8 Ridiculous Video Game Premises That Make No Sense

The premise: As Big Boss was busying himself with legging it from a besieged Mother Base at the climax of Ground Zeroes, bizarre and inexplicable events were afoot in the skies above.

With the base's burning remnants descending into the ocean, a wormhole spontaneously opens, hoovering up saltwater, debris and humans, alive and dead alike, and spits it all back out on the other side which, in this case, turns out to be a drab alternate dimension that's only 'living' inhabitants have been infected with a nasty parasite (read: it turns people into zombies).

Why it makes no sense: Metal Gear, despite its core narrative revolving around the very real horrors of war, is weird. We have the unmistakable watermark of auteur Hideo Kojima to thank for the inclusion of oddities such as vampires, sentient limbs and mooing robots in an otherwise grounded work of fiction, but wormholes? Ask yourself, when was the last time travel or interdimensional hijinks were ever used as a narrative device in the series. That's right, never.

Exactly zero precedent exists to explain away Konami's strongarming a plot device involving theoretical physics into Metal Gear and it only retroactively serves to detract from The Phantom Pain's plot, as there's never any mention of the event by Big Boss or his cohorts.

Utterly ridiculous.