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.
:::
114 Comments
arin@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 32d
The Cake is a lie
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 31d
I would go with:
"This is a triumph"
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 31d
I'm making a note here
Forbo@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 31d
Huge success.
treesquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
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 · 31d
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 · 30d
Interesting. I'm making a note here… 🎶
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 32d
Would you kindly ...
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Bioshock :::
teft@piefed.social · 32 pts · 32d
War never changes.
treesquid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 31d
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 · 32d
teft@piefed.social · 5 pts · 32d
It features in all the Fallout games.
maturelemontree@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 31d
Like right in the beginning too
AnchoriteMagus@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 32d
"Press F to Pay Respects"
belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 32d
That’s outgrown the game, I think
snooggums@piefed.world · 12 pts · 32d
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 · 32d
That one is from LA Noire. The pay respects if from Call of Duty Advanced Warfare
group_hug@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 32d
"Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle"
tristan@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 29 pts · 32d
The cake is a lie.
Forbo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 31d
SPAAAAAAACE
treesquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
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.
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 32d
All your base are belong to us.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 11 pts · 32d
What you say!
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
Did I get it wrong? It's been a minute.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 17 pts · 32d
The zig wooshed straight over your head 🤣
xep@discuss.online · 7 pts · 31d
The zig moved for great justice.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 6 pts · 31d
Someone set us up the bomb!
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 1 pts · 30d
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 · 30d
Thanks. I've forgotten. It's been so long.
JakenVeina@midwest.social · 25 pts · 32d
"Had to be me. Somebody else would have gotten it wrong."
LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
Man, now I'm bummed. Mordin is the goat
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
"I am the very model of a scientist Salarian..."
Suru@mander.xyz · 25 pts · 32d
For those who come after!
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 32d
Mass Effect? Made me think of the ending you get when you shoot the ghost kid
Suru@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 32d
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Can't recommend it enough, such an amazing game.
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 3 pts · 31d
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 · 32d
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 · 32d
GAME OVER
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 32d
Holy shit a reference to my game!!
gankouskhan@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 32d
You will be hearing from my lawyer. This was in MY game!
Novamdomum@fedia.io · 12 pts · 32d
You forget a thousand things every day, pal. Make sure this is one of 'em.
hakase@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 32d
"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 · 31d
Your spoilers isn't working correctly.
hakase@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 30d
Weird, it works on my app (Summit)
Sv443@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 31d
Keep on keepin' on
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 31d
I say this to every porter.
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 32d
“A new hand touches the beacon”
::: spoiler Spoiler Skyrim :::
MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social · 9 pts · 32d
The spire sleeps... And so... Shall... I
inspiddivision@piefed.social · 8 pts · 32d
Leroy Jenkins
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 31d
I yell this when I rush restaurants
cloudless@piefed.social · 8 pts · 31d
“Hey Listen!”
clav64@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
[link screaming internally]
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 32d
"Permission to land will be granted after you settle your outstanding balance of one trillion credits."
::: spoiler spoiler Subnautica :::
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 32d
"Boy!"
ClipperDefiance@piefed.social · 7 pts · 32d
"I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious."
::: spoiler Source Psychonauts :::
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 32d
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 31d
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 · 31d
He also speaks entirely in iambic heptameter, which makes every line sound extra poetic.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 31d
What ! I'll have to look this up
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 30d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteener_%28poetry%29
and the line I quoted above fits the bill indeed !
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 31d
La-li-lu-le-lo
Rappe@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 32d
"But I wanted orange, it gave me lemon-lime!"
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
That was in the first act!
::: spoiler the game OP is referencing Deus Ex 1 :::
Also: “a bomb!”
Rappe@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 32d
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 · 32d
For a brick, you flew pretty good!
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 31d
gel layer could have taken most of the impact
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 32d
kossa@feddit.org · 4 pts · 31d
"Rogan?" - "Wololo"
ryathal@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 32d
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 4 pts · 32d
The longer the Icon of Sin stays on earth the stronger it becomes.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 31d
Shoot John Romero's severed head hidden inside to send it back to Hell.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 32d
stay awhile. stay forever. you are destined just to die.
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 1 pts · 30d
::: spoiler According to the title, none of us have beaten that.
Impossible Mission :::
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 30d
yeah both of my examples there do not require beating the game. just playing.
HotDayBreeze@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d
"Side with Maelle"
Coelacanth@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 32d
"See you tomorrow" ::: spoiler spoiler Disco Elysium :::
icanwatermyplants@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 31d
What can change the nature of a man?
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Planescape Torment :::
spiffmeister@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 31d
Ever since playing it this question still pops into my head every now and then.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d
I used to be an adventurer until I took an arrow to the knee
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 31d
"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)
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 32d
My pick: "BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT!"
::: spoiler It is from
The Binding of Isaac Repentance
:::
Yuyarl@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 32d
"You are insane. You are taking this too far."
catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 32d
"Pray with me! Pray for your salvation!"
The whole thing is such a brainworm lol
iocase@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 31d
"I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism!...
...SPACE! 😀"
_druid@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 32d
There you will find a man named Rufio.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 31d
Kill him, and your initiation into the Dark Brotherhood will be complete.
horse@feddit.org · 3 pts · 31d
Do a barrel roll
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 32d
Sayonara, Shadow the Hedgehog.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
More a meme than a phrase, but "press X to Jason".
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 31d
“You’ve lost it completely, Krauser!”
Thyazide@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 31d
"Trust me."
😭
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 31d
damn......
MissingInteger@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 31d
"A hunter must hunt."
Daedskin@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 31d
::: spoiler spoiler
:::
jjj@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 32d
Professor Chucklefuck has unfortunately been assassinated
::: spoiler this is what the refrance Psycholonials (a visual novel, does that count?) :::
forestbeasts@pawb.social · 2 pts · 30d
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 · 30d
I've played it for 15 minutes then I haven't touched video games for weeks. Does it actually get good?
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 2 pts · 32d
Don't blame us. Blame yourself or God.
(You may have needed to finish it a while ago.)
TheOakTree@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 31d
"Nanomachines, son."
EnsignWashout@startrek.website · 2 pts · 30d
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 32d
I don't know about recognizable, but what always stuck with me was
Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 31d
You're pretty good.
Katrisia@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 31d
It's not a lake, it's an ocean.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Reptilian death ray!
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 32d
uncle smoke. don't mind if I do.
mrsemi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
I can't wait to make love to physics
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 31d
Pick a god and pray
Kertyna@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 31d
"Hear ye! Hear ye! Bishop Alexander slain by seekers!" "The Axe? Noo, The Hammer."
DecentM@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 31d
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!
nore@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 32d
"Let's think positive!"
::: spoiler source Persona 2: Innocent Sin :::
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 31d
gl hf dd
Barbuzie@piefed.social · 1 pts · 30d
"Death can have me when it earns me"
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 32d
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. :::
happysplinter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 31d
Just coffee...
mohab@piefed.social · 0 pts · 32d
"Mash A to protect Earth"