In honor of Mass Effect 3 I want to ask what's the worst ending to a story you've ever experienced? This isn't for things that have bad stories to begin with, I mean good-great stories that have terrible endings.
I really, really hated the ending to Red Dead Redemption, even though I understand that most people think it was awesome. Playing as John Marston's shitty, whiny snot-nosed son was the opposite of what made that game great.
@Foxtrot0245: The "ending" is when Marston died. The stuff with his son doesn't matter it was simply a way for them to let you continue playing in the open world if you wanted too.
Not spoiling anything since it's a recent game, but Rage.
I'm talking about the actual ending and the events leading up to it. When I got to the final cut-scene, I was like, "Wait...that was the final mission?"
I didn't really like either of the Bioshock endings. They set up a great setting, great atmosphere and characters and then just shit out a rushed, silly ending. Deus Ex: Human Revolution had a really, really dumb 'push the red button' ending as well. In terms of movies, Sunshine really let me down. It took a smart, creative sci-fi movie and turned it into a monster flick. Ugh.
Uh just to say it doesn't have to be video game related. Sopranos is another example of something with a terrible ending. I don't care how obvious it is that Tony will probably die there. Let us at least here some gunshots or something.
the shield had a shitty ending. i have a feeling sons of anarchy will end on a shitty, bittersweet note, too. KOTOR 2's ending was bad due to it being incomplete.
Arcanum Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura had the worst ending I've ever seen. The plot basically meanders around without any point, until the very last chapter of the game. Then suddenly you fight a tacked on final boss who wanted to bring all of humanity into the realm of death because death is more peaceful then life. Had nothing to do with the game and clashed badly with it's pre-steampunk steampunk thing. Top it off, the final boss glitched on me completely. He never ever attacked me once. God that was an awful game.
I only care because the opening is story-driven, and very well done. So it's tragic when the second-half devolves into a supernatural conspiracy Matrix rip-off. Classic problem, game-developers have to 'ramp up' the ending sections, and forget to finish the story they set out to tell...
@Foxtrot0245: The "ending" is when Marston died. The stuff with his son doesn't matter it was simply a way for them to let you continue playing in the open world if you wanted too.
I consider the end-of-game title card after you take Jack to kill the man responsible for John's death to be the actual ending.
I didn't like BioShock's ending but the only ending that has actually made me very disappointed and just.... tired..... is ME3's ending. I enjoyed the game quite a lot right up till the last 15 minutes. After I saw the ending to ME3, I wasn't stunned or shell-shocked. I was just.... tired. Disappointed. Lethargic. I didn't want to do anything for 2 hours, except just stare at the ceiling in absolute defeat. Yeah, that's right - the ending to ME3 made me feel that, despite winning, I lost.
I played through ME1 and ME2 6 times. I'm not going to play ME3 a second time. Won't even consider it.
Aside from ME3's bad ending, another bad ending would be Far Cry 2's two endings - none of which were good.
Oh - yeah, now I remember, there WAS another ending that I hated (although not nearly as much as ME3's) - Killzone 2's ending.
the shield had a shitty ending. i have a feeling sons of anarchy will end on a shitty, bittersweet note, too. KOTOR 2's ending was bad due to it being incomplete.
Say what?! Imo, season 7 of The Shield might be the best last season of any TV, ever. It ends perfectly. And I'm saying that as a person who's not a huge fan of the overall show, it just got the last season and the ending incredibly right.
Shows how opinions can differ, I guess.
Sons of Anarchy's ending will probably suck, because the show is pretty mediocre. The ending of this season showed that the showrunner has no balls - he should have learnt from David Simon; you put the story, not your characters, first.
From what I understand, Catherine's ending is pretty horse shit? I never got around to finishing it though.
I thought Final Fantasy XIII had a terrible ending. The actual cutscene looked awesome, but the whole plot of that game makes no sense. Orphan wants you to destroy him so cocoon gets destroyed, but you don't want to, so then you go and kill him anyways. The end. What?!
the shield had a shitty ending. i have a feeling sons of anarchy will end on a shitty, bittersweet note, too. KOTOR 2's ending was bad due to it being incomplete.
Fuck you man, don;t say that about Sons of Anarchy! If that show has a terrible ending I'll hate everything forever.
The Lost ending was pretty bad, but by the time the last episode tolled around, I knew i wasn't going to get the answers i wanted. I don't remember any game endings being as disappointing as ME3 but maybe It's just because that's still fresh. I remember the Force Unleashed games had pretty bad endings, and Fable 3's whole last half was horrible. I loved the first two Fable games to death, but I couldn't even finish 3.
I don't know if anyone agrees with me but I thought Skyrim's ending was terrible... it was just so boring. Go find the bad guy and kill him! I thought they could have had some nice twists and turns...
I am sure that the kids who picked Mass Effect 3 have never played any other game their entire life if that's the "worst" ending they can come up with. Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. Or maybe Final Fantasy 5.
Not spoiling anything since it's a recent game, but Rage.
I'm talking about the actual ending and the events leading up to it. When I got to the final cut-scene, I was like, "Wait...that was the final mission?"
Not spoiling anything since it's a recent game, but Rage.
I'm talking about the actual ending and the events leading up to it. When I got to the final cut-scene, I was like, "Wait...that was the final mission?"
Was it worse than Borderlands?
Hmm...you got me there...
That's a tough one because they're both equally bad for different reasons. At least with Borderlands, I knew it was the actual end (even though the end-boss wasn't a challenge) when with Rage, I assumed there would be more to it, like an actual climax.
Kotor 2 has the legit worst ending in video games. Mass Effect 3 is very similar in the general concept, that it seems rushed and does an unsatisfactory job of tying up the stories of the characters. The difference is, Mass Effect's problems were limited to very last scene of the game, whereas Kotor 2's were the entire last area.
My least favorite ending in movies... is probably a matter of taste, but I would say Fallen is an example of a movie that'd be much better with a different ending. Yes, I know he says at the beginning that he 'almost died'. But that movie would have been much more satisfying, and still have been enough of a downer ending, if everyone *including* Azazel had died.
I have an answer for books, too, but it's too obscure to talk about specifically here. Just beware of Joe Abercrombie if you like 'gritty' fantasy. Good writer, great buildup, shafts you with the endings.
Metal Gear Solid 4. I really dislike Mass Effect 3's ending because I invested so much into the trilogy. I invested so much more into the Metal Gear series... and I was completely unsatisfied with the fourth game. The answer to just about every question is nanomachines. They overuse nanomachines to fill in plot holes, and really, destroy the magic of the series. Psychics and vampires don't exist in real life, but that is what made the MGS series so fun. Of course, it all comes down to nanomachines. Naomi can't die? Nanomachines. Raiden is alive? Nanomachines. STOP IT. IT'S SO STUPID. Then, Big Boss shows up, and... gosh. I still pretend that MGS4 never happened, and that the story ends after MGS2.
I know it's crazy to get picky about this but the ending of SSX's (2012) deadly descent mode (the game's story mode). Having to race a guy down a slope lined with crevasses with very little visibility sucked.
@RobKenno: @Arker101: @jonnyboy: @JeanLuc: The story wasn't good enough for me to care about the ending in Borderlands. Loved the game, just the story was one big meh.
I'd love to hear why people seem to dislike Human Revolution's ending(s) so much. While I was less than impressed with the actual mechanics behind them, I loved the endings themselves.
As for what ending I thought was the worst, has to be Halo 2. It's a lot like Mass Effect 3's ending in that it sets up something awesome, and then proceeds to under-deliver in terrible ways. Difference is, in this case, Mass Effect kept going when it shouldn't have, while Halo 2 ended before it should have. If they'd cut from Master Chief's 'Let's finish the fight.' (or whatever it was) line to one final level with you trying to stop the Prophet from invading earth, I think it would have been spectacular.
@RobKenno: @Arker101: @jonnyboy: @JeanLuc: The story wasn't good enough for me to care about the ending in Borderlands. Loved the game, just the story was one big meh.
Oh, were talking purely story. I was thinking of Borderlands from a gameplay point of view.
I'd have to say KOTOR 2 then. Seemed like it was going somewhere interesting but then it just turned into a mess.
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