Favorite 4th Wall Break?

[Bakuma1997]

Self Explanatory, that time those pixels hurled the script in the garbage bin and said "Guess what, we are real in a sense too" and decided to interact with you

Alas, the game needs to have a fourth wall, so games like Undertale or
I can't recall the mission, sorry, in GTA Chinatown Wars there is a cutscene where on of our allies says "To emphatize this, we need a shot my my angry face" before the next shot is exactly that (The cutscenes are in comic book style)

The final battle in Earthbound, if you know you know

I remember tha in Max Payne you get into an elevator with some speakers, of you shoot them Max will say "Thank you"

That one Puzzle of Phantom hourglass where you need to close your DS midgame to imprint a map into the touchscreem

 

[Your_Homie_Gale]

Metal Gear Solid 1 with Psycho Mantis reading your memory card and making your controller vibrate. I didn't have any Konami games on my memory card, but when he made my control vibrate it absolutely blew my mind because it was strong. Most games I played had really weak vibration, so it really scared me as a kid. That and when you fight Psycho Mantis he turns off the TV occasionally. Not to mention he's really difficult as if he knows your every move. It's all because he is reading your inputs on controller port 1.

 

[Deleted member 384463]

Deadpool The Game

 

[Bakuma1997]

Metal Gear Solid 1 with Psycho Mantis reading your memory card and making your controller vibrate. I didn't have any Konami games on my memory card, but when he made my control vibrate it absolutely blew my mind because it was strong. Most games I played had really weak vibration, so it really scared me as a kid. That and when you fight Psycho Mantis he turns off the TV occasionally. Not to mention he's really difficult as if he knows your every move. It's all because he is reading your inputs on controller port 1.

I recall that in the HIND battle the Colonel flatout tells you a tip that will help (Play the game with Stereo Setting) but if you only have a Monaural TV they will comment on it

 

[Deleted member 384463]

Metal Gear Solid 1 with Psycho Mantis reading your memory card and making your controller vibrate. I didn't have any Konami games on my memory card, but when he made my control vibrate it absolutely blew my mind because it was strong. Most games I played had really weak vibration, so it really scared me as a kid. That and when you fight Psycho Mantis he turns off the TV occasionally. Not to mention he's really difficult as if he knows your every move. It's all because he is reading your inputs on controller port 1.

He's one of the most brilliant bosses I've ever seen, and the battle against him is so unique.

 

[Your_Homie_Gale]

I recall that in the HIND battle the Colonel flatout tells you a tip that will help (Play the game with Stereo Setting) but if you only have a Monaural TV they will comment on it

Kojima making fun of poor people who couldn't afford a stereo TV in 1998. That's just funny in retrospect.

 

[qw90700]

The year 1987:

A video game character tell you to turn off the device you play the game on lol.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

There's a couple on Alfred Pelrock En Busca De Un Sueño in which the main character (and a few others) insult the player's intelligence by recommending we start using our brains or press X "250 times" to see if that solves anything.

 

[solnK!]

I´d say the Panzer Dragoon Saga ending, won´t explain further because of spoilers.

 

[moonbits]

I like when you pause in Viewtiful Joe, they say "CUT!" or "Let's take a break" and the clapperboard sound.

 

[Tonberry]

First time I saw this one I almost fainted

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I like when you pause in Viewtiful Joe, they say "CUT!" or "Let's take a break" and the clapperboard sound.

”TAKE FIVE!”

 

[Mork]

Ocelot straight up points at the camera: If you're using Auto-fire, I'll know

 

[Cantarella]

Inscryption has a few. Pretty dang engaging story in that card game if anyone hasn't played it.

 

[Bakuma1997]

 

[PSVitaForever]

I can't remember any apart from Neptunia, of which I played some spin-off; I thought they were nice and funny.

 

[qw90700]

Same vibe lol:

 

[tonyhoro]

Metaphor: ReFantazio has a 4th wall break that starts in the first minute of the game and pays off on the last cutscene.

It isn't mind blowing but its cool.

 

[Heidegger22]

You, the player, are the "nomad soul". By playing the game you have condemned your soul to perpetual torment unless you finish the game. The whole game feels eerie enough to warrant this intrusion, like a virtual demonic pact.

 

[snes9x]

"You don't want this to become No More Heroes Forever do you?"

 

[Vardalis]

"You don't want this to become No More Heroes Forever do you?"

Definitely one of my favorites. The intro to No More Heroes stuck with me ever since I played it because Travis is speaking directly to the player.