Yesterday I played the demo of the new game Dispatch and it is all beautifully written, but at some point, while presenting the team in-game, there was a casual funny line, pronounced by a voice off-screen, so without graphical support and I just burst out laughing (I was alone at home, so not pressed by social influence of any kind).
When I stopped, I realized how uncommon this has become lately. As a kid, I found LucasArts games extremely funny and I laughed more than occasionally, but this aspect of video game entertainment has been dying out.
When was the last time you actually laughed out loud while playing a game for something that was actually designed as funny (no Fortnite or CoD shenanigans stories please)?
A couple of minutes ago.
I played Helldivers 2 with some noobs.
We finished all objectives and were going for extraction.
One guy was walking past me with a portable hellbmomb backpack. You don’t even have to play the game to guess what that is. The name nails it perfectly.
You can arm the hellbmomb backpack yourself - but it can be activated by your teammates as well.
It’s kind of a dick move, but I couldn’t resist. Poor guy got blown up into a bazillion pieces.