This isn’t quite in line with your question but it’s adjacently meta:
the first time you fall to your death in Bastion the (amazing) narrator says “…and then he fell to his death. … Ahh, I’m just foolin’.” and then you respawn on the platform because videogame.Quit messages in old shooters like Doom, Heretic, Quake, and Duke3d.
“Are you sure you wanna quit? Press Y to continue kicking-ass and chewing gum. Press N if you’re a little pussy bitch.”
The Soul Urn in Deadlock is very chatty and will constantly sass you while you’re trying to pick it up for your team.
I was beginning to feel abandoned.
You do know where you’re supposed to take me, right?
You’re dropping me?!
In Wasteland 2 there is a museum of pre-war artifacts. One item is an undetonated nuclear bomb. If you monkey around with it you can find a big red button. It is obviously a terrible idea to push the button. If you still decide to push it you get a special game over screen.
Risk of Rain 2’s death messages crack me up.
That was definitely not your fault
That was absolutely your fault
Come back soon!
ur dead lol get rekt
And so on
In the original Warcraft games (not World Of Warcraft), repeatedly clicking units would initiate irritation voice lines.
Humans would say something like, “why do you keep touching me?”
An elf said something like, “you never touch other elves like that!”
W-w, w-w, what do you want?
W-w, w-w, what do you want?
Why do you keep touching me?
Holy fucking shit, I totally forgot about this!
I award you, stranger! 🏅
Starcraft had some great lines like that too.
“Stop poking me!”
“What do I look like, an orc?”
“This is not Warcraft in space!”
“It’s much more sophisticated!”
I think all Blizzard games have that. IIRC WoW does too.
Zug zug
Dabu!
I would have swore there was a moment in Disco Elysium where a character makes fun of you for talking like you are trying to exhaust all the options in a dialog tree. But now I can’t find it. Anyone know?
That was during the dream sequence at the end, no? You can even correct the character saying that they’re not lists, but trees or something like that.
Don’t remember that dialogue, but the OP made me think of the Jamrock Shuffle (constantly running around town like a crazy person).
Yesss that was so good lol.
It’s possible I’m thinking of another game entirely on the other thing. Haha
The old point-n-click flash game Johnny Rocketfingers had a bunch. There was a part where you had to find a way out of a jail cell or something, and if you used the hand tool on a crack in the wall, your character just says “feels cracktacular.”
Oh, and there was the old original You Don’t Know Jack game where if you told the host “fuck you” or something similar in the answer box, they’d just lose patience with you and exit the game for you.
I remember playing “you don’t know jack” and someone accidently hit the buzzer before the question was even on the screen. The host said “okay smart guy, think you know the answer before the question is read? Go ahead.” And the game gave them a blank screen to type their answer into.
I always talk to Hypnos in Hades when I die. he always talks shit about how you died and it makes me laugh.
I love the sass.
There is nothing I want more than to romance Hypnos. He’s my favorite character in a game that’s filled to the brim with outstanding competitors.
My favorite will always be the ‘Spent 15 Hours at the Alien Strip Club’ achievement in High On Life.
Dialog
“How are you doing? Need some motivation to keep going? How about an award? Here, take this one that says you spent all your in-game playtime in an alien strip club. Oh, that’s permanent, by the way. Everyone on your friends list can see that forever.”
There’s that bit in Baldur’s gate 2 where some NPCs decide they can take you on, die, and then reload the game.
I love that, I’m going to have to look that up
In Postal 2 there’s a platforming section and, because I suck at platformers, let alone in first person, so I was saving a lot. After a few very short and successive saves, the dude made fun of me for saving so much.
Also in Portal 2, just a lot of GlaDOS lines in general.
“Look at you: Sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp.”
Stanley Parable, the entire game is about making fun of the player.
The segment in Ultra Deluxe where the narrator reads mean Steam reviews is so good lol.
The broom closet ending, specifically. The broom closet ending is my favorite
Super Paper Mario’s line “I love going on message boards and complaining about games I’ve never played.” is really good.
I‘ve never played that game and that is way too tacky.
