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| 4 OCT 2004 at 7:39pm |
| Deleted User | I refuse to use spoiler alerts in a thread that is dedicated to the discussion of adventure game endings. That's friggin' ridiculous! How can we discuss game endings without automatically "spoiling" them? Or do you expect us to merely list games and have zero discussion of them?
It should be obvious to anyone who sees the topic title what the thread is about. Anyone who fears spoilers has no business reading the thread in the first place!
"Use * spoiler alerts * if you're gonna discuss the actual ending.... " Might as well say "I posted a public discussion topic but don't really discuss it publicly." :
Grrrrrrr........ I have lost all patience with the idea of protecting people from their own stupidity.
Errr.... just an opinion. [smiley=soapbox.gif]
[smiley=sorry.gif]
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 7:44pm |
CulturaJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Oy, don't panic, as bacardiJim would say. Go ahead, you're probsably right, for once.
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 7:45pm |
| Deleted User | [smiley=rofl.gif] [smiley=laughing.gif]
Thanks for taking my little rant in stride, Cultura. True grace.
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 7:58pm |
SomeOneIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | Post Mortem I thought had a bad ending. 3 ways to go (depending whether the player had enough evidence or not). Even with the best-case ending, a lot is left for the user to guess (ie no answers were given). How was the Head of Baphomet known to be the real one vs the fake? etc.
I've played worse games, but that one annoyed me a bit.
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 8:28pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Secrets of the Luxor had a technically bad ending. The ending video had such blocky pixels that made it difficult to know what I was supposed to be seeing.
I was also disappointed in the ending of Myst, which I played for the first time when the Masterpiece edition came out (and after I had played Riven). After all that exploring and those wonderful puzzles, my reward was to...explore some more! I think they resolved the story better by adding the Rime age in RealMyst.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 9:23pm |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Black Mirror
Black Dahlia
Monkey Island 2
Golden Gate
Drakan
Jack the Ripper
I don't like games where you're doomed to failure at the end no matter what you do. I suppose the "worst" ending would be the biggest disappointment, and that would be a tie between Black Dahlia and Monkey Island 2. Both took me a long time to finish and when I finally did finish, the main character was worse off than when I started. Some payoff.
This list doesn't include what I consider "non-endings" or endings that were such that I ended up laughing at them. Myst and Comer are examples of the former. Reah, The Arrangement, and Frankenstein are examples of the latter.
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 9:49pm |
GreySorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | I got the "Water" ending in Silent Hill 2 which was pretty disappointing. I spent the entire game in search of my supposedly dead wife only to commit suicide once I find her?
In fact, I didn't immediately realize that's what had happened since you don't actually see anything. It's nothing but a black screen with sound effects of tires screeching, then a splash.
Nevermind that James had parked his car on the other side of town. I had a vision of it dropping out of the sky, the same as it did in Sam & Max Hit the Road.
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 10:09pm |
Lady KestrelGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Jenny100,
I didn't mind the ending of Golden Gate because I felt the bad guy, who made you do all the work, got what he deserved.
"Where is the fountain that throws up these flowers in a ceaseless outbreak of ecstasy?"
-Rabindranath Tagore
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 10:24pm |
| Deleted User | MI2
Black Mirror
The Arrangement
Beyond Atlantis 2 (not so much the end cutscene itself as the whole "gotta have the conversation with the old spirit couple in exactly the correct order" sequence that leads to the end)
Midnight Nowhere
Dark Fall
Lights Out (Sorry, Jonathan. You know my problems with the end of DF, and while I "got" the end of LO, it was way too abrupt)
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 10:32pm |
The_cranky_hermitPrivate Detective
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Status : Online | I hated the ending of Sanitarium. I mean, of course SOME of the things that happenned were obviously imaginary. But at the end they're trying to say that the whole adventure never actually happenned? Sorry, but I am not impressed.
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| 4 OCT 2004 at 10:35pm |
bdeckedSchattenjger
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Status : Online | I personally thought Black Mirror was pretty weak, too. Not the conclusion of the mystery, but the way the character resolved it (trying to do this without too much of a spoiler.)
I thought it was an easy out.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 1:07am |
jamarchandSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | [smiley=furious.gif]ATLANTIS 2 [smiley=furious.gif]
 &&&&[move]Actually playing SHIVERS and Rhem 2[/move]&&
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 1:22am |
KamisoriXSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Schizm....but i thought the whole story was crap...the puzzles rulz thou.
[IMG]http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/971/kamisig94ct.gif[/IMG]&&&&If the Earth would be a Sphere, and not a Disc, I wouldn't be so afraid to fall of the Edge...
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 2:01am |
ElfstoneGuild Master
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Status : Online | That thread is not inspired by Myst Revelation, right?
I just recently got it (making room for it at the moment ) and don't want to hear that. Not that it really matters what this game's ending is like...but better not.
[b]playing[/b]: Destination Treasure Island (done in two sittings, but it's nice), Syberia (ho-hum), Dracula: Last Sanctuary (on hold)&&[b]reading[/b]: even more study papers&&[b]listening to[/b]: [url=http://www.last.fm/user/Brax82/]this and that[/url], plus [url=http://www.musicovery.com/]Musicovery[/url]&&[b]TV favorites[/b]: (currently) Pushing Daisies, Chuck, Journeyman (cancelled! grrr...), Heroes&& all-time) 24, Stargate SG1, X-Files, Lost, House
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 3:24am |
SusanGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Some games that have already been mentioned I agree with ... the ones that leave questions unanswered.
But for worst ending I think I gotta go with MI2. And then that idea was brought back for the end puzzles in MI3.
I miss my Bubba: 1986 - 2006.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 3:45am |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By KamisoriX (5 OCT 2004 1:21am)
Schizm....but i thought the whole story was crap...the puzzles rulz thou.
That was one of those endings that made me laugh - the ship "wagging its tail" as it flew off.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 3:47am |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By LadyKestrel (4 OCT 2004 10:09pm)
Jenny100,
I didn't mind the ending of Golden Gate because I felt the bad guy, who made you do all the work, got what he deserved.
Maybe, but you lost the treasure and then (possibly) drowned.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 3:49am |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By jamarchand (5 OCT 2004 1:07am)
[smiley=furious.gif]ATLANTIS 2 [smiley=furious.gif]
I'd forgotten about that one.
But you're right, it made no sense at all.
Terrible ending.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 12:26pm |
Jeroen StoutSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Elfstone (5 OCT 2004 2:00am)
That thread is not inspired by Myst Revelation, right?
I'll just remain strangle mute over here.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 12:40pm |
AnneGuild Master
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Status : Online | As a Syberia 1 lover,Syberia 2.No forecast for a new game.I am actually really mad at the mishandling of this game but having played Sy 2 I feel as if I am on the Titanic.Shame on them.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 1:20pm |
Jeroen StoutSchattenjger
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Status : Online | Originally Posted By Anne (5 OCT 2004 12:39pm)
As a Syberia 1 lover,Syberia 2.No forecast for a new game.I am actually really mad at the mishandling of this game but having played Sy 2 I feel as if I am on the Titanic.Shame on them.
I was thinking about Syb2 too, actually, it was aful too, yet didn't mention it as I was strangely mute
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 1:26pm |
thomasbcSpace Cadet
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Status : Online | The fine folks at Detalion (Reah, Schizm and Chameleon MJII) lead the pack for really bad endings for me. Although, I really liked all three games from a puzzle-adventure standpoint.
A distant second would go to Omni Adventures for Riddle of the Sphinx and The Omega Stone where both games end with the Professor Dude walking in to pat you on the back for a job well done and then lecturing you on what the whole game "meant".
I would also have to give the "slapped on" ending to URU (the complete chronicles) a big thumbs down. Only because the game was originally intended to be so much more.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 1:33pm |
Agustín CordesGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By BacardiJim (4 OCT 2004 10:24pm)
MI2
I don't like you anymore.
Wait a minute... I never did!
Myst could have the worst ending I've ever experienced. I was like... uh? That's it?
Oddly, I can't think of any other endings that really bothered me. Maybe Curse Of Monkey Island - too short and lame.
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| 5 OCT 2004 at 3:11pm |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By thomasbc (5 OCT 2004 1:26pm)
A distant second would go to Omni Adventures for Riddle of the Sphinx and The Omega Stone where both games end with the Professor Dude walking in to pat you on the back for a job well done and then lecturing you on what the whole game "meant".
RotS had one of our very favorite endings ever. >
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