Breaking the Fourth Wall/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Vangers]]'' goes much further then just breaks the Wall - it reaches out and drags you inside. After you beat the game, {{spoiler|the Spector, a vague supernatural entity that was helping...enlisting...manipulating your character in the course of the game,}} addresses ''you'', i.e. the gamer, revealing that the events of the game {{spoiler|'''are going to happen for real''', and that it had caused the game to be created in its past and your present (yeah, they can do that)}}, so that your gaming skills and urge for exploration could be used to {{spoiler|make a real Vanger which could break away from its normal repetitive routine and fulfill the Spectors' mysterious goals}}.

* Tank Dempsey from ''[[Nazi Zombies]]''. He seems to have quite the talent for it.

Power's out...wait-does power even make sense in an ancient temple? Seriously Treyarch? SERIOUSLY?! }}

** ''Shangri-La took it to the extreme with his ammo lines:

* ''Eat Lead: the Return of Matt Hazzard''. The whole game breaks the fourth wall on a number of levels.

* The ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games do this a lot.

*** Upon first seeing Monkey Island, Guybrush says, "WOW!!! This was well worth $59.95 + Tax."

*** The player gets to select various speaking lines in the ending of the game. One of them is, "At least I learned something from all of this..."

'''Guybrush:''' I don't know, I'm not sure why I said that. }}

*** Going even further, in ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'' you can actually ''call Lucas Arts tech support''. In-game.

** In ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]'', if Guybrush asks a dart player in the SCUMM Bar to try and hit "that guy over there", the dart player will end up throwing a dart at the ''player'' and apparently putting a hole in the monitor. Another example of literally [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]].

*** Done again in ''Escape''. When talking to a group of lawyers, the player can ask to sue several things. Sorry, if I don't get it correct, my disc broke up years ago.

Guybrush: I have no idea why I just said that. }}

** Guybrush also tells the player to be thankful the game doesn't simulate smells, once when entering the Bait Shoppe on Lucre Island, and again when at the perfume stand.

* In ''[[Atelier Iris]]: Eternal Mana'', [[Catgirl]] Norn gets scared and asks the protagonist Klein to sleep with her in her bed. He refuses, saying "[[Media Watchdogs|the ESRB]] would go nuts!" In the end he's a nice enough guy that he at least holds her hand.

** Similarly, during a quest in ''[[Atelier Iris 3]]'', Edge does this when the party considers (per the client's request) to ask Anna [[Les Yay|whether she is romantically involved with Phenyl]] or not.

* ''[[Afro Samurai|Ninja Ninja]] would like you to know that you are a button mashin' motherfucker, and to go take care of this shit while he gets some coffee.

** Ninja Ninja broke the fourth wall every chance he got. This Trope remembers him asking if you've seen the T.V. show at one point, and complain about the "endless hip-hop" music that played whenever you met an enemy. There was one trailer for the game where he commented that someone "...dressed up as their favorite character: guy who dies like a bitch." The worst moment had to be when, after [[Afro Samurai]] gets grabbed by the Doppleganger and flown into space where they have an epic battle, Ninja turns to the screen and says "You saw that, right? This is some fucked-up shit right here. I'm gonna go get some coffee. Keep an eye on that bullshit for me, will you?"

* The ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series has some really great examples of this, but a standout is a scene that appears in ''Jak 3'', when the characters meet the Precursors in person. One of them, while the group tries the old "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" thing, is seen trying to cover the ''camera'' with his hand during the scene.

** Toward the beginning of Jak 3:

''Jak and Daxter pause, stare at the camera, look back at Seem, and continue the scene'' }}

** In ''[[Jak II]]'' they have to join a race team owned by [[Fat Bastard|Krew]]. Their contract mentions that Krew owns all rights including game rights.

* ''[[True Crime: Streets of LA]]'' The 'hero', a wildly out of control cop, can run over pedestrians. One of his replies? "Don't worry about it, this is just a video game." Made extra creepy, because {{spoiler|the bad ending, narrated by Christopher 'Creepy' Walken, has the hero cop thrown from the top of a fifty story building}}.

* ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Sands of Time'' does this while the Prince and Farrah are in the library. After she reads a poem to him:

"Game? She thinks this is a game!" }}

* Dmitri Petrovich of the ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' series does this many times. In the original ''Backyard Baseball'', he says that if the AI improved and there was less chatter, the game would be better. (True thing.) In ''Backyard Skateboarding'', he says "I think we are wasting time" on the choose character screen.

* In ''[[The Guild]] 2'' each character belongs to one of four classes: learned; craftsman; self-employed; and outlaw. If you click too often on an outlaw, he/she will reply, pissed: "Stop clickin' me!!!".

* In ''[[Duke Nukem Manhattan Project]]'', right before the [[Final Boss]] fight starts, Duke turns towards the screen and invites the player to help him beat the boss.

* One of the endings of the ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' DLC ''Enter the Edy Detachment''. If you get the worst rank possible, Edy starts ranting about how she deserves a better rank, how the player sucks ("I'm talking to you, sloth fingers!"), and ends the rant by literally ''telling the player that she is going to re-do the mission to get a better rank''. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when Homer keeps asking Edy who she's talking to.

* In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' Desmond is using the Animus to view his ancestral memories of Ezio. At the end, {{spoiler|Minerva, a precursor to the human race, looks straight at the camera and delivers her message to Desmond, chiding Ezio each time he interrupts saying that the message isn't intended for him (the only person in the room), but is instead meant for the viewer, Desmond}}, thereby "breaking the fourth wall" of the Animus.

* In ''[[League of Legends]]'', every so often, one hero Mordekaiser responds with "You only need to click once... fool!" when given the order to move.

* Some of the units in ''[[Company of Heroes]]'' will break the wall if you click on them enough. A few examples:

'''Panzer Grenadiers:''' Clickity, click. Clickity fucking click. Fucking scheiße... }}

* In Celadon Mansion in ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'', you can talk to a programmer, graphical artist and script writer who worked on the game. They talk to you about your [[Game Boy]] and one even remarks "I drew you!"

* In ''[[X Men Legends]] II: Rise of Apocalypse'', every character has a couple of lines when they're idle for too long, and several are directed at the player, like Bishop's "Hey you! Yeah, you! What are you doing that's so much more important than this?"

* [[Spyro the Dragon]] does this a lot in ''A Hero's Tail'', often [[Aside Glance|turning to the camera]] and making a remark. One that springs to mind...

** Oh, there are two others that are better then that.

'''Sparx:''' *after the above* Gee, Hunter, how do you know Spyro's ok?<br />

'''Hunter:''' Well, if he wasn't, we'd have gone back to a previous save point by now. }}

* If you play ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]'' for too long, Kisala will make a commentary on how long you have been playing the game.

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' has a few lines that [[Break the Fourth Wall]]:

''"Dis map ain't big enough for da two of us!"'' }}

* At the beginning of ''[[The Reconstruction]]'', Fell talks to the player directly. Justified in that she ''is'' some sort of demigod.

* In the game [[Castle Shikigami]] III (full name Castle of Shikigami III), the characters sometimes break the fourth wall, such as Reika from Time Gal.

** Reika also mentions the game ''Time Gal'', then asking the players.

** And it gets more odd; Reika metions THE PLAYERS, then TELLING THE PLAYERS TO POWER UP THEIR STRENGH at the begining of the last boss.

* In ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'', at the opening choice options screen on the mothership, if you fail to make a decision and leave the screen idle, Pox will sometimes say a random thing to you relating to the situation (i.e., "Well, it's your electric bill. You could have thought to turn the console off. Haven't you ever heard of global warming?" or "May I remind you that the name of this game is "Destroy All Humans", not SCREW AROUND IN THE MOTHERSHIP!").

* In ''[[Persona 4]]'' there is an NPC that mentions the ever-so-wonderful Square button that has the power of teleportation.

* This comes up a lot during the ''Sly Cooper'' franchise, with dialogue such as: "Bentley, how do I climb ladders?" "Simple Sly. Just press the circle button."