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Games with the worst humor
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Ampersands
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Don't really know anything about this game but I was dying from this. It's a great set-up and even though the punchline is the same, they managed to mix it up just enough every time.
A thousand times this. I genuinely can't believe they bothered to make those awful, awful cutscenes.
Acquiescence
Member
I didn't want humour, but they put it in the game anyway, and it was awful.
Ryouji Gunblade
Member
Tatsu. I miss the Borderlands poop train already.
? Stuff like: Finale Fireworker
Member
I am glad I am not so damaged as to not find Portal extremely funny. It's been five years since I played Portal 2 and I still quote it weekly. A video of all the best jokes in Portal would just be the whole game. I would have to stop playing sometimes, even in coop, because I was laughing too hard and had to compose myself.
Few experiences in my miserable life have brought my as much joy and laughter as Portal. If Portal isn't funny, just kill me now so I can be at peace.
Few experiences in my miserable life have brought my as much joy and laughter as Portal. If Portal isn't funny, just kill me now so I can be at peace.
Dragon Puncher
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Strange, I thought R&C had a solid sense of humor.
My pick
The fifty percent of jokes that land were hilarious.
The other half? I wanted to rip my ears off.
My first thought as well. Though it was probably more like 80% of the jokes that made me want to kill myself and everything associated with modern gaming humor.
The franchise has basically already taken that approach, it's just that it's not as well written. I agree that Sonic being done like Spider-Man would be a good fit though. I think the Archie Sonic comics are probably the best example of how I'd like to see story in Sonic games be done.
Please tell me this is sarcasm.
It's been mentioned before but Deathspank was a huge bummer for me. I liked Ron Gilbert's older games (although the best ones - Monkey Island 1 and 2, were mostly written by Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer, and it's telling that those two managed to have made a lot more games that are actually funny compared to Gilbert. I still think he's a brilliant designer, just not a great writer. It's a bit of a bummer that Ron Gilbert always gets (and very happily claims) the sole credit for those games (and he's perfectly willing to throw the writers of Curse of Monkey Island under the bus, which was actually great) because his name was on the box of the first two games).
The Saturday morning cartoon voices and the endlessly long, unfunny dialogues really killed that game for me. Never managed to play much of it. Even though I like that style of gameplay, liked the artstyle at the time and have this tendency to follow new games by old Lucasarts adventure game developers, I just couldn't force myself through that game. A real bummer.
stargateheaven
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Duke Nukem Forever.
The "jokes" were stuck in the early 90s.
edit: you know what game has AMAZING humor?? fucking world of Final fantasy. AMAZING localisation!!
The "jokes" were stuck in the early 90s.
edit: you know what game has AMAZING humor?? fucking world of Final fantasy. AMAZING localisation!!
The Last One
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SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Oh, here's one that was SUPER cringey:
Andrew from Vanguard Bandits.
This guy's dialogue sounds like it was written and green-lighted by the Mega-pervs you see on Reddit, 4chan, and occasionally even here on GAF. So... just on the internet in general I suppose. Panty jokes, unwanted advancement on women, crude humor, the works. It's like if Johnny Bravo was written by an otaku nerd. I have to wonder if it was a Working Designs localization thing, or if his original character was equally insufferable, as well. The other characters were fine (typical JRPG humor) but this guy was awful.
Andrew from Vanguard Bandits.
This guy's dialogue sounds like it was written and green-lighted by the Mega-pervs you see on Reddit, 4chan, and occasionally even here on GAF. So... just on the internet in general I suppose. Panty jokes, unwanted advancement on women, crude humor, the works. It's like if Johnny Bravo was written by an otaku nerd. I have to wonder if it was a Working Designs localization thing, or if his original character was equally insufferable, as well. The other characters were fine (typical JRPG humor) but this guy was awful.
Coonce
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Astral Dog
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Modern Sonic games are bad joke after joke, except for Eggman sometimes
There I fixed it.
The Albatross
Member
Probably Postal 2. Just really, really low-brow. Although I guess I don't cringe as much as I would at a modern Sonic game.
The Albatross
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Her jokes are so predictable, it is like someone is using a formula to write her dialogue (don't start with "well, she is a robot").
Woah, I can't disagree more. Portal 1 is one of the only games with really well written humor that works. It was also very unexpected... When Portal first came out, you wouldn't have thought it was a light-hearted game, because Half-Life 2 & episodes were mostly serious and the game was given virtually no previews.
Of course if you've played Portal after it became a big hit then you'd know it's a light hearted game and so you'd be expecting it. But the writing for Glados for most of that game was really, really well done.
Portal 2, IMO, less so. Where Portal 1 was subtle with humor, Portal 2 just tried to beat you over the head with it. But that's what happens when you expect it to be a funny game, though have to "out funny" themselves.
Is it sad that, without having played Dream Team, everything about those "beef" guys makes sense to me? It seems like a natural progression to the "It at least makes sense in context" weird dialogue from Superstar Saga to the "lol let's repeat a random word a lot and in weird contexts to make a new Fawful" humor I saw somewhat in PiT and a lot in BIS.
Honestly, the Companion Cube is just used for 1 level and the cake is only mentioned 1 or 2 times. Memes killed those 2 bits real fast, but they didn't mess with the rest of the game outside of "Still Alive."
The rest still feels fresh to me on a replay.
Honestly, the Companion Cube is just used for 1 level and the cake is only mentioned 1 or 2 times. Memes killed those 2 bits real fast, but they didn't mess with the rest of the game outside of "Still Alive."
The rest still feels fresh to me on a replay.
hogendaz85
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Curious as to what kinds of shows some of you find funny..anyway Ratchet and Clank PS4 is so miss with every so called funny moment that it's almost cut scene skip worthy.
Banana Aeon
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Well, lucky for you that the game doesn't dwell on those jokes too much.
SliChillax
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Gears of War 4 had some mediocre one liners that would make only a 12 year old chuckle.
Yeah same here it has flashes of good humor but for the most part it's just not.. good.
King Gilga
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Japanese anime games.
Just like anime they're not funny at all, 99% of the time.
That comeback/exaggerated response humor, repeating shit, holy shit it's the worst.
The fuck is wrong with that chef girl's face?
Just like anime they're not funny at all, 99% of the time.
That comeback/exaggerated response humor, repeating shit, holy shit it's the worst.
The fuck is wrong with that chef girl's face?
| Praxis |
Banned
Never in my worst nightmares did I expect the Portal games to be mentioned in this thread.
Weltall Zero
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Deathspank was absolutely abysmal in its sense of humour, I think it is my pick as well. The "hahah this main character is overly serious" shtick is never a witty one at the best of times, but when a humour based game with lots of dialogue rests entirely on it as if it was just invented and it was the most hilarious thing ever... I only played the demo and it was so incredibly bad that it turned me off the entire game. The strange thing is that it's the brainchild of Ron Gilbert, who also wrote most of the classic Lucasfilm adventure games, including Monkey Island. I have no clue what the fuck happened there. He went on to make The Cave, which, while not as dreadful as Deathspank, was still somewhat disappointing.
MadJackChurchill
Banned
This. I will defend the gameplay to the hilt, and it refined what Insomniac started with Ratchet in an amazing way...
...but I wanted to skip ALL of the story cutscenes. The humor was just obnoxious half jokes and fourth wall stuff that takes a lot of skill to pull off correctly. It did not.
Working Designs seemed to take pride in adding awful jokes to all their translations, it's one of the things that wound up driving me away from their localizations.
Weltall Zero
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Yeah, that is what the thread is exactly about. You have it all figured out, you're so open minded and tolerant. Now please go tolerate somewhere else and leave us have our fun.
Her jokes are so predictable, it is like someone is using a formula to write her dialogue (don't start with "well, she is a robot").
What the actual fuck. Portal might have the wittiest humour ever to grace a videogame. Granted, that may be a bar so low you can walk over it wearing a kilt, but still...
JoduanER2
Member
At parts is really bad, i hated HATED trevor
Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order
Member
Oh, here's one that was SUPER cringey:
Andrew from Vanguard Bandits.
This guy's dialogue sounds like it was written and green-lighted by the Mega-pervs you see on Reddit, 4chan, and occasionally even here on GAF. So... just on the internet in general I suppose. Panty jokes, unwanted advancement on women, crude humor, the works. It's like if Johnny Bravo was written by an otaku nerd. I have to wonder if it was a Working Designs localization thing, or if his original character was equally insufferable, as well. The other characters were fine (typical JRPG humor) but this guy was awful.
That seems really funny though. Unless the game somehow portrays him in the right at the expense of everyone else.
Johnny Bravo is fun because more often than not you laugh at him, not with him at someone else.
Paasei
Member
Strange, I thought R&C had a solid sense of humor.
My pick
The fifty percent of jokes that land were hilarious.
The other half? I wanted to rip my ears off.
First post nails it. Terrible games when it comes to humor.
And then he's still giving it too much credit.
Weltall Zero
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Portal has like two lines referencing cake (one of them a grafitti on the wall) and likewise for the companion cube. You just exposed yourself as someone who either never played it and is speaking from hearsay, or worse, blames it for the memes it spawned. Which one is it?
ãInaba Residentã
Banned
Such a wide net to cast.
quint and keith were easily the worst parts of revelations for me. they weren't funny at all, and quint's voice was really annoying.
the constant character switching was a big problem with revelations in general, but those two were definitely the worst of the bunch.
Weltall Zero
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XBX has shit narrative all around due to the incredibly downgraded cutscenes from the excellent ones in the original XB. Lifeless dolls standing perfectly straight, several meters from each other, and ocassionaly emoting through the same stock animations, wow! Such drama! Such character! Such dynamism! *puke*
KatamariOnTheRocks
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Dead Rising 4 has the worst, cringiest writing I've ever seen/heard in my entire life.
mcz117chief
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Two lines? You are pestered throughout the entire game that you will receive a cake at the end. The companion cube is a focus of an entire chapter and is also referenced throughout the rest of the game by GLADos and is even there at the very end so your accusations hold no water. then there are those annoying whisper-screaming turrets and *put subject name here* "jokes". I guess there might have been one or two decent jokes in the whole game but I can't remember any of them besides the GLADos telling me that I murdered the companion cube in a record time or something, apart from that I am struggling to remember anything else from the game that I actively didn't dislike. I enjoyed the game immensely more when I played the game muted, the puzzles and the mechanics are fun but the humour is a total miss with me.
