An Unsatisfying End

Is there any game that left you annoyed or angry with it's ending ?  Anything that left you almost questioning the quality of the entire game leading up to that point ?
  

*Heavy Spoilers*

• The biggest inconsistency of them all is anachronism. Scott is 48. John died 30 years ago. There is so much wrong with this fact alone.   
• Why is Scott suddenly retrieving evidence from crimes he committed almost ten years ago ?  
• How did he kill the old guy in the typewriter shop when we had control of him ALL THE TIME ?
• Why did he take Lauren with him if his plan was to murder the guy all along ?
• Scott's character up until Chp. 45 or so just doesn't fit as the killer. The guy is changing diapers one day and murdering 10-year old the next morning ? Why give us the "moral" choice of sparing a mob boss after gunning down his entire armada John Woo style (not to mention the child killer thing again) ? This is almost schizophrenic behavior from Scott, which would have made more sense with Ethan. 
• If Scott is looking for a father, willing to make the ultimate sacrifice then why are players allowed to find Shaun's location after completing just 3/5 trials ? You can avoid cutting off your finger, poisoning yourself, shoot a drug dealer and do the other two non-fatal trials to get the address - it doesn't sound a whole lot like the "ultimate sacrifice" Scott is looking for. 
• Why does he save Lauren again and again, when he knows she is going to kill him the instant she finds out the truth ? It doesn't fit with his usual analytical behavior.

Is there any game that left you annoyed or angry with it's ending ?  Anything that left you almost questioning the quality of the entire game leading up to that point ?
  

*Heavy Spoilers*

• The biggest inconsistency of them all is anachronism. Scott is 48. John died 30 years ago. There is so much wrong with this fact alone.   
• Why is Scott suddenly retrieving evidence from crimes he committed almost ten years ago ?  
• How did he kill the old guy in the typewriter shop when we had control of him ALL THE TIME ?
• Why did he take Lauren with him if his plan was to murder the guy all along ?
• Scott's character up until Chp. 45 or so just doesn't fit as the killer. The guy is changing diapers one day and murdering 10-year old the next morning ? Why give us the "moral" choice of sparing a mob boss after gunning down his entire armada John Woo style (not to mention the child killer thing again) ? This is almost schizophrenic behavior from Scott, which would have made more sense with Ethan. 
• If Scott is looking for a father, willing to make the ultimate sacrifice then why are players allowed to find Shaun's location after completing just 3/5 trials ? You can avoid cutting off your finger, poisoning yourself, shoot a drug dealer and do the other two non-fatal trials to get the address - it doesn't sound a whole lot like the "ultimate sacrifice" Scott is looking for. 
• Why does he save Lauren again and again, when he knows she is going to kill him the instant she finds out the truth ? It doesn't fit with his usual analytical behavior.

You want to talk about the worst game ending, it's got to be Assassins Creed. My Jaw literally dropped on how bad it was.

Fallout 3. Hands down.

well sense its fresh in my head.... borderlands. (just beat it yesturday doing co-op with my friend the whole time)

" Fallout 3. Hands down. "

" You want to talk about the worst game ending, it's got to be Assassins Creed. My Jaw literally dropped on how bad it was. "

" @Gabriel said:

" You want to talk about the worst game ending, it's got to be Assassins Creed. My Jaw literally dropped on how bad it was. "

he didnt say bad, he said "least satisfying"  you really think the AC cliffhanger was the least satisfying ending ever? dude ...    I'd say.. meh i dunno "

Seriously? No one has mentioned Halo 2 yet?

Every Fighting Game ever made.

" well sense its fresh in my head.... borderlands. (just beat it yesturday doing co-op with my friend the whole time) "

Fallout 3 was pretty rough. Other than that, probably Indigo Prophecy. The whole last hour or so was a complete joke. 

The end of WoW was pretty disappointing...there was just more WoW.

I skipped past the blog because I haven't played Heavy Rain still. 
 
Anywhoo what comes to mind for me would Psi Ops for starters. Bullshit cliff hanger that never even goes anywhere since there wasn't a a sequel. I thought at first that it was would be continued if you played through on a harder difficulty...no such luck. 
 
Assassins Creed is another well...

" Every Fighting Game ever made. "

" You want to talk about the worst game ending, it's got to be Assassins Creed. My Jaw literally dropped on how bad it was. "

another vote for Borderlands over here, literally pointless

" Seriously? No one has mentioned Halo 2 yet? "

Half-Life 2
 
And I got bored and stopped playing Fallout 3 one main mission before the ending. That's telling.

" another vote for Borderlands over here, literally pointless "

Condemned comes to mind. It seemed like a bad copy of Twin Peaks' ending.

Batman: Arkham Asylum; more for the fight than the ending, though.

The point of Borderlands wasn't the story anyway. "

I was not satisfied with FF7's, after the grand conclusion that FF6 had.

I don't really expect much from endings since then, and all of them has been pretty surprisingly decent, I didn't like multiple endings though from the silent hill games.

Going way back here, but I'm gonna say Star Control 3. After the awesomeness of Star Control 2, which had a really well fleshed-out story, SC3 couldn't hope to live up to it no matter what it did. At the same time, it COULD have been less of a spectacular failure if it didn't unceremoniously end the game with a 5 second cutscene.

I was very disappointed with the Fable II ending. It was building up and building up and I was expecting a huge and epic battle with Lord Lucian. And when you finally get to him, you point a gun at him, he talks for a while and you shoot him. It was completely anticlimactic.

The Just Cause 2 ending didn't make any sense, not that you play that game for the story.

For me, Killzone 2. You have a great fight with the end boss to see Rico fuck up like a moron...again.

It's a dramatic, violent and brutal tie between Halo 2 and Fallout 3. Actually, Fallout 3's ending was fixed slightly by Broken Steel, so Halo 2, most probably. He's finishing the fight, guys.

" I was very disappointed with the Fable II ending. It was building up and building up and I was expecting a huge and epic battle with Lord Lucian. And when you finally get to him, you point a gun at him, he talks for a while and you shoot him. It was completely anticlimactic. "

Minesweeper. I finally clear the board and it just starts over as soon as I finish. No fanfare, no FMV cutscene, no rolling credits set to inspiring music, nothing. Such a letdown. 

Splosion Man.
 
Not the meat falling from the sky ending, but the first song that plays over the credits. I was led to believe it was as good as Still Alive but it pails in comparison.

call of pripyat; the final mission is pretty cool and all, but I was literally surprised at it ending. I was like OH, we're leaving NOW?

Fallout 3, Halo 2, Just Cause 2, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Gears of War 2, Bionic Commando, Prince of Persia, Dead Space, Half-Life 2, Condemned 2, Devil May Cry 4, Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Crackdown, do I have to go on?

Fallout 3.  It has all the pieces necessary for a really good ending.  Being stuck in the room, figuring out that the code is the Bible passage, making the heroic sacrifice.... but the fact that the game is about giving you options, to take them away at the end.  Blah.
 
I've heard a lot of people complaining about the Prince of Persia 2008's ending.  They said it didn't have closure, because he nullifies Elika's sacrifice to save her.  I felt it ended exactly where I wanted it to.  I didn't need to have that game wrapped up in a neat little package.
 
Alpha Protocol... loved the game, but maybe it was fatigue near the end that made me kind of rush through the ending and not really consider the choices and the results.  The ending felt kind of schizophrenic as a result.  I'll put that down as my fault.
 
Mirror's Edge was kind of an inversion of your average game ending.  I felt like it was both a little underwhelming, and at the same time, I kind of liked that it was.  The story was about clearing your sister's name, and defending the things Faith cares about... I'm glad it didn't devolve into a total Let's Save The World thing.
 
People complained about Alan Wake's ending.  I liked it.  Once again, I don't always need every game to end in a neat little package.  I feel like Alan Wake's ending is completely appropriate considering the style of the game.  It's the exact opposite of Fallout 3 Syndrome, where the style is about one thing and the ending is a complete wall banger in comparison.
 
I felt the original BioShock's ending was pretty dull.  The binary nature of it really took away from whatever depth the game felt like it had.  BioShock climaxes a bit too early, with the WYK revelation, and it makes the home stretch into falling action, rather than the most engaging part of the game.  BioShock 2 on the other hand, I felt had a great ending, even if it didn't have the great WYK moment.
 
Going against what I said about neat little packages, I would've liked to see Snake blow his brains out in MGS4.  Everything else about the world seems like its been fixed, all the other main characters have found new lives and can leave behind the former age... but there's still Old Snake hanging around.  And I just feel like until he actually blows his brains out, the world will never have peace.  You'd think the existence of war would necessitate the need for Snake, but it seems like the existence of Snake necessitates the need for war.
 
Also, I could go on about the parts of Scott Shelby that make sense and the parts that don't... I'll just keep that short.  Shelby has no problem with mothers or children.  He doesn't kill children because he wants children to die, he does it because he hates fathers.  Even parts I feel didn't make sense actually do if you think about it.  He (can) saves Reza's father in the convenience store; you'd assume he'd let him die for allowing his son to die.  But what he does is talk to the robber, and he finds out the robber is a father.  He talks him out of it by saying 'consider it a second chance to not fuck up your life'.  He doesn't do it for the robber, he does it for the kid.  At the Bowles house, he cares for the infant and saves the mother, because he has no quarrel with them... despite the fact he killed her son, and indirectly killed her husband.  Lauren Winter, if anything, I think he falls in love with because of her drive to find revenge for her child.  She is what he wanted the boy's father to be.  Hell, he'd have a reason to save Kramer.  Kramer covered up his son's murder of a child, because he would do anything to save his son.  He literally says that in that last scene.  I actually felt like I was betraying the Origami Killer's motivations by letting Kramer die.  I think the Origami Killer would respect Kramer's misdeeds.
 
The more 'realistic' parts are where the game falls apart... Ethan's blackouts, Shelby's age... but the character motivations are dead-on.

For me it's either Borderlands, GTA4 or Halo 2.

I pretty sure Shelby has at least 3 different ages throughout the whole of Heavy Rain. It seems weird that they would make those sort of mistakes about someones age. But I would have to agree about Heavy Rain, loved the game, hated the twist and ending. Also most games of the recent era have been at least a little dissatisfying in their endings, simply because it is obvious they are hoping for a sequel and so it becomes harder to kill off important characters or have other dramatic endings. E.G GoW 2, COD MW2, Infamous, BFBC2

" Every Fighting Game ever made. "

Assassins Creed's ending wasn't terrible, It was pretty unsatisfying though. Borderlands was unsatisfying  SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.  Fallout 3 was a joke, as if it just ended.  Erm? Superman 64?

"I was very disappointed with the Fable II ending. It was building up and building up and I was expecting a huge and epic battle with Lord Lucian. And when you finally get to him, you point a gun at him, he talks for a while and you shoot him. It was completely anticlimactic. "

Fable 2 come to mind. Instead of some awesome boss battle... you just shoot the guy. Ugh.

Gears of War 2 (for the shitty final "boss") 
Fable 2 (for the lack of a boss entirely) 
Persona 3

Metal Gear Solid 4
 

To be fair no ending to that series would have me satisfied

I  think more people are confusing final battles with all out endings... 
 
Gears 2's ending pretty much leads into Gears 3 (at least according to what is known currently) They sunk the city but pretty much fucked themselves with that one. 
 
Assassin's ending was a MAJOR cliffhanger, but Creed II so far (I haven't finished) is definitely setting up toward a battle with the Templars in reality since that is the REAL story, the Story of Desmond Miles 
 
MGS4's ending didn't sit right and I agree with whoever said it here... if Snake pull the trigger, we wouldn't be having this convos and this would be the best game endings ever.

Fallout 3, at least until Broken Steel was released.