10 Video Game Endings That Were Profoundly Insulting
4. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Where the first Force Unleashed was a gloriously OTT extravaganza of fanboy wish-fulfilment, the sequel felt like a rushed attempt to milk the fans by putting the barest of effort into continuing the tale of the mighty Starkiller.
To that end, its campaign was a shockingly short five hour speed-run, culminating in a binary 'choose your own ending' where neither felt remotely satisfying. In the 'light ending', Starkiller lets Darth Vader live, only to end on a cliffhanger as he's pursued into space by Boba Fett.
And in the 'dark side ending', well, LucasArts went completely off the rails.
Firstly... you die, as Vader reveals there were actually multiple cloned Starkillers, meaning there was always a 'dark version' waiting in the wings to hop in and finish you off.
It meant all your efforts were for nothing, and despite the outrage from fans, LucasArts still released some paid DLC to 'expand' on how this clone came to be. Sadly, even that ended yet again on a cliffhanger, as our cloned Starkiller prepared to fight against the duplicitous Emperor Palpatine's forces.
In the end, it was a godsend Disney wiped the slate clean by removing all the ancillary Extended Universe stuff, as if we had to accept this as canon, it would be even worse.