Stuff in games you shouldn't find as funny as you do

[ReservoirAngel]

This thread is dedicated to all those little things in otherwise serious games where some small, borderline insignificant function or event or player action in the game makes you crack up, or gives you way more comedy satisfaction that it really should.

To give you an example, I repeatedly crack up at Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood whenever I set a couple of my trained Assassin's Guild members on guards. I don't know why, but seeing clones of myself fly in from off-screen and savage guards to the floor with that eagle's cry (that to me at this point sounds more like a monkey screech) is just endlessly funny.

Also, casually strolling past a group of guards and signalling for an Arrow Storm and seeing them all fall dead is another one of these moments that made me chuckle without fail every single time.

Anyone else got any stuff that just cracks them up in games?

 

[Tohuvabohu]

Rag doll physics.

More recent games, like Red Dead Redemption, have more "realistic" rag doll physics. Where you shoot a perp in the head, and his head sickeningly slings around from the force of the bullet, and his body goes limp and tumbles in the direction he was fleeing towards before you put a bullet in him. Pretty awesome overall, sometimes funny. I got John really wasted one time and tried to see how far he could make it out of the cantina. As soon as I stepped outside, he blacked out stumbled between 2 horses and landed facefirst into a trough. It was just so appropriate.

In particular, I mean ragdoll physics like in Hitman 2. Where you can blast someone in point blank range with a shotgun, and his entire body becomes instantly weightless and flings backwards flipping through the air around 15 feet. The first time I saw that, I lost it so goddamn hard. I was trying to pass a mission stealthily and ended up getting spotted, prompting me to use my shotgun against a guard when his body ragdoll'd like that.
As soon as that happened, I just said screw it and ran around the entire level blasting every living thing in sight away and laughing at the hilarious rag doll physics. Good times.

 

[mikey7339]

Rag doll physics.

This is true for me when it comes to QWOP. The first time I saw that game I was in pain from laughing just because of how weird the guy was moving. And I don't generally have outright laughing fits or laugh at all when I find other things humerus.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Jaaaasooonnnnn!

I'm fairly certain they didn't mean that to be funny.

 

[TitsMcGee1804]

Jaaaasooonnnnn!

I'm fairly certain they didn't mean that to be funny.

rofl, SHAAAAAAAAAUN?!

 

[KedynCrow]

To piggy-back on rag-doll physics, sneak attack criticals with arrows in Oblivion.

Always makes me chuckle to see a dremora go flying when my arrow thuds into the back of his head and land in a tangle of twisted, flopping limbs. Only, y'know, not in a sociopathic sort of way...

 

[Radoh]

Accidental Alliteration comes to mind.

Tales of Symphonia (which has been getting a lot of forum love from me recently, odd...) has two different lines of spoken dialogue, both of which make perfect sense in context but are still hilarious because of the alliteration they produce.

"Oh I get it! Collette's current condition is caused by the Cruxis Crystal!"
Followed about a half hour later by:
"What is this? Why is there such a crude Key Crest upon the Cruxis Crystal?"

 

[hopeneverdies]

I shouldn't laugh at this at all, but because of Homestuck, I can't take thieves in any of the Fire Emblem games seriously when they leave the map. They don't escape, they abscond the fuck outta there!

 

[ZRendZ]

Gears of war 2 when Carmine 2 died, I'm sorry but something about it was really funny, maybe I just find traumatic stuff funny? I'm an evil boy :3

 

[Catchy Slogan]

Jaaaasooonnnnn!

I'm fairly certain they didn't mean that to be funny.

May I show you this?


OT: Electricuting people in Bioshock, and generally outsmarting the AI into accidentally killing themselves.

 

[Grell Sutcliff]

killing your partner in co-op for no reason/trying to reason with the cops in GTA

 

[chaosfalling]

The sex scene in the first Mafia game. The game is old by today's standards, so it was painfully funny watching old character models awkwardly have sex with no expression whatsoever, it was like watching two potatoes rub against one another.

 

[baddude1337]

On one of the levels in Red River when the FOB is getting attacked by chinese, one of their APC's ran over about 6 of their men in a row. Absolutely hilarious.

 

[Ascarus]

when you choose Shale to be in your group in dragon age then remove her she says 'Pigeon crap'.

makes me laugh every time.

 

[Arkimbald]

The first thing I did when I made it to Hell in Shadows of The Damned, I tapped the aim button rapidly to make Garcia flap his ares like a chicken.

Assassin's Creed probably has the most accidentally-funny things. Rapidly starting and stopping your run to make him do silly walks through the street; rapidly attempted to run in opposite directions, to make Ezio spin around on one leg...

One time I jumped off a building and I think I snapped Altair's neck. I didn't lose all my health, I didn't die... I just flopped onto the ground, unable to move. Eagle Vision and targeting still worked. It was like the signal from Altair's body was cut off from the head.
While flopped on the ground I managed to aggravate a pelter, who started punching me. After a while the guards joined in, all of them striking a cripple with their swords.

I made a ragdoll lean backward onto his arms, then he began to jiggle rapidly. Every see the Jigglebillie episode of ATHF?

My brother managed to maintain a lock-on to a target while running half across the city. Suddenly the prompt said "Assassinate"
"Okay!" he shouted as he pressed X.
Ezio flew across the city in his air assassination animation, clipping through and tracing along buildings in the process (Most of which were still loading). He killed the guy.


TF2 has a lot of these, too. I saw a Soldier pinned the the wall, upside-down, and no where near any ground.
Scouts dying from the bleed effect of their Boston Basher while taunting will interrupt their death scream with "Bonk!"

 

[ddrfr33k]

As macabre as this is, it cracks me up. It really should not be this funny.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

LOL, the voice acting in this section
Ah dear. Makes me laff.

 

[MostlyHarmless]

Untying the slaves in Fallout 3 then shooting them in the head as they run away.

I laugh. Hysterically.

 

[CrashBang]

Jaaaasooonnnnn!

I'm fairly certain they didn't mean that to be funny.

Oh god that was funny. There weren't enough variations on the way he said it. 'JAson, JaaaSON, JaSOOOON, JAAAAson' Just... wow

Then there's this, of course:
I've watched that so many damn times