10 Video Game Moments NOBODY Saw Coming
3. Big Boss Is Alive - Metal Gear Solid 4: The Guns Of The Patriots
When MGS4 finally arrived in 2008, we'd already had plot twists, retcons, double and triple crosses, clones and anything else Konami could crib from every spy movie ever thrown into the mix. What more could we possibly take by this point?
How about being told the greatest soldier to have lived, the man indirectly responsible for the Les Enfant Terribles programme, the man long thought killed by his own son's hand twice (this is pre-MGSV, remember) actually not being dead?
And not the first twist either, when you see what we're led to believe is Big Boss' remains (and no, don't act like you immediately knew it was Solidus's because of the eye patch. No one did). Instead I refer to that chilling bit when you hear, "It's been a long time, Snake" as the camera pans up to the now older Big Boss.
It was a hell of a finale, as well as closure on the story of Big Boss and the events that brought us here. Nevermind that it's been messed with since, plus nanomachines, it was a fitting end.