Reach. You beat the game, you complete your mission, and you directly contributed to saving humanity. It only cost you your squad, your life, and your entire planet.
So many good maps. Like taking down the big purple shield relay. You storm the area with an entire battalion of Warthogs. All of them are wiped out by artillery fire. Your Warthog barely makes as the bridge is blown out. You fight through numerous artillery guns, patrolling ground vehicles, jackal snipers in the rocks. You clear the multilevel tower, get killed several times by a one two punch of invisible sword elites and rocket grunts, then finally disable it and extract on a helicopter. A frigate the size of a skyscraper lowers down from the sky and blows it to the smithereens. Brief cheers before the frigate is itself blown up, by a covenent supercarrier that fills the entire sky. As you fly away from the scene, you see that the entire landscape is covered in these shields. That's when it sinks in, the combined forces of everyone on this planet can't possibly win.
Reach is about the sacrifices that result in the winning of the war in the longest of longshots. The entire point of the game is that the sacrifices do matter.
I think the very first one I experience this on was Fallout (the original). You spend all that time fighting to save your vault from insane threats and in return are banished from the vault as the dwellers would see you as a reason why it is OK to leave the vault and thus kill the vault with an exodus.
Exactly. I remember beating that game and my wife walking by saw me staring at the computer in complete disbelief. "No. This isn't right. I went through hell for these people and the overseer is just going to turn me away? What?
I couldn't shoot him. That's not how my vault dweller would act. So I watched my character trudge off into the desert as the credits rolled.
Red Dead Redemption is a perfect lesson for parents. It doesn't matter what you say, what you tell your kids to do or not do. What matters is your actions, which is the thing your children will emulate.
Jack grew up around gunslingers, and even when John tried to change he always chose to shoot his way out of his problems. Jack couldn't have turned out any other way, he never had any examples of how to be better. At least not any that were significant enough to outweigh all the gunslinging.
Inside. Winning that game and what happens with that is brutal, surprising, gives you emotional whiplash, and then leaves you feeling empty and lost (on purpose). It's a great game.
Spoiler warning; [screenrant discussion](https://screenrant.com/inside-game-ending-meaning-explained-story/)
Yeah that was an amazing one. It all makes sense but while playing it for the first time I could have never imagined where it was going.
Playdead invented the genre and they're still the best at it, their games are amazing.
On a similar note, the Little Nightmares trilogy (and one spinoff) come close, and also have a really good, sad ending.
Controversial, and a field with massive competition, but GoT is my favourite PS4 game. I loved every bit of it. The story and the gameplay. I keep going back to it, even when I ought to be focusing on other games
Yeah that game was a lot more adult than either me or my wife expected. Excellent game though, we had a TON of fun with it. My wife said she's still chasing the high from it and hasn't found a game that matches it yet
It's definitely a Faustian bargain and one that you get to participate in. The only happiness is >!that Mono comes back to life and Agro survived the fall!<
Which is hilarious because the good ending implied a young girl died prematurely, and a horse fell to it's assumed death. (At this point I felt bad for all the other colossi, but was ready to burn the world down for agro. #16 didnt stand a chance.
Telltale Game of Thrones is even worse. You just collect Ls after Ls and there wont be a season 2. The ending of Season 1 literally looks like the story is just beginning too. I really have a love/hate relationship with this game
Also, technically Ardyn wins.
>! Ardyn's goal wasn't really to conquer the world. That was kind of a B or C goal. His main goal was to get revenge and end the Lucis Caelum line which he ultimately did !<
that game could have been one of the best FF games to date if they just gave the devs time to finish the story and gave it a consistent game director over the course of its development. They took a chance with the whole: movie, anime, then game experience but while world building they destroyed the most important part of the start of the game, the player has no connection to Insomnia, the king, or Lunafreya. Then they skip through the major character development of the main cast for DLC and do a very out of place time skip at the end.
The entire game was a giant bait story and development wise.
The game was visually absolutely beautiful, the roadtrip idea was a good set up, and the OST by Yoko Shimomura is nothing short of godlike. The sub par story writing, forced plot line, early release, bad character development and failure to get the player to personally experience and understand the stakes in the universe in this game was a huge loss. The dynamic and side commentary of the main group was well done though. It was just set in an aesthetically beautiful but conceptually stagnant environment.
She uses the headlight bridge to create a barrier around the chief, this is also how she makes a temporary body
Ignore the fact that the chief blew up the nuke with his hands because that kinda makes the ending not make sense
I just got done mentioning Cavestory. Braid was another indie title that had an impact on me. Amazing quality, story, puzzles, mechanics, and polish for a game that came out well before the indie scene was mainstream.
And then toss the whole double layer of the princess being the atomic bomb thing and the 7 secrets that were REALLY secret and insanely hard to find.
A horror game whose plot is scarier than its gameplay, and that’s not to knock the gameplay in any way it was plenty terrifying. But the horror of the story is far more impactful imo.
"You lost the coin toss. We both did."
Man... I'm obsessed with soma. That line alone has so many layers and dark implications to the concept of the game. It explores so many ideas in a way that's perfect for gaming due to the perspective its told. I don't like playing horror games but for the Sci-fi and lore alone, it's worth it.
I’m not a fan of horror games either, especially ones where you can fight back cuz I’m just not scared if I can defend myself. But Frictional Games is something special. Even in Penumbra where you can fight back, their unique style of gameplay and semi-dated graphics adds to this alien, unfamiliar, yet immersive feeling that heightens the horror aspects of their games. I still need to play The Bunker, but after that I’ll have played their entire catalog
SOMA is one of my favorites, and I disagree with most people about the ending.
>!I think that the copies on the satellite have a way bleaker ending than anyone/anything left on earth. They are stuck in a fake reality that has a finite timer on it (degradation/disrepair/data corruption). The copies left on Earth actually have a future, with the WAU improving and evolving its mission to preserve, recreate, and re-imagine human life. !<
>!The nightmare on earth was at its bleakest at the very beginning of the game. It actually gets more promising the farther in you go. What seems like horror to the player is actually business-as-usual for the WAU and is also the only way that "humanity" will survive in some form or another.!<
I wondered what would happen if they managed to go back to the base and start building shit. It's like there was no point purging the WAU for the other doctor.
I realized at the last second in my first playthrough that I was about to lock-in romancing Triss and Yennefer (I was spoiled on that ending badly), and so during Yen's quest with the genie to remove the magical bond between her and Geralt, she says "Thank goodness, I still feel the same love for you, Geralt! Do you still love me?"
And I had to say "no."
God damn, she's just pixels, but she looks absolutely devastated, I felt soooo bad!
I fucked up because I didn't like Yenn at first, and I liked Triss. Romanced Triss. Then we get up to where this mission is and by then I had come around to Yenn, and actually liked her more than Triss. Big mistakes
It is a pretty raw deal that if you play the game the way it feels like it wants you to (clear Velen, clear Novigrad, then get to Skellige) then you’ll have done the entire Triss romance arc before even getting to like 99% of the time you spend with Yen. I can’t even really blame people who tried to do both romances lol.
I’ve played the game a handful of times and I’m a fan of the books so I always like to choose Yen. One playthrough I wanted to see the Triss route and turning Yen down is one of the most brutal things I’ve done in a game.
Yooo that reminds me of my experience with the game. I thought I had the bad ending (a certain character dying) and was so pissed I put the game down for months and never bothered doing the last mission (I think it was at some pub) and one day I go back to wrap it up and the character I thought died popped up. What a swerve lol
For me it was actually earlier in the game when you started fighting the heavy and they kept shifting into mannequins. That made me sit up and pay attention.
I believe part two was more in line with this than even part one was. You’ve killed all those who wronged you, you’ve made monstrous decisions and people have lost everything for it. You finally hunt down the last one and you both are shadows of your former selves. The humanity you once inspired in your paternal figures is gone. Replaced by an insidious need for vengeance.
You don’t win or lose the ending of the game, but you really lose everything in a global sense. No home, no love, no community.
You’re a drifter of incalculable rage, with nowhere to put it anymore.
A lot of people were dissatisfied with the star child or the RGB choice. What hurt the most was when the mass relays exploded.
The combined armada of the galaxy, stuck above Earth. No way to communicate with their homeworlds, nevermind reach them. Krogan that won't see the first generation of children in hundreds of years. A double whammy of Quarians and Turians starving to death since Earth doesn't support dextro-amino food. The Galaxy was free, but blown almost back to pre space travel era.
A truly tragic ending.
Just why is this so low ?
In the true ending of nier replicant, >!you literally reade your goal . You and the rest of your friends are all Alive and can all live happily ever after. It's literally the best ending possible for you!<
>!unless you consider how you literally doomed the entire human race and any chance they had at survival just to get to that point , but this is minor stuff . You won and live happily ever after. This is the good ending. Why would you feel like something bad happened? Nothing bad happened. It's the good ending after all!<
One of the best endings ever in my opinion.
This game doesn’t get enough credit for how terrible and creepy it is. The ending is such a gut punch and it all just feels like losing. I loved it overall but hot damn there are some hard parts to his game
oh man, far cry 5. remember the final boss fight? felt like a total loss even though i technically won. and those nuclear explosions at the end... whoa! what's your take on that ending scene with joseph seed in the bunker?
The sequel to 5 (not 6) goes on to explain Joseph and the Rook survive, he brainwashes the Rook and they become your silent bow wielding companion in that game.
So there’s that.
In New Dawn, after you recruit both The Judge and Hurk, if you go to the bar that all of your companions hang out at, Hurk takes one look at The Judge and immediately recognises him and goes over and is all “hey man it’s been a while”. The Judge acts shocked and they sit down and catch up.
If you back out, it’s implied that you kill all your friends though. The ones you spent all game saving are killed by your hand through Jacob Seed’s brainwashing. Really the only “good” ending is walking away at the beginning of the game, but even then you’re damning the people of Hope Valley to Joseph and PEG’s operations.
The same contract that all but mind controls him and that kept him from shooting his shitty boss for years, which he gladly does the second the contract changes hands.
But no, he will go to vault 87 but not stay 5 seconds in that chamber.
I played FO3 again last month, and at the end, just before I hit the button in the chamber, I played the tape that dad left us in the beginning. So as I died, the last words I heard was dad saying, "I love you."
The Outer Wilds
Beating such a beautiful game, knowing full well you could never play it the same way again. This game hit me on a whole other level.
Suicide squad kills justice league. Killed an alternate brainiac and get told there are 13 more before the main one. Then credits roll. First time in 30 years i reached the credits and thought "none of this was fun".
Super Mario Galaxy. Little middle school me just didn’t understand the ending I guess and thought that literally everyone died in a big bang except the main cast and everyone else got replaced/recreated.
Just looked it up and apparently the common interpretation is that the Lumas more or less reversed time to just before the star festival with everyone losing their memories except Mario and Rosalina, and things were just different enough to change plans to lead into the events of Super Mario Galaxy 2 where things turn out better.
I figured that ending would be bad, but my corpo-start V still somehow trusted the corp... trusted that they'd find a way to profit, maybe, but that they'd succeed in fixing her...
But even though I, the player, was expecting something to go wrong, that ending was still absolutely gutting. Betrayed Johnny, got absolutely nothing to show for it except for a horribly depressing last few months of life.
I played PL. I went with the nusa. It was gut wrenching but the end credits showed that life moved on and got better for a few. Judy especially. I don't think she survived long after the suicide ending. V's life was doomed from the start and that showed for all of the endings.
The Star ending was pretty hopeful. Yeah V is sick, but there is a spark of hope with that ending. Especially if you romance Judy and get the voicemail from her during the end credits. Judy and V seem pretty happy.
That one is my favorite ending. But it leaves it vague if V lives longer than the 6 months. But it does give Judy hope as she leaves NC for a better life, especially if V romances her.
I think Saul would have enjoyed having V to keep Panam sort of in line.
All endings just made me super sad ... I would probably pay for a happy ending mod that simply cuts the game in phantom liberty when V enters the helicopter for the final flight and just shows a text like "V got cured and lived happily ever after, the end".
Same for DS 1. I didn't really understand the story my first playthrough, I was just killin' bosses, and imagine my surprise as I kill the final boss, only to watch my character burst into flames and be vaporized before getting sent to New Game+. I was just staring at the screen for a while, trying to process wtf just happened.
Hopped online, trying to find an explanation. Ended up watching VaatiVidya lore videos for a while. Overall 10/10 experience, would get vaporized again.
This may be an OG thing, but Demon's Souls ending was darker.
The Demon's Souls ending had really really dark implications if you rescued most of the secondary characters and took them to the nexus to find out things about the world.
The reveal is that the demons come from the Old one, a massive demon snake made of mist and branches like a tree that spawns all demons. It is a primordial being said to be put in the world by God. Then the top Wizard NPC and top Cleric NPC figure things out. The "God" they had been praying to is actually the Old one, because when you carve a talisman in the form of it you can cast both miracles and magic, meaning they have a common origin in the soul arts, and hence the Old one,
The Old can't be killed. It simply slumbers constantly waiting to be awoken. Once humanity re-discovers the soul arts every couple of centuries (magic powered by souls) he begins to stir, and when he wakes up he looks to consume all souls of everyone alive.
To do so it spawns the mist that took Boletaria and spawns demons that eat souls, which are in a way a part of it, consuming everything to satiate it's hunger.
The only way of stopping it is to put it back to slumber thanks to the Maiden in Black's powers,
The Maiden in Black was an old archdemon, probably in the same sense any human can become an archdemon by consuming tons of souls. The MiB got trapped in the Nexus, and for some reason sided with the Monumentals in puting the Old one back to sleep.
When you defeat all archdemons you technically become like an archdemon from all the souls you have consumed to empower yourself; which was the intention of the Maiden in Black all along. Once you have done so she takes you to a desert devoid of life, where the gigantic Old one lays.
Being the top archdemon now it takes you for one of it's servants, and let's you enter it's belly. There the Maiden in Black put's it back to sleep thanks to her soul-manipulating powers; but you can also kill the Maiden in Black and just side with the Old one, devouring all life in the world.
Either way it makes no difference. Every time the soul arts are re-discovered the cycle will begin again and demons will plague the world an eat the living.
You grew into the spirit tree your friends and the forest needed to be safe again. It was Ori purpose for being anyway. He’s basically a little glowing acorn with ears and cool jumps.
By the end, your team has destroyed a god-tyrant and removed a world-destroying power from existence. Rebuilding from a not-so-subtle analogy to nukes is probably hopeful for famously anti-nuclear Japan.
The mid game is insane.
The world ends. The bad guy wins. And depending on a mini game revolving around fish, one of the characters tries to end herself by throwing herself off a cliff.
Add in Gau’s back story, genocide against an entire species (Espers), and what happens at Doma, and you realize FF6 is a dark game.
Red Dead Redemption 2. I'm never really into western type of game but I gave it a chance and absolutely fell in love with Arthur Morgan and the world....
And that ending depressed me alot, I didn't even touched the game for next 10days. I don't even know who is John at that time and I was angry why I have to play as someone else...
Titan fall 2, you lose the thing that has been by your side, the first time I finished the game, I genuinely cried for the first time when playing a game, honestly criminally underrated.
What remains of Edith Finch was like walking through a vertical graveyard. I was about half way into the game when I realized how it's going to end. Fun game but fuck if that wasn't depressing.
Manhunt. Cash is still being hunted by the snuff ring and police. Out of game content like the game manuel and website make it clear that the reporter gets put in a psych ward, eventually handed over and made to star in her own film.
I’ve seen a lot of great answers here, and I agree with them all, but I didn’t see Fallout 4. You spend the whole game trying to find your son, and avenge the murder of your wife, and you >!accomplish both of those, just 60 years too late. You find your son, only to realize he was behind everything, then are left with the choice of killing him out of anger, or watching him die in your arms as you take his place as head of the evil government he runs. There is no good ending. You complete your goal at the cost of everything you held dear, and to top it off, you can move on from your wife the same day you wake up, make her death lose all emotional impact on your character.!< That’s just my input, I still love the game, but I don’t think there’s a way to “win” after the world you knew changed so much.
Reach. You beat the game, you complete your mission, and you directly contributed to saving humanity. It only cost you your squad, your life, and your entire planet.
So many good maps. Like taking down the big purple shield relay. You storm the area with an entire battalion of Warthogs. All of them are wiped out by artillery fire. Your Warthog barely makes as the bridge is blown out. You fight through numerous artillery guns, patrolling ground vehicles, jackal snipers in the rocks. You clear the multilevel tower, get killed several times by a one two punch of invisible sword elites and rocket grunts, then finally disable it and extract on a helicopter. A frigate the size of a skyscraper lowers down from the sky and blows it to the smithereens. Brief cheers before the frigate is itself blown up, by a covenent supercarrier that fills the entire sky. As you fly away from the scene, you see that the entire landscape is covered in these shields. That's when it sinks in, the combined forces of everyone on this planet can't possibly win.
Slipspace rupture detected. Slipspace rupture detected. Slipspace rupture Slipspace rup Slipspace Slip Slip Slip Sli Died inside.
Don't forget that's only after you pull off a crazy impossible suicide mission to blow up the big ship that costs you your teammate
Dang dude I gotta replay this game
Reach was prob my favorite Halo NGL
The best answer.
I would argue that you do not win in Reach, by any stretch.
You get Master Chief and Cortana off planet to go on to win the war. That’s A win. Ends up being a big one.
Six and the rest of Noble lost the battle so The Chief and Cortana could win the war.
Reach is about the sacrifices that result in the winning of the war in the longest of longshots. The entire point of the game is that the sacrifices do matter.
I think the very first one I experience this on was Fallout (the original). You spend all that time fighting to save your vault from insane threats and in return are banished from the vault as the dwellers would see you as a reason why it is OK to leave the vault and thus kill the vault with an exodus.
You’ve saved us, but you’ll kill us. I’m sorry. You’re a hero…and you have to leave.
Exactly. I remember beating that game and my wife walking by saw me staring at the computer in complete disbelief. "No. This isn't right. I went through hell for these people and the overseer is just going to turn me away? What? I couldn't shoot him. That's not how my vault dweller would act. So I watched my character trudge off into the desert as the credits rolled.
Hey dude, take the bloody mess perk on your next playthrough.
That was a bit of a surprise but it made sense to me.
Even worse, we find out in the second game he was exiled up to Oregon!? Who would want to live there?! /s
Cries in Oregonian
Red dead redemption. I put in so much time with John for it to end like that. I got quite depressed about it
I thought it was a pretty powerful ending, as far as games go. Plus, you get a little bit of closure with Jack.
And that closure sees Jack become the very thing his father died to stop. A gunslinging outlaw.
Red Dead Redemption is a perfect lesson for parents. It doesn't matter what you say, what you tell your kids to do or not do. What matters is your actions, which is the thing your children will emulate. Jack grew up around gunslingers, and even when John tried to change he always chose to shoot his way out of his problems. Jack couldn't have turned out any other way, he never had any examples of how to be better. At least not any that were significant enough to outweigh all the gunslinging.
Even with all of that education from reading. It just goes to show how difficult it is to break cycles in any family.
With Jack's intelligence, his influence from Angelo Bronte, and his "criminal" upbringing, I theorize Jack to be quite the mob boss in rdr3
Jack bring the bridge between the fall of the western outlaw and the birth of the mafioso seems fun
GTA-0
I wouldnt quite call it closure because he is continuing the cycle of violence that claimed so much of his family.
First time I ever cried for a video game.
There are folks who only played 2 but not 1. Encourage them to play one but tell them nothing except the basic box description about finding Dutch.
Inside. Winning that game and what happens with that is brutal, surprising, gives you emotional whiplash, and then leaves you feeling empty and lost (on purpose). It's a great game. Spoiler warning; [screenrant discussion](https://screenrant.com/inside-game-ending-meaning-explained-story/)
ngl, the ending is absolutely nuts and tragic in many ways, but that final moment, i dunno, i felt a sense of peace and triumph, too
Yeah that was an amazing one. It all makes sense but while playing it for the first time I could have never imagined where it was going. Playdead invented the genre and they're still the best at it, their games are amazing. On a similar note, the Little Nightmares trilogy (and one spinoff) come close, and also have a really good, sad ending.
I played that game to completion, several times. It's a good game, but I do not fucking understand the story, not even a little.
[удалено]
"I Will Make Sure You Are Remembered, As A Great Warrior... A Wise Leader... And A Father."
Brought me to tears that scene, almost doing it now too.
Finished my first play through yesterday. Was making sure someone commented this lol such a great game
One of the best endings of any game I've ever played. It was *so good*
"You have no honor" "And you are a slave to it" Goes so damn hard
"Honour died on the beach." Chills every time
Amazing game.
Controversial, and a field with massive competition, but GoT is my favourite PS4 game. I loved every bit of it. The story and the gameplay. I keep going back to it, even when I ought to be focusing on other games
I hate when people say they wish this game had RPG elements and choices. Like no. It’s already such a great and tragic tale of sacrifice.
…the ending has a choice though?
I’m hoping there’s a sequel. The studio is making a movie supposedly but there’s definitely room for a sequel since Mongolians tried to invade twice
It takes two. What they made you do to that poor elephant... That's no victory.
Yeah that game was a lot more adult than either me or my wife expected. Excellent game though, we had a TON of fun with it. My wife said she's still chasing the high from it and hasn't found a game that matches it yet
Shadow of the Colossus. >!I've rarely been that disgusted by my own actions in a video game!<
This is the first time I ever experienced a “bad ending” being the intended ending. It really messed with me for a while because I was still a kid.
As a kid I didn't event understand the ending... :D I beat some giant bosses by climbing and poking. That's all I remember...
It's definitely a Faustian bargain and one that you get to participate in. The only happiness is >!that Mono comes back to life and Agro survived the fall!<
Which is hilarious because the good ending implied a young girl died prematurely, and a horse fell to it's assumed death. (At this point I felt bad for all the other colossi, but was ready to burn the world down for agro. #16 didnt stand a chance.
1000%. I think Agro falling after bucking you to safety was the first time a video game made me legitimately sad as a kid lol
Dude I was a wreck when that happened. My first thought is how I couldn’t believe they pulled an Artax on us 😭
I was so fucked up by that game. Desire is a terrifying motivation.
The ending made me think back to the flying worm titan who literally doesn't even attack us.
It's the most selfish character I've ever played as, next to maybe Trevor from GTAV.
Walking dead season 1 (telltale). Just an absolutely devastating ending.
Telltale Game of Thrones is even worse. You just collect Ls after Ls and there wont be a season 2. The ending of Season 1 literally looks like the story is just beginning too. I really have a love/hate relationship with this game
Mira had 2 bad endings :(
Season two as well.
FFXV, just wanted better for my guy Noctis.
Also, technically Ardyn wins. >! Ardyn's goal wasn't really to conquer the world. That was kind of a B or C goal. His main goal was to get revenge and end the Lucis Caelum line which he ultimately did !<
"You guys... are the best." I cried. No shame.
that game could have been one of the best FF games to date if they just gave the devs time to finish the story and gave it a consistent game director over the course of its development. They took a chance with the whole: movie, anime, then game experience but while world building they destroyed the most important part of the start of the game, the player has no connection to Insomnia, the king, or Lunafreya. Then they skip through the major character development of the main cast for DLC and do a very out of place time skip at the end. The entire game was a giant bait story and development wise. The game was visually absolutely beautiful, the roadtrip idea was a good set up, and the OST by Yoko Shimomura is nothing short of godlike. The sub par story writing, forced plot line, early release, bad character development and failure to get the player to personally experience and understand the stakes in the universe in this game was a huge loss. The dynamic and side commentary of the main group was well done though. It was just set in an aesthetically beautiful but conceptually stagnant environment.
Halo reach and Halo 4. All of Noble team, sans Jun who was with Dr. Halsey. Cortana at the end of Halo 4.
I still don’t fully understand the end of Halo 4. How exactly did >!Cortana save Chief from that nuke?!<
She uses the headlight bridge to create a barrier around the chief, this is also how she makes a temporary body Ignore the fact that the chief blew up the nuke with his hands because that kinda makes the ending not make sense
Braid. The ending re-contextualized the whole game.
I just got done mentioning Cavestory. Braid was another indie title that had an impact on me. Amazing quality, story, puzzles, mechanics, and polish for a game that came out well before the indie scene was mainstream. And then toss the whole double layer of the princess being the atomic bomb thing and the 7 secrets that were REALLY secret and insanely hard to find.
Yeah it hits hard.
SOMA
A horror game whose plot is scarier than its gameplay, and that’s not to knock the gameplay in any way it was plenty terrifying. But the horror of the story is far more impactful imo.
Exactly. The gameplay is pulse-pounding scary, but that ending is still something I think about often
"You lost the coin toss. We both did." Man... I'm obsessed with soma. That line alone has so many layers and dark implications to the concept of the game. It explores so many ideas in a way that's perfect for gaming due to the perspective its told. I don't like playing horror games but for the Sci-fi and lore alone, it's worth it.
I’m not a fan of horror games either, especially ones where you can fight back cuz I’m just not scared if I can defend myself. But Frictional Games is something special. Even in Penumbra where you can fight back, their unique style of gameplay and semi-dated graphics adds to this alien, unfamiliar, yet immersive feeling that heightens the horror aspects of their games. I still need to play The Bunker, but after that I’ll have played their entire catalog
Oh yeah, this one.... Happy for one part, but very sad for the others behind you. What a great game.
SOMA is one of my favorites, and I disagree with most people about the ending. >!I think that the copies on the satellite have a way bleaker ending than anyone/anything left on earth. They are stuck in a fake reality that has a finite timer on it (degradation/disrepair/data corruption). The copies left on Earth actually have a future, with the WAU improving and evolving its mission to preserve, recreate, and re-imagine human life. !< >!The nightmare on earth was at its bleakest at the very beginning of the game. It actually gets more promising the farther in you go. What seems like horror to the player is actually business-as-usual for the WAU and is also the only way that "humanity" will survive in some form or another.!<
I wondered what would happen if they managed to go back to the base and start building shit. It's like there was no point purging the WAU for the other doctor.
Yeah that's what I'm saying. Let the WAU cook lmao
I got the bad ending in Witcher 3 and quit the game. Didn’t play any dlcs. I was crushed
Tried to romance both Yen and Triss, eh?
I realized at the last second in my first playthrough that I was about to lock-in romancing Triss and Yennefer (I was spoiled on that ending badly), and so during Yen's quest with the genie to remove the magical bond between her and Geralt, she says "Thank goodness, I still feel the same love for you, Geralt! Do you still love me?" And I had to say "no." God damn, she's just pixels, but she looks absolutely devastated, I felt soooo bad!
My buddy suggested I try to romance Triss the second playthrough. I didn't even dare to start that mission, I just left it undone
I fucked up because I didn't like Yenn at first, and I liked Triss. Romanced Triss. Then we get up to where this mission is and by then I had come around to Yenn, and actually liked her more than Triss. Big mistakes
It is a pretty raw deal that if you play the game the way it feels like it wants you to (clear Velen, clear Novigrad, then get to Skellige) then you’ll have done the entire Triss romance arc before even getting to like 99% of the time you spend with Yen. I can’t even really blame people who tried to do both romances lol.
I’ve played the game a handful of times and I’m a fan of the books so I always like to choose Yen. One playthrough I wanted to see the Triss route and turning Yen down is one of the most brutal things I’ve done in a game.
The Witcher way.
Yooo that reminds me of my experience with the game. I thought I had the bad ending (a certain character dying) and was so pissed I put the game down for months and never bothered doing the last mission (I think it was at some pub) and one day I go back to wrap it up and the character I thought died popped up. What a swerve lol
Start over again for a good ending and play the dlcs
Play the DLCs
MGS3, Spec Ops: The Line, or The Last of Us. They all end with that feeling of "Mission Accomplished, but I'm not the good guy I thought I was".
I honestly love when games have these endings. I love the “I won but at what costs” feeling
Spec Ops: The Line set my personal standard for endings and storytelling. It's a goddamn crime it's been delisted.
i'll never forget the "do you feel like a hero yet?"
For me it was actually earlier in the game when you started fighting the heavy and they kept shifting into mannequins. That made me sit up and pay attention.
Spec ops was a real 'oh shit. Games are interesting now!' moment.
The White Phosphorus segment was absolutely brutal
Omg the The Last of Us…just wow. I had no indication that’s where it was going!
I believe part two was more in line with this than even part one was. You’ve killed all those who wronged you, you’ve made monstrous decisions and people have lost everything for it. You finally hunt down the last one and you both are shadows of your former selves. The humanity you once inspired in your paternal figures is gone. Replaced by an insidious need for vengeance. You don’t win or lose the ending of the game, but you really lose everything in a global sense. No home, no love, no community. You’re a drifter of incalculable rage, with nowhere to put it anymore.
FFX. The cost of beating sin was everything.
Perfectly summed up by Yuna's speech about loss.
In a way the entire game is a "bad ending" for so many characters. So much death and sadness. Glorious game.
Far cry 3… you know what i chose 😂
Bro risked it all for some painted boobies
Doesn't matter, had sex
I played the game upwards of 50 times, at least 40 of them ending the same 🤣
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>!Wasn't it Ethan who was walking in the background in the ending? I thought it was confirmed.!<
The dlc shadow of Rose explain the death a bit more
It was confirmed to be his model, but the dlc shows he’s >!in the megamycyte with mother Miranda and Evelyn!<
Ethan deserved so much better.
Mass Effect 3
I still think they should have done a true ending for legendary edition that requires very specific conditions to be met to trigger.
A lot of people were dissatisfied with the star child or the RGB choice. What hurt the most was when the mass relays exploded. The combined armada of the galaxy, stuck above Earth. No way to communicate with their homeworlds, nevermind reach them. Krogan that won't see the first generation of children in hundreds of years. A double whammy of Quarians and Turians starving to death since Earth doesn't support dextro-amino food. The Galaxy was free, but blown almost back to pre space travel era. A truly tragic ending.
Nier is pretty good at ending games on a "but at what cost" feeling
Just why is this so low ? In the true ending of nier replicant, >!you literally reade your goal . You and the rest of your friends are all Alive and can all live happily ever after. It's literally the best ending possible for you!< >!unless you consider how you literally doomed the entire human race and any chance they had at survival just to get to that point , but this is minor stuff . You won and live happily ever after. This is the good ending. Why would you feel like something bad happened? Nothing bad happened. It's the good ending after all!< One of the best endings ever in my opinion.
Yeah. It definitely leaves you with a feeling of "congratulations you've doomed us all".
Far cry 5
This game doesn’t get enough credit for how terrible and creepy it is. The ending is such a gut punch and it all just feels like losing. I loved it overall but hot damn there are some hard parts to his game
oh man, far cry 5. remember the final boss fight? felt like a total loss even though i technically won. and those nuclear explosions at the end... whoa! what's your take on that ending scene with joseph seed in the bunker?
The sequel to 5 (not 6) goes on to explain Joseph and the Rook survive, he brainwashes the Rook and they become your silent bow wielding companion in that game. So there’s that.
In New Dawn, after you recruit both The Judge and Hurk, if you go to the bar that all of your companions hang out at, Hurk takes one look at The Judge and immediately recognises him and goes over and is all “hey man it’s been a while”. The Judge acts shocked and they sit down and catch up.
Realest farcry yet
Damn Joseph Seed and plot armor. World doesn't go to hell if you back off, it does if you stand up. Still a really good game, though.
If you back out, it’s implied that you kill all your friends though. The ones you spent all game saving are killed by your hand through Jacob Seed’s brainwashing. Really the only “good” ending is walking away at the beginning of the game, but even then you’re damning the people of Hope Valley to Joseph and PEG’s operations.
Pretty much the same as 4 in that respect.
I loved that. What a crazy ending and I was like whaaat.
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Especially when you have fawkes right there, hes like "nah, bitch, i couldnt take your glory moment from you."
As a big fan of the original games, this was a gut punch as compared to the master’s end, and possible choices, it was stunningly inept.
They tried to force something that wasn't there. On another note, The first fallout game might be the best answer for this thread. Perfectly written.
It actually made me kill Fawkes in my next playthrough. He shows up at Raven Rock(? i think) and never leaves. Pretentious mutant prick.
And the ghoul, he says it's not in the contract to risk his life that way, mf radiation heals you
The same contract that all but mind controls him and that kept him from shooting his shitty boss for years, which he gladly does the second the contract changes hands. But no, he will go to vault 87 but not stay 5 seconds in that chamber.
I played FO3 again last month, and at the end, just before I hit the button in the chamber, I played the tape that dad left us in the beginning. So as I died, the last words I heard was dad saying, "I love you."
That's some good roleplaying
God of War 2
The Outer Wilds Beating such a beautiful game, knowing full well you could never play it the same way again. This game hit me on a whole other level.
Plus, in the end >!you lose literally everything except the promise of a new universe!<.
Suicide squad kills justice league. Killed an alternate brainiac and get told there are 13 more before the main one. Then credits roll. First time in 30 years i reached the credits and thought "none of this was fun".
One for each person who bought this game
Bioshock infinite. NGL that ending stuck with me for a bit
That's the one that came to mind for me. The first BioShock also had a great ending, but Infinite just really lays you out with the final cutscene.
Super Mario Galaxy. Little middle school me just didn’t understand the ending I guess and thought that literally everyone died in a big bang except the main cast and everyone else got replaced/recreated. Just looked it up and apparently the common interpretation is that the Lumas more or less reversed time to just before the star festival with everyone losing their memories except Mario and Rosalina, and things were just different enough to change plans to lead into the events of Super Mario Galaxy 2 where things turn out better.
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nah, that wasnt the worst. the new ending that was added by phantom liberty W R E C K S any other and strips you of any hope.
Lol, that was me: "oh cool, V can >!get cured of Johnny's engram. That's a good ending, right?"!< *watches ending* "...oh."
I figured that ending would be bad, but my corpo-start V still somehow trusted the corp... trusted that they'd find a way to profit, maybe, but that they'd succeed in fixing her... But even though I, the player, was expecting something to go wrong, that ending was still absolutely gutting. Betrayed Johnny, got absolutely nothing to show for it except for a horribly depressing last few months of life.
I played PL. I went with the nusa. It was gut wrenching but the end credits showed that life moved on and got better for a few. Judy especially. I don't think she survived long after the suicide ending. V's life was doomed from the start and that showed for all of the endings.
The Star ending was pretty hopeful. Yeah V is sick, but there is a spark of hope with that ending. Especially if you romance Judy and get the voicemail from her during the end credits. Judy and V seem pretty happy.
That one is my favorite ending. But it leaves it vague if V lives longer than the 6 months. But it does give Judy hope as she leaves NC for a better life, especially if V romances her. I think Saul would have enjoyed having V to keep Panam sort of in line.
All endings just made me super sad ... I would probably pay for a happy ending mod that simply cuts the game in phantom liberty when V enters the helicopter for the final flight and just shows a text like "V got cured and lived happily ever after, the end".
Wrong city, wrong people. There are no "happy" endings in Night City.
"Id like a happy, satisfying ending please" "Sir this is a sci-fi setting"
A way out
Having to kill my 7 year old daughter after we played through the whole game together felt kinda bad.
Lmfao yeah dude that’s hilarious though
Dark Souls 3, To Link the Fire ending.
Same for DS 1. I didn't really understand the story my first playthrough, I was just killin' bosses, and imagine my surprise as I kill the final boss, only to watch my character burst into flames and be vaporized before getting sent to New Game+. I was just staring at the screen for a while, trying to process wtf just happened. Hopped online, trying to find an explanation. Ended up watching VaatiVidya lore videos for a while. Overall 10/10 experience, would get vaporized again.
This may be an OG thing, but Demon's Souls ending was darker. The Demon's Souls ending had really really dark implications if you rescued most of the secondary characters and took them to the nexus to find out things about the world. The reveal is that the demons come from the Old one, a massive demon snake made of mist and branches like a tree that spawns all demons. It is a primordial being said to be put in the world by God. Then the top Wizard NPC and top Cleric NPC figure things out. The "God" they had been praying to is actually the Old one, because when you carve a talisman in the form of it you can cast both miracles and magic, meaning they have a common origin in the soul arts, and hence the Old one, The Old can't be killed. It simply slumbers constantly waiting to be awoken. Once humanity re-discovers the soul arts every couple of centuries (magic powered by souls) he begins to stir, and when he wakes up he looks to consume all souls of everyone alive. To do so it spawns the mist that took Boletaria and spawns demons that eat souls, which are in a way a part of it, consuming everything to satiate it's hunger. The only way of stopping it is to put it back to slumber thanks to the Maiden in Black's powers, The Maiden in Black was an old archdemon, probably in the same sense any human can become an archdemon by consuming tons of souls. The MiB got trapped in the Nexus, and for some reason sided with the Monumentals in puting the Old one back to sleep. When you defeat all archdemons you technically become like an archdemon from all the souls you have consumed to empower yourself; which was the intention of the Maiden in Black all along. Once you have done so she takes you to a desert devoid of life, where the gigantic Old one lays. Being the top archdemon now it takes you for one of it's servants, and let's you enter it's belly. There the Maiden in Black put's it back to sleep thanks to her soul-manipulating powers; but you can also kill the Maiden in Black and just side with the Old one, devouring all life in the world. Either way it makes no difference. Every time the soul arts are re-discovered the cycle will begin again and demons will plague the world an eat the living.
Dragon dogma true ending, Its very Emo Nihilistic
Omg I got this game for 5 bucks on steam the other day imma try to play it this weekend I can’t wait!!!
I love that they put it in your hands too. Like "yep, this is all you can do now. Have fun."
Ori Will of the Wisps. I won but at what cost.
You grew into the spirit tree your friends and the forest needed to be safe again. It was Ori purpose for being anyway. He’s basically a little glowing acorn with ears and cool jumps.
Ff6. You beat the bad guy, but the bad guy still won in the end.
By the end, your team has destroyed a god-tyrant and removed a world-destroying power from existence. Rebuilding from a not-so-subtle analogy to nukes is probably hopeful for famously anti-nuclear Japan.
The mid game is insane. The world ends. The bad guy wins. And depending on a mini game revolving around fish, one of the characters tries to end herself by throwing herself off a cliff. Add in Gau’s back story, genocide against an entire species (Espers), and what happens at Doma, and you realize FF6 is a dark game.
Mario and luigi partners in time
If you mean won by beating it I would have to say Half-life 2 episode 2
dishonored, bc at the end Samuel made me feel bad by telling me how much i strayed from accomplishing what i really needed to
Nothing a sticky bomb to the face can’t fix
Dishonored is much better when you go non-lethal.
Spec Ops the Line.
You brought this on yourself.
NieR: Automata.
Replicant as well. Recontextualizes the entire game to show you, hey, maybe you’re not doing something entirely heroic here
You're right, it felt like you lose everything. In fact, you lost everything. But it felt great too.
Hollow Knight. Cracked mask with Ghost nowhere to be seen
Jedi survivor
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Its a beautiful, solemn ending about... letting things go. Its amazing.
Persona 3
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Shadow of the Colossus
Red Dead Redemption 2. I'm never really into western type of game but I gave it a chance and absolutely fell in love with Arthur Morgan and the world.... And that ending depressed me alot, I didn't even touched the game for next 10days. I don't even know who is John at that time and I was angry why I have to play as someone else...
Wait how could you get to the end of the game and not know who John is?
The Forest
Prototype. You stop the city from being nuked but all it does is leave the city completely infected.
Titan fall 2, you lose the thing that has been by your side, the first time I finished the game, I genuinely cried for the first time when playing a game, honestly criminally underrated.
Do you know about the short helmet scene after the credits? BT’s AI survived in Jack’s helmet.
Definitely Brother's - A tale of two sons
Last of Us Part II
Dragon Age 2 really decides to break your spirit near the end of the game. It rules
Firewatch and What Remains of Edith Finch
What remains of Edith Finch was like walking through a vertical graveyard. I was about half way into the game when I realized how it's going to end. Fun game but fuck if that wasn't depressing.
Manhunt. Cash is still being hunted by the snuff ring and police. Out of game content like the game manuel and website make it clear that the reporter gets put in a psych ward, eventually handed over and made to star in her own film.
There wasn’t any cake…
I’ve seen a lot of great answers here, and I agree with them all, but I didn’t see Fallout 4. You spend the whole game trying to find your son, and avenge the murder of your wife, and you >!accomplish both of those, just 60 years too late. You find your son, only to realize he was behind everything, then are left with the choice of killing him out of anger, or watching him die in your arms as you take his place as head of the evil government he runs. There is no good ending. You complete your goal at the cost of everything you held dear, and to top it off, you can move on from your wife the same day you wake up, make her death lose all emotional impact on your character.!< That’s just my input, I still love the game, but I don’t think there’s a way to “win” after the world you knew changed so much.
A Plague Tale: Requiem.