Sometimes, if a game is cheesy enough, either your character, or the enemies will make snide taunts, action movie style. Alot of times, this can be funny.
I got FarCry the other day, and nearly laughed my ass off when the enemy yelled at me “I’ll shoot you in your FACE!”
I’m sure Duke Nukem 3D had some gut-busters, but it’s been so long since I’ve played that game. So what are your favorites?
In Heroes of Might & Magic III, the Devil and Archdevil units have a little built-in feature: when you move the targeting pointer over them while considering an attack, they go into a slight crouch and beckon with one finger as much as to say “C’mon! You wanna piece of me? C’mon!”.
Wizard of War. It had the early 80’s robot speech, monotone and without expression. The programmers had to approximate the phonetics to get the speech to sound right, so the opening taunt sounded like “Aaee am thee weezard of wor hahahahaha.”
The only other taunt I remember from that game was “Iff yoo hert maaee baybeez Aaeell rost yoo ahlive hahahahaha.”
IIRC, Sega’s Space Fury had a vector-graphic one-eyed alien that taunted you between rounds. I seem to recall that the first one was “Ah, a creature for my amusement. Prepare for battle!”
Impossible Mission, of course, from the good old days…
Many years ago, I was playing The 7th Guest late at night. I plugged in headphones so my parents wouldn’t hear me at the computer (wishful thinking, as will be evident…). I was exploring the cellars, accessible through the pantry, before I knew that a map of the cellars was available on a rug in an upstairs bedroom.
I turned a corner, ended up in a dead-end, and Stauf’s creepy voice boomed out, “Feeling … lonely?”
I jumped and shrieked. My parents awoke. That was the end of my gaming for a few days.
And from the mouth of a startled, soon-to-be-very-dead bad guy who spots the Punisher emerging from the shadows in the recent (and very good) Punisher game: