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Portal 2 - The Part Where He Kills You
The player is put into this spike trap by the antagonist (Wheatley), and at this point the chapter text comes up saying "Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You", you get an achievement of the same name, and Wheatley then says "Hello! This is the part where I kill you!"
The timing and delivery of it was so perfect.
GTA Vice City - taxi and ambulance driving
I loved the part of VC (and I think other installments have this too) where you jump into either a taxi or ambulance and you can then become an actual driver for them, earning money. Loved that minigame for being such a different thing to all the other missions.
Driv3r - the Bascule Bridge
In one of the maps of Driv3r (kind of a GTA clone), there was a Bascule bridge you could actually toggle, and so I'd usually get a wanted rating, bait as much police and cars onto the bridge (even blocking the roadway with my own car) and then draw the bridge up with all of them on it, and watch how the physics bug out and some officers end up in water (should never happen in normal gameplay) and the cars just all explode in the water.
And right before that, GLaDOS also says, "Well, this is the part where he kills us." Then the caption. Then the achievement pop. Then Wheatley says, "Hello! This is the part where I kill you."
He then fails to kill you.
The song that plays is called the part where he kills you as well
weirdly this video of a playthrough of it is not timed nearly as well as described by you guys
https://youtu.be/-A5B6jqtt-c
The editing of that video delivers the joke poorly
it's definitely not helping
I'm going off memory from 10+ years ago in my recount, and I suppose similar to those who played 8-bit or 16-bit games and swore they looked better than they actually do, I just fondly remember just how much the 4th wall was broken there and how so much integrated together in the moment.
I remember the moment having quite an impact as well
I just feel that they did actually miss with the timing a little bit
When you kill someone, steal their car, and the radio is playing Vice City Public Radio and you notice how insane the banter is.
I found a utility to extract those as MP3s and to this day I still play them loud in my car sometimes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8pbnjvypQ0
Dude yes! I had an idea to play those in my car when I met up with a friend interstate, but I then decided to do something that was higher effort, and I made my own mock radio station where I was the host, heavily inspired by the VC radio stations
It started off completely normal with subtle hints (the station name was BSFM), and then started having odd songs play like Minecraft parodies, music from other games and small indie artists only we would know, and towards the end I did "talkback" interviewing all of our friends that were in on it, giving weird takes on bread of all things.
Pirate radio & Part15 radio <3
For a few months I experimented with extreme Part15. I had a big-ass antenna high on the roof (which is what made this a temporary hobby) and a deep solid ground contact. It was just slightly over legal in terms of wattage but managed to broadcast almost a mile -- including a school and some government offices.
That was like 15 years ago, when USA still had a little freedom. These days I'd be too afraid of ICE/Tulsi/Patel/Neom hauling me away in the night