I’m pretty sure the Dark ending of Dark Souls is the “good”ending. By the time the third game comes around, it’s clear the endless cycle of Linking the Fire has drastically corrupted the world. And if you do all the right steps, letting the Dark Age finally happen frees humanity from the hollowing, and undeath no longer bleeds your humanity away.

@AbsolXGuardian

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Or that your choice is at least pointless because of the cycle. Dark Lord ending still leads to DS2 because someone else lights the flame. Light the flame ending leads to DS2 because you light it and then it eventually fades. No winning here.

@sharlesdaviskendy2391

3 жыл бұрын

@@AbsolXGuardian The fact someone else makes the wrong choice later doesn’t change the morality of your choice though...

@aleksikorhonen1693

3 жыл бұрын

Sharles Davis Kendy depends on how you view the ethics

@ronin3993

3 жыл бұрын

Now I'm no master of Dark Souls Lore, however my interpretation is that neither ending of DS1 matters. Both are bad options, either endless cycle of relighting the fire causing cruelty and distortion or world filled with tough monsters and devoid of friends (Untended Graves DS3). Most importantly though, both choices seem meaningless. It is hinted in the dark ending of DS3 that even if the fire was to be let fade it will all play out again. Really I think, the only way to truly break the cycle is the Lord of the dark ending in DS3.

@absollum

3 жыл бұрын

On a surface level, kindling the First Flame is the good ending. Dig deeper, and it's turns a bit more gray, but not bad. It isn't until Dark Souls 2 and 3 where we start learning why hollowing is happening, and why simply lighting the flame doesn't really change anything

Hey now, the Catherine ending where you rule hell is referred to as the "Good Ending". The real Catherine "Bad Ending" involves Vincent running out into the street and getting hit by a car, which is definitely less cool

@Rodrigo-ei4ht

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's the Catherine best ending too. There was one more where they're just a happy couple in hell.

@metazoxan2

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah Neither or "Order" or "chaos" endings are treated as bad. In fact the game makes a point of emphathizing that both choices are entirely valid and it's more what kind of life you desire for yourself. Although the "Order" ending is obviously more "Virtuous" while the "Chaos" ending is more about raw desire, but the game doesn't shame you at all for choosing chaos is that is what you wanted. What the game punishes you for is if you basically back out at the last second choosing one pathh but trying to go for the partner tied to the other path. So both the "order" and "chaos" paths have bad endings of their own but the "true chaos" ending was meant to be a "good" ending. Even if you do kind of give up your humanity for it.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@metazoxan2 so essentially, to get the good endings of the routes, you have to be committed to those routes. Fitting

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

Damn that's dark

@Rodrigo-ei4ht

3 жыл бұрын

@@metazoxan2 I do like the true neutral ending. My man says nah to both and books a ticket to a space station as he goes on a journey of self discovery

What about the secret ending in Far Cry 4? Yes, you're basically going to be trained as Pagan Min's despotic replacement, but at least you managed to get your mother's ashes safely home without killing anyone.

@ddsjgvk

3 жыл бұрын

Well you didn't kill anyone that day. Who's to say Pagan didn't make Ajay kill someone as a test

@MsShikaNara

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly having met the rebellion leaders I think taking over myself would be a better way to go about it

@mattkennedy9308

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's a good deconstruction of why a good guy can't waltz in to a dictatorship, fix everything and walk out a democracy. However a more benevolent leader taking over from Pagan Min instead of the two pricks in the Golden Path is probably a good ending...

@ThomasBlackflame

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattkennedy9308 I mean, that's the whole plot and idea of Far Cry 4 and by some extent, to an old saying. "Between two evils, pick the one you know"

@alphacat77

3 жыл бұрын

Without killing anyone yet

Luke getting the "bad" ending in dark souls by mistake still makes me laugh

@Rodrigo-ei4ht

3 жыл бұрын

That's all I could think about during this entry 😂 He causally wandered off trying to explore and had no idea he triggered the ending.

@Gryfer00

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rodrigo-ei4ht Happened exactly that way to me, too. I wonder how many people became the Dark Lord just because they wanted to explore.

@TonyRedgrave

3 жыл бұрын

I did the opposite. I saw the bonfire, went "Finally" and then got the Link the Fire ending when I just wanted to rest. Q.Q

@BananaWhiplash

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I didn't want to light the fire and kick off NG+, so I decided to wander out and bam

@noahsan92

3 жыл бұрын

it's funny cause the Dark Lord ending is technically the good ending. Reigniting the flame just delays the inevitable Age of Man

The very bad, absolutely horrible ending of Corvo the Black in Dishonoured 2 where you don’t revive Emily and take over the throne for yourself was, in my opinion, super badass, even though it was deeply unethical.

@FlamingNinja

3 жыл бұрын

(Is it bad that I didn’t even think of what the bad ending in D2 was?)

@daikansanchez7674

3 жыл бұрын

"deeply unethical" is a bit of a strech for a game where you play as Slits-pipes McGee.

@dastvan8002

3 жыл бұрын

@@daikansanchez7674 Ah yes another commenter of culture

@michaelandreipalon359

3 жыл бұрын

And a bit OOC too.

@bustinarant

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelandreipalon359 "Daughter Shmaughter I have ghost powers"

"What happens when Spider-Man gets an adimantium claw jammed through his eyesocket?" The same thing that happens to everything else.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

*FATALITY*

@I.B.Annoyed

3 жыл бұрын

Umm... being promoted to Big Boss?

@solidgeezer634

2 жыл бұрын

squish

@mar_speedman

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually a trick question. Spider-Man's too fast for adamantium claws :P

@IamaPERSON

2 жыл бұрын

@@mar_speedman oh right, and his spider sense helps

Andy: Remind me not to ever steal any time stones Don’t worry, they’re just paperweights

@IcyBlueOpal

3 жыл бұрын

@The Gaming Meta yes

@captain-chunk

3 жыл бұрын

@The Gaming Meta I was just thinking that!

@Floobie2956

3 жыл бұрын

@The Gaming Meta For halfway through the first episode so nah 😆

@metazoxan2

3 жыл бұрын

Time Stones are a joke anyway since the chaos emeralds can manipulate time AND space. So really the time stones aren't a big deal.

@makahiya

3 жыл бұрын

I understood that reference!

Can you do the reverse of this, 7 good endings that made you feel bad. And if not pokemon mystery dungeon games are on that list I will riot.

@anarky1765

3 жыл бұрын

The first Infamous game. Sure, Cole stopped all the evil Conduits and saved Empire City, but now he has to live with the burdens of being a superhero, his girlfriend is dead, there’s a rogue government agent plotting against him, and his best friend has ended their friendship out of remorse for betraying him. I’ve seen Batman stories with happier endings.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@anarky1765 and the second game is even worse, good ending wise.

@ddjsoyenby

3 жыл бұрын

ikr.

@OsakaLover

3 жыл бұрын

@@IamaPERSON Yeah, either you go with the "evil" ending and everyone not a Conduit dies, or you go with the "good" ending, where everyone who IS a Conduit dies, including Cole. Kind of a lose lose xD

@baconous689

3 жыл бұрын

One contender I'd argue for is the "Good" ending in Spec Ops: the line. Yeah, you might have survived and are getting out of Dubai but now you're mind is gone and you'll probably put on trial for war crimes.

The ending with Catherine IS one of the good endings. The bad endings are the ones where you get dumped...one of which involves Vincent dying in a hit and run.

@Crow_Smith

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I can't see how being more powerful than the devil [which you can see in the muted clip with the text if you read it] and basically being so much so you don't realize you're sitting on him, is a pretty good ending when other options involve "Dead".

Dr. Eggman: a steampunk Teddy Roosevelt... is the best description of a character ever!

@LocalHeretic-ck1kd

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I have to say its actually pretty good.

@recurvess9569

3 жыл бұрын

I will never un-see this...

@CinnaScone

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly? Life changing.

@mikagesama1990

3 жыл бұрын

Well, Dr. Eggman's design was inspired by Theodore Roosevelt, so ironically that is the coolest description ever!

@10.ikadekanandadwipayadnya83

3 жыл бұрын

@@mikagesama1990 correction His mustache is inspired by roosevelt

List idea: 7 Post-Apocalypses That Don't Seem So Bad, Really

@anarky1765

3 жыл бұрын

I think they already did a list like that.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@anarky1765 then they could do a commenter edition on that

@subman23

3 жыл бұрын

Time to go to work boys (tm) let's give them some examples! (Own video game knowledge doesn't go too much further than Mario, Ninja Turtles, Batman, Spider-Man, and Grand Theft Auto) Uhhh, Web of Shadows again. I mean, still ruling New York with an army and Spider-Man's best girl. What can I say? I like my superheroes with cats

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@subman23lol, fair enough. Then again, it could escalate if he uses the vulturelings to his advantage

@rikusschulze6249

3 жыл бұрын

wouldn't a Post Apocalypse that don't seem so bad, really need to be not so bad for everyone and not just for spiderman?

A sudden Jane appearing at the end of a fade to white doesn't seem so bad.

@harpoonlobotomy

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure that means Jane is God.

@harpoonlobotomy

3 жыл бұрын

@The Gaming Meta Well yeah, that's how pre-Jane God for the job anyway. Santa Clause rules.

For me, the hardest part about getting Sekiro's "Shura" ending wasn't the boss fight against Isshin Ashina, it was having to kill Emma each time I wanted to restart the fight :(

@fluffiddy6515

3 жыл бұрын

Fromsoft be really making us kill the waifu ;_;

@fabi3790

3 жыл бұрын

And it also was not the fight thats so hard but the emotional damage

@eddieb1995

2 жыл бұрын

Even the soundtrack for that fight was sad

@christianandresschafer1269

2 жыл бұрын

What about Issin, he was good I remember drinking Sake with him

@CosmicOwlChild

9 ай бұрын

I lined it up where I did the final blow with the Mountains in the background and made it my screen saver on my Xbox lol

Idk imo linking the flame in darksoul has always been the bad ending. Lord Gwyn artificially extended the age of fire by linking the flame so the gods continue to rule. The age of dark is the age of man and so by linking the flame you're basically ensuring humans remain subjugated.

@fabi3790

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. Look at Oolacile and what happened there with the dark and abyss I think there is no real good ending

@GenesiisDavid

3 жыл бұрын

@@fabi3790 letting the fire fade frees humanity from hollowing. Gwyn threw the natural world out of balance with the linking of the flames.

@fabi3790

3 жыл бұрын

@@GenesiisDavid true I am not denying that linking the fire is a bad Idea Just that letting darkness over the worl is not that great either But I would/have always choose the dark ending

@anna-flora999

2 жыл бұрын

@@fabi3790 I chose the dark ending mostly to spite gwyn. It's his fault that we have to fight sif.

@PenholdLP

Жыл бұрын

@@fabi3790 The dark =/= The Abyss. These are two complete different things. So bringing the Dark Age, doesn't let the Abyss roam free.

They are getting a TON of mileage out of Ellen just dominating Dark Souls.

The Sonic CD bad ending does have an undeniably badass explosion, but I think it's heavily implied Robotnik escapes by travelling back in time, since after the credits, the Miracle Planet reappears, chain and all. Not only is Robotnik not dead, but used the power of time travel to undo Sonic's awesome improvised shot putting skills. Probably counts as negative cool. Sorry

@Rexy_THE_T-REX

Жыл бұрын

Ye

Bravely Default's "bad ending" sees you foiling the villains plot before it ever gets to its final phase. Compared to the true ending where you actively fulfill the final phase of the plan despite the game screaming at you so much that the title tells you what's going on.

@ddjsoyenby

3 жыл бұрын

ikr plus you don't have to fight that annoying final boss.

@archerestarcher

8 ай бұрын

That's considered a bad ending? I thought it was just an alternative ending.

Wearing a tshirt that says 'Friday' in a video released on a Thursday. Chaos is, indeed, a ladder

@Joe90h

3 жыл бұрын

Either this video took nearly a week to edit, didn't take as long to edit as was predicted, or Jane needs to do some laundry.

@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet

3 жыл бұрын

It's Friday for me, so I feel special.

@gruggerduggerhoose

3 жыл бұрын

Chaos Queen Jane, bamboozling youtube commentors since 2012

@jamesball5274

3 жыл бұрын

Jane: "Opps, just noticed I'm wearing a Friday shirt while shooting this. I could stop the camera, change, and then just reshoot my parts.... Pfft, it's Friday, who cares."

@LisaMC9876

3 жыл бұрын

It’s Friday where I live. Maybe Jane is secretly in Australia? 🤔

Now I remembered the bad ending to Blood Omen in which, instead of sacrificing himself to restore the pillars of Nosgoth, Kain went "You know what no, I'm gonna take over the world instead." That ending was so much better than the good one it actually became the canon ending for the rest of the series.

At least that stick in Outer Wilds doesn't turn them into a... I don't know... a seal or something!

@countcain

3 жыл бұрын

At least that stick in Outer Wilds works faster than having to hit the person... I don‘t know... a dozen times or so!

@cearnicus

3 жыл бұрын

That's Outer _Worlds,_ not Outer Wilds. In Outer Wilds death by sunbathing is a regular occurrence. Hell, it even managed to creep up and hit me from behind a few times. Fun fact, Outer Wilds also has a "bad" ending. One where you ... [Spoiler] Destroy the fabric of spacetime. This "Kazoo" ending is hilarious.

@cthulhufhtagn2483

3 жыл бұрын

_Bomph!_

@RealSelene

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong game

Star Wars Knights of the old Republic in the dark side ending Revan reclaims his or her title of Dark Lord of the Sith and has Bastila become their Jedi apprentice in addition to having access to the star forge.

@toakovika

3 жыл бұрын

If only Juhani didn’t have to die :(

@zanite8650

3 жыл бұрын

"The apprentice has learned his final lesson."

@mar_speedman

2 жыл бұрын

No. This is a terrible ending. You kill almost all your companions, how is this better than the good ending?? Go home and rethink your life!

@NerdKing2nd

2 жыл бұрын

Could never actual go through with this ending, can't even remember the name of the characters since its been years since playing that game but i do remember never being able to go through with having to kill of one of them

@mar_speedman

2 жыл бұрын

@@NerdKing2nd One of them? You butcher almost all of them. It's a horrible ending!

I feel like the dark lord ending for ds is a good ending. You break the cycle that was never meant to happen, letting nature take its course and helping humans be free from the gods allowing them to develop, hence why its called the age of man, something Gwin tried to prevent by linking the fire over and over, first by himself and later by other chosen undead, unnaturally prolonging his age, all so he could keep his kingdom

Looks like we got the "bad ending" of this video, where Jane puts on the wrong shirt and ends up making a joke about it. I'm sure the "good ending" isn't nearly as funny, though.

I’m pretty sure Teddy Roosevelt is already a steam punk teddy Roosevelt.

The Dark Souls one makes me think of "times the bad ending was the best choice", as, as far as I know, reigniting the fire kept the world in a slowly rotting limbo and letting the age of darkness come would later bring an age of rebirth, kinda like how in legacy of kain later games revealed choosing to rule as a vampire was the best choice for everyone

I LOVE the ending for Prey 2017 where you just leave the station in Alex's escape pod before you even have the option. It's so freaking good!

Imagine if Persona 6 has Vincent show up as the Lord of Hell as a cameo. I’d love seeing Vincent and Catherine just walking through one of the areas

@tiredenby437

10 ай бұрын

Vincent has had a cameo in Persona already, he's in Persona 3 Portable

@reaperofthings

10 ай бұрын

@@tiredenby437 but not as the Lord of Hell, that was iirc pre Catherine Vincent

Always love seeing Web of Shadows pop up, my good friend Mike was Spidey's voice and it just tickles me.

Uncle Ben: "With Great power comes Great responsibility. " Evil Spidey: " UNLIMITED RESPONSIBILITY!"

@jdb2002

Жыл бұрын

There's a comic (I don't know which one, so don't ask) where Spidey gets his hands on an orb that allows him to know everything (he was even able to name all the Spice Girls). He considers keeping it, since he figures he could do more good if he knew everything. But them rejects the idea, saying that "too much power would give him too much responsibility."

@ellbent

10 ай бұрын

@@jdb2002That just reminds me the lessons of Thor and Iron Man saying “Wielding this (the suit or Mjlonir), you are signaling to the universe that you’re ready to accept a higher form of responsibility.”

Can i say how much i love that they used Ellen's dark souls academy footage for defeating the lord of cinder

Nice to see you are getting some use of Ellen's Dark Souls footage already. Her suffering wasn't in vain !

"Secretly evil" ? I don't know about the rest of you, but I make no secret of being at least morally ambiguous.....

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

And I can respect that

@jamesmeppler6375

3 жыл бұрын

Morality should always be disambiguous

@TheHUEZOX

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmeppler6375 not when you play videogames, no, there feel free to do whatever

@justinflemings5756

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheHUEZOX So. Many. Corpses.

@johnyshadow

3 жыл бұрын

@@justinflemings5756 What corpses? So what that the streets are eerily empty and silent? I definitely didn´t hide all the bodies... (Dishonored)

Speaking of Dance parties and bad endings, what about the "Bandit Ending" of Mortal Shell. Do a bunch of side quests for a random NPC in the game and rather than continuing the cycle of immortality you just sit around all day drinking and playing some pretty rockin' tunes.

@Burrick

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget about the part where you and your gang of lute playing marauders still party on as the region is conquered by demons

" 7 bad endings that were cooler than the original." One involves a whole crew of people we love dying to sun radiation and the other involves spiderman enslaving new york citizens. ....I thought these were suppose to be cool? I mean the first one's pretty hot if ya know what I mean!

@toakovika

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, Symbiote King Spiderman is a pretty damn good ending. Hot Symbiote Queen Waifu? Check. An army of Symbiote subjects to rule New York and attempt world domination? Check. I think this is better than swinging off with a Mary Jane who has spent the whole game whining about him wearing the superior suit.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@toakovika exactly why I thought it was the better ending

@mar_speedman

2 жыл бұрын

Spider-man doesn't even kill anyone. Sure, he practically mind wipes all of New York, but no one died!... Well except Brock, but he was gonna sacrifice himself anyway, it's fine.

You probably wont read this because there are 500 more comments around here but i wanted to let all of you know that i used to watch all of your stuff religiously and stopped for a while. I just binged your most recent d and d stream. That along with other videos i rewatched have hit me with nostalgia really hard and i want you all to know that you guys are awesome and i love your work. Thank you for the good times

Ah yes, seeing May Sunshine in the Dark Souls footage just give me a strange feeling of nostalgia, like it wasn't recorded just weeks ago.

timestamps! (to skip around to one you want to see or to avoid spoilers) 0:00 intro 1:03 outer worlds 4:06 spiderman web of shadows 7:33 sekiro 9:52 catherine 12:26 sonic cd 15:01 dark souls 17:19 dying light: the following 20:33 outro

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I still can't believe they put my suggestion on the list!

@MerlautZone

3 жыл бұрын

Righteous mate!

@yaboicolleen

3 жыл бұрын

Out here doin the lord's work 👏🏻

15:44 to 16:17 , we all know exactly who's footage that is! Great job Ellen, as well as mentors Luke, Aoife, Johnny, and Mike!

I like to get attached to the characters and gain their trust then betray them not only ruining my characters relationships but had him kill everyone of his allies who trusted and respected him, then I reload the save file and pretend it was nightmare of what would happen to the player if he fails

No talk about how "Epic Mickey"'s bad ending is the one where Mickey Mouse is nice to everyone... At least acording to it's sequel.

I wonder what knots they used to tie down Mike to keep him away from the editing bay when Jane did the Dark Souls segment.

Yeah, the last video had some comments with real “commenter edition” vibes.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

In a good way, right?

@majdramadan8404

3 жыл бұрын

@@IamaPERSON Yes, I just meant the format is usually quite distinct.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@majdramadan8404 oh, ok

@Werewolf_Korra

3 жыл бұрын

I went to see if I posted anything, and all I had was a comment bitching about what an Asshole Doug Tennapel is.

I legitimately have a stupidly big crush on Jane. That end of video banter was ridiculously cute.

The Catherine ending is technically one of the good endings

@madalice5134

2 жыл бұрын

I love that ending. Going for the Rin ending now. 😁

I actually got the Dark Lord ending in Dark Souls by wondering what would happen if I just walked away. 😂

The bad ending for this video would've been the final list entry being finished up and Ian Higton appearing to thank us for watching Eurogamer.

I'm pretty sure that Dying Light The Following's bad ending is the canon one since it is already known that the infection wasn't stopped and eventually got to the rest of the world, as is the premise of Dying Light 2.

@Altoryu

3 жыл бұрын

Either that or somehow even though you blew everything up, something manages to escape and the whole world is screwed regardless.

@mr.j7444

3 жыл бұрын

@@Altoryu I mean it’s kind of heavily implied the group crane works for released the zombie plague so most likely they had more than one sample.

@Altoryu

3 жыл бұрын

@@mr.j7444 Or that sure

Okay, no Shadow the Hedgehog, but we still have a Sonic game!

@wolfiethefurrygamer1908

3 жыл бұрын

Cuz none of the Shadow The Hedgehog bad endings could be cannon, all the endings besides the "True Ending" are referred to as "What if endings" which you have to see what if shadow did this since he suffers from Amnesia, he can do anything, since none of them could happen, they didnt put it in, the Sonic CD bad ending could be made cannon

What about Fable TLC, after defeating Jack of Blades in the form of a dragon you get to choose whether you destroy his mask which you trapped his soul in or you become the next Jack and wear it.

@ddsjgvk

3 жыл бұрын

No Jack takes over your body

@Jsgamer117

3 жыл бұрын

@@ddsjgvk yes, but you are still in control of your character as you're still able to play afterwards.

@ddsjgvk

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jsgamer117 with the controller yes but who's to say in game Jack is making the movements.

@gothicbutterfly013

3 жыл бұрын

There's also a hidden timer with that part, if you sit and listen to all the dialogue the Mask eventually forces you to wear it. Theres also an implication (to me at least) that Jack himself was possessed by the mask, so who knows how far back that things corruption goes.

The ending in Sekiro where he kills himself in the best ending imo. It's just so narratively and emotionally beautiful.

The fade to white with Jane suddenly appearing saying “well hey, you made it” is what I imagine dying is like

add: the weird alt ending you could get early on in Suikoden 4 where you just live out your endless days on an island with your friends. endless coconuts, wood, and bonfires. And you can get this alt ending very early in the game, so BONUS, you dont actually have to play the terrible game that is Suikoden 4

@michaelrate7693

3 жыл бұрын

still better than suikoden 3

@AlexDuck

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelrate7693 you are entitled to your opinion, tho it is wrong. 4 didn't even have the right number of party members. How could they screw up something that simple? 2 and 5 are the best IMO.

you got the dark souls ending reversed. lighting the fire is the bad ending as you irreparably ruin the world and it's natural order. the dark ending you set things back to the way they're supposed to be. the reason the evil serpent is on the good ending's side is because of a very successful propaganda campaign by the gods

@Rodrigo-ei4ht

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but you really don't piece it together til the third game. It definitely does put the whole series in a different context and that's some brilliant writing.

@mr.j7444

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rodrigo-ei4ht how about the context the ringed city adds where non of it matters as the world is long dead and it’s all an illusion.

@Rodrigo-ei4ht

3 жыл бұрын

@@mr.j7444 Ooo yeah you're right. The world has long been dead and you get the sense that everything isn't right. But do you really understand that linking the fire prolongs the suffering? Either way someone else ends up linking it cuz it's cannon

I got the Jane wears a Friday shirt ending

13:20. Sonic is wearing a float jacket. This is great adherence to his lack of swimming ability

18:36 I literally cannot hear that voice actress in anything without immediately going "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON" lmao

Well, provided that there are no proper "good" endings in "Sinking City", awakening the daughter of Cthulhu and unleashing her on the world as in the "worst" ending is still the coolest option.

4:49 Andy: But also included our other favorite thing about old console spider man things..." Me: "Black Cat's cleavage" Andy: "...hilarious quick time event fails" Me: "Oh right"

Assault Suits Valken, a mid-90's side-scrolling mecha shooter from Konami for the SNES, had an alternate ending you could set up about halfway through if you weren't careful. The setup level involves assaulting an enemy space station built into a small asteroid in high Earth orbit. Just as you break into the command center, they activate the station's engines to initiate a Zeon-style colony drop. If you don't destroy the engines in time, you can see the asteroid impact (which briefly whites out the screen) in the background during the next level, but you can still finish the game. If you do, your side still even wins the war: it's just, everything is so broken that there's little point. Your side has taken such a beating by that point that your ship and cute bridge-officer girlfriend don't make it, and the world is irreparably ruined by the asteroid impact, so your character becomes an embittered nihilist wracked by survivor's guilt. I can't say it's a _cooler_ ending, since your character sees everything as his fault (admittedly, it kind of is, at least in the context of the story being a game), but it's definitely well written, and it was an excellent touch to include it.

Jane's end-of-the-list-ramblings are just the best.

Kyle crane becomes a night hunter for sure and it is definitely the coolest ending in this whole list

The dark souls ending is the good one... the one where you replace gwyn is just continuing a cycle of abuse and exploitation designed to subvert destiny. Dark souls's subversion of themes of light and dark by tying dark to good and light to evil is extremely berserk... and also extremely awesome.

@arthurpendragon309

3 жыл бұрын

They really aren't reversed, though. Dark is supposed to only be accessible by dredging up horrors in the human psyche, and pro-dark characters tend to be pro-murder characters, besides a witch. Also the darkness tends to be the thing causing corruption. And the dark ending tends to be borne of betrayal, or framed as giving up. And the bad consequences for fire characters tends to be that their best was not enough (though not necessarily for faith characters...who tend to fall via darkness). Really, even if you figure ending the fire cycle and hoping for the best is the best ending, it's definitely not because darkness is good.

@seanrshivers

3 жыл бұрын

@@arthurpendragon309 I mean, it is though. Darkness is just humanity. With the virtues and vices that entails. Darkness is framed as evil largely by people who aren't exactly reliable... but by contrast the light is ALWAYS a lie. Even the sun of an orlando is just an illusion. And what we see of darkness is largely relics of those defeated. The real enemy of darksouls. The real evil... its entropy. And Gwynn tries to hold it back by standing on the corpses of civilization instead of allowing the world to pass to the next age... is it fair to call the man being stepped on evil for demanding liberation?

This is absolutely gorgeous work! It's so precise and crisp, I'm subscribing right away 💜

I always loved the bad ending to The Witcher 3: Heart Of Stone, Geralt choosing not to defeat this godlike trickster since, in all fairness, it wasn't his fight, and just having Mirror walk off into the sky whistling was just so much cooler.

I wanna make a shoutout to Fable 1. Where the "bad" ending sees the Hero of Oakvale becoming an unstoppable demonic overlord. And in the Lost Chapters variant, you become the immortal vessel for your charming nemesis throughout the game, complete with a sick mask.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! And the best part is, regardless of which ending you get, you get to fight a dragon!

@gothicbutterfly013

3 жыл бұрын

And on top of that, regardless of what you pick, according to rumours in Fable 2, your character eventually snaps and carves "YOUR HEALTH IS LOW" into the Guildmasters face.

I would blow up that nuke a million times in a row. Nobody turns me into a zombie.

Been so long since I last watched one of your vids. I wonder what it's going to feel like rewatching these after the pandemic, when you're back at your studios and all

"ends with a fade to white... and is that a satisfying way to end anything?" Spec Ops: the Line?

Good choice with Dark Souls, the "bad ending" is actually the good ending, since the Gods arent tricking you into becoming a Martyr just so they can survive.

Secretly evil audience? I resent that. I never keep secrets.

I know I'm late, but watching this on a Friday worked out pretty well for me. Especially since my work week ends on Thursday nights and I was too tired to fix my router when I got home. Thanks, Jane.

I liked doing the bad ending in TW3 blood and wine (even though I did on accident), although it was sad. It felt a bit like "you can't win them all", which I think sort of fits the tone of the Witcher universe

Becoming the ruler of Hell had me laughing.

was the maruki's offer ending brought up? genuinely one of the few times I felt no regret in not facing the final boss.

@kokirij0167

3 жыл бұрын

My boi Akechi would like to know your location.

@murasaika2776

3 жыл бұрын

your boi akechi can, in the words of kanji tatsumi, "get bent" when it comes to this ending.

@kokirij0167

3 жыл бұрын

@@murasaika2776 How about instead of him getting bent, you as he so eloquently put it „do your goddamn job“ and shoot your psychiatrist in the fucking face?

@jamesherb4384

3 жыл бұрын

while maruki may have had good intentions, I find it very difficult to accept what he was doing. aside from the fact that him making sumuri belive she was Kasumi was all together unsettling, the whole point of his boss fight is acknowledging that the characters are who they are because of what they have gone through. artifical happiness that someone else decided for me, sounds more like a nightmare than a paradise.

Dude, how awesome is it that 'The Mother' is also the voice actress for Meredith Stannard in Dragon Age II?

Those smiling blinking worms that now to you in the bad ending are far and away the scariest thing I’ve ever seen in dark souls which is really saying something!!! And the bulldogs jowls uggghhh 🤦‍♂️ gives me the willies *shiver*

Sweet, new video on bad but good endings.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@aydinanuar8807

3 жыл бұрын

@@IamaPERSON Oh hey, weird timing. I’m on your suggestion right now.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@aydinanuar8807 lol

I honestly think that the "Dark Lord" Ending is the good ending, as humanity was born of the Furtive Pigmy aka the "Dark Soul" and thus the Dark Ending is ending the Age of Gods and Ushering In The Age Of Humanity.

@paulgibbon5991

2 жыл бұрын

There isn't really a clear answer, which seems fitting. Bear in mind the only people who claim that no, this will totally be a good thing for humanity no really trust us, are the grinning serpents. If those guys told me water was wet, I'd run my hand under a tap just to make sure.

@akalichamp7030

Жыл бұрын

@@paulgibbon5991 I think there's a misinterpretation by the Souls community of the dichotomy of light and dark, fire and abyss, gods and humanity, etc. I think the fundamental point is one of balance and cycle; neither light nor dark are completely good or completely bad, and the natural, stable cycle of the world is a balance between them, as dark souls 3 so brilliantly displays the results of an unnaturally long age; the world is folding in on itself, death, the curse, plagues, insanity, all ravaging what little remains of life in Lordran. I'm sure a prolonged age of dark would find itself in a similar position. It's also worth noting, however, the influence of third party, unnatural interventions, like Gwyn's curse, for instance. The entire story of Dark Souls begins in a state of relative peace, "absolute disparity", or perfect balance, and only once the Gods threw that balance out did things set on their course to corruption. I think that's why the age of dark is the "good" ending; It's not that the dark is good on it's own, its that it's needed to counteract the light thats currently dragging the world down with it. Sorry for reviving a year old comment btw, lol

@paulgibbon5991

Жыл бұрын

@@akalichamp7030 Thinking about it, you could see the moral as being quite Buddhist--unhappiness comes from trying to cling to something that's past its sell-by-date and refusing to accept that nothing lasts forever. Still don't trust the snakes. 🙂

I just realized I’ve been watching these videos for like 3 years now and I just now subscribed 😂😂😂

Jane says tune in every Thursday, but her shirt says Friday. Who is to say what is true?

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

*DUN DUN DUN*

@ddjsoyenby

3 жыл бұрын

jane and her shirt are right.

Jane, I'll have you know I'm not secretly evil, I'm openly neutral.

In the bad ending-well, the only ending- of this video, we get to see Jane's eyebrows. So it all worked in the end.

What's so bad about the Catherine "bad" ending? You just get to rule over hell. That doesn't cause anything bad to happen. It's just better for you

Coincidentally, the fade to white at the end of the Dying Light segment transitioned to an Oxy-clean advertisement. So it was an explicit fade to white followed by someone telling me how to keep my clothes white. I don’t like KZread ads, but that one was perfectly timed.

Jade Empire has an Open Palm EndIng Jade Empire has a Closed Fist Ending Jade Empire has a "bad" ending too lol 😝

List idea: 7 throwaway side characters with way too much backstory

Man i deeply enjoy these. Amazing as always.

I’d like to point out that in Australia, we get the list videos on Fridays.

Somehow the alternate ending for persona 5 Royal didn’t make it on here, so. (Btw spoiler alert) Here’s my formal suggestion. The third semester ending where you go with maruki’s reality. Whether good or bad, it gives all your characters a better life, which is undeniably cooler since everyone really, really deserves it.

@jamesherb4384

3 жыл бұрын

is it a better life if that life is a lie? especially because it all but invalidates all the growth the characters got through their trials. I mean its an undeniably interesting ending, but let's be real, its not really a happy ever after. its just what Maruki believes will make everyone happy, even at the cost of their own free will.

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesherb4384 I feel like someone could make an alternate ending animation with your comment

@banyamano010

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesherb4384 to me it’s the bad ending, but it does give all of you and your traumatised friends a break, which is cool to me. Don’t get me wrong though, I like the true ending too

So the ps3 Spider-Man game predicted, kind of, the king in black storyline

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

What's that?

@willieoelkers5568

3 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing this is an arc involving Spider-Man rebonding with the - or at least a - symbiote and going all evil?

@Azrael666Azazel

3 жыл бұрын

@@IamaPERSON recent storyline in which the god of the symbiotes, which is the source of the god butcher’s weapon, uses an army of symbiotes to try and take over and then eventually destroy the universe

@IamaPERSON

3 жыл бұрын

@@Azrael666Azazel so an extreme version of an alien invasion. Sounds cool though

17:48 I don't know, they're doing some pretty cool things with prosthetics these days. ;)

7:01 "Okay fuck Uncle Ben I guess." The disappointment is so convincing 🤣

My favorite ending in Catherine is the one when Vincent send all his romantic interests to hell and he goes living his own dream...

@keit99

3 жыл бұрын

Aka the Real bad ending.

@anna-flora999

2 жыл бұрын

@@keit99 that raises a question for me: is there a difference between a bad and an evil ending?

I always thought the ruling over hell with Catherine ending was the good ending

@KirbyCom

3 жыл бұрын

It is. There's a Good, Bad, and Neutral ending for choosing either Catherine or Katherine. Ruling hell is her Good ending. The bad ending has Catherine turn Vincent down and then he gets hit by a car

I remember the first ever "bad" ending I got in Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight. Getting a sweet sith lord cape.

Great video lad keep up with the good work

In dark souls though, kindling the fire is like, the sacrificing yourself for the oppressive and dying status quo ending though, so I'd actually say that dark souls is wrong on this list, since you list the good ending as the cooler one (which it is, but like, I always read it as the good one)

@gothicbutterfly013

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Age of Dark is presented as the bad ending. Its only once you get deeper into the lore and series that you learn that the Age of Fire is the bad ending instead.

Sekiro's bad ending is indeed interesting, but not the "most" interesting considering you miss so many interesting things. The final fight in the fields is still one of the best moments.

Just a cool bit of info the dying light following dlc actually has 3 endings. The normal nuke, the side with the mother, and the pre mature detonation ending. In that ending Kyle sets off the nuke before the mother gets her hands on it and kills everyone. U get a pretty cool outfit for completing it. Neat stuff

I like the “Bad Ending” for Spec Ops: The Line where you don’t shoot yourself, then mow down the troops who show up. Though the ending where they kill you has an awesome final line.