10 Massive Video Game Spoilers The Internet Totally Ruined

8. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

The major spoiler: You're Venom Snake and Big Boss is Ishmael

Phantom Pain might be three years, but one fresh enough in our minds to remind us of the subsequent fan debate that led to the careless spread of spoilers across various online spaces.

As the prequel to the first Metal Gear and the supposed conclusion to the 'Big Boss saga', The Phantom Pain was always going to pack a heavy narrative punch that would bind the two eras together, but no one really expected it would be that left field. The game opens with the player assuming the role of Big Boss (or so they think) after the fiery conclusion of Ground Zeroes. The player is asked to undergo reconstructive surgery, but is never shown the significance of the task as the they're still in control of someone with Snake's features and characteristics.

That is until we reach the end, where we're promptly shown that we were the medic onboard the helicopter with Snake in Ground Zeroes the entire time, tasked with being the Boss's 'phantom' whilst he embarked on the events that would lead to the Outer Heaven uprising. This of course got plastered everywhere online just after release, through a combination of fervent fan discussion insensitive to questions of spoilers, as well as the usual run of the mill internet trolls.