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IF YOU WANT TO WRITE THE ENDING DOWN USE SPOILERS, EVERYONE PLEASE, NO EXCEPTIONS, ALSO SAY WHAT THE SPOILER IS FOR OUTSIDE OF THE SPOILER

Now that's over, this thread is for the most shocking or surprising end of any videogame you've played. You don't have to say what the ending was, if people have completed the game, then I'm guessing they'll know what you mean. Here's mine:

Assassins Creed 1
Assassins Creed Brotherhood
Call Of Duty: Black Ops
Red Dead Redemption
Far Cry 2
Halo 3 Legendary Ending (with what happens to chief)

Portal 2

I'd have to say the original Bioshock, namely

The new end of MK. Just who the hell would be playable if they made a sequel?!

Cybronx wrote:I'd have to say the original Bioshock, namely

Spoiler:

the meeting with Andrew Ryan.

THAT.

Seriously. While technically not the end, i think it's the only game "ending" I've seen that has actually made me start to question what I did in the game.

Mind you, New Prince of Persia (Cell Shaded one) was pretty far out there too.

Slarg232 wrote:

Spoiler:

You spend the entire game restoring the land to reinprison a God, and at the end your companion kills herself, and so you destroy the land to free the god you just imprisoned and bring her back to life

I'm pretty sure that's just bad writing What was the point of all this again?

I usually call the endings of most movies or games before hand these days. Story lines get pretty predictable after the first few hundred. I'd have to say I've probably be surprised somewhere but can't particularly think of any games that come to mind.

I suppose CoD4 and Black Ops. Didn't really see some elements of those endings coming, though of course Black Ops' story is crap (suppose I should say imo to avoid flame war) so it's not really surprising. Oh, wait I got one. KoTOR. It's not the ending but the big reveal really blew me away. I did not see it coming (of course this was early in my time of paying attention to the story line )

Didn't really expect Red Dead Redemption's ending.

The Metal Gear Solid games have some crazy endings... including the 'card' games on the PSP.

The secret ending in saints row 2 really threw me. Didn't even expect that.

And the end of Commander Keen 6. That was interesting.

Shadowbane.

Editing to add:
Server vs. server conflict would have been made of win.

We would have killed them ALL.

Minecraft's ending also was rather suprising.

Do any of you remember all the different endings from the old Blade Runner game? - there were some really interesting ones, as well as Silent Hill 2-4 - let's just say alien- or dog-ending

Blazblue: Calamity Trigger
You need to beat every character's story mode to unlock the last two character's modes. Once you beat those, you unlock the 'true ending' arch. I'll try to explain it in spoilers when I get home.

Doctadeth wrote:The secret ending in saints row 2 really threw me. Didn't even expect that.

Secret ending? Please do share, I'm curious now!

edit.

Ah, never mind.

Mass Effect 2:


Bad choices, 0 Loyal squadmates, horrible ending.

In hindsight, it was rather thick of me not to see that coming.

The ending to Dark Forces was cool

LordofHats wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:

Spoiler:

You spend the entire game restoring the land to reinprison a God, and at the end your companion kills herself, and so you destroy the land to free the god you just imprisoned and bring her back to life

I'm pretty sure that's just bad writing What was the point of all this again?

Well, since he didn't even beleive in the Gods, I suppose it just shows that A) He was willing to sacrifice anything to bring her back, and B) They were always her Gods, not his.

kirsanth wrote:Shadowbane.

Editing to add:
Server vs. server conflict would have been made of win.

We would have killed them ALL.

Man I miss that game. Weekly Banes of the Chinese Nation? YES!

(So I don't come off sounding racist; the Chinese Nation, or CN as they came to be called, Zerged people like no other. Their Equipment was never good, but there were three of them to every one of us. Normally, that wouldn't have been a bad thing, BUT.... as soon as they got settled in, they started telling everyone else how we were going to play the game, and that didn't sit well with us.)

Gah, I remember blowing people up in 10 vs 5 vs 3 skirmish fights, suddenly a CN dude came on Track, and the fighting would stop entirely as we went to gank him and then resume the battle right after that

Halo 2

Ending C of Shadow of Memories/Destiny

LordofHats wrote: though of course Black Ops' story is crap (suppose I should say imo to avoid flame war) so it's not really surprising.

I'm sorry, but how was Black Ops' story 'crap'? I don't understand why everyone has so much hate for the call of duty games' stories, in my opinion Modern Warfare 2 wasn't even that bad, just confusing which was fine for me because I paid attention and thought it through before assuming that it's just 'crap'.

Edit: Sorry, only just noticed the 'imo'. But my opinion still stands.

Slarg232 wrote:Well, since he didn't even beleive in the Gods, I suppose it just shows that A) He was willing to sacrifice anything to bring her back, and B) They were always her Gods, not his.

I don't know. I spend hours trying to save the world, all that jazz and then at the end it all becomes pointless. There's trying to save the world and failing, and then there's trying to save the world and then dooming it by undoing everything you just did.

F.E.A.R 2.... I uhhhh yeah...felt like a victim afterwards.

Halo 2 ending pissed me off. Red Dead Redemptions ending surprised the hell out of me. Hopefully there will be a prequel where we get to see Marston run with his old crew?

FEAR 2 was disturbing. Metal Gear Solid 2 confused the hell out of me, and Assasins Creed 2 was a shocker. But all in all, I haaaaaaaaaaaaaaate cliffhanger endings.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. The ending literally punched me in the stomach.

LordofHats wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:Well, since he didn't even beleive in the Gods, I suppose it just shows that A) He was willing to sacrifice anything to bring her back, and B) They were always her Gods, not his.

I don't know. I spend hours trying to save the world, all that jazz and then at the end it all becomes pointless. There's trying to save the world and failing, and then there's trying to save the world and then dooming it by undoing everything you just did.

But with the woman he had grown to love now dead, did he really save anything of worth (To him)? He was always a loner, and never counted on anyone until she showed up.

Hückleberry wrote:F.E.A.R 2.... I uhhhh yeah...felt like a victim afterwards.

I enjoyed that ending

The ending to COD: MW, and MW2

MW:


MW2:

coolyo294 wrote:Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. The ending literally punched me in the stomach.

O i c wat you did ther.

But seriously, the endings of Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood definitely caught me off guard. That stuff was crazy; can't wait to see how Ubisoft resolves that.

I had read enough about Red Dead Redemption to see the ending coming, without really having it spoiled for me. I still really liked that one though.

Half-Life Episode 2's ending was probably one of the more shocking endings I can think of off the top of my head. Now if only Valve would get on finishing episode 3.

Gotta agree on HL2 Ep 2, a shocking ending with good emotion.

Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines also had an ending that was both unexpected and fun.

As does No One Lives Forever 2, it really needs that sequel damn it!

Metroid.

The newest Medal of Honor game.