Most annoying game endings...

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Half-Life. I didn't even play till the end to be honest, the alien worlds were just silly and boring.

[doc_bean]

Half-Life. I didn't even play till the end to be honest, the alien worlds were just silly and boring.

The best gameplay was to be found back on earth after those worlds though.

[Avicenna]

Meaning you were Sith in KOTOR I?

Btw, have you heard that HK-47 parody on human love interaction with Bastila's voice? Sadly it got cut from the game.

Yeah that had to be Sith.

Are you sure? I have that in my Xbox version of the game. It's annoying how you have to do Nar Shaddaa first in order to get Mira to be a Jedi or influence HK that much though, and there are just too many bugs in KotoR 2, and the locked door aon G0-T0's ship is really making me curious as to what was meant to be there.

If anyone's played battlefront 2 (another SW game) that ending's pretty dull as well, and it was strange how easy the last mission was compared to the earlier missions where I had to try many times to complete.

Major Robert: what's MOO3?

[Vince]

what's MOO3?

I believe it is Master of Orion III.

Vince

[Mongoose]

Half Life one. There was nothing stoping me from kicking G-man's ***!!!

Also, SMAC. No ending is worth the agonizingly long turns at the end of the game. I just don't have enough time to sit down and get it finished so it takes weeks.

[pdoan8]

What are your examples of most annoying game endings?

Mine has got to be Operation Flashpoint: Resistance which I finished recently. In the last mission you had to take out 3 heavy bombers at a heavily defended airport, and you were for once completely alone. So I quickly took a jeep, and moved in from a direction where my recon told me there was no armor. I quickly took out 5 soldiers on the runway with a sniper rifle, then I had all time in the world to take out the 3 bombers with RPG before any armor or infantry would get even near me. But just as I was about to turn back to my jeep and drive out of there - and I know I would have been able to make it, the game says "mission completed" and ends, then there's a cutscene where I'm on foot, without my jeep, and I get hunted down by tanks and killed, and then the cutscene goes on to explain what a hero I was etc. Damn, I know I would have made it out of there with the jeep if the game had given me the chance and hadn't ended the mission!

Yeap. It's a bit suck. I wish that they've made an alternate ending. Anyway, that was how the story goes. Res supposed to be prequel of Cold War Crisis.

[Martok]

I believe it is Master of Orion III.

GAH!! PAIN! SO MUCH PAIN!!!

[whimpers]

[Catiline]

Half Life 2 wasn't much better. Just felt like a 'we'll be back after a message from our sponsors' provided that is you pay for HL Epsiodes. Which being a sucker of course, i will

[Major Robert Dump]

GAH!! PAIN! SO MUCH PAIN!!!

[whimpers]

yeah, the turns were getting to be 30 mins long towards the end, even with 75% of my colonies on governing AI. Then whin you win......nothing

[Martok]

yeah, the turns were getting to be 30 mins long towards the end, even with 75% of my colonies on governing AI. Then whin you win......nothing

Heck, I'm just amazed you actually managed to play it through to the end! I must've started several dozen games over the 2-3 months I had the game, but I could never make myself finish any of them. I wanted to like MOO3 so badly, but it was just too broken in too many ways. In terms of anticipation versus reality of the released version, it was easily the biggest letdown I've ever experienced when it comes to games. I mean, even RTW wasn't as much of a disappointment--at least Rome's gameplay was essentially solid (even if it was poorly executed and implemented). [shudder] Oof, just the mere mention of MOO3 causes me to wince at the memory of it....

[ShadesPanther]

Half Life 2 wasn't much better. Just felt like a 'we'll be back after a message from our sponsors' provided that is you pay for HL Epsiodes. Which being a sucker of course, i will

Yeah I didn't actually think it was the end of the game at the time. I thought you would go somewhere else and it would finish there. Although the Last Area was definately the best.

[Fragony]

The whole of Half-life2 wasn't that great imho, except the ravendal level it was pretty dull. It almost seems as if valve didn't expect the genre to evolve without their magic touch, yay another vehicle, hey cool a barral maybe I can shoot it so it splodes.

[Spino]

Half Life's gameplay & story started really strong and ended poorly. Those final levels on the alien planet were just silly and the final boss battle was god awful! Wait, I have to destroy the evil giant alien baby boss by bouncing on alien mushrooms while pumping rounds & grenades into it's exposed brain... WTF?!? However, I did love the very end of the game, the final sequence where Gordon is teleported back to the tram and the man in the suit presents him with a 'work for us or die' ultimatum. So technically speaking Half Life's ending (post-gameplay) was pretty good.

Half Life 2: Great gameplay... awful plot & story. For a game four plus years in the making I was a little shocked & dismayed to see a storyline so recycled & silly that it could have easily passed for a Sci-Fi channel made for TV movie. However as with HL1 the post-gameplay ending wasn't too bad, the man in the suit stopping time and appearing out of nowhere gave me a smile. Pity the annoying girl/love interest didn't perish in the blast because they're bringing her back in the expansion... yaaaayyyy

[Forward Observer]

Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.

You and your team run for the train, explosions everywhere. You jump in, and it pulls out. You turn around, a huge fireball as the evil Nazi base explodes.

One of your squaddies goes "well look at that".

Then it ends.

Where's the dramatic dialogue?!

I totally agree about MOHAA, but in reality it was not the end. It was just where the publishers told the developers to chop up the game so they could sell the rest of the missions as an over-price expansion.

I never liked the ending of MedievalTW, especially when compared to ShogunTW. Just a crude picture of a throne room with narrative tribuit.

Shogun, on the other hand was very cinematic and inspiring. I would alway watch it through to the end. On the other hand I hardly ever watch the one in Medieval after setting through it once or twice.

All they had to do liven it up was to make it a slide show of things related to the game or the faction that you had just won with, but no--even the credits are are more interesting.

[Fragony]

Half Life 2: Great gameplay... awful plot & story. :

Gameplay wasn't that good at all, in the first the AI put up a decent fight, in the second they just stand and shoot or hide behind explosive barrels. Fighting just wasn't fun.

but, grav gun is brilliance.

[Vladimir]

For me the ending to Halo 2 was the best because it was the end of the .

Plus for all of you dissapointed with MoO]I[, I really recommend downloading Bhruic's patches/mods as well as the "strawberry" mod. They really make the game worth playing.

[Avicenna]

I don't actually understand Halo 2's ending.. what happened to Cortana? Also, does the ending mean no more jackals, prophets, brutes or those strange flying things?

-One very confused person.

[Leet Eriksson]

Freespace 2. It ends fairly dramatically, but with too many unanswered questions - that will never be answered! Gah, Volition (the devs) got bought by a new publisher, or something, and there shant be a sequal.

It had several endings:

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it had 2 endings i think, one where you die and one where you escape the orion class battlships nuclear explosion, either way, the commander goes on to say they have bought some time for their survival but the shivans are unstoppable and their doom is inevitable or some bs

But its rather unfortunate they got bought out :( i wanted a sequel too.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

faisal - are we thinking the same game?

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There are two endings, yes, but either ends in the Capella sun being destroyed by the Shivans. We don't know what happens next; do they continue to advance or do they stop, like after their defeat in FS1? And there is the hinting about the artificial portals being used to go back to Earth, but we don't know...

Still, FS3 would be as awesome as it is unlikely - very.

[Reenk Roink]

Freespace fans!

Oh my God!

Yes!

woot!

When I first got my computer in 1999, it came with a demo of Descent: Freespace. This game got me into computer gaming, and I no longer wanted the newest console system. It only had 10 levels of the game, but it was so fun. I didn't realize it then as much as I do now. I remember wanting to get Freespace 2, but defaulting on it.

Thank you so much for reminding me. I am going to www.amazon.com right now and snagging a copy of both Descent: Freespace and Freespace 2 (I just ordered Shogun too ).

EDIT: To maintain the happy state of on-topicness, the most annoying game ending for me was Neverwinter Nights ending. I really thought that much of the single player for that game (though absolutely revolutionary and filled with goodness) was underdeveloped and just...bleh. They really should have gone in more detail as to the creator races and whatnot. Even the hack and slash games of Icewind Dale and Icewind Dale II had better endings (great games as well).

[Leet Eriksson]

faisal - are we thinking the same game?

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

There are two endings, yes, but either ends in the Capella sun being destroyed by the Shivans. We don't know what happens next; do they continue to advance or do they stop, like after their defeat in FS1? And there is the hinting about the artificial portals being used to go back to Earth, but we don't know...

Still, FS3 would be as awesome as it is unlikely - very.

Yeah thats what i meant.

But i do recall the commander sounding pretty hopeless

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after the destruction of the capella system, which meant they were all doomed eventually

unfortunately the ending was screaming sequel, but too late now..

Anyways its better buried than being picked up by derek smart, that guy makes pretty horrible games

[Phatose]

Aw, come on, it wasn't that bad. Actually I thought it was kind of hopeful. Much like the ending of the first freespace, in tone anyway.

...such is liberation.

[monkian]

My vote has to be Guts Revenge - Sword of the Beserk on the Dreamcast.

It was based on the very cool but also very open ended Beserk manga and anime.

I bought the game to try and get some more insight to the stories from the anime and manga but the game was even worse.

The manual had lots of drawings and descriptions of really cool 'skull knights' but you only see one right at the end of the game after you kill a wimpy level boss and he just says some incoherently translated and rides off.

Not impressed !