10 Bad Video Game Endings That Are Harder To Get Than Good Ones

6. Usurpation Of Fire - Dark Souls 3

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It is a tradition of the Dark Souls series that the games don't tell you anything about what's going on and what your objectives are.

Dark Souls 3 has even made a special ending around making you figure out what to do, but the thing is, it's the darkest and most messed up one in the whole game.

Called the Usurpation of Fire, the ending is attainable after you complete a convoluted series of hidden tasks. The full list of what to do would be too long to include here, but some highlights include giving the Fire Keeper a set of new eyes, getting married to a guy, and leveling up with the help of a really shifty-looking pilgrim.

The tasks are numerous, and you have to do them at specific moments or else you will permanently fail the Usurpation questline, making it significantly harder to reach this outcome than any other one in the game.

Your reward for following all the steps correctly is a grim ending where your character refuses their quest, takes over the world, and then plunges it into an eternal age of darkness.

It sounds bad, although if we're being honest, that's just another Tuesday in the Dark Souls world.

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