Cool plot twists you'd like to see

[Domogo]

I think I've mentioned this before but I have always wanted to see a game where you are a figment of an NPCs imagination (i.e. your Commanding Officer). My version of this is just a basic shooter but in the end the levels become really easy for an unknown reason, enemies always miss or try to run and then suddenly really powerful unstoppable (on purpose) enemies slowly take out you and your team, then in the end before you loose completely someone captures your CO and then you cant move and then you realize that he is actually an insane person who snapped and dreamed up a squad who he then shot up his school with and then police and such are the actual bad guys in the end and as it all dawns on the player you realize some how that you could have stopped it from happening, as you fade to black.

TL;DR too bad read it anyway

my only problem is I don't know how to execute the important parts of the game; additionally any game with a twist is virtually unrepeatable because you already know.

 

[lacktheknack]

AND THEN SHEPARD WAS THE REA-

P.S: Extra points if you don't mention Mass Effect 3.

Fuck.

You owe me a new keyboard. I might have wrecked this one because of the epic spit-take I just had.

OT: It's hard to come up with a better plot twist than the one that actually happened in Second Sight, but I gotta say, it would be really nifty if we found out that Lara Croft was her Doppleganger the whole time, we've just been lied to since game one.

 

[DioWallachia]

In MDK: THE DECOY DUMMY WAS THE MASTERMIND ALL ALONG!!!!!

9:48

 

[lacktheknack]

If there is ever a Saints Row 4 I would like to have Saints Row the Third be all a drug induced dream that all the main characters had. It would be great Gat would still be alive, the story could actualy continue of trying to find the rest of the old saints and most importantly we can all pretend that SR3 never happened.

Why would we want that? Sure, it's completely off its meds, but it was FUN. People always forget that. I'm guessing it's just because they're ticked about Johnny Gat.

 

[Kopikatsu]

Know how most FPSes have one of your allies backstab you at the worst possible moment? (This has been mentioned already in this thread)

Well, the twist is that you are the traitor. Revealed by your character suddenly shooting your CO in the head, then when the second guy turns to see what happened, you shoot him in the knee and hold him down until his eyes widen with the realization before you put a bullet in his brain. And so it begins.

 

[Nimzabaat]

Well i'm hoping they don't do another Scream, but if they do, have Neve Campbell's character be the killer. She just snaps from all the horror and doesn't want to be the victim anymore.

Or how about in Star Wars VII: Vader is still alive!!!!! Oh wait Disney is on that. Crap. Crappy idea too. Seriously, they burned his corpse.

Or maybe in Mas...er... whatever new Bioware game, you have an NPC in your group that doesn't need any help with anything. He/She just follows the main character for no reason. There'll be awkward moments where the PC goes "so... you need anything done?" and they just go "nope, i'm good". That would be a welcome twist.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

A twist I would have liked to see, would come in a COD or MOH mission. It promises you that you're about to go off and kill a bunch of muslamic turrists or whatever, only to have chain of command cancel the mission before you've even seen a single enemy. You get back in the APCs, and get returned to base. Bored and frustrated, you have to spend the rest of the day clowning around, trying to pass the time like a real soldier. You do various things, like shove over a porta-toilet whilst someone is inside it, have inane conversations with your mates, and play video games on an ingame xbox.

I'd go with the old 'As today is (insert appropriate national or religious holiday), Intelligence reports that enemy activity will be minimal...' routine that's usually the set up to all hell breaking loose but instead have the mission/day pass without incident.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

All the Pokemon have been secretly building their collections of humans, and hide the Pokeballs inside their own Pokeballs.

0_0

 

[Jaeke]

DEFINITELY more twists like in AC3.
I mean, building up to the twist I was thinking "*sigh* This is so boring, just let me play the game already", then BAM, it hits you like a train.

Spoiler

That game would have been so much better if you played as Haytham instead.

 

[Matthew Kjonaas]

You survive a zombie/ bio bomb out break and find out that you need to die because you were experimented on are immune from dying because of it but can still kill other. You then have two choices 1. risk killing millions for your own life to continue or 2. kill yourself/ surrender and die saving millions.

 

[Zhukov]

I'd like to see a game with a plot twist that is never explicitly revealed.

It's possible to play the entire game without knowing the truth. You only find out if you really dig for it. Even then it isn't highlighted for you. You're just able to uncover the information and then left to draw your own conclusions.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution kinda-sorta did a couple of little things like this. There are a couple of rather important bits of information about Jensen that are entirely optional, easy to miss and aren't presented with any fanfare.

 

[Kopikatsu]

I'd like to see a game with a plot twist that is never explicitly revealed.

It's possible to play the entire game without knowing the truth. You only find out if you really dig for it. Even then it isn't highlighted for you. You're just able to uncover the information and then left to draw your own conclusions.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution kinda-sorta did a couple of little things like this. There are a couple of rather important bits of information about Jensen that are entirely optional, easy to miss and aren't presented with any fanfare.

Like what, exactly? All I can think of is finding out that the 'upgrade' chip is something that you reaaaaally don't want.

 

[Zhukov]

I'd like to see a game with a plot twist that is never explicitly revealed.

It's possible to play the entire game without knowing the truth. You only find out if you really dig for it. Even then it isn't highlighted for you. You're just able to uncover the information and then left to draw your own conclusions.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution kinda-sorta did a couple of little things like this. There are a couple of rather important bits of information about Jensen that are entirely optional, easy to miss and aren't presented with any fanfare.

Like what, exactly? All I can think of is finding out that the 'upgrade' chip is something that you reaaaaally don't want.

You mean what exactly in DE:HR?

(Minor spoilers follow.)

You can find out that:

a) Jensen's injuries didn't necessitate all the augmentations he got, even the basic live-preserving ones. He only needed one arm and some organs repaired/replaced. They amputated his other arm and both legs and replaced them with artificial ones at the behest of his boss, David Sarif. It was legal because of some fine print in Jensen's employee contract.

(You find this out by hacking his doctor's computer at the Detroit LIMB clinic and and reading the emails on it.)

b) Jensen was genetically engineered and born in a lab. That's why he has the special genes that allow his body to accept implants without that one drug. His "parents" were a couple who worked at the lab. For reasons unknown, although presumably because they became attached to little Adam and had second thoughts about their work, they rescued him and torched the place. They then went into hiding with new identities and raised him as their own kid.

(You find this out through one of the side missions, the one with the old nurse and the private inspector.)

 

[Full]

ninja'd ajfkdsjalf.

I was actually about to say something like what OP said.

 

[Gottesstrafe]

If there is ever a Saints Row 4 I would like to have Saints Row the Third be all a drug induced dream that all the main characters had. It would be great Gat would still be alive, the story could actualy continue of trying to find the rest of the old saints and most importantly we can all pretend that SR3 never happened.

There's fan speculation that the events of Saints Row 3 was actually a movie idea pitched/written by Pierce following their conquest of Stilwater in Saints Row 2 and consequential take over of the Ultor media empire (Gangstas in Space being the proxy movie within the movie). It goes on to explain that's why Pierce suddenly plays a more prominent role in the events of the game as your second in command and how he's portrayed in such a positive light by the media, Johnny Gat dies fairly early in the game and off camera (as a sort of comeuppance for stealing the spotlight from him in Saints Row 2), and how Shaundi turns from a comic relief stoner into a super serious kill crazy harpy who also ultimately gets kidnapped off screen (also revenge for Shaundi stealing credit for all of Pierce's ideas from 2). While I'm neither endorsing or denying this theory, it would explain a few of the more cartoony aspects of Saints Row 3, how cliche and desperate to raise the stakes the main story line appeared to be, how glamorous and effortless the lives of the Saints were (despite having to apparently work their way back from the bottom), and how the ultimate/penultimate final boss of the game turned into a punch up with a Lucha Libre wrestler.

 

[Guffe]

Well... This could be any game, don't remember seeing this, recently at least.

You play as 2 or 3 characters in a group and as you've played maybe 3-5 hours of the game one of the characters gets killed, as in ACTUALLY KILLED, never coming back etc. Just dies.

Spoiler: Xenoblade

I thought Xenoblade sis this, just as oyu started rooting for the girl she gets killed, but no -.-

I'd like to see more important characters actually die, in battle or in the heroic save main character or one fo the less important ones out of feelings thing, doesn't matter but that's what I'd like to see.

 

[Not Matt]

like i am legend someone is alone in the urban advierment for some strange reason for a long time fighting to survive only to find out that the rest of the world were hiding so they could surprise him on his birthday with a surprise party


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in at any game, where you think your the good guy...

YOU ACTUALLY TURN OUT TO BE THE VILLAIN, AND DIDN'T KNOW IT THE WHOLE TIME.

that would be great, i'd pay to see it

then i suggest you try spec ops the line

 

[deanospimoni]

P.S: Extra points if you don't mention Mass Effect 3.

Mass Effect 3 is a game. Dun dun dun...

When I first saw some stuff about Far Cry 3 I thought, "What if Vaas used to be an ordinary douche like Jason and life on the island turned him into the whackjob that he is?"

How about a Wizard of Oz ending in a videogame? I haven't seen one of those in a game, as far as I can recall. Would be a sure way to piss people off.

 

[wintercoat]

I want a game where, no matter your actions, there is no happy ending. It would be especially poignant in a game with a lot of moral choices throughout that were rife with ambiguity. Imagine, if you will, the end of Mass Effect, only with Shepard and Anderson dying at the hands of the Illusive Man, the Fleet ripped apart by the Reaper forces. A narrative proclaiming that, sometimes, no matter how hard you fight, you cannot avert your fate. Sometimes, you just lose. And this is the only ending. A game where, no matter how hard you fight, no matter how good you do, no matter how many awesome points you accumulate, you lose. Not because you didn't do good enough, but because, sometimes, you just lose. The outrage would be worth such a magnificent piece of art.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

"No wait, it IS a moon."