Portal and Portal 2.
GLaDOS’ constant mockery of your person, your ability to navigate tests, and general spite pretty much make both games. It all even manages to provide a lot of world-building without lore-dumping. 10/10, would get roasted again.
In Disco Elysium the game straight up called me out for apologising so much. It hit me so hard I stopped apologising as much irl. 10/10 game would be ashamed again.
Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:
Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “A horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that. Don’t let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It’s just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep.
If you like sassy AI, take a look at ADA from satisfactory. She is insulting the player ins some way on every upgrade.
Bards Tale. That game was full of shit actively taunting or tricking the player. Best ps2 game.
Stanley Parable, the entire game is about making fun of the player.
There’s a section where, if you continue to avoid the narrator’s prompts to take a specific door, it just brings you to an unfinished room - dev textures and all - while the narrator gives you grief for screwing up the game.
The broom closet ending, specifically. The broom closet ending is my favorite
The segment in Ultra Deluxe where the narrator reads mean Steam reviews is so good lol.
And you finally get to jump
Super Paper Mario’s line “I love going on message boards and complaining about games I’ve never played.” is really good.
I‘ve never played that game and that is way too tacky.
Quit messages in old shooters like Doom, Heretic, Quake, and Duke3d.
“Are you sure you wanna quit? Press N to continue kicking-ass and chewing gum. Press Y if you’re a little pussy bitch.”
Classic Doom even razzes you a little bit on the difficulty selection screen, with “I’m too young to die” as the easiest one.
I don’t recall Heretic or Hexen giving you guff for quitting, but I could be wrong.
Wolfenstein 3D (and the newer ones, too) with “Can I play, daddy?” with BJ in a baby bonnet and pacifier as the easiest option.
In the original Warcraft games (not World Of Warcraft), repeatedly clicking units would initiate irritation voice lines.
Humans would say something like, “why do you keep touching me?”
An elf said something like, “you never touch other elves like that!”
W-w, w-w, what do you want?
W-w, w-w, what do you want?
Why do you keep touching me?
Holy fucking shit, I totally forgot about this!
I award you, stranger! 🏅
Which was a parody of this!
The best part was: this was even in the installer! When setting up your sound card, there was a test button. If it worked, you heard “your sound card works perfectly”. But if you kept pressing it, eventually it would say “enjoying yourself?” And if you kept going after that, in an angry voice, “it doesn’t get any better than this!”
Ah old Blizzard, when even the installers had character.
Starcraft had some great lines like that too.
“Stop poking me!”
“What do I look like, an orc?”
“This is not Warcraft in space!”
“It’s much more sophisticated!”
I think all Blizzard games have that. IIRC WoW does too.
Sure does.
Zug zug
Dabu!
Multiple games have done it, but something along the lines “try not dying” as the loading screen tip after dying about a dozen times is always funny to me.
“You can change the difficulty at any time in the settings screen” during loading screens after dying always gets me.
It’s really annoying when you’re dying to instant death pits so changing the difficulty wouldn’t help, though. I’m looking at you, God of War.
If having trouble with game, get better
In Hollow Knight there’s an accidental one at a pretty climactic moment. Hornet shouts something to get you ready for the big fight. It’s in her usual gibberish language, but lots of people hear it as “GIT GUD!”
“Shoot at it until it dies”
Blood Dragon?
The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile unlocks and offers to let you switch to ‘Pretty Princess’ difficulty if you die too many times in a row.
This is similar to the tip i give anyone starting new in downhill biking.
Just don’t crash.
Try these cool moves, like, playing the game!
The worst part is, in Super Mario 3D Land, at least, if you even see the invincible leaf, it locks you out of getting all the stars on your save file. The game doesn’t even have the courtesy to tell you.
I always talk to Hypnos in Hades when I die. he always talks shit about how you died and it makes me laugh.
I love the sass.
The sheer genius of both Hades games is that dying is absolutely one of the best parts, since the hub-world is full of fun things like this.
Hypnos: My list says you got killed by a
REDACTED. What’s that even mean?A few deaths later…
Hypnos:
REDACTEDgot you again, huh.There is nothing I want more than to romance Hypnos. He’s my favorite character in a game that’s filled to the brim with outstanding competitors.
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I wished your attempt at spoilering had worked, as I didn’t know that and now I do. 😂
Damn. Looks like I really should stop being lazy and check out some mobile clients that weren’t abandoned like Sync. It’s even reformatting my manually typed spoiler tags to the wrong format after I submit.
its all good! things do happen sometimes. its no problem. just a bit funny.
In Postal 2 when the Postal Dude says “Didn’t you just save?” if you savescum.
Is it save scum or saves cum?
Nothing precludes you from doing both tbh
I don’t have a spare shoebox
My favorite will always be the ‘Spent 15 Hours at the Alien Strip Club’ achievement in High On Life.
Dialog
“How are you doing? Need some motivation to keep going? How about an award? Here, take this one that says you spent all your in-game playtime in an alien strip club. Oh, that’s permanent, by the way. Everyone on your friends list can see that forever.”
In Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, the NPC who asks “where are you from” and we get the options “yes” and “no”.
(He has not heard of yes town, nor does he believe we don’t come from anywhere at all.)
Iirc this is an inside joke by the devs.
In Japanese, it’s Hai (yes) town, which evidently was the name of the building they spent a lot of time in during development.
I can’t find any real credible source, but some mentions of it going back 4 or 5 years.
And for the translation, they probably just made it a reference to how your only dialogue options in the game are ever yes or no, so when the one NPC asks you an open-ended question, you sound like a weirdo.
