When it comes to humour in games, I think there's two major camps: games that are written and designed to be funny, and games that have emergent funniness thanks to the interplay of systems resulting in stuff that humans watching it find absurd or ridiculous. Both are obviously your milage may vary prospects where it's very dependant on the person playing/watching, with the former often difficult in terms of comedic timing and the latter difficult in terms of making consistently emergent reactions and so on. Sometimes the laughter isn't even intentional.
On the writing side, my favourite game is probably Kid Icarus: Uprising, which is just jammed packed full of little skits and quips while still telling a pretty entertaining story. Pity about the thumb damage. This is definitely the 'just bombard the player with jokes' style of writing where even if one joke whiffs there's another one right behind it in a matter of seconds, and I love it.
Other great games of this ilk include a lot of Tim Schafer games (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), Undertale, and Ghost Trick.
On the emergent side I think Skate glitch videos are so fucking funny I've come pretty close to physically hurting myself from laughing too hard.
What games make you laugh, Era?
On the writing side, my favourite game is probably Kid Icarus: Uprising, which is just jammed packed full of little skits and quips while still telling a pretty entertaining story. Pity about the thumb damage. This is definitely the 'just bombard the player with jokes' style of writing where even if one joke whiffs there's another one right behind it in a matter of seconds, and I love it.
Other great games of this ilk include a lot of Tim Schafer games (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), Undertale, and Ghost Trick.
On the emergent side I think Skate glitch videos are so fucking funny I've come pretty close to physically hurting myself from laughing too hard.
What games make you laugh, Era?
