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Comment Re:Worst ending ever... (Score 1) 190

by JMGraven on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @12:08PM (#30751614) Attached to: Game Endings Going Out of Style?

Thanks for the reminder about that. I just started playing this again too. Totally forgot how much the "ending" sucked when I completed it years ago. They made a proper ending with EOB2, if I remember correctly. EOB3 just sucked as a whole. I was planning on playing through all three again, now I just may have to quit playing.

Game Endings Going Out of Style? 190

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @07:39AM from the to-be-continued dept.

An article in the Guardian asks whether the focus of modern games has shifted away from having a clear-cut ending and toward indefinite entertainment instead. With the rise of achievements, frequent content updates and open-ended worlds, it seems like publishers and developers are doing everything they can to help this trend. Quoting: "Particularly before the advent of 'saving,' the completion of even a simple game could take huge amounts of patience, effort and time. The ending, like those last pages of a book, was a key reason why we started playing in the first place. Sure, multiplayer and arcade style games still had their place, but fond 8, 16 and 32-bit memories consist more of completion and satisfaction than particular levels or tricky moments. Over the past few years, however, the idea of a game as simply something to 'finish' has shifted somewhat. For starters, the availability of downloadable content means no story need ever end, as long as the makers think there's a paying audience. Also, the ubiquity of broadband means multiplayer gaming is now the standard, not the exception it once was. There is no real 'finish' to most MMORPGs."

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