Alternate endings (and YUSS. This posting thing works)

Eight words down, a thousand and a bit to go.

Anyway, this paper is a great excuse to google "video game memes", which brings me to this oh-so-valid point about the temporality and 'playtime' you get from a movie, versus the humble video game.

(for brief context, Mass Effect 3 was something of a marathon, a novella if you will. At least that's what I think it is, having never played any of the trilogy)

Regarding multiple endings in films, a quick trip to Google and Wikipedia the library and academic sources leads me to this. The list is filled with what even Bill & Ted would consider less-than-excellent films.
Quite a few sequels populate the list too, which I guess could be directors attempting to please and placate established fan bases, with preexisting ideals of how the films should pan out.

Video games on the other hand, some dating to the nineties (90s kids wooh!) seem to feature alternate endings quite frequently, but in each case obviously centered around a player's choices in-game.

With some video game properties needing upwards of 50 hours of effective gameplay (Final Fantasy, here's looking at you), the time investment and sheer sense of reward is immense. Providing multiple endings centered around decisions throughout a game is far more complex than simply tacking on an alternate finale to Terminator 2 in the DVD extras.

Gah, god knows where I was going with this train of thought.
Can anyone think of any memorable or downright unsatisfying endings? Film, video game, 50ShadesofGrey?
Boom! 250 words!





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