"I Don't Get It." - 8 Games with Incomprehensible Plot Elements

Game Podunker DanCurtis writes, "A game in our current climate pretty much has to have a narrative. They're not always good, but they're always there, tucked into the game neatly to give it a little more cohesion. However, some narratives in videogames end up being too convoluted and head-scratchingly bizarre that sometimes we find ourselves sitting there saying the title of this blog. All together now: "I Don't Get It". This is a list of a few games I've played over the years that had me saying those very words, completely baffled by what was going on, probably sat there with a bemused look upon my face. Read on and see if you relate to any of these massively convoluted narratives..."

[ilikestuff]

whats hard to understand about bowser kidnapping the princess all the time? he loves that vag

[hay]

Acutally he kidnaps her to meet with Mario. He loves that dong.

[Redempteur]

tsk we all know that peach has a kidnapping fetish deep inside

[ilikestuff]

i gotta disagree redempteur, im pretty sure a big throbbing Italian meat missile is whats deep inside of the princess

[Redempteur]

and why can't she love both ?

[Saladfax]

"...big throbbing Italian meat missile..."

Quoted for horrifying imagery.

[evercast]

Very surprised that Kingdom Hearts isn't on this list.

[wissam]

Agreed.

[despair]

KH is not very hard to understand and actually has an interesting story...well the first 2 anyway, not sure what re:coded and birth by sleep story is s I haven't played them. Also sucked that you had to play the GBA card fighting version to link 1 and 2..but that game was still pretty good.

[NecrumSlavery]

KH isn't hard to understand. Sora saved the day, became a heartless. But when doing that he was lost in memory(GBA game) and saved in the egg, whom roxas(sora's nobody) awakened him and they fused.

KH on DS was about the beginning of the Org XIII's involvement.

As for BBS, I'm pretty far in and am still confused though. I hear the story opens at the end, but characters in this replicate a look to many from the series.

I'm sure KH III will rap it up nicely.

[QuantumSponge]

Well, that's because KH doesn't have a story, so much as an endless procession of pointless cameos. Basically, Square-Enix figured that with the tractor-beam nostalgia factor working for them, they didn't need to bother with writing an actual story.

[gamerdude132]

I agree with Infinite Undiscovery. Being one of the VERY few Japanese RPGs I like (none of them include Final Fantasy) the plot was kinda weird. I've always wondered what the fuck chaining the moon does.

[Rocket Sauce]

They lost me at "undiscovery."

[Dsnyder]

The cake metaphor was his joke.

[kesvalk]

wait, mario has a plot?

i mean, i thought it was all about jumping on turtles and getting mushrooms...

[despair]

I don't understand what was so confusing about MGS2 story, it was weird but not that bad.

[gaden_malak]

I didn't get it the first play. Second time I did.

[Downtown boogey]

Wooohoooo!!

[Feylynn]

Necron was relatively simple to understand in FFIX... Like, his name literally means Death.

Kuja succeeded in destroying the crystal of life with his last Ultima and thus your party wakes up in proverbial hell transferring their last ounce of essence to give your fighting line up the strength to stand.

If we get more complex then just assuming he was little more then Death I personally think it might be more accurate to say he is the absence of life, as life cannot exist without the Crystal.

So Necron is the same energy that fueled existence shattered into a nihilistic shadow of itself. When your party proves to it the strength of the will of life and defeats it, that energy reverts, presumably restoring the crystal.

[Mottsy]

you killed it! It was a interesting article to me. very enjoyable.

[CobraKai]

I was always somewhat confused with the Modern Warfare games. I get the overall plot, but there are objectives in missions that seemingly have little to no bearing on the story.

MW1 had a story that just kept jumping from one point to the other. I've played the game multiple times and still I have tons of questions as to why.

In MW2, who was "Raptor" that Sgt. Foley had to transport and protect from one restaurant to the other? Who was they guy in the panic room and what was the significance of the briefcase?

But these games aren't really about the story then is it?

[QuantumSponge]

Two words: Mortal Kombat. Is there any plot in video game history that's seen more confusing revisions over the years?

[Matthew94]

its simple because you se-HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

[Nightshadow]

I thought Mario was a communist; he raises the red star flag over the lands he conquers (steals all their gold coins too) and also has a Stalin mo... then again maybe it is all about the cake, I <3 cake too.