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10 Video Games That Almost Had The Perfect Ending (But Ruined It)


Though it typically only accounts for a small portion of a video game, nailing the ending is absolutely paramount.

Get it right and it places a cherry on top of a fantastic gaming experience, but screw it up and it can colour a player’s entire time with the game in a new, unfavourable light.

It’s clearly enormously challenging to do narrative justice to a medium that invites player choice and often involves an epic, sprawling scope encompassing dozens of hours of play-time, and so it’s little surprise how many games miss the mark.

But even more frustrating than an out-and-out bad ending is one which very nearly arrives at the conclusion fans wanted to see, but takes a sharp left-turn towards something else entirely.

Whether a result of budgetary or scheduling constraints, creative bankruptcy, or sheer laziness, these 10 games all had the perfect ending within their sights, only to ditch it for a more cynical, corny, or straight-up disappointing one.

These endings didn’t necessarily ruin the game outright, but each nevertheless left fans exasperated at how close they got to greatness…



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