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)?
Probably Portal 2, but I plan to try Dispatch as soon as it has completed.
Many video games have funny moments, but Portal 2 remains on top as the most hilarious video game of all-time.
I’m laughing constantly when playing multiplayer games with my kids. Silly party games mainly where we end up in weird interactions or just making jokes or role play about what’s happening in the game.
For single player I can’t really remember but the old monkey island and Simon the sorcerer got me laughing back in the days.
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.
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
In Kletka when I unlocked the naked skin and my friends noticed the tramp stamp before I did lol
Red dead redemption 2
When?
Last summer. Loved the epilogue part 2 and uncle and John’s jokes
Most recently Trials Rising. Its the worst of the series ive played so far, but i hadn’t played one in about 10 years and id forgotten how funny some of the crashes are.
A couple of minutes ago.
I played Helldivers 2 with some noobs.
We finished all objectives and were going for extraction.
One guy was walking past me with a portable hellbmomb backpack. You don’t even have to play the game to guess what that is. The name nails it perfectly.
You can arm the hellbmomb backpack yourself - but it can be activated by your teammates as well.
It’s kind of a dick move, but I couldn’t resist. Poor guy got blown up into a bazillion pieces.
High on life
Helldivers 2
High on life
yeah, that’s highly probable
High on Life got one good laugh from me right at the start, where you’re playing as Buck, and the tutorial guy is hyping you up and talking about how thats your ex wife’s new boyfriend you gotta kill.
After that I enjoyed it, but the humour never got a proper laugh out of me.
Edit : no wait it did when you first get the knife.
I think the moment that got the biggest laugh from me, was shooting that kid in the face then telling his mom about it, or finding the dying care bear dude voiced by PsychicPebbles and he’s going on for almost more than five whole minutes about how close he is to dying and he sees the light and blah blah blah. Anytime you tried to leave he’d be like “wait where are you going?! You’re just gonna leave me here to die alone?!”
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.
Maybe Topher saves the universe
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.
Thank Goodness You’re Here was good for a few laughs.
It’s a watering can’t.
Came here to say the same! That game cracked me up all the way through.
It’s such a fun and cozy little game, I honestly want the creators to make it into a show or something. I love all the characters and I want to see more of them!
And the soundtrack was absolutely gorgeous too.
Hades 2 when I finally stumbled upon Dionysus. He’s wearing a leopard print speedo in it and his bulge is as subtle as a kick in the shin.
I love that they gave him a massive bulge. Found him in a run last night.
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…
