Not gonna lie, that part in Assassin Creed 2 where one of the gods starts talking to Desmond creeped me out because it felt like they were talking to the players
I remember in AC2 when Minerva turned to the camera and started talking to Desmond. It freaked me out so much, i backed away from my PC and started looking around.
No fourth wall breaking moment freaked me out more than that part in Batman Arkham Asylum with the 3rd Scarecrow encounter where the game suddenly glitches, freezes and crashes you back to the start of the game only for it to be another fear toxin trip.
I actually played that section on a day one Xbox 360 that had all sorts of problems. It wasn’t uncommon for my system to just crash out. So when that happens, it scared the hell out of me and I thought I legitimately lost progress. When I noticed the home button still took me back to the home menu. I realize something else is going on and I was freaked out for the next like 30 minutes.
Metal Gear Solid did it subtly near the beginning of the game when you have to contact Miller I think, someone tells you “I don’t remember the frequency.” “Oh. It’s on the back of the case.” You sit there scratching your head for a bit, then you pick up the game case and on the back is an image from the game with the Codec frequency that you need.
It's when you need to call Meryl. I think it was an anti piracy thing. Still awesome though, Felt very clever when I spotted it while my brother was convinced he had to look for some CD in game
As a therapist, I was literally in the middle of horrible depression when I played Doki Doki Literature Club, and it is, by far, one of the most terrifyingly accurate horror games I’ve ever played. That game becomes a whole new tier of horror for the mental health professionals who can immediately recognize the signs and plot twists - and we can do nothing to stop said events nor save the characters. Monika even calls out that desire to “save” and “fix” the characters which absolutely had me looking inward. Doki’s terrifying because it’s so real.
Well, the Dead Internet theory that it build back in 2001 is also more prevelent than ever with all the AI news, the censorships and the curration of it nowadays.
@@gameranxTV Probably at some point this year. I still have it for the PS3. Still need to plat it but the horrible controls of the port make the sniping missions too difficult.
The Stanley Parable for example the Broom Closet ending. The Narrator concludes the player is dead and should be replaced with another person who knows how to play a game.
@@vitorperez1989 Have you played Miside yet? Man, oh, man… if you like Doki Doki, this game is a must play. The whole game is literally fourth wall breaking, psychological warfare.
@@Zeroninja-j5c Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica.
The one that's always stuck with me was Otacon asking Snake to change discs in MGS4 and then realising it was unnecessary due to updated hardware. Not creepy but great nonetheless.
As some have said, Doki Doki Literature Club! Is definitely worth a mention. I got the platinum trophy for the game, and even became desensitised to it's horrors, which I feel is part of the point. Your interactions with the characters, the choices you make, and even your reason for playing the game are called into question. The line between reality and fiction is barely a hair's breadth. Fantastic writing.
For me when I first played it when I was in lockdown during Covid I was like “what happened to the game?” I got really worried that something was wrong lol. Games I didn’t get to play growing up and so getting these memories now lol
The finals level of Pneuma: breath of life when the character figures out he’s being controlled by the player and fights against the players controls and has a existential crisis talking to the player made me have to go rethink my life for a while
15:27 Story Time: My brother and I originally played MGS2 on the PS2 (best console ever made) and without a memory card. For those too young to remember the medieval days of gaming, consoles didn't have storage built in and the method for saving games, memory cards, were optional. You just couldn't save your game and would have to start all over if the console was turned off. So, it's like 4am when we get to that spot in MGS2, sleep deprived and delirious. And then we hear, "Turn the game off, you've been playing too long!" Nearly had a psychotic break. Best gaming experience ever. 🤣
When metal gear decided it was going to tell me to turn the video game off and started to talk to me when I was a kid and playing PlayStation. That was by far the freakiest video game moment for me as a gamer
What about Doki Doki Literature Club. I genuinely dropped my laptop when the character just brought out your account name and talked directly to you. It gave me chills
Yo you just gained more respect from me. Especially when you say we don't need to discuss what raw means...and you put up one of the greatest legendary rappers of all times... Old dirty bastard. This is why we like falcon
Control. After the Polaris section and the Hiss taking control... Credits roll. And you're like: "Aww! Man! You mean I have to wait for another game to see the ending? Or a DLC?!" But no... trieckery. You soon see the rolling credits glitch.
not really related to scary 4th wall moment, but still related to Metal Gear Solid series. i like when in MGS4, Otacon asked us to swap the disc when we revisiting Shadow Moses island. it's so funny considering PS3 is using BluRay
MGS 2 ending Codec conversations was scary even to this day. I played it for the first time a few years back and I really thought I downloaded a wrong version of the game. unsettling
Lets find Larry, an indie horror game your character turns on you the actual human. He breaks the screen after revealing hes a mass un aliver and then brings you from an isometric camera angle to down in an first person and hunts and kills you.
Alan Wake 2's Herald of Darkness music performance at The VGA 2023, the ultimate anti-4th wall break. (irl reality is a part of Sam Lake's narrative, wild writing)
Idk if this counts as a fourth wall break but the ending to assassin’s creed 2 got me. Minerva is talking to Ezio and then turns to us the player and tells us the world is ending in 3 years which was even crazier because in real life “2012” was supposed to be the end of the world because the Mayan calendar. I did not feel good after beating it. The credits were rolling and I just turned of my Xbox and took a nap 😂
This has to be about 20 years ago when I played Everquest 2.... In the zone Estate of Unrest. Little fuzzy on the details, but as you delve deeper into the catacombs beneath the house, the entity is talking to your character says something to your character about hiding your soul from it. After you get further, it says it found your soul and that you think your smug hiding it behind a pane of glass. Your monitor than would start to get static and you would lose sight of your character and the UI, then a skull appeared in the center of your monitor and started laughing at you. At that age, I just froze for a minute asking myself if that was real... Still think about that sometimes, after all this time.
That Black and White 2 Mention with the Name saying at night happened to me as a kid, I remember running to my older cousin who let me play on his pc then to tell him the game just said my name and he didn't believe me and it was the creepiest thing ever!
A little off topic, but it’s recently in my mind cause I’m playing Kingdom Come Deliverance for the first time in preparation for KCDII to come out. The fourth wall breaking nature of saviour schnapps in an otherwise immersive, ultra realistic medieval game is pretty hilarious to me.
When I was a kid. I was playing mgs2, that part always freakt me out. I was scared and I turn off the game .I really thought my PS2 was haunted, specially part when the colonial was a skull. One few time video game scare me. Remember when I was scared of resident evil 1. Still face my fear and beat the game.
I always enjoyed when that squire in the UI of Stronghold 1/Crusader started to remind me that it's rather later whenever I lost "track of time" when dilly-dallying in the map-editor at 3am (or when the game's been on for hours)
I get why you chose MGS2 as the 4th wall but MGS1 mantis fight and the CD cases codec number for meryl did it first and was more of a cool shock value.
The narrator in Dungeon Keeper 2 telling the player to *go to bed* (there were a few hidden messages from him that triggered if you were playing when the system clock reached certain times).
Think what triggers the bull map is what houses are infected, at least from visual clues as the red houses on the regular map line up with the removed parts of the bull.
Spec Ops The Line has aged like a fine wine 🍷 👌 Its like if we got Gears gameplay, with Nathan Drake cosplaying Solid Snake, written and directed by Hideo Kojima, soundtrack by Oliver Stone. Its a masterpiece, and you can still buy Steam keys on 3rd party sites.
It was really cool that during one of the main missions in MGS V, in one of the tents you stealth by on your way to a factory in the back of this African forest, you can hear a radio broadcasting the same story from PT about the guy brutally slaughtering his family. Kojima was always good at Easter eggs like that.
That Black and white 2 really scared me as a kid, never dared to touch the game again. Hearing your own name whispered in that crazy deep voice in the middle of the night was something...
The best thing about the MGS2 fourth wall break is it’s a fourth wall break that’s disguised as a fourth wall break that’s not actually a fourth wall break but it’s completely explained in game.
I think it's worth to mention how the sequenz in Sons Of Liberty continues with the "Fishion Mailed" screen, where you had to keep on playing on the smaller part of the screen, while the whole game around you seemed to go crazy.
In response to metal gear solids subversion of expectations, the heart of darkness does the exact same thing and is considered one of the classics of literature
Dude when i made it finally to the end of mgs 2 in middle school at 3 am on a summers night it was the most terrifying thing ever, it made no sense in a game that i already didnt understand which just compounded the fear on more. It was great.
one of my favorite small things I consider a 4th wall break is when people in game refer to a med pack or first-aid kit as a health pack. Like, how 4th wall breaking can it be to use a term I've only ever heard used in a game for things to heal you. One that comes to mind is Dead Space 2 when what's his face tells you your rig is red and that there's a health pack in the locker
I was a teen playing at like 3am in morning with everyone else asleep when Colonel Campbell told me to "Turn the game console off right now" and Rose followed up with "You'll ruin your eyes playing so close to the TV." You better believe I shut it all off and went to bed at that.
One of the creepiest ones this year is from the game indika. Dude literally smiles into the camera for legit 1 min straight and you can’t do anything except stare back and wait for it to end. Gives me shivers just thinking about it
I think Nier Automata belongs on this list. The ending of that game doesn't just break the 4th wall, it disintegrates it and kind of briefly makes you forget it was ever even there
That’s funny! I was just thinking about this exact subject before bed last night and thought of searching up some videos on it. Then I pick up my phone this morning and here’s one in my notifications! I think my iPhone reads my mind sometimes 😂
I finished IMMORTALITY a few days ago and the first time I encountered The Other One in the game, she addresses the player (me) and keeps eye contact the entire time. Unexpected and creepy.
Not gonna lie, that part in Assassin Creed 2 where one of the gods starts talking to Desmond creeped me out because it felt like they were talking to the players
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I remember in AC2 when Minerva turned to the camera and started talking to Desmond.
It freaked me out so much, i backed away from my PC and started looking around.
@@gameranxTV thanks for the save! Caught the video during my wake and bake and couldn’t remember 😆
@@Dhairyasheel192 for real! I remember me and my brother’s jaws on the floor, and i was thinking I was in the matrix
Yes! I was so scared when they start talking to you!
No fourth wall breaking moment freaked me out more than that part in Batman Arkham Asylum with the 3rd Scarecrow encounter where the game suddenly glitches, freezes and crashes you back to the start of the game only for it to be another fear toxin trip.
Its even more effective when you're a PC player and you're suspecting your PC has been overheating lately.
"Use the middle joystick to dodge Joker's gun"
I actually played that section on a day one Xbox 360 that had all sorts of problems. It wasn’t uncommon for my system to just crash out. So when that happens, it scared the hell out of me and I thought I legitimately lost progress. When I noticed the home button still took me back to the home menu. I realize something else is going on and I was freaked out for the next like 30 minutes.
@@crust5909 Yeah, and my pc had already started messing up so I got so FREAKED when iit happwned
Thanks for the reminder that Konami ROBBED us of what may have been the best Silent Hill ever.
How did you enjoy Silent Hill 2 remake?
Honestly not only the best sh game probably one of the best horror game
Metal Gear Solid did it subtly near the beginning of the game when you have to contact Miller I think, someone tells you “I don’t remember the frequency.” “Oh. It’s on the back of the case.” You sit there scratching your head for a bit, then you pick up the game case and on the back is an image from the game with the Codec frequency that you need.
It's when you need to call Meryl. I think it was an anti piracy thing. Still awesome though, Felt very clever when I spotted it while my brother was convinced he had to look for some CD in game
“Googling dates can be a jump scare”.
Too true…too true…
As a therapist, I was literally in the middle of horrible depression when I played Doki Doki Literature Club, and it is, by far, one of the most terrifyingly accurate horror games I’ve ever played. That game becomes a whole new tier of horror for the mental health professionals who can immediately recognize the signs and plot twists - and we can do nothing to stop said events nor save the characters. Monika even calls out that desire to “save” and “fix” the characters which absolutely had me looking inward. Doki’s terrifying because it’s so real.
In my country we say "Casa de herrero cuchara de palo". I hope youre doing better now
A therapist lmao yea sure. They them lmao you're what the dr deemed you at birth, a GUY, you're a boy
@@yey2wavy999 well we're not in your country this is an American channel, so speak American english and leave
I was thinking of that game during this too. It was... unique.
Doki Doki should have been here
MGD Psycho Mantis fight PS1. Reading your memory card files, pseudo glitching the TV, making you change controllers over. Hideo nailed it..
Absolutely!
MGS 2 has aged exquisitely IMO, if anything it’s more relevant and sensible than when it first came out.
It has a timeless art style and even looks beautiful to this day.
Well, the Dead Internet theory that it build back in 2001 is also more prevelent than ever with all the AI news, the censorships and the curration of it nowadays.
Are you going to give it a replay? :)
@@gameranxTV Probably at some point this year. I still have it for the PS3. Still need to plat it but the horrible controls of the port make the sniping missions too difficult.
Pfft rotflmao no
The Stanley Parable for example the Broom Closet ending. The Narrator concludes the player is dead and should be replaced with another person who knows how to play a game.
THE BROOM CLOSET ENDING WAS MY FAVRITE!!
@ there are so many good endings because the writing is brilliant
When I saw Markiplier play that game it broke my brain.
@ I’ve been watching Jacksepticeye play it. It’s a real ride of a game .
The fourth wall breaking moment that freaked me out the most was definitely Doki Doki Literature Club. I very strongly recommend.
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Just Monica.
I have it on my ps4 (is came free on the psn a few months ago). I'll try it! ❤
@@vitorperez1989 Have you played Miside yet? Man, oh, man… if you like Doki Doki, this game is a must play. The whole game is literally fourth wall breaking, psychological warfare.
@@Zeroninja-j5c Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica. Just Monica.
"giant bull with its MEAT exposed"
What the heck 😂 I was a little scared when he said it... then he showed it and it was that
huh
Falcon was feeling spicy today 😂
Im so glad you included Shara Ishvalda! I was just about to comment that you need to include it!
The one that's always stuck with me was Otacon asking Snake to change discs in MGS4 and then realising it was unnecessary due to updated hardware. Not creepy but great nonetheless.
Editing the Mass Effect clip @0:11 just when the music sounded like the Reapers noise was perfect.
Dope
As some have said, Doki Doki Literature Club! Is definitely worth a mention. I got the platinum trophy for the game, and even became desensitised to it's horrors, which I feel is part of the point. Your interactions with the characters, the choices you make, and even your reason for playing the game are called into question. The line between reality and fiction is barely a hair's breadth. Fantastic writing.
I was waiting for it
That Batman Arkham Asylum Scarecrow freeze got me good. I almost had a rage-quit event. 😅
lol should we come back with a part 2 for this video?
@gameranxTV ya know it, friends!
For me when I first played it when I was in lockdown during Covid I was like “what happened to the game?” I got really worried that something was wrong lol. Games I didn’t get to play growing up and so getting these memories now lol
The finals level of Pneuma: breath of life when the character figures out he’s being controlled by the player and fights against the players controls and has a existential crisis talking to the player made me have to go rethink my life for a while
Thor fight in GoW Ragnarok got me good 😭
It Was so Well Done
I'm surprised no one's talking about the survey lady from Detroit become human
The real horror of this video is Falcon realizing the PT demo came out 10 years ago and taking a few seconds to come to term with his own mortality.
Monika talking to >us< near the end of Doki Doki Literature Club
I know I'm not the first or last comment to say this, but Doki Doki Literature Club is literally the title of this video.
13:12 Who else thought we were about to get a huge falcon name drop here
what do you mean its not jake baldino?
I expected it to say falcon
MGS2 was my favorite of the series. Glad to see it made the list
Absolutely. Thanks for watching! :)
@gameranxTV any time! Love the content you guys put out
15:27 Story Time: My brother and I originally played MGS2 on the PS2 (best console ever made) and without a memory card.
For those too young to remember the medieval days of gaming, consoles didn't have storage built in and the method for saving games, memory cards, were optional. You just couldn't save your game and would have to start all over if the console was turned off.
So, it's like 4am when we get to that spot in MGS2, sleep deprived and delirious. And then we hear, "Turn the game off, you've been playing too long!"
Nearly had a psychotic break. Best gaming experience ever. 🤣
When metal gear decided it was going to tell me to turn the video game off and started to talk to me when I was a kid and playing PlayStation. That was by far the freakiest video game moment for me as a gamer
For people who don't understand that was absolutely the first time a game did that s*** to you that I can ever remember and I'm old
What about Doki Doki Literature Club. I genuinely dropped my laptop when the character just brought out your account name and talked directly to you. It gave me chills
Yo you just gained more respect from me. Especially when you say we don't need to discuss what raw means...and you put up one of the greatest legendary rappers of all times... Old dirty bastard. This is why we like falcon
Posted one minute ago ??? Hi falcon, bless your feathers!
Hey
Control. After the Polaris section and the Hiss taking control... Credits roll. And you're like: "Aww! Man! You mean I have to wait for another game to see the ending? Or a DLC?!" But no... trieckery. You soon see the rolling credits glitch.
Great game, currently completing the DLCs
not really related to scary 4th wall moment, but still related to Metal Gear Solid series. i like when in MGS4, Otacon asked us to swap the disc when we revisiting Shadow Moses island. it's so funny considering PS3 is using BluRay
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MGS 2 ending Codec conversations was scary even to this day. I played it for the first time a few years back and I really thought I downloaded a wrong version of the game. unsettling
Kojima was so a head of his time he knew of A.I. hallucinations before AI became what it is today
Morning Professor Falcon, I'm here for class and brought you coffee because you could use a pick me up for todays lesson ☕
Bloody teacher’s pet.
I feel pretty good listening to this the person speaking doesn't sound like a programmed top 10 robot but a human
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mr hero is amazing
I hear falcon I click
Lets find Larry, an indie horror game your character turns on you the actual human. He breaks the screen after revealing hes a mass un aliver and then brings you from an isometric camera angle to down in an first person and hunts and kills you.
"blue screen fatal error" on eternal darkness has to be the one that really scared me.
Gerald breaking the fourth wall at the end of Witcher 3 had me rolling
Still to this day, the scariest thing to happen in a game to me is when the T-rex jumped through the glass out of the science lab in Dino Crisis
Best way to start my Birthday is with Gameranx
Happy birthday! 🎉🎉🎉
Hey Happy Birthday! :)
@@gameranxTV Thank you!!
10:47 those messages in the corner 😂😂
that was the *cough cough* 4th wall break *cough cough*
Alan Wake 2's Herald of Darkness music performance at The VGA 2023, the ultimate anti-4th wall break. (irl reality is a part of Sam Lake's narrative, wild writing)
The fourth wall break that really got me BO1 zombies Dempsey saying, "drop the chips and get me some ammo", as I had a chip in my mouth.
LOL Did you drop the chip?
Bo1/2 zombies was a diferent beast
Who else turned the power off in MGS2 when “Campbell” told you to.
I’ll admit I did it the first time.
The only 4th wall I don't think I can handle being broken is seeing what Falcon actually looks like
LOL we appreciate you!
Idk if this counts as a fourth wall break but the ending to assassin’s creed 2 got me. Minerva is talking to Ezio and then turns to us the player and tells us the world is ending in 3 years which was even crazier because in real life “2012” was supposed to be the end of the world because the Mayan calendar. I did not feel good after beating it. The credits were rolling and I just turned of my Xbox and took a nap 😂
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Yeah
I got inspired and made a record about the end that literally 50 people heard. That was a fun ending though.
This has to be about 20 years ago when I played Everquest 2.... In the zone Estate of Unrest. Little fuzzy on the details, but as you delve deeper into the catacombs beneath the house, the entity is talking to your character says something to your character about hiding your soul from it. After you get further, it says it found your soul and that you think your smug hiding it behind a pane of glass. Your monitor than would start to get static and you would lose sight of your character and the UI, then a skull appeared in the center of your monitor and started laughing at you. At that age, I just froze for a minute asking myself if that was real... Still think about that sometimes, after all this time.
Whoever edited this intro did a masterfull jobb! That person deserves to be paid very well.
speaking of scary dates,the XBOX 360 just turned 20 years old. Let that sink in.
That Black and White 2 Mention with the Name saying at night happened to me as a kid, I remember running to my older cousin who let me play on his pc then to tell him the game just said my name and he didn't believe me and it was the creepiest thing ever!
A little off topic, but it’s recently in my mind cause I’m playing Kingdom Come Deliverance for the first time in preparation for KCDII to come out. The fourth wall breaking nature of saviour schnapps in an otherwise immersive, ultra realistic medieval game is pretty hilarious to me.
assassins creed 2 when the blue alien starts talking to Desmond and you instead of ezio…..
I finished my first undertale playthrough, in the dead of night in my kitchen at 3am. The 4th wall breaks were pretty spooky.
falcon rambling about meat maps for a full 90 seconds was not on my bingo list for the day
"I don't know you, I mean you're crazy in other ways" This line does it for me today, very fourth wall breaking
When I was a kid. I was playing mgs2, that part always freakt me out. I was scared and I turn off the game .I really thought my PS2 was haunted, specially part when the colonial was a skull.
One few time video game scare me. Remember when I was scared of resident evil 1. Still face my fear and beat the game.
Hi Falcon,This is my first comment on youtube been following you since 2017
Appreciate your daily work
Hey
@@gameranxTVAfter all these your years you dont have arrogance and replied to my comment, Thanks for replying
i think i could watch a video of "the 10 best toaster as long as i can hear falcon jokes 🤣
LOL!!
Man, the ending to MGS2 was like a fever dream back in the day when I first played through it as a teenager.
Time to give it another go!
@@gameranxTV Absolutely!
I looked away for a second then heard the phrase, "Giant bull with its meat exposed" and was like, "They can put that on youtube?"
Falcon saying “a giant bull with its meat exposed…” was not on my 2025 bingo card but here we are😂😂
If they don't know I need scissors 61 then you need new friends haha
Thanks for the video, Falcon! :)
I always enjoyed when that squire in the UI of Stronghold 1/Crusader started to remind me that it's rather later whenever I lost "track of time" when dilly-dallying in the map-editor at 3am (or when the game's been on for hours)
Y'all forgot the Mule Operator in Prey: Mooncrash! "Deleting all items ....... ha ha just kidding. You should see the look in your face." 😅
MGS was freaky I was playing at 2am and Colonel is telling me to turn off the console.
Max Payne realizing he's in a videogame was nuts for me as a kid
I get why you chose MGS2 as the 4th wall but MGS1 mantis fight and the CD cases codec number for meryl did it first and was more of a cool shock value.
The narrator in Dungeon Keeper 2 telling the player to *go to bed* (there were a few hidden messages from him that triggered if you were playing when the system clock reached certain times).
ODB showing up in gameranx is not what I predicted to see today but I love it
Think what triggers the bull map is what houses are infected, at least from visual clues as the red houses on the regular map line up with the removed parts of the bull.
Spec Ops The Line has aged like a fine wine 🍷 👌 Its like if we got Gears gameplay, with Nathan Drake cosplaying Solid Snake, written and directed by Hideo Kojima, soundtrack by Oliver Stone. Its a masterpiece, and you can still buy Steam keys on 3rd party sites.
It was really cool that during one of the main missions in MGS V, in one of the tents you stealth by on your way to a factory in the back of this African forest, you can hear a radio broadcasting the same story from PT about the guy brutally slaughtering his family.
Kojima was always good at Easter eggs like that.
That Black and white 2 really scared me as a kid, never dared to touch the game again. Hearing your own name whispered in that crazy deep voice in the middle of the night was something...
Its actually one of the reasons why High on Life was so enjoyable.
Loved it
17:05 lmao 😂 I actually did shut the console off at this point as a naive child!😂
The best thing about the MGS2 fourth wall break is it’s a fourth wall break that’s disguised as a fourth wall break that’s not actually a fourth wall break but it’s completely explained in game.
Faith is such an interesting,original looking game plus the Dios mio & priest melting are hilarious 🤣😂🤣
Here before timestamps
sweet more 4th wall breaks in games being covered
6:04......The way the game industry is going,I have a feeling we will never get a game like 'SPEC-OPS THE LINE' again.
I swear you guys bring up undertale in every top 10....
we get it, you loved undertale!!!
I think it's worth to mention how the sequenz in Sons Of Liberty continues with the "Fishion Mailed" screen, where you had to keep on playing on the smaller part of the screen, while the whole game around you seemed to go crazy.
Love seeing Lost in vivo get some love, i played it during COVID, i found out the Game with the gmanlives and pyrocynical Review, loved it
Tunic and the end-game lore discoveries involving the player themselves
In response to metal gear solids subversion of expectations, the heart of darkness does the exact same thing and is considered one of the classics of literature
Dude when i made it finally to the end of mgs 2 in middle school at 3 am on a summers night it was the most terrifying thing ever, it made no sense in a game that i already didnt understand which just compounded the fear on more. It was great.
Far Cry Blood Dragon does a good one with the tutorial, and Rex Power Colt hating it.
That time Karlach addressed the player and asked if you were having fun
That’s creepy af. Especially the way her tone changes
TRUE and so cool at the same time.
one of my favorite small things I consider a 4th wall break is when people in game refer to a med pack or first-aid kit as a health pack. Like, how 4th wall breaking can it be to use a term I've only ever heard used in a game for things to heal you. One that comes to mind is Dead Space 2 when what's his face tells you your rig is red and that there's a health pack in the locker
I was a teen playing at like 3am in morning with everyone else asleep when Colonel Campbell told me to "Turn the game console off right now" and Rose followed up with "You'll ruin your eyes playing so close to the TV." You better believe I shut it all off and went to bed at that.
Eternal Darkness messing with fake TV controls was also a nice touch especially if you had a TV that had the exact same OSD
One of the creepiest ones this year is from the game indika. Dude literally smiles into the camera for legit 1 min straight and you can’t do anything except stare back and wait for it to end. Gives me shivers just thinking about it
I think Nier Automata belongs on this list. The ending of that game doesn't just break the 4th wall, it disintegrates it and kind of briefly makes you forget it was ever even there
That’s funny! I was just thinking about this exact subject before bed last night and thought of searching up some videos on it. Then I pick up my phone this morning and here’s one in my notifications! I think my iPhone reads my mind sometimes 😂
Assassin’s Creed 2 when Minerva turned to the screen to talk to Desmond for some reason made my skin crawl
LOL what were some other wall breaking moments you enjoyed?
Falcon! Anywhere we can read/watch your GOTYs 2024?
the ODB reference was great
The first time i played Arkham Asylum i freaked out during the freeze and reset. Funny how Joker's face is what calmed me down.
LOL so many of these moments have us wanting to play these games all over again :)
I finished IMMORTALITY a few days ago and the first time I encountered The Other One in the game, she addresses the player (me) and keeps eye contact the entire time. Unexpected and creepy.