“One of your Imps does an impression of you. He can even do the ears.”
Has anyone here played Dragon Warrior VII for the PSOne? That game has many, many hilarious moments in it. I think most people are just unwilling to put the 100 hours into it to unlock everything. As a friend said to me while describing the secret boss, “God is a MASTER jester!” (If you’ve played this game you’ll know what I mean).
Yeah, I wasn’t as concerned with missing the OP as I was with making sure credit’s given where it’s due. That’s one of my pet peeves, especially in this case because Steve Purcell is brilliant with two L’s.
And while I’m at it, I should point out that Day of the Tentacle had two project leaders, Dave Grossman and Tim Schafer. And that a lot of the art direction was done by Peter Chan, another brilliant artist who also did work for Sam & Max Hit the Road, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, and Monkey Island 2, among others.
(And yes, I am allowed to hijack my own thread.)
I forgot “Full Throttle”. Sure, it was annoying at times, btu it was damn funny at others.
Runs from the horde of Wangerian Bunnies
I agree about Sam & Max and the monkey island games, especially the second and third. I loved the monkey island ones especially but mainly because of guybrush and his quest to become a mighty pirate. Arr, pirates…
One thing I liked about Monkey Island . . . this was back when pretty much any quality game out there came from Sierra. Since Sierra pretty much invented that style of computer games, they all followed a pretty familiar standard (even when they evolved from typing to mouse-clicks, it all evolved the same).
Then comes Monkey Island. Although Sierra games were, in part, amusing in the sheer number of ways you could get your character killed (especially in Space Quest games), Monkey Island’s Guybrush Threepwood could not die.
Until you get to the island and the ledge you’re on breaks off. You plummet to your death, and see the familiar Sierra-style alert box that tells you that you’ve died, has a little animated picture of your guy dead in the branches of a tree far below, and offered you the classic three options: RESTORE, RESTART, EXIT TO DOS.
Now, after your brain takes a few seconds to process what just happened, the alert box disappears. Guybrush pops back up onto the cliff, looks at the camera and says, “Rubber Tree.”
I did not know you could do that. Where on the island is this?
On small butte on the top of the mountain, where all the rocks are and you can see your ship(at least until you sink it).
Actually, Guybrush can die. Just leave him under the Dock for 10 minutes and he’ll drown. Of course, you have to have some patience to wait that long.
And in the third game there is a part where if you tell Guybrush about a hundred or so times to go into the water he will and will be back under the dock in Monkey Island one and see his corpse floating there.
I almost forgot. Lucasarts will also soon be releasing a sequal to Full Throtle.
Seems like I heard about Full Throttle II a year ago. When, o, when?
Full Throttle 2 is in the works…unless it’s been cut already. I’ll be super pissed if it is, because I loved the first one. (that and the Space Quest series are my favorite games. Ever.)
oh crap…shoulda reloaded before i posted that. WHOOPS!
The space quest games were funny. Too bad(or maybe it’s a good thing?) that they will never make another one.
I’ll go really obscure and nominate the manual for the old Epyx computer game, Crush, Crumble, and Chomp!
Some sample humor:
I just got done playing the demo for Postal 2. I stole a stun gun from someone’s house, urinated on an attractive woman (who ran screaming to the police), bought some milk at a convenient store with a bunch of terrorists behind their ‘Employees Only’ door, urinated on some people waiting in line at the register, which caused one of them to vomit and the other to gag. I then shocked a cop with the stun gun and then decapitated him with my shovel, and kicked it around the store. Then I urinated on it. The urination effect in the game is really good.
Do you have to keep drinking to urinate? That’s how it works in real life…unfortunatly.
The adventure game “The Hobbit” on the now ancient Timex/Sinclair ZX Spectrum was, at times, unintentionally hilarious. It was very ambitious for its time - it attempted natural “AI”, and even natural language processing, in 48K of RAM. Of course when it went haywire the results were hilarious. I wish I could remember some of the best ones - these ones spring to mind:
“Thorin gives you the some lunch.”
“The key sits down and starts singing about gold. You hit the key. The key is dead.”
“You tell Gandalf to eat the wooden chest. Gandalf eats it the wooden chest. Gandalf’s foul gluttony has killed Gandalf.”
If you’ve got Neverwinter Nights, I’ve heard the “Penultima” series is hilarious - you can get it at the neverwinter vault.