   Hilarity In Video Games
  [potential spoiler ahead]So, I was playing Bioshock over labor day weekend, and I encountered a particularly funny part of the game. I was in the Fort Frolic level where you have to get the photos for Cohen, and after putting up the third photo on the sculpture he says something like, "That look on your face... you don't like it, do you? Well screw you, I don't care what you think!" Then with no warning, The Waltz Of The Flowers (from the Nutcracker, I think) starts playing and a half-dozen gene-spliced maniacs rush at me, shouting and swinging at me. I guess its something you'd have to see for yourself, but it made me laugh so much I had to pause the game. This got me thinking about comedy in video games - or rather, the lack of it. I can't remember too many times where a game has made me laugh like that, comedy in games seems limited to random smart-ass comments from the protagonist. Can anybody here recall a game that made them ROFL?   
  I'm hardly even the LOL type, let alone the kind who ROFLes, but there are a couple of games that spring to my mind as being particularly funny.Pretty much any adventure game from Lucasfilm/Lucasarts had a heavy dose of comedy, although admittedly a lot of it came from the dialogue (good examples: Grim Fandango's "Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!", pretty much everything said by Murray in Monkey Island 3). They're still enjoyable today if you can get them working on modern hardware.For FPS type games, I thought No One Lives Forever and its sequel had some really good comedic moments, especially all the conversations that the henchmen guards have throughout the levels. Those games could be played in either a run-and-gun fashion or via stealth, but I almost always try to play stealthily purely so I can hear what the guards are saying (they'll leave their posts to hunt you down if you interrupt them).   ;  LucasArts has an impressive track record for humor... plenty of laugh-out-loud moments in all the Monkey Island installments (well, the first three, anyways), Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle, and Grim Fandango. And, as it turns out, that was all Tim Schafer's fault. The funniest game I've played in recent memory is his Psychonauts. It is vanishingly rare for a game to succeed with dry humor, but he succeeds.A cookie to he who can identify:"You... you really flushed it!""YES!""Down...the toilet?""NO! Into the PAST!"   ;Quote:Original post by SneftelA cookie to he who can identify:"You... you really flushed it!""YES!""Down...the toilet?""NO! Into the PAST!"What's more disturbing is that I learnt most of what I know about America's founding fathers from that game [smile].It's a conversation between Benard and Dr. Fred in Day of the Tentacle, when Fred flushes the plans for his Super Battery through the Chrono-John back to Hoagie 200 years in the past. Details on the plans themselves were part of the copy protection used in the diskette version of the game, although the CD ROM version didn't require thatOh, and every American really should have a vacuum cleaner in their basement.   ;  I like The Bard's Tale, has great quotes like "ahh the legendary one of kind sword of (can't remember the name atm), I've got three myself!"And the ending when you side with finn has the most amazing quote in a video game ever.   ;">Time Splitters: ">Future"> Perfect"> had"> some"> good"> moments.   ;  Yeah, the Fort Frolic level made me laugh out loud a couple of time!Other things that did the trick for me:-Guybrush making hat or boots-related puns at Murray in Monkey Island.-Half of Full Throttle's dialogue. That game was sweet.-The Ork Grotz in Dawn of War-Roger Wilco in Space Quest-The random comments by various NPCs in Fallout II, when you just stand around-The first time I used the sheep or the holy hand grenade in Worms Armageddon-Any of Jack's dialogue in Radiata Stories:'Your trouble is my bubble! Wait, that make no sense...'Love that rpg.   ;  Bioshock is indeed a great game!The last time I had a real ROFL-attack in a game was in GTS:San Andreas.I was on a PCG-900 bike on the highway followed by a couple of FBI-vans (:P), when suddendly one of the vans on the other side of the road crashed into a car and startet an armageddon. After some seconds, there where like 30 cars crashed, stocked and piled into each other. Maked me laught so hard, I couldnt control my bike and landed into the ocean... whith the cops behind me. (Why am I the only "person" in this game with the ability to swim?)Anyway, the game which made my laugh the most was Day of the Tentacle. :)   ;"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum".Edit: Must be something about the BUILD engine and shoe-horning as many silly quotes in as possible: "You move like a pregnant yak" or "Get off my train".[Edited by - benryves on September 5, 2007 7:47:30 AM];Quote:Original post by benryves"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum".">As for hilarious games, many of the older adventure games used humor throughout.  As mentioned, the Lucas Arts games such as Sam and Max, Maniac Mansion series, Monkey Island Series, and the Sierra games such as Space Quest series, Leisure Suit Larry series, etc.  Then you have other games such as the Discworld series of games, Simon the Sorcerer series, some Legend games such as Erik the Unready, and a few others.  Now comedy in FPS games tends to be a lot more rare.   