Quote Originally Posted by Renalt View Post
I'm a fan of well done Bad Endings. Reminds me of Ogre Battle 64 in which you are banished because you apparently just love killing people, the new leader dies of unknown causes, barbarians destroy the kingdom, the bad guy that lives stumbles upon a woman's corpse and a baby crawls out of her dress and then disintegrates the bad guy because it a a God reborn.
I'm fine with Bad Endings, as long as they make sense in the context of the game. If it's because of something my party did, then by all means go for it.

But a badly done Bad Ending will kill my interest in the game. A monster or catastrophe or something coming out of nowhere and just eating the world because shut up. Bleh.

I give some leeway for joke endings, though. Like in the first Mortal Kombat, where Raiden's ending involves him getting bored fighting mortals, inviting other gods to join the tournament, and accidentally destroying the world. Complete with "Have a nice day!"