For me it’s probably Jazzpunk, but I liked Disco Elysium too. I’ve been looking for something to scratch that “Jazzpunk surrealist comedy itch” for a while and not many games have come even close.
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The Stanley Parable was pretty funny
For about an hour.
If Stanley Parable only lasted one hour for you, then you’re playing it wrong. You’re supposed to restart the game several times to get every ending. No two playthroughs are the same.
I know. I was just saying it’s not funny. It gets old quickly.
Let’s agree to disagree.
Outer Worlds has a great sense of humor.
Untitled Goose Game comes to mind as a great “slapstick” game.
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I almost can’t believe the lack of Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People in this thread.
Conker’s Bad Fur Day.
First off, Rare had a reputation for good games, but they were cute, child friendly games. Conker was even a cute character with child friendly games. Then they made this… thing, which starts with Conker hungover from a night drinking and quickly descends into him fighting a giant poo monster. The game was rated R/18, which was crazy for Nintendo. The amount of little movie references everywhere was insane, also.
For a game that’s a full comedy romp, West of Loathing consistently ruined me with laughter. The spittoon descriptions are probably the most derangedly funny writing ever put into the world. I’ve got to remember to play the sequel one of these days. Its also extremely mechanically satisfying, with several enticing roleplaying moments (as well as the occasional dramatic or scary moment that hits just as well as the comedy)
For a game that’s not explicitly only comedy but still hits strong marks, Yakuza 0 is a full meal. While most Yak games are fairly wacky when it comes to sidequesting (1 being perphaps the single exception, as the beginning of the series was quite dry), 0 feels like the one where they really hit their stride. There’s so many flat out ridiculous moments (you’ve most likely seen the chicken, and that’s just one of many) that you even forget this is also a heavily dramatic story and a full blown action beat’em up.
Some coop games, like Battleblock Theater or Magicka, were definitely the most funny for me, with all the dumb stuff you can do, fuck with your friends, etc. but those depend on the people you play with. With friends, every game can become super funny though, even more serious stuff.
As for single player, the ones I remember the most were Donut County and maybe the Frog Detective games, those had some really funny moments and writing.
I think it’d have to be Portal…mmm, the first one. I think learning about Glados the first time is a little better than the whole potato thing.
Portal 2 has some jokes that did not age well too.
This is a new take to me, anyway. What do you mean?
Disco Elysium is the most recent game that was just chock full of humor, though maybe not focused on it specifically… beyond that the only games I can even really think of that had a focus on comedy were the old LucasArts classics. Sam & Max, Full Throttle, Monkey Island… And Borderlands.
I was just thinking about how this doesn’t seem to be a thing anymore. Where are the comedic oriented games? Why is everything so damn dark, and serious and brooding nowadays?
But I haven’t played that Not-Really-Rick-and-Morty-shooter. I heard that was funny.
Definitely Grim Fandango. First game to make me laugh out loud, personally it’s clever and witty, and I love it to bits.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/316790/Grim_Fandango_Remastered/
Disco Elysium. It’s much more than funny, but it can also be really funny. Cuno is really funny.
Came here to say this; just wanted to add that it was simultaneously the saddest game I’d ever played.
It’s both the saddest game I’ve ever played and perhaps the most uplifting one. It balances the knife’s edge between nihilism and hope so well. It can also be hysterically funny, yes. It’s truly unique in terms of writing.
The game I’ve laughed the most while playing is Jackbox. Fibbage and Quiplash have me in stitches every time, although it depends on how funny your friends are.
“Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun” is the funniest interaction in any video game I have ever played by an order of magnitude
Not the funniest I have played, but I definitely found it funny and fun.
Conker’s Bad Fur Day on N64 was definitely up there.
I was like 12 but it was funny as shit. I think now a lot of the humour might fall flat now the zeitgeist has moved on but that storming of the beach against the teddybears still cracks me up remembering it.
