Creative ways games mess with you

[insanecow0]

So we all know about Psycho Mantis's memory card reading exploits, but there are without a doubt many more and no less interesting examples. For instance, if you leave Fatal Frame idle for a while, there will be bloody hand prints all over the pause screen. Another horror game example is Eternal Darkness's status effects, for example if your sanity meter is low it will seem like the T.V. is shutting off, or it will pretend to go into BSOD mode, those are some of the tamer examples.

[AppleQueso]

Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow segments, hoo boy. Especially the ones towards the end of the game.

[noiseredux]

Everything in Eternal Darkness.

[insanecow0]

Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow segments, hoo boy. Especially the ones towards the end of the game.

Wow, I don't know how I forgot about that one. Those were crazy!

[insanecow0]

Crap, I accidentally posted this in the wrong section. Can a mod move it to general gaming please?

[Hobie-wan]

To a lesser degree, the moments running around in your house in Max Payne and the tram ride in Quake 4.

*topic moved*

[vlame]

Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow segments, hoo boy. Especially the ones towards the end of the game.

i just beat this game and was like wtf why did my game lock up? the pc version crashes sometimes but the trolling especially when the joker shoots you. TRY MOVING THE MIDDLE STICK!!! hey wtf is the middle stick?

[Gao]

The Karoshi games, particularly the second one, are pretty much based around fucking with you and breaking the fourth wall. The second one is one of the very few games where I had to do something in real life to solve an in game puzzle.

[vlame]

i seem to remember a game where i had to write something on a piece of paper and hold it up to a mirror to get the answer to a puzzle.

[Hobie-wan]

X-Men Genesis telling you to reset the computer and expecting you to hit reset on the console.