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One considers it marketing when you stuff a craptastic Sylvester Stallone "Cliffhanger" to the end of a story. Y'know, the type of cliffhanger where the game itself can explain what will happen in the sequel for two hours, and by that mark it still won't have made any sense other than you'll be paying another sixty bucks in order to see what the hell happens. So, over the time I've been playing games like the lifeless critter I am. Are "Trolls" critters? Ah, screw it... Anyway.
Oh, and consider it a countdown list.
And again, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. AND A DAMN LOT OF 'EM TOO BUDDY!
- 3 - - - HALF LIFE²: EPISODE 2
- Half Life leaving you with the G-Man dropping you off with a batch of Vortigaunts to be torn a new asshole by.
- Half Life² leaving you with the Citadel exploding right in your face, but yet again being set in somesort of stasis by the G-Man.
- Half Life²: Episode One leaving you with City 17 assploding into somekind of epic bubble of blue joy.
- Half Life²: Episode Two leaving you differently. Unlike the three previous ones, which all had a form of "... Gordon's sincerely screwed." to it. Episode Two leaves you behind on the floor, next to Alyx Vance and Eli Vance, who just got pwn'd by the Combine Ambassadors. Sure, you'd expect those tubby bastards to nail you next - But Alyx's dearest D.O.G. scares them off. Thus taking ALL the risk away from Gordon.
Hell, all danger he is in is the fact that he could be breathing in dust from the hangar floor.
Now Eli's quest to sink the ice-breaker ship called The Borealis which has some superior Aperture Science technology in it is still open. And seeing as Eli's pretty damn dead at this point. It would make sense if you'd complete Eli's wishes to prevent the Combine to gain even more superior stuff to their advantage.
Going further into this... All that speculation's worth a 150 page book.
- 2 - - - XIII
XIII(Or 13 if you wish) is that cell-shaded game with okay gameplay and a superb story not one soul gave a good goddamn about. Why did the game have a great story? Because it was viciously stolen and ripped from a 40 part comic book line, a Belgian comic book line to be specific. Belgium's known for two things in my book; Chocolate and Comics. Okay, I'm crossing a line. XIII's the only comic I ever read, aside from those cheesy The New Yorker comics.
Now, XIII's story's so damn complicated. Even knowing in all detail how Rowland ended up on that beach, it took me four complete from-begin-to-end sessions to understand it. Hell, I already read a few of them comics before beginning the storyline.
The game itself ends with the shitty comic-book cliché of the year.
"The end?"
All in all, you've been chasing the killer of William Sherridan through hell and back, from escaping FBI thresholds to running around like the typical gun-weilding psychopath who's main enemy lies deep within the irony of being in a Mental Asylum. To be walking in on Number 1, the President himself. Who's covered up in the shadows... But his voice matches.
While the truth of the matter, told by the comics themselves;
It was Number 1 of the 20 Conspiracy...
What about the manhunt? Hell, Ubisoft copied the entire mid-collection of comics, why not doing the ones that put a conclusion to it all too?
- 1 - - - .... Yeah.
Now, there's several games that I'd love to call "The shittiest endings that leave you with no conclusion whatsoever".
Halo 3, Saints Row, Gears of War, etc.
But Halo's motto was "To Finish the Fight", no matter how alive that punchline-of-Konami-quality dispenser might be.
Saints Row has it's awnser arriving this October.
Gears of War has it's very own conclusion running around the corner this November.
And there might be countless more, but quite frankly. None would've fitted better than Halo 3's very "Yeah, screw you guys. You finished a fight. What fight? One out of a looooonnnggg series of fights, pal.". But then again, there's Saints Row with the motto "Grow in size. The explosion you die in at the end will grow too. Have a nice day, :D".
... See my point?
