10 Real Endings Hidden In DLC

9. Dead Rising 4

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In one of gaming's more craven "please open your wallet to see the real end of the game" ploys, we have Dead Rising 4. 

The base game ends on an infuriating cliffhanger where protagonist Frank West sacrificially yeets himself from a helicopter while being attacked by zombies in order to let Vick and Brad escape.

Though we see Frank being seemingly feasted upon by zombies, his overall fate is left maddeningly ambiguous. That is, unless you waited four months and forked over a tenner to play the Frank Rising DLC and see what actually happened to Frank.

The DLC picks up with Frank now turned into a zombie, but of course, before Frank Rising is over, he's cured of being undead and back to his regular human self, giving players the happy(ish) ending they were denied the first time they paid up.

 
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