Top 20 Greatest Video Game Plot Twists

foreign Mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 20 greatest video game plot twists are formless we are the very disciplined morality that Americans invoke so often how can anyone hope to eliminate us for this list we're going over the iconic moments where the rug was pulled out from under players feet changing everything they thought they knew about the game in question as expected Major Spoilers on the horizon think we skimmed over a Twist deserving of respect let us know in the comments number 20 the stranger's identity The Walking Dead there might have been a station wagon in the forest full of all sorts of food water things you need to survive we all create our own monsters even if we don't mean to after his surrogate daughter is kidnapped Lee traverses a city filled with Walkers to get Clementine back before he succumbs to his bite along the way he discovers the one responsible for stealing Clem away is just some dude turns out the stranger is another Survivor one who lost everyone due to Lee's group unknowingly taking all their food a few episodes back in a Twisted way the player had a hand in pushing this person to the extent they were willing to snatch Clementine out of a warped sense of Parental instinct number 19 the final boss Pokemon Gold and Silver the Pokemon formula has remained relatively unchanged for a while now especially when it comes to the classic games 8 Gym Leaders four Elites One champion done and done or are you turns out there's a final challenge waiting for those who want to be considered a master you or rather the you from a generation ago armed with some insanely powerful Pokemon players are tasked with taking on the character they played in red and blue to see who really is the best like no one ever was number 18 the Monster is real disco Elysium I left my unit on the eve of the landing when I returned here on May 14th communal Fallen between the booze drugs depression belts of insanity and pressure to solve a murder before an entire city erupts into chaos you can forgive detective Harry Dubois for thinking he'd finally snapped when after arresting the real murderer he comes across a monster lurking among the grass except it's real turns out that side mission involving cryptozoologists hunting for a new species yeah they were on to something if your luck holds out players can even interact with the insulinian phasmid who in turn reveals the truth of the world not bad for a Down and Out cop who has frequent arguments about his own ancient Reptilian Brain number 16 cute anime game becomes psychological horror Doki Doki literature Club and this is why we'll never look at potential waifus the same again appearing on the surface as just another dating simulator Gamers everywhere soon discovered that picking a love interest was the least they should be worried about eventually revealing itself to be a fourth wall breaking trauma-inducing horror that played with conventions of the genre there's some legit scares to be found here especially when it comes to Monica while it heavily relies on shock value and anonymity there's no denying how effective this tonal shift was when it first crept into the gaming zeitgeist number 16 retigun is Marika Elden ring [Music] the Mythos in history in from software's latest Venture is just about as rich as a game could hope to achieve and woven into it was a Twist that left every tarnished slack jawed come the end of the journey players were well aware of who Queen Marco was as well as her loyal husband radagon both of whom eventually came into conflict over the fate of the Eldon ring sounded like your typical Dark Fantasy marriage that is until we discovered either through a puzzle or the actual boss battle that both America and radagon were the same person or at least shared the same body as you can imagine many questions have since been raised after all they had kids together number 15 killing colossi equals bad Shadow of the Colossus while there is no debating the spectacle that each of the 16 colossi bring to the table as boss battles turns out that wonder and by extension the player's willingness to end them in order to supposedly bring back his deceased love interest might have been misplaced as it happens Not only was each Colossus a peaceful being in their own right but by slaying all of them the evil entity known as Dorman was freed from its imprisonment wander may have had the purest of intentions but his willingness to trust in a Fantasmic voice to bring back his beloved eventually cost him everything dear it's a bitter lesson learned [Music] foreign number 14 hathim is a Templar Assassin's Creed 3. I believe it is time we welcome Charles into our fold he has proven himself a loyal disciple and served unerringly since the day he came to us up until this point fans had been hidden blading their way throughout history as the likes of Master assassin Altair and Italian Stallion Ezio oh and Desmond too at no point did it ever occur to us that what we were seeing play out was anything other than another Noble assassin undoing the evils of the Templars one kill at a time and then hate them happened after traveling to America we see him take down numerous targets setting himself up as the lead will undoubtedly be playing throughout our adventures in the new world at least until he reveals himself to be a Templar and by doing so makes the player complicit in his actions to overthrow the Brotherhood of Assassins no wonder we have trust issues number 13 Kessler is future coal infamous I look down at Kessler reveling in my victory and then I heard him whisper Trish I love you please forgive me the orchestrator of everything painful in Cole's life from granting him electrokinesis all the way to murdering his wife Kessler quickly established himself as the ultimate big bad with zero Mercy a cult-like following and his own array of deadly abilities as a conduit you'd think Cole bringing him down would be cause for celebration only for Kessler to then reveal that he is Cole albeit one from an alternative future who came back in time in order to harden and prepare his past self by removing any emotional attachment also he could be ready for the eventual arrival of a conduit monster known as the Beast talk about a conflict of interest number 12 aerith's death Final Fantasy VII the one moment that retro Gamers everywhere to lose their minds as the soul of the group aerith was as kind as she was Charming not to mention an incredible support in battle sure would be a shame if a certain One Winged Angel came out of nowhere stabbed her and essentially removed her from the party altogether it's the cruelest of Fates dealt out to the purest of characters it left such an impact that fans have spent endless hours looking for a way to prevent aerith's demise with no luck whatsoever number 11 the government goes back on their word Red Dead Redemption well man looks like things is about to get settled once and for all so it seems a brutal reminder that crime doesn't pay the role of cowboy John Marston you're tasked by the government to track down and execute your old Outlaw crew in exchange for immunity when all is said and done you return to your family and everything seems peachy for what seems like your last couple of missions setting up your new life as a Rancher but unfortunately you are denied your promised happily ever after with your family when the law shows up at your farm this leads to a gun battle where you are given no way out and are forced to watch Jon's bloody execution by firing squad this leads to you taking up the role of his son jack years on in one final mission to claim Vengeance like father like son thank you number 10 Wesker works for umbrella Resident Evil Barry where's Barry well I'm sorry but he's probably sure this blonde tool has cemented himself over the years as one of the franchise's biggest baddies but there was a Time Players considered him a friend and Mentor the original game establishes him as your commanding officer at stars before dropping the bombshell that he has been working for the Umbrella Corporation from the beginning in Jill's story Wesker has also been blackmailing teammate Barry into working as his henchman not only is he the double agent you were warned about but he's been using his agents as guinea pigs for umbrella's Twisted experiments he is seemingly killed just prior to the player's final boss battle but if we've learned anything it's that the best bad guys don't stay dead for long don't come this way [Music] number nine Colonel Conrad was in your head spechovs the line I'm going to count to five then I'm pulling the trigger you're not real this is all in my head playing through Walker's recon mission to war-torn Dubai you maintain radio contact with your predecessor Colonel Conrad whose distress call acts as your call to action this former Commander is in contact with you throughout the game frequently questioning the Morality In Walker's decisions and actions it is clear that violence has poisoned the disgraced Colonel's mind and that you are in danger of following him down the same dark road but when Walker finds Conrad's corpse at the top of the tower having shot himself the horror of the truth Dawns on you the guilty had been feeding the player was coming from Walker's head the entire time it is then the player's decision to live with his actions or die like Conrad number eight James killed his wife Silent Hill 2. this whole area used to be a sacred place I think I can see why it's too bad we have to leave through the gloomy streets of Silent Hill you search for your long presumed dead wife Mary the hope your wife may still be alive is your driving motivation as you encounter tortured Souls Lost Companions and pyramid-headed monsters on your journey all the while haunted by a headstrong doppelganger of your wife dubbed Maria but Happy Endings don't suit or well the retrieving of a videotape is the turning point in the story and not only do you discover Mary really is dead but that you were the one who killed her whether it was an act of Mercy for his dying spouse or a desperate attempt in getting your life back is left ambiguous but the tormenting truth is certainly enough number seven you were the villain braid [Music] what begins as an archetypal rescue the girl platformer subverts into something much more complex and meaningful as guilt-stricken Tim you embark on a journey to rescue the princess from harm using a limited ability to stop Bend and even reverse the flow of time to Aid you in your quest it is only once you help her Escape an evil Knight that you are forced to enable the rewind mechanic and realize that your beloved is actually running away from you the True Villain into the arms of her hero in shining armor a devastating blow on its own the game's meaning is deepened further in the epilogue which hints towards Tim's identity as a scientist on The Manhattan Project and a father of the atomic bomb number six GLaDOS is Caroline portal congratulations the test is now over all amateur Technologies remain safely operational up to 4000 degrees Kelvin given how she's always throwing us into one lethal experiment after another players didn't have a whole lot of Sympathy For The Sassy killing machine that is until we learned about Caroline turns out that before she was robotic GLaDOS was the meek assistance to Kate Johnson who over time found herself uploaded into a mechanical form free of empathy one that only existed to continue on aperture's experimentation the saddest part being that throughout the events of Portal 2 we can see parts of Caroline sneaking out and then she gets reinstalled where GLaDOS swiftly deletes her old personality without hesitation Wheatley turning evil we could see coming the cake being a lie we could get over but this this was just painful The Surge of emotion that shot through me when I saved your life taught me an even more valuable lesson number five Odin is tear God of War Ragnarok all I ask is for a good night's rest and maybe some food we had heard stories in regard to the all-fathers cruelty and manipulation but none of us were prepared for his most elaborate and wicked of deceptions disguising himself as tear in order to spy on and influence Kratos and atreus the lord of the Norse gods truly was playing 4D chess with everyone's lives all to pursue his own ends alas even when he's exposed it comes at a cost as he slays Brock on the spot it's Odin at his most vicious and selfish the reveal of which was one even the God of War was unable to stomach let go of the boy and face me tell your brother don't throw me the mask and you've got a deal if he dies down now number four you are not Solid Snake in this one Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty how can I check in and save my progress I'll do it there's a frequency set aside for it 140.96 okojima you rascal you always know how to throw your fans for a loop high off the first entry in Solid Snake Saga hardcore metal gear fans were eager to see his return as he took on the terrorist group known as the Sons of Liberty and they did sort of while snake is playable in the opening level the true hero of the franchise's second Mainline installment is pretty boy Ryden while he would go on to become beloved back in the day this was fairly inconceivable to fans and a pretty bold move at that naturally Kojima would go on to repeat this twist later in the phantom pain oh you thought you were Big Boss guess again number 3. Shepard's betrayal Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. as Task Force 141 Sergeant roach you face many foreign dangers around the world failing to see the domestic one right under your nose toward the campaign's conclusion as you hand a DSM to your faithful Superior Shepard remarks on one less loose end before gunning down you and ghost foreign [Music] incapacitated all you can do is put down the controls and watch your leader and Squad set your corpses Ablaze and then Ponder on the backstabbing brutality of it all the sequence is hauntingly accompanied by the radio cries from Price warning you not to trust Shepard going forward the player takes control of Captain soap on a mission of Retribution against the treacherous General and thus the trust of a million gun-toding Gamers was shaken number two you were Darth Revan all along Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic his inventions you seek at this reunion and you mean you don't know in a Twist that would even make Darth Vader Green With Envy you begin this Star Wars RPG as a mere Republic rookie and end it as one of the most fierce Sith Lords of all time throughout your journey against Darth Malik's vicious Sith Armada you hear Legends of his master Darth Revan only to discover that you had once been the tyrannical conqueror before Amnesia forced you to the Jedi who reprogrammed your mind fallen heroes and villains is not exactly new to the Star Wars Universe nor are dubious Jedi councils but even so fans didn't expect this from what was thought to be a simple tie-in game where Revan goes from that point is a choice left to you Choose Wisely no that's the way he's too strong no foreign before we continue be sure to subscribe to our Channel and ring the bell to get notified about our latest videos you have the option to be notified for occasional videos or all of them if you're on your phone make sure to go into your settings and switch on notifications number one would you kindly BioShock would you kindly this steampunk adventure takes you through the seabed city of rapture as you try to free it of Andrew Ryan's hold with the help of mystery man Atlas deep into the story comes the infamous kicker as you reach Ryan's office not only do you discover that he is your illegitimate father but that Atlas has been hypnotizing you into completing the game's tasks up to this point through mind control brought on by the trigger phrase that is prefaced each objective in a shocking demonstration of the programming Ryan has you beat him to death with a golf club leaving you to turn your sights onto your former Puppet Master did you enjoy this video check out these other clips from WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest videos

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Length: 18min 11sec (1091 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 28 2023