History TakeThat / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', Judas' [[NiceHat fez]] is a jab at [[VideoGame/{{Fez}} Phil Fish]], who voted against Isaac creator Edmund [=McMillen=] and his comrades at the Independent Games Festival, thereby being considered a Judas.

-->'''Male English Boss:''' [[UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher Like Thatcher?]]

---> '''Guitar Hero 3 loading screen:''' NO STAIRWAY.
** ''Guitar Hero V'' delivers a TakeThat against everyone who was upset by the changes in Judy Nails in ''Guitar Hero 3.'' The game almost totally reverts the changes... but notes that she now does music directed towards whiny, self-important teenagers.

-->'''Kaidan:''' So you can say "I support our troops," and get into office because of our sacrifices, huh?

-->'''Clank:''' Are you coming?
-->'''The Plumber:''' Plumbers don't just [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros go diving down strange pipes all willy nilly!]] That'd be ''ridiculous.''

-->'''Yes Man:''' And if you had, you know, a huge killer robot at your command, yeah, that would just clutter things up. And a lesser person might want that kind of overwhelming force on their side, but you know - where's the challenge in that?

--> '''Lewton:''' I won't bore you with the details of the Guild's security system -- after all, if you've seen one intricate and fatal collection of [[BottomlessPits pits]] and traps you've seen them all. Suffice it to say, it took a lot of {{trial and error|Gameplay}}, some scorched eyebrows and more levers than I could count.

-->"Thanks a lot zombie Obama."

* The game manual for ''VideoGame/BiingSexIntrigenUndSkalpelle'' includes a short section on the game's compatibility with the UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} computer. It reads thusly:
-->''Biing!'' was made for fast and expensive machines. You may run it with a normal Amiga, but you better buy yourself a real computer.

* In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooieNutsAndBolts'', the game begins as a traditional platformer with the duo in a race with Grunty. After a few seconds L.O.G. interrupts saying "No. No. No. It's too painful to watch. Gamers today don't want all this. They just want to shoot things! But as we're broadening the demographic, I'll have to come up with something original".
** L.O.G. himself was likely a TakeThat at the ExecutiveMeddling the game received, as he is dismissive of the classic gameplay, and is an unlikable character who wants to change the entire premise.

** In ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers'', the second [[ArcVillain Monarch]] is a writer who, by stealing the Desires of people, is able to get his ClicheStorm novel series(an [[TrappedInAnotherWorld isekai]] series, no less) to sell light hotcakes. Futaba often mocks the many cliches he uses, such as the QuirkyMinibossSquad guarding the Jail, pointing out that having four guardians for three towers doesn't make much sense.

* ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' features an InUniverse example with Incisive Chorus' play. One of the people funding the play requested revisions to the script, from making derisive references to the "Flower Guardians"(a reference to the villainous Lotus Assassins), and having a line, "The warmth of spring hides an icy heart" to criticize the Emperor himself. Naturally, including this sort of material in the play is a ''very'' bad idea. The questline also contains one against actors; if you do a good job and tell Incisive Chorus you enjoyed yourself, he'll remark that this means you're not a real actor.

** Moralism (centrism) is malicious, violently enforcing the status quo and hiding behind buzzwords and a guise of incremental change which, while real, happens so slowly it doesn't benefits anyone and leaves everybody unsatisfied.

* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' has one from the latest unofficial patches made by fans that restored some of the originally planned content in the game, such as history of the vampire player character. The optional background for one of the vampire clans is "video game publisher", which proceeds to explain that the player character [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything ruined lives and so forth]]. Considering what happened to Troika Games in no small part thanks to their publisher, this seems [[HilariousInHindsight amusingly accurate]]. And the vampire clan which the video game publisher is embraced into? [[LooksLikeOrlok Nosferatu]].

* ''Franchise/TheWitcher'' has:
** An expert on the Holy Grail claim that the theory of [[Creator/DanBrown Bronze Dan]] that claims the Grail is a descendant of [[CrystalDragonJesus Lebioda]] [[Literature/TheDaVinciCode "begins with a convoluted theory about the derivation of the word Grail. [...] The theory goes on to present the tempestuous and twisted fate of Sang-Real, but the author gets lost in his arguments, often contradicts himself… generally it turns into an unholy mess."]] The reference is even more blatant if you know that Polish uses the same word for "bronze" and "brown".
** A dead assassin from ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' next to a stack of hay. The description reads: "They never learn."

*** A Senator Limperman (a thinly veiled Joe Lieberman) is constantly in the news, caught in some new indiscretion.

** Chapter 3 is a vicious jab at {{Allegedly Free Game}}s. After Mr. Glitch meddles with the ''Zelda''-like RPG you've been playing all throughout Chapter 2, he turns it into a microtransaction-riddled Free-2-Pay filled with ads and ProductPlacement. Most of the hero's progress is blocked by paywalls and a good majority of puzzles in that chapter involve trying to circumvent those paywalls.

* The opening cutscene for the Nemesis chapter of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'' has Jill unsuccessfully going GunsAkimbo on a bunch of zombies, and then attempting to grab an overhang and perform a NeckSnap on one zombie that's gotten in too close, which also fails disastrously and nearly gets her killed until Carlos shows up for an assist. Seeing how quickly both of the efforts blow up in her face and how out of character it is for the usually pragmatic and level-headed Jill to attempt such silly stunts to begin with, it's very hard not to see the entire sequence as a wry dig at the [[RefugeInCool cartoonishly over-the-top stuntwork and action]] in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' film series.

** Communism is naive, promoting great progress but breaking up at the slightest difference of viewpoints and can't happen without shedding the blood of the lower classes of society it pretends to fight for.

** Moralism (centrism) is malicious, violently enforcing the statu quo and hiding behind buzzwords and a guise of incremental change which, while real, happens so slowly it doesn't benefits anyone and leaves everybody unsatisfied.

* One of the [=NPCs=] in ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' gives you missions to kill a certain amount of specific enemies, in order to avenge the deaths of the town's decimated village. A looooot of the names of those villagers are references to ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' characters. This is a jab against Creator/{{Konami}} for kiling off the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series. Even better, is the villager [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Julius]] who was killed by ''[[TakeThatMe Koji Igarashi himself]]''.

** As if to further drive the jabs against Konami, the player can kill an enemy known as the Millionaire's Bane, an evil living slot machine, within an area that resembles a casino, complete with a MsFanservice enemy in the background that occasionally fights alongside the Millionaire's Bane.[[labelnote:Explenation]]This shot is specifically aimed at Konami owning a gambling business in Japan and have started using ''Castlevania'' for their Pachinko Machines. Particularly ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'', alongside that the game has copious amounts of blatant fanservice that was never there in the source material. The infamous trailer also ended with the words "Erotic Violence".[[/labelnote]]

* One of the [=NPCs=] in ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' gives you missions to kill a certain amount of specific enemies, in order to avenge the deaths of the town's decimated village. A looooot of the names of those villagers sounds like ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}'' characters. This is a jab against Creator/{{Konami}} for kiling off the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series. Even better, is the villager [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow Julius]] was killed by ''Koji Igarashi himself''.
** As if to further drive the jabs against Konami, the player can kill an enemy known as the Millionaire's Bane, an evil living slot machine, within an area that resembles a casino, complete with a MsFanservice enemy in the background that occasionally fights alongside the Millionaire's Bane.[[labelnote:Explenation]]This shot is specifically aimed at Konami owning a gambling business in Japan and have started using Castelvania for their Pachinko Machines. Particularly ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaRondoOfBlood'', alongside that the game has copious amounts of blatant fanservice that was never there in the source material. The infamous trailer also ended with the words "Erotic Violence".[[/labelnote]]

*** The books available for sale don't fare much better, but special mention goes to ''Sixteen Days Of Coldest April'', a {{Doorstopper}} of MiseryLit lampooning classical Russian literature, so bleak and depressing the detective is physically and morally hurt by reading it.

** [[UpdatedReRelease The Unreal Engine release]] of ''VideoGame/MadnessProjectNexus2'' gets in on the fun too with its ''Slaughter Rank: Genocider'' achievement, though the overall kill count is one less at 53,594.

* In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'': Nuts & Bolts, the game begins as a traditional platformer with the duo in a race with Grunty. After a few seconds L.O.G. interrupts saying "No. No. No. It's too painful to watch. Gamers today don't want all this. They just want to shoot things! But as we're broadening the demographic, I'll have to come up with something original".

* VIDEOGAME/BearWithMe: Ted finds a book and says "A book. Titled: [[Creator/ValveSoftware "Half-Life 3"]]... Oh, I bet it's fantasy..."

--> '''Lewton:''' I won't bore you with the details of the Guild's security system -- after all, if you've seen one intricate and fatal collection of [[BottomlessPits pits]] and traps you've seen them all. Suffice it to say, it took a lot of [[TrialAndErrorGameplay trial and error]], some scorched eyebrows and more levers than I could count.

** In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes3'', in the Sonic Juice fight, Sonic Juice demands to be fought turn-based RPG style, which then makes Travis go on a tangent about how he refuses to play [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII a certain old school RPG]] because the characters look stupid. Sonic Juice actually agrees they look stupid.

** In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes3'', in the Sonic Juice fight, Sonic Juice demands to be fought turn-based RPG style, which then makes Travis go on a tangent about how he refuses to play [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII a certain old school RPG]] because the characters look stupid. Sonic Juice actually agrees they look stupid.