7 Rushed Video Game Endings That Ruined Everything

4. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

It's not that Brotherhood has a bad ending... it's just rushed. Very, very rushed.

While the twist ending for Desmond, the modern day ancestor to a number of history's greatest assassins whose brain is repeatedly probed for information on ancient relics, is totally fine... the finale for Ezio Auditore, the actual assassin, is far less grandiose.

After slowly and steadily dismantling the would-be empire of Duke Cesare Borgia, Ezio moves in to deliver the coup de grace. That doesn't occur, however, without the help of a series of jump cuts that quickly glance over Borgia murdering his own father, being arrested, breaking out of jail, Ezio rallying the Assassins, harnessing an ancient alien artefact, killing Borgia and then sealing said artefact away.

That's a lot of plot points to fit into an hour of gameplay, especially for an Assassin's Creed game. While this isn't the worst thing in the world since it effectively wraps up everything for Brotherhood's actual conclusion, players can practically feel the developers' hands on their backs as they are shoved through the last stretch of what was an otherwise leisurely paced game.