9 Most Disappointing Video Game Finales

5. The Darkness 2 - The Darkness

Let it not be said a game needs to have a whole series of entries to have a finale that disappointed fans, especially when we’re talking about a series as popular as The Darkness.

Now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with a cliffhanger ending or an ending that leaves some plot threads dangling. It can work, but in this instance it left a lot of fans wondering what they were fighting for through The Darkness 2 and its original, especially given their growing fondness for one of the world’s unluckiest protagonists, Jackie Estacado.

After having what can be described as “having a really crap go of it”, or to be a little more specific, enduring an assassination attempt, being possessed by a demonic force called The Darkness, watching his girlfriend get murdered, waking up in a literal hellscape, gang-war shenanigans, getting hit by a train, being imprisoned in a mental institution, getting crucified, getting shot, and enduring like 100 other terrible things, we arrive at our conclusion.

Here you have a choice. And spoiler alert, both aren’t great. You can stay in an asylum delusion with an imaginary version of your dead girlfriend or try to reach Hell to save your actual girlfriend.

Doing so will initially result in you saving her after which she’s possessed by the Angelus who opposes The Darkness and thus leaves our hero trapped in the depths of Hell with loose ends galore. Jackie screams out and everything fades to black, the end. Though there has been murmurings over the years that The Darkness 3 may come about, there’s been nothing firm to suggest it will in the 11 years since the sequel was released.