10 Massive Video Game Spoilers The Internet Totally Ruined

When did it become a thing to spoil everything for everyone?!

by Ewan Paterson
Batman Arkham Knight
Rocksteady

No matter when you joined the internet, if you're reading this in 2018, you've probably had something spoiled for you. It may have been a game you never intended to check out in the first place, or one you were hyping up for months only to be ruined by some anonymous user in some comments section from a far flung website, but either way it sucks, since no one wants a story spoiled for them before they've had the chance to experience it.

Sadly, however, spoiling things for others seems to be the internet's new favourite pastime, with countless films, games and TV shows all having had their biggest moments cropped and superimposed on completely unrelated forums, videos, and comments sections for unsuspecting browsers to fall victim to. It's unfortunate, but there isn't really anything that can be done to combat the problem apart from abandoning the internet altogether.

Literature has always been spoilable in one sentence. It may be more difficult for titles that follow a non-linear narrative (like Fallout or Skyrim for instance), but all it takes is one line for someone to completely ruin a main twist or ending, and in turn the journey it takes to get there. It doesn't even matter if a game is brand new - the new rule seems to be "If you haven't got around to playing it immediately, it's your own fault", and that's just plain wrong.

Ironically, the only way to address this stuff is to deal in spoilers, so there'll be plenty of them from here on in.

Content Producer/Presenter

WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.