Video game endings may be some of the best in media, because you can affect them. Nonetheless, my top three are more straightforward, as in

  1. https://youtu.be/y6NGn9bA304?t=151 World Heroes 2 Jet Best Ending, because it's so random!

  2. Limbo of the Lost. The game, the myth! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcvdDtnM_0

  3. Stack Columns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vufEmB3qSNA So bittersweet!

What are your favorites?

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    10 months ago

    I like the rimworld ending where it slows to single digit fps and then crashes because I refuse to launch the ship.

    (I very seldom bother finishing games)

  • GeorgeZBush [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Outer Wilds. If you haven't played the game, don't look up the ending. It has to be experienced.

    Disco Elysium as well.

  • impiri@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    NieR Automata, True Ending E. I'll never play it again, and I'll never forget it

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    10 months ago

    All three of the Mother games.

    Undertale (make fun of me all you want, but what other game finishes by telling you not to play ever again?)

    There are tons more but I forget

  • pooh [she/her, any]
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    10 months ago

    Off the top of my head, Super Metroid and Braid endings both did something unusual and interesting for their time. Undertale as well, though that's already been mentioned.

  • NormalC
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    10 months ago

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  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Metal Gear Rising Revengeance (I'm counting the entire confrontation with Armstrong here)

    Mass Effect 1 (yes I have rose tinted glasses)

    Disco Elysium, obviously

    This is really making me realize that most video games flub their endings.

    • __v@infosec.pub
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      10 months ago

      Mass Effect 1 (yes I have rose tinted glasses)

      I agree with this one. It's not deep or high brow or whatever, but it's really satisfying for the sci-fi action movie that game is. Also the ending song is a banger.

  • __v@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    Some of the original Citizen Sleeper endings are really good, but I think that's muddied now with the DLC which are kind of meh.

  • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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    10 months ago

    I really enjoyed the ending to Red Dead Redemption (the first one).

    Very true to western style stories.

  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    nah.wav

    Serious answer: The vast majority of games that have an actual narrative fumble their ending. They usually start out strong and end half-finished. I guess something like Earthbound and Undertale have a satisfactory ending.