10 Video Game Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About Them
4. This World Sucks Now - Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider
Dishonored and Dishonored 2 are two of the best games of their generation, which is why it was so surprising when developer Arkane Studios announced that they were done with the series. To drive the point home, they released Dishonored 2's DLC, Death Of The Outsider.
Playing as Billy Lurk, a previously unplayable character with a storied and complicated role in the series, you're tasked with doing the impossible: Killing The Outsider, the enigmatic spirit who grants powers to people and watches how they use them with idle curiosity. He basically throws a huge, magic wrench into major events just to see what'll happen.
Those powers are also your main mechanics. With no Outsider and no powers - no games.
At the end of this DLC, you find the Outsider's mortal body and can choose to kill him or free him from his tether to the Void - the dark dimension where his slightly sociopathic spirit resides.
Why is this so bad?
Because, just as he would have previously argued, the world is boring without him. Without the Outsider, the Dishonored world is too much like ours: rapidly succumbing to the destruction of the environment and featuring massive wealth disparity.
How... poignant?