{"id":46774,"date":"2012-11-05T02:08:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46774"},"modified":"2012-11-05T10:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T08:01:46","slug":"7-video-game-plot-twists-you-didnt-see-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46774-7-video-game-plot-twists-you-didnt-see-coming","title":{"rendered":"7 video game plot twists you didn&#8217;t see coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most games these days follow a standard, copy-pasted narrative sequence with no unexpected deviations from &#8220;PROTAGONIST KILLS ALL THE THINGS; THE END&#8221;, but every once in a while, a game comes along that breaks the rules.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"my-4\">WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Portal<\/h3>\n<p>This was a triumph. You&#8217;ve made it most of the way through the Aperture Laboratories&#8217; Enrichment Center &#8211; which, by the way, has been getting a bit&#8230; <em>weird<\/em> just towards the end here &#8211; but you&#8217;ve been promised delicious, moist cake as a reward for your extraordinary efforts and to make up for that whole live firing range incident, so that&#8217;s nice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46778\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/portal-2-the-cake-is-a-lie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46778\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46778\" title=\"Okay, you probably saw that one coming.\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/portal-2-the-cake-is-a-lie.jpg\" alt=\"Portal 2 - The cake is a lieeeeee\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/portal-2-the-cake-is-a-lie.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/portal-2-the-cake-is-a-lie-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/portal-2-the-cake-is-a-lie-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Assassin&#8217;s Creed: Brotherhood<\/h3>\n<p>You totally thought they&#8217;d end the game with a kiss, but when it finally came to the big moment, Desmond stabbed Lucy in the guts instead.\u00a0 Technically, he was kind of possessed at the time, but still.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46792\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-desmond-stabs-lucy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46792\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46792\" title=\"Putting the &quot;ass&quot; into &quot;assassin&quot;.\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-desmond-stabs-lucy.jpg\" alt=\"Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - Desmond stabs Lucy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-desmond-stabs-lucy.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-desmond-stabs-lucy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/assassins-creed-brotherhood-desmond-stabs-lucy-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desmond escapes the Abstergo FriendZone simulation.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/h3>\n<p>Alex Mason and Viktor Reznov escape the infamous Soviet Vorkuta Gulag and have many grand adventures together. Except Reznov actually died during the escape, and this whole time he&#8217;s been nothing more than a hallucination. And Mason was brainwashed by Nikita Dragovich to kill American president John F. Kennedy. And Reznov had managed to reprogram Mason&#8217;s brainwashing so he&#8217;d kill Dragovich instead. And then Mason assassinates Kennedy anyway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46793\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/call-of-duty-black-ops-viktor-reznov.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46793\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46793\" title=\"It's all a bit complicated.\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/call-of-duty-black-ops-viktor-reznov.jpg\" alt=\"Call of Duty: Black Ops - Viktor Reznov\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/call-of-duty-black-ops-viktor-reznov.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/call-of-duty-black-ops-viktor-reznov-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/call-of-duty-black-ops-viktor-reznov-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And Reznov was really Rasputin.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Braid<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s a story as old as video games &#8211; a princess has been kidnapped by a monster, and only a hero can save her. The game bends, warps, and exploits time throughout, and in the final level, everything around you happens in reverse. Then it flips around, and you realise that, instead of trying to help you, the princess is trying to stop you. BECAUSE YOU ARE THE MONSTER.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46795\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/braid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46795\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46795\" title=\"Gingers have no souls - CONFIRMED.\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/braid.jpg\" alt=\"Braid\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/braid.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/braid-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/braid-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You just take a minute to think about that, mister.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">BioShock<\/h3>\n<p>After surviving an air crash and finding your way down through a lighthouse in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean into an undersea, dystopian metropolis populated almost exclusively by mad people who are trying to kill you, maybe it shouldn&#8217;t have come as such a shock that you were nothing more than an unwitting pawn in Frank Fontaine&#8217;s plan to murder his business rival, Andrew Ryan, who &#8211; it turned out &#8211; was also your father. But it was a shock. You could even say it was a&#8230; <em>BioShock<\/em>. I&#8217;m here all week, folks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46789\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bioshock-would-you-kindly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46789\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46789\" title=\"The real villains are the sea slugs, though. If it wasn't for them, none of this would have happened.\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bioshock-would-you-kindly.jpg\" alt=\"BioShock - Would you kindly?\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bioshock-would-you-kindly.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bioshock-would-you-kindly-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/bioshock-would-you-kindly-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And you thought Altas was just a really polite guy.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Heavy Rain<\/h3>\n<p>The Origami Killer is Scott Shelby, the private investigator, <em>gasp<\/em>. The real twist, though, is that Shelby managed to kill the somebody <em>while the player was in control of him<\/em>, without the player realising it and without even being in the same room as the murder victim. Plot twist, plot hole, whatever.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46790\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heavy-rain-scott-shelby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46790\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46790\" title=\"Hey, I'm just an actor and I'm just following the script.\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heavy-rain-scott-shelby.jpg\" alt=\"Heavy Rain Scott Shelby\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heavy-rain-scott-shelby.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heavy-rain-scott-shelby-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/heavy-rain-scott-shelby-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <em>real<\/em>-real twist is that Scott Shelby is a wizard.<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Batman: Arkham City<\/h3>\n<p>Only you can make this world seem right, only you can make the darkness bright, only you &#8211; and you alone &#8211; can thrill me like you do, but <em>nobody<\/em> could have predicted that Joker would die at the end.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46797\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/batman-arkham-city-joker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46797\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46797\" title=\"Not even the World's Greatest Detective.\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/batman-arkham-city-joker.jpg\" alt=\"Batman: Arkham City - Joker\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/batman-arkham-city-joker.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/batman-arkham-city-joker-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/batman-arkham-city-joker-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He who laughs last, laughs loooonngggggggrrrrhhhhhhhhh&#8230; *death fart*<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/46616-the-coolest-game-themed-halloween-pumpkins.html\">The coolest game-themed Halloween pumpkins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45606-9-games-that-failed-to-live-up-to-the-hype.html\">9 games that failed to live up to the hype<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46483-your-chance-to-download-the-internet-kind-of.html\">Your chance to download the internet (kind of)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it was all a dream. The end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":46799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[5214,83,277,2622,7528,6009,21,2657,7527,2471],"class_list":["post-46774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","tag-assassins-creed-brotherhood","tag-batman-arkham-city","tag-bioshock","tag-braid","tag-call-of-duty-black-ops","tag-cool-stuff","tag-headline","tag-heavy-rain","tag-plot-twists","tag-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46875,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46774\/revisions\/46875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}