Best and worst video games plot twists

[Magnaflame]

Metroid ladies and gents.

"Sweet, I beat the game... HOLY CRAP SAMUS IS A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

[Silver]

I can't believe how many people liked the bloody thing in KotoR. I almost gave up and quit the game when that happened because it was just so bloody ridiculous.

 

[Liverandbacon]

System Shock 2.

Spoiler

Talk about having the rug pulled out from under you. The one person who has been guiding you this entire time actually commited suicide, and their voice which has been guiding you is actually SHODAN. No game has made me feel so hopeless and alone since.

KOTOR's twist was okay, but it was a bit too easily guessable.

 

[Kuweekee]

The worst is unquestionably Indigo Prophecy. That game was so incredible until about the halfway mark. I'm not using spoiler brackets because everyone should read this if they've considered buying the game so they can realize it's a pile of crap.
Why is all of this interesting stuff happening to our hero? Because of an ancient cliche cult and you're targeted essentially because you're 'the one.' And during action sequences you later begin to fly and shoot lasers from your hands.
It was absolutely terrible.

It might be a strange plottwist, but that doesn't make the game a bad game. Most people here will agree that the game itself was refreshingly new and that the game is really good.

 

[[zonking great]]

When Fallout 3 forced you to kill yourself (or Lyons) despite giving you three radiation immune companions (Fawkes, Charon and the robot). Fawkes actually told me suicide was my destiny and he wouldn't interfere with it - despite that he could have prevented anyone from dying with no risk to himself.

What the fuck, Bethesda?

Indeed. What the fuck. It's your destiny to die?

OH! OH OH OH!
Not plot related but still a twist.

FAWKES USED TO BE A GIRL!

 

[InvisibleMilk]

When Fallout 3 forced you to kill yourself (or Lyons) despite giving you three radiation immune companions (Fawkes, Charon and the robot). Fawkes actually told me suicide was my destiny and he wouldn't interfere with it - despite that he could have prevented anyone from dying with no risk to himself.

What the fuck, Bethesda?

Oh, man I was pissed.
Friggin', Like, wtf!
you hit the nail right on it's twisted head.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 had the best, most intense cliffhanger in the world. For you crazy people who don't know what it is, I'll have to put up a spoiler.

Spoiler

At the end where you have to watch Eli get killed. I swear I almost cried.

I hated that. It's like Valve decided near release that not enough happened in Episode 2 and threw something in at the end.

Spoiler: I mean really

two Handlers (that's what they're called right?) just barge in and eat a guy's brain then get scared off by a robot that they could imobilize fairly easily.

 

[Alex_P]

I can't believe how many people liked the bloody thing in KotoR. I almost gave up and quit the game when that happened because it was just so bloody ridiculous.

It's Star Wars! Like the overdone accents.

Fawkes actually told me suicide was my destiny and he wouldn't interfere with it - despite that he could have prevented anyone from dying with no risk to himself.

Whoa, really? That's a pretty ballsy move considering that you're holding a little tube of something that will KILL EVERY GODDAMN SUPERMUTANT.

-- Alex

 

[laikenf]

In Fallot 3; traveling the waistland with a Super Mutant companion (Fawks). I mean even he's surprised (as he often comments about it) that "it's amazing how people trust you enough to not attack me" or something like that. It even sometimes surprises me to turn around and see that big angry looking creature following me, and then realizing that he's on my side, with that kick ass gatling laser; and this guy is virtually invincible cause a car blew up right next to him and he wasn't even limping afterwards.

 

[Jarhed]

Jade Empire had a very dramatic plot twist I did not see coming when Master Li betrays you.

 

[ElephantGuts]

Really? No one's said this yet?

Dead Space!

Spoiler: Major spoiler ahead. Seriously. Dont read this unless you have beaten the game or you really don't care about the ending being spoiled.

At the end when you find out that your girlfriend has been dead the whole time and the marker was only making you hallucinate her so you would help put it back into the planet and that girl was working for the government and the government made this all happen on purpose and they made the marker and the Ishimura wasn't supposed to be there!

Awesome twist.

 

[muffincakes]

Chrono Cross had a good twist, having you switch characters with the main baddie.

Assassin's Creed's worst twist was not that you had to fight the master, but that the whole end of the game after that only fulfilled the purpose of setting up a sequel. That game gave me the least amount of closure on anything I'd ever played.

 

[xitel]

Chrono Cross had a good twist, having you switch characters with the main baddie.

Assassin's Creed's worst twist was not that you had to fight the master, but that the whole end of the game after that only fulfilled the purpose of setting up a sequel. That game gave me the least amount of closure on anything I'd ever played.

I will admit to liking the twist in Assassin's Creed, insoforth as it really didn't effect the gameplay that much, just provided a sort of framing narration. Plus, people have to remember that they were explicitly told "Make a game that we can turn into a new IP". They were told to set up not just a single sequel, but an entire series.

For me, the worst plot twist was in Overlord when you found out

Spoiler

that you used to be one of the Heroes.

. ARGH! The one game where you were supposed to be playing an evil overlord that was just evil, nothing else, and then oops! You're not as evil as you thought!

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

KOTOR 1 has my personal favorite plot twist in a game. I was litereally shocked the first time I experienced it.

Also Bioshock hit us with a brilliant commentary on freewill and how we play games through their plot twist (even if the game REALLY went down hill after that).

Silent Hill 2's twist is AMAZING.

Bad twists...

The Atlas's Identity twist in Bioshock was really lame.

Spoiler

Mostly because Frank Fontaine was a really, really lame villain.

FFVII's plot twist was okay, but it was so poorly translated it took me years to figure out what the hell was actually going on.

FFIX also had too many stupid twists. They unfortunately ruined several perfectly likeable characters because EVERYONE had a bloody twist. Annoying!

 

[Beowulf DW]

Tales of Symphonia had some good plot twists and some cliched plot twists.

Spoiler

Kratos is Lloyd's dad. Perfect example of the classic I AM YOUR FATHER.

Zelos' betrayal was actually pretty good. Not only does he betray you, he laughs and mocks your entire struggle as well as your ignorance to his true intentions. Perhaps not entirely unforseen, but its presentation is great.

The true identity of Mithos the Hero, and having to face the fact that you're more like the bad guy than anyone wants to admit.

Even the sequel contains a plot twist right off the bat. I mean, you're pretty much told that the main character this time around is out to kill Lloyd. That just stops you and makes you wonder, "Wait a minute! What happened to the noble idealist from the first game?"

 

[SargentToughie]

Best game twist ever... KOTOR 1, when it is revealed that you are revan

And also, Golden Sun takes the win for How to turn a game on it's head in a single cut scene

That's all the imput I have on this thread

 

[Kikosemmek]

Best:

Baldur's Gate 2: Yoshimo.

That was the best twist because I lost a party member that was funny, likeable, and useful as hell. It also helps that I did not see it coming from a bloody mile away.

Worst:

Yuri's Revenge- the entire game premise. Yuri's badly played-out betrayal of the Soviets was cliche and barely tolerable as a twist. It doesn't help that the game continues to pass it off as a surprise.

 

[Frigori Laecasein]

Best plot twist: the last half-hour of Shadow of the Colossus. I thought they might take it in that direction, but I didn't foresee how awesomely they would handle it.

A few worsts: Final Fantasy 4 where ancillary characters perform heroic, self-sacrificing gestures to swelling strings...and then somehow make it out okay and reunite with the party. The first time it happened just took a lot of the oomph out of the story for me--it was impossible after that to take the story arc seriously.

And God of War 2: not necessarily a bad twist, finding out who Kratos's father is, but the developers assumed that players hadn't found this out in the bonus cinemas of God of War. It's like watching Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2 and Army of Darkness--no continuity among them whatsoever.

 

[Demon_Zeya]

I have a question: has anyone played a game (probably an RPG, but whatever has an experience system) with one character you hella loved, and made them like your strongest guy, and near the end they turn on you and they never rejoin? It is something I'm expecting has or will happen in Final Fantasy...

Also, note that if you will reply, don't mention a character who you only get a short time, so don't waste all of our time.

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

The best one for me was the one in Bioshock. Seriously, I never saw it coming.
As for the worst, the real ending from No More Heroes brought a big "What the fuck" out of me. To quote from Travis- "Why do you tell me this at the last minute of the game?!"