10 Video Game Endings Where Nothing You Did Matters

There's arguably been no video game ending more vitriolically received than that of Mass Effect 3, for while the bulk of the game is a damn fun time, BioWare well and truly fumbled the ball at the finish line.

Despite promising fans pre-release that the game's ending would take their collective decisions made throughout the trilogy into account, it ultimately boiled down to three colour-coded choices - A, B, or C.

After spending dozens, even hundreds of hours in the Mass Effect world and being promised a climax which would feel personal to each player's specific journey, limiting it to three fixed, frustratingly similar choices unsurprisingly left fans feeling hugely short-changed.

It felt like nothing - or at least, very little - that players did throughout the three games really had that much bearing on the outcome, and so, what was it all really for?

The backlash was ferocious enough that BioWare later expanded upon the endings with a DLC update, yet this did little to remedy the fact that, structurally speaking, the game's endings weren't sufficiently informed by the player's specific experience.