Top 5 Game Endings That Need To Be Changed

From the PlanetXbox360.com feature top list:

"It’s a travesty what happened to Mass Effect 3. It could have been the greatest game of all time. It could have shown Hollywood the real way to end a trilogy with no Ewoks or visits to the frontier through time travel. But instead, it has ruined the trust between what was once perceived as the “Lords of RPGs” and its fans; and now, we want a real ending to go along with our $60 overpriced purchase. This isn’t the first time us entitled gamers have felt the wrath of disappointment. It has occurred more often than not and it’s time to stand up and voice our concerns about the industry that has failed us. Let us organize and, if we have to, riot on the streets of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to get the outcome we expect: a new ending, along with influencing other once-trusted gaming publishers with new endings for the following games."

[UltimaEnder]

I didn't have problems with ME3's ending...

[undercovrr]

So all the war assets you collected in the game, all the good vs evil decisions you made..yet the ending is the same for everyone? Let's not even talk about the decisions made in the first 2 games. Well i'm glad you are happy with the ending..i'm not.

[SilentNegotiator]

It wasn't the same for everyone! Mine was blue!

[andibandit]

It would've been fine for me if there was a brown one too.

[360GamerFG]

Oh but there was a brown one, in fact all 3 were brown. Brown and very smelly!

[Topshelfcheese]

@undercovrr

I don't understand your hate, there are really only 3 ways to end the story. 1. Stop the reapers 2. Everyone dies or 3. you all hug it out and have a party.

Yes all three choices in the game involved stopping the reapers, but in today's happy endings world, they aren't going to let you kill off humanity...

My only issue with the way it ended was the damn normandy scene, that made no sense in the whole context of what they did.

[BattleAxe]

^^^
**Spoiler**
I think Bioware could have done a better job with the ending to ME3. I thought that I would just be stopping the Reapers, but instead you decision boiled down to 2 different choices, either you become a Reaper yourself and lose the character that you've spent all that time building up, or destroy the Reapers and send the whole galaxy back to the stone age and kill yourself in the process. I'm not outraged about it like alot of other people are, but I think it was a stupid way to end the series.

[RIPSKATEDESTROY]

yes, a game is the developers vision, not everyone else's, same thing goes for movies, books .... everyone is free to agree or disagree but to change it? no.

[aliengmr]

Movies, books and games are changed all the time. You know this right?

[Xof]

Except that's not the case with games. Games are an INTERACTIVE media. Do you know what that word means? INTERACTIVE. Look it up. You'll shit bricks.

[RIPSKATEDESTROY]

its still the developers vision, thats all im saying

[sjaakiejj]

I agree with you RipSkatedDestroy, though I also agree with the people who are screaming to change it.

Having finished the game now, I can say that to a certain extend, the developers vision should remain intact. Whether you like or dislike it is subjective. But what they can do is extend the ending, and perhaps offer a few more choices. The biggest problem with the ending is not just that "your choices do not matter". That's actually a very poor explanation of the problem with the ending. The problem related to that is that the choices are not reflected in the ending. Even if the outcome was the same for all endings, the choices you made throughout 3 games should at least have been shown, and this would've satisfied a large amount of people.

The second big problem with the ending is a lack of closure. This too can be resolved by simply extending the ending, perhaps through DLC, to indicate what happens to all the characters in the series, or perhaps only the important ones.

After 3 games, I to a certain extend agree with the people who feel dis satisfied with the ending Bioware gave us. Considering it's the last game in the series, there was a large oppurtunity for Bioware to give a large variety of endings, including a very hard to get "perfect" ending. This would've given gamers an immense amount of replay value, and it would've avoided all the problems people have with the endings.

[Nimblest-Assassin]

SilentNegotiator is right!

Mine was red!

But still, people this is getting annoying, don't you think we have hit that point where we move on? Its been 3 weeks now

[LUCKYXS7LEVEN]

it's everyone's opinion but in the end it's just a game and if the creators thought it was in best interest to end the series the way they did, so be it. i play games for the fun of it and the story whether it has a good or bad ending, i still enjoy the ride until i move to the multiplayer part were i start dropping the curse words dictionary onto the other team.

[Bagogames]

A sports game? Legends of Rock?

What the fuck? What a pathetic list, some of these games don't even have actual endings.

[bobrea]

No game endings need to be changed you stupid assholes. You didn't like it...GET OVER IT

[t0mmyb0y]

here here!

[soundslike]

Hey picasso, your portraits don't look like real people.

fix it please

kthxbye

[Ins4neMembr4ne_]

Hey Bioware writers, you can't breath in space

kthxbye

[BitbyDeath]

Hey Twilight Vampires, you can't sparkle in the sun

kthxbye

[sjaakiejj]

"No game endings need to be changed you stupid assholes"
Agree.

"You didn't like it...GET OVER IT"
Disagree.

Two main problems are the closure (or rather, the lack of it) it gives to fans of the series, and the fact that choices aren't reflected in the ending, whilst they very easily could be, and were promised to be.

Both of these things can be achieved without changing the ending, but instead extending it, through DLC.

[Raf1k1]

I agree with you but I think what you said should have been achieved in the game to begin with and as such any DLC for closure should be free.

[sjaakiejj]

I agree Raf1k1, it should've been in the game. The whole point of the game being the final game in the franchise was to give fans conclusive answers, and they didn't do that.

Whilst I agree that morally speaking the DLC should be free, corporatively speaking I'm not sure if they'll be able to do it. Extending the ending would require a substantial amount of resources, and with a large publisher helming the company, it's unlikely they'd get the funding they'd need to release free DLC that extends the ending.

[Anon1974]

I still don't understand why there was any confusion here. This was exactly the same thing that happened with ME2. When it came to the main plot, your choices didn't amount to jack. The fact that they had any impact anywhere in the game was something that most games don't even attempt to bring into play - but for some reason, it was all good for Mass Effect 2 and everyone cheered that game as a triumph, Mass Effect 3 made people lose their minds.

I just don't get the hypocrisy of it. Bioware was boasting about the impact of choices and their new, morality system before Mass Effect 2 and it didn't happen. I think from now on, when anyone whines about "My choices didn't matter," in Mass 3 they should state why it didn't bother them in ME2. And if it did bother them in ME2, why did they expect anything different from ME3.

[sjaakiejj]

@Darkride

That's actually incorrect. Your choices did matter in Mass Effect 2. Whilst you correctly assert the ones from Mass Effect 1 didn't mean anything in the second game, it was the choices you made in the second game (loyalty, non-loyalty; Upgrades, no upgrades; Good leader, Bad leader) that mattered in the final wrap up of the game.

War Assets in the third game didn't do anything at all to really change the outcome. You still get almost the same ending, with a small but insignificant difference due to the overall lack of closure. To top it off, the third game was supposed to wrap things up, and being the last game in the series, expectations for the choices you made in the first and second game were much higher.

[360GamerFG]

Works for EA

[omi25p]

for me its.

Mass Effect 3
L.A Noire
Gears Of War 3

[Bagogames]

Touch the LA Noire ending and we'll find you...

I kid.

...but not really.

[SeraphimBlade]

My God, I can't even tell joke articles from real articles anymore. That is how bad this has gotten. I hope you're all proud.

[jacksonmichael]

I'm... Almost certain it was a joke article. Almost.

[bessy67]

Worst waste of time article I've ever read. None of the games listed even had stories that warranted endings. I came here expecting a serious article with thought provoking choices and instead I got trolled.

[Bagogames]

Should read the Best Anti Heroes list on our site, in our opinion of course as we couldn't scientifically prove any of it.

Yes, shameless self promotion is shameless but its hard to do worse than this piece of turd spew article.

[SonyStyled]

uncharted 2's ending didnt float with me too well. i mean the plot twist was perfected in U3 and very enjoyable in U1, but with 2, i just thought the "protectors of the shambala" were the most corniest looking thing ive ever looked at. like when i saw the purple skin and golden shoulder pads i was like WHAAAT???

[ZippyZapper]

Traded ME3 for Dark Souls, better game IMO.

[ritsuka666]

I sorry,people consider Dark/Demons Souls very good games. But honestly it's way overhyped..

[Bagogames]

Demon's Souls was not over rated, Dark Souls very much is. God I really need to get back into that game...

[Hicken]

I'm surprised even YOU listen to your opinion, Zippy Zapper. No one else does.

[AlienLion]

There needs to be a SOPA type law that identifies every douche who pretentiously splits the same freaking article into several pages by placing ONE entry on each page. The perp needs to be flung feces at by a diarhea-struck monkey who gave the world aids.

[Bagogames]

Planetxbox360 are notoriously shit in general. Seriously, I don't understand how the fuck the editor can sit back and read this crap think 'seems legit' before stamping his seal of approval for publishing.

Or maybe I'm over thinking things. Maybe they don't have an editor at all and that's why this shit keeps spewing out of the same damn source over and over again.

[sly-Famous]

ME, Lord of RPG's? Deus Ex says hi! and it had a good ending. ;)

[Somebody]

If they wanted to stick with their story, fine. Nothing wrong with that.

But they really shouldn't have gave gamers the false sense of freedom or that here might be something more for all their effort. With all those moral choices that the game presented over the course of 3 games, one would expect that those would significantly affect the end.

I guess the story was subscribing to the "fate is set in stone" kind of . No matter what you do, it'll always end up the same. Except for different colours, of course.

Unfortunately ME's gameplay on the other hand gave the illusion of "The Butterfly Effect" where the tiniest actions will result in big results. Sometimes with significantly different results. And probably more different colours.

A little bit of science vs philosophy.

[WitWolfy]

Couldn't agree more with you.

[sjaakiejj]

It's not even about the "fate set in stone". Most people would've probably be fine if whatever you did, you would lose the war for example. The problem is that none of the choices have been reflected in the ending. For instance, "Losing the war" could be done in 20 different ways depending on your choices. Sure you weren't able to affect the outcome, but at least you get to see the result of the different choices you made.

The Rachni for instance weren't shown in the battle at all, and aspects about choices you made weren't given any thought in the final moments of the game at all. To top it off, the lack of closure was just the final nail in the coffin for many.

[Somebody]

Ahh..the Rachni...When I first saw the options of what I should do with the Rachni Queen I was rather excited. I was dreaming that Shepard would appear with a huge Rachni army with him/her personally sitting on a huge one...

Sigh...that's what you get for dreaming big.

[ArtificiallyYours]

To all RPG fans still pissed royally;

You are not immune to crap endings in your games. You are not snowflakes.

It happens every once in a while, even the puzzle genre has had this happen.

[Firedevil401]

Rage's ending ;)

[Kidmyst]

Boy if we had the Internet back in the NES days I could have fought for game ending changes for all the NES games I beat only to show a picture and say basically Congrats you saved the world! I remember sitting there saying "That's It?" like Ralphy with his decoder ring.

[Kos-Mos]

This article were bound to happen. Nothing wrong, but in these times...

[GTANJ]

When you're a clown, nobody takes you seriously.

[MilkMan]

No ending needs to be changed.

[Runa216]

This, my friends, is why Fanfiction exists.