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KATAMARI DAMA-SHI-II-II-II

>Bobobo

Patrician taste

I think Godhand is the perfect example for surreal humor. The baddies get pretty fucking weird as you go along in the game. It's been a while, but you get

>fag duo

>elvis

>midget power rangers

>man in gorilla suit

Indigo prophecy is fucking hilarious towards the end if you are drunk enough to ignore the games attempts at gravitas.

Google Nussoft

Or use Startpage whatever

Psychonauts - the last good thing to come from Tim Schafer (well, this and Costume Quest). While it suffers from a few design decisions, it's ambitious, funny, and surreal as fuck

Chulip - kiss people to make them stop being NEETs. Bizarre and kind of scary sometimes

The Adventure of Hourai High School - JRPG/school life simulator that starts with you being pushed out an airplane to make sure you make it to the opening ceremony on time.

Muscle march if you count that. I found heavy rain to be a barrel of laughs as a party game if no one has played it before.

>>16212016

That was such a fantastic game. Pity I never had friends to lan with when it came out

>>16212827

>Ulmeyda

Funny the first time. Then you realize that he was a good, honest man who got too much power by "chance" actually a test of how much power a single page of the Yukomo had and was executed by the United States government for both his success at creating a perfect society and the chance that he would find a cure for Heaven Smile. Mr. Ulmeyda did nothing wrong.

>Handsomeman

A huge "what the fuck" but then you realize that they're glow in the dark CIA niggers part of a multimedia campaign to create loyal soldiers for the United States, culminating in a fight that takes place in both reality and a virtual world that serves as the final test for initiatives. Or something like that. Alter Ego is fucking confusing and that makes it even more terrifying.

LISA had some pretty great moments in the midgame

>>16209705

>Bobobo

I remember when the anime aired here with its own dub. Had me in tears as a kid. I wonder how much of it would be lost on me if I were to watch it in Japanese now.

>>16212932

>killing the final boss by shooting his pants off

>not funny

>>16212976

I dunno, I laughed at least a bit on how over the top they all were, along with the blind kid all excited that they were doing poses.

>>16212940

>big bazinga theory reddit-tier "jokes" represent surreal humor

That's some next level shit right there.

>>16213016

Good luck watching it in Japanese, the official release couldn't be bothered to actually do subs even though it was dual-audio, they just gave you a pdf to read along with the anime.

>>16212940

>Memelands

You are despicable.

>>16216131

And now it truly is the silliest, most comfy animu.

>>16216975

Funny thing is that any joke expands a little later

>>16219694

Ant

>>16213102

Plenty of visual gags and descriptions that play off with gaming archetypes, for example the conveniently shaped lamp, the tile puzzle that is completely useless to memorize but you can and it will make you progress in a later part except you were meant to fail it either way, the way certain objects are just conveniently placed where you know they're gonna be useful (for instance, the water cooler in Hotland whose cups magically transfer back when you leave the screen), pretty much the entirety of the Mettaton area and boss fight, it's all little things that make the game feel like it's got its own sense of humor. Of fucking course if you look at it through the eyes of tumblrtale it falls apart but never forget that it's not the fault of the developer, despite him being in cahoots with Autismus Maximus and Soy Boy Extraordinaire Andrew Hussie. You gotta learn to have fun even when something is not directly for you, or else nothing really is.

Like, you wanna talk how bad Undertale is, there's loads of criticism, the humor really isn't one of them.

>>16213633

>.si

>>>/somethingawful/

I think the height would be Outcast, it's not just some JP-EN translation error. It is very French, however.

>>16212761

>Check for update on Barkley 2

>Nothing

Why tho

OP said surreal, not normalfag roblox tier faggotry.

>>16217123

Haven't played any of them but they look either safe as fuck or they play the gags too hard and you end up wasting a lot of time waiting for the animations to end.

>>16223695

This concensus doesn't help. Play it. Don't act like you don't have the time in your day for a newgrounds level game. The number of ways I hate it goes beyond any mystery, unlike Azreal's Tear, where it's kind of fucked up like King's Field but has more sense of strange via actual dialogue.

If you understand how DOS games work, Ecstatica is about the peak. I hope you have a numpad. I think RE ripped it off more than Alone in the Dark. You could set up a controller with DOSBox but I'm a numpad man.

>>16223707

I would if I could read nip.

Just look at the manual and you're solid.

There's something surreal about Shenmue to me even, Kengo is peculiar for a fight game. D is obvious. ShadowHearts, and whatever that game that came before it. The majority of PS and PS2 titles are filled with beguliar madders.

>I've forgotten more than you will ever know.

Quite fucked up, but true.

>>16213041

Care to name a few instances?

>>16216223

Care to expand on why you have such a knee-jerk reaction to Borderlands 2?

>>16223795

A lot of questions for a hired gun.

You may like Jazzpunk, op. It's a theme park ride style light puzzle/walking sim game that I think is a good way to kill a few hours if you're into that sort of thing. It made me laugh a bit, rewards exploration, has some neat aesthetics, has a very weird general feel and has a decent amount of content.

Full disclosure: literally who worked on it (didn't make it, I think did voicework), so you may like to pirate it. I would also suggest you not watch too many reviews if you're on the fence. It is, after all, a theme park ride. It's only new once.

>>16223904

Absolutely pirate it, it appears hipster as shit, but surreality suberscedes. It should have been an itch or gamejolt thing. Not saying it is bad, it is far too short and triggered every journo to say, why do games have to be games? I thought it was fun, but not the price of admission for sure.

I came back to mention something, thinking gamejolt and all reminds me of Obra Dinn. Pretty surreal and decently put together as a full package. That's it. Megaton Rainfall, it started out as some PSVR exclusive initially but made it to PC. No, it is not VR required, either.

>oh it's a tech dem

Ohly shit, it goes. I don't want to spoil much. I thought it was quite inspired but not exactly feature complete yet. It is a thing, even without VR. I want to say something about something else but I really don't want to spoil it. Pirate away. I'll just say you better have good ears.

>>16223926

I think if it was longer it was at risk of being a chore, personally. It has a constrained set of ideas and does them all justice pretty well, and I think having more content would add more opportunities to screw up, plus the novelty of the game's gimmicks would wear off unless it pulled something dramatic like Frog Fractions (arguably it kind of does), and even then, I think the same question applies: could a game like Frog Fractions have been made longer in a good way and not outstay its welcome? Already the game transitions from subtle, hidden gags to more blatant ones, to a sort of carnival atmosphere, briefly takes a break and then railroads the player in fun but more constrained activities to wrap up. I'm not sure where it could go from there.

The appraisal about marketplace is fair; the flavor is certainly closer to games on the platforms you nominated, but Steam has much worse already on it in my view.

I also think it's kind of a tricky game to market generally because it doesn't translate well to a compelling trailer without ruining the experience by priming the player on the tone to expect which spoils the surprise.

Also, related surreal game/literally who greentext:

>heard chuck tingle's books were getting a game of sorts

>think that was interesting and the first trailer was passable, forget about it

>investigate what happened a year later

>turns out it was a Kickstarter project

>turns out literally who was responsible and ran off with the money and cancelled the project without doing any work

Amazing that even years on from gamergate she's still living trash and hasn't changed.

I'm tired of all this gas, you should hit up /agdg/ and that thread to give them a piece they may have missed. Not saying you're wrong, they would be much more interested in your appraisal of the state of affairs than a thread about surrealism. >>16160853

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>>16209713

Was my answer, as well

Now I think about it, D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die and Killer is Dead are both pretty surreal games too. D4 was kind of short and ends on a cliffhanger (and will never be finished), but had some interesting ideas, is visually distinctive and has a good sense of humour and fun presentation. The same could be said about KiD except it's by no means short and one can get the feeling that it may be caught up in its own greatness at times and is kind of up itself, but it plays pretty well. It's not very humorous, though, mainly surreal in that unique Japanese way. I don't regret playing them, and would replay KiD if I had the time.

>>16224059

I guess I'm not quite understanding the point. So long as games have a huge consumer market and huge potential for profit, we'll see this shit from 'game journalists' looking to get some of the pie, and society has always been the worse for its trends. Plus, it's all exacerbated by the death of old fashioned media and agglomeration of small and medium media producers into an oligopoly of a few titans seeking to suck the marrow out of the bones of gaming now that it's fully commercialized.

I also think pinning the blame on Jazzpunk is a bit unfair when it follows precursors that defined the cinematic/casual/games-as-art genre like The Journey, literally everything by David Cage, etc, especially in the context of their positive reception from people and financial success. Perhaps it's slightly responsible for what you say, but if companies decide to make a casual cinematic game, it'll be because these huge successes made the economic case for such actions. Jazzpunk is at the end of the day just a modestly successful title and has not imprinted itself on society, even if it was a media darling at the time it was launched.

Besides, people are fucking retarded anyway. When you hear about Valve scrapping complexity like variable paths in caves and shit because public playtesters got lost for half an hour walking in a circle on a tiny map (I think this was in developer commentary in Half Life 2 Lost Coast) and whatnot, that's not the fault of casual shitbag journalists.

>>16224128

Oh man, Juggernaut. I remember seeing adverts for that game in the magazines I was reading when I was a kid and being really intrigued by it. I figured it'd probably scare the shit out of me, but it just seemed so damn interesting. I'm glad I'm not the only one that remembers Juggernaut.

>>16223857

Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would cuck a man, before throwing him out of their flat.

>>16226909

ecstatica is brilliant and aside from how awkward the controls are deserves way more attention than it gets. Played it way back and it was pretty disturbing. Something about the simple intro that sticks me with me.

>>16223795

Boringlands, Too is a product of a broken home.

Boringlands was fine-ish, with a bunch of pop-culture-reference challenges that weren't in the plot itself, so that was tolerable. Never mind the whole Code Hackers swiping. 2 was technically superior, as money embezzled from SEGA can pay for a lot of decent programming. The game runs on a toaster, and plays very well. The writing is SJW horseshit, all of the heroes are diversitards, and the villain would be a hero if he wasn't written to be a one-dimensional asshole. The DLCquel expands on Jack's character, showing that he was somewhat altruistic and a generally cool guy, but the heroes and other characters fucked him over (not the playable characters this time around), driving him into paranoia, when he was trying to save the day without killing everybody.

BUT Pansy Bitchfraud and Captain Cuck still had their sticky hands all over the writing, so they're only playable if you fucking ignore everything in them.

>>16226955

I’m glad I find awkward controls charming

I remember me and my friend used to really love Bobobo. My friend joined this fan site one time. Then over the years we learned that everyone on the site was a pedophile or a rapist

>>16229506

That seems to be a common occurrence with forums based around one particular thing.

Ratchet & Clank is pretty good at humor. Fun sci-fi action comedy thing. Don't know if I'd call it "surreal" though.

>>16232069

>“Yoshio Sawai (the mangaka for Bobobo) loved Yugioh, and him and Kazuki Takahashi met up and talked on some occasion and Yoshio was pitching him how he thought it'd be hilarious and awesome if Yugi would make an appearance by popping out of Bobobo's head to fight. Takahashi thought it sounded pretty funny and agreed to the idea and helped illustrate the page himself.“

Also, both are pretty good, and the English and Japanese dubs are both worth watching.

>>16232083

>>16232100

goddammit i clicked the wrong post

>>16232313

That looks amazing

>no Michigan Report from Hell

come the fuck on fellas. at least deadly premonition got posted

>>16232313

mask girl is kinda a qt

>>16232381

Is there a transcript anywheres?

>can a game be funny

Custom Robo

Mario and Luigi (original)

>>16233747

English narrator has deepest lore.

>teenage preschool dropout

>constant fear of being fired

>has a cat named Rocky

I fucking love him and he's the biggest thing I miss watching subs.

I kinda miss the colorful, overblown humor comedy anime trend we got across the 2000s. Are there any recent examples? besides pop team meme

>>16234011

I wouldn't even consider pop team epic in the same category as stuff like bobobo. Probably because one was a 4koma (I think) and the other was a full on manga. It leads tho differences in gag styles. Pop team epic does short jokes with a quick punchline, whereas bobobo has the luxury of having a continuing storyline and longer set ups.

>>16212976

>LISA

the forklift section, complete with the forklift operator's sad flashback, made me laugh for weeks and i still have a screencap of "You suck, grandson" in my wallpaper rotation to this day

>>16252095

At least that game was fun to laugh at in a “Mike and Melissa” sort of way.

>>16212696

My question is how do you do Bobobo like humor without coming across as “lol so randumb x3”.

>>16271246

faggot that is what bo-bobo humor is, just because hipsters have retroactively shit on it doesn't mean it can't be done well.

>>16271256

Seems like there’s a right and wrong way to go about it though. Current year Deadpool is a good example of random humor being horrible.

>>16271285

Cromartie High School is a great example of "random" humor, which is really just a loose form of sketch comedy.

>>16273344

it's on goddess

>>16275825

Wait, shouldn't it have died ages ago? What changed?

>>16275825

>goddess

?

sorry to ask for the spoonfeed but I've never heard of that, nor do any searches bring it up.

>>16279409

You're not enough of a weeb to access it then