10 Video Games That Ended in Disaster
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VOICE OVER: Riccardo Tucci
WRITTEN BY: Ty Richardson
These games left players in a state of despair as their respective worlds and characters came crumbling down. For this video, we're looking at a handful of games where everything...just...sucked! Our countdown includes “God of War III” (2010), “Mortal Kombat” (2011), “The Last of Us” (2013), “Red Dead Redemption 2” (2018), “Conker's Bad Fur Day” (2001) and more!
Script written by Ty Richardson
Welcome to MojoPlays, and these are 10 Times Video Games Ended in Disaster. For this video, we're looking at a handful of games where everything...just...sucked! These games left players in a state of despair as their respective worlds and characters came crumbling down. Oh, and in case it wasn't obvious, we ARE talking about endings, so here's a big SPOILER WARNING in case you haven't played these games yet.
Ah, yes, we had this ending replaying in our heads throughout 2018's "God of War". After several installments showing Kratos wreaking bloody havoc across all of Greece, "God of War III" brought his journey to a somber, crimson halt. Throughout the game, players witness Kratos causing natural disasters by killing various Greek gods. It isn't until after his destruction when the Ghost of Sparta finally forgives himself for murdering his family and realizes he's killed an entire pantheon. With the Blade of Olympus, Kratos tries to take his own life, but we all know what really happens after. (He goes to hang with the Nordic!) Still, when the game initially launched, we thought it was a melancholic end for a fierce warrior.
At the end of the final episode, Maxwell finds that the storm she’s been seeing in her visions has come to fruition and threatens Arcadia Bay. Players will have to make the difficult decision of either sacrificing Chloe thus saving the town, or keeping Chloe alive and let the storm destroy all of Arcadia Bay. Both choices end with everything being depressing. Sacrificing Chloe sees Max attending a funeral for her friend whereas sacrificing the town lets you watch the storm rip apart everyone’s homes. Whichever you choose, you’ll walk away feeling like everything is just terrible.
The commonly-dubbed "FNAF 6" would finally answer some questions that have been haunting the lore for years, but we weren't expecting it to be so disturbingly depressing. Well, assuming you've salvaged every animatronic throughout your uncanny business venture. Once you’ve finished all your chores for Saturday night and log off for Closing Time, Baby utters a few frightening lines of dialogue. It isn't long until she's interrupted by Cassette Man (aka William Afton's former business partner, Henry), who reveals that he has trapped everyone inside and set the place on fire. All the player can do is watch the temperature rise as Henry delivers his final message to his daughter before terminating the connection.
While “NieR: Automata” gives the player a wide assortment of endings to experience, the roughest is the one that occurs after completing 9S and 2B’s playthroughs. You’re constantly thrown into tragic situations such as Pascal asking you to kill him or erase his memory, or when 2B dies. Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, Ending D concludes with both A2 and 9S dying. It doesn’t matter which android you choose to play as - either one will lead you to an ending where both of them die. It’s a total bummer, man… thank goodness for ending E.
Given how this is a noir tale, we already had a feeling that the story of Cole Phelps was not going to end on a high note. However, we didn't think it was going to be as resentful as this. The case named “A Different Kind of War” sees Phelps drowning in the Los Angeles River Tunnels after taking down a former squad member and saving nightclub singer Elsa Lichtmann. A funeral is held for Phelps, but those in attendance are already aware of how corrupt the LAPD has become, and the service grows even more uncomfortable when Elsa walks out. Everyone knows the truth, yet no one addresses it. That’s some cold and depressing stuff!
You'd think a comedy game like "Conker's Bad Fur Day" would end things in a lighthearted and possibly drunk stupor, but alas, the waves of jokes and profanity only allowed the game to pull the wool over our eyes at the last minute. In the final moments of the game, Conker's girlfriend, Berri, is shot and killed by Weaso. During his fight with a Xenomorph, Conker gets the programmers to give him a katana to defeat the alien. He only realizes his folly after the fight, thinking he should have asked the programmers to revive Berri. Alas, Conker is forsaken by the devs and chooses to live his new life of royalty as a miserable drunkard.
The last couple of chapters in MK9 are long and painful as players get to witness their favorite combatants be easily murdered by Sindel. To make matters worse, we watch Liu Kang spiral out of control to the point where he questions Raiden and challenges him. As expected, this only results in the Shaolin monk’s death. While Raiden does emerge victorious in his fight against Shao Kahn, the cost was simply too great. Liu Kang’s dead, Kitana, Jade, Nightwolf - everyone’s dead! This was just too tragic and sudden for us to handle....
While we were heavily considering putting “The Last of Us - Part II” on here, the first game’s ending is just too somber and disturbingly ambiguous. After being taken by the Fireflies, Joel learns from Marlene that they’ll be cutting Ellie open, hoping to extract the infected part of her brain and develop a cure. Unfortunately, Joel isn’t willing to possibly save the world if it means losing another loved one. And so, he assaults the surgeon team before they can begin and takes out Marlene. In other words, Joel has chosen to continue a global catastrophe and let the world suffer longer.
It was one thing to force players watch Arthur slowly die from tuberculosis, but the last third of "Red Dead Redemption 2" is heart-wrenching to sit through. The gang begins to dissolve when Dutch starts thinking there is an informant amongst them, and their leader's arrogance shows when he leaves Arthur for dead during the Army payroll heist. What makes this even more upsetting is when you think back to what the gang was like before Dutch started getting paranoid. There was a sense of union and belonging, and now, it's been tainted with false accusations, paranoia, and betrayal. It doesn’t help that the one of the last things we see is John’s ranch from the first “Red Dead Redemption”, and we all know how well THAT ends!
Like some of the other games we’ve mentioned, “Spec Ops: The Line” holds multiple endings, but it wouldn’t have made this list if the ending wasn’t so damn defeating! Captain Martin Walker suffers from some pretty disturbing hallucinations throughout the game, and it’s these delusions that eventually lead to his downfall. After an intense fight with Colonel John Konrad, Walker finally sees that he has become the very threat he set out to stop. Whether you choose to have Walker end his life or not, it’s clear that nobody has won this war.
10 Times Video Games Ended in Disaster
Welcome to MojoPlays, and these are 10 Times Video Games Ended in Disaster. For this video, we're looking at a handful of games where everything...just...sucked! These games left players in a state of despair as their respective worlds and characters came crumbling down. Oh, and in case it wasn't obvious, we ARE talking about endings, so here's a big SPOILER WARNING in case you haven't played these games yet.
“God of War III” (2010)
Ah, yes, we had this ending replaying in our heads throughout 2018's "God of War". After several installments showing Kratos wreaking bloody havoc across all of Greece, "God of War III" brought his journey to a somber, crimson halt. Throughout the game, players witness Kratos causing natural disasters by killing various Greek gods. It isn't until after his destruction when the Ghost of Sparta finally forgives himself for murdering his family and realizes he's killed an entire pantheon. With the Blade of Olympus, Kratos tries to take his own life, but we all know what really happens after. (He goes to hang with the Nordic!) Still, when the game initially launched, we thought it was a melancholic end for a fierce warrior.
“Life Is Strange” (2015)
At the end of the final episode, Maxwell finds that the storm she’s been seeing in her visions has come to fruition and threatens Arcadia Bay. Players will have to make the difficult decision of either sacrificing Chloe thus saving the town, or keeping Chloe alive and let the storm destroy all of Arcadia Bay. Both choices end with everything being depressing. Sacrificing Chloe sees Max attending a funeral for her friend whereas sacrificing the town lets you watch the storm rip apart everyone’s homes. Whichever you choose, you’ll walk away feeling like everything is just terrible.
“Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator” (2017)
The commonly-dubbed "FNAF 6" would finally answer some questions that have been haunting the lore for years, but we weren't expecting it to be so disturbingly depressing. Well, assuming you've salvaged every animatronic throughout your uncanny business venture. Once you’ve finished all your chores for Saturday night and log off for Closing Time, Baby utters a few frightening lines of dialogue. It isn't long until she's interrupted by Cassette Man (aka William Afton's former business partner, Henry), who reveals that he has trapped everyone inside and set the place on fire. All the player can do is watch the temperature rise as Henry delivers his final message to his daughter before terminating the connection.
“Nier: Automata” (2017)
While “NieR: Automata” gives the player a wide assortment of endings to experience, the roughest is the one that occurs after completing 9S and 2B’s playthroughs. You’re constantly thrown into tragic situations such as Pascal asking you to kill him or erase his memory, or when 2B dies. Just when we thought things couldn’t get any worse, Ending D concludes with both A2 and 9S dying. It doesn’t matter which android you choose to play as - either one will lead you to an ending where both of them die. It’s a total bummer, man… thank goodness for ending E.
“L.A. Noire” (2011)
Given how this is a noir tale, we already had a feeling that the story of Cole Phelps was not going to end on a high note. However, we didn't think it was going to be as resentful as this. The case named “A Different Kind of War” sees Phelps drowning in the Los Angeles River Tunnels after taking down a former squad member and saving nightclub singer Elsa Lichtmann. A funeral is held for Phelps, but those in attendance are already aware of how corrupt the LAPD has become, and the service grows even more uncomfortable when Elsa walks out. Everyone knows the truth, yet no one addresses it. That’s some cold and depressing stuff!
“Conker’s Bad Fur Day” (2001)
You'd think a comedy game like "Conker's Bad Fur Day" would end things in a lighthearted and possibly drunk stupor, but alas, the waves of jokes and profanity only allowed the game to pull the wool over our eyes at the last minute. In the final moments of the game, Conker's girlfriend, Berri, is shot and killed by Weaso. During his fight with a Xenomorph, Conker gets the programmers to give him a katana to defeat the alien. He only realizes his folly after the fight, thinking he should have asked the programmers to revive Berri. Alas, Conker is forsaken by the devs and chooses to live his new life of royalty as a miserable drunkard.
“Mortal Kombat” (2011)
The last couple of chapters in MK9 are long and painful as players get to witness their favorite combatants be easily murdered by Sindel. To make matters worse, we watch Liu Kang spiral out of control to the point where he questions Raiden and challenges him. As expected, this only results in the Shaolin monk’s death. While Raiden does emerge victorious in his fight against Shao Kahn, the cost was simply too great. Liu Kang’s dead, Kitana, Jade, Nightwolf - everyone’s dead! This was just too tragic and sudden for us to handle....
“The Last of Us” (2013)
While we were heavily considering putting “The Last of Us - Part II” on here, the first game’s ending is just too somber and disturbingly ambiguous. After being taken by the Fireflies, Joel learns from Marlene that they’ll be cutting Ellie open, hoping to extract the infected part of her brain and develop a cure. Unfortunately, Joel isn’t willing to possibly save the world if it means losing another loved one. And so, he assaults the surgeon team before they can begin and takes out Marlene. In other words, Joel has chosen to continue a global catastrophe and let the world suffer longer.
“Red Dead Redemption 2” (2018)
It was one thing to force players watch Arthur slowly die from tuberculosis, but the last third of "Red Dead Redemption 2" is heart-wrenching to sit through. The gang begins to dissolve when Dutch starts thinking there is an informant amongst them, and their leader's arrogance shows when he leaves Arthur for dead during the Army payroll heist. What makes this even more upsetting is when you think back to what the gang was like before Dutch started getting paranoid. There was a sense of union and belonging, and now, it's been tainted with false accusations, paranoia, and betrayal. It doesn’t help that the one of the last things we see is John’s ranch from the first “Red Dead Redemption”, and we all know how well THAT ends!
“Spec Ops: The Line” (2012)
Like some of the other games we’ve mentioned, “Spec Ops: The Line” holds multiple endings, but it wouldn’t have made this list if the ending wasn’t so damn defeating! Captain Martin Walker suffers from some pretty disturbing hallucinations throughout the game, and it’s these delusions that eventually lead to his downfall. After an intense fight with Colonel John Konrad, Walker finally sees that he has become the very threat he set out to stop. Whether you choose to have Walker end his life or not, it’s clear that nobody has won this war.
