Ever played through a game, beat it, and still not know what's going on?

[SonicWaffle]

Monkey Island 2.

That wasn't a problem with my brain though, that was simply because the plot went batshit mental at the end. Someone mentioned the other day that all of it was explained in the third game, but if it was I don't remember it. Then again, all I really remember from 3 is Murray, and a voodoo ice cream cone.

Oh, and also, Lost: Via Domus. I'm sure hardly anyone else bothered with the game, but if anyone did and is reading this, please clue me in as to what the fuck happened in the last cutscene? It was so random, and totally unexplained.

 

[Kevvers]

Obvious choice, Metal Gear Solid 2.

This.

Yeah, and to be honest after

Spoiler

beating all those Metal Gear Rays

I didn't care much either.

 

[darthzew]

Braid.

I still don't fully understand it.

 

[Amnestic]

Obvious choice, Metal Gear Solid 2.

I recently replayed that. God the last major codec conversation is loooong. By the end of it, my brain had started cramping and I'd forgotten what they were saying at the start of the conversation.

Seriously, it was like 15 minutes of codec talk. It was interesting, don't get me wrong but there was soooo muuuuch.

The plot of KH2 Sora runs around killing heartless and nobodies, while still looking for Riku and Kairi. Maleficient and Pete are house hunting, and the organization is causing mischeif.

Having played KH1 and Chain of Memories (and 358/2 Days, though it was released after KH2) helps a fair but understanding the plot. Jumping straight into KH2 could without playing the first one could - understandably - leave you a bit unsure of what's going on.

 

[asteroth21nox]

jaws on the reguler nitendo. I still don't get it lol

 

[MortisLegio]

Too Human

Something about Loki being evil and Baldur dying

IDK

 

[Kilo24]

Braid.

I still don't fully understand it.

Definitely a contender. That was an intentional confusion, though.

My own pick would be Xenogears. Now, after playing it through 3 times, I think I understand it.

 

[Cockney_Jesus]

The end of Final Fantasy 9!

WHO THE **** WAS THAT!?

 

[Mysticgamer]

Are you one to skip cutscenes? They bring a lot to the story.

Never. I always watch all the cutscenes. Even KH2 the tutorial part, hell I even watched Nights Journey of Dreams.

 

[Mysticgamer]

I played and loved Final Fantasy 12 and Kingdom Hearts 2, but I'll be damned if I knew what was going on. I don't remember what Vanye doing, but I was under the impression the council or at least the nights wanted Lasra on the throne. (correct me if I'm wrong. The plot of KH2 Sora runs around killing heartless and nobodies, while still looking for Riku and Kairi. Maleficient and Pete are house hunting, and the organization is causing mischeif.

If FF12 and KH2 confused you, never play Chrono Cross.

I tried but I started getting bored of it before the difficulting skyrocketed on me. That skinny guy in the frozen time dimension kicked my ass brutally and then Dario(I think was his name) Nuked my ass and then I said screw it.

 

[WorldCritic]

Not really sure how you got confused by those games, but you ever play Metal Gear Solid 2?

 

[high_castle]

Yeah, MGS2 was a doozie. And more recently, Assassin's Creed. Seriously, give me someone who can explain the weird gibberish ending and I'll give you someone who writes too much fanfic.

 

[Chancie]

KH2 and FFXII were relatively easy to follow. Maybe I'm wrong though...

I generally am able to keep up with all the games I play. The only one that left me pretty confused was Metal Gear Solid 4, but that was also the first I played in the series. I played the others and then replayed it and it made a LOT more sense (obviously).

I guess I could say Metal Gear Solid 2, though I'm pretty sure I understood about 90% of it. That's the only one that still left me confused by the ending though.

 

[Rocksa]

Haven't really had much of that problem. Then again, I have a tendency to overlook BS in a game if I like it enough. Otherwise, Xenogears would be considered to be really WTF-cky. I loved that game, but the story just devolves into this crazy beast a few hours in.

Spoiler: Seriously...text wall of story

So, the machine that Fei aquires is actually an ancient mecha that connects to the Zohar, which Fei is also connected to because he was on the spaceship that was transporting it and the Deus superweapon thousands of years ago, but because of his connection with the Zohar, Fei has been able to reincarnate and basically be responsible for all the major events that have happened in the history of the world, also the world has effectively ended several times, but more on that later, no, Fei and his girlfriend have reincarnated several times and have always managed to find eachother and screw up something in the world together, and the reason that anybody even exists on the world that they are on is because the Deus made them so that they would spread out and breed, just so that it could change people into monsters and use them to repair itself, and also it made a woman who would attempt to see that through, but that woman lives in all women, and if she dies then she makes some other woman's hair purple and takes over her body instantly. Also, the Zohar is actually a higher-dimensional being that wants to be returned to it's own dimension, but it also powers all the super robots of the world and lets people use magic. The super robots are all supposed to be ancient war machines, but the people of Sol apparently manufacture their own somehow, as they apparently send several new machines at you. Fei, the main character, is also two of the games antaganists, one of them is is alter ego that was created because he couldn't handle the torture/testing that his then purplehaired mother put him through, the other is a past version of himself that somehow exists even with him being reincarnated, both have their own robots, even though his alter ego's machine is actually just Fei's own machine, just transformed. Deus is worshipped as a god and your robot is actually supposed to be the instrument that destroys it. This isn't even touching on the girl with the giant robot that carries the soul of her father, the stuffed animal that grows as large as your giant robots and it actually some kind of weird pink creature, the small girl that is actually a being composed of nanomachines and was created in a past life by Fei, Fei's dad being possessed by Fei's past self, the various religious examples and references.

Basically the whole story is a crazy, mixed up, anime-filtered version of the Bible...with robots.

 

[Good morning blues]

Yeah it was called Halo 2 (rim shot)

 

[Gillespie]

The end of Final Fantasy 9!

WHO THE **** WAS THAT!?

Yep, FF9 seemed kinda slapped together at the end, what with Necron and such. BUT MAN, FF8. I never had any idea about what was going on, and the generally unlikable characters didn't help. 'Cept Zell and Irvine, they were endearing at least.

I also found MGS hard to penetrate, at least the first time. I started MGS2 but have yet to finish it, so i'm sure i'll feel the same way about that one, too.

 

[GrandAm]

Ikari Warriors for the original NES.

You get through all the levels and are walking along till you hit a wall and misiles come out of nowhere on the screen till you die.

WEAK!

 

[Dragon_of_red]

Timesplitters 2, but that had litterally no story whatsoever, all i knew was find point A, Get to point B, kill everyone inbetween.

Well, the timesplitters went to gather al lthe time crystals and like kill the entire universe, so they hid them, and now you need to collect them again... its been a while since i played these games, so i may need a refresher, but that is pretty much the story.

Too Human

Something about Loki being evil and Baldur dying

IDK

Spoiler

Baldur died, and went the rest of people... forgot there name... went and rescued him from hellsing. Loki is the god of chaos and is always just evil in everything. In the end, you decode that guys eye peice, and see that Loki or someone else had put a curse or virus in it, to make him kill you and think that he killed Loki. It was pretty much an entire mindfuck. And keep thinking, they are making a sequel, since its part of a trilogy, they left it way open, i was still pissed.

 

[dreadedcandiru99]

I think Final Fantasy X was the last one of that series I finished that had a story that made sense--unlike, say, VII. (And I never finished number twelve--that one just bored the shit out of me.)