Discussion Main / WatchingTroyBurn

Took out examples that are ambiguous as to provenience from Watching Troy Burn or The Ruins I Caused. Please add them to any page they fit on.

• This is a common ending to episodes of Slayers in which Lina uses Dragon Slave.
• Cave Story places you on top of the entire island, which is Ruins-esque, right before the final boss, and you have to escape by jumping off the edge right after. If you get the best ending, one of the cutscenes that plays during the end credits shows Misery standing at this same spot, looking at the clouds below.
• The ending of 6 Days A Sacrifice.
• Gears of War one and two both end with The Squad in a king raven, flying over the lightmasss bomb collateral damage and Jacinto, respectively.
• Samus does one of these at the end of Metroid Prime, watching the destruction of the Artifact Temple from atop the hull of her gunship.
• In Arc the Lad II, the party end up above the ruin of The Empire capital, the tragic part is that not only are Arc and Kukuru, the two first playable characters, dead, but you just discovered that the whole quest of the heroes was a giant Batman Gambit from the Big Bad: to be released, he needed a human to willingly break his seal, and made sure that the King of Romania was certain that Arc & Co, who spent 120 hours of game time destroying his empire bit by bit, wanted to kill him, so when they finally reached him, he opened the Can of the sealed evil, destroying the world the heroes were trying to protect.
• A rare example at the beginning of a game. In Mass Effect, there's a cutscene that can be triggered on Eden Prime, showing the three-member squad party standing at the balcony and looking over the ruins left in Sovereign's wake.
  • Mass Effect 2 plays this very straight with the destruction of the Collector base as the Normandy flies out in triumphant fashion.
• One of the pieces of artwork commissioned for the Global Guardians PBEM Universe was of Achilles (leader of the titular team) overlooking the ruins of a Paris neighborhood after a supervillain battle knocked over the Eiffel Tower onto it.

Does it count if you are watching the ENEMY'S city burn?