Best WTF moments while playing a game (SPOILERS)

[ANeMzero]

Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood have epic WTF moments, I can't understand why some people are mad about the ending to Brotherhood, I thought it was truly brilliant from a story telling standpoint, cannot wait to see what happens next.

Perhaps from a context of overall narrative, yes, it was good.
However when you begin to factor in the characters involved it causes some ire. They took out one of the few redeeming factors for something most people really don't like, it will make people angry.

[semysane]

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[RobertMc123]

Assassin's Creed 2 and Brotherhood have epic WTF moments, I can't understand why some people are mad about the ending to Brotherhood, I thought it was truly brilliant from a story telling standpoint, cannot wait to see what happens next.

Perhaps from a context of overall narrative, yes, it was good.
However when you begin to factor in the characters involved it causes some ire. They took out one of the few redeeming factors for something most people really don't like, it will make people angry.

It depends how to take the events of the ending, I think some people have misinterpreted what actually is overheard during the end credits, rather than the events. I cannot wait to see what happens next.

[Gap Filler]

I'm big shmup head; can't get enough of epilepsy inducing danmaku, really can't. When ships, bullets, the kitchen sink are really flying and things are especially hectic, my brain starts ignoring parts of the on screen activity and I can feel it happening in real time. Felt it in Touhou, Cave works and elsewhere. Ever since I first experienced that sense of a game moving into a realm where I am in partial control at best (while playing Ikaruga, since you ask) I've been a sucker for it.

How's this relevant? On reflection, I can name just two instances of a game outside the genre inducing the same sense of control loss. They are the rough half way point of System Shock 2 and the final third or so of Metal Gear Solid 3.

Not that there's other contenders of course. The last quarter odd of Metal Gear Solid 2 was a fair brain teaser for its time, as were the return to Kharak in Homeworld and Durandal's antics in Marathon 2. Plus, there's the games which made a good fist of ratchetting up both the wtf and the hsq over the whole game, such as Midwinter, Cho Aniki and the trio of Silent Hill 2, Fatal Frame and Eternal Darkness, which I once thought of as a great triumvirate, so to speak, of atmospheric survival horror.

[Corax]

Oblivion Dark Brotherhood questline, such a good twist