Biggest plothole in gaming?

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I just started playing POP sands of time (Older one..) and you get to a point very early on where a guy releases the sands of time, and it got me thinking, why doesn't the prince just use the dagger to reverse time until before that? It was only a minute ago...

That got me thinking about plot holes in other games, and I wanted to know the escapists opinion on what the most glaring plot hole is in any game.
 
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Killzone 3 had some serious plot gaps--that stupid snow tank--but not so much plot holes. The biggest one I'm stuck on at the moment is why Meredith doesn't just cut Anders down then and there. She has EVERY reason to do it, but instead goes, "I'll leave him to you."

Oh, I got it! Reading the post right above me made me think of another one. Okay, the whole point of putting a man in Makarov's circle was to get Makarov. So, why doesn't Alex just gun him and the other guys down? He's standing behind them all, and there's no way they'd be able to turn around fast enough to stop him. Mission accomplished.
Of course, since General Sheperd's plan all along was to start a war, I guess that would sort of screw it up, huh?
 
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Mr. Omega said:
There's a lot for Mario. But then again, for Mario to have plot holes, Mario needs a plot.

So instead, I'll just say this:
If Kessler caused Cole to get his powers in InFamous... how did Kessler get his powers? Time travel tends to leave tons of plotholes.
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They say in the game that Cole develops his powers naturally, all he does by going back in time is to speed up the process
 
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Not really the biggest one, but this plothole made me burst out laughing for a solid ten minutes.

In FFXII you have this gigantic battle on top of an absurdly tall tower. Now, you parked your airship at the bottom of the tower because...well, we don't know why, so there's part one of the plothole.

So, after parking the ship at the bottom, you climb up a 100 story tower that is mind bogglingly large and fight the boss up top. Because bosses don't play nice, the top of the tower explodes. Now, your entire party is at the epicenter of this explosion. The very next scene is of the airship flying away from the explosion, and no one even idly mentions the escape. And it's sort of established that these things can't auto-pilot.

It just...baffled me. Well, that and the part where the bad guys stuck the weird energy source that they knew nothing about except that it was "extremely powerful" straight into the engine of the airship they were flying in. Come to think of it, this game was just one gigantic hunk of swiss cheese with all of the plot holes in it.
 
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the reapers in ME, fucking bioware keeps insulting my intelligence with their explanations

I don't accept that their only purpose is to make space terminators.



ALSO WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD IS JIM RAYNOR TRYING TO SAVE KERRIGAN IN STARCRAFT 2?!
BROOD WAR ENDS WITH HIM SAYING THAT HE'S GOING TO HUNT HER DOWN AND KILL HER NO MATTER WHAT
WHAT THE SHIT
SUDDEN RAGE
 
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artanis_neravar said:
Mr. Omega said:
There's a lot for Mario. But then again, for Mario to have plot holes, Mario needs a plot.

So instead, I'll just say this:
If Kessler caused Cole to get his powers in InFamous... how did Kessler get his powers? Time travel tends to leave tons of plotholes.
Click to expand...
They say in the game that Cole develops his powers naturally, all he does by going back in time is to speed up the process
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Actually, it says that Kessler got his powers when "The Beast" activated the Ray Sphere years later, when he was married to Trish (In that dimension)

Kessler then went back in time to teach his past self, Cole, how to use his powers much earlier.
 
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Sir Boss said:
anything to do with the new hope facility in gears 2
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I don't think that was a plothole, so much as they probably had the whole thing figured out, then made a last minute decision not to tell anyone about it.

I can't see anything flawless in my immediate stack, but I think Bulletstorm deserves special mention. Yeah it had plot holes, but considering the fact everyone assumed it to be another simple murderfest, it needs commending on the fact they put enough plot in it to actually have holes.
 
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HerbertTheHamster said:
the reapers in ME, fucking bioware keeps insulting my intelligence with their explanations

I don't accept that their only purpose is to make space terminators.
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Oh god that. I hate that about ME so much.
 
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icame said:
HerbertTheHamster said:
the reapers in ME, fucking bioware keeps insulting my intelligence with their explanations

I don't accept that their only purpose is to make space terminators.
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Oh god that. I hate that about ME so much.
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this spoilerbot 3000 ruined the entire game for me, seriously. "you can't understand the reapers, just go shoot stuff."

i felt very insulted
 
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Leole said:
artanis_neravar said:
Mr. Omega said:
There's a lot for Mario. But then again, for Mario to have plot holes, Mario needs a plot.

So instead, I'll just say this:
If Kessler caused Cole to get his powers in InFamous... how did Kessler get his powers? Time travel tends to leave tons of plotholes.
Click to expand...
They say in the game that Cole develops his powers naturally, all he does by going back in time is to speed up the process
Click to expand...
Actually, it says that Kessler got his powers when "The Beast" activated the Ray Sphere years later, when he was married to Trish (In that dimension)

Kessler then went back in time to teach his past self, Cole, how to use his powers much earlier.
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No he developed the power naturally, and when the beast awakened he was powerful enough to defeat him but didn't because he ran with his family
 
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Dawn of War 2 - the Techmarine Martellus

In Chaos Rising, Martellus goes traitor, screaming unintelligable bullshit about how Chaos is awesome, and your squads of dudes curb stomp his ass. In Retribution, he's alive and hanging out with the Captain of the honor guard all buddy-buddy and being a good little soldier in service to the Emperor.

Did this bother the shit out of anyone else? It's never explained, and frankly I quit taking him along on missions because I know he's a dirtbag traitorous son of a *****, even if THQ doesn't.

EDIT: My theory is that Stephen Blum wanted to keep doing voices for 3 main characters, so they rewrote the entirely storyline so as not to make him cry.
 
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