Spoiler Alert in some of these Titles 0:31 Number 10 Call of Duty 4 3:24 Number 9 Red Dead Redemption 7:08 Number 8 Mafia 9:30 Number 7 Resistance 2 11:50 Number 6 Dead Space 3 14:36 Number 5 klonoa 17:25 Number 4 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth 19:21 Number 3 Bayonetta 3 22:59 Number 2 Far Cry 5 24:36 Number 1 Nier 27:58 Bonus Doom
@@JacobLukasiewicz Yeah, granted to me, its possible he knew, or suspected, one day is past would catch up to him. You could say he was in shock or the like, but the fact he never really says anything when he notices the shotgun....
@@JacobLukasiewiczThat wasn’t going to change anything, the asking his name was just a courtesy, they already knew who he was and had his photo. He was dead the moment they got there.
The original MW ending still hits hard. All your comrades die and as you’re airlifted away, you think Price is dead because the guy giving CPR is freaking out. His reveal in Gulag in MW2 was such a well done surprise. One of the rare times I cared about the characters in a CoD game
Honestly its only outdone by Infinite Warfare with regards to its characters. The characters in MW were awesome. The characters in Infinite Warefare felt *real*.
I mean... Consider it like that: If your superior tells you that you have to make a sequel that was never planned because you had to beg to even make a modern shooter and are certain that you'll not be doing it again but it sold extremely well and they get greedy, then yeah, you bring back one of the liked people where you don't know if they died on what was supposed to be the ending.
It is the ending of the first game, but also one that I wouldn't count as coming out of nowhere. In the walking dead franchise, you kinda expect major character deaths all the time, especially during a season finale. Walking Dead doesn't really do good endings, the closest to a good ending you get is winning against the villain of the season and being safe-ish for now (but still being in a world where doom looms at every corner with no perspective of that ever going to change).
Red Dead foreshadowed John Marston’s ending plentifully before the final mission. Many of the characters in the game (main, side, NPC) talk about their distrust and displeasure in the American government. Edgar Ross and his sidekick also talk about their backstabbing several criminals they’ve gone after. There’s NO way anyone would trust them whole-heartedly.
Marston doesn't. John never trusted them fully and always figured it'd come to the ending he faced. Marston himself was a means of backstabbing the entire gang and he knew it, but he went through with it to help his family and buy some time with them before they eventually came for him. The devs may not have planned for this but the way he behaved and the way the plot went I hold that John knew all along how it would end.
The entire game Edgar Ross tells John that John won't survive. He hints to it many many times. I mean the fact he playfully keeps saying this will be johns last mission and he can go back and live happily ever after should of been clues.
The ending of the mass effect trilogy was a kinda crushing. Ignore the bullcrap around gamer rage, just the knowledge it was done after hundreds of hours made me get a little bit motional. A bit like watching the last ever episode of your favourite show.
I haven’t played nearly as many games as everyone else in the comments, but Halo: Reach was bittersweet. Sure, you give the Pillar of Autumn time to escape so Chief can finish the fight, but seeing “Objective: Survive” and knowing that Noble 6 is doomed still gets me.
rdr1 always hit hard because you went on a journey with a guy who fought the world to get his family back and in the end gave everything for there safety. jon doesnt get the happy ending and it hurt lol.
Same with RDR2, all that time spent on Arthur’s redemption arc, just to have it all end to repay his karmic debt and give John a chance to be the family man he deserved to be 😓
I mean, I don't know if we can expect Rockstar to make a Red Dead Redemption that actually has a good ending, or where it doesn't pay out for them. I think that's just kind of part of the name. Red for the blood, Dead for the ending, but a good or bad Redemption based on your actions.
Bioshock Infinite was so impactful for me, I've only played it once. Not because the game was bad; it's amazing. The gameplay and atmosphere is very good, but the story is just so...deep.
Braid. I remember playing that game just enjoying the fun platforming and puzzles, then at the end got blindsided like being hit by a ton of bricks. One of the top gaming moments for me.
Red Dead Redemption’s ending still hits like a ton of bricks. I read it as there’s no real way of escaping your past, you have to pay one way or another.
That's why it didn't come as a surprise to me at all. The fact that there is no redemption is the theme of the game. I'm just surprised that anyone was surprised. 😂
Halo 3, Johnson and Miranda dying, Chief lost in space and everyone on Earth holding a memorial for the fallen, backed by that hauntingly beautiful music was incredibly sad
Conker's Bad Fur Day absolutely deserves to be on a list like this. It starts with a fourth wall breaking power fantasy that parodies Alien and The Matrix, and then reality sets in and it hits *hard*.
@@RRM693It has a downer ending, the original idea was conker would shoot himself at the end after looking in the mirror. That's obviously too dark so the game just ends with conker depressed
God, I can't ever recall hating an ending more than that one. It was so out of character for both and utterly forced, both me and my husbands basically put our controllers down afterwards and went "what the hell was THAT?"
@@chrishood8522 Because the ending didn't really come out of nowhere as was the topic of the list, the Fall of Reach had been canon for almost a decade at that point. Yeah, the game retconned a lot of it but still, longtime fans went into it knowing there wasn't gonna be a happy ending
That was Final Fantasy X for me. Looking back I probably could have figured out what was going to happen sooner, but as a dumb kid I didn't get it until it all wrapped up. First time I ever cried from a video game, shit changed me.
5:00 "we don't know why, it's never explained" actually it was explained, John and his family was the last of Dutch's gang, a gang that was hunted down for many many years and with them just only like 4 people to its name and while he did help the government, John is still by technically a criminal outlaw wanted for his past. The Pinkertons decided killing him and the entire family was easier than covering his reputation and existence, as with that one bullet per person it'd take, they all can be known as "heros" and paid ludicrous amounts of dollars for saying they "single handedly stopped the gang of murders", remember John wasn't ever said to have killed his friends, it was in document the Pinkertons did it. Also it was shown many many times they aren't trustworthy or going to keep many deals when half the game they're constantly changing conditions for his family's freedom and John's job as a clean up crew. They did it for nothing more than fame, money, and to tie loose ends as they were the only ones to know the truth. That's all not including what later on rd2 would show, but since it wasn't made yet I'm only talking about what the first game said
The ending to the first fallout fits this category for me, after all that work and blood put into saving your home, the overseer says that if people find out you live there it puts the safety of the vault at risk, so you’re left to just wander the wasteland until you found Arroyo and die. Very grim but it fits the fallout narrative.
oh man Resistance was something played those games with my Mom and siblings and it was my Cod before there was cod nowadays I still havent found anything with that particular vibe the chimera just Hit different
So glad i grew up playing nier my dad always had a good eye for odd games :). He has had a stroke and isnt himself so seeing games he picked up in my childhood pop up on these lists makes him proud , bloodrayne 2 shadow of the colssus time spliter 2 etc man had a good eye miss gaming with him
I'm pretty sure in Red Dead Redemption that Ross basically *needed* to take out the entire Van Der Linde Gang. John was the only one with a family so he used them to force John to take out everyone else, then killed John to tie up the last loose end. Can't have it leaking that the Pinkertons/FBI took a reformed man's family hostage, then forced him to hunt down all his friends under threat of his family being killed. The people would go crazy.
And they cleaned up those loose ends so no one tells by letting those who got kidnapped live at the end of the day? The idea would be good, if it wasn't so flawed.
LOU1 is the first that comes to mind. You would expect an ending where either the missions fails but they find peace elsewhere, or they find a cure and hope is restored. Needless to say that "lovable main character goes in a murder spree of the last hope for humankind" wasn't what I was expecting. No way that the friendship could even be the same again.
My only problem with the ending to Bayonetta 3 was that it left us with the most unlikable character left. I can only pray that the next game just drops Viola all together
I always thought the attack at the end of RDR1 was pretty much predictable. Agent Ross has been taking advantage of John, and ends up killing him once everything is accomplished. A very typical, cliché villain move, isn't it? However still did I not expect John to actually get killed 😢
That doesn't fit the subject of the video, though. The Fall of Reach novel was released before the first game so we already knew what happened to it. A last stand would be a fitting situation for that.
Farcry 5's misery does end there. In Farcry 5 New Dawn your character from Farcry 5 has been brainwashed by Joseph and serves him. He's also severely depressed.
The ending you unlock through playing Phantom Liberty is pretty devestating, but a much more fitting conclusion to the game than any of the other endings in Cyberpunk 2077 imo
for me it’s Persona 3 the Persona series aren’t normally known for bleak endings/themes, but Persona 3 is just dark throughout and on my first playthrough I really didn’t expect… that ending
No way you show ending D in Nier talking about how that is the end, but Ending E quite literally exists right there. I won't spoil it because it is so worth it.
I played that part where you have to get through that building in CODMW on veteran, man it was a pain in the ass, there are hidden enemies everywhere...
Mafia 1 ending being tied to Mafia 2 ending made the endings hit harder damn Joe r.i.p and Tommy man the betrayal and him dieing nah man get me some tissues🥲
The first time I played Modern Warfare that ending happened so fast I didn’t even register at first that Gaz died. It was only on a second playthrough I started to clue in. I guess that shows you how effectively they conveyed Soap’s disorientation.
10:50 I hope you actually played these games, because you make it sound like Hale just got infected when he has been infected since the first game. Even the game states this before you even start the final mission. This mission is iconic because it’s Nathan’s last mission no mater the outcome because the virus has progressed to the point of no return within him, the cutscene before the start of the mission Hale is told that he only has 3 hours before he succumbs to the chimeran virus. When Hale absorbed Daedalus he was still Hale, you could literally hear him talking to Capelli as he makes his way back to the shuttle. The reason why he because the way he was when Capelli shot him dead was because his time was up. The only thing about the ending that makes it devastating is the fact that destroying the chimeran flag ship created a wormhole which basically sealed humanity’s fate, dooming them all
Spec Ops: The Line also had one of the endings that came out of nowhere. You go fighting in a confused warzone where your allies are, for some reason, fighting against the civilians and you go help them. The entire game was a dark psychological experience where you lose everything to get to the main villain. And at the end, it basically tells you that everything that happened was nothing but hallucinations caused by PTSD from vietnam and that made you go against your entire team without properly communicating with them at all. It was probably the biggest plot twist that comes out of nowhere that the game subtly hints at but most don't connect the dots. An awesome game with an ending that made sense and came out of nowhere.
Doom 2016 was for me sad. You beat the Spider Mastermind but then you're transported back to Hayden, who's locked you to a chair with the Crucible, who then puts you back in stasis when admitting he's going to restart the experiments that caused the demon invasion in the first place. Felt like everything you did was all for nothing, even if you play as a badass. Also Soul Reaver 2, where Raziel falls into the trap, to become the ravenous soul devouring spirit in the Soul Reaver sword. Kain saves Raziel, but then it turns out Raziel can't save Janos which is necessary to save himself. Then it turns out Raziel is still destined to become the insane spirit of the Soul Reaver no matter what he does.
You reached back in time on me with Soul Reaver! Loved that series and the Legacy of Kain. They need to bring them to current gen. as remake or reboot or whatever.
Well, Raziel becoming insane inside the Soul Reaver is the way things were. In the end of Defiance, he willingly sacrificed himself to purify the Blade and Kain, allowing Kain to finally see the Elder God. So that itself was a huge change to the beaten path. By accepting his fate and realizing his true purpose, the Soul Reaver becomes stronger than ever. He doesn't become insane by accepting it and sacrificing himself.
YES! Somebody else remembers those crazy hilarious cheats. I wish they made a return. Slo-mo button with the tyre mode was some of the most outrageous fun I've ever had gaming! That bit where the young dude offs himself on the roof and Price and co are all like "NOOOOOOOO!!" then a few milliseconds later; he explodes into tyres 🤣🤣🤣
The Forest's ending came out of nowhere for me cause I expected a fun multiplayer survival horror indie game, I didn't actually expect a missing kid mystery that will actually make sense of all the seemingly random weird stuff. You dig deep into this game in a figurative and literal sense. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets, but then you actually realize that there is a center to that maze and it's super satisfying once you get to the end of it. Can't recommend it enough even for people like me, who aren't fans of horror games.
Oh, and one of the additionally messed up things in FC5 or well, follow up game, Junior Deputy is back in FC New Dawn as a completely different and broken character - The Judge. So this poor dude sat in a bunker with Joseph Seed for like 20 years and brainwashed beyond limits... Made me sad
Me too.... Even pre extended ending cinematics...It was the ending I expected in a sense and it made perfect sense to me to pick either of the three options depending on how you played the game... When I found out a lot of people disliked it..I was seriously scratching my head....like did I get a different ending or something?! XD But yeah...different flavours for different folks I'd say :p
I was so done with ME3 by the end... I just wanted it to end, did the chore of talking to all those characters, I was way past my bedtime and soo freaking tired... Met that child I disliked from the very first encounter, picked my color and was glad I could turn everything off and just sleep.
For number 8, if you've watched Godfather movies, you know that dons get shot, traitors get shot, and those who survive, their children got shot. If you've watched any gangster movies before that, you know that crimes don't pay, and criminals are mostly maniacs and cowards, seldom good men trapped in bad situations.
it was nice to see a list like this without it on it... not commenting on whether it deserves to be (it is on my pile of shame) but it is on every list like this.
Final Fantasy X, it gives you hints, but it can still get you... Also Blasphemous does a similar thing. Now that I think about it... a lot of games don't have happy endings
Same here. Made that game one of my favorites. That ending really sticks with you. All that hard work for Hope County and boom, it’s gone. Also frighteningly realistic.
@@garrusvakarian6322 beautifully said- And one of my favorite things is how they tell you throughout the game everything that is going to happen- ESPECIALLY with the final speeches of each Seed character. They even tell you directly, "Have you thought for a second he might be right?!" But throughout the ENTIRETY of the game, it doesn't cross your mind ONCE that he's anything other than a rambling lunatic, even though they are spoon-feeding you what happens in the ending as you go along. Brilliant.
Honestly my favorite Far Cry game, hands down. It was risky to make the setting in the US and to give it such an ending. I think their biggest mistake was to make New Dawn a standalone game and not a DLC to 5 as well as the backstory for the twins and why they became the protagonists. Otherwise the premise of the two games was awesome.
@@thedarkprinceofawsom exactly the ending cannot be considered like a plot twist because the man telling the whole damn time it was going to happen 😂😂😂 i fckn love it lol
Far Cry 5 for me. I love that game. The story, setting, music, and companions really worked for me. The ending was the cherry on top. Unexpected to say the least. Great game.
The ending to me ruined the entire game. I can never go back to it. I loved it to that moment. I know Far Cry has dark endings, I know their goal is to shock and I get all of it. But to have the torturer, murderer and psychotic cult leader be right? Nah, it was shocking just for the sake of being shocking for me. I don't need a fa la la la la la happy ending. But I want it to make sense. Glad you liked it though.
That Red Dead Redemption ending is the same as Zack's last stand in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7. Too bad he didn't also get an emotional song to go out on 😅 "Boy, oh boy...the price of freedom is steep."
Are we for real not going to talk about MGS3? That whole ending battle had me not wanting to fight. So devastating. Either way, love the video, thanks y’all!
I hate COD as an adult but WOW I remember MW1&2 campaigns feeling so insane that I wanted the games as a teen just cause I knew the campaigns would be that good. Looking back, it’s crazy they did that in the 2007!
That little cartoon one in the middle with the character saying “I won’t go” with that look and the other character trying to hold on. I felt that I’ll admit it that made me sad. Never even played that game.
I remember seeing people debate if the story in Bayonetta 3 was good or bad. It was so hard for me to avoid spoilers until I finished it. For me, it might not be the ending I wanted but it worked and was handled very well.
This ending shocked me as a kid but I found out years (decades) later that I misinterpreted it. The ending to Phantasy Star 2, so it ends with you having saved your solar system (not Earths system) but your characters get surrounded by high tech humans (turn out to be earthlings trying to invade your system), your characters say one final catchphrase and it fades to black. Now I thought this was a last stand and all your characters get killed, having saved their solar system but don't get to enjoy it. But apparently the consensus is the game just has no ending, that the fade to black is incomplete, a development flaw. I played this game as a young kid in '92 or '93 and I didn't find out about this other idea about the ending until just a few years ago. Now I think on it, I guess it's shocking either way.
Cyberpunk's endings, including the Phantom Liberty DLC, are devastating as well. I don't know which game on the list I would replace to add Cyberpunk, but it's definitely in my TOP 10.
I wasn't expecting any of these. My mind flashed towards games like Soul Reaver 2 (It was so sudden, time itself struggled to comprehend it), Chrono Cross (maybe in another life, kid), RDR2 (You see that coming though so RDR1 wins) or Cyberpunk 2077, (All options are a stage performance featuring the stages of grief as acting cast)
The biggest twist ending thing in a game I ever experienced was Free Radical’s “Second Sight” Check it out sometime, it like makes the entire game a weird thought experiment, as the whole game is about you waking up with pyschic abilities, and amnesia after a failed military operation. The entire game is like, flashbacks and stuff that affect what how things progress, or so you think. Then the big twist happens and it was such a unique twist at the time, to me.
The Dead Space one, although it may be bad (have not played the game), seems so fitting for the name that it is almost frightening. Also - honorary mention imo -, since he also had a dlc there, I would say Sam's Story from Metro Exodus was also tragic. Maybe it was not that surprising, but sad nonetheless.
Cod 4 which was my first cod as a kid made me cry at the ending. Idk why I connected to the cast so deeply but that shit literally had me bawling my eyes out, same with red dead
Spoiler Alert in some of these Titles
0:31 Number 10 Call of Duty 4
3:24 Number 9 Red Dead Redemption
7:08 Number 8 Mafia
9:30 Number 7 Resistance 2
11:50 Number 6 Dead Space 3
14:36 Number 5 klonoa
17:25 Number 4 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
19:21 Number 3 Bayonetta 3
22:59 Number 2 Far Cry 5
24:36 Number 1 Nier
27:58 Bonus Doom
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@@thepaperninja3123 i hope it helped
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Thank you, wanted to make sure that there wasn't a game that I am amid and have it spoiled.
Fun fact for Mafia, in Mafia 2, one of the missions has you play out the murder of Angelo, but this time you're his killers
and Tommy only needed to say "no", because obviously he was under witness protection and changed his last name long time ago, haha
Mafia II (Goodfellas - Ain't nothing we could do, and that's that.) Greaseball Stuff 😮
8:44 just noticed its literally the guys from 2 in the cutscene
@@JacobLukasiewicz Yeah, granted to me, its possible he knew, or suspected, one day is past would catch up to him. You could say he was in shock or the like, but the fact he never really says anything when he notices the shotgun....
@@JacobLukasiewiczThat wasn’t going to change anything, the asking his name was just a courtesy, they already knew who he was and had his photo. He was dead the moment they got there.
The original MW ending still hits hard. All your comrades die and as you’re airlifted away, you think Price is dead because the guy giving CPR is freaking out. His reveal in Gulag in MW2 was such a well done surprise. One of the rare times I cared about the characters in a CoD game
Honestly its only outdone by Infinite Warfare with regards to its characters. The characters in MW were awesome. The characters in Infinite Warefare felt *real*.
I mean...
Consider it like that: If your superior tells you that you have to make a sequel that was never planned because you had to beg to even make a modern shooter and are certain that you'll not be doing it again but it sold extremely well and they get greedy, then yeah, you bring back one of the liked people where you don't know if they died on what was supposed to be the ending.
@@MeTaLISaWeSoMe95 COD:IW is such a great story
Shadow of The Colossus and MGS 3 got me really emotional. Thanks Jake and GR crew❤
Oh geez, MGS3. The end after finding out that the Boss wasn't a traitor after all, heavy stuff!
Seconded, I HATED the Shadow of the Colossus ended
It's not an ending if my memory serves me right but in Walking Dead Season 1, Lee dying still makes me sad.
it kinda is. cause after him its basically an epilogue. if he added red dead, you can add walking dead,
It is the ending of the first game, but also one that I wouldn't count as coming out of nowhere. In the walking dead franchise, you kinda expect major character deaths all the time, especially during a season finale. Walking Dead doesn't really do good endings, the closest to a good ending you get is winning against the villain of the season and being safe-ish for now (but still being in a world where doom looms at every corner with no perspective of that ever going to change).
As a father It hit hard. Poor clem. R.i.p Lee.
Kind of is the ending. You don't play as Clem for long before the credits roll on Season 1.
Killing Lee was the beginning of the end for Telltale. 😢
Red Dead foreshadowed John Marston’s ending plentifully before the final mission. Many of the characters in the game (main, side, NPC) talk about their distrust and displeasure in the American government. Edgar Ross and his sidekick also talk about their backstabbing several criminals they’ve gone after. There’s NO way anyone would trust them whole-heartedly.
Marston doesn't. John never trusted them fully and always figured it'd come to the ending he faced. Marston himself was a means of backstabbing the entire gang and he knew it, but he went through with it to help his family and buy some time with them before they eventually came for him. The devs may not have planned for this but the way he behaved and the way the plot went I hold that John knew all along how it would end.
Even the devil himself shows up to talk to John on a couple occasions
The entire game Edgar Ross tells John that John won't survive. He hints to it many many times. I mean the fact he playfully keeps saying this will be johns last mission and he can go back and live happily ever after should of been clues.
Hey Jake! RDR2 made me break down in tears as a grown man. Favorite game ever.
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The ending of the mass effect trilogy was a kinda crushing. Ignore the bullcrap around gamer rage, just the knowledge it was done after hundreds of hours made me get a little bit motional. A bit like watching the last ever episode of your favourite show.
SAME, say less 😌😎👌
I sobbed like a baby as well.
I haven’t played nearly as many games as everyone else in the comments, but Halo: Reach was bittersweet. Sure, you give the Pillar of Autumn time to escape so Chief can finish the fight, but seeing “Objective: Survive” and knowing that Noble 6 is doomed still gets me.
I was thinking the exact same game :-)
rdr1 always hit hard because you went on a journey with a guy who fought the world to get his family back and in the end gave everything for there safety. jon doesnt get the happy ending and it hurt lol.
Same with RDR2, all that time spent on Arthur’s redemption arc, just to have it all end to repay his karmic debt and give John a chance to be the family man he deserved to be 😓
I mean, I don't know if we can expect Rockstar to make a Red Dead Redemption that actually has a good ending, or where it doesn't pay out for them. I think that's just kind of part of the name. Red for the blood, Dead for the ending, but a good or bad Redemption based on your actions.
I was legit depressed for a few days after finishing RDR in 2010
@@osonoticed yeah i love how the did the prologue on tht 1 as well! such good games.
@@osonoticedwhy did Arthur's horse have to die!? I cried watching that. When Arthur thanks him, I still get choked up..
BioShock 2's ending was always shocking, Especially when you sacrifice yourself for Eleanor. Each ending is impactful
Yes, everything 😢😭😭
Right??
I bawled like a silly baby at the end of Bioshock 2. I may have been a 16 year old girl but in that moment, I was a FATHER
BioShock infinite: Burial at the sea ending was even sadder.
Bioshock Infinite was so impactful for me, I've only played it once. Not because the game was bad; it's amazing. The gameplay and atmosphere is very good, but the story is just so...deep.
A Plague Tale: Requiem had me, a grown man in tears, sitting through the entire credits while giving the devs an ovation.
That game is surprising and so dark and sad and amazing and all at once.
@@MrSpartan993I agree mate I’ve played it 5 times I love the game that much probably a bit sad but oh well I like the game
Cringe
I literally just commented the same thing. It was just so sudden. I was speechless. One of the best endings to a game I’ve ever experienced.
@@pineapple999100grow up lol
Braid. I remember playing that game just enjoying the fun platforming and puzzles, then at the end got blindsided like being hit by a ton of bricks. One of the top gaming moments for me.
Red Dead Redemption’s ending still hits like a ton of bricks. I read it as there’s no real way of escaping your past, you have to pay one way or another.
*tears* to this DAY still hits me hard
That's why it didn't come as a surprise to me at all. The fact that there is no redemption is the theme of the game. I'm just surprised that anyone was surprised. 😂
Halo 3, Johnson and Miranda dying, Chief lost in space and everyone on Earth holding a memorial for the fallen, backed by that hauntingly beautiful music was incredibly sad
Conker's Bad Fur Day absolutely deserves to be on a list like this. It starts with a fourth wall breaking power fantasy that parodies Alien and The Matrix, and then reality sets in and it hits *hard*.
Conker has an emotional ending?
@@RRM693It has a downer ending, the original idea was conker would shoot himself at the end after looking in the mirror. That's obviously too dark so the game just ends with conker depressed
The ending to A Way Out was a real shock. Especially since you’re playing the whole time co-op with a friend. Iykyk.
God, I can't ever recall hating an ending more than that one. It was so out of character for both and utterly forced, both me and my husbands basically put our controllers down afterwards and went "what the hell was THAT?"
How the ending of Ghost of Tsushima didn't make this list baffles me. Great list, but that ending floored me for hours.
Thanks for pointing that out. We could come back with a part 2 and feature some more devastating endings.
How Halo: Reach didnt make the list confuses me....
@@chrishood8522 amen man
@@chrishood8522 Because the ending didn't really come out of nowhere as was the topic of the list, the Fall of Reach had been canon for almost a decade at that point. Yeah, the game retconned a lot of it but still, longtime fans went into it knowing there wasn't gonna be a happy ending
Nearly said the same thing. You beat me to it @lupercal1984
Klonoa's ending traumatized me as a kid. Beautiful and sad, still love it to this day.
bruh the voice acting is still traumatizing me. hits u right in the feels!
Absolutely. Thanks for watching :)
That was Final Fantasy X for me. Looking back I probably could have figured out what was going to happen sooner, but as a dumb kid I didn't get it until it all wrapped up. First time I ever cried from a video game, shit changed me.
I remember seeing 'Akira' as a kid...that messed me up for awhile, too. I thought, "OH! CARTOONS!" Right at the scene where Tetsuo transforms... 🤯
5:00 "we don't know why, it's never explained" actually it was explained, John and his family was the last of Dutch's gang, a gang that was hunted down for many many years and with them just only like 4 people to its name and while he did help the government, John is still by technically a criminal outlaw wanted for his past. The Pinkertons decided killing him and the entire family was easier than covering his reputation and existence, as with that one bullet per person it'd take, they all can be known as "heros" and paid ludicrous amounts of dollars for saying they "single handedly stopped the gang of murders", remember John wasn't ever said to have killed his friends, it was in document the Pinkertons did it. Also it was shown many many times they aren't trustworthy or going to keep many deals when half the game they're constantly changing conditions for his family's freedom and John's job as a clean up crew. They did it for nothing more than fame, money, and to tie loose ends as they were the only ones to know the truth. That's all not including what later on rd2 would show, but since it wasn't made yet I'm only talking about what the first game said
I always interpreted it as “loose ends”.
I came to the comments to make this comment, I didn't finish the segment yet too. Also to sum it up was just loose ends but it was deeper like this
When I played Mafia, I was too young to understand what was going on, but looking back, damn, it was good storytelling.
The ending to the first fallout fits this category for me, after all that work and blood put into saving your home, the overseer says that if people find out you live there it puts the safety of the vault at risk, so you’re left to just wander the wasteland until you found Arroyo and die. Very grim but it fits the fallout narrative.
FEAR 2, without spoiling too much. Getting ***** while strapped to a chair, while fighting inner demons. That came out of no-where.
I want a new FEAR game not gonna lie.
At least the MC get to bang the main villain.
I see what you did there
With Mafia the fact that it is you from Mafia 2 pulling the trigger.
oh man Resistance was something played those games with my Mom and siblings and it was my Cod before there was cod nowadays I still havent found anything with that particular vibe the chimera just Hit different
The end of Metal Gear Solid 3 will always be a life changer for me...
Love this channel, never been here this early.
FABLE 2 (Have to choose only 1 to live to continue the end game - your Dog Companion, Wife and Kids or Civilization) 😮
Or just keep all the money, if you're an awful person.
Save the dog - easy choice.
I stopped playing for a day to think about it. I WRONGLY chose my wife and kids. I should have kept my dog. (I got him back later.) 😢
So glad i grew up playing nier my dad always had a good eye for odd games :). He has had a stroke and isnt himself so seeing games he picked up in my childhood pop up on these lists makes him proud , bloodrayne 2 shadow of the colssus time spliter 2 etc man had a good eye miss gaming with him
I'm pretty sure in Red Dead Redemption that Ross basically *needed* to take out the entire Van Der Linde Gang. John was the only one with a family so he used them to force John to take out everyone else, then killed John to tie up the last loose end. Can't have it leaking that the Pinkertons/FBI took a reformed man's family hostage, then forced him to hunt down all his friends under threat of his family being killed. The people would go crazy.
And they cleaned up those loose ends so no one tells by letting those who got kidnapped live at the end of the day?
The idea would be good, if it wasn't so flawed.
LOU1 is the first that comes to mind. You would expect an ending where either the missions fails but they find peace elsewhere, or they find a cure and hope is restored. Needless to say that "lovable main character goes in a murder spree of the last hope for humankind" wasn't what I was expecting. No way that the friendship could even be the same again.
Most heavy hearted "okay" of all time
My only problem with the ending to Bayonetta 3 was that it left us with the most unlikable character left. I can only pray that the next game just drops Viola all together
Great video, one of the better ones in recent memory. You guys are killing it.
Hey we appreciate you! Thanks for watching :D
Surprised Mad Max didn't get a mention. Very under rated brilliant game and the end is proper grim.
I never thought I was going to see Klonoa on Gameranx.
That game has a few painful moments.
I always thought the attack at the end of RDR1 was pretty much predictable. Agent Ross has been taking advantage of John, and ends up killing him once everything is accomplished. A very typical, cliché villain move, isn't it?
However still did I not expect John to actually get killed 😢
Bayonetta 3's ending makes a lot more sense when you realize Kamiya likely already knew he was going to leave.
This really needed Halo Reach. Never forget Reach soldiers.
No Halo Reach is crazy, not even in the bonus.
That doesn't fit the subject of the video, though. The Fall of Reach novel was released before the first game so we already knew what happened to it. A last stand would be a fitting situation for that.
@had_fun_once and it was game world canon. NPCs mentioned the fall of reach iirc
Another great episode
Love Resistance 2 to this day.
One of my favorite shooters.
Even if it was lacking in certain ways.
Farcry 5's misery does end there. In Farcry 5 New Dawn your character from Farcry 5 has been brainwashed by Joseph and serves him. He's also severely depressed.
lot of crazy endings.
The ending you unlock through playing Phantom Liberty is pretty devestating, but a much more fitting conclusion to the game than any of the other endings in Cyberpunk 2077 imo
Yo bro what about Plague Tale Requiem?
Always a chance we’ll feature it in a part 2 :)
for me it’s Persona 3
the Persona series aren’t normally known for bleak endings/themes, but Persona 3 is just dark throughout and on my first playthrough I really didn’t expect… that ending
No way you show ending D in Nier talking about how that is the end, but Ending E quite literally exists right there. I won't spoil it because it is so worth it.
Yeah I thought for sure it would be ending E
I played that part where you have to get through that building in CODMW on veteran, man it was a pain in the ass, there are hidden enemies everywhere...
Mafia 1 ending being tied to Mafia 2 ending made the endings hit harder damn Joe r.i.p and Tommy man the betrayal and him dieing nah man get me some tissues🥲
Vito got to survive at least
The first time I played Modern Warfare that ending happened so fast I didn’t even register at first that Gaz died. It was only on a second playthrough I started to clue in. I guess that shows you how effectively they conveyed Soap’s disorientation.
Great 📹 video, have a good week everyone 😎✌️
The ending of Plague Tale Requiem floored me. I still think about it from time to time 😢
10:50 I hope you actually played these games, because you make it sound like Hale just got infected when he has been infected since the first game. Even the game states this before you even start the final mission. This mission is iconic because it’s Nathan’s last mission no mater the outcome because the virus has progressed to the point of no return within him, the cutscene before the start of the mission Hale is told that he only has 3 hours before he succumbs to the chimeran virus. When Hale absorbed Daedalus he was still Hale, you could literally hear him talking to Capelli as he makes his way back to the shuttle. The reason why he because the way he was when Capelli shot him dead was because his time was up. The only thing about the ending that makes it devastating is the fact that destroying the chimeran flag ship created a wormhole which basically sealed humanity’s fate, dooming them all
Spec Ops: The Line also had one of the endings that came out of nowhere. You go fighting in a confused warzone where your allies are, for some reason, fighting against the civilians and you go help them. The entire game was a dark psychological experience where you lose everything to get to the main villain. And at the end, it basically tells you that everything that happened was nothing but hallucinations caused by PTSD from vietnam and that made you go against your entire team without properly communicating with them at all. It was probably the biggest plot twist that comes out of nowhere that the game subtly hints at but most don't connect the dots. An awesome game with an ending that made sense and came out of nowhere.
Doom 2016 was for me sad. You beat the Spider Mastermind but then you're transported back to Hayden, who's locked you to a chair with the Crucible, who then puts you back in stasis when admitting he's going to restart the experiments that caused the demon invasion in the first place. Felt like everything you did was all for nothing, even if you play as a badass.
Also Soul Reaver 2, where Raziel falls into the trap, to become the ravenous soul devouring spirit in the Soul Reaver sword. Kain saves Raziel, but then it turns out Raziel can't save Janos which is necessary to save himself. Then it turns out Raziel is still destined to become the insane spirit of the Soul Reaver no matter what he does.
You reached back in time on me with Soul Reaver! Loved that series and the Legacy of Kain. They need to bring them to current gen. as remake or reboot or whatever.
Well, Raziel becoming insane inside the Soul Reaver is the way things were. In the end of Defiance, he willingly sacrificed himself to purify the Blade and Kain, allowing Kain to finally see the Elder God. So that itself was a huge change to the beaten path. By accepting his fate and realizing his true purpose, the Soul Reaver becomes stronger than ever. He doesn't become insane by accepting it and sacrificing himself.
Amazing video!
Yeah Jake was particularly good in this vid.
I may have cried at the end of cod4, but then nearly cried of laughter when I replayed it with the tyre cheat on
YES! Somebody else remembers those crazy hilarious cheats. I wish they made a return. Slo-mo button with the tyre mode was some of the most outrageous fun I've ever had gaming!
That bit where the young dude offs himself on the roof and Price and co are all like "NOOOOOOOO!!" then a few milliseconds later; he explodes into tyres 🤣🤣🤣
i love your channel
Modern Warfare definitely has a special place in my heart for an ending. 🤙
The Forest's ending came out of nowhere for me cause I expected a fun multiplayer survival horror indie game, I didn't actually expect a missing kid mystery that will actually make sense of all the seemingly random weird stuff. You dig deep into this game in a figurative and literal sense. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets, but then you actually realize that there is a center to that maze and it's super satisfying once you get to the end of it. Can't recommend it enough even for people like me, who aren't fans of horror games.
Far Cry 5 was crazy good
My favorite far cry
@@Stinkmean which region
Oh, and one of the additionally messed up things in FC5 or well, follow up game, Junior Deputy is back in FC New Dawn as a completely different and broken character - The Judge.
So this poor dude sat in a bunker with Joseph Seed for like 20 years and brainwashed beyond limits... Made me sad
@@Stinkmean its a toss up between 5 and 3 for me 5 was so good
This was very very good sirs. Great topic. That Klonka ending was nuts
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Mafia ending is definition of I'll wait as long as i have to
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So glad that you brought Resistance into this list. I was about to say that if it's not in here, you must have missed it. 😢
Mass Effect 3 😅 hot take i liked the ending 🫣
Me too....
Even pre extended ending cinematics...It was the ending I expected in a sense and it made perfect sense to me to pick either of the three options depending on how you played the game...
When I found out a lot of people disliked it..I was seriously scratching my head....like did I get a different ending or something?! XD
But yeah...different flavours for different folks I'd say :p
I was so done with ME3 by the end... I just wanted it to end, did the chore of talking to all those characters, I was way past my bedtime and soo freaking tired... Met that child I disliked from the very first encounter, picked my color and was glad I could turn everything off and just sleep.
You guys make the best content on the TH-cam’s!
17:18 .....bro wtf. Why would they do that? Thats just evil. 😂
For number 8, if you've watched Godfather movies, you know that dons get shot, traitors get shot, and those who survive, their children got shot. If you've watched any gangster movies before that, you know that crimes don't pay, and criminals are mostly maniacs and cowards, seldom good men trapped in bad situations.
How onn earth Spec Ops The Line isnt on this list blows my mind 😂
Played it 2 months ago and i was speechless. What a great game and i never felt so depressed the last 25% of the game
So at first they were send to get a dude but the dude was in his head?
it was nice to see a list like this without it on it... not commenting on whether it deserves to be (it is on my pile of shame) but it is on every list like this.
Final Fantasy X, it gives you hints, but it can still get you... Also Blasphemous does a similar thing. Now that I think about it... a lot of games don't have happy endings
The shock factor of Far Cry 5 and how much they foreshadow it throughout the game makes it one of my favorite endings of all time personally
Same here. Made that game one of my favorites. That ending really sticks with you. All that hard work for Hope County and boom, it’s gone. Also frighteningly realistic.
@@garrusvakarian6322 beautifully said- And one of my favorite things is how they tell you throughout the game everything that is going to happen- ESPECIALLY with the final speeches of each Seed character. They even tell you directly, "Have you thought for a second he might be right?!" But throughout the ENTIRETY of the game, it doesn't cross your mind ONCE that he's anything other than a rambling lunatic, even though they are spoon-feeding you what happens in the ending as you go along. Brilliant.
Honestly my favorite Far Cry game, hands down. It was risky to make the setting in the US and to give it such an ending. I think their biggest mistake was to make New Dawn a standalone game and not a DLC to 5 as well as the backstory for the twins and why they became the protagonists. Otherwise the premise of the two games was awesome.
@@thedarkprinceofawsom exactly the ending cannot be considered like a plot twist because the man telling the whole damn time it was going to happen 😂😂😂 i fckn love it lol
I love these 20minutes+ videos
Far Cry 5 for me. I love that game. The story, setting, music, and companions really worked for me. The ending was the cherry on top. Unexpected to say the least. Great game.
Yeah that was a surprising one lol
The ending to me ruined the entire game. I can never go back to it. I loved it to that moment. I know Far Cry has dark endings, I know their goal is to shock and I get all of it. But to have the torturer, murderer and psychotic cult leader be right? Nah, it was shocking just for the sake of being shocking for me. I don't need a fa la la la la la happy ending. But I want it to make sense. Glad you liked it though.
That Red Dead Redemption ending is the same as Zack's last stand in Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7. Too bad he didn't also get an emotional song to go out on 😅
"Boy, oh boy...the price of freedom is steep."
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Are we for real not going to talk about MGS3? That whole ending battle had me not wanting to fight. So devastating. Either way, love the video, thanks y’all!
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Not exactly devastating but the twist at the end of "Prey" (also known as "Typhoon") is really cool!
cod iw's ending was brutal, seeing every character except salter and 1 random grunt die was sad.
peace to the fallen
What's reallt devastating to me is that Jake has yet to play Signalis, one of the best games of 2022
More people in general should give Signalis a go. Very underrated!
Another great video
I hate COD as an adult but WOW I remember MW1&2 campaigns feeling so insane that I wanted the games as a teen just cause I knew the campaigns would be that good. Looking back, it’s crazy they did that in the 2007!
Hi guys. Great video!… How about a top 10 games with the longest cutscenes…
Plague tale Requiem broke tf outta me
This was a great video
Shadow of the Colossus, i forgot about that...
That little cartoon one in the middle with the character saying “I won’t go” with that look and the other character trying to hold on. I felt that I’ll admit it that made me sad. Never even played that game.
I Remember the first time i finished red dead when it originally launched, ending actually got me emotional man. Such great writing.
Nothing can be more devastating than RDR 1 and 2, The Last of Us and Mass Effect 😢
I remember seeing people debate if the story in Bayonetta 3 was good or bad. It was so hard for me to avoid spoilers until I finished it. For me, it might not be the ending I wanted but it worked and was handled very well.
This ending shocked me as a kid but I found out years (decades) later that I misinterpreted it. The ending to Phantasy Star 2, so it ends with you having saved your solar system (not Earths system) but your characters get surrounded by high tech humans (turn out to be earthlings trying to invade your system), your characters say one final catchphrase and it fades to black. Now I thought this was a last stand and all your characters get killed, having saved their solar system but don't get to enjoy it. But apparently the consensus is the game just has no ending, that the fade to black is incomplete, a development flaw. I played this game as a young kid in '92 or '93 and I didn't find out about this other idea about the ending until just a few years ago.
Now I think on it, I guess it's shocking either way.
I was at my cousins house when I saw the last of us ending… never recovered from it
Klonoa, the cute platformer which not only had a downer of an ending, but also had some pretty harsh platforming. A great game.
Cyberpunk's endings, including the Phantom Liberty DLC, are devastating as well. I don't know which game on the list I would replace to add Cyberpunk, but it's definitely in my TOP 10.
the ending of "A way out" is pretty devastating and unexpected
I wasn't expecting any of these. My mind flashed towards games like Soul Reaver 2 (It was so sudden, time itself struggled to comprehend it), Chrono Cross (maybe in another life, kid), RDR2 (You see that coming though so RDR1 wins) or Cyberpunk 2077, (All options are a stage performance featuring the stages of grief as acting cast)
I really enjoyed this video
Three others that can be mentioned: The ending of Velvet Assassin, Dead Island and Serious Sam 3.
Thanks for shouting these out :)
The biggest twist ending thing in a game I ever experienced was Free Radical’s “Second Sight”
Check it out sometime, it like makes the entire game a weird thought experiment, as the whole game is about you waking up with pyschic abilities, and amnesia after a failed military operation. The entire game is like, flashbacks and stuff that affect what how things progress, or so you think. Then the big twist happens and it was such a unique twist at the time, to me.
The Dead Space one, although it may be bad (have not played the game), seems so fitting for the name that it is almost frightening.
Also - honorary mention imo -, since he also had a dlc there, I would say Sam's Story from Metro Exodus was also tragic. Maybe it was not that surprising, but sad nonetheless.
Cod 4 which was my first cod as a kid made me cry at the ending. Idk why I connected to the cast so deeply but that shit literally had me bawling my eyes out, same with red dead
You emotional players...
@@GTR24 .......I was like 9 at the time
@@r3ktfox146 😅 what's that game rated? T or M for mature?
@GTR24 I really wanted to play the game, my dad saw no problem at the time💀😂
@@r3ktfox146 your dad is a good man.. my dad tried to stop me from playing MGS1 because it was too suggestive for a 13 year old
I was quite young then, probably mid teens, but the ending of TimeSplitters 2 was unexpected and got me a little emotional.