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below with the darkest ending to a video game youve ever played.
Now lets get to todays list of the Top 10 Video Games with Dark Endings
Oh and because this is video game dark endings, spoilers are in your near future.
So be warned!
#10 Grand Theft Auto IV Man do the developers at Rockstar games really
know how to box you into a corner.
In the ending of Grand Theft Auto 4, they really do not give you a happy ending decision.
You have two options to go with, one is exacting revenge and the other is making a deal.
If you go with making the deal, Nikos cousin Roman is shot dead by an attacker on his wedding
day.
If you go with the revenge option, Nikos love interest Kate ends up being torn to bits in
a hail of bullets from an assault rifle by a drive by shooter.
Both endings are abrupt from the once happy moment you shared in the church watching your
cousin get married.
Its a bold move by Rockstar as both endings result in a beloved character being killed
unceremoniously.
#9 Portal The first ending to Portal was a surprisingly
happy one at that, but when the sequel began building they retconned the first game and
patched in a second more dark ending.
When Portal 2 begins you awaken from your cryogenic sleep and the AI Wheatley tells
the protagonist Chell that ten thousand others that were in test chambers are now dead.
Without the ending to the first game added you would remain blissfully unaware of why
these people died.
All of those chambers were destroyed by Chell when she finished off the first game.
It did take a second game for people to realize just how dark the added ending was.
Essentially though you discover that you are responsible for killing 10 thousand people.
#8 Halo 3 Speaking of genocide.
Halo 3 certainly proved to become a dark ending for gamers.
After the war between humans and the covenant had slowed down it looked as though Master
Chief had done it.
He had saved the earth and stopped the aliens, something that would call for celebration,
but not just yet.
You then learn that while the war was going on, the Covenant had committed mass genocide
amounting to 23 billion.
So that makes things a little harder to celebrate when the people youd celebrate with are essentially
dust now.
It was 5 years after that ending before Halo 4 was released, but until then fans had to
just wonder if the human race would ever be able to recover.
#7 Conkers Bad Fur Day A first glance this seems to be a harmless
video game about a profane squirrel whos trying to save his girlfriend.
Although the developers added in a real dark twist that rips your heart out.
In the final minutes of the game ending the screen freezes right as a Xenomorph from the
Alien series lunges at you.
It offers a moment of the fourth wall breaking down where Conker asks the developers for
some help, they give him a katana and he defeats the alien.
He is then crowned king, but when he realizes his girlfriend is dead he asks the developers
for help again only to this time have no answer.
Its the ultimate metaphor of a god existing, but doesnt care about your every need.
So the game just ends with Conker on his throne drinking himself into depression.
#6 Half-Life 2: Episode 2 The Half-life episodes were a great way for
Valve to lay out the foundation to hype people up for a possible Half-Life 3.
Although in the ending of Half-Life 2 it left fans crushed and depressed for over 5 years.
Its an infuriating cliff-hanger where the protagonist Gordon Freeman along with his
friends Alex and her father Eli enter a hangar to board a helicopter finishing their escape.
Just when things are looking up a pair of Advisors break in and kill Eli in front of
Gordon and Alex.
Before theyre about to also kill Alex, Dog comes in to save the day, but it still leaves
us with Alex holding her fathers dead body.
Its a depressing glimpse into the Half-Life universe that will always be remembered as
one very dark video game ending.
#5 Shadow of the Colossus Known as one of the greatest video games of
all time, it sets gamers up for one of the most miserable plot twists in history.
As the protagonist called Wander you spend most of the ending trying to hunt down 16
things called colossi which are supposed to hold the key to rescuing your fallen love
Mono.
Although once you defeat the final one it is revealed that the colossi are actually
holding back a demon named Dormin.
The demon then possesses you and transforms your character into a baby with horns.
However Mono decides to take care of the baby, but it also means that Mono and Wander never
truly get to be together at the ending of the game.
#4 Red Dead Redemption
The Red Dead Redemption series has by far become one of the greatest storylines courtesy
of Rockstar.
The first game paid full homage to the wild west and the rogue character of John Marston
managed to be quite likable.
Which made this ending sting even more.
Marston comes out of the barn to a gang with guns pointed in his direction.
The game allows you to fire off a few shots, but before you know it the bullets have ripped
through Marston taking him down in a bloody mess.
Rockstar even manages to skip the whole famous last words cliche that would usually follow
a scene as brutal as that one.
Instead they flip to his wife and son Jack standing over his fathers body.
#3 Mass Effect 3 This is one of those games that the storyline
never lead you to believe it would be depressing, yet here we are.
Its mostly because gamers were lied to by BioWare, they insisted that in Mass Effect
3 all of the decisions you had made on your save file within the last three games would
culminate into a big emotional ending.
However what it came down to was a choice of three colours making all previous decisions
entirely irrelevant.
#2 Far Cry 3 Most people expected the Far Cry series to
become a forgotten death with its awful stories.
However remarkably enough Far Cry 3 managed to out do it with an even crazier narrative.
The ending was incredibly dark and probably not even safe for you to talk about at work.
We cant even show you the video its that brutal.
In the end you terminate the remaining friends you do have and then mid-coitus while in some
strange ancient ritual the woman stabs you in your chest.
Its strange, brutal and incredibly dark.
#1 Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid managed to pull a fast one
over on players with this shocking twist of events.
Naked Snake aka Big Boss saves the day, but hes forced to kill his former mentor because
she switched from the US to the Soviets.
Although whats revealed to us in the ending is that his mentor was actually a double agent
who had been helping Snake this whole time.
None of that matters though as his former mentors name goes down as a traitor instead
of a hero.
The game leaves us with Snake saluting her unmarked grave as he sheds a tear and becomes
one of the few people left who knew her truth.
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