7 Video Game Stories That Were Spoiled Before Release

7. Fallout 4

For all the ineptitude that Bethesda has displayed recently, their release strategy for Fallout 4 was actually really solid.

Big-budget games are often announced years before they're due to hit shelves, which can lead to months of over-hyping, and in turn, an eventual feeling of disappointment when players finally get to experience the title for themselves.

And so, to counter this, Bethesda kept things simple: they announced Fallout 4 at E3 2015 and released it a mere five months later, in November of that same year.

Technically speaking though, the game had been "announced" much earlier than that, because certain story elements were leaked by Kotaku at the tail-end of 2013.

After being sent a handful of documents relating to a casting call for the game, the site was able to confirm its setting - Boston - while also leaking the script for the introduction sequence, which reads exactly like it does in the finished product. On top of that, Kotaku also shared character descriptions, details about the game's missions, and revealed locations like the Commonwealth.

While this wasn't a case of third-act story spoilers leaking out into the wild (thankfully, the man who reported the leak, Jason Schreier, chose not to share important plot details), it nonetheless gave players an early, unofficial glimpse at what they could expect from the game's narrative.