10 Plot Holes in Video Games That MAKE NO SENSE
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Date: 2025-01-30
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ledumpsterfire6474
Even with modern technology we have the ability to make an artificial magnetosphere
Lolwut I mean. what No. The closest equivalent we have is the magnetic fields used in fusion reactors to contain and prolong the fusing of atoms, and generating it is most of the reason that fusion power currently is, and could forever be, a pipe dream.
It sucks so much power that even what's effectively the power of a small star can't mitigate it enough to produce a break even power draw. Every time they run a fusion reactor, it eats more energy than it produces (which is a LOT; we're talking the average fusion reactor takes just under an entire fission plant's output worth of electricity for a day to run for a short period, and it's largely because of the energy required to run that magnetic field.
Mind you, these are mostly chambers the size of a studio apartment. But generating one for a whole planet Truly lmao at the idea that anyone thinks we could accomplish that.
That's some serious Kardishev post-Type 1 Civilization tech we're talking about. You're going to have a good start to your Dyson Swarm by the time you're thinking about generating your own planetary magnetosphere.
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Even with modern technology we have the ability to make an artificial magnetosphere
Lolwut I mean. what No. The closest equivalent we have is the magnetic fields used in fusion reactors to contain and prolong the fusing of atoms, and generating it is most of the reason that fusion power currently is, and could forever be, a pipe dream.
It sucks so much power that even what's effectively the power of a small star can't mitigate it enough to produce a break even power draw. Every time they run a fusion reactor, it eats more energy than it produces (which is a LOT; we're talking the average fusion reactor takes just under an entire fission plant's output worth of electricity for a day to run for a short period, and it's largely because of the energy required to run that magnetic field.
Mind you, these are mostly chambers the size of a studio apartment. But generating one for a whole planet Truly lmao at the idea that anyone thinks we could accomplish that.
That's some serious Kardishev post-Type 1 Civilization tech we're talking about. You're going to have a good start to your Dyson Swarm by the time you're thinking about generating your own planetary magnetosphere.
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Leongon
Video idea: Devs who knew the physics but bent them for your benefit.
In Portal 2 when you shoot a portal to the Moon and then a moment after they give you a shine for the projectile having reached the Moon's surface, then wait the same time before opening the portal next to you.
If you think about it the sequence should be: Shoot, 1. 3 seconds, lightspeed projectile reaches Moon's surface and opens the portal next to you, 1. 3 seconds, the shine of the portal opening on the Moon's surface reaches back your eyeballs. However that appropriate sequence of events would take your attention away from the moon to deal with the portal sucking everything off to the Moon next to you, so it was an intentional decision for story impact purpose because they clearly understood the real physics before changing them for our sake.
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Video idea: Devs who knew the physics but bent them for your benefit.
In Portal 2 when you shoot a portal to the Moon and then a moment after they give you a shine for the projectile having reached the Moon's surface, then wait the same time before opening the portal next to you.
If you think about it the sequence should be: Shoot, 1. 3 seconds, lightspeed projectile reaches Moon's surface and opens the portal next to you, 1. 3 seconds, the shine of the portal opening on the Moon's surface reaches back your eyeballs. However that appropriate sequence of events would take your attention away from the moon to deal with the portal sucking everything off to the Moon next to you, so it was an intentional decision for story impact purpose because they clearly understood the real physics before changing them for our sake.
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N68dodgeboy
Heavy Rain's plot hole was a huge question mark for me as well.
The clips shown at 4: 04 had me confused, as I was playing this game I was saying to myself: Why would a private investigator break into a house and start committing random acts of first degree murder I get it that he has to do a job (or so that's what the player could perceive, but it just doesn't make sense. No ordinary private investigator would go that far to do their job, nor would they legally be allowed to.
When it was revealed at the end that Scott Shelby was the killer, I was just taken completely by surprise. That just came out of nowhere.
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Heavy Rain's plot hole was a huge question mark for me as well.
The clips shown at 4: 04 had me confused, as I was playing this game I was saying to myself: Why would a private investigator break into a house and start committing random acts of first degree murder I get it that he has to do a job (or so that's what the player could perceive, but it just doesn't make sense. No ordinary private investigator would go that far to do their job, nor would they legally be allowed to.
When it was revealed at the end that Scott Shelby was the killer, I was just taken completely by surprise. That just came out of nowhere.
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Varizen87
I would argue the plot holes in 3rd Birthday actually don’t matter because even the game recognizes it’s so bad that it writes itself out of existence within the Parasite Eve timeline. The game itself becomes a plot hole in the sense there really is no plot. It was just an excuse to have battle damaged nearly naked Aya run around for a while destroying previous development of her character I respect you Falcon in that you had the patience to even finish the game once. I never did it made me so angry. I got to the final stage, game overed 90% through, and looked up the ending.
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I would argue the plot holes in 3rd Birthday actually don’t matter because even the game recognizes it’s so bad that it writes itself out of existence within the Parasite Eve timeline. The game itself becomes a plot hole in the sense there really is no plot. It was just an excuse to have battle damaged nearly naked Aya run around for a while destroying previous development of her character I respect you Falcon in that you had the patience to even finish the game once. I never did it made me so angry. I got to the final stage, game overed 90% through, and looked up the ending.
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LordNexusTheFir
95% of Elden Ring is a plot hole. Why does everything attack me even if i wear they're armor
What tf am i fighting for Why cant Marika just turn back to herself & escape Why is it her own husband & baby daddy isn't doing shit as elden lord Why does melina burn herself cant we just grab someone burn them & toss them in Why is fromsoft so cheap & lazy with all that money they couldn't finish the game b4 release Y the game still got the same end game unfinished issues as Dark souls 1
All never to be answered by the mid tier developers.
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95% of Elden Ring is a plot hole. Why does everything attack me even if i wear they're armor
What tf am i fighting for Why cant Marika just turn back to herself & escape Why is it her own husband & baby daddy isn't doing shit as elden lord Why does melina burn herself cant we just grab someone burn them & toss them in Why is fromsoft so cheap & lazy with all that money they couldn't finish the game b4 release Y the game still got the same end game unfinished issues as Dark souls 1
All never to be answered by the mid tier developers.
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[Note] (14: 46)
Brandon Lee was not killed by a blank alone; it was a squib shot/load.
The gun had been used prior to the scene in which the actor was shot. During this use, the round that was fired had only the primer, bullet and casing, but no gunpowder, which produced enough force to push the bullet out of the casing and into the barrel.
The gun was then later fired with a blank round, but there was a bullet still lodged in the barrel.
Blank round bullet in barrel = real round.
R. I. P. Mr Brandon Lee.
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[Note] (14: 46)
Brandon Lee was not killed by a blank alone; it was a squib shot/load.
The gun had been used prior to the scene in which the actor was shot. During this use, the round that was fired had only the primer, bullet and casing, but no gunpowder, which produced enough force to push the bullet out of the casing and into the barrel.
The gun was then later fired with a blank round, but there was a bullet still lodged in the barrel.
Blank round bullet in barrel = real round.
R. I. P. Mr Brandon Lee.
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corey2232
11: 42 - Remember, just because we have people monitoring it, doesn't mean they'll do anything to fix it. Look at climate change NOW.
We have 99% of scientists on this planet telling us what's happening, but politicians & corporations are spending billions to convince people it's no big deal & money is more important.
We also cannot create a magnetosphere for a full planet. We can create smaller ones, but we can't even create one for something the size of Mars, let alone earth, which is twice the size of Mars.
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11: 42 - Remember, just because we have people monitoring it, doesn't mean they'll do anything to fix it. Look at climate change NOW.
We have 99% of scientists on this planet telling us what's happening, but politicians & corporations are spending billions to convince people it's no big deal & money is more important.
We also cannot create a magnetosphere for a full planet. We can create smaller ones, but we can't even create one for something the size of Mars, let alone earth, which is twice the size of Mars.
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Henry00000
Regarding 3rd Birthday - to my understanding the swat team was gunning attendees down to prevent all the monster invasion as Aya (or actually Eve) was the source of it.
That's why the massacre was attempted, initially unsuccessful and at the very end of the game Aya (and Eve) essentially commit suicide to actually prevent the monster invasion.
This is after all the 3rd part of the Parasite Eve game franchise.
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Regarding 3rd Birthday - to my understanding the swat team was gunning attendees down to prevent all the monster invasion as Aya (or actually Eve) was the source of it.
That's why the massacre was attempted, initially unsuccessful and at the very end of the game Aya (and Eve) essentially commit suicide to actually prevent the monster invasion.
This is after all the 3rd part of the Parasite Eve game franchise.
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chaplam-lee949
The like a dragon series generally has out of left field plot points. The gun jamming then exploding, I can only explain as a 3d printed gun which seems to be a problem with the illegal gun trade. They make a big thing with fake stuff produced by Mendez. Though there is alot of silly things like kiryu having cancer from radioactive waste a few months prior despite chain smoking for pretty much 40 years.
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The like a dragon series generally has out of left field plot points. The gun jamming then exploding, I can only explain as a 3d printed gun which seems to be a problem with the illegal gun trade. They make a big thing with fake stuff produced by Mendez. Though there is alot of silly things like kiryu having cancer from radioactive waste a few months prior despite chain smoking for pretty much 40 years.
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ianloughney9570
Tbh, I think the even bigger plot hole in MW2 is the part when Hassan goes back to Mexico. We do a whole mission where we chase him across the border and he kills a whole bunch of people, and presumably faces a great deal of danger and expense just to get into the US. Then in the next mission they're just like After he snuck in, he turned around and went back to Mexico for no reason.
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Tbh, I think the even bigger plot hole in MW2 is the part when Hassan goes back to Mexico. We do a whole mission where we chase him across the border and he kills a whole bunch of people, and presumably faces a great deal of danger and expense just to get into the US. Then in the next mission they're just like After he snuck in, he turned around and went back to Mexico for no reason.
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yellowbmo
Well the until dawn josh visibly dying is actually easy to pull of and done in rl. fake or even real headless body in front. hole in the board for josh's head to poke out. Then looks like it's his body. For the movements he could've rigged something up. It's farfetched yes but doable.
Also for the mgs rising ending, Armstrong was there only to take care of a loose end AKA raiden
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Well the until dawn josh visibly dying is actually easy to pull of and done in rl. fake or even real headless body in front. hole in the board for josh's head to poke out. Then looks like it's his body. For the movements he could've rigged something up. It's farfetched yes but doable.
Also for the mgs rising ending, Armstrong was there only to take care of a loose end AKA raiden
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gameranx
I love gameranx but they draw from the same 30 games or so for so many examples. Heavy Rain and Metal Gear Solid Revengeance are a couple that make so many of the lists. I just wish they'd touch on more games they haven't yet so we can hear more totally new takes and see new gameplay. Would it hurt to give us a little Tak and the Power of Juju every now and then I mean come on
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I love gameranx but they draw from the same 30 games or so for so many examples. Heavy Rain and Metal Gear Solid Revengeance are a couple that make so many of the lists. I just wish they'd touch on more games they haven't yet so we can hear more totally new takes and see new gameplay. Would it hurt to give us a little Tak and the Power of Juju every now and then I mean come on
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TheZoenGaming
At the very least, cats, dogs, birds like chickens and cockatiels, and hamsters would have been taken on colony ships, so they would definitely have been brought to new planets in Starfield. People aren't going to give up their pets. Considering the sheer number of reused assets in Starfield, there's no reason other than time-crunch for the animals to not be in the game.
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At the very least, cats, dogs, birds like chickens and cockatiels, and hamsters would have been taken on colony ships, so they would definitely have been brought to new planets in Starfield. People aren't going to give up their pets. Considering the sheer number of reused assets in Starfield, there's no reason other than time-crunch for the animals to not be in the game.
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kaimagnus5760
Another thing with the Magnetosphere in Starfield is that, even if it just disappeared all at once, enough time hasn't passed between when the Magnetosphere failed and when the game takes place for the atmosphere to have completely dissipated yet. Let alone for the Oceans to have evaporated and the planet turned into a giant dust ball.
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Another thing with the Magnetosphere in Starfield is that, even if it just disappeared all at once, enough time hasn't passed between when the Magnetosphere failed and when the game takes place for the atmosphere to have completely dissipated yet. Let alone for the Oceans to have evaporated and the planet turned into a giant dust ball.
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dhumanizer99
To be fair, we have lots of monitoring systems for Climate change and governments are doing the bare minimum - some even pulling out from global deals that aim to rectify and reverse it. .. So I don't for one second believe the fall of the Magnetosphere would be prevented. That makes the plot hole for Starfield quite plausible
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To be fair, we have lots of monitoring systems for Climate change and governments are doing the bare minimum - some even pulling out from global deals that aim to rectify and reverse it. .. So I don't for one second believe the fall of the Magnetosphere would be prevented. That makes the plot hole for Starfield quite plausible
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CaptEoNinja83
As someone to prefers watching game playthroughs instead of playing video games, (I get fun story ideas that way and it's fun to knit to, I do want a good plot over everything else in the game. I'm not saying it has to be 100% (because there's no such thing in any media form, but I would want the plot to be over 80% coherent.
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As someone to prefers watching game playthroughs instead of playing video games, (I get fun story ideas that way and it's fun to knit to, I do want a good plot over everything else in the game. I'm not saying it has to be 100% (because there's no such thing in any media form, but I would want the plot to be over 80% coherent.
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CarbonOtter
Earth losing the magnetosphere means unmitigated radiation exposure and potential for solar winds to remove atmosphere. That is PRECISELY what makes Earth habitable and why the majority of ISS crew seem to die young of cancer. If anything, the plot hole in Starfield is how we can colonize planets without radiation mitigation.
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Earth losing the magnetosphere means unmitigated radiation exposure and potential for solar winds to remove atmosphere. That is PRECISELY what makes Earth habitable and why the majority of ISS crew seem to die young of cancer. If anything, the plot hole in Starfield is how we can colonize planets without radiation mitigation.
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gameranx
I hear ya Falcon the plot holes, and sounds like wired up monster drinks again dude . But Days Gone has a plot hole, when that extra ending to it. Where the government dude has virus, yet he's wearing a hazmat suit on in the entire game. And like how did he get the virus in the game Since Deacon never got got it either.
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I hear ya Falcon the plot holes, and sounds like wired up monster drinks again dude . But Days Gone has a plot hole, when that extra ending to it. Where the government dude has virus, yet he's wearing a hazmat suit on in the entire game. And like how did he get the virus in the game Since Deacon never got got it either.
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Dreader1962
There's another problem with the 'Suicide Squad' dialog. It makes no sense to 'posthumously commute' anyone's sentence. Commutation does not remove the conviction, it just reduces the sentence, which - since they're dead - isn't going to be served. Maybe the plan was to have their ashes locked up in prison
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There's another problem with the 'Suicide Squad' dialog. It makes no sense to 'posthumously commute' anyone's sentence. Commutation does not remove the conviction, it just reduces the sentence, which - since they're dead - isn't going to be served. Maybe the plan was to have their ashes locked up in prison
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gameranx
The general plot hole with Starfield is the things NPCs asked you to do would only make sense in a medieval setting. Those talk to [person] quests where you travel to another planet, talk to [person], then travel back to the 1st planet, would only make sense in a future where comms somehow don't exist.
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The general plot hole with Starfield is the things NPCs asked you to do would only make sense in a medieval setting. Those talk to [person] quests where you travel to another planet, talk to [person], then travel back to the 1st planet, would only make sense in a future where comms somehow don't exist.
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