Your favorite game ending(s)

[Kire]

[Biggie]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Shadow of the Colossus or Metal Gear Solid 3.

I'll let anyone else elaborate. nightsies.

[Perversion]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

I'm gonna pull a Crunk here and say Portal, even though I've yet to see it.



Seeing as how I beat very few games, I'd again have to go with Flower. There's no "ending" per se...there's a level end which is decent, but having brought the neighborhood around the apartment back to life in the "stage select" screen, and then actually playing the credits is the best ending to a game that I've ever experienced.

[Toaster]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

inb4 perversion says flower

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[Perversion]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Heh.


Yeah, I love being predictable.

[Jehuty]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

FFT
FF8
Star Ocean 2
Lunar(both)


Recently:
Enslaved
Darksiders

[Shard]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Red Dead Redemption: *** SPOILERS ***
Not just the final mission, but the end chapters where you get to spend some time as a farmer, husband and father (or as close as Rockstar allows). It was a nice pay-off after putting up with the stacks of bastards previously.
*** END SPOILERS ***


inFamous: *** SPOILERS ***
The tone, the pacing, the twist, it felt so comic-booky and so right. Sometimes after a tough end fight, I'm just disgusted with a game and never want to play it again (Ninja Gaiden Sigma), but this one made me want play it all over again as a villain. And sometime, I will.
*** END SPOILERS ***

[Big Country]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Portal, It was satisfying
Amnesia, the fact that there was three diverse endings that all lead to whichever conclusion you wanted the game to reach. (Plus you could just start the game at the last boss after you finished)

[Big Rick Cook]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Grandia II
Skies of Arcadia

They received the kind of treatment I expect from a game that I invested hours and hours into playing, becoming attached to the characters and wanting to see how their story unfolds to the very end.

Final Fantasy VIII. It just felt complete, and it didn't need words to convey any of it, and plucked every heartstring there was to pluck.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

S.L.A.I had a pretty great story for a mech combat game. Its basically a big murder mystery, about a killer who starts killing pilots, even though all the mechs are controlled over the ineternet from peoples homes.

Lots of big twists and lovable characters. The ending was really good. or at least I thought so.

It also got that song "TV Land" by Superchick burned into my brain for all eternity. Its way too catchy for its own good.

[Jeroak Nelave]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Chrono Trigger, FF6, Xenogears, Infamous

[DK]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Thread begins and ends with FFVIII fools.

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Silent Hill Shattered Memories. It's the Sixth Sense of videogames. That's not a spoiler. Or is it? What a tweeeest!!!

Shadow of the Colossus

[facts]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Definitely Lufia 2. Lufia & The Fortress of Doom too. I'm also fond of the FFVIII ending for how strange it is.

[Hrafn]

Re: Your favorite game ending(s)

Lots of choices, many of which are obvious and some of which have been said already. But I'll mention a less likely one: Crisis Core. Although the game was flawed, Zack slowly faltering against the unrelenting Shinra onslaught (which was admittedly more than a bit overdone, but then Square doesn't know the meaning of understated anymore), all the while still being at least partially playable, was more poignant than you'd expect for something that was clearly a foregone conclusion (hence why I'm not spoilering it. Zack dies; unless you haven't played FF7 this is not news to you, and if you haven't, Aeris dies too, you backwards hillbilly). Lots of games have the noble sort of hero sacrifice ending, but not many actually let you interact during it. Shame the Sacrifice DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 doesn't allow you to fight back after raising the bridge. It just zooms out and goes to the credits, a gyp from an otherwise worthwhile campaign.

Short list of the obvious ones:

-MGS 3 (I like 1 a bit better as a game, but its ending was kinda awful, especially compared to tearful graveside salutes and totally dissing a roomful of politicians).
-Tactics ("Did you get your end in all of this, Ramza? I...I got this.")
-Final Fantasy 6 (not incredibly remarkable, but it sews things up better than most other games in the main FF series).
-Jade Empire, both for having the best credit sequence this side of Portal and because it's the only game I know of where one of the endings is you allowing the final boss to kill you.