Game endings you love/hate?

[kid_rondeau]

After dusting off my TurboStick yesterday (hey man, some games demand the use of 'Slow'....Raiden comes to mind) I was finally able to beat Syd Mead's Terraforming.

The game had no ending!

Well, that's not quite true: "[BRIEF EXPLOSION] + [CREDIT SEQUENCE] + [ABSOLUTELY NO EPILOGUE]" seems to about cover it. For a game with such a unique plot, I felt let down by the ending. this got me to thinking of which game endings I loved best, and liked the least (for my purposes, I'm only counting US releases. if anybody chooses to add to this list, feel free to mention PCE releases too)...

5 Endings I Like (NOT my top 5!!):
-Lords of Thunder
-Ys Books I & II
-Dragon's Curse
-Moto Roader (very pleasant music. I've beaten this game with my brother about 5,000 times)
-Dungeon Explorer II

5 Endings that left me wanting:
-Terraforming
-R-Type
-Legendary Axe II (WTF???)
-DEEP BLUE
-Sinistron


Sound off!

[Turbo D]

I really love all the endings to the bonk games and airzonk. I havent really beat allot of my collection, but most endings are pretty lame. The lame ones just show some picture and then credits come down.

[runinruder]

Veigues Tactical Gladiator and Legendary Axe II have my favorite endings for chips, while Ys Book I & II and Cosmic Fantasy 2 have the best for CDs. 

[nodtveidt]

Legendary Axe II's ending was supposed to be a setup for a sequel. Sinistron's ending is definitely a letdown, Violent Soldier's is marginally better (it has a credit scroll) which is rather depressing on both considering how difficult both games are.

Camp California, everyone's favorite punching-bag of a game, has one of the best endings out of all the action games on the console. Cadash has a pretty decent ending too, it's almost the same as the arcade version's (modified for technical reasons, of course...even the Genesis doesn't replicate it perfectly). Air Zonk is probably the best; multiple endings depending on how you play the game. Of course, we all expect decent endings from RPGs, CF2 has a great ending and it's pretty long.

And if anyone can explain the ending to Time Cruise, you'll win a cookie.

[FM-77]

A bit off topic, but the worst ending I've encountered was in Golden Axe Warrior (excellent Zelda 1 rip off for Master System). Great game, super bad ending.

[Ninja Spirit]

Final Zone II, it was mediocre because there's no staff roll.

[FM-77]

Who cares about staff rolls?

[Necromancer]

@ kid_rondeau:  Dear God!  You actually suffered through Deep Blue all the way to the end?  You poor bastard.

And if anyone can explain the ending to Time Cruise, you'll win a cookie.

You take the fancy pants pinball time machine into the future and shit: World War III - Tokyo is toast.  Now where's my cookie?

[rolins]

After dusting off my TurboStick yesterday (hey man, some games demand the use of 'Slow'....Raiden comes to mind) I was finally able to beat Syd Mead's Terraforming.

You don't need to use slow mode for Raiden. Just keep practicing some more. Oh btw, the Turbostick is lame. 

I don't remember seeing an ending I was satisfied with. I played mainly the shmups on this system, and often those games had endings not worth mentioning. I did like Gunhed and Xevious for the funky music during their credit rolls.

[PhilBiker]

@ kid_rondeau:  Dear God!  You actually suffered through Deep Blue all the way to the end?  You poor bastard.

I was thinking the same thing!  I can't get anywhere in that game.

I have very rarely had the time or patience to get to the ending of any video game.  I love the Shmups, but most of them seem to get progressively harder and harder and harder till I give up.  For example, Super Star Soldier, there's just a point where it goes from fun to impossible.  That's one of the many things I I love about Blazing Lazers/Gunhed.  Level 1 is easy peasy, then it gets to a certain difficulty level, hard but nowhere near impossible, and pretty much stays at the same level till the completely insane Level 9.  I like the Blazing Lazers / Gunhead and Moto Roader ending music.

[SignOfZeta]

I like the ending of Starling Odyssey II a lot. I guess back in the day the ending of most games on CD blew me away, but SOII's really stuck with me.

[termis]

Best.ending.ever.

P.O.W. - NES

[Joe Redifer]

WORST.ending.ever.

Shinobi - Sega Master System

[SNKNostalgia]

Best.ending.ever.

P.O.W. - NES

Ahh yess, SNK-Egrish. There has been too many Neo-Geo games that suffer from this, too many. Samurai Shodown 4 is pretty much the all time worse.

[Joe Redifer]

You mean all-time best?  I'll have to get it.  Who wants to sell me Samurai Shodown 4 AES complete for cheap?