Endgame: What should it be?

Endgame:

- Collecting Lore
- Adding new species/plants into your codex.
- Building a planet into a multi-species metropolis.
- Turning a moon into deathstar and populating it with Apex.
- Post Modern Art.

 

Well Minecraft's endgame is the end, and the ender dragon. Followed by a big list of text I didn't bother reading.
Skyrim's end is of course the end to the main quest line, where you defeat Aldiun.

Just because you continue with a game past the end game, does not mean the end game doesn't exist.


As for the end game, I get the feeling that sector X bosses will play a part of it, along with the agarians, and those strange cultists. If you read the codex pieces in starbound it hints at "The hidden master of the cultists that has yet to show his hand". I also think that there will be a bandit boss of some sort

 

Quite the opposite. In most games the end-game doesn't begin until the player has finished the main campaign. Players don't stop playing World of Warcraft just because they beat the lich king, or... did whatever they did in Pandaria, I've never heard a Minecraft player say "man I can't wait to defeat the ender dragon and go play something else!", and people frequently comment on Skyrim that playing for the storyline would be like reading playboy for it's articles.

The "end game" is not the literal end; but the content that players will continue playing in the end; in this case, Dungeon crawling, building and exploring respectively for those 3 games.

 

I love the idea of space combat. Not just starship cannons, but also boarding and close combat onboard there.

more multiplayer stuff.

Defending your planets and home-bases against some kind of evil force from another galaxy (think reapers, magog, borg, etc)

 

That was the entire point of my post, the "end game" is just the end of whatever quest system the game has in place, but some games such as Minecraft and Skyrim have main quest lines, but you continue playing after you "beat" the game. What you do in video games and the reason you play them is all up to perspective however, some people play games like skyrim for the story elements, which is why people like Oblivion over Skyrim, because the story in their opinion is much better. And yes, players do in fact say things like "Man, I can't wait to beat the ender dragon!"

Games like Minecraft and Skyrim are popular because they get the attention of multiple crowds of people. And end game is the end of the game, that's why it's called the "end game". The reason I like games like Starbound and Minecraft are because they don't have a technical end of the game, because you continue with the game until you're bored, which is what you're talking about. Repeating what I said with a bit more depth since I don't think you understood it, Games like these do in fact have an end, but it isn't as if the ending of the game is when you stop playing. A game ends when the main goal of a game is complete, but that does not mean you stop playing it, you obviously stop when you are bored of it.