10 Times Video Games Totally Broke Your Trust - Commenter Edition

4. Turn Off The Console - Metal Gear Solid 2

Up there with moments in your childhood that fractured your trust for life we have the sequence where the Colonel appears to lose his mind in Metal Gear Solid 2.

Raiden will suddenly receive a transmission telling him to, quote, “turn the game console off right now”, which is absolutely not something you expect a video game character to say and somehow completely terrifying. Terrifying for you, no doubt very funny for iconic developer Hideo Kojima. Of course turning off the console will just throw you back to the last checkpoint and repeat the conversation when you reach the trigger point. He tells you not to worry and it’s only a game, but you need to cut the power. His voice then gets more distorted and he tells you he had a supernatural experience.

It’s all very unsettling but particularly when the game tells you you’ve been playing it for too long chances are it was probably on the money so it felt suitably freaky.