Multiple endings in a game
It's a clever trick to keep people tied to your game a bit longer, because if you want to know all the endings (and perhaps discover the one true ending, if that exists) then you have play the game multiple times. Sometimes people just want the achievements/trophies tied to different endings but sometimes people are just curious about the other endings. Especially if the ending you had wasn't as good as you hoped it would be.
Multiple endings are lame?
I know that some people hate multiple endings, especially in long games where it takes you a lot of hours to make it to the end. Do you really want to go through all that just for a different ending or to get another achievement/trophy? I guess the die hard gamers will say yes, but it's a lot of work for just one or two things while it's probably more fun to play another game you haven't played before. But sometimes it is rewarding, for example getting rewards that help you in the next playthrough. If you get a certain ending, usually tied with a certain difficulty, then you sometimes get special rewards for that in games. With these special rewards, sometimes weapons but it could also be other things, it's a lot more interesting to stay in the game a bit longer. Unfortunately this doesn't count for every game with multiple endings, which means that sometimes you're just wasting time for a different ending that gets you nothing extra.
A different ending isn't always an improvement?
Unfortunately it's not, sometimes it's even worse or there is hardly any difference. Just look at Mass Effect 3 where every ending looks so much like the other, sure there are some differences but it usually game down to the same thing (I'll spare you the spoiler here but I do think most people know by now what happens to Shepard). Sometimes multiple endings just mean three bad ones and one good one, this ending is often known as the true ending. You'll see this a lot in the Dead Rising games where not completing missions often gets you a bad ending while completing all missions gets you overtime mode which then leads to the true ending. It's nice that there are multiple endings but when most of those are bad and the only ending that is satisfying is the true ending then the others don't really matter.
Multiple endings are lame?
I know that some people hate multiple endings, especially in long games where it takes you a lot of hours to make it to the end. Do you really want to go through all that just for a different ending or to get another achievement/trophy? I guess the die hard gamers will say yes, but it's a lot of work for just one or two things while it's probably more fun to play another game you haven't played before. But sometimes it is rewarding, for example getting rewards that help you in the next playthrough. If you get a certain ending, usually tied with a certain difficulty, then you sometimes get special rewards for that in games. With these special rewards, sometimes weapons but it could also be other things, it's a lot more interesting to stay in the game a bit longer. Unfortunately this doesn't count for every game with multiple endings, which means that sometimes you're just wasting time for a different ending that gets you nothing extra.
A different ending isn't always an improvement?
Unfortunately it's not, sometimes it's even worse or there is hardly any difference. Just look at Mass Effect 3 where every ending looks so much like the other, sure there are some differences but it usually game down to the same thing (I'll spare you the spoiler here but I do think most people know by now what happens to Shepard). Sometimes multiple endings just mean three bad ones and one good one, this ending is often known as the true ending. You'll see this a lot in the Dead Rising games where not completing missions often gets you a bad ending while completing all missions gets you overtime mode which then leads to the true ending. It's nice that there are multiple endings but when most of those are bad and the only ending that is satisfying is the true ending then the others don't really matter.
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