20 Gaming Facts That Will RUIN Your Favourite Franchise
These twenty video game facts will forever change how we see our favourite franchises.
For those who enjoy video games, trivia and behind-the-scenes stories are fantastic ways of learning more about the games we love. They provide obscure facts about beloved characters or shine a light on fascinating pieces of game design that can deepen our appreciation for what the developers achieved.
However, there are some pieces of gaming knowledge that fans are better off not knowing. Instead of the kind of light-hearted fun facts that can be shared with friends and pulled out during a pub quiz, these nuggets of information have the power to completely change how we understand our favourite franchises.
Whether it's by revealing production secrets that shatter an illusion or uncovering lesser-known facts that alter how iconic characters have been perceived for decades, players won't be able to look at their favourite games in the same way ever again.
The entire industry is full of these kinds of dark secrets, with many popular and adored series containing their own skeletons. Beneath their colourful surfaces and lovable characters, even the most family-friendly titles are home to disturbing revelations that will forever change how they're seen.
20. The Original Ending - Assassin's Creed
Although the modern-day storyline in Assassin's Creed remains a point of contention amongst fans, it was nevertheless a pivotal part of the initial games. When players weren't exploring historical locations as fan-favourite characters, they'd take control of Desmond Miles as he joined the Assassins and used the Animus to find a way to stop an impending apocalypse.
Desmond's story came to an end in Assassin's Creed III when he sacrificed himself to save the world. However, the series could have ended very differently.
When the franchise was still conceptualised as a trilogy, the original plan was to conclude the third game with a grand showdown between Desmond and Abstergo in the present day. Original creator Patrice Désilets explained that Desmond and Lucy would then board a spaceship to start a new civilisation.
Although this ending was intended to tie the series' historical and sci-fi storylines together, revealing that the mysterious Isu were aliens all along would have been a massive cop-out that pushed the series into absurd territory.
The current modern-day plotline may have its faults and suffer from an identity crisis, but at least the series isn't dealing with literal aliens.