As someone who hasn't played it in nearly 20 years, what was so funny about him saying 'finger?' It's not that I don't believe you, I just can't remember the context!This usually happens when the game is explaining controls or mechanics, although I've experienced moments where a game will point out the absurdity of a scenario.
This is still my favorite, I can remember being twelve and bursting out in laughter:
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Funniest 4th Wall-Breaking Moments In Games
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The Broken Ska Record
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Saw thread title and thought of this:
Tales From the Borderlands:
This almost makes me want to try and play Tales from the Borderlands. I just can't play adventure games without getting bored.
Not just that but reading your memory card blew my mind as a kid. Thought it was some kind of witchcraft. No other possible explanation really as a kid.
He's referring to the player controlled "pointer" that characters shouldn't be able to see.
The Wonderful 101
The funniest thing is all the falling heroea on the back
Hesemonni
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The one with your Gamecube rebooting was awesome.Eternal Darkness and the sanity system messing with the player. The volume thing was disturbing but the game save deletion was seriously a mind job
I do love the TF2 domination/revenge quotes, the scout's "BOOM, I'm back dummy!" being my favorite.
Charlouie Jonesman
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The disc joke would've gone over a lot better if the game didn't have that horrible chapter-by-chapter install limitation at release.
Ah, that's grand, thanks!
Zap Rowsdower
Banned
Speaking of MGS4 I love the joke with Psycho Mantis' ghost. The PS3 launched without dualshock controllers so when he tried to move the controller he failed and was pretty bummed out by it. But if you played it with the later released dualshock PS3 controller he'd be able to do it and he was just so overjoyed that it was kind of heartwarming.
LinkSlayer64
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Actually, interestingly enough, the Ultima series somewhat fits your question at the bottom. The "Avatar" is you, playing it, and there are scenes of you playing the game at your PC, when the big bad drags you into it, or something to that effect, it's been a long time.
The Last One
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This had got to be the best one. I'd been playing for hours straight, so what he said kinda rung true and it was like 3am or something.
So I sat there pretty spooked and just turned the game off and went to bed.
YES! My first time playing through this was so good. When Colonel said this I literally got closer to my TV because I couldn't believe my eyes, then Rose pops up and say "You shouldn't play so close to the TV. You'll ruin your eyes".
I was like, "YOU WUT M8??????????????"
Teasing_Pink
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Tearaway does this, and quite wonderfully too. Much of the interaction is "You" using your controller to affect change in the game. Not in the button pressing sense (though there is that too), but shining the light emanating from the DS4 led into the world, or catching objects thrown out of your tv into the controller (where they make noise with the controller speaker, so you know they are in there), before you fling them back into the tv and thus, the game.
One of the most unexpectedly charming games I've ever played. (Best five bucks I've spent at a Goodwill store)
Eternal Darkness and the sanity system messing with the player. The volume thing was disturbing but the game save deletion was seriously a mind job
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSXcajQnasc
Am I the only one who wants a Switch version that claims the battery has failed/drained or that the Switch has become disconnected from the dock or wireless Joy-Cons?
Pamplemousse
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Cranky in the DKC games always did this. My favorite is when he said the second game is an "unnecessary sequel."
I do all the time!
There's also a moment in the game about the Komayto, with Pit commenting how they look a lot like Metroid with Viridi cutting him off telling him to shush and that they are toooootally unrelated. I don't have the pics for it though but it got a good laugh out of me.
There is a floating hand pointing above his head.
TheRedSnifit
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The Scout is the best.
"It was a mercy killin', ya live in a... campervan!"
"You camped the whole time for this?!"
SpookyBlackFish
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Although being very creative, I never understood how people often tell how surprised they were by the sanity effects. I remember being disappointed because the sanity meter spoiled these moments. You always knew how insane the characters were and being accompanied by changing the angle of the screen and sobbing noises, you knew when to expect the unexpected. They even mentioned it in the instruction booklet. They should have handled it differently.
Ultima's a very odd beast in that regard, in that your character *is* a person who plays games (Ultima games, at that!) on your PC... but in story terms, you then go *away* from the PC to be sent into Britannia. What I have in mind is a situation where you are *conceptually* always "A person at their PC". Think of the ideas about ARGs, without the expansiveness of locations.
cj_iwakura
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Drakengard 3 has Zero kill the narrator during the prologue.
Thats the training guy that explains all the controls and stuff to you, the finger appears above cloud's head if you press select I think it is
The Last Wizard
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Play it man, I'm not a fan of telltale but this is easily some of their best work.