Anyone up for murdering Stahl for what he did to the Hellgast....FOR KILLING EVERYONE! I mean an entire race dead for his ambitions. I mean I know the hellgast are pretty extreme but in reality they only wanted Vekta back and force earth into surrendering so they don't try to take theyre homeworlds...again. SO instead he gets every man woman and child of the hellgast killed not a one left. Anyone else notice that like Only Sev found that kind of F'ed-up? Not a pang off remorse for essentially killing an endless number of civilians? I mean they're whole "We don't kill the innocent or P.O.W.s...unless Ricos there..." thing was really the only thing the ISA had to show that they were the good guys to begin with.
 
At this point I've been pushed from mildly sympathetic to the hellgast to extremely... Christ can they're existence suffer any more? oh wait no theyre all dead... except for Stahl... tenacious bastard.

Stahl didn't kill all those people. You did. 

Like @Enigma777: said, you Stahl didn't annihilate everyone. You shot a nuke at him which led to his ship being destroyed, which led to Helghan being destroyed. 

 @Fullmetal216:@Enigma777:
Yes but he destroyed the fleet allowing you to hit him just hes the one that let the giant super weapon which was on fire towards hellgan... He may not have pulled the trigger but he put the planet at complete risk and in the way his egotism led to the complete destruction of the hellgast people. Trust me I also think it's rico's fault but I'm sure they're is at least like twelve lets go kill Rico forums. In the end it was stahls betrayal of the hellgast people that led to theyre destruction....Rico Sev Narville and that one girl all deserve to be executed as war criminals in my opinion....okay maybe not executed they didn't know it was going to happen maybe just dishonorably discharged and Rico put in jail for murder....still just fuck everyone in that series....bunch of A holes the lot of them. -_-

Not everyone died, as indicated by the additional footage in the credits.

Some people actually think Visari is still alive. Who knows?

"  @Fullmetal216:@Enigma777:
Yes but he destroyed the fleet allowing you to hit him just hes the one that let the giant super weapon which was on fire towards hellgan... He may not have pulled the trigger but he put the planet at complete risk and in the way his egotism led to the complete destruction of the hellgast people. Trust me I also think it's rico's fault but I'm sure they're is at least like twelve lets go kill Rico forums. In the end it was stahls betrayal of the hellgast people that led to theyre destruction....Rico Sev Narville and that one girl all deserve to be executed as war criminals in my opinion....okay maybe not executed they didn't know it was going to happen maybe just dishonorably discharged and Rico put in jail for murder....still just fuck everyone in that series....bunch of A holes the lot of them. -_- "

I see the ending confused more people than I thought. I don't know, man. The entire game was a pretty big mind-fuck when you try to analyze and see what is what.
 
The vibe that I got at the end of the game was that once Stahl got Nuked, the ship and that superweapon crashed down on the planet, engulfing the entire thing in a green mist. But judging from the fact that Rico stuck his entire, retarded goddamn hand in the ectoplasm earlier, made me think that it didn't kill everything at all. Also, those two Helghast at the end. They were just regular Higs, and they wouldn't have had time to prepare for the explosion. So I think the entire thing was just a huge oversight by the developers not wanting to explain anything.
 
So, my thoughts: Helghan is fine, it's just green as shit. Stahl is alive, as stupid as he is as a villain. Killzone 4 is going to take place in the future, on barren Earth. And Rico is never going to die because he's modeled after a developer at GG.
 
But I think we're giving them waaaay too much credit by even thinking this far in, as they clearly did not.

So how is this ending supposed to jive with how the game starts?

It was either them or Earth.

Am i the only one who felt that the end was incredibly abrupt? It was 'Oh shit, that planet got nuk-' credits. 
 
I understand if you want to try and leave the fallout from that for your sequel, but atleast have your characters demonstrate emotion before you roll to credits, they came off like robots. 
 
@N7:  It could be possible that in its natural state that stuff isn't volatile, but it needs to be weaponized, and is just highly unstable, hence why they hold it with that long rod.

Am I the only one who felt Radec from Killzone 2 was the only remotely sympathetic character.

I thought he actually seem to care about his people and was very much a soldier of honour. Not like the rest of cockroach style survivable characters.

The ending was truely awful, as someone who genuinely prefers Playstation, Sony are kidding themselves if they think this is their Halo... Terrible Story (ironically good fiction) and a clusterfuck of a multiplayer :/

At first I was incredibly pleased and surprised by the story. Basically every review I`ve read have made a big deal about the bad story. And we`re talking reviewers and sites who`ve praised both MW2 and Black ops. So of course I thought it would be abysmal.. at best.

But it kind of wasn’t. I mean GG (sadly) already decided not to focus on the bigger picture, but rather a handful of random and bland soldiers on the battlefield. I think all four games do this quite well, even though the “epicness” is lost somewhere in the trenches.

Anyway, the idea that a small number of soldiers is left behind, scattered around the planet and forced to hide and continue some kind of guerilla warfare while constantly hunted, is pretty awesome I think. I was immediately drawn into the story and pleasantly surprised by the quality of the many cut scenes. And as soon as the invasion of earth was mentioned I thought; “YES! The main goal of this game will be to board one of those ships before it takes off. Send out a warning to earth and maybe even somehow disarm those super weapons. But the fourth game will definitely begin with earth being attacked. Awesome!”

Well, needless to say I was quite disappointed when Sev and his handful of friends not only stops the entire invasion, but decides to nuke a ship loaded with a massive amount of additional nukes as it tries to land, and (supposedly) annihilates an entire race - Millions of women and children.

I`m also disappointed that GG didn’t even try to do with Rico what Kojima did with Raiden. Make him awesome in an attempt to make everyone feel bad for hating him. They should have killed him in some extremely heroic way where he scarifies himself to save a Helghast child or something;p

My impression on Killzone 3 can be understood with this
 
I want to say about an hour or two into the story mode Rico leave Serv to help Jammer and her crew, I had it in my head that we was going get to play as Rico because one man going to help a platoon sound more action pack than running in a straight line to Narville and not even a long or dangerous probably take about 5 or 6min on Vet. then we get to the cutscene that Narville has to leave Rico and the rest to survive on Helghan now I'm thinking shit just got real... then 6 months later WTF really now? Was this played for laugh? GG could of added an hour at best to explain how they survive but no that would make to much sense...
 
This bugged me more than anything in the game
How does a platoon survive on the enemies home world for six months? 
Why don't you give them more play time? 
Who Jammer? A female solider... I bet the only reason GG named her Jammer was because they had no idea on what to do with her beside just hack. 
Where Natko? Why not give him any screen time? 

Man I really like the action I may try and get all the trophies but man this game left me in a foul mood.

You know what I want I want to play as a hellgast during like a hellgast civil war where I get to put a bullet into Rico's just fucking retarded god damn head knife stahl to death and put the resurrected Radec in control  the take vekta make peace and just wash my hands of killzone DAS ENDE!

 @Gizmo: No he seems pretty dead kind watched him eat it...and then a doctor call his time of death....got a feeling he is ya pretty dead. "

Ok, so i just finished KZ3, 2 minutes ago. Ending was a bit abrupt but whatever. What i want to know is, was there any different outcome from this? meaning, you get prompted to hit O to fire the nuke.