Comments on: No Jokes Aren’t Funny Anymore

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By: The Stack » Plants vs Zombies

The Stack » Plants vs Zombies — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:22:22 +0000

[...] always have one. Their first major success, Bejewelled, was about as funny as Tetris. I was reading an article recently about how Valve’s Orange Box shifted the gaming zeitgeist back towards humor, and [...]

By: Bunny

Bunny — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:09:47 +0000

“However, the whole stereotyping thing is, for better or worse, a prime aspect of gender studies and feminism.”

Okay Thelps,

One thing. Stereotyping is only an aspect of feminism in that feminists seek to get rid of it.

I was about to type a little more about that, but then I remembered that I’m not on a feminist website and you guys would probably think I’m crazy!

Which I’m not… honest… :S

Aaaaaaanyway! Good article, and I heartily agree. Gaming feels so GOOD when it’s actually fun!

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:37:30 +0000

I would say Wow was chuckleworthy but certainly not bwahahaha

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:17:37 +0000

Wow certainly had funny stuff in it, sure, but its detail (like the RPG examples I gave) rather than core. Cartoony isn’t the same thing as being funny either. And it certainly wasn’t *sold* as being funny.

By: drunkymonkey

drunkymonkey — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:18:41 +0000

I was just thinking about the claim that for the first time since the early nineties the icon of a year has been funny.

Wasn’t WoW released in 2005? I can’t think of any other game that would dwarf that in terms of being iconic? And couldn’t that be labelled as funny?

By: Cigol

Cigol — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:44:16 +0000

…and it’s not like the Orange Box or Valve are undeserving of attention or praise.

By: John Walker

John Walker — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:13:17 +0000

Hey saus,

If you apply a smidgen of objectivity, you’ll notice that while we’ve had lots of fun with Portal, there are vast numbers of other posts about all manner of games, dwarfing the Valve coverage.

By: roBurky

roBurky — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:49:19 +0000

If you look back further, you could have said the same about RPS and BioShock. They post more about what they’re interested in / excited about. It’s not really any big conspiracy.

By: saus

saus — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:15:16 +0000

This is my 1st time here, I went through about 6 blog pages, all of it seems to be some sexual fascination with this portal game, and endless homoerotic Valve worship.

Is this place sponsored by Valve, and do other games actually exist?

By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun - PC Gaming » Blog Archive » Situation: Low Comedy

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:40:34 +0000

[...] Kieron’s pretty optimistic that The Orange Box will lead to a renaissance of funny, I have rather less faith in human nature. [...]

By: MrMelons

MrMelons — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:52:53 +0000

To say that PC games haven’t been funny since the 90’s i feel is a bit unjustified. Take DOOM 3 for example albeit scary as “Hell(hahaha)” it did attempt at humor through its DataPad entries. The entries mainly consisted of the Martian Buddy packages and how arduous it was to store them, but i fondly remember the entry concerning the miss shipment of Chainsaws to the space facility and chuckling about it.

However I also believe that if Id Software had thrown in a few slap stick gags, a grinning imp, and Dr. Betruger passing gas during one of his “hope crushing” speeches to you as you progressed through the game would have ruined the atmosphere that the game tried so hard to immerse you in.

I, like anyone, like a good laugh and all games should have a sense of humor. But do to the breath of fresh air that the Orange Box delivered be it the dark comedy of the Mechanical Voice in Portal, the Cartoon aspect of TF2, or the witty remarks shared by Alex and her fathers constant push for grandkids. Let us not leap forward in an attempt to make every game a gut busting laughathon. I would be saddened if the part where Alex is stabbed and almost dies, or where her father is killed were to be replaced with happy times and a good gag. It’s scenes like those i believe that make games like Half-Life2 feel real and are something that at least i can connect with as a person.