I just completed the Mortal Kombat Deception 'Konquest' mode today, and I have to say, what an utter ass stink of an ending! I won't go into detail, because people may still be playing. It did get me thinking however, of the worst game endings ever. MK is bad, but after slugging my way through Fight Night 2004 in the heavyweight division on the hard difficulty, I expected far more than, 'You are now 40, it's time to retire,Game Over'. Royston Vasey would have blushed, if he had heard the words that left my lips.

 

So 'What is, he worst game ending ever?'

I think any game that says once you've completed it "Congratulations, you've completed the game! Now complete medium, hard and expert mode!"

You think you've accomplished something but you havn't!

Halo 2... You think its building up to an awesome last pair of levels and then nothing... Credits yeh!

 

Wait to Halo 3... booo....

 

F**king disappointment don't even cover that game.

from the latest games i've played i'd have to say fable.nothing happens at the end,it says you either become the king of evil or stay a good angel type person.that's it.pretty dam gay i say.

I can't remember the name of the game, but it was years ago on the NES. It was a isometric-scrolling shoot-em-up, when you finished the game it said congratulations and gave you an extra life, then finished. I just satt there waiting for it to start again with my extra ship, but it never did. I'm still there now.

Ace Combat 4 had a very poor ending, Not having plaid Halo2 I wouldn't know, but the last level/section of Halo1 is so dreadful as to mar the rest of the game..

i thought AC04's ending was good, it's just not the rip roaring adrenaline fix type more of a ANTI-war message at the end really

Devil May Cry 2 was indeed one of the worst endings ever.He beats the final boss,turns to the girl,say a few words to her,gets on a motorcycle and split.The End. Let us hope DMC 3 has alot more going for it from start to finish than DMC 2 did. :evil

from what i read on dmc 3 it's suppose to be a whole whole lot better than dmc 2.

Here's some other games with horrid endings...

 

Half Life 1

Half Life 2

GTA 1

GTA 2

F-22 Air Dominance Fighter

Smackdown v Raw

Mario Is Missing

Cyrax's MK3 ending...

 

There all pretty crap IMO...

The end of Half Life 1 is brilliant, I reckon- you don't need big cinematics for a powerful finish.

"Driller" for the Commodore 64 was literally impossible to beat (the programmers admitted as much a few months after it came out) so the fact that game has no ending at all must put it pretty high up.

 

I complete so few games that I'm not all that qualified to say...

Jet Set Willy was like that. It had a bug that when you got the last item on the last level it ALWAYS crashed. Bugger.

What a great thread. :)

 

I think most of the Spectrum games qualify if anyone else used to have one of those. Because the whole computer was only 48k (or 128k in the later stages), this meant that almost any game left hardly any space for a decent ending, so most of the time it was just 'congratulations, you won' stuff which was really annoying especially when it was a hard game.

 

I remember a game called 'Myth: History In The Making' for the Spectrum, which was quite possibly the best game ever as you were basically a guy having to collect stuff and fight through Greek mythology and mythical history which in the late eighties was actually quite a refreshing idea for a platform game, but again the ending was poor, I struggle to remember whether it was just one of those congratulations endings or whether something happened (something rings a bell about being back on the Viking boat for some reason) but after the struggle of completing the game and the originality that the game had you fooled yourself into thinking that the ending might also be good whereas it was just like most Spectrum games where not very much at all happened.

 

Nowadays though there's really no excuse for that sort of lame ending as there should be plenty of room left in the capacity of whatever system you're using to put together a proper ending.

 

Speaking of Halo 2, what's the music like on it? I heard that Steve Vai did it so I'm interested, but I thought it might be more film soundtrack type stuff so I haven't really looked into it. Any thoughts or descriptions?

Edited January 12, 200519 yr by MillionLiraMan

I remember a game called 'Myth: History In The Making' for the Spectrum, which was quite possibly the best game ever as you were basically a guy having to collect stuff and fight through Greek mythology and mythical history which in the late eighties was actually quite a refreshing idea for a platform game, but again the ending was poor, I struggle to remember whether it was just one of those congratulations endings or whether something happened (something rings a bell about being back on the Viking boat for some reason) but after the struggle of completing the game and the originality that the game had you fooled yourself into thinking that the ending might also be good whereas it was just like most Spectrum games where not very much at all happened.

 

Myth was absolutely tremendous. The remixed version that came out on the Amiga in '91 was a bit iffy, though.

My BF is obsessed with Halo 2, and says the musics fantastic, even though it sounds rubbish to me :) Theres a Making of Halo 2 thing on mtv2 alot, and that has about about the music. But Halo 1 inspired him to write his bands best song called Kill the light, so I wont moan :)

yeah every review ever of halo1 and 2 has said good game bad ending... personally never played them nor do i intend to

On 'When Games Attack' last night, they had a top five 'Worst Endings to a video game' This is what it looked like:

 

5) Pro Evolution Soccer 3

4) Medal of Honor 'Rising Sun'

3) Quake 2

2) Devil May Cry

1) Resident Evil

 

I disagree with them. They all had an ending, I thought was kinda acceptable ( Not played PES, but they showed what ending it had.) except Medal Of Honor, which just had the credits roll when you completed it, so I'm thinking they should've made that Number 1.

actually rising sun was treated unfaily as there is a closing cut scene when you escape from the last mission in a hijacked plane.

Thats the only problem with Diamond's new show, those top fives. I'm not sure if its Diamond himself who decides them but they had Shenmue as top for most pointless game ever, now the shows good but that really is nonsense. Those endings were not what I was expecting as there are so many different lame ones, PES in the listing seemed a cop out to push their PES semifinal on the show.

I have to say I thought Half Life's ending screen was one of the best I've ever seen. One of the most memorable anyway. Half Life 2's on the other hand was indeed slightly dissappointing... dunno why but the ending to Half Life 2 reminded me of Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions, nothing was explained in either and you're left thinking "what the ****".

 

As for the most dissappointed I've ever been with a game ending screen, it has to be Cannon Fodder. For God's sake there was no excuse there, SO MANY LEVELS I completed just to get a black screen with the words "CONGRATULATIONS! YOU WIN!". I was absolutely raging.

 

Other than that, Zero Wing's ending screen is pretty much up there along with a lot of old games, though saying that you do indeed get a lot of them in the new games too unfortunately. Jedi Knight 2 is up there as well actually. DAMN CRAP ENDING SCREENS.

 

Infact, Metal Gear Solid 2's ending screen was also pretty crap, in that it was just mumbo jumbo that made no sense and pretty much left you confused still. I remember hating that one too. At least they tried I suppose though.