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The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?

Posted Feb 13, 2012 at 3:45PM EST by Brett Huffman

Listed in: News Tags: call of duty: black ops, halo: reach, ocarina of time
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Apparently, there's a Guinness Book of World Records Gamer's Edition, which is news to me. Anyway, the people putting it together for 2012 asked 13,000 gamers what their favorite ending was for a video game. And they gave us Black Ops. 


Jiggahuh? OK, admittedly, I do remember the ending of that game - but not because it was great. I remember it because it essentially ripped off SPOILER ALERT Fight Club. Not to toot my own horn, but it was also an ending that I (and probably many others) saw coming well before all was revealed as I was playing through the game. That being said, I always say that the swift boat level with Sympathy for the Devil playing over it was fracking unbelievable. 


Off the top of my head, I can think of plenty of other games that easily top Black Ops, such as Fallout 3, Portal 1 & 2, Red Dead Redemption (which gutted me), and of course Mass Effect 2 (which played out like a truly interactive movie) - none of which came anywhere close to the top of the list. Of course, all this is totally subjective and more like a popularity contest rather than an assessment of quality. 


Well, here's the list. Discuss.


50. Resident Evil 4

49. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

48. Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time

47. Crysis 2

46. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

45. Call of Duty: World at War

44. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

43. Half-Life 2: Episode Two

42. Super Metroid

41. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

40. New Super Mario Bros. Wii

39. inFamous

38. Fallout 3

37. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

36. Gears of War 2

35. Bioshock

34. Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty

33. Sonic Adventures 2

32. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

31. Kingdom Hearts II

30. Mass Effect

29. Super Mario Galaxy

28. Sonic the Hedgehog

27. Metal Gear Solid

26. Assassin's Creed II

25. Assassin's Creed

24. Shadow of the Colossus

23. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

22. Kingdom Hearts

21. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

20. Super Mario Galaxy 2

19. Mass Effect 2

18. Grand Theft Auto IV

17. Portal 2

16. Assassins Creed: Brotherhood

15. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

14. Halo: Combat Evolved

13. Halo 3

12. Pokemon Black and White

11. Super Mario Bros

10. Heavy Rain

9. Final Fantasy VII

8. Metal Gear Solid 4

7. Portal

6. Red Dead Redemption

5. God of War

4. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

2. Halo: Reach

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops


[Via Eurogamer]

 



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+3 # RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait..What?tosh.0 2012-02-13 17:27
Guinness has been nothing but a joke for last ~10 years.

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+1 # RE:Haunter 2012-02-13 17:49
So. Out of how many gamers? They were probably the same person over 13,000 identities. All call of duty endings sucked.

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+2 # RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait..What?John 2012-02-13 17:53
No Deus Ex HR?? You have to be f*cking kidding me..
It had the most meaningful endings I've ever seen on video games.

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# RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?Uplink 2012-02-13 18:05
what a joke list. the fact that Black ops is even on this list makes it auto-crap.

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+1 # Super Mario BrosNikazio 2012-02-13 18:12
Super Mario Bros? Really?

"Thank you Mario!
your quest is over.
We present you a new quest."

that almost made the top ten? this is obviously a popularity contest as the article says.

In my opinion best ending ever. Metal Gear Solid 3

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# RE: Super Mario BrosUltraPrinny 2012-02-13 20:32
I agree dood, Metal Gear Solid 3's ending is unparalled dood...

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# MGS3Garou 2012-02-14 12:49
Metal Gear Solid 3 is the best realized and epic game ending that I've never seen... The moment when *SPOILER* Naked Skane kills The Boss and you had to actually pull the trigger to make the cinematic go on is just incomparable.

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# RE: MGS3UltraPrinny 2012-02-18 19:43
Uh.. Naked Skane dood?...

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-2 # RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?Aurelio 2012-02-13 18:15
GOD of WAR deserves this one no doubt. ;-)

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# WHAT?Churchx 2012-02-13 18:35
Why isn't KoTOR higher up?
I don't think I've ever been so shocked by games ending!

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# RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?danhm001 2012-02-13 19:36
no nes....snes....hate new gamer generation.....

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# RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?AkaiOtoko 2012-02-13 19:44
Deus Ex: HR, Persona 3, Final Fantasy X, Mortal Kombat, Gods Eater Burst, Oblivion(Also Shivering Isles), Morrowind, Halo 2, KoTOR, there's more games that completely surpass Black Ops or any CoD game for
"The Best Video Game Ending of All Time".

I assume that for this "poll" they asked all of their kids what games had the best ending...

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# RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?Crpntrtom 2012-02-13 20:00
This is just a list of all the big name games! My vote goes to Super Metroid, other than that they should have ask "real" gamers, not just random people who claim they sometime play videogames.

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# anyone you ask over the age of 16?sickened 2012-02-13 23:30
The top 5 games are easily fan boys.... black ops and modern warfare 2 both under the top 5? I call bullshit. No fps has an ending worthy of anything above top ten. Deus ex was close. Of top 5 arkham city red dead redemption games that shake you to your core at the ending. As a marine maybe I'm biased but no war game is worthy of a bad ass ending. War movies? Sure... games? Not even close they rip off movies... ts one thing to see a rip off, its another to see it ripped off badly.

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# RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?yaoitaru 2012-02-14 00:24
MGS3 should have been near the top.

Where is Final Fantasy 6?

and wtf with COD being on the top. I don't remember them having ground breaking storylines in the first place......

Guiness doesn't play video games. Or hired the wrong people to create this list. Youtube has better lists.

fuQ this ....

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# jokeastaroth001 2012-02-14 03:00
no legacy of kain defiance, metal gear peace walker, chrono trigger, FF Tactics, Syphon filter logan's shadow? damn the list has all next gen CoD except CoD3 and MW3, and what about Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake? for it's time the whole game had complex yet extraordinary story from start to finish...

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# RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?4tehlulz 2012-02-14 05:12
Its a shame what this generation has become. These are the gamers of today. I'm pretty sure if you went out on the street and asked people this question you'd see whats on the list now. Gaming is turning into a mainstream media and the REAL gamers from the 8-32 bits days are suffering. The reason why there are are some older games on that list is because there still selling and has integrated into pop culture.

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# ...Aiden 2012-02-14 05:34
5. Deus Ex
4. L.A. Noire
3. Final Fantasy IX
2. Metal Gear Solid 3
1. Red Dead Redemption

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# ...Aiden 2012-02-14 05:37
I forgot about SotC, Max Payne, Final Fantasy X, Silent Hill Shattered Memories and probably loads more.

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# What?!dontlikeit 2012-02-14 06:35
Looks like guinnes got paid by activision?! :o
Nah, just kidding.
But I would never put black ops on top of list (wtf were they thinking??). Instead, I'd put the phoenix wright 1 ending (especially the ending of the 4th case with von karma) here, because it was surprising and unpredictable.

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# DrGeoNoT 2012-02-14 07:49
Guinness turns your shit black :oops:

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# RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?TirsoJRP 2012-02-14 11:42
Some games deserves to be on the list, but most of them have crappy endings.

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# RE: The Best Video Game Ending of All Time, According to Guinness, is...Wait...What?d3442 2012-02-14 11:58
where the hell is Golden Sun The Lost Age?

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# MH2Mooaw 2012-02-14 14:51
Manhunt 2 and Bioshock2 great endings, as well as Portal 2 am ME2.

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# you want an all time disturbing but amazing ending that stuck with me?sickened 2012-02-14 21:42
The ending in silent hill homecoming (the second worst of the silent hills in my opinion) where you learn *SPOILER ALERT** that his little brother was killed, be it semi acidental, by alex and the whole time he's being given shock therapy at a mental institution... that stuck with me almost as much as the Road Kill ending in twisted metal 2!

Twisted metal 2 road kill ending *(spoiler alert)* was that he knew none of it was real and asked to wake up. Turned out he was right and he and all the other "drivers" were in a horrible car collision and everyone was in a coma.... epic. When endings take a turn NO ONE expected .... well its as chilling as the ending credits of arkham city with the talewnted mark hamil as the joker sings his haunting version of "only you"... again epic... it sealed the ending of arkham city

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# WowTsunamimurderer 2012-02-16 13:43
Guinness is stupid this list is an epic fail where is arkham city? Phantasy star 4, ff6, mortal kombat, resident evil 4, marvel alliance 1, sonic cd, xmen2 clone wars, double dragon, dragon age origins, mass effect 1+2 all these had great ending they just rounded up cod players.

P.S. i quit cod too unrealistic and commercial. Random kill streaks. what happened to just being the best dude on the map.

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# The shame........Dusk 2012-02-16 15:22
Really!? this is the best they could come up with?

For Fuck sake Guinness... just.....Fuck!

How about Deadspace 2, Freespace 2, Deus Ex HR, FF7 to FF10-2, Starfox64, Fallout new vegas,
Killzone 3, Manhunt 2, Sonic and Knuckles! Damn, even mechwarrior 2 mercenaires had a better ending than bloody Black ops.

There are so many more games that deserve to be on that list than around 35 of the ones
guinness have listed. Shame on you guinness! Shame on you for you half-arse, lazy,
research.

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# FF 7...another name 2012-02-19 21:11
I'm a total sucker for FF games and definitely, ff7 was one of my favorites and it's general consensus that it's one of the best in the series.

However, I must say it has one of the worst and most disappointing endings... if any FF would make the top 10 of the best endings, surely not VII.

That's IMO another evidence that this was just a popularity contest as someone said above, by no means a "Best Ending" contest, and thus has no value at all.

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# What?Codito Bandito 2012-03-17 14:32
Arkham City should have been in the top 10 at least...

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