Seen the word "Bleakquel" used for it, but since it's handier to point people at, we have TVTropes with Happy Ending Override. It's so damn common because a happy ending means they cannot continue the story, so it must be ruined.
Factorio. Your goal is to harness the power of Science! to provide for your vacation expenses; and when you start a new game, you inevitably strand yourself on a new planet with evil communist bugs, just to start all over again.
Spoilers for the beginning of Mass Effect 2 (because the trilogy is meant to be played back-to-back-to-back, and that's how it's sold now, as a Legendary Edition that bundles them up as one product).
::: spoiler spoiler
Regardless of how the first one ends, the very beginning of the first one has your ship destroyed, your crew scattered, and you get killed — sucked out into the vacuum of space. This isn't really a spoiler since it's how a popular game starts and that game came out like 15 years ago, but for anyone who hasn't played the trilogy, it kind of is. Anyway, you get picked up by a group with deep pockets, and they bring you back to life. But if you got attached to your character in the first one, it kinda sucks seeing them literally get killed in the second one.
:::
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LodeMike@lemmy.today · 34 pts · 229d
Mario
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 22 pts · 229d
Halo, chief could’ve spent the rest of his life in a ship drifting through space with his hot computer gf
Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 228d
but then it would go rampant and whatever the Mandalorian's yt recording of Marathon says
jherazob@fedia.io · 18 pts · 228d
Seen the word "Bleakquel" used for it, but since it's handier to point people at, we have TVTropes with Happy Ending Override. It's so damn common because a happy ending means they cannot continue the story, so it must be ruined.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 229d
Hi, Majora's Mask.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 228d
Tears of the Kingdom too
halvar@lemy.lol · 14 pts · 229d
Many such cases
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 228d
Factorio. Your goal is to harness the power of Science! to provide for your vacation expenses; and when you start a new game, you inevitably strand yourself on a new planet with evil communist bugs, just to start all over again.
cybernihongo@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 229d
Poor Jak.
WraithGear@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 228d
Chronotrigger…
like even WHY!?
doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 229d
TLOU
Akido37@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 229d
The Longest Journey. They did my girl April dirty.
three@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 228d
How can getting jerked off be ripped away from you?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 226d
"And they all lived happily ever after" should be replaced with "and that's how they resolved that problem".
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 228d
Mass Effect?
Spoilers for the beginning of Mass Effect 2 (because the trilogy is meant to be played back-to-back-to-back, and that's how it's sold now, as a Legendary Edition that bundles them up as one product).
::: spoiler spoiler Regardless of how the first one ends, the very beginning of the first one has your ship destroyed, your crew scattered, and you get killed — sucked out into the vacuum of space. This isn't really a spoiler since it's how a popular game starts and that game came out like 15 years ago, but for anyone who hasn't played the trilogy, it kind of is. Anyway, you get picked up by a group with deep pockets, and they bring you back to life. But if you got attached to your character in the first one, it kinda sucks seeing them literally get killed in the second one. :::
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 228d
Final fantasy 13, kinda. I hated the start of 13-2
lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 228d
You think with the happy ending, the next game is just being chill going through day to day life, chillmaxxing
edinbruh@feddit.it · 3 pts · 229d
A plague tale
Kailn@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 171d
Reminds me of Death Note,
Except it's not a game.