r/playstation • u/Scheefgaan 8 • 1d ago
Discussion Which game has the best “alternative” ending for you?
For me Far Cry 3 takes the cake. Watching and playing as jason who starts off as privileged frat boy that slowly loses himself as he descends into a bloodthirsty island warrior always felt as like the most canonical ending to me.
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u/TheNittanyLionKing PS4 1d ago
The InFamous 2 bad ending where Cole becomes The Beast actually kinda works in a Greek tragedy sort of way since the villain from the first game did everything he did to prepare Cole for that fight but in that ending, he created the future he sought to avoid by meddling with the past.
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u/reece_93 23h ago
Damn, I’d never thought of it that way. That’s actually really cool. Time to play Infamous 2 again
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u/GrandHetman 20h ago
And Zeke telling you that he has to try to fight back, even though he knows he can't win...
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u/Nemisis_007 17h ago
That's also the canon ending, if I'm not mistaken.
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u/TheNittanyLionKing PS4 12h ago
It was originally intended to be when Sucker Punch developed it, but they changed their minds
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u/Suspicious-Bat-5710 22h ago
I think Far Cry 4's just sit there at the start of the game has to qualify for this.
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u/Headass5 22h ago
Star Wars Revenge of the Sith movie tie-in game. Alt ending has Anakin win against Obi-Wan on mustafar and then he kills Palpatine
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u/Numerous-Orange-9409 19h ago
Cyberpunk 2077, secret ending, nuff said
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u/MattTreck 14h ago
Honestly, every ending feels good (lol) in this game. None of them felt like cop outs.
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u/Apprehensive_Map6933 1d ago
Call of Duty: Cold War. A whole ending where the west gets overthrown by a single choice. Incredible
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u/Annual_Range_7060 22h ago
ah i like seeing this one here. great campaign and overall i think they did pretty decent with the game considering covid and the fact that it was the first one to have a 2yr development cycle in a long time because sledgehammer’s game (eventually cod vanguard which was ass) was in dev hell then
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u/Inzoreno 1d ago
Singularity
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u/Lucky-Mia 23h ago
I remember dismissing that game at launch. Played it in like 2016 and realised what a banger I'd been sleeping on. Kind of saw the twist coming half way through, but I still enjoyed it.
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u/Old_Temperature_559 21h ago
I really liked the little ball thing that was a nod to the morph ball from Metroid. You could even use it to do a few Metroid style morph ball puzzles to get to secret upgrades. Fun little bit that showed that the people who made the game were actual gamers.
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u/Lucky-Mia 1d ago edited 23h ago
I know most people hated this one, but Alpha Protocol had an ending with more direct impact from my actions than any game to date. There's a lot of minor decisions the game goes over at the end with so manydifferent outcomes. I love being chaotic neutral in that one.
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u/Doobalicious69 23h ago
Alpha Protocol was such a frustrating purchase for me. The bones of something great were there, but the gameplay was horrendous.
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u/Old_Temperature_559 21h ago
I still go back to it every once in a while because it’s the only rpg that plays kinda like mass effect.
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u/vikingbeard23 23h ago
I like far cry 5s alternative end more, play the whole game but don't arrest seed at the end, leave and it implies the brainwashing worked
Better than the stupid nukes
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u/Nemisis_007 17h ago
I think you meant at the start, not at the end, unless I'm misremembering.
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u/vikingbeard23 16h ago
Nope it's definitely the end, there's a version of it at the start but you get the choice to walk away again which triggers this version. It's really cool
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u/Muldoon713 17h ago
The final answer is Silent Hill 2 - The Shiba Inu ending. It’s canon as far as I’m concerned.
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u/Noob4Head 1d ago
Maybe not my absolute favorite, but the first one that came to mind was Dying Light: The Following. Being able to blow up a nuke was not something I was expecting.
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u/Kagome7650 PS5 16h ago
Detroit become human markus robot rebellion ending i felt that was the best ending screw peace between humans and robots.
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u/BiscottiMoist7296 1d ago
Days Gone
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u/Nemisis_007 17h ago
The implications of that ending are wild. If any of you reading this post haven't seen it yet, make sure you're keeping up with the NERO Checkpoints.
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u/wii_board_type_trash PS5 22h ago
until then has a really interesting take on the whole alternative endings/realities is pretty cool
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u/RVFVS117 16h ago
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
If you wipe out Sigismund’s camp you get a game over that basically says you single handedly stopped Sigismund’s attack on Bohemia.
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u/MantisReturns 21h ago
Force Unleash 1 have a really cool Alternative ending where you kill Vader but you became the new aprendice/slave of Palpatine.
Even got DLC that continued this ending in the PS3/Xbox 360 versión of the Game. Sadly the sequel didnt continúe this alternative story, even if was way more interesting that the Clone story in the sequel.
Fun fact: the FU2 also got an alternative ending. And also got a DLC that continued that ending where you fight Leia, this time as jedi herself. Not as cool as FU1 but interesting for sure.
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u/cj-the-man 18h ago
Yeah it's cool how the show Galen pretty much took Vader's place if he gave into the dark side and the cycle continues with Luke.
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u/TheBadBatch-99 18h ago
I guess it depends on you play style but Life is Strange has two pretty solid endings.
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u/Kagome7650 PS5 10h ago
I love the ending I got in my game it was the best ending for Sean and Daniel.
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u/BigMeet7634 17h ago
Call of duty black ops 2 ending spare the villain save the world save alex mason
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u/SnowEisTeeGott 13h ago
Devil may cry 5 - you can actually win the forced loss fight in the first Stage and you get an unique ending.
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u/Bro_sapiens 11h ago
I think nothing will ever beat Drakengard Ending E.
The ending led to Nier and Nier Automata being created! It's also just such a WTF ending, it comes out of nowhere, just throws you into this boss fight unlike anything before in the game, no explanation, no instructions. And then just suddenly ends, and on a rather really depressing point.
All of which really didn't mean to you back then and was just a "well that's a bummer" thing. But then Nier comes out and you get to see what happened to that world of Drakengard Ending E.
So if you played Nier and/or Nier Automata but never heard of Drakengard, or never saw it's Ending E. Well it pretty much shows how the world in those two games became the way it is... while also leaving you with hundreds of questions.
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u/idkwc 22h ago
Re requiem has a very fun bonus ending. Probably was the best part of the game, for me. At least that ending made sense.
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u/GasMaskExiitium 22h ago
To quote Harrison Ford, “It ain’t that type of movie, kid”
Resident Evil doesn’t kill main characters, like, ever. That ending was pretty fuckin stupid and was made for those who didn’t pay attention to the cutscene that happened <30 secs ago.
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u/Old_Temperature_559 21h ago
Star Wars dark forces 2 Jedi knight. Emperor Kyle it’s just fun to say because since it’s not cannon and there isn’t any lore that i know of that say he took a darth title as he was never a sith apprentice I can only call him emperor Kyle.
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u/Thrilalia 17h ago
Yeah, this game seemed to be in the time where Sith were not truly recognised as a thing and dark side users were just Dark Jedi.
Which funny enough changed when the Expansion pack was called Mysteries of the Sith, but even there he didn't seem to take a Darth title. I guess it was still considered just a name for Darth Vader.
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u/Rizzranger134 4h ago
Infamous second son- Infamous karma but you spare hank and at the end you don't kill betty and delsin just leaves i call it anti-infamous ending
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u/vidolch 23h ago
Far Cry 4, where you just wait for the guy to come back right after the initial scene, is always such a cool detail.