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Biggest "Blue-Balls" Moments In Games
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Cutter Jones
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Came here looking for the first Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver ending.
With one screen, 19-year-old me destroyed the CD and bailed on the entire series.
With one screen, 19-year-old me destroyed the CD and bailed on the entire series.
[Fade to black] To be continued
Oh I'm still reeling from the pain.
What a train-wreck that Other M turned out to be.
GavinUK86
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I know barely anyone played it but Deus Ex The Fall has a shitty "to be continued" ending, right in the middle of a boss fight cutscene.
It built up these characters is the Icarus Effect novel, which was pretty decent, to then carry on their story in a half baked game with zero conclusion.
To top it off, they're never going back to the story or the characters. It was a failed experiment as far as their concerned.
It built up these characters is the Icarus Effect novel, which was pretty decent, to then carry on their story in a half baked game with zero conclusion.
To top it off, they're never going back to the story or the characters. It was a failed experiment as far as their concerned.
So much this.
Hitlersaurus Christ
Banned
Has anyone said DOAX3 yet
Fahzgoolin
Banned
Half Life 2 episode 2 the thread.
I still get a little weepy thinking about it =/
I still get a little weepy thinking about it =/
HabDashCine
Banned
Everyone keeps saying Zero Time Dilemma and it's giving me hives of anxiety as I'm still powering through it. Please stop harshing my buzz.
Back on topic, mine has to be the Bioshocks. Never finished 2, but 1 and Infinite both managed to magnificently muck up their final bosses after crafting some mighty fine narratives beforehand. At least Infinite had a more interesting ending besides
, but still...
Back on topic, mine has to be the Bioshocks. Never finished 2, but 1 and Infinite both managed to magnificently muck up their final bosses after crafting some mighty fine narratives beforehand. At least Infinite had a more interesting ending besides
"and then the Little Sisters grew up!"
It's true in more ways than 1.
There's the actual game.
And there's fucking Section Zero where that shithead Adam just up and leave with the last level because fuck you that's why.
What I was gonna say.
Just in case people were wondering what it is...
You're about to go into this Tourian area with Unfreezable Metroids, but lolno Adam shoots Samus for some SUPER EMOTIONAL CUTSCENE that is not only incoherent, but insane, irrational and treats the protagonist like a Dog and is happy about it.
But it was continued! Soul Reaver 2 exists! As does Legacy of Kain: Defiance!
The true blue balling is at the end of Defiance if anything.
Oh yeah there's that too.
As I said more way than 1.
I'll also add the pixelhunt moments that are the textbook definition of shite (look up a dictionary and you'll see a picture of it and everything!)
NightShift
Member
Despite being a great game, Infamous 2 (and I guess Second Son too) disappointed me based on what the ending of the first game seemed to set up. I was expecting crazy time travel plots that tie the good and bad versions together but what we got was a safe story with nothing like that. I still kind of hope Sucker Punch goes there one day since I believe there is a lot of potential in the Infamous storyline.
Kaji AF16
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Mass Effect 3: The ultimate anticlimatic ending. The last 10 minutes are bizarre on their own, but tarnishing the potential of the three-game-buildup that precedes them makes them even worse.
Halo 5: Loved the game, but the clash between Master Chief and Osiris was... underwhelming, to say the least. Very interested in how 343i is going to move the universe forward, given the relatively cold reception that Locke got.
Halo 5: Loved the game, but the clash between Master Chief and Osiris was... underwhelming, to say the least. Very interested in how 343i is going to move the universe forward, given the relatively cold reception that Locke got.
John Rabbit
Banned
Spolier-ing since many new people might pick this up in the next few months before Persona 5.
Persona 4 bad ending, especially if you weren't aware (or like me, totally forgot) that there's a good ending.
Robot Pants
Member
Yea this took WAAAAYYY too long
Demoskinos
Member
I'm still salty we never got a sequel to Psi-Ops
shadow_shogun
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XIII
slavesnyder
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LA Noire
Great game that turned more and more meh towards the end.
Great game that turned more and more meh towards the end.
Speaking of Golden Sun, Dark Dawn basically pulled the same thing. From what I remember, the game introduces a threat early on and you're tasked with investigating it. During the investigation a second threat is introduced and the entire game focuses on resolving that. The end of the game is essentially reminding the player that the first threat exists, is real bad, and then rolls credits.
Rain City Gamer
Member
Halo 2 ending for sure.
Yeah that pissed me off a lot. I know The Fall wasn't good, but I want to conclude that story. Maybe we'll get another novel...
PanicFreak
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The endings of RAGE and Halo 2 come to mind.
captainpat
Member
Infamous second son.
I was expecting some crazy last fight in the facility where they kept conduits. Instead you just get a cutscene that wraps everything up in a nice bow.
I was expecting some crazy last fight in the facility where they kept conduits. Instead you just get a cutscene that wraps everything up in a nice bow.
Perfect Cha0s
Member
The ending of Mass Effect 3.
IdreamofHIME
Member
Star Fox Adventure for sure.
Hey you know that Scales dino bad guy we've been building up to the whole time? Surprise, you ain't gonna ever fight him.
Here's Andross....again. Zzzz
Hey you know that Scales dino bad guy we've been building up to the whole time? Surprise, you ain't gonna ever fight him.
Here's Andross....again. Zzzz
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
This right here!
God of war 3 made up for it with that epic opening.
EatinOlives
Member
Bigger blue balls here is the fact that Insomniac is unlikely to return to the inFamous series after Second Son. SS+First Light were fine for PS4 launch-window games, but absolutely NOT the right game to conclude the series with. inFamous 2 took painstaking lengths to conclude the series in very definitive and final ways, and they retconned the endings so that they could have another game in the series...which proceeded to leave the overarching narrative unfinished without a satisfying conclusion for the character or the general game's universe.
Super weak and disappointing. I'm probably just going to consider Second Son non-canon in my head.
Seven Force
Banned
He even taunts you beforehand about
using a tank being a cowardly move
Cloudburst
HL2: Episode 2's ending is interesting. It's one hell of a cliffhanger but I didn't feel ripped off for a second. The White Forest sequence is right up there with the best endings in an FPS.
It only became the all time worst blue balls moment when it was clear that Valve couldn't be bothered to finish the stupid game.
And yes, I'm entitled to an ending. The last two minutes of that game is a goddamned promise to their fans.
It only became the all time worst blue balls moment when it was clear that Valve couldn't be bothered to finish the stupid game.
And yes, I'm entitled to an ending. The last two minutes of that game is a goddamned promise to their fans.
Oh god, how could I forget this.
I didn't get into Halo 2 until way, way after the fact so this right here was by FAR the worst blue balls moment for me for at least 4 years after.
Terrible.
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Chrono Cross.
^Oh shit. Lucca's house. There's a fire?!
^Hold on Lucca we're going to save you!
^Lucca's glasses! Damn, we're too late?!
^No! Murderer!!!
^Yamanekoooooooooooooo!!!!
^Oh shit. Lucca's house. There's a fire?!
^Hold on Lucca we're going to save you!
^Lucca's glasses! Damn, we're too late?!
^No! Murderer!!!
^Yamanekoooooooooooooo!!!!
Green Mamba
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anothertech
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The Order, the thread.
VendettaRed07
Member
Mario Sunshine
when you beat bowser and have around 60/70 stars, and find out there are no extra stages and pretty much all the remaining stars are blue coin collecting.
when you beat bowser and have around 60/70 stars, and find out there are no extra stages and pretty much all the remaining stars are blue coin collecting.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
Killzone 2 ending -> Killzone 3 intro
Set up:
Your mission is to storm the capital building and take the leader of the Helghast alive to force a ceasefire and end the war that started in Killzone 1.
Twist:
Our good friend Rico can't contain himself and instead of ending a war that has killed millions of civilians on both sides (or at least having a chance to), he shoots the supreme leader in the stomach, killing him, ensuring that what ever possible peace that could have been brokered is now impossible.
Sev (you) and Rico walk outside of the building where the majority of the remaining ISA forces are.
The radio starts going crazy, the Helghast fleet isn't destroyed (as shown at the start of the game), but is now in full force in a major counter attack that starts to decimate the ISA fleet. Everything is chaos, the ISA ground forces are not equipped for any major engagements and the Helghast fleet is all but ready to destroy the remaining ISA fleet, stranding the remaining ISA forces on an enemy planet.
The camera pans above Sev as you see giant ships fly overhead, engaging your fleet. Everyone is running around trying to figure out what to do next, and Sev just sits down in complete disbelief at what he is seeing and what Rico just did.
So the next game is going to be about trying to escape the planet with limited resources, maybe even trying to fight a guerrilla war within the decimated ruins of the capital city while waiting for ISA reinforcements?
Nope.
Killzone 3 starts with a really strange intro, and then cuts back to the end of Killzone 2 where apparently the situation Rico and Sev are in isn't quite registering with them. When the captain of the current ISA forces tells them they are doing a full retreat, they both seem shocked that they are being forced to leave the planet when they have zero air superiority and the majority of their military was literally killed in a nuke. Ok, so our characters seem to be stupid (well, Sev now seems to be stupid, Rico always had some brain damage).
So the game moves forward for a level and a half doing the exit plan and trying to evacuate. Plan goes to shit, and a small company of troops are left behind including our main characters. Cool, so now the game is going to be a lot of guerrilla warfare, lots of just trying to survive from engagement to engagement, right?
SIX MONTHS LATER
Yea, game does a total time skip and ignores all of the interesting parts of "how the fuck are they alive for six months, what have they been doing" and instead opt for a stupid story about how a single company of troops need to go against an entire military to stop a magic super-weapon from killing Earth and forcing the ISA to surrender.
oh, and at the end of the game, there are like 13 people left and they manage to literally wipe out all life on Helgast by mistake, and the game ends there with zero resolution, no warp up on our heros, no mention of the public broadcast of Rico's probable court-martial and execution. Nothing, just an entire game wasted of one of the most interesting set up's in any FPS story.
Thanks Rico
Set up:
Your mission is to storm the capital building and take the leader of the Helghast alive to force a ceasefire and end the war that started in Killzone 1.
Twist:
Our good friend Rico can't contain himself and instead of ending a war that has killed millions of civilians on both sides (or at least having a chance to), he shoots the supreme leader in the stomach, killing him, ensuring that what ever possible peace that could have been brokered is now impossible.
Sev (you) and Rico walk outside of the building where the majority of the remaining ISA forces are.
The radio starts going crazy, the Helghast fleet isn't destroyed (as shown at the start of the game), but is now in full force in a major counter attack that starts to decimate the ISA fleet. Everything is chaos, the ISA ground forces are not equipped for any major engagements and the Helghast fleet is all but ready to destroy the remaining ISA fleet, stranding the remaining ISA forces on an enemy planet.
The camera pans above Sev as you see giant ships fly overhead, engaging your fleet. Everyone is running around trying to figure out what to do next, and Sev just sits down in complete disbelief at what he is seeing and what Rico just did.
So the next game is going to be about trying to escape the planet with limited resources, maybe even trying to fight a guerrilla war within the decimated ruins of the capital city while waiting for ISA reinforcements?
Nope.
Killzone 3 starts with a really strange intro, and then cuts back to the end of Killzone 2 where apparently the situation Rico and Sev are in isn't quite registering with them. When the captain of the current ISA forces tells them they are doing a full retreat, they both seem shocked that they are being forced to leave the planet when they have zero air superiority and the majority of their military was literally killed in a nuke. Ok, so our characters seem to be stupid (well, Sev now seems to be stupid, Rico always had some brain damage).
So the game moves forward for a level and a half doing the exit plan and trying to evacuate. Plan goes to shit, and a small company of troops are left behind including our main characters. Cool, so now the game is going to be a lot of guerrilla warfare, lots of just trying to survive from engagement to engagement, right?
SIX MONTHS LATER
Yea, game does a total time skip and ignores all of the interesting parts of "how the fuck are they alive for six months, what have they been doing" and instead opt for a stupid story about how a single company of troops need to go against an entire military to stop a magic super-weapon from killing Earth and forcing the ISA to surrender.
oh, and at the end of the game, there are like 13 people left and they manage to literally wipe out all life on Helgast by mistake, and the game ends there with zero resolution, no warp up on our heros, no mention of the public broadcast of Rico's probable court-martial and execution. Nothing, just an entire game wasted of one of the most interesting set up's in any FPS story.
Thanks Rico
Astral Dog
Member
There is a Sonic Riders game where Eggman actually beats Sonic but he does not win anything at all
bobawesome
Member
Personal satisfaction
BlanketFort
Member
One - perfect analogy.
Two - Couldn't agree more. I'm aching here, Valve! Aching!!!
Pretty much all of Arkham City is setting up a climactic confrontation with Hugo Strange and then
Definitely the most anticlimactic ending i can remember.
it's revealed he was just a puppet and then he dies in a cutscene. And then the final boss is a jobber who is only there to provide a lame plot twist.
Definitely the most anticlimactic ending i can remember.