What are the biggest plot twists in gaming?

I'm going with one of all the time greats... MGS 1, when McDonnell Miller reveals his true identity, Liquid Snake!

I remember seeing that for the first time and thinking, OH SHIT!! MIND BLOWN!!

Are there plot twists better than this, SW? What are the biggest plot twists in gaming?

Arkham knight revealed as Jason todd

Snake tricked by a dude combing his back and wearing sunglasses.

Not his best moment.

Stop everything you're doing and go play it if you haven't already

If you never read a Batman comic..........bitch, this is your most blatant trolling. Have some shame for once in your life.

@SolidGame_basic: Shilling MGS again I see.

@ghosts4ever: Ummm...I love Arkham Knight and all but that twist could be seen from miles away you'd have to be kinda "special" for it to surprise you.

Lol. How did we not see it!

3 of my favourites are from the bioshock series, in particular:

• Bioshock 1
• Minerva's Den
• Bioshock Infinite

Bioshock 1's twist was spoiled to me and it still was a fantastic moment when it happened, that's just good world and character design imho.

Mass Effect 2 Overlord - You got to know the backstory on why but... F***! It makes the Revan "reveal" lamer than it already is.

Bioshock infinite.

Spec Ops the line

Ff7 the dead of tifanny seems obvious.

Dammit Champ, I was gonna say similar as well. Anyone who knows Batman Mythos knew who he was. That shit was so obvious, Rocksteady wasn't even trying to hide it lol.

Spec Ops the Line is an amazing game that was for the most part overlooked in my opinion. One of my favorite games of all time as far as storytelling and immersion are concerned.

Well it's not the biggest but it's damn great Silent Hill Shattered memories ending.

Star Ocean 3. All the characters exist inside a game simulation as NPCs. They exit the simulation and meet with their creators.

Literally comes out of nowhere.

Shocking

what?

At topic: Huh, hard to chose. There is not a single one that's standing out to me. But there are good and bad ways. Like Braid or Portal 2 or BioShock have good twists, FF8 or Star Ocean 3 really bad ones.

The shock of not playing as Snake past the tanker portion of MGS2 was a huge surprise to me.

Bioshock 1 had a nice twist as well.

Assuming he wasn't man, therefor pulled a Trump.

Another thing Hideo Kojima predicted, genius.

Bioshock and Infinite

Squall being dead and most of the game being in his head.

MGS1 had some memorable ones like Master Miller and Naomi/Frank Jaeger

Not sure if its a twist or not, but when you find out that Kratos was responsible for killing his wife and child after being tricked.

The Metal Gear Solid games always had some really good twists along with Bioshock 1 and Infinite.

Prey

Final Fantasy VII

Metal Gear Solid 2

Shadow of Memories

Soul Reaver 2

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

@ArchoNils2: aerith then:)

I felt straight up, bamboozled.

That's just a fan theory that has been debunked by the devs.

OT -

The original Halflife comes to mind. While not as prevalent now the 1990's saw the X-files as a pop culture phenomenon, which helped fuel a craze in extraterrestrial government conspiracies.

Halflife, like many forms of media was a product of that, the basic plot-line involving a government cover-up with the Gman heavily influenced by the X-files antagonist "The Cigarette Smoking Man".

The interesting thing about Halflife which makes it's ending memorable, unlike something like Dues Ex or similar titles which had constant character interaction coupled with story-directing gameplay, up until that final sequence where the player has the option to work for the antagonist or effectively fail, the story-telling much like The X-files hinted at larger events happening vaguely beyond clarity than explicitly explaining, with the player largely reacting as a cog in a series of events than the one dictating them.

Yes.

Not the greatest SH game but I had a blast with it. Played the Wii version and yeah, I found the ending pretty surprising. Great twist.

I'm assuming you mean the 2017 one, but there's a pretty unexpected plot surprise in the original as well towards the end of the game.

Disagree. It would have been the biggest plot twist ever, but they were afraid no one would know who Jason Todd was, so they started spoon feeding you information about the character throughout the game. Such a waste. It became predictable before the reveal.

Shocked to see Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic hasn't been mentioned yet.

FEAR had a pretty big twist; finding out that you and Paxton were the sons of Alma. And that Wade was actually Alma's father, so in turn Wade is the grandfather of the player character. But wait, there's more: in order to get pregnant, Alma was put into a coma until she hit puberty and then an embryo made of different DNA material, including Wade. So not only is there a whole twisted family tree there, but there's also a bit of incest going on too.

I was just about to list that one. Arguably one of the biggest twists in gaming history.

That's my choice. Huge twist.

I never actually made it that far in Kotor.... but it still gets my vote.

For me it would be Grand Theft Auto San Andreas where CJ is betrayed by you know who. To this day I still see this as the biggest twist in any GTA game for me.

Inversion.

I assume you mean Aeris/Aerith. That was a shocker! Especially if you had her as one of the main characters in your party up to that point.

Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Bioshock

Bioshock Infinite

Final Fantasy X

that's my top 7.

Personally probably Shadow Hearts Covenant. Most JRPG twist is either villain is god or becomes god so u kill god/super special teenager becomes god so the twist in this underrated JRPG regarding Karin's time travel, WW1 backdrop and Yuri's backstory was such a breath of fresh air.

Xenogears had a great twist about Fei and Elly as well. Unfortunate that Monolith didn't quite stick the landing for future Xenosaga and Xenoblade twists for me. Xenoblade 2 twist was about some lonely alternate timeline scientist from first game, it was terrible. Story writers just putting twist for the sake of it.

For more well known IPs, Silent Hill 2 comes to mind. Got mind blownwhen the twist u kill ur wife and Maria was just James perfect projection of her . To this day I am still learning new things regarding the lore of this game.

Oh yeah, a very memorable story in general.

KOTOR and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow come to mind.

KOTOR happened midway through the game and Lords of Shadow not until post credits, but man!

what? Tidus isn't dead, he's a dream

Same thing imo

• Star Wars KOTOR
• Shadow of the Colossus
• Braid
• Final Fantasy VII
• MGS2

I've always felt that System Shock 2 did Bioshock's plot twist better (and earlier).

[s] SS2 does the radio reveal much earlier ("Oh no! Your radio friend is actually Shodan/Fontaine!"), and there's none of that brainwashing nonsense - you're morally culpable for helping one villain defeat another villain, which makes for a more interesting story.[/s]