8 Video Game Endings That Cost You Everything

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Alright there, you little demons, Jules here for WhatCulture.com, back again with another

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That's the best that we're going to have right now. Yes, you. I'll fix it in the next week's one

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so I've moved everything around. But that'll be for another week while I figure out everything else

Yes, you get to decide what list I dole out to you each and every week

And this week we have none other to thank than... David LQ3JR for their suggestion of video game endings that cost you absolutely everything

that you had to work so hard, do heinous things, or just spend all of your life grinding just to get that golden ending

And this is the thing, we all love happy endings. But when it comes to video games, sometimes these good, good, good boy endings

can unfortunately result in bad, bad times for the player. and last time I checked, that's you

So let's have a chat about them today as I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com

and these are 8 video game endings that cost you everything. Everything

Any other drill by now? Put your suggestions for next week's episode down in the comments section below but with that in mind let's get on

with this list shall we? Number 8 Mafia 3. The Mafia 3's

ending offers players three distinct paths for protagonist Link and Clay. Leave his life of crime behind

rule the city of New Bordeaux alongside his underboss, or double-cross the other underbosses and take everything for yourself

Now let me just weigh up those options again. Leave the life of crime, which is the entire reason you played this game

work for somebody else, or become the biggest badass in town. Hmm, I wonder which one I'm going to pick

Well, unfortunately, if you do want to become the biggest badass in town, it's gonna cost you

Because going full dirty and killing your lieutenant after taking the city's crown offers up only the momentary of victories for Lincoln

as upon leaving and getting into his car, he'll be suddenly blown to ribbons by a car bomb

It's subsequently revealed that the bomb was planted by his friend, Father James

who desperately attempted to talk Lincoln out of staying and ruling. James states that he made the agonizing decision to kill Lincoln

after realizing that he was no different than the game's primary villain, mob boss Sal Malkano, and so doesn't actually regret doing it

Like, I get it. Crime, it doesn't pay. We all know that adage by now

But at the same time, could it have paid a little bit of dividends for a slight length longer than just getting to your car

Number seven odd world Abe's Odyssey. So by default in Abe's Odyssey

You only have a measly three grenades on normal difficulty to see you through the entire game But did you know that there is a way of getting infinite grenades which last time I checked makes things infinitely more explosively fun but the problem is that it is going to cost you Well maybe not entirely you

but every person or meducken that you come across. Yeah, you're going to need to be a real

for this one. Because the practice of getting these infinite grenades requires some serious

douchebaggery on your part. You'll need to go through the entire game without lifting a finger

to help rescue any of your fellow imprisoned Madokans. Worse still, you need to make sure that

all the Madokans are dead before you reach the end of the game. And by doing all of this, you'll

trigger the super super bad terrible ending where the main villain of the game actually comes on and

says, wait, calm down there chief, that's a lot of dead workers that you've now just provided me with

You're a bit of a sick twisted creep and I kind of admire that in a way. So here, as a reward for

killing every other person you come across. Here's infinite grenades. To kill them more

In a subsequent playthrough. And I thought they were good at business. So yeah, infinite grenades

awesome. But murdering all your fellow prisoner slaves to get them, oh, that's a heavy burden for

the soul. Number six, Heavy Rain. So if you want to platinum the video game Heavy Rain, you are going

to indeed go through some heavy, heavy times. Because this game wants you to get your hands

are dirty, my friend. The interactive drama allows players to dictate the fates of its four

central characters, including the origami killer himself. And while you're obviously encouraged to

try and keep the non-murderous characters alive, if you want that sweet, sweet platinum, you're

going to have to willingly hand a W to the game's antagonist. The perfect crime trophy can only be

popped by letting the origami killer, eventually revealed to be P.I. Scott Shelby, get away with it

Jaws! Spoilers! Si, if this game's been out for like, what, a decade now

Well, I haven't got to that part yet. Frankly, I've been too busy with this really important part right here

Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! Jason! This involves cleaning up any evidence throughout the game that might tie Scott to his various crime scenes

while also working hard to ensure that most, if not all of the game's other central characters end up dead

You'll then get to witness the ending where Scott gets off, Scott free

Which is also the emotion, this ugh, that you'll be feeling at the end of the game, because as he walks off into the sunset, you're just like

ooh, I'm not the good guy here. I am, if anything, the bad guy

But at least I have a platinum trophy for it. Was it worth it? No, no. Number five, Medieval 2

Now, in most video games, if you go out of your way to hoover up every single collectible

every golden coin and help every schlumbu from the schlumbla prisons does that exist? I don't even know by now

it probably does in a platforming game then you are usually going to be rewarded with

the best ending, right? Because you've gone out of your way to do all of this stuff, the schlumblers

you've held them or killed them, I can't remember which game whatever, you want the best ending, right

nah, not in medieval 2 nah, nah, nah, nah, nah because in a grand act of trolling on the part of its

developers, Medieval 2 goes the total opposite way by ensuring that those who collect all 20 chalices will be rewarded with a grand bummer of a cliffhanger ending Indeed reach the end of the game with all chalices in tow and you unlock an ending where Sir Dan and his mummified love interest hitch a ride on a time machine taking them back to Zaroq lair

from the end of the first game. At this moment, the pair are then attacked by a monstrous version

of villain Pale Thorn, and we abruptly cut to black. Now, given that a third medieval game was

never produced, we're left to assume that Dan and his love interest were killed by Pale Thorn

and that is quite a bummer of a true ending that you had to go well out of your way to see

And considering that the normal ending of this game just sees them living on forever in peace in the afterlife

this seems like an especial kick in the nuts. Thanks! Number 4, Nier

Now the video game Nier takes the concept of sacrificing everything for an ending and pushes it to the extreme

Thank you, Yoko Taro. Once again, you have given a TED talk on how to be a very weird and enigmatic creator

You odd bull, you. I say that like he's here. Alright, mate. Cup of tea afterwards, yeah, yeah

Because in order to achieve the game's fourth ending, Ending D, you'll need to straight up lose your save data

This ending sees the player sacrifice themselves to save Kane, resulting in their very existence being forgotten by every other character

And this is literalised by forcing the player to delete their own save game

leaving the title as though it's never been played. Oh, and also, as a nice little touch that a lot of people seem to forget about this

if you try to start a new playthrough and use the same name as you did for your previous character

the game will say, no, sorry, can't do that. So you've literally lost all record of this character ever existing and are barred from doing it again

To hammer home the gravity of the situation, the game even asks you if you're really, really sure about doing this

it makes for a uniquely affecting and impactful ending, though the recent Nier Replicant remaster adds an extra fifth ending

where the erased save file could actually be restored. All the same, for those that played the original game

this made for quite the agonizing dilemma. And yes, I mean, Yoko Taro did try to replicate this

Ha ha ha, little joke there. Replicate, replicant. Trying to do this again in Nier Automata

Potato, patata. But unfortunately, we'd already seen it before, so it didn't hit with quite the same impact here

so uh yeah yoga time getting a bit stale okay i mean stale with this amazing once in a lifetime

design stuff cool sick number three hatred okay so i'm sitting in front of a script that's been

written for me here by jack poolee who wants to talk about hatred and how at the end of the game

you need to kill literally everything everyone around you in order to end the game because the point of this game if there is even a point is that your character is so angry at life he just

wants to take down everyone with him oh but you know what i'm sick of talking about this game i

don't like talking about it at all it is a game that i've said many many times that is for water

cooler masturbators who think that long trench coats are the epitome of edgy coolness i do not

want to talk about it anymore but yeah if you do want to see the end of that game just go on youtube

don't give the developer any money sick bye number two undertale by the way i should state for the

record here jack helps me write these scripts for these and then i basically just butcher all of them

Every single time he writes reams and reams of stuff, I look at them and go, I'm gonna ad-lib half of this

He loves that Number 2 Undertale Now the brilliantly bonkers Undertale has three main endings depending largely on how players deal with the enemies they encounter throughout the game The pacifist ending is achieved by shockingly enough refusing to kill any of the

game's enemies, while the neutral ending is unlocked by killing some, but not all of them

And then there's the genocide ending, which is also true to its name, and can only be unlocked

by killing every single enemy in the game. This requires players to not only kill every enemy

they fight, but also hang around and trigger random encounters until all areas have been

fully wiped out. This will lead to an ending in which players battle SANS, arguably the best and

most challenging boss in the entire game, before Chara shows up and straight up erases the entire

world. And better yet, if you do want to play again, you're going to need to go back to that

very point and give your soul to them in order to restore the world, because you broke things

that bloody badly. Yeah, you took everything. You destroyed everything. Good job. But also bad

bad naughty and number one super fire pro wrestling special okay my friends let's wrap

things up by talking about a super deep cut from 1994 and if you know anything about me and my work

over on the future game show youtube channel you'll know that i love myself a deep cut in fact i have

a series based entirely around that because i'm tired of talking about the same lists over and

over again i want new games or 10 of the old obscure games don't break your brain on this

point, Joel. Anyway, we're travelling back to 1994 to talk about an often forgotten wrestling game

and how it's got such a bleak ending. Now, as with most wrestling games, the end goal of the

story mode is to win the world championship, which in this case involves defeating champion

Dick Slender, a hilariously blatant Ric Flair ripoff. But because the game's story was written

by Suda51, you know, the madman who later made Killer7, No More Heroes and Lollipop chainsaw

of course, this was going to have an unhinged twist. Before the fight, Slender kills the trainer

of your protagonist, and even if you achieve revenge by defeating Slander in the Ring

the game ends with you realising that your victory is empty, as he has nobody to

share it with. Because his trainer is dead, and his romantic love interest has

just basically said, no thanks, I'm not about this life. I just won the world champion, I just wanted to be

a greasy oil boy, I just wanted to take part in the craps

what's going on with this business, what's going on? And so in the game's

grim final scene, you go home, and shoot yourself dead. That's the reward for completing the story mode in this game

Okay, then. What? What? But you never see that in a 2K game, I'll tell you that much

And there we go, my friends. Those were eight video game endings that cost you everything

I hope that you enjoyed that, and let me know what you thought about it down in the comments section below, and put your suggestions for next week's episode down there as well

I promise that next week or the week after, everything should look a little bit different, a little bit better

I'll be standing up, be more mobile, I'll be more with my hands. I'll be doing all sorts of shapes you won't even be ready for

That was just a taste. One percent. So get excited about that. As always, I've been Jules

Hope that you are treating yourself well, my friend. And just remember, above all else, you are a massive ledge

You deserve love. You deserve happiness. You deserve success like all of us human beings do on this world

OK, so do not forget you're a massive ledge. Now go out there and smash your life goals because I believe in you

As always, I've been Jules. You have been awesome, my friends. And I'll speak to you soon

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