@@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).
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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. 😂
@@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
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
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.
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.
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 😢
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.
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.
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🥲
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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 🤣🤣🤣
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.
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...
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.
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
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."
I like to interpret Klonoa as all having been a dream, and the ending being where it gets just lucid enough for him to be subconsciously aware he's dreaming, which is manifested as "I actually summoned you here to help", and then him waking up. I don't know how fair that is since I've actually not played the game in decades and that being a theory from when I was a kid though.
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.
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.
Resistance 2 was one of the greatest games ever made. The 8 person Spec ops where everyone had to work together, the campaign, and the Multiplayer. 60 vs 60 all out fight. It was my 1st platinum. And before all the hackers broke the leaderboards our clan was the top. RSA 4 life
Honestly, i would argue that Dead Space 3s ending is appropriate. It's pretty much hammered home that once convergence starts, you're pretty much screwed. You can't stop it. One species managed to delay it, but it wiped out themselves in the process. Worse still, all the Brethren Moons have awoken and got to Earth before you, ensuring convergence is finished. There was no hope after all. It's grim but very much appropriate for Dead Space.
Don't forget that in Nier you, as the player, turned out to also have doomed humanity as a whole, and just defeated the main enemy that actually had a cause you could sympathize with
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.
When you explore the Doom Slayer's castle fortress you can find both a portrait with the Doom Slayer holding his rabbit as well as a rabbit cage with rabbit food I believe. There is also a pose you can earn where you hold the rabbit.
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 ending of Far Cry V even was a double kick into the player's teeth. First of all, it was caused by something the player had _zero_ influence over and that was not even signalled. Suuure, it was kind of mentioned that the world was in turmoil, but that happened as a sidenote and was in no way, shape or form something that had any palpable impact on the game world as in 'the world is on the brink of total nuclear war, everyone's gone crazy and you can't expect help from outside because of this'. This is like fighing through a complete MW campaign, winning the bossfight and then losing, because some random drunk driver kills you with his car. And second, because it went against _everything_ you did in this game. They make a bogeyman out of that preacher, they make you hate him and what he does, they suggest that you must and _can_ defeat him and then... he wins and you completely and utterly lose and even get turned into a monster, into his personal executioner according to the DLC. This is even worse than what Rockstar did _twice_ in their RDR games, because all you did was for nothing.
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
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.
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.
The most devastating ending to me was probably the Infinite Warfare campaign. Just having everyone dying made me sad, and I liked all of the characters in the game which made it painful!
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
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.
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!
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
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. 😢
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
MVP
Thanks 👍
Thank you, wanted to make sure that there wasn't a game that I am amid and have it spoiled.
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.
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.
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
@@OsoFatRaps yeah i love how the did the prologue on tht 1 as well! such good games.
@@OsoFatRapswhy did Arthur's horse have to die!? I cried watching that. When Arthur thanks him, I still get choked up..
Hey Jake! RDR2 made me break down in tears as a grown man. Favorite game ever.
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@@gameranxTVhey
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 :-)
The ending to A Way Out was a real shock. Especially since you’re playing the whole time co-op with a friend. Iykyk.
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
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
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. 😂
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.
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
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.
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
When I played Mafia, I was too young to understand what was going on, but looking back, damn, it was good storytelling.
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.
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
With Mafia the fact that it is you from Mafia 2 pulling the trigger.
Surprised Mad Max didn't get a mention. Very under rated brilliant game and the end is proper grim.
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.) 😢
The end of Metal Gear Solid 3 will always be a life changer for me...
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 😢
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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 never thought I was going to see Klonoa on Gameranx.
That game has a few painful moments.
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 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
Love Resistance 2 to this day.
One of my favorite shooters.
Even if it was lacking in certain ways.
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 🤣🤣🤣
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.
17:18 .....bro wtf. Why would they do that? Thats just evil. 😂
Bayonetta 3's ending makes a lot more sense when you realize Kamiya likely already knew he was going to leave.
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...
lot of crazy endings.
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.
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!
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
Love this channel, never been here this early.
Three others that can be mentioned: The ending of Velvet Assassin, Dead Island and Serious Sam 3.
Thanks for shouting these out :)
The ending of Plague Tale Requiem floored me. I still think about it from time to time 😢
Mafia ending is definition of I'll wait as long as i have to
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Another great episode
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."
Yo bro what about Plague Tale Requiem?
Always a chance we’ll feature it in a part 2 :)
cod iw's ending was brutal, seeing every character except salter and 1 random grunt die was sad.
peace to the fallen
I like to interpret Klonoa as all having been a dream, and the ending being where it gets just lucid enough for him to be subconsciously aware he's dreaming, which is manifested as "I actually summoned you here to help", and then him waking up. I don't know how fair that is since I've actually not played the game in decades and that being a theory from when I was a kid though.
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. 😢
Modern Warfare definitely has a special place in my heart for an ending. 🤙
I was 13 when Links Awakening and that ending left me speechless. And as an adult, the end to "Lost Odyssey" wrecked me.
"They say one of them machines can turn men into angels". Gets me every time. R.I.P. John Marston
I was at my cousins house when I saw the last of us ending… never recovered from it
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.
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.
Plague tale Requiem broke tf outta me
I cry every single time John opens those barn doors. That scene has been fucking me up for 14 years 😂
Shadow of the Colossus, i forgot about that...
Resistance 2 was one of the greatest games ever made. The 8 person Spec ops where everyone had to work together, the campaign, and the Multiplayer. 60 vs 60 all out fight. It was my 1st platinum. And before all the hackers broke the leaderboards our clan was the top. RSA 4 life
Great video, one of the better ones in recent memory. You guys are killing it.
Hey we appreciate you! Thanks for watching :D
That shot of having like nine dead eye triggers on Edgar Ross is so relatable 😂
Honestly, i would argue that Dead Space 3s ending is appropriate. It's pretty much hammered home that once convergence starts, you're pretty much screwed. You can't stop it. One species managed to delay it, but it wiped out themselves in the process.
Worse still, all the Brethren Moons have awoken and got to Earth before you, ensuring convergence is finished. There was no hope after all. It's grim but very much appropriate for Dead Space.
FarCry 5 ending is no BS one of the craziest endings in videogame history 😂
The ending to Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core is one of the most devastating for me. I still cry just thinking about it to this day
Rime. That ending was a punch to the stomach. Spending dozens of hours with that character only to find out that...
Don't forget that in Nier you, as the player, turned out to also have doomed humanity as a whole, and just defeated the main enemy that actually had a cause you could sympathize with
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.
Mafia got me into gaming. Love that game.
That OG car race though xD (also the forced bad (in terms of his loyalty/survival) decisions MC makes during cutscenes felt...forced)
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.
Nothing can be more devastating than RDR 1 and 2, The Last of Us and Mass Effect 😢
Finding out the rookie from far cry 5 is a companion in far cry new dawn was an interesting twist on what Joseph did in that bunker
the ending of "A way out" is pretty devastating and unexpected
I was quite young then, probably mid teens, but the ending of TimeSplitters 2 was unexpected and got me a little emotional.
When you explore the Doom Slayer's castle fortress you can find both a portrait with the Doom Slayer holding his rabbit as well as a rabbit cage with rabbit food I believe. There is also a pose you can earn where you hold the rabbit.
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 ending of Far Cry V even was a double kick into the player's teeth. First of all, it was caused by something the player had _zero_ influence over and that was not even signalled. Suuure, it was kind of mentioned that the world was in turmoil, but that happened as a sidenote and was in no way, shape or form something that had any palpable impact on the game world as in 'the world is on the brink of total nuclear war, everyone's gone crazy and you can't expect help from outside because of this'. This is like fighing through a complete MW campaign, winning the bossfight and then losing, because some random drunk driver kills you with his car.
And second, because it went against _everything_ you did in this game. They make a bogeyman out of that preacher, they make you hate him and what he does, they suggest that you must and _can_ defeat him and then... he wins and you completely and utterly lose and even get turned into a monster, into his personal executioner according to the DLC. This is even worse than what Rockstar did _twice_ in their RDR games, because all you did was for nothing.
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
2:00 was funny. Dude is shooting at his own teammate.
Inscryption, and the Callisto Protocol DLC are also great additions for this list.
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.
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.
Personally, I thought the best part of both Red Dead Redemption games were the Marston Farm epilogue missions.
Great 📹 video, have a good week everyone 😎✌️
The most devastating ending to me was probably the Infinite Warfare campaign. Just having everyone dying made me sad, and I liked all of the characters in the game which made it painful!
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 Remember the first time i finished red dead when it originally launched, ending actually got me emotional man. Such great writing.
I loved Resistance 2’s ending. “Its been an honor sir.” So different! Loved Mafia’s ending too. Classic mob ending, man. I got whacked!!