10 Video Game Endings That Pissed EVERYONE Off

9. Your Choices Don’t Matter (Again) - Telltale’s Game of Thrones

Telltale Game of Thrones Ethan Death
Telltale Games

There really is nothing like a choice-heavy game completely nullifying all your decisions but Telltale’s Game of Thrones drops the ball in a totally different way than Little Hope.

While Telltale have done some extraordinary games you have to hand it to people who were committed to diving into their Game of Thrones offering. It kicked off in 2014 as one of their much later series where you were either tired of the format or absolutely on board. A pity then for the latter who were excited for the collision between the Telltale experience and one of the biggest shows ever as the ending left a lot to be desired.

As you’d expect, the world of Game of Thrones is brutal and people die, but fans complained that the deaths felt extremely cheap and avoidable.

Nobody wins and everyone loses which might be all well and good on TV but in a game where you’ve spent six episodes trying to make good choices, finding out there’s no good ending pissed a lot of people off. It might be accurate to the universe but it is hugely unsatisfying in a game that’s supposed to be about meaningful choices. Killing off just about the entire family you’d been playing as throughout the game, and leaving the rest with unknowable fates, left an incredibly bad taste in the mouths of players who made it all the way to the end.

As did the fact that the final episode seems far more interested in setting up for season two instead of rounding out the story. A season two that never came to pass, mind you.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.