The Phantom Pain's campaign is divided into two chapters. The result is a game that doesn't have much in the way of a satisfactory ending, but does one worse by forcing players to slog their way through hours of copy-paste missions to unlock the 'true ending,' which contains a literally game-changing revelation regarding protagonist Venom Snake. These great games would've been even better if they knew when to pack it up. In the final stretch, these games all distended themselves with extra bosses, tiresome exposition dumps, and so on that proved beyond any doubt that there truly can be too much of a good thing. Perhaps they forced players through a lengthy, extraneous epilogue that really wasn't worth the time investment, or simply arrived at their natural climax hours before the end credits actually rolled. These 10 video games, all of them hugely acclaimed classics of their respective genres, all committed the cardinal sin of not knowing when to say farewell.

Nobody wants to drop £50 on a five-hour experience, but to the same token so many modern games are padded with outrageous bloat in a cynical attempt to justify their asking price.Īnd then there are more linear, story-driven games that just don't know when to end - they just keep going, and going, and going, until a large portion of players are utterly exhausted and eager for it to wrap up.

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