10 Video Game Endings Worse Than A Game Over

10. Linking The Flame - Dark Souls

At the beginning of the first Dark Souls, when the huge amount of lore is but a flicker in our horizon, the idea of "linking the fire" wasn't something you probably thought much about.

A lot of fantasy games tend to have mysterious phrases like this, that are just a fancy way of saying "beat the bad guys and win the game please". As such, you get pretty used to ignoring whatever language is used to tell you it, so you can better focus on giving the bosses a good old smack down.

Only, Dark Souls quite literally means that you can "link the flame" - through using your battered body as the kindling. In the ending of the game where you decide to do this, you quite literally set yourself on fire with the final bonfire you light. It looks cool, sure, but when you think about all the hours and deaths you put in just to set yourself ablaze, it's just not quite as satisfying as you might have hoped.

While the other Dark Souls games have similarly unsettling endings, you at least sort of knew what to expect when going into them.