/v/ - Video Games

I always found it crude and patronising as a kid. When my friends were quoting duke nukem i was either thinking 'thats a line stolen from a B movie they dont know about' or 'thats not funny, its just stupid' and the "im sooooo random! xD, spoon! muffins! squirrells are talking to me!" shit seemed to be the natural evolution of the audience.

I loved the GTA radio in the PS2 games, then it took a nosedive in IV and became insufferable wannabe South Park shit in V that's as subtle as a bag of bricks. Lighthearted mockery of the past decades or even dumb crude humot like the Glory Hole theme park was much better than ads like "hitting kids works wonders" or having an airline openly, directly call itself shit which just strains believability.

>>16093234

I stopped finding Duke Nukem funny as I was growing up and found out where all these quotes actually come from.

The Messenger and Super Daryl Deluxe don't take their stories seriously at all, although the brand of humor is in no way similar to Conker.

In The Messenger it's pretty much a battle of snarks between a typical young protagonist embarking on a seemingly generic video game saving the world quest and a shopkeeper who can't believe this rube is taking this bullshit seriously.

Super Daryl Deluxe is more no-holds-barred absurdism about a school that was clearly the epicenter for some kind of apocalypse and even now is trying to break the fabric of reality, and the new student (protagonist Daryl) who is completely fucking brain dead but manages to kick ass through the help of a magical self-help book. Very reminiscent of newgrounds games.

>>16093293

The little bit of dialogue from The Messenger that I saw look pretty fuckin gay.

>>16093380

That was less funny then it was a fair warning on the pro's and con's of buying carbon. Made me chuckle at the humour of how absurd it is for people to sell diamonds as valuable though.

It's just the same effect we've had with movies but a little staggered. You couldn't make a comedy like Airplane! for the same reasons you can't make truly funny games. It's simply too dangerous financially and politically. The only acceptable humor is now catlady approved lul randumb.

>>16093496

Real shame that there seems to have been no interest in fan retranslation of the games Working Designs fucked, and at best they just get gameplay parameter restoration patches, since fucking with the scripts alone wasn't enough for Viccy.

Jazzpunk was great, it was the funniest game ever made.

>>16093398

>to sell diamonds as valuable though.

Well diamonds can cut a lot if things, including glass, so they do have value in industry.

>>16094063

It's a glorified walking sim.

I like it when videogames make funny videogame-related jokes, makes me laugh and xd very hard, this is why No More Heroes is a good game.

>>16094151

>She

Was that a girl? I always thought it was a kid.

>>16093214

The humor was embedded in the game, so it was great, recent titles that uses humor like Bad Company and Deadpool either uses it as some cutscene or a clutch like the lattrer. Now the most horrible recent example of a game using humor terribly is YIIK.

>>16094178

Anon…

Women can sound like little boys. Most voice actors for little boys in shows are women.

>>16094194

I know, but I figured it was some 12 YO boy being retarded from the voice and context. Sometimes I forget women are retarded.

Rachet and Clank used to have crude humour.

*sip* Yup, Quake III had some great voicecommand humour.

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>>16093496

Can't you just play the Mega CD versions of the Luna games. Are they worse than the PS1 versions or something?

>>16093496

Is Youichi aware of what the roundeyes did to his game? I can't believe that anyone ever found Lunar, for example, to have a decent translation. It is riddled with dated popculture references and obnoxious characterization. I don't remember that line from Alundra, but this kind of joke just shows that WD was just proto-Treehouse.

>>16093910

What else did they fuck with?

>>16094318

>>>/cuckchan/

>>16094356

t. Butthurt KCmod

>>16093380

Bully and the PSP games were still on that level of quality. It was jumping to 7th gen that killed Rockstar.

No. I'm not a child so I don't find fart jokes funny. Go watch youtube comedy videos instead

>>16094151

I'm pretty sure I played LotRO with that crazy bitch once, she's still crazy if so.

>>16094476

>LotRO

Damn I wished I could play that again. Couldn't go too far as my pc was marginally functional. That aside modern games have terrible humor, though Senran Kagura manages to get a chuckle out of me when the girls do silly cute things.

I think the overuse of jokes, combined with the LOLSORANDUM XD fad in the 00s as well as the ebin quirky super heros has killed that type of stuff coming back.

>>16093293

>Super Daryl Deluxe

>Final boss gives you asks you to join him

>Pick Yes

>Credits roll

>10 seconds later the credits stop because Daryl is brain dead and never talks, so final boss takes it as a no

There was plenty of nice jokes in the game, as well as lame ones. The Messenger, however, is the king of fucking lame puns and at the end of the game the shopkeeper has this cringefest life story(which happens to be the writer's life story) and it's played out like a veteran writer is doing his last farewell rather than some guy's first video game script that consisted of nothing but puns.

>>16093234

Friendly reminder that Lo Wang and his stereotype asian accent made him the most fun MC out of the trinity build engine games. Duke is a fag and Caleb is only human, who else can sell you on how much it burns in a video game

>>16094194

high test men with deep voices cannot have their voices replicated by any female, even at age 5

>>16094817

Caleb is a legendary badass, and fuck blood two and gt interactive.

>>16094830

Because they aren't that funny. At least, Undertale isn't. I haven't played Deltarune.

>>16094831

Does the extra crispy mod salvage the game? I can see it supposedly fixes what damage you deal to enemies so that it feel less absurdly random now and various other things, but I wonder if that's enough.

I think the distinction between little boys and women is not due to testosterone, that's why women have to "adjust" when voicing boys - I've heard really bad dubs where they didn't, and the boys sounded really obviously like adult women.

>>16095522

I've tried that game twice and get bored before I can get through the intro. Jokes feel like they came out of a kids joke book.

>>16093234

I don't see how referencing Evil Dead has any bearing on tasteless 6th grade absurdism. Duke had great line delivery and those references were actually appropriate for the audience, if you remember this little-known game called Doom.

>>16095170

my voice was pretty deep (for my age) at 10

>>16095170

>all that baby testosterone

what?

>>16094178

>girl

If you want to call it that. It was a morbidly obese land whale. She made a follow up trying to act tough by kicking a parking lot lamp post. Wish I could find that video, shes fucking stupid and insane.

>>16095615

You mean this was Peggy? I just thought they sounded similar. I think that's a real stretch to say they're the same person. This video is a blast from the past, though. Glad I found it.

I liked the Sam & Max games but that was a long time ago, before the lolrandom humor became popular. I am afraid that if i replay them i will end up hating them.I did reread the comics about a month ago and i still enjoyed them

>>16095624

Pretty sure it is, the attitude and voice are almost identical.

>>16095604

It's because your body and brain matures the most within the first year or so of your life.

>>16094326

Haven't played the Sega versions, but if memory serves I've heard they were even worse in terms of how loose the scripts were. But maybe some other anon might know better.

>>16094339

>I can't believe that anyone ever found Lunar, for example, to have a decent translation. It is riddled with dated popculture references and obnoxious characterization.

You'd be surprised at how many chodesuckers they've had, and still have (being the company reincarnated as Gaijinworks). Used to see a fair amount of them years back on cuckchan (over half a decade back now, to be specific) that were extremely adamant that Working Designs "translations" made the JRPGs and such they handled not only tolerable, but enjoyable, and that accuracy in translation just made for boring plots and characters in comparison to them spouting off about incestuous hicks, Bill Clinton, etc. And on the company end, those were the sort of people they catered and still cater to, and that the people that want accurate translations, instead of "doujin rewrite" tier ones, aren't their intended audience. Granted, apparently they've been convinced the tone down the pop culture stuff, but they aren't apt to be accurate either. Unapologetically so, too.

>What else did they fuck with?

Statistics and parameters that make the games harder than they were intended to be originally in Japan. Logic I've heard on it being they wanted to make them harder to beat as rentals to encourage more sales.

http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=23436

>>16094178

Shes the mom of one of the dudes on the same vent server she spergs out on, the kid even says its his mom

>>16096830

That's a sound board.

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>>16094376

The Vice City Stories radio is a treasure, "The Time Ranger" is a story about a man who can travel in time whenever he jerks off and "Moorehead Rides Again" is about a detective/cop who slaps his wife almost every time she speaks **and she loves it*, he also has a spic friend he likes to insult and keeps as a pet of sorts, go listen to it, it's great, this is the only reason i still keep VCS on my Vita.

>>16093380

Reminded me of one of my favorite video game moments:

Right at the start of GTA:SA when the Ballas do a drive by and shoot up Big Smoke's car. That car just fucking exploding while Big Smoke yelling about it just about killed me the first time I saw it.

>AH MUTHFUCK MY CAR

I miss properly goofy and subtly humorous games, stuff like Kabuto, Sacrifice, NOLF, Evil Genius, Anachronox etc.

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>>16099221

I see you're men of culture as well. Shiny Entertainment and the devs who left to form Planet Moon knew how to do humor right.

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>>16099221

British people aren't funny and Armed & Dangerous only had a few funny lines in it. Giants was just boring.

>>16099255

Yeah I miss devs like that, most stuff now is usually just fully over the top safe humor.

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