7 Times a Game Was So Meta It Freaked You Out

[@outsidextra]

Oh god the game's become self-aware! These seven meta-moments perfectly foreshadow the inevitable machine takeover. Can you think of any we missed? Shout in the comments, and enjoy!

[@respectableaf9061]

Metal Gear solid 4

[@LiamLightwolf]

Outside Xtra FAR too many moments in Undertale. The "dirty hacker" ending; Sans asking if the player thought he was "just going to stand there and take it,"; and of course,the moment in the Genocide Route when Flowey talks about how he and the Player are still better than the people who want to do what they've done (the Genocide Route), and then says that some of those people are probably watching, referring to people who watch Let's Plays

[@LiamLightwolf]

Outside Xtra also, there's probably some 4th wall demolition in Dust: An Elysian Tale, and definitely a few Easter eggs

[@Shadowcat753]

How about all of Deadpool's intros and outtros in Marvel vs. Capcom 3? I get that Deadpool knows what media he's in but still - that's a bit much - especially since apparently, he must read manga (which isn't a type of Western Media like comics/graphic novels) to get some of those intros. Seriously, he steals Phoniex Wright's line even and comments how fun it is to say!!

[@mikebaker2436]

3:30 The sounds, music, and narration that the characters can't hear because of the Fourth Wall is called "Non-diegetic" sound. Knowing that let's you sound like a pedant and helps you get a joke reference in the Archer episode "Sea Tunt: Part 1". You're welcome, friends.

[@sosei9386]

In Dragon Age: Origins, there is a book found by the dog, and in the book is the line: "Day 42: I begin to suspect that we are being manipulated, as if by some unseen hand far above us. Always, I heard the sound of clicking. Click-click. Click-click." Referencing the clicking of a PC player controlling the world. I loved this line when i first found it. : )

[@CleaverMama]

Thank you so much for reminding me that I haven't played DA:O in at least a month and I need to rectify this problem.You are a patriot and a hero.

[@Anaerin]

There's also the wandering man in the slums in DA2 that goes on a long philosophical rant about how he's not in control of himself, and what that means.

[@TheAsylumCat]

Sosei 93 in another instance, you can find two mages outside the tower complain about the devs.

[@mara_jade021]

Dragon age saga is full with meta and self awareness that comes into play if you use a save file from previous games. For instance in several places people talk about the fate of the possible main characters from the origins you didnt choose and how they die because Duncan wasnt there . Sarcastic Hawke if goes alone without companions starts talking alone asking the player if is mad.

[@JasonZakrajsek]

Mara Jade What the hell happened to that last sentence?

[@hackcubit9663]

Spider Man 3's tutorial. "Let's face it, nothing in life is free. Hey, I'm even being paid to say these lines!"

[@beelzeboss9631]

Yeah the spider man games always had that sort of self awareness

[@buonandirosario1774]

That's the voice of Bruce Campbell, he appeared as cameos in all of the three Raimi movies!

[@maxlittlewood]

when deadpool beats you with the health bar in marvel vs capcom is amazing

[@robertagu5533]

Max Littlewood an if you only pull off part of it it's very effective too

[@SevCaswell]

Deadpool is a meta character, he's always known he was a comic book character, so knowing he's in a game/movie is also normal.

[@mistformsquirrel]

10 times Deadpool was Deadpool, although entertaining... isn't exactly challenging

[@Lycan_Alchaeon]

"This is the Hyper Combo!"

[@Lycan_Alchaeon]

Oh, how about when you do his taunts? "Taunt Button!" "This is my Taunt."

[@nickb.759]

One of the coolest meta I've seen was on an mmo called mabinogi. It's a cute mmo where you didn't necessarily need to fight... You could level up cooking or woodcutting etc... You lived in this cute little world full of trees and flowers and if you died, you could just revive on the spot outside of dungeons. You could also rebirth. The story was about finding a portal to paradise! So it was to my surprise when you finally get to paradise that its the exact same world you've been playing in except all the trees are dead, everything is in ruins, zombies are everywhere, if you die you can't come back to life unless another player rescues you. The game then tells you that long ago humans found a portal and left for paradise dimension abandoning the human world... You've been playing in paradise this whole time! Thats why can't die, you can Reborn, resources are infinite and everything is beautiful! Really freaked me out... Like how did I not see this coming... Yes everything is beautiful, what was I expecting to find in paradise? ... I was taught a valuable lesson by a stupid game!

[@Ch4pp13]

*googles Mabinogi* oh. it's an MMO with an Anime aesthetic. skip.

[@namedidii]

@@Ch4pp13 lol

[@fireblade295]

Also forgot that you CAN be bumped down if you die, since dying makes you lose xp...ya real paradise...

[@lunaticraver2]

Wait... SAO but you don’t die irl if you die in game

[@jamimuhammad3699]

Omg you were in paradise then you went back to hell in that game. Really bad.

[@TheDuckInATux]

Pit: "So i cant just run through all the enemies." *DARN YOU BALANCED GAMEPLAY*

[@jasonsorin1021]

FromSoftware as Lucifer: I have a deal.

[@nicolasriveros943]

in Spec Ops: The Line, the loading screens contains your typical "game hints" such as "if you're hurt, take some cover" as well as tiny details of the backstory. However, in the middle point of the game where things start to getting... "dark" (i wouldn't spoil it for those who havent played) the loading screens start to say things like "Do you feel like a hero yet?" "This is all your fault" or my favorite: "The US military does not condone the killing of unarmed combatants. But this isn't real , so why you should care?" This and another little visual details like the main menu screens getting "deteriorated" along the story progress.

[@jikannoyuusha9978]

Nicolás Riveros (Achievement Unlocked) Peak Immersion - 117 G

[@naphtalene9164]

The game warned you about the hell you're going into since the beginning of the game right at the main menu. Rather than playing heroic serenades like Fortunate Sons and showing you badass imagery like most typical action shooter games do, the menu shows you an insurgent with a gun, the american flag upside down (which is a signal of distress), and a roughed up version of Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner, a version of the American anthem meant to highlight the atrocities and horrors of the US's involvement with the Vietnam war.

[@vera4737]

I also love the "How many Americans have you killed today?" Loading Screen. That one got me.

[@Henrque123]

One of my favorite games. As I played I thought "ok, this situation can't get worse" aaaand it got. The game knew how to make me feel awful

[@apxutekctypa]

And your nickname as “Special Guest”, as if you weren’t the player but the viewer like it’s a movie.

[@Scuzz1204]

No Stanley Parable? That game is literally nothing but Metaness of meta. Literally. Like you spending so much time in a broom closet, following the Adventure line, Visiting other games (Minecraft and portal), and an achievement for knocking on a door 5 times ;) [You know what I'm talking about]

[@thomasford9513]

H2Velociraptor [Grant P] yes one of the best ❤

[@MrFForger]

Probably because these moments are a single moment in an otherwise normal game. Can't have a meta moment freak you out when the entire game is meta.

[@TotesMagee]

And especially because of the Broom Closet ending (which btw was my favorite!).

[@captainpantaloons]

8 8 8 8 8 8 8, ;-)

[@BesterP12]

There's always trying to cheat.

[@theboy83uk23]

Hitman has one. If you're on a bit of a "Mike Rampage", sometimes you can hear a panicking NPC saying "It's just a video game, it's just a video game!"

[@bennettjames4379]

theboy83uk someone also says “Young people playing video games!” Or something like that.

[@glooperscooper]

In Psychonauts, one boss (Kochamera) announces his attacks by saying things like "Hard to avoid area attack" and "Overly Intricate Combination Attack".

[@hainsay]

I guess I would give you a pass, but the reason he is saying those things is because it's his subconscious that is imagining it. It's not really the game speaking to the player. But anyway, Psychonauts is awesome.

[@jamesilim2468]

UNAVOIDABLE CHIN MOVE

[@glooperscooper]

@@hainsay lol its still meta. Bosses don't say those things, but they do them

[@davidadonnis]

In Black Ops when you’re low on ammo, Dempsey will say, “Hey player! Drop the chips and get me some ammo!” I always thought that was pretty cool.

[@aurastrike]

I love that line so much

[@McDDcM]

The Metal Gear Solid Psycho Mantis fight? To be fair, it's been mentioned in so many lists that no one really needs to hear about it again.

[@GraveKing3473]

To be fair...that's only one example out of at least two dozen in the Metal Gear franchise...And that's a very low-ball number.

[@darkangel21190]

Metal Gear Solid 4 Screaming Mantis fight being a call back to predecessor's fight and how it won't work twice. Do I get points for originality? :P

[@JaneXemylixa]

How about "There are no continues, my friend"?

[@JaneXemylixa]

Oh, and Otacon in MGS4 asking Snake to swap discs?

[@BenjaminRodriguezReyes]

Remember fission mailed? Lol

[@saltefan5925]

Kid Icarus: Uprising The entire game is a case of "The 4th wall doesn't exist"

[@imagem9361]

I like to think that when mute protagonists get dialogue options (like in Zelda Breath of the Wild) the character is just holding up a sign with their response😅

[@phantomnite]

I love to imagine a pokemon protagonist just doing that. Makes you wonder how they command their pokemon

[@hadeskingoftheunderworld7010]

@@phantomnite clearly pokemon can read

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

@@phantomnite That definitely has to be the case with Red at least. As for his Pokémon, according to Pokémon Masters, he doesn't need to command his Pokémon, they just know automatically what he wants them to do.

[@MysticAlpaca162]

You can’t say that just the kid Icarus tutorial breaks the fourth wall the entire game has no fourth wall.

[@hackcubit9663]

It's true, the entire cast is self aware, from Hades interrupting the end credits by ripping them, to Viridi shushing Pit when he tries to say that certain enemies look like metroids.

[@kaushtubhchauhan]

AHH!!..LUKE SHAVED HIS BEARD...it looks weird

[@JachAnen]

I know right! It's like he became a teenager again.

[@JStryker47]

Luke had a beard?

[@domlocke3845]

JStryker47 He's always had a beard, it was what I actually first noticed about him.

[@Hellwyck]

Never noticed him with a beard, didn't think he was old enough to grow one.

[@readysteadywhoa]

Who's Luke?? All I saw was Andy and Tall Ellen...

[@respectableaf9061]

I will forever be haunted by option B [let's fight] if I never find out the full sentence

[@Quirky_QF]

B causes the two to unite and form a resistance group in order to take down a totalitarian government in an alternate dystopian timeline.

[@davidwit7749]

"Let's fight...for our deep and abiding friendship. I never want anything to come between us!"

[@木星からの脱出]

So true! I must know now! Can we make that scene a DLC?

[@DrakeAurum]

"Your shirt is so awesome I want to fight you for it!"

[@domlocke3845]

"Let's fight..." and then Andy slaps him because you don't talk about fight club. *Get's Slapped* Oooouch... that really hurt.

[@briarpelt2333]

I bet the player is laughing at us right now for just how silly we are, thinking this is "meta" when we're all so blissfully unaware of the video game we're in *right now.* Err, wait, was I not supposed to know that? Sssshhh, don't tell anyone!

[@jikannoyuusha9978]

Then you know why I'm here...

[@2bloodyorcs624]

Shut up npc the programmer sucks at writing meta scripts

[@aarontheperson6867]

I'm not an NPC I can't b Wow nice comment dude! LOL

[@LucyDawg]

I knew it...

[@jamesfunnymorrison8305]

Technically, seeing as the response of a certain brain to its surroundings is guided by the laws of physics, everything is predetermined for us in this universe and thus we must be in a game. Shame on you, player, if you thought we didn't know.

[@-sunbrobertram-142]

Well hello there, it’s your viewer Bertram.

[@jamesfunnymorrison8305]

and here, we observe the rare endangered Bertram in its natural habitat

[@t.fairuz29]

I was scrolling down the comment section to find a Bertram. You know I was sure I would find one and I did. Made me feel like I am in a video game.

[@Fireguy36]

One of three

[@jethro2619]

@@t.fairuz29 same

[@sicariojosh9331]

Wow

[@Shayd102]

Undertale's definitely been mentioned like a thousand times, but I specifically like the part in the Genocide run where Flowey, a constant meta character, references the fact that people decided to watch that run rather than do it themselves. As someone who absolutely refused to play it myself but wanted to see what was up, it was super shots fired.

[@ThePonz87]

"You are in a computer game, Max." The truth was a burning green crack through my brain. Weapon statistics hanging in the air, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Endless repetition of the act of shooting, time slowing down to show off my moves. The paranoid feel of someone controlling my every step. I was in a computer game. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.

[@seanthebluesheep]

Tiny Tina's Assault On Dragon Keep is very meta, although really a lot of Borderlands is in general. To note, the whole intro to the DLC has an unbeatably hard boss one-hit you, before the players complain and are revived. There's also a section where all of the enemies are reskins of Salvador, which gets brought up a bit.

[@Forestxavier20]

Now see, my friends bring me in to fight the boss with my level 50~ character, and I am just sitting there laughing as I can basically kill the new boss on one clip of my guns.

[@ZeroGunzRoyCHP]

The whole DLC is fun, meta (What in Borderlands isn't?), and a little sad towards the ending.

[@HoodWeegee]

Or every moment Captain Scarlett shows up in her DLC. She will definitely betray you

[@bartoszkrawczyk5921]

Sean Rea And let's not forget several lines Gaige speaks when at high Anarchy stacks, such as "Player! What! Are! You! Doing!", "You're breaking the game, dude!" and, my favourite, "Allen put some dialog here!".

[@lumen8341]

Haha, Gaige's 4th wall moments are some of my best gaming memories. Fun fact, I worked with her voice actress for years. It was fun getting to hear her for the 600+ hours I logged on Mechromancer, lol.

[@Hlessirah]

Three suggestions: Stanley Parable. An entire commentary about choices in video games, where they literally drop you into Minecraft for a bit and yell at you if you disobey the narrator. And their "Raphael Mode" trailer rips other games and fans to pieces. Doki Doki Literature Club. The game glitches, the antagonist messes with the other characters' personality programming, and at the end, Monika literally guessed my REAL NAME and I was like "nope, nope, not having it". You have to essentially beat the boss by going into the local game files. Doesn't get more meta than that. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair. There's a part where all the characters play an RPG video game that's meant to mirror a real life crime from their past they can't remember (amnesia ftw). At one point, Nekomaru yells "Some of us are characters in a video game!?" and Mikan says "Why am I in a video game? That's an infringement of my right to privacy!" THEN (spoiler) it eventually turns out that they were in a simulation the ENTIRE TIME, meaning there was a video game inside a video game inside a video game. :0

[@avery7618]

omg this is absolutely meta because i played minecraft a couple of times before

[@mewmew8932]

i am pleasently surprised to see danganronpa mentioned here

[@babyteamhax]

No mention of Doki Doki Literature Club? The game has a character who takes control over the game and she even speaks directly to you. She knows you're playing a game, and she knows she's in said game. You literally need to delete files from the game folder to defeat her!

[@xambiancee]

Lol u don't defeat her she isn't a boss

[@D_YellowMadness]

@@xambiancee You still defeat her. Not everyone you defeat in a game is a boss. Mario defeats goombas all the time.

[@xambiancee]

@@D_YellowMadness ok I guess that's true haha

[@fuguzawaz]

yeah, she even gets your name off of your steam profile, so no matter what name you put in at the beginning, it was always unsettling when she was like "oh, by the way, i know (game name) isnt your real name. its (steam name) isnt it?" or something along those lines

[@mikejensen8043]

Final Fantasy 7 also did the music gag before a boss fight, but it was more subtle. You go down a hallway, the music plays and they react by looking around, shrugging and taking out their weapons

[@warandpoetry9542]

Two words: Sunset Overdrive. WE GET IT, WE'RE PLAYING A VIDEO GAME, WE FIGURED THAT OUT WHEN WE SAW THE XBOX LOGO

[@CyberneticHusky]

Bailey Alexis Snow What? I am playing a video game that’s ridiculous I thought I was watching Netflix

[@JStryker47]

At least that game takes pride in being a video game, unlike Thimbleweed Park.

[@domlocke3845]

You gotta give em credit for sticking with it though, they even did a fake out Wayne's World-eque ending.

[@tomhausen9048]

The respawn animations are fun though!

[@warandpoetry9542]

It's probably worth saying that Sunset Overdrive is probably one of my favourite games of the last decade

[@boomxhakalaca3660]

What about when Lara Croft does a similar thing to Kid Icarus, talking about what buttons to press etc. But then when she goes to the shower, she directly references you behind the camera!

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Every game used to reference buttons.

[@Forestxavier20]

The moment in Tomb Raider where the Butler writes a letter about how Master Lara locked him in the Freezer room?

[@rothea]

And how she jumped into the pool a hundred times thinking it would make her clothes come off?

[@fakjbf3129]

Runescape, there's a bartender in Varrock who tries to convince you that you are inside a computer game

[@andrewwilson9675]

hes watched the matrix one too many times XD

[@ashwath5733]

OSRS or RS3?

[@ef0xy]

Ashwath something something should be worth. But if you wanna check he’s in the bar east of Varrock

[@souleaterevans4589]

Kazooie's always been super self-aware in a meta way. She's always making comments about how weird telling them button combinations to help them understand things is and calling out in an annoyed fashion that they (the characters) already know how to jump, fly as birds do, and so on.

[@michaelgleghorn9779]

Kirby Triple Deluxe allows you to use Hypernova to suck up all sorts of weird stuff, including boss healthbars.

[@bplusstudios9031]

Ultimate Spider-man is so underrated

[@danielwiechetek3920]

Gavin Felan ikr

[@bar7381]

Ultimate Spider-Man is bad the story never goes anywhere and every story mission is chase the boss then a boss fight which gets very repetitive

[@matthewcloyd8413]

@@bar7381 I honestly didn't mind all of the chasing parts of the boss battles. It actually made me feel like the race missions were worth doing. Not just because you need to do some in order to progress, but also because the race missions increase your speed and you learn how to better handle the swinging mechanics.

[@drawing_getty1042]

Its just shit though

[@willhuey4891]

wasnt that the one where you raced the human torch.

[@frodobaggins7710]

No More Heroes during the cutscene before you fight Jeanne. Travis fast forwards past her story so the game isn't delayed due to the age rating having to be increased

[@thisisodsmith]

Freaked out by that part where the dog jumps through the window in Resident Evil? Don't worry, Capcom were paying attention and know you were freaked out - so for the remake they tease something coming through the window but nothing happens, only for the dog to come leaping through the window the SECOND time you pass through that corridor.

[@nexustragoon1920]

Deadpool reading a Deadpool comic (priceless).

[@mirandamoondaughter1017]

Here’s a game for you that really break all levels of meta: “Danganronpa V3 Killing Harmony”

[@mrvngaming]

The ending is so meta, it's like devs are saying "F*ck you, we're not doing any more of these games again"

[@teo-kk7zk]

I was thinking about commenting this, you beat me to it by a year.

[@knightcorelowercase]

I was looking for this comment

[@LM-sc2wl]

But...but the Stanley Parable... That was the whole point of the game! General meta-ness! The narrator actually leaves the game and goes off to play Minecraft! HOW MUCH MORE META-NESS IS REQUIRED?!?!

[@toongrowner1]

guess this choice would have been to obvious. otherwise arkham asylum and metal gear would probably also be on this list... like usual

[@AlmightyPolarBear]

Cause what fun is a video about meta in games if you choose one that is nothing but that. ;)

[@Canadian_Zac]

I think it's more about suprising meta-ness. Stanley Parable is always meta, but these ones were normally just games, then sudden meta

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

There are tons of games like that, but it'd make for a boring video.

[@GhengisJohn]

Of course Francis is going to freak out, have you _SEEN_ the cost of graphics cards lately? You took things too far, Peach.

[@MasterZebulin]

GhengisJohn Let's not forget about the one-of-a-kind program he had on there...

[@GIAP11977]

MasterZebulin: yeah but hoprefully the hardrive is still good

[@kaze0fox]

I hope he had a warranty.

[@zabaoth]

I don't think the warranty covers Psycho bitches who literally bomb your computer.

[@Crimson_Rogue97]

I feel like dialogue options would be great in real life! Gives me more of a chance to give an awkward response to things

[@atsukana1704]

Crimson_Rogue 97 that is when I would reject them and shoo them away

[@viridian6812]

"Johnny, to the blackboard!" "I should go."

[@tomomale]

"Do you want go" Yes> No>?

[@Sephivoiceactor]

It's still driving me nuts that I don't know what the other two options for Francis do

[@Sephivoiceactor]

@Stix N' Stones I don't own the video game and nowhere on KZbin can I find it

[@MrMaradok]

Wait, you missed Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, where the sanity meter affected the character AND the player. It tricked me into thinking that the game deleted its own save!

[@Ultr4l0f]

That damn game lowered the volume for me!

[@rayvenshade1823]

My favorite is in Paper Mario TTYD, when Four Eyes AKA Lord Crump tells everyone at home that he knows his secret identity is obvious, but don't tell Mario.

[@earthlybump4843]

Somebody please check in on all the Bertrams, make sure they're ok

[@kakyoin3760]

Claire the Loon I am not ok

[@silentpaw]

I'm surprised they didn't mention Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. The Sanity effects in the game range from making you think the controller stopped functioning, going to a Blue Screen of Death, and making it look like your telivision volume turned down on its own.

[@木星からの脱出]

A great game, but that's not meta, that is just game design.

[@Banquet42]

I was thinking that but "Escape from the escape Jupiter from Jupiter" makes a good point...

[@aerthreepwood8021]

That game was great. Check out the new Call of Cthulhu game coming out if you dug that.

[@FraserSouris]

silentpaw I think they already mentioned those games in prior videos. This is supposed to be for more obscure examples

[@Matt1yu]

Not gonna lie, for a second there, I thought she was gonna say my name. Terrifying.

[@木星からの脱出]

Matt

[@wannabe_elf]

There's a bit in VTM: Bloodlines near the beginning where you meet a psychic on the beach and can give her money to tell your fortune. Once you've done that you have the opportunity to ask her a bunch of questions one of which is something like "So I'm going to win in the end?" Her answer to that is that it doesn't matter if you win the game, what matters is if you bought it. Other than the tutorial of The Bard's Tale, I think that's my favorite meta game moment I've ever encountered.

[@jacobcapodanno3519]

Anyone ever play bad fur day on N64? It had an Xbox reboot too, but that game was always Conker talking to his audience. Just great meta game realizations

[@Musikur]

Undertale and Doki Doki Literature Club are both games with heavy meta aspects, but i have to say, being called out by Flowey in Undertale when you kill Toriel and then reload a save to spare her takes the cake. Also, no meta list would be complete without the regular 4th wall breaks in conkers bad fur day; my favourite is the "context sensitive" buttons.

[@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt]

Fallout 4 had a voice actor record several hundred common names in Codsworth's spoken dialog. Even Fuckface. If you name your Sole Survivor Fuckface, Codsworth will call you Fuckface. Thank you, Bethesda, for making a game that calls me Fuckface if I name myself Fuckface. Thank you for knowing I might choose such a name as well

[@Zulooth1]

Patrick Long thanks for that tid bit of information about a game I love yet somehow didn't know.

[@BasicBraining]

I was looking through the list of FO4 names but stopped at Orgasmo. You can't get any better than that. I just wish for a mod to bring me the Orgasmorator.

[@johnevans5706]

What about the end of Conkers bad fur day or the bit when they say "step on the context sensitive button" or when he says "I'm the king didn't you see the prologue?" Or.... a lot of that game come to think of it.

[@LeagueofDoctors]

John Evans 'I dont like the sound of that music. I don't like the sound of that music either.' *cue terminator hay bale

[@JoeSiris]

The painting at 1:58 is Goku if he was American. Don't @ me, Superman fans.

[@Harrop2000]

Ultimate spiderman was the best; amazing story, spectacular combat, great webswinging, but the art and cutscenes are legendary as the cutscenes made it play out like a comic on the screen and cell shaded art style allows it to still look good today. Best spiderman game to date (probably will be surpassed by spiderman ps4).

[@jonathanbatz3183]

*SPOILER* in "the bureau -xcom declassified" , there is a big twist at the end, where it is revealed, that you did not play the main charakter in thrid person, but an alien controlling his movements in first person and the charakter notices this and freaks out.

[@vkknoell]

controlception?

[@danioking5369]

*character

[@Ch4pp13]

but that's not really the game being self aware. it's more of a "hey, you were actually playing as this alien that took control over this person's mind who you thought you were playing". a game being self aware would be where the game acknowledges common video game tropes, rolls with it and makes a small mockery of it, like Deadpool expanding the size of his censored bar to make his dick bigger, or the Narrator locking you up in his serious room after activating sv_cheats 1.

[@HarryBillyBobGeorge]

"Pride comes before the fall." Just like a group of lions migrating in September. Yeah, I got more punch lines than a karate class or a school dance with a bad DJ.

[@mr.dudemanguymcwiggins9188]

I didn't know Sam and Max had a portrait of Johnny Bravo in it

[@tomodaphne]

"Every time that happens, we end up in a fight" is probably my favorite line in Banjo-Tooie. Also, you picked my favorite part from Super Paper Mario. I love you guys.

[@YumiAyashiro]

I'm shocked neither video has yet mentioned Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear. Even when someone explained how it worked the first time I saw it, it freaked me out, both as something creepy and completely genius

[@plan8067]

I figured if there was going to be a Paper Mario entry it would be the moment in TTYD where "Four-Eyes" (Who is literally just Lord Crump in what can only vaguely be called a "disguise") takes the camera with him for a bit and tells you that even though it's extremely obvious who he is that you (the player) aren't allowed to tell Mario.

[@CaitlinRC]

Undertale... Sans's abilities especially to detect how many times he's beaten you, or whether you've played the game before - its very unsettling.

[@GenericUsername-qp1ww]

someone just had to mention that shitty overrated game huh?

[@johngervais230]

Matt Allen Beat it, troll.

[@thehylianyandere4291]

Matt Allen Yeah my 'Friend' used to like it but she was a bitch so I don't care much for that game

[@rileywagner5788]

Caitlin RC the entire game itself is meta... But yeah, mostly Sans.

[@ClownDollThatHasContemptForYou]

Also if you do a genocide route then reset and do a pacifit route when you complete the game and get to that toreil putting the butterscotch pie in your bedroom scene you will turn into Chara for a moment after toriel leaves indicating that the game knows what did you do (this happens even if you delete you files also sorry for my bad English)

[@MunchKING]

Nippon Ichi games LOVE being meta. The one that sprang to mind is Disgaea 4 where you fight the Final Boss in chapter 2 (spoiler alert: she isn’t), and it has no less than FIVE “Final chapter”s as a joke about how quickly the previous game ended. And all the while they are making reference to the game mechanics and such. Phantom Brave even had one of the optional bosses as the protagonist of Disgaea. After you beat him, he explicitly says he’s going back to his world to grind up his levels on one of the optional bosses from HIS game. And when you fight him again later, he has indeed leveled up a lot, and calls attention to it. Also like EVERY “Next Chapter” preview in ALL their games is a genre-hopping mess that has nothing to do with the next chapter. Well all of them except the last one per game where it gets serious about it.

[@eric_moore-6126]

Super Mario Galaxy tutorial: "Come on! Jump with A!"

[@thejojomonado3647]

5:30 If she's the leader of an army, does that mean she's in league with Hades? Considering Pit is the only angel that's alive then

[@dogishappy0]

What about 7 video game characters that foreshadowed their own death? Professor Harold MacDougal in Red Dead Redemption's DLC Undead Nightmare comes to mind.

[@montablanc1]

dogishappy0 "I'm going to wander down this lonely, deserted alley and get my bag." I cringed so hard when I heard that.

[@joemomma3648]

Pneuma: Breath of Life Just...... Pneuma: Breath of Life.

[@alexanderjacobson2896]

Finally, someone said it.

[@Unsupervisedcat]

i put my controller down and cried for a good 2 monthes

[@philipmoore9098]

I was playing the Octopath Traveler demo and the main character yelled “Philip!” (my name) It took me a minute to realize he was talking to a character off screen.

[@beanface7408]

Finally someone remembers that ultimate Spiderman exists

[@luuketaylor]

I actually felt a twinge of sadness that Jane didn't say "Luke" instead of "Bertram", but then again, Luke is also on the channel, so it wouldn't have the same gravity. Just wanted to feel that meta-ness I suppose!

[@tonyyang5590]

Doki Doki Literature Club : Just Monica

[@iarexayne]

Tony Yang Monika*

[@DisKorruptd]

They were looking for Meta moments in normal games, you dont get freaked out by meta in meta games

[@electricant55]

@@DisKorruptd you're not supposed to know that it's a meta game

[@marblgotchi]

Rafał Sobczyk everyone knows it’s a meta game by now.

[@icantthinkofagoodusername4464]

The “Just Monica” part is a meta moment that does stand out from the rest of the game that is entirely about being meta, so it at least deserves some credit. It perfectly conveyed the whole game’s deconstruction of player choice as a theme, though the part where Monika called me by my actual name freaked me out far more.

[@MrRafalel]

Happy to notice that Lukes scientific tutoring with Jane is working great. He is already starting tests of his own. Soon their space station will rule all

[@senhowler]

If a game becomes too meta, I start to worry it's going to go full Jumanji on me.

[@funnyblog100]

My favorite was in Batman Ark-ham asylum when scarecrows fear gas actually makes the player experience their deepest fear as the game appears to crash before bringing you back to the start of the game with the batman and joker's positions reversed.

[@aedward.c6119]

I'll never forget blood and wine's ending, when Geralt addresses the player a last, heart rending smile and agrees it is time to finally rest

[@possiblestranger]

Sometimes in life I feel like Francis... especially that time my graphics card was blown up by a fourth wall breaking princess.

[@cameron9385]

What about Fi from The Legend of Zelda:Skyward Sword? Just before an intense battle (well, as intense as waggling a Wii Remote can be) Fi steps in to inform us the Wii Remote is low on batteries. Definitely never took me out of the moment.

[@ultra2320]

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is one the highest rated games of all time across almost all websites and people. Its got the ratings it probably deserves

[@TheRevDel]

Underrated? Zelda? No.

[@thehylianyandere4291]

TheRevDel My sister, dad and mum hate it

[@thehylianyandere4291]

And people in my school and I meant stuff like spirit tracks

[@SA80TAGE]

I don't think you know what underrated actually means.

[@GhengisJohn]

0:10 Much Horror. So Psychological. Wow.

[@Tsukuyomi28]

GhengisJohn so scare

[@abriallafeacher6174]

3:03 best running style ever

[@lazyburgerpanda6333]

I love how when they show the games they're gonna cover, Ultimate Spider-Man's logo is the one from the 2012 TV show of the same name, and not the one from the actual 2005 video game.

[@Ghostswarm_86]

The AI boss in Battleborn Isic constantly references you the player. Even while you play him Isic has many quotes that break the 4th wall, one of the best ones is a poem that his references named "your guts, your guts everywhere!"

[@vsm1456]

finally, I've found a comment about Battleborn

[@gabbyc2742]

all luke had to do to escape andy was stand up. there's no way he could've maintained it with the height difference. i mean, his name is tall ellen for a reason

[@jocosesonata]

What's a better name? Attack on Luke? or Shadow of the Westaway?

[@gabbyc2742]

Jocose Sonata i'd have to saw attack on luke. it makes him sound like he is being both intimidating and being attacked himself and that feels pretty on point lol

[@Platonis-The-Warlock]

Luke, Ellen, WHAT THE HELL? Where are your gorgeous beards?

[@Banquet42]

Johnny made them all shave. Except for Andy. Game recognise game.

[@trixtergod91a]

They must be imposters... working with the ones who wear eye shadow -_- .... there has been a breach

[@spiderspartianProductions]

0:50 wrong spider-man logo

[@globox1998]

6:24 Congratulations you've played yourself

[@CucumberSadness]

Meta games... Neptunia... it takes place in the land of Gamindustri, every character is a personified console and or company, and don't get me started on M.A.G.E.S.

[@toongrowner1]

Thank you guys a lot, for once not mentioning Arkham Asylum and Metal Gear in a video about meta stuff and instead focusing on some lesser known moments. You did good, very good indeed. ^^

[@Forestxavier20]

3rd Joystick - 13 year old me thought it ment press down on the joystick... DERP!

[@misamagica]

4 years late but c'mon dude... This is so petty 😑

[@Amaritudine]

A bit obscure, but grimly comedic puzzle platformer 'Karoshi' requires you to put an actual music CD in your computer's actual optical disc drive (remember those?) in order to active the stereo that appears in exactly one level.

[@eur0be4t3r]

Kid Icarus uprising is game with the most 4th-Wall breaking I know

[@NinjaKingAce]

I knew Kid Icarus: Uprising would be on this list, that game is full of meta jokes and moments, but that tutorial is one of the best, it's a shame so many players skip the tutorial

[@jackie6288]

conrad verner in mass effect 2, when shepard asks him what he’s doing nowadays, he says something like “talking to people who look like they are standing there waiting for me and searching for money in crates”, which is basically ever RPG ever. i laughed so hard first time i heard that

[@garrec3]

Every "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" Game Ever's Tutorial Sections.

[@TheMasterQuests]

I saw Ultimate Spider-man and clicked

[@johnevans5706]

TheMasterQuests same

[@thatwouldbeme]

TheMasterQuests my man

[@TheMasterQuests]

high five guys!

[@alexyoung3236]

Such a good game :)

[@silverrider99]

TheMasterQuests yep damn I loved that game as a kid.

[@lltocool1018]

If you haven’t seen the ending of “pnuema: breath of life”, I would recommend it. Definitely earns a place on this list.

[@incognitoburrito7458]

What if we were all avatars of a video game and my comment was actually another clever way of making a meta joke in the video game.

[@rcols659]

Did we all forgetting when in Doki Doki Literature Club Monika calls you by your steam name?

[@homelessmexican410]

By your steam name? Lucky you, she called me by my ACTUAL NAME. I'm still scarred and have no idea how she did that

[@Sona13Singer]

John Kenway I think the game uses your computer user account name. I've heard of some people who have a fake name as the account name and she called by that. You're using windows I guess.

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

Lots of games do that, even GTA V did at one point.

[@MrLightDarkness]

Y'know, that Vortigaunt in Half-Life is referencing the G-Man who influences and controls the actions of Gordon from a distance. G-Man does seem to be a sort of developer-insert character though, so it's kinda close enough.

[@patheticmush7696]

How about in Final Fantasy XV? Prompto saying "This is like a real life RPG." Was really Meta

[@randominternettoaster7859]

Alec Franco Sampang I know

[@epikthread8494]

I love how during the Super Paper Mario part, the guy (I don't know his name, I'm new to the channel) keeps looking at the script because what happens in the game is so outlandish.

[@nature1972]

When Lester or Avon Quartz mention that your GTA Online characters are always silent during heists / missions. "Creepy silent criminal sidekicks with talent!" or "Silent psychotic peons"

[@Kewryn]

For the sake of Jane making more "Lost Vikings" puns, I could call out the original game, where the three main characters were generally pretty self-aware regarding their role; at the end of every level they would strike a short dialogue with each other, referencing things they, by the game's setting, couldn't know about such as Saturday Morning Cartoons. The most prominent moment however was a conversation somewhere in the first half of the game, when they directly acknowledged being game characters: "Do you guys ever get the feeling like you're being watched?" "Yeah... almost like someone is controlling our every move." "Nah, you two are just paranoid." "Oh really? Than who is THAT!" :D Also I think Mass Effect series ability to being meta WITHOUT actually being universe breaking should be noted, like the time in ME2 when you recruit Mordin and he asks you to cure the plague. Shepard's Renegade response pretty much sums up the approach of all RPGies when first you commonly need to complete a quest before enlisting an NPC to you party: "You know, just ONCE I would've loved it if I asked someone for help and they would say: 'sure, no problem, lets go right now, no strings attached" :D That totally cracked me up and was still in the spirit of the game. Another example came in Citadel DLC for ME3, where you chase a clone of Shepard which, upon capturing the player and his party, bids them farewell by saying "I should go", which in turns prompts a quick conversation where Shepard ponders WHY he used that phrase so many times in a nod to dialogues in RPGies often using the exact same phrase to end a conversation :) Further examples from that series could include Liara in ME2's DLC "Lair of the Shadow Broker", who comments on the fact that their enemies attack in waves rather than just gather together and attack in full force, which would be a much more sucessful tactic or Conrad (the fan that appears throughout the series) in the original ME2 claiming that he took on Shepard's role (when the latter was believed dead) by walking around asking people if they needed help with something... an acknowledgement of somewhat far-fetched system of getting sidequests in RPGies :) A honorable mention could also go to "Max Payne", when titular protagonist, under influence of drugs, is having weird dreams where he literally references being a character in a comic book (which was the style the game's cutscenes were made) and a moment later being a character in a video game with statistics hanging above his head :D

[@masterfulsnowelf2840]

I'm getting worried about Jane. How often does she talk about wearing peoples skin? I have heard it 2 or 3 time on camera. Just er... make sure you lock your doors at night and make sure what ever you do you don't ever [Loading message failed]

[@Banquet42]

You're not supposed to point that sort of thing out, in case it makes her angry, you wouldn't like her when she's angry...

[@jocosesonata]

Lock your doors? Like that'll stop her.

[@SA80TAGE]

Locked doors are useful against an orbital death cannon :SarcasticThumbsUp:

[@zarnox3071]

That part in Pony Island where Asmodeus.exe uses your Steam friends to distract you.

[@Ch4pp13]

sublte, but clever.

[@tingtinglin232]

Too bad for him that I have no stream friends lmao

[@nyktalgiapeisithanatos832]

Usually when these kind of channels try to be funny its a cringefest but you all actually made me laugh yourselves. Good job 👏

[@skeletalgaming4198]

6:56 I think Ellen's staring into my soul...

[@amyschildgamerlive4519]

What soul?

[@skeletalgaming4198]

@@amyschildgamerlive4519 Good point.

[@amyschildgamerlive4519]

@@skeletalgaming4198 lmao

[@amyschildgamerlive4519]

@@skeletalgaming4198 jk my dude