Who doesn’t love a good fan theory?
It’s easy to get caught up in speculation when it comes to the stories you love, as
we’ve seen multiple times in other forms of media in recent years - Star Wars The Last
Jedi, anyone?
Or perhaps Game of Thrones?
Video games are no different.
Since they started to become mainstream with home consoles, players have been theorizing
and questioning various plot points, character motives, back stories - you name it- for years.
And while not all theories necessarily pan out, there is the odd occasion where developers
confirm a theory’s accuracy.
And it’s the coolest thing EVER.
So today, we’re taking a look at some of these speculative wins, with our list of the
top 10 video game fan theories that have been confirmed to be true.
10 The Baby Starting off with a more recent addition to
our list, let’s talk about Outlast 2 and its odd ending.
Spoilers abound, friends.
So, at the end of the game, long story short, your wife who had been kidnapped by this uber
religious cult, somehow ends up 9 months pregnant and gives birth to a baby at the end of the
game.
Many players were like whoa WTF?
But since its release, developers Red Barrels Studio have confirmed a theory that many fans
had about the baby, and some of the other strange unexplainable events that occur in
the game - the baby isn’t real.
When your wife gives birth, she says “There’s nothing there.”
This led fans to speculate that the baby was a hallucination, a psychosomatic effect of
the Morphogenic Engine.
If Red Barrbels’ confirmation isn’t enough, fans of this theory have pointed out that
there’s a ton of document collectibles in the game that support this.
9 Zero Killed the Mega Man Original Cast Here’s a fan theory that was proven true
that disproves another fan theory.
If you’re familiar with the Mega Man games, you’ll know that their storylines take place
over several different generations over the course of the franchise.
There are different eras of Mega Man, each with their own unique protagonist in the key
role and antagonists.
Zero, a character that started off as a supporting figure in the Mega Man X series and was promoted
to the main protagonist in Mega Man Zero, and he’s known for his cold and emotionless
attitude, despite having quite the wounded soul beneath all of that.
Fans had theories that the character was responsible for killing off the cast of character from
the very first Mega Man era, claiming that the games subtly hint to him being Mega Man’s
murderer.
This spawned a contrasting theory that Zero’s character was not capable of doing such nefarious
acts.
And guess what?
They were right.
Keiji Inafune confirmed that Zero was not involved in any of the deaths of initial Mega
Man cast, saying that “according to the way I created him.
Zero is not such a person.”
8 Jesus in Deus Ex Pretty much all of the Deus Ex games take
place in a dystopian cyberpunk future, and the very first, released back in 2000, features
a character by the name of JC Denton; a hero that is meant to help save humanity, despite
the hard decisions he’s faced with by the end of the game.
Fans have speculated, that because of his position in all of this, JC is an allusion
to Jesus Christ.
And they weren’t wrong.
Developers Warren Spector confirmed this theory, but it’s origins actually come from a friend
of his - a sci fi author named Bradley Denton, who he calls one of the nicest most helpful
people he’s ever met.
So helpful in fact that people often would call him out on how annoying his helpfulness
was, often saying the words, “Jesus Christ Denton!”
And when Spector borrowed his last name for the character, he decided to use the JC as
well.
One of the game designers has also confirmed the theory, saying that the initial idea was
to have the protagonist be a descendant of the religious figure.
7 Fawkes Gender If you’re familiar with the Fallout franchise,
you’ll know that super mutants are created when humans undergo intense experimentation.
These experiments remove all signs of gender from the super mutants they create, meaning
they can only come into existence by artificial means and can not reproduce.
One of these super mutants is a character you meet in Vault 87 in call D624 named Fawkes.
Many fans of the game speculated that Fawkes was actually previously female; there’s
a cell nearby with a terminal that states D624 was female.
Seems pretty obvious then, right?
But many fans still believed the way the character interacted meant Fawkes was male.
That is, until someone at Bethesda confirmed Fawkes was female, and that initially there
was content intended to go in the game that stated she was a security guard in Vault 87.
But all that was thrown to the wind when Bethesda’s lead designed stated that Fawkes was in fact
male.
6 Symmetra Blizzard’s release of Overwatch comics really
opened up the world in terms of character development, giving fans more to relish over
outside of what the game provided.
Aside from the revelation concerning Tracer’s sexuality, another character also gave fans
a bit of a surprise, and subtly confirmed a theory that had gradually grown concerning
her health.
Symmetra can be a deadly character in the hands of a skilled player who knows how to
properly make use of her traps and portals.
And in the digital comic that focused on her character, A Better World, fans noted that
there was something interesting about her dialogue - she spoke as if she were autistic,
and mentioned the spectrum.
This was later confirmed by Jeff Kaplan, the game’s director, who responded to a fan
letter asking the question with yes, saying “She is one of our most beloved heroes and
we think she does a great job of representing just how awesome someone with autism can be.”
5 Master Chief’s M6D Generally speaking, in most FPS, your standard
pistol firearm is typically one of the weakest weapons in your arsenal.
But this wasn’t exactly the case for Master Chief’s M6D in Halo.
Fans speculated that the weapon was very over powered, and that the pistol had intentionally
been crafted that way.
It was eventually revealed that Bungie co founded Jason Jones had intentionally increased
the firepower on the weapon due to a balancing issue he believed the game had, and since
the developers didn’t want to modify the weapon’s data, he adjusted it in the code,
which would improve the pistols stats when a map was loaded.
4 Wolfenstein and Doom Connection Fans of these two Bethesda games had noted
the similarities between them, primarily between BJ Blazkowicz and Doomguy, which initially,
likely came down to the fact that they were both conceived on the iD Software prior to
Bethesda obtaining their properties.
While some theorists dived deeper into their connection, Bethesda put the two in the same
world in Wolfenstein RPG when the Harbinger of Doom appears.
After BJ defeats him, he says that he would continue to battle BJ’s descendants in the
future, making the Harbinger the first Cyberdemon, which would later (chronologically speaking)
appear as an enemy in Doom that the Space Marine aka Doomguy would fight.
This has led many people to believe that the two are biologically related, with Doomguy
being a descendant of BJ’s.
3 Termina is the Twilight Realm Sort of.
There’s a lot of fan theories about the legend of Zelda.
So much so that we actually have two videos on them.
Worth checking out.
Anyway, back when Twilight Princess was released, there was a lot of speculation about the similarities
of the game to Majora’s Mask.
Maps were very much alike and the Twili make appearances in both, leading fans to believe
that the Twilight Realm was actually Termina from Majora’s Mask.
This was confirmed in Hyrule Historia, which was released by Nintendo, and provided an
official timeline of the whole franchise’s series.
The theories have expanded and go much deeper than that to question narratively what occurred
between the times both games are set.
2 Michael Jackson & Sonic When Sonic the hedgehog 3 came out, players
noted the similarities between the soundtrack of the game and the King of Pop’s musical
stylings.
But he wasn’t mentioned in the credits, so for years, rumours were abound that Jackson
had worked on the project but for whatever reason had abandoned it and was uncredited.
In 1993, Sega confirmed that Michael Jackson did in fact work on multiple tracks for the
game, but because of the allegations that were beginning to arise about his personal
life, his name was removed from the game.
While it’s never been officially announced how much of the soundtrack he worked on, many
of the individual developers involved with the game have claimed that he didn’t just
create a few of the tracks but rather the entirety of it, and that rather than due to
allegations, Michael requested his name to not be included in the credits due to how
the Sega Genesis processed sound; the quality wasn’t up to his standards.
1 Super Mario Bros 3 Stage Play One of the earlier theories that eluded fans
of the Mario franchise for quite some time was whether or not Super Mario Bros 3 was
actually a stage play.
The evidence?
The game starts with curtains opening, there’s shadows from the ‘set pieces’ cast on
the backdrop, blocks are bolted to the background, platforms hang from the ceiling and every
level ends with exiting stage right into a black area that appears to be the end of the
set.
This was confirmed in 2015 by Miyamoto himself; he was asked during an interview about it,
in which he kept his answer short and sweet with “yes.”
There we have it friends!
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