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No .. It is “only” the 2nd worst.

By far the worst imltho is the ending to Life is Strange, basically a this-was-all-a-dream-ending and undoing every single choice you had made in the game. In a game that is based around choices it can’t get any worse then that.

Any yes the ending of ME3 is not even in the same category as these.


Edit: Fortunately a game is more than its ending, and I enjoyed both MI2 and LiS despite their endings.

LiS ending isn’t “a dream ending”. You get to choose do you save the town or save Chloe.  It’s a choice of which you weight more, the lives of those you don’t know versus the one you do.

I think that you are missing my point.

[spoiler]If you choose to save the town, then you go right back to start, and everything that had happened in the game is undone. Effectively making it a this-was-all-a-dream-ending.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]If you choose to save Chloe, 99.9% of what had happened will or have already been undone. Effectively making it a this-was-allmost-all-a-dream-ending.[/spoiler]

The fact that the game ends with a binary choice, and all the rest of your choices doesn’t matter one bit, that is something I can accept, though I don’t like it.
The fact that 99.9 - 100% of everything in the game never actually happened, that is simply unacceptable in my book, and very poor writing.

If you save Chloe, the town is still in ruins, some people are dead, some alive, depending on what you did. Your numbers are a bit hyperbolic. You can’t erase some things you do. And think it this way, if you don’t save Chloe you are leaving a serial killer open to continue his business as well.

There’s a lot more in the ending you give it credit for.

No.

I think you are simply remembering things incorrectly, though I don’t blame you for it as it is extremely confusing to keep track of.

The serial killer will be caught regardless of what you do.
The only people that will live or die, depending on your actions is whoever you might be able to save during your run through town during the storm, everything else and everyone else you might or might not have saved, that have already been undone!

Try to go through all the different time-jumps and isolate the story parts that haven’t been undone before the very end (however concussing and difficult that might be), and you will notice that it is far less than 1% of the whole story that still stands at the end - and even that is only if you choose to save Chloe.

We might not be able to agree on this, and that is fine, but I still maintain that it is by far the worst ending I have ever seen in any kind of fiction.

I still like the rest of the game though.

I’d appreciate it if people would be considerate enough to put their GIANT SPOILERS of a game that is NOT mentioned in the title of this thread in SPOILER TAGS.

Sorry dumbeur, all the games mentioned her have already been discussed many times without spoiler tags in this forum, so I didn’t really think anyone still was unaware of the ending, and spoiler tags was needed.

Hell, Limbo of the Lost has pretty much turned into a meme

Iznogood - 22 September 2017 02:15 AM

Sorry dumbeur, all the games mentioned her have already been discussed many times without spoiler tags in this forum,

That is simply not true. We have never been in the habit of discussing endings of recent or fairly recent games without spoiler tags. Not even in a thread devoted to that particular game, let alone in a thread about a totally different game where people have no warning. Life is Strange was released in 2015, I’d call that fairly recent. Lots of people don’t play games the year they are released. Only a couple of weeks ago, someone started a thread asking for opinions and info about Life is Strange.

Dumbeur has played Life is Strange. I haven’t. And yes, you spoiled it for me, even though I stopped reading after that one sentence where you revealed the ending. There was no way I could have seen that coming.

so I didn’t really think anyone still was unaware of the ending, and spoiler tags was needed.

I would like to hear how other people feel about this.

Actually, the ending of Life is Strange gave me an entirely different feeling. I really don’t feel like everything was just rewinded to the beginning of the story, and that was it.

One of the first things that happened after Max got back to Arcadia Bay was Chloe’s death. The time-travel ability allowed Max to spend precious “bonus” time with someone who used to be very important in her life. Actually, I feel like the decision of letting Chloe go in the end (which is the canon ending, I guess), makes all of that “borrowed” time so much more precious and important. For me, this was one of the key things about Life is Strange, so I’m fine with the direction they have taken towards the end.

This even had an effect on me when I played the first episode of Before the Storm a few nights ago. The snapshots in time of Chloe and Rachel made me feel even more melancholic since I knew that both of them would be dead just a few years later. (at least according to what I think of as the canon version of season 1)

Karlok - 22 September 2017 04:02 AM

I would like to hear how other people feel about this.

I’m with Karlok on this. I haven’t played LiS yet (along with many other games of course) and I very much doubt if I, or Karlok, are the only ones. As a rule of thumb I’d suggest, when discussing games, only post openly what you’d reasonably expect to read in a review and everything else is covered by spoiler tags. It takes no real effort to do this and makes sure that the game(s) isn’t ruined for others without making the discussion pointless.