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Know any bad video game endings?

Posted Jan 7, 2007 at 10:59PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, PC Gaming Tags: Super Mario

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CVG has a feature out listing the worst video game endings ever. Their picks range from Xbox RPG Fable, to PC game Knights of the Old Republic II. Needless to say, spoilers abound in the feature as it details why the ending of each selection sucks.

Since, giving away endings might ruin the act of playing the game for some of you out there, we won't relay to you folks all of the games they've selected. Instead we'll give you one of their choices as an example (hopefully a game whose ending is already widely known), and then we'll ask you guys YOUR picks for the worst game endings ever.

Here's a sample CVG selection, and their reasons behind it:

SMB Super Mario Bros. - We know we'll have crowds of Nintendo fanboys hurling stones at our offices (which AREN'T in Baker Street) for this but, after jumping our way through eight worlds of hardcore, turtle-stomping madness and FINALLY saving the Princess' royal arse from Bowser, we didn't much appreciate her simply telling us to do it ALL OVER AGAIN. "Thank you Mario! Your quest is over. We present you a new quest. Push button B to select a world." Cow.

Well, do you folks agree with their pick? Do you have any other horribly mangled endings in mind? Feel free to comment away.

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How could they forget Diablo?

*SPOILERS FOR AN OLD GAME THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE BEAT BY NOW*

When you finally kill Diablo, the final boss, you cut the crystal that turned the person into Diablo out of his head. You then proceed to stab it into your head, essentially turning yourself into Diablo. All that work to finish the game, and you turn youself into the boss you just spent many many hours trying to kill. THAT was a crappy ending.

# Halo , way to rip metriod >_> — Guest 2007-01-08 01:18

Amen to the halo ending showing how clearly a rip off of metriod it was.

As if the character design wasn't proof enough....

Nintendo shoulda just trademarked the escape from exploding planet bit way back , the first time they did it. ^_^

Also , Whoever said Halo came out before metriod , needs to be slapped , hard.

The original Metriod was a NES game. The original Halo was an xbox game , guess which of the orignal games was out first

# @rick — VgSlag 2007-01-08 01:55

Agreed, I really hope that was just a very, very poor attempt at humour.

# wow — Guest 2007-01-08 02:41

nobody here even said halo was a bad game...

there is a difference, believe it or not.

# ... — Guest 2007-01-08 03:32

Just because halo was a rip off of metriod , it was stilll a really good rip offf of metriod ...

# Star Fox Adventures - Dinosaur Planet — Guest 2007-01-08 04:07

I'm surprised nobody brought this game up? Andross' face as a final boss? Give me a break. This game had nothing to do with Star Fox, and the final scene really takes the cake for most detached from reality and/or worst product placement ever.

# lol — Guest 2007-01-08 04:15

i never beat the original mario due to the fact there was no save option i wass only 5 years old and ma mom wuldnt let me keep the cosole on or play for alot of hours

lol never liked halo i new the single player was gay but to no its a ska metrooid rip off LOL sux more

# haha — Guest 2007-01-08 04:37

do you have any idea how old Metroid is? ***** HALO

# Final Fantasy X-2 — Guest 2007-01-08 04:41

"do you want us to bring him back for you?" - are you *****ing serious?

I really wanted tidus to come back, but that was a petty messed up way of bringing him back. It really made the story a bit harder to understand. I don't think too many games top super mario brothers though, I wanted to give the princess back to bowser when I saw that.

# ghouls and ghosts — Guest 2007-01-08 04:43

ghouls and ghosts has the worst ending, when you managed to do the impossible and get to the end they send you all the way back to the beginning .

# My list — Guest 2007-01-08 04:45

Oh God, heres a list of games with terrible endings.

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis

Saint's Row

Silent Hill 4's endings (infact the entire game was terrible)

Mortal Kombat: Armageddon

Call of Duty 3 (only because it ended too soon)

And I cant think of anymore right now.

# TWILIGHT PRINCESS — cruz 2007-01-08 04:50

I don't like TWILIGHT PRINCESS because at the end you I said that's it and led a lot of people confuse

# Crap — Guest 2007-01-08 05:01

this became a debate about halo and metroid... stupid fanboys.

The worst ending for a video game is....

Every Video game ever made!!!

there ya all even

# metroid was out first — Guest 2007-01-08 05:18

but does master chief roll on the ground and have a gun built into his arm...no samus has a gun like megaman and master chief does not you dont see him with a battle rifle on his arm now do you u dumb ***** its not a rip off its an action/sci-fi game just another variation with a storyline of a bunch of so calledprophets trying to end the universe

# good one — Guest 2007-01-08 06:23

Yea, I do not harbor as much hate for FFX-2 as many people do, but geez, I always felt that the whole point of that game should have been to bring back Tidus. The ending (whole story actually) was sloppy like spilled oatmeal.

# LOL — Guest 2007-01-08 06:33

Metroid early 90's HALO---Umm What year is it

# MGS2 — Guest 2007-01-08 06:36

I am glad MGS2 is on that list. I actually felt dumber for having finished that terrible game. This is a game where I wish I had stopped playing it about 90% of the way through.

*spoilers...? Maybe? who cares?*

You fight through all this crap, then a badguy walks in and explains the "truth" to you. What is *REALLY* going on here... and as soon as they finish, another badguy walks in and says "no, actualy we were playing YOU for a fool, what REALLY happened is....." and then yet another badguy comes along and does the same thing. You get like 5 big plot twists all crammed into the last half hour of the game. Oh, and you play as Raiden =nekkid=.

awful awful game.

# Pretendo — Guest 2007-01-08 06:36

Remeber its nintendo every game has something to do with each other

# Morrowind GOTY EDITION — Guest 2007-01-08 06:41

It Just Never Ends Even When Done With All Main And Side Quests DONE!

# heh — Guest 2007-01-08 06:49

i know another one..

Haven - Call of the King.

the person you are trying to rescue gets captured/killed along with you -the end-

# Gears — Guest 2007-01-08 06:49

Gears of War Sure Lead You Up To a Sequel But Make the Game more challeging and longer to damn easy good gameplay but made for tarded people. Yes I beat game all difficulties and tags.

# Every game I've ever beat — Guest 2007-01-08 06:55

Honestly, I have yet to find an ending to a game that gives me complete satisfaction for spending my hard earned cash and time on a game.

Just about every time I beat a game, I am thoroughly disappointed with the ending I waited so long to see.

But I guess it's more about the means than the end.

# Street Fighter Series — Guest 2007-01-08 06:55

Gotta Love The Lame Endings For Each Character Or If Your Garbage The Ending Congratulations Now Try On Harder Difficulty!

# Agreement — Guest 2007-01-08 06:58

We Can Sit Here All Day Long Or We Can Agree With This Guy No Ending Has Fullfilled Us Enough. We Need A True Ending To A Game. No More Lead You To A Sequel Then Never Give Us One Like Some Games.

# Life Not The Game — Guest 2007-01-08 07:02

Is Their Really A Good Ending To Anything?

# Very true — Guest 2007-01-08 07:08

hahaha... maybe video games are just mimicking real life. You achieve a goal and it is culminated by some cheesy ceremony while you probably would have rather spent your time doing something else...

And most of the time you find that achieving this goal was not as fulfilling as you thought it would be and you go searching for another one until you realize youv'e spent your life searching for something that wasn't there and the whole time what you were looking for was right next to you, but you were too dumb to see it and now it's too late...

hahah... but maybe I'm just cynical.

# WOW — Guest 2007-01-08 07:55

Wow what fanboys, dont be mad that nintendo is nothing new, Halo is no where near a copy of a Lock on Target First Person Shooter. Sorry, Nintendo Recycles EVERYTHING. Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Basketball 3v3, Mario Party, MEtroid 1,Metroid 2,All for little children since they dont know anybetter

# lol lol lol — Guest 2007-01-08 08:25

this guy is probably like 10-14 years old ! LMAOOOOO

or this is proof that there are truly "gaming retards"

# . — Guest 2007-01-08 08:27

Andross' face as a final boss? Give me a break. This game had nothing to do with Star Fox

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you mean except for the fact that every starfox game before it had andross's face as a final boss? lol

# . — Guest 2007-01-08 08:30

and then every system copys off that recycled material

hot shots tennis, crash / sonic board games, halo, ect.

just deal with it

# Metroid Came Out In The 80's — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2007-01-08 08:59

IDIOT

# Re:miami vice — Guest 2007-01-08 09:15

That's hilarious. I never played it but it sounds as lame as its dull movie counterpart

# . — Guest 2007-01-08 10:15

Don't you mean Ghosts and Goblins? The game is near impossible to beat the first time and when you do, it says Lucifer was an illusion and you have to beat it again on hard to see the true ending! The true ending also sucks.

# Duck Hunt Ending Sucks Bad! — Guest 2007-01-08 10:15

I finally got to level 99 in duck hunt one fine day as a youth. What glorious ending did this game have??? It just flips back to level 1!!!

I tried so damn hard to beat that crackhead mess and I finally did and there was no ending at all. So so so so so so lame.

I guess I should mention the only way for me to get that far was to cheat. I figured out if I turned the brightness all the way up and shot the gun at a sharp angle torawds the corner of the curved CRT you hit the duck every time. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL OL

# it's a little over your head — Guest 2007-01-08 10:25

It's a little convoluted, but I thought the ending was great. I was about to lose my mind when I got trapped in that hallway naked after snake shot me and the colnel was saying all that f*cked up sh*t because he was really a computer inside the big metal gear. Then Ocelot tells you it was all really a simulation to make the ultimate solider. Wasn't very realistic, but entertaining. Metal Gear Solid had the best story of all the games I think.

# rampage for the nes — Guest 2007-01-08 10:30

you play for hours doing the same thing over and over again and at the end you get "CONGRATULATIONS "

# silent hill 3 — Guest 2007-01-08 10:34

silent hill 3's normal ending was a bit disappointing

# Final Fantasy VII — Guest 2007-01-08 11:26

Final Fantasy VII had one of the most WTF endings in all of video games. It had NO CLOSURE AT ALL. It came to a climax and didn't show you what happened to Midgar... Instead, we get a short montage of clips from other CG movies from the game. Not cool...

# NiBiRU — Guest 2007-01-08 11:31

It's a great Adventure Game, but the Ending was so terrible.

# Kung-Fu — Guest 2007-01-08 12:36

Kung-Fu for the NES. You battle through each level and make it past the ridiculous bee level, beat the weird magic guy that grows new heads when you knock off his old one. Finally get to MR.X and beat him all while trying not to die 3 times. Then you save Sylvia and all you get is some dumb hearts that say "Good Job! Now do it again!" Well not in those exact words but then you do it all over again and yes its even harder and you get the same damn ending!!!! But this time the hearts are complete. Awwwwwwwww!

# ... — Demon Slayer 2007-01-08 12:37

Ghouls 'n Ghosts was the sequel to Ghosts 'n Goblins and the prequel to Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts. I've never been able to beat any of them, though. Those games were HARD!

# I agree with Mr. Common Sense — Demon Slayer 2007-01-08 12:45

Actually, I almost always bring up MGS2 when talking about great endings. Between people telling you to stop playing the game to Fission Mailed, I thought the ending was great. Sure, I had no idea what was happening during the first time I saw the final cutscene, but after a few times it makes much more sense. Overall, I think I may be the only person who think MGS2 was the best MGS of the three. I hope MGS4 is just as good.

# I just thought of three more. — Demon Slayer 2007-01-08 12:56

Super Mario Bros. 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening both had that dumb "it was all just a dream" ending.

Also, in Doom's ending, you think you've stopped the demonic invasion until the final screen. It shows the base you destroyed and then pans over to show your pet rabbit's head impaled on a stick and Earth is being overrun by demons. "The End". That, in my opinion, was worse than Halo 2's ending when it comes to needing a sequel.

# yea — Guest 2007-01-08 13:01

Halo is a slight rip off of metroid but nearly as bad as castlevania. Those games were blatant rip offs.

# Kung-Fu — Guest 2007-01-08 13:04

# lol — Guest 2007-01-08 13:07

Links Awakening........Its all a dream......Ending seems pretty good to me. Makes sense of the title eh?

# . — Guest 2007-01-08 13:15

ratchet and clank games endings are awesome!!

Because.. Because... You get to play the whole thing over in challenge mode!!!!!!

# Kingdom Hearts 2 Ending? — Guest 2007-01-08 14:06

Though its an awesome game, i would have to go with Kingdom Hearts 2

I mean, yeah its wicked and fun, but the whole idea of Sora searching for Kairi, and Riku -in the end after 2 games of searching, like.. They do NOTHING! They just wave, *etc etc.* and talk, *yaddayadda.* Even a last min hug would do darnit!! *or even a gay twist with Sora and riku for that matter XD -jokes jokes.* Pretty sloppy ending if you ask me @__@

And how, its one of those games where you can't do anything in the end, and doesn't record your game finish and give you bonuses.

# Marathon — Guest 2007-01-08 14:33

Should I even mention that Halo is loosely based on the Marathon series of games? Still, that series started about eight years after Metroid came out, but... meh.

# Oh man — Guest 2007-01-08 14:52

Legend of Zeldaa: Ocarina of Time

Probably one of the greatest games of its time, it decides after you finally destroy that Ganon creature, it will show credits, and make you turn of your N64 and turn it back on to let you kill him again...

# I would say.... — Guest 2007-01-08 18:01

The ending to Half life 2 and the ending to Resistance: Fall of Man kinda suck... you blow up a reactor and you get the run-down by some tard telling you GG that was very good.. oh and.. you died too or you should think you did but gratz! another thing I hate is in devil may cry 3... you go and kill every damn boss again... an annoyance is really what they are... and what I hate the most has to be ffx's ending "hooray sin is dead... wtf tidus is gone!!... ; ; oh well here I will give a speech to people as if I am queen of the world out of the blue!"

# hmmm — Guest 2007-01-08 18:12

who do you think would win in a fight, samus or master chief? i know this has been brought up before but it is an interesting question.

# KotOR (1) — Guest 2007-01-08 18:38

hands down, the best ending I have ever played. When I beat it, I had wished they made Kotor into a movie, instead of giving us episode #1.

# Dark Messiah Might and Magic — anonamoose 2007-01-08 22:48

I played the demo on steam and i liked it so i bought it. played for six hours or so and what kind of an ending do i get? Geat Son you freed me now we will rule the world. dissapointing , so i backed up to the previous save and didnt free him, and he tells me i'll regret it. that's crap. I waited a few months for it to be released and i get a 30 - 40 second fmv telling me nothing and then thirty minutes of credits.

# ha no reply — Guest 2007-01-09 01:42

ha noone cares what you think! i'm the only reply.

# sonic riders — Guest 2007-01-09 01:44

ANY ONE WHO PLAYED THE GAME NO HOW BAD THAT ENDING WAS.... SEGA NEEDS TO TIGHT'N UP!!!

# Perhaps Your Too Foolish to Understand.. — Guest 2007-01-09 02:31

Some Games reach a Climax....and Leave the Rest to your Imagination...

It is called a Continous Climax....In which you Keep thinking About the Ending And the Game

# --- — Demon Slayer 2007-01-09 11:19

It makes sense, but I thought "Awakening" was either for waking up in an unknown place at the begining, or it was a more symbolic awakening.

# Warcraft — Guest 2007-01-09 14:39

World of warcraft has an awsome ending imo.

# . — Guest 2007-01-09 16:25

Well, for starters the first Castlevania game was nothing like Metroid. Infact, I think CV may have come out first, on the FDS and MSX.

Second, unlike Halo, CV doesn't blow ass.

# . — Guest 2007-01-09 16:30

Samus.

# WHAT!? — Guest 2007-01-13 21:08

dude...honestly...that is one of the greatest rpgs ever made in my eyes...that ending is bad ass and just leaves you to wonder...but now look...they have like 2 games, 2 movies, and some cell phone games coming out for it to explain everything...i respect your opinion but..FFVII is the greatest RPG (for console) ever made...i'm not saying it cause it's my favorite i'm saying it cause anybody can pick up that game and get used to it really fast...

# rofl — Guest 2007-01-13 21:13

what ending are you talking about? lol...

# . — Guest 2007-01-14 00:10

you're kind of retarded, aren't you?

# yeeeaaaa — Guest 2007-01-16 06:33

dont compare metroid to halo...we all know metroid is the O.G!

# super smash bro's — Guest 2007-01-18 09:04

super smash bros for gamecube was a *****ing horrible ending all you did was listen to credits. probably the same w/ n64

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