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BlackDevil06 wrote...
Maybe something on bittersweet endings.
While I appreciate happy endings(Open palm Jade Empire, anyone?), I can live with bittersweet. An excellent example that comes to my mind is Grand Theft Auto IV, both the main game as well as The Lost and Damned. Some day I will finish The Ballad of Gay Tony, so cannot speak for that ending.
In the main game Niko loses someone he loves, whter it be his cousin Roman who, despite his flaws, is still family and helps Niko, or be it Kate McReary, who captures his heart. Shortly before Niko finally can kill the one who betrayed him and his fellow soldiers during the war or eh can spare him. --> Closure!
And in the last mission, he gets revenge on the person that killed his cousin or Kate. Yet after that, he doesn't celebrate, he feels empty, because he lost a person that meant a lot to him.
In the Lost and Damned, the Lost MC falls apart in the end, and the few remaining members torch down the old clubhouse. Earlier his good friend Jim died, who cut back his time with the other members and became a family man.
Both those endings felt very emotional. But more importantly they made sense and were very well done. And another thing, in both games the main character didn't die. I know that his was important because players might want to complete other missions/activities without starting a new game, but it shows that the hero doesn't need to die. Consider this all you "Shepard-needs-to-die-for-the-story-to-be-epic"-people. He/she simply doesn't.
And even if you kill a character, do it right. Modern Warfare 1 did it right in "Aftermath", where you crawl from the helicopter and finally die from the radiation and other possible injuries. By Modern Warfare 2 it got boring, because every two missions, a major character died.
Great examples, GTA really did that well. It was a victory but look what it cost.
Another example is Max Payne. Heck both games had victorious yet tragic endings, yet Max lived though it. Now he's one character where death would not be an issue. That man is messed up, however even he deserves to move on with his life at some point.
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Hope your ankle recovers soon!
