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[Rune-Chan]

Bioshock 2 - The ending basically has the main character die in each version, the world he lived in is all but destroyed, the only positive is that his daughter has been saved.

Halo Reach - Entire planet is destroyed, despite your best efforts, you and all your team are dead.

Alan Wake - You spend your whole time trying to rescue your wife from a nightmarish world only to end up freeing her and being trapped inside it yourself.

Half Life 2 Episode 2 - Being pinned against the wall watching the father of your close friend die.

The Thing - The alien monster is defeated, but the survivors are left in a frozen wasteland with no shelter.

[Mandemon]

Fulgrim88 wrote...
Deus Ex Revolution (because the whole transhumanism issue didn't come out of the left field)

Wasn't transhumanism the entire point of the game? Also, A, B, C actually made sense to you since they were presented before coming ot choice. And they weren't space magic:wizard:, it was choice whose message sent to the world (or screw everyone and blow the whole thing)

Yeah, even DX:HR got it better than ME3

[rpgfan321]

p__q wrote...

Not sure whether it has been mentioned but pom poko has a very bitter sweet ending

Yes. Indeed. But my goodness those racoons were funny. ^^
That movie was the bomb. Have you seen Grave of the Fireflies? That movie was so sad. Made me cry for days!

[someguy1231]

Gotta agree with what most other people have said. Many have already described why they like these so I don't think I need to add anything for those.

Halo 3 and Halo Reach
Red Dead Redemption
Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Planescape Torment
Gears of War 3 - Locusts are defeated but it's left unclear whether human civilization will be able to recover

[sistersafetypin]

SockPuppet317 wrote...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

This one definitely takes the cake

[pjotroos]

Won't focus on movies or books, since it's whole different medium, but there were games where it worked fine. "Max Payne 2", "GTA IV", even otherwise weak "inFamous". The reason it worked there is because it was in the spirit of the rest of the game. MP2 never offered us illusion of the choice, it was a tale of a man caught in the events - see his speech about "genius of the hole". GTA IV, while giving some basic choices, even regarding the very ending, was a bleak affair start to finish. iF, for all its faults, managed to justify exactly why the depressing stuff is happening to you.

The reason it doesn't work for ME3 is simply because it's not the same kind of story. In ME1 we were told Sovereign is behind our very comprehension, yet we get crushed by his debris and come out of it with aching shoulder and a smile on our face. ME2 presents us with a suicide mission, and even calls it such - yet played right, we can finish it with no casualties. Even ME3, dark as it is, has Ash or Kaidan surviving the smacking that was supposed to kill them, brokering peace after centuries of war in two major conflicts, and "Take Earth back" on just about every promotional material. It doesn't work not just because it's a bleak ending. It doesn't work because it's a bleak ending at the end of story that was meant to be positive and uplifting. Imagine "Friends" ending its 10 season run with the characters getting tortured, locked inside their flat and burned to death. Then wonder if the audience would apprieciate the creative team behind the series for being edgy.

Modifié par pjotroos, 18 mars 2012 - 11:45 .

[saracen16]

- Mass Effect 3

- Deus Ex series

[sistersafetypin]

pjotroos wrote...
snip... Imagine "Friends" ending its 10 season run with the characters getting tortured, locked inside their flat and burned to death. Then wonder if the audience would apprieciate the creative team behind the series for being edgy...

As someone who used to love this show... picturing it ending via the SAW series literally just made me choke on my laughter

[ed87]

Militarized wrote...

Shutter Island

Photo

When that ending got picked apart, it only revealed greatness in writing

[Wickwrackscar]

A Fire Upon the Deep (Sci-Fi Novel)

BTW the amount of parallels to the ME story is stunning. The setup, the premises, even the solution / resolution in the end is very similar to ME3's (In the end the multi species galactic community is thrown into a dark age to be saved from the threat of an ancient godlike AI). But in the novel there is closure.

Actually if you like Mass Effect I recommend reading it.

Modifié par General Distress, 18 mars 2012 - 12:23 .

[Marinemike69]

Red dead redemtion

[Zing Freelancer]

Code Geass R2
Chasshern Sins.
Gurren Lagan.
Gundam 00 S1/2 + movie ending.
Babylon BC.
Elfen Lied.
The Witcher 1
Deus Ex - Human revolution

Just a few from the top of my head.

Modifié par Zing Freelancer, 18 mars 2012 - 03:08 .

[Peete]

Shutter island

[Capeo]

Requiem for a Dream

My Life to Live

Dancer in the Dark

And the mother of them all: Tokyo Story

[VirtualSoldier27]

Red Dead Redemption- after all the work John had done in redeeming himself, we all thought the government would leave him alone and let him live in peace with his family at his ranch, nope,he was the last name on the governments list(I was hoping John would be able to shoot his way out of that valley) and has satisfying has it was for Jack to track down the retired lawman that betrayed his father, and get some revenge, Jack now is in danger of becoming the outlaw that his parents never wanted him to be

Fallout 3-Sacrifice ending, the vualt dweller had seen the example of his father, he had personally seen the suffering in the wasteland, and here was a chance to bring hope,and the code to the machine was something his father had been telling him since he was born, he wasnt about to let Sentinal Lyons do something he was destined to do, so he walked into the chamber, and sealed it,and started project purity and falling to the radition cloud it produced,and Lyons watched has a hero chose others over himself

F.E.A.R 2,-the entire setting is bleak, so why shouldnt its ending be, after fighting through a city of the dead, with Armacham and Replica soldiers also trying to kill you, while being chased by Alma,who needs you to have her new off-spring, you finally make it to still island and the machine that can defeate Alma, you get betrayed by a woman wanting to use Alma has corparate leverage, and after she shoots Kiera, who you were starting to get close to, she is killed by Alma,who then screws you 2 different ways(mentally and physically), and you awake from the induced nightmare to find Alma pregnant, with possibly the child that will bring an end to the world

Medal of Honer(2010)-one of the most sad endings I have seen in a while, Rabbit and Mother were trying to rescue there fellow SEALS, but wound up getting captured by the Taliban and Insurgents,and they were rescued but Rabbit was fatally wounded and the Medivac was to0 far away. you are rabbit while he slowly fades away,while his comrades are trying to reassure him,very sad ending.

Modifié par VirtualSoldier27, 18 mars 2012 - 03:34 .

[tamperous]

detroitmechworks wrote...

"Childhoods End" by Arthur Clarke was one of the only SF novels that emotionally affected me so much that I was in tears at the end of it.

Humanity is destroyed... (Ascended... same difference...) One human watches the destruction...

Hrm... sounds a little familiar. The difference was Clarke foreshadowed it well and had actually interesting characters in the world...

I love that book, my favorite of his.

[Turtlicious]

TODD9999 wrote...

Bastion was quite well-done.

[DaringMoosejaw]

Red Dead Redemption. The end of that game nearly made me tear up, but just because the ending was bleak doesn't compare to ME3's ending. RDR's ending made perfect sense to the game, ME3's came right the hell out of nowhere. RDR ended like I felt it should have ended, and ME3's ending just disappointed me.

[stysiaq]

Watchmen (the novel, I hate the movie)
Beyond Good & Evil
Half-Life
Others...

[fish of doom]

sistersafetypin wrote...

SockPuppet317 wrote...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

This one definitely takes the cake

i need to re-read that someday... fun fact: in the game adaptation it's actually possible, following a VERY specific set of actions, to achieve what is supposed to be a good ending, always with the caveat that it might just be a ruse by AM.

[magikbbg]

Inception! It blew my mind I'm still trying to figure it out !!

[cec_121088]

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the series finale of The Shield. Far ans away, my favorite ambiguous ending.

[joshko]

Fight Club, the book.
Witcher II
The Possessed (also called Demons) by Dostoyevsky.
Many stories by HP Lovecraft
Dream of a Ridiculous Man by Dostoyevsky
Many stories by Poe
Far Side comics.

[crapmonster13]

p__q wrote...

Not sure whether it has been mentioned but pom poko has a very bitter sweet ending

Giant shapeshifting raccoon testicles......