That article needs to be on the Top Ten Most Poorly Formatted Articles list. Wow.

Worst final boss ever. worst storyline ever and worst ending ever.

Has this guy even played Fallout 3? Three Dog (Radio DJ) is voiced by Erik Todd Dellums. The guy talking in the begining of the game, and after is Ron Perlman (Hell Boy guy). And what's wrong with the ending, you either die, and or you don't depending on your actions, and with the BS (Broken Steel) expansion, you still live, to fight another day. I thought it was pretty funny infecting the water supply with the modified FEV, seeing people die from drinking water, and your self if you drank enough. Oh well, everyone is enitiled to their opinion, except maybe he should do some research on who did the voice.

KOTOR 2's ending leaved me so disappointed, MW2 was also quite bad, never tried WET.

This author misses the point of WET I think.

"she comes across a freaky looking woman who looks like she step out of a sci-fimovie. She only cropped up about two-thirds through the campaign so it’s also unclear who she is or what she wants."

First of all, this villain shows up around the 2nd mission. Also, WET is supposed to be a b-movie experience with odd and offensive characters. Why should character development or detail really matter. He is aware 90% of this game is shredding people apart in slow motion?

Im kinda surprised that borderlands didnt make it, great game but terrible ending lol.

I must be the only one who doesn't think Halo 2's ending was THAT bad. I kinda enjoyed it (although not as much as the Halo 3 ending, which I thought was better) And as for "almost" putting MGS4 on the list......

A story stretching twenty years long was tied in one AAA title COMPLETELY. They managed to close up pretty much any question one might have had, which is tough to do even in a trilogy, let alone a 20-year old story.

Pictures aren't aligned properly. -_-

So...two of my favorite endings EVER made it onto this list. Haha.

Gears of War 2 left me in silence. It was amazing! Screw this guy and the rest of you losers who knocked Gears 2 for actually connecting you to the characters. Gears of War was one of the most repetitive games I've ever played. Gears 2 was constantly switching it up...and had dialogue that made me love the characters.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has an amazing ending also. The only difference between that and the first one is the slow motion. What is this guy smoking? It was a brilliant ending! You all hated it because it was so popular though. I understand. It's ok to stop enjoying something because you think you're too cool for it. :) Makes the rest of us feel better about our decisions. The campaign was amazing in general! I'll never understand how some people didn't like it.

I agree that the FO3 ending sucked, mainly because an open world game that has tons of stuff to do outside of the main quest should not have an ending that kills off the player character. I didn't see it coming, and was pissed that the game could not continue after that mission.

Honerable mention Far Cry 2...the story was pretty weak, and made no sense why your character agrees with his protaganist to go on a suicide pact mission at the end. WTF?

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (for Consoles) ending.

Any game that I spend 60 dollars on and ends in 8 or less hours is a bad ending.

I wont lie.I just brought Metal Gear Solid 4,yeah I know why not sooner -___-
Anyways when I beat it I couldnt help but shed a few tears.All the pain that Snake went through...his final mission to set the world right....than when I saw him put the gun in his mouth I wanted to physically stop him,and with Raiden making up with his wife and seeing his son it showed me he is not just a killing machine he is still a human.It was an amazing game with a epic ending.

Just saw Alan wake ending yesterday it should be on the list me and my freind wasn't feeling it slapped all those people who payed 60$ in the face cause it didn't answer anything and it was like you need to buy the second one to find out what happens alan is the dullest main chracter to ever be in a video game and for a writer you never understand anything he says something at end that your like faceplam this game is stupid sorry if I'm bashing just being honest.

Fable II! That game has got to be one of the most disappointing endings for a game of that caliber. It literally felt like a slap in the face. There wasn't even a final boss! How lame was that?

assassins creed had a horrible ending.

The fact they they added a CDI games makes me think.. Did any of those games have a good ending? Im pretty sure every CSI game has worse endings than Gears, Halo, Wet and the others listed.

MW2 and Gears 2 take the cake. I never even played MW2 actually, til a month ago I tried it at a friends, somehow I played the last level and it was retarded. Same stupid slow motion crap from the first one. It was cool the first time, the 2nd time I was just left saying really? The SAME ending?

Let's be honest...the only reason fallout 3 ending sucked...is because it had an ending. Oh and did anyone even play COD MW2 single player? lol

Wow... He really didn't understand the MGS2 ending at all. Way to fail...

i agree heavily with fallout 3,i was enjoying it so much(except for the horrible shooting mechanics)then i got to the ending and i hated it i wanted more then that ended to soon for me after all that hard work,just didn't feel all that great of a game after that to me, never played it again after

why has bioshock not been mentioned.The problem with all these games is that they were great only to be let down by a completly rushed endng. the twist towards the ending of bioshock as great... but the actually ending.. felt so rushed.... a 1 min clip then done

and while there are certainly some bad ones out there, i grew up in a generation where your only "ending" was "Congratulations, A Winner is You!"

so to have a game with an actual ending like the MGS series have, is fricking FANTASTIC!

MGS4's ending, i thought, was great, even if it did go on for too long. they wrapped up 20 years of franchise history in one game. that's pretty impressive.

in either case, this list was better than most of the "top this or that" lists we get.

at least we can agree that most of those endings were terrible. i don't think people really understand how HARD it is to end something in a satisfactory way.

in most storytelling, the audience EXPECTS good to triumph over evil, but there are only really so many ways to accomplish that in a story, ESPECIALLY when the plots are as simple as they tend to be in gaming/movies/tv, etc.

MGS is a very complex game, and it has a rather unique set of endings for each of the four main games in the series (with, in my opinion, MGS3's ending being the best in the entire series, simply perfectly executed), in that they don't follow traditional endings, and often go well beyond just character/story conclusion.

anyway, i love a good game ending. some of my favorites are Chrono Trigger's multiple endings, Shadow of Destiny's multiple endings, Beyond Good and Evil, Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid 3 and 4, Second Sight, God of War Trilogy (each game's endings were very satisfying), and Ico's ending. there are a few more, but those are the ones that i really enjoy and can recall vividly.

Mgs2 ???? That ending was amazing it was suppose to make you want more.

i think god of war 3 is worst

The worst ending of all time belongs to Pariah, you spend about 10 hours playing through the game and when you get to the end there is no boss, no epic battle. You are treated to a cutscene in which your character shoots himself in the head and your love interest that you are trying to save the whole game explodes into pieces.

*cue credits*

goddam that was messed up.

Interesting how different people have different taste in endings.

For instance i really liked the MGS2 ending, the twist in the story is what does it for me and found it satisfying enough.

I also liked actualy liked Halo 2's ending, setting up the scene for the next installment, isnt that what the writer of this article says an ending should do? Well thats what it does..

Gears of War 2, again i enjoyed the ending, hyping up the next game after a great play throughout

I agree with FallOut 3 however, me, my brother and a friend put hours an hours into that game and then was like WTF this is it!!?

And like Leon says above, Modern Warfare 2's ending i thought was amazing, i understand there seems to be all this hate with anything regarding call of duty now days, you need to cut it some slack.

All in all i dont think its a very good list of bad endings, i mean there are fu***ng hundreds of crap games out there and your teling me Halo, Gears, MGS, Fallout 3 all made it on this list of only 10 games?
Dont make me laugh.

I do understand though the author needed to put this big hitters on this list otherwise there would be no point in reading it.

Resi 5? or perhaps the dreamcast original version of Resi:code V?

Resi 5 was such a bad ending and considering you talk about similarities to previous games being a downer, this one takes the cake.

Big bad guy, too strong to kill, fetch rocket launcher, BOOM, done.

Code V did have this scene, but then just ended without any resolution at all.

Run to plane, fly off, swear revenge, done.

Thank god for the expansion to that ending in the PS2 version (and GC) later.

OH Devil may cry 2 and Crysis were both poor.

And although I'm gonna be called for trolling on this one Alan Wake. I wont ruin it, but the ending is cliched and dissapointing. Like FF12 (another one) you can tell there is a sequel story coming and the developers just didn't bother making the game a whole. Alan Wake is still a damn good game, just leaves on a low.

If they can release Skyrim a million times then the Fallout 3 Remaster should have happened a decade ago.

Good. Wasn't needed at that time. Let the power of the consoles get a few iterations down the line before remakes are done.