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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37932218

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)?

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[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Last week. Super Robot Wars Y has some really funny character interactions if you're familiar with the source material.

spoilerKallen (Code Geass) and Allenby (G Gundam) both cheering for Mirage (Macross Delta) in their romance when all three are the "losers" is both hilarious and sad.

Domon (G Gundam) turning into the mentor for Shinn (Gundam Seed Destiny) was already entertaining, but him getting a bunch more "disciples" over the game was great.

Gauma (Dynazenon) turning every 5-person mecha team into rivals was also funny.

[–] Snickeboa@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

When playing Split Fiction. The poop/pig extra level where your power is to double jump by farting got the inner child in me.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Indiana Jones and the great circle: npc walking around on Gizeh and the clothes of one being in T-pose.

Oh, Bethesda.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There were actually good, written gags in that game, too. Plus the general "Indy found himself in a place where needed to improvise and punch some Nazis" sort of gameplay that the game did so well. I can't even recall a single bug from my playthrough.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah that was nice. The whole game was nice albeit too much promise and left far behind by any uncharted (>1) which came long before.

That at a premium price is too little. (not saying anyone should share this highly subjective opinion!)

But that's not the point I was teing to make. I literally laughed at that typical Bethesda T-pose.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was a big fan of Uncharted 2 and 3, but Uncharted 4 stopped giving me control of the action and started making it barely interactive or just a cut-scene, and I found The Great Circle to be an excellent counter to that, personally. Even if you saw a T-pose, it doesn't seem right to call it a typical Bethesda thing. There's a big difference between Bethesda, the developer of Elder Scrolls, and Machine Games, the developer of Wolfenstein and Indiana Jones; they don't even use the same engine between them.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I know. /Harrison Ford smirk

[–] Never_Daunted@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/nOcLkkEvBCY

Not sure if this is the last time I laughed but it's probably the most I've laughed.

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[–] Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Must’ve been one of the early Space Quest games. It’s been a while.

[–] Pazintach@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

I was playing Divinity Original Sin recently. After I got Pet Pal, what the animals think of each other and the people around them gave me a lot of good laughs.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I laugh at shit all the time in multiplayer games, the more chaos the more likely.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's funny when you're playing soccer and you're locked in and then out of nowhere a player gets domed by the ball. Especially when you smoothly recover like you meant to rocket the ball off the defenders head.

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yesterday when I played GTA Online with a friend cause the stuff the heist givers say is so absurd, I love it

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Not the most recent, but my most memorable was watching a giant in skyrim kerbal space program a sabertooth tiger.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

I can't remember off the top of my head, but I'm sure it wasn't long ago. I laugh pretty easily at a lot of different things, like ironic situations or bugs/glitches that look silly.

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 0 points 3 days ago

It was last night, I was playing Windblown with a friend and we were on our fourth endless loop. Everything was melting, it got very silly. Watching a boss healthbar just drop instantly was hilarious.

[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 days ago

"Run smarter, not harder!"

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