Cool plot twists you'd like to see

[MarsProbe]

Not a twist per se,

but a game where you fight the final boss, you lose, but instead of a game over ending, you get an actual ending of you losing and seeing what actually happens.

Probably the closest thing I can think of to that is one of the endings to Deus Ex: Invisible War (aka the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull of the DE series) where (it's an old game, but a spoilers a spoiler anyway):

Spoiler

In one ending, if you wipe out all the factions that are vying for control of the world, everything goes badly wrong an the ensuing conflict turns the entire planet into a barren wasteland and the only people fit to survive such an environment are the Omar, a group of humans that have taken human augmentation to a pretty extreme level. Humaity as we know it is completely wiped out, so I suppose you could call that "losing".

That ending gave me a chill when I first saw it, and it still does.

 

[Glaciatedhands]

What if Wally became champion?
I know this is sort of how your Rival in R/B/Y became champion but hear me out.
Wally is a child from a small town (much like you) who tries to get a grip on how pokemon works and as soon as he gets an idea of how it's meant to work, you come along and kick sand in his face and walk on.
How cool would that be to go to the champions room and see Wally standing there instead of Steven or Wallace and he just says "...Thank you for our previous battles, I've learned from my mistakes and now I finally know what it means to be a pokemon master. Although I've defeated the entire elite four and the champion, I have yet to defeat you."
AND BAM Wally battle. You wouldn't see it coming and yet it'll be a fitting way to end the elite four.

 

[hazabaza1]

AND THEN SHEPARD WAS THE REA-

P.S: Extra points if you don't mention Mass Effect 3.

Fuck.

You owe me a new keyboard. I might have wrecked this one because of the epic spit-take I just had.

Provide me with some brain bleach to get over your avatars and I'll give you the keyboard.

Oh, come on. It's just worms made of faces.

Fine, this mix should help you.

<img width=300>http://sparknewspaper.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/vodkachloroform.jpg

Now, I want my keyboard... if you can remember what a keyboard is...

I'm counting retroactively too.

You get the bleach, and I'll give you... this wonderful beast.

Spoiler

Awww yeah, nigga, look dat goooood shit.

 

[lacktheknack]

AND THEN SHEPARD WAS THE REA-

P.S: Extra points if you don't mention Mass Effect 3.

Fuck.

You owe me a new keyboard. I might have wrecked this one because of the epic spit-take I just had.

Provide me with some brain bleach to get over your avatars and I'll give you the keyboard.

Oh, come on. It's just worms made of faces.

Fine, this mix should help you.

<img width=300>http://sparknewspaper.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/vodkachloroform.jpg

Now, I want my keyboard... if you can remember what a keyboard is...

I'm counting retroactively too.

You get the bleach, and I'll give you... this wonderful beast.

Spoiler

Awww yeah, nigga, look dat goooood shit.

http://files.sharenator.com/cuteness_overload_cute_rage_face_meme_poster_ra1f19b5672974abea74fd85c0ff37764_a21y_328_Post_Your_Pets-s328x328-303070-565.jpg

Just... just use stronger chloroform...

 

[JagermanXcell]

Every game has a 4th wall breaking twist. No More Heroes did this, it works. I COMMAND THEE PUT IT IN EVERYTHING!!!

P.S: Extra points if you don't mention Mass Effect 3.

Must. resist....

Commander Shepard is asked to chose the 3 similar multi colored ending. Then he remembers what Casey Hudson said Pre ME3 release: "Its not even in any way like the traditional game endings, where you can say how many endings there are or wether you got ending A, B, or C." He punches the space magic child in the face, uses his space magic to teleport to the Normandy and crashes into the Bioware headquarters where the Reapers have taken over and not only defeats the Reapers once and for all but saves Hudson from total contradiction (a truly tragic way to die). And Shepard lives happily ever after, with a final wink to the audience.

RIP Extra points...

 

[Mr.Squishy]

I want a game where, no matter your actions, there is no happy ending. It would be especially poignant in a game with a lot of moral choices throughout that were rife with ambiguity. Imagine, if you will, the end of Mass Effect, only with Shepard and Anderson dying at the hands of the Illusive Man, the Fleet ripped apart by the Reaper forces. A narrative proclaiming that, sometimes, no matter how hard you fight, you cannot avert your fate. Sometimes, you just lose. And this is the only ending. A game where, no matter how hard you fight, no matter how good you do, no matter how many awesome points you accumulate, you lose. Not because you didn't do good enough, but because, sometimes, you just lose. The outrage would be worth such a magnificent piece of art.

Would you like a delusional, psychotic war criminal of a protagonist on top of that?

If so

Spoiler

Spec Ops: The Line

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I would like to see a mystery/action game, similar to L.A. Noire, but in concept alone, not setting. It stars you as a detective who is beginning to lose his passion for his job, due to the lack of cases to really interest and challenge him. He then gets a call that a string of murders is occurring close to his old neighborhood, the victims being some people that he once knew as well as some cops. The only connection that he can find is that they all knew their killer, as they were killed while being in close proximity to the killer and that they all occurred around the same time: 2:45 am.

The twist becomes more apparent with each body, clue, and lead that you get as you progress through the game: the killer knows the detective and that he is making his way towards him. Close to then end, you find out that the detective is the killer and that this case was the product of his subconscious sleep walking and creating these elaborate atrocities because the detective would be the only one who would be able to solve them. At they end, you make a choice as to what you chose to do, knowing that you are the killer and that there is evidence that can prove it.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

That you turn out to be the figment of a small child's imagination.

Several games did this. One of them is actually a good game, so I won't spoil it by mentioning its name here.

Another one is terrible, so I will spoil it:

Spoiler

The Whispered World. You play a sad, whiny clown child who has a recurring dream that tells him he's supposed to destroy the world, and it turns out that that's because the world he lives in is inside the mind of a child in a coma, so he has to wake the child up and destroy his own world because it's the nice thing to do. It sounds kind of interesting in that synopsis, but it wasn't. I couldn't roll my eyes any harder when the twist was revealed.

OP: I'd like to see a game, or a movie, or whatever, where the heroes fail at their main goal and then have to deal with the aftermath of that failure. It would be really hard to pull that off successfully, without it feeling like everything that came before was just a waste of time or something, but I'm sure it can be done. In fact, I'm sure it has been done somewhere.

 

[Fisher321]

That's a cool suggestion for Bioshock Infinite.

Mine is about Half Life 2. G-Man turns out to be an alien that exists outside of what we know as dimensions, so is able to see the factors that separate one universe from its' limitless parallels. He can't directly produce an outcome within one of those universes, but can make minor changes that lead up to some desired result. So he places objects and people within certain situations, arranges events a certain way, all with the intention of destroying the Combine. He lured the humans to Xen, lured the Combine to Earth, and kept a few key figures safe or out of harms way (or in space-stasis) until just the right moment. That's why everything in Half Life 2 seems to happen in such a convenient way.

And here's the kicker. Because G-Man is walking between parallel dimensions, refining everything to JUST the right arrangement of events, that means that every time you as a player die, it's because you exist in one of the doomed parallel universes. Billions of Gordon Freemans in billions of universes died fighting the Combine and failed to bring about its' destruction. But in one universe, effectively one players' unbroken save file, Gordon Freeman defies all odds and succeeds. Basically, let's say Gordon has a 99% chance of failure. The Law of Large Numbers in probability theory states that given enough tries, that 1% outcome will show true. The games full narrative is essentially this 1% chance.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Genius

 

[EHKOS]

A new one. Although I like the ones where the villain wins, just because it hasn't been done to death. Seriously, we need something new and mind-blowing. I'm not expecting it from Bioshock 3 either. Maybe something like the mute FPS hero had his vocal cords ripped out and doesn't want to do anything he's forced to, and in the end you find out you made him do it because of the connection to the controller you were holding the whole game pressing buttons willy-nilly like there were no consequences BUT THERE WERE. IDK.

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

I really like games (or stories in general), where an over-arching goal is established (e.g. defeat the dark emperor and free the people), and in your head you predict every story beat leading up to this inevitable ending, and then suddenly BAM, the goal is accomplished 25% of the way through and you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen next.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I'd love to eventually see the "It's all a dream" revelation happen like a third of the way into the movie(book, game, play , narrative, what ever).


because ending on "It's all a dream" is stupid, but leading with that would be cool. (Kind of like Inception if it didn't suck)

Either that or a buildup to a really obvious twist like a double cross that never happens. That would be cool.

 

[NinjaSniperAssassin]

A Hitman-style game where halfway through you find out the target you just whacked...

WAS YOUR MOTHER!

But then it turns out...

YOU WERE ADOPTED!

Whereupon you realize...

YOUR BIRTH MOTHER RE-ADOPTED YOU!

But then it's revealed that...

YOU WERE KIDNAPPED FROM YOUR ADOPTED/BIRTH MOTHER AND RAISED BY YOUR KIDNAPPER!

And then you discover...

YOUR KIDNAPPER IS YOUR BIOLOGICAL MOTHER, YOUR ADOPTED/BIRTH MOTHER WAS A SURROGATE!

And finally...

IT WAS ALL A DREAM!


And before anyone asks, yes, the movie rights are available.

 

[Catrixa]

Pretty sure games have already done this, but I'd take: You have to kill the Big Bad, but it turns out the Big Bad is already taken care of, and the guy who's pretending the Big Bad is still a problem is the real villain.

I'd also take: Distopian Future/Medieval Fantasy World/Any Video Game Setting Ever + Truman Show/The 13th Floor. Spinoffs could be normal people getting to go into the fake world (since trying to do that plot twist again for the same series would be silly) and trying to adapt.

 

[Inuprince]

Well i'm hoping they don't do another Scream, but if they do, have Neve Campbell's character be the killer. She just snaps from all the horror and doesn't want to be the victim anymore.

Well, I am a fan of the series, but honestly I wouldn't want another one either, I doubt they could come up with any good motives for another killer or killers, and really after all this who wouldn't snap if some new idiot started a fifth massacre for some unknown reason. I wouldn't be surprised if Sidney's character committed suicide to save others around her, because it seems every killer who has some grudge against her is so stupid, they start murdering everyone else rather than just trying to kill her.
However I couldn't imagine her becoming the killer... it wouldn't feel true to the character and I doubt they could pull it off. If she was absent during the movie, people would get suspicious, because she is usually the main target, if the target was one of the other main characters, I think she would come help by risking her life, just like they risked it for her in the other ones, so if she is present, but there would be no scenes of her being attacked or chased it would also be suspicious. They should just leave this series alone, the fourth one was good in my opinion, way better than the third, but they shouldn't bother with anymore.

But of course who can reason with Hollywood...pretty sure they'll just announce a remake or another one in the next few years.

 

[shrimpcel]

Most incredible plot twist in the history of machinimas:

"AND THEN JOHN WAS THE ALIEN"

If you get this one I'm proud of you.

 

[Genocidicles]

You're an anemsiac ghost trying to solve your own murder.

Then at the end, the revelation hits you...

Spoiler

You were your own murderer!

Bam! Art worthy of M. Night Shyamalan.

 

[Ninjat_126]

You're an anemsiac ghost trying to solve your own murder.

Then at the end, the revelation hits you...

Spoiler

You were your own murderer!

Bam! Art worthy of M. Night Shyamalan.

I played that flash game too, I'm afraid. That said, it was a good twist, just a bit railroady.

 

[Genocidicles]

I played that flash game too, I'm afraid. That said, it was a good twist, just a bit railroady.

There's a game? I was just paraphrasing a bit from a Cracked article.

 

[Piorn]

I've experienced so many plot twists, that I usually can sense if one is approaching.
In my opinion, The good ones draw attention to subtle things that have been happening over the course of the story, and put everything in a new perspective. I love it when they do that.

Just don't add a twist, just for the sake of twisting.