What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?

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• fdrc_lm@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Baba is you

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• TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  In Drake of The 99 Dragons, each time you die, (which happens often), you get roasted and humiliated by some gods in the after life for 10 seconds before they allow you to revive again. This has absolutely no reason to be here, except for doubling the loading screen time.

  Could also mention, in the 6th installment of Touhou Project, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, if you play on easy, the game won’t even let you fight the final boss, mocking your pride on such simple level, and this game mode is usually commented as child play by the games in the whole franchise.

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• PacMan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Eternal Darkness on the GameCube

  It makes the Volume go up and down and a bunch of other wacky things.

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• SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • cmhe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    If you like sassy AI, take a look at ADA from satisfactory. She is insulting the player ins some way on every upgrade.

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Stanley Parable, the entire game is about making fun of the player.

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  • simple@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The broom closet ending, specifically. The broom closet ending is my favorite

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  • catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The segment in Ultra Deluxe where the narrator reads mean Steam reviews is so good lol.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And you finally get to jump

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• samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• emb@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Super Paper Mario’s line “I love going on message boards and complaining about games I’ve never played.” is really good.

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I‘ve never played that game and that is way too tacky.

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• scratchee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Outer wilds, if you manage to

  Tap for spoiler

  Break the universe

  You get the end credits but with a kazoo rendition.

  Like, “well done dipshit, I guess this is the end”.

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• Acklavidian@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Frets on fire tutorial

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Quit messages in old shooters like Doom, Heretic, Quake, and Duke3d.

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• WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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!”

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    W-w, w-w, what do you want?

    W-w, w-w, what do you want?

    W-w, w-w, what do you want?

    Why do you keep touching me?

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    • WindyRebel@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Holy fucking shit, I totally forgot about this!

      I award you, stranger! 🏅

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  • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Starcraft had some great lines like that too.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Stop poking me!”

      “What do I look like, an orc?”

      “This is not Warcraft in space!”

      “It’s much more sophisticated!”

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  • njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Zug zug

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dabu!

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think all Blizzard games have that. IIRC WoW does too.

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    • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure does.

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• caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This isn’t quite in line with your question but it’s adjacently meta:
  the first time you fall to your death in Bastion the (amazing) narrator says “…and then he fell to his death. … Ahh, I’m just foolin’.” and then you respawn on the platform because videogame.

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• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t remember what game, but something along the lines “try not dying” as the loading screen tip after dying about a dozen times.

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  • catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “You can change the difficulty at any time in the settings screen” during loading screens after dying always gets me.

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    • DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If having trouble with game, get better

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    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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!”

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Shoot at it until it dies”

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  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile unlocks and offers to let you switch to ‘Pretty Princess’ difficulty if you die too many times in a row.

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is similar to the tip i give anyone starting new in downhill biking.

    Just don’t crash.

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  • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TIP TEAM!

    Try these cool moves, like, playing the game!

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• Nima@leminal.space ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Sybilvane@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Nima@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I wished your attempt at spoilering that worked, as I didn’t know that and now I do. 😂

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• testman@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In Postal 2 when the Postal Dude says “Didn’t you just save?” if you savescum.

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  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it save scum or saves cum?

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nothing precludes you from doing both tbh

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• setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In Wasteland 2 there is a museum of pre-war artifacts. One item is an undetonated nuclear bomb. If you monkey around with it you can find a big red button. It is obviously a terrible idea to push the button. If you still decide to push it you get a special game over screen.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.)

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  • Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My favorite will always be the ‘Spent 15 Hours at the Alien Strip Club’ achievement in High On Life.

  :::spoiler 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.” :::

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• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There’s that bit in Baldur’s gate 2 where some NPCs decide they can take you on, die, and then reload the game.

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  • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I love that, I’m going to have to look that up

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is a spot in Space Quest 6 where you can skip a puzzle and go to the solution immediately… If you already know what to look for. I tried that once, since it was not my first run and I remembered the last step.

  At first the narrator wonders how you did that, then he assumes you’ve been using a walkthrough. He shames you and punishes you by slowly draining your score counter… Before reverting it and telling you not to do it again.

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  • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Donnnnn’t mess with it!!

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• RandomStickman@fedia.io ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In Postal 2 there's a platforming section and, because I suck at platformers, let alone in first person, so I was saving a lot. After a few very short and successive saves, the dude made fun of me for saving so much.

  Also in Portal 2, just a lot of GlaDOS lines in general.

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  • Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Look at you: Sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp.”

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• OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In one of the Leisure Suit Larry games, you get called out for saving the game too often during a particularly difficult section.

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• ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Risk of Rain 2’s death messages crack me up.

  That was definitely not your fault

  That was absolutely your fault

  Come back soon!

  ur dead lol get rekt

  And so on

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• catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would have swore there was a moment in Disco Elysium where a character makes fun of you for talking like you are trying to exhaust all the options in a dialog tree. But now I can’t find it. Anyone know?

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  • Famko@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That was during the dream sequence at the end, no? You can even correct the character saying that they’re not lists, but trees or something like that.

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  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t remember that dialogue, but the OP made me think of the Jamrock Shuffle (constantly running around town like a crazy person).

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    • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also a certain obsession with containers, if I recall correctly.

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    • catalyst@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yesss that was so good lol.

      It’s possible I’m thinking of another game entirely on the other thing. Haha

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Marathon (1994) has several call outs to the player when the AI giving you mission briefing calls the PC out for not caring and just wanting to shoot things. There’s a lot of meta commentary in that series.

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The “Plenty of Fish in the Sea” achievement.

  In Shadow Complex, a shameless ripoff of Super Metroid in its game mechanics, you play a guy who drives a girl out to a remote location in the Pacific Northwest and she gets kidnapped by a military organisation. You’re cut off from your vehicle, but fairly early on in the game you are able to return to the start point. You are able to get in the car and drive away and an achievement pops saying “Plenty of Fish in the Sea.” So you win but your guy gives up on his girl, leaving her to her fate.

  Hack/NetHack had a similar thing where you could just leave without completing the main objective (retrieve the Amulet of Yendor, which has a random chance of appearing at the 35th level and below, and make it back out with the Amulet). I remember it saying something snarky on the Amiga version, but I don’t recall exactly what. Like it said you went on to live a boring life or something like that. Any time you felt like you were locked out of the objective or outnumbered by enemies without the means to fight through them, you could backtrack and leave (though, things like disease, hunger, and thirst could take you before you got out) and you’d “win” (as in, you get to keep living).

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  • teft@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Far Cry 6 has a similar easter egg. Near the beginning of the game (which takes place in an archipelago) you’re given a boat to head to the main island for the quest to start but you can just take the boat and point it towards the open ocean and you’ll end up in miami completely skipping the entire game.

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    • Prox@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is a running joke in the Far Cry games. I know Far Cry 4 does something similar. You meet the big bad at the beginning of the game, he asks you to wait for him, and if you just chill for like 15 minutes he shows back up, honors his word, and you finish the mission that you came to the island for.

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  • pastel_de_airfryer@lemmy.eco.br ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nier Automata has many moments where you can walk away from a mission and get one of it’s 20+ bad endings

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are able to get in the car and drive away and an achievement pops saying "Plenty of Fish in the Sea."

    That's pretty hilarious.

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• Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Really love the moonman talking to you on every boot up. I always find myself looking forward to seeing what he says.

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• Acamon@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I enjoyed Wolfenstein 3D’s quitting messages, “Chickening out already?” or “Press N for more carnage. Press Y to be a weenie.” and the like.

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• JamonBear@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There is no game

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