Video game endings may be some of the best in media, because you can affect them. Nonetheless, my top three are more straightforward, as in
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https://youtu.be/y6NGn9bA304?t=151 World Heroes 2 Jet Best Ending, because it’s so random!
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Limbo of the Lost. The game, the myth! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URcvdDtnM_0
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Stack Columns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vufEmB3qSNA So bittersweet!
What are your favorites?
I like the rimworld ending where it slows to single digit fps and then crashes because I refuse to launch the ship.
(I very seldom bother finishing games)
Those 5,000 [redacted] leather cowboy hats aren’t gonna sell them selves.
An Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune? https://youtu.be/R7qT-C-0ajI?si=htfePXQsVs-Vle9D&t=102
Outer Wilds. If you haven’t played the game, don’t look up the ending. It has to be experienced.
Disco Elysium as well.
NieR Automata, True Ending E. I’ll never play it again, and I’ll never forget it
All three of the Mother games.
Undertale (make fun of me all you want, but what other game finishes by telling you not to play ever again?)
There are tons more but I forget
Off the top of my head, Super Metroid and Braid endings both did something unusual and interesting for their time. Undertale as well, though that’s already been mentioned.
