History BetterThanItSounds / VideoGamesAToC

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheBeginnersGuide'']]: Okay, so you're playing this game, right? And this game is by a guy who makes games. But the game is of the guy who makes games showing you these games by this ''other'' guy who makes games. And the guy who made the game really likes the guy whose games he's showing you. But then it turns out that the guy who's showing you the other guy's games was being really obnoxious to the other guy, and the other guy starts making games about how obnoxious the guy who's showing you his games is being, but the guy who's showing you his games doesn't get the hint. Then the guy whose games the guy is showing you puts in one of his games that he hates the guy who's showing you his games, and reveals that the guy who's showing you his games was actually modifying his games to make them work differently because he thought he knew better than the guy who made the games, and then guy who's showing you the other guy's games feels bad. The end. It's super meta!

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/TheBeginnersGuide'']]: Okay, so you're playing this game, right? And this game is by a guy who makes games. But the game is of the guy who makes games showing you these games by this ''other'' guy who makes games. And the guy who made the game really likes the guy whose games he's showing you. But then it turns out that the guy who's showing you the other guy's games was being really obnoxious to the other guy, and the other guy starts making games about how obnoxious the guy who's showing you his games is being, but the guy who's showing you his games doesn't get the hint. Then the guy whose games the guy is showing you puts in one of his games that he hates the guy who's showing you his games, and then guy who's showing you his games feels bad. The end. It's super meta!

*** [[spoiler:''Bloody Roar: Primal Fury/Extreme'']]: An effeminate tango danger who turns into a penguin accidentally causes trouble because of his tendency to blow everything up by turning into a phoenix, or his mother. The game ends up being [[GaidenGame basically the same as the above]], but [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube for non]]-[[UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} Sony consoles]].

** [[spoiler: ''Banjo-Tooie'']]: Redneck and snarky girl team up to blow up animated skeleton of old woman and do jigsaw puzzles. Redneck's sister mysteriously vanishes forever. Numerous direct references to porn, masturbation, and vag-hair; a gay bar with a tranny waitress; and you murder a loving husband and wife for the sake of [[GottaCatchEmAll collectibles]]. Rated E.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/AlteredBeast'']]: Two guys come back from the dead as [[{{Animorphism}} lycanthropes]] to rescue the daughter of a god who [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome kinda sounds like Elmer Fudd]].

* [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'']]: An insect is a movie star.

** [[spoiler:''Phantom Liberty'']]: ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'': The Video Game! Until it turns into ''Film/CasinoRoyale''. And ''then'' you have to decide between launching a bird into space or handing said bird over to the government. [[MortonsFork Both options will make you feel shitty.]]

** [[spoiler:''Phantom Liberty'']]: ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'': The Video Game!

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/CrossEdge'']]: A [[TriggerHappy gun-wielding]] [[{{Jerkass}} delinquent]] and his mellow childhood friend team up with [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} characters]] [[Franchise/{{Disgaea}} from other]] [[VideoGame/{{Atelier}} parallel universes]] to find their way back to their respective home worlds.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'']]: ItemCrafting: The Game.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/{{Chromehounds}}'']]: A mercenary pilots a WalkingTank across three [[{{Ruritania}} fictional countries]]. Everyone he meets expresses their hope that war doesn't erupt. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero War erupts anyway]].

* [[spoiler:''[[VideoGame/BitTrip BIT.TRIP BEAT]]'']]: VideoGame/{{Pong}}...[[RecycledINSPACE AS A]] [[RhythmGame RHYTHM GAME!]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs On drugs!]]

** [[spoiler:''AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'']]: An unnamed pilot is arrested and called a dumbass while trying to save the world from French-Italians and their homocidal robot air force.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'']] Hundred of years after the biggest sibling fight in the world, a RagtagBunchOfMisfits are in serious need of a lobotomy to get rid of a brain worm that will made them suffer into painful BodyHorror if not removed.

** [[spoiler: ''[=BioShock=] 2 Multiplayer'']]: About eleven years earlier, a football player with an obsession with winning, a southern CorruptCorporateExecutive, a man wearing goggles named after a MemeticBadass, a deranged housewife, Amelia Earheart, a sociopathic psychic, [[Film/WhateverHappenedToBabyJane Blance]], Captain Ahab, a prison inmate who knew [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Knuckles the Echidna]], and a black guy with a love of cats fight for either Man Rand or TheMafia, ultimately going insane in the process.

** [[spoiler:''Calamity Trigger'']]: Said outlaw and other characters are minding their own business before they all get inevitably erased from history, except for said outlaw, who instead jumps to the past with a RobotGirl and becomes a monster. The whole thing repeats until the heroine stops him from jumping to the past.
** [[spoiler:''Continuum Shift'']]: The blonde heroine is now the focus of the bad guys instead of said outlaw. The bad guy with green hair trolls everyone and turns the heroine into another RobotGirl (by trolling her).
** [[spoiler:''Chronophantasma'']]: The green hair bad guy put all of his plans in motion. The blonde heroine's redhead best friend turns bad. A blue-haired predator is released from his prison. Meanwhile, a mysterious brown-haired girl captivates everyone including our outlaw, who traveled to the past to meet the same-looking girl.
** [[spoiler:''Central Fiction'']]: The purple-haired embodiment of death creates a new world so she can destroy the old one properly. Everyone becomes an AmnesiacHero to varying extents, and are encouraged to pursue their dreams in the hope that doing so will cause universal CessationOfExistence. [[spoiler: It turns out most of the series' problems originated in the world before the world ''before'' the one the game takes place in.]] Then it becomes a metaphor for determinism. [[MindScrew Or not. Oh crap, I don't even know anymore.]]

** [[spoiler:''Cross Tag Battle'']]: A computer plays at {{crossover}}-writing and encourages heroes to waste each others' time so she can make the world a place. A ''better'' place for preference, but any kind will do.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BlazBlue'']]: A guy with MysticalWhiteHair wields a {{BFS}} and the power of [[CastingAShadow darkness]] to fight against the government due to a DarkAndTroubledPast after being saved by an ElegantGothicLolita.

** [[spoiler:''VideoGame/Condemned2Bloodshot'']]: A Federal Agent turned hobo fights against the ancient conspiracy whose sonic devices cause crime and paranoia among men. Now Special Forces on top of the homeless face his lead pipe wrath. [[spoiler:Later [[MakeMeWannaShout he beats them to death by yelling at them]].]]

** [[spoiler: ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'']]: A strapping young man dresses in leather and enters an old family acquaintance's dungeon to {{whip|ItGood}} him mercilessly.

** [[spoiler:''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'']]: Said lawyer now has to beat down a girl nearly ten years younger than him who knows how to WhipItGood.

* [[spoiler:''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm'']]: A JRPG about an internet meme from 2009.