10 Times Games BROKE All Video Game Rules 

Man. Hellblade’s progress delete had me on edge the entire time.. until I went back for lorestones. I love that game!

Id say you were spot on with the Dark Souls analysis. Everyone is terrified of the main bad guy who is hopeless and shrivelled while greater more powerful appendages of the system uphold it. Its true to a lot of real world stuff.

Hellblade is also part schizophrenia simulator, with the voices and visual hallucinations, but the "rot" thing simulated paranoia itself. And it was brilliant. Edit: I should say it emulates psychosis rather than schizophrenia. It would be hard to emulate schizophrenia's negative symptoms.

Hellblade really got me. I was stressing and struggled with bird boss. Thought it was over and breathed a big sigh of relief after the rot reached her heart and I just started back before the boss. It was 3/4 through the game.

You did a really really really good job hyping up the fact that there are other acts to Inscryption that are so different without spoiling it at all, big props!

Falcon is like the elder brother whom you go to when in need of good game recommendations 😎

Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth, Kiryu can literally break the turn based system, it's such a cool move and it's badass when he does it, man i'm so excited for Like A Dragon 8

Ah, Hellblade. Love that game. It was finaly a game from developers who not only understand that gameplay mechanics are a part of the narrative, but also had the currage to act upon that understanding. Would never have happend with a big publisher.

In farcry 4's case it actually feels like the good ending considering how evil the other two characters are.

Something you forgot about Desert Bus: If it stalls out because it hits the side of the road... You have to get towed back, and it tows you back *in real time as well*.

Thank you so much Falcon. Including that spoiler warnering and the time skip stamp before actually stating it is surprisingly something a lot of listicles miss and I cant appreciate it enough (even if I still watched it because it was only Cyberpunk)

I totally LOVED Far Cry 4's secret ending. I kept saying, "I don't want to play this anymore.". I got this ending before properly playing the game, so now I don't want to play the game at all. Pagan Min's been trying to keep order in the area(evident by how he didn't want his soldier killing the innocent civilians on the bus. His anger with the Golden Path is justified. Their leader, Ajay's father, killed his daughter, and yet he's willing to accept Ajay despite being the blood of that ruthless man. He even gives over control over the territory to Ajay for him to take control and maintain peace.) Yes, this is the Templar way, but I'm not complaining. Freedom can lead to chaos without proper authority.

What about Metal Gear Solid on PS1 and the Psyco Mantis fight? That's the first one I thought of. Reading your saves, using a second controller. A little tense at first.

“If a game tells you to jump with A, but it’s actually jump with Y, the tutorial is meaningless.” *Stares in Portal 2*

ICO comes to mind. The whole game is a dreaded escort-mission. But it's done so gracefully that it gets a pass.

THANK YOU, for putting a big obvious spoiler screen before a new game/dlc. Please ALWAYS DO THAT! I genuinely appreciated it being big and obvious and giving me a time stamp to to skip to so I can avoid spoilers until I finish a new DLC I haven’t had the time to finish yet. Praise be to Falcon.

Frog Factions sounds more wild than Frog Fractions.

THANK YOU for the spoiler warning for CP:PL! I actually wish all such channels did like outsidexbox does and "beware spoilers for the following games" on such vids. I'm sure we've all missed a game that we want to go back to but it's 2 years old now

One I remember, it was common for games to have the appearance of a large battles, mostly war games, but in reality they'd have you run down trenches or at most a closed off field, so looked larger, but was in reality corridors and halls. Then there was the one Call of Juarez game, has near identical set up, running through trenches, from point A to B then trading fire with enemies, then out of nowhere a canon explodes the trench and it's basically the game going "go wild". Just like that you're over the top -running through large open fields, jumping in and out of the trenches and I don't know if that's the first time a map has really been open and not an illusion of scope.

I have over 500 hours in TotK and I haven't even finished it yet. To be fair, I will leave it paused for hours while I watch videos or something and then start playing again so a lot of that time is just idle time but still. 500 hours. I love these games and I never want them to end.

Falc's joke when introducing Pizza Tower made HIM genuinely laugh, and that made ME genuinely laugh. both made me laugh, but his own amusement was kind of the beautiful icing on the cake.

Nice Spoiler Warning! No sarcasm! Full Stop!! Thank you!!!!

Hellblade was an interesting experience as someone who suffers with extremely mild issues like that the game actually was pretty smooth.

Wow, I really thought Falcon would mention the fact that in Desert Bus, the bus doesn't just break down when going off road. When it does, it actually requires the whole thing to be towed back to the start. But the game must just restart from the beginning at that point, right? Oh no, no no no! Your desert bus broke down 6 hours into your run? Enjoy the 6 hour tow back to Tuscon to begin the trip again. The game is literal torture!

What i love especially about the far cry 4 ending is that it implies you take pagan mins site and fight alongside him against the rebels. If you havent played the game you might think thats bad but if you know how bad and rotten the resistance is it kinda feels like a wish fullfilled.

As a doctor...hellblade is actually a way to understand how a paychiatric patient actually think....depression and anxiety can be real and not being treated can usually lead to bad consequence😢...thanx for the spoiler alert for phantom liberty ❤

I didnt figure out the Far Cry 4 one until MONTHS after playing. Man that game is such a nostalgia trip for me. That ending is perfect though such a great game.

Absolutely love Inscryption and all of its little surprises. And another great list by the best bird of prey ❤

For the fc4 scenario, even knowing the ending doesn't change much because you'd restart it just to experience the journey to reach it the proper way. The journey itself makes the game.

you needed Kratos dying in the Ragnarock fight. Like even the loading screen popped up and everything

Inscription was the game that got me into card games. A must play for sure.

Hellblade is one of my all time favorites. What an experience. Just the voices telling you not to go a certain path made it so cool to play.

I haven't played many games lately, but one that stands out to me is The Plan. It doesn't tell you much, it is sudden, and it tells a story without ever saying a word. Yes, it's more a visual experience but it's still a game.

Void Stranger is a game I know of that really plays with you and how it manipulates common conceptions about games. Also, pretty much anything by Yoko Taro fit the Bill as well.

Encapsulating Breath of the Wild BotW: You are wandering in a maze Me: Anyways. *Climbs over the maze

Inscription blew my mind and was such a treat but I will say I act 1 was so cool to me I wish it had more content or a full game in that style. I woulda been happy if the game ended right after act 1

You should have included Antichamber on this list. It routinely breaks standard video game rules without telling you, and leaves you very vague hints to help you figure out that you need to question everything you've learned about how video games work in order to beat the it.

Shocked that Pathologic wasn't on this list. Trying to approach that game like any other video game is just impossible

That starting warming in hellblade made me complete the game a bit too cautiously, i completed FC5 right in front of my friend once within few minutes and he was just surprised to see the alternate ending

The tower ending of Phantom was so brutally real it was so clever. Brings you all the way from a night city legend - to another one of the sheep. Very very clever game development 👏🏻

That cyberpunk PL ending was actually heartbreaking. Man I was actually shook. Real feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, and abandonment.

Thank you so much for discussing the masterful Cyberpunk 2077 thing! (trying not to spoil it) I loved it so much and you described it perfectly even though I still think it's much deeper with more layers even.

Another day, another wholesome gameranx video.

metal gear solids psycho mantis boss fight should of been #1. Switching out your playstation controller to port number 2 broke the rules of how a boss should be approached.

One of the original endings for Cyberpunk has you up on a space station where you are cured as well and then finally release and allowed to go home but that one ends with you listening to messages from all your friends and not responding to them.

Thank you for the spoiler warning. I just finally got CyberPunk so thank you for telling me to skip ahead there. 👍

How did you not mention Stanley Parable in this one? It's basically the Anti-game to every game ever

Cyberpunks one was crazy, especially considering I sided with songbird at first, then replayed it and sided with Reed, wait I started this comment before it finished so falcon bro you didn't even mention the whole cerberus sequence? I ain't even gonna spoil it for anyone who hasn't played it yet because it surprised me massively, all I can say is I highly recommend active camo and high reflexes.

ive never been o thankful for youtube chanells that create actual orignal content.

In FC4 it makes more sense to just sit for 15 minutes till Pagan returns. That ending is much better than siding with Amita or Sabal. They both turn out to be bigger psychos than Pagan.

One-shot, In Stars and Time, and the Lisa series break their games in similar yet different ways. It's fascinating and aggravating, especially Lisa

in the field of creative expression like video game, you learn the rule to slowly break them as a way to innovate

I was in the middle of fighting Maliketh when Falcon gave the spoiler warning for Phantom Liberty but I couldn't pause because it's Elden Ring so I panicked and knocked my phone off my desk, cracking my screen and then I also died to Maliketh because fml🤦‍♂️

oh, when Undertale crashed my only thought was "WTF?? NOW YOU CRASH" and it took me some time to boot it up again and understand that it was not a bug.

Interesting collection of software you've got on your desktop at 18:30. Assuming that's your desktop. Battle Realms Complete is a particularly interesting one to note.

No metal gear solid psycho mantis fight or Meryl's codec channel? That stuff absolutely blew my mind back in the day. Never has another game broke the 4th wall like that before or since.

I REALLY appreciated the spoiler warning for Phantom Liberty. I was just about to start another playthrough of Cyberpunk. Thanks, Falcon.

Batman Arkham asylum when the scarecrow shatters the fourth wall. How people don’t consider that one of the freakier moments in gaming, I’ll never understand. That left me feeling vulnerable for a while thinking I can’t trust anything I see anymore.

Inner Space from 1994 (a Windows 3.x game). It scanned your computer for files. Those files then became part of the game. It was always a bit disconcerting/concerning that you might be damaging the files that got labeled by the game as viruses.

Awesome list. Made me think of the mundane tasks in gothic 2. And I missed the stanley parable and such. But so glad to see desert bus 😂

Gameranx binge and drink every time Falcon says “to be frank.”

Idk if this counts as " broke the rules but it's definitely a shout out. Metal gear solid when fighting psycho mantis for the first time and getting your ass kicked enough times before it tells you to switch controller ports. That was definitely a first for me and was pretty cool. 2nd bonus is enternal darkness sanity requiem for the game cube. I could tell you how many times I watched my brother play it and if you sanity meter went all haywire it woukd hallucinate the screen. One situation I'll say is when you enter a room without a save cause it won't let you and you die in the locked room which can literally make you nuts in reality. Sanity requiem was a masterpiece and still is to this day

Five Nights at Freddy's 1 has a similar crash thing to Pizza Tower with the 1987 Easter Egg. Where you set the animatronic AI in Night 7 to 1-9-8-7 and then on PC the game will have Golden Freddy Jumpscare you and crash your game before the night even starts. Console and Mobile ports take you to the main menu.

Fantastic video. Found this one extremely interesting!!

The fact that thor reviving kratos during his boss fight wasn't included really shows his research.

Not mentioned was in shenmue there was a bug that wouldn’t progress the story when you went to work so you kept reliving the same work day over and over until you restarted the game

That bus driving one reminded me of a dream I had where there was this game Hitchhiker Simulator. I assume stuff actually happened in the game if you played it how you were meant to, but in the dream I was watching a stream of someone playing Hitchhiker Simulator without ever getting into a car. It took them twelve hours and all they did was walk down this road ignoring anyone who tried to offer them a ride while bantering with a guest streamer and chat. For twelve. hours. I think occasionally they tried to leave the road entirely but I can't remember what happened when they did.

18:31 Gotcha... I'm keeping a screenshot of this to show you it in the next decades

Inscryption looks really cool but the only part I really think looks fun/cool is the first area. The rest seems fine aesthetically and it's really interesting narratively but the first area is so cool that I wish that there was a whole game that was just that.

YES Desert Bus!!! That shit was hilarious, they way the bus had a slight pull to the right was a perfect touch.

Damn no mention of The Clash? 'should I stay or should I go' is the track that plays during that Far Cry ending. It's worth getting trolled by the game just to hear it.

Shout out to that guy who left that ”impressive” greeting to us at that Valhalla map footage at around 2:10 minutes 😂

Damn, Number 4 has stuff from the Conan the Barbarian comics i used to read back in the '80's, as a teenager. The thing wearing a robe, coming down the stairs with tentacles on it's face and hands, the king that has become a worm-ified puss thing, etc.

this video opened my mind, can't remember when last something opened my mind like this a whole game within a game... that's kinda cool in a weird way

Haven't played 'Frog Fractions', so I have a question; were the developers being weird again, including a silent 'r' in fractions or was this a simple script issue? If the latter, no worries, I was just curious.

You ever play Asura’s Wrath? I didn’t know it was presented like weekly television episodes. So the first time the credits rolled i thought the game was over and it was the shortest game ever😂

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Its like falcon and jake are about to make us all happy with a duo 10 list review !

Imagine playing Shenmue as a means to escape your life as a forklift operator only to get assigned as a forklift operator in the game. Good God

i did exactly that in dmc 5 tbh, i killed big bad boss at the beginning which tooke me hours and i got the credit roll just like that, then i played it again like a normal gamer. it was fun to say the least.

Far Cry 4 was the first game i bought for my first console... I booted up and fell asleep just as Pagan Min walked out of the room, only to wake up to deliver the ashes and end the game. I threw the game aside thinking about how gaming has fallen, and it took me a good 4 months to reboot the game and play it normally...

No Red Dead Redemption 2? You go from being strong to being weak, defying the convention of video games where you get stronger as you progress

Love these videos

God bless you, Falcon; you just crack me up. It is "Frog FRactions", not "Frog Factions". It isn't "like some type of math game", it is literally a math game - specifically centered around fractions! LOL You make those mistakes pretty often, but they are charming and hilarious.

A fun detail in Inscryption is that when PO3 admits he couldn't delete the file he tells you that you should do it manually. If you actually do, he'll mock you for it later.

I enjoyed Inscription so much. I am happy you mentioned it without spoilers.

i said this in a comment thread earlier but felt it needed to be repeated: as a person with schizoaffective disorder, i LOVE hellblade. i have to play it in a different way than other people would in order to minimize triggers and paranoia but i deeply love the story and gameplay. i think its really important for games like it to exist because it helps show the experiences psychotic individuals have to go through. its an educational experience without feeling like one for non-psychotics and its so refreshing to see something like it in the medium. typically psychotic symptoms are treated EXTREMELY negatively and dangerous in games and other media so seeing the hero of the story - especially a WOMAN - struggling with these issues but still progressing and winning in her own way is AMAZING. a lot of people with psychotic symptoms have played it and have pretty much said the same things; we just have to be careful :) and the permadeath thing is such a GREAT representation of paranoia imo because its not a real threat but you treat it as such because you genuinely believe it to be. 18479/10 love this game

The Stanley Parable?

I am SO glad I found this channel!!

Gradius series well fit the final boss video game-breaking rule. Even the first game has introduced a surprisingly easy final boss that doesn't move or attack, and it's been a tradition since (aside a few exceptions, can't remember which ones): increasingly difficult levels and bosses (later games also have boss rush stage), then the final stage is always a base/lair with a weak final boss waiting at the end of the level. Too bad they don't make Gradius games anymore...

Literally everyone knows about the Farcry 4 short ending by now

Maybe Shenmue was trying to teach you that revenge is almost always way more effort than it's worth?

I think that Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing desevered a spot for breaking the driving game rule stating that you CAN actually loose a race.

Far Cry 4 Will always be my favorite. They wrote Pagan Min so well that people wanted to side with him... Which the developer knew and allowed us to pursue.

Another bonus , i liked that farcry where you could keep swimming away from the island and escape, but you heard how bad the islanders suffer on your ride home.

20:00 As much as i’d like to play a game called Frog Factions, it’s called Frog Fractions.

0:19 really thought you would talk about portal 2 and the „press space to speak“ joke

18:59 Falcon says "factions" idk how many times throughout this... I get it's slightly a tongue twister, with alliteration with the duplicate "fr" sounds, so I could understand slipping up occasionally, but he does this every single time. Shows how much they're reviewing this content before it goes out...

Gameranx is basically X-PLAY. I loved watching xplay when i was younger! Shit was goated! You give those vibes!

Always good when gameranx uploads