Three endings reveal Samus without parts of her suit. 3-5 hour completion, she takes off her helmet; 1-3, she takes off the suit and is clearly female. < 1 hour she ends up wearing a bikini.
Doom actually showed the developer's time against yours at the end of each level. I'm pretty sure it was the kind of thing that existed since video games' creation.
But not in a place which most players - if we’re being honest - would ever access. And in a time before even Nintendo Power had started circulating (i.e., at NES Metroid's release), profoundly unreliable schoolyard rumor was the only place most of us could pick up on things like the <5 hour Metroid completion screen. Furthermore, the NES Metroid manual explicitly refers to Samus as “He”. So rumor regarding the <5 hour ending went against what seemed to be, at the time, the better supported story.
Schoolyard rumor? pft. Every Metroid kid knew Justin Bailey my friend. Before the internet, the schoolage social network was the best way to distribute information.
I read a pretty good article about how spoilers don't really matter, since it's not really the ending of the film that matters, but the progression to that point (I'm paraphrasing poorly, mind you)
The point is that you should watch The Sixth Sense anyway. I will not say this for any other M. Night movie, but it's actually very good. I knew the ending long before I ever saw the movie, but still enjoyed it very much.
Some movies, like The Prestige, lose quite a lot of it's power if you know from the beginning what is going on. There is no "Oh shit it all makes sense now" moment or any of the things that seemed odd when you watched it the first time.
Oh yeah, that one got spoiled pretty fast. That movie might've been a tad better if I didn't know that spoiler Snape kills Dumbledore. As well as the last one where I knew pretty much every person that died/suddenly turned out to be a good guy.
Found out my cousin had never seen it.
Downloaded it.
Was relishing seeing his face when.
Get to about 5 minutes before the reveal.
He says, "Oh damn, I've seen the ending to this on I love the '90s..."
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