Top 10 Surprise Endings in Video Games
04. Spec Ops: The Line (2K, 2012)
Considering that the game starts out as a very unique military-revenge-thriller, and the mechanism for suspending disbelief is fairly easy to engage and complete, you would think that once you got through the really challenging bits that it would have a straight-forward ending, right?
After all, Colonel Conrad has been torturing you practically from the start, so the final monologue from him and the accusation that you, Walker, are a failure absolutely makes sense and fits with the overall theme of the game.
In fact right up to the point at which Walker enters the penthouse and 'confronts' the Colonel the fabric of the story is still maintained.
And then you reach the suite and have the confrontation before the painting you still think you know what is going on - but then you approach the chair and find the dead body!Your shattered awareness gets filled in by recollections of the events that lead up to this - and a truth that is difficult to accept largely because it contradicts what you think you know. And just when it looks like the nightmare is over, well, no, not so much really.
By the time you find yourself bleeding out in the sand there are so many questions left unanswered that the only thing that we can say is that this one is high on the list for a reason, and no matter how much explaining the devs tried to do, the answer to what it all meant did not sit well with gamers.
If there was a competition for the most disturbing of the shocking endings this one would probably win that, hands down.
A shout for Jade Empire!
Really? No Silent Hill? I'm surprised. (Really lame joke)
how about the ending of The last of Us. talk about a great story
Bioshock's ending was pathetic... Portal 2 wasn't much of a surprise too...
Mass Effect 3 Should have been number one.
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Thanks for sharing mates, those are all good games.
Castlevania lords of shadow! 2 twists in one ending! One of the best right there.
What about Mafia 2? that was great...
No Silent Hill 2, or Deadly Premonition. :(
Dude... I think u forgot God of War 3 ,... who would have thought kratos would stab himself with the blade of olympus and athena becoming so ungenerous at the end bro? this really makes me mad
It is not that there was no praise for Braid mate, it is that we are limited to 10 choices and we made our ten. You are more than welcome to make your ten and post them here - in fact we encourage that!
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Yep having Clem have to make that horrible choice was pretty gut-wrenching. But it sort of was written on the wall, right?
No praise for Braid?
One of the best ending in a game ever.
The girls name in the walking dead one was Clementine
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I have no objections about number one. Did not see that coming.
Mafia 1 ending is greaat but its to sad at the end i don't want to end that early.......
Silent Hill 2's ending was insane.
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I only remember the ending of The Walking Dead. This was one of the best stories period. The ending was amazing, and amazingly sad.