Post by The Curmudgeon on Feb 25, 2008 23:12:02 GMT 2
You know, I STILL get that feeling; that feeling when you complete a superb game, a game you've got addicted to, enjoyed, swore at, sweated and and finally completed - and then that weird feeling of sadness that its all over, as you watch the end credits roll by for the first time.
Video game endings; today they have no excuse to be anything but cinematic masterpieces, but in the days of the SNES and Megadrive (Genesis to you Jet Age Americans), a real ending could make a good game great, like all your hard work was worth it.
Thinking about it, I suppose my favourite video game ending is for Street Fighter II - a different, character specific ending for every fighter, meaning you had to master the game for every character.
I also liked those games that had good/bad endings (the first I remember being Sonic the Hedgehog 2).
The worst offenders were the "CONGRATULATIONS! GAME OVER." type endings - of which, thinking about it, there really were quite a lot.
So, game endings - what ones do you remember? What's your favourite and your worst, bearing in mind that no game can match the sheer awesomeness of THIS end message..
Video game endings; today they have no excuse to be anything but cinematic masterpieces, but in the days of the SNES and Megadrive (Genesis to you Jet Age Americans), a real ending could make a good game great, like all your hard work was worth it.
Thinking about it, I suppose my favourite video game ending is for Street Fighter II - a different, character specific ending for every fighter, meaning you had to master the game for every character.
I also liked those games that had good/bad endings (the first I remember being Sonic the Hedgehog 2).
The worst offenders were the "CONGRATULATIONS! GAME OVER." type endings - of which, thinking about it, there really were quite a lot.
So, game endings - what ones do you remember? What's your favourite and your worst, bearing in mind that no game can match the sheer awesomeness of THIS end message..
