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When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?
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I run a weekly campaign on Neverwinter Nights and this week was the annual Halloween event. After closing the evil portal I introduced the players to 'Gertie', basically a character I made that's an amalgamation of all the weird grandmas you all met when trick-or-treating as kids (using the game's Sea Hag model), and she asked each adventurer: "Now what are YOU supposed to be, little boy/girl?" and made one of them kiss her on the cheek because he was "so adorable". And then she gave them bags of candy. That turned out pretty funny with how the various party members reacted and played along with the gag.
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Woah people are still DMing custom games on NwN? Can you tell me more about how those play? I was interested in it but never got to see the scene in its glory daysThere are still a few dozen active persistent worlds. They all have different flavors. Some are role-play focused and some more hack-and-slash. Some are high magic and some low. You kinda just have to try a bunch out and see which shoe fits. If you're logged in as the DM, you basically have a cheat menu that allows you to spawn monsters, items, placeables, etc. It's pretty darn cool.
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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....
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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)?The wife and I are currently playing through Tiny Tina's Wonderlands. Tina has been making us laugh for years now, there's something about Ashley Birch's deliveries that just works. Quite a lot of the lines given to the PCs to say randomly as your are fighting are great too. Always hardest with a game that is meant to be funny, but they pull it off.
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My partner always levels half light and physical instrument to get the most unhinged dialogue and it's great.Half light is the biggest troll in the game, surpassing even Electrochemistry in how unhinged it is.
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Many video games have funny moments, but Portal 2 remains on top as the most hilarious video game of all-time.
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Um... Slay the Princess, like, last night. Sure it's marketed as a psychological horror game but it's actually pretty funny. That said, I'm also often streaming things with friends and we riff the whole time so even the least funny games ever will get a laugh at some point. LolI loved it, but I wouldn't laugh out loud at any of the moments in it.
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The Stanley Parable is very funny. I don't want to spoil it, especially because reading or watching videos is not the same as interacting with the game, but the narrator reacts to what you do, even if you try to do something absurd there's a good chance that it has a special reaction for that. South Park games also are very funny, the first one (Stick of Truth) especially. But it is a very dark humor, e.g. the difficulty slider also changes your skin color.Stanley Parable is amazing, not something I personally would laugh out loud at, but truly a masterpiece of a game.
