Funny Stuff

Has a video game ever tackled absurdist humor?

What's the funniest stuff you've played?

Pre-Hat apocalypse TF2. The main maps generally speaking had a lot of subtle, absurd humor. Something about a wire that is plugged into a wall, goes all around various rooms and then gets plugged right in front of the adjacent wall is the kind of shit that gets my jollies.

Does Postal 2 count?

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He obviously wanted airplane porn

I feel like Phoenix Wright does something surreal with, well… Not taking itself too seriously when literally every case is a murder trial and everyone is still absolutely bonkers. It's wry, almost cynical how it keeps a light-hearted tone despite being a slew of murder cases.

OHSHITNONONONONONONONOPLEASEDEARGODNONONOFUCKYOUNO.
We are NOT doing this. I swear if we do this I'll go full-blown autist on this thread.

The 3DS games are severely lacking in that department, though.

Definitely. Trials and Tribulations was the height of the series for me.

Activate it

That's basically LucasArts graphic adventures in a nutshell.

Go the fuck away.


Agreed. I just finished Dual Destinies and nothing about it was light-hearted. It was really cool how every case was actually connected the way they were. Also Japs need a fucking thesaurus. There has to be another phrase that conveys the same idea as 'muh dark age' without being copypasted a dozen times.

wait… We're not doing Anthro-Plane hentai? The only thing worse than furry porn?

I think it was just the "localization"/translation. I counted a shit ton of very obvious spelling errors, and at one point words were missing entirely.
All in all I didn't really give a single shit about either Apollo nor Athena. They were like sidekicks I was hoping to god would stay the fuck in the background where they belong.

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furry detected

Portal is another good example, shame you can't bring that game up without getting idiots who can't grasp that shitposting ironically just makes you more of a twat.


Click and point adventures in general has quite a few of these.

Hell yeah, the Discworld games, as well as Discworld as a whole are all about this.
Actually, I was looking into starting a newbie guild of sorts for the Discworld MUD on /tg/. Anyone interested?

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Try the Layton crossover. The cases are a new level of perfectly helpful unhelpful witnesses, and the perfectly reasonable explanation for everything is so bullshit it makes Layton 3's explanation of future London look financially viable

I fucking loved it.
I'm still not done with the extra stuff after the story.

did someone say anthro plane

Do you sit in the cockpit?

Every pit is a cockpit if you're brave enough.

g a y

I meant that I want to strap inside of them for a bumpy ride

People who're into Anthro Plane Hentai are definitely NOT furry. They're way, way weirder than even Bronies!

i prefer synths and cyborgs

You're not fooling me /fur/ BO.

Where has he been, lads? I can't deal with him gone.

Isn't that what /clang/ is in the first place?

Jazzpunk was ok.

Duh.

TF2, portal 1 and 2, left 4 dead, Way of the Samurai,

stob.

Charles Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Part 1 of the Hoopz Barkley Saga

I hate them so much. As someone who gets off to moe, this must be how the Catholics felt about the Cathars.

I bet if you made the Airplane! movie, or the naked gun movies in todays world they would get sued, or in alot of trouble for how much they reference and how much they didnt give a shit.

The Cho Aniki Series

No shit. Mel Brooks has gone on record saying that he would not be able to make Blazing Saddles today. Granted it's "the most offensive movie ever made," but it's also his best work.

I get off to Story Arc porn, and it's bankrupt from an artistic or storytelling standpoint as well. I mean, at least there's furshit out there that puts up a pretense of telling a story. This is worse because it's the same shit minus even that.
Sure, there's Jet Sluts, but that's Gajinka, not furshit, and the Chuck Tingle novel can at least be read for laughs.

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That aren't self-insert cries for help where the animal they want to yiff as is some veiled allegory to their childhood traumas and/or neglect?

Actually, yes. The longest running Webcomic in existence. updates every 24 hours every day since 1995. Kevin & Kell. The story of a domesticated female wolf and marrying a buff bunny, and the daily life of them both plus her son and his adopted porcupine daughter. It's still going, and It even got into standard news comics.
I'm also partial to Jack, but that's mostly because it's just so entertainingly bad.

I'm trying to figure out what illness you have that would lead you to believe that.

Why you had to remind me this wound user

Saints Row 2, mostly because of the radio stations, the insurance fraud minigame and twatting people with fire hydrants.

Boredom. You get bored enough and you'll binge read any Webcomic. I read Kevin and Kell mostly for the bragging rights of having read the longest running Webcomic out of sheer boredom. It's honestly… mostly harmless. It's slightly more furry than Zootopia is, and it did get more liberal at around the 2010 era, but mostly it was just the day to day life of these characters. There's stuff that's far more pozzed or shitty out there.
And Jack, Jack is the Archetype of bad furry Webcomics, which makes it so great. It's practically The Room of bad furry webcomics. It's literal Furry Hell with Furry Christianity and the Furry Bible, yet it's also a future version of earth… It's like watching a car full of cats crash into a bus.

Weird, I didn't notice a lot of errors in the translation. The climax with Phoenix and Edgeworth in the fake trial was pretty amazing, though, I'll definitely give it credit for that.

Stop derailing with this shitty plane fetish

Oh fuck wrong image I meant to upload this

geez user, you're such a clutz.

The Bard's Tale was pretty amusing.

Sure user, you just misclicked and also spoilered.

Mandatory post.

Be glad that he's gone.

These three are generally pretty funny.

Well, since we seem to be going this way anyway, here's probably the best worst piece of airplane erotica out there.

Metal Gear Solid, Devil May Cry, Bayonetta, and Final Fantasy XIV had a few good moments of absurdist humor. Not to turn this into east vs. west faggotry, but it seems like there's a greater nuance in comedy and delivery with Japanese devs, and they fully embrace and welcome the absurd and abstract.

Western devs on the other hand, simply try too hard, or they are reliant on other peoples' content as a substitute for comedy. References, memes, and absurdity for the sake of empty absurdity. Gearbox and R* games come to mind.

Black Isle had some pretty funny points in their games, and by extension, so did Obsidian. New Vegas had some prop-driven comedy, where you connect the dots yourself, and realize the situations that resulted in what you see. I liked little touches like that.

Larian has a few bouts of absurdity, but their comedy is extremely subjective since the tone is so generally jovial anyway. I'd like to see more games with some authentic British humor though, without using Monty Python as a crutch.


Early TF2 was hilarious for its time. Even the Portal games were genuinely funny before they got memed out and became Reddit games.

Thinking on it all, though; most games have given me a sensible chuckle. Nothing has really ever made me break out laughing from writing/narrative, every time a game has made me fall over laughing, has been solely from unintended consequences. (Emergent gameplay, glitches, multiplayer fuckery, etc.)

If anyone knows games that are truly, genuinely hilarious though, I'd be more than willing to give them a go. I've largely resigned myself to the notion that genuine comedy and video games just can't go together. Either because game writers and programmers are unfunny pieces of shit, or the humor is dumbed down so hard to grasp at fellow kids that it just falls flat.

Two words: Sengoku Rance.
Rance 4 was pretty funny at times, too. I suggest playing them for some good laughs, if not for the fap material and good gameplay.
If they aren't your style, the Sam & Max games got a few laughs out of me, particularly S1 and S2. Hit the Road was funny, as well, but some of the jokes are really dated and won't land for some younger audiences.

I've never played a Rance game. Always thought it was just a rapey VN and that's it, but I'm all for checking it out if there's some laughs to be had.

I forgot entirely about Sam & Max. I loved Hit the Road when it had come out, but dated humor doesn't bother me. Probably because my own sense of humor is pretty dated too.

Now this thread now has me craving some comedy games.

I thought Timesplitters Future Perfect was real funny.

Stop posting pizzas you fat fuck.

This is not exactly true. Drawing an animal head from the get go is much easier than drawing human head, erasing it and then drawing an animal head.

Why do I find that pic so humorous?

The guy turns me on more than the plane. Fuck my life.

Getting turned on by the plane is probably worse.

Because it reminds you of that time a giant furry wolf broke into your room one night and fucked you in the ass.

Are you 3 the same person?

Okay.

No

Isn't the Solotarabo thread still up?

Anyways I wanted to try and make a game in the vein of Airplane and Top Secret, how do you guys think such a concept can work.

If I said no would you believe me?

Didn't mean to id hop by the way.
Internet is doing me a concern

go back to /r/funny

What about games with great unscripted comedy?

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Kill yourself faggot.

He's chilling in the phillipines. He's had a hard life; its time for him to rest. He's still alive and with us in spirit though.

extremely subdued but it had some absurdism in the text

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Dubs confirm hotwheels is dead.

It'd be funny if there was a game where you could be a dog and you could piss into like a little boys mouth. Hahaha that'd be funny.

Also how can anyone forget this?

Eric the Unready, Evil Genius or any of the Spellcasting Series (101, 201 or 301)

Weeb

Disney PK: Out of the Shadows is a fun game. It's Donald Duck as a superhero.

FAGGOTS, THE LOT OF YOU.
This must be what Holla Forums feels when they hear about normalfags comparing the modern scary movie movies to the Airplane trilogy.

anachronox, armed and dangerous, the original sam and max.

Honestly some of the funniest and cleverest writing I've seen in a video game.

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I fucking hope you are shitposting user

Let me guess, you think it's cucked or the devs have a different opinion than you or something.

No, the writing is Divinty: Original Sin 2 bad. Only braindead morons would find it funny.

But I never mentioned Divinity, I've never even played it.

No, i'm comparing your screenshot to that game. Keep up.

Let me guess, you have 200 IQ and find Rick and Morty hilarious. Name a game with good, funny writing.

Let me guess you think that undertale is GOTYAY:^}

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because user said game, unteralterbach is still great though

H*CK OFF T*MBLRT*LE

Let me guess, half your time spent on this board is dedicated to massaging your own ego by writing condescending posts, and the only reason you do this is to cope with the mild depression or lack of control you find in your own life, so you feel the need to use the board as an outlet? However you're left even more hollow than before so you continue to Shitpost trying to find the fulfillment you'll never get from being on a Chan board. Is that right?

I wish he was still here.

Harvester gave me some good chuckles.

Fuck me

Let me guess, you did just stopped swallowing semen to fulfill the emptiness from your wife feminine penis and so you desire to have that void being replaced with likes (you) hoping some day one user will hear your scream for help

This thread just reminded me of something I've wanted to ask for a while. Is it possible to make a parody game that actually parodies game mechanics while also being fun to play? The Bulletstorm devs put out a Call of Duty parody a few years ago, but it doesn't really have any proper gameplay. Would it be possible to make something like this into a real game?

Ass WAFFLES

I like how his spin move was just rotating his torso on his spine while he keeps walking.

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humour was a mistake tbh
only joking now check em

noice

I think TimeSplitters Future Perfect counts.

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The game, much like it's predecessor, is worn out shit written by hacks user.

I played SR4 as a busty redhead with the male cockney accent and I'm guessing it was much funnier than it might have been otherwise just for that.

The shoehorning of stand-up sets into GTA 4 show exactly why stand-up doesn't work in the medium. If you don't need comic timing then slow burners, whacky stacks building over time, visual gags, tightly scripted cutscenes can work but relaying wit via games is something I've yet to see done right.