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The worst video game endings

53 replies · 7,047 views · Started 04 August 2005

Old-skool wrote:Jade as in Mortal Kombat? Well, in Mortal Kombat: annhilation she was hot...

No, Beyond Good and Evil.

Strider1982 wrote:I agree that the ending of FF1 is weird with the whole Garland going back in time thing. It baffles me today as much as it did when I first beat that game back in 1990.

Square managed to give a slightly longer and mosre quasi-cinematic ending for the WonderSwan/PS1/GBA re-releases of FF1, but they still have the same old thing about Garland ging back thousands of years in time.

Let me explain.

Garland "aka" Chaos is in a Time-Loop. After 2000 years he goes back in time. he does this every two-thousand years, thus making him stronger. This is also why the four fiends are in the Temple of Chaos. After defeating Chaos, the time-loop is broken, and everybody lives happily-ever-after. 😃

The worst ending in history was Final Fantasy VII, but I guess that's where Advent Children comes in.

Darth Marsden wrote:Not as hot as Jade. I'm sure Vegeta would agree. 😉

Totally. You know what's weird? I met this really great girl down Ocean City, and she reminds me so much of Jade (I think it's the cheek bones)

As for Peach, I gotta say I am a Daisy fan. :tongue:

zoraking wrote:Let me explain.

Garland "aka" Chaos is in a Time-Loop. After 2000 years he goes back in time. he does this every two-thousand years, thus making him stronger. This is also why the four fiends are in the Temple of Chaos. After defeating Chaos, the time-loop is broken, and everybody lives happily-ever-after. 😃

The worst ending in history was Final Fantasy VII, but I guess that's where Advent Children comes in.
Thank you! Makes a wee bit of sense now. But if he keeps going back in time, why aren't there hundereds of Garlands from throughout his timeline? As in...

Garland gets beaten in the present and he sends himself back 2000 years. There's now one of him in the past. 2,000 years later he sends himself back again. Now there's 2 Garlands in the past. 2,000 years later, he sends himself back again. Now there's 3, and so on.

Jesus, if you people had just ran all around her castle for like 3000 hours, beaten a huge dinosaur, probably gotten killed several times in the process, what do you want more than a CAKE?

Zero Wing. If you actually beat the game on easy mode, you're treated to (I'm not joking!) a line of dancing raisens with strange music playing. I'll dig up some screenshots if I get the chance soon.

The normal mode ending sucked too, IIRC it's nothing but a credits screen with a big picture of a zig off to the side. Lame.

I have yet to ever beat hard mode.

The biggest let-down is that there is no more dialogue in the game. The intro seems to be all of it. 😞 Also I could not recognize CATS as being any particular boss in the game.

Good music can save a bad ending, which is why I don't frown at Super Mario Land's ending. Mario hijacks a spaceship, too, so how cool is that?

...but then again, I didn't think SMB3 was that bad >>

The Zelda Oracles games, when you finish the second one you play. "HOO-RAY YOU HAVE SAVED TEH WORLD" say the three womenz! And you hang out at the tree. Then you are treated to strange, ugly artwork that looks nowhere near as cool as the intro sequence. Yippee. The final battle was a bit of a let-down, too; You just hack Gannon to death quickly once he appears. I should try playing to there without all the snazzy equipment.

Link's Awakening was not neccesarily a bad ending, but it left soooooooo much to be desired. It'd be great if they ever made a continuation that explained anything a little better, or even pretended to tie in, but alas... the island might or might not've really been something, the wind fish is real but who knows what he is, and all you're left with is some driftwood and a t-shirt that says "I was stranded on an island and escaped. Sort of."

ZomfgIts0rzlolo wrote:Jesus, if you people had just ran all around her castle for like 3000 hours, beaten a huge dinosaur, probably gotten killed several times in the process, what do you want more than a CAKE?

Peach to take it all off? Hell, have it be a twist of an ending... She IS the cake.

Worst ending? *ponders* beating the original metroid over 10 hours? maybe. though really I think that the title of "Worst ending" should go to none other than Kid Icarus(NES) you save the goddess and then get sent to the beginning of the gaem to do it AGAIN. its as if she likes doing that... playing through it ONCE was enough for me thank you...

ZomfgIts0rzlolo wrote:What abotu Peach stripping ON TOP of the cake, or hiding in it SMRPG boss style?
You have a filthy, FILTHY mind. Wash it out with soap, young man!

Brandishes Rolling Pin

Worst ending? Beyond Good & Evil... wait, hear me out. It's bad because it's wide open, and we'll probably never find out how it ends. It's like watching really exciting episode of Buffy, being left on a cliffhanger and then finding out the series was cancelled, so you'll never find out what happens. Horrible.

Wizards and Warriors. I beat that game after trying for days when I was a kid, only to find out that the ending was "You saved the Princess, you get 10000000 points!"

Daarkseid wrote:I wasn't so upset with not being able to eat the cake as I was upset I wouldn't get to make love to Peach. I bet she looks hot under that dress.

Super Mario 64: Hot Coffee

I was disappointed in Mario KART: Double Dash that the trophy didn't come out of a giant fish. That's like, a tradition or something.

Anyone hear of 'Magic Knight Rayearth' for the SNES? After you beat this game, the three main characters, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu return to their own time and say they won't forget their adventure... That really sucked.

Also, Axelay and Blazeon, two shooters, do the "Ok, you beat it, now start over on a harder difficulty" thing.

My image of a good ending: Character walkes away, thinking that it is over, and that peice crap bad guy returns and tries to kill the good guy again. LIke Metroid Prime(with 100% items)

Anthony wrote:Wizards and Warriors. I beat that game after trying for days when I was a kid, only to find out that the ending was "You saved the Princess, you get 10000000 points!"

yeah, and the sequal's ending could have been better. basically, all those (I swear they're angry at you for some reason) animal kings from throughout the game say "thanks for defeating malkil".

Man, the bear and the dragon have serious issues with kuros.

Thats cause Kuros is a dick :P
I rather liked the endings for the individual episodes of DOOM, especially the one from the first episode..

"ONCE YOU BEAT THE BIG BADASSES AND
CLEAN OUT THE MOON BASE YOU'RE SUPPOSED
TO WIN, AREN'T YOU? AREN'T YOU? WHERE'S
YOUR FAT REWARD AND TICKET HOME? WHAT
THE HELL IS THIS? IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO
END THIS WAY!

IT STINKS LIKE ROTTEN MEAT, BUT LOOKS
LIKE THE LOST DEIMOS BASE. LOOKS LIKE
YOU'RE STUCK ON THE SHORES OF HELL.
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS THROUGH."

the original PC Doom's endings were well written and humourous, and were made to make it feel even more like YOU were the marine that destroyed the demons of hell.

Now Doom 64's ending sucked... you kill all the demons and chhose to remain in hell forevber.. yay.. go hero.

hmm.. the worst though... i'm gonna have to go with.. pac man... you get far enough into the actual arcade game and it will just lock up, not a very good ending at ALL :P

I remember the episode endings for Quake... Man, they sucked. I loved the way you killed the big bad though... tele-gib! Screw lobbing rockets and stuff at it, just leap through a teleporter and splatter her gibs all over the place! Wee! Bit of an anti-climax after what you've just been through, but ooohhh, it was fun.

Anything, anything is better than this!!!:

"He was dead. His armor, set a flame. The animals of the rain forest, came to see what had happened to him. You leave, the forest burns to the ground."

Mods_Suck wrote:Anything, anything is better than this!!!:

"He was dead. His armor, set a flame. The animals of the rain forest, came to see what had happened to him. You leave, the forest burns to the ground."
Which game is that from, MS?

Also - could anyone tells me what happens in the 'bad' ending for Prince of Persia - Warrior Within? I've finished it, but with all 9 life upgrades and the Water sword, so I can only see the good ending, and I've no intention of playing through the whole thing again just to catch a different cutscene at the end.

Games I know that suck... Let's see... 🙄

Bionicle matoran adventures(GBA); the WHOLE GAME SUCKED, and the ending sucked EVEN MORE; they show you and the unlockable characters sitting on tree branches, and the camera moves around with text that reads, "You won! congratulations" :disgust:

I can't believe I wasted my money on such a crappy game :banghead:

😞
because I was young, gullible, and generally an idiot.

That experience did teach me something though. NEVER BUY A GAME YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT!!! :angry: :banghead: :banghead:

I didn't think the ending to Mafia was all that good, (WARNING, PLOT SPOILERS ) but that's really because the lead character dies, even if it is after a long and happy-ish life. Surely if the lead character is older, then Morello (who was pretty old when the lead was in his late 20's/mid 30s) wouldn't still be alive? I dunno, I guess I just grew a little too attached to the lead. Good games do that, you know.