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The best plot twists
- Thread starter Kalmakov
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It's lampshaded, game says they have all biological functions for mental health reasons.
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Well Lin is always cooking you food so I have to assume that food goes somewhere.
But yeah like Bomblord said they have biological functions for mental health reasons. The end goal was always to get them back in flesh and blood bodies so they didn't want to put people in cold, feelingless metal shells for an indeterminate time.
Man, I need a sequel to this game. The plot took a back seat, but the story beats were still good.
Also I always thought the baten katos twist was kinda expected. You start the game as a guardian spirit and I'm pretty sure the audible dialogue actually gets more clear throughout the game. To signify your bond with the living world getting stronger.
I'm sure not everyone has played either of those games.
No one played it, but I thought the twist in Second Sight was mindblowing. The whole game you think you are able to go into the past and change things, but it turns out the past is actually the present and the "present" is actually the future.
And there I was tiptoeing around it at the top of the page...
Sorry to quote such an old post but OMG, as a teenager I turned off the voice acting (and imagined I was playing a PSX RPG), because the voice acting audio quality was so bad, it sounded like the actors were all talking through tunnels. That was intentional?!
Most recently Persona 5
When Joker was "killed" I literally thought I messed up regarding the choices i made. Never would've guessed that the whole team had the trap planned out since the school festival. The really did it up Oceans 8 style
-Neyla going from helping the Cooper Gang to betraying them and gradually turning into the main villain in Sly 2.
-Sovereign actually not just a ship, but the main villain in Mass Effect 1.
-The main villain working with the Metal Heads in Jak 3 revealed to be Erol, a secondary villain in Jak 2 who received cybernetic upgrades and is now called "Cyber Erol".
-Sovereign actually not just a ship, but the main villain in Mass Effect 1.
-The main villain working with the Metal Heads in Jak 3 revealed to be Erol, a secondary villain in Jak 2 who received cybernetic upgrades and is now called "Cyber Erol".
If you can travel in time, isn't every time both past, present and future at the same time?
I thought the crazy part, was that they couldnt figure out, why they were still alive. After discovering that their original bodies had died? Been awhile since i played it. [/SPOILER
Bioshock - "would you kindly" for me.
It's like they got to the end and went "we need a twist" so blindly pointed to a character and wrapped it up.
It's a terrible twist that makes no sense for the rest of the game. There's a couple of points where it's physically impossible for the twist to make sense.
It's like they got to the end and went "we need a twist" so blindly pointed to a character and wrapped it up.
Xenoblade X had like 3 crazy twists that all came from the last so... lol
I liked the plan, but the best twist in p5 was
Igor. Such a damn good meta twist. The Japanese voice actor had died before the game, so they had to switch his voice if they wanted to use the character still, so they give him this deep gruff voice that is pretty unlike his other apearences, but fans roll with it because they needed to change him out anyway.
At the end, it's revealed he's a fake which was a pretty cool twist anyway, but then the lines that are voiced are the old VA's that were pre recorded from other games showing that he was the real one after all. Was such a cool touch.
At the end, it's revealed he's a fake which was a pretty cool twist anyway, but then the lines that are voiced are the old VA's that were pre recorded from other games showing that he was the real one after all. Was such a cool touch.
Liquid Ocelot is just Ocelot.
This is maybe my favorite in gaming.
the whole backstory is what got me hooked. It's just a shame the present day story couldn't measure up to that. It didn't help that the most interesting characters where all dead ones in holotapes. Like you said though, the emotional gutpunch of it all was amazingly effective. I found the plight and anguish of the general, recounting how he and others basically had to inspire what was left of humanity to fight for a weapon and a hopeless victory he knew was fake the most heart wrenching.
Everything about this guy is a plot twist. For all the hate that Nomura gets with his plot twists, he did this character so good.
Except the two characters were very obviously voiced by the same actor, so this didn't come as a surprise to me AT ALL.
I used to be hugely into the 90s TMNT cartoon, and the same actor (Cam Clarke) also did Leonardo, so I instantly recognized him.
999 is awesome, but Virtue's Last Reward's gimmick is just incredibly stupid and shatters my ability to withhold my disbelief. It's illogical and contrived.
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Metroid
Bayonetta
MGS2
Final Fantasy IV
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VII Remake
Clubhouse Games 51
When you find out in the original game that Samus is a woman. Pretty cool twist.
Child is you!
Raiden is you!
You are the bad guy (but only in the beginning). Golbez is your brother. You fight the embodiment of evil on the moon.
The main character dies and can stay dead!
It's not a remake!
There's a piano!
Ok, I'm sorry to double post. But this literally happened 30 seconds ago.
Grandia
Grandia
Milda is married to a talking animal.
Xenogears
A long list, but I'd say Grahf being Lacan stands above the rest
i can't think of any plot twist in K7 that jumps out. Most everything is presented to you as is it's just...it's Killer 7. I guess I would say
Garcian killing and absorbing Harman...sort of and not the other way around was a twist
Damn, this thread makes me want to replay HZD.
I also thought Captain Spirit had a disappointing yet cute twist
Cute twist, but also a "my-life-has-been-a-lie" one.
I also thought Captain Spirit had a disappointing yet cute twist
You play the whole episode as Chris, convinced you have super powers, and actually levitate after falling from a tree, cementing that certitude that Chris actually has powers.
You find out from LiS 2.2 that Daniel, in the neighbouring garden, is actually the one who saved Chris.
You find out from LiS 2.2 that Daniel, in the neighbouring garden, is actually the one who saved Chris.
Cute twist, but also a "my-life-has-been-a-lie" one.
Spec Ops the line is pretty good because it lets you play through its many twists but you never see them for what they really are as the game often fucks with you in a lot of ways so you kept being thrown off guard and start accepting weird shit you see and do as normal as Walker digs himself deeper and deeper into chaos and doubt.
Braid. None of the cut-scene plot-heavy games I've played, other than Bioshock, have been as simply effective as 'finding the princess'.
your wife didn't die naturally
Yeah, of course. She died of that damned disease.
I was referring to Baten Kaitos. If memory serves, I played it a bit after release, When I was around 14-15.