20 Most Powerful Gaming Moments Of All Time

11. Eternal Darkness: Sanity€™'s Requiem (2002) €“- Insanity Effects

The Moment: This game was full of little frustrating tricks which were affected by our €˜sanity level€™. The most powerful of these was the devilish save-game prank. This cruel piece of trickery forces you to watch as your game data is €˜deleted€™, purportedly undoing all your hard work so far -€“ of course, your game data still exists and this is just one of the evil sanity effects, expertly breaking down the fourth wall.

How Is It Powerful? Very rarely do video games break the fourth wall so successfully. This is an example of how to do it in a fantastic manner. It had thousands of gamers watch in terror as they were fooled into believing their game data was slowly being deleted right in front of their eyes with no combination of buttons to rescue them.

One imagines that the developer Silicon Knights would have had a great deal of mail with people demanding that they replace the GameCubes they had smashed in an angry rage.

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