Funniest thing in a video game I’ve ever seen (well, heard).
“Guns don’t kill people- death kills people!”
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.”
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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)!
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.
That joke being…?
“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.