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When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?
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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)?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.
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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)?
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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)?
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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)?Cyberpunk 2077, overheard two NPCs sharing a joke: What does a corpo say before he offs himself? ::: spoiler spoiler Guys, please don't shoot. :::
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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)?Expedition 33 got me to laugh pretty hard a few times.
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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)?Expedition 33, Verso talks Monoco into coming with them to Old Lumiere.
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Not technically. I got the edition with the prerelease. This is the only game I've been excited about all year, but with Avowed's mixed reception I was waiting for the prerelease reviews to roll in, and they were pretty glowing a few days ago. Even some of the ones calling it "woke" still recommended it, which I think speaks a lot to the quality of the game. So, I bought it. Yeah, I love it so far. Super skill-heavy. Most conversations I've had have had some kind of option for a skill check. Plus some exploration has been gated behind a trait or skill as well. If you liked the first one, it fixed all those problems.
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Not technically. I got the edition with the prerelease. This is the only game I've been excited about all year, but with Avowed's mixed reception I was waiting for the prerelease reviews to roll in, and they were pretty glowing a few days ago. Even some of the ones calling it "woke" still recommended it, which I think speaks a lot to the quality of the game. So, I bought it. Yeah, I love it so far. Super skill-heavy. Most conversations I've had have had some kind of option for a skill check. Plus some exploration has been gated behind a trait or skill as well. If you liked the first one, it fixed all those problems.Oh nice, that all sounds good to me. I was going to get it anyway since Obsidian usually delivers the sauce. I'm suprised whenever chuds can comprehend when Outer Worlds was woke. It seemed to subliminal to trigger them. Did you play avowed? That was the first Obsidian game I've hesitated on
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Oh nice, that all sounds good to me. I was going to get it anyway since Obsidian usually delivers the sauce. I'm suprised whenever chuds can comprehend when Outer Worlds was woke. It seemed to subliminal to trigger them. Did you play avowed? That was the first Obsidian game I've hesitated onI did not play Avowed. I may get it on a sale, but OW2 is like the only game I've been waiting for. I think it may actually have been worth the money I spent for the prerelease, but time will tell.
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Expedition 33, Verso talks Monoco into coming with them to Old Lumiere.
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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)?
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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)?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....