The most disappointing endings!

FamousAdventurer77 · Mon 04/12/2006 05:43:57

Hand-in-hand with the previous forum topic of the most frustrating puzzles, what games do you feel had the most disappointing endings? Either storyline-wise/what you wished happened, or just "Argh! I solved all those puzzles and stayed up til 3 AM trying to get all the points for THAT?!"

I felt that Full Throttle did. I'm a sucker for the unconventional romantic maudlin themes

and was soooo disappointed that Ben and Mo didn't run off together. I later cried when I found out FT2 was cancelled mid-production.

Same with Book of Spells: the game was really neat and I liked it but the ending just left me so disappointed.

There's a couple more that I can't think of right now...but I'd just like to see who else felt the same way about disappointing game endings.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Mon 04/12/2006 10:30:22

This kinda got covered in "best endings" too, come to think of it... ah well.

QuoteI'm a sucker for the unconventional romantic maudlin themes

Interesting... I'd have thought that you'd have loved FT's ending, then.

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Each one following their own way, Mo still a biker at heart but now stuck to the large corporation, Ben riding into the sunset a free soul like he always was and always will be...

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I've heard that "Nine: The Last Resort" has the worst possible ending, made even worse by all the shenanigans you have to put up with until you get there. But this is only hearsay.

Myself, I loathe the "it was all just a dream" ending of Harvester (not even gonna bother "spoilerizing" it...).

Dmitri · Mon 04/12/2006 14:54:24

I normally get too much of an ego kick out of solving puzzles to be disappointed with an ending.

eddie hitler · Mon 04/12/2006 17:59:54

I was told the ending of monkey island 2 was disappointing, and being a fan of monkey island, I was determined not to be disappointed. But i was. Our hero guybrush is a kid?le chuck is his big brother?
was all of the previous game just these kids playing too?I didn't like it one bit, well, i did like it one bit, but i didn't like it lots of other bits.It seemed almost as lame as saying AND IT WAS ALL A DREAM!

Nikolas · Mon 04/12/2006 18:04:54

Quote from: eddie hitler on Mon 04/12/2006 17:59:54
Our hero guybrush is a kid?le chuck is his big brother?
was all of the previous game just these kids playing too?I didn't like it one bit, well, i did like it one bit, but i didn't like it lots of other bits.It seemed almost as lame as saying AND IT WAS ALL A DREAM!

What?!?!?

Really???

I won't play it then. Now I already know...

hehe...

sorry couldn't offer something constructive in the thread... apart from the above joke...

veryweirdguy · Mon 04/12/2006 18:07:09

I'm sorry to bring such a unconstructive post to the table, but I had to bring this up regarding the MI2 ending...does anyone have a copy of that thread from aaaaages ago analysing that ending in great detail? I was initially disappointed with the MI2 ending also, but after reading through this and the possibility that it could be more than it seems then I decided I like it. Anyone?

m0ds · Mon 04/12/2006 19:07:15

That was a great thread. Wasn't that like the biggest discussion this forums ever had? Hahaha

As for endings, I've never really been dissapointed. I think The Dig ending should've gone further, back to Earth for example. It just felt like I'd played forever and been given too short a conclusion. Other than that, most endings I've seen have been really great

lo_res_man · Mon 04/12/2006 20:53:30

Though it wasn't the worst,I disliked monkey island 3's ending.The game had beutiful graphics, wonderful in-game movies, a great buildup, and they give us THIS?! Also, the game felt too short.

FamousAdventurer77 · Mon 04/12/2006 20:56:50

I pretty much agree with most of the above answers!!

Weirdguy, yes the MI2 ending was just a *tad* disillusioning...but the game's such a great classic that I still love seeing it every time. It's a nice deviation from the norm, just showing them as kids...and then if you sit all the way through the credits there's that endless amount of suggestions of what to do with your spare time.
MI1's ending was pretty cool and

(funny that new post came in, just what I was thinking)
MI3's was too short and yes, disappointing- that little 5 second cartoon was all we got? Come on LucasArts, what happened here!

Rui, well FT's ending was a tad suspenseful in the way

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that at first you don't know whose funeral you're at-- if it was Ben's until the movie scrolled all the way to the right and you saw him there. But I'd only played a demo of the game in 1996 so I always wanted and wanted the game and wondered what cool biker story awaited so I was held in suspense until late 2005! Sadly a close friend of mine died the same week i got the game and I was going through a lot of things and I don't know, the ending just made me SAD, in spite of untraditional romantic maudlin theming and all. Then even sadder when I found out there wouldn't be an FT2... But in conclusion, the ending did disappoint me just a tad. But it didn't stop me from discovering the Gone Jackals older music. Ã,Â

okay, this is going slightly off-topic.

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m0ds- The Dig ending. Come to think of it, I don't think I ever made it to the end!! I was turned off from playing it for a long time namely because stupidly, my version doesn't even have music.

I think mine came from AGamesRoom before the ESA shut it down and I never got the musicpack. But yes, I never made it to the end of The Dig...now I know that if I do, the ending won't be so great!

But oooh! I can't believe I forgot to mention the mother of Disappointing Adventure Game Endings...
...The Castle of Dr. Brain. After all those brain-teasers...but hey, like Dmitri said, it's that ego boost from solving all those puzzles. Hence what Dr. Brain was originally intended for. ^_^

DeviantGent · Mon 04/12/2006 21:41:43

Phantasmagoria. 'Nuff said.

FamousAdventurer77 · Mon 04/12/2006 22:01:20

DC: Indeed! I was 10 years old when that game came out and I remember playing it with my dad, the Carno cutscenes and the demon scared the living crap out of me.

And then all of that insane blood, gore, and intensified storyline...to just have Adrian glare at the mansion then walk away. Definitely ranks up there with the MI3 caliber.

Rui 'Trovatore' Pires · Mon 04/12/2006 22:54:12

Weeeeeeell, sometimes games and stories feel they can't exactly wrap things up nicely - all's been said and done, they don't want to prolong it to wring out any more emotions (a funeral for Don might work, or it might have been really stretching it, for instance), and really, they don't know how else to wrap things up. So they choose to leave it at that, and let the final images speak for themselves. And this is a matter of taste, but for me seeing Adrianne walking away from the manor (NOT LOOKING AT IT, that's an important bit, 77), tired and dirty and very vacant-eyed, and then having the camera stay and give us a final view of the manor, of how it still stands, having been the scenery to all that's passed before...

...I mean, I don't think it's perfect either, but... well, it didn't disappoint me.

blueskirt · Tue 05/12/2006 00:20:30

Quote from: veryweirdguy on Mon 04/12/2006 18:07:09
I'm sorry to bring such a unconstructive post to the table, but I had to bring this up regarding the MI2 ending...does anyone have a copy of that thread from aaaaages ago analysing that ending in great detail? I was initially disappointed with the MI2 ending also, but after reading through this and the possibility that it could be more than it seems then I decided I like it. Anyone?

Are you talking about this article?

http://www.scummbar.com/resources/articles/index.php?newssniffer=readarticle&article=2

TheJBurger · Tue 05/12/2006 00:44:42

If non-adventure games count, then I'd like to mention "The Clue!" or was it "Der Clou"?

The game basically has you preforming one heist after another.
Anyway, for the final mission, the game had you preform this insane robbery which might take an hour+ to plan and execute, and then after you skillfully execute it, the game ends with a few sentences.

Pretty disappointing...

DeviantGent · Tue 05/12/2006 14:37:01

Rui: I do see what you're getting it. It is something of an ominous note, I guess I'm always a sucker for closure though. I tend to view the whole final chapter as an extended ending (kinda like FT).

Having said that, I would have liked to have gone back to that mansion. That last shot implied there was still something else inside... one of the reasons Phantas II made me angry.

I do agree it was a difficult piece of acting to pull off, that walk away - I like to think Adrienne's actor pulled it off well, I got a shellshocky vibe from her. Others say she just looked bored though. There's a fine line...

veryweirdguy · Tue 05/12/2006 14:53:51

Quote from: BlueSkirt on Tue 05/12/2006 00:20:30
Are you talking about this article?

No, it was actually a thread on the old AGS EZBoard forums I believe. And I'm glad m0dsy remembers it as well as it proves I am not insane enough to make up treads about Monkey Island in my head.

That article looks interesting though, I'll give it a read through later!

Raggit · Tue 05/12/2006 15:00:49

I'm not sure whether this was some kind of glitch or something, but when I finished PQ2, all that happened was Sonny and his girlfriend hugged each other, and the game just stopped there. I don't think it locked up. Nothing more happened after that.

Is that the way the game ends? If so, I was disappointed there.

GarageGothic · Tue 05/12/2006 16:49:40

Quote from: Raggit on Tue 05/12/2006 15:00:49Is that the way the game ends? If so, I was disappointed there.

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No, after the scene in the sewers, it cuts to the airport where Sonny's boss is seeing him and Marie off (with a jazz band playing in the background). Then there's a short scene of them on the airplane where Sonny asks Marie to marry him. THE END

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eddie hitler · Tue 05/12/2006 18:29:17

i just read the article blueskirt posted.thankyou so very much for posting this.I had always thought that the end of MI2 was a slap dash decision and seemed rushed, but this pretty much proves it was not. How did i miss all the clues in the first game?guess I'm just a tad stupid

.all monkey island fans should read that article.sorry for posting off topic.

sovka · Tue 05/12/2006 19:04:26

Quote from: veryweirdguy on Mon 04/12/2006 18:07:09
I'm sorry to bring such a unconstructive post to the table, but I had to bring this up regarding the MI2 ending...does anyone have a copy of that thread from aaaaages ago analysing that ending in great detail?

Sylpher had it archived on his website, but it seems to be offline now. http://www.sylpher.com/oldness.html

So let's use the Wayback Machine! http://web.archive.org/web/.../http://www.sylpher.com/OldForum/SecretMi.htm