7 Most Disappointing Endings That Weren’t Worth the Effort

We went through all that, for THESE ENDINGS?! Whether they're underwhelming gameplay, or rubbish stories, these are the endings of games that weren't worth the effort.
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[@LonarYolhala]

Juno: "[Your death] will happen in an instant. There will be no pain." Desmond: *Dies in ten seconds of voiceless screaming agony and enough awareness to have second thoughts, trying to pull his hand off the sphere and failing* I guess Juno really was a liar, huh? Hell of a way to find out.

[@RamblyBear]

Not exactly. Something she didn't expect happened. Because Desmond doesn't die there. He goes into the simulation, or rather between the simulations, something like that.

[@Catheidan]

If I were trying to escape eternal imprisonment, I wouldn't be above a little bit of lying. I wouldn't even have told him he'd die. Just touch the orb. Everything will be great

[@daviddaugherty2816]

Perhaps his death wasn't instant, but the modern-day sections of the franchise becoming entirely pointless did happen in an instant. The instant Desmond hit the floor dead, it turned out.

[@jamesclarkson156]

Maybe she thought he'd be a little resistant to touching the death orb if he knew it'll be agonizing.

[@alphazero924]

@@daviddaugherty2816 That's because Ubisoft wanted to milk the franchise while Patrice Desilets wanted to end it at 3. Desmond was supposed to use what he learned in the animus to take down Abstergo, you know the obvious thing we were building to over the course of the previous 4 games, but Ubisoft wanted it to go on indefinitely, so now we have the modern day story which is just useless baggage more than anything else.

[@TristanHawthorne]

The satisfaction in Bugsnax’s ending is in finishing all the sidequests to make all these grumpuses no longer reliant on bugsnax! They aren’t gonna just eat them during the finale if you did their sidequests and even Lizbert and Eggabel revert to their normal grumpus forms during a slideshow in the credits!

[@shaden.l.m.9506]

I think that's if you also complete the DLC (which is optional if you want people to live) Edit: the Lizbert + Egg normal I mean

[@156football]

​@@shaden.l.m.9506egg plus lizbert...... Egbert?

[@bestaround3323]

​@@shaden.l.m.9506what DLC?

[@shaden.l.m.9506]

@@bestaround3323 Broken tooth Island? (It was added for free to the game, but it is DLC)) if you don't know about it I'm not giving spoilers

[@ShenDoodles]

@@bestaround3323 The Isle of Bigsnax. It's another area full of giant Bugsnax.

[@FortKnoxMovies]

Almost all the issues that the AC franchise has can be traced back to that ending. Killing Desmond off after building him up as the main protagonist of the series was so out of left field. The whole franchise lost focus. After that none of the games had anything to do with each other. They also tried to make Juno the main antagonist, but then dropped it only appearing in Black Flag briefly and that’s it. They killed her off in a comic. It’s clear they had no idea where to take the story when the early AC games kind of felt like they were building to a game set in modern day with Desmond as the main character.

[@greed-1914]

That is where I checked out. It was obvious that continuing the series because it sells mattered more than anything.

[@xChaosFlower]

The series died with Desmond. That's the hill I'll die on

[@Someone-lg6di]

After 3 never cared 4bpresent in the games

[@ChristopherYeeMon]

I think this was a result of listening to the audience that said that they only want to see the assassins in the past and not Desmond. They should never have listened to them

[@GeneralArin]

I remember watching my brother play the ac3 ending and we both were nonplussed. ".... It's he like... Dead dead? Just like that? Did we at least fix things? Is there not going to be any more games???" Lol it felt so abrupt and yet anti climatic to us lol

[@UrpleSquirrel]

And I really feel like they shot themselves in the foot, story-wise, by killing off Desmond. The bridging future narrative stopped having any meaning at that point.

[@daviddaugherty2816]

​@UrpleSquirrel Hey, they kind of brought things a little bit back to the Renaissance, at least. In that Renaissance artists put deliberate flaws in their work because only God can create perfection. That's the only explanation for AC4's modern-day section that makes sense.

[@emeraldaly7646]

:O You used "nonplussed" correctly, bravo.

[@jardex2275]

It was abrupt because earlier games leaned into the 2012 apocalypse fad, and they had to resolve it before the year ended. At the same time, they were planning more games, so they couldn't break too far from status quo.

[@justinlast2lastharder749]

​@@jardex2275​​​Ah, the 2012 Apocalypse. I still can't believe people didn't realize it was just the end of the "12th Cycle" in Mayan Timekeeping and time for a new Calender. People like Counting in 12s. 12 months in a year. A dozen items. You'd think it would be 10, but items and things are grouped by 12 because it is divisible by 2,3,4, and 6 so better for Commerce. Its also why 13 is "unlucky", because its one extra than 12 so always is a left over odd". I did read past the first sentence of your comment...it's just "2012" is something I've been laughing about since learning about it in 2002 in 6th grade for this very reason.

[@Michael_Lindell]

One game that has a really disappointing ending is Tetris. It is so not worth the effort that no-one even got there in 34 years (until Willis Gibson from Oklahoma did so in late 2023). SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING: The game crashes. It just ends.

[@marhawkman303]

hahahaaha, Russian efficiency at it's best! :D

[@Cerg1998]

@@marhawkman303 to be fair, he finished the Japanese version, as he was playing on the NES. I'm not sure that the original Electronica-60 version has this problem. If it doesn't, it literally makes the game unwinnable. No matter how hard you try, you lose eventually. Peak defiance.

[@Altoryu]

And then you get mocked by some Karen newscaster in Britain who rightfully gets lambasted for it

[@marhawkman303]

@@Cerg1998 haha, the goal was always the high score, and in that regard "beating" the game means maxing the high score.

[@sinteleon]

Yes, but there's a secret new-game plus mode, only accessible by a terrifying gauntlet of hardlock avoidance, weird colours to mess with your concentration, and even an extra endurance run that's practically as long as the entire game you just played up to that point. :V

[@skynet0912]

What makes AC3s ending even worse in hindsight, is the fact that the ENTIRE plot that was birthed from Desmond dying, wasn't even resolved in a game, but relegated to a comic that no one read... You get the creepy ghost in the machine Juno in Syndicate, but then every game after that just have zero mention of Juno as even remotely plot relevant. For anyone curious, i'm gonna give a very basic overview of what happens to this plot. Turns out Desmond had a completely unknown son who is also a Sage, and after shennanigans, Juno is killed. Hundreds of game hours wasted, just to set up the plot for a damn comic!

[@chadmcfly1299]

Killing Desmond has to be one of the worst decisions in video game history. Fucked up the whole franchise.

[@zragon3k]

Everyone want hoping Desmond would keep getting built up and we would wind up getting a modern era one with his skills. It's insane that they didn't capitalize on the players obvious desire.

[@someguy1ification]

​@@zragon3kit was the obvious setup. Hell, his outfit is "Altaiir with sneakers." There was pretty clearly a change of direction somewhere along the way.

[@Fastwinstondoom]

Ubisoft have never been able to make good decisions.

[@chadmcfly1299]

@@zragon3k yes, they even set up levels where you use techniques you learned from ezio and set up the importance of learning and adapting so he can be a modern day assassin. Assassins creed is still that to me so I refuse to play newer games.

[@wouldiwasshookspeared4087]

​@@chadmcfly1299to be fair, Black Flag and Odyssey were pretty fun, I haven't played Mirage, but I'm excited for the samurai one.

[@Altoryu]

Surprised the original Mass Effect 3 endings weren't included here since all of them were terrible and even after their lame attempt at fixing them still rather unsatisfying. When people create mods to fix your endings, you know you've fucked up.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

To be fair, I think these can be remedied a la well-thought side material, not unlike how Star Wars Legends did with the Prequel Trilogy.

[@koconnell968]

They're definitely disappointing endings. The entire game has a theme of synthetic life being valuable and even good for the universe, and then the game basically pushes you to the weirdest extremes of the various options. I initially chose synthesis when I played the series for the first time recently because that seemed the most on theme and then it turned out it wasn't at all what I was expecting and not satisfying. Destroy and Control were such extremes and didn't feel right. Refuse obviously not a good option. Destroy feels the most canon to me with the update they added for it, but highly disappointing.

[@hawggie]

I saw someone comment once that a better game+ ending to starfield would be to randomly open skyrim or fallout 4 if you have either on your PC or console

[@michaelanderson6394]

Killzone Shadow Fall springs to mind for me. You fight your way all the way up to Stahl, ready to kill him, but then suddenly your mentor shows up and kills you both, then immediately cuts to credits. Sure, there’s that mid-credits scene where you take control of Echo and kill the traitor yourself, but it cuts to black before the bullet hits him, and the game just ends. Both endings are severe letdowns.

[@TKBold]

Funny thing about the Assassin's Creed one... Juno was clearly being set up to be an antagonist for the game series, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to suspect that Desmond's replacement protagonist would end up facing her at some point.... that is, if Juno wasn't summarily killed off in the supplementary material that is the comic books. What a dumb-as-nails decision...

[@sarafontanini7051]

whelp good t know demond died for nothing c:

[@taln0reich]

agreed. That was AC's biggest mistake: finishing of what should have been the central villian for the modern day segments in the supplementary material, thus making the modern day segments even more pointless than they already were.

[@Cheesus-Almighty]

Not even the most disappointing ending in Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy. If you fuck up the last jump and somehow end up with you on the left and the weight of your hammer on the right, you get the bad ending. You get a little dialogue how you can't come back from this, and you have to manually restart.

[@Cuiasodo]

The ending to Assassin's Creed 3 is such a wild, baffling left turn. The solar flare plotline feels thoroughly unconnected to the plotline we've been following with the Assassins and Templars, getting a little bit of foreshadowing in the form of vague, "something is coming " messages in previous games, but nothing much beyond that. And the fact that Desmond MUST die in order for the machine to activate feels so contrived. Why would demigods devise a machine that requires someone to get electrocuted to death in order to activate it? At least the endings in Mass Effect 3 where you die all had some kind of justification for why Shepard can't live, whether it involved their enhancements shutting off via EMP, them needing to shed their body to transfer their consciousness or their cells getting repurposed to re-write the galaxy's genetic code. The door lock killing Desmond just feels entirely arbitrary and also feels like they could have had someone else do it, like possibly his Father who's a dick for the whole game and has a lifetime of mistakes to atone for.

[@killertruth186]

True, although they could make an explanation to unlock the door it requires genetics of the ancient civilization or whatnot. And then said his blood/genetics is too impure for him to open the door with no harm.

[@Cuiasodo]

@@killertruth186 Makes it even weirder that Desmond's dad didn't do it instead, unless all of the assassin DNA was on his mother's side, which I don't think was the case. It's so painfully obvious that the devs didn't know what to do with Desmond and got cold feet about going with their original plan (there was going to be some REALLY COOL stuff with Desmond being the main protagonist modern-day), so they just tossed in a half-baked plan to kill him off and not have to worry about writing a satisfying ending for him.

[@mcstrategist]

OR, call me crazy the 'Demigod' AI whose systems Desmond has experienced hijacking his body is lying. It says solar flares will set off volcanoes and kill near everybody on the planet which sounds screwy. Add in the inconsistencies from the rest of the scene and here is an alternative. Juno is hoping to reprogram humanity to more fit with the original intentions. Juno needs access to other artifacts across the world to accomplish this. Juno detects artifacts frequencies and maybe potential access codes in Desmond from his interaction with Apple of Eden and wants it as quickly as possible. Juno supplies a story of how humanity is threatened by an inaccessible force (the sun) that it knows causes damage (solar flares hurt technology consistently). Juno presents two options to Desmond due to records of lack of choice causes resistance. And either way offering protection or knowledge have him touch the access panel. Killing him as you rip everything out just means he cannot stop you with his access later. then the green field does its intended purpose all over the world as shown in scene. everyone modded won't know to think to stop you. this would kind of make the Templar correct as well? maybe?

[@pop5678eye]

I'm surprised Mass Effect 3 wasn't on this list. Die-hard fans nearly unanimously hated that despite going through three games worth of making 'choices' the endings were basically the same with slightly different cosmetics. Some fans even started a lawsuit for false advertising because of disappointment.

[@stevef5888]

I loved the Bugsnax ending. It was such a twist and honestly kind of hilarious in a dark way. But the game was always kinda dark, right? Like you routinely eat still living creatures raw and whole. That’s messed up BF rl jump. The game totally acknowledged it and goes “you think THAYS bad?!”

[@healsallwounds]

“Congraturation! This story is happy end. Thank you. Being the wise and courageour knight that you are, you feel strongth welling in your body. Return to starting point. Challenge again!” -The actual ending to Ghosts N’ Goblins after playing through it TWICE

[@ConfusedStu]

Carrier Command on the ZX Spectrum. Spent 8 hours on that one game (no save games, remember) - finally conquered the final island and got a single screen: "You win. Game over." Press a key, and then we're back to the new game menu. Awesome...

[@Kartissa]

48K of RAM doesn't really allow for a sweeping cinematic cutscene, but they should have at least been able to print more than 4 words on the screen....

[@grimmandtonics]

"Why do we play games?" Because I'm mentally ill and this is cheaper and more fun than therapy! Well...maybe not these specific games lol Great vid as usual guys

[@vladdracul5072]

We are not the metally ill ones, non-gamers are.

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

Because gaming is relatively cheap if you have Game Pass/PS+ Extra. Going on vacations or the movies all the time is real expensive.

[@WIImotionmasher]

I never finish games, means I can never be let down. That's not why I do it. I don't finish games because I'm lazy and bad at games. But it's a nice side effect.

[@Zenlore6499]

Chief wearing a tie clipped onto his armor is an adorable picture!

[@AlmostLikeHuman]

Nothing has even come close to the disappointment that was the (original) ending of Mass Effect 3. Dozens of decisions carrying over multiple games, defining the fates of your dear comrades and entire species alike, all culminating to... A weird ghost kid giving you the option between a red laser, a blue laser, or a green laser? Cool. Very cool.

[@Mini_Squatch]

Im still not entirely convinced Joseph didnt somehow use his cult to cause that nuclear armageddon. Having the batshit insane man be right feels like a narratively poor choice.

[@boesvig2258]

Remember when Assassins' Creed Revelations came out? There I was thinking "Finally! After all the hints at an underlying mystery, we'll actually have stuff be, you know, revealed". Would we bollocks. After playing it I didn’t feel any more enlightened, I didn’t even know what the revelations bits were supposed to be 😕

[@dunstonlion1342]

The way she said "Wrong. Nerd!" had me spit up my drink. Well played!

[@wingdingmasquerade]

That comment on backlogged games felt like a personal attack.

[@crazyandorian]

Fable 2 (you just shoot Lucius after a dream sequence and then everyone buggers off to do their own thing). Mass Effect 3 (need I say more?). Dragon Age 2 (you can’t make any faction behave any less stupid, Hawke’s family still all dies, or is else not in a position to be around, and the Mage-Templar war still gets kicked off after Anders actions).

[@biokido575]

Montana might as well be a fantasy land. It’s as close as you’ll ever get

[@ourkeving]

3:10 I guess she lied about a painless end.😮

[@laurenbastin8849]

Far Cry 5’s ending is just so deeply cynical, it’s wild. The game is so eager to court imagery of doomsday cults, even incorporating aspects of far-right evangelical imagery, but also making sure the cult is nice and diverse and kinda hippy just in case anyone made the mistake of thinking Ubisoft were trying to say anything. And then, even after slogging through all of that, the game reshapes the world around its antagonist to justify him, all for a cheap twist that does nothing beyond a momentary “huh”

[@Catheidan]

Did we play the same farcry 5? The brainwashing doomsday drug cult?

[@raithrover1976]

Agreed. The disconnect between the daft and fun gameplay and the serious story, including Faith's cutscenes where you learn that she's been groomed and exploited by Joseph, can be quite jarring at times.

[@jadedheartsz]

Far Cry 6 at least does retcon it. Felt like they were saying something to me.

[@simpleplayer8176]

Playing FarCry 5 was such a different feel, such an ominous and eerie game they created. Not even fallout and i love fallout, has captured the same vibe i get from FC5 but i fuck with it heavily. And yes they definitely are sending some subliminal messages to players whether they were serious or not thats shits not far from the truth.

[@somethingcleverhere]

This is a minor point, because what you brought up is my main take, but also moment to moment story gameplay was awful too. I think I counted five "oops, you're captured!" fakeouts. They're always clunky when there's one, but it kept happening...which I'm sure in the developer end is supposed justification for how you're brainwashed, but purely as an experience was terrible.

[@KatieTP]

This video made me realize that I've never understood the AC 3 ending. Thanks OXstra for clearing that up 12 years later, now I can live in peace lol.

[@SilverFoxR]

Star Fox Adventures. In the prologue, you meet the main villain of the story, General Scales. In every encounter you come across him, he is strong, oppressive force that you have difficulty overcoming. When you finally get to actually battle him at the end of the game, he dies before you can do anything. You then learn it's just Star Fox series antagonist Andross behind it all and the real final battle is a watered-down version of every other Star Fox final battle - a space battle against Andross' oversized floating head. Only, in this game, space combat is not a central mechanic and is, more or less, a way to traverse between sections of the planet. This means all of the running around, learning new abilities, figuring out staff combat and all of the stuff the game was doing more than anything else? Ends up you just needed to be decent in the Arwing to win the game. It also means that the villain who you had been menacing you the entire game is relegated to a "gotcha" moment. You never fight him and never get satisfaction for defeating him. This, of course, was the last game that Rare did for Nintendo and it's ending is so lackluster and disappointing that it seems as if Rare just phoned in the ending. A truly sour note to end their run with Nintendo... something that seems to have given them a lot of negative karma over, seeing how much they've fallen since.

[@CarlosThadeu]

"Between AC 1 and AC 3, which is somehow 5 games" Kingdom Hearts: "Hah! Rookie numbers"

[@AlexDuos]

If only theyd made the UC Vanguard quest the main plot of Starfield. You get to unravel a massive conspiracy and save the galaxy from a hitherto inescapable threat, and THEN if you're feeling bored you can go do the starborn thing. They really dropped the ball on that one.

[@hoodiegal]

I actually think the lack of a meaningful ending to Getting Over It is perfect? The way I see it, that game is a meditation on meaninglessness. Why is this guy sitting in a pot? Why is he propelling himself with a sledgehammer? Why are you trying to climb to the top of this very unlikely mountain? It doesn't matter. None of this matters. But you want to try anyway. Not because you have to, not because there's a reward waiting for you, but simply because you want to see if you can. And that's beautiful.

[@BobBX542]

Mike nailed it!! You would think Robocop with a jet pack would be amazing…you would, but the reality is much, much worse.

[@maxvel0city906]

Why do we play games? Well for me it's to escape the general sense of foreboding that we are tiny insignificant specs on a lump of rock hurtling through space and time, that we are likely going to destroy and cause our own demise.

[@ThwipThwipBoom]

The dinosaurs were around for 400 million years, humans have only been around for 500,000 years. The earth will be around for about 3 billion more years before the Sun expands into a Red Giant and renders life on earth impossible. So after we wipe ourselves out, there will still be plenty of time for another sentient species to evolve and hopefully do a better job than our cursed species did. Hope that brings you comfort.

[@greed-1914]

The AC3 ending had me say, "Huh!?" Out loud. I played AC4 wanting to get more on that, only to get basically nothing more than an acknowledgment that Ubisoft stopped caring about its bigger narrative.

[@amwoodco3049]

Here another one. Earthworm Jim had an ending that was less rugpull, and more costume reveal. Somehow, COWS took over the story.

[@magicpyroninja]

Endings can be fun, but at the same time the ending means it's over and there's been games where I wanted to go further in them but they ended ending the fun

[@johnoneil9188]

From what I hear they kind of ran back the whole end of the world thing in FC5 because otherwise there would be no FC6 in a DLC for said game, claiming that the nuke was just a single one going off at the worst possible time but I still remember being pretty hyped for FC5, then watching the ending on a stream and losing any and all interest I had in that game.

[@SH-DOW]

Mad Max. Lose your car, gear and everything you own, build yourself back up resenting the guy who took it, than have a three minute fight where said guy dies way too easily before riding off into potential doom

[@woot2111]

One of the reasons for Halo 2's disappointing ending is because it was hacked to pieces by Microsoft so they could have it released according to their schedule.

[@PerfectKirby]

Sanzaru taking the perfectly good ending of Sly 3 and ending the series off on a complete, unsatisfying downer, then refusing to make another sequel to tie it up, anyone?

[@Killerspy-ru7ut]

...this video broke my heart when you put ac 3 up there I realized how far ac has fallen and how far they've fallen from the story...damn...that was my favorite franchise..

[@redblueblur4271]

I LOVE Mass Effect 3. In fact, it might be my favorite game of all time. That being said, kinda surprised it wasn’t on this list

[@Raenaece]

Shadow of Mordor. The final boss was such an anticlimax that it put me off from ever touching it, including the unplayed dlc, ever again

[@DrakonLameth]

Far Cry 4's normal endings. Your endings are "Kill the big bad and let your zealot leader of choice ruin the are worse", "let the big bad escape, allowing your zealot leader of choice ruin the area worse", "shoot the big bad as he tries to escape, letting your zealot leader of choice ruin the area worse", or the secret ending where you wait for the big bad to come back at the start of the game (10 minutes real time waiting) and you do what you came out to do for lore reasons, before he offers to let you go shoot some guns (implying you're boring for waiting out for him and not actually doing any gameplay) Yes, the least bad ending is the secret "you're a boring git" ending.

[@thething1110]

Bugsnax was great! There's a line where one of the characters shouts "you don't know a thing about love! That's why your WIFE left you!" Kids game, by the way.

[@stephenchanda7580]

Saints Row remastered. If you slog through the game and fully establish the gang, you're treated with a musical cutscene. Good work doing all that

[@Sableagle]

Console gamer: "We play games to get to the ending!" MMO player: "Get to the what?"

[@captainbigos9267]

Oh, and let's not forget Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. But that was due partially to the third game being scrapped or floating in the void somewhere possibly.

[@huuffff]

7:44 The nuke was sold by pagan min to the cult leader

[@danromig4643]

every time i see a list like this, i'm reminded of Drakan: The Ancients' Gates, a weird little number for ps2 where you fly around on dragon back and fight stuff with swords and magic and after this really exciting game that was, in it's way, way ahead of the curve you get... a few still images of a book. thanks guys.

[@alwayswrite2011]

No need to apologize. I found the end of the video plenty satisfying, Ellen. 😊

[@msthecommentator2863]

The ending of this video was better than the endings of those games because Ellen was at the end of the video 😊

[@lady_draguliana784]

PERFECT impersonation of every dev ever developing a game... I swear, the ability to come up with an ending is so rare, apparently, that the few in the biz able to do it become legends immediately...

[@luisarriaga774]

I was hoping to see the Last of Us 2 in this list 😒

[@gamephonics32]

The worst part of bugsnax bio transformations is some of the food is processed. It’s not even good for you

[@KahranRamsus]

I was going to suggest FF16 for this list, but then I realized it belongs on a list of disappointing beginnings. Endings works too, though. The middle is also pretty bad. Kind of just bad overall.

[@HPRedFire]

The worst is that the protagonist in far cry 5 "the rookie" is the "The Judge" in far cry new dawn, one of joseph allies

[@hoodiegal]

*That's* the ending to AC3?? Wow, did I make the right decision in jumping ship after AC2. What happened to the whole plotline with the Apple of Eden, the Templars plan of world domination, the modern assassin resistance movement? I guess I was right in thinking "they have no idea what they're doing" after the ending of AC2 when they went "uh yeah actually the gods of old are really an alien race and uh, something something. buy our next game!"

[@MazTheOriginalGod]

Drakengard: The real ending. Everyone fucking dies in a very bizarre ending where you get into New York (?). Super Mario 64: A cake and a kiss on the nose.

[@zerin25]

My mum is STILL angry at the payoff of the 1998 RahJongg (mahjong but Egyptian) which she spent over a year playing, only to finish the final level and get... a picture of bacon and eggs. Good thing she never played early console games...

[@NigelMelanisticSmith]

Glad I'm not the only person who struggled with the Bugsnax ending lol

[@ryanschramm8147]

the worst part of the Far Cry 5 ending is that Far Cry New Dawn, the side game followup, shows that Seed does, in fact, succeed in making you his brainwashed follower

[@Fenrisson]

3:17 - "No pain", she said.

[@damienedmiston3195]

What sucks about Farcry 5 is that I liked it so much! I'm a sucker for a cult centered story and Joseph Seed was very much what I imagine an American born cult leader to look like. But that ending just... Killed me. I know it was foreshadowed on the radios and notes throughout the game but man... There was something so frustrating about it. The way nothing you did mattered, because everyone still died, and Joseph won. I will forever be salty.

[@Phlarx]

It's the only game I've played where the ending made me angry. Other games have made me angry for things like bad camera controls, or annoying mechanics like having to drink a gallon of water every five minutes. But FC5 was a *fun game*, I enjoyed my time playing it. And then the ending came and told me I wasted my time. Like, what, really? I almost didn't even buy FC6 because FC5's ending poisoned the series so badly.

[@jadedheartsz]

Far Cry 6 establishes that the whole nuclear launch thing did not actually happen.

[@jadedheartsz]

@@Phlarx For me it made me more confused then angry, Army of Two Devil's Cartel, now THAT game made me angry starting with the bullshit twist about Salem that makes no goddamn sense at all if you actually stop and think about it more then a nanosecond and then the lame confusing ending which sorta hints that maybe Alice is still alive?(still not crazy on how they handled her in the previous game, like they sorta make you think she's gone, but then if she's mission control why would she have been on that chopper that's sent to pick up Salem and Rios that gets blown up, makes no sense).

[@jadedheartsz]

@@Phlarx Far Cry 6 at least makes it so that ending is non-canon as there's no evidence of Nuclear fallout whatsoever.

[@jadedheartsz]

@@Phlarx You should check out FC6 as it actually retcons the ending of part 5.

[@vault29a]

i really dont get why Far Cry 5 always shows up on these lists? the bombs will go anyway, you can listen to the ingame radio news or read newspapers about the raising tentions between US and China/Russia, so Joseph was right in his revelations. the only "GOOD" ending here is the one where you do nothing at the beginning and dont trigger the whole world's over.

[@jamimuhammad3699]

I’m glad Bugsnax got mentioned it’s so horrifying 😢.

[@Fionor01]

I'm bit surprised Mass Effect 3 didn't make apppearance on this list. That ending sucked so hard I really can't replay any of the ME games without feeling like it would be pointless.

[@Defarious]

In Robocop 3 he had a jet pack AND a machine gun hand. IT SHOULD OF been great, but wasn't. HOW!?!

[@SJrad]

16:16 NO THAT IS NOT SOLID SNAKE

[@mx2000]

That Bugsnax story is nightmare fuel

[@rinraiden]

Technically Desmond is still around, roaming around in the internet or something.

[@GideonGrimmGaming]

To be fair, Desmond technically lives on in the Isu network thingy.

[@twilightgeneral777]

I can't believe I collected all 2000 pinecones just to get the ending to this video

[@felinusfeline5559]

With Far Cry 5, I think the devs have realized how much they fucked up. In Far Cry 6 you can find a newspaper article that mentions the cult was taken down and the Seeds were brought to justice. Just doesn't give details.

[@tomhubbard8510]

Far Cry 5's bad ending is literally "would you kindly" from bioshock.

[@omega2279]

I, for one, actually enjoyed Far Cry 5's nihilisting endings. While incredibly bleak, they're also sort of comforting in a twisted sort of way. It's like Joseph Seed saying "who's my precious lil' harbinger of doom ? You are !"

[@jadedheartsz]

Far Cry 6 thankfully retconned that bullshit.

[@omega2279]

@@jadedheartsz Is 6 part of the same universe as 5 ? I haven't played 6, but I'm under the impression they're not.

[@jadedheartsz]

@@omega2279 they're the same universe as Hurk is mentioned and the DLC focuses on characters from previous games.

[@omega2279]

@@jadedheartsz Well, I'll trust you on this one. I was just saying I liked 5's bittersweet tone of its awful endings. Not blaming anyone for not liking them and wanting them retconned.

[@rach4997]

I figured there had to be someone else! I always liked the ending of Far Cry 5. It’s an unusual end for a game and I like the message that some things are worth fighting for even if you lose in the end. Oh and I’m a weirdo I guess?

[@magnusbooth4719]

the original doom maybe? Or Infamous 2, where you either kill all mutants (including yourself) or all humans, yeah!

[@nemilyk]

Heh I don't think I've ever "raged" harder at a game than FC5... It was trying way too hard to outdo the ending of FCs 3 and 4... but the thing about the FC3 and FC4 endings was none of the options invalidated your experience of the game. They made you question your choices while also making the hours you sank into the game meaningful. FC5 was like "haha fuck you no matter what every hour you spent in this game was meaningless. Aren't we deep? AREN'T WE DEEP?!?!?!"

[@Mrchair905]

I thought it was pretty good. 5 is my favorite far cry game in the series. Not everything needs some deep meaning happy ending. Sometimes bad things just happen and there isn’t a thing you can do about it, even as an invincible viddy game guy. You can’t control everything and it’s outcome.

[@gilgazack9403]

@@Mrchair905 is a dumb nihilism ending no one says it should had a happy ending but "nothing matters cuz everyone dies lol" is a dumb way to end your game , joseph could have been right, the bombs could have hit but everyone dying is lame AF, a better ending would have been the bombs hitting far from where everyone is and everyone realizing Joseph was right and freeing him at the end cuz they are scared and then give you the choice to shoot him or rebuild alongside him

[@nemilyk]

@@gilgazack9403 When you look at them, none of the endings of FC4 were happy either: you either turn Kyrat into an oppressive drug state, turn it into an oppressive theocracy, or keep it in the current authoritarian regime. But none of those invalidate your gameplay or devolve into total nihilism like you said. It also makes absolutely no sense that throughout FC5 the Seeds just have uber-soldiers who just occasionally decide to come out of nowhere and hit you with a bullet or even an arrow (that just knock you out instead of doing grievous bodily harm) while you're several thousand feet in the air in a helicopter...? It's just such an obvious game mechanic that's so utterly hand-waved it feels so lazy and borderline insulting, because IMO FC5 was just the devs wanting to force set up their post apocalyptic direction of taking the franchise. As, IIRC, FCND gives you that choice to kill Joseph or recruit him to rebuild too. IDK, I only got far enough in ND to hear them finally bring him up when I finally noped out of it too.

[@ANON....]

her hypothesis is sound do not eat the bugs. these muppets will never learn unlike AI. i digress

[@Chaos0f7ife]

As a resident of Montana USA I can say, it is a very fictional place.

[@SyndicateOperative]

16:40 Ahahaha. That will always make me chuckle.

[@Gerilyn2003]

My husband and our friend took the day off when Halo 2 came out. They went through the entire thing co-op. They got to the end. Master Chief says "I'm going to finish this," the screen went black...and they kept waiting for the game to continue. We lived up the road from Bungie. They REALLY wanted to go "visit" their office...

[@marvolom787]

I'll vote Final Fantasy 16 - the perfectly crafted 'you'll never get to know the hero's fate'. Plus far away ending that fails to even show if world is recoveing. Very similar to OG FF7 ending

[@HAOSMIKE]

Why isnt there the original mass effect 3 endings? These were 3 disapointments in one game.

[@ShinobiNeon]

I don't think there's a single ending in Far Cry 5 that's actually worth the effort.

[@ChrisPreece]

May be somewhat controversial but I'll always be disappointed by Mass Effect 3's ending. All that build up for three games, and then you press a button on the Endingtron 3000 and none of your choices really impact exactly how the ending plays out.

[@somnaire3418]

And I am noticing a shocking lack of Final Fantasy X-2's true ending. All that grueling work for... THAT.

[@samiraperi467]

Getting Over It takes less than 1 minute if you're good enough.

[@CalTheHogNosedBat]

How many shrimps do you have to eat, before you make your skin turn pink? Eat too much and you'll get sick shrimps are pretty rich *Berd Dances*

[@mrne1988]

Surprised that Mass Effect 3 didn't make the list. Its ending, all of them actually, disappointed everybody back then, and Andromeda didn't help two years later at all

[@jmace2424]

Is the Getting Over It guy not Diogenes? He hung around naked and lived in a pot.

[@NovanoirEcho]

How about code vein (spoilers) , all the endings had the character io die in some way. Turns into a tree to give you the best ending, turns to stone or either abandons you or dies anyway. But in the worst ending you turn into a murderous being but you get killed by one of the characters.

[@shinrailp1416]

Not entirely true, there is an ending where she lives it just requires a bit of work. If i remember correctly you have to find every single vestige in an area before you fight the Boss in said area. That gives you the best ending where she actually lives at the very end and leaves with your party.

[@Tactical_Hotdog]

FYI Templar finishes with an "uh" sound, not "aaar" like a pirate. tem · plur

[@jaycenzimbeck7638]

I kinda disagree with Halo 2's ending being disappointing. I honestly think the fight with Tartarus followed up with that badass "Finishing this fight line" was a major fist bump moment.

[@ericb3157]

i remember reading a Halo Comic book that picked up where Halo 2 left off... Master Chief killed every Covenant in the ship except "Truth", who got away... and someone else tricked them into thinking something important was in a city on earth, so they landed there and took heavy casualties.

[@mvjbc581]

Loved Halo 2 till the end. Played on the hardest difficulty because I thought I would get the best ending that way. Still, FF7, no finding out what happened to everyone, trying to find out if they stopped meteor.

[@kpr2]

I was originally quite intrigued by the ending of Starfield, but the NG+ changes were so minimal and non-impactful as to be pointless, so I've given up exploring it at least until they drop some proper new content (and no, the latest update doesn't interest me in the slightest).