Edge Online’s Top 50 Video Game Moments

Edge Online has published a list of “50 moments of inspiration, fright, laughter and intense sadness” in video games, which includes quite a few RPG-related experiences. Making the spoiler warning-worthy list we have Fallout (The Glow), Deus Ex (A Story That Bends to Meet You), Diablo II (The Secret Cow Level), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (You are Darth Revan), World of Warcraft (“Leeeroooy Jenkins!”), The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (The Dark Brotherhood beckons), and BioShock ((Would you kindly)). Assuming you hadn’t already figured it out, this twist really was pretty good:

For the majority of Knights of the Old Republic, the entire galaxy speaks in hushed tones of the unadulterated evil of the missing Darth Revan. When it comes out that the protagonist is actually the missing Sith lord, the context of the entire game changes in a single, jaw-dropping instant.