10 Video Games That Didn’t Know When To End
1. Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots
When it comes to never ending-endings, the Metal Gear franchise is an embarrassment of riches. The series has built a reputation on its record-breakingly long cutscenes; sporting complicated and convoluted plots that take hours to wrap up. While many entries in the franchise fall pray to this habit, its Metal Gear Solid 4 that is perhaps the most extreme example, especially in its final moments.
'Succinct' is the last world you would ever use to describe Metal Gear Solid 4s ending. From the moment the final battle with Revolver Ocelot begins, this conclusion runs over an hour long. Thats nearing the length of a feature length film. Characters drone on and on explaining various plot points and waxing poetic about this and that. It just keeps going and going, and its all told through cutscenes, which can be an endurance test, especially when it feels like there is no end to the ending in sight.
Metal Gear Solid 4 does have a lot of story to tell however, and so its inability to conclude in a timely fashion is understandable. Still, video games have the most diverse set of tools with which to tell a story, and so you have to wonder if this game could have done so in a way that doesnt wear on your patience.
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