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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:43 this Tuesday (GMT):
>
> If in doubt, steal somebody else's idea for the topic of your own
> post. Specifically, I'm borrowing the idea from the website SVG* where
> they post a list of '5 Classic Video Games That Were Ruined By Their
> Final Level'.
>
>      [Their list included, for those of you too lazy to click 
>       the link: Ghosts 'n Goblins; Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's 
>       Revenge; Fable II; Mass Effect 3; and Assassin's Creed 
>       III. There, I saved you some reading. ;-)]
>
> I'm not sure I agree with their selection, but I agree with the
> concept. A lot of games are let down by their lackluster finales. Then
> again, endings are hard... and creating a satisfying ending for video
> games --especially modern video games-- is harder. I mean, how do you
> bring an experience that gamers may have spent 60 to 100 hours (or
> more!) playing to a suitably pleasing end? I mean, if you've spent
> that much time playing, just the fact that the game is ending is
> disappointing already!
>
> I'm not sure I've ever had a game 'ruined' by its ending, but I know
> I've walked away from plenty of games left unfulfilled by how it
> concludes. This, of course, has been a problem facing games for years;
> heck, back in the 8-bit you'd be lucky to even GET an ending. Too many
> games would have you kill the end boss, then present you with a
> single-line "You won" screen before dropping to the command prompt. 
>
> Still, whenever I think of a game that had an unsatisfying ending, the
> first game that comes to mind is "Dying Light". The game itself was
> quite a mixed bag, but its final boss fight was little more than a QTE
> (and, really, the only battle in the entire game to use that
> mechanic). So not only didn't you get to kill the boss yourself, but
> it dumped an entirely new mechanic on you last-moment. It felt
> extremely low-effort. It's arguably not the worst ending but it's the
> one that first pops into my head whenever the topic of 'bad endings'
> comes up.
>
> (But fuck "Eye of the Beholder's" ending too! ;-)
>
> What game do you think of first when it comes to 'bad endings'?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     ----    
> * the expected link to the article.
> https://www.svg.com/2077331/classic-video-games-ruined-final-level/


Sonic Generation's final boss has been memed on a lot. Other than that,
idk I haven't played any story based games lately and nothing really
stands out?
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user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-20 11:43 -0500
  Re: The worst endings... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-01-23 16:00 +0000
    Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-23 14:00 -0500
      Re: The worst endings... "Mark P. Nelson" <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> - 2026-01-24 16:59 +0000
        Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-25 10:43 -0500
          Re: The worst endings... "Mark P. Nelson" <markpnelson@sbcglobal.net> - 2026-01-25 18:23 +0000
          Re: The worst endings... Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2026-01-26 12:08 +0200
            Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-26 10:09 -0500
      Re: The worst endings... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-01-25 00:40 +0000
  Re: The worst endings... Gottfried Neuner <kyonshi@wilderland.ovh> - 2026-01-24 23:58 +0100
    Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-25 10:48 -0500
      Re: The worst endings... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-01-26 16:50 +0000
      Re: The worst endings... Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> - 2026-01-28 09:56 -0800
  Re: The worst endings... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2026-01-25 00:38 +0000
    Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-25 11:13 -0500
      Re: The worst endings... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2026-01-26 01:07 +0000
        Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-26 10:17 -0500
          Re: The worst endings... ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2026-01-27 07:31 +0000
  Re: The worst endings... Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> - 2026-01-26 15:59 -0800
    Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-27 10:25 -0500
      Re: The worst endings... Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> - 2026-01-28 10:05 -0800
        Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-28 13:42 -0500
      Re: The worst endings... candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2026-01-28 21:20 +0000
        Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-01-29 10:40 -0500
        Re: The worst endings... Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> - 2026-02-05 10:44 -0800
          Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-02-06 10:09 -0500
            Re: The worst endings... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-02-06 07:30 -0800
              Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-02-06 11:00 -0500
                Re: The worst endings... Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2026-02-06 17:45 -0800
            Re: The worst endings... Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com> - 2026-02-06 13:05 -0500
              Re: The worst endings... Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2026-02-07 13:04 -0500

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