The Great Video Game Mystery Thread!

We’ve all seen them in video games. Mysteries that are not truly explained. Like the gnosis in XenoSaga. Well i figured that one out on my own by the time i beat the third game. But what about you, any great mysteries that you still haven’t figured out from a video game or RPG? Well as for the gnosis…hmmm I’ll leave a spoiler space.

The gnosis are the spirits of people who died during the early days of space immigration in the XenoSaga universe. Since Earth had been lost, many humans who believed that one must die on Earth to enter Paradise became "lost" after they died and their spirits wondered, looking for a way to Paradise or Purgatory. The result was that many wondered into a sort of inter-dimensional space where they eventually mutated and became the gnosis. They soon became angry and jealous of humanity and began to attack as monsters. Their forms mirroring their ‘weaknesses’ in their minds such as anger, jealously, lust, etc.

Besides trying to figure out why this thread is in General Discussion and not in General Gaming where it belongs (I love you Crysta!) I could never figure out how Mother Brain just died like that in Metroid, but came back in Super Metroid with arms and legs after taking several missles to the… brain… again… while marinating in that glass thing of hers.

Oh god…. Majora’s Mask has like, a sh*tton of unexplained weirdness. Who are the guys in green tunics you can only see through the astronomer’s telescope? Who (and WHAT, if you’ve seen the ending) is Happy Mask Man? Majora’s Mask? Fierce Deity (pretty hard to imagine Majora not having a rather interesting history with that thing)? Why is there a statue that’s eerily similar to Majora’s Wrath in the Stone Tower? What went down in Ikana (hinted at but never satisfactorily explained)?

But one of the most enigmatic parts of Majora’s Mask is what the hell this () is. Always looked kinda profound to me for being just a background piece.

I just read an article (http://www.zeldainformer.com/2008/05/the-message-of-majoras-mask.html) about that the other day (linked from MetaFilter (http://www.metafilter.com/95115/Hey-Listen)). Worth skimming, if not very well written.

At least the Gnosis make more sense than the Shion/KOS-MOS/T-elos shite.

every single time i play fallout 3 i ask myself: FUCKING GRAVITY, HOW DOES IT WORK.

Okay, I’ve got one:

Does anyone have any idea how omni-gel works in Mass Effect? I mean, you use it to repair your Mako, you use it to bust locks on crates, and you can use it to bypass computers. Seriously, WTF?!? Mako repair I get, because, you know, maybe it’s like mechanical medi-gel. Lock busting I could go with because maybe the gel eats the lock or simply ‘pops’ it loose. But the computer thing (and hell, putting all three in one package) throws me. Can anyone else fill this in?

gel is made of nanobots

gel is made of nanobots

Then that begs the question of how things get broken down into those nanobots…and why everything(upgrades, weapons, and HUGE armor sets) only give you 4 more omni-gel.

Yeah, I’m probably overthinking all of this…but this is a thread for vidya mysteries, right?

Besides trying to figure out why this thread is in General Discussion and not in General Gaming where it belongs (I love you Crysta!) I could never figure out how Mother Brain just died like that in Metroid, but came back in Super Metroid with arms and legs after taking several missles to the… brain… again… while marinating in that glass thing of hers.

Well her super Metroid body could have easily been build/ genetically engineered to her classifications and as for how she’s alive again I guess she has some healing factor or what not.

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Oh god…. Majora’s Mask has like, a sh*tton of unexplained weirdness. Who are the guys in green tunics you can only see through the astronomer’s telescope? Who (and WHAT, if you’ve seen the ending) is Happy Mask Man? Majora’s Mask? Fierce Deity (pretty hard to imagine Majora not having a rather interesting history with that thing)? Why is there a statue that’s eerily similar to Majora’s Wrath in the Stone Tower? What went down in Ikana (hinted at but never satisfactorily explained)?

But one of the most enigmatic parts of Majora’s Mask is what the hell this () is. Always looked kinda profound to me for being just a background piece.

I think that the Flaming Finger was originally part a of the dungeon early on but after several re-designs got axed game play wise and is now just a piece of set dressing that’s very confusing.

The Happy Mask Salesman is just some bizarre guy I guess.

The manga of Majora’s Mask has a bonus prologue with a great hero killing a greater beast that’s been consuming everything, he take’s the beast’s remains and forges Majora’s Mask out of it.

But the manga isn’t all that great what with it skipping over cool stuff as well as story and character elements in favor of getting the whole thing in 1 vol.