Lampshade Hanging/Video Games: Difference between revisions

[[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades hung]] in video gaming.

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* In [[Kingdom Hearts]], at first, only Sora,{{spoiler|(and Riku and The King later on)}} has the ability to wield a Keyblade. Later on, in Kingdom Hearts II, Roxas {{spoiler|and Kairi}} can wield one (Hell, Roxas can wield TWO!). In that Game's secret ending and [[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep|Birth by Sleep]], it is also revealed that Terra, Ventus, Aqua, and Master Eraqus can wield them, {{spoiler|as can Master Xehanort and Vanitas. There's even a world full of abandoned Keyblades at the end of the game, suggesting that at some point, there has been THOUSANDS of people able to wield the Keyblade.}} I think Braig summed it up best:

{{quote| '''Braig:''' It seems like these days, everybody's got one of those...<br />}}

** ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'': Osmund Saddler, right before {{spoiler|mutating into this giant spider-thing}}:

{{quote| '''Saddler:''' Oh, I think you know. The "[[America Saves the Day|American prevailing]]" is a cliché that only happens in your Hollywood movies.}}

** ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' lampshades many of the recurring themes of the series. An exasperated Chris Redfield complains about how he feels like he's trapped in a monster movie and that there always seems to be a guy with a chainsaw trying to kill him. And when Wesker goes into one of his monologues or explains his [[Evil Plan]], Chris grumbles about more crazy talk and responds to the latter with:

{{quote| '''Chris:''' Do you get all your ideas from comic book supervillains?}}

* In ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Sands of Time''. Being predominately a [[Platform Game|platform-based game]], it pokes fun at the idea that the answers to platform puzzles are rarely in the game itself, which is radically different from RPGs and point-and-click adventure games. During this scene, the princess you are traveling with is trying to read the books in the library while you are hopelessly trying to jump around the walls and move mirrors to direct light. Your character gets so annoyed with her that he asks, "Why don't you just look up the answer to this puzzle?" and she replies "This isn't that kind of game."

** The "This isn't that kind of game" line is probably referring to the budding relationship between Farah and the Prince, rather than a lampshade hang -- though it could pretty easily be both.

{{quote| "You had to pick ''this'' religion? You couldn't pick one where the embodiment of evil was a really angry sheep or something?"}}

* During one of the missions in ''[[Free Space]] 2'', a pilot mutters about how useless their technology had been during the Great War, thirty years before, lampshading the fact that, while in ''Freespace 2'', capital ships will fire all sorts of very large and deadly cannons and lasers, in ''Freespace 1'', during which the Great War takes place, capital ships were for the most part fairly unimpressive moving targets.

* ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' has you '''collecting''' these for [[One Hundred Percent Completion]].

** Specifically, you find video game cliches such as invisible walls, passages hidden behind bookcases, etc. , and get a sarcastic discussions of the cliche in question by Comic Book Guy.

* In ''[[Splinter Cell]]: Chaos Theory'', one mission begins with Sam Fisher saying "Don't tell me... Three alarms and the mission is over." to which his superior, Lambert, replies "Of course not. [[This Is Reality|This is no video game]], Fisher." This is taking a jab at the previous games in which missions would frequently end after 3 alarms.

* ''[[Sonic Generations (Video Game)|Sonic Generations]]''. In the ending, {{spoiler|Classic Tails asks Modern Tails where Sonic puts all of his Rings. Modern Tails says he always forgets asking.}}

** Snake Fist was originally one of the entries in a competition Monolith ran when licensing problems were stopping them from using ''F.E.A.R.'' (someone at the Monolith offices even made a drawing of a snake with it's mouth wide open and a fist coming out of it). Guess it was a bit of a favourite for the devs.

** Stokes is way too [[Genre Savvy]]. Toward the end of the game, on the way to the confrontation with Alma, she remarks that "I hope she doesn't do one of those horror movie things, and throws [[What Do They Fear Episode|your biggest fears]] against you. That would suck."

* In what seems to be a prime example of a Message from Fred, the protagonist of the notorious ''[[Limbo of the Lost]]'' often complains about annoying [[NPC|NPCs]], how boring walking through endless tunnels is, etc.

* In ''[[Army of Two]]'', Salem and Rios lampshade the ridiculous requirement of two people being needed to open every door in the Veteran Map Pack downloadable content. Rios asks if Salem can ever remember a time he opened a door by himself, to which he responds how he can hardly open his doors at home by himself now.

* In ''[[Legend of Kay]]'' the player encounters an archaeologist deep down in the dungeons, who comments on how improbable it is that [[Ragnarok Proofing|the machines are still working]], and on the mystery what these periodically-retracting-spikes-and-moving-platforms machines might originally have been constructed for.

* In ''[[Uncharted Drakes Fortune]]'', immediately after we discover that Sullivan {{spoiler|survived being shot point-blank by Roman due to the use of a perfectly placed [[Pocket Protector]],}} Nathan exclaims: "I thought this kinda thing only happened in the movies!"

* Several characters in ''[[My World My Way]]'' do this a lot when they give tutorials to players without knowing [[He Knows About Timed Hits|why they say what they said]] (there's a [[Fourth Wall]] for those characters).

* The trope itself was lampshaded in the first season of the episodic ''[[Sam and Max]]'' series. A particular puzzle requires you to improvise your way through an episode of a popular television sitcom called "Midtown Cowboys". (As the theme song informs the audience, "They're probably hiding a cow!") Part of the solution to the puzzle is to take a nearby lampshade and stick it on the cow's head.

* In ''Smackdown vs Raw 2010'' there is a storyline for a created superstar in which your character enters in a feud with Santino Marella. During one exchange, Santino says your character is what an idiot would create in a wrestling game.

** And then he looks directly at the camera.

* ''[[Postal]] 2'''s version of the [[Level Editor|Unreal Editor]] has help messages that lampshade how ridiculously easy it is to cause the program to crash.

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