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

[tklivory]

Deadly Premonition, the little-loved game with a great sense of humor, absolutely obliterates any wall between the player and the character in the game. The main character spends the entire game calling you Zach and talking to you as his alternate personality in an obvious MPD (multiple personality disorder).

(Yeah, Zach is not his penis [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/1729-Deadly-Premonition-Part-2])

 

[CrystalShadow]

Conker's bad fur day...

It's full of minor stuff throughout the whole game. (looking directly at the camera - Narrating weird stuff...)

Spoiler: And in case you don't mind serious explicit spoilers

Conker explicitly reads out instructions for abilities, making reference to it being a game. - You get a manual at one point...

You enter a specific area and hit over the head,and robbed by cavemen, They taunt him...

He looks to the camera and says: "I recognise that money."
"Oh no! What is the world coming to... When a squirrel can't even go to a dinosaur themed world without getting mugged by a bunch of prehistoric brats!"

For that matter, slightly earlier on, you run into a lava filled cave with a giant dinosaur's head...
There's really overdone dramatic music...
Conker turns to the camera and goes: "Hey Maestro! Don't you think that's a little bit too dramatic? Can you give me something with a bit more of a beat?"
The music changes.
"Yeah. That's better!"

Then of course, there's the ending...

When you've tossed the alien out of the airlock 3 times, and it all looks like it's over:
The alien claws it's way back in anyway...
"Oh no! I felt sure that was it!"
"This is the end!"
"And to think it would end like this."
"So near!"

The alien leaps straight at him, then everything freezes.

"Huh?"
"Hello?"
"What's goin' on?"
"Is this a joke?"
The helmet on his suit opens, and he jumps out of it.
"The game's locked up!"
"Ha! I don't believe it!"
"What! Is it the testing department's day off or somethin'?"
"Hmm. This gives me an idea."

... Anyway, it keeps going with this...

Probably easier to show you:

Yeah... That game is full of minor ones, and some extreme 4th wall breaking too.
But then, most of the game is a joke of one kind or another.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Deadly Premonition, the little-loved game with a great sense of humor, absolutely obliterates any wall between the player and the character in the game. The main character spends the entire game calling you Zach and talking to you as his alternate personality in an obvious MPD (multiple personality disorder).

(Yeah, Zach is not his penis [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/1729-Deadly-Premonition-Part-2])

Seriously? I thought it rather obvious that the player was Zach.
BlazBlue: CS when you get one of the bad endings in story mode. The "flow chart" joke always kills me as that is exactly what I did for the first BlazBlue and Guilty Gear X2.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I know someone already mention Deadpool but I got to mention him again in the upcoming Marvel Vs Capcom 3 game.

Spoiler: 4th Wall

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Most Deadpool lines in Marvel Games. A few from Ultimate Alliance 2:

"You should have asked the designers for a bigger health bar!"

"I can choose pro reg on the next playthrough."

Ninja'd.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Duke Nukem Manhattan Project, Duke Nukem just looks at the screen and says "hey, let's you and me kill this bastard".
That was pretty awesome, at the time.

 

[LondonBeer]

Max Payne, telephone, graphic novel, telephone computer game.

 

[supermariner]

Ratchet: Dammit! we're too late
Clank: we always seem to be too late ... why is that [both look at player accusingly]

also in Fable 2, the comments from villagers on the loading screens suggest they all know they're in a video game
e.g. mentioning the fact that a lot of villagers sound exactly alike and the improbablility of it

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Bad endings in Blazblue.

Just so damn funny.

 

[Blanko2]

maybe this counts:
fallout 2 random civilians say things like:
"you ever notice there are only about 10 types of people in the world? the way i see it there was a big cloning accident in the past."
which i take to be a reference to the fact that most sprites look the same.