Games that break the 4th wall? (or mindf*ck moments if you wish)

[Leopard]

All Metal Gear Solids, Arkham Asylum, o and Ambush Bug on DCUO.

 

[pennygwoods]

Not quite the same thing, but Wii Sports Resort keeps telling me to take a break, even showing a picture of an open window and a fluttering breeze. I think they're trying to tell me something.

 

[rokkolpo]

No More Heroes 2.

After the first battle they discuss whether they will or will not fill you in on what happened in the first game.

 

[Leemaster777]

No More Heroes 2.

After the first battle they discuss whether they will or will not fill you in on what happened in the first game.

Ah, personally, I liked the fourth-wall breaking at the end of No More Heroes 1 to be funnier, but maybe that's just me.

Also, Batman AA deserves another mention, as that was f-ing brilliant.

 

[Anchupom]

People don't realise this but most of any pokemon game up to the 2nd gym breaks the fourth wall. Signs that say "Press Start to open the menu!" must seem pretty fucked up to any person in that reality.

 

[DonSolo]

Also, Batman AA deserves another mention, as that was f-ing brilliant.

Yea, I never got to play it, but I was told it actually made you think your Game system was messing up in real life. When it was just the game.

 

[redisforever]

In Serious Sam: The First Encounter, on level one, you can free the fans of the game. They're just people with gigantic heads that wander around aimlessly.

 

[Disaster Button]

People don't realise this but most of any pokemon game up to the 2nd gym breaks the fourth wall. Signs that say "Press Start to open the menu!" must seem pretty fucked up to any person in that reality.

On a slightly less related note, all the people that play DS's in HG/SS become a bit creepy when looked at from a meta point of view. It either looks like the DS players are controlling other players, who are robots, and you are a person somewhere in the game controlling your player. Or the same person is controlling you and you're a robot and you don't know it!

 

[Anchupom]

People don't realise this but most of any pokemon game up to the 2nd gym breaks the fourth wall. Signs that say "Press Start to open the menu!" must seem pretty fucked up to any person in that reality.

On a slightly less related note, all the people that play DS's in HG/SS become a bit creepy when looked at from a meta point of view. It either looks like the DS players are controlling other players, who are robots, and you are a person somewhere in the game controlling your player. Or the same person is controlling you and you're a robot and you don't know it!

Yay. Minor brain fuck.

 

[LightspeedJack]

The obvious is Metal Gear Solid, 2 being the most crazy mindfuck. The whole game is one goddamn mindfuck conspiracy! Also on the old Pokemon games you can meet the developers of the game in the game!

 

[Gahars]

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty would probably be the most triumphant form of this in videogames.

Just... watch


"You'll ruin your eyes playing so close to the tv."

 

[darth.pixie]

Vampire: Bloodlines

"Those of you in the first line...will get wet "

So weird and creepy...

Also, at the beginning of the game, you will be berated for cheating if you did so.

And when you ask the psychic if you will win "Whether or not you win the game doesn't matter. It's if you bought it"

What does that man for those of us who pirated it?

Either you won something or you lost something. Or maybe it's something in between. I think she might have been Malkavian and you can never know what they mean. The rest of her predictions were pretty much spot on though.

 

[torzath]

Yea, I never got to play it, but I was told it actually made you think your Game system was messing up in real life. When it was just the game.

It made me freak out big time because I was playing it on my PS3 right after my Xbox RRoDed.

 

[Leemaster777]

Also, Batman AA deserves another mention, as that was f-ing brilliant.

Yea, I never got to play it, but I was told it actually made you think your Game system was messing up in real life. When it was just the game.

Yup. What's extra funny for me is that my console WAS actually pretty screwed up while I was playing it, and it was crashing every once in awhile. So I was REALLY fooled by it, and I was half a second away from restarting the console... before I realized the game was messing with me.

 

[oktalist]

Monkey Island games do this a lot. The most memorable time is in MI2 when Guybrush calls Lucasarts Tech Support from a payphone on Dinky Island.

EDIT: And in MI1 when Guybrush falls off a cliff and "dies" in a parody of Sierra adventure games, and when the game asks you to "Insert disk #142" or something, parodying the endless 3.5" disk-swapping of Lucasarts adventures.

 

[WaReloaded]

Without a doubt, Metal Gear Solid 2, the part right after the interrogation scene. That literally scared me, running around the ship naked and wondering how a game knows all these things about me.

 

[GamemasterAnthony]

Actually, with the Pokémon games, for some reason Game Freak appears to have a branch office in every region of the Pokémon reality. It gets really creepy when the graphics designer says "I designed you!"

But the fourth wall breaking moment I want to see? Matt Stone playing WoW as a Dwarf Paladin and doing his Cartman voice. If for no other reason than to see all the other WoW players online at the time drop their jaws simultaneously.

 

[Gruchul]

Either you won something or you lost something. Or maybe it's something in between. I think she might have been Malkavian and you can never know what they mean. The rest of her predictions were pretty much spot on though.

Actually all clans with auspex can see glimpses of the future. She doesn't appear to have any real signs of madness, simply confusion other a power she doesn't quite understand.

Whilst entirely unrelated to the topic, I thought the best part of that game was when you are introduced to Hollywood's Baron as a Malkavian. He asks if you found it funny that you, a member of the Camarilla found it funny that you needed his, an Anarch's help, to find the Camarilla Nosferatu. You can just say "Hilarious" and keep laughing until the end of time, his face entirely unflinching throughout. Brilliant fun, had me in stiches.

OT: I think it's a guy in Pokemon ruby in the first town who says something along the lines of "Hold B to run". I ended up thinking 'nice day to you too'.

 

[Gruchul]

Monkey Island games do this a lot. The most memorable time is in MI2 when Guybrush calls Lucasarts Tech Support from a payphone on Dinky Island.

EDIT: And in MI1 when Guybrush falls off a cliff and "dies" in a parody of Sierra adventure games, and when the game asks you to "Insert disk #142" or something, parodying the endless 3.5" disk-swapping of Lucasarts adventures.

You just reminded me of a Monkey Island one. Guybrush says something along the lines of "I can't die, I've got an unbreakable 5 game contract"

 

[Bang25]

There's a part in Max Payne that I like. Here it is. Skip 40 seconds ahead.

There was something disturbingly familiar about the comment before me. The writing was all New Times Roman.

"You are a nerd, Bang25."

The truth split my skull open like a watermelon hitting the pavement.

My time spent responding to pointless forums. My obsession with anime. My computer space littered with cheeto bags and videogame boxes. I was a nerd.

Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.