Inspired by @fuckingshit's post, I'd like to know your opinions on games with really bad or disappointing endings. Sometimes games do great for almost all of it, only to totally ruin it at the end.
I'll agree with Mass Effect 3.
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I don't think it needs a happy or sad ending, but what we got was utterly disconnected from the previous choices. When they had the sidequest for Tali and you entered the Geth cyberspace, I thought it would be connected to the ending of dealing with the Reapers. It would've been satisfying and thematic to nonstandard ways of solving problems. It also lets the Quarians have a victory that shows that engineering and creating wasn't wrong. Hell, the Geth could've worked with them and patched their history. It would reward players who maintained good relationships with their crew and make the victory a shared one, fitting with the ideal of the Citadel.
Instead, it was a one-off quest that said nothing of the the game as a whole and there were no other big choices that affected the ending.
Anyway, what games had awful endings, and if you want, how would you have changed it?
In the spirit of preventing unwanted spoilers, could we tag them in this post?
It's still good, but man is it disappointing when you complete New Vegas and everything you achieved is summed up in a sentence for each thing and then you're sent back to the menu or your last save.
Legit my favourite thing in Fallout 4 is that whichever faction you side with takes over tonnes of small checkpoints throughout the map after the main quest is done. It really feels like you expanded their reach. It also serves a gameplay purpose in making the world safer to navigate as well.
Luckily there are mods that remedy this and they're mostly satisfying.
Crunch time "let's get this game on sale before it's ready" let's go