When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?

Weirdly - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Despite whole game's emotional atmosphere being pretty heavy, I think it had very good humor moments in it, I actually laughed out loud few times. Maybe a part of it is that it took me by surprise but I appreciate wittiness of these lighter moments.

Great writing overall by the way.

Witcher 3, which I played like 3 months ago. There was this one goofy quest where you had to save a mage by getting a magic book with a weird name that you could abbreviate to GOG. You needed a spell from it to disable the mage's tower defence and regulatory management system (something along those lines), or DRM for short.

Portal 2 is a classic and I enjoyed Tales from the Borderlands.

Disco Elysium had me laughing out loud a few times.

Baldur's Gate 3, quite often

Portal/portal 2

En Garde, when while I was using the environment against them, one of the enemies cried out "She's using the environment against us!"

I think the loudest and longest laugh I ever got was at the very end of Untitled Goose Game. Not gonna spoil it for anyone, but once I figured out the joke that had been stewing for three straight hours, it had me laughing for the rest of the night.

Doki Doki Litrure Club. Ending spoilers

::: spoiler Title There is a big twist about Monica calling you by your actual name. The name you gave when setting up your computer. That's how I realised I made a typo in my name. So this big impactful moment fell flat on its face :::

Cyberpunk 2077, you have to save two of the most incompetent cops that exist. For such a dark and depressing universe, whenever there are hints of humor those always get me.

Hollow Knight Silksong.

::: spoiler Spoiler The trap bench in Hunters March. After the absolutely grueling effort it took getting there, the relief of finally coming upon a bench, only to see the trap come swinging down. All I could do was laugh. :::

Dead Cells had one for me, in the boss fight against the Giant. Spoiler.

::: spoiler Spoiler The giant is a very melancholic, dignified old servant who's feeling betrayed and disappointed in the player (long story, happens before the game, you don't remember it and you're only just piecing together what happened).

When he dies, he starts slowly sinking in lava with a very sad expression, with a speech about how "You were an example to us all", lamenting about what happened, etc... And just before being completely immerged, with just his hand still reaching out of lava...

"You..."

"...are an ass!" And he flips you off.

Perfect delivery. :::

I can't remember the last time a game made me intentionally laugh. I laughed my ass off about situations, bugs, but... scripted comedy?

Maybe a smile, a faint giggle, but actual laughter? I can't remember.

In Borderlands 4, there's a side quest to cure someone of being a psycho. You need to get a handful of macguffins and plug them into this elaborate machine. There's a lot of whirring and build-up, and then the machine essentially zaps the psycho and makes him explode. "He's cured!" It got me, lol.

Laughed at the humor in a game? High on life had some really good stuff in the opening hour.

Laughed at the situation in a game? My recent play through of the ever chaotic madness that is Far Cry 2.

Last night, playing PALWORLD. Such a funny and silly game.

Started playing "RV there yet" with my wife and we were laughing out loud how silly the game is.

The Dragon Quest games make me laugh all the time. The NPC dialogues are beautifully written, and frequently have little humorous elements in them. The monster designs and animations are also often funny in their own ways.

Can't recommend these games enough.

Really enjoyed the short demo of Steam page was really funny. It may sound weird but it's a mixture of Stanley parable (also fucking amazing) and counter strike 1.6 culture.

Saints Row (2022) had some of my flavour of silliness.

Surprised no one's mentioned Thank Goodness You're Here yet.

That game had me rolling from start to finish.

Just a few days ago, at a local Vampire Savior tournament. Grand Finals ended with me sniping Q-Bee's bubble super with a callout from B.B. Hood's gun super. Wish I had a clip, but it wasn't streamed or recorded.

Also had a few good laughs playing Skullgirls earlier that night at the same local, chaotic shit always happens in that game.

It actually happens fairly frequently, but almost entirely as reaction to unexpected gameplay moments as opposed to any deliberate comedy written in by the designers. Some of that can be funny too, but only really to the point of a grin or light chuckle.

I remember a moment playing BG 3 when one of my characters just got yeeted into lava literally at the start of the fight. I laughed my ass off then went on with what ended up being probably a much more difficult than intended fight.

Sometimes it can be something as simple as the physics or an NPC bugging out.

Last week. Super Robot Wars Y has some really funny character interactions if you're familiar with the source material.

::: spoiler spoiler Kallen (Code Geass) and Allenby (G Gundam) both cheering for Mirage (Macross Delta) in their romance when all three are the "losers" is both hilarious and sad.

Domon (G Gundam) turning into the mentor for Shinn (Gundam Seed Destiny) was already entertaining, but him getting a bunch more "disciples" over the game was great.

Gauma (Dynazenon) turning every 5-person mecha team into rivals was also funny.

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"Backfirewall_" from a little while back. A masterpiece that deserved more attention! Highly recommend to anyone here who is big on tech (especially programmers)!

Playing "RV There Yet" with friends. I'm replaying "DELTARUNE" and that game has me laughing out loud every 5 minutes (same goes for UNDERTALE). Also recently played the demo for "Yapyap" and laughed a bunch.

This Saturday, while playing Artic Eggs.

Indiana Jones and the great circle: npc walking around on Gizeh and the clothes of one being in T-pose.

Oh, Bethesda.

When playing Split Fiction. The poop/pig extra level where your power is to double jump by farting got the inner child in me.

Yesterday when I played GTA Online with a friend cause the stuff the heist givers say is so absurd, I love it

I was playing Divinity Original Sin recently. After I got Pet Pal, what the animals think of each other and the people around them gave me a lot of good laughs.

Stardew Valley has plenty of silly and funny moments to begin with. But the last patch added a "green rain" event, and during the first occurrence, all villagers are hiding inside, except Demetrius. This guy is just walking around in a full hazmat suit, collecting samples and babbling about mushrooms.

https://youtu.be/nOcLkkEvBCY

Not sure if this is the last time I laughed but it's probably the most I've laughed.

I played Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip and laughed multiple times in the first few minutes

The Corridor

Humorous little game.

I laugh at shit all the time in multiplayer games, the more chaos the more likely.

It was last night, I was playing Windblown with a friend and we were on our fourth endless loop. Everything was melting, it got very silly. Watching a boss healthbar just drop instantly was hilarious.

Like two days ago in megabonk, game physics yeeted me into the stratosphere

It's funny when you're playing soccer and you're locked in and then out of nowhere a player gets domed by the ball. Especially when you smoothly recover like you meant to rocket the ball off the defenders head.

When Split Fiction made me a pig that had magic fart powers.

Before that in BG3, when I accidentally released the brakes on the windmill.

Not the most recent, but my most memorable was watching a giant in skyrim kerbal space program a sabertooth tiger.

I laugh a lot during games. Though, most often, it's from some unintended consequence or bug or just game physics being game physics (like a ragdoll spazzing out cuz it's stuck in something).

"Run smarter, not harder!"

I can't remember off the top of my head, but I'm sure it wasn't long ago. I laugh pretty easily at a lot of different things, like ironic situations or bugs/glitches that look silly.