10 Massive Video Game Spoilers The Internet Totally Ruined
7. Fallout 4
The major spoiler: Your wife is killed and Shaun is the head of the Institute
Fallout 4 is a game littered with twisting paths, quests, and Easter Eggs, so it's a pretty difficult story to spoil so easily.
That said, anyone embarking on the title's main quest revolving around the wanderer's journey to find his long lost son can have the experience easily shattered with the revelation that it's actually been 260 years since the bombs first dropped, and that within that time, Shaun was abducted by the institute and eventually rose through its ranks to become its director.
It's one of Bethesda's strangest twists by far, but even if no one really plays the likes of Fallout or Skyrim for their main story, it's still a pretty naff thing to have spoiled. Its release so close to the holiday period didn't really influence restraint on would-be trolls either, so gamers got to delight in having the title ruined before they even got to Christmas Day.
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.
