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?
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
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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