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[PleaOfInsanity]

games Shadow Hearts, Dragon Age, Breath of Fire:DQ (find out he isn't dead at the end though), Vagrant Story
several books in the Legacy of the Drow saga

[SamFlagg]

The Gap Cycle, by Stephen Donaldson.

Now before anyone goes out and reads it, I recommend it only to someone who has read Donaldson and knows what the hell of an emotional trainwreck they're signing up for.

And if you do it anyway against my advice.

It's really good in books 2,3,4, and 5.

The original short story is well written, but you start to ask your self "What sick psycho serial killer is writing this???"

My friend who's a voracious reader recommended it and I managed to get through it only because he's my friend and I valued his opinion that it would all be worth it in the end.

[yumesama]

Inception. The ending was just ambiguous enough for me to get closure.

Braveheart and Gladiator both had bittersweet and definate endings.

The Troll Hunter and The Blair Witch Project were also perfectly ok.

[dallicant]

Oh, some I forgot to mention:

No Country for Old Men (movie [and book, but I thought the film was better])
There will be Blood (movie)
Elevator to the Gallows (movie)
The Killing (movie)
Donnie Darko (movie)
The Stars my Destination (book)
Empire of the Sun (book)
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (book)
Deus Ex (game)

[Skirata129]

halo 3 ending and the ending of order 66 when I believed it the last novel in the series.

[RaptorZefier]

The Metamorphosis, I'm sorry it doesn't get much bleaker or more depressing then that story.

But, for the record. Anything written by H.P. Lovecraft.

And I love 'em all

Yet I don't like this ending. Funny that?

Edit: Also Warhammer 40k's entire lore. Hell it starts with the phrase 'In the Grim Darkness of--"

Modifié par RaptorZefier, 18 mars 2012 - 06:17 .

[Hexedcoder]

Consider Phlebas!!!

It even addressed all the themes that ME3 did at the end in a way better than ME3 did.

http://en.wikipedia....onsider_Phlebas

[dallicant]

RaptorZefier wrote...

The Metamorphosis, I'm sorry it doesn't get much bleaker or more depressing then that story.

I was mentioning the Trial earlier, but yeah, pretty much anything by Kafka qualifies.

I've always been perversely curious about playing an RPG based on Kafka's works, even though it'd almost certainly have to be more frustrating than fun.  Maybe if you handled it as a black comedy...

[Monarchos915]

Children of Men and Shadow of the Colossus

[Icesong]

MGS4

[Maro]

I feel badly for the Starks.  Winter is coming.

[horacethegrey]

Red Dead Redemption - Quite possibly the greatest (and saddest) ending in videogame history. Who here wasn't upset when John Marston was gunned down? And shooting Edgar Ross as Jack in the epilogue wasn't a comfort by any means. It only serves to emphasise how John's dream of a peaceful life for him and his family is in tatters. 

Prince of Persia 2008 - I do admit this ending was very upsetting. All that hard work we did during the game undone in a couple of minutes. But it's still very true to the character of the Prince and his growing fondness (and ours) for Elika.

Grand Theft Auto IV - Deal Ending. Poor Roman Bellic. He convinces his cousin Niko to let bygones be bygones with Dimitri Rascalov, only for Dimitri's goons to gun him down at his own wedding. Naturally, Niko goes on a roaring rampage of revenge and kills him. It's a hollow victory for Niko though, he's stuck in a country he doesn't really like, and his only family here is gone.

[Doctoglethorpe]

Alan Wake comes to mind first if we're talking video games.

First movie that comes to mind is Shutter Island.

[SockPuppet317]

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

[BadlyBrowned]

SockPuppet317 wrote...

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

Ooo, good one. Though that it is just bleak and depressing from the get go.

Modifié par BadlyBrowned, 18 mars 2012 - 06:28 .

[BGM]

Nier

The death knell of the human race, and it was beautiful.

[daguest]

Blade runner, the director ending. We don't know if Deckard is a droid, or not, etc... The book's ending is also quite weird, as far as I remember.
Total Recall (movie, haven't read the book, shame on me), except for the eyes thing, which was completely stupid, but because we don't know if it's real or not.
For books, I'd say most of Frederic Brown short stories are about having an end seriously ironic and bleak.

[SamFlagg]

daguest wrote...

Blade runner, the director ending. We don't know if Deckard is a droid, or not, etc... The book's ending is also quite weird, as far as I remember.
Total Recall (movie, haven't read the book, shame on me), except for the eyes thing, which was completely stupid, but because we don't know if it's real or not.
For books, I'd say most of Frederic Brown short stories are about having an end seriously ironic and bleak.

*Chuckle* We should be citing Blade Runner all the time, there are like 27 different cuts of the movie I swear.

[Militarized]

Oh! The Departed.

[Maera Imrov]

PleaOfInsanity wrote...

games Shadow Hearts, Dragon Age, Breath of Fire:DQ (find out he isn't dead at the end though), Vagrant Story
several books in the Legacy of the Drow saga

Dragon Quarter, excellent game. I had forgotten all about it. Took me several tries to finally get through it and live. Excellent ending, too, though you're right, for a bit I thought Ryu died.

[Feops1]

Dragon Age: Origins ended in a very bittersweet way for me.

My warden lived, and there was a party, but nothing really worked out right.

[RaptorZefier]

You know what? I'm not done, lets keep going.

Starcraft, if you've ever played the original Starcraft and Brood War you DANG WELL KNOW that's dark.Arguably Starcraft is one of my favorite games and story ever.

Cowboy Bebop, yeah I know it's an anime, but if you ever watched it you know what I'm talkin' about.

Elder Scrolls in general, every time you stop one major threat from destroying the world it triggers -something else- that causes mass trouble and mayhem.

Dragon Age: Origins had a dark ending I loved too, you're doomed to die from corruption, horrors lurk in the shadows you never knew before. . . God it was good.

Bah, this thread is actually making me feel offended by people who say I just want a happy ending.

[Ricvenart]

TODD9999 wrote...

Bastion was quite well-done.

This. The story is completely self contained, sure there's questions at the end and the possibility of more but that would be another tale. (Well 2 tales actually, where they go after or if they can manage to avert the crisis by the reset). Also leaves you wondering what truly is the right thing, to move on and learn from the past or to try change it if you have the oppurtunity, even knowing you may forget it all.
But It left me completely satisfied, the whole tale, the entire gameplay, the art work and the music and it only took 3-6 hours (been a while needless to say it's short) to tell and only cost about 12.99, not 5 years, hundreds of hours and over £100 to tell me how futile life is.

There are others but that is the latest and it has stuck with me since. With it being only 2011 too it's one of few titles to give me hope for developers, that some do create art for it's own sake and not just because it's lucrative.

DA:O Warden Dies at least he got a funeral. Though not truly bleak an ending. DA2 The prospect of war with Mages v Chantry and the possibility of darkspawn arising again as it happens is pretty bleak, but I liked that plot point, what Anders did was polarizing. (Shame what current implications are for the entire story and desicions made at the moment)

Does "End of Disc 1" count as an Ending? Oh Aeris (she will never be Aerith to me).

There's likely plenty more, my problem doesn't lie with the sadness/ambiguity, it lies with them thinking this is polarizing and deep art when it really isn't. Though the tale deserves a real ending even if it's sad. Might be worth noting I hated the ending of Deus Ex: Human Revolution though, the ending did the same for me as this one did, killed all replayablity and any desire to play DLC released before it (not that I complained as much, I didn't care enough about the game or the series too).

[BadgerladDK]

The ME3 one was quite good and original... When Deus Ex did it 12 years ago in a game where it actually fit the themes.

Also, someone mentioned Red Dead Redemption earlier in the thread, specifically John Marston's death, and the revenge exacted in the prologue (oh look, RDR actually gave a meaningful one of those)

For movies... Casino ended pretty bleakly, but it ended how it had to end. There's also the great, and for some reason far too obscure Things to do in Denver when you're dead, one of my all time favourite movies.