Gamingsurvival.com looks back at the history of video games breaking the fourth wall. From The Secret of Monkey Island to more recently Batman Arkham Asylum, we provide a brief list of titles that are guilty of this video game trope. You may not see every occurrence covered, but we're sure you'll find some of your favorites.
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I’d have taken a few of those out. Prefer Sonic over Sonic 2. Outrun should be in there. Maybe even Pong as millions of people had fun with that even if it was repetitive. Final Fight pipped any Streets of Rage game, although Streets of Rage had the better soundtrack. Too many to list l guess. To me, retro gaming is the 1980s, maybe going into early 1990s.
Agree that the generational gap is too broad to really make a strong list. Need to tighten the years a bit. Hard to compare Pac Man with N64 games.
GB: "We analyze Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and see how it holds up in the current gaming landscape."
I think your enjoyment of Twin Snakes comes down to if you played the PS1 original first or not.
Not really, Played and enjoyed both when they were released.
The original was better, but TTS had that Jon Woo charm, and was enjoyable all the way through.
The original soundtrack was missing in Twin Snakes and for me audio is half the experience. Original OST was iconic.
The only things that held this back for me were Naomi's voice acting and the music being changed when you end Sniper Wolf in the cutscene.
Other than that I thought the cutscenes and game were absolutely phenomenal.
Cthulhu Saves the World breaks the fourth wall so much.
There should be a Deadpool game, it would be awesome, god knows how he loves to break the fourth wall.
I'm sorry did he just describe MGS 1 as bad ?!
I don't even know what to say here....
Where's The Bard's Tale?
Any where's every Lucasarts graphic adventure game from the golden days?
Cool article. I like the abstract approach to topic ideas seen in a lot of recent articles popping up. I like it and the idea of examining the breaking of the fourth wall in games is a great example of paying attention to something that isn't totally banal. Graphics, game X vs. game Y, 8 year late reviews, and sexism seem to be topics of about 80% of the articles I see lately.