2 Games Down, Countless More to Go or Sick, but not TOO Sick

Well, I've been a tad sick the past few days, with a minor cold thing happening. I felt the thing coming on Monday and was able to pre-emptively stop it with some meds and whatnot. It ended up only being a small nuisance. Yay me!
On the plus side, I was able to devote some extra time to the two games I'd been playing recently; The Punisher and Star Wars: KOTOR 2, and I finished them both. The Punisher was a decent little diversion, full of mindless and over the top gore while KOTOR was a great little yarn full of interesting gameplay concepts and cool little tweaks to the original formula. The only thing was, each of those games had shitty endings that left things open for sequels. I swear, practically EVERY game nowadays does that... I mean no one has the balls to fucking FINISH a story anymore... they all want to leave room for the eventual sequel... That is one of the major problems in the video game industry right now, so few original ideas. Companies just keep putting out sequels of stuff or rehashes of older ideas... Then again, that's the same problem Hollywood has.... hmmmmmmmmm. Before I forget, the endings of both of the games I was playing were super short! I mean didn't Final Fantasy 7 already establish precedent in the video game ending department with a lavish 10 minute CG movie? Why is it that an RPG that takes more than 30 hours to play (KOTOR 2) ends with a 45 second movie? If I devote that much of my life to something, I expect to get some sort of pay off. Credits DO NOT COUNT. Sheesh! In my opinion, no game has ever surpassed Final Fantasy 6's ending in terms of player satisfaction. That thing completely hit all the right notes and left, me at least, totally feeling like my 40 hours of gameplay was worth it and that I'd seen a full and finished story. I mean, I've replayed that game so many times and the ending still makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! If you look at an ending it pure "WOW" terms, then Final Fantasy 7 is the tops. No game had ever put so much effort into a CG video before. I still remember getting goosebumps the first time I saw that 10 minutes of digital orgasm. The only thing that kept it from topping the list was that it didn't fully resolve the story and left things open to make a sequel (which they are finally doing in CG movie form this year).
Well, I'm done for now...