WTF moments in gaming.

[Colour Scientist]

So, afterwards you are given options where you can either honor the deals you had made with your allies or betray them for more money that you can use to stop the evil thingie taking over. This was my first big WTF moment (and warning-sign, in retrospect), as I didn't understand why my character wouldn't just say: "Well, yeah, saving the pretty little lake would be nice and all, but there is an eldritch evil trying to kill us all, so you might want to consider that as a priority, no?". Instead your two choices are "being a goodie-two-shoe and doing what they want" or "being a mustache-twirling villain and screwing them over". Still I chose the good option because I thought I still had a lot of time and the rent-system in the game gave me a steady income.

Then, right after that, time jump to a month later for another choice. Then to the next choice two months later. Then finally a five month jump and then the evil thingie is suddenly invading. This was my second huge WTF moment, as this point the game pretty much openly screwed me over, but I decided to just roll with it for now.

Well, you can leave the castle and do quests, in between the times in the throne room, in order to build up the money to save everyone.

It's a total pain in the arse, time-wise, but I don't think the game openly fucks you over.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Jak 3: Jak is Mar. Wait, what? How? But...What?(Note-My recall was/is iffy.)

That was your Jak3 WTF!?

What about the Precursors a.k.a. the creators of the universe being...

Spoiler

...a bunch of fucking otters?

 

[Multi-Hobbyist]

Almost too many to list. ... although upon further review, most come from EA and the gaming industry rather than just in games. I digress.
There was a moment in Metro Last Light with one of those demon flying things and the ghost city, caused the game to just give up and stretched the demon's character model all over the sky. Then, pretty much the first time I ever played Conker's Bad Fur Day when I was ... 10? for the N64. Every step of the way was just ...wut.

 

[GabeZhul]

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Well, you can leave the castle and do quests, in between the times in the throne room, in order to build up the money to save everyone.

It's a total pain in the arse, time-wise, but I don't think the game openly fucks you over.

You might know that in retrospect, but when you are actually playing the game for the first time it just goes from "121 days remaining, no need to rush" to "holy shit, the enemy is besieging the capital!". There's not even a "the enemy is closing in, this is the point of no return, finish up everything you want" message beforehand. You just talk to your advisor and you would think it would move you to your next king choice, but instead it immediately throws you into the battle without any actual setup or anything.

 

[Colour Scientist]

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Well, you can leave the castle and do quests, in between the times in the throne room, in order to build up the money to save everyone.

It's a total pain in the arse, time-wise, but I don't think the game openly fucks you over.

You might know that in retrospect, but when you are actually playing the game for the first time it just goes from "121 days remaining, no need to rush" to "holy shit, the enemy is besieging the capital!". There's not even a "the enemy is closing in, this is the point of no return, finish up everything you want" message beforehand. You just talk to your advisor and you would think it would move you to your next king choice, but instead it immediately throws you into the battle without any actual setup or anything.

Well, there're like 5 separate throne room scenes and between each one they let you wander around and you can just leave and go out into the world, I only played through the game once and that's what I did.


I mean, I know they don't explicitly state "you should leave now and go do stuff or else you'll have a bad time" but they do tell you how much money you need and whatnot.

 

[IrenIvy]

Endings to both ME3 (original) and especially Arkham City. I was thinking something like 'wtf, Batman just gave Joker a full pieta scene [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%C3%A0], choral singing included, but he left Talia discarded on floor like she was nothing? Way to go, Batman, way to go. You really can't exist without Joker."
After that I'm very reluctant to get Origins because this ending moment in City was so much WTF for me.

Another similar WTF ending was in "The Testament of Sherlock Holmes", where you shown extremely flimsy character development literally in last couple of ending slides.

Much more positive WTF moment I had in Terraria, when I discovered my first Floating Island - I started to play this game blind, and had no idea such beautiful thing existed If not for Harpies, I'd ended up living there.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I regularly push the boundaries of manliness in League, much to the despair of my team.

"Hold on..."

"Dan, pls."

"I can go back in"

"You're on 100HP"

"WE GO BACK IN"

"WHAT THE FUCK MAN"

Hey it works, most of the time.

 

[Hawkeye21]

I am surprised nobody mentioned Witcher 2 yet.
Second is made more funnier that this "divine revelation" is apparently exactly what priest who gave you this quest expected you to see.

 

[Vegosiux]

This needs to be said:


Even Sam&Max themselves are speechless.

Also, the ending of Fatal Frame. I so wanted to strangle the living daylights out of the guy, ugh.

 

[spartandude]

Ok so mine is from Empire Total War (so yeah)

Now i was playing as Prussia and I was at war with both Austria and Russia. Then Poland decided to ally with Russia and go to war with, and not wanting to stretch more forces too thin i tried to make peace with Poland. They however wouldnt accept peace unless i threatened them... yh they declared war on me and then only wanted peace once i told them i would attack them.
So they signed a peace treaty with me, but the very next turn they declared war again, and again i threatened to attack if they didnt make peace with me. This happened for 6 more turns.... WTF?

 

[IrenIvy]

This needs to be said:


Even Sam&Max themselves are speechless.

Oh, so this is why Agent Superball's profile said he is prone to spontaneous dance and song routine! I played through 'Devil's Toybox' recently and so wanted to see him singing but he didn't -_-

 

[Tahaneira]

So, I was playing Skyrim yesterday. It was my heavy armor, two-handed smashy Nord, so I had Lydia with me. I was walking from Riften to Dawnstar, and I happened to run across a couple of Orc hunters. I had a surplus of money, so I bought some venison from one of them and continued on my way. About ten minutes later, I come across them again on a mountain path; I passed one and stopped behind the other one, who was in the process of hunting some elk. Not wanting to get hit by his arrows, I paused to let him take his shot...

... at which point, for no reason whatsoever, Lydia charged past me and buried her axe in his head.

Me: Lydia, what the fuck?

I then turn around, to find that, equally randomly, she had apparently already decapitated the Orc behind me.

Me: LYDIA WHAT THE FUCK!

Seriously! Neither of them were hostile to me, I don't think they hit her, the guy with the bow wasn't even aiming at us, he was just trying to shoot his elk. Is Lydia secretly racist?

 

[Glover09]

Jak 3: Jak is Mar. Wait, what? How? But...What?(Note-My recall was/is iffy.)

That was your Jak3 WTF!?

What about the Precursors a.k.a. the creators of the universe being...

Spoiler

...a bunch of fucking otters?

Surprisingly, Even from Jak 1 I figured there was some idiotic mindset behind Daxter falling into the eco and coming out as he did. Over the top, but kind of expected.

 

[putowtin]

So, afterwards you are given options where you can either honor the deals you had made with your allies or betray them for more money that you can use to stop the evil thingie taking over. This was my first big WTF moment (and warning-sign, in retrospect), as I didn't understand why my character wouldn't just say: "Well, yeah, saving the pretty little lake would be nice and all, but there is an eldritch evil trying to kill us all, so you might want to consider that as a priority, no?". Instead your two choices are "being a goodie-two-shoe and doing what they want" or "being a mustache-twirling villain and screwing them over". Still I chose the good option because I thought I still had a lot of time and the rent-system in the game gave me a steady income.

Then, right after that, time jump to a month later for another choice. Then to the next choice two months later. Then finally a five month jump and then the evil thingie is suddenly invading. This was my second huge WTF moment, as this point the game pretty much openly screwed me over, but I decided to just roll with it for now.

Well, you can leave the castle and do quests, in between the times in the throne room, in order to build up the money to save everyone.

It's a total pain in the arse, time-wise, but I don't think the game openly fucks you over.

It takes time, you can save up the money whilst playing... but it is a pain, a right royal pain (mostly cause I've always runout of side missions by the time I hit the throne, so I'm stuck waiting for rent and refusing to do "can you go here and get my letter" missions)