Best Plot Twist in a Game EVER

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Setrus

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Ghostwise said:
Knights of the Old Republic hands down.


You are Revan. The amnesiac leader of the Sith. Mind Blown!!
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Really, the first time I saw those videos with Bastila and Carth talking and felt the pieces slide into place...I just sat there staring at the screen. :-D
 

IronMit

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Hitman blood money

How do i use a SPOILER tag?? well SPOILER BELOW;

The final level is your funeral. I thought I was dead. I then start playing other levels..went back to the funeral for the music a month later...realised I had a heartbeat...then it all came together.. Diana kissed me with that special lipstick that wakes you up from that other drug! I am actually alive..!! Got up and kicked some ass!!
 

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IronMit said:
Hitman blood money

How do i use a SPOILER tag?? well SPOILER BELOW;

The final level is your funeral. I thought I was dead. I then start playing other levels..went back to the funeral for the music a month later...realised I had a heartbeat...then it all came together.. Diana kissed me with that special lipstick that wakes you up from that other drug! I am actually alive..!! Got up and kicked some ass!!
[ spoiler ] What you're writing [ / spoiler ]

(without the spaces.)

Edit: OT, I like the Jak 3 one as well. I managed to somewhat guess the "would you kindly" part in Bioshock before it was shown, but that's a good one as well.
 

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There can only be one.


The plot twist that made System Shock 2 get on most "best horror games of all time" lists. A total mindfuck that still hasn't been matched by most games made today - learning that not only was your Mission Control operator dead, but that she had killed herself before the main plot started, and the antagonist of the original game was back, coupled with quite possibly the best physical reveal ever in the gaming medium (the walls fall away around you, replaced by computer screens and SHODAN's face).

"THE POLITO FORM IS DEAD, INSECT."
 

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Bioshock's, even though it didn't make sense and I was starting to predict it based on the actions of some characters (not Jack's, mostly Andrew Ryan and Atlas's).
Agreed, I've never seen the medium itself used to foreshadow a twist.

It's like getting to the end of a book and realising all those awkward misspellings were actually a second story running below the surface of the first. Stupidly well executed; it made a stylish but somewhat lacking game into my biggest 'woah' for years.
 

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Knights of the Old Republic- Probably the greatest twist in any medium that I've encountered.

You are Darth Revan, leader of the Sith. The whole game you have been retracing your steps to find the Star Forge.

Mass Effect's was pretty good too.

The Mass Relays and the Citadel are all just a trap laid by the Reapers
 

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Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2
The Reaver was never forged to be a soul stealing weapon. The Ravenous entity trapped in it was, and always has been........me.

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The Judge: I must say that i had placed the most blindest of confidences, the solidest hope and the most sincere belief in you. We can well say that i have erred to the bones.

But the real Betrayer is the one that lies beyond the eye of the cat. What have you done, Player? Its the opaque mist of the scenery frame really your excuse for killing wife and child? You have not purified this place, you have destroyed it, erradicated it. You have immersed it into pristine nothingness.
 

Blue Jay

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Got to say the Bioshock one is really amazing and is probably the best ever.

But personally The Walking Dead game, more specifically Episode 4 (warning heavy spoilers):

Clementine has just been taken/run away at the end of the episode and you go outside to try to find her, when you find her walkie-talkie you get attacked by one Walker, it seems like no big deal but you find out that Lee/you have been bitten by a Walker. It's just so insanely unpredictable and it shocked me so much considering all you've been through.
 

GildaTheGriffin

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Hmmm... best plot twist. Well there is MW2 when...
Shepard kills Roach and Ghost, and backstabs everyone.


inFamous when...
The antagonist is really you from the future.


Boarderlands 2 when...
Angel was working for Handsome Jack and was his daughter.
 

Pebkio

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I like the ones I can't see coming, and I can see pretty far ahead. For instance, I saw the twist in Assassin's Creed 2 coming... and that's saying a lot; I got a flash of insight when I had Eagle Vision on and looked up at the sky.

Saw Bioshock's twist coming from a mile away.
Portal 2 was obvious.
Silent Hill 2's pattern was recognizable
Black Ops was a no-brainer
The Force Unleashed twist was hard to miss

But here's what got me:

<spoiler=Mass Effect>The "Prothean" Tech wasn't really Prothean Tech. I'm also a big fan or repeating patterns, so that was a plus.<spoiler=Morrowind>The more prophecies you fulfill, the more you become the Nerevarine and you aren't actually the Nerevarine until you finish the seventh vision. You find this out from the people who were almost Nerevarine in that Azura cave.<spoiler=Mario 64>Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach and the cake was a lie. Just did NOT see that coming...
 

Darren716

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Bioshock for me since it has been one of the few twists that I haven't had spoiled for be before I even had a chance to play the game.
 

Curratum

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Victoria, are you prepared to give Mister Garrett his... COMPENSATION!

One more vote for Thief 1 - first thing that comes to mind as far as awesome plot twists go, so I suppose this would be the best for me.
 

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I play too little :p
But WarcraftIII
the fact that Illidan was actually hunting Arthas the whole time

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Zelda Twilight Princess
Didn't think Ganondorf was going to be last boss but actually thought we'd have another evil dude this time
 

mcsestretch

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Consider this more love for the Bioshock twist. I did NOT see that coming.

Also, what about Braid? While you could guess it by the end...

She was running away from you the whole time
 

4RM3D

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Planescape: Torment is 1 giant plot twist.

You could dedicate an own thread just to discuss which of Torment's plot twists is the greatest.