Largest plot hole in a game?

[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............

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

maybe...
here- http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/Hydropolis/

 

[zelda2fanboy]

In Bioshock, why don't the drug addled splicers (or the main character) just bust the vending machines open, rather than run around after little girls, turning them into fish? Also, why do the splicers constantly attack the main character? And as Yahtzee once asked, why does time stop when you want to hack into something?

 

[theSovietConnection]

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.

[sub]Spoiler much?[/sub]

Spoiler

So why did the Valor crash? Surely a spaceship of Power-Armoured Space Marines can take care of one Necromorph.

Spoiler

As I said earlier, its likely that the space marines have spent their entire professional career landing torso shots. As much as people like to think it is, it is not easy to go from center-mass to hitting limbs.

EDIT

Well, seeing as it is never explained, how the Russians got to America undetected in MW2.
And I will now prepare to be told how by someone hopefully.

Spoiler: This should be spoilered

and explain it, i shall-remember in "cliff hanger" where you were told to retrieve an ACS module captured by the russians? that ACS module is a key component in the surveillance systems for the US. and probably the russians were able to crack it, thus allowing them to freely bypass the american surveilance systems.

May want to put that in a spoiler, kind of a big portion of the plot.

 

[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

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

Oh THAT part! yeah it does seem a bit strange but I'm guessing that might be because of the exploding/falling elevator and the fact that your "team" had a good balcony position on the area until you get to the escalators.

Just a theory

 

[theSovietConnection]

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.

[sub]Spoiler much?[/sub]

Spoiler

So why did the Valor crash? Surely a spaceship of Power-Armoured Space Marines can take care of one Necromorph.

Spoiler

As I said earlier, its likely that the space marines have spent their entire professional career landing torso shots. As much as people like to think it is, it is not easy to go from center-mass to hitting limbs.

Spoiler

But a Necromorph can still die from hits to the body; dismemberment is not imperative in slaying one.

Spoiler

They take many more hits to die from torso shots, so its entirely possible that the Necromorph could have made it through the ventilation shafts of the Valor to the bridge and killed off the bridge crew before they downed it. By then, it's likely that the Valor was beyond correcting, and slammed into the Ishimura, and was then infected by the Ishimura's necromorphs

 

[Danish_4116]

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.

One of the terrorists walk around the left after going onto the second floor, through a gift shop, shop undergoing renovations and through a liquour shop. He then shoots all the civilians on the floor below him (where you exit onto the tarmac from. over the railing just outside the liquor shop.

 

[FROGGEman2]

How Russia prepared an invasion force for the U.S. in a matter of hours in MW2.

How did the Russians even know it was an American CIA agent who did the killing? How does that even warrant an all-out assault?

 

[TheAmazingTGIF]

Where are the Hk-50 droids comming from in KOTOR 2? Come to think of it most of the game is a big gaping plot hole.

The game was largely unfinished, but the Hk-50 droids were sent out by the Exchange to kill jedi.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/HK-50_series_assassin_droid

I know that, I was thinking more along the lines of where they were comming from.

Damn deadlines making what should have been an epic game only so-so.

But wait! There is hope!
http://www.team-gizka.org/index.html

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

The vanilla ending for Fallout 3.

Spoiler: Spoilered even though the ending has just about reached It Was His Sled status

Me: What do you mean, only I can go in there to put in the code, sacrificing my life? Rad-X?
Game: Nope.
Me: Send in the ghoul who is healed by radiation?
Game: Nope.
Me: Send in the mutant who is immune to radiation?
Game: Nope.
Me: Send in the paladin who has sworn to save lives at any costs?
Game: Yes, but that's evil.
Me: But how did Colonel Autumn survive when I can't?
Game: Shut the fuck up and die!

 

[The Madman]

Where are the Hk-50 droids comming from in KOTOR 2? Come to think of it most of the game is a big gaping plot hole.

The game was largely unfinished, but the Hk-50 droids were sent out by the Exchange to kill jedi.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/HK-50_series_assassin_droid

I know that, I was thinking more along the lines of where they were comming from.

Damn deadlines making what should have been an epic game only so-so.

Not long ago there was a mod released which re-implemented a good amount of cut content from Kotor 2, including an area which answers your question. It's still quite rough around the edges but having just finished a playthrough only last night I'm extremely happy with the end results... Kotor 2's story and ending genuinely, well, make sense within the game!

Screenshot & link:

Spoiler

http://www.deadlystream.com/forumdisplay.php?s=ed0396e0738e45d9588f55e00d560f7c&f=123

Was debating whether or not to make a topic about it.

But wait! There is hope!
http://www.team-gizka.org/index.html

Another team of modders finished a restored content mod actually, restoring most of what Gizka had planned and a couple things they weren't. Link above! It's still in beta, but having played it I can vouch for its quality.

 

[THEMILKMAN]

Where are the Hk-50 droids comming from in KOTOR 2? Come to think of it most of the game is a big gaping plot hole.

There was supposed to be a droid factory in the game. And a bunch of other crap including a WHOLE PLANET was cut out due to time constraints. I agree, KOTOR 2 just felt so incomplete...maybe because it was.

Edit: Next time Ninja!!!

 

[vorlors]

farenhight the whole how you got to be a zombie super kung fu master thing

 

[ERadical]

Hmm not huge but a lil something
In borderlands the angel talks to you before you have your ECHO system (on the bus) but then when the ECHO system is disabled she cannot?

If that sentence doesn't make sense to anyone: She is able to talk to you with out the system in the beginning but when that system gets fcuked she can't speak to you again even though she could before.

It feels like i chose the hardest thing to describe

 

[Reep]

How Russia prepared an invasion force for the U.S. in a matter of hours in MW2.

How did the Russians even know it was an American CIA agent who did the killing? How does that even warrant an all-out assault?

The person you played as in No Russian is American with a false ID, once they found his body, they identified him as an American CIA agent (somehow) and they counter attacked out of pure revenge.

 

[Asimov]

in shadow complex, you are looking for a way to get claire out of the complex and your objective is to look for the armor in the high security lab. How did jason know about the armor, or where it was?

 

[T3h Merc]

Why can't Ezio stab anyone at anytime he wants? The dude is fucking imposing, who's gonna stop him? I guess combat would suck if you just punctured throats the whole game but it would be cool.