Top Video Game Endings

Kingdom hearts would've been such a masterpiece, if it wasn't for them meddling disney characters.

hands down, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War was the best iv seen


FF9 FF10 were pretty good. Even FF13 wasnt bad.
Star ocean series are nice to, since u can have so many diffrent endings.

FFXII. I want to play it forever. Such a beautiful world.

Also, all Zelda game endings are the same. Windwaker is my favourite, and stabbing Ganondorf in the face and turning him to stone as Hyrule floods permanently is epic, but I just saw my girlfriend play OOT (I made her replay classics) and realize you also stab Ganon in the face several times at the end, and you probably also stab every other form of Ganon in the face in every other game. Seriously, those games are rehashes, which was fine from 8 bit -> 16 bit -> 3D -> better 3D era, but afterwards it's the same game over and over. It's time to innovate, and maybe stab him someplace else next time.

(Stabbing is a metaphor in that latter comment; it's epic as f*ck every time and it should always happen. But the games need to change besides).

Edit: This rehash applies to all games that spanned eras, particularly Nintendo. Tell me Metroid Prime wasn't Super Metroid 3D, or Ocarina wasn't ALTTP 3D.

More edit: not that there's ANYTHING wrong with that, because those games are the best games ever.

It's probably assumed that the average person will only play one iteration of a franchise, which is why the same old formula gets recycled for new generations. I have nothing against it, and often enjoy a new take on the same old formula.

Windwaker for instance (HIGH FIVE) is just damn awesome. Sure, you stab Ganon in the face in every reincarnation, but how many times do you do it underneath the ocean, which is collapsing around you? Brb cleaning pants

My favorites have to be the main Metal Gear Solid series, especially the final boss of MGS3. Those games were absoutely fantastic.

I remember really liking FFT's conclusion too; there's a nostalgic thing for me with Final Fantasy I's ending.

But, I forgot to mention, Kingdom hearts: Birth by sleep had an incredible ending, finally closing the gap and answering the questions that everyone sought the answer too for so long since Kingdom hearts 1 and 2.

Ending wise don't think they were incredible but this is a solid list of good games. Ys Book I and II, Nectaris aka Military Madness, Gunhed aka Blazing Lazers, and Guardian Heroes. Gunhed is one of the best shoot em up game I've ever played and Einhander being my second favorite. Only Shining Force series I didn't complete is Shining in the Darkness. Had to format my PC and lost my save file on emulator. Couldn't get myself to play the game again.

I've played many games but only 2 games I remember the ending being very good was Lufia II and Dragon Quest VIII. I'm most likely forgetting a few games but can't remember.

I used to love the Sonic the hedgehog 2 ending <.<

I thought the ending to Bastion was just beautiful, and very dramatic with the choices it gave you.

It's probably because it was my first rpg more than anything so it was accompanied by a huge sense of achevement for me. Before that I'd mostly only played arcade style games so the game was huge compaired to what I was used to... I bet if I replayed it now I wouldn't find it as good of an ending but it still has the same kind of grip on my heart that FF7 does for many people XD

Secret of Mana had a pretty powerful ending.

Everything else I want to list is really just me listing favorite games, but Secret of Mana is the only one with an ending that really stands out as emotionally powerful in my mind. It's simple, but it was very effective.

My main gripe with Valkyrie Profile's true ending is there is literally no way you'd know how to access it without a having a heads up and the B ending is like a virtual <^> to your efforts.

Bastion is an absolutely beautiful game in every way. For such a simple formula, everything about it is so well done. Agree 100%.

Red Dead Redemption and MGS3 are the first ones that stand out.

Both haunting as hell and still stick with me to this day.

Anyone that doesn't consider video games to be art should play or watch the ending sections to both of those games

yeah, while i'm sure being with it the whole game makes a huge difference, I think both of those games ending sections could hold off well by just themselves if needed.

I'm more implying that games can be art, they're not all *** AND BIG GUNS AND BLOOD FESTS AND EXTREME MACHONESS

^this, It would be like watching the last half of a series finale, the last 5min of movie or reading the last 10 pages of a book. It might entertain you a bit but comes no where close to going from start to finish.

Original Zone of the Enders ending still gets me every time :(

huh? didn't ZOE1 basically go 'IT'S OVER! HERE ARE SOME CREDITS!'?

second one had a much better story line and ending imo... and a main character that actually had a *shock* story line arch!

If you ran through it without doing ranks, yes. If you did the ranks properly, you got a rather tear jerking ending.

Wings of the Goddess. This ending is just so beautiful.

I'm so tempted to start playing again JUST for the WotG story since everyone says its so good ; ;

People also say CoP is good...

<--- Problem?

Naw, I thought it made the game really stand out.

Or maybe I just like when games/movies/anything has that initial "what the ***?" concept, but it ends up being executed really well and exceeds expectations all around the board (i.e. Ecco).

Armored Core 3 ending was actually rather good IMO.
I liked Final Fantasy Tactics as well.

Get the hell out of my head...

Swap Chrono Trigger and Xenogears around though. Seriously! Strike two! :P

HUGE... huge!!.. PE fan, but I hated 3rd Birthday... I felt that it took a steaming dump on the first two games... and didn't even get a full game. I was deeply saddened. ;_;

Not so much a problem, it more or less didn't fit with how in depth the story actually is.
Then suddenly you get Donald duck and Goofy making dumb noises.
Completely ruined it for me to be honest.

1) FF8
2) Shadow of the Collosus
3) Windwaker
4) Kingdom Hearts
5) FFXI CoP

Kingdom hearts was awesome in the beginning because the main story involved looking through the other worlds trying to find Riku, and on its own, didnt involve much story. After that, kingdom hearts involved large amounts of story and lore of its own, and bearly anything for disney, yet youre still forced to do it. so for instance, kingdom hearts 2 and days:

story..
(stop and help out alladin)
story...
(stop and help jack sparrow)
story..
(goddamnit i JUST want to play KH story!)