10 Video Game Endings Where Nothing You Did Matters
6. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Metal Gear Solid fans remain staunchly divided on whether the fifth game's final twist is a genuine subversion of expectations of a massive kick in the digital knackers.
No, it's definitely the latter.
After spending dozens of hours playing through the story and toiling away to unlock the true ending, you'll learn that while you believed yourself to be playing as Big Boss for the entire game, that's actually not true.
The ending reveals that we've actually been playing as a Big Boss doppelganger the whole time - a combat medic injured in the helicopter explosion at the end of prologue game Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes.
While comatose, the medic was transformed into a Big Boss decoy through plastic surgery and hypnotherapy in order to divert attention away from the real Big Boss.
Given that Metal Gear Solid V was marketed as the game which would depict Big Boss' descent into villainy, for Hideo Kojima to pull the rug out with a "gotcha!" that made most of the game feel largely irrelevant to the series' lore was massively infuriating.