The funniest games you ever played

[Michael Tabbut]

The Saint's Row series has always given me a good laugh. Borderlands 2 is effective. But the moment that made me cry laughing came from a line from the PC of Baldur's Gate.

"OK, I've just about had my FILL of riddle-asking, quest-assigning, insult-throwing, pun-hurling, hostage-taking, iron-mongering, smart-arsed fools, freaks, and felons that continually test my will, mettle, strength, intelligence, and most of all, patience! If you've got a straight answer ANYWHERE in that bent little head of yours, I want to hear it pretty damn quick or I'm going to take a large blunt object roughly the size of Elminster AND his hat, and stuff it lengthwise into a crevice of your being so seldom seen that even the denizens of the nine hells themselves wouldn't touch it with a twenty-foot rusty halberd! Have I MADE myself perfectly CLEAR?!"
? The Player Character

Hehe.

 

[DocJ]

The only game that has ever had me in stitches is To the Moon. The developer Kan Gao certainly enjoyed filling his game with plenty of references and humour.
And I'f have to say MOBA's in general. I'm usually a type to smile more than I anger. So seeing these buffoons rage at eachother in foreign languages only makes me burst out laughing.

 

[Vigormortis]

The funniest games I've ever played? Well, let' see...

Portal
Portal 2
Zork
Zork: Grand Inquisitor
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 (there's some genuinely great banter between the survivors sometimes)
Paper Mario
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Psychonauts
Stanley Parable
Worms
Lemmings
South Park: The Stick of Truth

And that's only listing games designed with the intent on being humorous or with the intent on adding humor to counter-balance the seriousness. I could probably list dozens more that are generally hilarious, simply by virtue of some coding error or by the methods with which people play.

Honestly, anyone that says there aren't any funny games isn't looking hard enough. There are plenty out there. They may not be as common as more serious games, but of those that do exist some are fantastically hilarious.

 

[Scow2]

Quest for Glory.

Saints Row (Especially the Third, and opening of IV)

 

[redrefugee]

I don't think Day of the Tentacle has been mentioned...

Other games I thought were funny were, but were already mentioned include: Stick of Truth, Portal 1 and 2, Return to Zork (dark humour, but funny nonetheless), Sam and Max

 

[theSovietConnection]

Not the funniest, but Deadly Premonition was one. If you take it not seriously the game is hysteric.

I have to agree with this. How could you ever forget something like the coffee scene?

 

[Kyrian007]

I almost agree with the people saying Borderlands... but I can't really give any credit to Gearbox for being unintentionally funny. It's kind of like MST3K, it's so samey and grindy you have to make jokes while you're playing it multiplayer (preferably lan or splitscreen for maximum enjoyment) to have fun. And it's easy to make fun of, and it must be said it's gameplay sets up some pretty funny frameworks for a joke or 2. I think they improved on the "intentionally funny" writing in BL2... but I liked the gameplay less, and I found making fun of 1 was much more enjoyable than the scripted jokes of BL2.

Just Cause 2 is a much more valid candidate. It doesn't take itself, it's characters, it's story, or physics; seriously. Everything (including rules like trajectory and momentum) can be exploited to be super funny. It's a game that in itself IS a well-crafted joke from start to finish. And if you can ever find a populated multiplayer server... multiple Ricos provides great funny moments.

But... funniest for me has to go to Tecmo's Deception series. 1st, the bad translation, idiotic story, and horrid voice acting manage to give it the "so bad it's funny" trophy. But unlike Borderlands, it's gameplay is super fun. So while making all the MST3K jokes about the cutscenes, you can be planning the most horrid, crippling, and painful deaths ever dealt out to video game enemies. The gameplay is like setting up a halloween haunted house with the most lethal of ACME products from Looney Tunes. And the object is no one gets out alive. Maybe that kind of humor isn't everybody's bag, but I think it's the funniest game I've ever played. And the game agrees, after finishing Tecmo's Deception 3 I was presented with a special weapon. A Banana Peel. So I can start a combo by making a guy slip on the peel, fall down a flight of stairs, get clobbered by a hammer and thrown across the room, landing on a bear trap, getting shot with an arrow, then hit by a pendulum and thrown collapsed in a heap on the foot of the stairs only to be run over by a rolling boulder.

The progression of injuries makes me laugh. From a simple pratfall you wind up with crushed to death after a large numeber of broken bones and otherwise fatal injuries pile up. Well, I think its funny.