GearNuke | Breaking the fourth wall in movies or video games means that the character (or characters) are aware of their fictional nature and that there is an entity out there controlling them or watching them. Fourth wall can loosely refer to the screen on which the player or viewer is receiving the visual feed. Breaking the fourth wall sometimes catches the player/viewer off guard and often is done with a comical effect. The most conventional violation of the fourth wall is when a character (or the game itself) acknowledges that they are in a video game or directly refers to the player.
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I’d have taken a few of those out. Prefer Sonic over Sonic 2. Outrun should be in there. Maybe even Pong as millions of people had fun with that even if it was repetitive. Final Fight pipped any Streets of Rage game, although Streets of Rage had the better soundtrack. Too many to list l guess. To me, retro gaming is the 1980s, maybe going into early 1990s.
We've gone on many adventures with Lara Croft. With another reboot in the making, Wealth of Geeks felt it was a good time to go down the nostalgia rabbit hole and remember the best of those tomb-raiding thrills.
For me, Legend should be alot higher (along with the other two ). Shadow, I enjoyed it, but has too much has fluff, as modern games tend to do. Playing the remastered series, and apart from the controls, is very good.
I really enjoyed the first 2 games, Legend and the first of the reboots and the rest I didn’t get into so I never finished.
Completely subjective list. I really liked Underworld, I preferred Lara's design. That said I loved the horror/uncharted feel of the reboot. I think all the TR games have strengths and weaknesses. None are objectively better in every way.
Killer is Dead also had some really funny scenes that broke the fourth wall :)
I'm surprised Disgaea didn't make the cut. Those games constantly break the fourth wall and are pretty funny.