Cliffhangers need to be banned from all of gaming. They never work out it seems.
To this day I'm still annoyed by Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver. Only game where I felt an ending just killed the enjoyment I had from playing it prior to that. "To Be Continued", oh how I hated those words for a few days after that.
My anger subsided and while I can enjoy a great article about it such as this one, but I never immersed myself into that franchise again despite all the titles that came out afterwards.