Why Video Games Are Having a Harder Time With Humor

Kotaku is running an opinion piece discussing why video games are having a harder time being funny as they've shifted away from text-driven adventures and toward graphics-intensive environments. "As technology improved, things began to get more serious. With the rise of 3D technology a strong focus was put on making games look good, delivering a more realistic — and often darker — experience to the player. Cartoonish comedic games became more of a novelty than the norm. Few titles, such as Rare's Conker's Bad Fur Day for the Nintendo 64, fully embraced humor." The article also talks about how the trend could soon reverse itself. LucasArts' Dave Grossman said, "As the games get smarter and start paying attention to more things about what the player is actually doing, using that ability not just to create challenges but to create humorous moments will be pretty cool. Eventually I expect to be out of a job over that."

Comments

How appropriate

[BadAnalogyGuy]

You fight like a dairy farmer.

Re:Not dead entirely

[spire3661]

Dont forget TF2!

Re:I have a reason.....

[feepness]

Because video games by nature are repetitive, and when you've heard the same joke for the thirteenth time,

In soviet Russia, joke gets tired of you!

Re:I really have to disagree with this article

[morari]

the Grand Theft Auto series is full of adult humor.

I can't think of a single adult that would find most of that trite humorous. It's about as immature as you can get.