I'll state the obvious.......Metal Gear 2. I felt like I'd been pee'd on. Then, I virtually did get pee'd on. How poetic. Z

I think the worst one ever was in Final Fantasy 8. (Not that FF8 is a
good game to start with) But anyway. When it's revealed that that
the group of wankers all grew up together with Cid and the Lady (what
the hell ever her name is).But they all forgot that because of the
guardian forces. As Squally would say:

...Whatever

~Shrubey

Hola. First time e-mailer. Long time reader. *rings bell*

Anyhow, there are two games that immediately come to my mind when you mention "worst game plot twists". Final Fantasy 8 and Metal Gear Solid 2.

Let me start off with Final Fantasy 8. Okay, the beginning of the game is fairly coherent. You get the idea that these characters are students at a military type school.

Somewhat bad plot twist #1 - This kids, who have never seen any kind of intense battle, get sent to Dollet to fight in an intense battle. Maybe Balamb Garden had some kind of mega super battle simulator? Or not.

Ok, now we move along our merry way. Somewhere along the path we get on a train to meet up with Rinoa in some town (forgive me, I haven't played this game for about 4 years now) but while on that damned train...

Bad plot twist #2 - Squall, Zell, Selphie and Quistis suddenly fall unconcious! And we are treated with the confusing beginnings of Laguna Loire and his cronies....to put it bluntly, this really REALLY confused the hell out of me. There was no prior indication of something like that was going to happen. It just did. And now I'm sitting here with some dude with long black hair fighting in the jungle somewhere, and I have absolutely have no idea why. And when that first flashback is over, it's not explained why they had a flashback of Laguna. Not to mention the flashback did nothing of explaining ANYTHING to the story. Ok, well it did. But not until you were many many hours into the game

Somewhere in the game, the party returns to Balamb Garden. They have to travel somewhere, but have no means to get across the ocean...

Bad plot twist #3 - Ok. I can understand that any Garden in the game was meant to train elite military fighters for use in confflicts. What I don't understand is how it decides to PICK ITSELF UP AND MOVE AROUND. *breathes in and out*

I found this to be a bit ridiculous...Again, no foreshadowing of this happening, it was just like, "Hey, we can press this button and Garden can float all around the world for no reason at all. Ain't that somethin'?"

One more.

Bad plot twist #4 - I don't know who wrote this game, but I love the idea that all the main characters belonged to the same orphanage, all of them mysteriously forget about it, then at the same time started to remember it! Argh it gives me a headache thinkiing about this game...

And if Rinoa became a sorceress...why didn't she get uber cool powers like Edea or Ultimecia? There are so bad plot twists in FFVIII I think I have a major migraine from thinking about them...

Oh, I forgot to mention Metal Gear Solid 2 in all my angered filled rantings.

Bad plot twist of MGS2 - The whole bloody entire game! The first part with Snake and the tanker made sense, but when it ended, that's when the story stopped making any sense. Who is Raiden? Why isn't he as cool as Snake? You mean there's more than one Metal Gear? You mean there's a whole army of them? Wait, you're telling me that there's a whole army of Metal Gears inside a Metal Gear? Whoa!

Not whoa. What got me the most was when you were at the very end of the game, and they're explaining to Raiden why he went on the mission. Well, he gets about eleventy billion different explainations...to the point where I said to myself "I give up" and quit trying to understand what was going on. I just stared blankly at the screen and imagined I knew what was going on...

I'm finished being angry. Woo, this made me feel alot better!

~RiceCakeBurner~

Half Life. Let's go from an interesting, semi-realistic feeling science facility and get warped to some random looking Doom Level for the remainder of the game. Great. It's still practically the best game of all time, but seriously.

-DuneADX

Chris,

Final Fantasy VIII had the worst plot twist in the history of plot twists. You mean we don't remember each other because we've been using those Guardian Forces? It's not like its some sort of drug, man! Maybe if the cast of characters OD'd on magic Moogle Brownies, and had to go to rehab. The relationships between Squall and the rest of the characters, however, were pretty down-to-earth. Personal experience. Metal Gear Solid 2's freaking plot twists were so weird I felt like I had stepped into a parallel universe. Or at least I OD'd or something. I mean, staging the whole thing was so freaking stupid!! And what was the point of it all? It doesn't even look like we'll get the answers to that question in MGS3: Snake Eater. I think that the original Metal Gear Solid set up a sequel so well, that Hideo Kojima couldn't live up to it, so he decided to screw it over and whack up the story. Oh, and a weird plot twist had to be in Chrono Cross. You destroy the Dragon God only to learn that Schala, who had received absolutely no attention in the rest of the game, ended up in the damned void with the Time Devourer. I wish the game made more sense 0.o

Btw, before I end my little ditty, did you check out gamespot's article on virtual property and MMORPGs?

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/06/30/printable_6101604.html

I sware to God, its just a game. I hate it when people get too serious about em. That's when they lose their social lives.

Chris Pioli, who must think about how an MMORPG can be good without becoming addictive

Chris,

As for gaming twists, something tells me that pretty much everyone and their brother will mention FFVIII. But maybe I'll be wrong. Anyway, the real reason I was writing was to ask you where exactly you found La Pucelle for $20. I've been looking at Target, but they don't even seem to carry it online. Anyway, just wondering if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks.

-ZB

Okay. As much as I love the Megaman series (especially 1-3... ESPECIALLY especially 3), I gotta say, after that, as much as they tried to to bring in new villains... you always knew that Dr. Wily was behind it all.

"Gee, is Dr. Cossack REALLY the behind the madness in Megaman 4? Hmm, I wonder if Dr. Wily has anything to do with this 'evil Protoman' in Megaman 5! Buuuh, Mr. X? I wonder if Dr. Wily makes any sort of appearance in Megaman 6???"

And every time the curtain of "mystery" was unveiled, there was Dr. Wily. And then, of course, he reappeared in Megaman's 7-8... always escaping at the end, always reappearing in the next game. I love Megaman, but Capcom's idea of a good plot twist is somewhat skewed. It's as if they taunt us with a new and somewhat refreshing storyline... only to pull it all away from you at the last second saying "Ha ha! Fooled you! It's really just the same old story!!!"

I really feel bad typing this, because I bought the Megaman Anniversary
Collection and spent the past week playing (and loving) all the games, but still... there's a certain amount of lameness to some of the plots. Then again, in the NES days, the main focus was gameplay, not story. I probably wouldn't have this opinion if I were playing the games when they first came out.

-Dan