History HappyEndingOverride / VideoGames

** The [[Series/Fallout2024 TV show]], which, according to WordOfGod, is canon to the setting, acted as this for the West Coast portion of the series. After spending three games seeing California rebuild AfterTheEnd, we learn that [[TheFederation the New California Republic]] was decimated after its capital was destroyed[[note]]there's a sign that says Shady Sands was its first capital[[/note]], leaving the state even worse off than in the original ''VideoGame/Fallout1''. Furthermore, the NCR's fall seems to have also left [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]] derelict and abandoned.

** The [[Series/Fallout2024 TV show]], which, according to WordOfGod, is canon to the setting, acted as this for the West Coast portion of the series. After spending three games seeing California rebuild AfterTheEnd, we learn that [[TheFederation the New California Republic]] was decimated after its capital was destroyed, leaving the state even worse off than in the original ''VideoGame/Fallout1''. Furthermore, the NCR's fall seems to have also left [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]] derelict and abandoned.

* ''VideoGame/TheEndTimesVermintide'' released a new level, "Waylaid", to introduce the sequel -- the antagonist is revealed to have survived his DisneyVillainDeath and lures the heroes into a trap. They escape in the prologue of ''VideoGame/VermintideII'', but the city of Ubersreik fell in their absence.

** Additionally, between ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' and ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', the Capital Wasteland was ravaged by a giant super mutant army that appeared out of nowhere despite the fact that Vault 87, where the super mutants had been created, was out of the Forced Evolutionary Virus that allowed them to make more of themselves in the first place.
** The [[Series/Fallout2024 TV show]], which, according to WordOfGod, is canon to the setting, acted as this for the entire saga. After spending three games helping California rebuild AfterTheEnd, we learn that [[TheFederation the New California Republic]] [[BackForTheDead collapsed after its capital was destroyed]], leaving the state even worse off than it was in even the original ''VideoGame/Fallout1''. To salt the wound further, the NCR's fall also left [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]] derelict and abandoned.

** The [[Series/Fallout2024 tv show]], which according to WordOfGod is canon to the setting, acted as this for the entire saga. After spending three games helping California rebuild AfterTheEnd, we learn that [[TheFederation the New California Republic]] [[BackForTheDead collapsed after its capital was destroyed]], leaving the state even worse off than it was in even the original ''VideoGame/Fallout1''. To salt the wound further, the NCR's fall also left [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]] derelict and abandoned.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'' ends with the Soviets crushed and Stalin dead. In ''* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', the Allies have installed Premier Romanov as a puppet leader, but he comes under the sway of Yuri who was [[RememberTheNewGuy Stalin's secret weapon]]. Together they launch a [[InvadedStatesOfAmerica surprise attack on the United States]].

** The Empire expels the Soviets from its borders. In the Allied campaign, [[CivilWarcraft the player must help Prince Tatsu subdue the unruly generals]].

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert 3: Uprising'' ends well for the Soviets and Empire, until the next campaign kicks in.

** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': Despite the Hero defeating the Dragonlord and marrying Princess Gwaelin, while founding new kingdoms in Torland such as Midenhall and Moonbrooke, most of Alegard's towns have been destroyed, stronger monsters roam the land, and a new BigBad makes the Dragonlord seem tame in comparison. Even rediscovering Erdrick's Sword is a letdown, as it's not that powerful compared to other equipment.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'', most of the towns of Alefgard have been destroyed, stronger monsters roam the land, and a new BigBad makes the Dragonlord seem tame in comparison. Even rediscovering Erdrick's sword is a letdown, as it's not that powerful compared to other equipment.

* The GDI campaign in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun'' ends with a new medical treatment for the female lead and the CoolShip flying into the sunset. The expansion campaign has the ship crashed and wrecked and the treatment backfiring badly.

** ''Tiberian Sun'' ends with GDI saving their space station HQ from destruction. In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'', that space station gets destroyed anyway.
** Firestorm ends with the rise of Slavik as the new leader of the Brotherhood of Nod. ''Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath'' reveals that he was assassinated a short time after.

** Firestorm ends with the rise of Slavik as the new leader of the Brotherhood of Nod. ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath]]'' reveals that he was assassinated a short time after.

** Firestorm ends with the rise of Slavik as the new leader of the Brotherhood of Nod. ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars Command & Conquer: Kane's Wrath'' reveals that he was assassinated a short time after.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' is the tale of a time-traveling RagtagBunchOfMisfits who adventure across history and prevent a world-eating parasite called Lavos from destroying the world in 1999 AD. ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' is the tale of a boy muddling through [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the fallout from those changes to history]], which includes but is not limited to: a timeline split in two, Porre growing from a minor town into an imperial power that sacked TheGoodKingdom the original heroes lived in, the Reptite Future from a [[MultipleEndings joke ending]] showing up for revenge, the [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome heavily implied deaths]] of the previous protagonists, ''and'' on top of all this Lavos, or a piece of him anyway, is still alive -- and now it's going to end existence, instead of just Earth. This makes ''Cross'' a ContestedSequel by some fans, who wished the happy ending from ''Trigger'' wasn't so harshly undone.
** Players tracking down [[NoExportForYou the fan-translated]] earlier-released alternate storyline visual novel ''VisualNovel/RadicalDreamers'' shouldn't expect a different outcome - it was in fact one of the story elements ported the most directly from ''Dreamers'' to ''Cross''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' ends with {{deuteragonist}} Aigis finding a purpose in life with protecting the protagonist and smiling at the rest of her friends as the hero falls asleep in her arms. In the epilogue ''The Answer'', added as part of the UpdatedRerelease, the protagonist actually ''died'', and Aigis seems to have lost herself since. The rest of the group is depressed and irritable, [[TheFellowshipHasEnded torn asunder after the hero's passing]]. Another way to look at it, however, is that since the original ending of the game already very heavily implied that TheHeroDies (with the protagonist being unusually tired for multiple days on end, and Aigis suddenly breaking into tears during her final speech as if she knows what's going to happen), ''The Answer'' is all about the party finding closure and moving on after his death.

* ''VideoGame/MarySkelterNightmares'' ends on a hopeful note, with the BigBad dead and the Dawn finally having the means to escape the Jail that dragged a massive portion of a Japanese city underground. Then the postgame shifts to the SchrodingersCanon "Another Story" scenario in which the Blood Team comes across a second Jail while traversing the Underground Cavern. ''Mary Skelter 2'' is suspiciously similar to the first game, only a whole lot more bleak; it is revealed that the Another Story scenario is canon, happens ''after'' the BigBad of the first game is defeated, and the Nightmare of that area [[ForWantOfANail altered history]] to save a Blood Maiden that died in the first game's backstory. ''Mary Skelter 2's'' conflict is ultimately resolved through that game and the EmbeddedPrecursor remake of the first ''Mary Skelter'', and while there is much less hope for a happy ending this time around, the team nonetheless manages to escape the Jail. ''Mary Skelter Finale'' reveals that it took less than five seconds on the surface for the Dawn to be attacked by something else.

* All those Alien Wars you've been fighting for the majority of the ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' series and winning? As of ''Contra: Shattered Soldier'', it turns out that the war was actually part of a GovernmentConspiracy known as the Triumvirate, and that Lance Bean had accidentally uncovered the truth about it. Hence the fact that Lance became a notorious terrorist leader trying to overthrow the Triumvirate after Bill Rizer was thought to have killed Lance and destroyed 80% of the world's population.