10 Massive Video Game Spoilers The Internet Totally Ruined

4. Red Dead Redemption

The major spoiler: John Marston dies and son, Jack, takes revenge

Another one that gamers seem to think has passed its invisible 'spoiler embargo' - Red Dead Redemption was one of the last-gen's strongest story-driven games. What it lacked in side-quests it more than made up for in setting, gameplay, and story, but with a strong narrative comes an equally strong desire for spoilers, and that's meant you'll be more than hard-pressed to find a gamer who doesn't know about this particular twist.

The game's ending finds the title's main protagonist, John Marston, brutally murdered by some corrupt federal agents who had enlisted his help in tracking some gang members under duress. After this the game immediately picks up with Marston's son, himself a bounty hunter on the quest for revenge. You track down the villainous Edgar Ross and begin to dish out some very rudimentary frontier justice, and thus the story concludes.

Going into Red Dead is as much about the journey as it is the conclusion, but going through all the title's events with the knowledge that John is just going to die anyway isn't really fantastic by any stretch of the imagination, and inhibits the enjoyment to be had in seeing the plot through to its end. Not that Red Dead isn't worth your time if you already know this knowledge going in - it is - but the sense of danger is limited slightly by the impending tragedy of the game's climax.