Favorite video game ending? [SPOILERS]

[ScotchRobbins]

What was your favorite video game ending of all time? Spoilers welcome.

I'm dead tied for a favorite between inFAMOUS 2 good karma and Portal 2. Both blew away my expectations for an ending, with Portal 2's ingenuity and inFAMOUS 2 killing a hero (makes me feel sad still. Bought the song from the credits - now there is a song that carries nostalgia!).

You?

[Blue]

Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Was very sad, and I couldn't wait to get back at at the Combine for what they did. Episode 3 couldn't come soon enough!

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[ArchAngel]

Bastion. When you carry Zulf away. The more I think about it, the more profound it becomes.

[ccgr]

Bioshock had a cool ending.

[JOJ650s]

For me it would be,
Professor Layton: and the unwound future.

Man, that game had an great story as well.

[Deepfreeze32]

I really enjoyed the ending to Half-Life 2. I was kinda disappointed with the way Episode 1 took it though. Way too deus ex machina.

[Chozon1]

Bastion. When you carry Zulf away. The more I think about it, the more profound it becomes.

Yesssssssss. Combined with the epic music, that part nearly had me in tears. Dunno why. Just did.

For me, I think it's a tie between Modern Warfare (first one) and Megaman X. Modern warfare because it was...completely unexpected. Awesome ending, and the second one as well. But it was the idea that, even after all that, the end of the war was brought down to a broken man with a single pistol.

Megaman X because I had to work so hard for it. It was also a very thoughtful ending. After all, he had saved the world, but through violence and loss. Was that the only way, and was it why he was created? Was it truly worth the cost?

[ArchAngel]

Right? I can't stop listening to that song from the soundtrack. I'm hard pressed to find a better illustration of forgiveness anywhere else.

[Chozon1]

Or love. That game is crazy.

[Corpfox]

Starcraft Original
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YVD9OlSngg

Brood War
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5ybRRz-vk

SF4; dan ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE4opqIy8fQ

[ScotchRobbins]

I really enjoyed the ending to Half-Life 2. I was kinda disappointed with the way Episode 1 took it though. Way too deus ex machina.

I've heard good things about Half Life 2. Very good things. However, I've only played Episode 1 (Gabe Newell was kind to me during Steam's winter sale, and I got it for free), and I would agree with you. Then again, a Deus Ex Machina ending is nothing new to us. Remember the Avengers? The Phantom Menace? Possibly Ghostbusters?

[Blue]

Episode 1 is, by far, the weakest game in the whole series. I highly suggest you get the Half-Life anthology and begin playing from the very first game. It hasn't aged that much, and I think the first one is the best in the series.

Blue Shift and Opposing Force are also amazing games, but I don't think they're canon.

[Chozon1]

It might be possible, if you grabbed the Source versions, to say the OG Half Life hasn't aged at all. It's still amazing.