You will know "The cake is a lie" like halfway into the game, when you first find the open wall panels and look in the little hidey-hole. You don't even have to come close to beating it.
The real trick to knowing someone beat it is when they recognize that the cake isn't a lie, because the credits show you the cake. You're never promised cake, you're just told that there is cake and the credits show it to you. Ratman never made it far enough to see the cake, which is why he thinks it's a lie
Don't have to finish the game. Don't even have to start playing the game. This is said at the beginning of the intro, it might be the very first thing spoken in the entire game.
You don't even have to come close to finishing the game for this. You find it written on the wall shortly after escaping GladOs the first time. I didn't think it's even halfway through.
::: The game
(Elite Dangerous; your ship says this when its temperature is too high, such as when hanging out by a star fuel scooping. There's plenty of other EXTREMELY quotable voice lines, but that one's super common and really stuck in our head.)
(another good one: "Warning: Frame shift drive operating beyond safety limits." accompanied by lots of lovely little beeps and creaks as your ship vaguely threatens to break apart (the game's sound design in general is SO good))
:::
Spoiler from the point and click adventure game Beyond The Edge of Owlsgard, specifically the English dub:
::: spoiler SPOILER!
AAAH, not into the FOG! Bolek, are you out oc your damn mind! We are SO CLOSE to our destination, we are SO CLOSE! Like literally, right there! And then you just decide, like a sadistic person, to turn and just go into the fog and kill us! What is wrong with you? You are a sadist! I will not stand for this! I will not stand for this in any way, shape or form! THAT'S IT! CALL MY AGENT! I WANT MY AGENT!
All of that is an improvised line from the English voice actor for the main character according to one of the top comment of this video. It's more comedic than anything, but I think it's pretty memorable due to how out of pocket it is.
:::
113 Comments
arin@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 82d
The Cake is a lie
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 81d
I would go with:
"This is a triumph"
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 80d
I'm making a note here
Forbo@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 80d
Huge success.
treesquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 80d
You will know "The cake is a lie" like halfway into the game, when you first find the open wall panels and look in the little hidey-hole. You don't even have to come close to beating it.
mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 80d
The real trick to knowing someone beat it is when they recognize that the cake isn't a lie, because the credits show you the cake. You're never promised cake, you're just told that there is cake and the credits show it to you. Ratman never made it far enough to see the cake, which is why he thinks it's a lie
axx@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 80d
Interesting. I'm making a note here… 🎶
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 82d
Would you kindly ...
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Bioshock :::
teft@piefed.social · 32 pts · 82d
War never changes.
treesquid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 80d
Don't have to finish the game. Don't even have to start playing the game. This is said at the beginning of the intro, it might be the very first thing spoken in the entire game.
kewjo@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 82d
teft@piefed.social · 5 pts · 82d
It features in all the Fallout games.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 81d
Like right in the beginning too
AnchoriteMagus@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 82d
"Press F to Pay Respects"
belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 82d
That’s outgrown the game, I think
snooggums@piefed.world · 12 pts · 82d
I still can never remember what game that is from since I didn't play it, but hot damn that is a great meme.
Also don't know where [X] Doubt is from, but that is another favorite.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 10 pts · 82d
That one is from LA Noire. The pay respects if from Call of Duty Advanced Warfare
group_hug@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 82d
"Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle"
tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 29 pts · 82d
The cake is a lie.
treesquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 80d
You don't even have to come close to finishing the game for this. You find it written on the wall shortly after escaping GladOs the first time. I didn't think it's even halfway through.
Forbo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 80d
SPAAAAAAACE
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 82d
All your base are belong to us.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 11 pts · 82d
What you say!
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
Did I get it wrong? It's been a minute.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 17 pts · 82d
The zig wooshed straight over your head 🤣
xep@discuss.online · 7 pts · 81d
The zig moved for great justice.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 80d
Someone set us up the bomb!
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 1 pts · 80d
You have no chance to survive! Make your time!
::: spoiler What?! You got it right. People are just replying to you with random other lines from Zero Wing, including "What you say?" :::
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 79d
Thanks. I've forgotten. It's been so long.
JakenVeina@midwest.social · 25 pts · 82d
"Had to be me. Somebody else would have gotten it wrong."
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 80d
Man, now I'm bummed. Mordin is the goat
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 80d
"I am the very model of a scientist Salarian..."
Suru@mander.xyz · 25 pts · 82d
For those who come after!
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 82d
Mass Effect? Made me think of the ending you get when you shoot the ghost kid
Suru@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 82d
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Can't recommend it enough, such an amazing game.
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 80d
I really wish I could forget everything about this game so I could experience it again for the first time.
Zos_Kia@jlai.lu · 18 pts · 82d
I briefly played in a brainrot grind core band and we had that sample in our concert intro it was the bomb
Klear@piefed.world · 13 pts · 82d
GAME OVER
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 82d
Holy shit a reference to my game!!
gankouskhan@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 82d
You will be hearing from my lawyer. This was in MY game!
Novamdomum@fedia.io · 12 pts · 82d
You forget a thousand things every day, pal. Make sure this is one of 'em.
hakase@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 82d
"Fuck Ted Faro"
It's not from the game, exactly, but I think it deserves to be here.
::: spoiler Source Horizon: Zero Dawn :::
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 80d
Your spoilers isn't working correctly.
hakase@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 80d
Weird, it works on my app (Summit)
Sv443@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 80d
Keep on keepin' on
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 80d
I say this to every porter.
MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social · 9 pts · 82d
The spire sleeps... And so... Shall... I
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 82d
“A new hand touches the beacon”
::: spoiler Spoiler Skyrim :::
cloudless@piefed.social · 8 pts · 81d
“Hey Listen!”
clav64@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 81d
[link screaming internally]
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 82d
"Permission to land will be granted after you settle your outstanding balance of one trillion credits."
::: spoiler spoiler Subnautica :::
inspiddivision@piefed.social · 8 pts · 82d
Leroy Jenkins
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 80d
I yell this when I rush restaurants
ClipperDefiance@piefed.social · 7 pts · 82d
"I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious."
::: spoiler Source Psychonauts :::
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 82d
"Boy!"
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 81d
La-li-lu-le-lo
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 82d
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 80d
All the gravemind lines are absolute bangers.
Fate had us meet as foes, but this ring will make us brothers
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 80d
He also speaks entirely in iambic heptameter, which makes every line sound extra poetic.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 80d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteener_%28poetry%29
and the line I quoted above fits the bill indeed !
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 80d
What ! I'll have to look this up
Rappe@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 82d
"But I wanted orange, it gave me lemon-lime!"
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 82d
That was in the first act!
::: spoiler the game OP is referencing Deus Ex 1 :::
Also: “a bomb!”
Rappe@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 81d
Technically, all of OP's criteria match my answer!
Also: "My vision is augmented."
And: "A bomb's a bad choice for close range combat."
Finally: "And J.C.? Stay out of the women's bathroom..."
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 82d
For a brick, you flew pretty good!
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 80d
gel layer could have taken most of the impact
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 82d
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 82d
"See you tomorrow" ::: spoiler spoiler Disco Elysium :::
kossa@feddit.org · 4 pts · 80d
"Rogan?" - "Wololo"
icanwatermyplants@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 80d
What can change the nature of a man?
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Planescape Torment :::
spiffmeister@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 80d
Ever since playing it this question still pops into my head every now and then.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 4 pts · 82d
The longer the Icon of Sin stays on earth the stronger it becomes.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 80d
Shoot John Romero's severed head hidden inside to send it back to Hell.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 82d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 82d
stay awhile. stay forever. you are destined just to die.
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 1 pts · 80d
::: spoiler According to the title, none of us have beaten that.
Impossible Mission :::
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 80d
yeah both of my examples there do not require beating the game. just playing.
HotDayBreeze@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 80d
"Side with Maelle"
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 80d
I used to be an adventurer until I took an arrow to the knee
horse@feddit.org · 3 pts · 80d
Do a barrel roll
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 82d
My pick: "BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT!"
::: spoiler It is from
The Binding of Isaac Repentance
:::
Yuyarl@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 82d
"You are insane. You are taking this too far."
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 82d
"Pray with me! Pray for your salvation!"
The whole thing is such a brainworm lol
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 80d
“You’ve lost it completely, Krauser!”
_druid@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 82d
There you will find a man named Rufio.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 80d
Kill him, and your initiation into the Dark Brotherhood will be complete.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 80d
More a meme than a phrase, but "press X to Jason".
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 82d
Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 80d
"It's time to punch a mountain... INTO SPAAAAAACE!"
(though uh... I can't remember if that was in a normal ending or the hidden one; I certainly remember the line tho lol)
iocase@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 80d
"I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism!...
...SPACE! 😀"
MissingInteger@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 80d
"A hunter must hunt."
Thyazide@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 81d
"Trust me."
😭
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 80d
damn......
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 80d
You're pretty good.
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 2 pts · 80d
Daedskin@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 81d
::: spoiler spoiler
:::
jjj@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 82d
Professor Chucklefuck has unfortunately been assassinated
::: spoiler this is what the refrance Psycholonials (a visual novel, does that count?) :::
Katrisia@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 81d
It's not a lake, it's an ocean.
forestbeasts@pawb.social · 2 pts · 80d
You can't really finish it, but,
"Warning: Temperature critical"
::: The game (Elite Dangerous; your ship says this when its temperature is too high, such as when hanging out by a star fuel scooping. There's plenty of other EXTREMELY quotable voice lines, but that one's super common and really stuck in our head.)
(another good one: "Warning: Frame shift drive operating beyond safety limits." accompanied by lots of lovely little beeps and creaks as your ship vaguely threatens to break apart (the game's sound design in general is SO good)) :::
jnod4@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 80d
I've played it for 15 minutes then I haven't touched video games for weeks. Does it actually get good?
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 80d
"Nanomachines, son."
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 82d
I don't know about recognizable, but what always stuck with me was
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 2 pts · 82d
Don't blame us. Blame yourself or God.
(You may have needed to finish it a while ago.)
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 82d
uncle smoke. don't mind if I do.
happysplinter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 80d
Just coffee...
Kertyna@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 80d
"Hear ye! Hear ye! Bishop Alexander slain by seekers!" "The Axe? Noo, The Hammer."
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 80d
Reptilian death ray!
nore@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 82d
"Let's think positive!"
::: spoiler source Persona 2: Innocent Sin :::
DecentM@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 80d
Come no closer, ghost!
Should my best prove insufficient then we will find another way to achieve what’s needed
One last explosion marks your fate as your ship is torn apart.
Holmes versus Moriarty; Aristotle versus mashy spike plate!
I'll leave you to prepare.
Rock and stone!
Faith, the train! Take the train!
Barbuzie@piefed.social · 1 pts · 80d
"Death can have me when it earns me"
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 82d
Spoiler from the point and click adventure game Beyond The Edge of Owlsgard, specifically the English dub:
::: spoiler SPOILER! AAAH, not into the FOG! Bolek, are you out oc your damn mind! We are SO CLOSE to our destination, we are SO CLOSE! Like literally, right there! And then you just decide, like a sadistic person, to turn and just go into the fog and kill us! What is wrong with you? You are a sadist! I will not stand for this! I will not stand for this in any way, shape or form! THAT'S IT! CALL MY AGENT! I WANT MY AGENT!
All of that is an improvised line from the English voice actor for the main character according to one of the top comment of this video. It's more comedic than anything, but I think it's pretty memorable due to how out of pocket it is. :::
mrsemi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 82d
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 80d
Pick a god and pray
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 80d
gl hf dd
mohab@piefed.social · 0 pts · 82d
"Mash A to protect Earth"