Most suprising plot twist

[Casual Shinji]

The Matrix

I knew nothing about this movie beforehand. So when at the end of the first act it's revealed that the world is in fact a simulation and the actual world is this cybertronic hell hole, I was pretty fucking stumpt.

 

[biggles1]

world in conflict, bannons sacrifice. I nearly cried then
I could have taken them russkies on!!

 

[DaBozz]

Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean.

You know the one.

I'm a girl, and that twist left me walking funny. The game as a whole was average at best. It did have some glorious moments shining through the verbose JRPG pitfalls, despite it's horrendous ending. But everyone remembers it for the plot twist.

I'm still new on The Escapist, so I don't know if I'm going to be torn to bits for mentioning a fairly obscure JRPG.

I was gonna say about that twist damn beated me to it. Great game, one of my favourites on the gamecube (i liked it more than final fantasy 10 even O.O) and the game is not as obscure as you might think. A couple of people including myself have mentioned it on these forums before.

anyway welcome to the escapist it's nice to have more people of the female gender come and post here

Charmed. Thanks for the warm welcome.

You play Baten Kaitos Origins? In my opinion, it improves on almost everything that it's predecessor did. Especially in the voice acting and writing categories. But instead of one hard hitting plot twist, you get three, slightly lighter plot twists in quick succession. It didn't hit me quite as hard as Eternal Wings did, but still.

Unfortunely baten kaitos origins was never released in my country (UK) and its a shame because i so want to play it so badly it hurts.

Woah, Baten kaitos fans ninja'ed me.
I love that game so much, its poor graphics never bothered me, because the story was so amazing, and the music....oh the music <3

if their was any justice in this world then baten kaitos would of been much more popular and would be up there with the all-time great rpg's.

If there was any justice, Baten kaitos origins would have been made in the UK.
Namco/bandai owe us a second and third game.

 

[kidigus]

What is the most bizar, or unexpecited plot twist you have ever been confronted with.

Mine was in Bioshock, when it tunes out that Jack was a clone...er...whatever he was.

Thanks, fuckhead.

;_; Why couldn't you have used a spoiler tag... So sad...

Don't worry, he isn't even right. Jack is not a clone. Although, I suggest you leave this thread if you don't want it spoiled as many people are posting it.

I looked it up on wikipedia, and your right I was way off

PS: gona edit the spoiler.

 

[Truehare]

(Long conversation cut short)

You are thinking of the right movie. I prefer it to the Matrix, it hews closer to the noir rather than freewheeling into cyberpunk. It also didn't have any shit sequels to ruin it...possibly because the end is pretty unsettling when you think about it.

OT: Donnie Darko. I still don't understand that goddamn movie.

I like Dark City and The Matrix equally, one for the novelty and spectacular action (and yes, even for the cheap philosophy) and the other for the noir ambiency, better pacing and higher level of craziness. And yeah, the Matrix sequels retroactively ruined a lot of the first movie's power.

In other news (and kind of OT), if you don't understand Donnie Darko, try watching Southland Tales, from the same writer/director. I didn't understand Donnie Darko either, but ST manages to be even more fucked-up. It goes without saying, I loved both of them.

 

[blindthrall]

(Long conversation cut short)

You are thinking of the right movie. I prefer it to the Matrix, it hews closer to the noir rather than freewheeling into cyberpunk. It also didn't have any shit sequels to ruin it...possibly because the end is pretty unsettling when you think about it.

OT: Donnie Darko. I still don't understand that goddamn movie.

I like Dark City and The Matrix equally, one for the novelty and spectacular action (and yes, even for the cheap philosophy) and the other for the noir ambiency, better pacing and higher level of craziness. And yeah, the Matrix sequels retroactively ruined a lot of the first movie's power.

In other news (and kind of OT), if you don't understand Donnie Darko, try watching Southland Tales, from the same writer/director. I didn't understand Donnie Darko either, but ST manages to be even more fucked-up. It goes without saying, I loved both of them.

I've only managed to see Southland Tales once, yet all its craziness coalesces into a coherent whole at the end. I'm pretty sure I get that one. But with Donnie Darko, unless a third of the movie is written off as red herring, I can't get it to make sense.

 

[SupabadMan]

KOTOR was an amazing plot twist.

I had a WTF face going for days.

 

[Twad]

In okami, when the bad guys actually KILL several named characters (wich was fun/shocking/refreshing all at the same time)
A bad guy making a smart move, that works as intended(to some degree). A rare sight.

 

[Mykonos]

I'm still getting over the ending of Braid.

. _ .

 

[Mykonos]

Um...
Vanilla Sky
The Box (It's good)
Neon Genesis
Jacob's ladder
The Life Aquatic (The Helicopter scene and the Jaguar shark :.O )

Book wise...
Cat's Cradle
1984
Life of Pi
The Sandman (Worth the price of the books)

Gaming...
Braid lol
MGS4
FF10 (Truth about Tidus)
Silent Hill 2 anyone?

 

[REDACTEDREDACTED]

The World Ends With You (as you might guess from my avatar) ranks among my favorite games ever, and a lot of that has to do with the plot and how it incorporates your protagonist's slow change.

Modern Warfare 2 had me going WTF for a few days, but for different reasons.

 

[stok3r]

The Star Ocean 3 one was probably mine. Though I'm one of the few who had really liked it.

i think that of shutter island blew my mind i should have been wearing a helmet

Had you not seen a trailer? Really? The trailer just spoiled everything, I knew it all along.

 

[thenoblitt]

recently heavy rain, definitely was not expecting that

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

I'm still getting over the ending of Braid.

Good sweet Lord, was that a crazy ending. I never looked at the X button the same way again...

i think that of shutter island blew my mind i should have been wearing a helmet

Had you not seen a trailer? Really? The trailer just spoiled everything, I knew it all along.

To be honest, I didn't pick up on anything in the trailer either. I guess I'm just really bad at noticing things sometimes. It made the ending a lot better, though.

Killer 7 had the biggest mindfuck ending ever.

Spoiler: Obvious spoilers AHOY!

The Smiths aren't actually Harman's split personalities. They're Garcian's. Also, there are at least 3 Harmans, and your gimp turns out to be Kun Lan. Also also, Japan secretly controls the US's elections through an elementary school in Washington state.

Seriously, what the fuck?

 

[Punisher A.J.]

What is the most bizar, or unexpecited plot twist you have ever been confronted with.

Mine was in Bioshock. When you find Ryan.

Easy..... dragon ball Z's Goku. Here is a guy who can fly, haduken, a godzilla-were-monkey, has big black spiky hair,and he is the main character in a totally badass japanese action packed anime adventure.......dies first episode. I know he lives after, and it probably took 3 episodes to stage his death, but basically he dies first battle. Yeah I was shocked. Biggest plaot twist? killing off the main character in the first episode.

 

[Paperplanes79]

Hmm Jade Empire totally didn't see that at all. All i was thinking was that's it really the end then BOOOOOM! There went my mind.

Also the movie moon. That caught me off guard \.

Worst twist : The Box... if you call that a twist.

 

[Good morning blues]

Knights of the Old Republic caught me completely off-guard. It was the best twist I've ever seen in any medium.

maybe I'm just old fashioned, but i like the Citizen Cain style of twist, more than the KOTOR style. one where there is a mystery to be solved and that it turns out to be so out of the blue it catches you by surprise and causes you to re-examine the entire journey with great depth of thought. thought provoking, maybe even moving.

The other, a villain disappears, the hero isn't really sure where you came from but is conspicuously poorly placed at the opening of the tale. several minor hints latter (Revan may not be gone) and several really big ones (why does a smuggler have advanced jedi powers) lo and behold you are the villain (pause for effect)sooooo.... now what. in KOTOR the "twist" is not surprising if you have been paying attention at all, and on top of that has almost no effect on the narrative.

I certainly understand that, but the problem is that there have been maybe four or five twists like that ever that I haven't predicted (or had spoiled) before they were revealed. When you're watching an M. Knight Shyamalan movie and you think to yourself "I bet it's actually the present day" ten minutes in and you turn out to be right, the twist is a disappointment. KOTOR took me completely by surprise; I was not predicting any twist at all, so it totally blew me away when it happened.