Favorite Video Game Plot Holes

[Zachary Unkle]

During the one level in Vietnam where you're crawling through a tunnel,I believe imaginary Resnov stabs a man.

 

[Ranorak]

LoZ OoT: Considering the sages had the power to weaken and kill Ganon in his fully empowered form at the end, why did they seal themselves in the Sacred Realm along with Link (while Ganondorf was still just some magic-wielding normal dude, no less) while he fucked with Hyrule for seven goddamn years? Couldn't they have beaten him when he still didn't have the Triforce's power?

-sigh-

Spoiler: Explanation!

They never had the power to kill Ganondorf in the end. Link had to weaken Ganondorf for them. When Ganondorf first entered the sacred realm, the only sage there was Rauru. Link had to gather the other sages by getting rid of the evils in their temples. Rauru was not powerful enough to stop Ganondorf on his own and, as soon as he entered the sacred realm, he has the Triforce of Power. So Rauru did not try to stop him and just sealed Link in the realm for seven years. Yeah, they all probably could have defeated him, but not while he had the Triforce of Power. In the end sequence, they are able to seal him in the sacred realm because link weakened him by shooting him with light arrows, hacking his face off, crashing a castle down on him, then stabbing him in the face. Repeatedly. Ganondorf was weakened by link and that is why he is able to be sealed away. Of course, he still has the Triforce of Power, so he might be able to break out later (then they made Windwaker, where he got out.)

Spoiler: more Zelda Spoilers, mostly Twilight Princess

If you place TP in the young Link Split timeline, it confirms your point.
At the end of OoT Link is send back to his childhood, and warns Zelda and the King of Ganondorf, who then tries to seal him with the saga's, he kills one and escapes.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Not really what you would call "Favorite" since it kinda spoils the story but, Bioshock:

Spoiler

So Fontaine sends Jack to the surface as a baby right? What happens when he gets to dry land and exits the sub? How did he survive alone, as an infant no less, on the surface? We learn that his memories of a family are fake, so he probably didn't live with anyone on the surface, how did he make it as a baby all the way to able-to-buy-a-plane-ticket-for-myself adulthood?

Also, how did Fontaine know where to send the package? Did he have someone tailing Jack his whole life?

Er, that's completely answerable actually.

Spoiler

They have a fair bit of stuff in there talking about how he aged much MUCH faster than normal. Even if he was just a boy he'd have still been able to make it. As for getting the package etc etc, it isn't really a hole, as that would imply a contradiction or impossibility. There are plenty of ways it could happen, they just didn't tell us in the story.

Ah, no, and to everyone else who quoted me.

Spoiler

The rapid ageing doesn't explain how he survived on the surface. Just because he matures physically more quickly than most people doesn't mean he matures just as quickly mentally, not to mention that he would have no place to live and no way of knowing how to find a job or anything of the sort. Know I could give BioShock the benefit of the doubt and assume that all of these things were programmed into his mind from the start (That would be one smart baby) but it just raises another question: If he ages so quickly why did Fontaine send him to the surface? All he had to do was wait a few hours (i.e. the time it took him to get from Rapture to the surface which couldn't have been more than a few days or little Jacky would've starved to death in the sub.) and he would've had a fully-functioning mind slave. Even if Jack stepped out of that sub a full-grown adult with a fully functioning mind and complete knowledge of surface customs what the hell do you think he would do? "Hm, it's my first hours of life that hasn't taken place on that submarine, guess I'll go get a job and an apartment!"

This could have been explained away with one audio log (Fontaine pays some lady to take Jack to the surface and raise him or something) but the lack of info leaves it as a hole for now.

So his rapid ageing just raises more questions than it answers.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Ok, I know this is video game plot holes, but I'm just going to have to hijack this for a moment and turn to book/movie plot holes.

Harry Potter: Why don't they ever use the Time Turner to fix stuff?

A bigger question is, why didn't Hermione brew up more Felix Felicious (luck potion) during 6th year and summer break after? Lucky Potion would have been a really effective weapon in the fight against He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named[sub][sub][sub]Voldemort[/sub][/sub][/sub]. Even if the trio didn't use it themselves, there was a window of opportunity during the end of year 6 when she could have left it in the Room of Requirement or something.

Because she couldn't make the potion. It was supposed to be a very hard potion and the only ingredient the potion teacher mentions is honey and I think I remember something about some of the ingredients being illegal or hard to get. They did use some of the potion to get away from death eaters

 

[Caedus]

Not really what you would call "Favorite" since it kinda spoils the story but, Bioshock:

Spoiler

So Fontaine sends Jack to the surface as a baby right? What happens when he gets to dry land and exits the sub? How did he survive alone, as an infant no less, on the surface? We learn that his memories of a family are fake, so he probably didn't live with anyone on the surface, how did he make it as a baby all the way to able-to-buy-a-plane-ticket-for-myself adulthood?

Also, how did Fontaine know where to send the package? Did he have someone tailing Jack his whole life?

Er, that's completely answerable actually.

Spoiler

They have a fair bit of stuff in there talking about how he aged much MUCH faster than normal. Even if he was just a boy he'd have still been able to make it. As for getting the package etc etc, it isn't really a hole, as that would imply a contradiction or impossibility. There are plenty of ways it could happen, they just didn't tell us in the story.

Ah, no, and to everyone else who quoted me.

Spoiler

The rapid ageing doesn't explain how he survived on the surface. Just because he matures physically more quickly than most people doesn't mean he matures just as quickly mentally, not to mention that he would have no place to live and no way of knowing how to find a job or anything of the sort. Know I could give BioShock the benefit of the doubt and assume that all of these things were programmed into his mind from the start (That would be one smart baby) but it just raises another question: If he ages so quickly why did Fontaine send him to the surface? All he had to do was wait a few hours (i.e. the time it took him to get from Rapture to the surface which couldn't have been more than a few days or little Jacky would've starved to death in the sub.) and he would've had a fully-functioning mind slave. Even if Jack stepped out of that sub a full-grown adult with a fully functioning mind and complete knowledge of surface customs what the hell do you think he would do? "Hm, it's my first hours of life that hasn't taken place on that submarine, guess I'll go get a job and an apartment!"

This could have been explained away with one audio log (Fontaine pays some lady to take Jack to the surface and raise him or something) but the lack of info leaves it as a hole for now.

So his rapid ageing just raises more questions than it answers.

In the ending video, we see Jack holding the hands of the little girls he saved; we also see that their hands age "normally" whereas his becomes old quickly.

So Jack ages faster than normal but not as fast as you think (mere days... wth?). And Fontaine may have contacts outside of Rapture (he HAS connections with smugglers in Rapture...) so it's entirely possible. Plus, it makes no sense for Fontaine to send Jack away a couple days before the riots starts.

When I played Bioshock, I had the feeling that he was planning all this for a long time and that Rapture was supposed to be some way to make Jack stronger, like a super-soldier that is easily controlable.

 

[zombiejoe]

Everything in Heavy Rain

 

[TomCorf]

Why don't George and Lorraine McFly realise that the kid that helped them get together in the 50's looks exactly the same as their 1985 son? Many moons I have spent pondering over that question...

 

[A Weary Exile]

In the ending video, we see Jack holding the hands of the little girls he saved; we also see that their hands age "normally" whereas his becomes old quickly.

The Little Sisters were no older than ten when they are encountered in BioShock, in the ending video they must be at least twenty, so Jack is apparently designed to age rapidly to adulthood then age normally thereafter.

So Jack ages faster than normal but not as fast as you think (mere days... wth?).

How would he survive on the surface if he didn't age to adulthood in the sub? Which brings me back to my original point: How could Jack have survived as an infant on the surface? Like I said, it's a hole.

And Fontaine may have contacts outside of Rapture (he HAS connections with smugglers in Rapture...) so it's entirely possible.

It doesn't say that though. If Fontaine gave Jack to one of his contacts why didn't they give a more specific explanation than "...when we put you in that sub."

Plus, it makes no sense for Fontaine to send Jack away a couple days before the riots starts.

Exactly? I said it makes no sense for him to send Jack to the surface at all.

When I played Bioshock, I had the feeling that he was planning all this for a long time and that Rapture was supposed to be some way to make Jack stronger, like a super-soldier that is easily controlable.

If he'd been planning it so long you'd think he'd come up with something less...complicated.

 

[le picklez]

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