Game endings - the good, the bad, and the shocking

[HalcyonDaze00]

After finishing Mass Effect 3 and seeing what must be the most talked about and controversial game ending of all time, Ive been thinking about what other game endings Ive liked/disliked or been shocked by.

So, what are your favourite and most hated endings, and which have left you sitting stunned or raging with anger?

Good:
Another World
Prince of Perisa Sands of Time

Bad:
Xenon 2
Fallout 3

Shocking:
Flood
Monkey Island 2

[RichL]

The ending of Flood was stupid wasn't it!!

[killbot]

The ending of Monkey Island 2 was brilliant, one of my favourite ever. I still want Ron Gilbert to make the real MI3 and explain it (not that I'm criticising Curse, Escape or Tales which are all very good).

One I hated was Black Ops - I'd heard people rave about it but it just seemed to borrow from every crappy 'twist' ending in movies since The Sixth Sense.

Oh, and though I haven't finished it myself I'd nominate Ghostbusters. Hours of sweating blood for a black screen and some text which in the NES version is even full of typos?

[RichL]

How about the ending to Cannon Fodder when the Sensible boys tell you to feck off basically?!!

[ToxieDogg]

The ending of Eternal Sonata was awful and just plain confusing. A real shame as I'd really enjoyed the game up to that point, it was a very decent RPG with a good solid battle system similar to Grandia.

Good endings? I really enjoyed the endings for all of the 'Ace Attourney' games (the Phoenix Wright trilogy, Apollo Justice and I'll also include Miles Edgeworth as well), had a great running story throughout the whole series and the endings really made the games worth playing through.

[snesfanboy]

The ending of Eternal Sonata was awful and just plain confusing. A real shame as I'd really enjoyed the game up to that point, it was a very decent RPG with a good solid battle system similar to Grandia.

Good endings? I really enjoyed the endings for all of the 'Ace Attourney' games (the Phoenix Wright trilogy, Apollo Justice and I'll also include Miles Edgeworth as well), had a great running story throughout the whole series and the endings really made the games worth playing through.

yeah, the Ace Attorney series is superb, all of them!

[ivortheinjun]

Links Awakening was superb, and not a little moving.

[Ferret Oxide]

Silkworm on the Spectrum rewarded you with what was, for me at the time, a very impressive fireworks animation.

Golden Axe's ending was enjoyable, but an odd break from the tone of the game up until that point.

I also have to say that I liked the ending to Modern Warfare 3. Victory cigar FTW!

[joefish]

Links Awakening was superb, and not a little moving.

Yep, that was a brilliant one.
Mario Galaxy has a pretty dramatic ending to it.

[tachi]

I was so impressed with the ending of Hitman: Blood Money, A bloodbath at your own funeral...amazing. Going back still further, the ending of The Immortal was brilliant. It was a long, hard slog but to discover a setup and yet come out the victor was brilliant!
On the other end I hated the ending of The Ninja Warriors. Loved that game so much and yet the terrible ending, packed with Engrish disgusted me

[Arque]

My fave endings are:-
Final Fantasy VII
Flashback
Gunstar Heroes
Omega Boost
Highway Encounter
Thunderforce IV

I remember being bitterly disappointed at the end of

Doom/Final Doom

All that and all you get is a static text screen.

[crusto]

Well I cant remember any good ones yet, but can say Darks souls ending was pretty sh!t, considering how many hours it took to achieve. Blink and you miss it.

[retrogarden]

I liked the Black Ops one, very clever I thought.

Also I didn't mind the Mass Effect 3 one. After all, does Star Wars go on for an extra half hour after Darth Vader is killed? No!

Seem to be suitably impressed with Super Metroid the first time I saw it. I'm stating the ending as "the time when you pretty much would have to be pants on head retarded to die".

Didn't like Arkham City I must admit.....

[Joey]

Didn't like Arkham City I must admit.....

Im playing through this now.

I loved the use of 'Silent Night' over the credits of Yakuza 2.

Plus all the crazy character endings in the Tekken franchise!

[jcdentont1000]

The ending of Monkey Island 2 was brilliant, one of my favourite ever. I still want Ron Gilbert to make the real MI3 and explain it (not that I'm criticising Curse, Escape or Tales which are all very good).

One I hated was Black Ops - I'd heard people rave about it but it just seemed to borrow from every crappy 'twist' ending in movies since The Sixth Sense.

Oh, and though I haven't finished it myself I'd nominate Ghostbusters. Hours of sweating blood for a black screen and some text which in the NES version is even full of typos?

It has been said about a million times in the fan communities and in interviews/articles with both Ron Gilbert et al that there was no planned plot-arc. He was making it up as he went along. I think Curse did as good a job as Gilbert could've done getting himself out of that little pickle. In other words, I agree with the OP!

Good: Deus Ex/Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Metroid/Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VII, Super Soccer (SNES), the Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) series, Grand Theft Auto IV are the ones which immediately spring to mind.

Bad: LA Noire (more that the game tails off generally in the second half, than the ending specifically, though that too is a little bit stupid), Limbo - I don't know, I just wanted a little more from it!