10. Metal Gear Solid 2 Turn Off Your Console!
Theres a moment toward the end of Metal Gear Solid 2 where shit gets real. Really real. Colonel Campbell and the other codec characters start talking to to you. Not to Raiden, but to you, the player. Suddenly this game is acknowledging itself as game, quoting dialogue from other games and telling you that youve been playing for too long and should turn off the console. http://youtu.be/ul8j9I90ueM Maybe it was this breaking of the fourth wall, maybe it was the eerie, computer modulated drone of Col. Campbell, maybe it was the fact that I actually had been playing the game for too long, and it felt like maybe it had finally happened - maybe Id finally lost my mind whatever it was, this moment didnt half scare the shit out of me. Konami have a pattern for going after the player as opposed to the character (it happens a lot throughout the Silent Hill franchise too more on that later) and despite the fact that this isnt a horror game, this moment is no less terrifying.