I'd have to say:

Yoshis Story - I forget the exact ending but I beat it in 20 some minutes and just as quickly returned it.

Dragons Quater - horiable ending with horiable game mechanics. Only game I ever played in that if you didnt beat it in so many hours the save file would delete itself. That and to get the best ending (which I never did) you had to beat it with no saves. The stratagy guide actuly recommended getting an external power supply in case of a power outage.

 

[Larathen]

Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic II, hands down.

I. FUCKING. AGREE.

 

[werewolfzombies]

everquest....

 

[Creed of Heresy]

Worst endings. Hm. I notice Halo 2 being tossed around a bit. I personally don't think it sucked...yeah, it wasn't rewarding, but the thing was Halo 2 and Halo 3 are supposed to be a continuous storyline instead of the ending to the first Halo, which had a period of time between its end and Halo2's beginning. Worst endings, though... Darkwatch. Dunno how many people played that game, but either ending was pretty sucktastic. Star Wars, Knights of the old republic II, obviously. And all the endings to the recent mario games. Super Smash Brothers. Let's face it. A hand going explodey and screaming its way to its demise in the distant? Booo... Harvest Moon. All of them. ...Well, Harvest Moon in general sucks. That's all I can think of at the moment.

 

[Argon]

As I understand it, the problem with the english version of FF7 was that they changed alot of the story around, as well as mis-translated alot of the game. Put those things together and you have a game that isen't what it was meant to be.

FF8 I haven't finished, I spend more time playing the mini-card game than the actual game >< .

What else has a bad ending? hmm...

Black & White 2... because the game doesn't end! You just go back to the first challenge land and play it all over again! You keep your alignment and your creature keeps it's mind, but it's back to being all tiny-sized! -_-

 

[psion]

Worst ending ever was Myst (original). After all that work... you get dumped back into the game.
Second worst ending ever: Half-Life 2. Dammit G-Man, at least give me a choice this time! It would be worth getting episode one and two just to see if I can smite that guy with Gordon's rightous crowbar!
If asked which Deus Ex was better, I'd say the first one hands down. If asked which had the better ending, I'd say IW. IW at least had the advantage of having one ending you might consider a "good" choice. In Deus Ex your choices at the end included merging with a AI (to what tangible purpose?), keeping the world the way it was (a nightmare that made the 30's look good) or completely bring everything down (Tong's suggestion) and give the world a blank canvas to build from (clearly ignoring the chaos and anarchy that would erupt from a breakdown of global communications.)

 

[Killy the Fox]

If asked which Deus Ex was better, I'd say the first one hands down. If asked which had the better ending, I'd say IW. IW at least had the advantage of having one ending you might consider a "good" choice. In Deus Ex your choices at the end included merging with a AI (to what tangible purpose?), keeping the world the way it was (a nightmare that made the 30's look good) or completely bring everything down (Tong's suggestion) and give the world a blank canvas to build from (clearly ignoring the chaos and anarchy that would erupt from a breakdown of global communications.)

Your forgetting the Illuminati ending which was to keep the world more or less as it was, only ruled by that group instead of MJ12. If you wanted things to change the least that ending would been the best. The HELIOS merger left everything open to speculation. It could meant everything changed or didn't (at least till IW came along) So that choice left you with more uncertainty.

IW's endings all sucked. Unlike DX they weren't nearly as open leaving little to the imagination.

 

[Olin]

Worst endings. Hm. I notice Halo 2 being tossed around a bit. I personally don't think it sucked...yeah, it wasn't rewarding, but the thing was Halo 2 and Halo 3 are supposed to be a continuous storyline instead of the ending to the first Halo, which had a period of time between its end and Halo2's beginning. Worst endings, though... Darkwatch. Dunno how many people played that game, but either ending was pretty sucktastic. Star Wars, Knights of the old republic II, obviously. And all the endings to the recent mario games. Super Smash Brothers. Let's face it. A hand going explodey and screaming its way to its demise in the distant? Booo... Harvest Moon. All of them. ...Well, Harvest Moon in general sucks. That's all I can think of at the moment.

omg Darkwatch's ending SUCKED. I watched my brother become so addicted, play all the way through to the end and then.. what? Yeah.

 

[Athais]

Final fantasy X. The ending was...basically a cliffhanger

Tetris: There is no ending to that game.

 

[psion]

Your forgetting the Illuminati ending which was to keep the world more or less as it was, only ruled by that group instead of MJ12. If you wanted things to change the least that ending would been the best. The HELIOS merger left everything open to speculation. It could meant everything changed or didn't (at least till IW came along)  So that choice left you with more uncertainty.

IW's endings all sucked. Unlike DX they weren't nearly as open leaving little to the imagination.

Ahem, the Illuminati ending WAS the ending where you kept the world the glorous little hovel it was presented as in the first game.
IW's endings may have been less open-ended, but the endgame question was no longer "how do I want to change the world?" and was instead "What do I believe Transhumanism should be like?" (If you go back and try to listen to different NPCs, you'd find that each group subscribes to a different view (Apostle Corp:Brave New World, Omar: Neo-Darwinism, etc...) on the topics of bio- and nano-technologies such as the nano-augs that were front and center in the game.
I won't get into which ending was the worst, I wasn't a *true* Deus Ex fan and earned all the endings yet. There, I'm done.

 

[DarkBladeWolf]

My vote is Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords. I have never seen a video game ending more horrible than that, although the first one's ending was cool, espicially the Dark Side ending.

 

[Landis]

You want my vote, Resident Evil 4 , great last boss level, but just about the most cheesetastic ending possible.

I agree but that game was kickass all the way through so I forgive it.

 

[Landis]

THe worst ending in recent memory is Star Fox Adventures(beat it yesterday). I was like wtf?

OMG Spoilers!!! Ummm ok I'll kill andross since I resurrected him for some reason. Then in the end you get like a sentence to explain it and boom the end. Oh and theres foreshadowing of Fox giving a few thrusts to Krystal.

omg end spoilers!!!