Worst Game Twists Ever

[Dark Phoenix]

Doing some story plotting on my current RPG Maker project, and my mind wandered back to some game twists that really annoyed the crap out of me.

Off the top of my head, one of the most unnecessary was in Final Fantasy X, when...

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Tidus found out he was effectively the figment of someone's imagination.  I mean, really?  (Oh yes, REALLY)  It felt as though the writers were looking for one more piece of shock value, and wanted to do something to create drama for the sake of drama, so made him into dream boy.

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So what about you?  What game twisted in a way that was just hackneyed or unneeded for the narrative?

FFX made me want to stab my own eyes out.  Tidus is such an unlikable jerk that I feel a constant desire to punch him in the face.  To be honest, FFX is the first FF I stopped playing partway through, though I do know of the twists.

 

[T.G.Fighterdoken]

I haven't really seen too many plot twists that I've hated, except in AC (assassins creed 3) where Desmod dies at the end after 3 games.  But then in AC4 the sample 17 is never shown on camera, making me think that maybe he is alive?  or at least a clone or something?  it may not be a game plottwist so much as a series plot twist.

Worst twist ever though are the ff13 games, each one takes the story in a drastically and unnessisary direction, and playing though 13-3 it feels like nothing but a sidequest game.  I've yet to see any really story development   so yea, the entire ff13 series is the biggest most unnessisary plot twist in any game... ever.  I won't be surprised if at the end of 13-3 you end up fighting the very god you are serving, that seems legit for a twist.

 

[Insidious Mental Pollution]

FFX made me want to stab my own eyes out.  Tidus is such an unlikable jerk that I feel a constant desire to punch him in the face.  To be honest, FFX is the first FF I stopped playing partway through, though I do know of the twists.

Pure awesome. 

 

[CWells]

Resident Evil 4. I liked the series and even enjoyed part 4 very much. But the game shifted from a mere zombrie outbreak from viruses run amok to...insect like alien invasion of human beings to being high action oriented, low psychological horror/thriller gameplay. Kind of a bummer. I loved part 4 but I just couldn't recognize it as a Resident Evil game at all. It was just such a change. 4 should have been the one to end it all. I mean, in the ending of RE3:

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Jill escapes Raccoon city as it is blown to ash and says "Umbrella is going down" But nothing comes from that. She magically ends up kidnapped and makes a reappearance in part 5 along with Wesker and it's...it's a mess.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

Resident Evil was never about zombies really. It was about biologically created living weapons. Even the first game had tons of things that weren't zombies. Zombies were really more of a side effect. The las plagas fit in perfectly with that.

There was a shift in gameplay though with 4, that I won't deny.

All of this is really beside the point anyway, because that isn't really a twist...

 

[zacheatscrackers]

When I found out that the cake was a lie, so sad :c

But yeah

I don't know about you guys but Fallout 3's ending plot twist was not pleasing for me.

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The protagonist is put into a tight spot after finishing the extremely short plot, you have to either sacrifice yourself to disarm the bomb (leads to ending the game/game over), let the one with you disarm the bomb and die from radiation (still game end), wait until it explodes (ends game), or buy a dlc pack to make your invincible mutant disarm the bomb and live, you continue the game, but you're known as a coward.

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I didn't like it either. I enjoyed most of the game as well, so after witnessing that, it kinda left a sour taste in my mouth. It didn't exactly ruin my opinion of the game overall, but it made it feel like a cheap DLC ploy.

 

[MyLordRobinson]

Jill ...ends up kidnapped and makes a reappearance in part 5

She did quite a bit in Revolutions which was before RE5 if I remember correctly. You have to understand that after 4, many of the other games occur around the same time and aren't very linear. 

 

[CWells]

She did quite a bit in Revolutions which was before RE5 if I remember correctly. You have to understand that after 4, many of the other games occur around the same time and aren't very linear. 

Yes, each game only covers one side of a story or a certain area from their large cast of characters. Other events are always happening in different areas. I never heard of Revolutions though.