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Humor in Games?
commiesubverter writes "Slate.com has an article up about humor in games. It's a decent summary of where the gaming industry has been and is going with its humor. From the article: 'Comedy is typically marginalized into background sight gags and interstitial cut scenes. Even games that generally strive to be funny incorporate humor into window dressing: In Grand Theft Auto, you can sow mayhem while listening to a mock-NPR that's broadcasting a roundtable discussion on violence.'"
I've only played the sequel and that has to be the funnies FPS I've played. Some of the conversations between the guards were priceless, and the overall goofiness was highly entertaining.
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And don't forget the Spellcasting 101 / 201 / 301 series. I have fond memories of moments where I was laughing so hard that I had to take a break.
Adam.
Even though it's a totally separate game style, these guys seem to have a good sense of humor Alien Hominid
WARNING: SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAMES!!
Examples:
Harm Guard: "Too late for that!"
Baron Dumas: Hmm...I would have to say....er....Beowulf.
Cate: Ah... I was thinking of historical rather than fictional individuals.
Baron Dumas: Beowulf is a historal character.
Cate: You mean the Beowulf who slew Grendel and is mother?
Baron Dumas: Ah, yes: thats the one.
Cate: He's a FICTIONAL character.
Baron Dumas: YES, I know that, but there was also an HISTORICAL one.
Cate: The Beowulf who fought the dragon?
Baron Dumas: Indeed.
Cate: But there AREN'T any dragons. Unless you count the dinosaurs of course, but there weren't any of those wondering around during the time that Beowulf WOULD have lived, had he been a REAL person instead of a fictional one.
Baron Dumas: Are you quite sure?
Cate: Yes.
Baron Dumas: I see...
Thanks to NOLF Girl for a lot of these.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
I guess it's linky time. There's an entire website dedicated to weird video game quotes, even many that aren't even Japanese:
Zany Video Game Quotes
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Duke Nukem 3d for Linux. With TCP/IP networking.
Name a time. And tell your wife that yes, you do have time.
Paranoia isn't an infectious condition, it's a way of life
Actually it was based on the previous television program "The Young Ones"
Once again Ade Edmondson was the complete bastard as punk Vivian. The "How to be a Complete Bastard" bit came up origionaly for the Young Ones Batchelor Boys book (and later a book of its own, then the board game, then the spectrum/ C64 game)
I remember that. *grin*
Or how about the scenes in the strip joints? You could go up to the strippers and tip them, and they'd show you their boobs.
Recently I've been playing GTA:SA, and I can see why WCTR is window dressing - because it gets old. It only has so much content, and after that, it becomes stale and repetitive.
.. you can frame an annoying DA with drugs, watch him get hauled away by the cops, turn on your radio, and hear it on the news immediately. :)
Keep playing, then. One of the differences between GTA: VC and GTA: SA is that the radio content is dynamic -- especially WCTR. As you progress through the game, the contents of the shows change (i.e., you hear new episodes of "He Said, She Said") and the news that gets reported changes in accordance with the missions that you've done. News travels fast in SA
(Incidentally, hearing Richard Burns mock the attendees of a Former Child Actors Convention in Las Venturas is very, very funny.)
We're going down, in a spiral to the ground
..is raw comedy: #1, because it's raw; #2, because it's comedy. The guys at Videlectrix really knew what they were doing when they put this together. (Check out the trailer too.) Haldo!
an article on humour in games that doesn't mention Earthworm Jim!??
A game where you get to fight lawyers with briefcases and jump into toilet-warps...
The picture quality in FHM and Maxim for boobs is better than it was in Duke Nukem 3D, but in Duke Nukem Forever, the boobs are much more realistic. ;-)