10 Video Game Endings Where Nothing You Did Matters

Red Dead Redemption unforgettably climaxes with outlaw protagonist John Marston being betrayed by Bureau of Investigation agent Edgar Ross, resulting in John being shot to death by a gang of U.S. Army officers.

The game's epilogue then leaps forward three years and shifts perspective to John's son Jack, as players are tasked with tracking down and killing Ross in revenge for his father's murder.

Though it's certainly satisfying to see Ross get what was coming to him, it's also a slyly bleak outcome for Jack, who rather than see his father's fate as a warning to do literally anything else with his life, has become an outlaw not unlike his late pa.

As a commentary on how cycles of violence are perpetuated it's fantastic, but make no mistake, it seems incredibly unlikely that anything but an untimely, brutal end awaits Jack sometime in the near-future - just like his dad. 

At this point as a player, you just have to ask yourself, "What was it all for?"