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    Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Was chatting about this in the car this morning. Are there any games which stick out in your mind as having particularly good or bad endings? And for the purposes of this, the "ending" covers the entire "end of game" bit (e.g. including a final boss fight), not just a final cut scene

    Pick one good one and one bad one.

    I'll start

    Bad: Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. If memory serves, the final level involves blowing up a chemical weapons plant of some kind. You succeed in your task, leg it out as fast as possible, jump onto a train, and... "well done", fade to black, roll credits. Lame.

    Good: Super Metroid. I don't want to give this one away, but from the moment you start down a corridor which looks curiously similar to one from Metroid 1, you're in for a treat of epic proportions

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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Bad: Fallout 3. Won't spoil it, but it suffers from an annoying lack of foresight where they had locked down the content of the end game and then added extra things to the rest of the game (like certain companions) that break it, resulting in the worst kind of cheesy kludge you can imagine to make the game proceed as planned.

    Good: The Witcher. Again won't spoil it, but there's an almighty twist/reveal which pulls several things from earlier in the game together and both wraps things up nicely and asks more questions (in a good way). The pacing of the end game is also fantastic - great battles, and a nice epilogue to continue the story.

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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    bad fable 2 wont spoil it but really underwhelming

    good final fantasy 7 again wont spoil it for anyone that hasn't played it.


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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Quote Originally Posted by kalniel View Post
    Bad: Fallout 3. Won't spoil it, but it suffers from an annoying lack of foresight where they had locked down the content of the end game and then added extra things to the rest of the game (like certain companions) that break it, resulting in the worst kind of cheesy kludge you can imagine to make the game proceed as planned.
    I can't fault that assessment, for a game that promised (and delivered) so much that particular set of circumstances at the end really derails things.

    However, to give Bethesda their dues...

    Good: Morrowind. What starts out as a political plot to subvert a local legend ends up seeing you taking on the mantle of a holy warrior and stabbing a god through the heart at the centre of an active volcano. However good their subsequent work was, Bethesda never told a story as well as this.
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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Worst Ending? I never really liked the end of Army of Two.. last mission was good, but what they then do with their lives was a bit meh. I suppose it opens it up for a sequel.. (what would that be called? Army of Two Two?)

    Best Ending I don't know lol. Is ages since I finished a game. I keep on starting them and never finishing.

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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Most game endings are pretty forgettable IMHO, but I did like COD4:MW single player's ending (other than the airline bit) and Portal's last "level" was excellent.

    Worst ending I played recently was Far Cry 2. I was annoyed I persevered to the end as I stopped enjoying it from about half way through and kept thinking it was going to get better.

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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Worst: Shenmue 1 and 2

    As this was supposed to be a 4 part game they where just cliff hangers, the problen is that Sega aren't making any more Shenmue games (gits!)

    Best: Portal

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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Good: The Darknesss. It just worked and was a satisfying end to an excellently plotted (and criminally under rated!) game.

    Bad: Gears of War 2. It was too abrupt for me. I wanted a bit more of the story to be released and that didn't happen...
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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Got to say when I read this thread title, the first game that jumped out at me for a good ending was actually Prey. now the game itself was fairly average, but I really found the ending to be quite spectacular and also quite grim. Still I wouldn't say it was the best ending, I think dead space is worth a mention as there is a quite a nice twist at the end and the boss fight is as if not more spectacular than the Crysis final boss fight. Winner for me has to be portal though for the huge laughs I got as soon as that song played.

    Worst ending... maybe mass effect for the annoying boss fight and predictable ending, but I think the top spot has to go to Far Cry because I got right to the final bit and was just totally unable to make it across that volcano at the end so I didn't even get to see the ending that was apparently total rubbish anyway.
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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    I thought the end of bioshock was a bit of a let down. not so much for the actual end videos but for the last boss fight.

    Quake also was a bit of a let down but back in those days a lot of games had naff endings.

    The ending of Fear was pretty good imop

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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Good : C&C (original), won't spoil it but the NOD ending is ace.

    Bad : Recently Fallout 3 (despite being a brilliant game) had a gash ending. Most of the Need For Speed games' endings are pants too, although you can't expect much.
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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Strangly enough I liked the ending for COD 4, was very well done and I felt it wrapped everything up nicely.

    In terms of bad endings, I thought GTA 4's final mission(s) was a bit of a let down.

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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Fallout 3 has the worst ending by far. And the reason it is so bad is that before the game was released, Beth was claiming the game will have hundreds of different endings. My arse is it.
    That for me is a big disappointment. Unforgivable that.

    And I have to say, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask Of The Betrayer was probably my most favorite that I can think of right now.

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    I didn't like being used so I undone it all and got revenge when due.

    So I got the Spirit Eater out of me and and off it went. Free to wander and kill more. I really I had a good laugh to myself there. It was if to say "Uh well, I'm okay now. Back to Neverwinter and me Castle to see Kelgar and the Foxy Neehska again. (Doh - Kalniel - edit) I'm nice and happy while this thing kills more yokels."

    So satisfying.
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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Bad: Bioshock was pretty disappointing, both in terms of the fight and the final cutscene. Rainbow Six Vegas (first game) also had a pretty crap end, I hadn't even realised I was at it until it was right on top of me.

    Good: I thought the endings for GTA3, Vice City and San Andreas all worked well, since they were all suitabley climactic and tied up the loose ends to the stories. The last levels of Homeworld and Cataclysm are also some of my favourite finales.

    No others really spring to mind at the moment.

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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    Quote Originally Posted by CaseyV9 View Post
    And I have to say, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask Of The Betrayer
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    Re: Premature climax - your worst (and best) game endings?

    One of the bad ones has to be Crysis for me, not because it was particularly poorly thought out but because it was even buggier than the rest of the game when I played it. I managed to fall through a wall into the sea, fall through another piece of scenery into the sea and repeatedly had the TAC Cannon randomly not even try to lock on and have to reload the level. It might have been fun if it wasn't so frustrating.

    Another vote for Portal as the best - showed Mario 64 how cake endings really should be done. Episode 2 is right up there as well - massive battle, cinematics, plot, all near perfect. I get the feeling Episode 3 will also build to a fantastic climax when it finally arrives.

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