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Leisure Suit Larry's Maker On Wedgies v. Bullets
simoniker writes "Al Lowe, the creator of lounge lizard Leisure Suit Larry, has been talking about his comeback game with new developer iBase Studios, Sam Suede, asking why games nowadays are too violent, and revealing of his new title: "there's going to be guards, but instead of slitting their throats, you'll give them a wedgie." He also asks: 'Let me put this way, the shelf is full of racing games and shooters, RPGs and action games. Where are the comedies?' Well, where are they?"
Funny Games
Metal Arms - Glitch in the System
Conker's Bad Fur Day
The Bard's Tale (PS2, XBox, PC)
Metal Gear 3 - Snake Eater (very comical commentary, involving a box)
These are just off the top of my head.
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
Oh, and wasn't there a key combo that let you bypass the age questions? I was definitely not 18 when I played it, and neither was I American enough to know the answers to many of the questions, so I cheated.
Hell is not other people; it is yourself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Destroy All Humans, violent? yes, but still funny.
Spyder
Anyone remember Planetfall? Or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Hilarous through-and-through, but many other of Infocom's interactive fiction games had particularly funny moments. Of course, interactive fiction lends itself to humor more than most types of games.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
New episodic Sam & Max games are on the way...
---- Den ene knappen er powerknapp, den andre er Bender voice knapp "Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"
For the love of Gaming God, play Psychonauts. If you have, and didn't find it funny, I'm surprised and saddened.
Most of the enemies in SIN Episodes die in extremely funny ways, yelling stuff like: Aargh my legs! or: it burns, it burns!
If you score a headshot in GTA vice city the head disappears and the victim walks on squirting blood, hilarious!
In Carmagueddon you can chase grannys and score "style" bonuses if you made nice streaks of blood on the tarmac very inventive!
In Half Life 2 you can learn about physics by playing around with a sawn trough corpse hanging from a tree; both fun and educational!
Actually, from my understanding it's more commonly attributed to H. L. Mencken. (Although, again, allegedly.)
Barnum's famous alleged quote is "There's a sucker born every minute."
You've got it backwards. AGS is gratis (free as in beer), not libre (free as in speech).
By the way, there are also Free implementations of AGI and SCI available, as well as a development studio for making SCI games.
This poo is cold.
That all sounds great in theory, but falls flat in practice. Trying to suppress sexuality enhances its appeal and incites sexual thoughts far more than treating it as something normal and natural does.
Just grabbing the first document I could find on google which talks about international rates of teen pregnancy, we find that "Adolescent pregnancy, birth, abortion and sexually transmitted disease (STD) rates are much higher in the United States than in most other developed countries" and that Sweden - a country stereotypically considered to be very open about sex - has a teen pregnancy rate of less than a quarter of that in the US[1], despite having higher levels of sexual activity[2]. The rates of sexually transmitted diseases are also lower in Sweden.[3]
So, no, I can't say that the evidence supports your claim that censoring sexuality does anything to prevent people from "having sex and getting into trouble" when the actual numbers show that more open policies substantially reduce rates of the quantifiable forms of "trouble" which you cited. ("Damaged psyches" isn't really quantifiable, but I submit that, when they result from sex, it is due to either feeling exploited or to societal censure (e.g., being seen as "a slut", whether by yourself or by others) - and both of these would be substantially reduced if sexuality were treated in a more open fashion rather than being suppressed.)
[1] "The proportion of women aged 20-24 who had a child before age 20 is a useful summary indicator that reflects the differences in teenage birthrates by country. This proportion is lowest in Sweden (4%)... and highest in the United States (22%)."
[2] "The proportion of women aged 20-24 who had first intercourse before age 20 varies from 75% in Canada to 86% in Sweden, with the United States (81%), France (83%) and Great Britain (85%) having intermediate levels", "Data on the proportion of all 18-19-year-olds who are currently sexually active (i.e., who had sex in the last three months) are available for four countries. The United States has the lowest proportion (59%), with France and Great Britain (62-64%) having somewhat higher levels, and Sweden (79%) having the highest level"
[3] "The incidence of chlamydia among adolescents in the United States (1,132 cases per 100,000) is nearly twice that in Canada and Sweden", "The annual incidence of gonorrhea among all U.S. adolescents (572 cases per 100,000) is 10 or more times the level in the other four countries."
In GTA:SA if you were with a prostitute, she just came into your car and it rocked back and forth (very similar to what happens in "The Sims 2" if you WooHoo in a car). Your health would be restored, and your cash would go down (or up if you'd completed all the "pimping" missions). The "hot coffee" mod did not change this. In GTA:SA there were several girlfriends you could have (5 or 6 IIRC, you could be dating all of them at the same time without repercussion too since they were in different parts of the "state"). Each gave you some gameplay bonus for dating them - some were pretty big like getting out of jail or hospital for free (and keeping all your weapons!). Once you started dating a girlfriend you'd go on dates to wherever she wanted (dinner, dancing, bar, whatever), and take her back to her place. If you went to a place that she liked (fast food = bad) you'd get a +5 to the relationship stat (starts at around 30). Once you got your relationship stat above a certain point (40-60 depending on who) after you drop her off at her house she'd ask if you wanted to "come in for some hot coffee". Without the mod installed the camera fixed on the house and you'd hear moans and so forth, time would ellapse, and your relationship stat would go up by another 5 (so 10 for the entire date). With the hot coffee mod installed this was actually a button mashing minigame where you could succeed or fail, if you failed it nullified the bonus from the successful date, if you succeeded you'd get the extra +5.
Now whether you want to complain about this gameplay mechanic or not, I don't particularly care, but at least complain about the right thing...