Today’s WTF: Black Ops Voted to Have Best Ending Ever

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1. This is why I don’t listen to mainstream media for video game stuff. I loved Black Ops’ story, but no; it was not the best of all time.

2. Bullshit! Where Metal Gear 3!!! Honestly all rage aside…Resident Evil 4? How about we do some overtime.

3. Damnit I forgot to put my list. I seldom find a game I really fall in love with and walk away satisfied with the ending. So I have a pretty short list.

   1. Wind Waker
   2. Metal Gear Solid 3
   3. The Maw

   And that’s it.

4. Deus Ex anyone? Why is AssCreed Brotherhood on here (among others) all its ending did was raise more questions. Why exactly are polls used to determine what is best anyway, by that rationale Avatar and Call of Duty are the best movie and game series evar (Note: they are both good, but definitely not the best).

5. I quit.

6. My God that is awful

7. Made to get people riled up and talking about it maybe? I almost expected to see Halo 2 on there.

   Some like Mass Effect 2 have different ending depending on who played it too, If the list isn’t to troll whoever wrote it needs educating (and a spell/grammer check)

8. I’m mystified by the inclusion of Super Mario Bros and Pokemon Black/White and 11 and 12. As great as they are, could you really say they have great stories and then go so far as to single them out as having some of greatest endings of all time?

9. This list is just awful, just complete crap. I also just noticed that 4 Call of Duty games made it onto the list, shame on you internet. And the spelling/grammar errors are just painful, I did laugh pretty hard at Half-Life 2: Episode Tow though.

   1. Mass Effect is first because before that i had never seen a game ending like that before i played it and it still sticks with me today.
   2. Second though is Limbo, the minute the game ended and i realized what had happened i was just amazed.

10. Is it just me, or are there barely enough truly good game endings on that list to make a top five?

11. [quote comment=”18643″]I quit.[/quote]

    The picture and its text say it all.

    I really cant believe that. Seriously.

12. [quote comment=”18649″]Is it just me, or are there barely enough truly good game endings on that list to make a top five?[/quote]

    THIS.

    That being said, Metal Gear Solid 3, Portal and Red Dead Redemption are some of the greatest game endings ever.

13. Thinking on this some more, I’m reminded of a very early podcast where Eddy (I think, could have been Jeff) brought up the topic of falling action. Going over the list, and picking out the games that I think really belong there, I’m noticing a correlation – games that I think have better endings tend to have falling action, a wrapping up sequence that brings the story together.

    Half Life 2: Episode 2 had the huge running battle against the army of Hunters and Striders, but if it had ended as soon as the fight was done, there would have been nothing special about it. But it was after that, the epilogue if you will, with the rocket launch, preparing to leave to rescue Judith and… THAT event that cemented the ending as great.

    I haven’t played it, but Red Dead Redemption was brought up as the prime example on the podcast as having falling action. Again, the story being wrapped up after the main action sequence has finished made the ending better.

    MGS 3 had the award ceremony and Snake visiting the grave site to wrap things up. In my opinion that’s what makes a good ending. Not just blowing up something big at the end. There needs to be a reason, something further to explain why things happened, what the consequences were.

14. Lol. Basically what I expected from “today’s gamer”. I tried to warn you…

15. Well, Guinness obviously didn’t ask the right people. I know I didn’t get my invitation for this vote. In any case, and I don’t think I’ll get any support from the folks here, I still think Prince of Persia (the “new” one, with Elika) deserves to be close to the top, if not at the top. Such a “Holy shit” moment and filled with emotion that video games never really touch.

    Also, Braid. How the hell is Braid not on this list?

    At least BioShock is…and Shadow of the Colossus. But no Ico!

    Arbitrary lists have no right making anyone angry…I can’t help that this one does make me angry.

16. Forgot Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath.

17. Half way reading through the list I was expecting a Madden game to show up. This honestly looks like a handful of 8th grades all time best list.

18. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35TbGjt-weA

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