best plot twists in video games

double dragon fighting each other

half of Planescape: Torment (esp. Morte, Vailor and Ignus)

Midna turning out to be hot

the world gets blown up
your pixie friend blows the world up
the player character from the first game dies halfway through
you exist inside the final boss
you are a dark lord
the guy who looks like darth vader is you from a past life
the guy you're having visions of is your father
you kill yourself
there are two castles
the guy in the intro is his twin
2/3rds of the game are an intentional recreation of the first game
goth dude is a vampire

aeris gets stabbed

abanana's game sounds awesome

http://chrisdlugosz.net/x/metroid_ending.png

As a kung fu hero, you do two chicks at once

Has anybody ever tried to get a girl's clothes off by telling her to "pray for a true peace in space," I wonder

KOTOR and KOTOR II to thread.

Metal gear solid where all the guys are in the elevator

BUT OUR PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE

FUCKING BRAID 2 THREAD PLZ

another good one: the caslte is now upside down and you have to do it again

Has anybody ever tried to get a girl's clothes off by telling her to "pray for a true peace in space," I wonder

More to the point, has it worked?

Nine posts up, yes.

The one from Spider And Web

Two of the ones from Blue Chairs

Spider and Web twist is great. Andrew Plotkin’s Shade has a great twist too.

goth dude is a vampire

liquid & solid are BROTHERS

Dude you thought was dead is still alive and is actually the traitor who you have to kill in the final boss fight.

Dude you killed at the end of the first game in the series isn't really dead, and you have to kill him again near the end of the second game. But is he really dead? Oh wait, you'll never find out, because they don't make the third game!

n00b here lol.

I obvs dig Driver and the GTAs but I loved just watching this game Hitman I saw recently...

What are other games that are this rich in plot and setting?

tbqh I'd rate Metal Gear Solid as kinda dry and too gameplayish over plot in this regard.

― lil queequeg (peter grasswich), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:27 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Shit this isn't on ILGames... haha.

Metal Gear Solid is too gameplayish? The cutscenes are interminable!

Probably not the best way to phrase it, but you know what I mean, now answer the damn question.

Bioshock answers both questions

you're asking for recommendations of games that are light on gameplay but heavy on plot? this was basically everyone's complaint about heavy rain, right?

if you like GTA, check out red dead redemption too

would you kindly

which hitman game? i remember trying the second one, wanted to love it but it was super frustrating/hard (at least if you didn't want to sound the alarm).

I've never played Hitman, but if you're looking for third person open world games then Red Dead Redemption, Just Cause 2, Batman Arkham City, Max Payne 3 would all be good possibles.

Bioshock is a good rec too.

Deus Ex is good if you like stealth.

Just asking for recs of games like the GTAs and Hitman in which the plot is well above average. Ignore the gameplay comment. Just cool games that aren't too tasky but also tell a great story. How's that bros?

Well -- what are you going to play the game on? PC? Console? Which console? Do you want something newer (in which case I highly recommend Red Dead Redemption) or something older (some of the old Infocom + adventure games are excellent - I'm thinking of I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream + A Mind Forever Voyaging atm)?

RPG? Action-Adventure? do you want something w/ a particularly strong plot, or would a very strong setting/world also be interesting to you? Bc Morrowind or Fallout games are all great, tho I wouldn't say that a linear plot is among their strong suits...

if you are willing to play slightly older PC adventure games - those have the strongest stories in gaming imho - check out Grim Fandango, Monkey Island 1-3, Loom, Full Throttle, I've heard great things about Psychonauts but I still haven't gotten around to playing it... most of those should be easily locatable.

Assassin's Creed 2

Resident Evil 4

Baldur's Gate

Resident Evil 4

lol

what

answer is o.g. deus ex, as usual

plot twists not yet in thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOFZ5fv_pb8

remember that it is my will that guided you here. it is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants, the only beauty in that meat you call a body. if you value that meat, you will do as i tell you.

abanana's post upthread is amazing

mario 2 was all a dream

I liked the twist in Shadow of the Colossus, though it was more like a slow realization than an actual twist

yup yup

EXCUSE ME BUT

STAR WARS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC

GREATEST PLOT TWIST OF ALL TIME

so good that i got it spoiled to me via the bioware forums before having actually come across the moment in-game and was still blown away that it was pulled off so effectively despite

Beneath A Steel Sky ends with a pretty sweet one.

so now i don't remember many of the games i spoiled.

your pixie friend blows the world up -- thought this was a SNES RPG but I can't find it
the player character from the first game dies halfway through -- Chrono Cross?
you kill yourself -- that suda51 wrestling game?
goth dude is a vampire -- mgs2?

haha the thing is they're so much better as just generic twists! "goth dude is a vampire" should be in every game really.

goth dude is a vampire could be FF7 too

I wanna see abanana's list annotated, I don't know any of them except "there are two castles"

"A Star Wars game with a plot twist" is not my idea of a plot or a twist, I bet KOTOR is rad sure but no thanks

2/3rds of the game are an intentional recreation of the first game

What is this a Metal Gear thing?

doc casino is right, that post is magic as is

it's mgs2, isn't it

yes

imo less is more when it comes to storytelling in games.

i remember now, "goth dude is a vampire" was aria/dawn of sorrow

goth dude is a banana

hahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCsCKlfwmlE&t=23m11s

^ otm

I love how if you select yes here you get sent back a few levels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOOX0j9kQms

what if she said yes to becoming his right hand man?
illyrian4life 1 year ago

you drop back down to stage 6. If you play 2 players and one player chooses yes and another chooses no, then you have to fight each other.
syxx573 in reply to illyrian4life 1 year ago

Like, I like how it teaches kids to avoid being seduced into crossing over the darkside.

what's the logic in being dropped back down to stage 6 though? you get betrayed?