[Sarafan]

For example, I thought the Assassins Creed ending was brilliant. It closed the whole Altair story arc in a logical way and the twist before the final sequence was great. And back in reality, I thought it was just as awesome.
the AC ending didn't leave be unsatisfied but hungry for more, that's a good cliffhanger.

Spoiler:

The Altair part was great the way it was finished, my problem was the ending back in reality. The ending was you staring at the wall and saying "I wonder what that means?", that doesnt leave me interested in the sequel, it leaves me pissed off because I spent money and time on a game that it didnt even bother explaining what you were after and when you think you'll start to get some answers what you get is "Oh, no, you dont, you gonna have to buy the sequel".

[NGTM-1R]

Spoiler:

Rocks fall. Everyone dies.

I chose to view that as a meta joke gone terribly wrong rather than an ending.

[0rph3u5]

The Best:
Legacy of Kain: Defiance
on Youtube
"Most ironic was the last gift that Raziel had given me [...] the first bitter taste of that terribel illusion: Hope"


I know a lot of bad endings .... so I cannot really decide which one is the worst...

[TESLA]

Great endings:

World In Conflict
Command & Conquer: Red Alert Soviet Ending
Mass Effect
Fallout 3 (original Ending)
Dead Space
Portal
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special edition

Terrible Endings:

Far Cry 2
Prey
Turok
StarShip Troopers
Republic: The Revolution

[Androgeos Exeunt]

When I rack my brains for terrible endings, Philips CD-i comes into mind...

Spoiler:

In Hotel Mario, when you complete the game, you see Mario and Luigi getting kissed by Princess Peach, and then you are given the title of "Best Player Ever".

...as well as some of the games that AVGN played to the end (or otherwise cheated to the end).

Spoiler:

I think that Ghostbusters game does it worst. It's just several lines of text that's worded wrongly. "Go and rest our heroes!"? WHAT IN THE NINE HELLS OF...

Death Rally also comes into mind. The game was great for its time, and I especially like the introduction, but the ending is just a bit abrupt.

Spoiler:

You shoot up the main bad guy, The Adversary, you see his car burn, and then this guy says that The Adversary is dying in his burning car and that his reign is over. LIKE DUH, if I killed him, I can see him die on the cutscene; I don't need some deep booming voice to tell me what I'm seeing!

Good endings? Hmm...

Duke Nukem 3D does it pretty well, I think.

Spoiler:

At the end of Episode 1, he shoots the boss in the head and says, "I'm Duke Nukem, and I'm coming to get the rest of you alien bastards!"
At the end of Episode 2, he holds true his promise to the boss before the final fight, which is to "rip off your face and $#!^ down your neck!".
At the end of Episode 3, he kicks out the eye of the boss through a goal-post and says, "Game over!".
At the end of Episode 4, he sticks a pipebomb into the womb of the Alien Queen, says, "It's time to abort your whole freaking species!" and blows her to bits ... underwater.

Bejeweled 2 Deluxe

Spoiler:

Puzzle Mode's ending is a bit odd, but the music and backdrops are pretty nice, and that weird jewel-composed face is pretty interesting. You don't get to see that anywhere else in the game.

[CP5670]

Fallout 3 (original Ending)

You're kidding, right? I love this game, but the ending is one of the worst aspects of it. At least they changed it slightly in the Broken Steel DLC and let you keep playing the game.

[TESLA]

Fallout 3 (original Ending)

You're kidding, right? I love this game, but the ending is one of the worst aspects of it. At least they changed it slightly in the Broken Steel DLC and let you keep playing the game.

I thought it suited it. Every story must have a beginning, middle and end, fallout 3 had all of it   

[Scooby_Doo]

Dreamfall: the Longest journey had a HORRIBLE ending.
FAXX 2 had a to be continued ending and there was never a sequel 

[Demitri]

I just finished Far Cry 2 and would have to put that in for a pretty poor ending, then again the game as a whole didn't impress me much tbh

[Rick James]

I thought it suited it. Every story must have a beginning, middle and end, fallout 3 had all of it   

Which does not change the fact that the ending felt too much like a forced, contrived Jesus story.

[TESLA]

I thought it suited it. Every story must have a beginning, middle and end, fallout 3 had all of it   

Which does not change the fact that the ending felt too much like a forced, contrived Jesus story.

I have to disagree there, kind of reminded me of the ending to Mad Max 3.

Also enjoyed how your actions concluded the games outro.
The old hero of villian scenario.

Spoiler:

The game started with your birth, its ending with your death seemed the only logical conclusion

[MR_T3D]

Worst:
Far Cry 2  after driving around killing respawning checkpoint mooks and completing the samey missions across Africa for a god awful amount of time...

Spoiler:

My options are: Blow myself up setting off some dynamite to block the military from attacking refugees or...  take a brief case full of diamonds to pay off the border guards so the same refugees can escape, then inexplicably shoot myself in the head....  WTF?!  I was tempted to hack the game and create option C Where I decided to take the brief case for myself, screw the refugees and go to a planet with naked sebacean girls and margarita shooters

By far this was the most stupid ending I have yet encountered.

by brother insists, having just completed the game 1hr ago, that he does not actually shoot himself in the head, he actually escapes.


okay, i completed it, and i call bull on what he said, he's fulll of crap.
what a ****ty ending.

[StarSlayer]

Quite frankly given how I was wailing on waves of mooks at that point in the game I was fairly confident if given the option I could have stopped the enemy conventionality with a M79, M95 and M249 then turned around and blown the crap out of the Border Guard Post.

[TrashMan]

Great endings:

World In Conflict
Command & Conquer: Red Alert Soviet Ending
Mass Effect
Fallout 3 (original Ending)
Dead Space
Portal
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special edition

Eh? Care to explain that. Fallout 3 had a terrible ending that made no sense whatsoever. It completely ignored several very logical outcomes and forced only 2 that were total crap.

[Vidmaster]

Dead Space has a terrible ending.

[NGTM-1R]

Spoiler:

The game started with your birth, its ending with your death seemed the only logical conclusion

Y'know, he's got a point.

[Snail]

Far Cry 2 had the worst ending in any game I've ever played.

[TrashMan]

Spoiler:

The game started with your birth, its ending with your death seemed the only logical conclusion

Y'know, he's got a point.

It's still a stupid death. It's not heroic - just stupid.

[McCall]

Wing Commander 3 and 4 had the best endings. Totally cool.

Worst... for me it's gotta be Need For Speed Underground 2. I know it's a race game with a plot thinner than paper, but the ending so barely exists that there's nothing to cover up with a spoiler. You win, the bad guy loses, a couple girls shout, "Yay!" That's it.

[Akalabeth Angel]

WHY DO ALL PEOPLE HERE HATE CLIFFHANGERS SO MUCH?

For example, I thought the Assassins Creed ending was brilliant. It closed the whole Altair story arc in a logical way and the twist before the final sequence was great. And back in reality, I thought it was just as awesome.
the AC ending didn't leave be unsatisfied but hungry for more, that's a good cliffhanger.
Or Half-Life 2. Another open BUT satisfying ending. I really loved it, just like the first's ending. Best cliffhanger so far goes to God of War 2 which has a awesome narrative and gobsmacking ending  

Half-Life 2's story was garbage imo. Because there wasn't one. They threw you into the middle of the story and then you're supposed to care about what's going on even though you have no idea. As such the cliff-hanger didn't mean anything for me because there wasn't anything to care about. The episodes were better.  .  .

But for the most part I agree with Yahtzee, cliff hangars are stupid especially when said game may never get a sequel. Finish the story, and if you want a sequel then leave enough loose ends to allow for one. Don't just not finish the story.