6 More Video Game Endings That Were Profoundly Insulting

6. Shadow Of Mordor

Quick time events are almost always a terrible idea. There are a few standouts, like the famous eye-gouging that kicks off God of War 3, but for the majority of the time players would rather actually fight enemies than brainlessly tap buttons through a cutscene.

With that in mind let’s turn to Shadow of Mordor, an open world action adventure game released in 2014 that saw the player controlling Talion and getting revenge against Sauron for the murder of his family. The game is awesome, with the highlights including the Nemesis system and a nifty, satisfying combat style that makes murdering Orcs as much fun as it sounds.

However, the game drops the ball in the final possible moments, after hyping up the last boss fight to the maximum, and coming face to face with Sauron after he takes the Black Hand’s body and assumes physical form. Rather than an actual fight, players were treated to a five button quicktime event and that’s all it apparently takes to bring down the Lord of the Rings himself.

It felt profoundly unsatisfying and crushed all the excitement and hype that the game had, until that point, built up masterfully.