Unfortunately, I don't play enough games to have a whole list of WTF plot twists, but I had to comment on the KOTOR series so-called "surprises". I'll start with 2, and work back to the first.
Kreia - well, I admit I "used the force" to sense that she was one of the titular Sith Lords as soon as I woke her up, and knew her inevitable betrayal before I even escaped to Telos' surface. No solid clues, just her overall personality, demeanor, and constant disapproval of every lightside act made it screamingly obvious that she was gonna hose you at the end, just like I knew Canderous/Mandalore would be solid, loyal, and trustworthy despite his darkside.
KOTOR - well, that was just plain, obvious, hackneyed writing. I suspected that the main character was Revan from the very first moments of the game. Semi-amnesiac, explaining yourself to the fellow wearing a sign around his neck reading "intro character doomed to die before we get through the obligatory training level", followed by the Taris dream sequences...
I was 99.44% sure before I stole the Ebon Hawk. The other .56% was clinched with the first Revan/Malak dream when you land on Dantooine, and the final moment that solidified it as fact for me was the first council meeting. "Is Revan truly dead? What if we undertake to train this one, and the Darl Lord returns?" That's Jedi speak for: "Oi! you're Revan!" Remember Obi-Wan's ghost on Dagobah: "Everything I told you is true... from a certain point of view." Jedi always tell you the whole truth, you just have to know which way to bend it to make it clear. So for me, most of the game was waiting for the "Shocking Revelation" that I'd known since the first reel.
And, yeah I knew Fight Club's secret embarrassingly early in the novel as well. never did see the film, though. I imagine it was easier to conceal in cinematic form than it was in writing
Kreia - well, I admit I "used the force" to sense that she was one of the titular Sith Lords as soon as I woke her up, and knew her inevitable betrayal before I even escaped to Telos' surface. No solid clues, just her overall personality, demeanor, and constant disapproval of every lightside act made it screamingly obvious that she was gonna hose you at the end, just like I knew Canderous/Mandalore would be solid, loyal, and trustworthy despite his darkside.
KOTOR - well, that was just plain, obvious, hackneyed writing. I suspected that the main character was Revan from the very first moments of the game. Semi-amnesiac, explaining yourself to the fellow wearing a sign around his neck reading "intro character doomed to die before we get through the obligatory training level", followed by the Taris dream sequences...
I was 99.44% sure before I stole the Ebon Hawk. The other .56% was clinched with the first Revan/Malak dream when you land on Dantooine, and the final moment that solidified it as fact for me was the first council meeting. "Is Revan truly dead? What if we undertake to train this one, and the Darl Lord returns?" That's Jedi speak for: "Oi! you're Revan!" Remember Obi-Wan's ghost on Dagobah: "Everything I told you is true... from a certain point of view." Jedi always tell you the whole truth, you just have to know which way to bend it to make it clear. So for me, most of the game was waiting for the "Shocking Revelation" that I'd known since the first reel.
And, yeah I knew Fight Club's secret embarrassingly early in the novel as well. never did see the film, though. I imagine it was easier to conceal in cinematic form than it was in writing
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