Best and worst video games plot twists

[Heas]

Subject says most of it.
For me the best plot twists happened in two games.
Baldur's gate 1: When I found out that Seravok is actually Kovares spelled backwards, And that I spoke to him that whole time.
Baldur's gate 2: When I found out Imoen was a bhaalspawn aswell, I had no idea.

Worst plot twist:
Neverwinter nights 1: When Lady Aribeth turns evil, I mean, That was so expected, At the first episode when you find clues about that Cult, When you get the idea that the cult has a symbol of an eye, And then at the end of the first chapter, You see a cinematic with Lady Aribeth holding a sword that's on it's hilt was the symbol of the cult.

Feel free to post your own Best/Worst plot twists

 

[hazabaza1]

It was all just a dream...
Nah, in seriousness? Assassin's creed was understandable and realistic enough, but it was so expected the master would go evil, and the ending was just too much of a big kick in the nuts to enjoy it.

 

[Dommyboy]

Here is a message for the stoopid peoples, this thread will obviously contain spoilers.

Red Alert 3: When the premier betrays you, saw it from a mile away. Though you will see that coming a lot easier if you have played RA 2. For me, RA3 just had RA2's story with different names for characters.

Warhammer: Mark of Chaos: Another betrayal. When playing through the Chaos campaign Thorgar gets betrayed by the chaos sorcerer that helps you. The writing is so horrible that you can figure that out from the first chapter.

 

[Arsen]

Good - FFT, FF6, MGS3, Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve

 

[Aiden Rebirth]

The ultimate plot twist: realising I can't get the three hours of my life back that I wasted on Dark Sector

 

[Xyzgon]

"I'm sorry but the princess is in another castle" had to be said.

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

Bioshock has an awesome plot twist...one which I will not go into detail on, as i feel even putting it in spoiler tags would spoiler it somewhat

 

[[Gavo]]

No More Heroes! Don't want spoilers but-the end is crazy!

 

[curlycrouton]

Warcraft 3, when Arthas goes all teen angst on you.

OK, so it was pretty inevitable, but the cut-scene in which he kills his father remains one of the best I've ever seen.

In fact, all that games cut-scenes were brilliant.

 

[rayman 101]

The Jak series had some unpredicatble plot twists.

 

[Good morning blues]

The best for me was Knights of the Old Republic (the revelation regarding your past). I didn't see it coming at all, and yet it didn't feel out of place.

The worst was Final Fantasy VIII, which was a terrible game anyway; the specific point that I'm referring to is when you find out that all of the characters knew each other as children, but then forgot. It seemed really, really contrived to me at the time, and since I was about 13, that means it was really fucking contrived.

 

[Graustein]

Mother 3 had both a good and a bad plot twist.

Spoiler: Good

Leder's exposition. I didn't see that one, and it was fairly original. I liked it.

Spoiler: Bad

Claus being the Masked Man. I mean it was so freaking obvious.

 

[Uskis]

Bioshock has an awesome plot twist...one which I will not go into detail on, as i feel even putting it in spoiler tags would spoiler it somewhat

Yeah. I have to put my vote on that one too. I didn't see it coming, and when the whole thing is revealed I was pretty impressed. Hands down, I didn't see it coming, even after I walked through a room full of spoilers.

 

[songnar]

Y'know, I think that so far, every Metal Gear game in the series has had some kind of incredible plot twist that even I, MG fanboy that I am, never even saw it coming. To use an older game in the series as an example, MGS2 - We learn at the end that all of the "Patriots" have been dead for 100 years, even though they're still running the country.

Worst plot twist ever - Definitely Assassin's Creed. I honestly felt betrayed by that ending.

 

[Not Good]

MGS2 is just one big plot twist in the Plant Chapter. I loved every second.

Not exactly the worst plot twist but the most expected (and most needed) was Ocelot's phone call to the CIA at the end of MGS3.

Since this entire thread will go with more MGS, I could figure out why Ocelot was The Boss's son.

 

[Calamity]

I thought the twist in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time was really stupid.

Spoiler

So you spend all this time preparing to face the creator(s) of your universe, and when you finally reach the dimension they live in, you find out your world is nothing but a video game made by the people of said dimension, and the CEO of the company that created it is wiping you out because quite simply, he's bat shit crazy.

 

[latenightapplepie]

Worst plot twist ever - Definitely Assassin's Creed. I honestly felt betrayed by that ending.

It was a bit of a yes and no for me.

Spoiler

The fact that he turns on you is quite lame and has been done before. Nevertheless, all setup for the sequel was surprising, and therefore pleasing. Nothing like a bit of cheap Lost-esque answered questions to make you forget an otherwise poor conclusion.

 

[CmdrGoob]

The best for me was Knights of the Old Republic (the revelation regarding your past). I didn't see it coming at all, and yet it didn't feel out of place.

The worst was Final Fantasy VIII, which was a terrible game anyway; the specific point that I'm referring to is when you find out that all of the characters knew each other as children, but then forgot. It seemed really, really contrived to me at the time, and since I was about 13, that means it was really fucking contrived.

FF8 has the two worst twists, because there's that and there's the whole retarded twist at the end that the real big bad is someone else you never even heard who's thrown in at the last minute.

 

[Alex_P]

The best for me was Knights of the Old Republic (the revelation regarding your past). I didn't see it coming at all, and yet it didn't feel out of place.

The real achievement there is that the initial plot is just weak enough to inspire incredulity without being so bad as to make you stop playing. And then you realize that most of the things that had you scratching your head thinking "That's dumb" or "Hmm, that doesn't make sense" were actually lies all along. (And this effect works even if you figure out the secret before the big reveal!)

-- Alex