Unforgettable Video Game Endings That Stay With You.mp4

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Warning- spoilers ahead! When it comes to videogames, there are players who play for the action and there are players who play for the story. They’re not mutually exclusive, of course, but even those with no capacity for cutscenes have to admit that some game endings are as iconic to the world of gaming as rosebud is to the world of cinema. Yair Ben-Dor has more.

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00:00Warning! Spoilers ahead! When it comes to video games, there are players who play for the action

00:05and there are players who play for the story. They're not mutually exclusive, of course,

00:10but even those with no capacity for cutscenes have to admit that some great game endings are

00:15as iconic to the world of gaming as Rosebud is to the world of cinema. Like Mafia 3,

00:21whose framing device is a documentary that mixes interviews, old news clips, and other bits of

00:26footage from the past to tell the story of Clay and his fight against the mob. In a scene that

00:30takes place after you beat the mob boss, Donovan exposes the senator's involvement in the assassination

00:36of JFK and shoots him in front of everybody and the cameras, saying, I'm starting with you and

00:42vowing to find everyone involved. Or in Red Dead Redemption, easily one of the most iconic games

00:48ever, when Marsden pushes the doors of his farmhouse open and the game automatically activates Deadeye,

00:54persuading you to take out as many lawmen as you can. You can take out a few, sure, but Marsden dies

00:59and we later see that the cycle of violence continues in Marsden's son, Jack, who we see

01:04returning to gather his father's belongings, cluing us to the idea that one day we might pick up where

01:10we're being left off. What about the legend of Zelda the Wind Waker? As Kenneth Shepard writes in Kotaku,

01:16the entire fight is a literal washing away of the past that has plagued these heroes through multiple

01:22reincarnation cycles. Wind Waker's final battle sells the notion with a dramatic vigor

01:28elevated by a stellar fight. These are just three examples of endings, good or bad,

01:34that stick with you, and hopefully there are many, many more still to come.

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