Gamer's Rage: Game Endings (ME3, FF13-2, etc)

After finishing an enduring franchise, most players wish for a proper closure to make up for their deep devotion to a title. However, what if the case is that the 'finale' ends up being unnsatisfactory or completely out of place when compared to its predecessor. Well my fellow cave dwellers, you get an outraged fan bomb that will anihilate whatever gets in its way of that desirable 'true ending'.

Very few games have this "Finale Fever" thought the ones that contain it, usually cause an outrage among their obsessive fan-base. For instance, the Mass Effect 3 franchise has had an enraged outburst of fans demand Bioware to create a 'better' ending that suits their own personal enjoyment. They even were patriotic and bold enough to create a petition for Bioware to alter their (Not the fan's) game's ending. These sorts of scenarios make me feel embarrassed to be a gamer in today's society as a majority of judgemental people assume that we are all whiny, spoiled brats that demand what they personally desire which ends up being the unpopular opinion.

Now, I am not saying that there isn't a place for these incidents to occur nor am I saying that I have never felt what these fellow gamers are going through. For instance, when I completed Final Fantasy 13-2 (SPOILER ALERT!) I was devastated to know that the 'true ending' involved Serah dying and the whole of coccoon collapsing into the earth. (SPOILER FINISHED!) However, writing a petition was the last thing on my mind though I was pretty annoyed with Square Enix using dlc to 'fix' their ending like Mass Effect!


It is rumoured that there is an upcoming dlc that is supposed to show what happened to Lightning during the game......sigh



Don't understand my game? Then buy my DLC!

Speaking of which, I am incredibly furious with the amount of developers that believe that DLC defines an ending to their games. Asura's Wrath, Final Fantasy 13-2, Mass Effect 3 and others all follow this ridiculous pattern that is branding the game's industry as child's play. Unnoticingly, companies are  'stealing' loads of cash from oblivious gamers and patriotic fans by releasing 'extra content' that should have been on the disc to conclude the game to begin with! Asura's Wrath for example, had a very small campaign (5-7 hours) and due to its mediocre epilogue, the developers released numerous quantities of dlc to fill in the uneeded gaps between each episode and to finalise the game's confusing ending. (To some it was criticised as confusing)

Ending with an optomistic statement, I hope that developers do not take further advantage of gamers as that would result in a true fan-fare war.