I love that I can legitimately say that I've been waiting half my life for Valve to finish the Half-Life story.

First one I thought of was Sly Cooper. Thieves in Time ended on a cliffhanger of Sly being stuck in Egypt, and Sanzaru has basically left it there. Supposedly, the story was going to end in a dlc, but the game didn’t do too well, and it was dropped.

The Legacy of Kain series may have been lacking a little bit in the game play department, but I feel like it was one of the best narratives I experienced from a video game series and was left unfinished.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is also infamously unfinished, however it ironically works considering it's called The Phantom Pain.

Wolf Amoung Us is definetely missed on here. It's been almost 10 years since they left us hanging with that cliffhanger.

All the Half life fans are summoned knowing that the story will never be completed

The mention of Megaman Legends almost made me tear up. It was a HUGE part of my childhood (got me through bad times) & I was so damn sad to know there was no part 3. I think it was a decade ago when I found out there was supposed to be a 3rd but got cancelled. Felt like it opened a closed wound...

Man, I did NOT think I'd hear Mega Man Legends mentioned on this list but as much as I'm happy to hear it talked about, it's a fresh slap to remember I'll probably not get another. The first game has always been in my top 10 best games of all time in terms of fun and replayability.

I want Golden Sun Dark Dawn to get a sequel. Literally ends on a cliffhanger, and the fact that we still haven't gotten a chance to beat Alex senseless is something that meeds to be remedied.

I actually have really fond memories of playing that Prince of Persia reboot on PS3. I didn’t have the experience of playing the originals to compare it too and I honestly just really loved the architecture and overall design of the world you get to explore. And I remember being really surprised at the ending but I didn’t hate it at all, I thought it was pretty intense and not at all common to have an ending like that

I had to pause to say thank you for not forgetting Darksiders because that was one of my favorite franchise growing up. And it's so damn underrated and not talked about. I still dream about the four horsemen getting together to fight the Charred Council on the last game 😭

Maybe not the most popular game, but I absolutely loved the Metal Arms: Glitch in the System game when I was younger, and that one left off on a cliffhanger that I waited years to see what would happen next.

Thanks for including MegaMan Legends 2 here :') That series NEEDS more press covering it :') ❤️

Legacy of Kain was a good series with a great story that doesn't really end. It's left up in the air. For years there were rumors the series would get a new game, especially after an Easter Egg showed up in one of the Tomb Raider games. But if I remember correctly, the original lead of the project and the champion of the series continuing has since left the company.

Don't forget Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. The game ended with Sly trapped in Ancient Egypt. That game came out 10 years in 2013 and Sly is still trapped with the devs saying they don't have any plans to make another Sly Cooper game.

I really liked the Prince of Persia game. It was so chill and hit all my buttons. I played through it again recently and still loved it.

Amazing video bro.. shows how fascinating this world of games is.. as I mentioned in your previous videos comments, as a new game developer, I wish to see my game in your video once..

Dantes inferno is another great example! The game ended with a literal To be continued

The Order 1886 deserves a sequel. The gameplay could do with a change up, sure, but the story and the world was really interesting and different and would be great to see it fleshed out more.

4:43 - The end of "Darksiders" gave me goosebumps, and I am so ticked off that there's been no sequel to it. Prequels galore, but no sequel. 🤬

This video just reminded me how amazing Control was and how stunning the visuals are. Such a fun and worth it game to platinum.

Anachronox, it ended with such a massive cliffhanger and promise of more, fantastic and amazing game that is basically a 'Western JRPG', with dumb humor, set in space on many planets (and you even have a planet as a party member, yes, a whole planet you previously explored). I need to finish the tale of Sly Boots and his dead wife who is inhabiting the mouse cursor you play the game with. This game is old and clunky, but it is an absolute treat. Be right back, reinstalling.

i would love to get a prototype 3 because the 1st game has loose ends related too the web of intrigue that where never answered in prototype 2 and heck prototype 2 story ending was a huge cliffhanger in general due to the hint of a third game and so much more. but radical entertainment is gone i believe sadly but if ACTivison ever decided to resurrect the prototype franchise or even remaster the 1st 2 games for series x i would buy them in a heart beat.

Spilt Second too, just played through it for a nostalgia trip and still wished we got to see more of that unique racing style and vague story.

The one that still hurts me to this day is Anachronox, bought it when it came out and the cliffhanger ending really was a punch in the guts when it was obvious the sequel would never happen. A more recent one is Days Gone - some silliness in the story aside, I enjoyed where it was going and the revelation in the final hours could have had some great implications for a sequel.

Advent Rising - Janky game (which I still enjoyed) but had a fascinating story intended to be a trilogy. That ending!

I remember when the very first Prince of Persia came out on DOS in 1989. For a DOS game, and at the time, it looked great!

No mention of Anachronox? That cliffhanger. That betrayal. The fate of several universes hanging in the balance...

Sly Cooper is still stuck in time! We just need one more sequel to complete the saga! We need closure!!

I know it's been forever, but I'm still hoping that there will some day be a 4th Gabriel Knight game. The Schattenjäger lore really got to me.

Love the video! Been waiting for the before you ff16 though lol

I'm thankful to see Mega Man Legends mentioned, especially as it seems to be mostly forgotten by everybody. However, you missed a really great one to mention: Xenosaga. Although the rumors are unconfirmed, they hold that the reason the series ended after Episode 3, and left well over half of the story untold, is because of copyright issues regarding characters that would be getting an increasing degree of appearance in later entries. Characters who appear in Xenogears. Really, if those rumors are true, then without someone with some very deep pockets coming along and going to great lengths to clear up that problem then Xenosaga CAN'T be finished, regardless of what us gamers want.

i waited for half life to appear from the start of the video and you put it in number 1, which is perfect. you guys never disappoint :D keep up the good work!

My pick for game story that's incomplete is Darkness 2. Had such a blast playing that game way back when

Definitely would have put the Deus Ex series on this list considering Mankind Divided was only part of the intended game.

Surprised Days Gone wasn't on here. That twist at the end when you get 100% really made me want a sequel but it will most likely never happen.

I loved Alan Wake so much when I was 12 so seeing it come out now that i’m 25 is insane.

Been watchin you guys from literally the start in 2015 and man the amount of quality content you put up consistently is soo amazing,thank you for all the great work you guys do :)

One that comes to mind is Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. It presents a great plot and characters, and although is a long game, you feel it ends in the middle of the story

Star Wars Republic Commando is a big one for me. I loved that game and the fact that it never got a sequel is criminal.

Don't forget about the best history in videogames industry, Legacy Of Kain we need to know how that gothic dimentional vampires history ends

Days gone should be on the list, such a cliffhanger with the helicopter.

You guys are one of my favorite things about gaming these days. Don’t change

I loved Darksiders 1 and still one of my favorite game, I wish the story continue in the future 🙏

Killzone 3 was a good ending, but the 4th game Shadow fall bring a lot of thing to the story and didn't answer all of them. The ending was not that bad as most game's on this list, but still need a new Killzone, because there's still so much in this series.

You guys missed bulletstorm! That game is a must play and ended on a cliffhanger!

Split second and Dante's inferno come to mind instantly. Could say infamous

Remedy has been one of my favorite devs for the lady several years. I can't wait to see Control 2. Hands down my favorite game of the PS4 Gen.

My choice for this list is Conduit 2. The Conduit was popular enough to get a second game. Lots of conspiracy storyline involving the all seeing eye, aliens, Atlantis, and more as you try to defend earth. Jump to the end of the of the second game where a dormant alien spaceship is on its way to earth and a giant portal opens with men in space armor saying they are ready to help you in the battle to come. Oh and two of those men are George Washington and Abraham Lincoln decked out in space armor. Yep would really love to finish that cliffhanger.

The fact that we will most likely see an ending to the COD ghosts storyline is criminal. Huge surprising cliffhanger

It feels like a lot of these are studios writing cliffhangers just for the hell of it, realizing they don't know how to wrap the story up, and deciding to make prequels until the answer comes to them.

I would like to see gameranx bring up a game that was absolutely awesome, a game with a great story that never got complete. There was a sequel planned with a demo and stuff and then after a tsunami got canceled. The game in question is called steambot chronicles. I understand it's an older ps2 game but man it was amazing and to this day it still is

Thrilled to see Xenoblade X mentioned. Still waiting for a sequel

I had no idea there was any additional “Beyond Good and Evil” content even talked about. That would be so cool, I loved that game.

Story after Bomberman being Lode Runner too, they leave that storyline to dry, while create more and more Bombers

Great list! One of my frustrating ones is Mass Effect Andromeda. I know they released a book about the Quarian Ark, but I don't care. I want to play it, not read it. They are other loose ends too that are never finished off. Hopefully we will get some resolution with the next Mass Effect. I would love to see them just drop a patch and DLC of the Quarian Ark right before the next Mass Effect but we all know that's not going to happen.

The Long Dark gets an honorable mention from me here. In the story mode, Wintermute's 5th and final episode is still locked and no ETA on it's release. Hinterland Studio actually just released a new expansion pack just yesterday, but the actual story remains unfinished 5 years after its initial release.

I actually really appreciated how Control went all in on NOT answering the Alan Wake mystery, but added to how tantalizing and mysterious it was and built on the connected universe they've started to grow.

The 2008 Prince of Persia game did have a sequel, it was called "Prince of Persia The Fallen King" and it was on the Nintendo DS only. It continues the story and has a concrete ending.

We will probably never see a true ending to the LoK series

What a great list. Though I enjoy a good story, I've shifted to focusing more on gameplay exactly because of how narratives go unresolved or have bad endings.

As a bonus I would add Kingdom Come: Deliverance as well. I know, is not an old game (yet), but the game finishes with you still hunting the guy that killed your parents and you still don’t have the sword you forged in the beginning of the game. As far as I know there is still no date for a sequel.

I'd like the add another honorable mention: Alter Echo. The story seems to be quite neatly tied off at the end of it; the BBEG is beaten, our hero Nevin and one of the two crewmates he came to this planet with are on a spaceship headed home, galaxy saved, all's well. Then one more cutscene plays showing the body of Nevin's other crewmate, who at this point had been dead for several hours (about half of the story); the eponymous Echo, who'd been guiding Nevin throughout the game, tells her to wake up. Cut to black. "There is much for us to do." Roll credits. Naturally there's no explanation offered as to what Echo has in mind, but IMO the really interesting bit to all this is that there's no discernible reason why Echo needs her help; now freed from the BBEG's control, Echo's capable of reshaping the planet on a whim, and with the schematics already available could even craft an entire fleet of star-hopping warship-drones in seconds... so what could an ordinary human bring to the table?

I'd add _D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die._ It's an episodic adventure game, but only the first two episodes were released. What they set up was intriguing, but director Hidetaka Suehiro left Access Games and announced that there wouldn't be any more episodes.

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West Also Alan Wake's wife isn't trapped in the darkness. She died right from the beginning. The darkness made her drowned so Alan would try to use the book's magic to get her back. Obvioisly this is all the darkness's plan to make Alan write something that the darkness want. At the end of Alan Wake dlc he sacrifice himself by staying inside the dakrness and write everything go back to normal. So in the end the wife and everybody else is saved. But Alan himself got trapped inside the dimension.

man i haven't played most of these games but i just love hearing falcon talk 😂💪🏿

I know that it wasn’t like the craziest cod campaign but call of duty ghosts leaves on a cliff hanger that will most likely never get finished

I do honestly like each of the main Dark Siders games, I couldn't get into the side one. I do hope that we possibly get another prequel so we'd get Strife's story during the same time frames 2 and 3 are in along with a sequel to continue the story from 1. It is a pretty good series and I think once it is completed it would be great. Also I really wanted another Mega Man Legends game.

Anyone remember Anachronox? A sci fi RPG which ends with a party character betraying everyone and opening the gateway into the previous iteration of the universe and letting the bad guys escape. The final scene is the party gathering together again presumably to go into the gate and stop the bad guys, but we never got the sequel.

Anybody else have the habit of taking a break on a game and not know you were right near the end when coming back? Happens to me quite a bit.

THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING POP2008. one of my favorite games of all time and the fact that it'll never get a sequel HAUNTS me. I spoke to Nolan North at Sacanime many years ago and asked him about it, and he pointed at me and said "that's what fanfiction is for!!!" (i believe the video is on my channel? i forget. my account is just for watching youtube, not putting stuff up. lmfao)

Keep up the good work Gameranx! 😁

I loved Anthem 😢 Knowing that I will never get all of the achievements stings a bit.

You can easily make a part 2. There are many incomplete story games I know of, just can't remember their names. Prey, Vanquish and a lot more

Golden Sun! Golden Sun 2 had a hell of a cliffhanger ending. After many years, they miraculously released Golden Sun 3 as an 11th hour DS title (which instantly looked like crap next to 3DS games, but that's besides the point), and they never deal with the new villain reveal at the end of 2. Instead of wrapping up the series in what would surely be the last entry to get made, they ended it with more unanswered questions.

Heavenly sword is a game that sort of did this There was supposed to be a second game.

Days Gone is a solid contender for this list imo

alan wake has been in that lake for so long that he should now be called alan lake.

Oh shit I forget all about Beyond Good and Evil 2. Those trailers looked cool as hell and had people super hyped for a moment.

Beyond Good and Evil was a great game, I really loved it. And it's a shame that Half-Life 3 is still missing.

You forgot Quantum Break ... I really enjoyed the game and wanted to see the rest of the story.

Good list, I might've included star wars republic commando, ended on a cliff hanger when Sev gets taken prisoner and zips off. That always drove me nuts.

I dearly want to know how the other two entries of *Too Human* would've turned out. I loved that setting and want more.

Don't forget about Days gone . it was a big big cliffhanger

Alan Wake was what came to mind first and then you said it! I absolutely love that game, and I’d play the hell out of a sequel if they ever did one. The Alan Wake DLC in Control is worth playing!

We need another Mega Man Legends game, one without the tank controls from the first, but similar RPG-style elements. I really loved the towns and exploring a bit of the world, even though it was a linear experience. The Legends Series was so good! Tail Concerto also appeared to have taken inspiration from those games too - pre-solatorobo.

Never played Alan Wake but Control is probably my favorite game of all time, I still replay it today.

As much as Anthem was terribly handled, I really enjoyed the game, and I engaged with 75% of the story, the later game started having alot of holes, but I would have enjoyed the story continuing. So many great things in that game wasted.

As a huge fan of the franchise, Mass Effect: Andromeda absolutely should be on this list too. Even the upcoming 5th game is unlikely to really tie everything up from ME:A. It might have a couple answers, sure, but probably many more questions, too.

How Advent Rising doesn't get a mention here is wild to me. This list was made for that game lol.

I love anthem so much. I really do miss it :( I enjoyed the content so much

Cod Ghosts anyone?

For the most offender has to be Kingdom Hearts. Like really. Twenty years, for a franchise that still getting new games, and it is not over yet. Each game brings more questions than answers. The real issue that Kingdom Hearts losing its target audiance over the years. I started playing the franchise at 17 years old, when I was fine with the stupid story. Now I'm 30....

megaman legends is still one of my favorites. thanks for mentioning it

Poor Volnutt. Being stuck on the moon for eternity is not a good way to go.

Mass Effect Andromeda is one... I liked that games story it's a shame we'll probably never get a sequel.

Red Dead Online’s A Land of Opportunities storyline

4 years later and I still can't fathom what they where thinking with shenmu 3

Alan Wake was such a good ride. I'm going to have to revisit it before 2 comes out.

replayed through the darksiders games last year (1-3, haven´t played the side game). I really hope they make a continuation someday