My brain instantly goes to Sonic Adventure 2. 8 year old me was not ready for such a fun ending. Live and Learn coming on during the Sonic movie unlocked something in me, so cool
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predictable mention but honestly no other game’s climax has enraptured me and moved me like Disco Elysium. it’s beautiful.
…still need to play this
Heard some shady shit went down at the studio. I’ll have to look into whether I should pirate it or not
Pirate it is the usual recommendation. Iirc profits will go to a bad dude who stiffed the workers. Been a while since I read that info though, so might be worth to read further.
I like the People Make Games investigation, but understandably no one’s got time for that shit. It’s like 2 hours long.
TL;DW: It’s complicated, but I don’t think it’s right to say the workers got stiffed. A lot of people worked on the game, not just the three who were forced out (though those three were considered the core design team). At this point, though, what’s left of ZA/UM is probably an empty office and half a dozen scrapped projects on hard drives. There’s nothing left to support even if you side with the company. I say pirate it.Edit: The good news is there are like 4 recently announced projects from multiple former Elysium devs that promise to carry on the spirit of the game.
People Make Games investigation TL;DW: It’s complicated, but I don’t think it’s right to say the workers got stiffed.
??? Have you been living under a rock or something? That aged like milk over a year ago. Its just stinky cheese now.
Edit: The good news is there are like 4 recently announced projects from multiple former Elysium devs that promise to carry on the spirit of the game.
How did you not realize this when the documentary shits on Kurvis for trying to do this in the first place?
there is a noclip documentary coming out soon that will hopefully be better
??? Have you been living under a rock or something? That aged like milk over a year ago. Its just stinky cheese now.
Apparently I have? I pretty much stopped paying attention to this story since it seemed as thoroughly poked into as it was gonna get unless some upcoming lawsuits would change anything.
And it’s been a while since I watched it, but I remember a bunch of the interviewed ZA/UM staff agreeing that Kurvitz and the other two were fucking things up a bit and needed to go. That doesn’t mean I side with the fucking shareholders and new leadership. It just means it’s not as simple as the investors screwing over all the workers.
But if you don’t mind, I’d appreciate your perspective. I finally finished DE only this past summer, so I also missed this news unfolding in real time. I probably have some blind spots on the story.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
That pokemon game from 20 years ago where you beat all the gyms and go to the elite four and win the game and then its like PSYCHE theres an entire nother set of gym leaders and elite four get to it!
my tiny head exploded
Better yet, once you finish going back through Kanto, you have to climb a mountain and fight your character from the previous game
That was Gen II, gold silver and crystal! I wish they did it in following games.
Hmm Disco Elysium obv. Also FFX and OG FF7 are great. Suikoden 2 also has an amazing ending if you get the best route.
I like Earthbound and how the ending is a culmination of all the people you’ve met and helped coming together to help you
…Time, Dr. Freeman?
Is it really that time again? It seems as if you only just arrived. You’ve done a great deal in a small time… span. You’ve done so well, in fact, that I’ve received some interesting offers for your services. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t contemplate them… but these are extraordinary times. Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you… if and when your time comes round again. I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition, Dr. Freeman. I trust it will all make sense to you in the course of… well… I’m really not at liberty to say. In the meantime… this is where I get off.
Mgs2
This is the only answer
Snake’s stock footage speech at the end changed my life
gotta say RDR2.
Metal Gear Solid 1/2/3. I can’t decide between them lol
2, they’re close but 2’s ending is a big part of why I’m posting here now
Not sure if this counts but my favorite quest series in RuneScape is the cabe goblin quests.
You find out that there exists a new group of goblins that live under lumbridge castle called the Dorgushuun. You meet one of them, Zanik. She is very shy but curious about the world and it’s really heartwarming when she sees the sun for the first time.
Long story short you battle some of her traumas and even her own fate in the Chosen Commander quest (the whole series feels like a metaphor for both racism and religious trauma.) and she becomes hailed as a hero to the Dorgushuun. Yeah, Jagex then fucked with the story and added unnecessary sequels that ruined that happy ending and turned it into a Zanik torture porn, but I’m just hoping that The Chosen Commander comes to OSRS and it ends on a 100% happy note again.
What makes this all the more impressive is that this is Runescape, the funny medieval cookie clicker where a lot of the quests end up being fun medieval saturday morning cartoon silliness. I would pay to see some single-player RPG of the RuneScape series. Keep the writers but have the gameplay done by Square Enix or something, it being a web mmo unfortunately adds some limits to the storytelling
the Black Ops 2 ending where Menendez wins
PS. also obligatory Disco Elysium mention, it was real after all
No one said OneShot
Also enjoyed Hyper Light Drifter’s ending, kind of bummed they’re making a sequel.
Damn, just realizing I don’t play enough games that actually end. Spend way more time on games with a game play loop. These were the only two I could think of.
SOMA. The implications of the technology in that game are horrifying.
FreeSpace 2 has this incredible build-up about the nature of the alien threat, starting out as just a secondary antagonist, and then increasing and increasing in threat, until you as the player come face to face with the reality of an unstoppable apocalyptic threat that you can only ever really run away from. I think it works so well because the game really is a power fantasy for most of it’s run, with the player regularly overcoming seemingly impossible odds (the solo bombing run against the gargantuan Sathanas juggernaut is a standout)… but the ending levels just have the wheels coming off the bus, and the climax comes whether you survive it or not. Pretty good for a wing commander clone.
Super Metroid, Mega Man Zero 4, Outer Wilds
As someone playing FF7 Rebirth, the original has been on my mind a lot, so I’m going to say that one: FF7. It had an ambiguous ending that I’ve come to appreciate more the older I get, and I think has been made slightly worse as they continue to release more expansions to the world and story.
I used to love it, but I now think it would’ve been better for the story if Advent Children (the sequel movie) hadn’t been released at all. Maybe just Tifa and Cloud’s fight scenes as tech demos and that’s it.
