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?
Let's be honest here, the last gameplay stretch and ending of the original Bioshock were pretty crappy too
It wasn't great, but it was acceptable as minimum viable product. It didn't wreck my enjoyment of the rest of the game, or retroactively wreck the replay value of its predecessors the way Bioshock Infinite or Mass Effect 3 did.
System Shock 2 also had a wet fart of an ending, maybe it's a stylistic thing
It could have been a bare bones but acceptable hook for a sequel that hasn't happened yet.
It wasn't cool to have satisfying endings in that era. :shrug-outta-hecks:
Yeah, it goes downhill a lot once
Bioshock spoiler
Quark gets owned by the golf club