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Depressing, sad and unexpected endings (SPOILERS!)

ok,i have not played half of the game posted above but i'm pretty sure that conker's bad fur day's ending can beat easily half of them in terms of sadness. I still feel bad for what happened 15 years after playing it.
 
I forgot how depressing Final Fantasy Tactics ending was as well. Shitty translation on the PS1 original and all , its still got its message across.
 
Yoshichan said:
Same here, I loved it, in fact.
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It just left me with a whoaaa kind of feeling, after how much of the game was all happy go lucky whoopdedoo, then that ending happens and it's pretty dark. I was surprised because a lot of people seemed to really hate it akin to ME3's ending, but I was impressed.
 
neos said:
ok,i have not played half of the game posted above but i'm pretty sure that conker's bad fur day's ending can beat easily half of them in terms of sadness. I still feel bad for what happened 15 years after playing it.
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the original cut ending is even worse, with him committing suicide lol

what a great game, goddamn

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For all you WoW players out there.

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This made me upset and sad.
 
Professor Layton & The Lost Future

Sure he's saved the day, but he loses the love of his life once again and watches her fade away into certain death. He then loses his apprentice/friend who is moving away to another country. No wonder his gentlemanly façade finally cracks.

And another:

Skies of Arcadia
In the credits where you find out the fates of every character, you find out that Drachma died shortly after the end of the game. That got to me when I was younger. Still does :(
 
all of the endings in Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, even the good ones, are depressing as hell.

the whole world seemed doomed from the beginning and it doesn't seem like getting good endings would bring much hope to lives of the villagers, they were already crazy and insane anyway.
 
Coppertracks said:
Professor Layton & The Lost Future

Sure he's saved the day, but he loses the love of his life once again and watches her fade away into certain death. He then loses his apprentice/friend who is moving away to another country. No wonder his gentlemanly façade finally cracks.
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Yeah, this would be my pick, as well.
The music doesn't help.
 
Coppertracks said:
And another:

Skies of Arcadia
In the credits where you find out the fates of every character, you find out that Drachma died shortly after the end of the game. That got to me when I was younger. Still does :(
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The sadness of which was swiftly counter-balanced by Fina's hot new pirate outfit.
 
EmCeeGramr said:
Nier

You've sterilized the rest of humanity, tons of people are dead, destroyed the only remaining mechanism that kept sentient Gestalts from turning into feral Shades and thus doomed the last generation humanity to die of the Black Scrawl. Oh, and you never found the cure for Yonah's Black Scrawl, and probably made it worse.
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That's not all quite right. It's pretty depressing that
you are an accidental genocidist
but you don't actually
completely destroy the future hope of humanity
and Cavia staffers wrote in the Ultimania (or whatever it was) about how their idea for a future game was
where the gestalts and replicants have to team up to fight aliens.

I mean, Nier is depressing as fuck, but it's not Drakengard.

Boney said:
well someone here didn't understand mother 3's ending
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Mother 3 does like the least imaginable to help you out with that. :P
 
Seda said:
Been a long time since I've played Xenosaga, but, it's something like Wilhelm's domain is destined to collapse, but instead of actually preventing that from happening, Wilhelm just employs Eternal Recurrence to start time over. But the party decides they'll make do without it.
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oh. so that's what that thing was. i didn't understand it as it was happening in the game.
 
I think Zack & Wiki's ending is perfectly suited to this.
Your best friend sacrifices himself to take care of the bad guy.

The gravity of it all is almost bizarre for the game it comes from.
 
ScreenSplitter said:
Fallout 3 (depending on if you download the DLC or not).
The whole game was pretty depressing. Seeing the awesome that is Liam Neeson die helplessly, then you having to go through the same fate.
Red Dead Redemption
Not sure what's more depressing, John Marston dying or then being forced to play as his whiny bitch of a son.
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Yeah, FO3 was a bit sucky, but that RDR was brutal. I think the second option was the worst part though, damn nags!
 
Duki said:
the original cut ending is even worse, with him committing suicide lol

what a great game, goddamn

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Truly?i understand why they cut the suicide,no sequel.great,great game,and thinking at it nowadays it seems strange that such a "mature" game was released on n64
Cramoss said:
Conker's Bad Fur Day's ending was depressing, sad and totally unexpected.
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this had to be quoted because it's a dogma.
 
Coppertracks said:
Professor Layton & The Lost Future

Sure he's saved the day, but he loses the love of his life once again and watches her fade away into certain death. He then loses his apprentice/friend who is moving away to another country. No wonder his gentlemanly façade finally cracks.
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Oh yeah,
I loved that they let the gentlemanly side fail slightly. The stereotypically "wise" thing to do would be to recognize that she has to leave and let her go, and so it was very powerful to see his human side come out
 
Bastion

There are two endings, one in which you choose to prevent the Calamity by going back in time or you can detonate the cores and have the survivors escape to somewhere else. Upon New Game Plus, you find out that even if you had chosen to prevent the Calamity, it probably didn't even work anyway.
 
I would have to say ICO.
I expected a semi-happy ending, at least. While Ico ends the nightmare, it costs him his life. Yorda, perhaps unable to leave the castle, thanks him and gives him a warrior's burial at sea. The castle comes crashing down, its dark history and the curse initiated by Wander forever lost to the waves. At the very least, they are all free from their fates...
 
I always thought Final Fantasy Tactics Advance had a depressing ending, and was just a depressing story from start to end. Marche was kind of a dick to everyone else who was seemingly happy with life.
 
charlequin said:
That's not all quite right. It's pretty depressing that
you are an accidental genocidist
but you don't actually
completely destroy the future hope of humanity
and Cavia staffers wrote in the Ultimania (or whatever it was) about how their idea for a future game was
where the gestalts and replicants have to team up to fight aliens.
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Yoko Taro explicitly said in Grimoire Nier that
it's the last generation of humanity that will ever exist, and that it will all start dying off in the near future.
 
Reading through these two pages I got to read a lot of endings I will never experience so that was nice, but out of all mentioned I think I've only finished 2-3 games. I'll add...

Heavy Rain Only finished it once but I got the worst possible ending
From memory (It was over 2 years ago now) I think everyone died and the killer got away

I really should play it again.
 
On Xenosaga 3's ending:

Chaos shifted the Gnosis to Lost Jerusalem, along with himself, Nephilim and Abel. The Gnosis with strong wills were reborn into the physical world as people, with the effects of U-Do, the Zohar, Anima and Animus opening up the possibility of a new future.

Shion and the others were all transported to the same galaxy as Lost Jerusalem by Wilhelms will, so even without the ability to gate jump, they can still find Lost Jerusalem.

The end of the universe is essentially averted.
 
Never thought I could take any Gears game seriously after the laughable MARIAAAAAA shit. But
Dom's Death
and the ending were some heavy shit for me for some reason.
 
Necromanti said:
I would have to say ICO.
I expected a semi-happy ending, at least. While Ico ends the nightmare, it costs him his life. Yorda, perhaps unable to leave the castle, thanks him and gives him a warrior's burial at sea. The castle comes crashing down, its dark history and the curse initiated by Wander forever lost to the waves. At the very least, they are all free from their fates...
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Um...did you not stick around through the credits?
 
At the end of The Wind Waker, seeing
King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule drown with Hyrule
hit me so damn hard. I still can't watch the end without crying.
 
Mario Galaxy

Black Hole, Bowser or destroyed by the black hole or swims in lava. Rosalina "sacrifies" herself to save you and she and every luma "dies" so you can go back to your life.
 
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