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Besides Mass Effect 3. Because duh, we know about that one.

I just saw this video on YouTube --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryO-zX9WsIA -- that was talking about bad endings to games, and then it does the usual YouTube thing at the end where it invites you to mention in the comments section if they missed anything, and I stopped and thought and realized, "Man, I've played a lot of really bad games, haven't I?"

But I'm curious what terds B8 can drag out. Deploy those spoiler tags~

I'll start you off with one I actually don't hate, but I know a bunch of people who played the game loathed. In Firewatch, an indie game on Steam, you play as a dude who runs away from his responsibility as a custodian for his wife with early-onset dementia and takes a job one summer working for the parks department in Wyoming watching for fires. Your only companion is a lady on the other end of a two-way, and the dialogue between the two of you is (IMO) the selling point of the game.

Then stuff starts to get weird, as you deal with some missing teens that you saw last and could be blamed for, supplies disappearing, strange figures in the darkness, and then what appears to be people F'ing with you as part of a psychological experiment or blackmailing you or oh god I don't know wtf is going on somebody save us.

And then the girls turn up peaceably. The research equipment you find in the "top-secret facility" is just there to monitor elk movement. All the other weird crap is the result of some father who brought his son with him to do your job a previous year until the boy fell down a hole and the father exiled himself from society in shame -- and was trying to keep you from discovering the truth. And when you're forced to evacuate because of a huge forest blaze, Radio Chick runs away before having the chance to meet you, and you go back to your life as it was beforehand. So basically, nothing was all that outlandish and everything in the end was heavily anti-climactic.

Of course, that was actually the point, so this probably doesn't really qualify as a bad game ending, but it was the first thing I thought of! I'll do better in the morning, kay?
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