Favorite Video Game Plot Holes

[King of the Sandbox]

Inb4 Aeris/Aerith + Pheonix Down?

 

[A Weary Exile]

Not really what you would call "Favorite" since it kinda spoils the story but, Bioshock:

Spoiler

So Fontaine sends Jack to the surface as a baby right? What happens when he gets to dry land and exits the sub? How did he survive alone, as an infant no less, on the surface? We learn that his memories of a family are fake, so he probably didn't live with anyone on the surface, how did he make it as a baby all the way to able-to-buy-a-plane-ticket-for-myself adulthood?

Also, how did Fontaine know where to send the package? Did he have someone tailing Jack his whole life?

 

[Euhan01]

Pong - The story makes no effort to even exist.

Borderlands - Not so much plot holes as massive annoyance in the story.

Halo Reach - How do all the Spartans now how to use Coventent weapons/viechels that they've never seen before.

Half Life - How does a random scientist have the power to destroy everything in his path?

 

[Simon Pettersson]

Why can you use a (phoenix down,Restoration spell, etc...) in battle, but when they die in a cut scene you can't bring them back?

Inb4 Aeris/Aerith + Pheonix Down?

Well The characters in Final Fantasy and most other RPG´s doesn´t really die in battle they just faint.
So the real question should really be Why don´t they die when they get hit by Huge swords and gun shots/ arrows?

 

[Yassen]

Not really what you would call "Favorite" since it kinda spoils the story but, Bioshock:

Spoiler

So Fontaine sends Jack to the surface as a baby right? What happens when he gets to dry land and exits the sub? How did he survive alone, as an infant no less, on the surface? We learn that his memories of a family are fake, so he probably didn't live with anyone on the surface, how did he make it as a baby all the way to able-to-buy-a-plane-ticket-for-myself adulthood?

Also, how did Fontaine know where to send the package? Did he have someone tailing Jack his whole life?

They explain that Jack was given growth enhancement so by the time he was 2 he had grown to the age of 20. And considering Jack was a sleeper agent he probably subconsciously implanted a specific location for Jack to hide so he would always know where jack was.

 

[MGlBlaze]

Half Life - How does a random scientist have the power to destroy everything in his path?

Partly because he's a badass, partly because

Spoiler

GMan had been influencing him pretty much the whole time until the start of Episode 1... and I think his influence may have returned briefly in Episode 2.

 

[Marmal4de]

Probably the one in Amnesia: The dark descent.

Spoiler

In the ending where you play as Daniel backtracking his way out of the castle. If the elevator broke on the way down, how is it possible to get back out? I like this plot hole though because, though it doesn't make sense, I love the sense of closure you get from that particular ending.

 

[Kinokohatake]

Halo Reach - How do all the Spartans now how to use Coventent weapons/viechels that they've never seen before.

It isn't the first time they have encountered them. When they run into them they say "Oh snap the Covenant". Reach was the first time they really went all out on a planet like that. It is assumed that they had several run ins with them before hand.

If you got that idea from Yahtzee's review, you may want to take some of his reviews with a grain of salt. He likes pretending that games don't explain things just to have more things to complain about.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Half Life: Why does everything keep exploding? Are the aliens teleporting grenades into the walls?

Star Trek console syndrome. They pack explosives behind everything.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Any CtF game: Why can't you teleport with a flag?

 

[supermariner]

It's not really a plot hole, just something i don't quite understand

in Lost Odyssey, why the hell does Jansen stick around?
everybody hates him (bar Ming but even she never says anything nice to him)
Seth even keeps kicking him up the arse constantly all the way through the game
Ming, Sarah, kaim and Seth have to stick around to beat Gongora, i get that
Mack and Cooke have no family other than kaim and sarah so they have to stick around
Sed is Seth's son and has a ship which the others NEED
and Tolten needs Gongora defeated so he can reclaim his kingdom
But Jansen? i just don't get it, there's no reason whatsoever for him to be there
he even moans that he doesn't want to be there any of the time

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Any CtF game: Why can't you teleport with a flag?

Its a well known fact that flags in fact interfere with quantum processes while armour and guns do not. Do you want your character to rematerialise fused with the flag?

Jak and Daxter: Oh man, time travel right? So it is hinted strongly that:

Spoiler

Jak is in fact Mar

Jak runs around picking up pieces of Mar's armour and then time travels a bit with the otsels. When he emerges from whatever it was he was doing in the past he still has the armour on.

Spoiler

If he is mar and he picked up Mar's old armour in the future then he must have left it at some point in the past

What's going on there?

There are also a few involving the child that is Mar's descendant in the future and what happens to him.

 

[Euhan01]

Halo Reach - How do all the Spartans now how to use Coventent weapons/viechels that they've never seen before.

It isn't the first time they have encountered them. When they run into them they say "Oh snap the Covenant". Reach was the first time they really went all out on a planet like that. It is assumed that they had several run ins with them before hand.

If you got that idea from Yahtzee's review, you may want to take some of his reviews with a grain of salt. He likes pretending that games don't explain things just to have more things to complain about.

To be honest its more a plot hole with every game rather than just Halo. Most games you tend to be a rather basic rookie or uber solider, but you also have every type of possible training for every event, from Sniper skills to how to commanding helicopters and jet planes, which do take along time to train in.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Any Rpg where you are told to travel across the world to get to some far off legendary place. Only when you look on the map its just over tall a mountain range from where you started :| Alot of Jrpgs do this but Grandia in particular.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Why do you blakc out when your Pokemon die in every Pokemon game? Better yet how do you get back to the Pokemon Center?

 

[ReinofFire]

Fable Games: How come at the start of every game you have been training your whole life (with the exception of Fable 2 where you just grow up I guess)but start out at practicaly level one from the beginning. Then only days later you defeat the big boss and everything is fine and dandy. Of course there are time skips that are put into account but apparently those times are spent playing jinga and singing folk tunes to your dog, you know, rather than honing your skills to kill the endless supply of bandits.

Halo: Humanity has been able to use covenant technology for a long time apparently (thank you Halo Wars) but in all that time they still use bullets. In fact, if Spartans could use covenant technology to begin with, why didn't they use it more often (you know other than for scavenging, which by the way is not a part of war, thank you video games).

Uncharted: How did these acient civilizations hide themselves for so long if they were so obvious to begin with. In fact, unless that ancient civilization in the Himalayas was underground (which it wasn't, thank you sunlight) I'm pretty sure that crap was visible from Google Earth.

 

[mireko]

I want to just write paragraphs berating Metal Gear Solid and the metaphysics of the Final Fantasy games, but I guess that's off-topic.

So.. every zombie game where a bite will infect you yet doesn't?

Also, in Dragon Age: Origins, the darkspawn taint (yes, yes) doesn't affect anyone in your party. They were originally going to have everyone undergo the joining, but they decided that was stupid. I agree, but when you have all the characters DRENCHED in blood after each fight, you'd think they'd pick up a minor infection, at least.

Hahaha. DA2 is pretty bad.

"Wait a minute. Wasn't this room just a thiefs hideout? How did it so quickly get populated by Apostates? I could have sworn I looted it ten minutes ago."

Most efficient landlords in video gaming history can be found in DA2. Must make a bloody bundle thanks to the champion.

That's lazy design, not a plot hole.

If this thread goes down that path, we'll have fifteen pages of nothing but "Why does this guy have so many identical clones? Why do monsters drop gold and equipment? Where are all these monsters coming from?"

 

[TyrantGanado]

In Metal Gear Solid 2, Liquid Snake says, that Big Boss was "In his late sixties when they made his clones."
But in Peace Walker, it is officially revealed that Big Boss is 39 years old in 1974, which means he was actually 37 when they made his clones.
The only way to explain this is that Liquid (or Ocelot) completely sucks at math.

The Patriots do love their misinformation. Between "The Patriots," "AI" and "nanomachines" you can explain any plot holes or loose ends in the Metal Gear universe. Probably.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

In Metal Gear Solid 2, Liquid Snake says, that Big Boss was "In his late sixties when they made his clones."
But in Peace Walker, it is officially revealed that Big Boss is 39 years old in 1974, which means he was actually 37 when they made his clones.
The only way to explain this is that Liquid (or Ocelot) completely sucks at math.

Maybe it was a translation error and meant to say "his clones were made around the late sixties", still not accurate but it does make a bit more sense like they started preperations to do it in the late sixties. It could also be that Kojima is crazy and time means a different thing to him on his duck horse (I'm sure we've all seen the picture) than it does to us.

 

[Silent Biohazard Solid]

Maybe it was a translation error and meant to say "his clones were made around the late sixties", still not accurate but it does make a bit more sense like they started preperations to do it in the late sixties. It could also be that Kojima is crazy and time means a different thing to him on his duck horse (I'm sure we've all seen the picture) than it does to us.

That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that mistranslation. Yeah, that's possible, that they got his DNA in the late 60's, since the clones were born in 1972.
Still, it did turn it into a plot hole. And even without Peace Walker, there's no way Big Boss was in his late 60's in 1970's, because only six years earlier, Snake Eater happened. Not to mention that would mean that when he first fought Solid Snake, he would've been like, 90 years old. And yea, that's definitely not the case.