History BrickJoke / VideoGames

* A bit of a meta example for the Bethesda-made ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' games. In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' (released in 2008), the achievement for killing all 5 Super Mutant Behemoths is called "The Bigger They Are...". In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' (released in 2015), the name of the achievement for killing 5 Behemoths (or any other types of giant creatures for that matter) is "...The Harder They Fall."

*** After she pays you for cleaning the house, if you come back later at night, you'll hear her son yelling at her for wasting the money he earned at his [[JustForPun knight job]] for her to buy food. He comes outside and talks to you, wondering aloud [[NiceJobBreakingItHero what kind of jerk would help his mother with her money-wasting endeavors.]] Not sarcastically; he really doesn't know it was you. Link, apparently, does not tell him.

* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManWebOfShadows'', when Franchise/SpiderMan talks with ComicBook/LukeCage about ending the gang violence in Harlem, he mentions that, growing up in the relatively peaceful Queens, he probably wouldn't have any idea what it was like on the streets. Later, when arranging a meeting between the rival gang leaders, this exchange occurs.

* ''VideoGame/SpiderMan2'' has over a hundred Hint Markers (some not even Hints, but random trivia or [[ThrowItIn possible adlibbing]] from Creator/BruceCampbell), one of them says that, after every last one is collected, every marker will say "something different". Once you do... [[spoiler:they all ''{{literal|Minded}}ly'' say "Something Different".]]

*** ZTD sports a "reverse" brick joke that spans all the way back to Virtue's Last Reward, where [[spoiler: Akane]] would sport a wedding ring on her right hand. Cue the timeline in ZTD that eventually leads to the events of VLR, and we see [[spoiler: Junpei putting that ring on Akane's hand, with her amusedly commenting he put it on the wrong one.]]

*** Early on in Marie's [[RelationshipValues Social Link]] in ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'', she asks you what "steak" is short for, allowing the player to answer in one of three ways, including "steak-out" and "steaaaaaaaak". Several Social Link ranks later, she brings it up once again, probably after you long since forgot what you told her, making the occasion funnier, especially since the scene is fully voiced.

* At the very beginning of ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', Jesse makes a metaphor involving "that prison movie" where a guy hides a secret passage behind a poster. Many hours of gameplay later, immediately upon beginning the postgame content, she remembers it was called ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''.

** A particularly erogenous one that affects the whole series. In the climax of ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' when the true nature of the killing game is revealed, Fuyuhiko angrily shouts "[[spoiler:You'd better not say we're fictional characters!]]" In the final chapter of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', it's revealed [[spoiler:''the entire series'' is all one big TrumanShowPlot]].

* ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' has many, most of them subtle in-jokes.
** The most obvious one being Phi's "man" speech at the start of the game. Not only does she repeat it right at the end of the game in the [[spoiler:"another time" branch to "Kyle"]], but she also uses the punchline, "I am no man", at another time in the middle of the game in response to Dio's words.
** Phi jokes to Sigma in one of the timelines about him seeing her in a swimsuit, just before [[spoiler:they're all killed by a bomb]]. In another timeline, Sigma recalls information from this timeline, and brings up Phi's "promise" of swimsuit "action". This is also a brick joke to one of the hidden files, which is labled "swimsuit" and mentions how "Sigma, or the author, seems to be unusually obsessed with swimsuits".

* ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'':
** During the reactor puzzle, Junpei worries that Akane will slip on the icy floor. She chides him for being patronizing...and several conversations later, guess what happens?
** ZTD also sports a "reverse" brick joke that spans all the way back to Virtue's Last Reward, where [[spoiler: Akane]] would sport a wedding ring on her right hand. Cue the timeline in ZTD that eventually leads to the events of VLR, and we see [[spoiler: Junpei putting that ring on Akane's hand, with her amusedly commenting he put it on the wrong one.]]

* ''VisualNovel/C14Dating'': One scene has Melissa mention that her father is disappointed that she hasn't unearthed a dinosaur yet. In the solo ending, which is the result of properly focusing on raising stats, Melissa's father's words of encouragement for her presentation involves telling her to show off the dinosaurs. For the record, the dig site in which the game is set is from a time at which dinosaurs were already extinct.

** Amiti, upon joining the party, is told to PleasePutSomeClothesOn. He [[LampshadeHanging wonders aloud]] if his [[WalkingShirtlessScene current attire]] is distracting, but is told that they're going to the mountains and it will be cold there, which sounds like a flimsy excuse at the time. Then you end up in snowy mountain village Te Rya, and sure enough, Amiti complains about the cold.
*** And even later on, when you rescue [[spoiler:Eoleo]], he takes one look at Amiti and remarks that it's the first time he's seen an Ayuthayan "wearing real clothes".

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', early in the game, the bridge across the river is blocked by a group of women chatting about how they dislike housework. One of them comments on how she's bad at cleaning her house and wishes there was someone to do it for her. A while later -- after you find your Loftwing, race in the Wing Ceremony, fly with Zelda, wake up after she falls into the tornado, find Fi and get the Goddess Sword, you're finally able to go across the bridge, and if you go in her house, you'll find that it's ''[[ExtremelyDustyHome completely]]'' [[ExtremelyDustyHome covered in dust and spiderwebs]]. Much later in the game, you finally get an item that is able to blow the dust out, so you do actually clean the house for her.

* During one of Alex's early heart events in ''VideoGame/StardewValley'', he confides to you that [[spoiler:his father was abusive and his mother died]], then tries to lighten the mood by taunting his dog Dusty with a steak. If you pursue him to his 10-heart event, he asks you on a date to the Saloon... and orders steak. Cue Dusty charging through the window.
** In addition, if you satisfy the Trash Bear's demands, it takes a ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''-esque flight around town, magically cleaning up litter and debris... and dropping a steak into Dusty's pen.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': At the beginning of the short "Meet the Medic", Medic finds his dove Archimedes digging around inside Heavy while he is operating on him. At the end of the short, after Medic operates on Scout and gives him his new heart, we find out the dove got stuck inside him.

*** This itself was the punchline of another brick joke, where the week when the Medic update started, Scouts would randomly have doves fly out of them if they got gibbed with no explanation.

* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'' series:
** ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward'' has many, most of them subtle in-jokes.
*** The most obvious one being Phi's "man" speech at the start of the game. Not only does she repeat it right at the end of the game in the [[spoiler:"another time" branch to "Kyle"]], but she also uses the punchline, "I am no man", at another time in the middle of the game in response to Dio's words.
*** There's also when Phi jokes to Sigma in one of the timelines about him seeing her in a swimsuit, just before [[spoiler:they're all killed by a bomb]]. In another timeline, Sigma recalls information from this timeline, and brings up Phi's "promise" of swimsuit "action". This is also a brick joke to one of the hidden files, which is labled "swimsuit" and mentions how "Sigma, or the author, seems to be unusually obsessed with swimsuits".
** During the reactor puzzle in ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma'', Junpei worries that Akane will slip on the icy floor. She chides him for being patronizing...and several conversations later, guess what happens?
*** ZTD also sports a "reverse" brick joke that spans all the way back to Virtue's Last Reward, where [[spoiler: Akane]] would sport a wedding ring on her right hand. Cue the timeline in ZTD that eventually leads to the events of VLR, and we see [[spoiler: Junpei putting that ring on Akane's hand, with her amusedly commenting he put it on the wrong one.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Antichamber}}'': "A Book And Its Cover" has two exits, each blocked by a wall of cubes, as well as a red disintegrator field preventing you from directly taking out the cubes. Each wall has a nearby small alcove with cubes, visibly connected to it as they are from the same color as the wall's. If the player has completely understood the green gun's properties, he will realise he's expected to connect the cubes from the two alcoves, then break it: since one of the walls (the one with red cubes) is visibly smaller than the other, its side of the chain will disappear. However, when doing so, the larger wall with green cubes will be the one that disappears, which seemingly goes against the green gun's rules. At the other side of the green wall, a sign says "If you are missing information, it's easy to be mislead", which at that moment doesn't have an obvious meaning. ''Much'' later, once the player has acquired the red gun, it's possible to come back to the puzzle and get rid of the red wall using the red gun's properties. Unexpectedly, when doing so, what seemed to be a small wall of red cubes is actually a ''huge'' pile of cubes which will take several seconds to make disappear. The green gun had worked properly the first time, it's just that the game was lying in regards to which wall was smaller.

** The WarmUpBoss Ye Old Sprout shows up about a few hours later during Sweetheart's Quest For Hearts... [[BlackComedy as a sudden memorial to him.]]

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