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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Portal and Portal 2.

GLaDOS' constant mockery of your person, your ability to navigate tests, and general spite pretty much make both games. It all even manages to provide a lot of world-building without lore-dumping. 10/10, would get roasted again.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago
[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 days ago

In Disco Elysium the game straight up called me out for apologising so much. It hit me so hard I stopped apologising as much irl. 10/10 game would be ashamed again.

[–] mech@feddit.org 129 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Stanley Parable, the entire game is about making fun of the player.

[–] simple@piefed.social 37 points 3 days ago

The broom closet ending, specifically. The broom closet ending is my favorite

[–] catalyst@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The segment in Ultra Deluxe where the narrator reads mean Steam reviews is so good lol.

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There's a section where, if you continue to avoid the narrator's prompts to take a specific door, it just brings you to an unfinished room - dev textures and all - while the narrator gives you grief for screwing up the game.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:

Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that. Don't let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It's just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother's decision to abandon you on a doorstep.

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 87 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Super Paper Mario's line "I love going on message boards and complaining about games I've never played." is really good.

[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

I‘ve never played that game and that is way too tacky.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 64 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (7 children)

Multiple games have done it, but something along the lines "try not dying" as the loading screen tip after dying about a dozen times is always funny to me.

[–] catalyst@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“You can change the difficulty at any time in the settings screen” during loading screens after dying always gets me.

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If having trouble with game, get better

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[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago (8 children)

In the original Warcraft games (not World Of Warcraft), repeatedly clicking units would initiate irritation voice lines.

Humans would say something like, “why do you keep touching me?”

An elf said something like, “you never touch other elves like that!”

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

W-w, w-w, what do you want?

W-w, w-w, what do you want?

W-w, w-w, what do you want?

Why do you keep touching me?

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[–] zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

The best part was: this was even in the installer! When setting up your sound card, there was a test button. If it worked, you heard “your sound card works perfectly”. But if you kept pressing it, eventually it would say “enjoying yourself?” And if you kept going after that, in an angry voice, “it doesn’t get any better than this!”

Ah old Blizzard, when even the installers had character.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Quit messages in old shooters like Doom, Heretic, Quake, and Duke3d.

"Are you sure you wanna quit? Press N to continue kicking-ass and chewing gum. Press Y if you're a little pussy bitch."

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

Classic Doom even razzes you a little bit on the difficulty selection screen, with "I'm too young to die" as the easiest one.

I don't recall Heretic or Hexen giving you guff for quitting, but I could be wrong.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

Wolfenstein 3D (and the newer ones, too) with "Can I play, daddy?" with BJ in a baby bonnet and pacifier as the easiest option.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 47 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I always talk to Hypnos in Hades when I die. he always talks shit about how you died and it makes me laugh.

I love the sass.

The sheer genius of both Hades games is that dying is absolutely one of the best parts, since the hub-world is full of fun things like this.

Hypnos: My list says you got killed by a REDACTED. What's that even mean?

A few deaths later...

Hypnos: REDACTED got you again, huh.

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[–] testman@lemmy.ml 53 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In Postal 2 when the Postal Dude says "Didn't you just save?" if you savescum.

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[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Bards Tale. That game was full of shit actively taunting or tricking the player. Best ps2 game.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

The worst part is, in Super Mario 3D Land, at least, if you even see the invincible leaf, it locks you out of getting all the stars on your save file. The game doesn't even have the courtesy to tell you.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, the NPC who asks "where are you from" and we get the options "yes" and "no".

(He has not heard of yes town, nor does he believe we don't come from anywhere at all.)

[–] Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Iirc this is an inside joke by the devs.

In Japanese, it's Hai (yes) town, which evidently was the name of the building they spent a lot of time in during development.

I can't find any real credible source, but some mentions of it going back 4 or 5 years.

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 41 points 3 days ago

My favorite will always be the 'Spent 15 Hours at the Alien Strip Club' achievement in High On Life.

Dialog"How are you doing? Need some motivation to keep going? How about an award? Here, take this one that says you spent all your in-game playtime in an alien strip club. Oh, that's permanent, by the way. Everyone on your friends list can see that forever."

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's that bit in Baldur's gate 2 where some NPCs decide they can take you on, die, and then reload the game.

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[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In Postal 2 there's a platforming section and, because I suck at platformers, let alone in first person, so I was saving a lot. After a few very short and successive saves, the dude made fun of me for saving so much.

Also in Portal 2, just a lot of GlaDOS lines in general.

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

"Look at you: Sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp."

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately... If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.

At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you've been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter... Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.

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[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In Wasteland 2 there is a museum of pre-war artifacts. One item is an undetonated nuclear bomb. If you monkey around with it you can find a big red button. It is obviously a terrible idea to push the button. If you still decide to push it you get a special game over screen.

[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Far Cry Blood Dragon's tutorial section. The game is very aware of how impatient gamers are to get to the killing, and milks it for all the time it can while the PC grumbles about annoying tutorial sections. They throw in a ton of extra dialog boxes like accompanying reading recommendations, obvious tips,etc.

The whole game is meta and corny on purpose. If you like '80s action movies and sci-fi, they packed just about every trope possible into this thing. Heavily recommend if you haven't played it.

[–] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Seconded.

I have more fond memories of blood dragon than I do of farcry 3 and 4 combined, despite blood dragon being like a 20 hour standalone dlc

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 days ago

This isn't quite in line with your question but it's adjacently meta:
the first time you fall to your death in Bastion the (amazing) narrator says "...and then he fell to his death. ... Ahh, I'm just foolin'." and then you respawn on the platform because videogame.

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The "Plenty of Fish in the Sea" achievement.

In Shadow Complex, a shameless ripoff of Super Metroid in its game mechanics, you play a guy who drives a girl out to a remote location in the Pacific Northwest and she gets kidnapped by a military organisation. You're cut off from your vehicle, but fairly early on in the game you are able to return to the start point. You are able to get in the car and drive away and an achievement pops saying "Plenty of Fish in the Sea." So you win but your guy gives up on his girl, leaving her to her fate.

Hack/NetHack had a similar thing where you could just leave without completing the main objective (retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, which has a random chance of appearing at the 35th level and below, and make it back out with the Amulet). I remember it saying something snarky on the Amiga version, but I don't recall exactly what. Like it said you went on to live a boring life or something like that. Any time you felt like you were locked out of the objective or outnumbered by enemies without the means to fight through them, you could backtrack and leave (though, things like disease, hunger, and thirst could take you before you got out) and you'd "win" (as in, you get to keep living).

[–] teft@piefed.social 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Far Cry 6 has a similar easter egg. Near the beginning of the game (which takes place in an archipelago) you’re given a boat to head to the main island for the quest to start but you can just take the boat and point it towards the open ocean and you’ll end up drinking beer on a beach in miami completely skipping the entire game.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is a running joke in the Far Cry games. I know Far Cry 4 does something similar. You meet the big bad at the beginning of the game, he asks you to wait for him, and if you just chill for like 15 minutes he shows back up, honors his word, and you finish the mission that you came to the island for.

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[–] ebolapie@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Risk of Rain 2's death messages crack me up.

That was definitely not your fault

That was absolutely your fault

Come back soon!

ur dead lol get rekt

And so on

[–] catalyst@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I would have swore there was a moment in Disco Elysium where a character makes fun of you for talking like you are trying to exhaust all the options in a dialog tree. But now I can’t find it. Anyone know?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't remember that dialogue, but the OP made me think of the Jamrock Shuffle (constantly running around town like a crazy person).

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[–] Famko@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

That was during the dream sequence at the end, no? You can even correct the character saying that they're not lists, but trees or something like that.

[–] Acamon@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

I enjoyed Wolfenstein 3D's quitting messages, "Chickening out already?" or "Press N for more carnage. Press Y to be a weenie." and the like.

[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

In one of the Leisure Suit Larry games, you get called out for saving the game too often during a particularly difficult section.

[–] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

In Drake of The 99 Dragons, each time you die, (which happens often), you get roasted and humiliated by some gods in the after life for 10 seconds before they allow you to revive again. This has absolutely no reason to be here, except for doubling the loading screen time.

Could also mention, in the 6th installment of Touhou Project, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, if you play on easy, the game won't even let you fight the final boss, mocking your pride on such simple level, and this game mode is usually commented as child play by the games in the whole franchise.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The old point-n-click flash game Johnny Rocketfingers had a bunch. There was a part where you had to find a way out of a jail cell or something, and if you used the hand tool on a crack in the wall, your character just says "feels cracktacular."

Oh, and there was the old original You Don't Know Jack game where if you told the host "fuck you" or something similar in the answer box, they'd just lose patience with you and exit the game for you.

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