History BlatantLies / VideoGames

* Hardware example: After the revelation of the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, both Nintendo and Nvidia claims that the Tegra X1 in the Switch is customized to meet Nintendo's requirements. Tech Insights finally got hold of a sample of the CPU and tore it down for analysis in late March 2017... Only to find that it's in fact a stock Tegra X1 with Nintendo's branding on it.

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'': The game opens with a disclaimer that it's a work of fiction and any similarities to real people are purely coincidental, which is as much a tradition for ''Franchise/MegamiTensei'' at this point as it is a means of protecting Altus from lawsuits. However, ''Persona 5'' is explicitly a critique of real world issues facing modern day Japan and many of its antagonists are inspired by real people. Also, with this particular disclaimer, the game forces the player to actively make the decision to acknowledge it and it's being read by [[spoiler: Igor/Yaldabaoth, which means that essentially the BigBad is forcing the player to participate in the lie]].

-->Everything is ok.
-->Please do not panic.
-->There are no aliens outside the colony walls.
-->Troopers are not fighting against millions of terrible aliens.
-->We are not losing.
-->There is no alien inside the colony walls.
-->There are not aliens running around the CCB (Colony Central Building).
-->If someone is inhumanly banging on your door, it is not an AB (Alien Bug).
-->That thing you are looking at is not an AL (Alien Lifeform), although it might seem so.
-->That is not your blood.
-->You are not going to die soon. We order you not to.

** 'VideoGame/Persona4'':

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'', Chie, a {{Tomboy}} who loves eating meat but is embarrassed about that and her other tomboyish traits, lies and says that her favorite food is pudding when she ends up entered into the Miss Yasogami beauty pageant. Naturally, Yosuke calls her out on it.
** Later on, Adachi, when asked about Saki Konishi, the girl who discovered the first murder victim's body, claims he only questioned her once or twice. In reality, he'd questioned her repeatedly [[spoiler:before throwing her into a TV and causing her death]], and the fact that he had done so for a witness with an alibi for the murder [[spoiler:is one reason why the party suspects him]].

* Any of the dozens of games where the EnemyChatter includes some variation of the phrase "I/we won't hurt you"; said phrase is often followed by, or sometimes even said while the character in question is attacking the player character.

* [[SNKBoss Hazama]] from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' says he isn't that good at fighting. [[SarcasmMode It's not like he's lying or something...]] However, this is also subverted that if the situation demands (as in, not to reveal his grand plan), he'd lie anyway, as seen at trying to kill Makoto because she knows too much, but stated it as a 'disciplinary action' for not obeying orders.

** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'': If you have Taloon appraise the Dancer's Clothes, during which description he will go out of his way to say he's not a crossdresser.

* * In the ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' level "[[MilkmanConspiracy The Milkman Conspiracy]]", a 50s-style StepfordSuburbia is swarming with [[TheMenInBlack G-Men]] in hilariously {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s who are [[OvertOperattive obviously spying and snooping]] while pretending to engage in innocuous activities related to their disguises. They all wear [[ConspciousTrenchcoat dead-giveaway heavy trenchcoats]], speak in a uniform CreepyMonotone, engage in {{Suspiciously Specific Denial}}s, and often seem to have no idea how the job they are impersonating is performed. For instance, a G-Man in the graveyard will hold a single fake flower and speak the following lines in an unflinching deadpan tone: