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)?
I’m playing Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon and there are some really funny moments.
There’s this quest where a corpse is hanging from a tree and asks you to deal with some creatures that come at night and do the sexy things where he can see them. Or two drunk guys in a tavern debating if a broken sword that has been reforged and it’s hilt replaced time and time again would still be the same sword. Or there is this undead crypt keeper, really happy to meet you.
Or the spirit you meet who tasks you with stealing insignificant things. She was fun.
ETA: I also treat that undead crypt keeper nicely any time I see him in a playthrough. He’s always nice to me so it only seems fair.
Summer Trip Cruise on the first run.
The whole thing is just so plain silly and the music fits perfectly.
Cyberpunk 2077, overheard two NPCs sharing a joke:
What does a corpo say before he offs himself?
spoiler
Guys, please don’t shoot.
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.
Red dead redemption 2
When?
Last summer. Loved the epilogue part 2 and uncle and John’s jokes
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…
Expedition 33 got me to laugh pretty hard a few times.
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.
You really didn’t need to post this twice
Mistake. I deleted the crosspost.
In response to your post, it’s a little morbid but I found ratshaker to be a great little game that gave me many laughs.
Fairly regularly with Helldivers 2. The mockery of fascism is too notch, the gameplay results in a lot of hilarious moments of disaster without being punishing, and those combined make for great interactions with other players.
Just the other night I had a 500kg dropped on my ass just far enough away from me to not kill me instantly but still send me flying over to the next space-county where I died on impact
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.
VtM Bloodlines 2 just got me yesterday because it changed up the dialogue my character speaks when I put on a catholic priest outfit. He provokes people to rage by saying vampy things depending on his clothes but in the priest suit it’s just simple "Damn you!"s and calling people demon or quoting the exorcist. The NPC’s have the best replies to this though.
Before that it was probably the music video scene from The Alters
Holy shit The Alters has a music video scene? Is it like in American Dad when he’s in Francine’s mind and has the other versions of him sing a song?
Um… Slay the Princess, like, last night. Sure it’s marketed as a psychological horror game but it’s actually pretty funny.
That said, I’m also often streaming things with friends and we riff the whole time so even the least funny games ever will get a laugh at some point. Lol
I loved it, but I wouldn’t laugh out loud at any of the moments in it.
Just started playing Wolfenstein: New Colossus for the first time, and everything is just so over the top, it’s funny. The game starts you out in a wheel chair, where you roll through a u-boat, shooting Nazis with an automatic pistol.
Those Wolfenstein games kinda rule because they’re so over the top.
And then you become Terror Billy.
san andreas
skyrim
undertale
Damn, CJ, why you always gotta be a busta?
