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?

    • regularassbitch [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      how about Detroit: Become Human? the game spends the whole time berating you for any kind of retaliatory, revolutionary violence and essentially gives you two paths:

      one in which

      you spend the entire game organizing peaceful protests and watching your comrades get killed in cold blood before your eyes until you realize that both sides are bad and forgive the people who oppressed you for your whole life

      another has you

      violently rebel against your oppressors and fight back which leads to main characters being killed off in front of you while other characters literally tell you the blood is on your hands for organizing the revolution. the ending has every Android essentially segregated inside Detroit while the rest of the world decides to simply go back to human slaves, I guess

        • regularassbitch [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          okay that part and the battlefield part were so deeply unsatisfying, especially after having to endure all that abuse as Kara. like she was literally there to drive home how disgusting and unfair the system was but then they scream and cry angry tears when you decide to set a firm boundary of giving people autonomy

    • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      It's actually incredibly batshit insane. The main character at the point of the fight has died and been resurrected, he's fighting against the Internet in human form, also there's some super-powered houseless people who've been fighting against the internet for decades. There's some ancient mayan ghosts doing wacky stuff in the background.

      I watched a let's play of this 14 years ago on SA forums and boy the nosedive from the interesting; murder-mystery-where-you-play-both-sides, beginning to the; Matrix-fights-against-the-internet, ending is a sight to see.

    • UncleJoe [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      I actually love this game because of how shit it is lol. The terrible voice acting, awful story, "sanity" system that makes you commit suicide (or go to Florida) if you so much as look at the wrong thing, it's great. I especially like how David Cage, to show how not racist he is, put in a black character that is an offensive caricature and played hip-hop music every time he was on screen.