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.
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.
The one that tripped me out was in Zombie Army 4, PS4 version, if you leave the game on pause long enough, the game starts whispering through the controller speaker to "Come back and Play".
Yes there's nothing like pausing your game and going to the kitchen to get something to drink and taking the controller with you, next thing you know a little demon girl starts asking you if your there and to come back and play. I thought it was my imagination at first then I thought I watch to many horror movies and this isn't real. I finally realized it was my controller doing it. Ranks in the top ten coolest gaming moments of my life.
@@karkussthesupreme7343 Yeah, it was a lazy, rainy Sunday here in south Florida and I was playing in the bedroom. My food delivery (the lazy part) was at the door. I sat the controller on the nightstand, went and ate my food, came back at literally sat on the bed and she started with that creepy voice of "Come Back and Play". I had the same moment you did, did I just hear that ?. So I just sat there and "Are You there ?" came out. I'm like whew, I've not totally lost it, Yet.
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
When I first played it way back in the day, it took me far too long to figure out it was the case the disks camin in, I was looking for a CD case in the game XD
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
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.
I was just a kid playing MGS1 and when this happened I immediately shut off the console and ran downstairs sat next to my Dad reading the newspaper. Acted like I was interested but I was actually terrified!
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...
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.
@@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.
I'm pretty sure the reason behind it is because Shara Ishvalda looks at a Hunter's Soul, and for the Player Character "We" the players are the Hunter's Soul.
I thought the eyes of it wasn't supposed to follow you as a design, but it just kinda happened since the eyes are apparently a little indented, so they seem to follow you like a painting would. Idk how truthful that is though, I love the soul theory!
@Jamo12_21 Ya just looked it up. The illusion effect is why. I Don't know where I got the soul thing from, I swear I have a memory of the handler saying something about it looking into the Hunter's Soul, but it's been a while since I last played so it's most definitely me mixing up memories or something. Probably daw a video like 4 years ago that said something like that, and I just remembered it as fact.
@hihibye2324 maybe it was a comment by the handler because it had such freaky eyes, or it was someone who made a side comment about it some time in a vid
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
man, i don’t really care about top 10 lists anymore, but your casual voice and sarcastic tone and delivery (“uh yeah” “i dunno” “meat maps”) is so human lol. I appreciate the down to earth feel ❤ the speaking in the same tone for a while like at 8:25 makes for such good humor if you’re telling a joke?? idk how to explain, but it’s just satisfying and well done
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
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.
Eternal Darkness had a few fourth wall breaking scares to mess with the player... making it seem like your TV volume was being turned down, or that the TV turned off completely, fake-erasing memory cards, etc. Such an underrated game for it's time.
And here's me thinking the MGS one would be Psycho Mantis reading and talking about your save files info during the boss fight in the first playstation game.
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. 🤣
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
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
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
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
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.
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 😂
Jazz jackrabbit 2 had a 4th wall breaking idle animation where, when you did nothing for long enough, jazz would look at the player and yell "Hey! Hey, come on! Why stop?"
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.
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)
This doesn't really count as 4th wall breaking, but I love that point in Last of Us Part II where you go into the apartment that has a workbench and the context breadcrumbs you that someone is holding out there, but then you get pulled out of the workbench menu for the first and only time in both games, which is both jarring and thrilling for the first few playthoughs. The games are basically built on the ethics of your actions to survive, but there's something more palpably tragic in this interaction for me, like I just want to scream at the screen, "just talk it out, you don't need to kill each other!"
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.
For Hades II, I got massively freaked out fighting against Chronos, the god of time, went to pause and the game said something along the lines of "No, you have no control over time here. I do." Immediately threw me back into the fight. I got CHILLS.
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)
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.
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.
It's an old GameCube game, so it's not going to have the same impact now; but Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem has a LOT of messing with players - from "deleting" your save (when that was still fresh), lowering the volume on your TV, and even "turning off" the TV.
About pathologic 2. There is a interpretation of that scene, at the start of the game you receive the main goal of the game to protect some names in a list in any way you can. The last name means Bull, the interpretation is that your goal is to protect these names (kids) and the bull/city
Number 7 - Spec Ops - *spoilers* So there's a bit in the game where you think you are dropping White Phosphorus Mortars on an enemy camp and as it turns out it's actually a group of refugees, anyway the loading screen you get right after you find out what you did just says 'Do you feel like a hero yet?'. That loading screen hits hard.
When you mentioned Pathologic 2, I thought the 4-wall breaking would be about when you learn that to heal someone (which will cost a lot of resources, and anyone who knows Pathologic knows how hard it is to get those resources) and Notkin calls you to heal a child, who is next to a save point, you can find out specifically what the child has, reload your save, and spend half the expected resources in the process. And if you do that, Aspity will tell you that you "cheated" and that that's not how it's done. I got so creeped out the first time that I never did that again.
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.
Voices of the void has a good moment with one of the entities you can come across. It's a shadowy/glitchy figure of a man that slowly moves closer to you. If it touches you, the game crashes. However, the scary fourth wall breaking thing it does is that it can still move even when you pause the game, so there is no escaping it.
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).
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 😂
The most terrifying 4th wall break i've ever seen was in Limbo of The Lost, when you stand idle for sometime, the character will knock on the screen and the game will immediatly crash
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.
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
Oh hell yeah. I was so worried about my system.
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!
The one that tripped me out was in Zombie Army 4, PS4 version, if you leave the game on pause long enough, the game starts whispering through the controller speaker to "Come back and Play".
Yes there's nothing like pausing your game and going to the kitchen to get something to drink and taking the controller with you, next thing you know a little demon girl starts asking you if your there and to come back and play. I thought it was my imagination at first then I thought I watch to many horror movies and this isn't real. I finally realized it was my controller doing it. Ranks in the top ten coolest gaming moments of my life.
@@karkussthesupreme7343 Yeah, it was a lazy, rainy Sunday here in south Florida and I was playing in the bedroom. My food delivery (the lazy part) was at the door. I sat the controller on the nightstand, went and ate my food, came back at literally sat on the bed and she started with that creepy voice of "Come Back and Play". I had the same moment you did, did I just hear that ?. So I just sat there and "Are You there ?" came out. I'm like whew, I've not totally lost it, Yet.
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
MGS was packed with 4th wall breaking, remember Ocelot knows if you use autofire on your controller 🤣
When I first played it way back in the day, it took me far too long to figure out it was the case the disks camin in, I was looking for a CD case in the game XD
I remember seeing the autofire thing on a different video, where he says _don't even think about using auto fire, I'll know_
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
“Googling dates can be a jump scare”.
Too true…too true…
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
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 .
Far from creepy though
MGD Psycho Mantis fight PS1. Reading your memory card files, pseudo glitching the TV, making you change controllers over. Hideo nailed it..
Absolutely!
Yeah, but that feels like an obvious cop out with the more modern breaks. Definitely the most memorable, imo.
I was just a kid playing MGS1 and when this happened I immediately shut off the console and ran downstairs sat next to my Dad reading the newspaper. Acted like I was interested but I was actually terrified!
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?"
😂😂😂😂😂 a good time for him to have said "flesh" instead
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.
I'm surprised no one's talking about the survey lady from Detroit become human
Yes! She freaked us and my friends out!
We played each android. I was Connor. Loved that guy.
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...
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
Monika talking to >us< near the end of Doki Doki Literature Club
Editing the Mass Effect clip @0:11 just when the music sounded like the Reapers noise was perfect.
Dope
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.
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.
Thor fight in GoW Ragnarok got me good 😭
It Was so Well Done
Im so glad you included Shara Ishvalda! I was just about to comment that you need to include it!
I'm pretty sure the reason behind it is because Shara Ishvalda looks at a Hunter's Soul, and for the Player Character "We" the players are the Hunter's Soul.
I thought the eyes of it wasn't supposed to follow you as a design, but it just kinda happened since the eyes are apparently a little indented, so they seem to follow you like a painting would. Idk how truthful that is though, I love the soul theory!
@Jamo12_21 Ya just looked it up. The illusion effect is why. I Don't know where I got the soul thing from, I swear I have a memory of the handler saying something about it looking into the Hunter's Soul, but it's been a while since I last played so it's most definitely me mixing up memories or something. Probably daw a video like 4 years ago that said something like that, and I just remembered it as fact.
@hihibye2324 maybe it was a comment by the handler because it had such freaky eyes, or it was someone who made a side comment about it some time in a vid
The End Boss from Skylanders Trap Team was unbelievable as a kid for me. The way he talked trough the Portal with me was so cool
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
@@gameranxTVindeed you should
Needs a sequel video.
I legit always thought I was imagining the Black & White 2 thing!!!! I feel so validated 😂
Me too! I was 14-15 yo at that time and nobody believe me!!
"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 😂
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!
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.
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
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
man, i don’t really care about top 10 lists anymore, but your casual voice and sarcastic tone and delivery (“uh yeah” “i dunno” “meat maps”) is so human lol. I appreciate the down to earth feel ❤
the speaking in the same tone for a while like at 8:25 makes for such good humor if you’re telling a joke?? idk how to explain, but it’s just satisfying and well done
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
I finished my first undertale playthrough, in the dead of night in my kitchen at 3am. The 4th wall breaks were pretty spooky.
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
Eternal Darkness messing with fake TV controls was also a nice touch especially if you had a TV that had the exact same OSD
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
Kojima was so a head of his time he knew of A.I. hallucinations before AI became what it is today
Gerald breaking the fourth wall at the end of Witcher 3 had me rolling
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.
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
"blue screen fatal error" on eternal darkness has to be the one that really scared me.
Eternal Darkness had a few fourth wall breaking scares to mess with the player... making it seem like your TV volume was being turned down, or that the TV turned off completely, fake-erasing memory cards, etc. Such an underrated game for it's time.
And here's me thinking the MGS one would be Psycho Mantis reading and talking about your save files info during the boss fight in the first playstation game.
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. 🤣
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
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
"I guess googling dates can be a jump scare too." 🤣 pure gold and so true it's sad.
Thanks for the video, Falcon! :)
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
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.
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
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.
17:05 lmao 😂 I actually did shut the console off at this point as a naive child!😂
Surprised Psycho Mantis wasn't mentioned
That bit with the save file is spooky the first time around
speaking of scary dates,the XBOX 360 just turned 20 years old. Let that sink in.
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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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.
Here before timestamps
You and Me and Her. This game really needs more love.
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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I got inspired and made a record about the end that literally 50 people heard. That was a fun ending though.
Very good 🧐👏👏👏
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.
Man you're really corny
Jazz jackrabbit 2 had a 4th wall breaking idle animation where, when you did nothing for long enough, jazz would look at the player and yell "Hey! Hey, come on! Why stop?"
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.
Best way to start my Birthday is with Gameranx
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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)
This doesn't really count as 4th wall breaking, but I love that point in Last of Us Part II where you go into the apartment that has a workbench and the context breadcrumbs you that someone is holding out there, but then you get pulled out of the workbench menu for the first and only time in both games, which is both jarring and thrilling for the first few playthoughs. The games are basically built on the ethics of your actions to survive, but there's something more palpably tragic in this interaction for me, like I just want to scream at the screen, "just talk it out, you don't need to kill each other!"
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.
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10:47 those messages in the corner 😂😂
that was the *cough cough* 4th wall break *cough cough*
For Hades II, I got massively freaked out fighting against Chronos, the god of time, went to pause and the game said something along the lines of "No, you have no control over time here. I do." Immediately threw me back into the fight. I got CHILLS.
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)
Re: Undertale - Oh man. Oh man, you didn't even go into sans' insanity. 😂
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.
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.
Its actually one of the reasons why High on Life was so enjoyable.
Loved it
It's an old GameCube game, so it's not going to have the same impact now; but Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem has a LOT of messing with players - from "deleting" your save (when that was still fresh), lowering the volume on your TV, and even "turning off" the TV.
The 4th wall break for me were those steam messages on number 5💀😂😂
Favorite semi-4th wall break for me will always be the Assassin's Creed Ezio trilogy when the alien calls out Desmond
Falcon saying “a giant bull with its meat exposed…” was not on my 2025 bingo card but here we are😂😂
About pathologic 2. There is a interpretation of that scene, at the start of the game you receive the main goal of the game to protect some names in a list in any way you can. The last name means Bull, the interpretation is that your goal is to protect these names (kids) and the bull/city
Ty for MGS2 ❤ Played it to many times to never get the scissors 61! ❤ The final fourth wall is amazing!!! It blew my mind as a kid!
If they don't know I need scissors 61 then you need new friends haha
Eternal Darkness-Sanitys Requiem on game cube had some seriously scary fourth wall effects. If you have not played it look em up.
Who else turned the power off in MGS2 when “Campbell” told you to.
I’ll admit I did it the first time.
ODB showing up in gameranx is not what I predicted to see today but I love it
Number 7 - Spec Ops - *spoilers*
So there's a bit in the game where you think you are dropping White Phosphorus Mortars on an enemy camp and as it turns out it's actually a group of refugees, anyway the loading screen you get right after you find out what you did just says 'Do you feel like a hero yet?'. That loading screen hits hard.
And the way they show you the dead refugees truly makes you feel like total trash
When you mentioned Pathologic 2, I thought the 4-wall breaking would be about when you learn that to heal someone (which will cost a lot of resources, and anyone who knows Pathologic knows how hard it is to get those resources) and Notkin calls you to heal a child, who is next to a save point, you can find out specifically what the child has, reload your save, and spend half the expected resources in the process.
And if you do that, Aspity will tell you that you "cheated" and that that's not how it's done. I got so creeped out the first time that I never did that again.
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.
Y'all forgot the Mule Operator in Prey: Mooncrash! "Deleting all items ....... ha ha just kidding. You should see the look in your face." 😅
Voices of the void has a good moment with one of the entities you can come across. It's a shadowy/glitchy figure of a man that slowly moves closer to you. If it touches you, the game crashes. However, the scary fourth wall breaking thing it does is that it can still move even when you pause the game, so there is no escaping it.
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).
"I don't know you, I mean you're crazy in other ways" This line does it for me today, very fourth wall breaking
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
OneShot!! It's highly into 4th wall breaking. It kept giving me chills when I played it!
falcon rambling about meat maps for a full 90 seconds was not on my bingo list for the day
i think i could watch a video of "the 10 best toaster as long as i can hear falcon jokes 🤣
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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 😂
The most terrifying 4th wall break i've ever seen was in Limbo of The Lost, when you stand idle for sometime, the character will knock on the screen and the game will immediatly crash
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.
Whoever edited this intro did a masterfull jobb! That person deserves to be paid very well.
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.