7 Times a Game Was So Meta It Freaked You Out: Commenter Edition

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  • Here are your suggestions of times that games became eerily -- and sometimes hilariously -- self-aware.
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  • @outsidextra
    @outsidextra  5 років тому +466

    How did these games become so eerily self-aware?! Presenting your suggestions of the times games went all meta, and freaked you right out. Enjoy!

    • @clutchgodsaustintrentham6719
      @clutchgodsaustintrentham6719 5 років тому

      Please heart

    • @theakaneko
      @theakaneko 5 років тому +8

      Omg watching gametheory and others playing doki doki literature club... wow

    • @ishan2991
      @ishan2991 5 років тому +5

      So Ellen is a vampire huh...... I should've seen the signs. Hiding a vicious personality under that cute facade. Save yourself Mike, she's definitely after you.

    • @LillyP-xs5qe
      @LillyP-xs5qe 5 років тому +6

      Spec ops the line, user name in the opening credits as a special guest, whattt???

    • @e.d.5766
      @e.d.5766 5 років тому +1

      Ellen's reaction to Mike understanding her DS joke reminded me of Polygon's Brian David Gilbert.

  • @snichris
    @snichris 5 років тому +2130

    My internet dropped out after: “Beware minor spoilers for the following,” and left the buffering symbol on screen. I thought it was an incredibly meta joke for about 3 minutes before checking my WiFi 😂

    • @mentalpopcorn2304
      @mentalpopcorn2304 5 років тому +112

      That would've been a good April fool's joke... Rest of the video loading screen

    • @LeatherKing6688
      @LeatherKing6688 5 років тому +3

      Me

    • @andoryuubushido7191
      @andoryuubushido7191 5 років тому +113

      After like 30 seconds, "Alright I think the joke has gone on long enough, they'll get back to the video any second now." 30 seconds later, "Ha ha guys, uncomfortable silence for a minute, well done you've trolled me. You can move on with the video." 30 seconds later, "Guys?! I think you might be taking the joke a little too far. You can move on now." 30 seconds later, "FOR GODS SAKE END THIS TWISTED CHARADE ALREADY" 30 seconds later, "Log date 7112, it's been 2 and a half minutes of the video pretending to buffer. I fear it may be the entire rest of the video. If I don't make it, tell my wife and kids. . . I don't hold it against Ellen, and always loved her more than them." 30 seconds later, "Wait maybe it actually is buffering. . ." *checks* "Ah yes, well you got me internet. You win this round."

    • @SolusWhite
      @SolusWhite 5 років тому +9

      Hahaha xD done THAT before... I don't think it took me 3 minutes though, ahah.

    • @mar_speedman
      @mar_speedman 5 років тому +7

      @@andoryuubushido7191 lol Chris Carlin's Buffer Encounter, The Movie!

  • @Evielicious
    @Evielicious 5 років тому +300

    Also there is more. In undertale, after flowey calls you out on killing toriel, when you meet toriel again, she says "what's wrong child? You look like you've seen a ghost." then in the flavor bar is says "*you don't tell her that you saw her die"

    • @joeyyoung5173
      @joeyyoung5173 4 роки тому +63

      Pamber 13 Even more meta: Flowey talks down on the people watching a UA-cam video of a genocide run: "At least we're better than those sickos who sand around and WATCH it happen. Those pathetic people that want to see it but are too weak to do it themselves. I bet someone like that's watching right now aren't they?". That’s next level

    • @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780
      @andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 4 роки тому +11

      @@joeyyoung5173 i just do the middle finger at flowey

    • @jesteringdragons
      @jesteringdragons 3 роки тому +5

      and dont forget about meeting sans at the end, if you keep reloading and saving, plus genocide route where he counts each time you die

    • @premiumheadpats4150
      @premiumheadpats4150 3 роки тому +4

      @@joeyyoung5173 The undertale franchise is too meta. It's a beautiful monster.

    • @premiumheadpats4150
      @premiumheadpats4150 3 роки тому

      @Colton Sylvia I was just about to mention that.

  • @chainsawsubtlety9828
    @chainsawsubtlety9828 5 років тому +171

    Never sit down.
    That way, vampire Ellen can't reach your neck.

  • @respectableaf9061
    @respectableaf9061 5 років тому +222

    Saint Row IV, there are three male voices AND Nolan North. If you pick him he spends the entire game saying things like "I sound like a lot of other videogame characters don't I?" and "That's how Nolan rolls!"

    • @ZlothZloth
      @ZlothZloth 4 роки тому +12

      The Enter the Dominatrix DLC for SR4 had all the characters talking about their roles and the history of the DLC.

    • @prince_nocturne
      @prince_nocturne 3 роки тому +4

      I also love how when Kinsie at the beginning is telling you how to break free of the first simulation, she says 'just be yourself." and he responds "Be Nolan North. Got it."

    • @respectableaf9061
      @respectableaf9061 3 роки тому +1

      @@prince_nocturne Yup :) Picking Nolan was the best choice in that game.

    • @aegis6485
      @aegis6485 2 роки тому +1

      He was also the funniest male voice for me.

  • @crows2808
    @crows2808 5 років тому +840

    Ellen wearing a "Nier Automata T-shirt" t-shirt while talking about games going meta.
    I see you.

    • @lanceuppercut6168
      @lanceuppercut6168 5 років тому +15

      Glad someone else caught that

    • @YanosSturing
      @YanosSturing 5 років тому +20

      I need to know where she got that shirt, I absolutely love it

    • @kamilman0
      @kamilman0 5 років тому +6

      Yanos Sturing my thoughts exactly

    • @CrazeeAdam
      @CrazeeAdam 5 років тому +10

      We also learn she's a 4th wall breaking Vampire here. She's tripling on meta commentary

    • @earmite100
      @earmite100 5 років тому +3

      @@YanosSturing I've been looking since the last video I saw it on. There are some with a different typeface on redbubble, but I've not found that precise shirt.

  • @szmrachel
    @szmrachel 5 років тому +574

    Ellen, the most polite vampire in the world. Just because you want to suck the blood from your victims and leave them a lifeless husk, doesn't excuse rudeness.

    • @jackcullen5085
      @jackcullen5085 5 років тому +9

      Elijah from originals comes to mind

    • @evanshearin6490
      @evanshearin6490 5 років тому +19

      She is British, after all.

    • @robertagu5533
      @robertagu5533 5 років тому +22

      Let's be honest.. she'd be one the most successful ones too though..

    • @misterthegeoff9767
      @misterthegeoff9767 5 років тому +26

      It makes sense that Vampire Ellen would be fastidious about obtaining consent. It's just a logical extension of how vampires aren't allowed to enter your home unless you invite them in.

    • @szbnahl
      @szbnahl 5 років тому +5

      Maybe the area around the list video chair counts as Mike's home for vampire purposes.

  • @preposteroussongs5572
    @preposteroussongs5572 5 років тому +293

    I'm surprised you didn't mention Doki Doki Literature Club.
    Edit: Also, turning the 3DS upside down to evolve Inkay into Malamar.

    • @jamesmoore7755
      @jamesmoore7755 4 роки тому +20

      i guess doki doki wouldn't count because it's not really sudden, it's more throughout the entire game. but still, that game had to have taken a sledgehammer to the fourth wall more than just a few times.

    • @doggypi1532
      @doggypi1532 4 роки тому +6

      Took me sometime to evolve malamar because of that lol~

    • @joecox1074
      @joecox1074 4 роки тому +2

      Was that out when this video was made?

    • @eddiemate
      @eddiemate 4 роки тому +1

      Joe Cox
      Yeah, by roughly two years. I think they just decided the game was too obviously meta compared to the small peek around the 4th wall that these games were doing.

    • @LuxrayLloyd
      @LuxrayLloyd 4 роки тому +1

      I was looking for the Malamar one

  • @TManDude291
    @TManDude291 3 роки тому +19

    I actually did the zelda one by accident. I closed the DS in rage after 5 days of trying to figure it out, only to hear the puzzle solved jingle pop from the DS. Opened it up and I broke down laughing. The game BROKE ME.

  • @gipsyundead
    @gipsyundead 5 років тому +482

    Na the best 4th wall break on Max Payne is where you shoot a speaker in a lift which stops the shitty elevator music and Max says "Thank you"

    • @mar_speedman
      @mar_speedman 5 років тому +8

      lol never saw that one!

    • @mar_speedman
      @mar_speedman 5 років тому +22

      But you're right. That part about him thinking he's in a videogame, he was hallucinating. He didn't actually break the 4th wall. He did break it with the elevator one you just mentioned

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo 5 років тому +13

      @@mar_speedman Well the entire sequence isn't, it would only be his shutter at the thought of it and not the thinking he was.
      You guys are still right though the elevator seems more like it, but also more ambiguous.

  • @grooorglaserdeth8823
    @grooorglaserdeth8823 5 років тому +198

    Pony Island has by far one of the greatest fourth-wall breaks I've ever witnessed. During the fight with Asmodeus the very program that challenges you to a battle of concentration messages you via Steam, thus disrupting your concentration and missing the very thing you were looking for. Simply genius.

    • @greenhowie
      @greenhowie 5 років тому +2

      Oh, you could do an entire video about those kind of games. Ever play Imscared?

    • @thebenjcrew
      @thebenjcrew 5 років тому +13

      For me I got a message from my friend, not the program I was fighting.
      *not actually my friend, the game pretending to be my friend

    • @Demmrir
      @Demmrir 5 років тому +18

      @@thebenjcrew Yeah, that's what made it so bad. So long as you have friends on Steam, the game picks a random friend and has them act aghast at the fact you're sending such horrible messages at them. It's trolling you like it's hacked your account. It'd have been even more chilling except it speaks in internet parlance (stuff like omg) and none of my friends do so, so I knew it was fake.

    • @nowefedmuffin
      @nowefedmuffin 5 років тому +1

      I vividly remember getting that steam notification and having stopping to text my friend what he was talking about. Top 10 gaming moment.

    • @UsmanMuhammadNooruddin
      @UsmanMuhammadNooruddin 5 років тому +13

      Man that was a creepy/epic moment! And the game does it purposefully to make sure that you 'overlook something'. THE HEX made by the same developer has some similar (in a different way) moments as well.

  • @JosephCraig
    @JosephCraig 4 роки тому +29

    MG: Solid for PS1, the fight with Psycho Mantis was the one that got me the most. "Oh, you haven't saved in a while?" "I see you like Castelvania" Reading your save files and not to mention what you have to do to beat him.

  • @lostdomlover
    @lostdomlover 4 роки тому +42

    The Zelda DS one reminds me of the puzzle in the DS game 'Trace Memory' where you had to halfway close the DS and use reflections to solve it. Great game.

  • @DampenedHorizon
    @DampenedHorizon 5 років тому +181

    I didn't even think of it the first time but in Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice right at the start Senua looks into the camera as if you are one of the voices in her head telling her what to do, gave me chills

    • @AlmightyPolarBear
      @AlmightyPolarBear 5 років тому +10

      I remember those moments in the game. When you felt like you were the one judging her, the one she was talking to.

    • @Tinyvalkyrie410
      @Tinyvalkyrie410 5 років тому +12

      Yeah the manipulation of the fourth wall in that game was beyond brilliant. Although it didn’t particularly come out of nowhere, so maybe not within the purview of this list.
      EDIT: oh who am I kidding, part 3! Part 3!

  • @jhsand1515
    @jhsand1515 5 років тому +401

    I thought it was great in Batman Arkham Asylum when the Riddler asked if you were looking up how to solve his riddles on the internet.

    • @wariodude128
      @wariodude128 5 років тому +24

      When that happened to me, I actually hadn't. It was only near the end, when i was looking for the detective mode question marks somewhere outside that I looked something up.

    • @nicholasfarrell5981
      @nicholasfarrell5981 5 років тому +14

      JH Sand151 I remember that. It's right near the end of his puzzles too, when you need to look them up anyway. Brilliant.

    • @AlexanderAzarov
      @AlexanderAzarov 5 років тому +6

      The first Scarecrow sequence was a throwback to System Shock, too, wasn't it?

    • @kayleerosemarks4055
      @kayleerosemarks4055 4 роки тому +1

      No... I would just spend the whole night thinking on it

  • @beepboprobotsnot3748
    @beepboprobotsnot3748 5 років тому +43

    I like how when talking about meta games, Ellen's wearing a shirt that says "Nier Automata T-shirt".

  • @KrisBailey
    @KrisBailey 4 роки тому +35

    Oh my gosh, the Phantom Hourglass one. I remember getting so annoyed not being able to figure that out and closing my DS out of frustration.

    • @briantepe1340
      @briantepe1340 3 роки тому +6

      I was going to ask if anyone else "solved" it by closing their DS so they could come back to it later. I reopened the game some 6 hours later and just stared at it baffled at the puzzle having been solved.

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 5 років тому +192

    Giving Kirby a black hole for a stomach honestly sounds like a lateral move more than a power-up.

    • @ScreamDemon462
      @ScreamDemon462 5 років тому +3

      i am afraid NOT Kirby doesn't exist in this dimensi I err mean that he isn't real

  • @JohnWilliams-cr2sz
    @JohnWilliams-cr2sz 5 років тому +181

    Ellen's a vampire?! Awesome, my fanfiction just became canon!!

  • @annameyer1055
    @annameyer1055 5 років тому +39

    Doki doki literature club... most of Monica’s lines are terrifying. And then when she uses your name...

    • @Practitioner_of_Diogenes
      @Practitioner_of_Diogenes 5 років тому +7

      There's also some out of game stuff going on if you pay attention. Like during certain events, look at the character folder where the characters files are held.

  • @weirdogiant6886
    @weirdogiant6886 5 років тому +8

    I'm surprised that nobody talked about in SCP: Containment Breach, that if you typed in "fourth wall" on SCP-294, and drink it, your character would LITERALLY break the fourth wall.

  • @tieshianna8833
    @tieshianna8833 5 років тому +101

    German Point and click adventure Deponia had you shut down the music off the game so Rufus (the main character) could concentrate.

    • @Vinsch2510
      @Vinsch2510 5 років тому +6

      It´s available in english as well^^
      @outside Xtra you guys would LOVE this game series!

    • @deepseafish257
      @deepseafish257 5 років тому +5

      Both the Deponia and the Edna games are really meta... then again, that's just Poki being Poki.

    • @StephenAlexWalker
      @StephenAlexWalker 5 років тому +3

      @@Vinsch2510 Only £6.99 on Steam guys ;)

  • @P3x310
    @P3x310 5 років тому +78

    Oh, too bad I didn't remember this in time for the original video's comments (unless someone else did), but Divinity: Original Sin had a lovely meta moment. At one point you come across a couple of wisdom-sharing statues, one of which promises to show you the end of all things. And it actually does show you the end of it all.
    It's the *end credits of the game*

  • @lunargamer4611
    @lunargamer4611 3 роки тому +4

    You know, I was stumped by the same puzzle in Zelda Phantom Hourglass as well. I spent almost an hour trying to figure out if I missed a item somewhere in the dungeon or something...
    Finally I just took it to my Mom because she loves these sort of puzzles... She looked me in the eye after I explained the puzzle and asked, "Really?" like I had just asked her something incredibly obvious, and then made a big show about closing my DS and opening it back up.
    The moral of the story is that sometimes it is a good idea to go to a non-gamer to ask for help with games.

  • @floppyseizure8615
    @floppyseizure8615 4 роки тому +18

    Ellen's dimples make my heart melt. She's so damn adorable.

  • @ladylunaginaofgames40
    @ladylunaginaofgames40 5 років тому +63

    This is not the only time Flowery does something this Meta. If you confront him on your way to Sans during the Genocide route, he will take a crack on people who are watching the player's genocide route right then and there, because they don't have the heart to kill everyone.

    • @kitcatart9492
      @kitcatart9492 5 років тому +12

      Abandoned genocide runs followed by pacifist run too! That is even more creepy in my opinion!

    • @thomasallen9974
      @thomasallen9974 5 років тому +12

      That game is just disturbingly meta, and there is NO avoiding permanent meta data

    • @AlexanderAzarov
      @AlexanderAzarov 5 років тому +3

      @@thomasallen9974 can't you delete your local AND cloud saves?

    • @menph1096
      @menph1096 5 років тому +2

      You can.

    • @SaturdayParker
      @SaturdayParker 5 років тому +2

      That scared me so bad 🤣 I closed my laptop so fast! I thought he could see me but it was night so I just watched something else to get my mind off it.

  • @dallydaydream
    @dallydaydream 5 років тому +81

    So wait, why all the excitement about the "first" photograph of a black hole, when in reality we've been seeing footage of one ever since Kirby Triple Deluxe was released?

    • @greenhowie
      @greenhowie 5 років тому +4

      It's the same black hole, just... um... a "different angle" shall we say.

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega 5 років тому +1

      That’s a pink hole… wait that sounds dirty

  • @Kagedtiger
    @Kagedtiger 4 роки тому +4

    God. that makes me think of Eternal Darkness. That game was just full of 4th-wall breaks designed to spook you. The best one is probably halfway through when they pretend that the game is over and show an ad for the sequel that you would have to buy to finish the story.

  • @dementedwarlock4375
    @dementedwarlock4375 5 років тому +16

    Ellen a vampire!? That would explain the lack of mirrors

  • @mentalpopcorn2304
    @mentalpopcorn2304 5 років тому +76

    Number 1: every time a game had a character actually tell you want button to press or any other message that should be a system message

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo 5 років тому +2

      Dev left player messages. Sure you don't think much of it in Souls during the tutorial, but as an example in DS2 it sure got to people when they found Navlaan.

    • @xXZombieHunter0802Xx
      @xXZombieHunter0802Xx 5 років тому +1

      That stuff always bugged me. They shifted away from it since I was younger, but Nintendo was always the worst culprit of that.

    • @smievil
      @smievil 3 роки тому

      "in any case, you should contact Meryl by codec. wasn't her frequency written on the back of the CD case?"

  • @angelbarrera3890
    @angelbarrera3890 5 років тому +334

    How about that time I was about to buy metal gear survive and hideo kojima broke into my house to tell me not to.

    • @39Chevy
      @39Chevy 5 років тому +21

      These needs to go into the second commenter edition.

    • @maxvel0city906
      @maxvel0city906 5 років тому +15

      Is he going to break into your house again, to tell you to buy Death Stranding?

    • @theshamelesskid2950
      @theshamelesskid2950 5 років тому +3

      That was weird

    • @JachAnen
      @JachAnen 5 років тому +6

      @@maxvel0city906 He doesn't need to

    • @KyoMao
      @KyoMao 5 років тому +3

      @@maxvel0city906 What do you mean? That's how he convinced us not to get MGS.

  • @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley
    @BewareTheLilyOfTheValley 4 роки тому +4

    Real-world advertising in FFXV. This finally comes to a head when you do Gladio's mission for Cup Noodle. Prompto also makes "This is just like a video game!" quips.

  • @kylepeterson4147
    @kylepeterson4147 5 років тому +4

    The Deadpool "beat the enemy with your own health bar" thing was also in Avengers Alliance!

  • @Betta66
    @Betta66 5 років тому +140

    Bioshock Infinite: "I heard it was delayed three times."

    • @JachAnen
      @JachAnen 5 років тому +2

      If that counts there's Duke Nuken Forever

    • @j0hnn13K
      @j0hnn13K 5 років тому

      And serious sam

    • @ceceliaacaba2739
      @ceceliaacaba2739 5 років тому +10

      Ha! The devs poking fun at themselves.
      fun fact: in Bioshock Infinite there are 10,000 lines of dialogue a third of it is spoken by Booker and Elizabeth (Credit goes to 101 facts)

    • @Darkest_matter
      @Darkest_matter 5 років тому +4

      And all 10,000 of em are"booker, catch!"

  • @kharnthebetrayer8251
    @kharnthebetrayer8251 5 років тому +29

    "No, get away, you mad vampire"
    I don't know why Mike's delivery of that is so funny to me

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo 5 років тому +2

      I agree, it was a great delivery, but pretty sure he said "Bad" and the subs agree.

    • @kharnthebetrayer8251
      @kharnthebetrayer8251 5 років тому

      @@insaincaldo Yeah, tis a spelling error on my part

    • @insaincaldo
      @insaincaldo 5 років тому

      @@kharnthebetrayer8251 BNM fair

  • @brandonhartzell7071
    @brandonhartzell7071 5 років тому +10

    You missed a great one, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem for the Gamecube.

  • @ickcat
    @ickcat 5 років тому +1

    Phantom Hourglass also had the part where you were told to yell into the mic to show how excited you were, and then the NPC told you that you must have looked ridiculous yelling at a DS, and snapping your fingers by the mic would have done the job too

  • @jaishubhjyani
    @jaishubhjyani 5 років тому +66

    Kirby inhaling life is not the scary thing. It is the prospect of Kirby spitting it out... Who know what that might do

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 5 років тому +4

      ...That sounds disturbingly like someone's fetish.

    • @andoryuubushido7191
      @andoryuubushido7191 5 років тому +10

      Or what happens if he absorbs the power of a life bar? Does lifebar kirby have infinite health? Does he control life and death itself?

    • @thelocalwitch2405
      @thelocalwitch2405 5 років тому +2

      Kirby, the pink marshmallow of death!

  • @theyear9076
    @theyear9076 5 років тому +310

    and at the end of all things...
    *KIRBY*

    • @maxvel0city906
      @maxvel0city906 5 років тому +13

      And taxes, you can't forget about taxes!

    • @sethneville
      @sethneville 5 років тому +6

      No, it's that frost troll. I thought this was well established.

    • @theyear9076
      @theyear9076 5 років тому +3

      @@sethneville that's a spin-off "Luke: the frost troll strikes back"

    • @donkeymanusa6364
      @donkeymanusa6364 5 років тому +4

      Luke 3: Revengance Part 2: Troll Harder.

  • @JStryker47
    @JStryker47 5 років тому +1

    I still love the way Guybrush shatters the fourth wall in Secret of Monkey Island.
    "I can't help but feel as though I've been ripped off. I'm sure you're feeling somewhat similar."
    And the way Herman does.
    "Listen to this guy! Am I some kind of castaway?!"

  • @themultiversalmagpie7827
    @themultiversalmagpie7827 5 років тому +50

    What about finding Meryls codec number "on the back of the box"

    • @JRCSalter
      @JRCSalter 3 роки тому +6

      It took me ages to understand this. Even when I asked people about it, they told me to look on the back of the CD case, and I was like, 'I haven't found a CD case.'
      'No, the CD case the game came in.'
      'What game?'

    • @themultiversalmagpie7827
      @themultiversalmagpie7827 3 роки тому +2

      @@JRCSalter lol I heard people had a lot of trouble with that luckily I heard about this before I played the game

    • @GODOFAWSOMENESS1
      @GODOFAWSOMENESS1 3 роки тому +3

      Don’t forget that Ocelot will (sometimes) know if you are using a turbo controller and Psycho Mantis will read your memory card, change the channel to Hideo, and can mess with your controller. It shouldn’t be called Metal gear solid it should be called Meta gear solid.

  • @DrakeAurum
    @DrakeAurum 5 років тому +21

    I still remember the cut scene from the original Command & Conquer where Kane tells you he knows exactly where you are. I actually had to stop myself from glancing over my shoulder at that moment.

    • @thomasallen9974
      @thomasallen9974 5 років тому +1

      Dude, I had a final boss express his utmost annoyance at a game series worth of me interfering in his plans/universe. Oh, and he would turn his giant eye at me (its a beholder tentacle monster) and just stare right at me. He. Fucking. Knew. And he threatened our universe, and according to end dialogue post death he ascended to our plane of existence. I have to tell myself it wasnt real, its just a game.

  • @rubyamateurtactician4354
    @rubyamateurtactician4354 5 років тому +141

    Closing the DS to copy a map? Does this mean we can talk about how you evolve the pokemon Inkay by flipping your system upside-down?!

    • @TanukiPunk
      @TanukiPunk 5 років тому +8

      You can do what?

    • @iAmARIFFiskandar
      @iAmARIFFiskandar 5 років тому +3

      Omg! I didn’t know that. Haha

    • @rebeccajohnson7292
      @rebeccajohnson7292 5 років тому +2

      I was just thinking this too.

    • @rubyamateurtactician4354
      @rubyamateurtactician4354 5 років тому +7

      @@TanukiPunk
      Yup. In pokemon x and y, that's how you evolve Inkay into Malamar

    • @johnbuscher
      @johnbuscher 5 років тому +5

      I was hoping that Last Window would have been mentioned instead, there's a puzzle that I never would have guessed to solve by closing the DS. And it's the only one in the game like it!

  • @crucidon3200
    @crucidon3200 5 років тому +2

    I can only hear Danisnotonfire and AmazingPhil doing the voices for those characters when I see them now. They've totally created the voices I hear for Undertale.

  • @lordnul1708
    @lordnul1708 4 роки тому +2

    Fun fact, the MGS2 fourth wall break is actually a reference to a fourth wall break in one of the MSX2 Metal Gear games, where Big Boss attempts the same thing on Snake... Except it's not a simulation or an AI, it's the real Big Boss.

  • @jaspervandijck6747
    @jaspervandijck6747 5 років тому +23

    I remember back in the day when "Drawn to Life" was a thing, one of the characters in the town talks about what "God" looks like.
    She imagined him as pretty much what a character from INSIDE the DS would see.
    A window, manipulating "our world" with a magic staff.
    Doesn't freak me out, but quite meta

    • @MethuselahHoneysuckle
      @MethuselahHoneysuckle 5 років тому +1

      Best game ever

    • @ionastewart8814
      @ionastewart8814 5 років тому

      I'm pretty certain the character who said that was Jowee - so a "he", haha! Thanks for bringing Drawn to Life up, it is still to this day my little brother and I's favourite game. We played it all the time together when we were little!

  • @rangerecho
    @rangerecho 5 років тому +69

    how about the time in Batman: Arkham Asylum when Scarecrow's drug "resets" the game and everything is glitched out?

    • @annameyer1055
      @annameyer1055 5 років тому +6

      That really messed with me the first time I played through the game. Scarecrow was one of my favorite parts of that game!!

    • @BogeyTheBear
      @BogeyTheBear 5 років тому +9

      That was featured in the original episode (this is the commenter followup episode).

    • @rangerecho
      @rangerecho 5 років тому +2

      @@BogeyTheBear for real? Damn, my memory sucks

    • @berryonly5922
      @berryonly5922 5 років тому +5

      I looked it up and it wasn't in the original episode, but in a video from May 2014 titled "6 Videogame Moments That Broke Reality"...that's almost 5 years ago XD

    • @rangerecho
      @rangerecho 5 років тому +1

      @@berryonly5922 i embeber seeing it on one of their vídeos, just wasn't sure which one. I guess it still applies for this one, too.

  • @tylerfauley2489
    @tylerfauley2489 4 роки тому +5

    I spent a full 20 minutes trying to figure out how to close the 2ds in phantom hourglass

  • @traxorbomber3046
    @traxorbomber3046 5 років тому +1

    Epic Battle Fantasy 5.
    - The final boss directly threatens the player.
    - The secret areas are glitched parts of the game memory.
    - The main party at the end watches and comments on their own futures after the ending slides.

  • @LillyP-xs5qe
    @LillyP-xs5qe 5 років тому +151

    What about spec ops the line? Having your user name in the opening credits made me really confused

  • @rosebud130
    @rosebud130 5 років тому +2

    This brings to mind the game Ar No Surge: Ode to an Unborn Star, which continually references the fact that the male lead is 'not acting like himself' and 'it's like he's being controlled by an outside force'. The outside force in question being, of course, the player. And if you get the true end, two of the characters talk to you directly, saying that they hope you can meet in the 'real world'.

  • @mr.nobody8270
    @mr.nobody8270 5 років тому +1

    I want to nominate Voodoo Vince for incredible self-awareness. The main character, Vince the Voodoo Doll is poking fun at video game clichés and tropes during most cinematics, and child me thought that it was the best thing ever

  • @kharnthebetrayer8251
    @kharnthebetrayer8251 5 років тому +83

    I saw Flowey's Dressing Down.
    My brain saw: Flowey's Dressing Gown, and Flowey's Dressing Clown.
    i was very confusled

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 5 років тому +2

      Those sound even more disturbing than Photoshop Flowey...

    • @theshamelesskid2950
      @theshamelesskid2950 5 років тому +5

      I thought it meant that flowey was going to wear casual clothing or something.

    • @KyoMao
      @KyoMao 5 років тому +1

      Flowey likes to feel pretty, too.

    • @TheOneTrueEfrate
      @TheOneTrueEfrate 5 років тому

      My brain went to dressing gown as well. And I played earthbound but not undertale, so I was not alarmed, then realized I was wrong, and not sure right now if I want an evil flower wearing a dressing gown or if I need to nap. I'll ask mr. Saturn.

    • @laurendyer2838
      @laurendyer2838 5 років тому +1

      Maybe you were bonetrousled? I hate to be a thorn in the backside, but Flowey in a dressing gown sounds like a blooming nightmare.
      I’ll leave now, I hope you’re proud of yourself people!

  • @blueguard61
    @blueguard61 5 років тому +24

    Actually, the part you mentioned for MGS2 was even double- meta for people who are aware of the latin names of the human intestines. The rooms you pass through are all named after parts of your gut (Jejunum, Ileum, Colon, etc.). We don't have to discuss however where the boss fight did take place, have we?
    P.S. Never noticed though, that Max was literally "framed" for murder in this game :D

  • @logicaloverdrive8197
    @logicaloverdrive8197 5 років тому +3

    0:48 “when the pink terror raises his fist, even the strong cower.”

  • @Saricaste
    @Saricaste 5 років тому +3

    One I particularly enjoyed is in Divinity: Original Sin (the first one). Somewhere in the game there's a part where someone offers to tell you your future. If you ask them 'Show me how it all ends', the end credits of the game start playing.

  • @isupergirl
    @isupergirl 5 років тому +9

    It got the most meta for me at 13:03 when Andy threw his cup and I heard it spill next to my laptop IRL....and flinched as if to reach and catch it.

  • @voltzoen6262
    @voltzoen6262 5 років тому +59

    I know who turned Ellen into a vampire, clearly it was Andy.

    • @JachAnen
      @JachAnen 5 років тому +1

      I agree. Also they're clearly of clan Toreador

    • @szbnahl
      @szbnahl 5 років тому +8

      @@JachAnen Andy's snow episodes and insights into the true nature of Krampus lead me to believe that he's a Malkavian. Then again, his Hitman skills scream Assamite. Regardless, Ellen's Ventrue (see any Overcooked playthrough - classic Ventrue control complex), Luke's Toreador (impeccably groomed and really into music), Jane's Tremere (the most sciency of the clans, plus evil warlock is adhering to the theme set by Prudence) and Mike's Ravnos (his irresistable vice is blowing things up). John and James are Lasombra, which is why they so rarely show up on film.

    • @CuppaLLX
      @CuppaLLX 5 років тому

      @@szbnahl and when they do its actuall one of those hollywood holograms

  • @stryph42
    @stryph42 5 років тому +2

    The DS game "Trace Memory" had some puzzles that revolved around the DS itself. I remember there was one where you had to half close it so that one screen reflected onto the other, forming a whole picture or map or something.

    • @emilymorningstar785
      @emilymorningstar785 4 роки тому

      It was the wood stamp puzzle I spent a whole week on that before I closed the ds during the puzzle by mistake

  • @alipenn5302
    @alipenn5302 4 роки тому +2

    There was a moment in one of the Skylanders games, the one with Kaos’s mom, during her boss fight she disappeared and Eon’s voice said “only a portal master can find her” and my brother and I (we were both playing) were confused until I saw the portal light flicker and removed our Skylanders from the portal. There she was!

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 5 років тому +194

    Was the bit in Doki Doki Literature Club where Mokina refers to you by your account name (unless you're recording/streaming the game) in the first video? If not, we might need a third. Even if it's just Monika.

    • @amberlink6807
      @amberlink6807 5 років тому +3

      Yeah, we might need a third video. The Skylander games were meta at times.

    • @johnsonbaroncaveler6634
      @johnsonbaroncaveler6634 5 років тому +10

      JUST MONIKA

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 5 років тому +2

      @@johnsonbaroncaveler6634 That _is_ the joke, yes.

    • @johnsonbaroncaveler6634
      @johnsonbaroncaveler6634 5 років тому +2

      @@timothymclean C A P I T A L I Z E. NEED TO DEEPFRY

    • @OcarinaOfBurr
      @OcarinaOfBurr 5 років тому +4

      Timothy McLean Just Monika Just Monika Just Monika Just Monika Just Monika

  • @reyo0531
    @reyo0531 5 років тому +36

    In Metal Gear Solid 2 if you don't answer the colonels calls where the radar is shown gets replaced by a video of a women sleeping.

  • @zayfardplays7742
    @zayfardplays7742 5 років тому +4

    The metal gear solid 2 one REALLY freaked me out. It was like 1am and I was so freaked I had to turn the game off

  • @TempoName
    @TempoName 5 років тому +1

    I remember that one from Phantom Hourglass. Little 10 year old me tried drawing that crest on the map, and then sailing to it, then i couldn't catch the treasure, so i sailed back to the temple and got to the map again, only to end up frustrated and closing my DS out of anger, then opening it a little later to see that it had transferred. I was in major shock.

  • @Dragonslayer22795
    @Dragonslayer22795 5 років тому +27

    Ellen: *Wears a Nier Automata shirt in a video about weirdly meta video games*
    Also Ellen: *Doesn't mention Nier Automata even once in said video*

  • @U_C_G
    @U_C_G 5 років тому +97

    'Stanley scrolled down into the comments section and was very sad to that his game was not mentioned'
    *Achievement:* The Comments Section Ending
    Theendisnevertheendisnevertheendisnevertheendisne-

    • @mentalpopcorn2304
      @mentalpopcorn2304 5 років тому

      This might've been in the first one, if it wasn't that sucks and how could they make this list without that game

    • @U_C_G
      @U_C_G 5 років тому

      @@mentalpopcorn2304 Wasn't in the first vid! I double checked

    • @greenhowie
      @greenhowie 5 років тому +4

      Yeah, it should have been included if only for the part where the Narrator gets frustrated and demands you play a better game... So you play Minecraft.

    • @joejeffries7445
      @joejeffries7445 5 років тому +5

      Is it bad that I actually read that in the Stanley parable narrators voice?

    • @thelocalwitch2405
      @thelocalwitch2405 5 років тому +2

      'Stanley sat down in a corner and cried'

  • @shelbysmith7725
    @shelbysmith7725 5 років тому +2

    That thumbnail tho' 😂 Lol. Awesome list as always!! Thank you guys♡♡♡
    ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

  • @cloudspiky66666
    @cloudspiky66666 2 роки тому

    Love the T-shirt Ellen! Love you too actually 😋
    Also there was a point in Nier with your second playthrough where you collect a weapon from the junk shop for the second time. Nier says something like ‘don’t we already have this?’ And Weiss replies ‘yes that’s how it works the second time around’ lol

  • @Jskid666
    @Jskid666 5 років тому +35

    Can we talk about Oxenfree?? Where to get the best ending on new game+ your character Alex, that now remembers your last playthroughs has to [SPOILER] warn the Alex of the next playthrough not to go to the island.

    • @PinkiTadinki
      @PinkiTadinki 4 роки тому

      Ooooh, I love Oxenfree. You think you saved everyone, but nope. Endless loop.

  • @FEARSWTOR
    @FEARSWTOR 5 років тому +19

    Anyone else disappointed that when they cut to Ellen at the start of the Phantom Hourglass portion she did not have a bit of blood dribbling down her chin?

  • @LavvyStarlight
    @LavvyStarlight 5 років тому +1

    Oh boy Phantom Hourglass. That had to be my intro into the meta games. Oddly I played the game over and over to complete all of the game.

  • @Uriel238
    @Uriel238 5 років тому +3

    Max, in the same drug trip also realizes he's in a graphic novel.

  • @preciousrogue1833
    @preciousrogue1833 5 років тому +152

    Andy sounds far too chipper about the overwhelming power of Kirby. Is he planning on utilising Kirby to challenge our One True Overlord, Jane?

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 5 років тому +10

      NOOOO!, That means I wasted my life helping her build her death ray. I only had two months before she gave me my retirement/sweet release from life.

    • @scorpix96
      @scorpix96 5 років тому +2

      Can you not see that they are _obviously_ both one and the same ?

    • @preciousrogue1833
      @preciousrogue1833 5 років тому +4

      @@scorpix96 to quote my favourite pirate, "Oh..my..god"

    • @scorpix96
      @scorpix96 5 років тому +3

      @@preciousrogue1833 God is a ladder.
      (wait, I've mixed stuff up haven't I...)

    • @stiffpictures8971
      @stiffpictures8971 5 років тому +1

      Yeah....VAMPIRES DECEND ON ANDY!

  • @Cheezyi81
    @Cheezyi81 5 років тому +16

    Vampire Ellen is now my favorite thing

  • @CasMadasar
    @CasMadasar 5 років тому

    You brought MGS2 and that brought back memories of MG4 when you return to Shadow Moses. You reach a point where Otacon calls you, telling you to load the 2nd disc only to remember you are now using a blueray disc. I was surprised when that conversation came up but laughed soon after.

  • @Weakenedasiam
    @Weakenedasiam 5 років тому +6

    I am SO glad that the moment with Flowy was on here - genuinely, that moment freaked me out so badly that I literally haven't returned to play Undertale since. It's a shame, because I know it's an incredible game, but games being too self-aware gives me the heebie-jeebies...

  • @Calmputer
    @Calmputer 5 років тому +100

    Joke's on you Ellen, I'm already subscribed! and I've already seen both of those videos!
    What do you think about *that*?!

    • @coyoteartist
      @coyoteartist 5 років тому +1

      I think you have to much time on your hands just like me?

    • @mobarakjama5570
      @mobarakjama5570 5 років тому

      @@coyoteartist I don't but hey I try when ever I can

    • @legendarymilk7403
      @legendarymilk7403 5 років тому

      I dont know if the bold is showing up for other people so try putting a space in between the last star so it looks like *that* !?

    • @legendarymilk7403
      @legendarymilk7403 5 років тому

      Or you could put it like *this!?*

    • @Calmputer
      @Calmputer 5 років тому +1

      @@coyoteartist when you care, you make time.

  • @WolfFenrirHelix
    @WolfFenrirHelix 5 років тому +3

    There was a similar puzzle to The Phantom Hourglass in Another Code: Two Memories on the DS, with Woodcuts and a pad, to complete a scene.

    • @DSofren
      @DSofren 5 років тому

      Thank you for pointing this out, because I thought I was the only one who knew this. As soon as I saw that puzzle in this video, I thought the same thing but couldn't remember the name of the game. Two Memories was really brilliant for its time.

    • @WolfFenrirHelix
      @WolfFenrirHelix 5 років тому

      You're welcome, I adore Another Code, to the point I make an effort to replay it every few months. Such a fun game, and the side puzzles like the woodcut one are optional entirely, unless you want the GOOD ending.

  • @gamespectra8752
    @gamespectra8752 5 років тому

    Thanks for another wonderful video as always! 😊

  • @ZX81v2
    @ZX81v2 4 роки тому +1

    One game I always thought was amusingly meta was, "The Bards Tale - Resnarkled" on PC. The narrator can talk and insult you. Bard hears the Narrator and interacts with him
    You hear Bard and Narrator, but the Bard can't hear you..
    So basically, the Narrator tells yo how to play, the bard hears about using mouses and key thingies, and thinks the Narrator has lost it...
    "Oh, it's bad luck, to be you...."
    Awesome RPG :)

  • @dertazamane8765
    @dertazamane8765 5 років тому +6

    Fun Fact about Phantom Hourglass, I played the game on a 2DS so I didn't get this moment because I had to Google and just activate Standby-Mode

    • @Banquet42
      @Banquet42 5 років тому

      Did you get to do the 'blow into the microphone to blow out the torches' bit?

  • @theanthropologuy7775
    @theanthropologuy7775 5 років тому +7

    I wouldn't mind Ellen biting my neck lol

  • @shawnmark3492
    @shawnmark3492 5 років тому +1

    Upon completing the campaign in Assault Android Cactus you unlock the main antagonist Liquorice, as a playable character. After doing that go to the Collider level where you fight Liquorice and you'll get a very meta conversation.

  • @terrybrucebane8716
    @terrybrucebane8716 5 років тому +1

    There's also that one mission in The Witcher 3 Blood and Wine.
    You know, the one where Roach can speak and Geralt asks why she appears out of nowhere when he whistles, but will get caught on fence posts and stuff. It was shockingly meta for a game that really doesn't break character

  • @WitheredFreddo
    @WitheredFreddo 5 років тому +18

    *When in the simpsons game they realize they are in a game And ralph was behind the screen this whole time*

  • @GhengisJohn
    @GhengisJohn 5 років тому +3

    11:10 is actually how I go about hugging uncomfortable huggers and petting uncooperative cats.

  • @Hisha1303
    @Hisha1303 5 років тому

    Before Phantom Hourglass, Another Code already had a puzzle where you had to close the DS to stamp something. Took me a while to figure this one out.
    Brought back memories when I had to do the same thing in Phantom Hourglass later ^^

  • @sammylane21
    @sammylane21 5 років тому +2

    MARVEL v CAPCOM 3, isn't the first time Wade has used the health bar as weapon in games. If you ever played enough of MARVEL's AVENGERS ALLIANCE on Facebook and bought him, that was one of his attacks he would hit you with.

  • @karcio123456
    @karcio123456 5 років тому +6

    Whoa, that bit at the end was so meta.

  • @reedybravo8168
    @reedybravo8168 5 років тому +3

    You guys are my favorite! Keep making the great content!

  • @JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning
    @JoshuaGanoTyraxLightning 5 років тому +2

    That 'DS Stamping thing'... I encountered that trick for the first time while playing a game called something like "Trace Memory"... I was stumped on that puzzle for days... till one day, I was staring at it trying to figure out how the hell I was supposed to operate it, & I got called to do a favor & I closed it into Sleep Mode to protect it till my return... I returned to find the Puzzle half solved. I stared at it wondering what the hell coulda caused it while I was away till I realized... closing the DS then reopening it was the only thing that coulda happened, so I closed & reopened it again to a solved Puzzle. My mind was blown that the DS was capable of such a fancy schmancy trick...

    • @pinkpugilist
      @pinkpugilist 5 років тому +1

      SAME. I was so stumped. I rubbed, poked and did everything with that paper.

  • @rickhealey4231
    @rickhealey4231 5 років тому +1

    A few more:
    The World Ends With You also did the "put in sleep mode to progress" thing with post-game content. One Pig Noise you encountered was asleep and would run away if you hit it with any attack. See, *it* was asleep, so to beat it, you had to put the game to sleep by closing the DS.
    Then there was Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. Not everyone's cup of tea, I know, but the titular character *knows* he's in a video game and the whole game is about his quest to not get permanently killed off in the "latest" installment of his game series. The final level is even an assault at the video game studio "producing" his latest game. Not even sure it had a fourth wall, honestly.

  • @theshamelesskid2950
    @theshamelesskid2950 5 років тому +5

    Kirby doesn't keep me awake at night, all I do is repeat to myself, Kirby isn't real and Kirby can't hurt me Kirby isn't real and Kirby can't hurt me, I do this until I fall asleep usually only takes an hour or so

    • @tatltails3923
      @tatltails3923 5 років тому

      "Kirby isn't real"
      Kirby:

    • @theshamelesskid2950
      @theshamelesskid2950 5 років тому

      @@tatltails3923 no Kirby please I didn't mean it don't swallow me

  • @ASMRDoodlez
    @ASMRDoodlez 5 років тому +4

    Ellen making spooky fingers at me felt like ASMR for a second.

  • @bendubz9000
    @bendubz9000 5 років тому

    Seeing the Phantom Hourglass in an OXtra video makes me feel all warm inside. Love that game

  • @tomaszskowronski1406
    @tomaszskowronski1406 4 роки тому

    11:47 Uhh Riff's name and the way Ellen read it are both brilliant.

  • @neohamilton551
    @neohamilton551 5 років тому +3

    So Ellen has been a secret vampire this whole time? Jane's a demon, Ellen is a vampire, Andy is probably a werewolf.... What about luke and Mike?

    • @OcarinaOfBurr
      @OcarinaOfBurr 5 років тому +1

      Well Mike is a haunted rubber chicken, but I think Luke is just a dude being a guy

    • @user-hz7pk9vb6z
      @user-hz7pk9vb6z 5 років тому

      Foolish of you to believe Jane is a mere demon. No foolish man, she is something much much worse. Something so terrible that even an inkling of her true nature shall send you into the deep chasms of madness. Ask not what Jane is, I beg of you.

    • @neohamilton551
      @neohamilton551 5 років тому

      Foolish man? And how did you decide I was a man?

    • @user-hz7pk9vb6z
      @user-hz7pk9vb6z 5 років тому

      @@neohamilton551 Alas! I have been hit with the, "How could you assume my gender?" I'm fading. Good bye cruel world.

  • @dohnuts4405
    @dohnuts4405 5 років тому +7

    My first time playing Fallout 4 freaked me out, because my name is Shaun and I live in Philly.

    • @wariodude128
      @wariodude128 5 років тому

      The only thing more freaky is if you were able to explain how you were Tom Tompson, you lived in Wisconsin, and sometimes you walked down the street.

    • @CuppaLLX
      @CuppaLLX 5 років тому

      Press X To Shaun
      www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/23198

  • @sheetedkid
    @sheetedkid 5 років тому +1

    This one is really old, but how about "X-Men" for the Sega Genesis? The premise is that some of the X-Men are trapped in a series of Danger Room simulations (thanks to a virus uploaded by Magneto); Professor Xavier telepathically contacts your character every now and then to update them on the situation.
    At the end of the 5th level, Xavier figures out that the simulation has to be rebooted from the inside, so he instructs your character to "reset the computer". The thing is, there aren't any buttons or computer consoles to interact with at that point in the game; you have to physically hit the 'reset' button on the Sega Genesis itself, which (instead of resetting the game) lets you out of the Danger Room and allows you to take the fight to Magneto in the final level.

  • @MrBern91
    @MrBern91 3 роки тому +1

    Pokémon X and Y made something similar to the Zelda game in this video. In order to evolve your Inkay into a Malamar, you'd have to level your Inkay to level 30 while holding your system up-site-down.