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.'"

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No One Lives Forever

[Anonymous Coward]

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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Re:Misguided article

[wadam]

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.

Agreed. Some quotes as examples...

[antdude]

Both No One Lives Forever and its sequel (not Contract Jack) made me laugh a lot. The dialogs, cutscenes, etc.

WARNING: SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAMES!!

Examples:

1. "Are you insulting my monkey?!" --a moroccan civilians line"
   
2. "Do not be apprehensive about this apprehension!" --the HARM guards in Morroco
   
3. Cate: "Spare yourself the suffering and you might walk out of here with clean underpants."
   Harm Guard: "Too late for that!"
   
4. Cate: Who is your favorite historical character?
   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...
   
5. Funny scenes with the HARM's director keeps getting nagged by his mother thru the entire NOLF2 game.
   
6. "Bend over and kiss yer potatahs goodbye!" --combat taunts
   
7. Two words: Human cubes
   
8. Many more funny scenes in this thread.
   
   Thanks to NOLF Girl for a lot of these. ;)

Re:Who needs intentional humor

[Zorilla]

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

Re:Duke Nukem 3D

[Dicky]

Dude.

Duke Nukem 3d for Linux. With TCP/IP networking.

Name a time. And tell your wife that yes, you do have time.

Re:Duke Nukem 3D

[Zathras26]

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. ;-)