The Worst/Most Dissapointing Videogame Ending Ever?

@arbitrarywater said:

Well when you put it that way...

It was fun enough to play and was probably amazing in its day. The only mechanics that were bad were your own squad sometimes blocking doorways or cover, running directly into your line of fire then you getting the "Don't kill friendlies" thing and restarting the checkpoint. Your objectives weren't always signposted well enough and on a few bits I died repeatedly because of that.

I didn't engage with the emotional bits because I couldn't identify any of my team because of the blurry textures. Playing RGB through a 32 inch CRT. After a while I ran it through FlickerF*cker (nostalgia for anyone?) which sharpened things, making the guns as jaggy as hell but a lot easier to pick the enemies out of the background.

Nothing was made of the ending, it didn't do any escalation so when the swelling music kicked in I was a bit ehhh? You cross a bridge plant two explosives on some V2 rockets and then run back 30 feet and that's it. There were loads of bits that would have felt like a better ending earlier like storming all the bunkers.

Don't get me wrong, overall I liked it but it was a bit awwww, that could have been better when it ended.

Probably Max Payne 1 and The Red Star will be my next games. I've never played any of these old titles I'm wading through so won't have nostalgia goggles but don't judge anything against modern stuff. Most of them have actually been better than this gen's stuff unless they're shooters.

Sudeki, an original Xbox RPG. Seconds after you land the final blow on the final boss, the screen transitions to a puppet show thing that plays for about ten seconds, and roll to credits.

@catsakimbo: I remember playing that game, finished it at 2:00am and yelled, "WHAT THE GODDAMN FUCK ASS IS THIS!?!?!?

Needless to say my wife at the time was not impressed being woken up with my lunatic outburst

I still feel driven to punch people whenever I see that. Especially since Halo 3 doesn't even start with you landing on Earth! Halo 2 in general is just such a bad followup to the first one, this was the icing on the pile of garbage.

At least they got to fix that ending with DLC. It's not that much better, but at least it makes sense now.

Plants v.s. zombies 2.It makes me despair

OG FAllout 3, dumbest thing ever.

I recall the ending of Xenogears being a pretty big letdown.

Persona 2: IS's ending was a punch in the stomach (pretty much everything you had done for the entire game was meaningless) but I liked it for that, because it was so out of the ordinary. Combined with the fact that you don't even get any resolution until Eternal Punishment, I could see how that might piss off some people.

Any full length game with a to be continued at the end is the worst ending I can think of.

The most recent game I can think of atm with an ending I really hated would be Assassin's Creed 3, the story in that game was all over the place so I guess I wasn't surprised how bad the ending was, but still pretty shitty after all the awesome Ezio games (even Revelations, it was not great but I still enjoyed it at least).

Oh man the end of Fallout 3 with Fawkes was so good.

It was like they completely forgot that part in the main quest where they give you a companion for the sole purpose of him being immune to radiation so he can get your thingy. He basically told you to kill yourself at the end of the game before they fixed it with DLC.

I know Fallout 3 is old now, but I don't want to spoil it anyway.

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Don't forget the ending to Half Life 2: Episode 2

The ending to Dark Souls was pretty bad too. You fight that really easy tiny babby man. I died more on the way to him than the actual fight. Then you catch on fire or you don't, the end.

Inb4 fan-rage

Final boss in the original Bioshock was goofy too.

I want to say Zero Wing. In 2000, I had recently discovered emulation and the All Your Base meme was a big thing. I had to see if a game with an intro like that had an equally entertaining ending. Since this was pre-Youtube, I played through the whole game, and got this for my efforts:

Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned. You kill most of the security guards and police in a prison to get to one inmate who plans to rat you out in exchange for witness protection with no consideration for the surveillance and witnesses. While trying to stop someone from incriminating you, you've realistically incriminated yourself.

I found the ending of Demon's Souls to be pretty underwhelming, not the actual ending cinematic, but the "fight" before that (if you can even call it that).

Gravity Rush was really amazing, but it completely stumbled with the ending. And, sadly, it brings the whole game down a notch (still love it though).

Hate to be that guy, but it was indigo prophecy in america and fahrenheit everywhere else.

@discoman:

Yep, I beat this again recently and just laughed when I re-realized that you see the end screen after beating Jason once. A more current game that had a shit ending was RAGE, very appropriate name. All that shit going on in-between the beginning and ending of that game and there was no ending, wtf?!

Space Marine. Not really the story ending, which was pretty standard 40K stuff, but the fact that the battle with this massive lord of chaos was turned into a shitty QTE. That game had the most satisfying combat up until that point.

I actually liked FF 13-2's ending, though I did just finish it a few weeks back, with Lighting Returns on the horizon, so I can see how it would suck if you played it right when it came out. But any ending in which Serah dies must be a good one.

@hunkulese: Tekken imo has awesome endings and a lot of em are funny too. So not all fighters have bad ones. But I dont know abotu ofthers like SF,Injustice, etc.

I think most every Bioware game ends poorly. Then again, I think they are pretty lackluster at stories in general. They build fantastic characters and fantastic worlds, but I don't think I've ever cared about the story being told in any of their games. Maybe Dragon Age Origins.

Assassin's Creed 3 is a mixed case.

Connor's ending was satisfying.

Desmond's ending was HORRIBLE. Especially because they touted it as a conclusive ending to this 5 game long series and it basically ends on another cliffhanger.

To be fair though, the ending to the Scenario Campaign in Tekken 6 was absolute garbage.

RAGE, a million times Rage. I spent the whole level not using that new fucking gun because I was waiting for a boss and then it just ends.

...it...does? I'm pretty sure you hurtle out of that Forerunner space ship on...some slab of metal. Maybe a door or something? Either way, it imbeds the Chief into the ground slightly. Not saying the ending was great or anything but you do fall out of that ship, hence why Johnson and company go to pick your ass up in a jungle.

Unless you mean like, they should have had you start in the ship and then jump out as an intro. That would've been pretty cool.

How has no one said Star Wars the Force Unleashed 2. So many ways for that game to be amazing but the final boss and ending basically shit over everything that makes the first game greA in my opinion.

@zirilius: I did.

The 1st Soul Reaver. A goddamn poem, after all that?

And Dark Souls continued that proud tradition as well!

For whatever reason, and I can't honestly remember why, I thought the ending to Diablo II was very disappointing. I'm not talking the ending to the expansion, but the ending to the original game. I just felt so deflated and I think it was because while the cinematic was pretty (duh, Blizzard makes pretty cut scenes) I felt entirely detached from it. I think it was because I played the entire game and suddenly Tyrael was fighting at the end and it didn't even feel like my character was a part of the ending. I was pretty chuffed about it at the time. Especially considering the fact that I think the ending to the first Diablo is pretty damn cool, besides the fact that it shows a dude in the ending cinematic when I played the game as the Rogue, but I can deal with that small wrinkle.

Mass Effect 3 is a given, but the game did so much well, I can forgive it stumbling a bit at the goal line. And they did go back and amend it, so I will give a few points to them for the extended cut. HOWEVER, I will not preorder a Bioware game again as a result of both this and the disappointment that was Dragon Age 2. They need to earn back my trust a bit more before I come back to being a BW super fan like I was a few years ago.

Though I didn't play it, I watched my husband play all of AC3 and the ending was not great. Not the worst, but I can see why an AC fan may not like how it wrapped up.

Most games have pretty mediocre endings, so trying to think of more would be pretty easy. It's the truly great endings that I think are probably fewer and farther between.

@eternalvigil let me start off my three part apology by saying that was a well written post and I don't know how I missed.

I sincerely regret the harm this game has caused us and that only by working together can we spread awareness of this atrocity.

I'm sorry that through my actions you had to defend yours and I will try harder to ensure that it never happens again.

It had so many ways to good. In the good ending when you capture vader they could have made the Vader you captured a Starkiller clone or one of those droids who can appear as people.

I would probably say Mass Effect 3. Not because of the actual game but the horrible response from the gaming community. I was disappointed in my peers after I finished it and saw the outpouring of hate that it inspired.

Well said . I agree .

Don't worry it's fine.

I consider the Force Unleashed II the final nail in the coffin of my interest in Star Wars. When your story is even more nonsensical and busted than all the bad stuff in the prequels combined, you know you have a problem.

I really think having you fight Vader at the end was a mistake, as he was the second to last boss of the good (and final boss of the evil) path of the previous game, and in both you had already proven you were more than a match for him.

Honestly, trying to stick all this in the canon star wars timeline was getting to messy, and there wasn't really a easy way to go after the ending of the first game. Might of been better, and more interesting if they had gone full on into the "What if" timeline and fleshed out and made a stronger story around how the original trilogy would have played out if Starkiller had taken Vader's place. I know they covered a lot of that in the DLC for both games, but it was only the highlights and not really a complete narrative.

If the only thing I could change as the ending, I'd probably make it a Starkiller vs evil clone starkiller fight, or throw the twist in there and have the original starkiller come back and Vader tricking both of them into fighting each other as he made his escape.

I know the sales numbers were super low and that's why it's not getting mentioned here, but Shadows of the Damned has such an awful non-ending that I cannot understand why that game is beloved by anybody. The ending that fades to black is bizarre and unfulfilling; the ending that comes on after the fade to black is incoherent and unfulfilling. And before either of those, the fake credits roll ending is unfulfilling as well. Seriously, did I skip a cutscene after the fade to black that makes that last dinner scene comprehensible? 'Cause seriously, I've never seen an ending that let me down so much.

(...it doesn't help that there's not really anything good in the game left once you've hit "TASTE MY BIG BONER" in 4-1 and there's a good 2-3 hours left of the game, either)

The back-half / endings of Indigo Prophecy were such a let down and felt rushed / lazy. I had such high hopes for that game in the beginning, story-wise.

I just realized i'm -still- butt hurt about the ME3 endings. Even the after the extended cuts and the DLC that kinda fleshed it out more. Fuck them for not doing that the first time.

The ending to The Witch's House I felt was a horrible ending. It wasn't JUST a downer, which in itself is enough to make me hate an ending, but it went the extra mile to make it as horrible and sadistic as it could possibly be. It disturbed me so much that I couldn't get to sleep easily for a few days because I couldn't stop thinking about how awful and horrifying it was.

As for big budget games, I know it has probably already been said before (and was probably beaten to death), but I really dislike the ending to Mass Effect 3. None of the choices are very satisfying, and you're just left feeling kind of bitter after you beat it. It destroyed any drive I had to replay the series, and even with the extended cut (Which improved them, thankfully), I still dislike it. Given how character heavy the game was, it's just very disappointing that the game gives absolutely no closure to anyone in the squad, it just ends very abruptly after the final choice - you don't get to see the impact of what you did at all.

Alan Wake was another game that had an ending I absolutely hated. I was really loving the story, and then SOMETHING happened, and it ended. I have no idea at all what happened at the end, I was left feeling very frustrated and confused. The story before that was so fun, and this was just... Ugh...

Edit: Oh! Someone mentioned Dragon Age 2!

@jimmyfenix: GodDAMN! That ending is still such a cocktease. Whoever has the Psi Ops license needs to quit fucking around and get a sequel in my hands NOW!

Also, my vote goes to Assassin's Creed III. Fucking HORRIFIC ending. HORRIFIC!

Homefront. Everything about that game is the worst.

The ending cutscene would be the climactic turning point about 2/3 through any other game but the devs gave no shits about the bomb they were making and called it quits there.

For me it was those NES games that were tough as hell. You finally get to the ending and you see a black screen and the word, "Congratulations." That is all.

Halo 2 and Fallout 3.

The latest I can think of was probably in gravity rush wich were so antiklimatic that I almost couldn't belive my eyes when the credits started to roll. Pretty good game though.

Otherwise I'd probably say Mass effect 3, yes obvious but after playing through and loving the series that ending just came as a punch in the face.

James Cameron's Avatar: The Game

MGS2 came out just after the 9/11 attacks, Kojima originally had the ending more planned out and developed than what shipped to stores as a result of the attacks.

Originally AG crashed into the Statue of Liberty, completely destroying it, then crashing into Lower Manhattan and eventually end up where the game ends... You can tell by the lack of explanation on how Raiden and Solidus somehow end up on the roof of the build (totally blanking on the exact building) this was scrapped out of respect for the victims of the tragedy, as the attacks affected the part of the city of which the ending takes place in...

As for my most disappointing/worst ending?

RAGE

Never have I felt a game be so anti-climatic of an ending that I literally said out loud "That's it!?" when the credits started rolling...

@leych: that game was just awful all around another great franchise turned into COD without the guns.

im surprised so many hate the bioshock infinite ending! I thought it was amazing! the worst ending is on an old arcade game where you beat the boss and then it tells you it was all a lie and you have to beat the game again to see the real ending god that game was frustrating.

Homefront!

The game was dire enough, but then it just ended with the fight on the bridge. It was as if they ran out of time and money, or just thought "sod this" and went home early.