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Games where their ending lessened your opinion of it?
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Wolf 2 TNC.
I was already dissapointed with the game and I expected it can't get any wrose.... can it?
What the fuck is that garbage ass ending. I regret spending 60$ on this stinker so much just because I don't buy terrible games often.
The one that doesn't have terrible gameplay and some of the worst levels in a FPS game.
I was already dissapointed with the game and I expected it can't get any wrose.... can it?
What the fuck is that garbage ass ending. I regret spending 60$ on this stinker so much just because I don't buy terrible games often.
Huh? What game is that?
I'm sorry, but The Darkness never got a sequel
The one that doesn't have terrible gameplay and some of the worst levels in a FPS game.
I don't get this choice. The climax had one of the most non-sensical but appropriate final boss fights in all of gaming. Just thinking about
getting into a fistfight with the pope
The ending to Assassin's Creed 3, however...
BotW's ending was pretty underwhelming. I don't know if it lessened my opinion of it though? At that point I had spent over 100 hours enjoying the hell out of non-story related things. A really great ending probably would have elevated my opinion some but I don't think it was enough to make me feel like the journey wasn't as good as it could have been.
Can we bring up sequels that lessen the impact of previous endings just for fun? because Wind Waker was done dirty by Spirit Tracks
We apparently finally move on past Hyrule by creating....New Hyrule which is an incredibly boilerplate world map to boot, for shaaaaaaame.
See also Persona 4's grand farewell of teary goodbyes being undone with "it's been a month but I'm back to visit and awww shit it's ARENA time" complete with character flanderisation.
Otherwise sticking with the thread more directly, chalk me up for another mention of Danagnronpa 1 and its carnival of stupid.
We apparently finally move on past Hyrule by creating....New Hyrule which is an incredibly boilerplate world map to boot, for shaaaaaaame.
See also Persona 4's grand farewell of teary goodbyes being undone with "it's been a month but I'm back to visit and awww shit it's ARENA time" complete with character flanderisation.
Otherwise sticking with the thread more directly, chalk me up for another mention of Danagnronpa 1 and its carnival of stupid.
Among other things, the tonal shift just put me off.
It is all developing around some mystery and then BAM, absurdity ramps up to 11 and they go "HAH, videogames, aren't they cool?"
Then it goes nowhere. Had the story wrapped around I'll be ok, but then it became a brand.
Assassin's Creed is essentially that, a game about videogames. You assume a role of someone in any given setting/era (like the animus and memories), under the guise of any excuse for a story so gameplay can move forward and Ubisoft can make sweet dollars.
Of course, there is great artistry involved, no questions, my beef is where does it start, is the art first or the product?
Speaking for my experiences with the series, I'll say the later. What grabbed my attention at first was the story but at the end of AC2 I've felt that it was thrown out the window.
I would like to get into it again, n fact I've tried before, but the magic was completely broken. I can't do it.
I guess you could say, AC2 ending for me was a true "Game Over".
MGS4. Did not think my opinion could get much lower after the abysmal act 3 & act 5 but it did.
I gotta disagree. For me, that's the point.
Max has all this power and regardless of it she can't make everything right. She has to decide whether to let an entire town be destroyed just to save her old best friend. There's no good outcome. Melancholic ending to a melancholic game.
Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite both have this issue, although it's more of a "whole third act goes off the rails" type of scenario.
Also, Walking Dead season 2.
Also, Walking Dead season 2.
Kenny becoming an irredeemable asshole for no reason was the worst
After the original DanganRonpa's gigantic turd of an ending I decided I didn't want anything to do with the franchise for the rest of my days, but after this thread I just have to google / wiki this V3 ending everyone keeps mentioning. :D
Fake edit: Actually, that sounds infinitely better than the first game's ending, but I don't doubt it to be much worse in actual execution than its summary suggests.
Fake edit: Actually, that sounds infinitely better than the first game's ending, but I don't doubt it to be much worse in actual execution than its summary suggests.
Danganronpa V3's ending is probably my favorite and most hype part of the entire series.
BotW has a terrible end imo. The castle is pretty good, but everything to do with the final boss fell suuuuper flat.
Having just finished Arkham Asylum for the first time, I'm going to say that as well. In a game of meh bosses, they absolutely made the final boss still the least interesting of the game.
BotW has a terrible end imo. The castle is pretty good, but everything to do with the final boss fell suuuuper flat.
Having just finished Arkham Asylum for the first time, I'm going to say that as well. In a game of meh bosses, they absolutely made the final boss still the least interesting of the game.
The ending of TMS had the opera of light sequence, man! That was the best part!
Yeah, I agree with this. The game peaked in chapter 7 and 8 anyway, which was a bit of a shame.
Yeah, I agree with this. The game peaked in chapter 7 and 8 anyway, which was a bit of a shame.
So many games, including many of the best from last year. Breath of the Wild, Resident Evil 7, Prey...all awesome, but then the last few hours I had with each game were easily the worst few hours, and each had a very underwhelming ending. Edith Finch also had a sucky ending after an otherwise tremendous experience.
Other great games with weak closing stretches/conclusions: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Bioshock, Resident Evil 4, The Evil Within, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Twilight Princess.
I still love the game and my time spent with it, but having the ending boil down to a binary choice was such a lazy cop-out.
Other great games with weak closing stretches/conclusions: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Bioshock, Resident Evil 4, The Evil Within, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Twilight Princess.
I agree with this completely.
I still love the game and my time spent with it, but having the ending boil down to a binary choice was such a lazy cop-out.
I chose to sacrifice the town, and I'm actually glad I made that choice even though it clearly felt like the "lesser" ending of the two. I watched the other ending on YouTube and thought it was lame that Max could do nothing more than hide and let Chloe be killed. Couldn't she, like, do something to help without using her rewind? Couldn't she have sacrificed her own life in the act of saving Chloe? I probably would have been more infuriated if that was the ending I picked. As it was, the ending I went with felt weak but I didn't hate it either.
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The last hour of Final Fantasy Type 0 took the game from mediocre to insulting. Random apocalypse followed by an unlosable final boss fight. Then gives you the option of a new-game plus telling you that by playing again there will be new cutscenes added that provide context to the story, because you know, it just makes sense to hide story context behind a new-game plus.
Absolutely soured me.
Absolutely soured me.
Yup. Don't know what they were thinking. The credits were awful to, which is usually not something I'd mention.
Not exactly the ending per say, but the direction the plot took on the final chapters of Final Fantasy Tactics really hurt the game, even tho it's still a fantastic game i have replayed countless times for gameplay alone.
Basically the first 2/3 of the game, you're playing this high fantasy political intrigue adventure between two warring factions fighting for the throne with a corrupt church pulling some strings in the shadows to seize power for themselves.
But in the final third of the game that political intrigue plot gets tossed to the side while your party gets involved in a cliche "millennial evil reborn" plot while the political plot gets solved without further involvement of your party, sure you saved the world from super demon "not jesus" monster, but you literally, LITERALLY, become a footnote to history while the plot you were actually invested in gets resolved by other people.
Yes, i get it, the story at large was supposed to be the Saga of Delita, but the whole point was that Ramza was a huge part of it, but in the end the whole thing disconnects; i also understand that the point was to make the church be the villians, but fuck, before demons and shit were involved, the church was already the villian! why not just keep it 100% political intrigue fantasy?
Basically the first 2/3 of the game, you're playing this high fantasy political intrigue adventure between two warring factions fighting for the throne with a corrupt church pulling some strings in the shadows to seize power for themselves.
But in the final third of the game that political intrigue plot gets tossed to the side while your party gets involved in a cliche "millennial evil reborn" plot while the political plot gets solved without further involvement of your party, sure you saved the world from super demon "not jesus" monster, but you literally, LITERALLY, become a footnote to history while the plot you were actually invested in gets resolved by other people.
Yes, i get it, the story at large was supposed to be the Saga of Delita, but the whole point was that Ramza was a huge part of it, but in the end the whole thing disconnects; i also understand that the point was to make the church be the villians, but fuck, before demons and shit were involved, the church was already the villian! why not just keep it 100% political intrigue fantasy?
WHAT?!
The ending of Steins Gate is, hands down, the greatest and most satisfying conclusion I have ever experienced in a video game. The journey getting there and then the payoff was sublime storytelling. To the point where honestly there was absolutely no need for a follow up.
Now in that that vein, I vote for Steins Gate 0. When the game just....ended. I just felt like I'd wasted my time. It was an enjoyable experience but in the end I just couldn't help but shake the feeling that the game didn't need to be made and the story never really justified itself if that makes sense. As I said I enjoyed my time with it but when it was over I just wondered what the point was. It was a story without a good payoff and one that didn't need to be told.
Zero Time Dilemma's ending really lowered my opinion of the Zero Escape series when taken as a whole. 999 on its own is still utterly fantastic though.
Oh boy, don't wanna derail the thread but this image irks me in the wrong way. I know it's an old meme and all, but the "DID YOU RIKE IT????" part is so goddamn racist.
/rant over
I won't go into it, but Prey (2017) has the dumbest, smarmiest ending meta-twist, the twist's whole schtick is vapid and overdone and betrays most of everything that made its story interesting in the first place. Really soured me on the game.
Dragon Age Inquisition was pretty bad for this too.
Dragon Age Inquisition was pretty bad for this too.
I tried to think of examples, but that's just not really a thing for me. A game is journey, a few seconds of cutscene don't erase all the fun I had along the way. For example, Planescape Torment had a HORRIBLE ending cinema. So did System Shock 2. Even the devs of these games admit that. But that doesn't mean they aren't some of the best of all time.
Final Fantasy XV. I adored the first half, was soured by the second half, and then the ending topped the whole story off as awful to me.
Remember Luna? That girl we totally ignored and refused to create a personality for? Who only existed so Noctis would have a loyal lady friend to suit his princely self? Cool, because even though she died just so Noctis could keep his quest going (what other use could we possibly give her in this story?) she's still around after death to sit at the king's throne like the good little personality-free subservient lady she was always destined to be! Yay for king Noct!
Yeah, the ending has the potential to be good but the execution isn't great.
Aside from being overly drawn out and repetitive, the biggest problem with the execution is that it's confusing to player whether the characters in the game are acknowledging that they are indeed characters in a video game, or if they're simply realizing that they're actors in a game show (it's the latter). There's even a prompt where you have to admit that the characters in the game are fictional, despite the fact that they're still supposed to be real people in-universe. What they mean is that the characters' personalities which were imposed on them are "fictional" rather than their existence being fictional , but it's not really clear.
It also doesn't help that the game doesn't fully commit to the ending, purposely giving the player reason to believe that the villain lied about what they revealed but not specifying to what degree they may or may not have lied. Maybe the point was to be confusing, I dunno.
It also doesn't help that the game doesn't fully commit to the ending, purposely giving the player reason to believe that the villain lied about what they revealed but not specifying to what degree they may or may not have lied. Maybe the point was to be confusing, I dunno.
This is where hardly paying attention to any game's plot ever comes in handy, one of the few times really but the benefits are there!
Ys Memories of Celceta
The world is at the brink of dissapearing, but thanks to the great Adol Christin this doesn't happen. Oh, and those fuckers that helped you in your journey? they are fine somewhere I guess but who cares?, you are riding into the sunset with one hot girl that I guess was a love interest of yours
Adol Christian is the world's worst heart-breaker. Constantly wooing the ladies and then just up and leaving them.
Fucking Witcher 3 - after trudging through 80 hours of it including that whole section with the loathsome Dandelion - i got the worst ending (apparently i didn't give Ciri enough freedom and, I had no interest in trying to date any of the women in that game so didn't try and it turns out that wasn't the right thing to do
I nearly hurled my PS4 out the window
I nearly hurled my PS4 out the window
My issue with this particular love interest is that she never feels like someone who is into Adol, and not even a good friend, she is just... there.
I can't even remember her name
She was more into him in the original version of Ys IV IIRC, but they toned it down quite a bit in this version.
Games with open endings (and mostly hanging ones) that don't have a real closure and wish make you wait for an obvious sequel like with TV series episodes. That sounds very cheap. You can have a really closed ending that gives no hints to a sequel yet we get sequels or prequels afterwards like with MGS games.
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Super Mario Odyssey
Edit: Someone should make a "Games where their ending improved your opinion of it?" thread, I'd be interested in your answers.
I was cringing so hard at Mario's proposal fail and Peach subsequently almost ditching him. And after all that effort. Mario's the ultimate beta.
If anyone has a different interpretation please let me know.
If anyone has a different interpretation please let me know.
Edit: Someone should make a "Games where their ending improved your opinion of it?" thread, I'd be interested in your answers.
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I mean it's not like
she's obligated to date him. That did not bother me at all. And she's busy being a fucking awesome explorer, so there's that as well.
Also, beta?! What the fuck, dude?!
Also, beta?! What the fuck, dude?!
Didn't love Mass effect 3 before the ending but boy did that ending torpedo it to rock-bottom. Another is Life is strange. 4 great episodes and the last one was shit. Didn't help either that the ending i picked/preferred felt very underwhelming.
I mean, that's sort of the point of the game. It makes you think its a haunted house story, and then swerves. I loved how I was prepared to get scared, and then ended up with a totally different emotional response. But I get how that could also be frustrating. I think it was done that way to get people to open up to a story that they normally might not be interested in.
+1 for me. I was a huge advocate for the game up until the last chapter and especially the ending. Neither Ending in particular is particularly good, but what makes it worse is how obvious they were and the overall implications of both of them towards the game as a whole. Made everything feel really pointless and, since I didn't even like a particular character, it wasn't even a hard choice. The game pretty much killed my interest in Adventure/Visual Novel style games and Episodic games as a whole, because part of my disdain came from the fact that there was such a long period of time and not very engaging gameplay building up to the ending. The payoff wasn't worth the mental investment.
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I don't think the ending of Steins;Gate is bad, but I prefer the bittersweetness of the ending right before the true one. As someone who hates happy endings though, Steins did earn it.
I think the worst part was finding out which choices actually dictate getting the bad ending. Out of all the choices you make in the game it came down to 3 or 4 random choices that at no point give you any indication of the long term effects of picking them.
Assassin's Creed: Origins. It's a poorly paced mess that seems like it's about to cut to credits multiple times in the last half hour or so, but can't stop dragging on.
I don't think a phrase has ever made me intensely dislike a character more than "poets of the kill".
You avenged your kid in a terrible boss fight and had quite possibly the biggest eyeroll in the series with the symbol reveal. But, we can't stop until you endure another boat section just so we can get to the "Et tu, Brute?" moment. Give me a break.
I don't think a phrase has ever made me intensely dislike a character more than "poets of the kill".