sometimes writers have really good
reasons for keeping us in the dark about
vital plot information and sometimes it
don’t welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’ll be counting down our picks for the
top 10 video game plot holes you can’t
explain
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at plot holes
which were not explained in the initial
versions of these games upon their
release some may have been resolved
using behind the scenes content but if
it wasn’t explained in the game itself
that still counts as a bottle and it
goes without saying that there are major
spoilers ahead number Tannen Eli Steel’s
sahal antipas Metal Gear Solid 5 the
phantom pain goodbye father I don’t need
we all know that the main focus of the
Metal Gear series is destroying the
eponymous Metal Gear max capable of
launching nuclear weapons and looking
really cool so for sure child soldier
Eli stealing one of them near the end of
Metal Gear Solid 5 should be a major
issue and yet the game seems to
completely forget that this even
happened it just ends without addressing
the whole stolen giant war machine thing
his plot hole is no doubt the result of
developer Hideo Kojima’s feud with
publisher Konami as the game was rushed
release and the final mission which we
assume resolves this was omitted
essentially leaving the person who would
become liquid snake in possession of a
doomsday device that never comes up in
yes hurry number nine Queen mera Gears
of War 3 you’d think that given how
winning the endless war against the
locust war is the main aim of the Gear
series epic games wouldn’t skimp out on
explaining who the enigmatic leader of
this army was except that they did
throughout Gears of War 3 it’s hinted at
that the leader of the locusts may in
fact be main character Marcus Phoenix’s
own mother when players finally came
face-to-face with Queen Mira they were
all expecting this reveal but it never
came we still don’t know who she really
was nor how what appears to be a human
came to be the commander in chief of the
entire Locust Horde number 8 Pandora’s
kratos needs to absorb the power of
Pandora’s box in order to kill Ares the
first time he tries to do this Ares kill
him instead and sends him to the
underworld where he only escapes thanks
to a gravedigger later revealed to be
Zeus in disguise but by the third game
the central plot is that Zeus has become
obsessed with killing Kratos in order to
stop him from using Pandora’s box a
second time in order to defeat him this
begs the question of why in the first
game deduced ever help Kratos retrieve
Pandora’s box to begin with especially
since Pandora’s boxes famously never
supposed to be opened seven nine izing
the no Russian mission in modern warfare
2 s campaign was one of the most
controversial things Call of Duty or a
video game has ever done but more
controversial end the player mowing down
hundreds of innocent civilians is the
glaring plot hole that this mission
creates namely the fact that nobody in
the airport or on the security cameras
recognizes Makarov one of the most well
known terrorist leaders in the world as
he marches in with a heavily armed
entourage and starts killing people
without wearing a freaking mask plus how
exactly did they walk into the airport
without being caught by police I guess
[Music]
this is in this number six Ethan’s
blackouts heavy rain even Mars is the
tortured father of one dead son and one
missing son who suffers from frequent
blackouts during these blackouts he
randomly shows up at another location
holding an origami figure in his hand
convincing both even and many a player
that he was the origami killer but since
he isn’t the origami killer these
blackouts are a red herring which are
never fully explained during heavy rain
instead bonus content on the game disk
revealed that the blackouts were part of
Ethan’s paranormal connection to the
killer allowing him to make origami and
see the killer’s victims but this was
removed before release and no other
number five thirty five percent
unemployment and society is fine
another game from heavy rains developers
Quantic Dream Detroit become human also
has a major plot hole at its very core
throughout the game we’re told that
androids are stealing human jobs and
that unemployment is at 35% late guard
yeah this would be the highest
unemployment rate in US history with the
previous highest rate being 25% during
the Great Depression you know the worst
point in the economy ever
despite this all we see of these
problems are a few protesters and some
resentful lines of dialogue so 2030s
detroit remains a futuristic metropolis
despite all of this unemployment rates
also don’t impair people’s ability to
afford the expensive androids causing
the unemployment in the first place
jobless Todd manages to buy two androids
and on the drug habit what’s going on
it’s a bit difficult getting it back and
work in order okay it was really messed
up the car hit number four a tourist
trap Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill you promised you’d take me
there again someday
apparently vacationing in an empty town
once known for its evil Sun God
worshiping murder cult is par for the
course for the people in the Silent Hill
games Silent Hill 2 tells us that James
and Mary Sunderland’s favorite vacation
spot before her death their special
place was Silent Hill however Silent
Hill was set in 1993 which is at least
15 years after the demise of the cult
and the abandonment of the town
according to the game’s own canon with
this in mind it makes no sense that
James and Mary would visit Silent Hill
when it’s a little more than a creepy as
this whole town was our special place
number three
Jack the orphan bioshock over the course
of Bioshock you discover that your plane
is Jack Andrew Ryan’s genetically warped
two-year-old son aged up to 19 after
being given growth hormones by
Tannenbaum and souchong he becomes a
sleeper agent who is ultimately brought
back to rapture killing both Ryan and
Frank Fontaine but one question the game
fails to answer is how Jack survived
after being launched up to the surface
of the ocean in a bathysphere since
despite his age he was essentially a
two-year-old with no real life
experience and only a bunch of fake
memories how exactly did he manage to
even get himself on the plane son you’re
special you were born to do great things
number two
the Final Fantasy series well like
pretty much every RPG ever has revive
potions that you can use to resurrect
your fallen allies in battle called
phoenix downs the existence of these
potions means that death essentially
becomes meaningless except when it’s
convenient for the plot that is like
when Aerith dies part way through Final
Fantasy 7 while you’ll have used
hundreds of Phoenix downs during your
campaign now that there’s an actual
story reliant on a major character death
suddenly nobody has the idea to just
bring Eris back to life
number one once bitten you’re not
infected various zombie games everyone
knows that when a zombie bites or
scratches you you also turn into a
zombie that’s true for literally every
piece of zombie media out there
including videogames so why is it that
when you the protagonist are bitten you
don’t join the undead hordes while
admittedly it’s explained that the main
characters are immune in the Dead Island
games in series like Dead Rising and
Resident Evil as long as you have food
or some herbs on you you’re pretty much
completely safe from ever turning into a
zombie no matter how many times you’re
exposed to the virus do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day
reasons for keeping us in the dark about
vital plot information and sometimes it
don’t welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’ll be counting down our picks for the
top 10 video game plot holes you can’t
explain
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re looking at plot holes
which were not explained in the initial
versions of these games upon their
release some may have been resolved
using behind the scenes content but if
it wasn’t explained in the game itself
that still counts as a bottle and it
goes without saying that there are major
spoilers ahead number Tannen Eli Steel’s
sahal antipas Metal Gear Solid 5 the
phantom pain goodbye father I don’t need
we all know that the main focus of the
Metal Gear series is destroying the
eponymous Metal Gear max capable of
launching nuclear weapons and looking
really cool so for sure child soldier
Eli stealing one of them near the end of
Metal Gear Solid 5 should be a major
issue and yet the game seems to
completely forget that this even
happened it just ends without addressing
the whole stolen giant war machine thing
his plot hole is no doubt the result of
developer Hideo Kojima’s feud with
publisher Konami as the game was rushed
release and the final mission which we
assume resolves this was omitted
essentially leaving the person who would
become liquid snake in possession of a
doomsday device that never comes up in
yes hurry number nine Queen mera Gears
of War 3 you’d think that given how
winning the endless war against the
locust war is the main aim of the Gear
series epic games wouldn’t skimp out on
explaining who the enigmatic leader of
this army was except that they did
throughout Gears of War 3 it’s hinted at
that the leader of the locusts may in
fact be main character Marcus Phoenix’s
own mother when players finally came
face-to-face with Queen Mira they were
all expecting this reveal but it never
came we still don’t know who she really
was nor how what appears to be a human
came to be the commander in chief of the
entire Locust Horde number 8 Pandora’s
kratos needs to absorb the power of
Pandora’s box in order to kill Ares the
first time he tries to do this Ares kill
him instead and sends him to the
underworld where he only escapes thanks
to a gravedigger later revealed to be
Zeus in disguise but by the third game
the central plot is that Zeus has become
obsessed with killing Kratos in order to
stop him from using Pandora’s box a
second time in order to defeat him this
begs the question of why in the first
game deduced ever help Kratos retrieve
Pandora’s box to begin with especially
since Pandora’s boxes famously never
supposed to be opened seven nine izing
the no Russian mission in modern warfare
2 s campaign was one of the most
controversial things Call of Duty or a
video game has ever done but more
controversial end the player mowing down
hundreds of innocent civilians is the
glaring plot hole that this mission
creates namely the fact that nobody in
the airport or on the security cameras
recognizes Makarov one of the most well
known terrorist leaders in the world as
he marches in with a heavily armed
entourage and starts killing people
without wearing a freaking mask plus how
exactly did they walk into the airport
without being caught by police I guess
[Music]
this is in this number six Ethan’s
blackouts heavy rain even Mars is the
tortured father of one dead son and one
missing son who suffers from frequent
blackouts during these blackouts he
randomly shows up at another location
holding an origami figure in his hand
convincing both even and many a player
that he was the origami killer but since
he isn’t the origami killer these
blackouts are a red herring which are
never fully explained during heavy rain
instead bonus content on the game disk
revealed that the blackouts were part of
Ethan’s paranormal connection to the
killer allowing him to make origami and
see the killer’s victims but this was
removed before release and no other
number five thirty five percent
unemployment and society is fine
another game from heavy rains developers
Quantic Dream Detroit become human also
has a major plot hole at its very core
throughout the game we’re told that
androids are stealing human jobs and
that unemployment is at 35% late guard
yeah this would be the highest
unemployment rate in US history with the
previous highest rate being 25% during
the Great Depression you know the worst
point in the economy ever
despite this all we see of these
problems are a few protesters and some
resentful lines of dialogue so 2030s
detroit remains a futuristic metropolis
despite all of this unemployment rates
also don’t impair people’s ability to
afford the expensive androids causing
the unemployment in the first place
jobless Todd manages to buy two androids
and on the drug habit what’s going on
it’s a bit difficult getting it back and
work in order okay it was really messed
up the car hit number four a tourist
trap Silent Hill and Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill you promised you’d take me
there again someday
apparently vacationing in an empty town
once known for its evil Sun God
worshiping murder cult is par for the
course for the people in the Silent Hill
games Silent Hill 2 tells us that James
and Mary Sunderland’s favorite vacation
spot before her death their special
place was Silent Hill however Silent
Hill was set in 1993 which is at least
15 years after the demise of the cult
and the abandonment of the town
according to the game’s own canon with
this in mind it makes no sense that
James and Mary would visit Silent Hill
when it’s a little more than a creepy as
this whole town was our special place
number three
Jack the orphan bioshock over the course
of Bioshock you discover that your plane
is Jack Andrew Ryan’s genetically warped
two-year-old son aged up to 19 after
being given growth hormones by
Tannenbaum and souchong he becomes a
sleeper agent who is ultimately brought
back to rapture killing both Ryan and
Frank Fontaine but one question the game
fails to answer is how Jack survived
after being launched up to the surface
of the ocean in a bathysphere since
despite his age he was essentially a
two-year-old with no real life
experience and only a bunch of fake
memories how exactly did he manage to
even get himself on the plane son you’re
special you were born to do great things
number two
the Final Fantasy series well like
pretty much every RPG ever has revive
potions that you can use to resurrect
your fallen allies in battle called
phoenix downs the existence of these
potions means that death essentially
becomes meaningless except when it’s
convenient for the plot that is like
when Aerith dies part way through Final
Fantasy 7 while you’ll have used
hundreds of Phoenix downs during your
campaign now that there’s an actual
story reliant on a major character death
suddenly nobody has the idea to just
bring Eris back to life
number one once bitten you’re not
infected various zombie games everyone
knows that when a zombie bites or
scratches you you also turn into a
zombie that’s true for literally every
piece of zombie media out there
including videogames so why is it that
when you the protagonist are bitten you
don’t join the undead hordes while
admittedly it’s explained that the main
characters are immune in the Dead Island
games in series like Dead Rising and
Resident Evil as long as you have food
or some herbs on you you’re pretty much
completely safe from ever turning into a
zombie no matter how many times you’re
exposed to the virus do you agree with
our picks check out these other great
clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day
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