History GenreSavvy / Videogames

* In ''[[VideoGame/DotsHome Dot's Home]]'', Dot unknowingly time travels to the past, when her grandmother Mavis and her husband Karl were buying what would become her home. Upon encountering them, Dot calls out to her grandma, but she doesn't recognize her. This makes Dot realize the time period she's in.

*** And in the Blood And Wine quest "Paperchase", Geralt is ''entirely'' unprepared for navigating the Cianfanelli Bank's bureaucracy. He clearly has not read Kafka.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' is made of Genre Savviness when it comes to super-hero/villain tropes. The [[HeroesRUs Freedom Phalanx]] actually aren’t nearly as aware of them as regular contacts are, but they’re certainly not blind to super-villain cliche’s either;
** [[BigBad Lord Recluse]] on the other hand is so ruthlessly efficient at predicting behavior through super-hero/villain cliche’s that he as actually managed to rise to the top of the FoodChainOfEvil and stay there with such regularity his Genre Savviness provides a regular BatmanGambit.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' is made of Genre Savviness when it comes to super-hero/villain tropes. The [[HeroesRUs Freedom Phalanx]] actually aren’t nearly as aware of them as regular contacts are, but they’re certainly not blind to super-villain cliche’s either;
** [[BigBad Lord Recluse]] on the other hand is so ruthlessly efficient at predicting behavior through super-hero/villain cliche’s that he as actually managed to rise to the top of the FoodChainOfEvil and stay there with such regularity his Genre Savviness provides a regular BatmanGambit.

* As the ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'' series goes on, the targets become increasingly more wary of assassination attempts. A key example is Dawood Rangan from ''VideoGame/{{Hitman 2}}'': like many targets, if 47 goes up to him in disguise, Rangan will attempt to intimidate him... but instead of taking him into a secluded dark corner, he does so ''in broad daylight, on a wide-open skyscraper floor, in full view of his bodyguards''. Even if 47 finds a way to kill him here without being caught, Rangan tells him during the shakedown that the guards won't let him leave unless ''Rangan himself'' tells them to, forcing you to find another way out.

* There is a fair number of this in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''. One random radio mission has a secret message from a private citizen who deduced if he ever missed a vlog post it was because he was kidnapped by a super villain and to follow a tracking signal he set up for himself. As it turns out he is right. When asking him why he has a coded backup plan for being kidnapped by super villains he simply points out that this is Paragon City, every non-meta human should have that sort of plan.
** ''City of Villains'' basically brushes it’s teeth with this trope to the point that villains will actively kill off each other over being needlessly cliche’, equating it to [[DoWrongRight being hacks]]. One of the first mission arcs ends with a mad-scientist monologuing, only for his overseer to interrupt and remind him that they are under orders to cut his funding every time he monologues and to get back to work.

* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoQuest'': Roquier's been around the block a few times and knows about the antics that come with spacetime travel. Oftentimes he'll call what ridiculous situation the party is about to get into a short while before it actually happens.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', Balthier lives and breathes this trope to the point he's practically the TropeCodifier for the series. He instantly believes Basch's story that he has an EvilTwin, he's perfectly aware that the AncientTomb will contain DemonicSpiders and {{Booby Trap}}s, and that TheEmperor will be awaiting them on TheBridge. He also constantly claims he's [[TheHero "the leading man"]] and as such may be called upon to do a HeroicSacrifice eventually. When he eventually ''does'' invoke said trope, well...
-->"Princess! No need to worry. I hope you haven't forgotten my role in this little story. I'm the leading man. You know what they say about the leading man - [[PlotArmor he never dies]]."

* Henry of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' is made of this trope. He correctly identifies himself as main character Travis' mysterious foil and just goes on from there.
** Travis picks up some of it once ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' starts, but the king of the trope is the final boss. When Travis can't figure out his motives, the boss snaps, pointing out that [[spoiler:YouKilledMyFather]] is a staple of every genre known to man.
--> "''Shakespeare'', for God's sake!"

* In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', Eddie shows a degree of genre savvy right off the bat when he sees a Twisted Coil Battle Nun from behind. "All right. I'm supposed to think you're a nun, but I know you're really some big ugly demon, so let's have it! (she turns and roars in his face) HAH! I knew it! Big, ugly demon."
** Eddie is definitely among the best examples of this trope in any video game story, quite fittingly as he is sort of TrappedInTVLand, except it's Heavy Metal Land and he likes it there far better than his original world.
** Eddie's whole personality through most of the game is built around this trope, since he interacts with all the other characters acting as if his supposed inside knowledge of the world is enough of an advantage for him to overcome anything. He turns out to be correct... most of the time.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', Varric repeatedly demonstrates in dialogue that he has a keen understanding of how stories work and lampshades a number of different parts of the game through this.
** If you side with the mages and confront Alexius, at one point Alexius' son asks Alexius if he knows what he sounds like. Cue Dorian: "he sounds exactly like the sort of villainous cliche everyone expects us to be."
* In ''VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject'', pretty much everyone is aware of what cliches to keep track of, apparently because HenshinHero shows are based on real life for them. But Darkdeath Evilman unleashes a series of energy blasts that land in countless cities across the world, causing mass destruction. [[spoiler:Each and every one of those locations was evacuated, because they were all the buildings and landmarks that are always destroyed in movies. There were no casualties at all.]]
* Both Ben and Dan in ''VideoGame/BenThereDanThat'' and its sequel are aware at all times that they're in a [[AdventureGame point-and-click]], and specifically that it's one of the Creator/LucasArts school which doesn't punish the player with deaths or {{Unwinnable}} situations. This is frequently used to justify their more dangerous antics and their [[TooDumbToLive lack of any fear of death]], as well as Ben's [[KleptomaniacHero kleptomania]] and [[MoonLogicPuzzle deliberately trying to come up with convoluted ways of doing simple things]]. The aliens, however, reveal at the end of ''Ben There Dan That'' that their abduction of Ben and Dan and forcing them to go through a point-and-click adventure game was just there to [[YouAreTooLate keep them clicking about long enough for the aliens to enact their real evil plan.]]
* Geralt of ''VideoGame/TheWitcher''. He's well aware of traditional fantasy stories, and [[TheSnarkKnight of course being the kind of person he is]], sarcastically brings them up from time to time.

* As the ''Franchise/{{Hitman}}'' series goes on, the targets become increasingly more wary of assassination attempts. A key example is Dawood Rangan from ''VideoGame/{{Hitman 2}}'': like many targets, if 47 goes up to him in disguise, Rangan will attempt to intimidate him... but instead of taking him into a secluded dark corner, he does so ''in broad daylight, on a wide-open skyscraper floor, in full view of his bodyguards''. Even if 47 finds a way to kill him here without being caught, Rangan tells him during the shakedown that the guards won't let him leave unless ''Rangan himself'' tells them to, forcing you to find another way out.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' series has NoFourthWall, so everyone is this to some extent, but the most blatant example is Neptune, who {{Lampshades}} all the cliches they come across and knows that as the main character that most events are scripted to favor her.

** Travis picks up some of it once ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' starts, but the king of the trope is the final boss. When Travis can't figure out his motives, the boss snaps, pointing out that [[spoiler:YouKilledMyFather]] is a staple of every genre known to man --> "''Shakespeare'', for God's sake!"

->'''Kvasir''': I have completed the serum sequence. It is ready to do its job. But it does not know what to work on... you see, I need to program it with a string of General Cross' own DNA.
->'''Walker''': Let me guess, I can find that in a heavily fortified base chock full of crazed murderers. Oh, and --[[AllUpToYou only I can pull it off]]?
->'''Kvasir''': Well yes, yes indeed. You have a knack for mind reading, no?
->'''Walker''': No, I'm just seeing a pattern.
-->--''VideoGame/Rage2''

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', The Saints often {{Lampshade}} and discuss tropes such as help arriving after two waves of SWAT teams and mentioning how they think Loren wouldn't be so cliche as to hide on the top floor of the tallest building of the city "like a criminal mastermind".