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What's a game that tries to be funny and actually succeeds?

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What's a game that tries to be funny and actually succeeds?
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>>275515740
Portal
>inb4 cakereddit shit
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>>275515740
Jazzpunk
Portal
Psychonauts

Loads of others that work because you don't expect them to be funny.
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>>275515740
I don't I ever laughed out loud at a video game. But Portal 2 and GTA games are cleverly written enough to appreciate them.
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>>275516034

>Jazzpunk

seconding this. I wasn't expecting it to be as funny as it was, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Tales of the borderlands
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>>275515740
GTA
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>>275515740

Conker, Stick of Truth, certain aspects of the Wario Land games
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>>275516034
>Jazzpunk
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Anachronox
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Borderlands 1.
Me and a friend laughed out loud a few times. Nothing ridiculous
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Destroy All Humans, Postal 2.
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>>275516485
This. Was really surprised that it has no memes, but a lot of Telltales classic humor instead
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>>275515740
Conker's Bad Fur Day for the N64

Muv-Luv for the PC
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>>275515740
It was a bit hit or miss, but there was some funny parts in Bulletstorm
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All four mainline Monkey Island games.
Fourth is the weakest, but still funny. Curse is my favorite.
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>>275515740
Earthworm Jim 1 and 2
Worms Series for the most part
Monkey Island
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>>275515740

Banjo-Tooie
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Borderlands 2
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>>275518548
Bordermemes moo: the redditening.

Did Burch write anything else after that?
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South Park
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The Mario RPGs
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Madworld.
The hardest choice in the game is either to play with the music off to enjoy the commentary or with the commentary off to enjoy the music.
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All of the Monkey Island games.
Stick of Truth
Ratchet and Clank
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Bard's Tale
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Giants
Armed & Dangerous
Theme Hospital
SHOGO

>possibly unintentional
Populous the Beginning (sending people flying, watching Braves running around screaming at Bees, Lightning, fire, etc always gets a grin out of me
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Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden.

Barkley 2 when?
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>>275519697
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982dFZJSnWw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJYJBoYDfFE
I BLAME OUR SCHOOLS
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>>275519697
That game is soo fucking underated.
>dat music
>dat artstyle
>dat commentary
>dem bosses
>dat fucking final boss

So sad that It passed unoticed.
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>>275519697
>Playing with either off
I blame our schools.
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Deadly Premonition succeeded at being funny when it wanted to be. It also succeeded at being funny when it wasn't trying to be.
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Fallout 3 & NV[/psoiler]
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>>275515740
Portal games

Everything written by Tim Schafer up to and including Brutal Legend (Grim Fandango especially)

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, in a very Strike Commando-y way.

Deadly Premonition (unintentionally)
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watching a playthrough of D4 has had me in stitches.
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Stanley Parable
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>>275520143
was fallout 3 funny? the antagonizer was the only comedic bit in the game if I remember correctly though I played Fallout 2 again right before 3.
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>>275515828
It's true. Portal was funny. There's a difference between creating memes and referencing memes.

Portal 2 was okay, but it came off as trying a little too hard.
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>>275520428

Fallout New Vegas New World Blues is funnier than the entirety of 3.
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>>275519798
When it's ready.

It's honestly one of the only 3 games I'm hype for, besides Hotline Miami 2 and Killing Floor 2.
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>>275520428
the dialogue options were often comedic
and the game in general was pretty light -hearted
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>>275515740
Classic joker, always a hoot
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Earthbound
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God Hand was the only game that ever made me laugh.
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Sonic Colors
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Sonic Boom
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>>275519853
Thank you for this.
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Vampire : Bloodlines

youtube the radio station if you have some time to kill
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>>275520827
That game had a Madworld reference

It was written by the same team, which explains why that game was better written than most Sonic games

Also that team were also the creators of Happy Tree Friends

The More You Know~
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Grand Theft Auto.
GOD HAND.
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>>275519853
>Who's the Lead Programmer?
>He's the guy not getting laid more than the other programmers.
I missed these guys in Anarchy Reigns.
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>>275521586
Aaaand I forgot the link to the reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_0Sv7TGzog
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>>275521561
http://debofnight.andcuriouser.com/
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>>275519798
>over two years since the Barkley 2 Kickstarter
Can't wait for a new minigame to delay development!
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>>275516034
Jazzpunk was a hidden gem
Also Saints Row 3 and 4, I actually lol'ed
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>>275521727
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>>275516834
>Postal 2
15 year old detected
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>>275519853
>Adiotional Writing
>Oh, Look at this! The spellchecker gets some credit too!

This is fucking gold.
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Ace Attorney, Ghost Trick
Deadly Premonition
MGS
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUSmB7nKiQ8
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Jack Nicholson best Joker
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Skull Monkeys
Battleblock Theatre has its moments
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Hogs of war
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>>275521960

I miss classic Sam.
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A Bards Tale
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magicka had some actually funny scripted moments, some overly groan inducing moments but quite a few legitimate chuckles as well.
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>>275515740
Men of war's voice acting was pretty funny, don't think they intended it to be so, though.
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>>275516485
I had really low expectations for this game and was pleasantly surprised by how good the writing was. There were a few cringy parts but on the whole, I thought it was pretty funny and actually laughed once or twice.
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funniest game i've ever played ez
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The Bard's Tale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZl9KcSywos
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>>275523204
Holy shit, that game actually came out.
I remember reading about it in an IGN article about comedy in games and thinking it was a neat concept.
It probably did like shit huh.
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>>275520559
Seconding this. It's cheesy in all the right ways.
>The G is for Genocide motherfucker!
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>>275519798
Winter 2013
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Saints Row 2
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Abobo's Big Adventure
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Besides the Mexican jokes that were rather shit for Mexican jokes Shadows of the Damned was pretty fucking funny to me. It was low brow as fuck but good at it.
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>>275515740
conckers n64
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South Park - The Stick of Truth
Lollipop Chainsaw
Saints Raw games
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>>275519763
>Theme Hospital
I regret not having finished but damn, that was so unexpected, funnily enough, for a couple of days the whole family joined in to play it or watch somebody else play it.
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>>275524806
>lollipop chainsaw

Faggot
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>>275519853
>you know a cockroach can live a week without its head.
>Big deal, I have went through 8 years of marriage without any head
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>>275516630
This game was great. It is a shame no one played it.
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Are you niggers serious?
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>>275515740
Kid Icarus: Uprising
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>>275520721
this
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>>275519745
>>275519763
>>275520559

i second this ones
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I am contemplating the idea of an image to compile them all.
Not sure how to present them though.
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>ctrl+f
>South Park
>only 2 results

shameful.
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>>275519853
You convinced me to buy this game.
Thank you.
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>>275520679
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>>275519573
Wait, did the parody the Path of Neo bullshit ending?
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>>275515740
Saints Row 4 gave me a lot of actual laughs, surprisingly enough.
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>>275519853

Why is jake from adventure time commentating on some murder game show?
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>>275516034
jazzpunk is random garbage
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>>275515740
Humor is subjective?

What do you find funny (not vidya)?
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>>275515740
portal, kid icarus
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Spec Ops: The line

Haven't laughed so hard in years
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>>275515740
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>>275533382
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>>275533382
Could you give little backstory? Or what is this game?
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Battlefield: Bad Company 1
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>>275521727
This sucks...
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Grim Fandango
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Serious Sam
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>>275515740
Psychonauts
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I always found the Lego games to be pretty charming and funny.
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>>275534738
They always appeal to my inner child. I preferred when they didn't speak, just made noises.
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Goat Simulator was a pretty hilarious game.
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>>275535315
They speak now?
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>>275533668
Maxos was Amdusias' nemesis or somesuch and at one point there's a dialogue choice to just say "Maxos" lots because it enrages him.

>MAXOS MAXOS MAXOS MAXOS!!!!!
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>>275535387
They started in Batman 2
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>>275535315
There's only so far you can go without speaking though.

For one thing, they can have an actual plot when they talk.
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>>275527975
>only knowing Dimaggio from AT
>not even knowing Greg Proops

You are a shitty person
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>>275535396
can you give me this game title, sounds funny
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>>275535315
agreed, the star wars original trilogy was legendary
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>>275535704
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Funny/DivinityIITheDragonKnightSaga
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>>275515740
Did the joker literally have a fake hand ready in case this exact thing happened?
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>>275516930
>no memes

You need to replay the game. I loved it but there are memes in it.
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>>275520229

>there are people on /v/ right now who have never known the joy of playing grim fandango
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>>275535801
Wouldn't you?
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No More Heroes
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>>275515740
I got some chuckles out of LBP1 and LBP3...

2 and V were too grimdark
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I'M GONNA MAKE YOU MAH BITCH!
http://youtu.be/nLQFcj_TiEY?t=2m16s
http://youtu.be/zPHtugfwoWw

>>275522032
NOLF was great. Why isn't it on GOG/Steam yet?
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>>275516034
just don't pay for jazzpunk
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I found that Bard's Tale, South Park Stick of Truth and Saint's Row to be pretty fucking funny
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>>275520828
This game had such low production value but goddamnit I love it. Shark gun, shrub patrol, leper colony. It's fucking great
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Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle
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>>275515740
persona 4
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Discworld 1, 2 and Noir
Sam & Max (old & new)
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>>275537959
this
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>>275515740
God Hand is pretty funny
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>>275523298
Was that supposed to be funny?
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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
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teh funneh maymays
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What's the adventure game were each death is narrated and theirs about 20 different ways to drown?
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>>275527975
I knew he sounded familiar.
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>>275527709
i don't recall them doing so, no
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>>275538489
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>>275538489
>>275539095
Seek help.
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>>275527975
This fucking new group of kids it's fucking bender from futurama
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>>275539291
Help from what exactly?
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>>275539291
pedophilia is healthier than normalfaggotry.
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>>275536298
Yellow. Duh.
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>>275539496
It's very sad that you've deluded yourself to justify it.
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>>275515828

Might add TF2 before the community took control. Up until the Meet the Medic was pretty funny.

NFL Blitz, the old ones.
Parodius.
Conker's Bad Fur Day.
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The Mario and Luigi games. It's simple little things with cartoony humor. Nothing sophisticated, but they always get me to at least smile and usually laugh once in a while. Usually due to Luigi, but that makes it even better to me because fuck yeah Luigi.

Fuck the gyroscope shit in Dream Team ruining the game for me. I just hate that shit.
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>>275520428
It could be pretty funny at times, the snide dialogue with moira comes to mind immediately
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Almost any non-Star Wars Lucasarts game.

Especially Armed and Dangerous.
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>>275538489
UAB was pretty entertaining with the "OH PLS I DUN WAND TO GO DO JALE :DD" option enabled.
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South park stick of truth
Saints row four
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It's not really a funny game, but some of the gang descriptions always got me.
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>>275535614
by not speaking they turned the tragic death of padme into a comedy
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>>275539927

>really want to play it because from all the talk
>not a pedo

damn.

>>275539761

I tried to play them but the humor and story was so bad that i wouldnt put up with that repetitive boring gameplay for it, first paper mario was kinda okeysh.
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>>275538489
is this fan art or just more from one of the artists?
wher'd you get it
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>>275515740
>ctrl+f
>wonderful 101/w101
>0 results
It says here you guys are fags
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>>275540471
It's ingame art, I got it out of the source code package off the website.
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the original postal
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>>275540438
There's a SFW option in-game. It even prompts before the first NSFW moment just to be sure for you. It's a funny VN that's worth a gander.

>>275540471
That's from in-game. The MC fantasizes about one of the girls briefly and that image pops up.
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>>275540518
Agreed. I laugh every time I see how many copies it sold.
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>>275539753
You mean up to Meet the Medic.

The entire short was brilliant and possibly the best Meet The short around.
Yes, that includes Sniper's
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>>275520559

Meh, only one joke cracked me up.

>"Shit, the bitch is ringing!"
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>>275541324
you didn't like at the realization that the one guy who probably actually fucked his mother was the only character in the game who didn't get called a motherfucker? Washington's analysis of it as an indictment of modern feminism?
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>>275521960
this is quite fucking funny.
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>>275539291
>>275539742
not sure if your trolling or being trolld
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>>275540690
where can i find the NSFW images?
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Does Bubsy 3D count?

Also

>noone says Metal Gear Solid
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>>275542162

Fair point, the ending was quite good, also the fact that G warmed up to Washington so much he started talking like he did.

The music was good as well, but I could use some more of Papa Caesar's crazy dialogues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f530isCBEy0
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>>275519482
>Did Burch write anything else after that?

Yeah, Borderlands: The pre sequel

he actually tried to parody the "memelands" thing
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>>275516834
>>275521928
Portal one was funny because of GlaDOS and how she doesn't even hate anyone but is just programmed to test.
P2 was a little too aware of that and went overboard like that nerd that made 5 people laugh in the class and then thinks he's genuinely funny.
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No One Lives Forever
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>>275543735
it wasn't entirely written by him though; some of it was 2K Australia's writing team
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>>275543983
You might wanna read your quoted posts again.
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>>275542848
Did you say nerd?
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>>275519853
>That's it jack! Nail him from behind
>Aw, shit. Just got a prison flashback
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>>275540471
the devs hang out on 4+4chan apparently doing art or people
im too scared to check cause obvious reasons
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>>275545201
no, the reasons aren't obvious. please elaborate
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>>275521960
monkey
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>>275545949

Probably because they have a board called pedophilia discussion and he got scared
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>>275545949
why would anyone even go there?

it's basically redditchan since most of the infographics telling people to go there after the sjw shitstorm were spammed on imgur, reddit and 9gag
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I remember laughing at Radiata Stories, though it's been awhile since I played it. And Trails in the Sky had some good humor in it, nothing too sophisticated, but good for a chuckle. Disgaea always gets me to laugh.
My tastes for humor are pretty lowbrow admittedly.
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>ctrl+f
>Katamari
>0 results

Really? Those games are fucking hilarious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7R07hF0AuI
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>>275540438
>Not wanting to drop dem fucking beats with lolis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CywmOitVWk
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