Surveys like this always turn into a popularity contest, mostly among recent games. The solution? Ignore it. Pretend it didn't happen. Throw your PC screen out of the window if you must.

I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Stroker has the best ending ever.

Popular video game wins popularity contest, more news at 11

i love these kind of polls.

the threads they cause are such a great opportunity for me to re enforce just how hardcore and great i am for having a 'better' opinion than these people that votes.

shame on them for not being as great or as hardcore as me.

my fav ending is from a bizarre 15 year old JRPG that nobody has ever heard of, so that makes me way more of a gamer then most people. imagine how great i feel

please everyone queue up to slap me on the back.

@jetsetwillie said:

i love these kind of polls.

the threads they cause are such a great opportunity for me to re enforce just how hardcore and great i am for having a 'better' opinion than these people that votes.

shame on them for not being as great or as hardcore as me.

my fav ending is from a bizarre 15 year old JRPG that nobody has ever heard of, so that makes me way more of a gamer then most people. imagine how great i feel

please everyone queue up to slap me on the back.

Pretty sure they would slap you on the face.

That poll is out of date. MW3 has the bestest ending.

@MattyFTM said:

Surveys like this always turn into a popularity contest, mostly among recent games. The solution? Ignore it. Pretend it didn't happen. Throw your PC screen out of the window if you must.

I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Stroker has the best ending ever.

You butthole, I clicked on the link... why did you... I hate you.

RAAAAAGGGGGGEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Jaytow: YES!

@MattyFTM said:

Surveys like this always turn into a popularity contest, mostly among recent games. The solution? Ignore it. Pretend it didn't happen. Throw your PC screen out of the window if you must.

I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Stroker has the best ending ever.

It has the 'happiest' ending.

The best ending to the campaign in Black Ops would have been... "Congratulations! You have now unlocked dedicated servers!"

I know this is the Guinness "World Records" but this just seems like an American thing. I do not believe gamers...no. I do not believe that this games ending out does everything that has come out so far. Nooo way man. Did they just ask gamers who primarly play FPS games or something? I'm sure no one on these forms voted!

How did Super Mario World not get that title with it's awesome jingle and re-introduction to every villain/friendly in the game? I mean, that's how I knew I missed a level back when I was a kid when I realized there were enemies in the credits roll I didn't recognize!

My top 2 endings are Darksiders and Castlevania Lords of Shadow. Both those were excellent!

@ApeGantz said:

I know this is the Guinness "World Records" but this just seems like an American thing. I do not believe gamers...no. I do not believe that this games ending out does everything that has come out so far. Nooo way man. Did they just ask gamers who primarly play FPS games or something? I'm sure no one on these forms voted!

exactly, anyone on GB is way better than those CoD gamers.

There is Force Unleashed II on that fucking list. Let's stop talking about it.

I'm not even going to bother with listing examples of better endings. Just no. There's no point. Let's go home, guys.

too many dude bros voting, skewed numbers in favor of COD :( even modern warfare 2 is #4

I don't even..

Ya, and Avatar is the highest grossing movie ever.

Popular opinion: Complete Bullshit

@llamaegg said:

I...I...what? This is quite possibly the most depressing thing I've read all day.

This.

But yeah this makes me sad for the world. godammit

@Demoskinos: The Red Dead ending was blatantly obvious but the impact of it still was with me for days afterwards. Amazing game.

But which ending do you mean? The father getting shot (the REAL ending in my mind) or the rather silly 'show down' the son has with an old man in Mexico?

@MonkeyKing1969: The stuff with John Marston. The stuff with the son was just a clever way to let you keep exploring the world after the main campaign.

BO doesn't have anything on the HL2:E2 ending...

@ApeGantz said:

I know this is the Guinness "World Records" but this just seems like an American thing. I do not believe gamers...no. I do not believe that this games ending out does everything that has come out so far. Nooo way man. Did they just ask gamers who primarly play FPS games or something? I'm sure no one on these forms voted!

So yeah, CoD is the most popular game in the world. All of the world. Not just America. So... And in any case, it's a numbers game. The people that read enthusiast websites in anything aren't the ones that determine what's popular. No matter if it's film, games or music, the elitist enthusiast hipster d-bags will always complain that what's popular is garbage.

And if anyone on enthusiast websites voted, they'd vote for the most obscure, "hardcore" thing they could, just to show that they're cool. And a good portion of those people would vote for endings of games they haven't even finished.

Oh, and in case I forgot, take your nationalistic issues somewhere else. "An American thing"? What the hell are you even talking about. It was the #1 game across Europe last year as well. And Australia. And Canada. So what? What the hell does the country have to do with anything?

Halo: Reach had a better ending then Black Ops and those games came out in the same year.

As far as popular mainstream shooters go it blows me away that there is even a comparison here. Hell, Call of Duty 4 had a better ending then that game.

Also some I can think of off the top of my head.

• Briad
• Silent hill shattered memories
• Red dead Redemption
• DeadSpace 2

But by the logic that these dumb asses are using every year that a Call of Duty game comes out it will have a newer better ending based on votes.

That list is so fucked up, Super Mario Galaxy? WHAT?

Ha... funny. That's all I have to say about this really. Would be either funnier or more upsetting if it wasn't so obvious that something like this would happen.

This can be summarised with two quotes from Sean "Day[9]" Plott:

"What hell the fuck?"

"Holy double-buttshit!"

Lies!!! No one has seen the ending to a CoD game, cuz no one plays the single player. Im pretty sure at some point you will enter a white room where the devs said thats good enough, and just stopped making the game.

Just read this list again and there are multiple breaking points for me FAR more egregious than Call of Duty: Black Ops.

#3: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I know I bitch about that game in general, but seriously? The ending to Ocarina of Time barely exists. At this point, I assume people are counting that entire final dungeon, which is okay, but super-bizarre. Clearly this is really more of a popularity contest. But if you're a crazy Nintendo fan and this poll was conducted before Skyward Sword's release (very possible, as the most recent game on the list is Portal 2) this is probably the ending with the most story that the most people have seen. Pisses me off, but I can move on.

#8: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Okay, this is a personal one, but this is the point where I realize I can't really even trust the gaming public to know when they're being fed complete and utter crap. MGS4's 70-minute film ending is the second worst thing about MGS4, half for its didactic tone and half for its awful mistreatment of the rest of the franchise. If that game had ended with "Snake lived a good life", it'd be fine, but what happens after that is GAAAAARBAAAAAAGE and literally ruined Metal Gear Solid 4 AND Metal Gear Solid 2 for me. Forget ALL of you.

#11: Super Mario Brothers. WHAT!?!?!?!? Okay, clearly this isn't even a poll about endings anymore! There must be people who don't speak English simply voting for their favorite game. And Super Mario Brothers is easily one of the most popular games of all time, so that makes some sense. The fact that there are more people who can't read voting than people voting for Metal Gear Solid 3 is pretty awful, but whatever, I guess I wanna see if MGS3 shows up on this list at all.

#28: Sonic the Hedgehog. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?How are there so many people who managed to find this poll that clearly can't read who honestly believe that Sonic the Hedgehog is the best game ever? They're clearly not voting for the ending of this game, as it doesn't exist. Even if the player collects all the Chaos Emeralds, it's just Sonic standing next to a bunch of animals and pointing at the screen! How can there honestly be enough idiot Sonic fans to even allow this to chart? Not that Sonic isn't awesome and that all fans are stupid, but you'd have to be verbally challenged or unable to speak English to vote for Sonic in a best endings poll! This is blasphemous, especially considering Metal Gear Solid 3 is still not on this list yet. This is the point where I need to start punching things.

#38: Fallout 3. WHAT. THE. FUCK. No. The ending to Fallout 3 is infamously the WORST thing about Fallout 3. In fact, that game would probably handily be the best Western game of the year if it weren't for its goddamn shit shitty ending. And the people who voted for Fallout 3 can clearly fucking read or else they wouldn't play or like Fallout 3. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFuuuuuck. Video games are over. Jesus FUCKING Christ.

I finished BLOPs. And I couldn't recall the ending for the life of me. Surely a magnificent sign of a memorable ending...

Kids these days. What was so awesome with BO's ending anyway?

Some deserving spots in there though, like Oblivion, Portal 2 had a fine ending, Shadows of the Colossus, Final Fantasy 7....

But where is Silent Hill 2, Zelda: Link to the Past, Deus Ex?

Meh...whatever. Shitty list.

It was so great that I couldn't remember it until I looked at your spoiler warning...

@Little_Socrates said:

Just read this list again and there are multiple breaking points for me FAR more egregious than Call of Duty: Black Ops.

#3: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I know I bitch about that game in general, but seriously? The ending to Ocarina of Time barely exists. At this point, I assume people are counting that entire final dungeon, which is okay, but super-bizarre. Clearly this is really more of a popularity contest. But if you're a crazy Nintendo fan and this poll was conducted before Skyward Sword's release (very possible, as the most recent game on the list is Portal 2) this is probably the ending with the most story that the most people have seen. Pisses me off, but I can move on.

#8: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Okay, this is a personal one, but this is the point where I realize I can't really even trust the gaming public to know when they're being fed complete and utter crap. MGS4's 70-minute film ending is the second worst thing about MGS4, half for its didactic tone and half for its awful mistreatment of the rest of the franchise. If that game had ended with "Snake lived a good life", it'd be fine, but what happens after that is GAAAAARBAAAAAAGE and literally ruined Metal Gear Solid 4 AND Metal Gear Solid 2 for me. Forget ALL of you.

#11: Super Mario Brothers. WHAT!?!?!?!? Okay, clearly this isn't even a poll about endings anymore! There must be people who don't speak English simply voting for their favorite game. And Super Mario Brothers is easily one of the most popular games of all time, so that makes some sense. The fact that there are more people who can't read voting than people voting for Metal Gear Solid 3 is pretty awful, but whatever, I guess I wanna see if MGS3 shows up on this list at all.

#28: Sonic the Hedgehog. WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?How are there so many people who managed to find this poll that clearly can't read who honestly believe that Sonic the Hedgehog is the best game ever? They're clearly not voting for the ending of this game, as it doesn't exist. Even if the player collects all the Chaos Emeralds, it's just Sonic standing next to a bunch of animals and pointing at the screen! How can there honestly be enough idiot Sonic fans to even allow this to chart? Not that Sonic isn't awesome and that all fans are stupid, but you'd have to be verbally challenged or unable to speak English to vote for Sonic in a best endings poll! This is blasphemous, especially considering Metal Gear Solid 3 is still not on this list yet. This is the point where I need to start punching things.

#38: Fallout 3. WHAT. THE. FUCK. No. The ending to Fallout 3 is infamously the WORST thing about Fallout 3. In fact, that game would probably handily be the best Western game of the year if it weren't for its goddamn shit shitty ending. And the people who voted for Fallout 3 can clearly fucking read or else they wouldn't play or like Fallout 3. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFuuuuuck. Video games are over. Jesus FUCKING Christ.

I agree with all of your points except for MGS 3. I thought that ending was dog shit as well.

You know what...it didn't have the best ending...but I have seen FAR worse. There are games with terrible endings and CoD BLOPs is not terrible it is just predictable and rather average. But I think it winning is an 'mark' against the rest of development community. Most people never see the endings of a game, because some stupid level or boss makes completing the game unpalatable. With 25+ million copies sold and it not being a very hard game I'm guessing a million people saw the ending. A million gamers seeing an ending to a game is a DAMN miracle...that why it won....more people saw that ending then saw the ending of any other game that came out.