7 Huge Plot Holes That Get Worse The More You Think About Them 

Lol, exactly. It's way more realistic and logical for the heroes to have determined who was the best candidate to perform the task. We're basically chastised for being practical and reasonable 😅

It's Emil Papagliano and I swear he holds some black mail material over Todd Howard and that's how he still gets to keep his job even though he failed as a scenario writer time and time again.

It feels so weird. That plothole could've easily been fixed if they made it so you couldn't bring any companions to the final mission, too.

@@FeCyrineu Yeah, only allowing Lyons and you at the end would've fixed it. Then it's just your typical Bad/Good Karma decision: you or Lyons.

@@Senorcyborg I mean, to be extremely fair, the Bethesda Fallout games are wildly successful. Plot-holes and wonky scenario logic aside. So, I can't blame Todd for wanting to stick to what works.

Or letting your father die in a tornado trying to save a dog when you can fly faster than a speeding train and are the man of steel.

@@Ylyrra In the case of Superman, it was a matter of Clark still being a kid (comparatively) and not revealing his superhuman abilities to endanger himself and the rest of the town.

@@azuredragoon2054 as many other have pointed out with all the chaos going on litterly no one would have said "hey that fark boy must have used super speed to rescue his dad, he must be this 'superman.' Hell it weakens the message every other pa kent death has (hell justice leage doesnt even kill pa kent) that despite all his powers you cant save everyone when pa kent dies of natural causes. It's a core element of clark being hunbled by death and resolving to save everyone he cant but not letting those he cant save crush his spirit.

@@azuredragoon2054 He didn't need to reveal his abilities. If rescuing the dog was plausibly possible for his dad, it was plausibly possible for superman especially given anyone else around was going to be distracted by their own survival. He didn't need to use any of his visible superpowers.

@@Ylyrra There was literally a crowd watching in that scene.

"fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine we'll make it so you can actually keep playing the game after the end of the main storyline"

Reading this comment I just keep thinking of Freeza in Dragonball Z Abridged: “Stop that! Stop…not dying!”

And it wasn't even a selfless sacrifice in the first place: by that point in the game your character was probably tearing through Enclave troops like they were tissue paper. If your dad had just opened the door you could have easily wiped out the forces in that water purifier room and saved him.

I really disliked those classes and sessions. The mediator and therapist kept asking the same questions and making the same assumptions. It was VERY upsetting. That's why I don't engage with people unless absolutely necessary.

Fear will do that to you

​@@Logan7281Xso anger management made you angry? Generally that's the idea, so you can learn to manage and realize it's only upsetting because you let it be upsetting, or actually enjoy "indulging in anger" as the OP said, or tracing your anger back to its root fear, etc.

I haven't played god of War myself so I could be way off, but just listening to the description of the events, that sounds much less like a plot hole and much more like an intentional part of the narrative, showing you how Kratos' priorities have changed and how he's let his anger warp his perspective - or maybe revealing he already had rage in his heart and was subconsciously using their deaths as justification for acting on it. Like I said! I don't have the full story lol. But it sounds like it could be more intentional than a fluke

@@drawingdragon Don't think you are far off, it is clear throught his story, that he might have used every excuse. If I remember correctly, he became the subordinate of Ares because he wanted to gain power in order to win battles with his army. Also, due to his upbringing, he was destined to be filled with anger, being trained to be a soldier in every aspect of life

The game even hurts your feelings during the ending screen as if you let the Lyon's Pride lady get irradiated lol

Seems the developers backed themselves into a corner (story wise) with that one! I have a feeling they "forgot" about Fawkes when it came to the ending so when they wanted the "noble sacrifice" choice/ending they forced it to happen that way which is just bad writing! LOL You can't have a series of good/bad decisions throughout the game that then ends with a "dumb" decision! LOL

How do you get the ending if you don't die that hero's death? I once played through the game with all DLCs and eventually just stopped playing.

@@SailorMyaThat’s some weak writing in a world where radiation and those who are immune to it are central and well-worn parts of the lore.

thats emil pagliarulo's quality lever of writing for fallout franchise. he's slightly better now, but still far from the level of writing for fallout new vegas.

Fallout 3 story makes no sense at all at times. Like when you finally find dad and he gets on your case for leaving the vault he left you in to keep you safe like you're an ingrate or something - the same vault that you almost got killed in because of your dad and his hijinks. I think the writers were too engrossed in Big Philosophical Concepts and just ignored everything else lol.

​​@abadenoughdude300 I just pretend it's the directors cut of Taken filmed in Detroit since ive never seen Taken 😂🥴

@@abadenoughdude300 ah, writing by consignment... NOT committee, IE a head writer lays out a basic framework, and sub-writers do all the detail work. Those sub-writers... aren't necessarily on the same page as each other OR the head writer.

​​@abadenoughdude300 That is, when they weren't just ripping off the plot of Fallout 2 wholesale, which is what the bit with the GECK and the Enclave is.

btw Am I the only one who never liked "Dad" and thought his self sacrifice was stupid?

I was literally just about to comment the same thing lol

And Charon doesn't care about morality so there shouldn't be the morality problem brought up by fawkes (telling you it's your destiny and he wouldn't rob you of that) Charon would do it without question

​@@KingAwesome-lx5te as would RL-3 being a... you know military robot programmed to follow orders

Sharon won't do it be cause he follows his contract to a T. It's why he doesn't kill his previous contract holder until the contract exchanges to your hand.

@@nthetiteGHOST You just explained why Charon should do it instantly without question, not why he ''won't do it''.

I remember someone mentioning that the game dunks on you for making the smart choice.

And the supermutant who is immune to radiation somehow is a hero. Why? Because you chose to not pointlessly die?

@@CelticVictory Well the mutant did save the day, I guess, so he would be considered a hero.

@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 True, but then they add "And the protagonist didn't kill himself pointlessly like he should have." Crisis averted, and I'm the dick for making a good decision?

I think radiation does actually fuck with electronics. People cleaning up the Chernobyl site had cameras with fresh batteries, and those things died fast, and they used robots to gather debris and even those started going haywire. Still doesn't excuse Charon not going in.

And no one will know where you got the line from because you’ll clear this video from your browser history

​@@toratio8547 the perfect crime

we'll know. i have screenshot. paper trail. lawyered...

Let's not forget RL-3 which not only REQUIRES neutral karma to get (making the stupid sacrifice break all role-playing tied into being a neutral character) is also immune to radiation and programmed to FOLLOW ORDERS

@@Dovah_Slayer shit i forgot him as well, but never used him anyway, my go to companion was always Charon

​@@leonidas6296 Same, that ghoul was always my favorite.

​@@leonidas6296 Same, that ghoul was always my favorite.

Love how his excuse is "I'm not your errand boy." Like sorry my guy but you literally are.

don't forget the headmaster of Balamb is Edea's husband. He would have been involved in the contract to kill his wife.

@@calvinbarnes1721 yeah, my wife, a known sorceress, decided to train people to kill sorceresses one day, i always though it was a bit weird...

Except he gets too nervous to pull the trigger. Could that be due to conflicted feelings? He says it happens all the time, but that could be a lie; after all, if it were the truth, there would be no reason for him to be selected.

@@sean437 but thats not a big character moment, thats just reason to stretch the plot out.

I like to imagine it was a guy doing it secretly with giant hidden cameras... But he's also narcissistic so he needs his whistle to be the best thing you've ever watched.

Nah. I don't think he even prayed it would make sense lol

No they had some significant cut plot points in the game. For example Ethan having a psychic link to the Oragami Killer which explains his blackouts and the flashbacksZ

​@@emberfist8347True, but even the more grounded storylines suffered from a lack of a solid framework. It was cool moments but in the overall story narrative, it doesn't make sense.

Honestly they could have just made it an odd stress disorder. Replace we're he walks to or make him coincidentally from the same place it all started. And boom... Kinda fixed while keeping the "is he a skitzo killer?" Aspect.

I also imagine that manipulating the Loom of Fate was rather difficult, it seems like he has to put a lot of strength into going back in time, so it might not have been much of an option for him to go THAT far back anyways (especially since he kind of just enters into that moment rather than actually being able to prevent his own death.)

I remember some making-of content back in the day, not sure if it was about GOW 1 or 2, but there was a quote where people were apparently supposed to "come to work pissed off", because rage was basically Kratos' entire personality at that point. So yeah, it makes total sense that he was too consumed by it to make any rational decision. I mean, in the third game he all but brought about the apocalypse in his quest for revenge (only in Greece, as we learn in the newer games, but still). He wasn't one for level-headed action.

Another aspect people seem to forget is Gaia appearing before Kratos after Zeus has killed him and telling him that she and the other Titans would help Kratos defeat Zeus. From that first meeting she was manipulating Kratos throughout God of War II to get what she wanted. As she then says in God of War III: _”I saved you to serve the titans.”_ _”Listen carefully, Kratos. _*_You were a simple pawn, nothing more._*_ Zeus is no longer your concern. This is our war. Not yours.”_

That was my thoughts he was so blinded by his vengeance that he never thought about the possibilities

I agree I believe he was so blinded by vengeance and anger at the very thought of just fixing it never crossed his mind or that he was so pinpoint focused that everything outside of vengeance didn't matter initially and by the time he even realized that this was a possibility something in the new God of wars kind of hinted on is that magic or whatever it's tied to the land. by the time he killed Zeus and all that the land was dying so he probably did not even have the option to change it at that point it's too late​@@Joyful_Traitor

Fair. It does mean that a very strategic enemy who wanted to hurt Angry Kratos could arrange for someone _else_ to attack/betray/kill Angry Kratos immediately afterwards so his vengeance would be too focused on that _second_ offense to get back to dealing with the first. (Alternate universe time!)

You could also say that all the timelines in which he does go back in time to save his family result in alternate timelines that aren't part of the games' canon. If he goes back to save his family none of the events happen that result in him being able to go back in time to save his family, which means his family gets murdered again, which sets in motion the events that lead to him being able to go back in time to save his family, etc.

It's also why in horror movies characters make dumb decisions. Whenever an emotion becomes powerful enough to overcome you it causes your prefrontal cortex to shut off. The prefrontal cortex is where you do all of your critical thinking.

Plot twist, he's the only one who makes it.

@@DemstarAus after he goes back in time to save himself and avenge his death

@@mattyt1961 Only for a third iteration to come up and fail to save the pair, leading to Sean Bean dying three times in a single movie. He has to one up Goldeneye where he died twice.

@@azuredragoon2054 Then shocking twist is the the bad guy who they kill at the end is Sean Bean's evil twin... (cue dramatic music)

Also, the word "family" has superpowers.

Nah that works in my book. Plus, she actually gets in other places after using it one too many times, albeit in places were the fabric of time and space is quite janky

Yeah, it was done in panic, unexpectedly, and suddenly. We see later when she's panicking that time starts to unravel. Her fear makes her lose control. Future games in the series literally establish that fear and anger interfere with people's powers, and that only taking control of your own emotions will guide you. Also saving Chloe is the only acceptable ending. Giving in to guilt and condemning yourself to a lifetime of PTSD and guilt and sorrow knowing you could save someone you love in order to prevent... damage to a town that results in no deaths and only a lot of confusion? Save Chloe. They can rebuild. The "heroic" sacrifice ending is guilt laden bullshit.

@@chrismanuel9768 Rebuild? Most people in town are dead if you go for the save Chloe ending. You can let one person die, or let everyone in town die.

@@chrismanuel9768I always thought the assumption was that most of the characters die since we don’t see anyone anymore in the ending that Chloe survives. Unless there is more stuff in the sequels that I haven’t played, it’s implied that a lot of the NPCs you knew died

Or she's way more powerful than she thinks she is and doesn't know how to use her powers entirely. Or it could just be a hole, lol, who knows.

Yeah, you can disagree on whether it was a good plot, but it was explained.

This still does not really explain the plot hole. First off you start the game already a student of seed but have to clear the first dugeon to contract your first GF, so even if the gf's coincedenly chose to erase all the same memories, the main characters still went to school with out recognising each other before they lost their memories. So either the issue with memory loss is irelevant becuse the part would recognise each other anyways or its still a plot hole.

@@Prinygod Technically, you start with two school supplied GFs before going after Ifrit: Quetzelcotl and Shiva. Also each of the Gardens has a specialty with Balamb's being use of GFs and junctioning magic to stats via the GF. Trabia's was focused on researching and casting magic meaning they also probably used GFs to a degree, and Galbadia's was weapons combat and military strategy. Of the three, Galbadia is the only one that doesn't use GFs as part of the curriculum. The implication is that the reason that Squall and the others would have used GFs regularly during training prior to the SeeD exam qualifier which would lead to their memories being more heavily eroded simply as a result of which Garden they happened to be enrolled in. None of this, however, is explicitly stated in game unless you go hunting for blurbs and then make the logical deduction that leads to the imlication from those blurbs. So its a plot hole if you don't go on a lore hunt, but it's a fairly minor one if you do. Frankly, FFVII has bigger plot holes and plot cul-de-sacs than FFVIII. I would argue a bigger plot hole revolves around how Rinoa is kind of unneccessary even as far as the whole Sorceress inheritance thing is concerned on top of the whole 'oh our parents had a doomed romance that was never fulfilled so isn't it ironic that we, their children, end up together' plot thread. Allow me to elaborate. So, as mentioned above, Trabia Garden specialized in magic and Selphie attended there right up until she transferred over to take the SeeD qualification. This is reflected by her base magic stats which are even higher than Rinoa's base magic stats. Selphie is set up, stat wise, to be the best candidate to inherit the powers of the Sorceress and the only reason she isn't is mainly because someone at Square thought the Squall-Rinoa love story was more important than the story about the amnesiac childhood friends being reunited and needed to justify keeping her around. The main problem with the love story is that Squall barely tolerates Rinoa up until disc 3 when the plot needs him to run off with her comatose body to advance the story and he suddenly contracts feelings out of nowhere. There is no build up to their relationship. He doesn't come across in the dialogue as hating her, mind you, but he doesn't come across as liking her much either. He seems neutral at best and mildly annoyed by her at worst. This is a translation issue above all else. Japanese has suffixes that, when attached to a person's name, indicates the degree of formality or casualness one regards that person with as well as the degree of emotional distance or comfort on feels towards that person. English does not and there is no real way to communicate that linguistic subtext while keeping conversations natural. I've never played the Japanese version nor have I read a translated script that leaves those suffixes in. I don't know if it works better in Japanese than it does in English or other languages. I just know it doesn't work well in English which makes Rinoa's presence past Timber a plot hole and a pretty bad one at that. The sad fact is that, in English, the game plot works fine without Rinoa past Timber and with Selphie taking over as Sorceress Successor. Instead of the love story, it could be old friendships rekindled that pull Squall out of his shell. Heck, he could even be as gay for Seifer as certain elements of the fanbase remain convinced he is and it would be less awkward if a romance was absolutely necessary for the plot to work. But the romantic element isn't necessary at all. When your story works just as well without a romantic plot line as it does with one, that implies the romance isn't needed for the story to work. It's just there because the writer(s) want a romance. When the romance hurts the story with it's inclusion then it's a directing/editing failure because somebody needed to give the writer(s) who wanted the romance a firm 'no' and stuck to it. ....No, I'm not studying to be a writer or anything! Why do you ask!?

Irvine was good in the assassination, just nervous due to the high stakes. The shot was perfect and would have gone through Edea's skull if she hadn't magically formed a shield for it to ping off.

@Prinygod As it is also explained in the codexy area of the menu, Balamb Garden specifically trains its students in the use of GFs while the other two (Trabia and Galbadia Gardens) do not. Squall is able to grab two right out of his computer. The mission to obtain Ifrit is different in that he has to earn this one, it is not given to him as a part of his studies. During the scene in Trabia Garden ruins, Selphie explains that prior to joining Balamb Garden, she had encountered and Junctioned an un-named GF, giving this as the reason she could not remember Irvine when they met up at Galbadian Garden. In fact, Balamb Garden exclusively training with the GFs is why they have the line about Selphie and the unknown GF in that scene to begin with. The GFs do not choose what memories are erased. It's just general long-term memories that are lost. Again, it's all there in the game if you choose to look for it. Most just don't.

"Guys....what if we film ourselves talking abut this plan?" "...why?" "it would help as a reminder and a momento, and it'd be fucking cool." "okay I trust you."

That's incredibly funny actually

Last name checks out

Lmao

That's pretty cool! Wish I personally knew a va.

Over 100 comments on this channel alone? Sure you did bud. At least you finally got that attention you wanted

The smog didn't get super bad until the 60s-80s. LA Noire is set in the 40s.

To me the most annoying and preachy part was when in a few murder cases you have to pick the guys that evidence points against just because game claims they're worse off for society. You're ONLY allowed to get perfect score for framing innocents because you don't like them.... Realistic police work, hey!

And the Tiny details with the identity of the Killer, that makes no sence when you Think for just one second. Yasus I laughed so Hard when I Saw where they went.

Yep. Those always bothered me. Plus: - Based on how it's shot, how did Jason die? Ethan took the hit from both the car and the ground. - The entire typewriter arc with Lauren and Scott is one big miss when you think about it. From why Scott even introduced the typewriter evidence to begin with, how did Scott kill Manfred when the player was controlling him, to how Lauren got the listing from the office when she never had access to that office. That was just a poorly written and edited scene that should have been reworked.

@@GAshoneybear This is a game that could benefit from a remake. Tightening up the story, maybe replacing the voice actors and introducing the graphics engine and mechanics from Detroit as well.

@liveac3694 100% agree. The premise was solid, and people liked the game. They could do supernatural and realistic versions to maximize fanbases. Someone who is a more supernatural fan could their game version focus more on Ethan and Scott and have all the blackout/telepathic arc added back into the game. Whereas someone who is more of a detective/mystery game fan would their version focus more on Madison and Jaden without the supernatural elements, but flesh out their story arcs more.

That's an amazing observation I'd never considered!

This is brought up in the original Japanese as well as the written story of the game, but isn't explicitly mentioned in the English translation. They left it as subtext for second playthroughs. Unfortunately nobody played through a second time apparently 😂

​@@chrismanuel9768People probably would have a better time with a remake of this game... But a Dead Space type for remake, not an FF7 remake 😅 IIRC there was also some material meant for FF8 that didn't make it in because of time restraints, so maybe they could add that as well.

​@@chrismanuel9768 translation inaccuracies plague a lot of Japanese games but in this case it's tons of mischaracterization too, English Squall acts all edgy but original version had him as really insecure and constantly apologizing instead of answering everything with ...Whatever.

The writers definitely got fixated on this stupid "grand sacrifice" angle of the ending not taking into account whether or not it actually makes sense it should go this way the sacrifice is the overly heroic one the neutral ending is you sending a radiation immune companion in (the ending slide should reflect that you avoided needless sacrifice and chose your own destiny) and the bad ending is sending in Sarah Lyons or any non radiation immune follower and the game rightly chastises you for going that route

Unsurprisingly in both Fallout and New Vegas you were able to be pragmatic and reason your way out of major plot points without any sacrifice. Edit: unsurprisingly because those were under obsidian.

It is the developers that do that, let's be real. They are dumbasses who could not figure out a better reason for it, like toxins come out that are deadly to anyone who goes in there... They made a bad choice and they will defend it to their grave.

I love Grand sacrifices, specially in moments to let others escape. But like... It's kind of stupid to put on a bomb vest to open a door when you have a key...

I can't be the only one who would prefer not to look at sonic 06 at all

Better yet, don't. Trying to make sense out of any Sonic game is a lost cause.

I've rarely seen time travel done well and consistently. You either duplicate yourself in an another timeline or if there's only one timeline then you create a paradox.

@@101Lunga I think the series D A R K did it pretty well: 2 orchestrated timelines in a kind of figure 8 loop, that kept repeating over and over and over again. But, as with all things that repeat over and over, the smallest, tiniest thing might change and suddenly derail into a 3rd loop, which is a one-time chance that can then be used to unravel everything and return to one timeline, before the events of the 2 loops happen. And then the future plays out as intended.

To be fair, Sonic 06 was a rushjob by the devs being forced to have it released by the holiday season... they had no time to iron anything out, including the story and its script

I was thinking it's a paradox on purpose. A better question is, why didn't the Song of Storms stop the Windmill from turning? Once the well was drained why didn't Link just play it again to stop it?

I would propose that maybe it was invented/found in the defeated timeline, but far too late to be of use, and that started the 2 victorious Child and Adult timelines. We never actually experience the defeated timeline in Ocarina after all, we only see the Adult and Child Victory timelines because we win in the adult timeline and then are sent back to the Child to prevent it from ever happening. The defeated link presumably discovered it in some obscure place we never actually go to, but it took so much time that he could no longer beat Ganon for some reason. However, by traveling back in time with the future knowledge, he now is creating a whole new timeline in the future where he had future knowledge back in the past. However, the Defeated link is connected to the original timeline where there is no future knowledge applied in the past, and thus ends up being unable to beat Ganon because he doesn't have access to all the tools he needs. But of course, by obtaining future knowledge and bringing it to the past, he creates the first new branched timeline, the altered future, which is the one we end up in, where we can now do things like learn the song of storms from the windmill keeper. This allows us to actually win creating the victorious adult timeline, which in turn allows us to finally go to the past for good, thus finally creating the third branch , the child victory branch were Ganondorf's plans are foiled before they even begin.

@@anialator1000000 I believe link wrote the magical version by listening to the windmill song and trying to accompany him in the original loop, then went back in time after finding out it drained the well as an adult when the cave is sealed.

also, right after he is introduced, the first thing he does after Martine leaves is make a joke and then walk over as if they're old friends, at which point everyone walks right past him to discuss the plan, and then act like they've never met him. he tried to talk to Selfie on the train and starts talking about fate bringing them together, but everyone thinks he's being a perv. so he stops trying

@@christopherbowers7236 Yeah, that's also an obviously intentional portrayal of how he's *tried* to bring up their shared backstory. Good catch!

Also the use of GF blanks their past memories

@@arielcervantes5378 True! I was specifically discussing important context that was missed by the video, but yeah, this is absolutely why his friends don't remember anything about him, Edea, or the orphanage

I was just about to say that lmao 😂

Hey, Bethesda's used wibbly-wobbly, time-y wime-y stuff in their canon before. Which of Daggerfall's multiple endings is canon, you ask? _ALL OF THEM!_

@@daviddaugherty2816 Say what you will about Daggerfall, but Morrowind's writers did a BRILLIANT job of handwaving all that stuff into canon. Michael Kirkbride deserves to have his name mentioned because he's got a gift from the gods for creating great lore. Too bad he hasn't worked for Bethesda since Oblivion.

I like Warhammer 40k's "everything is canon, not everything is true" approach. Obviously, that works well on a galaxy-spanning empire with tens of thousands of years of history, not so much in the Fallout universe.

"16 times the canon."

This was also well before the days of small, quiet hidden cameras, too. You'd think they'd notice.

I 100%ed the game and i never even noticed this but its so damn obvious now that i know its there! I have so many questions now lol

before we start this meeting, who is that over there? "oh thats just bob, he's setting up the six movie cameras, each larger than a human being. that will record this meeting for posterity" 'uh...is that wise? what if-" "RIGHT ROLL 'EM BOB!" * clackackackACKACKACKACKAKCKAKCKACKKCKKACKACKACKCKCKCKCKCKCKCKC*

@@daviddaugherty2816 I imagine the same scene playing out but everyone is speaking as loud as they can to make up for the loud ass whirr of the camera! “OKAY LETS GET BACK TO WORK…” “WAIT WHAT DID HE SAY?” “I THINK HE CALLED YOU A JERK?!” “DO I KNOW HOW TO TWERK?!” 🤣

Or he's just an a-hole using his family as an excuse to do what he loves best: killing gods

yeah I was thinking about that. "Fallout has Robots. Why not use a robot?"

@@marhawkman303 Radiation can fry robots.

@@roguishpaladin maybe... maybe not.. lead shielding and stuff.

The robot I could understand he is not as maneuverable as a human But Charon not only does he have fingers but he is contracted to do whatever you want no matter what

Or another one, the Master Emerald was shattered in a desert. How did shards wind up in a sewer underneath the city or in the mountains?

@@JoshTigerheart Also, when exactly did Shadow find out that Rouge was a government agent? The fact that he even addresses her as "That government spy Rouge the Bat" (or something like that) implies that her identity and job are public knowledge. If that's the case, it feels like both Shadow and Eggman should've known who she was ahead of time.

​@@KeeperOfUntoldDreamsShadow does know. It's established later he has secret information stolen from the government. As for Amy... she was probably already stalking Sonic like always and lied to cover up that she was following him

@@chrismanuel9768 Ugh, I know what's established, my question was why he didn't bring it up sooner and goddammit. Also, yeah, I'm sure Amy WAS stalking Sonic, that still doesn't explain HOW THE FUCK SHE GOT TO PRISON ISLAND!!!

plot twist: amy's an udnrcover gun agent

Yeah, that one is a weird paradox, the Song of Storms can at least be pinned down to something like Link playing along to the Music Box and accidentally discovering the Song of Storms, but the Goron Vase just kind of exists because of the paradox, it's like the Peach from the show Milo Murphy's Law, they tried to debate its existence and ultimately gave up 😅

They're paradoxes, but not plot holes. The idea of a circle of causality is a common theme in time travel; it even has a name, the "bootstrap paradox". It's a theme of countless stories, and we can't say it's wrong until and unless we start time travelling or prove time travel impossible.

@@MijinLaw Yeah I don't think that one really belongs on the list. It's really not in the same league as "but why not simply send in someone who's immune to radiation?" because it would be mind-breaking to the characters in the game as well. You're not supposed to be able to explain it.

@@MijinLaw All paradoxes would be plot holes. If you can't explain something, it is a plot hole. Paradoxes can not be explained. Not all plot holes are paradoxes. Also there is the obvious proof that time travel doesn't exist. If people could time travel, it would already be happening. Since there is no evidence of time travel in the past or present, obviously nobody can do that. Especially if you consider that the future is effectively infinite, which means effectively infinite time travelers means somebody in the infinite time travelers would try to brag about inventing time travel.

​​@@Chris_Sizemore You're assuming time travel can go back an infinite duration. If you look at spacetime, that's not the case. With infinite energy you can time travel... to the exact same point in time, but anywhere in the universe. It's less traveling through time and more moving without time. It's impossible to reverse entropy outside of theoretical Einstein-Rosen bridges through the theorized singularity in a black hole. So like... probably not.

I can understand that the universe stops trying to fix itself once Max goes back and lets Chloe die, but I have no idea why it decides the storm is the last thing it's gonna try to fix things. If I were Max or Chloe I'd be worried that the actual apocalypse is the next thing I'd have to worry about. There's no reason to think that this is it for the universe's self correcting.

@@weneedaladder8384 Max can't abuse her power if she (and the rest of the state) don't exist anymore. That's the only part of that that makes sense.

Its why Bae is THE ONLY ENDING. ONLY ENDING. NO MY EMOTIONAL WOUNDS ARE NOT REOPENING, BAE LIVES! CHLOE LIVES!

Or just change the original title and plot. Now they're bad racers. "The Last and the Furious" And now their anger makes more sense.

like the entire series ends with the greek gods dead, and the crustian god on the horizon and kratons basicaly saying "hes next." Hell the devels durring ragnorork even said Kratos great tragedy is he just goes from relion to religion kills gods. Hes Gor the God Butcher but as protagonist. He destroys goes, leavel the word in ruins then moves onto the next god and world

The other thing to remember is that this entire conversation is part of squall's dying fever dream, as per an earlier vid 😉

He's an asshole, but not for this. He's an asshole for not shooting Osama bin Mama Edea when he had the chance.

The important thing to remember is that the plot of the game was completely thrown aside in favor of developing the characters themselves. They literally give no information about the primary enemy of the game, who they are, why they're doing the thing... There's barely an explanation as to why sorceresses are even a thing.

@@thembill8246 That's not even remotely true, they also really didn't need to give any elaborate explanation about what a sorceress is, it's not exactly a new concept in storytelling that came out of nowhere, you're just overthinking things

​@@thembill8246Ultimecia's motivation was in the game. The American localization just cut it out entirely. Twice, even, if you count it getting cut from Dissidia. The only hint of it left in-game is a monologue she breaks into in her boss battle.

I won't disagree about the rush, even though I actually enjoyed the story and antagonists, as it's kinda obvious but tbh nothing Talbot does is really impossible for a human being in the Uncharted franchise. The time he does get shot and shrugs it off, you could technically logic out of by assuming he's wearing protective gear under his clothes coupled with game logic or whatever you can think of. Don't get me wrong, he does absolutely give off a weird vibe, but the finished story never leaves concrete proof enough to make this a plot hole. Regardless, it definitely could've been written better, so there's that...

Kratos died like a normal dude too…

I can live with it.

@@Dc-alpha I CAN live with it. Computer, erase that entire personal log. (my favorite episode of television-not just DS9, not just Star Trek, but television, full stop-of all time.)

@@SimuLord A masterclass in good TV.

IT'S A FAAAAKKKKKEE

@@RicPendragon It's REAL! I CREATED it, and it's REAL!

Lol yeah but let's be real here, Borderlands 3's writing was just terrible in general. I mean: -Literally everything about Ava -But especially Ava being promoted to captain at the end despite the fact that she got Maya killed by being immature, impulsive and reckless, never owns up to her mistake, blames everyone else and never experiences even the slightest character growth AND there being any number of adult characters that are overwhelmingly more qualified -The game treats you, some newbie who just recently showed up, as if you're the Crimson Raider's #1 soldier and even designates Brick, Mordecai and Tiny Tina as "the B team" even though they're all longtime veterans of the group and in the second game you were literally treated as a recruit who was eventually introduced to the legacy characters as these major members of the team who were all had significant roles to play and that you were only introduced to as you actually earned your place in the group. Why were they suddenly sidelined and demoted? -The Calypsos motives are stupid. Like... they literally could have had the sister (don't even remember their names honestly) end up having her mind corrupted by an entity within the vault when she first came in contact with it... but instead, no, they're actually just some kids having a hissy fit because their dad was too overprotective because he didn't want his daughter being hunted down for being a siren... and because of that they just decide to turn into remorseless psychotic murderers. Like.... I guess it could happen but it doesn't make them very compelling characters, it just makes them more irritating than they already were. Like idk if we can call anything in that game a plot hole because that implies there's parts of the plot that actually make any kind of sense.

Because the radiation wasn’t as bad yet. Dr. Li explain the purifier’s purge vents were damaged in the final battle for the Jefferson Memorial which is why it will explode if it isn’t activated. The lab thus became significantly more radioactive than Autumn had intended.

@@emberfist8347 except it says nothing of the sort as far as how much radiation is present - you can check the game transcripts. The vents *are* damaged in the fighting, so the *pressure* is building, which is why you need to activate it now, but nothing is said about how much radiation is in there compared to before - merely that it's a lethal dose. To quote Doctor Li: "There's pressure building up in the holding tanks. It needs to be released now, or else the whole facility could explode. To release the pressure, you're going to have to turn the purifier on. Do you understand me? It has to be turned on NOW. If I'm reading this right, I'm afraid there are lethal levels of radiation inside the chamber. I'm sorry. I wish there were some other way, but there's just no time. It has to be done now, or the damage will be catastrophic." Nothing about more radiation than Autumn intended.

@@EnderPryde Why would there be so much pressure? Probably because damaging the vents caused an uncontrolled nuclear reaction like what caused the Chernobyl explosion.

@@emberfist8347 you are trying to backfill a plothole with fanon - again, there is no text in game that says such a thing.

@@EnderPryde You mean that the *purge vents* designed to purge radiation were damaged as mentioned in the game?

Hm, time travel is tough to write. The BttF trilogy is lauded for all the things they take into account, but it's never explained how the changes you make in the past _usually_ change the future, but removing Marty and Jennifer from the timeline between 1985 and 2015 didn't change anything in the "now new" 2015. For consistent logic, the 2015 they arrive to in BttF 2 should've had Marty and Jennifer having disappeared 30 years prior in 1985, prompted by Doc's alteration of history.

I like to think that Tom wrote Alan into existence so that Alan can save/help him or something like that

To be fair, messy paradoxical time travel is what the first Final Fantasy game is ultimately about.

​@@chocolatefudgebrowni3225 I was under the impression that was the case. The bit with the old light switch in the first game was found with one of Tom's manuscripts describing it.

Time Travel, it's almost never a clean business, especially since there are so many different theories on how it would work

@@daviddaugherty2816 If I remember correctly when the two discuss it Tom assured Alan that Alan is the original writer.

That's not the case at all. In the DLC we give them Briar's book which has all the information they would want and in return they give us the original copy of the Scarlet/Violet book that inspired them. Now that they have this information they can stop obsessing over Paradox Pokemon and instead go home to take care of Arven.. It just doesn't effect our current timeline but now a new one exists where Arven has a happy upbringing with likely both parents since the other one likely left because the Professor was too obsessive in their research.

Cratos. Edit: This is how they [hans^] spelled it originally.

If he goes back in time to fight Zeus again though, unless he appears AFTER he was originally killed, it would produce the same paradox.

@@DontcallmeLink No, it's Kratos, lol. At least in the English versions.

It's not, it's simpler. He can't see past his rage. If he did go back there's a chance the paradox doesn't happen anyway, if both Kratos' can coexist.

I would think the strings of fate operate outside of time and aren’t subject to normal paradoxes. But that’s just head cannon

You are TOLD to check the info, that's kind of your homework as the game starts with you preparing for exam lol. There's a lot of extra lore on computer with the whole school festival stuff and Zell vs disciplinary committee things.

I don’t thing the issue was the gf sided affect causing amnesia but more so that the one character who still has his memories doesn’t speak up sooner. Also Cid who created the mercenary school along with his wife who before she became the sorcerer still had his memories. But it seems like the world has amnesia not just the cast. Then there is the whole Laguna flash back and time travel being thrown into it all that.

On one hand its great for Luke to be pursuing what he is passionate about. On the other hand, if for whatever reason he fails at it, we will probably get Luke back. It’s a win win for everybody. We can be happy for Luke moving forward, and also we are all still here for him to fall back on if things go awry.

So to clarify: it's what the music-box-guy was already playing _when Link was young,_ but it didn't become significant until young Link later played the melody _using the Ocarina of Time._ THAT's when it caused the storm, sent the windmill into overdrive and gave music-box-guy a bad memory about it, from which adult Link learned the power of the song.

@@Stratelier Basically, especially since the Song of Storms only has power when played with an instrument with special properties like the Ocarina of Time, and possibly the Fairy Ocarina (depending on how you view it.)

@@homerman76 So basically the paradox started with Young Link playing along to the music box for fun and accidentally causing shenanigans during what is now a broken part of the timeline, because when Adult Link learns the song and travels back in time to INTENTIONALLY drain the well it creates the loop?

Can understand why there's an ever growing camp that only deems BioShock 1 and 2 as the prime canon, this nonsense. I'd rather rewatch the Spider-Verse films and Fionna and Cake than replay that sorry overhyped mess of a game lately.

@@michaelandreipalon359 "I'd rather rewatch the Spider-Verse films" You say that like it's a bad thing

@@firehedgehog1446 Not really. Am just referring to the fact that they did their Multiversal travel tales in a more fascinating and rewatchable manner than whatever bloat BioShock: Infinite did.

@@michaelandreipalon359 Oh, ok, yes that is very true

he is basically playing it already

yeah ff8 is a fail on this list, it is perfectly fine considering they all children and irvine was a recluse, he is introduced as introverted recluse, so yeah he didnt speak up and only started to talk when he got them all into their former orphanage.

@@aka-47k I mean, he could have mentioned at the end of Disc 1 that they were planning on assassinating the woman that raised them.

@@davidfisher4809 and risk that they change the plan and kill her? for him he was in perfect position not to shoot, and he didnt shoot. and plan B was a failure from the beginning.

​​@@davidfisher4809He hadn't seen her before then and nobody knew her name. She was the Matron of the orphanage. It's the reason he fails to assassinate her. He sees her face she realizes who she is. That's also when he realizes nobody else remembers her and starts his plan to get everyone to the orphanage to jog their memory. He doesn't know Guardian Forces steal memories.

Isn't Athena dead? And Janey left to go live a life of peace?

@@chrismanuel9768 no, Athena was spared at the end of pre-sequel and tales from the borderlands, she goes off to marry Janey.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Invisible War, Star Wars: Rebel Assault I+II, that game about bikers riding to hell and retribution... Kingdoms of Amalur. 'Nuff said.

@@michaelandreipalon359 Don't forget Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines!

@@marneus90 That's in the latter, right, not the former?

"why I like it when games just leave it vague for the players to argue about for ages. " As someone who spends way too much time in Fallout forums talking about New Vegas, be careful what you wish for.

The game was rigged from the start.

@@SimuLord Fair point, lol. I said that as a FromSoftware fan and I know they'll argue about any little detail that they can think of, particularly the Souls fans. I stick to Vaati for my lore needs when it comes to those games.

@@SimuLord Yeah, vague moments can be quite troublesome when fans get ahold of them, especially if they have anything to do with character relationships (though fans will debate stuff like that regardless.)

It's the future. They're probably irradiated pest resistant rot resistant GMO super potatoes. The game takes place like a thousand years from now

It's been a while, but as far as I remember: 1. Riordan assumed that Duncan had told you about the sacrifice, but Duncan didn't - and soon after got killed. One might ask, 'Why didn't Duncan tell the new recruits and Alistair about it when he knew it was a real Blight and he could die in the Battle of Ostagar?'... The order is notorious for keeping dangerous secrets - like what the Joining entales and its lethality - because not many people would join the Wardens if they knew. Their 'need to know' attitude usually causes more damage than good. We see where it gets them by the third game. All that said, I consider Duncan's reluctance more a plothole, than actual military logic. 2. You need an Archdemon's blood for the Joining ritual, which was in a vault guarded by Loghain's forces. (I think. It's been so many years.) 3. I believe adding Oghren to the DLC was an afterthought. I remember playing the Ultimate Edition back in the day, and feeling so bummed out that most of the original crew weren't there. The absence of some, including your love interest was very difficult to be explained.

​@@AquaMaryn.With 2, you're on point.

@AquaMaryn. Also, Alistair specifically mentions he doesn't know how the Joining works. Oghren couldn't have joined in Origins even if he wanted to for just that reason, too. In Awakening, they get more help from the order as a whole.

Oh shit truue 😮🤯

He suffers from a bad case of David Cage Disease.

​@@SimuLordI prefer Rocky 5 Syndrome.

It's not really a plot hole, it's just unexplained. A plot hole would be something that contradicts something else in the story.

More development madness. Originally, Laguna was the main character, and the story was about the Sorceress War he fought in. Executives didn't like that, so the story was changed multiple times.

FF8 in general feels very rushed, the junction system almost feels like a placeholder for the real system they were going to make. That makes FF8 prime remake material though, for me. Imagine how much they could improve there.

Agree to disagree, personally I think it's better than 7

Yeah I always had that feeling too.

@@MrFutago87 I have fondness for the junction system, if only because you can completely break it less than half way through disc 1 and fit Squall with 7k HP but deliberately never heal him full so he's still tankier than everyone else but the game still considers him to be low HP so you just keep refreshing his turns until you get the limit breaks and take out bosses in mere seconds. Whoever allowed you to get massive amounts of endgame spells from common enemy drops and tents needs a good talking to. And a hearty pat on the back for making the game more memorable to me.

Mass Effect 2 has some. Like Jacob's father having weapons that didn't exist in Mass Effect 1 while he was on an remote planet for 18 years. How did Mordin get a seeker bug when they have yet to make contact with any Collector enemies so far in the game right before the mission on Horizon? Somehow, they resurrected Shepard despite burning up in reentry with Kelvin hot temperatures, landed on a planet made up of methane and ammonia atmosphere, and lost his helmet likely having his brain destIntel. Never mind the fact that Cereberus gets financial support so I guarantee someone paid for that so they could get a taste of that clinical immortality. I can come up with a huge list of plot inconsistencies like Miranda killing the one guy who knew who sabotaged the space station and later find out in the Lair of the Shadow Broker that he knew who ordered it. So she foolishly killed the one guy with important intel. Or how the Collectors found the Normandy in the beginning despite Harbinger not knowing it was on Eden Prime in Mass Effect 1. I mean, the Collectors are using Reaper technology. How did they find them but not a bonifide Reaper?

​@@USMC49er I think Mordin got a bug from Freedom Progress? You see bugs in video. Or any other place they know about them from quarian intel. Miranda shooting the guy instead of interrogating can be called out but she brushes Shepard off, arrogantly... It's very in character and I can't stop using NOT ANYMORE in her accent lol. Main plot hole is Reapers motivation and FO3 style devs wanting to shock the player too much and they make them go out of character (not at any point negotiating with Reapers or LETTING THEM POSSESS PEOPLE WILLINGLY was touted as an option, they just really wanted to do a 180 on geth despite them proving they're not trustworthy and betraying everyone regardless of how you dealt with Heretics). Indoctrination theory, much like Squall is dead, were clearly denied by creators so we shouldn't really try to improve the writing with stretches like that. Jacob's father thing is gameplay / story dissonance, I put it with everyone being same height and reusing same 5 haircuts.)))

Yeah, I was surprised that that popped up in the video as well since it's pretty well noted in the game why the orphanage never came up

Oh that's very cool!

I liked the idea that it's not necessarily that he actually learned it from link and that's WHY he didn't recognize Link. That plot isn't a time paradox when you put in the idea that Link teaching him is a change in the timeline. It does raise a question of HWO??? but... that's easier to answer.

No. He never returned from Termina. Did you forget that to get to Termina (literally "The End") he was first lost in the Lost Woods (something that is 100% fatal in all cases for Hylians like Link), fell through a magic rift, and ended up in a place between worlds with the Happy Mask Salesman (a man hinted to be a greater deity), and that canonically that iteration of Link is the one that became the Hero's Shade, the ghost of a dead hero of time that got lost in the Lost Woods and never returned to Hylia? Link didn't leave Termina and teach anyone anything. That Link died in the Lost Woods.

@@chrismanuel9768 The devs have straight out debunked that theory, Link returned and became the Hero's shade of Twilight Princess after growing up, since lost children become skull kids. Termina was as in Terminal, since it is the center area of the map. It can also be a reference to it being connected to at least two other worlds as seen when you fight the boss in the Ikana region, the tower was a portal to the world of the ninja like enemies. Also of note is the plane of existence map in the Historia. Termina is a world on the same level as Hyrule not above or below like other worlds Link has travelled to.

@@marhawkman303 I love the theory but there is the issue that as far as we know the only other being who knows the song is the ghost of a musician cursed and bound to a dead land people shy away from in another dimension.

I think it’s implied that you did more courier work west of Nevada. You’re new to this area and recently took a job with The Crimson Caravan branch here.

Fresh out of the vault? In FO2 you don't find the vault in question until late game, it's kind of your main quest. By NV only games that made you a vault dweller are 1 and 3. Not even spinoffs.

yeah, one explanation is that it's part of how she chooses to use the power. She has options in other words.

How is Selphie "basically a step sister"?

That and the guardian forces constantly being referenced throughout the game as a source of memory loss…

I can clearly remember being three, but whatever 🙄

@@tyrant-den884 Do you also clearly remember learning about the prevalence of false childhood memories?