9 Unsatisfying Video Game Plot Twists (And How To Fix Them)

5. Cortana Is... Super Evil Now?! - Halo 5: Guardians

MGS V wasn't the only game to completely drop the ball across 2015. Nope, Halo 5 also built its campaign around a particular event happening, and then shat the bed when it came to delivering on said event. Going in, we were supposed to find out what the Master Chief had done wrong to draw the ire of the UNSC and Commander Jameson Locke, who had vowed - for implied personal reasons - to bring in the Chief at all costs. Then you play through the campaign, and realise this wasn't the story at all. Chief and Locke rather quickly, ahem, 'Batman V Superman' it, which is to say they team up against another threat almost immediately. And that other threat? Why it's Cortana, who's revealed to not have died at all despite Halo 4 saying goodbye to the character, and is now some sort of supreme being that can access entire galaxy's worth of digital code in an instant. As you do. How to fix it: Stay true to the marketing materials. We were promised a showdown between Locke and Chief, and that should've come with a heady mix of expectation and reality. Why not go with the proviso that Chief had abandoned one of Locke's men (after all, you leave random wounded marines on the battlefield all the time), leading to him picking up his rifle and deciding to 'take the fight' to the one guy who's always causing carnage and leaving the rest of them to clean it up. Halo 4 touched on how the real world's media were portraying the Spartans as child experiments who just happened to find a purpose when the Covenant attacked, but as humanity rebuilds itself and looks into how the Chief operates, we could see a media campaign drum up quite the spin on how MC 'must be brought in' for continually reckless conduct. It could've been a massive comment on the effects of the media during war time, along with exploring what it means to 'do the right thing' when those goalposts are constantly shifting. Instead, it was none of the above, and just as its hammered home how much power Cortana has, as we're left with a cliffhanger ending that means you won't get to see more for another three years minimum.