Point and laugh at unworthy plot moments in games.

[willard3]

Well, call me a moron, but I never understood this. But honestly with Halo, it didn't matter. That game was about driving and shooting aliens, not story.

Yeeeeah, I didn't really pick up on 3's story that well. 1 was excellent by FPS standards, 2 was all right, but got really confusing at times, and 3 was pretty good but implied a lot of stuff or said it really fast and expected you to remember it later.


Going back to Fallout 3, I thought the ending to the "Trouble on the Homefront" mission was completely stupid. "Hey, I'm honestly sorry, but he attacked me first and I defended myself. You're free from his tyranny now." "Oh thank you so much, person I've known since I was 5 and have a crush on! NOW GET THE HELL OUT AND NEVER COME BACK, WE DON'T WANT KILLERS IN HERE." I was so mad when that happened. And the only way to not get permanently locked out is to sabotage the place, which gives you bad karma. So you're clearly evil because you...want to see your friends again?

 

[CoverYourHead]

Well, call me a moron, but I never understood this. But honestly with Halo, it didn't matter. That game was about driving and shooting aliens, not story.

Yeeeeah, I didn't really pick up on 3's story that well. 1 was excellent by FPS standards, 2 was all right, but got really confusing at times, and 3 was pretty good but implied a lot of stuff or said it really fast and expected you to remember it later.


Going back to Fallout 3, I thought the ending to the "Trouble on the Homefront" mission was completely stupid. "Hey, I'm honestly sorry, but he attacked me first and I defended myself. You're free from his tyranny now." "Oh thank you so much, person I've known since I was 5 and have a crush on! NOW GET THE HELL OUT AND NEVER COME BACK, WE DON'T WANT KILLERS IN HERE." I was so mad when that happened. And the only way to not get permanently locked out is to sabotage the place, which gives you bad karma. So you're clearly evil because you...want to see your friends again?

I got so mad when that happened I killed everyone inside the vault. I'm still wondering what's going to happen during the DLC to extend the story.

The worst plot device ever was the end of Fable II. Oh, you were shot in the face again, go have some fun doing NOTHING on a farm... now let the other guy shoot the bad guy! Heres a wish that does nothing useful seeing as you have more money then god, who cares about family, and who cares about the family of all the dead people?

 

[leugim789]

heres one in mortal kombat shaolin monks when youre facing baraka, he skewers a dude cuts his arms and legs off then puts him to toast on a nice warm fire for a minute or two, all they while the two main characters are watching he then throws the charred limbless man at the feet of our heroes, and liu kang has the audacity to bend down and ask "are you O.K." -facepalm

 

[WolfThomas]

The worst plot device ever was the end of Fable II. Oh, you were shot in the face again, go have some fun doing NOTHING on a farm... now let the other guy shoot the bad guy! Heres a wish that does nothing useful seeing as you have more money then god, who cares about family, and who cares about the family of all the dead people?

There needed to be only two wishes, save everyone who died since the beginning including the dog and you're sister or become king of the world, unlimited money and every bows and kneels to your radiance.

 

[jebussaves88]

heres one in mortal kombat shaolin monks when youre facing baraka, he skewers a dude cuts his arms and legs off then puts him to toast on a nice warm fire for a minute or two, all they while the two main characters are watching he then throws the charred limbless man at the feet of our heroes, and liu kang has the audacity to bend down and ask "are you O.K." -facepalm

That bit was fucking hilarious. Almost made it worth the £2.50 I paid for the game alone.

 

[the_tramp]

What made it even worse was that if they'd actually run with it a bit and made the characters lose more and more of their memories and identities as the plot continued, it could have been interesting and even poignant. But nope, it was just the deus ex machina to make one stupid 'twist' work and then that was pretty much it.

When I first played the game, I thought this was going to happen so stopped using the GFs... got my ass handed to me a couple of times on boss fights and thought f*** it.

 

[leugim789]

heres one in mortal kombat shaolin monks when youre facing baraka, he skewers a dude cuts his arms and legs off then puts him to toast on a nice warm fire for a minute or two, all they while the two main characters are watching he then throws the charred limbless man at the feet of our heroes, and liu kang has the audacity to bend down and ask "are you O.K." -facepalm

That bit was fucking hilarious. Almost made it worth the £2.50 I paid for the game alone.

you paid for it?! i found it in a hooker!

 

[elricik]

The whole Final Fantasy 7 thing. Cloud gets so depressed with his own life that he actually begins to believe he is his best friend. I just think that was a huge kick in the balls. Through half the game you think your some unstoppable member of SOLDIER, one of the most elite fighters in the world. And then it turns out that your just some incompetent shinra soldier. I mean really? You where a member of the soldier group that you have been killing by sneezing in their direction. If you can kill all of your subordinates so easily, why weren't you like a general or something? WTF?

 

[Arsen]

The whole Final Fantasy 7 thing. Cloud gets so depressed with his own life that he actually begins to believe he is his best friend. I just think that was a huge kick in the balls. Through half the game you think your some unstoppable member of SOLDIER, one of the most elite fighters in the world. And then it turns out that your just some incompetent shinra soldier. I mean really? You where a member of the soldier group that you have been killing by sneezing in their direction. If you can kill all of your subordinates so easily, why weren't you like a general or something? WTF?

The Mako infusion clouded his memories and from what he witnessed fighting alongside Zack he mentally "became him".

Because of the Mako infusion he technically became a SOLDIER and just copied Zack's fighting techniques.

 

[Arsen]

The winning moment:

"SNAKE!!! I LIVE THROUGH THIS ARM!!!"

 

[elricik]

The whole Final Fantasy 7 thing. Cloud gets so depressed with his own life that he actually begins to believe he is his best friend. I just think that was a huge kick in the balls. Through half the game you think your some unstoppable member of SOLDIER, one of the most elite fighters in the world. And then it turns out that your just some incompetent shinra soldier. I mean really? You where a member of the soldier group that you have been killing by sneezing in their direction. If you can kill all of your subordinates so easily, why weren't you like a general or something? WTF?

The Mako infusion clouded his memories and from what he witnessed fighting alongside Zack he mentally "became him".

Because of the Mako infusion he technically became a SOLDIER and just copied Zack's fighting techniques.

I just didn't think it was a very good twist. It felt let down.

 

[Stewie Plisken]

Portable Ops:

Snake: Ghost?
Sokolov: It's me, Snake. Sokolov.
Snake: But you're dead.
Sokolov: No, Snake. I survived.
Snake: But Volgin beat you to a pulp.
Sokolov: You never saw that.
Snake: Dude, I heard your bones shatter. Control was vibrating and all. Guy punched a hole through the Shagohod with his fists. How did you survive?
Sokolov: Shut up.

Actually, the most annoying thing is that Big Boss never even goes to such lengths to make sense out of this. He just accepts it and all's dandy.

Also, same game, the ending where apparently everything in MGS3 was orchestrated. The hell?

 

[Graustein]

Maybe not a plot moment, but:

Spoiler: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

"I have a bad feeling about this!" Says Micaiah as she gets kidnapped.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Me and a friend of mine played Gears 2 this weekend with running MST3K style commentary... it was awesome.

When we heard "They're sinking cities with a giant worm!" We just burst out laughing and had to turn the game off it hurt so badly.

Thank God I'm not the only one who thought the exact same thing.

 

[Xalmar]

The fight against Zant in Twilight Princess was a big WTF moment for me, especially since you have no prior hints that Zant is completely insane, nor does he act like that in any of the other cutscenes he's in. It felt like the writers just needed to sweep him out of the way so they could include a more traditional final boss, even though more time was spent building up the fight against Zant instead of the fight against Ganondorf.

 

[D_987]

Let's all point and laugh at our favorite laughable plot moments from games, like gaping plot holes, lazy plot devices or obvious deus ex machina. Needless to say, there will be spoilers.

Half Life 2: Even the best game ever isn't safe: in the last chapter, the plot demands that Gordon Freeman gets captured. Did the writers have any good ideas for making this happen? No. Very no. The best they could come up with to connect the dots between 'Gordon kicks arse' to 'Gordon gets captured' is to have him voluntarily get into device for holding prisoners. Twice. Here's an idea Mr PhD smarty pants: Why don't you not do that? Maybe you should just hold onto the back of it, instead, so you can actually get off of it?

Fallout 3: Making fun of this is too easy. You've reached the very end, and you have to activate a panel in a control room full of deadly radiation, choosing to either sacrifice yourself (in an obvious attempt to make you a Christ figure) or cowardly sacrificing someone else. Except there are no less than 3 possible people you might be with you who are totally radiation immune who could do it without any problem. One of them is virtually impossible to miss following the main plot. Less than a couple of hours ago they probably just offered to use their radiation immunity to walk into a room full of radiation to retrieve the GECK. But now they won't now because that would ruin the forced ending umm they don't feel like it. It's destiny, baby!

Fable: This had one long ingeniously lazy plot device: the Heroes Guild. Or more like the Plot Advancement Guild. What exactly is the Heroes Guild anyway, if not a bland plot device to keep the plot moving? Let's compare it to Oblivion: guilds give you quests, and you have good guilds and evil guilds and guilds for stealing things for profit or for studying and using magic and so on. They have purposes of their own that actually make sense. In Fable? Too hard. Let's just roll it all up into one generic guild and make its primary purpose seemingly to tell the hero where to go next and give them their choice of quests on cards to save on actually having to make them go out and talk to people. Whether you're pure as new snow or more power hungry and sociopathic than the Big Bad and no matter what your skills are, we're the guild for you! As long as you aren't the Big Bad, of course.

I don't get why your complaining...
Fallout 3 did that because they wanted you to either be evil enough to risk someone's life to do it...Or you risk your life to finish your father's project.
It makes perfect sense.
The entire game is about "Good or Evil" not "Manservant or Womanservant"

No, it just makes your character an idiot...