Largest plot hole in a game?

[The Heik]

On the MW2 level No Russian, how did everyone on the last floor before you exit onto the airstrip die before you get there? I'm pretty sure they started to arm themselves on an elevator and didn't exit near the airstrip.

wait what?

OT: in MW2 why general shepherd kill of Roach and Ghost, then makes Soap and Prices wanted criminals

 

[buckythefly]

I'd have to say force unleashed. That whole game was a giant plot hole.

 

[The Heik]

How the hell did they build Rapture, and second, how the hell did nobody notice? Seriously, it's an enormous city under the sea - that would take years to build (and apparently it was built prior to or around the 50s, and therefore building something like that is pretty much impossible) and millions upon millions of dollars. And apparently it's in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - how would you get the building supplies out there? It doesn't affect Bioshock in anyway, it's just something I've always wondered.

Firstly, the premise of Rapture was that it was to be a sanctuary for the best and most brilliant of the industrial, medical, botanical and philosophical world. Now usually, those guys have tons and tons of money, and are usually pissed off by regulations. That means you have people who want to build and expand on it, with the money and skills to do so.

Secondly, I'm sure if you were offered a job working as a builder for a ton of money, or you were offered a MASSIVE order of metal with NO QUESTIONS ASKED written in gold on every leaf on a money tree. So there, you've got the resources.

Even with the best and brightest in the world AND supposedly unlimited resources, the whole damn thing is still ridiculously unfeasible. Building a small pressurized hut at the bottom of the sea would be hard, especially at that time. Building skyscrapers with windows that could withstand the pressure, hell, buildings ALONE would be ridiculous. I guess they solved the oxygen thing and water and food could be imported, but creating the buildings themselves is just impossible. If its almost impossible by today's standards, it sure isn't any easier then.

Not really. They could have just built it on the surface and then sunk it. And since it was built pre-SOSUS then no one would really have noticed it unless they stumbled upon in *ahem* A FREAKING OCEAN!

 

[Dr. Paine]

Or how long did it take to build black mesa in the first place?

Actually, Black Mesa was a re-purposed military base (I think it also mentioned something about missile silos), they just expanded a bit and added on a bunch of things, like the tram system.

I've got nothing else to contribute to this at the moment, decongestants have made it near impossible for me to hold a thought longer than two seconds.

 

[Aesir23]

Princess Peach was Baby Bowser's mother? What was up with that?

Nope, Bowser just told him that so he would kidnap her.

So he's running out of reasons to kidnap her, and so he just made on up?

That's what decades of kidnapping the same princess will do to you. I mean, look at Ganondorf in Legend of Zelda. I think he gave up on coming up with reasons awhile ago.

 

[Senrab]

Not really a plot hole, but in most games i wonder how things got there with so little resources, like in Fallout 3, how the hell did they get all those pipes into project purity? Or how long did it take to build black mesa in the first place?

Black Mesa was a decommissioned Missile Bunker. So, probably not as long as you might be guessing.

 

[Robert632]

in clive barkers jericho(yeah a bit late to play that game, but we found it for about 6 bucks, and is was enjoyable.) the end boss couldn't be killed by god, you know, the all powerful, all knowing god, and yet four people kill it with little more then a bunch of magic powers that most anyone could use.

 

[topsyturvy]

On the MW2 level No Russian, how did everyone on the last floor before you exit onto the airstrip die before you get there? I'm pretty sure they started to arm themselves on an elevator and didn't exit near the airstrip.

wait what?

OT: in MW2 why general shepherd kill of Roach and Ghost, then makes Soap and Prices wanted criminals

Right before you actually go kill the police, everyone is dead already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlH1K5dx25g somewhere around the 2:30 mark

 

[Drakenian]

Someone mentioned a pretty fucking big plot hole in Dead Space in the last one of these threads...

Spoiler: Plot details contained within.

When the USM Valor picks up the escape shuttle with a Leaper caste Necromorph inside it, how are the crew reanimated? Only two castes of Necromorph can reanimate corpses: Infector & Divider castes, & even then Dividers can only form more Dividers.
The point is, a Leaper caste cannot create more Necromorphs..

I think that when the Valor crashed into the Ishimura, the other castes of Necromorphs moved onto the ship from the Ishimura. Well, it's the only thing that I think would work.

 

[dont_blink]

How the hell did they build Rapture,

i spent like a whole day coming up with ways that you can build things underwater because of that game...

and second, how the hell did nobody notice? Seriously, it's an enormous city under the sea - that would take ... millions upon millions of dollars.

if you have enough money to build that, you have enough money to cover it up... =P

Not really. They could have just built it on the surface and then sunk it. And since it was built pre-SOSUS then no one would really have noticed it unless they stumbled upon in *ahem* A FREAKING OCEAN!

i think buildings still need foundations underwater...
i guess if you had like... pegs... like a tent... really really long pegs...

 

[Dragon_of_red]

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This made me think of This Video [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/225/Bioshocked]

A massive plot hole would be in Final Fantasy 9... where the fugg did that boss come from, i mean really? what?

 

[SonicKoala]

How the hell did they build Rapture,

i spent like a whole day coming up with ways that you can build things underwater because of that game...

and second, how the hell did nobody notice? Seriously, it's an enormous city under the sea - that would take ... millions upon millions of dollars.

if you have enough money to build that, you have enough money to cover it up... =P

I can understand little things being built underwater, but this is a freaking city we're talking about here... keep in mind that this built when, in the 50s? And yeah, the cover up thing is just.... it requires a suspension of disbelief. Mind you, I'm not trying to nitpick or be anal or anything, I'm just saying, it's a pretty large plot hole. Like I said before, it doesn't affect the game at all.

 

[dont_blink]

I can understand little things being built underwater, but this is a freaking city we're talking about here... keep in mind that this built when, in the 50s? And yeah, the cover up thing is just.... it requires a suspension of disbelief. Mind you, I'm not trying to nitpick or be anal or anything, I'm just saying, it's a pretty large plot hole. Like I said before, it doesn't affect the game at all.

lol no i completely agree. i think MAYBE they erm.. drained the ocean temporarily...
while no one was looking...
using an intricate series of dams............

 

[Random Argument Man]

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A massive plot hole would be in Final Fantasy 9... where the fugg did that boss come from, i mean really? what?

Apparently, he's from another dimension. That was one theory.

Still a frustrating boss fight.

 

[KillerH]

How Mario went from being a construction site worker in Donkey Kong to being a plumber in Super Mario Bros.

 

[SonicKoala]

I can understand little things being built underwater, but this is a freaking city we're talking about here... keep in mind that this built when, in the 50s? And yeah, the cover up thing is just.... it requires a suspension of disbelief. Mind you, I'm not trying to nitpick or be anal or anything, I'm just saying, it's a pretty large plot hole. Like I said before, it doesn't affect the game at all.

lol no i completely agree. i think MAYBE they erm.. drained the ocean temporarily...
while no one was looking...
using an intricate series of dams............

Or maybe Rapture is just Atlantis after being EXTENSIVELY rennovated and remodeled?

 

[Mister Benoit]

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This made me think of This Video [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/225/Bioshocked]

A massive plot hole would be in Final Fantasy 9... where the fugg did that boss come from, i mean really? what?

FFIX's last boss was something else, I can't believe they did that. Then again Ozma looks like an old Superball.