Best Videogame Endings Discussed

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday August 20, 2003 @12:02AM from the spoilers-at-yr-peril dept.

Thanks to InsertCredit.com for their lengthy, semi-gonzo, spoiler-containing feature on the evolving nature of game end sequences. They ask "Why should an ending be a time to 'relax'? Why should an ending be something long, and complicated? Why should an action game, really, even have a final 'boss'? Do we need these conventions anymore?", while charting classic game endings from Donkey Kong and Super Mario Bros. through Metroid Prime. They finish things up with the top 11 game endings of all-time, from "an alcoholic cartoon squirrel" to "the collapsing Death Egg."

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Loom gets my vote by Domini · 2003-08-20 00:23 · Score: 3, Informative

It had crappy graphic and crappy sound, but there was something almost mystical about the ending...

Must be the fact that it was based on a propper work of prose.
*No* ending by satyap · 2003-08-20 04:58 · Score: 2, Informative

Plenty of games out there with no ending. Not just arcade games, either. MMORPGs, for example.