7 Bad Endings That Were Harder Work Than the Good Ending: Commenter Edition

Your head is on fire! Scientists kill you! Everyone dies! Several videogames actually reward you with a worse ending for putting in the extra effort, more fool us. Consider these bad endings that were harder work than the good one, as submitted in the comments of last month's video.
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[@MrMBinder]

I think it's pretty safe to say that Jane has completely nailed that timeless vampire haircut.

[@Paldasan]

Jane is certainly prepared for immortality.

[@JachAnen]

@@Paldasan You can't convince me she isn't already an immortal vampire

[@LivingGuy484]

She looks immortal 🙂

[@TheManInTheLongBlackCoat]

Yeah, erm… it’s not coincidental, friend. 🧛‍♀️

[@goosel9347]

@@JachAnenYeah, she doesn’t seem too bothered at the prospect of drinking blood so I agree. 😂

[@realGeorgelucas18563]

There's something very "The Sims" about the way your character screams and clutches their head during that Frenzied Flame ending. Like they're very upset that they burnt a grilled cheese sandwich and just throw themselves on the floor in desperation.

[@Someone-lg6di]

Its the frenzied flame taking control and killing you

[@AlleluiaElizabeth]

Like he said. Very Sims.

[@kyledabearsfan]

I mean that's the real truth behind the frenzied flame. Sheer sadness about a grilled cheese, turned to anguish. Only chaos will suffice now.

[@moreplz]

Tell your sim to take care of themselves come back and the world is on fire classic sims.

[@WolfyFancyLads]

I love how Maggie didn't even think, though. She was like "Oh, fuck you, Boston! I'm jumping off this cliff, I'm not living a crystal addict!". Props to her, she had conviction.

[@user-xu2pi6vx7o]

That should have had an extra bad ending where you drop down that entire tub of crystals after her, resurrecting her AGAIN, as a crystal addict that's now stuck at the bottom of a cliff.

[@Veladus]

As I was watching it, I was thinking "Jesus, lady. If it's that bad, you're free to kill--oh. You did. Well okay then." She showed me I guess.

[@Alsebra]

I'm curious as to how she's brought back to life (I'd assume the being either used a crystal on her or it had some sort of related resurrection powers)...and why she's not upset about being brought back by another being.

[@thalandor46]

Seeing Jane break as Mike yells "IT'S OFFICIAL TO ME!" was wonderfully delightful!

[@evanlogan3595]

Note that the Frenzied Flame ending leaving Melania alive is intentional, since you (in-character) learn about it from a crazy ghost guy who tells you it's the only way to save Melania from sacrificing herself near the end of the game.

[@_mediogre_]

Do you mean Melina?

[@sephirrothvt]

​@@_mediogre_he meant what he meant I think

[@darklord884]

There's also the evil ending of Faith: Chapter 2. You have to complete a ritual, lead a child to its doom and murder two people through secret actions the game doesn't tell you you can do and then you have to set a scarecrow on fire. The end.

[@moosecampbell]

Neat

[@mattalan6618]

that seems a bit dark

[@darklord884]

@@mattalan6618 Nah, it's actually really well-lit.

[@mattalan6618]

@@darklord884 i dont get it

[@enlongjones2394]

@@mattalan6618 fire is a source of light.

[@thundercookie3214]

How can Jane's high school reunion be full of enemies? She's immortal and surely they aren't?

[@marhawkman303]

well, see, the problem is she's not allowed to kill them. :p

[@coyoteartist]

@@marhawkman303 But time will do that.

[@DavidCowie2022]

@@coyoteartistIf you're immortal and born recently, then it's going to be a long wait before time kills your enemies.

[@coyoteartist]

@@DavidCowie2022 Well true.

[@marhawkman303]

@@coyoteartist also are we sure her high school isn't? :D

[@Jessie_Helms]

In the Dishonored franchise the good ending is usually the hardest to get. But, if you’re already set on a high chaos run, the _worst_ ending requires a little extra leg work. And it’s only achievable if playing as Corvo, so if going for it randomly that cuts your odds in half. Not only do you have to kill every target, you have to go out of your way in the Dust District to kill both Paulo and Overseer Burns (despite the fact killing one makes you friendly towards the other). You need to kill Billie (even though she’s never hostile towards you) and present her corpse to Anton Sokolov. You also have to allow Stilton to attend the seance, when it’s much easier to kill him or knock him out. And finally, instead of walking 5 steps to revive Emily, instead you walk 10 steps to usurp the throne instead, ruling as a mad tyrant.

[@Someone-lg6di]

Never realized u could save the seance guy

[@AngryBoozer]

Also the most boring. 90% of all skills and equipment is geared towards killing people.

[@tealOmega980]

​@@Someone-lg6diIf you knock him out in the past, he can't go to the seance and go mad, and so the future, and level, is changed. Similar thing if he dies before the seance.

[@jedi_connor3030]

Also the "Star Wars Jedi Academy" - the split off into the bad ending is easy to do - simply kill you know who and you're down the path, but once you've done that, now instead of having to fight through the Sith on Korriban with the Jedi at your side, you have to fight both the Jedi and the Sith. Bc you're so evil, you can't just side with the baddies, you have to be the baddest baddie.

[@TheTriforceDragon]

And the final boss fight is arguably also harder in the evil ending as well.

[@QuickSilverKitsune]

Wait, is that the Star Wars game where you're forced to turn some of the Jedi mid fight so they can help you open a certain door? Cause I could never get past that point, the other Jedi would kill the ones I turned faster then I could turn em, and I'd be left with so few force users there weren't enough of us to open the door

[@LadyOnikara]

Really? I haven't really played the story mode of that game. I've only played multiplayer with all bots in Helms Deep. Not really known fact: Weird Al Yankovic seems to prefer an orange lightsaber.

[@ShadowCthulhu]

"feeding on a modest selection of the living like so many blood filled caprisuns" - Jane. Did Jane watch Blade 2 recently?

[@makarabaduk1754]

Nope - she's just really pleased with her new eco-friendly sharpened metal straw.

[@VonBlade]

Mike almost not making it through the 'Deader than Disco' gag was worth the price of admission.

[@mt_baldwin]

The parkour hell in Elden Ring to get down to the 3 fingers seems so hard because everyone starts the parkour on the wrong side, they start on the right side like in the footage shown in the vid. Go down the left side it's forward roll-forward jump-(turn camera around) forward jump-done. Edit: I didn't discover this, Fightin'cowboy has a guide on how to do this and %60 of the time it works every time.

[@KeithFraser82]

I understood that reference.

[@archskeptic]

Is the Frenzied Flame the worst ending? Have you considered the one where you curse everyone with whatever the hell the dung eater was doing?

[@bustinarant]

I have done that. It's arguable because there are still things alive at all. Similar to Fia wanting to allow her dead friends, DungEater is still allowing "life" it's just really cursed and gross lol

[@FrostyFoxDrake]

@@bustinarantis a life of eternal suffering better than no life at all?

[@drphilly8099]

@@FrostyFoxDrake Someone could still try to lift the curse, sooo in suffering is hope.

[@Crackheadcentral2188]

Or letting ranni rule the lands between, given what she did to Godwin… The frenzy flame just ends the world for a new age, like the age of dark in DS3

[@ZankaZe1]

@@Crackheadcentral2188 Except Ranni does not rule. That's the entire point.

[@johnmccarthy7552]

Living forever with a bad hair cut is a true punishment 😂

[@tubensalat1453]

Ah, as a vampire you don't even see it in the mirror.

[@akl2k7]

@@tubensalat1453 No wonder they all have bad haircuts.

[@clockworkmonsters8590]

I read a vampire story once where a woman knew she was going to be turned into a vampire in advance, so she went out and got a haircut and a wax first. I cracked up when I read that. I imagine if it were real, that would be a pretty realistic way of going about it XD

[@edmg7]

Wow, I wasn't expecting you guys to actually acknowledge a Tales of game. Speaking as someone who got that ending for completion sake, MAN was that fight brutal.

[@frodobaggins7710]

I didn't expect Brink to go to space after the events of his DCOM, good for him

[@gamepassghost]

Biting his lip tensely all the way to the stars. 😂

[@chris18560]

I can tell Andy had no hand in writing the section on The Dig because he has seen Addams Family Values more than enough times to know that the ultimate sacrifice is a goat

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Great puzzle game, great movie sequel.

[@BucketRyder]

“More packed with enemies than my high school reunion!”😂😂😂😂😂

[@oxfanblink4115]

That was great but was even better when Jane teased Mike by saying the good Elden Ring turtle ending wasn’t a real ending. Especially with her reaction when he piped up sounding a bit upset 🤣😂🤣😂😂

[@enlongjones2394]

Tales of Xillia 2 isn’t even the only Tales game to have a much worse ending locked behind extra work and a hard fight. At the end of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New World, the main character Emil is taken over by the mind of the spirit Ratatoskr and turns on the party. What ensues is a boss fight against previous protagonist Lloyd Irving, and your love interest Marta. Or so it seems; Emil is actually allowing this to happen so that he can be sealed away in order to save the world, without his friends feeling bad about having to do that to him. This is, in fact, a fight you’re supposed to lose; Lloyd is extremely strong and Marta supports him with her own magic. When you do lose, Emil is subdued, and you have the *real* final fight, against Ratatoskr inside your own mind. But if you WIN the fight, everything goes horribly wrong. Marta is badly hurt, and Emil, thinking he’s gone overboard and *killed* her, goes all Romeo and Juliet, and stabs himself with his own blade before she can wake back up. All that’s left of him is a magic gemstone. So the world is saved, but everyone comes out of the experience traumatized or dead.

[@edmg7]

Yeah but Tales of Xillia 2 was basically Tales of Symphonia 2 done better, including that bad ending.

[@HylianFox3]

Never played the sequel (everyone said it sucks), but I do recall getting the Kratos ending of ToS forces you to kill Zelos.

[@SomeRPGFan]

There is yet another one: in Tales of Zestiria, you can get a bad ending in which the entire world is doomed and everyone dies if you go out of your way to find the villain and kill him much earlier than when you are supposed to do so.

[@CrazeeAdam]

Granted, the actual really good ending in Elden Ring, where you marry Ranni and get her ending, is probably more time consuming and more difficult to get to. Especially with no guide because there's so many tiny things you must or must not do.

[@SolaScientia]

I haven't touched Elden Ring in a while (got burned out on it), but the lore still hasn't clicked for me and I haven't really gotten attached to any of the characters. Ranni actually annoyed me greatly when she showed up to kick off phase 2 with Rennala. I really didn't appreciate that it was her who crashed the party and brought her mother back. Bosses can bring themselves back all they want for 2nd and 3rd phases (and more), but if there's another NPC (or thing) involved in the process, then it's nice if they stick around to get killed as well. It's less appreciated when they show up, bring the boss back, and then eff off again. I think I'm going for the Age of the Duskborn ending with Fia since it's the closest to the Usurpation of Flame ending in DS3, which is my preferred ending for that game as well.

[@shad03void99]

​@PaulaKiesling It's a magic snare that Ranni had placed on Rennala in the event someone tried to kill her. Honestly, it's more on you for thinking that you would get such an easy boss with no string attached. I actually enjoyed it since it shows that Ranni cared enough about her mother to put up some sort of protection.

[@SolaScientia]

@@shad03void99 I wasn't thinking it was an easy boss fight. I'm not new to FromSoftware games and I knew it was too easy to be just a single phase fight (their boss fights are rarely that straightforward anyway). I was annoyed that someone else showed up to the party. Even now after doing some of Ranni's questline I still don't especially like her; certainly not well enough to do her ending. That said, none of the NPCs in Elden Ring are particularly memorable except for a couple; Patches being one because he's Patches. It was easy to get deep into the lore of the Souls games and Bloodborne, but Elden Ring hasn't clicked for me much at all. 40-something hours into it and I'm pretty burned out and haven't touched it in months.

[@azuredragoon2054]

I agree on the list of "things to do", but I can't imagine there's a lot of "things to not do". The only one I can immediately think of is "Don't give Ranni the Amber Draught", but that can be remedied with the Church of Vows.

[@blizzardgaming7070]

Look at how Godwyn is doing in Deeproot Depths, that's your lovely four armed wifes doing. Fun fact, that makes her responsible for the deaths of everyone who fought in the shattering.

[@leonardorolingstella8554]

I’m surprised Undertale isn’t on this list. The Genocide route requires you to go out of your way to kill _everything_ in sight, and it has the two most powerful bosses in the whole game. And all of that for your good ending to always be corrupted afterward.

[@JulieSquirrel42]

Not just that, but it goes out of its way to make most of the unexperience decidedly un-fun. It's just grinding against monsters you can easily kill with no challenge, most of the bosses are one-hit kills with no real challenge. It really makes the point that if you're doing this, its purely because you have the need to see everything, not because its inherently fun or rewarding.

[@Roccondil]

It’s probably in the first video? This is the commenter version, which takes viewer suggestions of what they missed in their listicle the first time around.

[@leonardorolingstella8554]

@@Roccondil It wasn't in the first video either

[@alexwinfield9540]

It's probably because it's been talked about so much that it's boring now

[@robber233]

The Xillia 2 bad ending seems like the emergency "I hate all my party members and want them dead!" Button. Which more games should have, as that happens more often than people would like to admit. Also for Vampyr, being evil is waaaay more fun in that game. Plus your an evil creature of the night. What did they expect 😉

[@wadey2911]

Honestly, the fact the Mass Effect 2 entry showed both Tali and Garrus die broke my heart

[@torgranael]

That alone is probably the biggest reason so few people get that ending. The time required to do a specific set of actions and nothing else is child's play to rpg veterans. The real cost is the emotional toll of intentionally letting everyone's favourite space bf and gf die. Not Garrus. Anyone but Garrus! 😭

[@darkwarriorprogram6546]

@@torgranael So a couple comments: -On one of my runs of the game Tali and Garrus were the only other crew members to survive. [Edit: Wanted to state that I did actually have all the crew members and was actively trying to make the worst decisions while not trying to actively kill them all. I was bored and wanted to see what would happen if I was just a complete dumbass.] -My two friends I played Mass Effect with for the first time have taken to referring to Garrus as my "alien boyfriend"... and one of them has also recently started calling Astarion "Baldur's Gate Garrus".

[@darkwarriorprogram6546]

The only one I actually saw in all my time playing ME2 was Tali the first time I played. I was staring at the screen for a good 10 minutes trying to process what just happened... and then promptly reloaded my last save which was from before I entered the Omega-4 Relay. No regrets.

[@BarterIrving]

On my first playthrough of 3 I tried to save both the Geth and the Quarians... I needed to take a break after that.

[@Panda6613]

In my opinion I think it was harder keeping everyone alive in Prey then killing them 😅 Especially when there's the mind controlled NPCs who kamikaze you on sight.

[@kiriuxeosa8716]

Its funny thats the bad ending when you're actually being manipulated with false memories and then coerced into bringing peace betweent the two species based on your success and if you're considered a failure you're destroyed Seems like taking everyone out is the good ending

[@soulstealer5625]

@@kiriuxeosa8716everyone asks the typhon to be empathetic to humanity and not for humanity to be empathetic to the typhon.

[@Veladus]

"Joker! Tell them!" "That the Reapers are coming?" "That I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite store on the Citadel! "

[@beans_al_fresco]

Hope there's another one of these with Drakengard 1. Each successive ending is worst than the last, then after jumping through a lot of hoops you get to destroy not just the world you live in but also another world which leads to the human wipe out in Nier :)

[@ZellyTheFangirl]

and Drakengard 1's ending E requires a two button rhythm game that demands reflexes on par with god!

[@beans_al_fresco]

@@ZellyTheFangirl i like the bit where you have to collect all the weapons, one of which involves waiting in an unmarked corner of the map for 20 minutes with the deranged (but banging) soundtrack looping in the background

[@_mediogre_]

Not relevant at all but damn Nier is so good. I adore that game.

[@user-er2zr8ri3y]

In the Fuga: Melodies of steel games, there's a mechanic where you can permakill one of your characters to instakill a boss, but since you're losing access to that character the rest of the game gets harder each time. Getting the worst ending where you kill all the characters is the most difficult thing in both the games.

[@sokumotanaka9271]

If I had a nickel for every time a JRPG had you turn on and kill your party while also dooming the world I'd have two nickels- which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice. The game I'm talking about is Breath of fire 4 where if you team up with Fou-lu you're treated to having to kill your party member one who is cowering in fear the entire battle! It's really messed up. This tales of game is a close second!

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

I don't know how much harder Tales of Zestiria is in practise, as I've never tried it, but it probably counts. You have to go out of your way to kill the final boss WAY before you're supposed to. Problem is you're either on a severe time crunch in the one area where you're at full power, or you have to venture into an area which will slow you down significantly. All the while the boss will kick your ass in a very small amount of hits.

[@manuhakala]

Yep. You do that and you unlock the secret bad ending.

[@zecendia]

I´ve only started Zestiria briefly after finishing Berseria and its the most clunky feeling tales game ive played so far, so id imagine it would already be hard as hell on the basis of the game feeling as clunky as it does.

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

Honestly the clunkiness passes when you get more abilities. About when you meet the big bad I'd argue it feels pretty natural IMO. And that's before you get the option of doing this. @@zecendia

[@zecendia]

@@dojelnotmyrealname4018 Ah thats good to hear at least!I´ll have to go back to it eventually,it was just a very harsh quality whiplash from any prior tales games I had played in terms of combat experience.

[@denisruskin348]

Frenzied Flame is one of my favourite endings of all times. I got to the area by accident and got it on my first playthrough. Seeing all go to feces and you just burning everything to ashes was one of the most mesmerizing experiences in gaming.

[@Starfloofle]

some people *literally* want to watch the world burn

[@jarlwhiterun7478]

You didn't get it your first playthrough unless you used a guide. You wouldn't know where all the grapes are and where the maiden was at each location.

[@denisruskin348]

@@jarlwhiterun7478 I only used a guide to see how the grave platforming was to be solved. But I got all there on my own. And also to know I had to open the door naked since I’ve tried everything and raged.

[@jarlwhiterun7478]

​@@denisruskin348that's crazy. I can never find any of that stuff without a guide!

[@willieoelkers5568]

@@jarlwhiterun7478 They're not that hard to find if put some effort into exploring the map.

[@zacharysmith4856]

I think the opposite of flying colors would be grounded grayscale.

[@RightsForZombies]

My husband went for the worst ending in Elden Ring and when I saw all the platforming I was automatically like ‘yeah, I’ll just finish the game not doing that thanks.’

[@WillsBeard]

Nothing makes you question your choice like being asked if you are sure more than twice, like picking CL4P-TP as your player character in Borderlands Pre-Sequel

[@minhduong1484]

Jane, you didn’t get a super yacht for waking up early this week? Girl, I felt that.

[@markuswithak5084]

That bad ending in Vampyr was the most badass thing I have accomplished by accident. Especially with that VERY FORCED 'romance' going up in flames at the end.

[@Coccacidium]

I was just about to write that. I never understood how being stuck with a bland 'love interest' the PC has no chemistry with was supposed to be the good ending, while becoming an overpowered remorseless killing machine was bad. In a flipping vampire game.

[@dweebicusmaximus]

@@Coccacidium…because most vampire fiction isn’t a doom game. That’s not the *point* of vampire fiction, generally.The point isn’t a power fantasy where you tear through enemies, it’s pondering humanity through the lens of something that once was but no longer is quite human.

[@Liquidfear15]

He had more chemistry with McCullum than he had with Elizabeth tbh

[@markuswithak5084]

@@Liquidfear15 now THAT romance I would have endorsed in game!

[@Coccacidium]

@dweebicusmaximus Yeah well, I was talking about a game that gives you the choice between having crazy awesome powers on the one hand and basically crippling your character on the other, not the point of vampire fiction in general (I do agree with the pondering humanity bit). I'm not talking about the underlying concept, either. I actually enjoy playing as the good doctor and have never wiped out London's population myself, believe it or not. It's the endings I'm criticizing - being with a forced "love interest" for all eternity is not that great of a reward for going through the slow, grindy pain that is a no-kill run, when the alternative is "Become a total badass while actually having fun playing the game".

[@jonathanhope3672]

Jane saying bullsh*t is the highlight of my weekend 😂

[@kcollier2192]

3:40 Good thing Jane has such great hair...

[@vincent9879]

I really like vampyr. The only annoying thing in the conversation you never know whats gonna give you a new important dialog option or lock you out. Now you can never harvest this person for as much blood points as possible.

[@chriswest6988]

"Don't bring me back to life with those crystals!" is a bold request to make based on your sample size 1 investigationof the potential side effects.

[@Arceedos]

Dead Rising's worst ending is tough to get when you first boot up the game. Where Carlito hedges it all on bombing the mall. Having to not only survive the story missions and hard psychopaths you're forced to interact with to proceed to this point, *but doing it from level 1*. Something you'd probably not do on your first playthrough. AND THEN you have to wait around for the bomb timer to run out.

[@Johanna-vr2qx]

For ME2: What's even harder, is to make a ME2 run where only Shepard ad two squadmates survive, to make the bleakest entry for ME3. For this you realyl have to plan this out. Now I have decent planas for this... but man, did have to put thought into this n the past XD

[@erickpoorbaugh6728]

Especially if you want to cherry-pick the survivors to get the worst possible ending, e.g., Morinth and someone you plan to kill in ME3. For example, if, like me, you consider the Low EMS Destroy ending to be the worst, you could have Morinth and Tali survive ME2, then side with the Geth on Rannoch (killing Tali in one of the saddest deaths in the series, without sparing her replacement, who’s on the doomed fleet), then kill the Geth anyway as part of the Destroy ending.

[@Johanna-vr2qx]

@@erickpoorbaugh6728 Exactly. I kall this a kill as many as possible run :D Very hard to do, as you said. Thing is, I also want to have the memorial wall full in ME3, so you sadly are not allowed to let Morinth or Zaeed life. This is bugged and so the names will not appear on the wall if you kill them in ME3. Miranda is an easy one to let surivive and kill in ME3 and the second one is also most of the time Tali

[@TrueGraveHeart]

There's something about Jane cursing that make me giggle like the hyenas in the Lion King

[@jamison85]

I remember The Dig. Back in the 90s, I used to pick up used games on flea markets, and I would play LucasArts adventures with a friend. Normally, the two of us could figure out any game, but this was the first one we needed to seek out a guide to, and in the days before this information was at the end of your fingertips. Phenomenal game, though. At least the bad ending wasn't much extra work - it's right at the end of the game, so exploring both endings requires only a properly placed save and a little extra curiosity.

[@boobah5643]

The puzzle that got me was re-assembling the space-turtle skeleton. I knew what I wanted to do, but I couldn't assemble the thing to the game's satisfaction.

[@ferd617]

@@boobah5643 Yeah, LucasArts really Sierra OnLine'd the UI for that particular puzzle. Their games were supposed to be the ones that AREN'T unforgivingly fiddly,

[@jamison85]

@@boobah5643 I fondly remember that one too. Even with a printed walkthrough and a picture it was hit-and-miss.

[@grogc6942]

I only realized way later that 'The Dig' was actually a game. I listened to the audiobook years before I came across it and was a little shocked. Made it like the fastest point and click I ever did.

[@ferd617]

I can still hear whazzisname saying, "I can't _use_ these two things together." It was even a running joke around our fraternity house for a semester or two. (The game came out when I was a junior in college.) It'll be forever ingrained in my memory. That, and the *terrible* pun of his PDA being called the "Pen Ultimate".

[@Urahara451]

You say that about Elden Ring, but i found the frenzied flame on my first playthrough on accident. I was just exploring the hidden area, saw the message to take off my clothes, and bam! Slave to an Outer God. Yes, I now know that Melina warns you if you rest at the site of grace, but why would you bother? It’s not like you fought anything on the way there, so I was full up on flasks and didn’t have runes to spend. I managed to ditch it later, which is the secret best ending since Melina doesn’t die and the world doesn’t get consumed in flames.

[@noob1n8or]

Yeah, but she still hates you.

[@FelisImpurrator]

​@@noob1n8orTo be fair, that seems like an oversight. Maybe she'd forgive you if she found out that you went to all that trouble just to trick the Frenzied Flame for her sake.

[@enlongjones2394]

@@FelisImpurrator she’d still consider it a betrayal of trust. There’s a reason she talks to you immediately after Shabriri says that sacrificing her is terrible. She says that this is her choice, and her chosen destiny, and she’s not about to let anyone take that from her; not even you.

[@emeraldkoala2543]

Undertale came to mind for me immediately. Though in hindsight I think the Genocide run is probably shorter than Pacifist, it definitely felt more tedious, though it does have arguably the two most difficult fights in the game, even if they're the only real bossfights in that run..

[@Kefkaesque13]

I actually played "The DIg" as a wee tot (using a guide, as again, wee tot). Honestly have fond memories of it. I remember going crazy grabbing crystals from that tub (the game doesn't really cap how many you can take), only for the addicted teammate to later punch you out and steal them all from you.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Will never understand why some people deride it for being "too hard and droll"? As if they haven't played anything from Sierra's puzzle adventures.

[@SimuLord]

A superyacht? What, a regular yacht isn't good enough for Millionaire KZbinr Jane Douglas?

[@DavidCowie2022]

"Regular yacht" could include sailing yachts, which I believe don't cost much more than fancy cars, and the experience of owning and operating them is likened to standing fully clothed under a cold shower tearing up a big pile of banknotes. I don't see Jane being into that sort of thing.

[@kiradattei]

Why does it not surprise me that Jane apparently spent her high school years accumulating enemies?

[@Bobywan75]

Thank for including a good old game like The Dig.

[@alzingafagan7501]

I mean Code Vein's bad ending is nothing to scoff at. You have to actively disregard all the Crypters inner selves and just absorb their power, only to lose control and have one of your companions break his promise to you to end your life. Plus Io cries out in pain at the end, so yeah that's pretty bad.

[@S.A.F.T.I]

The bad ending of Code:Vein is incredibly easy to get because all it requires is for you to just ignore everything. It's not like the Successors Blood Codes are worth collecting anyway. The Dwellers in the Dark ending is really all they're good for.

[@Someone-lg6di]

Each boss gas 2 classes to give

[@andrewclark8989]

Dead Space one looks like the good ending to me. See how happy Issac looks, and he's doing something nice for his girlfriend. Let's not overthink this.

[@FeistyFox82]

3:24 aww i love Jane and her immortal looks 😉

[@justinmacdonald2102]

To be fair the frenzy flame ending is good for exactly 1 person in the lands between. Marika. Its the only way she gets freed from her eternal prison as host for the elden ring.

[@EmpyreanVampires]

Marika is Radagon. Radagon is the final boss of Elden Ring and is dead in **every** ending, replaced as the vessel of the Elden Ring, by the player; in every cutscene except the Frenzied Flame ending you can see the notes of light issuing from her corpse as the ring is claimed, either by the player or Ranni. Let me repeat: Marika is permanently dead in every ending.

[@phantommangagirl]

You forgot include the Cerberus crew in Mass Effect 2. If you wait too long to go to the Collector base after they’re abducted, only Dr. Chakwas will be alive when you get there. Even if you get there in time to save the whole crew, if you send them back to the Normandy without an escort, they’ll all die anyway.

[@pagannova3621]

she still got melted down in my playthrough, but i didnt think there was much of a rush on anything. i cannot recall ANYTHING ELSE in that game having a "do this now" thing on it. edit: maybe it was the lady navigator? i don't recall, some woman got melted because i was slow

[@leefisher6366]

15:08 - The opposite of flying colours is Grounded Monochromes.

[@spudmaphot]

I love how all of the most bs things in Elden Ring are completely optional, like Fromsoft trolling you, whispering in your ear that you don't NEED to do it.

[@lnt305]

Watched to see if I got a shout out for suggesting ME2 (I mean, unlikely, I am sure more people than I did so) and learned instead Joker was voiced by Seth Green, which was honestly even more of a treat.

[@operaghost1825]

Okay I know you’ve done a ton of Undertale Segments but it would totally count for this. The pacifist route is a cakewalk in comparison to the Genocide, plus all the work you have to do killing everyone (not just everyone you meet but also searching forever for every monster in an area) I guess it’s kinda concentrated difficulty versus spread out?

[@bplatinumpaladin]

So would Legacy of Kain count? Considering the Bad End gives you four more games to get to its "true" conclusion?

[@NEETKitten]

No mention of Disgaea 2? To get the worst possible ending, you need to gain 99 felonies on main character Adell, which is already a time-consuming process in itself. You also need to kill your allies 100 times, which is much harder to do than you might think. All this, and your reward is killing your girlfriend and being possessed by the spirit of the strongest Overlord to exist, and then killing and eating your child siblings.

[@katytavegia8661]

The epically bad ending of me3 is insanely hard to get. It takes careful planning through all 3 games to play that badly 😂

[@STRAKAZulu]

“The nudity is required, this time…”

[@WTFmybacon]

"Like they all survived the same plane crash, and now they're being Final Destination'd." God I love this channel. 😂😂😂

[@brandonhawker6597]

I like the fact how the alternate NG+ Dead Space Remake ending is theorized to be a Marker-driven Isaac retelling the events of the USG Ishimura incident to his psychiatrist on Titan Station, in between the events of Dead Space 1 and 2. It's even supported by the fact that Daniels never reacts differently to Isaac's altered dialogue lines after obtaining and placing all of the Marker Fragments. Essentially, it basically boils down to subsequent NG+ playthroughs are, depending on your own choices, either Isaac having regained a semblance of sanity, retelling the proper story, or Isaac when he's overcome by the Marker, retelling the story with his mind twisted and warped by the Marker. Part of the reason why I love the game so much.

[@spookdot]

Funfact for Elden Ring. If you try to do all the quests listed on the Elden Ring wiki, which I just recently made a route of my own for, the Lord of Chaos ending is actually the easiest to get because for Hyetta's quest you need to get the frenzied flame meaning to beat the game with another ending you need Miquella's needle which requires taht you've defeated both Malenia and Dragonlord Plasidusax to remove the frenzied flame and allow yourself to get a different ending

[@VirgilDrister]

Ah, my 3 hour crying session. The endings of Tails of Xillia 2.

[@lysanderxx1664]

I'm very happy that Xillia 2 made it into this vid. On the plus side, you're rewarded with Julius's outfit when you reload! Vampyr reminds me of the ridiculous effort for a bad ending, there's Undertale. Genocide takes a very long, boring time as you reach the limit of monster kills in every section of the game (who would have thought of a game where you can actually run out of stuff to kill), aside from the parts that are super depressing where you murder everyone who is good in the world, followed by the two most excruciatingly difficult battles in the game!

[@Luigifan007-by4nq]

Hollow Knight. Killing the Radiance in the Pantheon of Hallownest is a f*** ton harder than killing her the normal way, and it also unleashes the Shade Lord upon the world.

[@crimsonchaos7224]

Still vouching for the bankrupt ending in Ducktales.

[@TheGamingEngi]

if you are ever going to do another edition of this again, then I will suggest the final ending from the chrono trigger remake: You litterally have to do everything else in the game, finish every quest, and unlock every other ending to be told that lavos still lives and is still bond to Schara, right before killing your entire party minus Magus, who ends up somewhere else with amnesia. And THEN you are told that the kingdom of Guardia falls only 5 years after Chrono marries Marle and the Masamune mysteriously disappears. In other words: ALL YOUR HARD WORK IS FOR NAUGHT!! I know that there is a sequel in chrono cross, but a surprise cliffhanger could be handled better than to kill you and render all your hard work null.

[@Tengila]

Yeah NGL, that ending single-handedly put me off ever playing Chrono Cross. I'll just sit here, quietly erase all of that ending from my headcanon entirely and all of my good good pals got to keep their happy endings I don't CARE what canon says, what the actual hell, game?!?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

The DS port (and later multiplatform) of Chrono Trigger is great, but gods, why must it have connections to that horrid Elseworlds sequel?!

[@boobah5643]

What? You didn't like the ending that actually led to _Chrono Cross?_ It _is_ a fun, pretty game with some nice music, but the story makes little to no sense. Which isn't helped by the protagonist randomly wandering the world for most of the game before finding his way to the plot by way of desecrating the memory of the heroes of _Trigger._

[@SymbioteMullet]

Zone of the Enders 1 had a bad ending, in one of the boss fights you have to deliberately shoot a bunch of supports holding up a pillar maintaining the space colony you're on's stability. This is basically impossible to do accidentally, and the game tells you so.

[@SirRoderickThunderbottom]

I'd also toss in Far Cry 4 considering the crab rangoon ending is the best ending by a landslide. you get find out where your dead mother wanted her ashes taken to, and you actually deliver them. all because you did the smart thing and sat still for 10 minutes. meanwhile if you didn't, you spend the next 40 IRL hours being drugged by people you don't care about only to replace the current dictator with a worse drug lord or a pedo hiding behind religion without even finding where your mother wanted her ashes laid to rest...

[@Viviantoga]

My brother heard the title as I started watching this and he started pestering me about the Conquest ending to Hyperdimension Neptunia 2. My personal experience with the HDN franchise says that getting into the series can only lead to a bad ending, but apparently that's not the argument here.

[@yikelu]

Talos Principle. The "all puzzles solved" ending (where you solve what look like some obnoxiously hard secret puzzles) has you stay in the puzzle world and never make it out. Which is a nice metaphor for the player who actually does it.

[@Ilikecatsismychannelname]

Thank you whoever suggested The Dig because that game was my childhood.

[@Zoso14892]

It's been how many years since ME2 was released? Yet watching the crew die still crushes my soul! I don't think I could do a playthrough where any of them die.

[@beesforbreakfast]

Spec Ops: The Line arguably doesn’t have a “good” ending, but the one where you assume Konrad’s vacant throne is perhaps the worst - not least because it requires an extra, heinously stressful firefight, where you take on a full extraction squad all on your lonesome with barely any cover. It’d be one thing if this post-script to your wretched litany of war crimes merely doomed Walker to a Hell of his own making, but I don’t remember anyone asking Dubai’s remaining civilian population.

[@Waumboll]

Very neat. Glad I saw these endings in the video now so I never have to go through the effort of reaching them myself.

[@kajnicholson241]

In “Streets of Rogue” at the end of the game, instead of taking the mayor’s hat to the podium and becoming mayor, you can break down the border wall to throw the hat into the abyss sending the city into chaos! The second bad ending is when you kill everyone before becoming mayor, meaning nobody is left to have a dance party with you.

[@aceundead4750]

I did what none of the other endings did for The Lands Between, i ended the suffering of death... After an excruciatingly painful firestorm. May chaos take the world.

[@nickrykert2572]

Heavy Rain : The Perfect Murder At least you get a Gold Trophy for it!

[@chadflanaganCFC]

The thing is to get the best ending in Elden Ring you need to start the worst ending until you burn the erdtree, after that you need to cure yourself and do Ranni's quest normally Melina would be dead, but because you took her place she survives to the end.

[@morgantaylor84]

I always wondered how Mass Effect 3 would begin if you chose to import a Mass Effect 2 save where you got the "There once was a Commander named Shepherd, who was so ugly that everyone died. The end" ending. I never had the balls to actually try it myself lol

[@robertagu5533]

Wondering if they EVER WILL seriously make a 4th game like claim on an off. An then the combined history an choices made on the series mean more on that 4th game then ever

[@rohuffgamingakaLea1576]

​@@robertagu5533they did make a 4th game, Andromeda

[@robertagu5533]

@rohuffgamingakawisteria6578 no what everyone means think here is the "4th installment" to the orthodox series. Instead of the sorta hit an miss Andromeda spin-off. They tried, I played it like many, it was meh okay but wasn't quite the caliber bioware delivered with the main 3 of the ME series.

[@JohnDoe-wg9sy]

I've done it before, you can't actually import the save unfortunetly. Even though you get a cutscene as if it was the end of the game, but joker was the only survivor, it doesn't become a clear save, so no import or NG+.

[@rafabuda0]

You actually can't import a save with a dead Shepard, ME2's loading screens even tell you that you can import a save "provided you survive". The worst save file you can import however, is one with a single living squadmate. It's very difficult to do, at the end of the Suicide Mission you need one of your two surviving companions to be a non-loyal Zaeed. Then you do his loyalty mission in the postgame, choose to save the workers and then leave him to die in the exploding refinery. And there you have it, a living Shepard with a single living companion, ready to completely break ME3's storyline apart.

[@user-xu2pi6vx7o]

The Dig should have had an extra bad ending where you drop down that entire tub of crystals after her, resurrecting her AGAIN, as a crystal addict that's now stuck at the bottom of a cliff.

[@stueymon]

WOW!! THE DIG?! It has to have been DECADES since I've thought about that game! That's a seriously deep cut!

[@manaphylv100]

Disgaea 2's "Worst Ending" takes by far the most effort to achieve, but it's incredibly hilarious and stupid at the same time. There's also an alternative, satirical ending in a game called Ar Nosurge that basically dooms your entire colony (or whatever it's supposed to be). It doesn't take any extra effort, though.

[@HavocHounds1988]

Before you can even do the parkour section after sewer Mohg you have to kill Morgott, he has a barrier that prevents you from going further.

[@demonslife]

I still remember how many times I had to say no to saving everyone near the end of custom robo hoping to see if something would happen ....still worth it

[@keithwiechart7744]

I am seriously surprised that Undertale and Deltarune Chapter 2 haven’t made the list. In both Genocide and Snowgrave you are assaulted with both guilt for your actions and tough as nails fights all in an effort to just get you to quit.

[@bryangibbs7191]

They already did Undertale in a list

[@marchome]

Part 2

[@kornaes]

honestly chapter 2 is just the beginning

[@keithwiechart7744]

@@bryangibbs7191 sure, they’ve covered Undertale before, but not about bad endings that were more difficult than the good ending. And considering that Undertale, you have to hunt down every monster in every area before progressing in each area, and are met with two tough as nails fights specifically designed to make you quit, and in Snowgrave, not only do you have to kill everyone, you have to find a way to kill everyone because enemies just flee if they are attacked normally, they deserve to be on the list. On top of that, in Snowgrave you have to make a ton of specific choices, go to certain areas, and find required items, select the right dialogue options, and beat another tough as nails boss fight to get the Snowgrave ending. Undertale and Deltarune chapter 2 are the quintessential examples of bad ending that are the most difficult to get.

[@edmg7]

​@@keithwiechart7744but is a genocide run really that much harder than a pacifist run?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Poor Tali and Garrus. By the way, ME's Joker is also Nelson Nash in Batman Beyond (which also has another more memorable if evil Joker). Plus, didn't Oz get sadly friendzoned by sweet yet subtly dangerous Willow Rosenberg on Buffy Season 4 because she had a new love in her life?

[@boobah5643]

Willow didn't get the chance to friendzone him; the werewolf thing (combined with Oz's sense of responsibility) compelled him to go away forever once it was clear he couldn't keep his cool when it came to Willow. Mind, the entertainment industry's political climate, even then, meant there was no real chance that Willow would have chosen her ex-boyfriend over her new girlfriend, given the option. Especially since that was the episode that made it clear she _was_ intimate with her witch-friend.

[@kindrickrichardson5415]

"Work harder and you will be rewarded is the promise made by video games and basically life" unfortunately both happen to be lying

[@mastermold10]

the funny part is the 'extra bad' ending of dead space reboot is probly the 'cannon' ending cause remember deadspace 2 starts with you waking up in a mental facility, safe to say you were caught, your mind was fucked with which broke the markers hold on you (mostly) and then...well...shit happens

[@mistahl5350]

That's not likely to be canon. Especially when you consider the original ending has the 'corpse' of Nicole attack him at the end, and then he's actively haunted by her throughout DS2, it stands to reason that the OG endings are more likely to be canon. Wouldn't make a ton of sense for his vision of Nicole to go from happy lovely gf to 'I'm literally going to kill you' if he got that deep under the Marker's influence. I believe it's loosely explained that through the use of certain drugs EarthGov made Isaac build the Marker that he did. I can't remember where it was said or implied, maybe by Strauss?

[@fredv7349]

I almost got the frenzy flame ending first playthrough by exploring. Couldn't figure out how to open the door and just continued.

[@Someone-lg6di]

Same though for me i got turned around in the sewer pipe somehow

[@forgottenfamily]

I recall the ME2 worst ending to not be that hard. It's certainly less work than the good ending. IIRC, you only need to recruit like 6 companions and maybe 2 loyalty missions and it's easy to pick the loyalty missions for people you can kill off by giving them the wrong assignment.

[@ChadGatling]

Ok we gotta drop the white void thing. I got a 65in oled TV and a quick cut to an almost pure white sceen at night is like getting a death star blast directly to the face.

[@Eramaeis]

I'm happy cause there were a few games here I've never heard of. It's always cool learning about new games

[@rhynlock11]

3:30 as a guy that has had the same haircut for pretty much the past 29 years (slight variations) I say that's not really a downside for the whole vampire thing

[@michel0dy]

Vampire spotted

[@N7Revenant]

I've had Mass Effect 2's Suicide Mission as my ringtone shortly after since I first heard it. When you played it there, I went into a mild panic because I thought someone was calling me.

[@dusttodust915]

Thing about that convoluted quest you do for milicent. is that through that quest you can get one of two of the best in general talismens in the game.

[@anncruz5668]

You can do some complicated extra stuff in xillia 2 that makes heroes from a different game save the world for you. So...thats also a thing?

[@noob1n8or]

It also causes some of the characters to be disappointed in you for taking the easy way out even though the fight you have to beat to unlock this ending is harder than the actual final boss. But the good news is that everybody lives for some reason.

[@edmg7]

True, but is it really a bad ending?