10 Video Game Endings That Were Saved By Fans
6. Jacqueline Natla Teaser - Shadow of the Tomb Raider
If Eidos-Montréal had their way, this alternate ending to Shadow of the Tomb Raider would've never seen the light of day.
According to the developer themselves, they accidentally included the wrong ending cutscene in the launch version of the game, as was immediately patched out on release day day.
This secret ending came to light on launch week when one enterprising player played through the game without patching it first, and ended up seeing a tweaked ending compared to everyone else.
Like the official ending, it shows Lara Croft planning her next adventure in Croft Manor, but the key difference is that it lingers for a few moments on a letter from Jacqueline Natla, who long-time Tomb Raider fans will remember as the villain of the very first game in the series.
This obviously indicated that the next game would bring a rebooted version of Natla into the fold, though for whatever reason Eidos-Montréal decided to scrap this tease.
And while the omnipresence of day-one patches left the developer thinking that nobody would uncover the original ending, hilariously all it took was someone not patching the game to ensure that it saw the light of day.