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?

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    • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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      The revolutionaries dismantling the flying white ethnostate do some violence in the process, so they're exactly as bad as the people they're fighting!

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    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      When I first played Infinite at like 14 I was like “Omg this is deep” and now I look back with nothing but cringe. “Overthrowing the flying genocidal white ethnostate is just as evil as being them” 🤡

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      Let's be honest here, the last gameplay stretch and ending of the original Bioshock were pretty crappy too

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      • Gosplan14 [any]
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        Yeah, it goes downhill a lot once

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        Quark gets owned by the golf club