The 4th wall doesn't come from tv. In theatrical plays going back 2000 years there was a wall built off from the stage where an actor or narrator would address the audience directly.
Yeah this was SO fucking bad. How uneducated do you wanna be? These guys: "Yes, please!" And even if you don't know about this shit, AT LEAST do your damn research. It's not like they had to come up with that stuff quickly. They had time to look it up for the video. But I guess we live in the time where anyone can say anything, not matter how much bullshit they say. It's so sad. And don't get me wrong, please. I love gameranx, but they constantly get random shit so damn wrong when the correct answer was a 2 second google search away.
The 4th wall break in Tomb Raider 2. She's about to hit the shower, bad guys show up, you get rid of em all, including your butler, using a shotgun, and then she returns to the shower, places down the shotgun, faces the camera, and asks: "Haven't you seen enough?" and grabs the shotgun once more and shoots you. The game finishes.
I was playing Stellar Blade, then my wife started talking to me, so of course I have to pay attention to what she has to say. The camera was near Eve's face. When my wife was done talking, I looked at Eve and I freaked out because she was literally looking at me. I moved the camera around, and her head started following the camera and continued to make eye contact for what felt like a whole minute! Scared the shxt outta me for a while. It felt like she's looking at me to ask who I was talking to and telling me to pay attention to her. 🤣
@giosue_222 Lol yeah she's okay with it because she understands that it's just a videogame and Eve is not a real woman. Imagine being so psychopathic that playing a girl in a videogame is considered cheating. 😅 But she actually thinks she's cool. She's into those girl bosses, so she likes Eve. She's not bothered by this game one bit.
The ‘Would You Kindly’ twist from Bioshock was an excellent 4th-wall break, when Andrew Ryan looks directly at you and simultaneously gives you and your character an existential crisis as he proves you’ll do anything you’re told.
Bonus: Reaching back into the snes days, there was a 4th wall break in Earthbound. Where the game inquired about the player, "you, the person holding the controller." Amazed me back then.
I'll reach back there too. With SNES you had Ken Griffey Jr baseball and if the batter struck out, they'd turn and look at the screen and yell, "Oh Come On!"
@@ryang1448 There was another one like that too! Was it Sonic or or maybe Abe's Exodus where if you didn't move they'd look at the camera and shake their head or do something. But they would acknowledge the player.
Detroit Become Human did this so perfectly with the main menu of the game. Then when she says they have to test your controller and it vibrates kinda caught me off guard. Also in the end I'm not gonna spoil but that was insane!
Falcon, in the world of FF7 Remake/Rebirth, the victory jingle actually comes from a tango in their world. It’s a record you can collect in the first game. They all know it because it’s wildly popular.
Still, incorporating the music *you hear as **_soundtrack_* at the end of battles _into_ the game world itself... if it's not a fourth wall break, it's the largest lampshade ever. Of all time.
The thing about Alan Wake 2 is that Alex Casey isn't just a Max Payne look-a-like. He IS Max Payne. Remedy doean't own the IP so they had to rename him. The same goes for Warlin Door, who was Martin Hatch in the Remedy game Quantim Break. He was played by Lance Reddick, who was also intended to play Door an Alan Wake 2 prior to his passing.
I really love Borderlands 3's wall breaking moment with the "To Be Continued in 4..." line I was so pissed at first but then when the joke was done I was so impressed with how much more content was left to complete.
I really wana play it but I'm not buying it digital. So I have to keep waiting for tbe promises physical release. They lost a lot of profit I'm sure not releasing a physical copy. They even said it was a financial failure. Well no shit can't imagine why. Lol. Its locked off to some pc players to
One of my favorite 4th wall breaks is in Jak 3 whenever a character what's Jak's light stone or whatever and they make a quip and she just goes "this is not a game!" and Jak and Daxter look at the camera with confused expressions. It's not the greatest 4th wall break of all time, but it being subtle is what makes me remember it lol
The games I've played that break the forth wall Saints row 4, tales from the borderlands, code vein, mk 11, far cry 3 blood dragon and sunset overdrive break the four wall especially mk 11 and sunset overdrive
In the previous DG, Dark Arisen if you stop playing and put your controller down but the game is still running the pawns start waving in front of your characters face and clicking their fingers. Maybe not breaking the wall but it's still quite funny.
If you haven't checked it out, the Deadpool game was great about this. It was so involved in breaking the 4th wall with the player you never learn the big bad's actual plan. It was incredibly well done.
Deadpool's 4th wall breaks in the movies are such lowest common denominator slop. Id imagine they're the same in the video games. If you think that qualifies as "clever". You probably think avengers is quality cinema.
Bonus games? In Jak 2, the old man mentions that "this isn't a game" or something like that then Jak and dax look right at the camera In street 3 football. One of the players lines after a play is "it's not me, it's the guy controlling me!"
The moment is from Jak 3 and I'm pretty sure it was a young adult female monk. Though there was a scene in Jak 2 where Daxter was reading through a contract and got upset over the inclusion of "GAME RIGHTS!" complete with a close up of his indignation.
Another bunch of honourable mentions: Psycho Mantis (attempting) to read your memory card in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and BB's antics in Fate/Grand Order's various events, not least the Fate/EXTRA CCC collab. I freely admit that I am most certainly dumb, but at least I don't insult, like so: "How DARE you! You didn't include Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. YOU ARE THE MOST DISRESPECTFUL TH-camr EVER!!!!!!!" It doesn't matter if games like Metal Gear Solid were made in 1998. Those games are still relevant now, and will be relevant so long as we remember. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that I am entitled to shove errors down the throats of the undeserving; there is nothing wrong with a video that contains multiple moments of people noticing that there is an actual audience. And quite frankly, it's refreshing that there are other fourth-wall breaks being recognised; after all, there's only room from ten for a ranking, and variety is the spice of a content. In brief @MemeselfandI : Both mine and Gameranx's choices are equally correct, so I see no point in refuting him. I do, however, think that reckless paranoia is unhealthy. Get help.
In the first level of Super Paper Mario, some characters would give Mario instructions about how to play the game. For example, the character might tell Mario to press 1 to flip dimensions. That character would tell Mario not to worry if he did not understand what it meant because the being watching this would understand.
EVE through me fucking off guard 🤣🤣🤣. Got a bunny nano suit for her, so I had to check her proportions out and she gave me that look 💀💀. I questioned my behavior immediately
Playing it right now and my favorite suit so far is actually the Black Uniform. Sure the skirt is a bit short (I'm not peeping, I swear) but fuck is it stylish!
Infamous: Second Son has a somewhat subtle example. Once you 100% the game, getting both the good and evil endings and all the trophies, Delsin will say "You know what buddy. You and I have been through a lot, but I gotta tell you. Officially, we're done." after the credits have rolled and you're in the post-game for that playthrough. I believe a few other games have done that, making the player character "talk" to the player and congratulate them for fully beating the game. It's a cute little way to wrap up a game you spent so much time to complete.
OMG NO WAY?! COULD THIS BE MORE CONDESCENDING?!!! Pretty sure Falcon didn't say TV did it first... he was just relating it to something we could all understand. Jeez.
I had no idea about the one from Stellar Blade until it was pointed out to me, so when at one point I focused the camera on something close to Eve which registered as "looking at her" and thus activated this easteregg... if I didn't already know about it I'd probably shit my pants, cuz that is some terrifying Project Zero crap right there.
For FFVII Rebirth, the first time Barret sang the victory song I laughted, but what TRULY caught me by surprise was when Cait Sith did the same but with meows. D: Absolutely amazing
Oh man you should check out how Savathun from Destiny 2 broke the 4th wall by taking over the official destiny 2 twitter account and addresses the players directly, that was an amazing moment that Bungie brewed together The Telesto one was also funny as hell
Cloud isnt the only one who does it in Rebirth. Yuffie does it all the time and Barret is the one ive heard do it the most. Especially after you beat one of the VR missions
Unless the person who first put the concept into words was a time traveller then no, the 4th wall notion absolutely did not originate with TV or film of any kind. It's been around since the mid-late 1700's at the very least.
4th wall is from theatre productions....long before tv...quite literally breaking the imaginary wall between the audience and the stage production - often used is key plot moments or via narration...as tv and movies are an extension of theatre for the modern era it happens in that too
I know it's 20 years old, but Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines had a couple of really nice 4th wall moments. The first one just after doing your character, since if you went back and forth between the two character pages, your poits would replenish so you could start the game with a lot more than intended, and Jack would note that by saying that you were probably trying a mod or something, so you might want to go back and turn it off before starting. Next, iin the beach if you paid the semi-malk to read your future, she would drop lines about you being a player in the game. :D
Also, the most subtle and clever fourth wall break I have ever experienced in a video game comes from "Chaos On Deponia" where there is a part in which you have to ring a doorbell but the character behind it cannot hear you. The solution to solve that puzzle is to mute the games music, only when the value is 0 he will hear you ringing the doorbell and opening the door for you!
Yeah not ti mention it makes that entire entry completely redundant because they don’t even show the damn cracked screen because of the censoring. Just becomes a bunch of pixels
an obscure one to add.. Ar nosurge. Its a jrpg game where you follow 2 POVs, 1 with the classic jrpg protagonist and another is a silent robot. the 4th wall breaking moment here is (spoilers) - when it is revealed that they are supposed to be talking directly to you through the silent robot (from the game world per se, to you in the real world)
Ok, I'm going to be VERY pedantic right now (already realizing there will probably be minions who'll be stirred about it) because I'm actually a researcher in the topic: "breaking the 4th wall" and "metafiction" are very distinct things. "Metafiction" refers to fiction that adresses its own nature: games that talk about gaming, series that talk about the structure of serial TV, and so on. "Breaking the 4th wall" refers to a fictional character acknowledging the expectator/player. I don't know about the other games, but even though Alan Wake 2 is a heavily metaficional story because it adresses the structure of stories, in absolutely no point it breaks the 4th wall. That is a confusion that arises because it is not a game with metafictional elements, but rather a metafictional game altogether. But it doesn't break the 4th wall, it doesn't acknowledge the player or the gaming experience of the player: it just talks about the narrative from beginning to end.
My favorite 4th wall break is in Silent Hill 3, and the first time you try to get Heather to search a nasty toilet. "Who would ever think of doing something so disgusting! " The best =D
I usually find y'all entertaining ... but claiming the term "4th wall" comes from television sets and not from theater stage productions makes me rage. xD
Immortals: Fenyx Rising constantly broke the 4th wall... not the main character Fenyx, but Zeus and sometimes the other gods make many comments about our reality and world events/pop culture. It's always pretty funny especially when they are talking directly to Fenyx and she has no idea what they are talking about.
Sea of Stars has a pirate lady that pretty much bombards you with 4th wall breaks during one mission. She's really funny and I love how they set her up ^^
One of my favorite things about Gameranx is the absurde ways they pronounce some things that typically have their pronunciation said in the games they're discussing.
Alan Wake 2 was such a mindfuck in the best way possible. I can't wait to play through it again and catch all those little things I'm sure I missed the first time.
A game where I didn't expect to be filled with 4th wall breaks, and it's not Jak & Daxter. But rather, it's SpongeBob: Cosmic Shake. At different points in the game, multiple characters allude to having a strange feeling their being watched, or controlled. The latter being right at the start of the game, with a random NPC (Not Karen) right across from Patrick's rock. Before breaking open the multiverse. That asks SpongeBob if he "gets a strange feeling like he's being controlled, by like, some kid?" SpongeBob would say something similar later in the game's Bikini Bottom HUB world. And then the Flying Dutchman, who's kinda hidden in one of the trailers in the Karate Downtown Bikini Botom level. This cameo breaks the 4th wall about SpongeBob as an animated series, but it doubly serves as a 4th wall break for the fact thi is a video game! I don't know, I never expected this kind of thing from a SpongeBob game of all things! And that makes it even more funny!
Gameranx-if you've played Sims 2, you would see that sometimes a hungry Sim would look directly at you and wave his/her arms around and point to his/her mouth.
I was playing one of the Mafia games and there was a scene where I had to sneak past some thugs. As I was doing it, one thug started pitching the idea of a video game to the other thug who thought it was a dumb idea. "It would be like a cartoon, except you are the little toon running around doing things kind of like we're doing things now". "Oh man your nuts..."
I know the Stanley Parable was all about breaking the fourth wall, but it's still a damn great game, and especially the way they trolled everyone with The Stanley Parable 2.
In "half-life 2", you can talk to the Vortigaunts, they say a single sentence picked at random from a selection of several, 3 of them are 4th wall breaking: "Far distant eyes look out through yours." "How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass?" "Could you but see the eyes inside your own, the minds in your mind, you would see how much we share."
I dont understand how number 1 was breaking a 4th wall. Idk wtf was even happening. It just felt like part of an already weird game. I wouldn't have ever taken that as a 4th wall break.
Nothing beats the "press the A button" dialog in games. I like to imagine the main character thinking "press A button? Who the fuck am I talking to right now? Why was that sentence!?"
I played Doki Doki Literature Club +, last week since it was given away in Epic games a few months ago. They broke the 5th wall, the wall to the player's soul.
My all-time favourite is max payne 1. Elevator. Music plays. I shoot the loudspeaker. Max: thank you!😂 Closely followed by the part where he us high on v. Lovely game.
I like the one in Hades 2 When you are fighting chronos, he doesn’t allow you to pause the game. When you press Esc and pause menu appears, he says “i’m the one who controls time not you” and game resumes lol
*All* player characters in _Black Desert_ are instantly aware of the camera's location. If you're looking at your character's face (and you're not in Observe mode), and they're standing idle, they're looking back at you, even if the camera's a hundred meters away and up several stories.
Psst, hey Falcon... The fourth wall predates TV by a good bit; started on the stage actually. Here, I'll save ya the Google bandwidth: 'The concept is usually attributed to the philosopher, critic and dramatist Denis Diderot, who wrote in 1758 that actors and writers should "imagine a huge wall across the front of the stage, separating you from the audience, and behave exactly as if the curtain had never risen".' [Apologies, but in addition to being a game dev, I'm a lifelong theater geek & still act in VR productions to this day lol] EtA: Ah, someone beat me to the punch on all that. 🤣
The first 4th-wall break i remember experiencing in games was the 1st Max Payne where in his Valkyr hallucination, Max is told that he's actually in a computer game, and he freaks out. Well, actually, both of us freaked out...
4th wall doesn't come from TV, but rather theatre. It did eventually come to represent basically all media. Here is what Wikipedia says about it (the Encyclopædia Britannica says something similar): The concept is usually attributed to the philosopher, critic and dramatist Denis Diderot, who wrote in 1758 that actors and writers should "imagine a huge wall across the front of the stage, separating you from the audience, and behave exactly as if the curtain had never risen".
I the original Bubsy game on SNES, if you did nothing for about 40 seconds, Bubsy would start tapping his foot expectantly and if you continued to do nothing, he would actually knock on the screen to get your attention. It even made the sound effect of what the the thick glass on the older cathode tube TV’s made when you tapped on them in real life. There’s some fourth wall (tapping) breaking for ya.
The 4th wall doesn't come from tv. In theatrical plays going back 2000 years there was a wall built off from the stage where an actor or narrator would address the audience directly.
Dude hearing this was like a tad unnerving . Like are we forgetting history or what?
Yeah this was SO fucking bad. How uneducated do you wanna be? These guys: "Yes, please!"
And even if you don't know about this shit, AT LEAST do your damn research. It's not like they had to come up with that stuff quickly. They had time to look it up for the video. But I guess we live in the time where anyone can say anything, not matter how much bullshit they say. It's so sad. And don't get me wrong, please. I love gameranx, but they constantly get random shit so damn wrong when the correct answer was a 2 second google search away.
@@smnr1579according to the guy underneath you, some are actively letting it die
@@smnr1579 You only know what the government permits.
Thankyou! I didn't want to be the "uhm, actually" guy but also couldn't really let this one slide
The 4th wall break in Tomb Raider 2. She's about to hit the shower, bad guys show up, you get rid of em all, including your butler, using a shotgun, and then she returns to the shower, places down the shotgun, faces the camera, and asks: "Haven't you seen enough?" and grabs the shotgun once more and shoots you. The game finishes.
I was playing Stellar Blade, then my wife started talking to me, so of course I have to pay attention to what she has to say. The camera was near Eve's face. When my wife was done talking, I looked at Eve and I freaked out because she was literally looking at me. I moved the camera around, and her head started following the camera and continued to make eye contact for what felt like a whole minute! Scared the shxt outta me for a while. It felt like she's looking at me to ask who I was talking to and telling me to pay attention to her. 🤣
So, Is your wife ok with the fact that you play stellar blade? Doesn't this bother she? 🤔
Alr guy, we get it, you have a wife and she lets you play waifu games, you could’ve just said that 🙄
@giosue_222 Lol yeah she's okay with it because she understands that it's just a videogame and Eve is not a real woman. Imagine being so psychopathic that playing a girl in a videogame is considered cheating. 😅 But she actually thinks she's cool. She's into those girl bosses, so she likes Eve. She's not bothered by this game one bit.
@flatstheflounder338 Lol. I promise you that real life waifus that support your hobbies 💯 exist. You just gotta know where to look.
Eve wants to replace your wife.
I love the twist in assassins creed where the goddess refers to desmond controlling ezio
Blew my mind as a kid
I was truly Stunned when that happened
Only better one was at the end of Revelations when Ezio spoke to Desmond diirectly
she may even be referring to us, the player
One of my fave gaming moments ever.
My jaw hit the floor.
The ‘Would You Kindly’ twist from Bioshock was an excellent 4th-wall break, when Andrew Ryan looks directly at you and simultaneously gives you and your character an existential crisis as he proves you’ll do anything you’re told.
He is only speaking to Jack.
Bonus: Reaching back into the snes days, there was a 4th wall break in Earthbound. Where the game inquired about the player, "you, the person holding the controller." Amazed me back then.
Secret of Evermore
I gotta dig out my old 3DS and replay EarthBound.
I'll reach back there too. With SNES you had Ken Griffey Jr baseball and if the batter struck out, they'd turn and look at the screen and yell, "Oh Come On!"
@@b1orogueor if you were idle for too long. They’d knock on the screen, “HEY! Play the game kid!”
@@ryang1448 There was another one like that too! Was it Sonic or or maybe Abe's Exodus where if you didn't move they'd look at the camera and shake their head or do something. But they would acknowledge the player.
Detroit Become Human did this so perfectly with the main menu of the game. Then when she says they have to test your controller and it vibrates kinda caught me off guard. Also in the end I'm not gonna spoil but that was insane!
Chloe is the best.
Falcon, in the world of FF7 Remake/Rebirth, the victory jingle actually comes from a tango in their world. It’s a record you can collect in the first game. They all know it because it’s wildly popular.
Still, incorporating the music *you hear as **_soundtrack_* at the end of battles _into_ the game world itself... if it's not a fourth wall break, it's the largest lampshade ever. Of all time.
@@ferd617 oh for sure he just said he didn’t know why Cloud would know the song himself
The boy band prince also hums the melody rather wholeheartedly in FF15 after combat 😂
It was Cloud's ringtone in FF7 Advent Children too.
@@Jakal3157 I thought it was one of the turks? I'll have to rewatch it now. lol
the Nier one should've at least been a bonus one, that one is hilarious.
The thing about Alan Wake 2 is that Alex Casey isn't just a Max Payne look-a-like. He IS Max Payne. Remedy doean't own the IP so they had to rename him. The same goes for Warlin Door, who was Martin Hatch in the Remedy game Quantim Break. He was played by Lance Reddick, who was also intended to play Door an Alan Wake 2 prior to his passing.
I think everyone can agree that Doki Doki name drop was terrifying the first time around
This ^
Yup
Was looking for this
Or hilarious if the name on your computer isn't your name.
I really love Borderlands 3's wall breaking moment with the "To Be Continued in 4..." line I was so pissed at first but then when the joke was done I was so impressed with how much more content was left to complete.
Alan Wake 2 was incredible, all-around. Also, it's been covered before, but the Evil Within 2 fourth wall gag will always be hilarious
Who is that Amogus FBI woman anyway?
I really wana play it but I'm not buying it digital. So I have to keep waiting for tbe promises physical release. They lost a lot of profit I'm sure not releasing a physical copy. They even said it was a financial failure. Well no shit can't imagine why. Lol. Its locked off to some pc players to
One of my favorite 4th wall breaks is in Jak 3 whenever a character what's Jak's light stone or whatever and they make a quip and she just goes "this is not a game!" and Jak and Daxter look at the camera with confused expressions. It's not the greatest 4th wall break of all time, but it being subtle is what makes me remember it lol
Deadpool Game: There’s a fourth wall break every five seconds.
And I LOVE it!
The games I've played that break the forth wall Saints row 4, tales from the borderlands, code vein, mk 11, far cry 3 blood dragon and sunset overdrive break the four wall especially mk 11 and sunset overdrive
@@artTAGGER77yeah I was surprised they went with MK One instead of 11
In the previous DG, Dark Arisen if you stop playing and put your controller down but the game is still running the pawns start waving in front of your characters face and clicking their fingers. Maybe not breaking the wall but it's still quite funny.
What is clicking your fingers?
@@CanadianBoyy88 it's the pawns gesturing "hello, are you there/awake" because your character is just standing there motionless.
The last act of MGS2 - you're playing a game, Raiden
Awesome video as always!
In Final Fantasy XV, Prompto also sings the FF Victory theme at random when a battle sequence ends.
As well as the Chocobo theme randomly
A few different versions of it, too.
If you haven't checked it out, the Deadpool game was great about this. It was so involved in breaking the 4th wall with the player you never learn the big bad's actual plan. It was incredibly well done.
That was probably why he did not include it in this video
Well, it's Deadpools nature and his official comic superpower, so it isn't that surprising in his case at all.
Deadpool's 4th wall breaks in the movies are such lowest common denominator slop. Id imagine they're the same in the video games. If you think that qualifies as "clever". You probably think avengers is quality cinema.
Bonus games? In Jak 2, the old man mentions that "this isn't a game" or something like that then Jak and dax look right at the camera
In street 3 football. One of the players lines after a play is "it's not me, it's the guy controlling me!"
The moment is from Jak 3 and I'm pretty sure it was a young adult female monk. Though there was a scene in Jak 2 where Daxter was reading through a contract and got upset over the inclusion of "GAME RIGHTS!" complete with a close up of his indignation.
Did you not watch the video? He said “recent games.”
@@benjaminnorris5540 you right! Been a while since I played the series, thanks!
Nothing tops Doki Doki when this is the topic.
If you haven't played it, giv it a try.
You will undestand it once you know Monika.
It's Just Monika.🙂
If you like that game, go watch Stupendium's "Why Did I Say Okie Doki"
"'How meta can you get?' He said, looking knowingly at the camera" - alan wake 2 was something else
Honourable mentions: Psycho Mantis reading your memory card in Metal Gear Solid, and the final boss fight in Bravely Second: End Layer.
Speaking of MGS, Meryl tells Snake to stop staring if you hold the camera on her.
Literally old news, make a video. Don’t comment stupid shit in the comments.
Another bunch of honourable mentions: Psycho Mantis (attempting) to read your memory card in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and BB's antics in Fate/Grand Order's various events, not least the Fate/EXTRA CCC collab.
I freely admit that I am most certainly dumb, but at least I don't insult, like so: "How DARE you! You didn't include Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid. YOU ARE THE MOST DISRESPECTFUL TH-camr EVER!!!!!!!"
It doesn't matter if games like Metal Gear Solid were made in 1998. Those games are still relevant now, and will be relevant so long as we remember. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean that I am entitled to shove errors down the throats of the undeserving; there is nothing wrong with a video that contains multiple moments of people noticing that there is an actual audience. And quite frankly, it's refreshing that there are other fourth-wall breaks being recognised; after all, there's only room from ten for a ranking, and variety is the spice of a content.
In brief @MemeselfandI : Both mine and Gameranx's choices are equally correct, so I see no point in refuting him. I do, however, think that reckless paranoia is unhealthy. Get help.
"4th wall comes from TV"
Me, a drama student: SIR
Prompto from FF15 also sang the victory theme song after winning a battle
In the first level of Super Paper Mario, some characters would give Mario instructions about how to play the game. For example, the character might tell Mario to press 1 to flip dimensions. That character would tell Mario not to worry if he did not understand what it meant because the being watching this would understand.
Black Ops One "Drop the chips player and get me some ammo"
EVE through me fucking off guard 🤣🤣🤣. Got a bunny nano suit for her, so I had to check her proportions out and she gave me that look 💀💀. I questioned my behavior immediately
Playing it right now and my favorite suit so far is actually the Black Uniform. Sure the skirt is a bit short (I'm not peeping, I swear) but fuck is it stylish!
@@PikaLink91 My fav ones are daily force and black wave
The Eve look catches you offguard😂
Eve: "What are you looking at?" Player/Me: "Me? Nothing in particular, nothing at all, I was actually AFK."🤞
Infamous: Second Son has a somewhat subtle example. Once you 100% the game, getting both the good and evil endings and all the trophies, Delsin will say "You know what buddy. You and I have been through a lot, but I gotta tell you. Officially, we're done." after the credits have rolled and you're in the post-game for that playthrough. I believe a few other games have done that, making the player character "talk" to the player and congratulate them for fully beating the game. It's a cute little way to wrap up a game you spent so much time to complete.
There was entertainment before television, it was called theater, and breaking the fourth wall is a time-honored theater device.
I checked the comments just to make sure someone had said this so, or I would have been the one.
OMG NO WAY?! COULD THIS BE MORE CONDESCENDING?!!!
Pretty sure Falcon didn't say TV did it first... he was just relating it to something we could all understand. Jeez.
@@chrislevack405 Oh I could be A LOT more condescending. 😉
@@Tondor50 good for you, sweet pea
🤓☝🏻
I had no idea about the one from Stellar Blade until it was pointed out to me, so when at one point I focused the camera on something close to Eve which registered as "looking at her" and thus activated this easteregg... if I didn't already know about it I'd probably shit my pants, cuz that is some terrifying Project Zero crap right there.
For FFVII Rebirth, the first time Barret sang the victory song I laughted, but what TRULY caught me by surprise was when Cait Sith did the same but with meows. D: Absolutely amazing
Oh man you should check out how Savathun from Destiny 2 broke the 4th wall by taking over the official destiny 2 twitter account and addresses the players directly, that was an amazing moment that Bungie brewed together
The Telesto one was also funny as hell
When my boy Geralt looked at me at the end of the blood and wine dlc…….
Not recent but the ending cutscene of Witcher 3 Blood and Wine DLC was a subtle and amazing 4th wall break.
RIP Tango Gameworks
In FINAL FANTASY 15 Prompto regularly hums the victory fanfare song.
Cloud isnt the only one who does it in Rebirth. Yuffie does it all the time and Barret is the one ive heard do it the most. Especially after you beat one of the VR missions
Barret did the victory jingle in the ff7 remake as well, several times
Unless the person who first put the concept into words was a time traveller then no, the 4th wall notion absolutely did not originate with TV or film of any kind. It's been around since the mid-late 1700's at the very least.
About the FF7 one. I have hwd Barret shout out the victory tone after battles many times. It was also a ringtone on a phone within the geme.
Not putting geralt as in the Witcher 3's blood & wine ending is a crime...
4th wall is from theatre productions....long before tv...quite literally breaking the imaginary wall between the audience and the stage production - often used is key plot moments or via narration...as tv and movies are an extension of theatre for the modern era it happens in that too
Getting to listen falcon is the best part of my week now
I don't know how you do it (making so many gaming vids) but keep up the great work!
I know it's 20 years old, but Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines had a couple of really nice 4th wall moments. The first one just after doing your character, since if you went back and forth between the two character pages, your poits would replenish so you could start the game with a lot more than intended, and Jack would note that by saying that you were probably trying a mod or something, so you might want to go back and turn it off before starting. Next, iin the beach if you paid the semi-malk to read your future, she would drop lines about you being a player in the game. :D
Oh boy. 2B better be on here
Would have thought the metal gear series would be on this list. Kojima loves fourth wall stuff.
I love you Gameranx!
Deadpool game was king at breaking the 4th wall.
Barret, Yuffie, and Cait Sith will randomly sing the victory theme after battles in Remake/Rebirth.
Also, the most subtle and clever fourth wall break I have ever experienced in a video game comes from "Chaos On Deponia" where there is a part in which you have to ring a doorbell but the character behind it cannot hear you.
The solution to solve that puzzle is to mute the games music, only when the value is 0 he will hear you ringing the doorbell and opening the door for you!
are we seriously censoring gore in video games? youtube is such bullshit these days
They're selective on enforcing it too.
Yeah not ti mention it makes that entire entry completely redundant because they don’t even show the damn cracked screen because of the censoring. Just becomes a bunch of pixels
Smash Bros characters have been splatting into the 4th wall since 1999
This video was just an excuse for falcon to discuss Alan Wake 2 and I’m all for it
an obscure one to add.. Ar nosurge. Its a jrpg game where you follow 2 POVs, 1 with the classic jrpg protagonist and another is a silent robot.
the 4th wall breaking moment here is (spoilers) - when it is revealed that they are supposed to be talking directly to you through the silent robot (from the game world per se, to you in the real world)
I CAME HERE TO SAY THIS
so there is other jrpg game that i still dont know,aight ima give it a try but why does the title have "Ar" in it?it is a sequel to Ar Tonelico?
@@shadowrider6578 its not a sequel, but it was made by the same people who did ar tonelico
This list needs the "stanley parable". The whole game is a mind bending 4th wall break.
Ok, I'm going to be VERY pedantic right now (already realizing there will probably be minions who'll be stirred about it) because I'm actually a researcher in the topic: "breaking the 4th wall" and "metafiction" are very distinct things. "Metafiction" refers to fiction that adresses its own nature: games that talk about gaming, series that talk about the structure of serial TV, and so on. "Breaking the 4th wall" refers to a fictional character acknowledging the expectator/player.
I don't know about the other games, but even though Alan Wake 2 is a heavily metaficional story because it adresses the structure of stories, in absolutely no point it breaks the 4th wall. That is a confusion that arises because it is not a game with metafictional elements, but rather a metafictional game altogether. But it doesn't break the 4th wall, it doesn't acknowledge the player or the gaming experience of the player: it just talks about the narrative from beginning to end.
My favorite 4th wall break is in Silent Hill 3, and the first time you try to get Heather to search a nasty toilet. "Who would ever think of doing something so disgusting! "
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ayyy Lunacid getting love
I loved kingsfield 4. I found lunacid to be a pretty boring facsimile of what it's inspired by
Ah, that's the name. Too bad this channel obviously can't afford chapter titles...
Another day another epic Gameranx video 😎
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I usually find y'all entertaining ... but claiming the term "4th wall" comes from television sets and not from theater stage productions makes me rage. xD
Yuffie and Cait Sith hum the victory song also, Cait Meows it even
Immortals: Fenyx Rising constantly broke the 4th wall... not the main character Fenyx, but Zeus and sometimes the other gods make many comments about our reality and world events/pop culture. It's always pretty funny especially when they are talking directly to Fenyx and she has no idea what they are talking about.
Sea of Stars has a pirate lady that pretty much bombards you with 4th wall breaks during one mission. She's really funny and I love how they set her up ^^
One of my favorite things about Gameranx is the absurde ways they pronounce some things that typically have their pronunciation said in the games they're discussing.
Alan Wake 2 was such a mindfuck in the best way possible. I can't wait to play through it again and catch all those little things I'm sure I missed the first time.
I remember modding WoW classic to Barret's humming the victory tune after a boss fight, felt so satisfying.
Another day another fantastic gameranx video love you guys! Stay safe!
Thanks! You too!
A game where I didn't expect to be filled with 4th wall breaks, and it's not Jak & Daxter. But rather, it's SpongeBob: Cosmic Shake.
At different points in the game, multiple characters allude to having a strange feeling their being watched, or controlled. The latter being right at the start of the game, with a random NPC (Not Karen) right across from Patrick's rock. Before breaking open the multiverse. That asks SpongeBob if he "gets a strange feeling like he's being controlled, by like, some kid?"
SpongeBob would say something similar later in the game's Bikini Bottom HUB world. And then the Flying Dutchman, who's kinda hidden in one of the trailers in the Karate Downtown Bikini Botom level. This cameo breaks the 4th wall about SpongeBob as an animated series, but it doubly serves as a 4th wall break for the fact thi is a video game!
I don't know, I never expected this kind of thing from a SpongeBob game of all things! And that makes it even more funny!
Gameranx-if you've played Sims 2, you would see that sometimes a hungry Sim would look directly at you and wave his/her arms around and point to his/her mouth.
You guys are the best gaming channel today... I said it and I stand by that the end.
I was playing one of the Mafia games and there was a scene where I had to sneak past some thugs. As I was doing it, one thug started pitching the idea of a video game to the other thug who thought it was a dumb idea. "It would be like a cartoon, except you are the little toon running around doing things kind of like we're doing things now". "Oh man your nuts..."
Secret of Evermore in 1995 had a good one, where an NPC started yelling that they're all in a video game lol
I know the Stanley Parable was all about breaking the fourth wall, but it's still a damn great game, and especially the way they trolled everyone with The Stanley Parable 2.
The phrase 4th wall was "coined" in 1758 by Denis Didérot. So doesn't come from TV. Thank you very much...
In "half-life 2", you can talk to the Vortigaunts, they say a single sentence picked at random from a selection of several, 3 of them are 4th wall breaking:
"Far distant eyes look out through yours."
"How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass?"
"Could you but see the eyes inside your own, the minds in your mind, you would see how much we share."
I dont understand how number 1 was breaking a 4th wall. Idk wtf was even happening. It just felt like part of an already weird game. I wouldn't have ever taken that as a 4th wall break.
Sam Lake! You HACK!!
Aren't we all trapped in a game.....
Love that quick shot from the first episode of doctor who🔥
Nothing beats the "press the A button" dialog in games. I like to imagine the main character thinking "press A button? Who the fuck am I talking to right now? Why was that sentence!?"
Eve: *stares looking at the player*
Black Desert Online characters: That's really cute.
I played Doki Doki Literature Club +, last week since it was given away in Epic games a few months ago.
They broke the 5th wall, the wall to the player's soul.
I wonder if the Dragons Dogma people watch Viva La Dirt League
Quick check how many years have you been watching gamerank?
10 times Gameranx had to reach real hard to find something to fill content for a day.
My all-time favourite is max payne 1. Elevator. Music plays. I shoot the loudspeaker. Max: thank you!😂
Closely followed by the part where he us high on v. Lovely game.
I like the one in Hades 2
When you are fighting chronos, he doesn’t allow you to pause the game. When you press Esc and pause menu appears, he says “i’m the one who controls time not you” and game resumes lol
@gameranx, about on the level Cortana in Halo 3 when Cortana is talking to us. "What's your name? You like games, so do I."
Ohhhhh I thought you were going to mention turtles in time, that was a good one
"It's funny because we're all living in a simulation and free will is a lie." - Marina, Splatoon 2
*All* player characters in _Black Desert_ are instantly aware of the camera's location. If you're looking at your character's face (and you're not in Observe mode), and they're standing idle, they're looking back at you, even if the camera's a hundred meters away and up several stories.
"...from someone who's been here since the first Final Fantasy 7." How many ironies can you fit into one phrase?
where is GOW 2018 when kratos says " HE wouldnt listen"
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Psst, hey Falcon... The fourth wall predates TV by a good bit; started on the stage actually. Here, I'll save ya the Google bandwidth: 'The concept is usually attributed to the philosopher, critic and dramatist Denis Diderot, who wrote in 1758 that actors and writers should "imagine a huge wall across the front of the stage, separating you from the audience, and behave exactly as if the curtain had never risen".' [Apologies, but in addition to being a game dev, I'm a lifelong theater geek & still act in VR productions to this day lol]
EtA: Ah, someone beat me to the punch on all that. 🤣
The first 4th-wall break i remember experiencing in games was the 1st Max Payne where in his Valkyr hallucination, Max is told that he's actually in a computer game, and he freaks out. Well, actually, both of us freaked out...
Falcon saying the 4th wall came from tv shows and movies hurts my little theater kid heart
4th wall doesn't come from TV, but rather theatre. It did eventually come to represent basically all media.
Here is what Wikipedia says about it (the Encyclopædia Britannica says something similar): The concept is usually attributed to the philosopher, critic and dramatist Denis Diderot, who wrote in 1758 that actors and writers should "imagine a huge wall across the front of the stage, separating you from the audience, and behave exactly as if the curtain had never risen".
I the original Bubsy game on SNES, if you did nothing for about 40 seconds, Bubsy would start tapping his foot expectantly and if you continued to do nothing, he would actually knock on the screen to get your attention. It even made the sound effect of what the the thick glass on the older cathode tube TV’s made when you tapped on them in real life.
There’s some fourth wall (tapping) breaking for ya.
Lunacid is genuinely such a great game. I was genuinely shocked to see it on this list