Comedy in Gaming - The Ultimate Balancing Act

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  • Опубліковано 10 тра 2020
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    Comedy in gaming goes much deeper than good writing, or good slapstick. Between prompting the player to do funny things, and a fine balance between immersion, and the intentional undermining of immersion. It's a lot more complicated than the simple joy it generates.
    Music used in this video:
    Earthbound (Mother 2) OST by Keiichi Suzuki
    Undertale OST by Toby Fox
    Firewatch OST by Chris Remo
    Thanks to 'Story SpeedThrough' for the footage of Resident Evil 7
    • Resident Evil 7 Walkth...
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  • @Leadhead
    @Leadhead  3 роки тому +118

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  • @omegagaming6280
    @omegagaming6280 4 роки тому +5225

    my favorite joke has got to be the massive door in old aperture that opens up to a normal sized door in portal 2

    • @animarthur5297
      @animarthur5297 4 роки тому +383

      Yeah,that's a good one,but Cave Johnson's Lemon quote is by far the best.

    • @blinkachu05
      @blinkachu05 4 роки тому +501

      Mine is "The part where he kills you."

    • @CanadianCat64
      @CanadianCat64 4 роки тому +208

      mine in portal 2 is either, the party, the part when he kills you, or the mantis men line

    • @animarthur5297
      @animarthur5297 4 роки тому +31

      @@blinkachu05 That's a good one too.

    • @lunar58071
      @lunar58071 4 роки тому +47

      All my favorite jokes are the potato ones.

  • @someaxolotl3697
    @someaxolotl3697 4 роки тому +2370

    For me the best comedian in gaming is Cave Johnson from Portal 2. For example: "To those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is that we're postponing those tests indefinetly, good news is that we've got a much better test for you, fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line, you'll know when the test starts."

    • @thequire9809
      @thequire9809 3 роки тому +82

      Yes I love that quote It always gets me :)

    • @JensenP12
      @JensenP12 3 роки тому +98

      God, I can hear his voice just by reading this

    • @qwertyuiop4583
      @qwertyuiop4583 3 роки тому +70

      Portal 2 is simply the funniest game ever made

    • @funkuro
      @funkuro 3 роки тому +37

      @@qwertyuiop4583 the part we he kills you. has go to be my favourite joke

    • @Secretcodrin
      @Secretcodrin 3 роки тому +2

      Maybe because it's 3 am or that i'm stupid, but i don't get it. ;-;

  • @whatstuntman4876
    @whatstuntman4876 4 роки тому +4866

    Favorite joke in gaming would have to be in Portal 2.
    Glados: "Well. This is the part where he kills us."
    Wheatley: "Hello! This is the part where I kill you."
    *Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You*
    Achievement: *The Part Where He Kills You* "This is the part"
    Music Title: *The Part Where He Kills You*

    • @giovanitodeschini6572
      @giovanitodeschini6572 4 роки тому +340

      *The Part Where He Kills You*

    • @CeriusDeluge
      @CeriusDeluge 4 роки тому +441

      @@giovanitodeschini6572
      That part kills me!

    • @shadysam7161
      @shadysam7161 4 роки тому +55

      @@CeriusDeluge not big suprise

    • @koboDresden
      @koboDresden 4 роки тому +61

      And technically, all statements are false. Unless you really want to die, you won't.

    • @nicefloweytheoverseer7632
      @nicefloweytheoverseer7632 4 роки тому +36

      @@koboDresden And yes, a set of all sets DOES contain itself.

  • @LeekyKale
    @LeekyKale 4 роки тому +3569

    "Gordon you are in prison" i laughed my ass off i need to play this mod

  • @RaptorMocha
    @RaptorMocha 4 роки тому +3404

    my favorite joke in portal 2 is the one in old aperture in the ‘70s’ section where 60$ is constantly mentioned on signs

    • @shitruns
      @shitruns 4 роки тому +202

      Btw, $60

    • @mattstorm360
      @mattstorm360 4 роки тому +371

      Cash. You can spend it on... I don't know, what do these people buy?

    • @engineergaming7407
      @engineergaming7407 4 роки тому +77

      @@mattstorm360 water

    • @ZKtheMAN
      @ZKtheMAN 4 роки тому +126

      @@mattstorm360 Beard dirt?

    • @Jazz-dh2ds
      @Jazz-dh2ds 4 роки тому +28

      I don't get it, help?

  • @guys-in9vd
    @guys-in9vd 4 роки тому +1300

    "LOVE HAS BEEN DISPENSED" always got me XD

  • @maxresdefault_
    @maxresdefault_ 4 роки тому +1167

    Hit the nail on the head about what makes the companion cube so great. The designers obviously had a level idea where they wanted you to use the same box throughout, but needed to tell the player to take it along with them. So they wrote this incredibly memorable joke, and the cube is now an icon of gaming.
    That's problem solving in game development that you almost never see elsewhere, and only comes around when you have some very smart writers.

    • @PryzmMusic
      @PryzmMusic 3 роки тому +6

      That.... Never occurred to me... Holy shit, that's genius. And I thought I already knew everything about Valve/How Portal/Portal 2 were made-

    • @raph2550
      @raph2550 Рік тому +2

      And that goes with the incenerator too. The initial problem was that they needed to teach how incinerators worked before the final boss so they made you euthanaze your best friend.

  • @mile290productions3
    @mile290productions3 4 роки тому +1909

    The girl's response while on the ground whole being burned really made me feel some type of sad fear.

    • @literallyanidiot2880
      @literallyanidiot2880 4 роки тому +419

      We call that empathy, good stuff.

    • @twinzzlers
      @twinzzlers 4 роки тому +32

      @@literallyanidiot2880 I was laughing

    • @shintsukimi8530
      @shintsukimi8530 4 роки тому +138

      We call that empathy, bad stuff.

    • @thesuperpunmaster6369
      @thesuperpunmaster6369 4 роки тому +34

      that's postal 2 for ya

    • @benfoley4683
      @benfoley4683 4 роки тому +89

      ikr i have a really fucked sense of humor and will often laugh at extreme crippling injury/death to humans but something about that hurt me inside

  • @cockfucker69
    @cockfucker69 4 роки тому +984

    "GORDON. YOU ARE IN PRISON."
    "ok bye lol"
    *walks away*

    • @_vla
      @_vla 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah, just wach the monk animation when he's burned in the mod

    • @SneaktheWolf
      @SneaktheWolf 2 роки тому

      Britain

    • @Joaopfalk
      @Joaopfalk Рік тому

      @temporarily_unamed_for_a_r1870 "So you're the New replacemement? "

  • @biteco4146
    @biteco4146 4 роки тому +1063

    okay i admit i laughed in every single scene the minimalist mod appeared

    • @yeaggaming7621
      @yeaggaming7621 4 роки тому +5

      Same

    • @animarthur5297
      @animarthur5297 4 роки тому +78

      GORDON
      YOU ARE IN PRISON

    • @biteco4146
      @biteco4146 4 роки тому +49

      @@animarthur5297 WAKE UP AND SAVE CITY 17

    • @nopushbutton
      @nopushbutton 4 роки тому +9

      same here. even with all of the jokes being explained and analyzed I couldn't help myself

    • @sch_ilis9928
      @sch_ilis9928 4 роки тому

      Ah yes,
      DEADPANHUMOR

  • @danforce4222
    @danforce4222 4 роки тому +499

    I just love to see a goofy ragdoll in TF2, even when I die the fact that I see my ragdoll fly unrealistically far from a melee hit makes me less mad and more amused.

    • @critrawkets
      @critrawkets 4 роки тому +27

      And the sounds these ragdolls makes...

    • @deaaronfox5
      @deaaronfox5 4 роки тому +36

      ^
      Your head!

    • @ghoulbuster1
      @ghoulbuster1 4 роки тому +29

      (colliding meat noises)

    • @leonardo9259
      @leonardo9259 3 роки тому +17

      The fact that the game spawn a A posing model of your class to then apply ragdoll on it it's fucking amazing

    • @ToxicBastard
      @ToxicBastard 3 роки тому +28

      once while playing tf2 I fucked up a jump and fell a comically small distance, dying due to low health, cue a a scout in the distance saying "nice job" as he ran past.
      Best clip I ever got, always gets me.

  • @alexandertheok9610
    @alexandertheok9610 3 роки тому +291

    "DUE TO THE TESTING PROTOCOL, WE WILL NO LONGER LIE TO YOU. WHEN THE TESTING IS FINISHED, WE WILL miss YOU!"

    • @colinstorm2892
      @colinstorm2892 3 роки тому +18

      *When the testing is over, you will be missed"

    • @alexandertheok9610
      @alexandertheok9610 3 роки тому +3

      @@colinstorm2892 when I made this Comment i haven't been playing the game for like four months

    • @alexandertheok9610
      @alexandertheok9610 3 роки тому +2

      You're right tho

    • @jacobpeacy4003
      @jacobpeacy4003 3 роки тому +19

      "After this next test you will be baked, and then there will be cake"

    • @colinstorm2892
      @colinstorm2892 3 роки тому +7

      "Do you think im trying to trick you with reverse psycology? Come on, seriously"

  • @Dave5400
    @Dave5400 3 роки тому +80

    The joke with the longest build-up has to be in Half Life, surely.
    Right at the beginning of the first game where you ruin Magnusson's microwave meal. Only near the very end of Episode 2 does he finally decide to remind you of it...
    Started in 1998 and concluded in 2007. Can never help but chuckle when he almost forgives you.

    • @Lucho2112
      @Lucho2112 3 роки тому +6

      Yeah but that wasn't that great for me because it obviusly wasn't planned in 1998 so it feels more like a reference than an big planned joke.
      Still the longest build-up.

  • @eternalfrost1732
    @eternalfrost1732 4 роки тому +421

    My favorite joke in gaming is portal 2, The part where he kills you.

    • @animarthur5297
      @animarthur5297 4 роки тому +83

      GLaDOS:That's the part where he kills us!
      Wheatley:Hello!This is the part where i kill you!
      Chapter 9:The Part Where He Kills You
      Achievement Unlocked:The Part Where He Kills You
      The Part Where Kills You starts playing

    • @demtheloner1266
      @demtheloner1266 4 роки тому +12

      @@animarthur5297 oh and the song playing is also The Part Where He Kills You
      edit: i am dumb and didn't check the "Read more" section

    • @animarthur5297
      @animarthur5297 4 роки тому +5

      @@demtheloner1266 ik,i did mention it.
      (The Part Where He Kills You starts playing)

    • @demtheloner1266
      @demtheloner1266 4 роки тому +5

      @@animarthur5297 my bad. i didn't see the "Read more" button.

    • @seanholm8957
      @seanholm8957 4 роки тому +8

      Achievement: The part where he kills you
      _this is that part_

  • @MetaSlev
    @MetaSlev 4 роки тому +175

    Can't believe you missed the best joke in portal 2 "this is the part where he kills you" the achievement is just the final kick for that joke

    • @matthewr6148
      @matthewr6148 4 роки тому +9

      *Name of the music track for it

    • @TNP-
      @TNP- Рік тому

      @@matthewr6148 both.

    • @DoggosGames
      @DoggosGames Рік тому

      Glados: This is the part where he kills us
      Wheatley: This is the part where I kill you
      Chapter: The Part Where He Kills You
      Music: The Part Where He Kills You
      Achievement Unlocked: The Part Where He Kills You

  • @bridgetgaribaldi5149
    @bridgetgaribaldi5149 3 роки тому +45

    You setting the woman who didn't wanna sign the petition on fire made me feel bad and a little sick at first.
    Then you asked her to sign the petition again and I chuckled lmao

  • @Euclidiuss
    @Euclidiuss 4 роки тому +422

    Gordon, that drop ship is coming right for us!
    AAAA-
    Perfectly cut screams v420

  • @Alekkek
    @Alekkek 4 роки тому +558

    Man talks about ragdoll physics like it's a picasso painting

    • @imdone8243
      @imdone8243 4 роки тому +41

      It isn't?

    • @Alekkek
      @Alekkek 4 роки тому +7

      @@imdone8243 bro....

    • @narsicko6919
      @narsicko6919 3 роки тому +17

      I mean, he ain't wrong.

    • @RevPerdueJosh
      @RevPerdueJosh 3 роки тому

      I'm done he’s admiring creator’s opinion.

    • @imdone8243
      @imdone8243 3 роки тому +6

      It's obviously a thing of beauty. Modern masterwork of art.

  • @adamhearts9195
    @adamhearts9195 4 роки тому +752

    A little bit of crack can fuel an entire night of cartoony violence oh my God classic

  • @YourPalKindred
    @YourPalKindred 4 роки тому +39

    My favourite part of RE7 that really broke that "surrealism barrier" or such so to speak, was when you finish the first light puzzle as Ethan. Right as you begin to wonder what kind of person would have such a thing in their home, Ethan says "Who builds this shit?" which made lose it. I love that it comments of the ludicrousness of something that has been so long running in a series now that it's viewed by a new generation of players

  • @enbyfabulosity2521
    @enbyfabulosity2521 4 роки тому +61

    One of my favourite things like this in a game, even though technically it wasn't intended, was the skyrim space program. Seeing your follower get blasted into the sky by a giant just hits my funny bone in a different way. Same goes for similar bugs in the game, like putting a corpse on a sawn log before it disappears.

    • @imagine6666
      @imagine6666 4 роки тому +4

      Hitman 2 homing briefcase bug comes to mind, it was so funny the devs decided to leave it in.

  • @groovygray3210
    @groovygray3210 4 роки тому +638

    I think another point can be made about ragdoll physics in games too. If there was to be a comedic movie scene about some guy just running people like you'd do in GTA5, the whole thing just wouldn't play out unless you were in a setting like a game such as GTA. It's less so on the fact that it's actually funny to watch, but more so that you're the one doing it. I'll groan when some movies try to make a scene funny with an out of place slapstick and unrealistic moment, where some dude goes flying 70 miles away because they mildly tapped the hood of a car while it was moving 1 mile an hour. But i'll wheeze my ass off when some combine soldier french kisses a grenade I threw and within the span of 3 seconds their leg bends a full 90 degree angle and they're just gone.
    Great video!

    • @fyter2738
      @fyter2738 4 роки тому +14

      yeah but like what about killer bean forever

    • @Ze_eT
      @Ze_eT 4 роки тому +25

      @@fyter2738 That movie is beyond what mortals understand as "comedy".

    • @Ruskah0307
      @Ruskah0307 4 роки тому +8

      combine soldier x grenade is my new otp

    • @fyter2738
      @fyter2738 4 роки тому +4

      @@Ruskah0307 GRENADE!

    • @boxcarz
      @boxcarz 4 роки тому +3

      @@Ruskah0307
      THAT'S A GRENADE!
      RIPCORD, RIPCORD!

  • @sydney_pepper
    @sydney_pepper 4 роки тому +146

    "Gordon... You are in prison." **Walks away**

  • @silvercomic
    @silvercomic 4 роки тому +138

    I'd add another genre of comedy that is exclusive to games: complex rule-based comedy. Think games like Worms, Magicka, Kerbal Space Program, and Overcooked. These games have rule sets that allow for comedy to naturally happen. Ususally the rules are complex and strict, but understandable on an intuitive level. So when something goes wrong, the player(s) can predict it going wrong from the preceding conditions.
    For example in Worms when a player causes an explosion, which causes a mine to bounce back onto their own worm, who was standing next to a cliff. The rules of why this happens are all clear, and the unintended consequences were inevitable as soon as they let go of the space bar. These games also have high intensity situations, where a lot of earlier gameplay can hinge around these moments. For example returning from a long mission in Kerbal, and noticing you've put on a wrong type of parachute. The tension of the situation is defused by something ridiculous. It's a little like slapstick comedy, where you see a banana peel on the ground, and Charlie Chaplin running towards it.
    The anticipation and (explosive) resolution is funny. While films can have this anticipation and reward mechanic, they can't have it happen organically.

    • @Axquirix
      @Axquirix 3 роки тому +6

      Ah yes, the "Oh crap, I forgot solar panels AGAIN!" humour.

    • @haseenabadshah5381
      @haseenabadshah5381 3 роки тому

      69 likes lmao

  • @sittingduhk
    @sittingduhk 4 роки тому +126

    the phrase "grand theft auto 4 as a kid" made me feel a million years old

    • @Hoplasa
      @Hoplasa 4 роки тому +5

      yeah ikr xd, i played the ol' top side view gta's.
      Where's the time gone?

    • @adammcfall5133
      @adammcfall5133 3 роки тому +2

      @@ahmeth.k.2566 and San Andreas ..even GTA 5 is 7 years old.

  • @heater1311
    @heater1311 4 роки тому +720

    Dude this deserves way more views its well made

    • @SORRYBUTYOURENEXT
      @SORRYBUTYOURENEXT 4 роки тому

      agreed,but 100k IS A LOT man,if he had 1million i bet you'd still say the same lol

    • @edjjr7512
      @edjjr7512 4 роки тому +1

      @@SORRYBUTYOURENEXT This comment was make when the video had around 9 - 10k views

    • @heater1311
      @heater1311 3 роки тому

      @@SORRYBUTYOURENEXT I think it was lower than 10k when i made this comment, i'm glad it's getting the recognition it deserves though

  • @subprogram32
    @subprogram32 4 роки тому +75

    I am very glad you made this video to share that joke in Prey, because I never realised that myself before! :D

  • @the7thlegacy728
    @the7thlegacy728 4 роки тому +59

    Oblivion is also one of the most hilarious games ever, and oftentimes when it in no way tries to be. Systemic humour without being intended.

    • @pitedapollo6175
      @pitedapollo6175 4 роки тому +9

      Stop, you have violated the law

    • @TheLuke3399
      @TheLuke3399 4 роки тому +4

      @@pitedapollo6175 It's been a long time since I've seen a good brawl

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 3 роки тому

      ua-cam.com/video/5CRZrY-IMMQ/v-deo.html

  • @busterstar6716
    @busterstar6716 4 роки тому +72

    I nearly died at the “GORDON. YOU ARE IN PRISON”

  • @sammyruntz
    @sammyruntz 4 роки тому +29

    Portal 2 was the game that got me into gaming when I was entering middle school, and because of all the lore and story around it, I never realized until now that the companion cube is a joke in the first game.

    • @AmaroqStarwind
      @AmaroqStarwind 2 роки тому

      Portal 2 was the first game I ever purchased on the day of release.

  • @ThreeProphets
    @ThreeProphets 4 роки тому +34

    I feel like you kind of glossed over how clever those audio logs in Prey were were. The game uses them to tutorialize you, with Jessica's exasperated instructions teaching you how to operate various equipment around the station. These are already funny, but they can land in a variety of ways, from the player bring glad someone was stupid enough to have to ask for instructions every time he tried to do his job to feeling like an idiot themselves trying to do it without finding the log first, and they all land just as well. Even if you don't end up investigating Grant's body, the logs are still amusing on their own. It's very difficult to account for for player behavior when setting up jokes, but Prey does this brilliantly by making them work in any scenario

  • @atlas8827
    @atlas8827 4 роки тому +53

    I didn't realize the Grant Lockwood thing was a joke. Makes me wonder what else I may have missed

    • @Tacospaceman
      @Tacospaceman 4 роки тому +5

      It’s funny that he was that stupid and still got the job, but you didn’t miss anything because it wasn’t funny. No wonder you didn’t see it as a joke

    • @atlas8827
      @atlas8827 4 роки тому +8

      @@Tacospaceman
      I think it is funny, but at the time I didn't make the connection.

    • @JaredJudson
      @JaredJudson 3 роки тому +1

      @@birdsplaybs1234 it is, but Arkane likes making small stories about almost everything you can find in their games

    • @sanghelian
      @sanghelian 3 роки тому

      @@birdsplaybs1234 yea i just thought he is a tutorial dude. but should've known how prey fits everything together

  • @bottlegang3187
    @bottlegang3187 4 роки тому +40

    Ragdoll physics are so funny to me that most of the time I've spent in TF2 has been trying to killbind at the right time to make it look like my class tripped and fell

    • @hunterdramora
      @hunterdramora 3 роки тому +2

      my favorite is when you rocket/sticky jump and killbind right as you land in front of someone!

    • @TheNinjaOfTexas
      @TheNinjaOfTexas Рік тому

      High-fiving someone and killbind right as it connects, top tier humor

  • @spartanwar1185
    @spartanwar1185 4 роки тому +28

    Probably my favorite occurrence ever in regards to game humor is when AIs screw eachother over unintentionally, because of the physics engine and their suboptimal calculations, via grenade
    Like when they throw a grenade in a game like Garry's Mod, there's alot that can go wrong and sometimes one combine soldier out of his squad didn't get the fucking memo that somebody just threw a grenade into the room he went into
    Or when an npc gets stuck in the back of the head with a plasma grenade, by their own ally, in a Halo game
    Hell, grenade fuck-ups are some of the funniest occurrences i've ever witnessed in all of media
    It's the perfect gamble of "What could go wrong?", especially when you include those ridiculous moments when the physics engine really makes the extraordinary happen and makes a grenade go flying in a direction nobody anticipated, to the dismay of the poor sucker who catches it with their head

    • @wisecrack3461
      @wisecrack3461 3 роки тому +1

      There's this absolutely hilarious bug in Maximum Action that can cause grenades you fire from your under barrel M16 attachment to bounce off enemies, seeing one go soaring through the air only to whack another grunt in their "soon to be former" face NEVER gets old.

  • @golem_spy12neat19
    @golem_spy12neat19 4 роки тому +90

    7:38 that just blew my mind. i have almost always put the cube up in the shelf and teetered on the edge of the first button so both doors were open. have i been doing that wrong this whole time?

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 4 роки тому +30

      nope, you can play Portal 1 in any way you want.

    • @L-sillybrained
      @L-sillybrained 4 роки тому +12

      There’s more than one way to solve a puzzle

    • @natebit7167
      @natebit7167 4 роки тому +6

      Not wrong. Just differently ;)

    • @xxepic_g4m3r_guyxx52
      @xxepic_g4m3r_guyxx52 4 роки тому +18

      i stole a bunch of cameras and stacked them up to get up there

    • @KilosFoxo
      @KilosFoxo 4 роки тому +7

      @@xxepic_g4m3r_guyxx52 another example of humor in video games

  • @squelchedotter
    @squelchedotter 4 роки тому +13

    Incidentally this video is also a great demonstration of the extreme overuse of violence-as-comedy in video games.

    • @Tacospaceman
      @Tacospaceman 4 роки тому +7

      Agreed. This video is a joke. That’s the only funny thing here. Maybe the drop ship part

    • @nessotrin
      @nessotrin 4 роки тому +8

      Something felt horribly wrong about this video. Thank you for putting words on it.
      The dropship thing was hilarious tho'.

    • @cowboyinuk1000
      @cowboyinuk1000 3 роки тому +1

      this video is just fuel for fearful boomers who think gamers are just sociopaths

  • @lordzacarius642
    @lordzacarius642 3 роки тому +22

    All of these comments are "my favourite joke in gaming was in portal 2" and it's great

    • @graysongdl
      @graysongdl 3 роки тому +1

      Or "wow you can pee on yourself in this game?"

  • @srobbo71
    @srobbo71 4 роки тому +78

    You forgot a type of joke...
    The smug grin. You know the joke wasn't funny, but you get a grin. The best example is Alyx seeing the zombie.

    • @samuraijackoff5354
      @samuraijackoff5354 3 роки тому +14

      Like... a Zombine.... hehe

    • @addderalll
      @addderalll 3 роки тому +15

      or the part where you fall out of a vent right in front of alyx, who prompty says: “back so soon?”

  • @genroynoisis6980
    @genroynoisis6980 4 роки тому +22

    my favourite joke in portal is "the part where he kills you"
    I can't keep myself from smiling just from thinking about it.

  • @floatingpyro2050
    @floatingpyro2050 4 роки тому +40

    The problem with this video is that its so good that i am watching it instead of doing work.

    • @ryan-levy
      @ryan-levy 4 роки тому +1

      I'm supposed to be doing work for a personal project right now, I put this video on in the background and I can't concentrate lmao.

  • @cruzsmemory
    @cruzsmemory 4 роки тому +16

    I remember in my first hotline miami playtrhought when I tried to stab this guy with a shotgun missed and ackwardly stared at eachother for like a second till the dude shot me

  • @alfieburns9019
    @alfieburns9019 4 роки тому +8

    couch couple didn't die, they're at the end of the game on a different couch

  • @inf3243
    @inf3243 3 роки тому +5

    Starts video essay talking about the subtleties of comedy, dives straight into how funny it is to run people over and explode heads with shotguns.
    ohhh kayyy0

  • @Jellylamps
    @Jellylamps 4 роки тому +5

    I think we have wildly different senses of humor
    I respect that

  • @prowlingmonkey
    @prowlingmonkey 4 роки тому +9

    The first tearful laugh I can remember from my gaming years, which reminds me a lot of grant, is the jumping wizard in morrowind (combined with my own stupidity of immediately using the spell).

  • @thefrey9588
    @thefrey9588 3 роки тому +5

    Ah, yes, being a psychopath in games-the absolute c o m e d y.

    • @cowboyinuk1000
      @cowboyinuk1000 3 роки тому +2

      first comment I found that wasn’t positive. thank god 😭 this was the stupidest set of arguments he could’ve made

  • @FPSDIESEL
    @FPSDIESEL 4 роки тому +103

    Keep making these I can totally see your channel blowing up from these videos.

    • @ludbud57
      @ludbud57 3 роки тому +2

      You were right in that

    • @commie281
      @commie281 3 роки тому

      CORRECT

    • @noralex777
      @noralex777 2 роки тому

      Diesel my man, I didn't know you were a man of culture

  • @endtimes7039
    @endtimes7039 4 роки тому +16

    if theres one thing i learned from this video, its that you can pee on yourself to put out flames in postal

  • @IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou
    @IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou 4 роки тому +279

    There's something, really, really wrong about this video.
    Not enough views considering the quality of the video.

    • @pepejw
      @pepejw 3 роки тому +2

      I think there's something really wrong with me! Portal 2, Chapter 9, The Part Where He Kills You (or maybe Chapter 8, The Itch)

    • @IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou
      @IdRatherNotHaveAHandleThankYou 3 роки тому

      @@pepejw Yeah, chapter nine.

  • @fracter6152
    @fracter6152 3 роки тому +5

    'Glados then drops the character a companion cube, funniest shit I've ever seen'

  • @MissNirny
    @MissNirny 4 роки тому +156

    Bruh i have been playing garrys mod for 5 years and have 1000 hours in it and somehow I didn’t know you could inflate npcs 14:40

    • @lizzyred3677
      @lizzyred3677 4 роки тому +19

      I played gmod for 10 minutes and figured that out by fucking around with stuff lmaoo

    • @KilosFoxo
      @KilosFoxo 4 роки тому +23

      since you had no clue about inflation in a game you now have had your furry licence revoked

    • @cringekid07
      @cringekid07 3 роки тому

      I just want to know how to bone manipulate ragdolls

    • @bruhbruh4658
      @bruhbruh4658 3 роки тому +1

      get this: i didnt know there was an online server browser until a couple years ago

    • @AceOfBlackjack
      @AceOfBlackjack 3 роки тому

      transfactory Oh this is being curated for sure, an example of the internet culture and lighthearted jokes on weird subjects.

  • @JohnsonTheSecond
    @JohnsonTheSecond 4 роки тому +60

    3:08 wait you just peed on yourself to extinguish the fire? i just realised
    any game with a peeing mechanic is a winner

    • @ghoulbuster1
      @ghoulbuster1 4 роки тому +12

      Pissing is an important gameplay mechanic that will save your life!

    • @jamesgatz5301
      @jamesgatz5301 3 роки тому

      Death Stranding ruins that theory

    • @lazydroidproductions1087
      @lazydroidproductions1087 2 роки тому

      @@jamesgatz5301 oh I think Duke Nukem Forever ruined it long ago

  • @Zack_Zander
    @Zack_Zander 4 роки тому +9

    17:00
    I legit had a straight stern face, bracing to not laugh...
    And that scream mess me up

  • @dist0rted320
    @dist0rted320 4 роки тому +24

    Best joke in Portal 2: Wheatley.

  • @greendude0420
    @greendude0420 3 роки тому +2

    Tbh G-man sounds like he’s bout to shit his pants laughing in the intro sequence, which put a grin on my face.

  • @stoozey
    @stoozey 4 роки тому +53

    clicked on this because it was recommended, enjoyed the entire video, read a comment saying this deserves more views, then proceeded to be shocked at how underrated your channel is.
    see you in a couple months when you blow up. subbed

  • @sharkcraft8568
    @sharkcraft8568 4 роки тому +8

    18:05 Oh, thanks, that was really useful information.

  • @Phoenix-qv9hg
    @Phoenix-qv9hg 4 роки тому +21

    He peed on himself to prevent himself from burning at 2:18. Wow.

  • @saurabhkulkarni8854
    @saurabhkulkarni8854 2 роки тому +2

    The story of Grant Lockwood had me in stitches. This video is gold.

  • @shintsukimi8530
    @shintsukimi8530 4 роки тому +19

    "Goerdan! That drapship's comin' right for us!
    *AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"*

  • @Zyxylz
    @Zyxylz 3 роки тому +3

    17:00 i have vivid memories of playing this mod and laughing so fucking hard when the death scene happened.

  • @joko49perez
    @joko49perez 4 роки тому +14

    This video is excellent, thank you very much for making this. That Prey story made my day.

  • @bekkayya
    @bekkayya 4 роки тому +25

    3:47 gman, is that you?

  • @Jmcgee1125
    @Jmcgee1125 4 роки тому +16

    17:06 you underestimate the amount of time modding takes.
    Though I wouldn't put it past this mod.

  • @Fireheart318
    @Fireheart318 4 роки тому +18

    Okay, here’s MY favorite comedy moment in games: My friends and I were playing Just Cause 2, just ducking around as you tend to do in the game. Tuk Tuks, or the r******d lovechild of a moped and Reliant Robin, were everywhere in the game, just driving people or goods around. Anyway, it was my turn to play, and I’d just stolen a supercar from some random npc. I was making my way across one of the massive bridges that join the main cities of the game. We had a thing where we’d yell “Tuk Tuk!” just before destroying one. I found myself rocketing into a Tuk Tuk at full speed. The three of us erupted into laughter as the poor bastard FLEW off the bridge with way more kinetic energy than it should have, and presumably exploded when it hit the water.

    • @mr.pavone9719
      @mr.pavone9719 3 роки тому +1

      Oh my God I was playing JC2 with my son. We had just commandeered an armored car and shot a tuk tuk. The round landed just behind the rear wheel and the explosion sent the driver rocketing 200 meters away, screaming the whole time.
      I couldn't breathe I was laughing so hard

  • @v41.3ry9
    @v41.3ry9 4 роки тому +6

    This is awesomely made, i actually got caught off guard when i saw it only had 6k views

  • @JeremyRedus
    @JeremyRedus 4 роки тому +3

    I can't believe we never thought of making a liquid that completely rebinds and gives us complete control of our limbs after being completely severed, this is the magic of games that doesn't give a crap about realism

  • @ghostprime6320
    @ghostprime6320 4 роки тому +6

    5:24 can I just ask, what kind of psychopath doesn’t play the Portal games with subtitles?

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 Рік тому

      I hate subtitles, they spoil jokes like that

  • @Jessie_Helms
    @Jessie_Helms 4 роки тому +8

    “20 hours for a thorough first timer”
    *spent 41 hours in my first playthrough*

  • @borange6550
    @borange6550 4 роки тому +2

    Portal had so many amazing jokes, Cave Johnson’s over the top lemon speech paired with Glados’ enthusiastic agreement takes the cake for me though

  • @williamwashburn7665
    @williamwashburn7665 4 роки тому +2

    0:52the first video game comedy element that came to my mind was breaking the 4th wall( poor 3rd wall always gets over looked and forgotten)

  • @VVen0m
    @VVen0m 4 роки тому +4

    Wait what? I thought that crying couple from Half-life 2 was just the same couple that you meet over and over...

  • @Andres33AU
    @Andres33AU 4 роки тому +3

    Great video, and this is what I gathered from it:
    Direct comedy: well-written script
    Indirect comedy: funny gameplay
    Surreal comedy: Mods

  • @andrewbrown1752
    @andrewbrown1752 3 роки тому +2

    Can I just say, the music choices in this video are on point

  • @isabelledotjpeg
    @isabelledotjpeg 5 місяців тому +1

    Portal 2's "the part where he kills you" joke is one of my favourite jokes in gaming
    >glados says "this is the part where he kills us"
    >wheatly says "thiis is the part where i kill you"
    >the chapter being called "the part where he kills you"
    >getting an achievment called "the part where he kills you"
    >the song thats playing is called "the part where he kills you"
    >THE TEXTURES HAVE FILE NAMES SAYING "THE PART WHERE HE KILLS YOU"
    >he doesnt kill you

  • @glorytoarstotzka330
    @glorytoarstotzka330 4 роки тому +6

    the moment I laughed the most was when I was playing gta v and I was on a bus with other players. and at some point I wanted to get off of it. it was on the highway and I wanted to see doors open slowly and me walking up, what happened actually was that my character just almost instantly threw himself of the window and because the bus was on a highway ramp I bascally fell off the highway and almost died.
    I can't forget that moment as I didn't expect it and it's so rare, I'm maybe one of the only players who know that animation even exists and happened to them in a real scenario.

  • @TheMeliv
    @TheMeliv 4 роки тому +28

    When you realise he found a companion cube funny.

  • @ub3rfr3nzy94
    @ub3rfr3nzy94 4 роки тому +2

    *2 dogs fly into the air in the same direction
    Voice over: "Sending 20 dogs flying into the sky in all directions"

  • @Greg_Rock
    @Greg_Rock 4 роки тому +1

    Oxygen Not Included has a primary staple food that you plant and farm in the early game.
    It's called "Mealwood" and it produces "Meal Lice." The description of the meal wood plant in the beta was that it produces a "suspiciously wriggly grain."
    You can take some of these grains and mush them together with water into a barely edible loaf, called "lice loaf", which gives more calories per louse and tastes barely better than just the lice.
    You also conduct research using dirt and water, and generate early-game power using giant hamster wheels.

  • @drumset7916
    @drumset7916 4 роки тому +19

    Grant's the kinda guy who'd think "m/s" was minutes per second.

  • @berzerkvideos655
    @berzerkvideos655 3 роки тому +3

    There's so many good moments in gaming that make me laugh my ass off.
    The "gordon, that dropship is coming right for us!" is now near the top of my list because of this video.
    Another good one has to be in Portal 2. @Omega Gaming mentioned this already but I love it too. The massive door in old aperture that just opens up to the normal door. Kills me every time I play the game.
    Oh and of course in HL:A when you open the door just for the zombie to be eaten and plopped right on the ground. Ragdoll humour. I love it.

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 Рік тому

      My favorite joke in HL:A is the entirety of Russel's voice lines. One of my favorites is when he actually starts to say something serious, acknowledging how much pressure Alyx is under, then reveals that he just wanted to complain about Alyx almost damaging the gravity gloves by trying to save Eli.

  • @CaptainPositron
    @CaptainPositron 3 роки тому +2

    You just committed an act of utter barbarity! Well done!
    That takes me back...

  • @qmotuz
    @qmotuz 4 роки тому +3

    I'm surprised to see Prey on here! One of my favorite games but I rarely see it talked about. From things like the Reployers that everybody wants but nobody understands (that were actually an inside joke from the devs), the everyday jokes and activities you can read about in emails and notes, to even Glooey McGlooface. I thought it had a really well developed sense of humor that worked with the absurdity of certain parts of the game. It almost acts like comic relief.

  • @Grumpini
    @Grumpini 4 роки тому +12

    "Grand theft auto 4..."
    "...as a kid"
    I'm too old for youtube now bye

  • @user-eh2vi6lk7n
    @user-eh2vi6lk7n 4 роки тому +7

    "how about another video game joke Murray?"

  • @Felipemelazzi
    @Felipemelazzi 4 роки тому +1

    I wish I had seen the Companion Cube moment the same way as you did.
    I just imagined that test was created by some weird scientists and not because of GladOS's misunderstandings of human nature

  • @Sketchy3032
    @Sketchy3032 3 роки тому

    Oh man, online multiplayer games are a gold mine for comedy. The unpredictability of the players themselves (let alone who will the matchmaking system decide to team you up with or put in the same server as yours) always make it an ideal place to have a comedic moment to occur, like the varying competence of the players in the server or how seriously do they take this game.
    It's not a matter of whether or not something funny will happen, just when.
    There is this one anecdote that I will forever cherish:
    In CS:GO, I was playing as a Terrorist in Mirage in casual detonation game mode. I was the only one left alive with just a Deagle and being hunted down by over 12 CTs in the entire map, though it took a while for them to actually win the game since I was hiding in the apartments section of the map and haven't planted the bomb yet,
    specifically, crouching on a toaster on a kitchen counter since it's apparently a blind spot that I took advantage of.
    One CT entered, slowly walking in but not checking corners. I was just right behind him, pretty much one inch away from each other.
    My aim is horrible, but I'm practically sticking it into his head at that point. I took my chances and decided to try and shoot him in the head.
    BUT I MISSED,
    AND THAT SHOT CAN BE HEARD FROM ACROSS THE MAP, GIVING MY POSITION AWAY TO EVERYONE, LET ALONE THE GUY WHO I TRIED TO KILL
    But then,
    The guy who I tried to kill just continued to walk in and out searching for me, not knowing the fact that just I tried to shoot him and missed only a few inches.
    The time ran out anyway and my team lost.
    I can't take the game seriously anymore after that.

  • @kalumschroeder678
    @kalumschroeder678 4 роки тому +3

    19:02 and thats why everyone liked cayde-6 in destiny 1 & 2

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 4 роки тому +5

    You have a very....... Interesting sense of humor.

  • @unknown-gm2pq
    @unknown-gm2pq 3 роки тому +1

    idk who graded your essays in school but they gave you way too much confidence

  • @tdmm
    @tdmm 4 роки тому +1

    Your videos just started appearing on my recommended and i'm glad for it

  • @beemerwt4185
    @beemerwt4185 4 роки тому +3

    I freakin' love Prey!
    I, too, found Lockwood and had the exact same experience, laughing my way back as I realized how genuinely dumb he was.

    • @SourPickle-bv9gd
      @SourPickle-bv9gd 3 роки тому

      Oh the game name is prey, in the video it sounded like “crey”

  • @spicy_taco2267
    @spicy_taco2267 4 роки тому +3

    I loved on portal when Wheatley decides to kill you and it just keeps repeating this is the part where he kills you in different ways

  • @Optimusskyler
    @Optimusskyler 3 роки тому +2

    "Here's your new friend. It's a box. This box has a heart on it. Humans associate hearts with love. Love has been dispensed. Please continue testing."
    I dunno, your description of it kinda makes it twice as funny.

  • @kilikus822
    @kilikus822 4 роки тому +1

    One of my most recent favorite jokes in a video game is Hitman 2.
    In the columbia mission when you disguise as the tattoo artist and your "client"/ target tell you to "Do what you do best."
    47's reply
    "You got it."

  • @TheOnlyOriginalName
    @TheOnlyOriginalName 4 роки тому +3

    Are we not gonna talk about how he gains pleasure by ramming his car into pedestrians?

    • @LEO_M1
      @LEO_M1 4 роки тому +1

      No, because everyone’s done it and if you say you haven’t; you’re lying.

    • @THEPELADOMASTER
      @THEPELADOMASTER 4 роки тому +1

      It's not real so, what's the issue?

  • @Spar_kie
    @Spar_kie 4 роки тому +6

    I lost my shit at the death of captain Vance

  • @emmet042
    @emmet042 3 роки тому +1

    MY favorite joke from Portal 2 actually isn't even used in the finished game. One of the scraped pieces of dialogue is this gem:
    GLaDOS-"This next test-"
    (background noise of something clanging)
    GLaDOS-"is-"
    (background noise of an explosion)
    GLaDOS {hurriedly}-"Quite difficult I'll be right back)
    I may not have copied it exactly, but it's along those lines.

  • @AngryTheGnome
    @AngryTheGnome 4 роки тому +1

    One of my favourite jokes from a game come from Rayman 2:
    Basically you need to "sneak" in a robo-pirates base and to do so you need to disguise as a bush, which you do poorly, considering that your nose and eras stick out of it.
    So you try to enter the base, and the pirates see bush, to which they response is: "It's just a bush with a big nose and ears, let them through".
    The joke is funny by itself, but it gets better.
    After a few levels, you completely forgot about that, and... bang! In a corner of one of the levels, there is a bush that has berries that look exactly like your big nose and ears.
    10/10