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)?
Red dead redemption 2
When?
Last summer. Loved the epilogue part 2 and uncle and John’s jokes
Expedition 33, Verso talks Monoco into coming with them to Old Lumiere.
This was my exact answer too. So many conversations with Monaco and Esquie are genuinely laugh out loud funny.
Expedition 33 got me to laugh pretty hard a few times.
Cyberpunk 2077, overheard two NPCs sharing a joke:
What does a corpo say before he offs himself?
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Guys, please don’t shoot.
The wife and I are currently playing through Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Tina has been making us laugh for years now, there’s something about Ashley Birch’s deliveries that just works. Quite a lot of the lines given to the PCs to say randomly as your are fighting are great too. Always hardest with a game that is meant to be funny, but they pull it off.
Tactical Breach Wizards
I replayed through Red Alert 2 and Yuri’s Revenge recently. The live action cutscenes are beautifully campy. Top notch. In the Soviet campaign, you steal the Allied time machine and use it to go back to stop Yuri; but you quickly learn that “our Soviet power supply is too efficient, and it sent us back 65 million years!” You then spend a minute defending against an onslaught of T-Rexes before it recharges to send you to the correct time period. A whole “level” for that one-off joke! They don’t make em like they used to…
Summer Trip Cruise on the first run.
The whole thing is just so plain silly and the music fits perfectly.
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Every once in a while, I get matched with competent players in Rocket League, and something magical happens that makes me grind. Feels rarer and rarer these days, but it still happens, which is why I still play.
Hades 2 when I finally stumbled upon Dionysus. He’s wearing a leopard print speedo in it and his bulge is as subtle as a kick in the shin.
I love that they gave him a massive bulge. Found him in a run last night.
The South Park games got a few laughs out of me.
Borderlands games have a few good gags sprinkled throughout.
These are the only ones I can think of as well.
Thank Goodness You’re Here was good for a few laughs.
It’s a watering can’t.
It’s such a fun and cozy little game, I honestly want the creators to make it into a show or something. I love all the characters and I want to see more of them!
And the soundtrack was absolutely gorgeous too.
Came here to say the same! That game cracked me up all the way through.
Disco Elysium. The dialog options are so cracked
My partner always levels half light and physical instrument to get the most unhinged dialogue and it’s great.
Half light is the biggest troll in the game, surpassing even Electrochemistry in how unhinged it is.
The Stanley Parable is very funny. I don’t want to spoil it, especially because reading or watching videos is not the same as interacting with the game, but the narrator reacts to what you do, even if you try to do something absurd there’s a good chance that it has a special reaction for that.
South Park games also are very funny, the first one (Stick of Truth) especially. But it is a very dark humor, e.g. the difficulty slider also changes your skin color.
Stanley Parable is amazing, not something I personally would laugh out loud at, but truly a masterpiece of a game.
