I don't know, Twilight Princess's ending is just so fucking amazing. I mean I've never gotten so emotional over any ending in a game ever. It's just an experience as an ending. Game was just so amazing.

Actually, I totally dug Halo 2's ending. It had an awesome Empire Strikes Back feel to it.

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i loved lod.  but my favorite has to go to smash.  It has a giant "GAME" across the whole screen.  you know you have won and there are no questions asked.

Honestly, I don't think I've really been impressed with a game ending since I was 12 years old playing Metroid.

I keep running through game endings and come up with mediocrity piled on more mediocrity. Even games like Mass Effect, while satisfying, were still pretty meh overall. Which is probably why I enjoyed Halo 2's ending. I didn't see it coming and that sticks with me.

If I had to pick one, SotC is pretty damned good. Then again, that game is bottled genius from front to back.

MGS4 would have been great had it ended with the epic boss fight. All of Kojima's ramblings after that point killed it for me. I just wanted it to end. It was Return of the King-esque. The climax is done, the player is emotionally spent, and then the director/producer decides it's time to tie up every loose end strewn throughout hours and hours of gameplay/footage. It kills the moment.

Earthbound and Mother 3

Cause they're the only games that made me think deep philosophical thoughts and made me cry being so attached to the characters.

then you wouldnt like the actual books.  in the actual books they finish their journey and then celebrate and tie up all the loose ends in the world of men, which is where it would have been best to stop.  everyone is happy and everything anyone has grown attatched to has an ending.

then you read the other half of the book.

Okami, you fools!  Not one mention of it!

Anyways, Okami has the most awe inspiring and emotional ending of all games.

The books are structured entirely differently and delve into details the movies couldn't touch. I read them years before the films and re-read them shortly after RotK released.

Different medium, different rules. Besides, Tolkien broke pretty much every literary rule he could think of by structuring LotR the way he did. It worked when he did it... When Jackson changed the story and then lamely attempted the same maneuver with the flims, it just didn't fly.

Books cannot be compared to movies. With movies, you have an emotional rollercoaster that lasts minutes and they're more emotionally spending than a novel. With literary works, you're dedicating hours and hours to read most of them... The same ups and downs don't apply when it takes you 2 minutes to read the dialogue and environments in a book that are delivered by an actor in 20 seconds.

lol, im just trying to make a point here.  the second half of the third book (or the actual sixth book) was mostly pointless and took away from the overall story.  the point is that things need to end and not always just drone on.  the sixth book was mostly droning on.  the middle four were excelent, the first slow, and the last was too much.

Not arguing. Tolkein recreated how novels are supposed to be written to do that. If you want to get into it really, the third or fourth book droned on needlessy because of the structure of the novel.

Once you read the entire novel, it's brilliant.

In a movie, not so much. That's my point. Don't try to change the novel and then go back to its key point because it fits your purpose.

PS. Saruman didn't die.

PPS. There was no Shire after the fact.

PPPS. There was no Wormtongue in the Shire.

PPPPS. WFT did Jackson do in the last 30 minutes of RotK?