Games with GOOD Endings

[Freddie]

I recently played trough Resident Evil: Revelations 2 and I liked how it's endings were designed a lot.

+ Tone, scale, not saving the world but still something important, something easier to relate.
+ C&C, there are good and bad endings. Which one you get depends of choices made in previous chapter.

Kathy Rain
+ Ending as final stage in last game day
+ Epilogue leaves room for sequel but doesn't tease, stylish.

Shadowrun games by Hare Brained Scemes
+ Deadman Switch: Satisfying as whole, yet you can think of future adventures for your character in the game world.
+ DragonFall: Very interesting C&C and huge impact to game world.
+ Hong Kong: Depending your choices of course, but if you pick the good ending the slides that describe what will happen give you a picture of what is going to happen but leaves things to imagination too.

Mass Effect 1
+ The whole final stages to the Saren and confrontation.
+ Was satisfying, yet left lot's of room for future content (wasted opportunity).

Odd one perhaps and my memory may fail, but Command & Conquer: Red Alert had ballsy ending, certain attitude. Cut scene nostalgia?

Dark Forces
+ Final level, battles against droids in factory


And somewhere this came to mind:

Critical damage.System failing
Suicide capsuse in locker 3
We almost won ..e ..me
Goodb

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[Lazing Dirk]

Silent Hill 1 & 2 were pretty cool.

Such a good song too

Edit: Seriously though, I quite enjoyed the endings to both Portal and Portal 2, though I prefer the ending credits song of the first one.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Final Fantasy Tactics.

I was coming to post this.

The legacy of almost every powerful or influential person in history is built on a mountain of covered up misdeeds, and the valiant acts of those who will have opposed them will be lost in time. Yet there is hope that someone, one day, will discover and expose the truth.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Torment was the first thing that came to my mind, possibly because the bit before the ending was kinda shit. The third act of the game was quite clearly unfinished crap, so that ending really stood out.

 

[Humanity has risen!]

I don't understand why anyone likes Torment, it's a game whose only real message is "look at how tortured and edgy and fucked up and deep I am". It was clearly made when MCA suffered from depression. It's such a boring slog, clicking and slowly walking through pseudo gothic edgy whatever environments that look like backdrops to Dante's inferno to learn why every other NPC has his precious feelings hurt.

 

[Cross]

I don't understand why anyone likes Torment, it's a game whose only real message is "look at how tortured and edgy and fucked up and deep I am". It was clearly made when MCA suffered from depression. It's such a boring slog, clicking and slowly walking through pseudo gothic edgy whatever environments that look like backdrops to Dante's inferno to learn why every other NPC has his precious feelings hurt.

If Planescape: Torment was as pretentious as you describe, then no, it wouldn't be as well-liked (at least not on the Codex). It's a good thing then that it isn't.

For reference, this is what dialogue from a pretentiously written game looks like:

This is what dialogue from Planescape: Torment looks like:

 

[Nutria]

I don't understand why anyone likes Torment, it's a game whose only real message is "look at how tortured and edgy and fucked up and deep I am".

There's one conversation where you're dealing with your alter-ego just before the ending that totally flips the game around on its head. It's the one where you're supposed to learn your real name. Unfortunately, they put it hidden away behind a dialogue option that appears to be just asking the NPC to repeat what they already told you.

On one hand, it's totally fucking inexcusable to make the proper ending to the game impossible to reach without a walkthrough. On the other, it is possibly the best ending to a game that I've ever seen.

 

[Santander02]

NWN2 and Mask of the Betrayer's evil endings

The good endings are awful (nwn2) or meh (MotB)

 

[thesoup]

The Witcher
It's bittersweet, but it kind of feels that you still somehow ended up losing. Cliffhanger / sequel hook aside. That was meh.

E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
You can't break the cycles.

 

[laclongquan]

I don't understand why anyone likes Torment, it's a game whose only real message is "look at how tortured and edgy and fucked up and deep I am". It was clearly made when MCA suffered from depression. It's such a boring slog, clicking and slowly walking through pseudo gothic edgy whatever environments that look like backdrops to Dante's inferno to learn why every other NPC has his precious feelings hurt.

This is an illustration of why the taste of people for writings are varied so much. Some will sneer at others' treasured. And vice versa.

 

[HeatEXTEND]

Terranigma
Lufia 2
Bambi ain't got nothing on that shit
JRPG biggots are missing out