Comedy in Gaming - The Ultimate Balancing Act

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  • Опубликовано: 22 окт 2024

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  • @Leadhead
    @Leadhead  3 года назад +118

    Hey guys! If you wanna join in on some games, and get involved with this cool community, you can join my discord at discord.gg/PVvXESU7WU
    As long as I'm throwing out links, I've got new merch that you can pick up at leadheadshop.com/ plus you can support me over on Patreon if you wanna show some more love. www.patreon.com/leadhead

  • @CapnMoza
    @CapnMoza 4 года назад +5236

    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 года назад +383

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

    • @blinkachu05
      @blinkachu05 4 года назад +501

      Mine is "The part where he kills you."

    • @CanadianCat64
      @CanadianCat64 4 года назад +207

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

    • @animarthur5297
      @animarthur5297 4 года назад +31

      @@blinkachu05 That's a good one too.

    • @lunar58071
      @lunar58071 4 года назад +47

      All my favorite jokes are the potato ones.

  • @LeekyKale
    @LeekyKale 4 года назад +3578

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

  • @someaxolotl3697
    @someaxolotl3697 4 года назад +2376

    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 4 года назад +82

      Yes I love that quote It always gets me :)

    • @JensenP12
      @JensenP12 4 года назад +98

      God, I can hear his voice just by reading this

    • @qwertyuiop4583
      @qwertyuiop4583 4 года назад +70

      Portal 2 is simply the funniest game ever made

    • @funkuro
      @funkuro 4 года назад +37

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

    • @Secretcodrin
      @Secretcodrin 4 года назад +2

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

  • @whatstuntman4876
    @whatstuntman4876 4 года назад +4873

    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 года назад +341

      *The Part Where He Kills You*

    • @CeriusDeluge
      @CeriusDeluge 4 года назад +443

      @@giovanitodeschini6572
      That part kills me!

    • @shadysam7161
      @shadysam7161 4 года назад +56

      @@CeriusDeluge not big suprise

    • @koboDresden
      @koboDresden 4 года назад +61

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

    • @nicefloweytheoverseer7632
      @nicefloweytheoverseer7632 4 года назад +37

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

  • @guys-in9vd
    @guys-in9vd 4 года назад +1304

    "LOVE HAS BEEN DISPENSED" always got me XD

    • @Leadhead
      @Leadhead  4 года назад +189

      Please resume testing.

    • @guys-in9vd
      @guys-in9vd 4 года назад +41

      @@Leadhead okay...

    • @specsamhain_909
      @specsamhain_909 4 года назад +2

      If you know what glados means ;)

  • @maxresdefault_
    @maxresdefault_ 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 Год назад +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.

  • @RaptorMocha
    @RaptorMocha 4 года назад +3413

    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 года назад +203

      Btw, $60

    • @mattstorm360
      @mattstorm360 4 года назад +372

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

    • @engineergaming7407
      @engineergaming7407 4 года назад +77

      @@mattstorm360 water

    • @ZKtheMAN
      @ZKtheMAN 4 года назад +127

      @@mattstorm360 Beard dirt?

    • @Jazz-dh2ds
      @Jazz-dh2ds 4 года назад +28

      I don't get it, help?

  • @mile290productions3
    @mile290productions3 4 года назад +1913

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

    • @literallyanidiot2880
      @literallyanidiot2880 4 года назад +417

      We call that empathy, good stuff.

    • @twinzzlers
      @twinzzlers 4 года назад +32

      @@literallyanidiot2880 I was laughing

    • @shintsukimi8530
      @shintsukimi8530 4 года назад +138

      We call that empathy, bad stuff.

    • @thesuperpunmaster6369
      @thesuperpunmaster6369 4 года назад +34

      that's postal 2 for ya

    • @benfoley4683
      @benfoley4683 4 года назад +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

  • @biteco4146
    @biteco4146 4 года назад +1067

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

    • @yeaggaming7621
      @yeaggaming7621 4 года назад +5

      Same

    • @animarthur5297
      @animarthur5297 4 года назад +78

      GORDON
      YOU ARE IN PRISON

    • @biteco4146
      @biteco4146 4 года назад +48

      @@animarthur5297 WAKE UP AND SAVE CITY 17

    • @nopushbutton
      @nopushbutton 4 года назад +9

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

    • @sch_ilis9928
      @sch_ilis9928 4 года назад

      Ah yes,
      DEADPANHUMOR

  • @danforce4222
    @danforce4222 4 года назад +497

    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 года назад +27

      And the sounds these ragdolls makes...

    • @deaaronfox5
      @deaaronfox5 4 года назад +35

      ^
      Your head!

    • @ghoulbuster1
      @ghoulbuster1 4 года назад +29

      (colliding meat noises)

    • @leonardo9259
      @leonardo9259 4 года назад +16

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

    • @Shoxic666
      @Shoxic666 4 года назад +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 4 года назад +292

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

    • @colinstorm2892
      @colinstorm2892 4 года назад +19

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

    • @alexandertheok9610
      @alexandertheok9610 4 года назад +3

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

    • @alexandertheok9610
      @alexandertheok9610 4 года назад +2

      You're right tho

    • @jacobpeacy4003
      @jacobpeacy4003 4 года назад +19

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

    • @colinstorm2892
      @colinstorm2892 4 года назад +7

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

  • @MetaSleve
    @MetaSleve 4 года назад +176

    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 года назад +9

      *Name of the music track for it

    • @TNP-
      @TNP- 2 года назад

      @@matthewr6148 both.

    • @DoggosGames
      @DoggosGames Год назад

      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

  • @eternalfrost1732
    @eternalfrost1732 4 года назад +423

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

    • @animarthur5297
      @animarthur5297 4 года назад +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 года назад +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 года назад +5

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

    • @demtheloner1266
      @demtheloner1266 4 года назад +5

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

    • @seanholm8957
      @seanholm8957 4 года назад +8

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

  • @bridgetgaribaldi5149
    @bridgetgaribaldi5149 3 года назад +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

  • @Alekkek
    @Alekkek 4 года назад +557

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

    • @imdone8243
      @imdone8243 4 года назад +41

      It isn't?

    • @Alekkek
      @Alekkek 4 года назад +7

      @@imdone8243 bro....

    • @narsicko6919
      @narsicko6919 4 года назад +17

      I mean, he ain't wrong.

    • @RevPerdueJosh
      @RevPerdueJosh 4 года назад

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

    • @imdone8243
      @imdone8243 4 года назад +6

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

  • @Dave5400
    @Dave5400 4 года назад +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 года назад +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.

  • @Euclidiuss
    @Euclidiuss 4 года назад +423

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

  • @adamhearts9195
    @adamhearts9195 4 года назад +752

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

  • @groovygray3210
    @groovygray3210 4 года назад +637

    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!

    • @FyterMakesMusic
      @FyterMakesMusic 4 года назад +14

      yeah but like what about killer bean forever

    • @Ze_eT
      @Ze_eT 4 года назад +25

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

    • @ruskah0307
      @ruskah0307 4 года назад +8

      combine soldier x grenade is my new otp

    • @FyterMakesMusic
      @FyterMakesMusic 4 года назад +4

      @@ruskah0307 GRENADE!

    • @boxcarz
      @boxcarz 4 года назад +3

      @@ruskah0307
      THAT'S A GRENADE!
      RIPCORD, RIPCORD!

  • @sydney_pepper
    @sydney_pepper 4 года назад +146

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

  • @heater1311
    @heater1311 4 года назад +720

    Dude this deserves way more views its well made

    • @SORRYBUTYOURENEXT
      @SORRYBUTYOURENEXT 4 года назад

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

    • @edjjr7512
      @edjjr7512 4 года назад +1

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

    • @heater1311
      @heater1311 4 года назад

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

  • @enbyfabulosity2521
    @enbyfabulosity2521 4 года назад +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 года назад +4

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

  • @YourPalKindred
    @YourPalKindred 4 года назад +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

  • @sittingduhk
    @sittingduhk 4 года назад +127

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

    • @Hoplasa
      @Hoplasa 4 года назад +5

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

    • @adammcfall5133
      @adammcfall5133 4 года назад +2

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

  • @silvercomic
    @silvercomic 4 года назад +139

    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 4 года назад +6

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

    • @haseenabadshah5381
      @haseenabadshah5381 3 года назад

      69 likes lmao

  • @subprogram32
    @subprogram32 4 года назад +75

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

  • @bottlegang3187
    @bottlegang3187 4 года назад +41

    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 года назад +2

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

    • @TheNinjaOfTexas
      @TheNinjaOfTexas Год назад

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

  • @ThreeProphets
    @ThreeProphets 4 года назад +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

  • @busterstar6716
    @busterstar6716 4 года назад +72

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

  • @the7thlegacy728
    @the7thlegacy728 4 года назад +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 года назад +9

      Stop, you have violated the law

    • @TheLuke3399
      @TheLuke3399 4 года назад +4

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

    • @blarg2429
      @blarg2429 4 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/5CRZrY-IMMQ/видео.html

  • @atlas8827
    @atlas8827 4 года назад +53

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

    • @Tacospaceman
      @Tacospaceman 4 года назад +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 года назад +8

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

    • @JaredJudson
      @JaredJudson 4 года назад +1

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

    • @sanghelian
      @sanghelian 3 года назад

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

  • @sammyruntz
    @sammyruntz 4 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @golem_spy12neat19
    @golem_spy12neat19 4 года назад +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 года назад +30

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

    • @L-sillybrained
      @L-sillybrained 4 года назад +12

      There’s more than one way to solve a puzzle

    • @natebit7167
      @natebit7167 4 года назад +6

      Not wrong. Just differently ;)

    • @xxepic_g4m3r_guyxx52
      @xxepic_g4m3r_guyxx52 4 года назад +18

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

    • @KilosFoxo
      @KilosFoxo 4 года назад +7

      @@xxepic_g4m3r_guyxx52 another example of humor in video games

  • @srobbo71
    @srobbo71 4 года назад +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 4 года назад +14

      Like... a Zombine.... hehe

    • @addderalll
      @addderalll 4 года назад +15

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

  • @floatingpyro2050
    @floatingpyro2050 4 года назад +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 года назад +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.

  • @spartanwar1185
    @spartanwar1185 4 года назад +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 года назад +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.

  • @genroynoisis6980
    @genroynoisis6980 4 года назад +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.

  • @lordzacarius642
    @lordzacarius642 4 года назад +22

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

    • @graysongdl
      @graysongdl 4 года назад +1

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

  • @alfieburns9019
    @alfieburns9019 4 года назад +8

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

  • @MissNirny
    @MissNirny 4 года назад +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 года назад +19

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

    • @KilosFoxo
      @KilosFoxo 4 года назад +23

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

    • @cringekid07
      @cringekid07 4 года назад

      I just want to know how to bone manipulate ragdolls

    • @bruhbruh4658
      @bruhbruh4658 4 года назад +1

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

    • @AceOfBlackjack
      @AceOfBlackjack 4 года назад

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

  • @cruzsmemory
    @cruzsmemory 4 года назад +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

  • @squelchedotter
    @squelchedotter 4 года назад +13

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

    • @Tacospaceman
      @Tacospaceman 4 года назад +7

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

    • @nessotrin
      @nessotrin 4 года назад +8

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

    • @cowboyinuk
      @cowboyinuk 3 года назад +1

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

  • @inf3243
    @inf3243 3 года назад +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

  • @JohnsonTheSecond
    @JohnsonTheSecond 4 года назад +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 года назад +12

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

    • @jamesgatz5301
      @jamesgatz5301 3 года назад

      Death Stranding ruins that theory

    • @lazydroidproductions1087
      @lazydroidproductions1087 2 года назад

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

  • @joko49perez
    @joko49perez 4 года назад +14

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

  • @endtimes7039
    @endtimes7039 4 года назад +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 года назад +279

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

    • @pepejw
      @pepejw 4 года назад +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 4 года назад

      @@pepejw Yeah, chapter nine.

  • @Jellylamps
    @Jellylamps 4 года назад +5

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

  • @dist0rted320
    @dist0rted320 4 года назад +24

    Best joke in Portal 2: Wheatley.

  • @FPSDIESEL
    @FPSDIESEL 4 года назад +103

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

    • @ludbud57
      @ludbud57 4 года назад +2

      You were right in that

    • @commie281
      @commie281 3 года назад

      CORRECT

    • @noralex777
      @noralex777 3 года назад

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

  • @stoozey
    @stoozey 4 года назад +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

  • @prowlingmonkey
    @prowlingmonkey 4 года назад +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).

  • @fracter6152
    @fracter6152 4 года назад +5

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

  • @jucie4024
    @jucie4024 4 года назад +2

    *GORDON, YOU ARE IN PRISION* ... **Walks away**

  • @thefrey9588
    @thefrey9588 3 года назад +5

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

    • @cowboyinuk
      @cowboyinuk 3 года назад +2

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

  • @Zack_Zander
    @Zack_Zander 4 года назад +9

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

  • @sharkcraft8568
    @sharkcraft8568 4 года назад +8

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

  • @isabelledotjpeg
    @isabelledotjpeg 9 месяцев назад +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

  • @Jmcgee1125
    @Jmcgee1125 4 года назад +16

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

  • @greendude0420
    @greendude0420 3 года назад +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.

  • @drumset7916
    @drumset7916 4 года назад +19

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

  • @Fireheart318
    @Fireheart318 4 года назад +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 4 года назад +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

  • @saurabhkulkarni8854
    @saurabhkulkarni8854 2 года назад +2

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

  • @v41.3ry9
    @v41.3ry9 4 года назад +6

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

  • @TheMeliv
    @TheMeliv 4 года назад +28

    When you realise he found a companion cube funny.

  • @bekkayya
    @bekkayya 4 года назад +25

    3:47 gman, is that you?

  • @shintsukimi8530
    @shintsukimi8530 4 года назад +19

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

  • @Jessie_Helms
    @Jessie_Helms 4 года назад +8

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

  • @unknown-gm2pq
    @unknown-gm2pq 4 года назад +1

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

  • @Phoenix-qv9hg
    @Phoenix-qv9hg 4 года назад +21

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

  • @Megan-ii4gf
    @Megan-ii4gf 3 года назад +1

    I don't know if someone's said it already but that Couple in HL2, and Ep1, aren't the skeletons on the car ride in Ep2, the couple shows up again in White Forest.

  • @JeremyRedus
    @JeremyRedus 4 года назад +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

  • @elnico5623
    @elnico5623 4 года назад +1

    One of my fav jokes is in portal 2 (and 1 i think) when the anouncer tells you that the aperture science emancipation grid may have emancipated your ear tubes

  • @ЛеонидЗурнаджи
    @ЛеонидЗурнаджи 4 года назад +7

    "how about another video game joke Murray?"

  • @lennaerthondelink9135
    @lennaerthondelink9135 3 года назад +2

    Portal: Seemingly serious, very comedic
    Team Fortress 2: Very silly, but has deep story

  • @VVen0m
    @VVen0m 4 года назад +4

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

  • @TheRedKing247
    @TheRedKing247 2 года назад +1

    My two favorite jokes in gaming are the "Fuck You!" Door in Fallout 3, and the bit with Mason and Reznov in the Black Ops 2 ending concert. That last one I'm still fucking laughing about as I'm typing it, but the first I laughed for literally a solid 10 minutes at.

  • @glorytoarstotzka330
    @glorytoarstotzka330 4 года назад +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.

  • @kilikus822
    @kilikus822 4 года назад +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 года назад +3

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

    • @LEO_M1
      @LEO_M1 4 года назад +1

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

    • @THEPELADOMASTER
      @THEPELADOMASTER 4 года назад +1

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

  • @ub3rfr3nzy94
    @ub3rfr3nzy94 4 года назад +2

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

  • @Andres33AU
    @Andres33AU 4 года назад +3

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

  • @random_guy746
    @random_guy746 Год назад +1

    Gordon that dropship coming right to us
    AAAAAH
    *Nuclear explosion*

  • @findingfuji
    @findingfuji 4 года назад +10

    My favourite one has to be:
    "Ugh, I'm sweatin' like a hooker in church."
    "You brought a hooker to church?"
    "Why not?"
    I love Uncharted and their one-liners.

  • @indeed8211
    @indeed8211 4 года назад +1

    postal 2 the comedy of the petition is kicking in peoples doors or smashing through windows and asking them to sign your petition as they scream and cower in confused fear

  • @BerzerkVideos
    @BerzerkVideos 4 года назад +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 Год назад

      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 4 года назад +2

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

  • @qmotuz
    @qmotuz 4 года назад +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.

  • @LoganDark4357
    @LoganDark4357 4 года назад +1

    This might be my favorite channel yet... Entertaining content, no sponsors or Patreon or "remember to like and subscribe"... It's perfect, you definitely *earned* my like and subscription, without begging for it :D

  • @melody3741
    @melody3741 4 года назад +5

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

  • @borange6550
    @borange6550 4 года назад +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

  • @Grumpini
    @Grumpini 4 года назад +12

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

  • @dist0rted320
    @dist0rted320 4 года назад +1

    My favourite joke in Portal 2 is Cave Johnson's ranting and raving about Black Mesa stealing the idea for the Portals.

  • @beemerwt4185
    @beemerwt4185 4 года назад +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 года назад

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

  • @andrewbrown1752
    @andrewbrown1752 4 года назад +2

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

  • @ghostprime6320
    @ghostprime6320 4 года назад +6

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

    • @vibaj16
      @vibaj16 Год назад

      I hate subtitles, they spoil jokes like that

  • @gejdudhjdisi9231
    @gejdudhjdisi9231 4 года назад +2

    *pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat* GORDON, YOU ARE IN PRISON *pat pat pat pat pat pat pat pat*

  • @MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz
    @MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz 4 года назад +16

    I remember the satisfying sound when you run someone over in GTA IV.

  • @AngryTheGnome
    @AngryTheGnome 4 года назад +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