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Junpei posted:What RPG do you find the funniest? Depends on the kind of humor. I mean the most obvious answer is Yakuza. Yakuza is frequently delightfully hilarious but if you're not counting that... Shadow Hearts and SH:C do a good job of straddling the line between genuinely funny and absurdly goofy. They don't always land but you can feel the significant difference when SH:FANW went full comedy. The Mario & Luigi games are often chuckleworthy and have some great physical comedy. Disco Elysium is frequently laugh out loud hilarious. Tokyo Mirage Sessions has a lame main plot but some truly excellent dialogue. Earthbound is another one that isn't "laugh out loud" funny but frequently made me smile. Dragon Quest has a lot of lame jokes but the pun game is loving on point. Most of the Tales games aren't funny precisely but they usually have some good jokes mixed in. I think most of the character humor in SMT games falls flat but the "troll" answers the MC can give are comedy gold. And FF7R deserves an award for the absolute pitch-perfect line reading that is "Nailed it, I know, moving on." Edit: Also Undertale/Deltarune are genuinely funny games a lot of the time. And Final Fantasy XIV has some utterly loving amazing questlines. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Nov 14, 2021 |
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i wouldn't even say DE is the same genre of humor at all, even if its dark sometimes, very weird comparison
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Nov 14, 2021 01:15
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Junpei posted:What RPG do you find the funniest? Anachronox
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Nov 14, 2021 01:18
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frankly i'd say the humor of witch/refrain mostly just seems like the writer shooting for something like soul nomad or one of the darker ends of disgaea 1 and failing to understand that soul nomad was pretty restrained when it understood what would feel more natural narratively while its actual evil route is played less for laughs and more for exploring an actually very painful and horrific outcome and disgaea 1's darker ends are shocking because the core of the narrative is that laharl possesses the capacity to be a decent person
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Nov 14, 2021 01:19
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Thousand Knight is the one where a lady gets turned into a mouse, and one of the main cast laughs at her as she runs away being pursued by other mice, basically laughing that she hopes she likes getting raped and having rat babies for the rest of her life?
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Nov 14, 2021 01:25
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I'd honestly say Disgaea is the poster child for how to have a game that's funny most of the time and yet can still perfectly deliver legitimately shocking and emotional plot twist and reveals like seriously, Disgaea 4 and 5 have some legit very good emotionally dramatic moments, even when they are being undercut by Val nerding out over sardines or Seraphina painting all the men in the cast as being idiots in love with her
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Kokoro Wish posted:Thousand Knight is the one where a lady gets turned into a mouse, and one of the main cast laughs at her as she runs away being pursued by other mice, basically laughing that she hopes she likes getting raped and having rat babies for the rest of her life? And then they eat the rat in the very next scene, yes.
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Nov 14, 2021 01:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idHONGNrXds
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Junpei posted:What RPG do you find the funniest? Deltarune (Chapter 2 if we're being specific) made me laugh more than any other game I've ever played. Humour is incredibly subjective, but Toby Fox has got his finger on the pulse of my absurdist funny bone. Evil Robo Queen: Do You Wish To Flourish Under The Warm Bosom Of My Reign Or Perish In The Chill Of Absolute Destruction Party Member: ...bosom?? Queen: It Means Tity Like, what a stupid joke but I still loving laugh at it.
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Nov 14, 2021 02:11
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Kris Get The Banana. Potassium.
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Hourai High was very funny
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i'm at floor 49 now of dungeon encounters. my trip report is that it really sucked when an enemy did an attack on floor 35 called 'rebalance' that killed my entire party in one hit and wiped out hours of progress because I don't want to have to loving find each wandering person one at a time and shepherd them back to the academy via the nearest teleporter floor but when i'm in the groove of clearing out a floor, upgrading equipment, and pacmaning around all the tiles, using my abilities when necessary to shift and avoid encounters after a while.... it's a nice loop. ideal for playing while watching TV or something like that
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Nov 14, 2021 02:22
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Junpei posted:I'd honestly say Disgaea is the poster child for how to have a game that's funny most of the time and yet can still perfectly deliver legitimately shocking and emotional plot twist and reveals It's stupid but I always liked d4's cast. you don't really play disgaea for the story but it was just entertaining enough to do the job between all the fun grinding and combat
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Nov 14, 2021 02:25
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Junpei posted:What RPG do you find the funniest? Both Project X Zone games, but especially the second, are crammed full of some of the silliest and most niche jokes and references to other games and media. I took so many off-screen photos of various gags.
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KariOhki posted:Both Project X Zone games, but especially the second, are crammed full of some of the silliest and most niche jokes and references to other games and media. I took so many off-screen photos of various gags. God I dunno what's funnier, Chris Redfield trying to figure out how Ryu and Heihachi punch fireballs or Segata Sanshiro being stranded on a beach and just saying "Deep fear".
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kirbysuperstar posted:God I dunno what's funnier, Chris Redfield trying to figure out how Ryu and Heihachi punch fireballs or Segata Sanshiro being stranded on a beach and just saying "Deep fear". Big fan of Segata Sanshiro telling Chrom and Lucina that classic mode is the only way to play and them having no idea what he means but still feeling an intense feeling of dread over losing the next fight regardless. I also like Leon trying to pick up Gunslinger style from Dante, and Phoenix Wright's whole shtick with Kiryu and Majima
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Nov 14, 2021 03:26
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Junpei posted:What RPG do you find the funniest? That's a tough one. Disgaea at its best can be very funny. But it's not very consistent, and I wouldn't recommend it based on that alone. A few of the postgame puzzle maps in 3 and 4 made me laugh out loud with their level design, though. That's a very rare trick. I don't have a good answer. There aren't many great comedy games in general, much less RPGs.
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Nov 14, 2021 03:45
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the first half of atelier lulua has incredible slapstick seens, before they ran out of money to do anything but have two people stand motionlessly in front of each other
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Nov 14, 2021 03:52
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Junpei posted:What RPG do you find the funniest? Barkley, Shut Up and Jam : Gaiden is the funniest video game I've played. It may not count for what you're talking about because it's a parody, but I can recall so many good lines and funny moments/mechanics that just knock it out of the park.
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Nov 14, 2021 04:02
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Okage Shadow King is a very funny game. Which is good, because the gameplay is...alright.
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Nov 14, 2021 06:10
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Arzaac posted:Okage Shadow King is a very funny game. actually i'd compare it a little to the script of the infamous (and racist) very bad point n click adventure Jack Orlando, where some conversations play out like characters are talking beyond each other, or you get character responses where it's not clear how it connects to the previous character's dialog. okage plays like a AAA game by comparison of course
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Tergaso posted:Barkley, Shut Up and Jam : Gaiden is the funniest video game I've played. It may not count for what you're talking about because it's a parody, but I can recall so many good lines and funny moments/mechanics that just knock it out of the park. Barkley is not only *extremely* funny, but also has jokes and one liners that stick in your brain forever. It's been a decade since my last playthrough, but I think of "I believe ghosts are like dogs and they just sort of do things arbitrarily" at least once a week
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Nov 14, 2021 06:59
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dark savior is a funny game because it has the illbleed guy writing on it so half of its script is surreal exploration of guilt and hopelessness and the other half is the main character meeting the vicious criminal jj, a tiny guy holding a pair of maracas, and telling him he looks like a banana
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Nov 14, 2021 07:10
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some of the jokes in atelier marie and atelier elie are also funny. i like the ongoing subplot about the late 30s-mid 40s weapon shop guy, whose literal actual name is Old Weapon Shop Guy, who's depressed about going bald and so multiple times asks both marie and elie to give him hair potions, and each time he comes back with a more ridiculous hairdo that falls apart the next day also uh man why the gently caress did the first version of hagel boldness (right) just look like such a loving janky off-brand version of weapon shop guy (left)  
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Nov 14, 2021 07:24
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anyway let us all join in prayer for the eventual translation of the much coveted atelier gramnad duology, the only atelier sub-universe to ever fail to get more than two games in totality if you exclude mana khemia which doesn't count
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Sorry if we're praying for JRPGs then I will continue to pray for my American Football inspired DRPG where you seek to find the way into the sacred land, Canton
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The funniest RPG I've played would probably be Barkley, followed by LISA, Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass or Deltarune. There's a fair few that are kinda in a similar tier though, it's hard to compare say Nier Automata's sense of humor to a Mario RPG's. WarpDogs posted:Barkley is not only *extremely* funny, but also has jokes and one liners that stick in your brain forever. Honestly I think it's generally aged pretty well too since the humor was more based on being absurd and Barkley being dead serious. Ghost Dad part aside. ImpAtom posted:And then they eat the rat in the very next scene, yes. lol drat I somehow forgot that, goddamn
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The Colonel posted:anyway let us all join in prayer for the eventual translation of the much coveted atelier gramnad duology, the only atelier sub-universe to ever fail to get more than two games in totality if you exclude mana khemia which doesn't count pedantic reminder that Eternal Mana only got two games and Grand Phantasm only got one also Secret currently only has two games but they've gone back to make another Mysterious so ???
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super robot wars is an extremely funny series. my favorite joke off the top of my head is in og2 where a former villain turned good guy from og1, sanger, shows up to save the day in his badass new mech and the bad guy does the standard 'what is that mech? we have no data on it!' and sanger goes 'its name is...' and then it cuts to the chapter title card, like EPISODE 30: DYGENGUARD and then the bad guy goes 'Dygenguard...? And why did you say 'Episode 30?'
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wateyad posted:also Secret currently only has two games but they've gone back to make another Mysterious so ???
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ImpAtom posted:And then they eat the rat in the very next scene, yes. I'm sure this would make more sense in context bit wtf
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WaltherFeng posted:I'm sure this would make more sense in context bit wtf Not... especially, no.
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WaltherFeng posted:I'm sure this would make more sense in context bit wtf It does not
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If I'm largely into the Experience DRPGs, would Undernauts feel like a good value at full price? I've always felt like that genre is great because they are a lot of game at a budget price, typically. 60 bucks feels like a lot for a game in that genre.
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KariOhki posted:Both Project X Zone games, but especially the second, are crammed full of some of the silliest and most niche jokes and references to other games and media. I took so many off-screen photos of various gags. X and Zero spazzing the hell out about spikes in one of them was one of the funniest things.
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Levantine posted:If I'm largely into the Experience DRPGs, would Undernauts feel like a good value at full price? I've always felt like that genre is great because they are a lot of game at a budget price, typically. 60 bucks feels like a lot for a game in that genre. Its their best one, yea. I got about 40 hours pre-post game out of it and its greatest sin is being really chill and player friendly. I regret nothing about buying it and its my favorite RPG of the year, but this is not gonna be something people look back on as some groundbreaking classic
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Nov 14, 2021 11:44
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Barudak posted:Its their best one, yea. I got about 40 hours pre-post game out of it and its greatest sin is being really chill and player friendly. Awesome, I may do exactly that then. Does platform matter? I was thinking of doing PS5 but it's on Steam also.
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Levantine posted:Awesome, I may do exactly that then. Does platform matter? I was thinking of doing PS5 but it's on Steam also. I believe currently only technically the PS4 version is out, so its up to you (I guess a chance they do small updates for Ps5 updaye) but purely from a historical Experince, Inc safety perspective don't be like me and buy it on Xbox.
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AngryRobotsInc posted:X and Zero spazzing the hell out about spikes in one of them was one of the funniest things. 
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