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You may play an entire game, enjoy it, and know so little about its plot. That is because stories are nestled inside video games, waiting to be discovered by the player. They are not always expressed through cutscenes. You may not fully understand their plot, but they are lovable anyway. These are 10 video game storylines that are impossible to follow.
10 BioShock Infinite
BioShock Infinite didn’t do the series any favors to simplify its plot. The plot thickens in BioShock Infinite, but perhaps the story becomes so intertwined that it is too difficult to understand. If you’re like many players who played the final chapter in BioShock, you headed straight to the forums after beating the game. The ending leaves numerous loopholes.
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The BioShock series, as a whole, is difficult to follow. Connecting the dots to see how the story relates to each game is quite challenging. The city of Rapture and Columbia are constants in parallel universes. “There’s always a lighthouse, there’s always a man, there’s always a city.”
9 Sonic The Hedgehog
What began as a 16-bit video game without dialogue escalated into a complicated story. Who could follow this series’ plot when it spans the length of at least thirty games? Sonic the Hedgehog, as illustrated in the above photo, has taken on a lankier appearance in recent times. Sonic the Hedgehog also has multiple television series, which adds to its complexity. At the end of the day, it’s all about Sonic the Hedgehog’s adventure with friends and his fight against the mastermind Dr. Robotnik.
8 Halo
In Halo, there are installations called “Halos” that are actually superweapons designed to wipe out the galaxy. Master Chief is a supersoldier who, in the early games, tries to defeat the Flood and the Covenant. The Flood is an infection that was created by Precursors, an ancient race that was wiped to near extinction by the Forerunners.
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The Halo games take place millions of years after the Forerunner-Precursor war. Master Chief must save the day by preventing the Halos from detonating, the Covenant from defeating the humans, and stop the return of the Forerunners. It’s a very complicated plot, but this is the gist of it.
7 World Of Warcraft
With seven major expansion packs released for World of Warcraft, it can be difficult to follow its deeply convoluted storyline. To learn the story of the game is not easy because it is intricately folded in the content of the game. To find out pieces of the game’s story, players have to delve deep into World of Warcraft’s quests, raids, and books. In addition to there being plot lines hidden throughout the game, players can also purchase books that expand on the game’s sizable lore.
6 The Witcher
So many quests later, people are still finding content to enjoy in The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. This game series didn’t become complicated all of a sudden. Even the Witcher and The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings have an abundance of quests that make the story increasingly difficult to follow.
To help you understand the story better, it’s best to follow the main storyline and ignore the side quests. According to howlongtobeat.com, it takes approximately “173 hours” to beat The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt during a completionist run. There are plenty of stories to follow if you play the whole series.
5 The Elder Scrolls
It’s hard to say for sure how long it would take to delve into the expansive nature of The Elder Scrolls’ story. There are several games in the series, which begs to question how one would connect all the games’ stories. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim alone has a tangled story that expands way past the game’s main story. In actuality, the main story of most The Elder Scrolls’ games is relatively short. Tamriel and all of its provinces remain, but the story is constantly growing. It’s all the bits of lore found in-game that make the story incredibly difficult to follow.
4 Dark Souls
Not only is Dark Souls one of the most challenging games to beat, but to understand its story takes tremendous effort. This action role-playing game gives you bits of the story through NPCs and very little through cinematic cutscenes. To top it off, you’ll be frustrated by the difficulty of the game and may not want to read-in to the story. According to polygon.com, “It is totally possible to play through Dark Souls in its entirety and have no idea what actually happened.”
3 The Legend Of Zelda
There have been numerous games in The Legend of Zelda series, adding to the complexity of its plot. The timeline alone is overly complicated, but that doesn’t deter players who are fans of the series. The basic plot of most of The Legend of Zelda games is about Link trying to rescue Zelda from Ganondorf. Like many open-world games, the story is gathered from NPCs.
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We know that Twilight Princess takes place before Breath of the Wild. We can tell based on the ruined state of the Temple of Time. Even if you can’t connect the games, the gameplay of this highly acclaimed series alone makes it worth returning to.
2 Metal Gear Solid
In a nutshell, Metal Gear Solid is near-impossible to explain. It takes the span of several games for people to understand its bizarre story. First, it should be understood that Solid Snake is the game’s protagonist and Big Boss is identical in appearance (aside from an eye patch) but is the villain.
We can tell Metal Gear Solid’s plot is complicated because it becomes more difficult to understand as it’s explained. Only the game’s developers, including Hideo Kojima, could understand this game. According to gamespot.com, “Part of the reason the overarching series narrative might be so complicated is because Kojima did not have the entire plot assembled when he made the first game, he said.”
1 Kingdom Hearts
Kingdom Hearts’ storyline is difficult to follow for a plethora of reasons. It’s convoluted and torturously lengthy story spans the length of thirteen games, including three main series games. If that wasn’t exasperating, you have to play the games outside the main series to understand the plot.
Kingdom Hearts is a phenomenal game series for blending Final Fantasy and Disney, but it’s just too complicated for children or anyone to follow. Wielding keyblades as multiple heroes to unlock worlds and fight Master Xehanort who created Vanitas, the incarnation of Xemnas and Ansem. What?
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