dark_being

@  NegativeCero

@Abyssfull

Those of you who played Mass Effect 2's latest DLC "Arrival" possibly noticed the huge countdown clock welcoming you to the research station-thing right as Sheperd exits the shuttle.
The countdown begins at around 2 days+ and is counting down in real time towards something (not going to spoils towards what).

So if you're like me, your curious to see what the hell happens once the countdown winds down (looking it up on the Internet is for little girls!), and if you are REALLY like me you left the game on for 2 day straight... In about 20 hours I'll witness first hand what the hell happens when it reaches zero, and I'm going to post the result here on my profile (assuming something actually happens).

So, hmm... Stay tuned? 

Ok... Enjoy?

So basically they took SD and removed to of the spider-men? I did enjoy playing with 2099 Spider-man the best, but still... doesn't look like EoT will offer anything new... it even looks just like SD...

I've being extremely fascinated by video game endings for the last few years now, ever since I played Jericho and saw its atrocious ending. Ever since I've being uploading to my Gamespot profile (I would do the same here, but I can't seem to find a way of uploading videos to my profile) hundreds of game ending videos, for basically each game I've played (and some I didn't). Its just a thing I do... 
Anyways, I've being wondering to myself what others might think of some of the trends I've noticed over the years, especially two that are the most common, and in my opinion, the most annoying: the "Cliffhanger" ending and the "WTF" ending. 
 
While Cliffhanger can sometimes be good enough and well produced enough for us to enjoy (see Beyond good and Evil, Assassin's Creed or Dreamfall), I find them to be less than satisfyingly. To me it seems like they are just there to ensure the survival of the franchise and to make the fans demeaned a sequel. Good games can do that without using such a cheap trick simply by being, well, good... I think most of us here have encounter one or two (or ten or a fifty) Cliffhangers in our lifetime, so I gues I'm not really telling you something new, but I'd still like to hear some thoughts on the subject. 
 
The other trend, the "WTF" ending, is the worst offender. These are the endings that come out of nowhere and offer no kind of closure or satisfaction, let alone a sense of accomplishment. They are a sub-genre of the Cliffhanger ending, but without all that wonderful suspense we get out of it (I'm looking at you Kane & Lynch 2).  T here are some rare occasions that a "WTF" ending is appropriate, and is even the best way of ending a game, mostly through humor (see Duke Nukem 3D  or the Dog ending form Silent Hill 2 ) but I still think there is little to no excuse ending any game so abruptly. In my opinion it just a symptom of a poorly designed game...  
 
So what are your thoughts about recent video game endings? any favorites? any least favorites? have you noticed anything you think is worth sharing (about game endings, of course)? I'd really like to hear it.

" @dark_being said:

" I played all 3 games. Start from Shadow of Chernobyl and move on to Clear Sky. I didn't like Call if Pripyat, so if I were you I'd wait after playing the two other games and decide then if I want to keep on to the third. "

however, most people hate clear sky and love call of pripyat. Why did you like clear sky and not Pripyat? "