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I've recently been thinking about how funny video games can be, and have decided to list off some favorites as well as listen to other people's opinions on the matter.
In the OP I'll try to avoid stuff that everyone knows about (did you hear about a little game called Portal?) and focus on some lesser-known titles to hopefully boost them or change perspectives about what those games are like.
Resident Evil VII
I'll start with a bit of a shock to many because yes, Resident Evil is a horror series, and indeed RE7 is pretty scary sometimes. However, just like RE4, it fully embraces its B-movie ideas and runs with them, introducing you to a Texas Chainsaw-like family of Bakers who are charmingly dark, bickering among each other at the table with cockroach soup and the like. The game features some very cool battles, particularly against Jack who at one point steals your car and starts doing donuts to try and hit you.
Of course, there's also a matter of DLC which is plentiful and contains several pretty substantial games from Tower Defense-like to Point and Click puzzle rooms. However, for the purpose of this thread let's shine a light on 21: a sadistic puzzle blackjack that gets gruesomly funny, a cheesy Jack's Birthday which sees you find and feed food to the head of the family while avoiding rotten zombies in party hats, and of course the one to put this game on the list: End of Zoe, which sees you play as a prepper uncle of the family punching zombies and wrestling with swamp monsters in a rare occurence of a survivalist conspiracy theorist being right about everything. Love this game to death, my favorite RE.
Pathologic 2
I've always been a sucker for dry humor, and Russian remake of a 2005 game delivers it in full. A survival open-world story-based RPG(?) is very Twin Peaks, and just like David Lynch's and Mark Frost's TV show is full of colorful characters and strange things that are often quite humorous. Choosing right replies it's possible to play the game as Guybrush Threepwood-like sarcastic joker, but the game's dialogue is often very funny by itself. It's a blast of a mystery and made me laugh out loud multiple times. While it's also a dark game (I tend to enjoy mix of horror and comedy), there are a lot of strange fun things. For example, the only thing that can cure the new plague is Shmowder - a powder like very rare substance that no one knows how to create because the children played with pills and mashed them all together (it also nearly kills you). The game features a miracle (?) bull you can buy and a dear rat boy who's a charming little fellow among some of the most memorable casts in video games already. Sure, it's been 5 years and it's still basically a third of a video game allowing you to play as one character, but it's still a full experience and I can't wait for more.
Bayonetta
It saddens me that even the sequels to Bayo miss what made the original so special. The game is INCREDIBLY funny. Again, what can be perceived as a completely different game ends up being so over-the-top and constantly firing on all cylinders that you'll usually fall in love with it before even playing the tutorial. Every cutscene has at least one really funny moment and the story, while barely making sense, doesn't matter when it's so entertaining. Despite its appearances the game features almost no sexual humor and, of course, Bayo herself is in control which brings joy to me as someone who's sick and tired of anime jokes of "shy person gets naked" which feel very bad and gross. Instead, you have so much insane action that sexuality of the game doesn't even register. Easily my favorite intro to a game and one of my favorite endings.
Okami
I like to say that Okami is my favorite Zelda game, and it's mainly the case because when I first played it I was pretty unfamiliar with English. Nowadays if I were to play it for the first time, I'd likely get annoyed by a constantly interrupting companion. Indeed, Issun is a big issue of the game as both helper and a character, but now, being familiar with the game, I can skip the parts that I know are just fluff. A pervy bug-like person doesn't make the best first impression, but even despite him I find the game to be very funny. From absolutely incredible animations to dialogue, to weird situations (some of final boss' forms are ridiculously insane) there's plenty to laugh at, and hell, it's also a game that makes me cry sometimes. Sure, Issun could stand to shut up, but the game also has Sparrow Inn, Kaguya's farewell, and Susano who, despite being a fairly cliched coward-thinking-he's-a-hero character, does get into some wild scenarios.
Do you have any games that make you laugh? Any favorite moments to share? Share a breakdown or simply a line that makes you smile here!
In the OP I'll try to avoid stuff that everyone knows about (did you hear about a little game called Portal?) and focus on some lesser-known titles to hopefully boost them or change perspectives about what those games are like.
Resident Evil VII
I'll start with a bit of a shock to many because yes, Resident Evil is a horror series, and indeed RE7 is pretty scary sometimes. However, just like RE4, it fully embraces its B-movie ideas and runs with them, introducing you to a Texas Chainsaw-like family of Bakers who are charmingly dark, bickering among each other at the table with cockroach soup and the like. The game features some very cool battles, particularly against Jack who at one point steals your car and starts doing donuts to try and hit you.
Of course, there's also a matter of DLC which is plentiful and contains several pretty substantial games from Tower Defense-like to Point and Click puzzle rooms. However, for the purpose of this thread let's shine a light on 21: a sadistic puzzle blackjack that gets gruesomly funny, a cheesy Jack's Birthday which sees you find and feed food to the head of the family while avoiding rotten zombies in party hats, and of course the one to put this game on the list: End of Zoe, which sees you play as a prepper uncle of the family punching zombies and wrestling with swamp monsters in a rare occurence of a survivalist conspiracy theorist being right about everything. Love this game to death, my favorite RE.
Pathologic 2
I've always been a sucker for dry humor, and Russian remake of a 2005 game delivers it in full. A survival open-world story-based RPG(?) is very Twin Peaks, and just like David Lynch's and Mark Frost's TV show is full of colorful characters and strange things that are often quite humorous. Choosing right replies it's possible to play the game as Guybrush Threepwood-like sarcastic joker, but the game's dialogue is often very funny by itself. It's a blast of a mystery and made me laugh out loud multiple times. While it's also a dark game (I tend to enjoy mix of horror and comedy), there are a lot of strange fun things. For example, the only thing that can cure the new plague is Shmowder - a powder like very rare substance that no one knows how to create because the children played with pills and mashed them all together (it also nearly kills you). The game features a miracle (?) bull you can buy and a dear rat boy who's a charming little fellow among some of the most memorable casts in video games already. Sure, it's been 5 years and it's still basically a third of a video game allowing you to play as one character, but it's still a full experience and I can't wait for more.
Bayonetta
It saddens me that even the sequels to Bayo miss what made the original so special. The game is INCREDIBLY funny. Again, what can be perceived as a completely different game ends up being so over-the-top and constantly firing on all cylinders that you'll usually fall in love with it before even playing the tutorial. Every cutscene has at least one really funny moment and the story, while barely making sense, doesn't matter when it's so entertaining. Despite its appearances the game features almost no sexual humor and, of course, Bayo herself is in control which brings joy to me as someone who's sick and tired of anime jokes of "shy person gets naked" which feel very bad and gross. Instead, you have so much insane action that sexuality of the game doesn't even register. Easily my favorite intro to a game and one of my favorite endings.
Okami
I like to say that Okami is my favorite Zelda game, and it's mainly the case because when I first played it I was pretty unfamiliar with English. Nowadays if I were to play it for the first time, I'd likely get annoyed by a constantly interrupting companion. Indeed, Issun is a big issue of the game as both helper and a character, but now, being familiar with the game, I can skip the parts that I know are just fluff. A pervy bug-like person doesn't make the best first impression, but even despite him I find the game to be very funny. From absolutely incredible animations to dialogue, to weird situations (some of final boss' forms are ridiculously insane) there's plenty to laugh at, and hell, it's also a game that makes me cry sometimes. Sure, Issun could stand to shut up, but the game also has Sparrow Inn, Kaguya's farewell, and Susano who, despite being a fairly cliched coward-thinking-he's-a-hero character, does get into some wild scenarios.
Do you have any games that make you laugh? Any favorite moments to share? Share a breakdown or simply a line that makes you smile here!
