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[phubans]

This was incredible, memorable, and shocking all at once when I first experienced this as a kid:

After days of playing Dragon Warrior you reach your final destination at last; Charlock Castle. Within this foul dungeon you encounter some of the toughest foes yet, but as you battle your way deeper you eventually come face to face with the infamous Dragon Lord himself. He offers you a proposal, and should you accept it, you'll get to see one of the most disturbing and bizarre endings of any NES game.

[Pineapple]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2545-Narrative-Mechanics

Extra Credits this week was about the narrative behind the Missile Command, including the fact that no matter how hard you try or how good you are at the game, you ultimately will lose. Of course this is true of most arcade games but the implication of missile command is that millions of people die in the losing situation of the game, so essentially they were all doomed anyway and it was your job to defend them just for the sake of maintaining hope.

You know, I never did like playing that game and I wasn't sure why. This might've been it 

[pixhead]

Final Fantasy Crisis Core.

*SPOILER*
After all your work Zack gets shot down in the end by SOLDIERS. You can keep fighting but you will eventually get injured then overwhelmed and then die. If you have played Final Fantasy 7 and then this all if any respect for cloud will be lost.

[krasimir]

Frankly, I hated Jarhead which the the kind of MOVIE you describe. So games that end without you even taking a shot at the BAD guys, well, suck!

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

7th saga (at the end you go into a time loop and become a king who is killed and replaced by a villain before the game begins, so the game begins all over again and the time loop means your actions were meaningless)

vandal hearts (where at the end of the game at the end of a hard-fought war the game just says something like 'although the heroes acted greatly, nobody remembered them, and soon things returned to how they used to be, ultimately there was no change at all from the actions of the heroes, the world was still full of war, chaotic and a bad place to live in'

[gimymblert]

Why even losing should be under the fate of epic of awesome epicness that plague game?

http://www.ulitsa-dimitrova.com/

[-pib-]

Gauntlet 4:

[SundownKid]

Yggdra Union:
Ending 3 -


Ending 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzFPOkSrKyg#t=1m38s

(Ending 1 is technically "good" for the protagonists but leads to tragedy in the sequels...)

[Polygraph]

Half Life? You screw up the earth, and then at the end it seems like you screw up some other dimension as well?

This.
Except, Half Life Episode 2. 
And there's some old game, um, Clocktower? I dunno.  I think it was on the PSX.  You're being chased by some little kid with a big knife and like, 5/6 of the endings are horribad.

[Marc Truant]

And there's some old game, um, Clocktower? I dunno.  I think it was on the PSX.  You're being chased by some little kid with a big knife and like, 5/6 of the endings are horribad.

Wasn't it a giant pair of scissors...?

And I'm gonna have to second Red Dead Redemption. The ending just pushed me to tears.