Your Top 5 Video Game Endings

[RingmasterJ5]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

As for the ending after the credits...I can't find anything really spectacular about Kennedy, Castro, and Nixon getting ready to fight zombies. It's actually sort of laughably stupid.

That...actually makes me want to play Black Ops.

Anyways, I'm still quite annoyed that there weren't any LucasArts adventure games on there at all.

Also, while it doesn't deserve the #2 spot at all, I do think Halo: Reach's ending is good enough to be there. Its campaign was actually story-driven, unlike Black Ops.

[Ribs]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

As for the ending after the credits...I can't find anything really spectacular about Kennedy, Castro, and Nixon getting ready to fight zombies. It's actually sort of laughably stupid.

But Robert MacNamara killing zombies is another story!

[Hiroshi Mishima]

I'm not sure if I could even begin to give a proper Top 5. Unlike most people, I don't see a point in saying "these are the X best things ever" or "these are the X worst things ever", because if it's great, it's great, and if not then it isn't.

I'm a bit of a sentimental person, and if I'm crying tears of happiness by the end of a game, that's a pretty good ending. On the other hand, if I am balling up my fist and want to seriously injure and/or kill somebody, that's probably not an ending I'll want to see again anytime soon. The sad thing is, those are sometimes at the end of otherwise good games. The end of Ocarina of Time, for instance, made me want to really hurt somebody because of how stupid it was.


Chrono Trigger with it's 12 someodd endings is always a great game, as was Final Fantasy VI, being the longest ending I've ever seen in a videogame. It also really helped to end the game by clearing up most of the loose ends either by the time the game was over, or via the ending.

I'd have to say that Skyward Sword's ending was a big deal for me, mainly cause it FINALLY seemed like Link and Zelda were gonna hook up, something I'd been waiting for Nintendo to do for so many years, partly cause I like romantic endings and partly cause I friggin loved Zelda this time around. No other entry in the series, save maybe WW, made me actually LIKE Zelda as something besides just another princess needing to be saved. And I like it when characters I like have happy endings.

Some also mentioned Majora's Mask, which was arguably one of the best and most detailed endings to a Zelda game ever done. It certainly didn't leave plotholes or a bad taste in my mouth like Ocarina's did. Especially after all that suffering you saw during the game, it was nice to see a happy ending when you'd done all the sidequests and such.

The Journeyman Project 3 had a really good ending, resolving all the details and giving characters a sense of satisfaction over a job well done. Even saw the conclusion to a series of great games.

I dunno, my memory is always so foggy when it comes to remembering stuff, so while I might recall a game's ending being good, I couldn't explain it very well. Tail Concerto was good. Grandia.. oh gods, the first Grandia.. gods did I cry during that ending, I was so close to raging and then it delivered a truly good and complete ending. Wanna play that again someday.

I seem to recall Parasite Eve 2 having a really nice ending, better than the first one did, to say the least. I don't want anything to do with SquareEnix's new game in the series, I just know I'll hate it, like I have everything else they've made these last 12 years..

I wanna say Kingdom Hearts 2 had an excellent ending, but with the shadow of prequel bullshit lingering like the world's biggest fart, I couldn't enjoy it as much as I really wanted to. The reunion of the three characters was really touching and the climactic ending had me in tears and then made me smile. I just wish they hadn't kept trying to get away with other stuff and leaving it open for a prequel, instead of closing that crap up and giving a proper sequel where we get to play as Kairi and Riku and such. I think the fact that it stopped truly being a "fantasy universe mixed with Disney" during the course of the second game (and all later games) did nothing to help it.

But yeah, overall the second game had a really good ending.

I could go on about BAD endings, but that isn't the topic here.


EDIT: Someone mentioned endings of games by LucasArts and Sierra and so forth. I'm sure they're talking about adventure games... but I dunno. Most of the games are really good, but I don't think I could say the endings were ever something I'd consider "best ending ever" material. I quite enjoyed the endings of King's Quest 6 and 7, and Curse of Monkey Island had a good one, but the thing with adventure games is that they're more about the journey than the conclusion.

Oh, Gabriel Knight 2, gods, THAT was a pretty good ending. I loved the music..

But no, you'll not see me say how great the endings of MI1 or 2 were, largely cause there wasn't a whole lot TO the ending of MI1, and MI2 ended in a way that left me rather upset when I'd finished it. Like when I first watched Monty Python & the Holy Grail all the way through and then the ending was just.. what the hell?

[DAISHI]

MI1 and MI3 definitely had lackluster endings for me, as endings go. MI2's ending was kind of WTH but at least the final reveal was cool, but I guess as an ending wasn't exactly great either.

[Secret Fawful]

Monkey Island 2 had an amazing ending that has caused speculation for years.

[DAISHI]

I'm not sure that makes it an amazing ending though. It's an intriguing one, but not one I necessarily see as being, long term, 'amazing'. Though the term is subjective and to each their own. I feel the same way about MI2's ending as I do about Neon Genesis Evangelion's, which is not entirely positive.

[doodinthemood]

Monkey Island 2, Gemini Rue, Penumbra: Black Plague, Leisure Suit Larry 3

[DAISHI]

What I know about the Kingdom Hearts endings is that I always immediately want a new KH game after they're done.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

I feel the same way about MI2's ending as I do about Neon Genesis Evangelion's, which is not entirely positive.

Them's fightin words, boy.

[Guinea]

Hm, Super Mario 64's ending will always have a special place in my heart.
Same for the Assassin's Creed 2 ending. I'll probably blast through Brotherhood and Revelations once they're really cheep to see how it continues.

[Noname215]

Originally Posted by Alcoremortis

No. Just no.

Fine.

5. God of War III.

Happy?

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by Noname215

Fine.

5. God of War III.

Happy?

I suppose that's better. Though, I apologize for earlier. You're entitled to like what you like. I just don't agree at all with that particular choice.

[Giant Tope]

No one else thinks much of Mother 3's ending? :(

[GuruGuru214]

I think it's more that not enough people have played Mother 3. Or the Mother series.

[Hiroshi Mishima]

Which is a damn shame, but I myself am not blameless. Despite loving EarthBound growing up, and playing EB0 (which had a pretty interesting ending), I've not gotten around to playing Mother 3.

Of course, that would've been a non-issue if Nintendo had just released the damn thing instead of taunting us and ruining crap with Brawl. *fume*

I need to get around to playing it, it's just that it involves staying at my computer constantly. I'm looking to try and figure out how you do flashcart stuff for the DS, I just don't have the stuff to do it and am afraid it's expensive. But it'd be nice to play old games on the go.

[Gman5852]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

What I know about the Kingdom Hearts endings is that I always immediately want a new KH game after they're done.

Except for BBS though, I hate BS deaths and KH pulled the biggest BS by saying Sora must save the majority of the people that died. And having those people be shown at their respective world and say "Sora" doesn't exactly make for a good ending.
EDIT:And what is so great about Mother 3's ending? I get its a depressing game, but from what I know, its a final boss with the emotional part being that he is your brother and is struggling to fight, but its kinda boring as from what I saw, you don't need to attack him at all, just keep healing until a deus ex machina occurs and saves you. Then flint jumps in front of an attack and goes down, but you've been taking these attacks for a while now so he was an idiot for doing so. Then after the boss, THE WORLD ENDS? WHAT KIND OF STUPID ENDING IS THAT! ARE THEY ARE SUICIDAL? WAS THE DEATHS OF SO MANY PEOPLE THE TEAR FILLED ENDING EVERYONE WANTED? What idiot would like that? Ok, now either tell me how I ruined a childhood or why I am wrong and something happened that I don't know about. Thank you.

[Alcoremortis]

Originally Posted by Giant Tope

No one else thinks much of Mother 3's ending?

Forgive me for living but I never played it.

[GuruGuru214]

Originally Posted by Gman5852

Except for BBS though, I hate BS deaths and KH pulled the biggest BS by saying Sora must save the majority of the people that died. And having those people be shown at their respective world and say "Sora" doesn't exactly make for a good ending.

The problem here is that none of the people in that ending has ever actually died, and the only one of them who has appeared to die was Axel, though the end of Re:Coded indicates that by destroying Axel, Lea can be restored if his Heartless is destroyed.

[Gman5852]

Originally Posted by GuruGuru214

The problem here is that none of the people in that ending has ever actually died, and the only one of them who has appeared to die was Axel, though the end of Re:Coded indicates that by destroying Axel, Lea can be restored if his Heartless is destroyed.

Ventus lost his heart(that's death to me), Aqua is still alive I know, Terra... he uhh. Would he reappear now too if old Xehanort returned? Roxas fused with Sora, Namine fused with kairi, Xion was killed by Roxas and fused,

Technicaly there wasn't a death scene, but that honestly seems like a death to me on most of the characters.

[DAISHI]

Originally Posted by Gman5852

Except for BBS though, I hate BS deaths and KH pulled the biggest BS by saying Sora must save the majority of the people that died. And having those people be shown at their respective world and say "Sora" doesn't exactly make for a good ending.
EDIT:And what is so great about Mother 3's ending? I get its a depressing game, but from what I know, its a final boss with the emotional part being that he is your brother and is struggling to fight, but its kinda boring as from what I saw, you don't need to attack him at all, just keep healing until a deus ex machina occurs and saves you. Then flint jumps in front of an attack and goes down, but you've been taking these attacks for a while now so he was an idiot for doing so. Then after the boss, THE WORLD ENDS? WHAT KIND OF STUPID ENDING IS THAT! ARE THEY ARE SUICIDAL? WAS THE DEATHS OF SO MANY PEOPLE THE TEAR FILLED ENDING EVERYONE WANTED? What idiot would like that? Ok, now either tell me how I ruined a childhood or why I am wrong and something happened that I don't know about. Thank you.

On the Mother 3 ending, I think you're missing that Japan has a cultural stigma on nature and the damage mankind does to the planet by its very existence, owing to their experience with the atomic bomb.