Favorite fourth wall breaking moment in video games

[Zakarath]

The scout in TF2 telling people to ragequit

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

In some of the Pokémon games, you can meet a few of the people on the development team. In the game world.

They will talk, to your character, about the game that they made, that they are in. I really don't know how that's supposed to work but Goddamnit I love it.

Final Fantasy IV has the same kind of deal. A secret Developer's Room in the Dwarven Castle.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

Oh Silent Hill 3. My dad and I about died laughing at this considering its reference to Silent Hill 2.

 

[dvd_72]

One of the Jack and Daxter games. I think it was 3.

"This isn't a game", prompting Jack and Daxter to look at the player.

I think there was a better moment in 3.

Jak and Daxter meet up with some of their allies to discuss their next battle plan. I can't remember all the details, but I do remember Daxter saying something along the lines of "Let me guess. It's all up to Jak and me." To which they respond no, they're gonna have someone else take care of this.

Suddenly, Daxter explodes with how he has a contract and this is going to ruin his shoe deal. Which made me laugh. Not just because it was fourth wall breaking, but Daxter was complaining about NOT doing a mission.

now that you mention it, it does seem familiar. I just forgot about it

Back in the day Daxter was hilarious

 

[Terminate421]

Batman: Arkham Asylum, The bit where it looks like your game has crashed but it was only Scarecrow fucking with Batman.

First time that happened I shut off my xbox thinking it crashed.

 

[SageRuffin]

Conker's Bad Fur Day. That's all you need to know.

 

[Terminate421]

No one has mentioned it yet but the Nazi Zombies crew break the fourth wall:

"Hey, Player! Drop the chips and get me some ammo!"
"Now I have to update my facebook page!"
"Our current president sucks!"

 

[albinokid66]

FF7 when you inadvertently make cloud try and kill Aeris when she is praying and he backs away saying 'what are you making me do', just before..... you know......

 

[TheBoltman]

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2. Deadpool argues with a game programmer talking about how he's the best character in the game.

 

[Jakub324]

Black Ops zombies: "Hey player! Drop the chips and get me some ammo!"

 

[KingofallCosmos]

All Suda 51 games, especially Sun Flower and Rain. One of my favorite moments is when you have to cross the whole damn island again on foot and just when you think no way the protagonist gets the same idea, throws someone off his bike and steals it. The whole game consists of weird moments.

Edit: just thought of MGS 2, Raiden running around naked while the AI goes berserk. Classic.

 

[ScoopMeister]

Batman Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow sequences are my favourite. They're trippy, fun and I hadn't seen anything like them before outside the realms of comic books.

Wait... Scarecrow never breaks the fourth wall in Arkham Asylum. The game is awesome, but what has this got to do with the original question?

And the Mario bit in AC2 is not an example of breaking the fourth wall.

 

[dosp5]

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Batman: Arkham Asylum, The bit where it looks like your game has crashed but it was only Scarecrow fucking with Batman.

I reset my xbox twice until I realized it was scripted.And I only realized because i left the xbox on while I was looking for disk cleaner.

 

[Ray De Ation]

Earthbound asks you, the player, to pray for your characters to help defeat the evil foetus- boss-thing. It is surprisingly difficult not to comply.

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Batman Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow sequences are my favourite. They're trippy, fun and I hadn't seen anything like them before outside the realms of comic books.

Wait... Scarecrow never breaks the fourth wall in Arkham Asylum. The game is awesome, but what has this got to do with the original question?

And the Mario bit in AC2 is not an example of breaking the fourth wall.

Well I didn't want to get spoileriffic but:

Spoiler

-Where the game glitches your screen to make it look like the game is broken.
-Where the game restarts the beginning but batman has swapped with joker
-when joker kills you (use the middle stick!)

All scarecrows fear gas

 

[ScourgeOfHell]

I cant believe no one has mentioned Eternal Darkness 2. Hello, anyone remember that ??

 

[CRRPGMykael]

All of the previously mentioned Jack & Daxter moments,and the Batman:Arkham Asylum moments(also previously mentioned)

 

[ScoopMeister]

Batman Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow sequences are my favourite. They're trippy, fun and I hadn't seen anything like them before outside the realms of comic books.

Wait... Scarecrow never breaks the fourth wall in Arkham Asylum. The game is awesome, but what has this got to do with the original question?

And the Mario bit in AC2 is not an example of breaking the fourth wall.

Well I didn't want to get spoileriffic but:

Spoiler

-Where the game glitches your screen to make it look like the game is broken.
-Where the game restarts the beginning but batman has swapped with joker
-when joker kills you (use the middle stick!)

All scarecrows fear gas

Maybe I have a skewed definition of breaking the fourth wall, but I still don't agree that any of these are examples of this.

Speaking directly to, or otherwise acknowledging, the audience through the camera, in a film, play, television program or video game, is referred to as "breaking the fourth wall."

I'm sorry, but none of the fear gas sequences do this as far as I can tell.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Okay what are your favorite moments in all of video games that break the fourth wall. I will add one stipulation. No Metal Gear Solid Moments. Metal Gear Solid breaks the fourth wall multiple times a game.

That being said my favorite is in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines When you talk to Rosa and have here read your fortune. One of the lines of dialogue is "whether or not you win the game matters not... it's if you bought it" Nice way to subtly chastise pirates.

You missed the much better one, a little later on in the game. When you first take the cab out of Santa Monica, you get ambushed by a bunch of vampires. They knock you down, quite prepared to start ripping you apart, when one turns around to face the screen and says "Those in the first row may get wet!"

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Really, how have nobody posted this yet?