cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37932218
Yesterday I played the demo of the new game Dispatch and it is all beautifully written, but at some point, while presenting the team in-game, there was a casual funny line, pronounced by a voice off-screen, so without graphical support and I just burst out laughing (I was alone at home, so not pressed by social influence of any kind).
When I stopped, I realized how uncommon this has become lately. As a kid, I found LucasArts games extremely funny and I laughed more than occasionally, but this aspect of video game entertainment has been dying out.
When was the last time you actually laughed out loud while playing a game for something that was actually designed as funny (no Fortnite or CoD shenanigans stories please)?
It was last night, I was playing Windblown with a friend and we were on our fourth endless loop. Everything was melting, it got very silly. Watching a boss healthbar just drop instantly was hilarious.
Doki Doki Litrure Club. Ending spoilers
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There is a big twist about Monica calling you by your actual name. The name you gave when setting up your computer. That’s how I realised I made a typo in my name. So this big impactful moment fell flat on its face
Me loves litrure too.
When playing Split Fiction. The poop/pig extra level where your power is to double jump by farting got the inner child in me.
Must’ve been one of the early Space Quest games. It’s been a while.
Playing “RV There Yet” with friends. I’m replaying “DELTARUNE” and that game has me laughing out loud every 5 minutes (same goes for UNDERTALE). Also recently played the demo for “Yapyap” and laughed a bunch.
Started playing “RV there yet” with my wife and we were laughing out loud how silly the game is.
Saints Row (2022) had some of my flavour of silliness.
I laugh at shit all the time in multiplayer games, the more chaos the more likely.
Indiana Jones and the great circle: npc walking around on Gizeh and the clothes of one being in T-pose.
Oh, Bethesda.
There were actually good, written gags in that game, too. Plus the general “Indy found himself in a place where needed to improvise and punch some Nazis” sort of gameplay that the game did so well. I can’t even recall a single bug from my playthrough.
Yeah that was nice. The whole game was nice albeit too much promise and left far behind by any uncharted (>1) which came long before.
That at a premium price is too little. (not saying anyone should share this highly subjective opinion!)
But that’s not the point I was teing to make. I literally laughed at that typical Bethesda T-pose.
I was a big fan of Uncharted 2 and 3, but Uncharted 4 stopped giving me control of the action and started making it barely interactive or just a cut-scene, and I found The Great Circle to be an excellent counter to that, personally. Even if you saw a T-pose, it doesn’t seem right to call it a typical Bethesda thing. There’s a big difference between Bethesda, the developer of Elder Scrolls, and Machine Games, the developer of Wolfenstein and Indiana Jones; they don’t even use the same engine between them.
I know. /Harrison Ford smirk
I can’t remember the last time a game made me intentionally laugh. I laughed my ass off about situations, bugs, but… scripted comedy?
Maybe a smile, a faint giggle, but actual laughter? I can’t remember.
That’s exactly why I was so surprised by Dispatch! It has stuff at the same level of Sam & Max: Hit the Road whose the next door shop from the office I will never forget: “Bosco’s Guns, Liquors, Baby Needs”
Baldur’s Gate 3, quite often
Just yesterday, when I told the great wizard Lorroakan
spoiler
that the Nightsong is dead. “That always happens to me!”
Portal 2 is a classic and I enjoyed Tales from the Borderlands.
“Run smarter, not harder!”
Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.
Spoiler
The giant is a very melancholic, dignified old servant who’s feeling betrayed and disappointed in the player (long story, happens before the game, you don’t remember it and you’re only just piecing together what happened).
When he dies, he starts slowly sinking in lava with a very sad expression, with a speech about how “You were an example to us all”, lamenting about what happened, etc… And just before being completely immerged, with just his hand still reaching out of lava…
“You…”
“…are an ass!” And he flips you off.
Perfect delivery.
Stardew Valley has plenty of silly and funny moments to begin with. But the last patch added a “green rain” event, and during the first occurrence, all villagers are hiding inside, except Demetrius. This guy is just walking around in a full hazmat suit, collecting samples and babbling about mushrooms.
The funniest thing I saw in Stardew recently, was that I have installed the Anthro characters mod and it’w really good at making everyone some kind of anthro, even their dialogue portraits… But in one of the relationship sequences, it flashes dialogue portraits of various characters and in that once scene they were not altered by the mod, so there’s all these “random” ghost humans showing up.
