8 Video Games That Mocked Themselves

The sheer horror that must have passed through the Naughty Dog team at E3 when their demo experienced a catastrophic issue live in front of a massive audience that left Nathan Drake standing around for a painstaking couple of minutes must have been what it’s like to have literally s**t a brick.

However, if there’s one thing that Naughty Dog is famous for it’s always having the last laugh even if it is on themselves, and when Uncharted 4 rolled around for worldwide release, the team was sure to put in an achievement that both rewarded the player and mocked themselves in the process.

If you are to stand idle for 30 seconds in the opening sections of Chapter 11, you’ll get the “Stage Fright” trophy. The joke gets taken even further when you read the trophy description which states “Stage Demo Fail” at the end, and it makes for a brilliant moment where Naughty Dog wasn’t just referencing their goof, they wanted the world to know, as after all if you were a 100 percent junkie, you’d need to revel in their failure in order to fully complete things!