# Counterpoint- Funny Video Games **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063 "2004-03-02T06:11:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/21 "2004-03-03T05:56:33Z")
> [@](#): > > the talk radio station in GTA3 and GTA:VS had me rolling. Funniest thing in a video game I’ve ever seen (well, heard). “Guns don’t kill people- death kills people!” ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/22 "2004-03-03T06:14:50Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > That was a funny game. It’s a swirling tempest of cliches: Superhero cliches, post-apocalyptic cliches, RPG cliches (you get the two most ungodly powerful characters right at the last chapter). Also: Dick Clark _still hasn’t aged_. Also also, George Steinbrenner was still hiring and firing Billy Martin every ten minutes after you roused him from his cryogenic sleep chamber. I’d forgotten that one. “This just in: A three headed, five hundred pound dog is mowing down Weehaukens left and right in the middle of downtown. Please use an alternate route.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/23 "2004-03-03T06:34:52Z")
Ditto for _Maniac Mansion._ And I humbly suggest Bungie software’s _Myth_, if only for the voice acting. (Not that the gameplay isn’t great.) The hapless peasants begging zombies pitiously for their lives, the tutorial narrator with a _really_ short temper…it’s all good. ---
**Author:** ![NE\_Texan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@NE\_Texan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NE_Texan)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/24 "2004-03-03T14:57:04Z")
Superhero League of Hoboken is definitely the hands-down winner. Back to really old games, I thought Planetfall was a hoot also. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/25 "2004-03-03T15:06:59Z")
> [@NE Texan](#): > > Superhero League of Hoboken is definitely the hands-down winner. Back to really old games, I thought Planetfall was a hoot also. I’d forgotten about the _Superhero League of Hoboken_. Who could forget the adventures of Madame Pepperoni and the Crimson Tape? I wish it ran better on my modern computer though. Heck, I’m tempted to run a _Champions_ game in that theme. ---
**Author:** ![collinsc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f6c823/32.png) [@collinsc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/collinsc)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2004, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/26 "2004-03-03T21:24:19Z")
> [@Vezer](#): > > Sam and Max is bar none the funniest game. ever. > They are making a sequel (yes by Lucasarts). Cross your fingers and braid your hairs! [Not any more.](http://www.lucasarts.com/press/releases/85.html) > [@Jerks@LucasArts](#): > > After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we’ve decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC" says Mike Nelson, Acting General Manager and VP of Finance and Operations. There is currently no plan to reduce staff. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/27 "2004-03-04T01:29:03Z")
Oh please…“not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC” my ass. To you, “the appropriate time” will be when graphic adventure games sell big. Well, graphic adventure games will sell big when companies go back to producing quality graphic adventure games, thankyouverymuch. Instead of sitting on your duffs, cranking out yet another craptacular waste of data slapped with the Star Wars license, put out a good graphic adventure and kick-start the genre again! ---
**Author:** ![Murcielago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Murcielago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Murcielago)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/28 "2004-03-04T01:37:33Z")
LucasArts also dumped out on the sequel to _Full Throttle_ last year. I looks like they will focus on cross-platform franchise games for the near future. The lack-luster sales of _Armed & Dangerous_ may have been a factor there. ---
**Author:** ![Journeyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@Journeyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Journeyman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/29 "2004-03-04T07:28:05Z")
I dunno if this counts, but Knights of the Old Republic has some hysterically funny moments. A lot of them involve HK-47, but Jolee has some hilarious ones, and some of the interaction between NPCs is not to be missed. Most everything HK-47 says is hilarious, but so much is in the delivery. (in the midst of careful negotiations with the sand people chieftan) HK-47 (translates) “He requires a gesture of good faith. Something to prove our motives are sincere. May I blast him now, master?” (and, because it’s KoToR, one of your options is “Yes. kill him.”) Likewise, Icewind Dale 2 is mostly serious, but the early segment of the game includes a lot of hilarious parody of computer RPG standards. A lot of Morte’s dialogue in Planescape slays me. I’ll second Sam and Max, and the Monkey Island games. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/30 "2004-03-04T08:17:03Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > Also: Dick Clark _still hasn’t aged_. Hijack: You know what amazes me about this gag? That it was made, and expected to be funny, in the late Seventies, when it was used in the short-lived Police Squad TV series! Now that’s some longevity (in more ways than one)! ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/31 "2004-03-04T14:04:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Likewise, Icewind Dale 2 is mostly serious, but the early segment of the game includes a lot of hilarious parody of computer RPG standards. The best part is when you meet a trio of fellow mercenaries early in the game. They start talking to you about the crap some townsmen made them do when they showed up, which included all orts of things from the original Baldur’s Gate. OIne of them got a whole 5 gold for clearing a warehouse of rats (he just did some catnapping, which actually set up a quest you solved earlier 😃 ), while another of them got to test out the spells of an illusionist. The Illusionist had him run around the place whacking his spell-creatures that he contiually summoned. However, this guy, being cunning but none-to bright, just whacked the illusionist instead. Lord, when I realized the joke they were doing I started rolling on the floor laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/32 "2004-03-04T15:24:47Z")
That joke being…? ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063/33 "2004-03-05T17:15:15Z")
“After careful evaluation of current market place realities and underlying economic considerations, we’ve decided that this was not the appropriate time to launch a graphic adventure on the PC” Translation: It’s not Star Wars Ratchet and Clank (both games) is really funny, especially in the cutscenes. The commercials for new weapons/gadgets/planets rock. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/counterpoint-funny-video-games/232063.md?page=1)