Did you ever notice that the sign of declining videogame quality is lack of quotable lines?
Think about it. Time was every other game was shit you would see quoted on places like Holla Forums. Things like "What is a man?", "A Hind D? Colonel whats a Russian gunship doing here?" or even written shit like "There was a hole here, its gone now" was a sign of just how much people enjoyed the products of the time.
Think back to last gen and it turned into memeshit. "Praise the sun xD" and "Le Destiny is Destiny" stuff from internet humour rather than memorable scenes in games or as an example of a games quality.
Now we have current gen and the only videogame quotes i see are "You're gonna have a bad time", "Such a lust for Revenge… WHOOOOOOO?" and "Kos or as some say KOSM" being the only regularly occuring videogame quotes from an entire generation of vidya thats in its 3rd year.
Is this a sign of the declining quality of writing in vidya and its just not often brought up?
David Carter
bad voice acting and good voice acting
Lucas Moore
Nah this sounds too far out there to be criteria for a good game.
Cameron King
It's just that the people playing games now are redditors and normalfags. If vidya was still a Kool Kidz Klub you wouldn't have anything against the arrow in the knee meme. It's just associated with cancer, but deep down it's no different than other shit random lines that people have repeated forever.
Colton Nguyen
ARROW
KNEE
REE REE REEEEEE
Owen Hill
The lines of the past stuck because they occured at memorable moments. Nobody would give a fuck about random guards, even "stop right there criminal scum" requires some action on the players part to trigger it and therefore make it memorable.
Justin White
Quotes have changed. It's no longer about choice phrases, metaphors or memorable speeches. It's an endless series of proxy battles, fought by memes and image macros.
Quotes, and their consumption of communication, have become a well-oiled meme-chine.
Quotes have changed.
Memorable lines are printed on memorable images, use memorable impact font. Mememachines inside their reddit boards regulate their reposting.
Screencap control. Upboat control. Retweet control. Communication control. Everything is monitored, and kept under control.
Quotes have changed.
The age of thought provocation has become the age of memes. All in the name of playing the public like a damn fiddle.
And he who controls the memes, controls history.
Quotes have changed.
When the conversation is under total control, quotes… become routine.
Jackson Ross
The declining quality of video games is actually one of the better examples of the effects of capitalism's tendency for the rate of profit on investment to decline over time. The need for perpetual growth to counteract this while competing leads to consolidation of smaller projects into lesser and larger ones. In a creative medium like video games, large bloated projects with hundreds or thousands of people working on them and massive financial risk in marketing means that they are forced to make the safest design decisions possible, always second-guessing the unknown subjectives of innovation.
I wish I could say that the drought of good games that started around 2006 will some day come to an end, but I'm really starting to suspect that this is how the industry will continue marching until it implodes.
Jacob Diaz
Forgot image.
Robert Williams
You have touched a very dangerous subject. Better just back away and be silent. This thread will be shitposted to death.
Semi-seriously though: having a different opinion is not as allowed as before, and that means less diversity in creative material. It can easily be seen in media - in the creation, distribution and promotion.
Movies are watered down by all inclusive shit. Games are just a hollow shell of a game, good parts are sold later, if ever. Really good stories in books are changed in the later editions to make them more appealing. The ride never ends.
Leo Reed
Blame the industrialization of video games. Any time you make an industry out of an art, it goes to shit. Just look at film, TV, illustration, sculpture, etc.
Oliver Richardson
Metal Gear Rising was pretty quotable.
Ayden Martin
So quote it. In a memorable way. I dare you.
Alexander Robinson
rib and bear XD
Camden Morgan
Hotline Miami seems quotable, but I could be wrong about that.
Ryder Gray
'Give war a chance' 'Memes, the DNA of the soul' 'Like the good ol' days after 9-11' 'I'm FUCKIN' INVINCIBLE' 'Nanomachines, son' 'Limp-dicked lawyers and chicken-shit bureaucrats' GO NINJA GO NINJA GO
Luis Lopez
Sorry my bad. I mixed MGR as MGV. Rising is pretty much the quote-factory. Shit.
Jacob Fisher
Even then
Carson Cox
I had forgotten the: "Limp-dicked lawyers and chicken-shit bureaucrats". Glorious fun.
Jaxson Johnson
How about when Armstrong yells MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Ethan Davis
Other than that and when Venom's Diamonds quote, nothing really all that memorable. Course, that could just be down to having only played the story once since having a list of missions and the way the game is made doesn't require replaying the story.
Jeremiah Evans
I'm pretty sure that flute is a reference to "Midsummer Night's Dream". Might be wrong though. Can't find a pic of a flute, or anything relating to Shakespeare.
Jose Walker
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Jordan Stewart
Titanfall 2 has plenty of cool lines. Halo used to be the premier action-movie line-giver, but I guess this will do for now.
Noah Morales
wat
Isaiah Ortiz
Fixed. What you are seeing now with games is just a repeat of what they did with films, which was just a repeat of how they "modernized" art and started valuing art houses you you'd know which abortion on a canvas was worth 50 million dollars.
Xavier Gomez
Huey's "I'm innocent" stuff gets quoted quite a bit I've seen
Does it? The only one that comes to mind is BT always saying "Trust me." There's fun dialogue in there but I wouldn't call it quotable
Charles Jenkins
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Dominic Johnson
"Your journey ends here, Pilot. the skies belong to me.", "I will not lose another pilot", "I'm not gonna kill you. But. You don't get to kill me either."
I liked them. The whole game is probably my favourite this year.
Jordan Young
To be perfectly honest, I've avoided talking about MGSV since it released. This is probably the most I've talked about it since it came out.
Why did they have to kill Metal Gear in such a shitty way
Gavin Edwards
Jews eventually just make every art form scatological, do we have any games that have reached that point yet? Conker doesn't count.
Jaxon Morales
i still remember when people would just do HADOKEN for no fucking reason at all IRL it was the 2000's
Henry Robinson
Retro nostalgiafags were insufferable even back then.
Xavier Gutierrez
yeah, that or they were some of the only voice acting in the game and you heard them all the time I'll bet many of you know all of this guy's lines.
Dominic Ross
But those aren't terribly quotable, and that last one just reminds me of the big cock block at the end.
Kayden Miller
-Academician Prokhor Zakharov, "For I Have Tasted The Fruit"
Carson Rodriguez
Need as well as greed have followed us to the stars.
Ayden James
Don't know what to tell you, they stuck with me. Plus, I remember the boss guy from the first game, so I didn't really want him dead at the moment.
Landon Diaz
All these quotes people have posted in defense of modern quotes are things I've never heard before. Outside of the MGR ones about memes. And that's only because of where we are.
Oliver Watson
=Fuck this gay earth. When BT came back on a new body I thought everything was gonna be ok==
Mason Kelly
I got so sad I messed my redtext. Fuck
Bu really, I haven't had an emotional ride like that ina long time on a game
Carter Powell
Ni en un millón de años, chingado.
Michael Perry
Were is so easy
Kevin Lopez
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Juan Harris
I was hoping there'd be something a little more heartfelt if you picked "What's our way out of this?" His death would have had a lot more impact if it wasn't so fucking obvious from the start he was going to die. Still sucked to see him go fun/10 worth the fifteen bucks I paid for it
Daniel Cooper
NAUGHTY SECRETS
Nolan Roberts
Also some lines unsaid are memorable
Ethan Thompson
Blow your brains out.
Jason Clark
Nah
Jonathan Wright
No need to lie on the internet user
Nicholas Wright
Nigger, I WISH that was how the franchise ended.
Grayson Rivera
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Carter Lewis
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Logan Hill
Even the songs are quotable. RULES OF NATURE being the figurehead, but pretty much any of the lyrics can get stuck in your head.
Also
Jonathan Williams
So you're quoting Dark Souls as a bad game, because Youtube fags adopted it?
A South Park quote from 10 years ago?
Jonathan Campbell
I wish i could be as naive and ignorant as you are right now.
Brody Scott
Alright, sure.
Nathaniel Stewart
That's what I paid for it because my grandmother sent me an origin gift card for my birthday I didn't know what else to do with it
James Morales
relatively few things will stick in your mind anyways, youre comparing decades of enjoying video games to the last few years.
Christian Gray
quoting video games is for autists
Jaxon Rogers
you wanna pizza, me boy?
Joseph Wood
Do you have a single fact to back that up?
Lucas Sullivan
THIS POTS GIVIN ME BLISTERS, PHEW
Isaiah Brooks
Need a dispenser here!
John Richardson
Undertale, user.
Grayson Cox
Watch after the credits, and learn morse code
Owen Lopez
FUCK YOU
Nathaniel Jenkins
We're All Soldiers Now
Liam Scott
The end? Don't bet on it!
Josiah Ross
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Parker King
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Adrian Cruz
Isn't it binary, not morse?
Hunter Bennett
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Jacob Long
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Julian Murphy
Among other things but I must admit, I am somewhat disappointed in UNATCO.
Carson James
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Josiah Foster
Someone called it morse, I wouldn't know the difference honestly.
Christopher Walker
gee you sure are hip and trendy. In all reality, Dark Souls was a fresh and original game that was very quotable. Redditors latched on late in its life cycle, causing Holla Forums to act like it was always poisonous to start with.
A really memorable and quotable game from recently is Furi. All kinds of shit you can take from that.
Henry Hughes
But Undertale rips off all kinds of pop culture, so I mean it's still a South Park reference at its core.
Zachary Long
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Joshua Johnson
Deus Ex really is a meme game. Half the discussion about the game is lines that aren't even from the game itself.
Kevin Hughes
Max Payne 3 had some pretty sick quotes. YOU'LL WALK WITH A LIMP
So did Ring Runner but no one actually played that game.
Ryder Martinez
I disagree, those are just elements that people have taken and spun it into memes, they weren't intended to be memes from the get go. Because there's a lot of things in the game that could've easily been memes that aren't. Embed Related.
Jose Brown
also I'll add that Anachronox had similar crazy shit in it. It's just what Ion Storm did.
Charles Powell
Because we don't play new video games because they're shit and therefore we don't remember their dumb quotes
Christian Kelly
How retarded do you have to be to think this? Overkike quotes fill internet forums everywhere, doesn't mean its a masterpiece.
Josiah Wood
fucking loved that robot.
Also
Eli Bennett
It's no different from movies. Dialogue and music has become background noise. When's the last time you heard a memorable quote or music theme? The videogame industry is just becoming closer to the way hollywood is run.
Aaron Miller
Bare in mind most of the time these quotes that people highlight a lot weren't intentionally designed to be "quotable" and meme related.
Like for instance with Skyrim I honestly don't think Arrow to the Knee was intentionally written to be meme related. I think they wanted "let me guess someone stole your sweet roll" to be more quotable because a lot more characters said it and it ties into a recurring meme of sweet rolls in Bethesda games.
A lot of the time these lines come off as mundane to the writers and to the voice actors but it's the combination of the hammy voice acting in older games that causes them to become memed. Like a big reason Deus Ex has so many quotable lines is mostly because of how hammy and deadpan the voice acting is.
I also think it's because a lot of video game writers try to make their games more and more self serious.
Levi James
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Nolan Young
pls go and never be not go
Owen Cruz
I think it's more about the delivery, the same could be said with music.
Bentley Walker
I'm sure there's some other DP lines you could quote, but it's been too long for me to remember.
Jacob Davis
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Gavin Fisher
Thanks for reminding me about Half-Life quotes "Morning Mr Freeman, looks like you're running late" "Wake up, and smell the ashes" "Time, Dr Freeman?" "Sorry Doc" "Here, have a medkit" "It's me Gordon, Barney from Black Mesa" "Doctor Freeman I presume"
Connor Robinson
There was a time when games didn't really have quotes. I had to use my imagination when it came to story and plot for a lot of games because unless it was an RPG, there was hardly any text and you were lucky to get voices in them.
James Wilson
You have a heart of gold. Don't let them take it from you.
Liam Fisher
I don't need more quotes.
Henry Carter
I wish out of anything for Fromsoft to re-release Demon's souls on the PS4 or something, so I can at least live out active invasions and co-op that I missed out on
Chase Morris
You probably wouldn't like Demon's Souls pvp. It's pretty much a grass eating contest. There's a very good reason healing items were heavily restricted in Dark Souls
Easton Russell
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Bentley Price
I want to say it wasn't terribly good but there was a lot of fun salt times back when the Scraping Spear and Rust Cloud was a thing.
Isaiah Parker
Is this from that South Park game? All I can think of is that Reddit meme with some South Park character.
Charles Parker
From vicious giant insects who have once again come back!
Isaiah Thompson
Where do you think we are?
Eli Butler
I remember reading somewhere that taking an arrow to the knee has something to do with marriage.
Asher Long
Not all great games are very quotable. Some "great" gaming quotes are borrowed from other media.
OP is AIDS-infected cockslurping faggot who plays games for muh story
John Adams
No shit OP. You came so dangerously close to being self-aware.
Dylan Martinez
Will there ever be another game as quotable as MGR?
Ayden Anderson
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Ian Sullivan
I think MGR was the last great quotable game because it required Platinum levels of Git Gud, even if it was easy as fuck in comparison to most of their games.
Thus, the memes were never adapted by normalfags because they could never GET to Armstrong, much less beat him.
I bet you my left nut that those faggots never saw this screen by playing the game themselves.
Isaiah Hill
Did it really though? I mean one of the games most normalfags tout as "teh hardest game evar" is dark souls and I found dark souls to be more challenging than MGR. Especially once you figure out the parry system most of it becomes a cakewalk.
Caleb Jackson
I hope Nier Automata is good. If it isn't, I'll have to take off my Platinum Fanboy Beer Goggles. And despite some of the shit games Platinum has been putting out recently, I really, REALLY don't wanna do that.
Henry Taylor
Our horses rrrrrrrready
Ayden Nelson
The worst part is that the character who is associated with the line
NEVER FUCKING SAYS IT
It's a small bit of flavortext if you survive his first attack that says "You feel like you're gonna have a bad time…" Which is eventually traded out for "You feel your sins crawling up your back…"
Cameron Smith
The arrow to the knee CAN be that, but it's also a reference to the lack of faulds in the game as you just make boots and torso and you magically have leggings.
IT JUST WERKS!
Charles Cook
the reason for the lack of quotable lines is that they're trying too hard to make quotable lines.
Joshua Brown
remember, normalfags don't have reflexes or understand the concept of hitting a button and a direction at the same time.
Logan Hughes
That's a well dressed snake. Does it wear a BOA tie?
Jonathan Gutierrez
Games are still quoteable, just not as much as they used to be. MGSV and Dragon's Dogma had plenty of memorable lines.
Personally, I want more RE4, STALKER and God Hand tier enemy voice lines.
Evan Reyes
ONE BIG FUCKING HOLE COMING RIGHT UP
Michael Martin
Overwatch is quoted quite a lot
Hunter Foster
WAR HAS CHANGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
Jaxson Richardson
Armstrong himself is legitimately hard. Especially the part where you have split second timing to cut the shit he throws at you. Luckily you can just run under it but you won't get any health items if you do that.
Kevin Cook
With respect, you are wrong
Owen Barnes
Never played the game, never watched it played, but what limited bits I do know about the game actually makes me cringe.
Michael Stewart
Well, the "Do you like hurting other people?" was a pretty bold and memorable quote if you ask me
Asher Diaz
Amongst raging faggotss
Easton Gonzalez
Basically:
Honestly it's a good example of how it's the game that makes the meme popular and not the other way around. Since it would never have become a meme had it not been for that boss fight and the music that plays with it.
Blake Ross
Frankly, if you want to play it just go through MGS2 again, it's not that big a change.
Owen Kelly
I can't help but feel sorry for the guy who made Underkike. He didn't want his game to take off the way it did, with people forcing the THIS CHARACTER IS GAY, or THIS CHARACTER IS A TRANNY bullshit, but that's pretty much the questions that people would ask him in interviews to the point that he would just end an interview on that shit.
I'm not saying that makes the game okay, but it really does piss me off that the degenerate liberals feel the need to push their bullshit in places where it doesn't belong, that we have to hear questions about gender politics when asked of a guy who made a game where you do battle by puzzle pieces.
Christian Sullivan
Do you mean what game has it been in? Or have you just not seen old south park?
James Sanchez
It's alright, friend, Holla Forums loved the game before it was taken for a ride by Tumblr. There's no shame in liking it, it's just going to be reactionary autists bitching about the game instead of bitching about the fandom.
James Gray
YUH HOT FUH DAYS as a guyanigger, george was a fucking treat
Asher Ramirez
I never played it. It's just not my kind of game, to be honest, and then when all the shit about how the game plays started getting talked about, I *REALLY* didn't want it. The guy has my sympathy for his game getting cooped as some "statement" that it isn't, but I don't have any interest in ever playing it.
Caleb Myers
Can't place there m'lord God this pot's hot
Jace Perez
Darksouls may be the harder when going in blind but at any point you can easily look up a guide on how to cheese the whole game.
Where as MGR can be easier if your already familiar with action games. A normal fag will get there shit kicked in because they lack the reflexes. Just look at how many people give up when they get to Blade Wolf.
Evan Bailey
garbage
Daniel Cooper
Dude, it literally rains healing items on you if cut the shit he throws in half.
Robert Reyes
OUR GRANARY IS GROWING, SIRE. PEASANTS ARE COMING TO THE CASTLE! YOUR TREASURY IS INCREASING No taxes is good and all, but a gift would be nice… Go On!
Andrew Rivera
Bazinga!
Brandon Richardson
They are all memes you faggot.
Adrian Jackson
"Meme" is such a broad term that it could be applied to literally any idea that can be expressed into works.
Austin Martin
It's too early to see what will stick or not.
Oliver White
Life is strange probably has a few good quotes
Cameron Brooks
Only in the eye-rollingly cringey sense of things like reefer madness.
"I thought you believed in gun control." "Yes, i believe that i should control the gun, it's the men that need to be checked!"
Kayden Thompson
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Ryan Williams
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Oliver King
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Adam Wood
go fuck yourselfie
Brody Williams
AM I THE ONLY SANE ONE HERE?
Gabriel Hall
HE'S A WOLF
Hunter Kelly
He did put gays and trannies in the game though. Quit explicitly; one encounter is making a pair of soldiers stop trying to kill you by making one strip and convincing the other to confess his homosexual crush on him, after which they leave to go buy ice cream.
He got exactly the fandom he asked for, along with a ton of money. He has no right to complain.
On-topic:
Dosh meme doesn't count.
Robert Barnes
"Ashen one, hearest thou my voice, still?" "Cold piss, why did it come to this…" "You are a dragon, more dragon than I." "This cesspool of doddering oldfolk and degenerates." "You, you! Me me Pickle Pee! Me, me Pump-a-rum!"
Hunter Cook
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Cameron Miller
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Aiden Carter
Moe~
Jayden Perry
so what about the tranny then?
Henry Stewart
"THE ONLY ACCIDENT I FEAR WILL BE YOUR HEAD FALLING INTO A VAT OF ACID WITH ME WEARING YOUR MORON FUCKING FACE AS A PARTY MASK"
Nathan Hughes
There's a robot that is actually a ghost possessing a robot because he wanted to be a TV star. He's fabulous, camp, calls everyone "darling" and does lots of poses. Some people think JoJo, Tumblr thinks tranny.
Tumblr also thinks the protagonist is "nonbinary" or "agender" or also "tranny." Also mute in some cases, because Tumblr loves fetishizing disabilities and mental illness so long as it's "cute." But all of these are squarely on Tumblr's head.
Oh, and two major characters are in lesbians with each other, but that was less blatant than the big gay knights.
So a lot of it is Toby Fox giving Tumblr an inch, and Tumblr taking the entire thing.
Owen Nguyen
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Ian Martinez
A HUNTER MUST HUNT
Zachary Gutierrez
DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POOWAAH of Moe~
Logan Bennett
No one has quoted those, ever. DaS3 is by far the most forgettable of the series.
Joseph Harris
If this game wasn't "localised" the quotes would be better known
I CAN'T HEAR YOU i CAN'T SEE YOU
I NEED A BIGGER GUN
Jayden Ortiz
I miss this game.
Benjamin Russell
People quote the cesspool line all the time, faggot.
Luke Ross
FUCKHEADS
Adrian Rivera
You cant fight nature, Jack.
James Robinson
Man, the original Xenoblade's dub is quote city.
BORN IN A WORLD OF STRIFE
Nathan Hughes
LOOKS LIKE WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE
Jace James
MONADO, LEND US YOUR POWER
Brody Cook
whata buncha jokers
Dominic Fisher
LETS NOT LOSE OUR 'EADS THOUGH
Dominic King
I'M REALLY FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELING IT
Nathan Thompson
NOW IT'S REYN TIME
Mason Cox
OH YEAH, BABY
Dominic Robinson
B-B-B-BUUUUURNINATE
Jeremiah Turner
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Owen Cox
Nope, gameplay is everything and most of my favorite games don't have any lines at all.
Nathaniel Morris
Fuck off with that bullshit…you know what game are gameplay only? moba and they are shit Story>=gameplay
Lucas Smith
Have you ever played strategy / simulators or builders? or are you a console pleb?
Dylan Lee
SHOW ME YA MOVES YES FALCON KICK FALCON PUNCH YES YES COME ON!!
Luke Rivera
Yes. It does. But the timing is too tight and I don't play the easier difficulties so if I get hit by it I'm pretty much dead and have to restart the fight. Raining healing items on you means jackshit when you die from failure.
Justin Nelson
Oh man OP, you just reminded me… I'M NO ONE'S SLAVE!
Aiden Richardson
"tumblr thinks" doesn't mean that's what it is, Metaton is just flamboyant, you see that shit all the time in anime and only people that are fucked in the head would associate that with being trans.