Videogame Endings that SUCK!

[seawasp]

Chris, my oldest son, has been playing the Wii version of "The Force Unleashed" (if I recall the titile correctly), a Star Wars game.

In this you play a character who starts out adopted by Vader and trained in the Dark Side, so you go off and do Evil Sith things. However, eventually you start to move towards the Light Side, and at the end you decide you will not follow Vader's directives and turn on him.

This sounds all good, and you can see a fine ending coming from this (one that could lead to a series of games) in which the character manages to beat Vader or at least fight him off well enough to escape. But instead....

... after you manage to defeat Vader, you kick him into another room... and there's the Emperor waiting for you. After a pretty screwed fight, you end up badly injured, all your friends are dead, and the Emperor turns you into another Vaderlike servant he intends to use and throw away. Then the game says "Congratulations! You've won the game!"

WTF? That's "winning"? I'd hate to see what you call LOSING, because DEATH would be a better outcome! What's WRONG with the people making these things?

Comments

[xyzzysqrl]

It seems like there's two endings, according to Wikipedia. Unless the Wii version only has the one.

One of them seems to match what you described, the other is a bit more hopeful.

[seawasp]

I'll tell him to try that approach.

The ending is still pretty filled with suck, just not as MUCH suck, according to the entry. But at least you don't end up a zombie in the Emperor's service.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Well, the "good" ending does have to allow the movie continuity to go forward, so there's not a whole lot you can do there without going into totally alternate timelines.

And how can you really hate a game featuring Jar Jar encased in carbonite?

[seawasp]

I did not know that JarJar in carbonite was a feature of the game. Where is he?

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

In the Kashyyk level, the bit where you are in the trophy room with all the mounted and stuffed beasties, there's a Gungan in carbonite.

[seawasp]

I think for videogames that alternate continuities should be canon, so to speak.