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Do you mean besides small stuff like "The reasons for your incessant clicking are not known to me." (Dak'kon, Planescape: Torment) that happens in all kinds of games from at least the times of Warcraft 1 (keep clicking on a sheep and it explodes)? But really, check out TVTropes. Here's a pretty nifty example, and heavy SPOILERS for a DS game called 'Contact'.Ragdollmaster wrote:I can't think of any well-known games where the fourth wall has been broken
The Nintendo DS game Contact does this almost all the time, with the Professor speaking directly to the player asking you to "guide" Terry, the main character. And that's just to start. In the ending, following the final boss fight, Terry wakes up back on the first island and start to talk to you. Up until this point he had been a Silent Protagonist, as you (the player) controlled him, and you could not actually speak. He then tells you that he realized that he just was being controlled, and was angry at you. He then attacks you, forcing you to fight him yourself. After that, the rest of the ending rolls, and if you're lucky, you can see the epilogue, in which the professor explains that the entire plot of the game was started when he realized he was a video game character. He learned what he was, and afterward, began to live even when the game was turned off. He then says that he's leaving the game to travel the (real) world, and creates a copy of himself in case you want to play through the game again, leading you to wonder if the one that left that message was even the original to begin with...
I think the Monkey Island games are the most notorious examples of it.Endoperez wrote:Do you mean besides small stuff like "The reasons for your incessant clicking are not known to me." (Dak'kon, Planescape: Torment) that happens in all kinds of games from at least the times of Warcraft 1 (keep clicking on a sheep and it explodes)?
I never saw that because I wasn't artistic enough to use the distaff by ear.tokage wrote:LOOM is great. Wanna see what's under my hood?
Wow, Kidd Radd the game!Uberbeard wrote:I'm writing a game at the moment where your character actually breaks out of the fourth wall in the first chapter, and you play the rest of the game outside it's own engine.
It eventually ends when you crash your own hardware.
I hadn't seen that, but I'm checking it out now. Cool link.Endoperez wrote:Wow, Kidd Radd the game!
I had seen that, but boy it's much, MUCH better than I remembered. DAMN!Uberbeard wrote:I hadn't seen that, but I'm checking it out now. Cool link.Endoperez wrote:Wow, Kidd Radd the game!
I'll try to restart development this weekend.This whole post? It has my approval.invertin wrote:I have a plan to make "RPG Maker: the RPG" in which there is no fourth wall at all.
Save points are a plot point, that's all I'm going to say about it (since I'll probably never finish it)
I wish I could help with the RPG, but all I could really do is provide story/character ideas, and anyone could do that really. I could sprite, but I'm too lazy and kinda unreliable. Plus I've never sprited anything with an animation more complex than FOOT FORWARD, FOOT BACK and 2003 has that awkward animation thingy to mess with.
I never said it was a new and original idea. You just have to do it right.Ragdollmaster wrote:I can't think of any well-known games where the fourth wall has been broken