What Genesis games have the worst ending?

[Fang]

In your opinion what games had the worst endings?

[j_factor]

Shadow of the Beast. In order to fit it on a standard 8meg cart, they removed the ending sequence in favor of a static screen that says "Congratulations! You have freed yourself from the shadow of the beast" and then you enter your initials for high score and it goes back to the title screen.

[Melf]

Ooh, I remember that. :fit:

Jewel Master ticked me off. It's a pretty long game, and the ending is basically the same cut scene you get in the intro, with two lame paragraphs about how you saved the world, etc. Lame.

[lordofduct]

I hated the ending of Kid Chameleon... I worked so hard for that??? AHHHHH! I wasn't expecting an ending like PSII (which is just freakin' amazing, well worth the difficulty) But come on, Kid Chameleon was HARD and you get shit for beating it... its worst then the opening scene.

I've been upset by many, but I can't remember right now. In last 7 years I've been only playing RPGs and RPGs usually have very good endings. One noteable though on the Genny is Shadowrun, I was rather upset with the crap ending that game had... other then that though the rest of the game is immersive and AMAZING!

[Platonism]

Garfield: Caught in the Act has a very bad/brief ending as far as I can recall.

[lordofduct]

(now I'm not basing this on simplicity to endings... just if the ending doesn't live up to the quality of the game itself)

I remember one that REALLY pissed me off years back.

Ecco 2 Tides of Time

I never played the Genny version, but I figure it is similar to the SCD one which I played. I was 11 and in love with this game, I preordered it and everything.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

So when it got to the end FINALY I was pissed to see what I considered a heroic good semaritin character who was on his final journey to destroy the time machine for the good of animal kind. But he doesn't, WTF, he sends himself a drift in the sea of time??? What the hell, I was so pissed, he was supposed to destroy it so no bad people get there hands on it... he should lured the freakin' queen embryo in to it, sent it back to the past to be killed (which is what he does) and then destroyed it... Now with him adrift in the sea of time he can't come and help Earth if some other Alien race decides to threaten us! Dude, we are all gonna die now!

[Melf]

Altered Beast's ending pissed me off too. The arcade game had this cool ending where the whole game was revealed to be a movie shoot. The Genesis game lost all of it.

[Fang]

One game that I remember that had a terrible ending was World Heroes. If you beat the game with anyone they don't give their story. All that for congratulations.

[Melf]

"Conglaturations!" :lol:

[Suppafly]

I hatet Altered Beast´s short lenght and ending....I wouldve loved to see twice the levels in that game...6 is too short

[Electroman]

Altered Beast's ending pissed me off too. The arcade game had this cool ending where the whole game was revealed to be a movie shoot. The Genesis game lost all of it.

I rather liked that ending. It was a short game, so I frankly wouldn't be heartbroken if the ending was proportionally as short. Friends and I would have fun just kicking the words off the screen before they form rows. Great, Hi-Fi music at the end too.


I wouldve loved to see twice the levels in that game...6 is too short

True this...

[Dartagnan1083]

the arcade ending to altered beast was a bit longer.
http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/arcade/a/alt.htm

I say that any ending that rewards you with a mere "conglatuation" screen is a bad one.

I remember the ending to Clayfigher.
just a big pastel screen that says "thanks for playing"

[xXxTWO FACExXx]

I despised the Dick Tracy ending cause that last lvl was a bitch and I was taking hits like crazy then I got to Big Boy and WHAT THE FUCK is this "Congratulations you have solved the case keep up the good work Tracy!" :o
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! (Game goes bye bye):mad:

[K.K.]

(now I'm not basing this on simplicity to endings... just if the ending doesn't live up to the quality of the game itself)

I remember one that REALLY pissed me off years back.

Ecco 2 Tides of Time

I never played the Genny version, but I figure it is similar to the SCD one which I played. I was 11 and in love with this game, I preordered it and everything.

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER

So when it got to the end FINALY I was pissed to see what I considered a heroic good semaritin character who was on his final journey to destroy the time machine for the good of animal kind. But he doesn't, WTF, he sends himself a drift in the sea of time??? What the hell, I was so pissed, he was supposed to destroy it so no bad people get there hands on it... he should lured the freakin' queen embryo in to it, sent it back to the past to be killed (which is what he does) and then destroyed it... Now with him adrift in the sea of time he can't come and help Earth if some other Alien race decides to threaten us! Dude, we are all gonna die now!
They were going to make a third Ecco that followed of right there, and you know. If they had another alien race than Vortex attack Earth, it just wouldn't be Ecco.

Bonanza Bros. had a bad ending. I didn't expect much from it, but couldn't they have done something more?

[Ghaleon]

Looks like Zeus commanded this thread to "Wise from your gwave!", amirite?....OK, I'm done--if you can't beat 'em blah blah and all that jazz.

Not that it's the "worst" ending, but I hated the ending I got for Bio-hazard Battle. According to the book, you wake up from a long hypersleep because the time has come to kill the critters and retake the colony planet, so you're cleaning out the infestations and looking for a place to recolonize the planet, plus gathering info on what caused the original biological weapon outbreak or whatever. So what do you get for doing all that? You go back to the orbiting platform, and you get to go back into stasis for some untold reason: no reveal about the outbreak, no colonizing, no "juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity," nothing. You take a nap. The end.

[nomad83]

I hatet Altered Beast´s short lenght and ending....I wouldve loved to see twice the levels in that game...6 is too short

i agree, it could have been a lot better if it was longer. i also hated the ending as well.

[Black_Tiger]

Altered Beast's ending pissed me off too. The arcade game had this cool ending where the whole game was revealed to be a movie shoot. The Genesis game lost all of it.

Well then how do you feel about the Golden Axe ending? :)

[Mr Smith]

Alex Kidd's ending really pissed me off. I believe I have mentioned it in a previous Reader Roundtable. Tosh game with a tosh ending.

[zetastrike]

I didn't like Sonic 3's ending. All that just to see Sonic turn around and wag his finger at me?

[K.K.]

I didn't like Sonic 3's ending. All that just to see Sonic turn around and wag his finger at me?
"Great game, huh? Now you'll have to wait half a year for the other half, and pay me more."

[The Coop]

Shadow of the Beast. In order to fit it on a standard 8meg cart, they removed the ending sequence in favor of a static screen that says "Congratulations! You have freed yourself from the shadow of the beast" and then you enter your initials for high score and it goes back to the title screen.

What ending sequence? The Amiga original did the same thing...

http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/amiga/a/shad.htm

http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/genesis/a/shab.htm

[Flygon]

Battle Squadron.

They never released 'Battle Squadron 2', damn it!

[Elusive]

Zero Wing had those weird pinkish single celled ... things on the only ending screen. I slogged through the game for that?

I don't like it when games say "Well done! Now do it again."

[The Coop]

Zero Wing had those weird pinkish single celled ... things on the only ending screen. I slogged through the game for that?

I don't like it when games say "Well done! Now do it again."

Play through on a harder difficulty setting. There is an actual ending if you play it on Medium, and another when played on Hard.

[Smii]

Alex Kidd's ending really pissed me off. I believe I have mentioned it in a previous Reader Roundtable. Tosh game with a tosh ending.

Entirely agree. This is the first and only Alex Kidd game I took the time to complete (I don't like the 8-bit titles either), and it was just a kick in the arse that made me wonder why I bothered at all and hate it forever.

Zero Wing annoyed me as well at the time. In retrospect, it's probably better than the standard "go back and play through the game on a harder difficulty setting you pitiful human" message.

The first game that came to mind upon seeing this thread was Zool. My thoughts went something along the line of "Who the hell is Zooz? What's that 2 headed dog thing? 'See you next time'? There isn't a Zool 2 on the Mega Drive! They lied!" Endings that promise a sequel that never comes. Yech.

[AD2101]

Zero Wing had those weird pinkish single celled ... things on the only ending screen. I slogged through the game for that?

I don't like it when games say "Well done! Now do it again."

Yea, major drag. I wish I could beat it through the third loop because I always thought that ending was pretty epic.

[Joe Redifer]

Those dancing things in Zero Wing always reminded me of the California Raisins dancing to the Can-Can or something.

[jesus.arnold]

The normal ending for Rolo to the Rescue says something like -

"You get back home but every night henceforth you are kept up thinking about all your friends you left behind....and you are never trully happy again for the rest of your life

Though I guess that could be considered a good ending, it made me laugh anyway.

If you rescue everyone you get a happy ending apparently

[K.K.]

and you are never trully happy again for the rest of your life
Best ending ever.

[jesus.arnold]

This isn't really related, but at the end of the Amiga game Flood, after you finally manage to escape from the oncoming water and reach the surface, you get a short movie of you celebrating and then getting hit by a car and killed :D

[RyanJTX326]

Hmmm its hard for me to choose. The best endings in my opinion by far are Comix Zone, Ristar, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

OH I know. Its not so much a bad ending as unsatisfying for such a difficult game.

The Ooze.

I hated the ending. Even when I did get enough mass and all the DNA, I get to see myself turn human. But its pointless, becuase appearantly, you were actually bottled up in a lava lamp. RAWR

[sasuke]

Alex Kidd's ending really pissed me off. I believe I have mentioned it in a previous Reader Roundtable. Tosh game with a tosh ending.

This.

Alex's quest in the first game (and this) was a lie!!!!!!!!!!! :p