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Highness, it's on the roof of this very building! The staircases that lead there are on the left and right side.
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* Happens near the end of the first mission in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'' - if Havoc takes too long when approaching the NOD base, one of the GIs will call for his help.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', during the Hydra boss battle, Phil helpfully reminds you to GET UP ON THE HYDRAS BACK. He will repeat it with no breaks in between.

A staple of BeatEmUps as a whole is the ubiquitous "GO!" arrow that appears when you clear a screen to push you forward to the next encounter. This is a side-effect of the nature of arcades (the longer you spend at the controls, the more money isn't being put into the machine so any action to encourage the player to always be on the move is essential).

* In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', opening the menu at any time shows Airy [[NowWhereWasIGoingAgain reminding you of what to do next]] - but after about the game's midway point, she gets impatient and ''every'' message is along the lines of "Awaken the crystals already!" [[spoiler:Given that she turns out to be TheDragon and awakening the crystals is the EvilPlan, this is ''definitely'' intentional.]]

* A staple of [[BeatEmUp the genre]] as a whole is the ubiquitous "GO!" arrow that appears when you clear a screen to push you forward to the next encounter. This is a side-effect of the nature of arcades (the longer you spend at the controls, the more money isn't being put into the machine so any action to encourage the player to always be on the move is essential).
** ''VideoGame/TheSimpsons'' goes one step further: lollygag for too long while the "GO!" finger is urging you on and eventually it'll tire of your lethargy and flick you forward (which doesn't even ''move'' you forward, it just hurts you)!

* Happens the whole damn time in ''VideoGame/{{Resistance}} 2''.
* Played by the book in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''. After you kill [[spoiler:Baron Flynt]], all hell breaks loose [[spoiler:as the Lance attempts to seize control of Pandora]]. The [[spoiler:ECHO network]] goes down, [[spoiler:Crimson Lance troops are ''everywhere'']], and pretty much from now until the end of the storyline, [[spoiler:the guardian angel]] gets on your case to get your butt to [[spoiler:The Vault]] by last Tuesday.
** Starting with ''Borderlands 2'', your quest givers will sometimes pressure you to continue your mission with passive-aggressive comments. Since they're more meant for humor than for actual gameplay, these lines are usually only said once, and they often [[BreakingTheFourthWall break the fourth wall]].

** Under similar circumstances to the ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' example above, the tutorial level contains scenes of people getting machine-gunned by [[HumongousMecha YMIR mechs]] on the other side of windows from Shepard, but as soon as all targets are down they just stand there and stare.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' At the climax, player control switches over to the other Ryder sibling, as they fight through a kett attack on the ''Hyperion''. The ship's captain orders them into an access tunnel while she and some of the ship's crew hold off several EliteMooks, while she repeatedly tells Ryder to get going. Trying to help is pointless, since you're only armed with a severely nerfed pistol and no powers of any kind.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'', Fassad encourages Salsa to complete his task within a time limit, promising a reward. Thing is, Fassad is a complete {{Jerkass}} and, regardless of whether you complete the task within his time limit or not, he'll just lie about what the time limit was and zap [[TheWoobie poor Salsa]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 1}}'', there is a very real time-limit. Every 50 days, you will get a cutscene reminding you to find the water chip before the water supply in the Vault runs out. In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', there is no real time-limit, but you constantly get psychic messages from your village shaman telling you that you need to find the G.E.C.K. quickly and hurry back to the village, because there is not much time left. Supposedly they got rid of the time-limit in the sequel because fans had complained about it in the original, even though it wasn't particularly onerous and did add real drama. There is actually a time limit in the sequel, but it is ridiculously long (about thirteen in-game years).

* In-universe in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun1'', when Ivan's foster-mother doesn't even ask what he's doing with Isaac & Co., but assumes it must be more important than ''her husband being held hostage so the WretchedHive can extort from them'', and tells Ivan so to his face. If you sidetrack to rescue Hammet anyway, Layana ''yells at Ivan for doing so!''

* In the 3D remake of ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', your party members will often remind you of your current mission after finishing a combat. Since you finish a combat roughly every thirty seconds, this starts to get [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper old really quickly]]. Probably the worst is on [[spoiler: Beuca Island]], where your entire party will keep freaking out about [[spoiler: the volcano erupting]] after every other combat, even though you've got all the time in the world to grind if you wish.

* VideoGame/MetalGearSolid's final EscapeSequence has a 10-minute time limit purely to add tension; nothing happens if you let it run out. [[spoiler:Story-wise this makes sense, because once you actually escape, your commander tells you that they called off the bombing run that the time limit was supposed to represent.]]

* In-universe in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun2001'', when Ivan's foster-mother doesn't even ask what he's doing with Isaac & Co., but assumes it must be more important than ''her husband being held hostage so the WretchedHive can extort from them'', and tells Ivan so to his face. If you sidetrack to rescue Hammet anyway, Layana ''yells at Ivan for doing so!''

Frequently used in modern "realistic" linear shooters. Usually used to keep the player on-task so they don't scour the map [[NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom looking for secrets that don't exist]] and encounter an InvisibleWall or the InsurmountableWaistHeightFence. Can easily result in the player failing an ''actual'' TimedMission since the game has been CryingWolf so much they're used to not taking it seriously. See also AnnoyingVideoGameHelper, for when this occurs when something ''is'' happening or when the game nags the player too much into completing their objectives.

* In-universe in ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheBrokenSeal'', when Ivan's foster-mother doesn't even ask what he's doing with Isaac & Co., but assumes it must be more important than ''her husband being held hostage so the WretchedHive can extort from them'', and tells Ivan so to his face. If you sidetrack to rescue Hammet anyway, Layana ''yells at Ivan for doing so!''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Video Game References," the [[NonPlayerCharacters NPCs]] try to keep Starfire on track in her quest to save the world from the Evil Wizard, but all she cares about is befriending the [=NPCs=] (including the monsters) and dancing. It ultimately ends with "While you were busy dancing, the Evil Wizard took over the world."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' episode "Video Game References," the NPCs try to keep Starfire on track in her quest to save the world from the Evil Wizard, but all she cares about is befriending the NPCs (including the monsters) and dancing. It ultimately ends with "While you were busy dancing, the Evil Wizard took over the world."

* In-universe in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'', when Ivan's foster-mother doesn't even ask what he's doing with Isaac & Co., but assumes it must be more important than ''her husband being held hostage so the WretchedHive can extort from them'', and tells Ivan so to his face. If you sidetrack to rescue Hammet anyway, Layana ''yells at Ivan for doing so!''
** Happens to Ivan again in ''The Lost Age'' when he tracks down the last living member of his birth family... and she ''also'' scolds him to continue his mission with Isaac & Co. instead of wondering about his family and original hometown. Justified due to [[spoiler:the world crumbling into itself due to Alchemy being sealed away, so Ivan and company are urged to take care of the world first before dealing with their personal issues]].

* The ''Pinball/{{Deadpool}}'' {{pinball}} machine [[{{Retraux}} apes the appearance of classic fighting games]] during certain modes. If the player doesn't make any shots to attack Deadpool's opponent for a while, he'll stop his IdleAnimation, stare straight at the player, and confusedly gesture towards them.

The trope is generally a combination of a [[ExpositionFairy slightly overbearing help system]] and an attempt to avert TakeYourTime; typically, the result only ''[[MisaimedRealism emphasizes]]'' that there's no hurry, since the player is likely to rapidly realise that nothing will happen if they don't hurry up other than that they'll become [[DarthWiki/MostAnnoyingSound progressively more irritated]] with the support character reminding them. In less severe cases, the character might simply remind them of an optional gameplay mechanic during any downtime; this is most common in WideOpenSandbox games.