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FortuneCookie
10/02/22 11:36:10 AM
#102:


Jiek_Fafn posted...
Don't you fight him again or something

This is after the second encounter. The game ends on a To Be Continued message. The game has an unlockable second quest where the levels are flipped, but it still gives you the same ending.
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Nemu
10/02/22 11:36:55 AM
#103:


Definitely Mass Effect 3. It's the culmination of 3 games that promised that your choices would matter, only to throw it all away for three choices of pretty lights and then some meh exposition after everyone complained about the pretty lights.
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demel
10/02/22 11:37:31 AM
#104:


Mass Effect 3. The build up of the trilogy and we get a choice of 3 coloured endings.

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Arishok
10/02/22 11:38:15 AM
#105:


Mass Effect Andromeda
The entire Darksiders series
Spec Ops: The Line
Dead Space 3

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BlueBoy675
10/02/22 11:41:26 AM
#106:


Kingdom Hearts 3

Turns out Xehanort just wanted to use darkness to make a new world of light and everyone forgives him and he gets to go to heaven or something

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Deutschenlied
10/02/22 11:42:15 AM
#107:


Shadow of Mordor is pretty bad

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party_animal07
10/02/22 11:42:32 AM
#108:


Jiek_Fafn posted...
This
Ugh, this shit show game was just a huge waste of potential and then ends in the worst way.
I was enjoying it quite a bit too. I went online to look for the good ending because I'd assumed I got the bad one.

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KFHEWUI
10/02/22 11:42:38 AM
#109:


Alone in the Dark reboot

The whole game the player is trying to prevent the release of Lucifer however....

There are two endings.

!. the love interest becomes possessed by Lucifer and Carnby walks away in shame.
2.Carnby kills his love and becomes possessed by Lucifer.

So the whole game is utterly pointless.

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Prismsblade
10/02/22 11:45:02 AM
#110:


Rogue Galaxy

After beating the final boss and saving the universe, the kingdom that assigned you said task suddenly pulls they're mask off and are actually pretentious snobs, treat you all like crap and tell you to fuck off.

Also one of your crew mates is their long lost queen they want returned. Which she goes along with, despite having no prior interest or aptitude in ruling prior.

The last bit is what's left of your crew resolved to get her back and it's heavily implied they failed.

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Darkninja42
10/02/22 11:58:06 AM
#111:


g0ldie posted...
oh look at me *LaD spoilers* I'm suddenly Arakawa's son and Arakawa's son is actually Sawashiro's son, even though there was nothing to suggest the other man had a kid the same exact day until close to the end of the game...or that Ichiban was also a baby abandoned in a coin locker

dumb, contrived bullshit.
I remember guessing that was going to happen early on, but I didn't think they would actually follow thru with it because it seemed too dumb. But from what I know of the rest of the games that seems kind of on brand.

Still the acting saved it, for the most part

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Srk700
10/02/22 12:04:22 PM
#112:


Quorthon109 posted...
Fallout 3 pre-DLC

This. On it's own it's not that bad, but it becomes utter garbage if you have Fawkes or Charon with you.
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g0ldie
10/02/22 12:04:35 PM
#113:


even though the acting was good, I wouldn't say it saved the ending, for me.

it's just so...dumb. I get angry thinking about it

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bruplex
10/02/22 12:59:44 PM
#114:


Ultima: Exodus on the NES *grumble*

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EliteGuard99
10/02/22 1:12:53 PM
#115:


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

I more competent story teller would have given the choice to spare or kill Abby and leave the ending the same regardless of the players choice would have really made the theme of the game hit home more.

But Neil isnt that good.


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EliteGuard99
10/02/22 1:15:27 PM
#116:


BlueBoy675 posted...
Kingdom Hearts 3

Turns out Xehanort just wanted to use darkness to make a new world of light and everyone forgives him and he gets to go to heaven or something
Really hits home how bad of a game KH3 was:

https://youtu.be/5LbW-LnA4RY

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Azardea
10/02/22 1:59:06 PM
#117:


Srk700 posted...
This. On it's own it's not that bad, but it becomes utter garbage if you have Fawkes or Charon with you.
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ellis123
10/02/22 2:08:59 PM
#118:


EliteGuard99 posted...
I more competent story teller would have given the choice to spare or kill Abby and leave the ending the same regardless of the players choice would have really made the theme of the game hit home more.

But Neil isnt that good.
As if that would change anything relevantly. All people would do is complain that the game was horrid for not having your choices matter. Gaming has been around long enough for it to be clear that the average gamer doesn't have a clue about what makes good or bad writing, just that if they like or dislike something then it is automatically good or bad.

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FridgeBeard
10/02/22 2:30:09 PM
#119:


People have mentioned the best ones, but I'll throw Far Cry 5 in here too.

Suddenly nuclear apocalypse

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bIuerain
10/02/22 3:01:07 PM
#120:


Only game I can think of I played where the ending sucked was Halo 2. Just so sudden.

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YellowSUV
10/02/22 3:15:12 PM
#121:


g0ldie posted...
oh look at me *LaD spoilers* I'm suddenly Arakawa's son and Arakawa's son is actually Sawashiro's son, even though there was nothing to suggest the other man had a kid the same exact day until close to the end of the game...or that Ichiban was also a baby abandoned in a coin locker

dumb, contrived bullshit.

Seconding this. One of the stupidest plot twists I ever seen. I burst out laughing with how contrived it was when it happened and dropped the game for a year.

The actual ending was also overly melodramatic (in no way as ridiculous the quoted plot twist though).


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mybbqrules
10/02/22 3:18:26 PM
#122:


Any NES game where at the end you got a screen that said "Congratulations! A winner is you!" And that's all.

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Hambo
10/02/22 3:35:24 PM
#123:


Okamiden. In the ending of the original Okami, it turns out everyone is alive and where they should be and they're all happy and everything is great. Then in Okamiden, starring Ammy's cute little puppy son, the story ends with you being forced to kill one of your friends after he learns he was literally born to be a sacrifice. Another one of your friends abandons his parents (who are also two important characters you loved in the original Okami) on bad terms, suggesting a sequel that would never happen.

It was just surprising that the sequel starting a smaller and cuter dog would have such a bittersweet ending after the sunshine-and-rainbows ending of the original.

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Mad-Dogg
10/02/22 3:56:48 PM
#124:


Garioshi posted...
I don't want to be that guy, but the whole point of SO3 is that it doesn't matter if they're actually characters in a video game because you still care about them. Believe it or not, Star Ocean 2 was a video game all along before 3 came along! You played through it, even! If it was revealed tomorrow that we were unambiguously, 100% part of a simulation, absolutely nothing should change, because what happens in this world still matters. Star Ocean 3 is explicitly about this, and being mad at it for that shows an enormous lack of understanding of the game.
Please, don't even try to make star ocean 3's "I thunk therefore I am" bullshit out to be some deep onion layers experience and I do not like it because "I don't get it", lol. The final boss was some butt-hurt admin named lucifer because that is totally deep who got upset that game characters clicked their heels three times and learned to feel like real boys and girls, and when he actually succeeded in sending the verses into the recycle bin after they kicked his ass fate leinGOD and friends restored it by I gotta' believe!! parappa the rapper style. Like I already said, that crap did not do anything the matrix didn't already do like 5 years prior.

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DarkRoast
10/02/22 4:01:53 PM
#125:


Fallout 3

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Halland
10/02/22 4:06:23 PM
#126:


Mass effect 3. Both the old and upgraded endings.
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YellowSUV
10/02/22 4:07:50 PM
#127:


DarkRoast posted...
Fallout 3

lol I forgot this one

"I refuse to go into a radiation chamber despite radiation not effecting me. You must go in and die because IT IS YOUR DESTINY!"

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DKBananaSlamma
10/02/22 4:28:02 PM
#128:


YellowSUV posted...
lol I forgot this one

"I refuse to go into a radiation chamber despite radiation not effecting me. You must go in and die because IT IS YOUR DESTINY!"
That was so dumb. Did no one question that during development?

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Irony
10/02/22 4:33:24 PM
#129:


DKBananaSlamma posted...
That was so dumb. Did no one question that during development?
Why would anyone question Todd Howard? Reminder that every Bethesda Fallout has trash tier writing.

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MaxEffingBemis
10/02/22 4:37:03 PM
#130:


Regarding SO3: is it even really canon to the universe as a whole? Because none of the games that have come after it have made any mention whatsoever to it. Granted, SO3 happens to be the last game in the timeline (depending on where SO6 lands in the timeline)

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Irony
10/02/22 4:38:54 PM
#131:


Divine Force is almost 200 years before Till The End of Time

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Mad-Dogg
10/02/22 4:43:31 PM
#132:


MaxEffingBemis posted...
Regarding SO3: is it even really canon to the universe as a whole? Because none of the games that have come after it have made any mention whatsoever to it. Granted, SO3 happens to be the last game in the timeline (depending on where SO6 lands in the timeline)
SO3 to this day is still the last game in the timeline. The writers they have now apparently refuse to go anywhere near it, so yeah, unless its retconned one day its still the last SO game chronological wise.

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FaultyCircuitry
10/02/22 4:44:05 PM
#133:


from what a friend of me told me

The Third Birthday by far

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MaxEffingBemis
10/02/22 4:44:51 PM
#134:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
from what a friend of me told me

The Third Birthday by far
Everything about that game was bad actually

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Darkninja42
10/02/22 4:47:24 PM
#135:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
from what a friend of me told me

The Third Birthday by far
I've seen a video about that and yeah that's pretty terrible, and also the implications of it are pretty wild

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DKBananaSlamma
10/02/22 4:58:11 PM
#136:


FaultyCircuitry posted...
from what a friend of me told me

The Third Birthday by far
Think what's fucked up about it is that the whole game shows Aya getting her clothes ripped off to expose her body during combat and all these shower scenes with her. and then it turns out that the spirit of a dead 12yo girl or something is inhabiting her body during all this.

Fucking Japan >_> Why they gotta do this

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HA4e
10/02/22 5:00:00 PM
#137:


Reptile's Mortal Kombat 4 ending

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comicfire
10/02/22 5:03:46 PM
#138:


Prismsblade posted...
Rogue Galaxy

After beating the final boss and saving the universe, the kingdom that assigned you said task suddenly pulls they're mask off and are actually pretentious snobs, treat you all like crap and tell you to fuck off.

Also one of your crew mates is their long lost queen they want returned. Which she goes along with, despite having no prior interest or aptitude in ruling prior.

The last bit is what's left of your crew resolved to get her back and it's heavily implied they failed.

This and how shockingly bad the last few areas and final bosses were really soured the entire experience for me

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dancing_cactuar
10/02/22 5:07:56 PM
#139:


I'd say Halo 2, but that implies that it had an ending to begin with.

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Xatrion
10/02/22 5:09:16 PM
#140:


First Borderlands. So much buildup, so much stuff to go through, and at the end, you're gettin' balls like a smurf.

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DKBananaSlamma
10/02/22 5:14:48 PM
#141:


dancing_cactuar posted...
I'd say Halo 2, but that implies that it had an ending to begin with.
I like how when people asked Phil Spencer to fix Halo 2's ending in MCC, he said "we did. Halo 3 is included in it" lol

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MrMallard
10/02/22 5:24:41 PM
#142:


BlueBoy675 posted...
Kingdom Hearts 3

Turns out Xehanort just wanted to use darkness to make a new world of light and everyone forgives him and he gets to go to heaven or something
Also, here's six or seven different endings for a bunch of different characters that you see after walking through a gauntlet of boss fights right at the end of the game. One after the other, in a row, before another series of fights with an extended gameplay switch-up before the final boss and a final overextended series of endings.

Kingdom Hearts 3 is the definition of ending fatigue. Terra, Aqua and Ventus have a pretty good payoff, but every other ending they force in at the end is to check it off of a list and you can 100% tell.

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FLOUR
10/02/22 5:29:17 PM
#143:


Out of games that actually have an ending, I'm going with Wild Arms 5. Try it!

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dotsdfe
10/02/22 5:50:11 PM
#144:


Garioshi posted...
AI: The Somnium Files 2

Wait, which part?

I loved everything about that game's ending except for the goofy QTE stadium scene, but even that was fine because the rest of the ending was so strong.

Kind of surprised to see it being mentioned here.

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Umbreon
10/02/22 10:19:57 PM
#145:


HA4e posted...
Reptile's Mortal Kombat 4 ending

Oh yeah, dude got fucking screwed for no good reason.

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loafy013
10/02/22 11:10:20 PM
#146:


Rampage on the NES. think it was 150 levels to go through just to get a "congratulations" on a black screen.

edit: damn, I should have clicked on page 2 to see this was brought up right away.

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Trelve
10/03/22 1:39:43 AM
#147:


dotsdfe posted...
Wait, which part?

I loved everything about that game's ending except for the goofy QTE stadium scene, but even that was fine because the rest of the ending was so strong.

Kind of surprised to see it being mentioned here.
Not him but maybe it's the way the game lies to you to get it's stupid twist to work. It's not technically the ending but it annoyed me all the same. It serves no purpose other to have a twist for the sake of it. Zero Time Dilemma has a similarly stupid twist ending and I'm surprised its not been mentioned.
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dotsdfe
10/03/22 1:58:54 AM
#148:


Trelve posted...
Not him but maybe it's the way the game lies to you to get it's stupid twist to work. It's not technically the ending but it annoyed me all the same. It serves no purpose other to have a twist for the sake of it. Zero Time Dilemma has a similarly stupid twist ending and I'm surprised its not been mentioned.

Ehh, I don't mind that aspect, personally.

There are a lot of plot points in the game that strictly wouldn't work if you had a linear story. I can understand feeling like the twist is a bit cheap, since yeah, the game DOES lie to you, but I understand why they did it. I think it ultimately enhanced the game, even if I can admit that it is a bit cheap.

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KFHEWUI
10/03/22 12:20:44 PM
#149:


Deathtrap Dungeon

The scene shows the final boss when a hatch opens on top of the boss. An imp climbs out and starts laughing. Cue credits.

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Garioshi
10/03/22 1:57:45 PM
#150:


dotsdfe posted...
Wait, which part?

I loved everything about that game's ending except for the goofy QTE stadium scene, but even that was fine because the rest of the ending was so strong.

Kind of surprised to see it being mentioned here.
The entire last leg of AI2 is just fucking atrocious. It's already been well-established that the twist sucks and the game lies to you about it, but the branch endings are also contrived as fuck and also suck, and then the things that are revealed to make the twist work also suck, and then the stadium QTEfest drags on for half an hour despite being some of the most atrociously boring garbage in the whole game, then the grand finale acts as if the ending was earned in any way whatsoever.

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Strider102
10/03/22 2:19:39 PM
#151:


https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/9/0/AAPNOcAADvbS.jpg

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