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* ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries''
** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', you can find a positive pregnancy test in the Joker's office, indicating that Harley Quinn is pregnant. In the ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'' DLC, you find several negative birth control tests and the test's box has been changed to read "may give false positive". Seems the writers got cold feet and quickly backtracked.
** In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', [[spoiler: it is revealed that the Joker has taken over Black Mask's gang and taken Black Mask hostage. When you rescue Black Mask,]] he threatens Batman to stay away from the Joker, claims that the Joker is his kill, and runs off when Batman is ambushed by [[spoiler: Copperhead]]. He never follows through on this threat and is never seen again outside of his "most wanted" mission, which involves destroying drug caches and has nothing to do with the Joker. The closest the Black Mask vs Joker plot gets to resolution is in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOriginsBlackgate'', where both Black Mask and Joker are in prison and Black Mask attempts to destroy all of Blackgate, supposedly just to kill the Joker.

** The Klingon Fek'Ihri arc ends with a blatant SequelHook in the form of evidence the Fek'Ihri may have been bioengineered creatures, possibly using Hur'q (the Hur'q being an alien race that once enslaved the Klingons) technology. Nothing ever comes of this, though sometimes it's complicated by picking up the arc again but after enough time in-universe that there were changes and events during the skip never entirely explained, and in at least one case an arc was 'unaborted' by WordOfGod exposition not actually mentioned in-game.

** ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'': ''Fusion'' ends with Samus destroying the BSL Station where Metroids were being cloned to stop both the Metroids and X Parasites from threatening the galaxy, going on the run from the Galactic Federation and worrying they will brand her as a criminal for not following orders. This plot is completely dropped in the distant sequel ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'', which has Samus following a distress signal with no mention of being on the run from the Federation. [[note]]This might be due to a case of LostInTranslation; the Japanese script indicates that the Federation is a complex network consisting of multiple branches rather than a singular monolithic entity - a distinction which was not carried over into the English localization. As such, it could be that the Federation branch behind the conspiracy were a rogue faction in no position to persecute Samus.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'' series has two of their characters' ending from its sixth installment's expansion pack[[note]]which has different endings from the base game[[/note]] being unresolved in later titles[[/note]]:

* ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', which arguably codified the series and every game in the franchise thereon, dropped certain important plot points from ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'', such as the presence of an addictive drug that the cult was using to control key members of the town. Arguably justified, as James's issues are far different from Harry's issues.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Richman}}'' series has two of their characters' ending from its sixth installment's expansion pack[[note]]which has different endings from the base game[[/note]] being unresolved in later titles:
** In Baby King’s ending, four choices are shown to let the player guess what does she looks like when she’s 16. The game implied that it will revealed in 7, in which she’s still a baby and nothing about that is mentioned.
** Xiaomei’s ending also has a similar demonstration, with choices of her future grooms. As of 2022, Xiaomei is still not married, much to Miss Money (who somehow become her stepmom)’s dismay.

* Creator/ZapDramatic:
** The preview for the final episode of the ''Ambition'' series states that you'll advise [[spoiler:Rolf Klink as he negotiates with "pure evil"]]. This is not what happens in the episode at all, which instead focuses on the trial for [[spoiler:Angie's murder]].
** ''Sir Basil Pike Public School'' mentions subplots based around a BigGame and a school dance, which are never brought up again.

* As many have noticed, every central character in ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' besides Fei, Citan, Elly, and Bart is kind of shunted to the side story-wise after the arc they make their first appearance in. One of the more notable instances being Emeralda, who [[spoiler: gets a whole sidequest devoted to her growing up so she can be more useful to her 'father,' Fei, only to fall out of the story for the remainder of the game-]] and that's if you did that sidequest to begin with.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} Episode I'', of which more than '''50%''' of the original Ep. I draft was aborted. ''Episode I'' also foreshadowed the possibility of KOS-MOS being used as a weapon against U-DO, which needed to be stopped because the clash would destroy dozens of galaxies.

* ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'': ''R - A Journey into Lost Memories'' dropped its secondary plot about what happened to Matthew's father about two chapters from the end, in order to get the focus back on the main plot involving Ashley, with the intention of resolving Matt's story in a spin-off title. The company went bankrupt before that could happen, leaving it as this. At least until the core creative team got back together to remake both ''Another Code'' games in the form of ''[[VideoGameRemake Another Code: Recollection]]'', with its version of ''Journey into Lost Memories'' managing to wrap up this plot thread.