Cliffhangers are risky business, especially in gaming, and especially these days. Video games take a long time to make, and have only become more expensive to produce. There's rarely any guarantee that your game will get a sequel, even if you're successful; just look at poor, poor Tango Gameworks for proof of that.
Leaving audiences on a cliffhanger, either temporarily (or even permanently in worse cases) can have an audience feeling unfulfilled if executed wrong. The story can feel incomplete, the final act sliced off for no other reason than to bait you into coming back for more later. There are countless examples of this, including several that never got to follow up on that promise at all, but we're not here to talk about those.
This is about the ones that pulled it off. Whatever the follow-up may have been, these cliff-hangers ended the story at exactly the right time and teased exactly the right information to hook people for the next entry. You simply cannot watch these cliff-hanger endings and not be left clamouring for the next chapter in the saga.
Major spoiler warnings for all games covered. 10. F.
E.A.R F.
E.A.R earned acclaim upon release for its brilliant combat and dark, twisted story of child experimentation and how the past can never be concealed forever.
It's a bleak affair from top to bottom, so really there's only one true way this story could end: nukes fall, everybody dies. Realizing that there's only one way to put down his increasingly all-powerful and d.
