History LampshadeHanging / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', nearly all of the victory quotes lampshade plenty of things, from the character designs (Chun-Li wondering about her thighs after fighting another Chun-Li), gameplay (Batsu mistaking Ryu as a [[ShotoClone practitioner of his fighting style]], etc.) or even meta stuff (Zero commenting that he wins by [[PowerCopying studying enemy moves]]). [[http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/wii/file/953921/59315 Here]] is the full list of victory quotes of the game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Anachronox}}'' has its [=TACOs=], small boxes with radar dishes, that you collect and get various {{powerup}}s. TACO is explained in-game as being a Totally Arbitrary Collectible Object.

---> '''Male Scientist:''' You know, this is far from the glory I had envisioned as an undergrad.\\

** ''Fire Emblem: Awakening'' gives you a player character who can marry any character in the game who's part of your army. You can even marry [[spoiler:Aversa after defeating her in combat twice, where most characters would have died the first time and even more would have died the second]]. One of the random dialogues that come up on relationship tiles for married couples has your player character asking her to promise to stay alive. Her response: "I wouldn't worry. The fates seem terribly reluctant to let me die."

* At one point in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', Raiden asks Solid Snake why he never seems to run out of ammunition. In answer, Snake simply touches his bandanna and says "Infinite ammo." In the game, the bandanna is a secret item which does indeed grant infinite ammunition. While Snake is most likely referring to his mind, the joke is not lost on the player. (It also implicitly said that the "good" ending of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' was canonical, which was later confirmed in ''4''.) The ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series is famous for repeatedly [[FourthWall breaking the fourth wall]].
** Early in [=MGS2=] Raiden finds ammunition and finds it weird it was so easy almost as if somebody left it for him. He is told in the codec not to think so much. In fact, several of Raiden comments are questions about the plot twists. In one parody by Hiimdaisy Snake tells him "Raiden, stop making sense!"

*** When the BigBad of VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 Colonel Volgin dies via lightning strike, Snake comments on the death of the villain he had been struggling with for so long by saying, "Killed by a bolt of lightning... a fitting end."

** The televisions in ''Max Payne 2'' feature a Blaxploitation parody of the original ''Max Payne'' called "Dick Justice", where many of the flaws of the first game are lampshaded, such as "having a constipated grimace" and speaking in metaphor.

* The Franchise/ResidentEvil series seems to have a particular fondness for lampshades, especially in the later installments.

** ''In VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'' In one of the Code Veronica scenarios, Steve Burnside yells out "Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!! It's like I'm in a damn videogame!!"

* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCell: Chaos Theory'', one mission begins with Sam Fisher saying "Don't tell me... Three alarms and the mission is over." to which his superior, Lambert, replies "Of course not. [[ThisIsReality This is no video game]], Fisher." This is taking a jab at the previous games in which missions would frequently end after 3 alarms.

'''Marcus:''' ''(sigh)'' Yeah...\\

* It happens in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', before the exams of July. While studying, Junpei tells to the MC that it seemed like all he does is wander around and talk to people.

--->'''[[VideoGame/FatalFury Joe Higashi]]:''' "Let me tell you in advance: [[PretenderDiss that fake Muay Thai of yours]] is not gonna work against me!"
--->'''King: (irritated)''' "*sigh*... I'm getting sick of all these guys pretending to know what's fake and what's real!"

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', part of the extended intro of the game (before you get to your first dungeon) has the protagonist walking home from school with Chie Satonaka and Yukiko Amagi. Chie asks the protagonist, "So, you're in town because your parents are out of the country for a year?" After he agrees, she goes on to say, "Wow. I thought it was something much more serious, [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} like your parents dying mysteriously]]," after which she looks straight at the camera.
** Persona 4 has received a lot of flak from people who feel as if its popularity has helped it become a massive CashCowFranchise for Atlus, resulting in a lot of spin-off games and other media. As of ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'' (the '''fourth''' spin-off/sequel), it's at least nice to know that the characters in-game are aware of it as well.

-->'''Falco:''' Fox looks like he's got his hands full.\\

-->'''Sothis''': So you've returned. And sooner than expected, I see. Too many swordsmen, are there? And you? You wield the sword as well? What will you do?!

-->'''Arena Announcer:''' "[[HyperspaceArsenal Where is he keeping all of these guns? I mean, come on!]]"

** One of the easiest ways to unleash the VideoGameCrueltyPotential in the first two Sims games was to build a pool with only a diving board and no ladder, as Sims couldn't climb out without a ladder. There's a widow in Pleasantview whose husband is described as dying in "a suspicious pool-ladder accident."
** ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' plays very differently from other Sims games, and one quest lampshades some of the familiar Sims features that Medieval doesn't have. The Monarch finds a genie's lamp and asks citizens what they would wish for. One wishes he could ride a horse (there's no form of transportation other than walking). One wishes his children would grow up. The last wishes he could add on to his house.

* ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2'''s version of the VideoGame/{{Unreal}} [[LevelEditor Editor]] has help messages that lampshade how ridiculously easy it is to cause the program to crash.

* One notable line shows up near the end of the entire trilogy of Xenosaga: [[ActionGirl Shion]] is distraught after several traumatic incidents occur. A mysterious girl named [[VirtualGhost Nephilim]] who appears periodically with [[CrypticConversation cryptic advice]] shows up once more. Shion is surprised at her appearance and says "What do you want? Are you here to say a bunch of cryptic things again and confuse me?"

** ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'': ''On Route 8, you'll find a rather conspicuous row of Trainers standing around for no apparent reason. The Lass at the bottom (and the last one in line if you fight them all starting from the topmost one) says "We must look silly standing here like this!" before battling you.

* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', at the beginning of the ''Swamp Fever'' level, sometimes Ellis complains to Nick about why he shot the helicopter pilot. Then they argue that the pilot was a zombie and that "he wouldn't help us very much" during that time. This seems to be a running joke with the Survivors. This our-pilot-turned-into-a-zombie instance was also lampshaded start of ''Crash Course'' in the first VideoGame/Left4Dead.

* The tutorial level of VideoGame/{{Sonny}} involves a blind character telling the eponymous character to "Be careful of the green one's poison." The reply comes back "How can you tell-" [[MST3KMantra "Don't question it, Sonny. Just be glad I'm telling you."]]

* In the video game [[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame Lego Marvel Super Heroes]], the Citizen in Peril is now Stan Lee in each sense. He sums it up nicely in one of his sentences:

--> '''Rocket''' (''pre-battle, vs. Shuma-Gorath''): "Space raccoon versus demon squid. Yeah, this isn't weird or anything."
* Seong Mi-na of ''Series/SoulCalibur'' has a particularly nasty throw where throws a foe to the ground, jumps on top and plunges the blade somewhere around their legs or stomach? Where exactly? She answers this in the third game.

* In ''Pokemon Ruby'' (and ''Emerald''), Team Magma's hidden base is inside the volcanic Mt. Chimney. One of the grunts on guard when you infiltrate says that he's been stood on watch next to this lava pit all day and he feels like his face is burning up.
* A brief example appears in ''Yakuza Kiwami 2'' during a sidequest where Kiryu helps a director with his movie about the Yakuza. The director comments that a scene will be serious, to which Kiryu responds that comedy does not belong in a Yakuza movie. This is the same franchise where you win chickens for bowling, fight giant diaper-wearing men, and virtually every scene involving Majima.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' Blood and Wine expansion there is a quest that allows you to finally properly converse with your horse Roach where you can query the horse's miraculous abilities and contrasting shortcomings that you are used to throughout the game.

* In ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', at first only Sora [[spoiler:Riku and Mickey]] can use a Keyblade. Later on, in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Roxas [[spoiler:and Kairi]] can wield one (with Roxas being able to use [[DualWielding two]]). In that game's secret ending and ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'', it is also revealed that Terra, Ventus, Aqua, and Master Eraqus can wield them, [[spoiler: as can Master Xehanort and Vanitas]]. There's even a world full of abandoned Keyblades at the end of the game, suggesting that at some point, there has been THOUSANDS of people able to wield the Keyblade. Braig summed it up best:

* '' Videogame/EarthBound'' lampshades ''dozens'' of RPG cliches. Understandable, given it's something of an AffectionateParody.

** In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewLeaf'', you have only one police officer in your town and he'll claim he's not allowed to leave the station to find a lost item's owner... ''ever''.
* In ''VideoGame/Doom3'', the rationale for the player being able to acquire a chainsaw is a series of background logs detailing a shipment of chainsaws that were accidentally sent to Mars. The characters writing the logs draw attention to the fact that no one would ever use a chainsaw on the planet.
** Specifically; they misplaced their request for jackhammers, and sent chainsaws instead. As they say in the game "What the hell are we gonna do with them? Cut down the great forests of Mars??"

** The "This isn't that kind of game" line is probably referring to the budding relationship between Farah and the Prince, rather than a lampshade hang -- though it could pretty easily be both.
** In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2008'', the Prince is actively GenreSavvy. He's noted that he tends to move "toward" the monsters, and when his cohort points out that it "[[ItsQuietTooQuiet seems quiet]]", he advises her not to say that.

* This is used during a bonus sequence in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''. The stage is in space and none of the characters wear air masks:

* Speaking of Smash, in Byleth's reveal trailer for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', Sothis references the common complaint of 'too many swordfighters', and that Byleth would just be yet another to add to that list- right off the tail end of him getting beaten down by Link, Hero and Cloud.
-->'''Sothis''': So you've returned. And sooner than expected, I see. [[LampshadeHanging Too many swordsmen, are there?]] And you? You wield the sword as well? What will you do?!

* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''. All forms, all the time. The games THRIVE on this. A particularly good example is ''Disgaea DS'', Where after getting NewGamePlus, You unlock a sarcastic [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Prinny]] who seems to have a talent for pointing out ridiculous things. Every other line.

** Any given game of ''Civilization'' will turn into a hearty AnachronismStew sooner or later, due to the mix of technologies, historical figures and even empires that only existed for a brief period. ''Civilization VI'' acknowledges this with the "Missed That Day in History Class" achievement, earned by clearing nuclear fallout with a Roman Legionary.

* In ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', it seems the writers were having too much fun with the fact that [[ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Rocket Raccoon]] is a gun-toting... well, raccoon. Some of his opponents are perplexed at the idea that they're fighting such a creature, because the [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk giant, musclebound green man]], [[VideoGame/{{Okami}} the wolf with weapons floating on her back]], and [[VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe the little guy in red with a huge head]] [[SarcasmMode just aren't odd enough to make comments about]]. It's to the point that Rocket ''himself'' will comment about it every now and again, as though he's also baffled about his own existence:

* A major new feature in ''VideoGame/HaloInfinite'' is the Grappleshot, a GrapplingHookPistol that allows your to launch yourself towards enemies or the environment. Naturally, a Spartan doing this in their 1,000+ armor requires significant [[ArtisticLicencePhysics Artistic Licence]] when it comes to physics, so the game is kind enough to drop a quick joke about it in a rare piece of dialogue that comes from grappling a Grunt:

''Female Scientist:''' Come now, you're overreacting.

'''Female Scientist:'''' How so?\\

'''Male Scientist:''' I've got two {{=PhDs=}} and an Oersted medal, yet I find myself doing work best suited for an intern!\\

'''Male Scientist:''' I've got two {=PhDs=} and an Oersted medal, yet I find myself doing work best suited for an intern!\\

''Female Scientist:''' Come now, you're overreacting.\\

'''Male Scientist:''' I've got two {{PhDs}} and an Oersted medal, yet I find myself doing work best suited for an intern!\\

---> ''Male Scientist:'' You know, this is far from the glory I had envisioned as an undergrad.\\
''Female Scientist:'' How so?\\
''Male Scientist:'' I've got two PhDs and an Oersted medal, yet I find myself doing work best suited for an intern!\\
''Female Scientist:'' Please. You do very meaningful work here.\\
''Male Scientist:'' Really? Push that button! Walk over here! Push this one! Stand and stare at the screen! Walk back over there! Push another button! Again!\\
''Female Scientist:'' Come now, you're overreacting.\\

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}:
** In ''PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' and their remakes, the gimmick of the Hearthome Gym is that each room has a simple math problem on a sign, and taking the door with the correct answer will lead you closer to the Gym Leader, while taking an incorrect door will force you to fight a trainer. Most of the trainers will suggest that you took the wrong door intentionally in order to fight them, and since the Calculator app is one of the ones that comes standard with your Pokétch and is therefore impossible to miss, they're probably right [[EverybodyHatesMathematics no matter how bad at math you may be.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' has you '''collecting''' these for OneHundredPercentCompletion. Specifically, you find video game cliches such as invisible walls, passages hidden behind bookcases, etc. , and get a sarcastic discussions of the cliche in question by [[MetaGuy Comic Book Guy]].

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', a Black Belt comments on some of the dangerous gimmicks the gyms have. Naturally, he says this in the gym that has FrictionlessIce going over BottomlessPits.

** Breen also says that people are labeling Freeman with the messianic appelation, "The One Free Man." Considering he's the only person in the game who's actions are not scripted, Dr. Breen may have a point...

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfHearts'', Kunzite, a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, is nonetheless perfectly capable of being hit with all the StandardStatusAilments such as poison, curse, and petrification. If one of those occurs while TheLancer is in the party, that lancer will question it during the VictoryPose: "How exactly does a machine get poisoned, anyway?" "I am constructed to be very similar to a human being." etc.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Doom}} III'', the rationale for the player being able to acquire a chainsaw is a series of background logs detailing a shipment of chainsaws that were accidentally sent to Mars. The characters writing the logs draw attention to the fact that no one would ever use a chainsaw on the planet.

** Persona 4 has received a lot of flak from people who feel as if its popularity has helped it become a massive ''Main/CashCowFranchise'' for Atlus, resulting in a lot of spin-off games and other media. As of ''VideoGame/{{Persona4DancingAllNight}}'' (the '''fourth''' spin-off/sequel), it's at least nice to know that the characters in-game are aware of it as well.