Why, Gody, Why did this game end this way?

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. It wasn't astoundingly awful in any way, it was just such a completely unremarkable ending that you feel cheated.

But that final boss was a bitch on Hypermode.

Then again, everything was a bitch on Hypermode.

It wasn't so much the ending cutscene. Metroid has never had massive cutscenes and Samus isn't one for giant conversations neatly wrapping everything up. But that whole final planet wasn't very impressive.

Penguin wrote:

...I had a very long reply, my login timed out and it ate the whole thing. FUCK.

TL;DR version: BethSoft basically tried to take the original Fallout games and wrap a little bit of their take around it, and ultimately produced a fun game, even if the end product is as strange and mutated as the Ghouls.

...which were originally a product of FEV. Not just an accident of radiation. But, y'know. Whatevs.

Honestly, the very last thing the Internet needs is another conversation about what is and isn't a Fallout game.

Needless to say, I liked the game and the DLC, even though I kind of would have preferred the original, tragic ending. The way the main quest ends as of now is nothing but a huge explosion, a pat on the back, and Sarah Lyons telling you that, while you are awesome, she still won't hang out with you or give you command of her squad of badass Brotherhood commandos. Sigh. At least I have Dogmeat . . . .

I submit that the Internet needs more conversations about what is and isn't a Fallout game between devs of each game, and NONE WHATSOEVER to do with ANYONE from NMA. Good God.

But, my post wasn't meant to say that FO3 is or isn't Fallout. My gripe was actually that it's a weird rehash of everything from the first two games, which makes the setting of DC strange (I get why they did it, I'm just not sure they should have) and everything original they did is clumsily executed, like the ending.

Kinda like writing fanfiction where you get lost in "Wouldn't it be cool if THIS happened? Oh and I need to reference the source material prequels more" and the end product is just one long, sloppily performed homage.

Also, they promised us like eleventy billion endings, and gave us, like, 3.

Spoiler:

Point Lookout is a major mixed bag for me.

Finally, I have a decent use for all that 10mm ammo I haven't used since I was level 10 or so, but the only new enemys are hillbillies, who can somehow do more damage than my level-25+, tesla-wielding, T-51-wearing bad-ass. (+35 unblockable damage ftl.)

I like the locations, but the quests mostly seemed rather blah to me.

At level 25+, the 10mm SMG remains a decent sidearm. It's just useless on Overlords.

It just sucks when you've got 100% Small Guns and there are never any new, impressive Small Guns. The Chinese AK, err, Assault Rifle is the best you can do.

I mean, I'm lugging around the Hunting Rifle, 10mm SMG, Chinese Assault Rifle and Sniper Rifle. It's quite a heavy load.

Penguin wrote:

At level 25+, the 10mm SMG remains a decent sidearm. It's just useless on Overlords.

Find that Sydney woman in the National Archives, and do her quest. Then, you have to track down a note for her, which is in that hotel where you rescue those mercenaries. She'll give you an improved version of the SMG.

There's also this, which adds weapon modding kits to the game, so you can improve your guns. Highly recommended.

Penguin wrote:

At level 25+, the 10mm SMG remains a decent sidearm. It's just useless on Overlords.

It just sucks when you've got 100% Small Guns and there are never any new, impressive Small Guns. The Chinese AK, err, Assault Rifle is the best you can do.

I mean, I'm lugging around the Hunting Rifle, 10mm SMG, Chinese Assault Rifle and Sniper Rifle. It's quite a heavy load.

Lincoln's Repeater is a decent weapon, great for sniping.

But yes, the ending of FO3 left a lot to be desired. I enjoyed the game though, just... I had the super mutant companion, why couldn't he have gone in, god dammit?!

Penguin wrote:

Spoiler:

Honestly, you want to do all the DLC adventures as quickly as possible. You should go straight from the end of Vault 101, collect the Intelligence Bobblehead at Rivet City for extra skill points, then right to the beginning of Operation:Anchorage, since it gives you power armor, a stealth suit, multiple levels, and a shitload of guns and explosives right off the bat. And if you're a pew-pew-lasers guy like me, you'll probably go from there, straight to Mothership Zeta, to shoot aliens with cowboys and samurai. From there, it doesn't really matter, because you're a power-armored badass with thousands of rounds for your alien disintegration rifle.

Independance War 2: Edge of Chaos ends very abruptly. You can tell a few missions away from the end that they just ran out of time and money. A bizarre plot device that does not at all fit with the setting and style presented thusfar is introduced. It has absolutely nothing to do with the three or so plotlines that have been progressing steadily to, we think, dramatic conclusion for the entire game, only for the instant plot device to steal complete focus and for the actual storyline to be resoundly dropped. The game ends with the instant plot device resolved in just as abrupt a way, if not more-so.

What is this ridiculous instant plot device, you ask? In the middle of a just-starting war between economic classes fighting each-other and the government, plus a great deal of character development for the player-character and his rag-tag band of misfit friends, the leaders of the upper-class activate an alien artifact of doom to use as a weapon against the lower class and the government, only for glowing balls to pour forth and possess the crews of any ship they touch. The final missions boil down to stopping infected ships from making FTL jumps, and then sealing off the player-character's home star-cluster when the next one over is totally lost.

yes this ending was ununderstandible to me too

Electron Blue wrote:

Mirror's Edge. Okay so it does have a rather awesome song, but there's NO FUCKING RESOLUTION. It gives you a nice view of the city from atop a skyscraper then BAM. Credits. Where are the guys who were shooting at you a minute ago? How do you get down? WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT?

It's like they turned the turning point of a longer game into an ending.

TBH I skipped almost every cutscene in that game, so it wouldn't have made much sense to me anyway.
What were we supposed to be? Like postmen or something?

Worst ending ever - assassin's creed
Sure there's a standard epic boss fight, but then you swith back to the future jackass for some slow walking fun AND THEN it taunts you with an epilogue of you escaping only to give you a few hours of reading motherf***ing emails.

If I wanted to read I'd pick up a book. (oh snap)

Jossarian wrote:

Sure there's a standard epic boss fight, but then you swith back to the future jackass for some slow walking fun AND THEN it taunts you with an epilogue of you escaping only to give you a few hours of reading motherf***ing emails.

This is the Internet, sweetie. You're allowed to say cusses.

Delcat wrote:

Jossarian wrote:

Sure there's a standard epic boss fight, but then you swith back to the future jackass for some slow walking fun AND THEN it taunts you with an epilogue of you escaping only to give you a few hours of reading motherf***ing emails.

This is the Internet, sweetie. You're allowed to say cusses.

Yeah, but God was reading over my shoulder! D :

Jossarian wrote:

Yeah, but God was reading over my shoulder! D :

Yyyyyeah, you're pretty much already fucked by the massive amounts of terrible porn, then.

Besides, there's a difference between cussing and cursing. That's why you see me saying "cuntguzzling cockfucking shitbuckets" in the same sentence as "darn it all ta gorram heck" [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

...okay yeah I use "hell" on a regular basis, but that's kind of on the outside edge, really. ...I think [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Jossarian wrote:

TBH I skipped almost every cutscene in that game, so it wouldn't have made much sense to me anyway.
What were we supposed to be? Like postmen or something?

I hate you and I hope you never breed.

Penguin wrote:

Jossarian wrote:

TBH I skipped almost every cutscene in that game, so it wouldn't have made much sense to me anyway.
What were we supposed to be? Like postmen or something?

I hate you and I hope you never breed.

"Hurry you've got to take this orange carrier bag to a helicopter because the police think you killed the mayor or something"
"and if the police try to stop me? they have guns"
"LT, RT kick them in the nuts. that is all."

Delcat wrote:

Jossarian wrote:

Yeah, but God was reading over my shoulder! D :

Besides, there's a difference between cussing and cursing. That's why you see me saying "cuntguzzling cockfucking shitbuckets" in the same sentence as "darn it all ta gorram heck" [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Yeah, I had an english teacher just like that. Coolest guy I ever met, but MAN did he get fired.

[Nihilist] Double-posting is poor etiquette, my friend. Make use of the "edit" button on the top right corner, right next to "quote".

Penguin wrote:

Jossarian wrote:

TBH I skipped almost every cutscene in that game, so it wouldn't have made much sense to me anyway.
What were we supposed to be? Like postmen or something?

I hate you and I hope you never breed.

I concur.

theweirdkind wrote:

Penguin wrote:

Jossarian wrote:

TBH I skipped almost every cutscene in that game, so it wouldn't have made much sense to me anyway.
What were we supposed to be? Like postmen or something?

I hate you and I hope you never breed.

I concur.

lets not take it personally now, all i wanted was a bit of runny-jumpy-climby.
If I wanted a good story I would have just played through ff7 again : ]

Jossarian wrote:

If I wanted a good story I would have just played through ff7 again : ]

That would be the game that ended on a cliffhanger after blowing it's wad on a terrible mid-nineties FMV.

Is Jossarian another one of Unskilled's dumbass friends?

e: I'm playing Mirror's Ed- [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Mafiosa wrote:

Is Jossarian another one of Unskilled's dumbass friends?

Who's unskilled?
I'm actually one of your mothers dumbass lays

Jossarian wrote:

Mafiosa wrote:

Is Jossarian another one of Unskilled's dumbass friends?

Who's unskilled?
I'm actually one of your mothers dumbass lays

That's cute, Josh Thomas. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

I think I just gained maximum creepy points.

...if I didn't think Jossarian was an idiot before, I certainly do now.

On topic: The ending of Crisis Core makes me bawl like a little girl and I want it changed, regardless of predetermined canon. Zaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack ;-;

Jossarian wrote:

I'm actually one of your mothers dumbass lays

Your the first guy I ran into that put themselves down while talking about fucking someone's mother. The general idea with a momma joke is to, you know, put the mother down, not accidentally shoot yourself in the foot.