What is the funniest video game?

[Menteroso]

To go with the funnest thread.

What's the funniest video game you've ever played/seen played, and why?

For me, Hateful Chris* springs to mind, but I might be repressing something.




(*Very, very violent game about a little skull-headed boy who want to kill pretty much everyone.)

[Matthew]

I can't remember playing a game that made me genuinely laugh. Ok, Warcraft, when you click on the little dudes over and over. But I wouldn't call it a funny game.

I figure I'm not particularly attracted to humorous games. Yet.

[PsionBoy]

The Secret of Monkey Island.

[Peers]

Fredy Pharkas, Frontier Pharmacist. Maniac Mansion. Space Quest(any of them). Sam & Max Hit The Road. Day of the Tentacle. Sierra and LucasArt owned the 'funny game' category.

[CodexArcanum]

Although it's a bit childish, I really enjoyed Postal 2 and Shadow Warrior for a while. Yes, lots of poopy humor and really stupid crap, but it gave me a giggle and a chance to goof off a bit. Never a bad thing. There was actually some pretty decent level design, weapon design, and other "good FPS game" stuff in them.

[David J Prokopetz]

The Secret of Monkey Island.I'd give The Curse of Monkey Island a slight edge over Secret, purely for having Murray in it. The first time I played, I didn't get through any of his conversation trees in one go - I hurt myself laughing and had to stop every time. :D

(The singing pirate puzzle just about killed me, too. ^; )

[Max]

I'd give The Curse of Monkey Island a slight edge over Secret, purely for having Murray in it. The first time I played, I didn't get through any of his conversation trees in one go - I hurt myself laughing and had to stop every time. :D

(The singing pirate puzzle just about killed me, too. ^; )
The Monkey Island games are solid proof that pirates and monkeys are better than ninja.

[CrazyIvan]

No One Lives Forever 1 & 2 were fairly humerous for their genre spoofage

[Max]

The first computer game I ever actually laughed at was Barbarian for C64, I think. One of the moves in that classic fighter is decapitation, which of course results in instant victory - and a little green demon moseys over, kicks the severed head off the screen like a football, and drags the lifeless corpse away with him...

At age 10, it was an absolute hoot. Playing it on an emulator still puts a smile on my face. :)

[Olof Jönsson]

I'd give The Curse of Monkey Island a slight edge over Secret, purely for having Murray in it. The first time I played, I didn't get through any of his conversation trees in one go - I hurt myself laughing and had to stop every time. :D

(The singing pirate puzzle just about killed me, too. ^; )

I started laughing just thinking about it. Curse has a *lot* of laugh-worthy moments, and also one of the grossest puzzle solutions (and running gags) in any "young kids and up"-age games I ever played.

[NoCarrier]

Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Call it a dirty pleasure of mine.

[Uruush]

My vote would go to either Sam and Max Hit the Road or Day of the Tentacle, but all those Lucasarts adventure games were comedy gold. :p

[Max]

"The thigh-bone's connected to the ankle-bone..."

[David J Prokopetz]

and also one of the grossest puzzle solutions (and running gags) in any "young kids and up"-age games I ever played.Which one was that? There were a few gross-outs, IIRC.

[Wizdoc]

LucasArts adventure games in general. There's some really funny jokes in Day of the Tenctacle, Sam and Max and Monkey Islands, to name a few.

Sierra humor didn't really hit me. Space Quest or Larry games were certainly fun, but they weren't funny.

Other than those, I have to mention Metal Gear Solid(s). There were some funny codec conversations in those.

[Sword Raven]

I'd give The Curse of Monkey Island a slight edge over Secret, purely for having Murray in it. The first time I played, I didn't get through any of his conversation trees in one go - I hurt myself laughing and had to stop every time. :D

"I will stride through the gates of hell, carrying your head on a pike!"
"Stride?"
"All right then. Roll! Roll through the gates of hell! Do you have to take the fun out of everything?"

Edit: http://shadowrunners.udcx.com/murray.gif

[CyberE]

Kingdom of Magic.

[Mr. Teapot]

A distant runner up to Lucas Arts adventure games (my preference would by Monkey Island 2 or Sam and Max, though any and all are great) is Toejam and Earl, which is full of weird and amusing enemies and entertaining conversations between the characters when you play two player.

[lordcomte]

LucasArts adventure games in general. There's some really funny jokes in Day of the Tenctacle, Sam and Max and Monkey Islands, to name a few.

Sierra humor didn't really hit me. Space Quest or Larry games were certainly fun, but they weren't funny.

Other than those, I have to mention Metal Gear Solid(s). There were some funny codec conversations in those.


The game I laughed the most during was Disgaea hour of Darkness. I could not stop laughing during the power ranger scene. It is one of the greatest things ever.

[Thornhammer]

No One Lives Forever 1 & 2 were fairly humerous for their genre spoofage

I loved the conversation between the two guards in NOLF, at one point when you're supposed to sneak into a building. One of the two is a brand-new guard, and the other guy is telling him all about it. Ends with a very earnest "And welcome to the team!" Honestly, like something you'd hear The Monarch's henchmen say on Venture Brothers.

Two seconds later, I burst around the fence and blow them both to hell.

-Thornhammer

[Arbane the Terrible]

The game I laughed the most during was Disgaea hour of Darkness. I could not stop laughing during the power ranger scene. It is one of the greatest things ever.

"BLUUUUE! YELLLOOOOOW!"

:D

"From now on, your name is Mid-Boss."

[Pillsy]

I cracked up during the opening movie from Fallout 2.

Also, the first Space Quest game. The dehydrated water will always have a place in my heart.

EDIT: Baldur's Gate II: "Go for the eyes, Boo!"

[Olof Jönsson]

Which one was that? There were a few gross-outs, IIRC.

The map. *shudder*

A game where even the villain goes: "Theez eez your map? Ewwwww!" :D

[Robot Fury]

Skullmonkeys, of course. Even the soundtrack was great; I damn near died when I first heard the Bonus Room Song. That and the Elevated Structure of Terror.

[Pan Man]

I cracked up during the opening movie from Fallout 2.





Uhh, why?

[BlackSheep]

Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door is pretty amusing in places.

Also, DBZ Legendary Super Warriors has unintentionally hilarious dialogue. Because someone's clearly gone through it with a find/replace taking out every instance of die/dying/death/dead and putting in lost instead. Never, you'll note, lose or losing. Always lost.

"Prepare to lost, Vegeta!"
"No! I will never lost!"

[Olof Jönsson]

Uhh, why?

Some people seem to think mass murder is funny.








I'm not one of them. The opening to Fallout 2 made me go "Oh Jesus H Christ on a motorbike" in horror.

Edit: Seems to me he may have laughed at the "Preparation movie" the vault dwellers watch before that, though. With the "Wear your goggles!"-bit and all.

[Coyote's Own]

Anachronox.


THe game play is fun, the cut scenes and character dialogs were relly funny.

And which other RPG allows you have a team member who is a planet.

[Craig Oxbrow]

I miss LucasArts doing adventures.

But to throw a different name into the mix: You Don't Know Jack - a party quiz game on the PC in the style of a TV game show, complete with backstage chatter and arsehole of a host. It had the most 'writer' credits I've seen in a game, some of whom were well-known on the comedy circuit and went on to TV.

[Mr. Teapot]

Uhh, why?

How is Louis Armstrong singing about masturbation not funny to some people?

[Vitriol]

Sam and Max Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle were fantastically funny; I also really liked the humour from Giants: Citizen Kabuto.

[Peers]

I submit that You Don't Know Jack went downhill after the first one. Changing hosts, the tone of the humor changed... the first was great, but after that they just tried churnning them out.

[Craig Oxbrow]

I submit that You Don't Know Jack went downhill after the first one. Changing hosts, the tone of the humor changed... the first was great, but after that they just tried churnning them out.
I can believe that. I didn't know they made more...

[DLathrop]

I submit that You Don't Know Jack went downhill after the first one. Changing hosts, the tone of the humor changed... the first was great, but after that they just tried churnning them out.

I disagree with you and submit that "You Don't Know Jack: The Ride" is probably one of the funniest games I've seen.

DL, it's got to be the announcer interaction.

[Pillsy]

Uhh, why? The warning about the safety goggles. You've got that poor little cartoon character standing there with smoke wafting up out of his eye sockets....

[Peter Svensson]

Mischief Makers for N64. The anime parodies were great.

[Grymbok]

Skullmonkeys, of course. Even the soundtrack was great; I damn near died when I first heard the Bonus Room Song. That and the Elevated Structure of Terror.

Yeah, that was a great (and criminally overlooked game).

For me the funniest games would be Monkey Island 1 and 2 the Oddworld series, and the Futurama game (especially Zoidberg!).

[nondeviant]

What's the funniest video game you've ever played/seen played, and why?

I suppose that would have to be Katamari Damacy, for the intro, the concept, and the horrible screaming people that you roll up into a ball.

[OusterX]

oh, I forgot. Eternal Darkness. This is the only game that had me screaming at my wife to quit screwing with the mute button. It was the game, but I thought it was her. Needless to say, she was pretty pissed, but it was all good.

[Mr. Teapot]

Yeah, that was a great (and criminally overlooked game).

The Neverhood, the first game in the series, is as funny, though more obscure. It also has my favorite video game soundtrack ever.

[David J Prokopetz]

The Neverhood, the first game in the series, is as funny, though more obscure. It also has my favorite video game soundtrack ever.Whoa, hold up - The Neverhood had a sequel? O_o;

(I remember The Neverhood clearly, primarily for the claymation graphics, several utterly counterintuitive puzzles that I beat my head against for months without solving, and fifty frickin' pages of backstory/mythology that has no bearing on the actual gameplay.)

[Robot Fury]

Yeah, the sequel to The Neverhood is Skullmonkeys.

edit - It's a platformer, you play Klayman and try to stop Klogg (new king of the Skullmonkeys) and his Evil Engine Number 9.

[David J Prokopetz]

Interesting.

Does it do anything with that bizarre, convoluted mythology that's tacked onto the first game?

[Yazdoken]

Nothing beats Earthworm Jim and Wild 9, the amount of humor built into the actual gameplay makes it the best for me.

[The Cartographer]

Space Channel 5 is the only game where I've died purely because I was laughing too hard to hold the controller steady (it was the two bosses in the asteroid, if you were wondering).

[Mr. Teapot]

Interesting.

Does it do anything with that bizarre, convoluted mythology that's tacked onto the first game?

I don't think so, but I could be wrong.

[Mr. Teapot]

Yeah, the sequel to The Neverhood is Skullmonkeys.

edit - It's a platformer, you play Klayman and try to stop Klogg (new king of the Skullmonkeys) and his Evil Engine Number 9.

There's also Boombots after that, which may not be tied together in terms of story but was made by all the same people (and Klayman is an unlockable character). It was like a 3D fighting game, and also quite humorous (though not as good as the first two).

[Zeiram]

Nothing beats Earthworm Jim and Wild 9, the amount of humor built into the actual gameplay makes it the best for me.
Thank you. I was beginning to worry that classic Shiny was not going to be represented here. ^_^

I'd add MDK before Wild 9, though.

[Vargen]

What, Grim Fandango and Full Throttle are relegated to "and all the other Lucasarts adventures?" GF was great because of the funny characters. The fact that it managed to be a touching story as well was a bonus. As for FT... the scene where you use the energizer bunnies to clear a minefield... sheer comedy gold!

And I'll throw in another vote for Sam & Max Hit the Road.

[Max]

Gotta give props to the lil' buddy.

<img src="http://students.oamk.fi/~m4kumi00/Kamat/49-0.jpg">

[Vitriol]

What, Grim Fandango and Full Throttle are relegated to "and all the other Lucasarts adventures?" GF was great because of the funny characters. The fact that it managed to be a touching story as well was a bonus. As for FT... the scene where you use the energizer bunnies to clear a minefield... sheer comedy gold!Sam & Max Hit the Road.
They're great, and GF is probably my favorite of Lucasarts' games, but they have more focus on plot and less on humour than the divine silliness of games like Sam and Max and DOTT, in my opinion at least.

[Malestrithe]

Parappa the Rapper, Um Jammer Lammy and Parappa the Rapper 2. Many of the songs/ levels of these games are hard and challenging as well as downright funny to listen to.

Katamari Damacy This is one strange game. You take the Katamari, which can be best described as "Extremely Sticky Gumball" and try to roll objects into as big a ball as possible. Some of the things that can pe picked up is really disturbing.

[Count_Zero]

La Pucelle - Tactics: This is the closest I have come, thus far, to a console RPG based on The Slayers.

All I need is a Dragon Slave.

[David J Prokopetz]

La Pucelle - Tactics: This is the closest I have come, thus far, to a console RPG based on The Slayers.Ever played Disgaea? Same developer, even less serious plot development, power level up the yinyang.

[dimerethiel]

The Neverhood
I´ve found this download site for old The Neverhood game:
The Neverhood download (http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/adventure/games_m_o/neverhood_the.html)

[Brandi]

No one's mentioned arcade games, so I will: Rampage and its sequel/remake.

[domino]

Psychonauts.

[Chikahiro]

I'll vote for:

Anachronox
Sam & Max
And select missions in COV

[Crazy-Cabal]

Psychonauts.

Amen.

[Loki Dodges-Their-Claws]

The Bard's Tale (I only have the PS2 version, though). I just love the songs - I occasionally get an earworm of "It's Bad Luck To Be You" going which I don't mind except I can never remember all the frickin' lyrics. :p

Destroy All Humans is one I play with sadistic glee: I just luv scaring the holy living crap out of people and stealing their brains (good place to 'farm' - the drive-in) and some of the things you pick up when reading the minds of these primitives...:rolleyes:

[RemyDuron]

Disgaea is the funniest game I've ever played, certainly.

I thought the opening of Fallout 2 was pretty funny, happy family leaving the vault, waving then... B-rat-rat-rat-rat... dead. Course, I think anything that really takes your expectations and twists them is funny.

[James Weatherby]

Disgaea for me also.

Nin nin nin!

[bubbles]

Games I have played that were funny:

Grim Fandango
Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim 2
Warcraft III
World of Warcraft

Of those, I think Grim Fandango is the funniest because it's just so well written. The others get humour from silliness, Grim Fandango has fantastic writing and that sets it apart in my opinion.

EDIT: and this thread has prompted me to reinstall Grim Fandango. Thanks :)

[Professor Phobos]

The Fallout games had some humorous moments. I'm finding Morte very funny in Torment.

Hmm. Duke Nuke 3d- now that was comedy. "I ain't afraid of no quake!" "That's one DOOOMED Space marine!"

Well, it was comedy when I was 14.

[bubbles]

Grim Fandango is just fantastic...

Manny Calavera: Are you sure you're Mercedes Colomar?
Mercedes Colomar: Yes I'm sure... would you like to see my birthmark?
Manny: Sure, where is it?
Mercedes: It's wherever you guys put my skin

:D

I love this game

[lordcomte]

See now while I love me some Disgaea I laughed far more during Makai Kingdom than I did through Disgaea. For me Disgaea stopped being funny as soon as the defender of earth showed up, he just annoyed me. Although I did like Thursday...

Anyway I laughed far more during Makai Kingdom...

Also I would ike to point out for everyone that likes Lucas Arts games some innovative people made a SCUMM emulator for the DS and Maniac Mansion, Secret of Monkey Island 1&2, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam and Max Hit the Road are all fully supported.

Linkage: http://scummvm.drunkencoders.com/

[Mortimer]

Kingdom of Magic.

Kingdom O' Magic. I agree, theres was something incredibly amusing about asking a Water Elemental if they wetted the bed as a child.

[Discord]

No-ones mentioned Star Control 2(or the remake) yet.

Finding out what happened to the Spathi army that had been left in charge of guarding (the completely slave-shielded) Earth, for starters.

Learning what the kamikaze Shofixti had done rather than surrender to the Urquan Dreadnoughts.

Most of the alien races had some chuckle points at one point or another.

[Arbane the Terrible]

No-ones mentioned Star Control 2(or the remake) yet.

Most of the alien races had some chuckle points at one point or another.

Another classic, and a VERY good game all 'round.

"Even our pets are rather evil." :D

Plus, the even-less-serious closing credits:
"Brought to you by Frungy, the sport of kings!"
"No, it isn't."

"But what I REALLY want to do is direct!"

[Agrias oaks]

No-ones mentioned Star Control 2(or the remake) yet.

Finding out what happened to the Spathi army that had been left in charge of guarding (the completely slave-shielded) Earth, for starters.

Learning what the kamikaze Shofixti had done rather than surrender to the Urquan Dreadnoughts.

Most of the alien races had some chuckle points at one point or another.

The spathi had some of the best quotes in the entire game.

'Attention big, mean, hostile alien vessel hovering overhead in an obvious attack posture: This is Spathi Captain Fwiffo. I know you are going to torture me, so let's just get this over with right now. The coordinates of my homeworld, Spathiwa, are 241.6 : 368.7 and the ultra-secret Spathi Cypher, which is known only by me and several billion other Spathi is `Huffi-Muffi-Guffi'. Sorry about that little mistake with your landing vehicle! I was so startled when it approached my vessel in a threatening manner that er.... my automated defense systems fired on it when it got too close. I hope nobody got hurt!'


and when you tried to get fwiffo to join....


'You build a strong case, Captain. Here I am, alone and undefended on the surface of a hostile alien world. Above me you hover in orbit, encrusted with beam guns, missile launchers and other, more dreadful weapons. So I think to myself: Fwiffo, is it prudent to remain here, as vulnerable as a moltling on a skillet? `NO', I answer myself, `JOIN THE HUNAM - HE IS KIND AND GOOD!' But then a wicked voice whispers: `beware... the hunam is tricking you! If you join him, you will die alone, in the cold of space.' And for reasons beyond my understanding, Captain, this voice overwhelms the other and so I must remain here...largely against my will. You continue to ask me this question, Captain. Will this time be any different? Alas, I fear not. Gee, thanks.'

Heck, the Spathi have too many good quotes, just go here dangit.

http://www.sa-matra.net/quotes/spathi/

Now if only I could the voice acting for the game....

[AWOL Joe]

No-ones mentioned Star Control 2(or the remake) yet.

Finding out what happened to the Spathi army that had been left in charge of guarding (the completely slave-shielded) Earth, for starters.

Learning what the kamikaze Shofixti had done rather than surrender to the Urquan Dreadnoughts.

Most of the alien races had some chuckle points at one point or another.

Another classic, and a VERY good game all 'round.

"Even our pets are rather evil." :D

Plus, the even-less-serious closing credits:
"Brought to you by Frungy, the sport of kings!"
"No, it isn't."

"But what I REALLY want to do is direct!"

"A lot can happen to a species in 3 Drahn, like turning green and evil." -The Sylandro on the Ur-Quan

The Spathi (and Fwiffo in particular) were hilarious pretty much every time you spoke with them.

Honorable mention to the stupidly violent Thraddash, as well.

(Also, what the Shofixti did wasn't hilarious, it was awesome.)

-AWOL Joe

[Agrias oaks]

"A lot can happen to a species in 3 Drahn, like turning green and evil." -The Sylandro on the Ur-Quan

The Spathi (and Fwiffo in particular) were hilarious pretty much every time you spoke with them.

Honorable mention to the stupidly violent Thraddash, as well.

(Also, what the Shofixti did wasn't hilarious, it was awesome.)

-AWOL Joe

Damn straight, the Shofixti did the coolest thing in the game, they supernova'd and virtually crushed the Kzer-za fleet sent after them, then again.... if they didn't do that, the Kzer-za would have beaten the Kohr-ah again and the whole scenario of SCII would have been diminished.

[Peter LaCara]

Psychonauts is a game constructed of molecules of pure funny and happy.

I'm a big fan of the new Bard's Tale. Cary Elwes did a great job as the Bard, but I think the Narrator upstages him.

But seriously, could there ever be a game as funny as Sam 'n Max Hit the Road? I mean, really.

[Balthazor]

My top position probably goes to The Longest Journey for it's witty and often very funny dialogue. I also got some giggles out of Postal 2, but they are the guilty "I shouldn't be finding this funny" kind of giggles. Ditto with the Grand Theft Auto games. Sometimes there's something incrediby funny about running over pedestrians.

Discworld was funny at times, at least until the game started driving me batshit insane. Then there was an old Sega Genesis game called Mutant League Football. It was a football game, built on the Madden engine, but featuring teams of monsters and other strangeness. Really a great little game.

Finally, the Best Unintentional Humor in a Videogame award goes to: The Ring. I picked this Dreamcast game up for a couple bucks, and let me tell you, despite it's attempt to be a horror game it will have you laughing out loud.

[RedFox]

Gotta give props to the lil' buddy.

<img src="http://students.oamk.fi/~m4kumi00/Kamat/49-0.jpg">

Thanks for the new desktop wallpaper!

The LucasArts games, Star Control 2, and NOLF pretty much have it covered, I think.

[SteveVo8a]

I don't know that I'd call either of them the funniest, but I found both Earthbound and Secret of Evermore pretty humorously entertaining.

[Leif]

Ditto with the Grand Theft Auto games. Sometimes there's something incrediby funny about running over pedestrians.


Well; that, but also there was quite a lot of various humour in the radio channels and other background stuff. Some of it utterly juvenile, some not so bad. Vice City in particular nailed mid-80s pop culture.

[JustJo]

Day of the Tentacle made me laugh. I played it with my bf before we got engaged - so maybe that's why I have such fond memories of it.

[Rikimaru]

Psychonauts is a game constructed of molecules of pure funny and happy.

I'm a big fan of the new Bard's Tale. Cary Elwes did a great job as the Bard, but I think the Narrator upstages him.


Of course the narrator upstaged him - it was Tony Jay! The man was a voice acting god. It's a shame that he passed away before we could get any more games or cartoons with him in a decent role - especially a game to wrap up the Legacy of Kain series.

The songs in Bard's Tale kicked ass too:

Oh, it's bad luck to be you.
A chosen one of many isn't new.
When you think you're full of luck,
In the bollock's you'll get struck.
Oh, it's bad luck to be you.

Anyway, most of my choices for funniest games have already been covered - Psychonauts, Bard's Tale, Grim Fandango, Monkey Island, most of the Lucasarts adventures, parts of Planescape: Torment.

I have to say that Murray from Monkey Island 3 and 4 was one of the funniest characters I have ever come across in a game. He had me in stitches every time he was on screen.

[Furious Fish]

If we're counting unintentionally humorous: Heroes of Annihilated Empires, which (despite the dubious title) is actually quite good, but has the WORST VOICE ACTING IN THE UNIVERSE. No contest whatsoever - you could scour the very earth for a thousand years and visit every preschool nativity play for every year and you would not hear a single line delivered with greater clumsiness, embarassment, and sheer incompetence. More to the point, you'll probably never find another game capable of forcing me to quit after five minutes, open up the game folder, and find and delete all the .ogg files before I could continue in peace.

[RPG_Wombat]

Pretty much the ones everyone else praises, especially the LA games.

I only ever played the first Monkey Isle though...what I really love is the one point were they bust on the way Sierra games had arbitrary deaths, and that entire bit with the fight behind the wall.

[David J Prokopetz]

I only ever played the first Monkey Isle though...what I really love is the one point were they bust on the way Sierra games had arbitrary deaths, and that entire bit with the fight behind the wall.
This trend continues throughout the series. There's a whole fake "bad ending" in The Curse of Monkey Island, complete with sombre music and rolling credits superimposed over an image of the protagonist's grave...

... and the entire sequence is actually another puzzle - you have to figure out how to escape from the coffin. :D
(Incidentally, did you know that there's actually one way to die in The Secret of Monkey Island? Just putz around in the underwater section for more than ten minutes - Guybrush will run out of breath.)

[Olof Jönsson]

Of course the narrator upstaged him - it was Tony Jay! The man was a voice acting god. It's a shame that he passed away before we could get any more games or cartoons with him in a decent role - especially a game to wrap up the Legacy of Kain series.

The songs in Bard's Tale kicked ass too:

Oh, it's bad luck to be you.
A chosen one of many isn't new.
When you think you're full of luck,
In the bollock's you'll get struck.
Oh, it's bad luck to be you.

...does anyone have all the songs available for purchase or download? Legally, of course.

[Tanka]

Armed and Dangerous, another by LA, is a hilarious FPS. Only 2-4 hours of gameplay total, but it's a laugh the whole way through.

Land Shark Guns, Topsy Turvy Bombs, Guy Fawkes Traitor Bombs, Knockout Bombs, World's Smallest Black Hole, Tea Cups to heal health...

Got mine at Best Buy real cheap, and didn't regret it for one moment. Seriously, find it if you can. It's awesome.

[TrapperQ]

As has been said, GTA Vice City. The cut scene dialogue, the pedestrian and cop chit chat, the radio stations, the sometimes subtle, sometimes crude innuendo, even the visual humour.

The old Discworld point and click games had a lot of humour. Granted, they were mostly recycled Terry Pratchett jokes, but they were still funny.

Lemmings, not so much amusing as entertaining.

[David J Prokopetz]

Lemmings, not so much amusing as entertaining.I don't know - getting absolutely stuck in a level and hitting the self-destruct button out of frustration can be downright hilarious. :D

[Mortimer]

Speaking of Lemmings, the original Worm's game was pretty hilerous. It was the only game I knew where you could order one of your little men to fire off a bazooka only to have the wind blow the rocket back in his face ...

[AWOL Joe]

Speaking of Lemmings, the original Worm's game was pretty hilerous. It was the only game I knew where you could order one of your little men to fire off a bazooka only to have the wind blow the rocket back in his face ...

I HATE it when that happens...

Along with the "Banana Bomb gone horribly wrong" effect.

-AWOL Joe

[Max]

I HATE it when that happens...

Along with the "Banana Bomb gone horribly wrong" effect.

-AWOL Joe
Personally, my favorite bits were usually the catastrophic chain-reaction-creating user malfunctions that could send every freaking worm in the entire map to their early (possibly watery) graves. :D

[AWOL Joe]

Personally, my favorite bits were usually the catastrophic chain-reaction-creating user malfunctions that could send every freaking worm in the entire map to their early (possibly watery) graves. :D

That's basically the general version of "Banana Bomb gone horribly wrong". The Banana Bomb being particularly good for this sort of thing, due to it's mega-cluster-bomb action. (Although the "bananas fall, everybody dies!" version is a lot more entertaining than the "intended enemy target dies, along with 4 of your worms" version)

-AWOL Joe

[bubbles]

Because no-one has mentioned it for a while, I feel I should remind everyone of whay Grim Fandango is so funny:

Manuel Calavera: So what did you think of my poem?
Slisko: I liked it. It was sad and beautiful, like my mother.
Alexi: I despised it. It was too short and said nothing to me, like my father.
Gunnar: I had no feelings about it. It was aloof and licked itself too much, like my cat, Mr. Trotsky.

That said, other games have their funny moments. Deliberately sending all the lemmings to their doom is always funny. 'Bananas fall, everyone dies' is funny. In GTA games, causing a huge traffic pile-up (or just piling up a load of cars), waiting for the cops to arrive then blowing everything up with a rocket launcher is criminally funny.

[Furious Fish]

Not sure whether it counts, because the humour isn't exactly written into the game, but the Worms series has probably given my brother and I more laughter than any other game I've ever played :)

[Afterburner]

For me, the funniest game I've played was the original Jagged Alliance. The voice acting was top notch, and several characters (including some otherwise competent mercs) were played for humor value. It was the loss of humor that was one of the few things I missed in JA2.

One of the humorous yet reasonably competent mercs was a Japanese cowboy-wannabe named "Tex", who peppered his speech with phrases from cowboy movies, all in a thick Japanese accent. Whenever he'd be skulking around and run into a bad guy, he'd exclaim "Cowpie!" You could make the characters search each other, which would produce various humorous responses. Tex's was "WHOA, PARDNER!" Probably sounds less funny here in text than it actually was. Guess you had to be there.

One of the humorous, non-competent characters was Skitz the bomb expert. Skitz was a drugged out, burned out freakazoid. If he ever ran out of bullets, he'd say "I'm out of bullets...and I'm gettin' REALLY paranoid..." If he was wounded and bleeding to death, his line was "I'm...dying. Sooooo peaceful. So many colors..."

I could go on (and believe me, the temptation is strong). But it's occurring to me that the humor just isn't translating well to printed text. So you're all just going to have to go out and find a copy of the original CD version of the game with the speech files and play it to see what I'm talking about.

[Dawgstar]

I'm sure I'm just seconding or thirding, but...

Anachronox: Oh, if this game had actually been finished, and did well enough for a sequel, the hysterical wonders we would have seen.

Space Quest 1-5: SQ1 was my first computer game, which probably tells you everything you need to know. The Two Guys From Andromeda will always hold a special place in my heart. For the record, 6 had some funny bits but it felt a weird step back and not really Space Quest-y at all.

And yes, anything by LucasArts with regards to being a comedy adventure game.

[Elemental]

There was a lot of black humour in Max Payne 1 & 2. Especially the meta-commentary in the TV series' you keep overhearing.

"America's Avenger! For when it's too late to protect your loved ones!"

"Who's the toughest, baddest, gun-toting, metaphor-spewing cop out there? Dick Justice!"

"The rain was coming down like all the angels in Heaven had decided to take a piss at the same time. In a situation like mine, you can only think in metaphors."

And the whole level where you have to escort a guy in an oversized mascot costume (which is hooked up to a bomb) and end up having to take a needlessly complicated route because his head is too big to fit through any of the doors.

[Afterburner]

There was a lot of black humour in Max Payne 1 & 2. Especially the meta-commentary in the TV series' you keep overhearing.

"America's Avenger! For when it's too late to protect your loved ones!"

"Who's the toughest, baddest, gun-toting, metaphor-spewing cop out there? Dick Justice!"

"The rain was coming down like all the angels in Heaven had decided to take a piss at the same time. In a situation like mine, you can only think in metaphors."

And the whole level where you have to escort a guy in an oversized mascot costume (which is hooked up to a bomb) and end up having to take a needlessly complicated route because his head is too big to fit through any of the doors.

Isn't there also a bit in one of the Max Payne games where he goes on this long metaphorical, "the night was black, as black as a hooker's heart" kind of rant that concludes with something like "And this time, there would be no escape... I had to write that paperwork." ?