10 Video Game Endings Worse Than A Game Over
3. The Second Apocalypse - Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
When you play Rockstar's cowboy living dead simulator, you sort of go into it thinking you know how the story will end. Namely, that after having to shoot and kick your way through hordes of undead, John will manage to save the day - even if it requires a spot of heroic sacrifice to do so.
After personally restocking half of the underworld in order to put an Aztec mask back in its rightful place and break the curse, it seems like the plot does intend to follow this expected route. You return home, untie your formerly zombified family, and everything goes back to normal.
For all of a couple weeks, because the mask is promptly stolen a few months later by your old pal Seth, which starts another zombie apocalypse.
And in between these events, John Marston has died, meaning the only person who understood how to stop the undead hordes and was capable of doing so is now part of their ranks.
Somehow, luring everyone into a false sense of security only to have another outbreak of the living dead seems worse than just never successfully stopping it in the first place.