History SelfDeprecation / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/Madworld'' has Howard and Kreese, the game's [[CombatCommentator Combat Commentators]], absolutely rip apart all the game's design team in a way [[CrossesTheLineTwice only they can]]. Some sample commentaries:

* In ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing: New Leaf'', when a normal-type villager visits your house, they may tell you about a video game they've been playing where "you run your own town but also have to keep all these needy animals happy."

* Near the tail-end of ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite'', Booker and Elizabeth [[spoiler:find themselves warped into the UnderWaterCity of Rapture from the [[{{VideoGame/Bioshock}} first]] [[{{VideoGame/Bioshock2}} two]] games.]] Booker's reaction?

** When Booker and Elizabeth go to the Hall of Heroes Gift Shop, they find some Duke and Dimwit machines, Elizabeth remarks about the third one made; "It's the newest in the series, I herd it was delayed ''three times''!", This is a reference to the delays that 2K and Irrational Games made to Bioshock Infinite.
* If ValVe's memory served them right, then down bellow is how their conversation with a member of the community went while making the Robotic Boogaloo for VideoGame/TeamFortress2 went...

-->'''[[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Primarch Victus]]:''' "Garrus said he had to attend to the Normandy's weapon systems. Something about calibrations."\\
'''[[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]:''' "Sounds like Garrus."

-->'''Merril:''' "It's so exciting to be out of Kirkwall. It seems like we haven't left there in ages."
-->'''Hawke:''' "We do seem to spend a ridiculous amount of time in the city."
-->'''Merril:''' "Ah I needed this break. I was starting to think every part of Kirkwall looked alike."

-->'''[[ReasonableAuthorityFigure Primarch Victus]]:''' "Garrus said he had to attend to the Normandy's weapon systems. Something about calibrations."
-->'''[[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]:''' "Sounds like Garrus."

* Everything Cranky Kong says in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' series and manuals is this trope up to eleven. It's all about how much better games were in the arcade days, how the stories are [[ExcusePlot complete crap]], the features in the manuals are pointless and the characters are idiots.

* Pretty much everything Cranky Kong says in the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' series and manuals is this trope up to eleven. It's all about how much better games were in the arcade days, how the stories are [[ExcusePlot complete crap]], the features in the manuals are pointless and the characters are idiots.

* ''[[MegaManX Mega Man Xtreme 2]]'', the big bad sets up a "game" by [[StrictlyFormula placing eight robot masters for the heroes to defeat before he challenges them himself.]] X replies that the game is pointless.

* It's eventually revealed in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' that there's actually an in-game version of Ubisoft[[note]]the real-life publisher of the real-world ''Assassin's Creed'' series[[/note]]... which collaborated with Abstergo Entertainment in presenting the story of Aveline de Grandpré, [[BlatantLies a fallen Assassin who rediscovered the light with the help of the Templar Order]], and is collaborating with them again on ''Pirates of Nightmares'', a ''severely'' modified pseudo-history of one Edward Kenway. Heck, you're actually playing a developer-researcher in Abstergo Entertainment's Montreal, Quebec office!

* The two ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' games starring Rincewind have him continually complaining about all the inane items, insane puzzles and fetch quests he was expected to collect, solve and achieve, respectively. The first game, near the end, contained a man who supposedly sold all those ridiculous puzzles and quests, and Rincewind had a very cathartic time shouting at him.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', there is a BonusDungeon whose reward is the Ice Arrows. In Desert Colossus, close to the entrance to the Spirit Temple, there's a Gossip Statue that tells Link that the Ice Arrows aren't a worthy reward for beating that dungeon, thus referring to the potential little use of that item in the game.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', one of the corpses in the Temple of the Ocean King laments that he was unable to use the pad controls instead of the touch screen. The latter is how the game is controlled, as it's a Nintendo DS game.

* ''MetalGearSolid3'' has an extended segment just to make fun of TheScrappy, Raiden, from ''MetalGearSolid2''. Let no one say HideoKojima can't make a joke at his own expense.
** The same game features an extended lambasting of the [[ArtisticLicenseEngineering somewhat whimsical]] design of the Metal Gear vehicles in general, with the military expert Sigint explicitly pointing out that putting a tank on legs rather than treads makes little logical sense.

* ''SpaceQuest'' was full of these.

* ''RomancingWalker'' includes the [[GoddamnedBats FLARE Bat]], [[RecurringCharacter a recurring monster]] and the author's avatar which the protagonist cannot stand at all and always trash talks it upon an encounter.

* ''RomancingWalker'' includes the [[GoddamnedBat FLARE Bat]], [[RecurringCharacter a recurring monster]] and the author's avatar which the protagonist cannot stand at all and always trash talks it upon an encounter.

* ''RomancingWalker'' inclues the [[GoddamnBat FLARE Bat]], [[RecurringEnemy a recurring enemy]] avatar of the creator which the protagonist cannot stand at all and always trash-talks it.

* In ''VideoGame/FableII'', one can read any gravestone in the game. One reads "PDM, This is the best grave in history and will change the way people look at final resting places forever." It's a perfectly normal grave. Also, Peter Molyneux's middle name is Douglas.

* ''[[MegaManX Maga Man Xtreme 2]]'', the big bad sets up a "game" by [[StrictlyFormula placing eight robot masters for the heroes to defeat before he challenges them himself.]] X replies that the game is pointless.