Best and Worst Ending

Best: Lots of death. Alyx, Eli etc.
Worst: We made it Calhoun, we made it...
 
Rabarber said:
Worst: Barney dies in a final battle.
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/me looks back and forth from his sig to Rabarber's post

Oh dear.

Anyway, best: Having effectively sealed off Earth from outside universes and dimensions, and long been away from his home planet while taking the fight to the Combine, Gordon is now faced with the choice of returning home to Earth as its savior, to help rebuild a new civilization, or join up with the intergalactic bureaucracy the G-man works for, existing outside of regular time and space, to secure the known universe from future threats. A choice entirely up to the player. If you're interested in the job, just step through the...well, we've been over this before, haven't we? I trust you know what to do.

Worst: Confronting the Combine on their homeworld, Gordon realizes the shocking truth: Race-X was in control of the slugs all along, and the only man equipped to stop them is Adrian Shephard, who bursts through a portal like some unwanted deus ex machina just as sudden death awaits Gordon Freeman. A fight ensues and you and Adrian destroy every last shocktrooper and geneworm.

Afterward, the G-man congratulates you both on your victory, shaking Adrian's hand and turning to you to say,

"You see, Dr. Freeman, I had reserved Adrian all along for this precise moment. Had I not, well, I could not be ssssstanding before you, for you would have been dead.

And consequently, so would I." Implying, of course, that G-man and Gordon Freeman ARE THE SAME PERSON.
 
Darkside55 said:
/me looks back and forth from his sig to Rabarber's post

Oh dear.

Anyway, best: Having effectively sealed off Earth from outside universes and dimensions, and long been away from his home planet while taking the fight to the Combine, Gordon is now faced with the choice of returning home to Earth as its savior, to help rebuild a new civilization, or join up with the intergalactic bureaucracy the G-man works for, existing outside of regular time and space, to secure the known universe from future threats. A choice entirely up to the player. If you're interested in the job, just step through the...well, we've been over this before, haven't we? I trust you know what to do.

Worst: Confronting the Combine on their homeworld, Gordon realizes the shocking truth: Race-X was in control of the slugs all along, and the only man equipped to stop them is Adrian Shephard, who bursts through a portal like some unwanted deus ex machina just as sudden death awaits Gordon Freeman. A fight ensues and you and Adrian destroy every last shocktrooper and geneworm.

Afterward, the G-man congratulates you both on your victory, shaking Adrian's hand and turning to you to say,

"You see, Dr. Freeman, I had reserved Adrian all along for this precise moment. Had I not, well, I could not be ssssstanding before you, for you would have been dead.

And consequently, so would I." Implying, of course, that G-man and Gordon Freeman ARE THE SAME PERSON.
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Winner, best and worst.
 
I totally agree on Gordon getting a choice, Darkside, but I think that the options could be a little better. They both seem a little too...I don't really know. Maybe a little to good. Both seem to be benificial for everyone (Except the Combine, of course :p). I think they need to be a bit more grey.
 
There's a little gray-ness to the job offer. If he takes that one, then he's able to protect his and other worlds from rising threats, but he never gets to go home. He's completely secured Earth (and Xen) for his friends, colleagues, and would-be love interest, but he'll never see them again in order to protect them.

Going back home...no real downside, except you miss out on a really cool suit and briefcase. ;)
 
I thinking it should be more like Deus Ex, all the endings could be good or evil. Maybe you could have a benevolent AI running the world's communications systems, but any bit of corruption and you have a tyrant. You could be a force for good with the Illuminati, but you're also establishing a powerful hierarchy that could do more harm than good. Or you could plunge the world into a new dark age, with obvious negative consequences.
 
I think a choise like that whould mess up any upcoming sequel with Gordon.
In half life 2 they just went with that you whould go with his offer rather then die.
 
riomhaire said:
I thinking it should be more like Deus Ex, all the endings could be good or evil. Maybe you could have a benevolent AI running the world's communications systems, but any bit of corruption and you have a tyrant. You could be a force for good with the Illuminati, but you're also establishing a powerful hierarchy that could do more harm than good. Or you could plunge the world into a new dark age, with obvious negative consequences.
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Well Gordon would never turn tyrannical or even iron-fisted, after seeing what Dr. Breen had done. I can't imagine him imposing any limits on human society, things like suddenly outlawing portal technology...actually...hm. Scratch that, maybe he would.

I see what you're saying though, just in the way of examples. The ambiguity of any possible ending. Me personally I don't agree with endings like that most of the time...sometimes they work really well (Deus Ex of course, which you mentioned; some of the best game endings right there), but if an ending is going to leave the future open I want to at least know the general direction it's heading. Not, "Things could be good but then they could also go wrong," or vice versa. I tend to think that endings that inspire one emotion, one theme rather than many, those are the best types of endings. That's just me personally because it always feels anticlimactic or unfulfilling otherwise. It's like, "Wow, he stopped the Combine and went back to rebuild society, but aw, the society he builds might be one of scientific limitation to prevent disaster ever happening again." It's not as hopeful an ending, y'know? I'd like at least a semblance of a happy ending for Gordon and humanity.

But uh, that last one, leading humanity into the dark ages like JC Denton? Freeman could definately do that, except it'd be by complete accident. :LOL:
 
Rizzo89 said:
I think a choise like that whould mess up any upcoming sequel with Gordon.
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The point is that the choice would go at the very end of the series, there would be no more sequels afterwords.

Darkside55 said:
But uh, that last one, leading humanity into the dark ages like JC Denton? Freeman could definately do that, except it'd be by complete accident. :LOL:
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:LOL: True dat.
 
After starting a mass rebelion, Gordon learns more about the Combine and how they set a balance in the Omniverse. After helping the Combine stop the rebelion, which has become a serious problem, he helps the vortigaunts stop G-man, who for some reason(I'm not creative enough to make a reason up) wants to break this cycle, closes the Combine of Xen and guides humanity to Xen. There he stays, surrounded by Combine, but knowing that he set' everything right.
Now that I've read this, it makes even less sence than when I wrote it.
 
Best: Probably that there is yet another offer, as long as Valve can keep the ideas fresh, the series will never have a good ending!

Worst: Gordon ends up at the combine homeworld, kills everyone and it becomes a 'Space Adventure' with Gordon going from planet to planet in some ship or something. Star Trek: Half-Life would be a real bad setup.

My conclusion, Half-Life can't end properly, and if Valve does end it, you can rest assured that modders with Gmod will continue the game series, in good or bad ways, some one will pull through.
 
Rizzo89 said:
I think a choise like that whould mess up any upcoming sequel with Gordon.
In half life 2 they just went with that you whould go with his offer rather then die.
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u really didn't have a choice at the end of half-life it was just an illusion made by the g-man o.0
 
Yeah. Your options were to do his bidding, or die a horrible death...
 
Best:Gordon goes back into statis after killing the Combine Overlord which just arrvied on Earth after the Citadel exploded. Then the G-Man greets him and says "Mr.Freeman, you have gone through a great deal of thingsss, and I am now at the liberty to sssay that your employment had just been finished. However, Mr. Frreeman, there is a larger dealing with you reserved for you." *teleports Gordon to distant planet and discovers another alien race bent on ruling reality* Worst:The above.
 
Best: Ends on XEN
Worst: We have to Kill Nihinlanth... AGAIN ugh...
 
best: alyx strips only for the screen to fade out before u see anything
worst: gordon speaks, only to reveal a increidbly high pitched voices which makes all the main characters collapse laughing (even the gman). they all die and then bugs bunny comes on screen saying "THATS ALL FOLKS" credits roll incredibly fast and a small farting noise is made at the end.
 
nutcrackr said:
best: Shepard returns and we cut to a meadow full of flowers, gordon and shepard hug and dream about the past and future.

Worst: Shepard doesn't return
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I wonder if the G-man will ever send Shepard after Freeman...

Best- I dunno. Lots of possibilities.

Worst- Happy ever after, rainbows and bumblebees and all that shit.

What I think might happen- Big, final, epic battle against the entity known as G-man (we probably won't see this until after Episode Three), Alyx is either killed, enraging Gordon (and probably the player) or ends up living and being with Gordon despite some insurmountable problem preventing that from being easy. Kleiner, Eli, Mossman, Dog, and this Magnusson character all die. Barney finally buys Gordon a beer.

In any case, hopefully they won't do anything retarded and lame, or anything that causes outrage. Killing Alyx or Barney would do that for me. I'd be pretty bummed.
 
Trodler said:
best: alyx strips only for the screen to fade out before u see anything
worst: gordon speaks, only to reveal a increidbly high pitched voices which makes all the main characters collapse laughing (even the gman). they all die and then bugs bunny comes on screen saying "THATS ALL FOLKS" credits roll incredibly fast and a small farting noise is made at the end.
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o_O
Bugs Bunny says "What's up Doc?", not "That's all Folks," that's the pig.
 
Best: Gordon makes with Alyx

Worst: Gman steps out again and told Gordon to wait for the next assignment.
 
I'd say there's a 50/50 chance that Gordon and Alyx "get busy", to borrow her term. The other possibility is that she dies. It doesn't seem plausible that they remain friends.
 
he will never remove that suit of his. never. and he will never talk. nor shave. nor go for laser eye surgery. nor..shit, what's wrong with me..
 
The whole poınt of Gordon ıs that he ıs a blank slate that you prodject your own thoughts and feelıngs onto. I hope that Valve don't ruın that to go wıth somethıng as bad and cheesy as forcıng the player ınto a sex wıth her.
 
That won't happen, because that's too creepy for most of the players. I would kinda feel uncomfortable myself watching that happen. Call me old-fashioned if you want. :sleep:
 
Best: The G-man congratulates you and reveals the contents of his briefcase.
Worst: The G-man congratulates you and reveals the contents of his pants.

The worst: A teaser trailer showing snippets of the proceeding episode.
 
Best: Something really epic, sort of like some of the stuff posted earlier.

Worst: Gordon sees the G-Man walking towards him as the Combine homeworld freezes in time and g-man is in mid-sentence when Gordon notices the various buildings being disintegrated as if they were hit by an energy ball from one of the combine rifles. The trail of vaporized buildings gets closer as G-man talks as he ussually does in his cryptic and odd manner, until the last building is vaporized and Doctor Kleiner is seen with a little pda on a handle sort of thing and the word "mingebag" is seen above his head, he thean vaporizes g-man with the console and goes about "loling" leaving Gordon in stasis forever as the screen blacks out...
 
Worst: Something like the ending of The Path of Neo.
 
Path of Neo has the worst game ending I've ever seen. Ever.
 
V-Man339 said:
Path of Neo has the worst game ending I've ever seen. Ever.
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Pfft to both of you. Path of Neo had the most epic ending ever. It was truly the conclusion of the Matrix saga! :O Fulfilling and awe-inspiring at the same time.
 
I'm willing to admit it made a pretty dang good ending to the matrix saga, but for a video game in general...
Let's just say there's LOTS of room for improvement
 
V-Man339 said:
I'm willing to admit it made a pretty dang good ending to the matrix saga, but for a video game in general...
Let's just say there's LOTS of room for improvement
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You have no sense of fun. ;)
 
Because this is a thread about endings and The Path of Neo has an incredibly pathetic ending.
 
People, people, you fail if you don't see how awesome Path of Neo's ending is.

SPOILERS:
All the Smiths join together to form a giant Super-Smith, which you must then awesomely defeat. Come on. That is almost as awesome as The Touch and Optimus Prime. Or the Death Star. Or treadmilling shrimp.
 
It's bloody retarded. Especially how you fight him. Seeing as Neo can fly and the giant Smith is so slow, Neo should easily be able to fly in circles around him and rip hin to shreds. Instead, you have to fly in a fixed path that allows the giant Smith to whack at you. It also periodicly roars like King Kong for no good reason. After you attack it a few times, the Smiths for no apparent reason explode. What's worse is the introduction where you get told that games shouldn't get a decent, dramatic ending but instead should get a generic, giant boss.

I would have put a spoiler warning, but spoiling something implies that it was good in the first place.
 
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