Which of these ending types are your favorite?

[Omegapunch]

1- Happy ending
2- Sad ending
3- bittersweet ending
4- cliffhanger ending

 

[Prism_Red]

I'm fine with anything as long as it's not gainax ending.

 

[DunkeyKong]

1 is expectations
2 is reality (maybe 3 as well)
4 is-

 

[RageBurner]

I can handle all but number 4, unless the cliffhanger resolves later with a continuation or supplemental material for closure.

 

[fake-kun]

As long as it's not Mega Man Legends 2's ending, I'm fine with everything.

 

[miguk]

I always appreciate a bittersweet ending. It takes guts for a film director to use one, given that studios often force them to obey the whims of test audiences (read: artless whiny tools) who insist the story coddle them like children who can't handle complexity.

Unhappy endings are similar. The only issue is that they are a bit easier to create, so they aren't always as good as bittersweet.

Happy endings are the vanilla of endings. You expect them, they don't do anything new, and they are usually what you get. They are okay (not great, but okay), but I hate it when they are shoehorned in to a story that should lead to something less happy.

Cliffhangers generally suck. There are some that are okay, as when the sequel is a necessary part of an adaptation, but using them when no sequel is planned is basically a gun to the head of audiences to try to force a sequel out of the studio.

Gainax endings are a high risk, high reward. They could be great or terrible. The director needs to really know what they are doing for it to work.

 

[Omegapunch]

I can handle all but number 4, unless the cliffhanger resolves later with a continuation or supplemental material for closure.

I can agree.
(cough  call of duty: ghosts cough)

 

[freebie#47]

-_- Sad to say i prefer the WTF ending. It tends to be bad, but definitely unexpected.

Also the kiss ending as well. I'm a sucker for a good romance story. Princess Bride

 

[TheWanderer]

I'm fine with anything as long as it's excuted well,I hate some happy endings and love some ,same for sad endings ,all that matters are execution

 

[Retrodyte95]

Whatever "The Devil" ending in Cyberpunk 2077 is. It genuinely changed my life and left me stunlocked in thought for a week. An ending that explores difficult and uncomfortable themes of near future. I'm not really sure which one of the 4 would it classify as. Other than that, an ending that solves a great mystery or an ending with an unexpected twist is always fun to experience

 

[VampireLord1024]

#1.

 

[E0N]

5 - Meaningful ending

I don't like happy/sad/bittersweet/cliffhanger endings just for the sake of it. For me a story has to end in a meaningful way that will make the journey worth it, doesn't matter how it ends.

 

[SaveSeraph]

Yeah like E0N said, I don't really care how a story ends as long as it has a good meaning to it and fits the overall tone of the story itself. Cliffhangers I'm not usually a fan of, though it depends on how you go about them (I don't really consider open endings to be cliffhangers). By far tho my least favorite way to end a story is a 180 (these are NOT the same as a plot twist). To completely flip the narrative around to the other direction it was headed in is in my opinion disrespectful, not only to the audience, but also to the story itself. I feel like authors usually write endings that way for one of two reasons. A: the author is doing it just for the sake of doing it, which I think is just stupid and B: the author didn't like how the story was headed and changed it to how they wanted it to be (which is also stupid because who writes a story without a beginning and ending in mind???). Option B is probably more commonly seen in serialized media, like manga, and given that's one of my main sources of entertainment, it's very disappointing for me.

 

[GreatIso]

I think all types of endings have values, but as i mostly play games with multiple endings i think a happy ending with buildup is super good.

 

[χKai]

The ending where everything dies or meets a tragic fate.

 

[SaveSeraph]

The ending where everything dies or meets a tragic fate.

Those are honestly some of my favorite endings, depending on how well they're done. The Souls series definitely comes to mind.

 

[χKai]

Those are honestly some of my favorite endings, depending on how well they're done. The Souls series definitely comes to mind.

Never played 'em, I've heard good things.

Something like the one I wrote where [REDACTED], and the characters [REDACTED] at the end.

It's for a project of mine, [REDACTED].

 

[SwordBreaker39]

I like 1-3 Ending it depends on the story.

But cliffhanger endings can go Frack right of especially when they don´t plan to do a follow up or anything. And anime is worse with that you find a series you like you binge the whole first season and it end on like a cliffhanger or maybe not cliffhanger but it ends to with out even finishing the whole story and 5 years later still no season 2 or 3 and your like FUUUUUU guess I have to read the manga then or light novel. "no I don´t read allot of manga don´t have time when you have both gaming, anime and movies."


DON`T start anything you don´t plan to finish god damn it.

 

[Karnik]

The first one, which in Visual Novels is more appropriately called

Spoiler: f**k

ending.

 

[SinAkuma]

I will go with 4