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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:320:When your game's localization is [[BlindIdiotTranslation too straight]] to the point.]] |
| 6 | ->''"WHAT AM I FIGHTING '''FOOOOOOR?!"''''' |
| 7 | -->-- '''Zero''', ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISmPmdUhYA cutscene]] |
| 8 | |
| 9 | Whether it's because of [[AnimationAgeGhetto their perceived kiddyness]], SoBadItsGood voice acting, characters wearing funny costumes, [[GoodBadTranslation flimsy translation]], LimitedAnimation, glitches, or just low production values when it came to the script, video games tend to have more [[{{Narm}} badly executed drama]] than you can shake a joystick at. |
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| 11 | ---- |
| 12 | !!Games/franchises with their own pages: |
| 13 | |
| 14 | [[index]] |
| 15 | * Narm/{{Bioware}} |
| 16 | ** ''Narm/MassEffect'' |
| 17 | ** ''Narm/DragonAge'' |
| 18 | *** ''Narm/DragonAgeOrigins'' |
| 19 | *** ''Narm/DragonAgeII'' |
| 20 | *** ''Narm/DragonAgeInquisition'' |
| 21 | ** ''Narm/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' |
| 22 | * ''Narm/{{Danganronpa}}'' |
| 23 | * ''Narm/FinalFantasy'' |
| 24 | * ''Narm/FireEmblem'' |
| 25 | ** ''Narm/FireEmblemHeroes'' |
| 26 | ** ''Narm/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' |
| 27 | ** ''Narm/FireEmblemEngage'' |
| 28 | * ''Narm/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' |
| 29 | * ''Narm/HuntDownTheFreeman'' |
| 30 | * ''Narm/TheKingOfFighters'' |
| 31 | * ''Narm/KingdomHearts'' |
| 32 | * ''Narm/TheLegendOfZelda'' |
| 33 | * ''Narm/MetalGear'' |
| 34 | * ''Narm/TheQuarry'' |
| 35 | * ''Narm/ResidentEvil'' |
| 36 | * ''Narm/SilentHill'' |
| 37 | * ''Narm/SonicTheHedgehog'' |
| 38 | * ''Narm/StreetFighter'' |
| 39 | * ''Narm/SpyroTheDragon'' |
| 40 | * ''Narm/TalesSeries'' |
| 41 | * ''Narm/UntilDawn'' |
| 42 | * ''Narm/VirtuaFighter'' |
| 43 | [[/index]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | ---- |
| 46 | !!Individual examples: |
| 47 | |
| 48 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder: # - A]] |
| 51 | * ''[[VideoGame/DotHackGU .hack//G.U.]]'' makes a big deal about [=PKing=] up to the point where it becomes a crime equivalent to murder. Sure, there's the bit about some players who actually [[TrappedInAnotherWorld get sucked within the game itself]], but considering that you just respawn upon death, it just makes the entire issue SeriousBusiness. Especially when one player uses the IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim argument. |
| 52 | ** The classic: "''IT'S HASEO!! THE PKK!!!!!''". So much horror, so much terror for... an online game. |
| 53 | *** Some players mentioned gear stealing the target of a PK is possible, so they might have been worried he'd take their epic loots. |
| 54 | *** In the original, there's a poignant scene in which Balmung comes to the false conclusion that the protagonist is responsible for spreading computer viruses through the game. He demands that Kite stand and fight, and Blackrose leaps to his aid and angrily tells Balmung off. This is all hilarious when you consider that the most Balmung could do is PK Kite and make him respawn back in town. |
| 55 | *** Also in the original tetralogy, Kite's "[[DullSurprise Counter attack?]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y1h98yWpes No!]]" with a dramatic zoom in on his rather weird looking face. |
| 56 | ** Another example is Gaspard's breakdown midway through ''Rebirth'' as a result of Bordeaux's harassment. What was she doing? Stopping people from visiting the Canard guild shop. Yes, Gaspard bursts into tears and nearly quits the game because people won't ''shop from him anymore.'' To make it worse it takes Silabus out of the running for your fight with Bordeaux shortly after. |
| 57 | * ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': |
| 58 | ** The NonStandardGameOver in the final case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'' is otherwise very somber, but a simple [[RougeAnglesOfSatin grammatical error]] spoils the mood: |
| 59 | --->"The miracle never happen."[[note]]This line is fixed in future releases.[[/note]] |
| 60 | ** [[http://youtu.be/rS4tnLPMGkw?t=10m46s This scene]] from the third case of ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'', in which Hugh O'Conner's friends [[spoiler:show that they still have their friendship bracelets]]. Hugh's SkywardScream ruins what was meant to be a TearJerker[=/=]SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}. |
| 61 | * In ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', the death of [[spoiler:Chopper, aka Captain Davenport]] might have been more heartrending if the cries of anguish from the squadmates didn't sound so orgasmic/like they were constipated. |
| 62 | ** Also as narmy was the fact that the AWACS in ''5'' ("Thunderhead") and ''6'' ("Ghost Eye") could be found panicking and basically having a coronary as soon as Lt. Col. Ford ([[spoiler:during the [=B-2=] bomber attack on Sand Island Air Base]]) in ''5'' and Garuda 2, Marcus "Shamrock" Lampert ([[spoiler:when scouting Chandelier]]) in ''6'' were shot down. In contrast, Sky Eye and Eagle Eye weren't ''exactly'' just renamed, but they were completely professional, stayed on top of things, ''and'' had the human touch. |
| 63 | ** Following Pops over the island in unarmed training jets, during which your wingmates constantly talk up Pops' apparent skill at controlling his aircraft. Taking any of it seriously is almost impossible: their first adulations come after he's done nothing more than a simple 90-degree turn at low altitude[[note]]then again, when the faceless masses making up the rest of your squad all died at the beginning simply because they couldn't pull back on the stick and climb...[[/note]], and everything later comes after he's started [[GoodBadBugs clipping through the sea and cliff faces]]. |
| 64 | * ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' has Solo Wing Pixy's first description of a repeatedly-visited area, the "Round Table" (it in itself an example due to just how hard the game shoehorns [[Myth/KingArthur references to Arthurian myth]] into everything it could vaguely apply to). Describing it as a "grand stage where we pilots performed" can work given that most of the fighters on the players' side are mercenaries who are indeed "performing" in a sense for the people paying them, but then he claims that aces from all over the world "criss-crossed through those skies in pursuit of air superiority", describing air superiority like it's a Zen-esque state of enlightenment. |
| 65 | * Milder example: the Saloon structure in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresIII''. While the Saloon offers the players good units, TheWildWest-style harpsichord music can be somewhat distracting. |
| 66 | ** The campaign mode, probably due to the game being more multiplayer oriented, didn't exactly splurge on the voice acting or script, resulting in some rather horrendous dialogue: |
| 67 | ---> '''Sahin''': Why do you continue to fight, Frenk? Can you not see that your struggle is pointless? |
| 68 | ---> '''[[FakeBrit Morgan Black]]''': Why do ye call me Frank? Ah'm Scoatisch, y' Turkish doag! |
| 69 | ---> '''Sahin''': Bah! All you Europeans are French to me! |
| 70 | ** The Mamelukes, who ride camels and [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throw]] their scimitars [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang like boomerangs.]] |
| 71 | ** [[spoiler:Billy Holme]]'s death in ''The Warchiefs'' campaign. First he gets shot, then he falls backwards into a mineshaft, and then [[StuffBlowingUp the barrels of powder that fell with him explode]]. You know, just in case there was any doubt that getting shot and falling down a mineshaft would do him in. |
| 72 | * Not even a game as DarkerAndEdgier ([[LighterAndSofter originally]]) as ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf'' is fully free of this trope: |
| 73 | %%** Murakumo's run comes off as damn hilarious. |
| 74 | ** In the earlier versions of the game, Elektrosoldat's ''Blitzbombe'' had the words ''Sieg Heil'' flashing in dark colors on a white background. Since that was a pretty tasteless detail, it was removed in ''Ausf. Achse''... and replaced by an hilariously tacky ''Blitzbombe'' word in '''bright pink''' on a light blue background. Uh, wha--? |
| 75 | ** The character portraits for ''En-Eins Perfektewelt'' try to be cubist-looking but brighter than the originals, but instead everyone looks as if they were either sleepy or stoned. |
| 76 | * ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark'': Quite a bit. |
| 77 | ** ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark1992'': |
| 78 | *** During Edward's narration intro, he noticeably slurs slightly as he talks, sounding as if he's slightly drunk. Taken even further that in his image to the right, there is a bottle of alcohol on his desk. |
| 79 | *** Upon walking down to the second floor, the double doors slam, followed by the evil laughter. Said laughter came off... rather WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} sounding. |
| 80 | ** In the [[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2 second]] and [[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark3 third game]], the {{Mooks}} will say something upon spotting you. The things they say? "Morning sir!" "Hi guy!" or "Hey you.", all of them sounding hilarious. |
| 81 | ** The [[VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2008 2008 reboot]] is dripping with it. |
| 82 | *** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k8KYp0aaJY I don't have your stone!]] And '''fuck you anyway!'''" |
| 83 | *** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTSHpI1RAlc I'm the light-bringer!]] '''I'M THE FUCKING UNIVERSE!!!'''" |
| 84 | * The very ''beginning'' of the classic BeatEmUp ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast1988''. [[{{God}} Zeus, God of Gods]], commands the two [[NoNameGiven nameless heroes]] to [[RiseFromYourGrave rise from their graves]], but the voice clip that accompanies this scene is of such low quality that Zeus sounds like [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Elmer Fudd]]: "Wise fwum your gwave!" |
| 85 | * "How can a man shit so much blood and still live?" is a line that you'd expect more from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' than something like ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''. |
| 86 | * ''[[VideoGame/ArtOfFighting Art of Fighting 2]]'' is guilty of having an English translation that is pure narm incarnate. While the Japanese script was somewhat serious, the English translation took no prisoners in becoming near GagDub hilarious. Thus came hilarious moments such as: |
| 87 | --> '''Ryo''': "You must be Duck!" |
| 88 | --> '''Geese''': "That's GEESE, fool. Sad pun I know but... the fowl leader of Southtown." |
| 89 | ** Not to mention how Jack transforms the Neo Black Cats into [[spoiler:a creative dance group.]] |
| 90 | * ''VideoGame/{{Assassins Creed|I}}'' |
| 91 | ** A scene from the ARG Project Legacy has The Courtesan [[GroinAttack kick The Priest in the groin dramatically]] before going on to immediately make a long series of business deals. |
| 92 | * ''VideoGame/AstalonTearsOfTheEarth'': |
| 93 | ** The tragedy of the Black Knight's StartOfDarkness is somewhat undercut by the fact that his abusive father is named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Malus]]. It gets even more ridiculous if you turn the more realistic alternate portraits on, which inexplicably changes him from a normal-looking man to a {{Gonk}} with a GagNose. |
| 94 | ** Resting after collecting all three of the gorgon eyes and gaining access to the final boss results in a scene where Algus finally reveals the details of his pact with Epimetheus to Arias and Kyuli. It's a very sober moment... which is then followed up by one of the scenes of Algus cooking his companions food. Nothing is changed to accommodate the nature of the previous scene, the characters just engage in the exact same goofy dialogue as usual as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. |
| 95 | ** The first part of the ending involves the heroes conversing while [[spoiler:the Black Knight]] slowly crawls to the other end of the screen. If you reach a certain point in the dialogue before he reaches the point where he stops—which, unless you're a very slow reader, is likely to happen—then he seemingly just ''teleports there'' instead. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder: B]] |
| 99 | * ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'': |
| 100 | ** There's the ending to the giant {{Sidequest}} to [[GottaCatchEmAll gather all the missing family members]] before Quzman dies. When you gather all 32 family members, the elderly man [[spoiler: gently ascends to Heaven with several fairies helping him up]]. What makes the scene unintentionally funny is the text box that pops up after the scene. "Quzman died peacefully" suddenly pops up while the cheerful level-up jingle plays. Kind of spoils the moment. |
| 101 | *** The last signature. Same textbox, same level-up jingle, only the message reads [[spoiler: Quzman's brother passed away, but you finished the Family Tree!]] |
| 102 | ** The stiff character models don't help at all. They move like puppets with invisible strings. |
| 103 | ** One problem the game faces is that the Guardian Spirit's name and gender can be chosen at the beginning of the game, which means that his/her name can't be said during voice acting sequences. However, instead of substituting another word (e.g. "your spirit"), the voices leave a gap in the dialogue, which is incredibly jarring. The second game fixes this somewhat by making the spirit's gender male, but direct addresses to his name are left empty. |
| 104 | ** What about when Lyude's older brother and sister [[spoiler: kill his nanny]]? Not to mention, said lady ''pulls a huge-ass gun from beneath her dress'' to try and protect Lyude. It was obviously trying to be Badass and it looks totally ridiculous. |
| 105 | ** Folon's introduction manages to be suitably intimidating...right up until he begins the boss battle by taking on a completely ridiculous slouch with his arm dangling as if it's dislocated and shouting in a faux-British accent, "Time to take out the rubbish!" |
| 106 | * This one probably also qualifies as gameplay and story segregation gone hideously wrong. In ''VideoGame/BattleArenaToshinden 3'', each of the "bad guys" has Sho Shinjo as the last opponent. Leon is one such bad guy. His ending, in a nutshell, says that he finally gained his victory over whoever (probably Eiji), but he cannot be truly satisfied until he's defeated...Sho Shinjo. |
| 107 | * General Kehck's final speech in ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil.'' "May the angels of darkness rise to glory!" It's not quite [[Memes/DevilMayCry "With LIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!"]], but it's ''still'' absurdly over-the-top. |
| 108 | ** You know what does not help that line? It's the fact that up until that point, the "Black Angels" or whatever you would like to call them were never mentioned or hinted at, and they are never mentioned or discussed afterwards. It just came completely out of nowhere. Perhaps it was supposed to be considered a SequelHook, and something to be expanded on in the sequel - there are a number of things about this game that definitely ''need'' to be expanded on. |
| 109 | * As good as ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' is, [[spoiler:Clayface]]'s Game Over screens are truly a sight to behold. Though the quotes alone are snicker-worthy, his accompanying stage movements and [[spoiler: ''JigglePhysics'']] are what really gets the crowd going. While the idea is that [[spoiler:Clayface was formerly a hammy old time actor]], it's overblown either way. Creator/WilliamShatner would be proud. |
| 110 | --> "'''Next, I will [[spoiler: BECOME]] ''YOU'', BATMAN!'''" |
| 111 | --> "'''[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall IT,]]''' '''[[LargeHam WAS THE PERFORMANCE...]]''' '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis OF A LIFETIME!]]'''''" |
| 112 | * The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bybkLlNbaaw "GOLD RUSH"]] from ''VideoGame/{{beatmania}} IIDX 14 GOLD'': "2 DX GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLD! Make it! Make money!" And let's not get started on [[http://vjarmy.com/wiki/index.php/GOLD_RUSH#Lyrics the rest of the lyrics]], which are no less fucked up than [[http://www.beatmaniaiidx.com/2007/09/11/michael-in-a-boat/ the fan lyrics]]. |
| 113 | * In ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'', when your character picks up his [[PsychoSerum first plasmid]] for example. To wit: he picks up a random syringe that's been lying there God knows how long, with God knows what inside of it, and decides to ''jam it into his wrist for giggles.'' It's not even given a "[[spoiler:Would you kindly?]]" excuse -- you just ''do'' it! The real Narm comes, though, when you've injected yourself and you're flopping around on the floor like a dying fish; all you hear is Atlas on the radio cheerfully telling you, "don't worry, it's just your genetic code being re-written". It gets better when shortly after, you randomly hurl yourself off the balcony and pass out. Although Atlas asks you to inject yourself with the plasmid if you try to open the door below. |
| 114 | ** It had an audio diary where [[MadDoctor Dr. Suchong]] tests the Enrage plasmid on some guy, who sounds like a monkey burning his arse on a hotplate or something. |
| 115 | ** [[spoiler:Fontaine momentarily freaks out after you ingest the second Lot 192 sample, completely releasing you from his mind control. Then he's back to his usual smarmy self. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_wCbz55T30#t=11m48s "YOU BROKE THE SPELL?!?"]]]] |
| 116 | * ''VideoGame/{{BlazBlue|Calamity Trigger}}''. GORILLA FAIT IS TOINING. REBEL ONE. Ack-SHUN!. |
| 117 | ** The [[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift sequel]]'s announcer is just as narmy. CARURU CUROBA |
| 118 | ** Also in the sequel, we get some very [[OffModel QUALITY]] animated cutscenes courtesy of {{Creator/GONZO}}. Hazama's [[MemeticMutation RAEPFACE]] is becoming rather meme-tastic. Fan reactions have alternated from [[http://blazen.thecomicseries.com/comics/51 laughter and parodies]] to UNSTOPPABLE RAGE. Cries of "Why, GONZO?!" are rather common amongst the community. |
| 119 | ** Not to mention: |
| 120 | --->'''Carl''': *utterly deadpan* Sis, I want to be able to taste your cooking again... |
| 121 | ** The Japanese version of the scene in ''Chronophantasma'' involving [[spoiler:Noel, Makoto and Tsubaki's reunion after the latter is freed from the Imperator's control once and for all.]] The ''crying''. It's so loud and over the top that it's impossible to take seriously. |
| 122 | * Nearly every line in ''VideoGame/BombermanJetters'' qualifies as this, from the supporting characters encouraging on Bomberman... |
| 123 | --> '''Dr. Ein:''' At last, there is only one gigantic rocket engine left, but there is no TEIM left! We're relying on you, White Bomber! |
| 124 | ** ...to the bosses in the game trying to intimidate you... |
| 125 | --->'''Thunder Bomber:''' HAW HAW HAW! HAW HAW HAW! I am the legendary Thundah Bomber! |
| 126 | ** ...even when the characters you're playing as pick up items, but ''especially MAX's lines''. |
| 127 | --->'''MAX:''' Banuhnuh. |
| 128 | * ''VideoGame/TheBouncer'' had moments all over the place. From the "No Cactaurs!" jacket Volt is wearing (yes, meant to be a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' joke of a different stripe, but too easily mocked in other ways) to the classic "Koh Leifoh... super spy!" sequence, it's really hard to take the game seriously at all (this probably explains the final boss fight abandoning all pretense of plot). |
| 129 | * In ''[[Literature/BraveStory Brave Story: A New Traveller]]'', you are searching for a lost reptile-boy named Minos. His father Sogreth, according to his old friend Kee Keema, ran off to find him on his own in spite of a huge monster that was in the cave. When you find them, Sogreth is unconscious and Minos is standing between him and the monster. |
| 130 | --> '''Minos''': Waaaaaah! Pop! |
| 131 | --> '''Kee Keema''': S-Sogreth! |
| 132 | --> '''[[GiantEnemyCrab Boogaboo Crab]]''': BOOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA-BOO. |
| 133 | * ''VideoGame/{{Breakdown}}'' was an excellent although severely flawed game. [[spoiler:A scientist suffers an obviously fatal fall, lands right in front of you, and then gets back up, apparently unscathed. And ''then'' she notices that the back of her head has been smashed to a pulp, and she then dies with cartoonishly exaggerated death throes.]] |
| 134 | * One of ''[[VideoGame/BubbleBobble Bubble Symphony]]'''s bad endings: "[[YouCantGoHomeAgain Year, but will can't go back to our own world!"]] |
| 135 | * The highly obscure Creator/SonicTeam title ''VideoGame/BurningRangers'' has a black guy named ''Big Landman'' and a guy from Europe called ''Lead Phoenix''. Maybe that's why it's so obscure... |
| 136 | [[/folder]] |
| 137 | |
| 138 | [[folder: C]] |
| 139 | * At the end of ''VideoGame/{{Cadash}}'', after uncovering the true villain and defeating him, you character prepares to leave when the princess addresses you again with a dramatic closeup: "Thank you for the important thing!" |
| 140 | * The enthusiastically hyper-aggressive German announcer in the Multiplayer of ''Call of Duty: World at War'' is narm-tastic. |
| 141 | ** "Our hounds vill tear zim to SHREDS!!!" |
| 142 | *** All of the non-American announcers are either this, or [[SoBadItsGood hilarious]]. |
| 143 | ** ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 2'': "Geeze Louise, [=McCloskey=]! How did you get to be company gunner? Shooting chickens in a barnyard?" |
| 144 | ** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'': Press X/F to Pay Respects. Also from the same game: [[spoiler: [[SayMyName "AHHH! MITCHELL!"]]]] |
| 145 | * The [[MarketBasedTitle Japan-region title]] of ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium 2001'' is ''Capcom vs. SNK 2: '''Millionaire''' Fighting 2001'', and the announcer even says it in a few places. Apparently, it's a fighting tournament where all the combatants are from the upper class! |
| 146 | * From the ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaAndTheAvengers'' arcade BeatEmUp: Cap and his crew are prepared to fight the first boss, [[ComicBook/IronMan Whirlwind]], saying they've got him cornered and he can't escape. Whirlwind's retort? "''You'' will be the one escaping!" This is supposed to sound threatening, but thanks to the cheesy voice acting (it was the early '90s, you know), it sounds utterly hilarious, especially given that it sounds like both Cap and Whirlwind were voiced by [[ActingForTwo the same guy]]. |
| 147 | ** Plus, telling your enemy that they're going to escape isn't exactly very threatening, being akin to yelling "I won't deal you serious injury!" |
| 148 | ** "I CAN'T MOVE!" |
| 149 | ** When a character is hit, he cries an over-dramatic "NO!" |
| 150 | ** "What an evil thing you've done!" |
| 151 | ** Mandarin's YellowPeril voice: "See my POWAAAAH!!!!" |
| 152 | ** When you demand that Ultron tell you where the laser is. His response is "ASK THE POLICE!" Why? Nobody really knows. |
| 153 | ** Whirlwind's partners in crime request the Avengers not to disturb them after they rob a bank. The Avengers rightfully respond "why should it goes well?" |
| 154 | ** On a side note, the designers of the game must have been under the impression that ComicBook/TheVision was a flat-chested woman or the world's most flamboyantly homosexual male robot. His default poses and moves have him with his knees turned inwards and his hands being held limply out to the side or covering his "breasts". Very, very strange. And then on the flying levels, he grabbed his cape and spread it wide, an effect that looked increadibly silly. |
| 155 | * ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'': |
| 156 | ** [[spoiler: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Hoshit_9286.png This thing]]]] pops up. It's supposed to be freaky, but looks too much like a mix of [[Literature/HarryPotter Dobby the House Elf]], [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]], and [[VideoGame/{{Overlord}} Brown Minions]]. |
| 157 | ** The FinalBoss sounds pretty childish when calling some of his attacks: |
| 158 | ---> "Head goes [[BoomHeadshot BOOM]]!" |
| 159 | ---> "[[spoiler:DUMUZID]] BEAM!!" |
| 160 | * In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', there's a completely optional, utterly pointless, blink-and-you'll-miss-it side-quest sort of thing. Marle has had two or three bitter fights with her father, and now wants to make up. If you go to the right town, you have the option of buying some spiced jerky (apparently his favorite) for 9,900 gold. If you then take it to the king, he will look at it, pause a moment, then declare that he has high blood pressure, ''assume Marle was attempting to harm him'', then throw her out of the castle and say he never wants to see her aga... wait, why am I laughing? |
| 161 | ** Because [[FrothyMugsOfWater alcohol was replaced by sugar]], a man in one of the inns has a soda pop addiction. Leading to this exchange, which feels a little ''too'' much like the translator's passive-aggressive commentary on how dumb the censorship here really is: |
| 162 | ---> '''Man''': Hey, bring some more soda! |
| 163 | ---> '''Bartender''': Sir, I think you've had enough sugar today. |
| 164 | ---> '''Man''': Pipe down! I'll tell you when I've had enough! Can't you see I love soda pop! Nothing like soda pop to quench your thirst! |
| 165 | * In the ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' expansion "Death Incarnate", several missions have scenes where an NPC is abruptly seized by a monstrous mouth erupting out of the ground. That would be nicely dramatic, except that it sticks around afterwards to chew, producing gigglefits and comparisons to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Piranha Plants]], [[Film/{{Tremors}} Graboids]], and [[Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors Audrey II]]. |
| 166 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Contra III: The Alien Wars]]'' features one of the heroes offering the brilliant suggestion of "Let's attack aggressively!". Apparently they already tried to attack the aliens "passively" and "moderately", but neither worked out to well. Maybe said hero was trying to say that they should attack the aliens directly, as opposed to attacking subtly but poor choice of words there. |
| 167 | * The [[SerialNumbersFiledOff totally-not-based-on-]]''Film/LethalWeapon''[[SerialNumbersFiledOff -honest]] action game ''Crime City'' has a few unintentional chuckles just from the {{Engrish}} alone, but the highlight comes at the start of "ROUND 4 -- [[RougeAnglesOfSatin KIDNAPING]]", when the elderly mayor discovers that his chauffer and aides are, in fact, armed "kidnappers", and he groans out a very disappointed "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGpNWSWscAk&t=8m17s OH! MAAAAAAN]]''" in response, as though he just realized that his mother mistakenly took his pot brownies to the church bake sale. |
| 168 | * In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'', one of the sidequests involves an associate being confronted by the mother of someone he killed, who tearfully tells the both of you to [[GetOut leave her domicile]] [[HeelFaceDoorSlam despite your associate's willingness to atone for his crime]]. The whole scene has quite the somber air about it...except for the part where the studio thought it appropriate to play stock audio of a woman sobbing in the background. Not only does the woman in the crying audio sound ''nothing'' like the mother, but it begins playing ''while she is still speaking'', giving the impression that there's apparently a very weepy ghost lurking around who just couldn't stand the intensely emotional scene. |
| 169 | [[/folder]] |
| 170 | |
| 171 | [[folder: D]] |
| 172 | * In ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'', the final boss battle against [[spoiler: Lucifer]] is somewhat ruined by his model having a blatantly visible ''[[FullFrontalAssault giant wang and saggy balls]]'' with realistic JigglePhysics making them flop and swing around as he fights. It doesn't help that he is so tall that most of your attacks are [[GroinAttack just at the height of his crotch]]. |
| 173 | * In both second stages in ''VideoGame/{{Darius}} Twin'', you face the {{Dual Boss}}es Emperor Fossil and Queen Fossil. Instead of the usual BossSubtitles, you get this nice big run-on sentence: |
| 174 | --> "'''WARNING''' - HUGE BATTLESHIPS CODE NO. [=EP30=] "EMPEROR FOSSIL" CODE NO. [=QU10=] "QUEEN FOSSIL" IS APPROACHING FAST" |
| 175 | ** "A HUGE BATTLESHIP ''MY HOME DADDY'' IS APPROACHING FAST" |
| 176 | * ''VideoGame/DarkChronicle'': While opinion varies as to the {{Narm}}-factor of cutscene lines normally, if you go out of your way to finish enough dungeon challenges and use the medals from doing so to buy the specialty clothing from the mayor? Try taking a tearjerker or epic sword fight scene seriously when your swordsman girl is wearing a {{Stripperiffic}} FurBikini with [[CatGirl cat ears]], and your wrench-wielding hero is in a clown suit. |
| 177 | ** "Damn damn '''DAMN''' that Griffen!" |
| 178 | ** What's more, despite the game having some very good voice acting (for its time), one of the reason being that the voice actors were known [[WTHCastingDepartment for their work on animated]] shows... ''especially'' on Nickelodeon. Some of which are using the ''exact'' same voice as some of their other characters. Say hello to [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Drew Pickles]] speaking to you as a rabbit person. The person who helps you out in the first dungeon sounds like [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]] with a country bumpkin accent. One of the first characters you meet in chapter 4 is [[WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger Carl Foutley]]. What might end up ruining a genuinely serious moment is when you ''finally'' meet the BigBad of the game... and it's [[spoiler: of all things, Kath Soucie... using her [[WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger Blake Gripling]] voice, of all things]]! However, while [[LampshadeHanging the characters are just as surprised as the viewers]], it's probably ''not'' quite the intended audience reaction. |
| 179 | * ''Dark Fear'' is a horror adventure game for mobile and Steam made to look like a DOS/C64 game; despite this it's fairly creepy and has a few effective scares and unsettling scenes, also thanks to the atmospheric, eerie soundtrack. All well and good until the final boss battle: an uber-cheesy fight against a stereotypical BigRedDevil with a generic butt-rock track as BGM. It really feels out of place instead of climactic. |
| 180 | * ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' has offered up a few examples over the years: |
| 181 | ** Ryu's PreAssKickingOneLiner against the Tengu in [=DoA2=] is hilarious for its blunt cordiality, as is Tengu's response for its sensibleness: |
| 182 | --->'''Hayabusa:''' "Let me take your life!" |
| 183 | --->'''Tengu:''' "That's ridiculous." |
| 184 | ** In ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive4'', both Ryu and Kasumi's pre-battle cutscenes with [[SNKBoss Alpha-152]] are made narmful by how [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard unfairly difficult]] the battle is, taking multiple tries even for an expert. In Ryu's version, he steps forward to protect Kasumi... then proceeds to get totally curbstomped. In Kasumi's version, he stands by noting that [[ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself This Is Something She Has To Do Herself]]... then watches her get totally curbstomped. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' gives us such gems as "I've covered wars, y'know." Well, Frank, so has Geraldo. |
| 186 | ** The game was full to the brim of Narm - reaching its height when the main character, [[spoiler:after the man responsible for the zombie outbreak dies in his arms, says "You know, I thought he was terrorist scum. But... In the end, all he really cared about was his sister." Trapping your sister in a mall full of flesh eating zombies is an odd way to show affection for her.]] |
| 187 | ** The insane manager of the supermarket that you have to fight - "THIS IS MY STOOOOOOORRREEEEE!" |
| 188 | ** "I'm...a...zombieeeee..." Yah, yah...hurry up already, I've got survivors to save. |
| 189 | ** The classic line "We need to [[HaveAGayOldTime retard]] the zombification process." (It's grammatically correct - "retard" literally means "slow" - but still, that word choice is unfortunate.) |
| 190 | ** On top of all that, the main character will wear the same clothes in cutscenes as he wears during gameplay. This means that many serious, dramatic moments can be spoiled by having Frank West wearing a Hawaiian shirt. Or a Servbot mask. Or a ''cocktail dress.'' |
| 191 | ** In the sequel, Chuck comes across a pair of magician psychopaths and witnesses them sawing a woman in half (literally) as part of a botched magic trick. Chuck's reaction is hilarious. |
| 192 | --->[[CaptainObvious HEY! That's not magic, she's dead!]] |
| 193 | * ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'', despite having ''excellent'' writing, becomes incredibly silly at times thanks to Isaac's stomping attack and its magical dismemberment powers. While it looks like he could stomp off fragile or mutilated Necromorph limbs, it's utterly hilarious to stomp on the dead bodies of [[spoiler: Hammond or Kyne]] and see their limbs come off totally clean. |
| 194 | * ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' has the ridiculous line "That wizard came from the moon." Or at least it did until the developers realised how narmy it was and removed it. |
| 195 | * While ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' is a great game, the level of narm present throughout it is truly awe-inspiring. The accented voices are usually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP6Nuf2lq0w delivered]] [[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=kihGm4KfY7k poorly]], and J.C. Denton's lack of emotion in his voice leads to some rather awkward dialog exchanges at times... |
| 196 | ** J.C.'s lack of emotion makes many of his lines arguably cooler. "A bomb's a bad choice for close-range combat." That, and the voice acting wasn't SoBadItsGood - just bad. |
| 197 | ** "Oh my god, JC, A bomb!" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qKzIsisU&feature=video_response "A bomb!"]]. Grade-A narm! |
| 198 | ** The moment in the abandoned building near the Paris catacombs. You get dropped off by your pilot on top of a dark, foreboding structure. You make your way down through the levels, passing dilapidated and crumbling walls, only to find a woman hanging out in a pseudo-apartment verbally berating herself for letting two of her cats die (and she speaks to you in a hilariously over-the-top French accent). If you go down to the basement and kill the greasels that were bothering her cats and go back to her, she suddenly goes crazy: |
| 199 | ---> '''Green greasy greasels!!!''' Oh... (later on)... ''HOORAH! MY KITTIES!!!'' |
| 200 | ** JC's line delivery if Sandra Renton's father dies during the confrontation with Jojo Fine at the 'Ton Hotel: |
| 201 | ---> '''Sandra Renton''': Oh my God! Daddy... |
| 202 | ---> '''JC Denton''': [[MemeticMutation What a shame]]... He was a good man. What a rotten way to die. |
| 203 | * Unfortunately, this didn't really improve a hell of a lot in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution''. |
| 204 | ** "Tell 'em Barrett sent ya...TO HELL!!!" |
| 205 | ** "You mean...The Illuminati?!" |
| 206 | ** "YES! YES, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I...my God..." |
| 207 | * The ending cinematic in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', depending on which class you played as. When the player character drives Diablo's Soulstone into his/her forehead, the look of pain on the Warrior and Sorcerer's faces is authentic. The Rogue, by contrast, ends up looking like Barbra Streisand. |
| 208 | * Baal, in the opening cinematic for Act V of ''VideoGame/DiabloII''. Sure, he's got an army from hell with him, and he blows up the guard in a very evil way, but... he also gestures emphatically with every line, looks like he's wearing makeup, and seems way too happy about being carried on a fashionable throne by his minions. He may be the most intimidating drama queen ever, but he still acts like a drama queen. |
| 209 | ** Some of the in-game lines count, such as The Necromancer's "I sense... a demonic presence here..." An ominous line, except that every last nook and cranny of the game is chock full of demons and other nasties, and that particular dungeon is no different. |
| 210 | ** Another time he utters "This place is as dark as a tomb." when entering... an underground temple. What did he expect? |
| 211 | * In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', [[Creator/CrispinFreeman Heat]] will sometimes begin a battle shouting "Your ass is MIIINEE!!" The delivery is funny by itself, but the FridgeLogic behind this is also funny. Half of the demons of the franchise don't even have asses. |
| 212 | * ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' had one cutscene where the entire party was surrounded by monsters, and death seemed certain. This would be a very dramatic scene if Yukimaru's VerbalTic didn't make the whole thing sound unintentionally silly. "Oh, how cruel is fate, zam?" |
| 213 | * ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': |
| 214 | ** Can be invoked by the player, ''especially'' with the Jester Tag. Not only do you have the option to dress your characters in ''extremely'' mismatched armour (Elves even wear {{Stripperific}} gear, regardless of gender), but you can say some inappropriately-funny things. Sometimes you get some amusing responses. |
| 215 | ** The game is not very "Cinematic", which means that some specific actions are handled by text boxes describing it. What becomes funny is when you're having a conversation across the room with them and they give you something (implying the item was ''tossed''). |
| 216 | *** Talking is also not a free action. You can exploit this by having your character chugging potions and the effect will remain through the conversation. But it also counters to debuffs, so your character (or even the person they're speaking to) can be having a long conversation while ''on fire''. |
| 217 | ** Talk with someone who is acting hostile to you, and trade with them. Then kill them! Hilarious. |
| 218 | ** The game later has an optional sex cutscene between yourself and another character. Because of the game's ''very'' rudimentary animation, the characters [[SpecialEffectFailure are depicted as standing in front of the bed while the narrator describes their actions]]. Then they get teleported into the bed. [[RightThroughHisPants With their gear still on]]. While ''Original Sin II'' still was promised to have some humour in it, it's highly unlikely Larian intended for humour like ''this''. |
| 219 | ** Lohse, the resident SpoonyBard, can actually sing - one moment can be done in her personal quest at the very end. What becomes extra funny is the fact that she can do it ''in the middle of a room filled with dead bodies'', making some absolute MoodWhiplash and SoundtrackDissonance. |
| 220 | ** The climactic ending has a scene that is ruined by its LimitedAnimation and SpecialEffectFailure: |
| 221 | *** First off, [[spoiler: Dallis and Lucian will give their ending monologues despite being ''flat on their faces'', and even ''on fire''.]] |
| 222 | *** And then [[spoiler: your character doesn't even walk to the throne, they just teleport there, still covered in visual effects from debuffs, and sit on the throne. You only get one moment to see it before a textbox obscures the view]]. |
| 223 | * ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' |
| 224 | ** In ''Doom'' and ''VideoGame/DoomII'', [[{{Mooks}} the first monsters]] should sound terrifying... but instead of sounding like [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]], [[NightmareRetardant they sound like camelids]] (the same stock sound effects are used for camel units in ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII''). |
| 225 | ** Any time in ''VideoGame/Doom3'' when an imp or something teleports in, and goes through the normal scream animation, then gets its head blown off because you weren't impressed. |
| 226 | ** In ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', the Marauder is meant to be one of the toughest enemies around. The way to defeat the Marauder is to hit it during a certain attack, which stuns it long enough for you to attack without getting blocked by its shield. The problem? The stun is represented by [[CirclingBirdies little stars spinning around its head, accompanied by a comedic sound effect]], which makes it hard to take this menacing enemy seriously. In ''The Ancient Gods, Part 2'', a similar effect happens when you stun enemies with the Sentinel Hammer... including the climactic fight against [[FinalBoss the Dark Lord]]. |
| 227 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', it's pretty hard to take some scenes seriously thanks to the addition of accents and some regional stereotypes. One example: After Rodrigo Briscoletti tells you to go find and see what color the jar at the shrine is, which then turns out to be red. Hearing the unfortunate news, he tells the Hero that the pot is a SealedEvilInACan that was sealed by his ancestors like "meat inside ravioli". Now that the seal is very weak, he says that "The pasta is about to burst open!" |
| 228 | * [[EnfantTerrible Manah]] in ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}''. This only happens once - when [[spoiler:Furiae is killed and Inuart is wailing over her corpse]], Manah is twirling around... and around...and around... Arguably, this could have been intensely disturbing, however, the fact that she just ''kept on going'' ruined it. |
| 229 | ** Also, her 'Watcher' voice coupled with her childish mannerisms. Imagine a deep, male voice. Now imagine it going 'Lalalalala' in complete monotone. |
| 230 | * Toward the end of the first ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife'' game, the mayor encounters the BigBad out in the woods. [[spoiler: The mayor is murdered.]] While this is pretty sad and even a little scary, it's shown by the villain simply walking toward him and the mayor falling over, sort of taking away the emotional sting. |
| 231 | * There's a Narm moment to be had in ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege II: Broken World''. Up until Part III, whenever you visit Arcanist Laenne to buy or sell reagents (and believe me, if you want to take advantage of those good reagent recipes, you ''will'' be visiting her a lot), she almost always starts her conversations with "We have taken in more Humans than we have room for, and they're in bad shape". It's an accurate and descriptive line the first few times you hear it, but after hearing it a few ''[[OverusedRunningGag hundred]]'' times, you can't help but either groan or say "Yeah, yeah, everything happens to you". Thankfully, though, you can skip past it. |
| 232 | ** Taar has some awkward lines: "You must take care when talking to strangers. You never know when someone is lying." [[SarcasmMode Yes, mother]]... |
| 233 | ** Most NPC lines are written in PurpleProse fit for the [[LargeHam hammiest of hams]], yet the voice actors are [[DullSurprise having none of it]]. It sounds like they recorded the lines in someone's apartment and didn't want to disturb the neighbors. |
| 234 | * In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 3'', a death cutscene that is supposed to be dramatic ([[spoiler:Guan Yu at Fan Castle]]) becomes this instead because the voice actor left out the word "with" leading to: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34TerX7pkGs "In death, my soul will be my brethren. Farewell!"]] |
| 235 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTeCaTG4-GU A dike? Oh no!]] |
| 236 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF-MDuXXiSI Feel the power of my...maaagiiiic!]] |
| 237 | ** "Another INN-sect ''crrushed!'' Another INN-sect ''crrushed!'' Another INN-sect ''crrushed!'' Another INN-sect ''crrushed!''" (And Sun Ce cheerfully declaring "One down, many more to go!" after wasting the enemy commander was even stupider.) |
| 238 | ** Given that the entire ''Dynasty Warriors'' series is set in a WorldOfHam, it's an ENDLESS source of Narm. How do you choose between Ma Chao's gut-wrenching demands for '''"JJJJUUSSSTICCCEEE!"''', Zhang Jiao's urging the Yellow Turbans to "[=GooooOOOOOOOOooooo=]!!!" while his voice cracks like he just hit puberty, Cao Ren's grandfatherly monotone regardless of how much carnage is happening around him, Gan Ning's vaguely Jersey accent in some installments.... actually, it's probably just easier to list all the dialogue in this series that ''isn't'' Narmy. |
| 239 | ** On the other end of the spectrum is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8edL_REJDU this cutscene from the third game]], in which Zhuge Liang reacts to a failed plan in such a mild-mannered tone he makes your average high school guidance counselor sound like Lu Bu. |
| 240 | ** Pretty much any serious line that involves Cao Cao or Cao Pi before the sixth game (Until then, it was always pronounced like "Cow" instead of the correct "Tsao"). Cao Pi especially qualifies. Not only that, but names like Sun Quan and Xiahou Dun didn't have the correct pronunciations until the seventh game, which can lead to funny moments if you're familiar with them. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder: E]] |
| 244 | * The ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce'' series is like the [[BMovie B-Movies]] of video games, pitting the player against large aliens. Hokey voice-acting helps to sell the B-movie feel, with such gems as "You like death? Then die!!" and songs that the troops sometimes sing. |
| 245 | --> ''We are prepared for any alien threat\ |
| 246 | The Navy launches ships, the Air Force sends in jets\ |
| 247 | And nothing can withstand our fixed bayonets\ |
| 248 | The EDF deploys!'' |
| 249 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' has a few examples. |
| 250 | ** An accidental example of BlackComedy occurs at the end of [[DeathSeeker Hirrus Clutummus's]] final sidequest, where you can find him standing on a ledge above the ground below, musing about how it would be like to fall off the ledge. Here, you have the dialogue option to catch him off guard and push him off, [[MercyKill just as he requested earlier in his previous sidequest]], and it all falls apart when once you do, he squeaks out a surprised "WHAT?!" and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ssH546g-kw abruptly ragdolls off the ledge right afterwards]] like it's a sketch from ''WebAnimation/TheGmodIdiotBox''. Not only do you not ''visibly do anything to push him off'', but Hirrus actually dies in midair, triggering his death dialogue which continues even ''after he hits the ground.'' |
| 251 | *** Even funnier is the MoodWhiplash between Hirrus's voice lines before and after you push him off, with Hirrus panickedly screaming "WHAT?! HAAARGH!!" one moment, then suddenly thanking you for granting him peace in a calm, grateful voice the next. |
| 252 | ----> '''Website/{{Youtube}}''' '''commenter:''' Did the air resistance kill him? |
| 253 | ** Knights of the Nine Patch. When you finally get down to the basement of the old, abandoned Priory of the Nine, listen to the main ghost as he has the other ghosts fight you. |
| 254 | *** "Now show him... THE FEERRRROCITY OF THE NORRTH!!" |
| 255 | *** "Steel yourself... and face... MEH!!!!" |
| 256 | ** Those can be okay, but the absolute worst example is from the main game. Despite the limited number of voice actors for non-major characters, they do a serviceable job most of the time. However imagine this in absolute monotone: |
| 257 | --->"Oh, no. You think the trolls killed them? And they were drawn in by [[WillOTheWisp will-o-the-wisps]]?" |
| 258 | ** Ten minutes out of the tutorial you're struck with a performance that's hammy even for a guy running from Hell itself. It contrasts with the much more level-headed reactions of the people ''trapped in a church surrounded by flames''. |
| 259 | ** Also, the way [=NPCs=] talk to each other, standing rod-straight and making constant eye contact, is either this or [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]]. |
| 260 | * ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has a somewhat meta-example. Dragons create their magic by shouting words like "fire" in their language. Thus, one of the loading screens describes a battle between two dragons as a "deadly verbal debate". Now imagine real-world politicians or lawyers holding a debate by yelling things like "fire" and "ice" at each other as loud as they can... |
| 261 | ** Odahviing's face has a weird tendency to default to a [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily big, toothy dragon grin]] when he finishes speaking. This can be pretty hilarious in the wrong context. |
| 262 | ** The combat system can easily lead to unintentionally funny moments, such as a guy telling you "Don't do that!" with mild annoyance as you run him through with a giant sword. The stealth system only adds to the absurdity; it's not uncommon for a bandit that you shot in the head from stealth to completely ignore the arrow now sticking out of his eye, claiming that it "Must've been my imagination..." |
| 263 | * When the ''VideoGame/EliteBeatAgents'' [[spoiler:are turned into stone right before the Jumping Jack Flash stage]], the mood is ruined because of how fake everybody's crying sounds. "Ah, unHAAAAAAAAAAAAW. My candy." |
| 264 | ** Also, the "[[TearJerker sad mission]]" that's [[OncePerEpisode a staple of all three]] DS {{Rhythm Game}}s made by iNiS can devolve into this if your LifeMeter happened to be into the red at the end of any phase before the last. |
| 265 | * ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' is [[NightmareFuel/EternalDarkness a very scary game]] for the most part. However, in Dr. Lindsey's chapter, the player is introduced to Guardians, a new type of {{Elite Mook|s}}. Chattur'gha's Guardians are big, vampiric skeletons with scorpion stingers, which ''is'' freaky on its own...but they walk by stooping over and covering their heads with their wings, resulting in a ridiculous bouncing motion. And Ulyaoth's Guardians are even ''worse'', since they boost the above Narm by being crossed with fish. |
| 266 | ** In Max's voiceover for the Ulyaoth Bonethief's entry in his autopsy reports, he claims that Bonethieves... smell like vanilla. ItMakesSenseInContext when you think about it, seeing as he was driven over the edge by reason to believe that his servants including the kitchen staff were possessed by the things, but still, it can make for a distinct moment of "wait, what?!" |
| 267 | * The ending of ''VideoGame/EternalSonata''. Proof that AuthorFilibuster, MindScrew, RomanticPlotTumor and ExpositionBreak should never mix, even if the setting is a DyingDream. The ending theme's [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments surprisingly good]] though. [[spoiler: Claves]]'s ridiculously long FinalSpeech is also pretty cheesy. |
| 268 | ** Didn't help that the time she spent hanging around was used to prove how useless she was in combat. |
| 269 | ** In general, the characters have a weird tendency of refusing to shut the fuck up, with long blocks of exposition on villain motives being related to the player by them talking to themselves. These guys spend up to ''five minutes'' telling themselves what they want to do. |
| 270 | * [=ClockUp=]'s ''Euphoria'': [[spoiler:TheReveal of Kanae Hokari being the BigBad EvilGenius is horrifying, but take a closer look at her in her lab coat; remember, [[TheNapoleon she's only 153 cm]], so the coat in her sprites appears to go down ''all the way to her feet!'']] |
| 271 | * [[https://twitter.com/viperwave/status/800211230791081984 Mike's death scene]] in ''Exodus from the Earth'' has become viral on social media and emblematic of the game's sloppy nature. What makes it just so amazingly narmy? |
| 272 | ** Is it the goofy music? |
| 273 | ** The poor voice acting, such the hero curiously asking "Is it really so easy?" in his baritone voice, like an actor TooIncompetentToOperateABlanket in an infomercial who was just told of a new blanket-operating gadget? The strained way the hero says "Fuck off, bastards!"? |
| 274 | ** The {{Mooks}}' delayed reaction at the grenade fired at them, screaming "GRENADE!" ''after'' it explodes? |
| 275 | ** Mike imploring the protagonist to "go save the universe" despite the limited scale of the game's plot? |
| 276 | ** Mike's dying words being "Eh, you'll cope with it. Go find the fucking memory block.", and the game trying really hard to make the scene look like this tragic event when [[MauveShirt Mike]] simply isn't a sympathetic or developed-enough character for anyone to care about what happens to him? |
| 277 | [[/folder]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder: F]] |
| 280 | * ''VideoGame/FZero X'': "[[HaveANiceDeath Too bad. You lost your machine]]." |
| 281 | ** "WATCH YOUR BACK! [[NitroBoost YOU GOT BOOST POWER]]! WHOA! [[CaptainObvious YOU'RE WAY OUT IN FRONT]]! YEAH! THE FINAL LAP!" Frankly, all of the voice acting in ''X'' was a goldmine of Narm. |
| 282 | ** While the voice acting in ''GX'' was improved, (especially if you're comparing Falcon to his MemeticBadass counterpart in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''), that didn't stop the Narm, considering that Creator/{{Nintendo}} strove to humanize every character (all of 41 of them)... by giving them post-race interviews, zany movies (that are won by [[NintendoHard beating Master Class]]), and a ''story mode'' that fluctuates between narm and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P0xFSPSSEs This]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Q4jPjNztI is]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3ZJQvUB_C8 what]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLuQaqIKGNc what]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDSztC1y4E4 to]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2fMSjry6ys expect.]] |
| 283 | ** ''GX'', as mentioned above, has a gag called "F-Zero TV" where winning contestants are "interviewed" with [[FridgeLogic just one question per interview]], and even then, some of the answers to the questions are CRINGEWORTHY. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-DZeBlfAUI Viewable here.]] |
| 284 | --->'''Interviewer:''' "Listen to that crowd! Do you have anything to say to them?" |
| 285 | --->'''Falcon:''' (''shouting'') "[[BigYes YYYEEAAHH!]]" |
| 286 | ** ''GX''[='=]s Story Mode's final chapter. After winning the [[ThatOneLevel notoriously hard]] F-Zero Grand Prix and defeating [[spoiler:the champion of the underworld Deathborn to combine the belts of the overworld and underworld into a massive golden super-belt]], one last opponent stands before Captain Falcon: [[spoiler:the creators of the universe.]] Which would be somewhat climatic, except the race is [[spoiler:just a glorified time attack against a developer ghost, which is even explicitly called a Staff Ghost by the game, that doesn't interact with the player at all.]] For a game that is hailed by many players as the best in the series, it sure is one hell of a DisappointingLastLevel. |
| 287 | * The scene in ''VideoGame/FableII'' where Lucien reveals [[spoiler:that he killed your family in order to put a stop to your bloodline]] becomes hilarious if you opted for a [[GayOption gay marriage]]. Uh, Lucy, [[HomosexualReproduction I think it's time we had "the Talk."]] |
| 288 | * ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', for the most part, has top-of-the-line voice acting and writing. However, Benny, voiced by Creator/MatthewPerry, is a single stain of narm. He's supposed to come across as being ridiculously smooth, but everything he says is in this dull monotone that sounds more bored than anything. [[spoiler:He does lose his shit if you have him crucified, though.]] |
| 289 | ** In addition, some of the super mutants are pretty funny sounding, even the ones that weren't especially meant to be funny. (with the exception of Lily and Dog, both of whom are very tragic characters) |
| 290 | *** With the game's many bugs, non-player characters can wind up looking like bloody messes, even without being harmed. On top of that, another glitch can occur where [[ExorcistHead their heads spin on their necks]] like ferris wheels or something. |
| 291 | * ''VideoGame/FarCry1'': '''"DOYLE! MY ARM IS TURNING GREEN!"''' The voice acting didn't help matters. |
| 292 | * Franco Bash's entire existence in the ''VideoGame/FatalFury'' series is pure [[HamAndCheese narm, and ham]]. Imagine a 7-foot tall raging alcoholic boxer screaming lines like "Now I'm cookin'! Once I get goin, I'm just a DYNAMOOOOOOO!", or stomping a guy in the face while bellowing "NOOOOOOO!" for no explained reason. |
| 293 | * Getting up to Geese in ''VideoGame/FatalFury Special'' using Terry in arcade mode leads to this threatening pre-match taunt: |
| 294 | -->'''Geese''': Die like your father, you pin-headed son of an ice-cream maker! |
| 295 | ** And beating Geese with Terry leads to this weird quote from Terry to the man who [[YouKilledMyFather killed his adoptive dad]]: |
| 296 | --->'''Terry''': Don't come round here no more, no more. Doo wah. |
| 297 | * In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Tohsaka explains the legend of Myth/KingArthur to Shirou by imitating the voice of Merlin. The players hear a Japanese girl growling like an old wizard. |
| 298 | ** There's also her "happy" sprite where she talks about her sister, Sakura, which makes her look stupid in a serious moment. |
| 299 | * ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR 2]]'': Concerning the raging psychic ghost BigBad and the player character, whom she's targeted - "You're like free pizza at an anime convention. She can smell you. And she wants to consume you." |
| 300 | * ''First Samurai'' is an okay platform game from the Nineties. The music is great but the sound effects are hilariously narm-y: the overly dramatic chords heard whenever you kill any enemy, the protagonist's grunts and Japlish sentences ("OH NO MAI SWORDO!"), the use of the beginning of Händel's "Hallelujah" every time you find a food or treasure bonus, all detract greatly from the overall experience. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZWXh3MuS4Q Observe]]. |
| 301 | * ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'': |
| 302 | ** In ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'', fellow [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot pirate robot fox...]] [[ADogNamedDog Foxy]] and purple HairRaisingHare Bonnie take turns residing behind the former's signature curtains. While Foxy gradually emerges from the curtains when not viewed on security cameras in a creepy, Weeping Angel-esque fashion, Bonnie disables the camera when you make the mistake of viewing it instead. It can be scary to find a creepy rabbit mascot letting out an ear-piercing scream in place of a broken-down fox, but the way Bonnie face peeks out from the curtains makes it look like he's in the middle of taking a shower, and he's pissed at you for peeping on him. |
| 303 | ** Then there's the way Toy Freddy walks as he approaches you from the front hallway in the FNaF 2 recreation in ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted Help Wanted]]'': The way he walks looks less like an unstoppable KillerRobot and more like a jolly Barney the Dinosaur in a good mood, but it might be justified since he's a shiny, kid-friendlier version of the series's titular antagonist, at he goes back to being scary again once he gains BlackEyesOfEvil in your office. |
| 304 | * In the arcade LightGunGame ''VideoGame/{{Friction}}'', enemies will sometimes ''[[LudicrousGibs explode into pieces]]'' upon being shot by the player. What makes it even more hilarious is the fact that there is [[BloodlessCarnage no blood]], which makes the enemies look like they're made out of crystals. And after a few seconds, their bodies sink into the ground (as opposed to simply vanishing, like in most gun games), as if they were being pulled into the ground by some evil corpse-manipulating magician. |
| 305 | [[/folder]] |
| 306 | |
| 307 | [[folder: G]] |
| 308 | * ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'': |
| 309 | ** ''Gears of War 2'': "A ''giant worm''! They're sinking cities with ''a giant worm!''" |
| 310 | ** This particular bit of exchange: |
| 311 | --->'''Marcus Fenix:''' "Control, this is Delta here. We've hijacked a Brumak so that we c-" |
| 312 | --->'''Anya (Control):''' "You what?!" O_o |
| 313 | --->'''Marcus Fenix:''' "We're riding a Brumak. We're going to use it to clear the area faster." |
| 314 | --->'''Anya:''' "Uh...okay...roger that, Delta. Keep us posted. Control Out." |
| 315 | *** The entire game is composed of Narm, and yet Carlos Ferro's delivery in this scene borders on the poignant. However: "DAMN STRAIGHT! I'M GONNA KILL EVERY ONE OF THESE BASTARDS!" |
| 316 | ** In the third game, at one point Delta Squad and Locust Queen Myyra encounter each other. After the usual threats are exchanged, for some reason Marcus growls out "Yeah, I got your number, bitch" under his breath. It's out of nowhere and so horribly cheesy that you briefly wonder if you're watching one of those parodies of 80s action flicks that show up on television in cartoons. |
| 317 | * ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}}'': |
| 318 | ** The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/{{Salamander}} 2'' greets you with the most intimidating threat a mile-wide three-headed alien could possibly give to a spaceship pilot: "I'm going to scare you like you've ''never'' been scared before!" |
| 319 | ** ''Gradius Gaiden'', in the fourth level, has a boss consisting of two giant moai heads that taunt you: "You think you can beat me with that?? Loser!" It's the "loser" part that drives it over the top - that's a playground insult! |
| 320 | * ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'': |
| 321 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''. The serious cut scenes don't work so well if the player has C.J. dressed up in something completely silly (or almost naked). |
| 322 | *** Also, in all of the ''Grand Theft Auto'' games you play as at least a VillainProtagonist, whereas CJ comes off as a bit of a NiceGuy, despite being a gangster. It's a little jarring though, once GameplayAndStorySegregation come into play, and has CJ running over crowds of innocent people and beating hookers to death with dildos. |
| 323 | ** An example comes late in the normally serious ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned''. After Johnny's best friend Jim gets his face burned with blowtorch by sleazy Italian gangster Ray Boccino, Johnny and Jim escape, killing Ray's teammate in the process. Ray waves his fist and yells, "[=AaaarrgghI'll=] see you later!" |
| 324 | ** Another example from ''the Lost and Damned'' is the mission failed cutscene for "Shifting Weight" involving [=DeSean=]. It's supposed to sound tragic, but it quickly loses its tragic factor when the person says "knew that motherfucker ([=DeSean=]) since diapers." |
| 325 | ** From vanilla ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', Katt Williams' standup. He is supposed to talk about Liberty City like it's a real place, but that winds up feeling so awkward it's cringe-inducing. |
| 326 | * ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'': Towards the end of the game, Manny wears his reaper uniform to go confront Hector [=LeMans=], the BigBad. While he looks cool in his robe, the opening of the game establishes that Manny wears stilts underneath his outfit because he's not a very tall man. So throughout the entirety of the climax, Manny is wearing a pair of stilts to look badass while he confronts Hector! |
| 327 | * ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': |
| 328 | ** In ''Xrd -Revelator-'', TheReveal of [[spoiler: That Man as Sol's best friend Asuka R. Kreuz]] is ruined by [[spoiler: his rather ridiculous, cat-like UnusualEars and weird wing eyepatch]]. WTHCostumingDepartment, indeed. |
| 329 | ** [[spoiler: Axl Low]]'s best moment in the whole game, when he [[spoiler: uses his TimeMaster powers to help Sol despite knowing that he'll never be able to return home]] in -Revelator-'s Story Mode, is completely ruined by the stupidly overblown delivery of his lines by his VA. |
| 330 | ** In ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearStrive'', Bridget undergoing TransTribulations in her story arc with Goldlewis and Ky is appropriately dramatic. The moment where she decides that [[QueerEstablishingMoment she's done running from who she is]], with Goldlewis and Ky encouraging Bridget to stop worrying about what anyone else thinks of her and promising to support her, is also suitably triumphant. But all of this happens while Bridget is still doing her usual {{idle animation}}s, which involve her moving and grooving to the music with exaggerated and passionate dancing. It turns what should be a beautiful moment of acceptance and character development into one that's unintentionally silly. |
| 331 | * ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'': |
| 332 | ** ''5'' has perhaps the ultimate narminess in the "[[CrossesTheLineTwice so wrong, it's hilarious]]" category: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UuAoEW5MbI Witness]] Kurt Cobain's digital ghost rapping with Flava Flav's voice, dancing like a Japanese school girl and covering Bon Jovi songs. '''YEAAAAAAHHHH BOYYYYYYYY!''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8hhnxluNo As well as]] Johnny Cash singing Rammstein. |
| 333 | ** All instances in Spanish. When in English at the end of a track the systems goes "You rock", in Spanish it goes "Que caña" which unless you are from Spain is quite Narm. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[folder: H]] |
| 337 | * ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' : Way back in the day, a bug could happen when the characters' voice lines were having difficulty playing, resulting in them stuttering. It made an odd bit of sense with the Gman, but when you're speaking with a character who does ''not'' stutter or is talking to you long-distance, it became ''quite'' hilarious. |
| 338 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': |
| 339 | ** The opening scene for ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' has an Elite Commander being publicly humiliated and tortured by Brutes for his failure to protect the original ''[[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved Combat Evolved]]'' Halo from "the demon", Master Chief. This would be an incredibly dramatic scene, if only two things had been cut - 1)the Elite Commander's rather pathetic roar of pain at being branded; and 2)the Grunts in their thousands lining the walls of the corridor the Elite Commander's being marched down, screaming "Heretic!" in their hilarious high-pitched voices. |
| 340 | ** While the Brutes are carrying the soon-to-be Arbiter to the Mausoleum in ''2'': |
| 341 | --> Brute 1: "Why not throw him in with this lot? They could use the meat". |
| 342 | --> Brute 2: "What about us? My belly aches, and his flesh is seared just the way I like it". |
| 343 | --> Tartarus: "Quiet! You two whimper like grunts fresh of the teat"(another food nipple reference?). |
| 344 | ** In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', there's this bit in the base early on. It's hilarious because Miranda looks and sounds about 12, and it's an utterly stupid answer to a tactically relevant question: |
| 345 | ---> Marine: Ma'am, squad leaders are requesting a rally point. Where should they go? |
| 346 | ---> Miranda Keyes: (DramaticGunCock) ''To war''. |
| 347 | *** Johnson's death in the same game. Didn't help that but he 'died' like, four times before that. Not counting all the times he got 'knocked out' during gameplay. |
| 348 | ** The first level of ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' has a marine (well, army grunt, whatever) announce over the radio that "The Covenant is on Reach. I repeat: the Covenant is on Reach." He sounds bored out of his mind. It's no big deal, apparently. |
| 349 | *** What's worse is that he's one of the generic voices assigned to NPC soldiers, so we get this flat and bored voice mixed in with frantic yelling and cries of pain during gameplay. |
| 350 | * [[HGame Porn Game]] ''Haro: Tale of the Western Country'' had three translators working on the English version. One did the story, which is actually quite good, despite Chucky's annoying accent. Another did some filler material, which is also pretty good. The third did the sex scenes, and oh boy. They're a mess of PurpleProse, absurd metaphors, and ''references to internet memes''. |
| 351 | ** And ''Haro's'' predecessor, ''Way'' simply has a BlindIdiotTranslation which renders nearly every bit of dialogue either incomprehensible or hilarious. By far the funniest bit is, when you [[HyperactiveMetabolism eat to restore stamina]] during a particular "action" sequence, you get the line: "POWER in your body!" |
| 352 | * In the [=PC=] game version of ''VideoGame/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'', the cutscene where Malfoy is attacked by Buckbeak. Buckbeak knocks Malfoy to the ground and he shouts "I'm dying! I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!" Hagrid matter-of-factly says "yer not dyin'" and then Malfoy gets up and walks off, obviously totally uninjured. He ''is'' supposed to be faking his injury, but that scene makes it look like he's completing dropping the façade at the drop of a hat and that's what makes it perfectly hilarious. (Obviously, the game's makers just didn't feel like animating Hagrid carrying Malfoy.) |
| 353 | ** The GBA version does something similar, though because of the sprites, it's harder to tell. More JustForFun/{{egregious}} is how the game uses Buckbeak's [[GuestStarPartyMember battle sprite]] for his attack on Malfoy, which makes Buckbeak face ''away'' from Malfoy. |
| 354 | ** The PC version of [[VideoGame/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone the first game]] also has a priceless moment at the end. At the choosing potion mini-game (which replaces a perfectly fine riddle with a simple follow the bottle routine) if you choose the wrong phial Hermione exclaims "Are you sure Harry? I think it may be poison." Cue Harry drinking the potion anyway, going "ARRGG", falling on the ground with a motionless Hermione exclaiming in a rather flat tone "Oh no!". |
| 355 | * The ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games often allow you to trigger cutscenes while holding items. It's already awkward when you walk in on a married couple having a huge blowout argument or a lonely girl crying by the sea. If you happen to have a plate of cookies balanced on your head while doing so...well, just try to concentrate on the CharacterDevelopment. |
| 356 | * Blake from ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' would like you all to know that Agent Nahman Jayden is a '''''fuckin' ASSHOLE!''''' ([[GoodCopBadCop Delivery aside, not like he's one to talk.]]) [[note]]For extra narm points, select the "Calm" option, which makes Blake sounds like he flipping his shit for no apparent reason.[[/note]] |
| 357 | ** Jason's death might qualify too, seeing as he kind of wanders obliviously out into the road, very slowly, and is hit by a car which ''also'' seems to be going very slowly. Heck, the car looked like it stopped before hitting them. And on top of that, it's very clear that Ethan made it to Jason and got in front of the car, so if anyone was going to get hit, it would've been Ethan. The logic around what is supposed to be a large shift in the story makes it extremely difficult to take seriously, and the fact that it follows the already-narmy "press X to Jason" segment doesn't help much. |
| 358 | * In the ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic V'' expansion, Hammers of Fate, the second campaign ends with a climactic battle against [[BloodKnight Laszlo]], a corrupt knight who is responsible for the slaughter of thousands of rebels and dwarves. While two of your heroes battle him, another hero, Freyda, [[spoiler:is trying to rescue her father from the prison that Laszlo and the queen (really a demoness in disguise) put him into. As he dies in her arms,]] the god [[CrystalDragonJesus Elrath]] speaks directly to Freyda, [[spoiler:giving her the power to reach out and strike down Laszlo in justice-slash-revenge]]. So in this dramatic moment, you'd expect a girl who just [[spoiler:lost her father]] to give a raw throated scream of fury. But there must have been a voice-acting screw up, because the line is delivered like she's having an orgasm. |
| 359 | ** Vanilla ''Heroes of Might and Magic V'' serves up the narm during the in-game cutscenes, as character's dialogue is accompanied by their usual [[IdleAnimation battle and magic animation]]. Therefore, to emphasise a point, rather than swinging their sword or raising their fist into the sky, characters all throughout the campaign of HOMMV instead cast fireballs and lightning bolts...and carry on with their conversation as if this is perfectly normal. This was later amended in the expansion packs, which granted the characters the ability to actually move their mouths... |
| 360 | * A lot of ''VideoGame/{{Histacom}}'' [[spoiler:(especially for the first level, while 12padams is still the antagonist)]] features [[AuthorAvatar 12padams]] trying to be intimidating, but it comes across as silly because all of his lines (just like everyone else's) are linguistic nightmares and everything takes place in a chat room on the Internet. |
| 361 | -->'''rain49''': CRAP 12padams logged on... Quickly [=SkyHigh=] and (protagonist) LOGOUT!!! |
| 362 | -->'''[=SkyHigh=]''': I can't the x button is not working!!!! |
| 363 | -->'''12padams''': I Have Caught you!!! |
| 364 | -->'''12padams''': Now that I Have you... We are gunna have a bit of fun... |
| 365 | -->'''rain49''': Guys Quickly go to start and turn off your computer!!! |
| 366 | -->'''12padams''': Yea Guys I Will definatly unban you if you do that... |
| 367 | -->'''12padams''': Ha Ha Ha... nobodys turning off their computer??? |
| 368 | -->'''[=SkyHigh=]''': What the Hell!!!! wheres my startbutton. |
| 369 | -->'''rain49''': Omg 12padams disabled it... |
| 370 | -->'''12padams''': ... scared Yet? |
| 371 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld 2}}'' fleet intelligence, who has up to this point had a deadpan delivery panics and delivers a completely out of character (and unconvincing), "Scans of the hull indicate it is immune to conventional weaponry! BRING SAJUUK TO BEAR! BRING SAJUUK TO BEAR! [[http://bstb.ytmnd.com/ BRING SAJUUK TO BEAR!]]. |
| 372 | [[/folder]] |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder: I - J]] |
| 375 | * Creator/HarlanEllison's ''VideoGame/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' was unable to escape this trope. Part of the reason is that the voice actors for Gorrister, Ellen, Nimdok, and Ted sound disinterested or bored. It could be argued that they were trying to sound like people who had been hideously tortured for over 100 years. However, the voice actors for Benny and AM definitely put LargeHam into their lines. As a result of this, a number of lines definitely become prime candidates for {{Narm}}. Here's a good one...Ted saying "Why, you used me, you bitch!" |
| 376 | * In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', Professor Hal's full name is "Halitosis", meaning "bad breath", [[spoiler:and if his dies, his name makes Eudicot's eulogy for him unintentionally funny since she delivers it somberly and no one in the audience snickers at his name.]] |
| 377 | * During the game master's final phase in ''VideoGame/{{Inscryption}}'', he dramatically adds [[spoiler:the Moon]] to his hand. This can be rather daunting... unless you have a card with the Touch of Death Sigil, which will defeat it instantly. Or even just the Stinkbug, which will reduce its attack so that no matter how much HP it has it cannot actually do any harm. An in-universe example as well, as the game master in question is [[spoiler:aware this is a game and deliberately putting on a show]], and thus amusingly reacts much like a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' DM whose BigBad just got slaughtered in a single round. |
| 378 | * ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxterTheLostFrontier''. Dark Daxter. The bunny ears take the first [=DarkDax=] scene from worrying to hysterically funny. Similarly, one shot of [[spoiler:Skyheed]] when he finds the Eco Core somehow has even more of a resemblance to an angry rabbit than Dark Dax. |
| 379 | [[/folder]] |
| 380 | |
| 381 | [[folder: K]] |
| 382 | * ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': The end of Chapter 21 features [[spoiler:Pit being badly wounded after going beyond his 5-minute flight limit to save Dark Pit, with a heartbroken Palutena cradling his nearly-lifeless body.]] The delivery is by all accounts fine, the problem is that [[SpecialEffectFailure the smoke effects causes the framerate to drop dramatically]], hurting the impact of the scene. |
| 383 | * ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': |
| 384 | ** The series is known for having effectly creepy final bosses that clash well with the SugarBowl settings. While the final boss of ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' follows this, the fact that he has a comically oversized band-aid on his head takes away some of the impact. |
| 385 | ** More of a player-induced one really but can be accidentally done nonetheless if you've forgotten what stickers you've used. In ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', when Kirby's Robobot Armour scans [[spoiler: the Halberd before the fight against Star Dream]], you will get a close-up and see in large what stickers you currently have on before flying off. It turns a serious moment into a laugh-out loud one if you have the character doodle stickers on, especially if it's King Dedede. |
| 386 | ** Meta Knight's voice in ''VideoGame/KirbyBattleRoyale'' has been criticized for not falling in line with his mysterious knight persona, sounding closer to a goat than how his voice has been portrayed in the mainline games and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. |
| 387 | ** There's also Pon & Con in ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' who use the [[RoarBeforeBeating stock]] ''[[RoarBeforeBeating Kirby]]'' [[RoarBeforeBeating boss roar]] before battling Kirby and his friends. Sure, it's something you'd hear from [[VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe a giant lava frog living in the sky]], but it feels so weird to hear it from marshmallowy raccoons and foxes. What's even more, their stronger versions [[UndergroundMonkey Goldon & Silvox]] do the same thing halfway through the fight, and the Soul Melter [[spoiler:and Soul Melter EX]] difficulties of The Ultimate Choice have ''them'' among all the other dangerous bosses, with their battle theme on those two difficulties is even "Decisive Battle with a Mighty Boss" from ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'', which normally plays during climatic battles such as [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Dyna Blade, Wham Bam Rock]] or [[VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe King D-Mind]]. |
| 388 | * In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2'': in the [[TheDragon penultimate boss fight]] against everyone's favourite Scottish zombie Sith, Darth Sion, you can attempt to weaken his will in the conversation portions, leading to the following: |
| 389 | -->'''Darth Sion''': You seek to erode my will. You will not succeed. |
| 390 | --> [You have eroded Sion's will, reducing his Will saves, Constitution and Wisdom.] |
| 391 | ** From that same game, a dramatic flashback revealing some important plot-relevant info is wrecked by the participants' heads nodding back and forth constantly. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aefbazFnbig Take a look.]] |
| 392 | ** It was in the first game and probably in the second game, but during conversation the player character is always doing the 'yes, I see' head nods and bearing a vaguely intent expression. Usually this is fine, but when the [=NPCs=] you're talking to are being insulting or making demands, it looks pretty silly. |
| 393 | ** On the first planet you visit in ''KOTOR II'' (Peragus), you meet the HK-50 assassin droid ([[spoiler: who has taken control of the station's mining droids and killed everyone aboard]]) who plays a recording of the chief engineer's last moments. Some find it terrifying, others find it narmy. |
| 394 | -->'''Engineer''': Five droids, burning through the outer door. They're forcing their way into the bay. They're -- Oh no, they're through, they're -- AAAAGH! MY LEG! THEY BURNED THROUGH MY LEG! AAAAGH! |
| 395 | [[/folder]] |
| 396 | |
| 397 | [[folder: L]] |
| 398 | * Pick a scene in ''VideoGame/LastAlert'' for the Turbo-Duo. Seriously. Any scene at all. |
| 399 | ** "I want you, to assassinate him. :|" |
| 400 | ** [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle "Guy KaZAMA! If YOU don't want the hostage KILLED, you should KEEP QUIET!"]] Then the hostage starts talking with a voice that can only be described as a poor man's Fozzie Bear. |
| 401 | ** "How could Lloyd's government betray us." Points for being spoken by a man who'd just been shot through the chest as he was falling backwards in a FadeToWhite moment. |
| 402 | ** "People will HATE you, STEVE, if you're too STING-EE!" |
| 403 | * ''Last Battle'', a Platform/SegaGenesis game originally based on ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', abounds in stilted melodramatic dialogue, e.g.: |
| 404 | -->'''Alyssa''': Aarzak! Save the world!\ |
| 405 | '''Aarzak''': I am the only one who can save this world! |
| 406 | ** Aarzak (formerly Kenshiro) finding a dying Duke (formerly Falco) leads to what was supposed to be a reassuring line form Kenshiro, instead looks more like a sarcastic fuck-you from Aarzak. |
| 407 | -->'''Duke''': I am sorry, I couldn't save Alyssa! |
| 408 | -->'''Aarzak''': Duke! What a hero you are! |
| 409 | * Much of the divisiveness behind ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUsPartII'' lies in how it tends to take itself a little ''too'' seriously at times: |
| 410 | ** The game's [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/8157R1BYmoL._AC_SL1500_.jpg cover]] was poked fun of due to how overly edgy it came off as, with Ellie (an otherwise rather pretty 19 year-old ActionSurvivor) grimacing like [[VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}} B.J Blazkowicz]] on a bad day with blood splatter all over her face. |
| 411 | ** Human enemies have a tendency to [[TheDeadHaveNames yell out the names of their allies when Ellie kills them]]. The intention was to show that [[WhatMeasureIsAMook the enemies are just ordinary people doing their jobs]], but some players felt this tried too hard to demonize Ellie's actions. Not helping is that the names are often quite random and the [=NPCs=] [[YouAllLookFamiliar don't have unique character models]]. |
| 412 | ** Abby having the nickname "Abs" got a few guffaws from players. While it's supposed to be a simple shortening of her name, her muscular physique can make this connection rather silly. |
| 413 | ** Abby and her crew allowing Mel, a heavily pregnant ''doctor'', to join them on their hunting trips. Many players found it incredulous that any military unit, even one in a post-apocalyptic CrapsackWorld where everybody has to be a tough-as-nails CombatPragmatist to get by, would allow a woman who could give birth at literally any time to fight on the frontlines and serve as TheMedic. |
| 414 | * ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' is practically full of this, though probably on purpose. The way each survivor reacts to another one's death is just so over the top that it's almost ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' styled. |
| 415 | ** To be more specific, it's the player's vulture-like reactions. "Oh god not zoey *sob* anybody but zo-PILLS HERE; GRABBIN' PEELZ" |
| 416 | ** The Church Guy scene is ''full'' of this. DING-DONG! |
| 417 | ** The AI Director usually spawns hordes in places that are out of the direct line of sight of players; however, the director doesn't take into account how large these areas actually are. Because of this, it's possible to see upwards of thirty infected charging out of a very small storage closet. Or a bathroom. |
| 418 | * The PSX RPG ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' was plagued with a translation that got progressively more awful as the game went on. What was supposed to be a touching scene of reunion and forgiveness between [[spoiler:Haschel and his former student Gehrich as the latter dies]] was ruined by someone yelling out "SHUT UP! TALKING MAKES YOU DIE!" right in the middle of it. |
| 419 | ** The extremely bad voice acting during cut scenes, and during combat whenever a character [[CallingYourAttacks invokes an Addition]]. Dart's VA was particularly bad. |
| 420 | *** "BLACK...MONSTER!" |
| 421 | *** DOUBLE-''SLASH''! |
| 422 | *** SPINNING CANE! |
| 423 | *** HAR-''POOON!'' |
| 424 | *** VOLCANOO! |
| 425 | *** Crash Daaance! |
| 426 | *** Flurry of Styx! (Note: Provided attack name is "''Ferry'' of Styx.") |
| 427 | ** Then there's Lavitz' "HARK!" when he gets hit while defending. |
| 428 | ** "DIE! MORE AND MORE!" Uh, sure, Rose... whatever you say. Rose's VA was just full of {{Narm}}. "OH IT CANNOT BE!" |
| 429 | *** ''ASS''-TRAL Drain... |
| 430 | ** EX-PLOSION! RRRRRRRRRRRRAGH! |
| 431 | ** Shana's Dragoon transformation. [[spoiler: It's a fricking ''magical girl'' sequence!]] |
| 432 | * ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'': |
| 433 | ** The player themselves can cause this if they wear a silly costume during cutscenes. For example, putting a ton of springy-eye decorations on Sackboy or wearing the costume of a story character, or just generally looking stupid. |
| 434 | ** The final scene of the third game where [[spoiler:Newton and the gang are falling out of the sky]] would probably be a bit more dramatic if Newton didn't let out the exact same scream twice in a row. |
| 435 | * It's nothing anyone particularly ''said'' or anything, but the sequence following a genuine TearJerker moment in ''VideoGame/LostOdyssey'' - [[spoiler:the death of Kaim's daughter, moments after their reunion]] - is one that screamed {{Narm}}. Specifically, the priest conducting the funeral...sends you on two fetch quests, one to gather flowers that she liked, one to gather torches for the ceremony, and turned the funeral itself into a ''rhythm minigame.'' This was likely to show off how such ceremonies were performed in this fantasy world, but...that could've been accomplished in another TearJerker CutScene instead of having the player press the controller's shiny colored buttons in time to ''light the other mourners' torches.'' [[WhatTheHellHero What the eff, Japan.]] |
| 436 | * ''VideoGame/{{Lufia}}'': |
| 437 | ** ''VideoGame/LufiaAndTheFortressOfDoom'' has a ridiculous Narm moment. One of the original heroes has managed to live for over a hundred years and meets the new heroes. He talks about how he's still in good shape and everything before giving the explanation of what happened last time. Then, he [[AlmostDeadGuy randomly has a heart attack and dies]] after [[ThePlotReaper the plot no longer needs him]]. This scene makes much more sense [[spoiler: after you find out [[EnemyToAllLivingThings who Lufia is]]]]. |
| 438 | ** ''VideoGame/LufiaTheRuinsOfLore'' has ''plenty'' of these moments, but the one that stands out the most is the scene where the SilentProtagonist finally meets his father again after not seeing him in probably 10-something years. The father's reaction can be best summarized as "Oh. It's you." |
| 439 | ** ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'': [[LastWords "You little hoochees!"]] |
| 440 | * ''VideoGame/LuminousArc2'' has one particular moment where one of the characters is having a HeroicBSOD when encountering the same black fire that killed her parents when she was very young and subsequently developed a ''huge'' fear of. But both the line and the delivery become this when, "Aaahhh! Nnnooo! Fire! I'm so afraid!" is done with the actress sounding more like she spilled a glass of milk. |
| 441 | [[/folder]] |
| 442 | |
| 443 | [[folder: M]] |
| 444 | * ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'': |
| 445 | ** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} has a skill in which he roars and buffs himself up. However, when the roar itself sounds a BIT like a ''baby's cry'', it's laughable. |
| 446 | ** Similarly, after you drop Jean Grey, Nightcrawler tries to filter a BigNo through his [[CaptainEthnic Captain Germany]] persona and ends up with a Small Nein. |
| 447 | * ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' often made dramatic moments hilarious through the main character's over-the-top noir voiceovers and his facial expression, reminiscent of one someone would carry doing an unexpectedly long toilet visit. ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'' introduces "Dick Justice," a TV show that appears throughout the game mocking those same voiceovers. ''Max Payne 2'' still has them for real, however, so the game is parodying this trope and playing it straight at the same time. |
| 448 | * Being the black sheep of an otherwise venerable WWII-FPS franchise, ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun'' has its lion's share of narm. |
| 449 | ** An inordinate number of Japanese soldiers' dying sounds like [[SoBadItsGood third-rate]] [[ChewingTheScenery scenery chewing]] or [[OrgasmicCombat something else entirely.]] The fourth mission, [[ThatOneLevel "Midnight Raid]] [[MarathonLevel On Guadalcanal"]], has it the worst, where the ''entire midsection'' has soldiers having only ''two'' dying sounds: a more dignified one and what the [=LPers=] of ''Too Much Free Time Productions'' call [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEenha2GSQM#t=469s "the Japanese orgasm noise."]] |
| 450 | ** Mission 8, [[ShoutOut "Bridge On The]] [[Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai River Kwai"]] opens with a [[WeaksauceWeakness gust of wind]] pushing our heroes' plane so hard that [[TheHero Joe Griffin]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sap6chLRANs#t=67s suddenly pops out.]] The [[UnintentionalUncannyValley puppy-dog face]] he makes before landing in the rain forest doesn't help. |
| 451 | ** No matter the difficulty, there are only two weapons guaranteed to make a OneHitKill no matter what: the [[SniperPistol Welrod]] and ''[[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer your bare hands!]]'' Gets sillier with the bazooka, where it looks like [[PlayerCharacter Joe Griffin]] is nonchalantly jerking its muzzle in the enemy's face. |
| 452 | ** Though an EasterEgg, it can get pretty silly when soldiers use sake barrels, cars, mounds of dirt, '''tanks''' and '''FREAKING GIGANTIC BUDDHA STATUES''' as replacements for their helmets/hats. |
| 453 | ** The end of mission six, "Singapore Sling", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqSCuTchZs4 may be the crowning moment of narm.]] Upon your entering the hotel, you're greeted by a host with the [[OffModel worst case of osteoporosis ever,]] [[UnfortunateCharacterDesign who also looks like he]] [[{{Squick}} may have]] [[PottyFailure soiled himself]]. On more worn-out machines or disks, a [[GoodBadBugs glitch]] occurs with [[{{Creator/Mako}} Yamashita's]] slideshow detailing his [[EvilPlan gold racket]], where its pictures are ''always'' flashing by at lightspeed. Even when you retrieve them from the projector, ''[[BeyondTheImpossible the glitchy slideshow continues.]]'' Not helping is [[TheLancer Bromley's]] entrance, where he ''[[{{Telefrag}} spawns]]'' [[SpecialEffectFailure on top of a]] [[DestinationDefenestration roof-posted soldier]] to help you gun down the place, all while the [[ThoseWackyNazis German emisarries]] have the ''same silly dying sounds'' as the Japanese. |
| 454 | * ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'' has this because of the voice acting. |
| 455 | -->"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4-Slkdw6-c Hey Bass! Why must I fight you? We are not enemies!]] |
| 456 | ** To make things worse, he actually pronounced Bass' name BASS....like the ''fish''. |
| 457 | ** The way Bass replies "shut up!" sounds like how one would say it if someone made fun of their haircut. |
| 458 | ** Mega Man's ridiculous girly voice alone makes all cutscenes Narmtastic by default. |
| 459 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmMispgpUs0 The Elmer Fudd meets JFK voice they assigned to Doctor Light.]]: "Win we fine dat meteah, we'ww fine Doctah Wahwee!" |
| 460 | ** "Deeeeeeese? *dramatic close up* seem to be enuhgee wesauciz. Bud I've nevah seen dis dype on uheeth. We dunno were dis enahgee came frum, bud we cannod leddem fall into Doctah Wahwee's hends." |
| 461 | ** "You must wecovow all the enewgy immeedily, Wi... Meg ah Man!" And Mega Man's appropriately robotic "But-where-is-Doc-tor-Wily?" |
| 462 | ** "We may a- be able to..." |
| 463 | ** "The barrier privates me from going there." |
| 464 | ** The dubbing was so bad that at one point, there was a rumor about Capcom using the Japanese VA's because they were too cheap to use English ones. The fact that voicework tends to be a higher-paying career in Japan than America makes this a somewhat dubious money-saving strategy. (The dubbing was done in Japan, but they didn't use the Japanese voice actors--they more or less picked English speakers with little to no acting experience up off the streets around Capcom HQ.) |
| 465 | * This is actually constantly subverted in the ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' series. You'd expect these games to have narm all over the place in its English voice acting, but the game is so cartoony without going off the deep end [[NarmCharm that it works]]. This is especially true when [[spoiler: Data saves the day by singlehandedly stopping the annihilation of Kattelox through voice-command. That means a bunch of bureaucratic talk with lots of complicated words coming from a high-pitched cutesy voice without changing expression, and still waving his nub-like arms the entire time.]] |
| 466 | ** Then there's the opening monologue that starts with the incredibly camp "[[InAWorld On a world]] covered in ''endless'' water..." |
| 467 | ** Teisel's voice acting is so [[NoIndoorVoice incredibly]] [[LargeHam overacted]] all the time, that any scene with him should result in Narm. Instead, it just makes him more endearing. |
| 468 | ** Teisel is actually sort of a MemeticBadass for his Narm. At times, Tron and her Servbots (especially the Servbots) can be pretty narmy. Mostly it's just Teisel, though. |
| 469 | * The infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LISmPmdUhYA "WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOR?!"]] scene from ''VideoGame/MegaManX4'' makes what's supposed to be a tear-jerking scene hard to take seriously. Unfortunately, the popularity of the line almost completely eclipses the equally badly delivered and just as hilarious "[=HUAaaUUUuuuGGGHHH=]" SkywardScream moments beforehand. |
| 470 | ** Zero's "NO THIS ISN'T HAPPENING" sounds uncannily like Creator/JerryLewis. In fact, the voice acting in the entire scene almost sounds like someone made an [[TheAbridgedSeries Abridged dub]] out of it. |
| 471 | ** [[http://www.bossies.org/DoD_Archive/(10-06)%20June%20%2710%20-%20Free%20Month/ZZalt-BONKERS-MMX4-Death-DoD.mp3 Now in delicious parody flavor!]] |
| 472 | ** Or X yelling "Time to get serious!" with the voice of an 8-year old boy when he runs low on health. |
| 473 | ** ''VideoGame/MegaManX8''. It's considered decent...up until everything involving [[DudeLooksLikeALady Lumine]]. Serious, that can't be taken seriously. |
| 474 | ** Copy X Mk. II from ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 3'' sp-peaks with an od-d st-tutter to indicate that he is a poor-quality copy. With that ef-fect the merciless fascist tyrant sounds like a n-nervous child. |
| 475 | ** One instance of Narm that doesn't translate: Vile's Japanese name (VAVA) can be pronounced exactly the same as the Japanese word for "bullshit" ("baba"). |
| 476 | ** ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'': Due to RougeAnglesOfSatin, the death threats that Sigma makes to X at the start of his final phase seems funny. |
| 477 | ** While Sigma's final form in ''VideoGame/MegaManX7'' is a [[AwesomeBosses/MegaMan pretty awesome boss fight]], it's hard to take it seriously because Sigma has an attack where he shoots a laser at you ''between his thighs''. |
| 478 | ** After Red is defeated in the same game, the palace starts to collapse. Axl's reacts to Red staying behind by yelling "Noooo! Red, you're coming with us!" in a tone that sounds more like a child who's throwing a temper tantrum because he isn't having [=MacDonald's=] for dinner. |
| 479 | ** In ''VideoGame/MegaManMaverickHunterX'', there's Vile's absolute fear over a slightly stronger than normal attack, being the only enemy in the game to have a weakness to them. |
| 480 | -->'''Vile:''' Not a CHARGED SHOT! |
| 481 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent'' suffers from voice acting that goes everywhere from fitting to cheesy depending on the scene. But the champion of the Narmity on it would be Thetis -- not only does he have a ridiculously high-pitched voice, but his defeat-speech sounds exactly like a 10 year old crying over a lost bar of chocolate. It's like [[WebVideo/AvatarTheAbridgedSeries Avatar: The Abridged Series' Zuko]], only even more whiny. |
| 482 | ** And there's the translation company's decision on inserting voice acted actions in the dialogue box with the help of asterisks (that is, *laugh*, *gasp*, etc). That isn't TOO ridiculous, until... |
| 483 | ----> '''Prometheus''': "Perhaps as you are dying... ''*evil laugh*'''" |
| 484 | ** Speaking of that laugh, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipBOhaAIULI here's the Japanese version]]. |
| 485 | ** Once Atlas is [[spoiler:paralyzed by Model Z]], the word she yells in agony is, "BIOMETAL!" |
| 486 | * The part in ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'' where it is explained how [[spoiler:Ridley]] got out of confinement before the events of the game. The idea that one of the franchise's most lethal adversaries went from [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100828123438/metroid/images/3/34/ULF_55.png this]] to [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090606060131/metroid/images/4/42/Ridley35.PNG this]] is one thing. Having it sport razor-sharp teeth and the ability to kill grown men that are several times its size is downright ''hilarious''. It's one step away from a JokeCharacter like Peter Puppy from the ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' games. In fact, it's the Nibbler gag from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', played straight. |
| 487 | ** "The word he so obviously chose, 'outsider...' [=*twenty-second pause*=] pierced my heart." |
| 488 | ** Any time--''every'' time--Samus refers to the infant Metroid as "the baby." |
| 489 | ** Continuing with the whole "baby" theme, the game is set on an enormous space station called... ''the BOTTLE SHIP'' (emphasis theirs). It's even shaped like a baby bottle. Subtlety is not exactly the game's strong point. |
| 490 | *** The cheesy line early in the game where Samus reveals that the BOTTLE SHIP's distress signal is called the Baby's Cry because it "was to be responded to with the urgency of a baby crying" and that she felt like "it was crying out specifically for her." This pretty much set the tone for the rest of the game. |
| 491 | ** The absolute entirety of Samus' pointless narration was pure narm. It felt like watching a dramatic reading of bad Metroid fanfiction, since all the narration was Samus merely reiterating things that were [[CaptainObvious glaringly obvious]] to anyone watching the screen. It didn't help that the director told Jessica Martins, Samus' voice actor, to read the narration with as little emotion as possible. |
| 492 | ** During [[spoiler:Adam's sacrifice]], Samus's desperate calls are undermined by the way she stumbles on her high heels, [[CombatStilettos highlighting what a terrible clothing choice they were.]] |
| 493 | ** During the post-credits sequence, Samus finds what she came to get, [[spoiler:Adam's helmet]], hugs it close to her while sad orchestral music plays - and the game abruptly cuts to the ALERT! ESCAPE! alarms. It's super-jarring and super-hilarious. |
| 494 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GpyMXT4YZg#t=6m19s When Samus transforms into her Varia Suit,]] it looks like something straight out of a MagicalGirl anime. |
| 495 | ** Anything to do with "The Deleter." It was supposed to sound menacing. It really, really doesn't. |
| 496 | * In ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'', when you confront a warchief, there will be a chorus chanting their name. All well and good... until you run into one with a name like [[https://youtu.be/XHDaCXk8Eao?t=345 Dûsh.]] |
| 497 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': |
| 498 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsvfP5BQxaw Jax's ending]] in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4''. Jarek's "OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD!" (''twice'') and "This is not a brutality, this is a FATALITY!" practically made the Narm alone. |
| 499 | *** About Jerek's scream, it almost sounds like he's actually saying "oh my ''golly''" in ''the'' most overdrawn, scenery munching, hamtastic way possible. |
| 500 | --> '''''OMY GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHWWWWWEEEEAAAYYYYYYYYYYY''''' |
| 501 | ** Many people have instead [[{{Mondegreen}} heard his line as]] "[[HoYay IMSOGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!]]". |
| 502 | ** Jarek's oddly muffled 'laugh'. |
| 503 | ** "THE BLACK DRAGON LIVE ON!!" (Dun Dunnnnn) |
| 504 | ** Jax suddenly appearing out of nowhere, even though Sonya needed to communicate him via radio only seconds before. |
| 505 | --> '''GOIN' SOMEWHERE, JAREK?!''' |
| 506 | ** Just Jax's ending? Goodness, they're ''all'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiDvIqO3OXc like]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=209gneKMspw that]]! Literally all of them. Go look. |
| 507 | *** In the first one, is Quan wearing a bathrobe or something? |
| 508 | *** OUR BATTLE IS FINISHED... YOU ARE NOW FREED FROM MY CURSE. LIVE WELL LIN-KUEI WARRIOR. |
| 509 | *** '''YOUR POWERS ARE ''USELESS'' AGAINST ME''' |
| 510 | *** And for bonus points, watch those same endings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmO1SbnHw-U in the Nintendo 64 version.]] The "arrright" added to the end of Sub-Zero and Raiden's endings is just cherry on the narm sundae. |
| 511 | ** These incredibly capitalistic launch kit videos [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un542hqe3Aw here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv8luFdSryE here]] are epic chapters in the series' Book of Narm. Or maybe that's just how they sold arcade games back then? |
| 512 | ** The console ports of ''Mortal Kombat 4'' let you play as Goro with a cheat code, but this can lead to a really bizarre animation glitch. If you lose in arcade mode while playing as him, the game over sequence that shows your character falling down the spike pit plays... except Goro remains in his normal standing animation, completely out of fucks to give as he plunges toward his impending death. And when he hits the bottom, rather than being impaled, he simply smashes headfirst into the floor like a statue, leaving only his lower body sticking out and his upper half clipping through the ground, or buried inside it if you will. The audio clip of Jarek's muffled laugh then plays, which normally never happens here, meaning the devs probably saw the error and opted not to fix it. |
| 513 | ** Among the numerous {{Kiai}}s and meaningless gibberish uttered by Kombatants in the seventh-gen console era, male fighters will sometimes let out a clear "Alley-oop!" when jumping. |
| 514 | ** [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled "Hara-Kiri" moves]] in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception''. Li Mei's ends with her on the floor after her self-decapitation... and bent over with her ass sticking up. Wha...? Sindel's is even more ridiculous. Come on, making a pirouette to land on your own head and snap your own neck? Pft. |
| 515 | ** For all its strides in the story department, ''VideoGame/MortalKombat9'' still delivers a heavy dose of narm. The videos [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7wC1gLJYmw&NR=1 are already]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNqp4K1nIQw&NR=1 spreading like]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DujrDgiHITE dandelions.]] |
| 516 | ** Kintaro's more tiger-like [[http://www.mortalkombatwarehouse.com/mka/kintaro/ features]] in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon Armageddon]]'' made him look more unique and still kept him fearsome looking. But his new kitten-esque appearance is so laughably bad it has to be [[http://img287.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=41213_ladder_kintaro_b_122_135lo.jpg seen]] to be believed. |
| 517 | ** Scorpion does not like teddy bears. |
| 518 | ** I will drag you before Shao Kahn by your pointed beard, extra points for Shang not giving a [[FlatWhat ....What?]] or just laughing at the line. |
| 519 | * ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'': |
| 520 | ** ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' |
| 521 | *** In the original Japanese version, has all of its town names be American ''holidays'' - Thanksgiving, Halloween, Valentine. Even FandomVIP & ''MOTHER 3'' fan translator Tomato thought it sounded stupid. English translator Phil Sandhop cited this bit of narm as the reason why most of the cities (and Santa Claus Station) have different names in the US version. |
| 522 | *** The ending can be this as well. [[spoiler: The BigBad, Gyiyg, who literally is the embodiment of evil, is repelled by a ''lullaby''.]] |
| 523 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' has an in-universe example. |
| 524 | --->The Frightbot told a story so scary you couldn't help but laugh. |
| 525 | *** Despite being an otherwise emotionally effective game, an example from it would be [[spoiler: when Claus fires a bolt of Lightning that rebounds of Lucas and mortally wounds himself in order to break free from Porky's control.]] After that happens, this is said: |
| 526 | ---->Claus staggered toward Lucas. |
| 527 | ---->Claus embraced Lucas. |
| 528 | ---->Lucas, remembered Claus's smell. |
| 529 | * The ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' fangame ''VideoGame/MythicalMirror'' features a (female) boss named "[[AccidentalInnuendo Oral]]". The creator was seemingly unaware of what it means. |
| 530 | [[/folder]] |
| 531 | |
| 532 | [[folder: N - O]] |
| 533 | * ''VideoGame/NancyDrew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand'' has a ton of this in its final cutscene. It's made all the worse for coming after a dramatic, genuinely terrifying puzzle [[spoiler:in which you are sealed in an ancient tomb and must escape before suffocating to death]]. All the characters sound ridiculous ("And so she emerges from [[spoiler: the tomb]], like a [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext mermaid]] from the sea!") but none more so than the culprit. |
| 534 | -->''"Gah! [[GoshDangItToHeck Confound you,]] Nancy Drew!"'' |
| 535 | ** The "game over" in Creature of Kapu Cave where you accidentally are caught trespassing by a short-tempered professor. |
| 536 | ** Nancy's scream of pain in one game. |
| 537 | ** ''Haunting of Castle Malloy'' does not have a "Culprit", instead the "Culprit" is... a [[spoiler: 70 year old feral woman flying around on a jet pack]]. ItMakesSenseInContext but it's pretty obvious that a lot of people would find it hard to take seriously. |
| 538 | ** Invoked by some of the game-over scenarios. Some of them are so over-the-top (but are plausible enough in context, such as an accident that doesn't ''kill'' Nancy but gets her arrested or fired) that they come off as outright hilarious, and not just in the [[BlackComedy sick ways]]. In fact, players often try to find all the game-over scenarios, sometimes going on multiple times. |
| 539 | * ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams'': |
| 540 | ** The ending song, "Dreams Dreams", is a ''very'' narmy love song. Seriously, it sounds like something Music/CelineDion would put out. It doesn't help that the children on the Kids' Ver. of the song can't even ''sing''. |
| 541 | ** The shit-faced grin Elliot has on his face when he sees [=NiGHTS=] in the perfect A-rank ending. |
| 542 | ** Elliot's entire story is narmy, more so than any other dreamer in the series. The other three kids have realistic problems (pressure to be a great singer, WhenYouComingHomeDad, etc.), but this kid gets all emo over a ''[[SeriousBusiness basketball]]'' [[SeriousBusiness game]]. |
| 543 | * ''VideoGame/NightTrap''. A lot of the dialogue ended up as this, but the ending definitely goes into this. |
| 544 | ** WordOfGod states they actually ''invoked'' this - they designed some of the "Violence" to be so unrealistic and over the top that kids wouldn't ''think'' to try it in real life. In fact, the actors and the film crew were giggling on the set. |
| 545 | * ''VideoGame/{{Nightfire}}'' plays a dramatic sting of music when you find a secret in the stage. While that's fine in itself one stage has a secret in the janitor's closet. The end result is [[MundaneMadeAwesome what do you mean failure isn't awesome?]] |
| 546 | ** In one level the player is repeatedly told to use the sniper rifle and provide cover for a friend. This sounds normal, but you'll notice that using the basic Walther PPK, with attached silencer, and placing the top half of an enemies head in the bottom half of the crosshair will kill anything (barring the typical creepy henchmen in a Bond story) at any range. Its so ridiculous that using any other weapon is just stupid. This particular level has many of these situations, all made hilarious by being yelled at to use the sniper rifle when you’re picking enemies off at the maximum draw distance with a bloody silenced PPK. |
| 547 | ** In the PC version of ''Nightfire'', when you face Drake in the final stage... [[spoiler: "[[TropesInSpace In space]], Mr. Bond, no one can hear you scream... except for MEEE!"]] |
| 548 | * ''VideoGame/{{Nihilumbra}}'': [[http://killscreendaily.com/articles/reviews/nihilumbra-indie-platformer-all-subtlety-sledgehammer/ That narrator is hell-bent on pointing out the obvious]]. |
| 549 | * In the bloodless version of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' released in Japan and Europe, [[spoiler:Holly Summers]]'s death is made a whoooole lot less emotional. When [[spoiler:she holds the activated grenade in her mouth, the resulting explosion]] still kills her, but instead of a bloody half-corpse you get a full corpse... but with a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes-esque sootface. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmvwxYtd2ls Ruins the moment quite a bit and makes Travis's angst less effective]]. |
| 550 | ** Arguably even worse is the cutscene where Travis defeats Shinobu. Instead of cutting her hand off, he just disarms her, which makes her clutching her wrist and screaming look rather ridiculous. |
| 551 | ** However, this is inverted with the final boss defeat cutscene. In the American version, Jeane being sliced up into fun sized pieces and rolling around on the ground completely ruined the drama of the scene. In comparison, the European/Japanese version, in which she is disintegrated, is still ridiculous but fits the tone of the scene more. |
| 552 | ** In the second game, the final boss fight is entirely this. [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100905175537/nomoreheroes/images/b/b5/Jasper_Batt_Jr..jpg The #1 assassin]]. Bright green suit. Bright pink shirt and Mimi glasses. Bald head with a pizza tattoo. 11-year-old's voice. He attacks in a flying car and frequently injures himself. Then you get to his second form, which looks like a mix of the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], Franchise/{{Batman}}, and the Hamburglar. And then during the ''third'' part, he turns into ''[[http://img.youtube.com/vi/5hPpVmsYiEU/0.jpg this]]''. Although some say this is intentional, to drive home the point Travis was learning late in the game, that the fights are pointless and that the assassins are real people with real lives. |
| 553 | ** Maybe the most ridiculous moment in the second game was when you kill Skelter Helter, his head gets cut off, flies up in the air, and lands perfectly on his body, leaving his corpse just kinda standing there for a cutscene. Then he starts ''talking''. '''For nearly a minute.''' Then he finally pulls his head back off and dies ''that'' way. |
| 554 | ** And there's Travis giving the worst impression of Batman ever. |
| 555 | --->'''Harvey:''' It's a fine name. You have your parents to thank for that.\ |
| 556 | '''Travis:'''[[AngstWhatAngst (With a goofy grin on his face)]] [[MemeticMutation My parents are dead.]]\ |
| 557 | '''Harvey:''' Ooops! |
| 558 | * ''VideoGame/OctopathTraveler'': |
| 559 | ** Although the voice actor for Primrose[[note]]i.e. Creator/LauraPost[[/note]] is clearly trying very hard, the word "shades" is just impossible to say threateningly... and it's one of the character's main battle cries[[note]]When she uses Night Ode, a native Dancer skill[[/note]]. Compounding the narm further, "shades" can be used as slang for "sunglasses". |
| 560 | ** Vanessa Hysel reveals she tests her harmful medicinal products on baby kittens before you fight her. Poisoning people so you can extort their families for a cure is a goal that seems grounded in reality, but the addition of BadPeopleAbuseAnimals seems so excessive and over-the-top that it's almost comical. |
| 561 | ** Therion's flashback to when he met his old partner Darius features the two of them as children. Their VoiceGrunting uses their ''adult voices'' instead of child voices. |
| 562 | *** Similarly, the child whom Ophilia helps find his mother near the beginning of her story, is ''clearly'' voiced by a grown man. |
| 563 | ** Werner's battle sprite depicts him riding a CoolHorse to glower down at the party. The horse was ''nowhere to be seen'' during his entire verbal confrontation with Olberic before their battle, comes completely out of nowhere, and spontaneously disappears after the battle. |
| 564 | *** Similarly, Helgenish's battle sprite depicts him lazily sitting on a chair and even holding a glass of wine. Both chair and glass of wine were ''nowhere to be seen'' during his lengthy pre-battle confrontation with Primrose, and spontaneously disappear in the battle's aftermath. [[spoiler:Near the end of Primrose's story, as a CallBack to the battle against Helgenish, the first battle against [[ArcVillain Simeon]] depicts him sitting on a chair commanding marionettes that resemble Primrose's father and Yusufa. Once again, the chair comes completely out of nowhere and spontaneously disappears when the first battle is over. The latter is justified by it being a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind.]] |
| 565 | * ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' has horrible Narm in almost all its cutscenes. Whenever people talk, their heads look like bouncy balls being squished. |
| 566 | ** And, since the main character can't talk, all of her lines are delivered by a tiny glowing fairy, who apparently can't talk without bouncing up and down. |
| 567 | *** This is a game that involves a little painter crawling around the dress of a God, getting a dragon drunk in order to kill it, a kitsune overlord disguised as a priestess with huge, bouncing breasts, and generally an incompetent populace. |
| 568 | * ''VideoGame/OmegaFive'': "STAGE 1: DA GWEISHAW FOHTRESS," and "DANGER! DANGER!" when the boss alert text on the screen is instead reading "WARNING!". |
| 569 | * ''VideoGame/TheOrionConspiracy'' contains some instances of this. Then again, that is to be expected, due to the SoBadItsGood voice acting in the game. Patrick Mower, the voice actor who voices the main character Devlin is supposed to be Irish. The voice actor at some points does not seem to put enough emotion in some of his lines, and he seems to put too much emotion in some other lines. The Irish accent (assuming that it is one) could be causing some of the lines to sound a little silly. Oh course, the other voice actors come off as a little silly at times. |
| 570 | * ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' fans using the English voice track are not very fond of Tracer's exaggerated and terribly fake-sounding Cockney accent. |
| 571 | [[/folder]] |
| 572 | |
| 573 | [[folder: P - Q]] |
| 574 | * It's a wonder anyone was able to take the story of ''VideoGame/{{Pathologic}}'' seriously in the original English release, what with the [[TranslationTrainWreck at-times incomprehensible translation]] and the mostly bad voice acting where the voices are either too stilted, don't fit with the characters' appearance and personality, or both. Most infamous is the Haruspex's voice acting where he mispronounces the cultural term "oynon" as ''onion.'' |
| 575 | * The voice acting in ''Patriots: A Nation Under Fire'' is very hard to take seriously. ''Especially'' the player's [[PlayerDeathIsDramatic dramatic death sounds]], which has him crying ManlyTears. |
| 576 | -->''Am I gonna die... *sobs* Am I gonna die.... *sobs even more*'' |
| 577 | -->''...[[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] die... *sniff* Fucking DIE, FUCKING DAHAHAHAHAGH... *sobs*'' |
| 578 | * ''VideoGame/PerfectDark Zero'' seemed to be aiming for being as narmy as possible. The cheesy dialogue wouldn't have been so bad if they had at least hired competent voice actors. |
| 579 | ** Not to say the first one didn't have its moments [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja0jHgcSQEY start at 2:30.]] |
| 580 | * Check out the {{Macekre}}d dialogue in VideoGame/Persona1. Basically every scene, besides Nate/Nanjo's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, that was meant to be dramatic, tense or tear-jerking was ruined by some [[BlindIdiotTranslation very poor translation]] that made everyone sound like 8-year-olds ("No your stupid ''(sic)''", "I'll kill you slow!", and "Now I'm Super Guido!", to name a few). |
| 581 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo1vYg4aq6c This scene]] in ''VideoGame/Persona2: Eternal Punishment''. |
| 582 | ** The scene where Tatusya says "But...it's NOT too LATE!" (emphasis his) after [[spoiler:he fails to prevent Sumaru from floating into the sky again]]. |
| 583 | * ''VideoGame/Persona3'' |
| 584 | ** The scene following [[spoiler:Junpei's death and subsequent revival at the cost of Chidori's life]] was meant to be moving, to be sure, but was so over-the-top and full of awkward romantic dialogue, a character that keeps her poor speaking skills throughout the event, the stiff falling over sequence and an inconsistency of the gameplay prevent anything but laughter. Not that that particular relationship was developed realistically to begin with... |
| 585 | ** Also the scenes that are part of the Fortune social link, wherein a teenager's eventual decision to become a doctor is apparently catalyzed by the fact that people are having massive medical crises around him all the time. He misses a train because he's trying to help not just one, but two senior citizens who spontaneously go into cardiac arrest while he's standing nearby. |
| 586 | ** You want Narm, try all of the Devil social link. The guy is, for lack of a better word, a prick. Then you find out that he came from poverty so you feel bad, but he ruins it by being a prick even when he's giving money to a charity. |
| 587 | ** Strega, for the most part, is hilarious in battle, what with Jin's battle pose being to do a dance while swinging around a suitcase/laptop. |
| 588 | ** "Your relationship is stronger now!" The wording's a bit awkward; thankfully it was changed to something along the lines of "Your relationship has grown deeper..." in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. |
| 589 | * ''VideoGame/Persona4'' is definitely no stranger to Narm. Specific examples include: |
| 590 | ** Chie's [[GoingThroughTheMotions "crying" gesture]] as seen after the Shadow Yukiko fight looks like an attempt to rub something off her face (It actually DOES get used for that at one point when she is attempting to get a bug off herself). Many of the bosses get silly as well; Shadow [[spoiler:Naoto]] has a mechanical left body, [[WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand wings that look oddly familiar]] and [[DualWielding two]] [[{{BFG}} oversized]] DeathRay blasters, and the result is about as scary as the mental image. Shadow [[spoiler:Kanji]] is a TwoFaced giant DualWielding ♂. In story these make sense given the nature of the shadows (representing [[spoiler:her feelings at being treated like a child]] and [[spoiler:confusion over sexual identity]] respectively), but they are STILL funny as hell. |
| 591 | ** Another in [[VideoGame/Persona4 P4]] was Kanji punching the wall and "roaring" [[spoiler: in the hospital after hearing of Nanako's death]] ruins the poignant scene on account of sounding like a bad imitator of Tarzan who's been inhaling helium. |
| 592 | ** Sometimes when Teddie summons his Persona he says "Bearsona." However due to a sound effect after that it sounds like he says "Bearsona! [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch!]]" |
| 593 | * The Shadow Selves in ''VideoGame/Persona5'' are ''definitely'' not immune to this. Not only are most of the major antagonists [[ObviouslyEvil far more evil in temperament and morality]] compared to most of the previous games, but they have [[FashionVictimVillain over-the-top appearances]] to match. |
| 594 | ** Shadow Kamoshida sports a fur-lined cape, a crown, a hot-pink speedo, and ''nothing else''. |
| 595 | ** Shadow Kaneshiro morphs into a mustachioed, purple-skinned, human-housefly hybrid - with his Kansai swagger [[AccentAdaptation adapted]] into a bizarre New York gangster. |
| 596 | ** Shadow Okumura's look is a RaygunGothic knockoff of [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader’s suit]]; made ludicrous by his blue skin, fishbowl helmet, and a tinny [[RadioVoice muffled voice]]. |
| 597 | ** ''Royal'' addition: [[spoiler:Maruki's white-suited Palace attire is fashionable, but his BossBattle getup is [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/megamitensei/images/5/5b/Maruki_Concept_Art_%28Azathoth%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20200527172354 decidedly not]]. The skin-tight garb includes a ''buttoned metallic thong'', and a shield-shaped mask [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/jjba/images/a/af/TheWorld_doom.png/revision/latest?cb=20170610082247 familiar]] to fans of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''.]] |
| 598 | ** More cynical reviewers of the game find the Phantom Thieves' [[ChewingTheScenery melodramatic]] Persona awakenings and costumes to be more cheesy and overkill than meaningful, with the worst offenders often cited as Makoto's Persona Johanna (which, unlike the other Personas, takes the form of a [[CoolBike motorcycle]]), [[MsFanservice Ann Takamaki's]] fanservice-y candy apple red latex suit (not helping is that, despite her character arc involving restoring her self-confidence and control in the wake of having a teacher sexually harass her, she's often thrown into situations that involve her [[QuestionableConsent showing off her body]], often to her resignation), and Goro Akechi's elaborately decorated red and white marching band getup, [[spoiler:especially after he betrays you]]. |
| 599 | ** [[spoiler:Akechi's Rank 8 scene is full of this. Not only did it increase right after he revealed himself to be TheMole while seemingly pointing a gun at your face, but you find out later, you weren't even in the room with him and thus shouldn't have been able to hear what he said to you.]] The moment was subsequently altered in ''Royal's'' UpdatedRerelease to [[spoiler: remove the "Rank Up!" and introduce a new (optionally attained) Rank 8 scene for Akechi.]] |
| 600 | ** And don't forget the otherwise stylish victory animation at the end of a normal fight, where Joker gestures as if to say "Alright, let's go!" before taking off running. Unfortunately though, sometimes it takes too long enough for you to realize he's just casually running ''in circles'' on the battlefield, and it's the same with the variation featuring Morgana in van form. Kind of hard not to play ''Running in the 90s'' in your head in the case of the latter. |
| 601 | ** [[SNKBoss The Reaper]] is SuddenlySpeaking in this game, if you manage to catch it in a Hold Up. Thing is, it talks like the Beast Race Shadows/Demons (Orthrus, Chimera, ect.), who are only slightly above HulkSpeak. As a result, its only line of dialogue makes it less intimidating than it actually is. |
| 602 | --->'''The Reaper:''' Me no want to talk to you! Me just want to hear your screams! |
| 603 | * ''VideoGame/PhantasmagoriaAPuzzleOfFlesh'' is ''packed'' with Narm, but one of the most ridiculously random moments in the entire game takes place outside the S&M nightclub, where a random trio of "gangsters" walks by ''line dancing''. |
| 604 | ** The policewoman's response to seemingly everything Curtis says being "MY ASS!" |
| 605 | ** "I gave myself top clearance! I ''saw''!" |
| 606 | * The enemies ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIII'' have ridiculous [[http://www.pscave.com/ps3/enemies/ enemy attack animations]] that make you question how they're even hurting you. The Giants simply point their fingers in the air, the Grinders attack by wiggling their ears in your general direction, and the Clops blink while flexing their pecs. |
| 607 | * The entirety of ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies''. Some of the more {{Narm}}y moments include: |
| 608 | ** ''"TAKE YOUR DAMN CLOTHES OFF!"'' |
| 609 | ** Clapping dogs. |
| 610 | ** An upside-down shot of the narrator in a chicken mask. |
| 611 | * In ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen]]'' you can encounter a trainer swimming in the water who screams at you to leave her alone. After you defeat her, she admits that a water Pokémon ripped her bathing suit off and she's embarrassed. However, when she appears on the battle screen, she is of course, fully dressed. |
| 612 | ** If they used more than one sprite, it'd probably be different. |
| 613 | ** "''I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.''" |
| 614 | ** "I'm a cool guy! I've got a girlfriend!" |
| 615 | ** "I think my Rattata is in the top (fucking) percentage of Rattata!" |
| 616 | ** Also in ''Fire Red and Leaf Green'', the Pokémon Tower in Lavender Town is full of trainers and ghosts saying lines that make death sound like a joke. |
| 617 | *** "My Growlithe...WHY DID YOU DIE?!" |
| 618 | *** "BE GONE! INTRUDERS!" |
| 619 | *** "Give...me...your...all..." |
| 620 | ** Moltres's design can invoke this, because without its flames, it looks like a rubber chicken. |
| 621 | ** [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokémon Emerald]]'s Kyogre battle starts with red lines popping up across the screen as intimidation. It can come across as a poorly-crafted angry face. |
| 622 | --->'''LetsPlay/{{Chuggaaconroy}}''': Rawr, he made an angry face all over the screen! |
| 623 | ** Even worse is Palkia's appearance in Pearl version. You wouldn't believe how unimpressive a cosmic dragon can be that a) is pink and b) gargles at you. c) It looks a giant penis. |
| 624 | ** Then again, the [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo alternate choice of Dialga]], while not suffering from the same aesthetic problems, sounds like a freakin' ''whoopee cushion'' was just sat on. |
| 625 | ** Cyrus' line right before Giratina lunges at him: |
| 626 | --->"I, Cyrus, won't have any more interferererererere...!" |
| 627 | ** The Arceus event in ''[=HeartGold=] and [=SoulSilver=]'' lets you bring Arceus to a hidden location and receive [[spoiler:any of the Sinnoh Legendary Trio]] at Level 1, but before that happens there's a sequence of Arceus "recreating reality" to give you the Egg that's basically just [[GISSyndrome a slideshow of random real-life images of the world]] that just looks ridiculously trippy and static even with context. |
| 628 | ** Reshiram's sprite. It looks weirded out while waving its giant arms. And it sounds like a warped out bell. To say nothing of the unfortunately placed tuft of feathers on its belly... |
| 629 | ** "I'm absolutely perfect. [[LargeHam I AM PERFECTION!]]" |
| 630 | *** Especially bad if you're a Wrestling/DolphZiggler fan. |
| 631 | *** [[MemeticMutation DENNIS DENNIS]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLdjl65jAB8 Ah yes, Dennis.]] |
| 632 | ** "Burn, baby, burn!" (or "It's shocking!") |
| 633 | ** Some of the cries the Legends make in the overworld (not necessarily in battle) are pretty silly. Heatran, for example, says, "Gwogobo gwobobobo" when the trainer finds it in ''Black 2'' and ''White 2''. Guess Heatran likes Manga/BoBoBoBoBoBoBo. |
| 634 | *** One of the worst offenders is [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke Mewtwo]], whose fights always begin with it [[RoarBeforeBeating shouting]]... "[[PokemonSpeak Mew]]!" |
| 635 | *** There's also Giratina's cry: "Giygogagogwoh!" |
| 636 | ** "I'm about to unleash my rage!" |
| 637 | ** It can be awfully narmy when a RidiculouslyCuteCritter Pokemon uses an unnaturally destructive or powerful attack. [[GentleGiant Goodra]] can learn [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Outrage]], complete with Jello-like jiggling, for example, and [[CuteKitten Litleo]] still does its adorable little "mweeoo" cry when using Roar or Hyper Voice. |
| 638 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': After [[spoiler: Lysandre reveals that his plan to destroy the world will cause Pokémon to die too, he sheds a few tears.]] This moment isn't exactly narmful, but your rival's blank, dumbfounded reaction to this is. |
| 639 | *** In the storyline finale cutscene, [[spoiler: the ultimate weapon gets activated in the middle of Geosenge Town, which causes the houses surrounding it to not be destroyed, but gently knocked over like a cardboard box caught in a light breeze.]] |
| 640 | ** This can also be invoked by the player. Some games allows the player to customise their trainer with clothing and haircuts. Naturally, one can proceed to put together an outfit with [[WTHCostumingDepartment absolutely clashing colours and bizarre combinations]] during story cutscenes, especially if you were crowned as champion. |
| 641 | *** Similarly, try getting through a dramatic cutscene while you're wearing the dowsing machine headband with its cute little antennae. Bonus points if they're indicating a nearby item. |
| 642 | ** Move animations can be pretty silly if the Pokémon doesn't have a fluid attack animation. For example, Xerneas using the powerful Z-Move Twinkle Tackle in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' looks like [[https://twitter.com/King0fSpiders/status/1265730445213302789 its model zooming around randomly]] before blasting the opponent into kingdom come with a simple tackle. |
| 643 | *** Special mention has to go to the Flying-type Z-Move, Supersonic Skystrike. Its animation can look cool when it shows a bird Pokemon flying high into the sky and then divebombing the opponent at high speed. When it's done by Toucannon, who ''isn't flying'' in the animation it uses for the move? Hilarious. But then you get to the realization that it can be used by ''any'' Pokemon that can learn even one Flying-type move, and Bounce and Aerial Ace are pretty common coverage moves... Then you can see things like ''Dugtrio'' or '''Wailord''' come screaming out of the sky like a missile. |
| 644 | ** The [[GameMod ROM hack]] ''VideoGame/PokemonFalseRed'' is all about the protagonist being continuously insulted because he isn't Red. Thing is, it only works if you play as Fire (the boy) - playing as Leaf (the girl) turns the game into a parade of crossdressing references and CaptainObvious moments. |
| 645 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'': |
| 646 | *** The characters' models are expressive... the main character, however, has a locked facial expression in a grin, which makes them look like a total psychopath or an IdiotHero who does not comprehend the seriousness of any situation that s/he is in. |
| 647 | *** The original ''Sun & Moon'' games make a big deal out of Lusamine [[spoiler:pulling a [[Anime/KillLaKill Ragyo]] and fusing with a EldritchAbomination]] at the beginning of the final battle against her, marking the first time a major villain has turned OneWingedAngel. Does that mean you actually get to fight Lusamine ''directly'', in what appears to be a major departure from the standard DuelsDecideEverything schtick? Nope! Even madwomen [[spoiler: wearing a parasitic, extradimensional jellyfish with its powers at their full disposal]]'' have absolute respect for the traditional way of settling feuds, meaning both your player character and Lusamine are polite enough to simply chuck your mons at each other for the duration of the entire fight, and she does nothing but throw a fit when you inevitably beat the crap out of hers. So what was the point of the [[spoiler:FusionDance]], anyway? |
| 648 | * The first ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'': Anything involving [[CardCarryingVillain Team Meanies]]. The name should tell you [[ObviouslyEvil exactly what to expect]]. |
| 649 | ** "Don't give up! Don't give up! Don't give up! Don't give up! Don't give up!" The worst thing about this scene? They put it in ''two games''. |
| 650 | ** Apparently someone on the developing team is of the opinion that a character isn't a character without a catch phrase/verbal tic, because nearly every fucking character in the second game had one, and more than a few in the third. It gets ''really'' hard to take anyone seriously when the only distinguishing part of their character is their goddamn catch phrase. |
| 651 | ** In all the games (except ''Gates to Infinity''), you can pick your character's gender, but don't expect to see it come up. Instead of just using the right pronouns depending on what you pick, the other characters will go to ''absurd'' lengths to avoid using a pronoun, usually involving saying your name instead. The result is completely ridiculous, more often than not. |
| 652 | ** There are numerous moments in ''Super Mystery Dungeon'' where the player and partner come across some important sight or person. However, the thing in question is always directly in front of them, but the player and partner exaggeratedly look around in every direction ''except'' directly in front of them first, because apparently just looking forward is a bizarre idea. |
| 653 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonGO'' attempts to replicate the beginning of the games wherein you meet the professor. Which, given his [[http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/e/e6/GO_Professor_Willow.png/170px-GO_Professor_Willow.png somewhat goofy clothing choices]], can come off as weird. |
| 654 | * ''[[VideoGame/PanelDePon Pokémon Puzzle League]]'', despite the genre, makes a genuine effort to make the Giovanni battle menacing, with dramatic music and lines such as "The world will be mine!" Unfortunately, one of his three possible Pokémon for the battle is Sandslash, who simply has one of the least threatening battle cries ever. It sounds like Tweety Bird trying to do a Donald Duck impression. |
| 655 | ** Not that Giovanni really needs much help supplying the Narm. Like the other characters, he has two voice clips that pseudo-rhyme with each other and says them incessantly. For extra Narm points, imagine him fighting [[Narm/SonicTheHedgehog Adventure-era Eggman]]. |
| 656 | ---> The world will be mine! ... The world will be mine! ... You're wasting my time. ... The world will be mine! |
| 657 | * ''Pokemon'' fan games have a tendency to try and be DarkerAndEdgier than the base material that they're inspired from. More often than not, said attempts end up flying into this category instead. |
| 658 | ** ''VideoGame/PokemonInsurgence'' probably takes the edgelord cake in that regard. The game ''starts'' with the player captured by a sacrificial cult and watching three people get sacrificed to Darkrai and keeps going from there. It's to the point where the dev eventually had to release a LighterAndSofter mode option to quell the complaints. |
| 659 | * ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'' has quite a few: |
| 660 | ** The plot revolves around the use of nuclear power plants and the effects it has on surrounding Pokemon. While it doesn't seem too bad at first, eventually the player is forced to traverse highly radioactive areas while in a protective suit. ''However'', the player still has to contend with radioactive Pokemon along the way... While using their own Pokemon who are completely unprotected. This results in the player often facing enemies in highly radioactive areas while their own Pokemon are no worse for wear. |
| 661 | ** The main character's [[TheRival rival]], Theo, [[SignificantWardrobeShift gets a new outfit]] and [[ExpositoryHairstyleChange changes his hairdo]] once you hit the seventh gym. OK, fair enough--it's to show he's getting more mature and confident as a trainer, right? Except his new sprites are drawn so OffModel that he looks a full five or six years older than he did not thirty minutes before. What's worse, given the ObligatorySwearing common to almost any Pokemon fangame, it almost comes across as the devs intentionally trying to make you forget he's supposed to be 10 so it won't be as jarring when he blurts out "Holy shit!" later on. |
| 662 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' series: |
| 663 | ** Intentionally invoked in the [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} first game]] for black humor: finding a previous test subject's scrawlings of the phrase "The cake is a lie" [[RoomFullOfCrazy repeated over and over]] is both disturbing and hilarious. |
| 664 | ** [[spoiler:[=GlaDOS=]' scream when being core-transferred]] in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''. Yes, it's a creepy moment, but the amount of auto-tuning makes her sound like T-Pain. |
| 665 | * ''VideoGame/PoPoLoCrois'' for the PSP. At the end of Book III: Ice Demon, Pietro finally reunites with his mother, which had everything to be a heartwarming scene - cute music, cute design, animation... but... the voice actresses of both Pietro and his mother decided to moan and laugh at the scene. At the same time. While Pietro slowly runs towards his mother to hug her. Instead of heartwarming, the scene became highly awkward. |
| 666 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWgGZ5fGE-o This]] ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2008'' story trailer. It's not as much that the voice fails, but rather the words that are spoken. Darkness? Light? [[ClicheStorm Haven't we heard this crap somewhere else already?]]. |
| 667 | * ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'': |
| 668 | ** Play through ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime''. Enjoy the Prince's wonderful [[DeadpanSnarker snarkiness and general sense of humor]] while appreciating the very well-told story. Now go straight from that to ''Warrior Within'', five minutes into which the Prince shouts, "You [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH!]]" |
| 669 | ** And then the good ending, in which [[spoiler:the Prince sails away from the island with Kaileena, then proceeds to, from what can be inferred, force himself on her until she gives in and they have sex. She tried to kill him not even an hour ago.]] Quite the swerve. |
| 670 | * ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'' has the elevator scene, where the Prince rides up with Farah and Farah tries to make conversation. The Prince ends up talking about how he hates pomegranates. Comparisons to [[Film/AttackOfTheClones "I hate sand"]] are inevitable. |
| 671 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', [[PersonOfMassDestruction Alex Mercer]] is usually pretty calm. Then, in the penultimate mission, he ''flips out'' and his VA, Barry Pepper, [[LargeHam consumes the scenery]]. |
| 672 | --> '''"TAGGART! YOU SUICIDAL MORON!"''' |
| 673 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zFhU--m2p8 ''LIKE IT'S GONNA MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!'']] |
| 674 | ** Also General Randall's anger over Alex being referred to as "he" is not only hilariously over the top, but sounds more like HoYay than dehumanization. |
| 675 | * The prisoners in ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' repeatedly say stuff like "Please stop", "Make it stop", "It hurts", "Kill me now", and make zombie-like groans. |
| 676 | ** It should also be noted that said zombie-like groans actually sound more like ''sheep'' than anything. Baa. |
| 677 | * [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/qfg/Update%2070/index.html This]] LetsPlay of the ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series shows a screencapture of a scene from the end of the third game, in which the hero has defeated the bad guys, but then has a summoning spell placed on him by unknown enemies which causes him to seemingly lose control of his body and flail about wildly. It is hilarious. Arguably, many things in these games could be taken as {{Narm}}, but old fans of the series will probably think them [[NarmCharm charming]] anyway. |
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| 681 | * In ''VideoGame/RainbowSix: Vegas 2'' there's a scene where a CIA Agent who's worked undercover with some weapon smugglers is caught, and since your character is in constant radio link with him, you hear his frantic pleas while he's trying to convince them he's legit, and then afterwards his immediate screams as he's being tortured, followed by the main character Bishop instructing command to "Turn that shit off". Just the way the entire scene was presented was unintentionally hilarious, especially with how Bishop tone and response seemed to be more "I just don't care" instead of concern. |
| 682 | * In ''[[VideoGame/RaySeries RayCrisis]]'', one of the bosses is called '''Sem-Slut'''. Aside from the second part of its name being a derogatory for [[MyGirlIsNotASlut someone who gets around]], it's prefixed by "Sem-", which makes it an even less innocent name. [[NarmCharm Sadly]], it was [[{{Woolseyism}} renamed]] to "Sem-Strut" in the US release. |
| 683 | * [[spoiler:Uncle's death]] in the ending of ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' counts. Especially when Jack screams "OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED HIM!" (The Narm IMMEDIATELY goes away, though.) |
| 684 | ** In the DLC ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'', the opening scenes where John's family is zombified loses a bit of its seriousness due to the fact that John spends most of it in his underwear, which while period-appropriate, makes it look a ''lot'' like footsie pajamas. Seeing a stone cold badass like John wearing that is a bit giggle-worthy, especially as the underwear is one of the available outfits for him, meaning you can have John take on zombies in his skivvies. Though given John's nonchalant reaction to having to hogtie his wife and son and going off to stop the zombie apocalypse, it's possible the whole thing was meant to be a little tongue-in-cheek, especially with lines like this: |
| 685 | ---> '''John''' ''(to his zombified family)'': Now I don't know what's gotten into you sick, crazy bastards. [...] Probably just a fever. Jack, be kind to your mother. Abigail, teach the boy right from wrong. Stop biting chunks outta people! |
| 686 | * Obscure PC FPS ''Red Ocean'' has narmy voice acting, but the narmies part is the hero's name: JACK HARD. Yes, Jack Hard. Makes you wonder if it was intentional... |
| 687 | * The cutscene before you fight Lilith in ''VideoGame/RequiemAvengingAngel''. It's supposed to be giving you important plot information right before a boss fight, but the randomly-placed word-emphasis and the fact that you have to watch the cutscene every time you retry this hard boss fight means it jumps into Narm territory really quick. |
| 688 | ** Heck, most of the voice acting in that game qualifies. Malachi's dramatic line, "Judith? Dead? No!" is delivered with an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJi_EIBmeI utterly unconvincing attempt at sounding shocked]]. And special mention must go to the scene in which you banish your fellow angel Aaron back to Heaven -- as he disappears in a haze of light, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kRYjL9g-uw he lets out an orgasmic sigh and lapses into manic giggles]]. |
| 689 | * ''VideoGame/ReturnToZork'': "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHKKq7kMF8w Want some rye? Course ya do!]]" |
| 690 | ** Try killing civilians with the weapons. The death animations are ''so'' funny, and they retain them. Some fun examples include the hotel receptionist going "AAAAGH!" and ''faceplants'' on the desk (while ''smiling''), the blacksmith grabs his neck and crotch and ''stands there'' even when he's dead. Ben, however, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zy4t_35Wfw&t= bends backwards 90 degrees]]. To say the game has ''not'' aged well is drastically underplaying the unintentional comedy. |
| 691 | * The drift physics in modern ''VideoGame/RidgeRacer'' can get so outlandish that you can spin a full 360 degrees without any crippling loss in speed and keep going. |
| 692 | * ''VideoGame/RuneScape''[='s=] Quick Chat feature is a good way to get various points across in a clear and concise manner. It also clashes drastically with the chatspeak and abbreviations normally used by MMO players. You get used to it, but until then things like "My Strength level is 83." and "Go to location: Al Kharid." may make you wonder if the speaker is a robot. |
| 693 | ** In the "Desert Treasure" quest you must fight the keeper of the Ice Diamond, Kamil, who has cruelly encased a young troll's parents in blocks of ice. After hiking through the treacherous mountains and biting winds you suddenly feel a dark presence and then the battle begins. Oh, and if you've done the "Troll Romance" quest there's a fair chance that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeNkkkb4zFk this song]] will start playing. [[note]]For those who don't want to click the link, the song is titled "Hell's Bells" (not to be confused with the AC/DC song). It sounds like a cheesy holiday party song and is unlocked when you go sledding so you can pick some flowers.[[/note]] |
| 694 | ** Due to the fact that the game did not have cutscenes or dialogue boxes originally, conversations happened out in the open like other [=MMORPGs=] at the time. Cue players in the background absolutely ruining the dramatic battle with Delrith by spamming or speaking with poor grammar. Or playing with the text features to say "oooooooooooo" or "eeeeeeeeee". |
| 695 | * All of ''VideoGame/RobotAlchemicDrive'' counts, though it's very likely this was [[IntendedAudienceReaction entirely]] [[NarmCharm intentional]] on the part of its creators, as its ongoing homage to old school mecha anime. |
| 696 | ** [[KillerRobot Robots kill people!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJW2WiY_ULk A robot killed grandma!]] |
| 697 | * [[spoiler:Jane]]'s death in ''VideoGame/RogueGalaxy''. [[spoiler:A giant bird swoops down from the sky, threatening to attack an old man. Jane pushes the man out of harm's way, and the bird lands on top of her, smacking her head into the pavement, then suddenly flies away.]] This should have been a shocking moment. However, how utterly [[DroppedABridgeOnHim random and abrupt]] it was makes it laughable. |
| 698 | ** Also from ''Rogue Galaxy'': "Simon's wife and daughter looking for him" cutscenes. Some of them are "sort" of emotional - when they're looking for the papa of the family on a city, for example. However, when they start looking for him on forests, jungles, ancient ruins and so, it becomes downright hilarious (nobody questions how exactly did they get there). Worst, their scenes are sappy and overdramatic, including sad background music and the little girl crying. ''Every single one of them''. By the time the third one is on, you're already seeing them as parodies of sad scenes. |
| 699 | * ''VideoGame/RobotWarlords'': The voice acting is so bad that it's hard to tell if they're human beings or text to speech programs. This of course weakens the drama in the story and in one case where one of the two main antagonists commits suicide, completely ruins the moment in a way that wouldn't sound out of place in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFuckboys games''. |
| 700 | * ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'': RUBY DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT! RUBY DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT AT ALL! |
| 701 | * The Typhon boss in ''VideoGame/{{Rygar}}: The Legendary Adventure''. While the game does a good job of reviving the classic kind of hero story ("save the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, save the world"), this boss just ruins the mood. It looks like a multi-headed dragon, but the tops of the necks...are a bunch of crying, fire-breathing babies. |
| 702 | ** Just about every cutscene in ''Rygar: The Legendary Adventure'' runs on high quality Narm. "Is this the hound that guards the underworld? No! It is the fang of justice! Fang of justice, fight for me!" * facepalm* |
| 703 | ** At one point, we rescue the love interest. Who starts ''singing''. In an FMV. Words cannot describe... |
| 704 | ** How everyone pronounces "Disk Armor". You'd think it'd be "Disk-arm-or", right? Try "Dis-carmer". |
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| 708 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' |
| 709 | ** Although he does do a good job in some places, at times Yuri's voice actor turns the game into a total comedy, like when Yuri [[BagOfSpilling loses his powers]], his delivery of ''"What the hell is this?"'' kind of wrecks the mood. The first scene in the graveyard is also a big offender, particularly since ''"That's me growing there!"'' is reminiscent of [[Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun Dick Solomon]]. |
| 710 | ** She takes about twenty minutes to narrate the monster walking towards the front door, obviously under the impression that it's creepy rather than gut bustingly hilarious. When she finally reaches the end and it turns out to be a terrific anticlimax you want to strangle the old bat. |
| 711 | ** And then there's '''[=THE MISTLETOOOOOOOOE!=]'''. |
| 712 | ** And Karen declaring her feelings for Yuri... it's probably the over-the-topness of the delivery ("YES! I LOVE HIM! MORE THAN ANYTHING!"), but also the fact that she knows him for...how long exactly? |
| 713 | ** One particular cutcsene, The Miracle, depicts what should be a TearJerker moment in which [[spoiler: Roger attempts to bring Alice back to life so Yuri can die happily, and it doesn't work.]] Yuri of course starts crying, but his facial expression is so [[UnintentionalUncannyValley fake and over-the-top it becomes funny.]] |
| 714 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowOfDestiny'' has a few. For example, Eike shouting, "You bastard!" at [[spoiler:Hugo]] during Ending E. Doesn't sound bad out of context, but becomes Narmy when you consider that a) up until this point, the only swear used had been 'damn' and that only two or three times, b) the delivery of the line was ridiculously casual given the situation, and c) the script writer had apparently been channeling WesternAnimation/SouthPark. Honestly, though, any moment where Eike is required to exhibit any emotion besides DullSurprise qualifies as a Narm. |
| 715 | ** Ending C. ''GODDAMN'' [[DroppedABridgeOnHim ENDING C]]. So, [[spoiler:Eike erased Hugo from existence, and, even though did little to help Elizabete and Dana, he's alive and well. He realizes the wonders of life, lays down on the street to see the sky... and then two random drunk teenagers run over him with a car. The end.]] It's insanely random, badly executed and downright stupid. No wonder it's considered the worst ending. |
| 716 | * In ''VideoGame/ShadowOfRome'', Agrippa the gladiator protagonist has to kill [[spoiler:his old enemy, the Germanic chieftain Barca]] at the behest of the baying crowd, and yells at the crowd. The scene is meant to be serious, but it comes across as hilarious because a) it's too similar to the famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbBiXPVKuTA "Are you not entertained!?"]] scene from Film/{{Gladiator}} and b) he finishes with a loud [[SkywardScream skyward "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMNNNNNNNNNN!"]] |
| 717 | * ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': |
| 718 | ** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'', some scary and powerful demons later on have their appearances and abilities somewhat offset by the sound effects that make them sound like livestock when they attack. And then there's [[RecurringBoss Thor]], who loves screaming "DIE!" in an overly hammy voice before attacking. |
| 719 | ** ''Videogame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'': |
| 720 | *** Metatron, [[MouthOfSauron Voice of God]] and usually the most powerful angel of any game he's in, gains RoboSpeak and mechanical whirring noises, killing a large part of whatever badass factor he had. That the game tries to hammer in that the angels are "manufactured" doesn't really help either. |
| 721 | *** In the Japanese version, any time someone says YHVH's name, their voice is muted and garbled so as to conceal the pronounciation, the idea being that he's such an alien entity to humanity that even his name can't be comprehended. In the English dub, however, players instead get the infamous "record needle scratch" noise that simply doesn't carry the same impact. |
| 722 | *** So you've gone into Twisted Tokyo to give each of the Fiends a piece of your mind. You engage David, the first Fiend, expecting him to have an intimidating-sounding EvilLaugh or something similar. Instead, you get a ''bored sigh''. The same applies for all of the subsequent non-DLC Fiends. |
| 723 | *** The friendship speeches and outright hostility to anything loner related can get to downright eye-rolling levels in a game that tries to present itself as serious. |
| 724 | *** [[spoiler:Asahi's death. What was supposed to be an emotional scene quickly gets kinda ruined by the excessive narration and the massive exposition dump that followed and everyone seemingly forgetting what just transpired]]. |
| 725 | ** ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'': In the 3DS version, dialogue from the human characters is fully voice acted, but dialogue from Demons ''never'' is. This results in MoodWhiplash when the protagonists are confronted by all-powerful supernatural beings that are, according to their [[ExactTimeToFailure "death clocks"]], destined to kill them, and said beings' {{Badass Boast}}s are rendered as "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!" |
| 726 | * The Platform/{{P|layStation2}}S2 version of ''VideoGame/{{Shinobi}}'' features a sequence where the villain taunts you that you can't kill a former acquaintance, 'even with that tainted blade.' The main problem is that the player character, Hotsuma, has ''already'' killed the acquaintance in question with the blade in question, and he even has an enormous scar marking where his head was cut off. |
| 727 | * Quite a lot of Konami's ''VideoGame/SilentScope'' series. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG1b6VNB4Po Prime example here, starting halfway through...]] |
| 728 | ** If you don't feel like or can't watch the video then here's an example: Silent Scope 2 pairs you up with a 'buddy' sniper. A little way into that game, the two of you have to make an assault on a facility. Your buddy turns to you and, in the most hilariously serious voice, says "Time to play 'Metal Gear' for real!" |
| 729 | ** "Watch out! The enemy is going to shoot!" |
| 730 | ** In ''EX'': "I'm the president! Please stop!" And the president [[CaptainErsatz bears an uncanny resemblance]] to George W. Bush. |
| 731 | * ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'' was a Japanese exclusive that had default English voice acting with Japanese subtitles, so we get flat actors saying complex, yet poorly translated lines wrapped in a confusing plot. The bad guys are called the ''Ruffians'', the cheesy music plays over cutscenes and gameplay alike, and Saki and Ashi's actors both mumble their lines. At least Airen's actress was actually trying to put some emotion in. |
| 732 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'', excellent as the rest of the acting was, has these in the second half: |
| 733 | --> '''Gillian:''' ''(after [[spoiler:Harry Benson]] dies)'' [[spoiler:Cunningham!]] No, ''Snatcher!'' I'll get you for this! |
| 734 | * The ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'' is riddled with this. |
| 735 | -->'''Nightmare:''' "'''[[EvilIsHammy HAVE A TASTE... OF MY DARKNESS!!!!eleven!1!!]]'''" |
| 736 | ** Another Nightmare example is one of his winning quotes in ''II'': "Raarrrgghh! GO AWAY!" |
| 737 | ** ''II'' also gives us Sophitia's Narmtastic win line: "[[ApologeticAttacker You're in pain.]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment It's painful, isn't it?]]" |
| 738 | ** Voldo's Endings in the original ''Soul Blade'' for PSX. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wljJeLY5iAY Both]] of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54v507TywSs them]]. |
| 739 | -->'''Vercci's Spirit''': "Hey, Voldo! You fulfilled my wish! Good for you!" |
| 740 | ** This rather bizarre statement made by Tira in ''V''. Yes, [[spoiler:it could be argued she was trying to head-fuck Pyrrha to make her easier to manipulate]], but... |
| 741 | -->'''Tira''': "Normal humans don't go around killing people and burning towns!" |
| 742 | ** Occasionally, character quotes don't match up, with truly cringeworthy results. Take this gem from ''II''. |
| 743 | -->'''Mitsurugi''': "You again? I've had enough of you!" |
| 744 | -->'''Taki''': "Hahahaha! Haven't you had enough?" |
| 745 | *** And: |
| 746 | -->'''Lizardman''': *growls* |
| 747 | -->'''Algol''': "Your words will earn you no mercy." |
| 748 | ** ''Soulcalibur III'' has a huge problem with characters' lines getting cut off. It's not easy to take a character's BadassBoast seriously if they don't get to finish it. |
| 749 | --> '''Abyss''': You who would stand against me... prepare-\ |
| 750 | ''(Versus Abyss! Fight!)'' |
| 751 | * ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' itself is a QuirkyWork with many of its really silly elements (The dancing aliens, the space police, Ulala outperforming Pudding on her own show) invoked and PlayedForLaughs, but the second game makes a few situations rather narmy. Mostly in stage four wherein Fuse is zapped with a laser. Despite that Fuse is only inside a ship, the electricity somehow hits him and he makes a scream. |
| 752 | ** Later on, Noise says "There's no power! All that's left is dance and jiggy power!". Ulala is then dancing under duress, and develops a vaguely southern sounding accent. (Given that stage throws ''twenty two step commands'' at you, some players didn't pay attention to this.) |
| 753 | ** Fuse's English line "Man, that ain't just good, that is PERFECT!" makes him sound like someone is attempting a stereotypical CampGay voice... or like he is [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything doing something else inside his ship as he watches it]]. |
| 754 | ** In stage 6, the invisible wall. Everyone pounds on it in sync except for Ulala who didn't walk into it. |
| 755 | ** Can be invoked by the player themselves via costumes. Put Ulala in a really silly costume and watch as the silliness turns up to eleven. In fact, the player ''has'' to do this in Ulala's dance mode to unlock some things, and it can be quite hilarious seeing the human dancers mimic Ulala in the Morolian pose. |
| 756 | ** From the first game, one optional stage featured Ulala trying to rescue a hostage... who is literally described as a "Boy toy". |
| 757 | --> "They've got a boy toy!" |
| 758 | * During the prologue of ''VideoGame/SpiderMan3'', our friendly neighborhood superhero must survive a series of [[PressXToNotDie quick-time events]] while traversing through the burning building, before coming across a hostage strapped to a bomb. Normally, Peter Parker jumps and flips with acrobatic finesse to avoid the falling debris during the sequence, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngORPZj4wwY but if you fail the button prompt to have him swing to the floor below where the hostage is]] (whose goofy expression doen't help matters), it all descends into two seconds of glorious [[RapidFireComedy Rapid-Fire]] {{Slapstick}} that wouldn't look out of place in a typical ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' video. |
| 759 | * ''VideoGame/{{Spiritfarer}}'': Since a spirit's {{Leitmotif}} plays whenever they tell you their backstory, it can be unintentionally funny to hear Bruce and Mickey's upbeat gangster theme play as Bruce tells Stella [[spoiler:how he struggled with coping with Mickey's death, which led to Bruce's suicide.]] |
| 760 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}} 3'', you have to save your wife and child, and if you fail to save 1 or more of them, you get a different BAD END depending on who you failed to save (going completely psycho if you failed to save both of them). The ending where Dave dies begins with some depressing music and narrative, but the mood is quickly foiled when you get some of the greatest words in video game history. DAVID IS ONLY MEMORY |
| 761 | * Mediocre but entertaining StealthBasedGame ''VideoGame/SpyFiction2003'' would have been a better piece of, well, SpyFiction had the voice actors bothered trying. A particularly egregious example is when the lunatic terrorist Dietrich captures the positive, quirky agent Nicklaus, chains him to a [[FauxSymbolism crucifix-type device]], and shoots him in the heart in front of his best friend. If you weren't laughing at Dietrich's painfully badly-written mocking of the survivors -- "Boo hoo! Poor baby!", in a [[JustAStupidAccent nonspecific and ridiculous Eastern European accent]] -- you probably threw back your head and laughed as the survivor attempted to give a scream of bitter rage to the heavens and ended up making a sound vaguely like he'd finally passed a very stubborn stool. |
| 762 | ** This one also had the catchphrase 'Back in the hole', which was said repeatedly by the main character as a code to his best friend, Nicklaus, usually while pointing to him at the time. In one horrible Narm moment, the phrase is said by both after Nicklaus had previously said, "[[DoubleEntendre I'll go on ahead. You go in behind]]." The voice actors deserve some credit for being able to say the line without laughing. |
| 763 | * The English voice acting in ''{{VideoGame/STALKER}}'' can get rather...enthusiastic. Fortunately, it's fairly easy to change all the non-essential spoken dialogue back to the (far better) Russian originals. |
| 764 | * ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' is one long Narm, thanks in part to the corny voice acting and the fact that it takes the RuleOfCool [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot way, way too far]]. |
| 765 | ** Perhaps the narmiest moment is the fading breaths of a Earth Walker soldier, delivered in ''"Dinosaur Language."'' It has to be seen to be believed. |
| 766 | *** Speaking of dinosaur language, (it's just letter-swapping and the mini-guide that comes with the game has a translator in the back), the dinosaur language word for "eye" is "ooo." |
| 767 | ** "''LEE DOOMSOO TAVOOK.... '''GENERAL SCALES!'''''" |
| 768 | ** Presenting to you, a grandiose LargeHam line after [[spoiler:Andross' HijackedByGanon move.]] |
| 769 | --->[[spoiler:'''''I HAVE WAYTED FOR THIS DAAYYY, TO SEE YOU AGAAYYN, FOX MCLOWWD''''']] |
| 770 | ** The cutscene that ''always'' plays when Fox [[ItemGet gets an item]] in ''Adventures'' is extremely narmy. It's probably due to the fact that Fox's face literally runs through the expression spectrum, starting out with a bizarre combination of mild annoyance/mild anger, and ending up with a look of total joy, akin to someone who's just found the holy grail, cure for cancer, and eternal youth, all at the same time. |
| 771 | *** And we mean ''always''. At one point, Fox is tasked with collecting three bridge cogs to get a minor bridge working again. He does the animation for every cog. |
| 772 | *** Krystal's (it only plays twice when you play as her) isn't ''quite'' as funny, but seeing her go from an incredibly bored looking expression to one that looks like she just won a carnival game is still fairly narmy. |
| 773 | ** [[LargeHam "WHEW DAHS SAMMON DA MIGHTY WAHP STOON!?!"]] |
| 774 | *** YOOOL PAY THISS MOTCH. |
| 775 | *** POOT THOT DOWWN, yew dond hov enoff '''SCARABS!!''' |
| 776 | *** Some of the Lightfoot villagers have accents that make everything they say sound like they're supposed to be caricatures of something. |
| 777 | --> ''Mah baybehs are soooooo naughteh~! They leik to hahd in the foh-rest!'' |
| 778 | ** At one point in the game, you cross a lava pit with moving platforms and flame jets. Once you get to a certain point beyond it, Tricky, who has heretofore been able to teleport, and who can be ''set on fire without noticing'', all of a sudden has a cutscene where he cowers, and will not cross until you stop the platforms from moving (inexplicably shutting off the jets, too). This cutscene is extra bad if you do it before reaching that point, since that causes him to cower at pretty much nothing (compared to what he's been through to that point) and cross right afterward anyway. |
| 779 | ** Plus the inconsistent English voices, where Leon for example will go from a British accent in 64 to a slimy psycho voice in Assault. Slippy and Peppy's voices vary from game to game a lot too, but General Pepper takes the cake for his ridiculously over-the-top voice in Adventures. Then there's lines like "I'm on my WAY." and Andross' "Only I have the brains to rule Lylat" (''VideoGame/StarFox64'') and Andrew's "Think you're tough eh? In that case, it's SECRET WEAPON TIME." (''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'') |
| 780 | ** Krystal somehow sucks all the drama out of the attack on the enemy home world in ''Assault'' with a single piece of dialogue about the mission is going as... 'plaahhrned'? |
| 781 | ** In ''Star Fox 3D'', Andross' EvilLaugh has been re-recorded as a completely flat "Ha-ha-ha." which sounds like the voice actor was woken by a call from the director in the middle of the night and told to quickly record a laugh. What's more, it doesn't even match the length of his laughing animation, leaving him [[HongKongDub silently flapping his mouth]] for another two seconds after he's finished. |
| 782 | * ''VideoGame/StarOcean'': |
| 783 | ** ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'' gives us what should've been a deeply depressing scene when [[spoiler:an alternate dimension's Earth is destroyed with billions dying, triggered accidentally by Edge]]. However, the voice acting, and Edge's LargeHam actions, make it more hilarious than anything. EVERYTHING EVERYTHING EVERYTHING! |
| 784 | ** In ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'', Fayt finally reunites with his father, shortly before he is killed. The ensuing boss fight has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCf2uAYiZU&feature=related Bitter Dance]] as the background music. |
| 785 | * ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft|I}}'': |
| 786 | ** Mengsk's line, "Don't be snide, Kerrigan. This was part of the deal, remember? I've '''earned''' this" at the end of a ''Brood War'', due to the extra grunting emphasis on the word "earned." |
| 787 | ** Then there's Fenix, who gets into the act in the previous mission by spouting flowery nonsense like "Ah, to go into battle with my Protoss brethren again! Ah, but time will tell all things" and "I can still, how do you Terrans say it, [[TotallyRadical "throw down with the best of them."]] |
| 788 | ** This is made worse by Fenix actually being fairly young by Protoss standards. |
| 789 | ** How's this for ''Starcraft'' Narm? In the Terran campaign on the mission where you first meet the Protoss but must avoid killing the Zerg base right next to you, almost the entire tech tree has been unlocked at this point (late in the game), which includes the starport and (wait for it) the (flying) transport! And yet when we get to the mission end and the Zerg come swarming in, suddenly there is no way to evacuate Kerrigan and your forces??? WTF?? |
| 790 | * ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'''s cutscenes has everyone and their dog talking in generic action/war movie one-liners. Plus, Kerrigan was apparently given ''permanent high heels'' when remade into a Zerg. |
| 791 | ** The "Betrayal" cinematic. First you have Kerrigan decloaking for no apparent reason (I suppose she could have run out of energy, but surely she could have at least ''tried'' to find somewhere to lay low until she could cloak again? There were no Overlords at all in that cutscene!) and, due to the fact that Blizzard's otherwise superb CGI team is incapable of rendering a female face without mannequinifying it, looking completely bored out of her skull whilst demanding evac--pristine fashion model hair and makeup completely unmussed from that whole "being in the middle of a warzone" thing. Then, when she realizes that she won't be getting any evac, the goddamn ''slow-mo'', complete with ridiculously over-the-top OneWomanWail (the overuse of choral sections in the rest of the cutscenes is also incredibly Narmful, but here especially). Then, during her final moments, she... ''pouts'' at the sky. Goddamn it so much, Blizzard. |
| 792 | ** For a particularly {{Narm}}tastic scene, check out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UziEGCVXWY4 this cutscene when you save Warfield on Char]]. Ye Gods. From marines attempting to retreat despite being "cut off", to Warfield saying you "saved my boys today" despite being the only survivor in his squad (although one Website/YouTube commenter theorises that by "boys", he's referring to his balls), the repeated barrage of cheesy one-liners completely ruins the badassery. |
| 793 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isoqmAQGiSY&feature=endscreen The following cinematic is just as bad if not worse]]. There's Raynor grieving over some random grunt and a close shot of the guy's dog tag, like we're supposed to know who the hell he was[[note]] M Koiter, the guy in question, was a developer that passed away during ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft II}}'''s creation, it's a tribute to him.[[/note]], and then more cliche army talk, and then a rousing speach about how they can count on each other, accompanied by a choir. And it's ''raining''. On freaking ''[[LethalLavaLand Char]]''. And when Raynor finishes the speech, clouds part and sun shines through on the soldiers. Seriously, it looks like a parody by that point. |
| 794 | ** Heart of the Swarm gives us Mengsk's last words - "Ah made you inta a monstar, Kerrigan.". As last words go, not exactly the most impressive, but it's Mengsk's delivery that pushes it clear into Narm territory. |
| 795 | * Old-school dungeon crawl CRPG ''VideoGame/{{Stonekeep}}'' doesn't have the greatest voice acting - some would say the latter-game performances by the fairy trope are decent, though - but there's no excuse for how [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBzEp8UuLcA&feature=PlayList&p=29570590B653E2EF&index=30 silly this ambush sounds]]. |
| 796 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 797 | ** The plot of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' revolves around seven kings who have been transformed into monsters. Someone who has played more modern ''Mario'' games may find it hard to take the World 7 Fortress cutscene seriously in the remakes, as the World 7 King was turned into a ''Yoshi'' of all things. |
| 798 | ** Luigi's ending in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''. As if Mario shouting "WELCOME! WELCOME NEEEEEEEW GALAXY!" wasn't already narmy enough, Luigi's timid voice makes it sound as if someone with a gun was threatening to shoot him from behind if he doesn't say it. |
| 799 | *** "I'm going to stomp you to space bits!" |
| 800 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' had some very [[http://youtu.be/3amuWV3BXts?t=3m35s narmy voice acting for Bowser]]. Listen to it in all its glory... |
| 801 | *** Making Bowser comedic is fine sometimes, but he should ''never'' sound like [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]]. |
| 802 | *** Bowser's dialogue doesn't help his image as a menacing EvilOverlord. |
| 803 | ---->"Bwa ha ha! The water's great! Eh, Junior?" |
| 804 | ---->"Mario! How dare you disturb my family vacation?!" |
| 805 | *** While Bowser has some rather awkward voice acting, this isn't just limited to him; almost ''all'' of the voice acting in the game is really lousy. The voice acting for FLUDD and the male piantas in particular is downright terrible. |
| 806 | *** [[spoiler:FLUDD's DisneyDeath]] can also be considered pretty narmy. |
| 807 | *** In general, most of the cutscenes are this to some degree. The voice acting having such a poor quality combined with the fact that the story itself involves bizarre scenes like Mario standing trial for vandalism in one of the worst cases of a KangarooCourt in gaming history and Bowser's son claiming that Peach is his mother (which is not helped by the fact that Peach [[EpilepticTrees seems to be taking some seconds to process this instead of outright denying it]]) ultimately just become somewhat surreal. It doesn't help that unlike nearly every other Mario game (besides most RPG titles), the whole thing is played ''completely seriously''. |
| 808 | ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'' has many cutscenes and bosses which are presumably meant to be taken seriously. However, it also has a full character customisation setup with tons of costumes Mario can wear, meaning he can end up dressed in the most ridiculous outfits possible in seemingly serious scenes. Like say, fighting Bowser in a swimsuit or boxer shorts. Or fighting the Ruined Dragon dressed like a clown, a pirate or a chef. Or even ending in cutscenes and battles wearing a copy of Princess Peach's wedding dress. |
| 809 | ** You'd think ghosts are supposed to be scary, but even by the low standards of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' for how seriously you can take the monsters, "The Big Boo" takes the cake. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVoXsD5MWjI&fmt=18 This Let's Play]] shows how the poor guy who was doing it could not get over that grammar issue for the fact that the Boo is barely even the same size as ''Mallow''. |
| 810 | ** The use of the term [[NeverSayDie "Ending your/my game"]] in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' is a bit silly during one of the more dramatic parts of game ([[spoiler:when Count Bleck had lost the will to live and asks you to finish him off]]). Of course, NeverSayDie isn't always in effect in the game (particularly, [[spoiler: Dimentio talking about how Count Bleck dying won't stop the Chaos Heart from destroying everything]], and Wracktail's line, "I shall punish you...with death!"). |
| 811 | *** That's the strange part, the series will alternate between playing straight and averting NeverSayDie. In the first game's 7th chapter, an author is accused of being a serial killer who bases his novels on his own murders. And in the third game, Bleck outright says that you'll die with the world you're currently in. Since Chapter 7 in this game is basically the afterlife, it's probably a joke most of the time. |
| 812 | *** Of course, Bleck appears before you in Sammer's Kingdom and goes into a bit of EvilGloating about how you can't possibly save the world, afterward the Sammer Guy you defeated just before this.... Speaks entirely in all-caps HulkSpeak. If you leave the room and come back, he'll say he told the king about it, but since he was fast enough to get there and back that quickly, you have to ask why he didn't just bring the Pure Heart back with him. |
| 813 | *** At one point, Tippi uses the word "discombobulated" in a serious sentence. |
| 814 | *** The end of Chapter 7 is one of the saddest and most heartrending scenes in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series, but when you're told that you can take the final Pure Heart, if you're playing as Luigi at the moment, he responds simply with "OK" and "Okey-dokey". Worst part being that the boss leading to that cutscene isn't the hardest boss, but is a total push over with Luigi, so if you know this, ''you probably were playing as Luigi''. |
| 815 | ** The intro to ''VideoGame/MarioParty4'' just looks absolutely hilarious due to the shoddy animation work, which looks more like something made from ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' than something Nintendo actually made themselves. The Mario characters are lifelessly bouncing around at random, with Mario appearing out of nowhere in particular and awkwardly skip-hopping over to them, Luigi seems to constantly stammer and when the party hosts appear, they're all stuck in a t-pose for the entirety of the cutscene. Add Koopa's ridiculous looking 'dancing' (because his legs move while his arms are stuck in a t-pose), and you've got a scene which is absolutely hilarious for all the wrong reasons. |
| 816 | ** ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' has some pretty unintentionally silly moments: |
| 817 | *** During the final battle, [[spoiler:Olly takes on the forms of the Vellumentals you've fought previously, but with their appearance changed to match his. The Fire, Water, and Earth Vellumental forms look threatening/cool enough, but his Ice Vellumental form looks like a ''tuxedo-wearing polar bear.'' All while intense electric guitars are playing in the background]]. |
| 818 | *** Midway through the final boss battle, [[spoiler:Olly and Olivia have a conversation about Olly's evil motives. This scene is supposed to be serious and develop his character, but it's kind of ruined when there's an entire audience of smiling Toads in the background, who do not react to anything Olly says.]] |
| 819 | * Played for laughs in ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Super Robot Taisen Z]]'' with Black Charisma, the incredibly menacing looking masked villain who spends a lot of the game having ominous conversations with other villains. And then the expansion pack came out, and he was finally given a voice... and the voice changer mentioned in the original game is revealed to be a hilarious pitch-shifter, shifting his pitch from chipmunk to little girl and back constantly. The villain squad you control to fight him aren't sure what to make of it. |
| 820 | * In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'', [[Anime/DetonatorOrgun Zoa's]] cape flutters in his regular standing pose (Best seen on his stats). The fluttering has very few frames and loops in a choppy, awkward manner, making him not look threatening ''at all'', which for a series BigBad is rather sad. It's even funnier when you consider [[Anime/MazinKaiser Boss Borot]] also has a cape that flutters like this, but... he's ''[[JokeCharacter Boss freakin' Borot]]''! |
| 821 | * The ''VideoGame/SuperSeducer'' games are made of this. Players often find themselves laughing at the subpar acting or the awkward conversations taking place. |
| 822 | ** The first game shows Richard trying to seduce a woman in the woods. The player can choose to argue with her about how men are better than women at everything. Richard starts to talk about various famous men that have made big accomplishments, and the woman replies, "[[InsaneTrollLogic Whatever, everyone is woman.]]" Except that's clearly not the case? |
| 823 | ** The second game has Richard trying to seduce a blonde rich woman in the first chapter. Richard can skip out on seducing her to talk with his friend Mahmud, who talks about a [=YouTuber=] convention, filled with critics of Richard La Ruina. Richard decides to bomb the convention, complete with a creepy laugh. The whole thing comes off as petty to many people, so it seems more pathetic than anything else. |
| 824 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' didn't include an option to switch between English and Japanese languages, so when the English version was leaked and someone posted videos running through the sound test of the characters' voice samples, the general outcry was that of [[SeriousBusiness anger]] and [[UnpleasableFanbase dissatisfaction]] with the seemingly-inferior English voices (although most of these people had been religiously watching videos of the Japanese version and thus had simply gotten used to the Japanese voices). The worst in many people's eyes - even beyond Meta Knight apparently being the offspring of Vader and Zorro, Falco being from Brooklyn and Wolf from Texas, and Sonic's [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids voice actor]] - was probably Ike and his wonderfully-monotone "''I fight for my friends.''" Sadly, although context helped many of the other voice samples sound decent, [[MemeticMutation Ike was not so lucky.]] |
| 825 | ** "C'MON! BRUE FARCON!" |
| 826 | ** In the fourth and fifth games, Greninja's silly-sounding voice can come across as this, if you don't think of it as (and ''especially'' if it wasn't intended to be) an UglyCute BadassAdorable. Not only can it only utter PokemonSpeak, but the voice is overly nasally and high-pitched for a typical ninja character, and sounds like [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Stitch]] or [[Anime/DigimonTamers Guilmon]]. For more information, check out the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''' PokemonSpeak entry on the Narm/{{Anime}} page for this trope. |
| 827 | ** The same voice actor, Billy Bob Thompson, voices the male (default) Pokémon Trainer in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. While many people got used to and even attached to his Greninja voice, his performance as Red is quite often seen as inferior to Michele Knotz's take on the character from ''Brawl'', as he now sounds like a stereotypical nerd that appears in the background a high school movie and is often seen being StuffedIntoALocker or given a {{Swirlie}}. The voice has been widely criticized as grating on the ears, making the Trainer hard to take seriously even by dorky KidHero standards and undermining how cute/heartwarming the interactions between Trainer and Pokémon are supposed to be. Thankfully, there's an option to switch to a female Trainer (Leaf, voiced to much more acclaim by Creator/KateBristol), but this incentive ''not'' to play as the male Trainer was arguably one of the many factors that turned the female Trainer into an EnsembleDarkhorse. |
| 828 | ** In ''Super Smash Bros. for Wii U'', all 7 [[DownloadableContent DLC]] characters have the same generic conversation about them during Palutena's Guidance. This left several fans wishing that the dev team took the time to create unique conversations for each of them. And concerning Bayonetta, Palutena was very knowledgable about her abilities during her reveal trailer. Cue the Guidance about Bayonetta in-game and suddenly Palutena has no data about her. It seems to be contagious as Pit doesn't recognize Lucas, even though they both made their ''Smash Bros.'' debut in ''Brawl'', where they both [[ActingForTwo shared the same]] [[Creator/LaniMinella actress]] in that game no less! Come ''Ultimate'', where Lucas does have a Palutena's Guidance conversation, Pit ''still'' doesn't know who Lucas is, yet he immediately recognizes Snake, who was cut from the roster in the fourth game. |
| 829 | * ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'': |
| 830 | ** In the original ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'', the protagonist Gabriel Logan lets out one of the most ''awkward'' sounding screams ever to be heard in a game in [[spoiler: the outro of]] Mission 17 [[spoiler: when the elevator he uses to descend into the tunnels collapses under him]]. It doesn't help the fact that his voice actor speaks in a laughably terse tone whenever he delivers his dialogues. But then again, the general voice acting in this game wasn't that spectacular to begin with anyways. |
| 831 | *** Also, the intro of Mission 12: "MUH GAWD, SYPHON FILTER." |
| 832 | ** ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter 3''. ''"You ready, George?'' '''AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!''' |
| 833 | * In the ending cutscene of ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'' after SHODAN offers a chance to join her so that WeCanRuleTogether, many fans consider the hero's reply of, "Naah," to be one of the cheesiest lines in the game. Of course, it doesn't help that the endgame was rushed in development. |
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| 835 | |
| 836 | [[folder: T]] |
| 837 | * The Japanese version of ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'' features possibly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS_1ZZAaD94 the most hilarious training stage song ever.]] With lines like RISE LIKE A DRAGON PUNCH A WOMAN and I KEEP IT REAL SON NOT THE TYPE TO RICK ROLL YA, I'm SHORYUCAN'T touch the NarmCharm this song possesses. |
| 838 | * ''VideoGame/TearRingSaga'' has a number of emotional moments that ends up narmfull thanks to the Engrishy translation, but the hero mourning a NobleDemon antagonist with "Ahab fell, but he called for it, yet he was a man to be pitied too. Whoa... no time to get all emotional!" takes the cake. |
| 839 | * ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'' has is ''a lot'' of Narm (Minus the Shredder, who actually manages to make "Turtle soup, my ''favorite''!" sound Badass), first level's got Baxter Stockman who says "Terminate the turtles!" in a strange tone, and Metalhead saying "I'm going to mangle you green slimeballs!" with a small monotonous tone, Krang takes the cake, though, he says "Prepare to die!" with a strange voice, in Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, they actually manage to make the Narm ''funnier'', by making the characters voices their 2003 counterparts or someone else, and attempt to make it dramatic, the result is funnier than the original game, or more badass than the original. |
| 840 | * ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': Edd-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y5zyWpKoqw DEE!]] (About 0:54.) |
| 841 | ** The series' numerous endings for beating their arcade modes. From Paul going to space to fight aliens, to the antics of Roger the Kangaroo and and Kuma the Bear. Especially with the first game, which plays a happy little tune to things like Kazuya tossing Heihachi off a cliff, or Nina slapping her sister Anna for being accused of stealing one of her high heels - [[ForTheLulz only for her to reveal she did anyway.]] Odds are if it's outside something pertaining to the main plot, Tekken's got narm for days with how ridiculous it gets. |
| 842 | * ''VideoGame/ThousandArms'' has plenty, as the budget for the localization was pretty small. One that stands out though is your main characters cry for a fallen friend, "JYYYYAAAABBBBIILLLLLL!!!!!" This would have been a bit more dramatic if the voice actor didn't sound 13 years old, the main character hadn't been trying to get in Jyabil's sister's pants 5 minutes ago, and his name didn't sound so damn close to "gerbil." |
| 843 | * The ''VideoGame/ThunderForce V'' FinalBoss warning screen: |
| 844 | --> [[spoiler:"[[strike:'''ALERT!''' [[BossSubtitles The enemy is dead ahead! Area Guard Name: Unknown]]]] '''[[InterfaceScrew ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!]] [[OverlyLongGag ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!]]'''"]] |
| 845 | ** ''VideoGame/ThunderForce II'' (Sharp X68000 version), intro speech: "This is Exceliza, I want to flow now." "Roger, good luck." |
| 846 | * ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis''. ''Full Stop''. |
| 847 | ** The first game has Rachel trying to warn Richard about the first boss fight: |
| 848 | -->--''Don't come! It's a trap! ''OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO!'''' |
| 849 | ** Made even more hilarious by the fact that she says this ''while strapped to a wall''. Which then proceeds to behave ''exactly'' like a door in ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''. |
| 850 | * ''VisualNovel/TimeHollow'' has Ethan's ridiculous yelling whenever he confirms a flashback. This is a bit of NarmCharm, though, as the over-the-top nature just seems to fit somehow. |
| 851 | ** It's also worth noting the relatively positive tone of the things he yells, even when he confirms a flashback of a friend's dead body. |
| 852 | ** Irving's line, [[spoiler:"Now it's time for [[RevengeOfTheSequel Revenge Part Deux --- Revenge: The Return]]!" while assuming the identity of Jack Twombly]]. |
| 853 | * In-universe example in ''VideoGame/{{Timesplitters}}''. Cortez's underwhelming {{Catchphrase}} "It's time to split!" provokes appropriate reactions [[RunningGag from nearly everybody]]. Most female characters are creeped out more than anything else. |
| 854 | * ''Franchise/TombRaider'': |
| 855 | ** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderTheAngelOfDarkness'' gave us the oft-quoted threat of "You unsavory little runt!" |
| 856 | ** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' gets "Your perception of good timing is...[[BuffySpeak bad]]!" |
| 857 | ** The death screams of the guards in the Tibet section of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderII'' Narm; after getting mowed down, it sounds like they shout something like "AH! A COUGAR!" |
| 858 | ** The voice acting in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'' isn't exactly high quality, but Natla and Larson's ridiculous Texan accents makes it very hard to take them seriously. Made even funnier when you find out that Natla is supposed to be an ancient ruler of Atlantis thousands of years ago and in the flashback cut scenes involving her, she still has the exaggerated accent! |
| 859 | ** The final cutscene in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend'' has Lara shouting [[PunctuatedForEmphasis "WHERE! IS! MY! MOTHER!?!"]] at [[BigBad Amanda]] while shooting near her head on every word. While the scene and the context of it was tense[[note]]Lara's mother disappeared to another world and Amanda knows where she is[[/note]], Lara's over the top delivery of her line makes her sound like she needs to see a manager ''right this second'' or there will be hell to pay. To top it off, after Amanda tells Lara where her mother is, Lara [[PistolWhip smacks Amanda with the butt of her gun]]. |
| 860 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': [[ItAmusedMe Resident troublemaker]] [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels Hinanawi Tenshi]] gives us the following line, which earns her the reputation of masochism: |
| 861 | --> "Yes, get angry! Because if you don't punish me, Gensokyo shall be no more!" |
| 862 | * ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'': |
| 863 | ** The only way to maintain willing suspension of disbelief is to assume it's an over-the-top pastiche through design. A terrifically hilarious moment was when Dr. Stiles was wandering around in the city in misery after being negligent towards a patient. When it begins to rain, he doesn't mind -- 'maybe it will calm me down!' |
| 864 | ** And you get a Narm whenever you lose -- a hopelessly melodramatic rendering of how Dr. Stiles mysteriously disappeared, unable to handle his guilt over losing a patient. |
| 865 | ** "DAMMIT! DON'T. YOU! DIE ON MEEEE!". Or "Let's BEGIN THE OPERATION!" |
| 866 | ** [[spoiler:The scene where you have to defuse a bomb]] is hilariously silly. |
| 867 | *** [[WebAnimation/AwesomeSeries OPEN DAT SHIT UP!]] |
| 868 | ** "I DISAGREE." |
| 869 | ** "I'M A DOCTOR!" |
| 870 | ** The most narmy psycho-face ever coupled with "The healing touch is also good for...KILLING!" made [[spoiler:Adel]] lose any menace he previously had. |
| 871 | ** In ''Trauma Team'', the first forensics mission [[spoiler:shows that the electrician is the murderer, but his face when he is stabbing just kills the mood]]. |
| 872 | ** While the Game Over screen in ''Second Opinion'' and ''Under the Knife 2'' does exaggerate Derek's resignation, it's understandable due to his strong desire to save every patient. Meanwhile, Markus and Valerie in ''New Blood'' are very experienced doctors who are more reserved compared to Derek, yet the Game Over screen shows that they also quit in shame over a failed operation due to them not living up to their own perfectionism. Seems like the medical field goes through a lot of doctors who give up after one failed operation! |
| 873 | * ''VideoGame/TheTuringTest'': As at least one online gaming magazine has pointed out, giving the name "Ava Turing" to the protagonist of a game named ''The Turing Test'' that is all about the Turing Test, is about as subtle as a wrecking ball to the face and would be grounds enough to dock a few points for sheer lack of style, especially because the devs didn't even have the decency to lampshade it in any way despite plenty of opportunities. |
| 874 | [[/folder]] |
| 875 | |
| 876 | [[folder: U - V]] |
| 877 | * In ''VideoGame/UltimaIX: Ascension'', the Avatar asks a lot of really really stupid questions. But the worst of all has got to be when he's in Trinsic and asks, "What's a Paladin?" You'd think that after Paladins having existed since Ultima IV, he'd know better. He'll ask this even if you chose the Paladin class at the beginning of the game! An audio clip of the Paladin quote, as well as additional narmy quotes from the game, can be found on [[http://hacki.bootstrike.com/english/nitpicks_u9_trinsic.htm this site]]. |
| 878 | --->'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony:]]''' What's... a ''paladin?'' [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK.]] [[BerserkButton YOUUUU!]] |
| 879 | ** There's another one towards the beginning of the game. After finding out the Britain has been moving all the poor people to the poisonous swamp of Pew, the Avatar, ''living embodiment of the eight virtues and perfectly aware of all of their tenets'', can only come up with the following argument: "But...Britain is the city of compassion!" Even worse, when the mayor replies that the plan ''is'' compassionate with some severely twisted logic, the Avatar ''is completely stumped''. Durr... |
| 880 | * ''VideoGame/ValkyrieProfile'': Whenever Lenneth Valkyrie shouts out (especially in a distraught mood), the portrait of her facial expression looks more like she's singing the opera. Since the game is at least partly influenced by Music/RichardWagner's magnum opus, that might have even been intentional. |
| 881 | ** The english dub is considered to be ''quite'' laughable between its mistranslations, the obvious amount of voice actors who played multiple roles, DullSurprise, and of course, the fact that the most experienced voice actors that Enix could cast were most known for playing characters on the 4Kids dub of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. The result? Lezard sounds like Meowth. Aelia accidentally lapses into Ash Ketchum when she uses her Purify Weird Soul, and Fuyuki also speaks in Ash's voice. Jessie (if you can make our her words) is Mystina. Jelanda on occasion sounds like Misty, and Brock speaks with the same tone of voice as Brock. (And [[Anime/YuGiOh Kaiba]]). |
| 882 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6amnjy-JPOA I INVOKE THE POWER OF THE GLACIAL BLADE]]. [[LargeHam FINISHING STRIKE... ICICLE DISASTERRRRR]]. |
| 883 | ** Bloodbane's voice actor tried to make him sound quite menacing. While he does indeed speak with a very deep voice... he instead sounds like [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]]. |
| 884 | * In ''VideoGame/AVampyreStory'', if you talk to Froderick, it kicks off a flashback to an exposition-rich conversation that Mona and Froderick had sometime before the game begins. If you ask about Draxylvania (the setting for the story), Froderick will describe the place in unflattering terms, then point out that in Draxylvania's favor, they DO have Draxylvanian blood cheese, the best blood cheese in the world. Mona will respond, "I think it's the only blood cheese in the world. Sounds, uh....yummy." The line as written is clearly sarcastic, but the actress delivers it as though she's making a note to try it at her earliest possible convenience. |
| 885 | * ''VideoGame/{{Vietcong}}'': |
| 886 | ** In ''Vietcong 2'', we have this: |
| 887 | -->'''Minh's diary''': "We will throw the Americans and Saigonese, their vehicles and hamburgers to the sea!" |
| 888 | ** In ''Fist Alpha'', some of Douglas' cries when he's on fire. |
| 889 | -->'''Douglas''': ''[[PrecisionFStrike SHIT!]] [[CaptainObvious I'M BURNING!!]]'' [=AAaaaaaaAAAAhhHHHH!!!!=] |
| 890 | * ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' has always tried to take itself seriously, but the new customizable costumes in VF4 and 5 kind of prevent that. It's hard to take a cold-blooded assassin seriously when he's wearing a speedo in a damn ''blizzard.'' |
| 891 | ** Not to mention the new pre-fight warm up scenes in VF5R. Because nothing says "getting hyped for a fight" like ''running against a pink background with throbbing hearts, dancing around and clicking your heels, or posing like the cover of a damn playgirl magazine.'' |
| 892 | * While ''VideoGame/TheHouseOfTheDead'' is better known for its awful voice acting, ''VideoGame/VirtuaCop 2'' has it licked for not only featuring terrible delivery, but also attempting to add variety to the vocal clips by using random pitch adjustment. This is every bit as ridiculous as it sounds: |
| 893 | -->'''Civilian:''' ''*in a cheesy, artificial basso profundo*'' "''SOMEBODY HELP MEEE!''" ''*is shot*'' "'''NOOOOOOOO.'''" |
| 894 | * Due to the creator not being a native English speaker, the ''Virus Invasion'' series has a few of these. Like in the following scene in ''Virus Invasion 6/Ledgend'': |
| 895 | --> YELLOW BEAR: DO YOU KNOW THE LEDGEND OF THE ULTIMADE VIRUS? |
| 896 | --> PINK BEAR: YES I DO ... AND YOU THINK ... |
| 897 | --> LITTLE BEAR: euh , sir ... I don't know the ledgend ... |
| 898 | --> PINK BEAR: WELL LITTLE BEAR ... LET ME TELL YOU THE LEDGEND ... |
| 899 | --> PINK BEAR: The Ultimade Virus is the evil virus ... it is the father of the father of the Virus King. |
| 900 | --> PINK BEAR: But the Ultimade Virus was to powerful ant it destroyed it self ... |
| 901 | --> PINK BEAR: But to prevent that he repaired itself... |
| 902 | --> PINK BEAR: ...we heve lockd him up !! |
| 903 | --> PINK BEAR: And the key of the lock is the Main Chip !! |
| 904 | --> PINK BEAR: And if you destroy the Main Chip ... |
| 905 | --> PINK BEAR: Then will the Virus... |
| 906 | --> PINK BEAR: Well... |
| 907 | --> PINK BEAR: He will stand up from the death !!! |
| 908 | --> PINK BEAR: And the Main Chip is in the old computer... |
| 909 | --> LITTLE BEAR: Then we must stop the Virus Queen befor it's to late !!! |
| 910 | --> PINK BEAR: Okey , we are moving to the old computer !! |
| 911 | * ''VideoGame/VoltageFighterGowcaizer'' has Brider, a Kamen Rider knock off, give us "[[ForGreatJustice I AM THE JUSTICE. NOT YOU.]]" |
| 912 | [[/folder]] |
| 913 | |
| 914 | [[folder: W]] |
| 915 | * While ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadTelltale'' is usually excellent at averting this and creating atmosphere and tension, the ending of Season 2 Episode 4 will probably come as this to [[spoiler:Russian]] players. While the scene is otherwise well-done and tense, and is a massive WhamEpisode for English players, the effectiveness is somewhat dampened by the fact that [[spoiler:the (English) [=VAs=] for the Russian group have ''no idea'' how to pronounce their lines resulting in a hilariously botched attempt at Russian.]] |
| 916 | * Any serious moment in ''VideoGame/{{Wandersong}}'' can become this due to the game's dedicated dance button. |
| 917 | * The original ''VideoGame/{{Warbears}}''. "NO! AGENT [InsertPlayerNameHere] IS DEAD!" |
| 918 | * ''Warcraft'''s general storyline is pretty much overflowing with this. It's basically a really cheesy comic book trying to be taken as seriously as Lord of the Rings. And failing epically in the attempt. |
| 919 | * The ending of ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII''. [[spoiler:The archdemon lord heads towards the world tree and gets killed by wisps. Yes, the ones that you have been using to gather wood for the period of the last campaign.]] |
| 920 | ** The dendrophiliac overtones don't help things. |
| 921 | ** Neither is the fact the whole scene resembles the [[Film/KingKong1933 famous King Kong scene where he climbs the Empire State Building]]. [[spoiler: Except, Demon Kong is being taken down by [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga SPARKLES]]]]. |
| 922 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB82pF_64mw "fight"]] between Arthas and Illidan at the end of ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III: The Frozen Throne''. It's said they wanted to include a cinematic, but the deadline they had to release the game stopped them including it. |
| 923 | ** The [[https://youtu.be/4x8KRXr0Ilc "Reforged"]] Version became even more of this trope, because of the questionable quality of the animation, stiff and unconvincing movements, sloppy and unrealistic choreography, as well as the lack of background music. It says something when people ends up comparing the new cinematic to a ''indie'' game one due to the shoddy quality. |
| 924 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 925 | ** Nearly ''every'' holiday event in [=WoW=] is Narm. (Christmas trees in the Exodar...jack-o-lanterns all over Thunder Bluff...) |
| 926 | *** Every October, the bizarre music and drunken chatter of the Brewfest holiday clashes with the eerie setting of [[HauntedCastle the Undercity]]. |
| 927 | *** The Valentine's Day event. Pink hearts and roses in the city of the undead. It's just ''wrong''! Not to mention the ''swan boats'' that appear in the moat in Undercity's outer ring. |
| 928 | *** Winter Veil, when some bosses wear Santa hats. Granted, said bosses drop those hats, which are used to earn achievements, but it is somewhat jarring to see them wearing them. |
| 929 | %%** In Zul'Drak, a zone where there's an ongoing war against the undead Scourge, you get a quest to go help at an Argent Crusade forward camp. When you report to the guy there, he says: "Everything was fine until the Scourge attacked!" |
| 930 | ** A classic one, while battling against C'Thun, players would hear creepy whispers from the Old God at different points. These were mostly unsettling, such as "Your friends will abandon you" or "You are already dead". Then one says "Your heart will explode", and the entire raid tends to crack up. |
| 931 | *** Originally, he would sometimes say "It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye." They probably removed it because it delved into this way too much. |
| 932 | ** Illidan's famous line in the cinematic of the second expansion set, "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED", would be badass if he did it once, but he repeats it three times, ruining the moment. Blizzard joked about this themselves in a Christmas audio clip they did shortly after the unveiling of the cinematic, where Illidan makes a cameo but simply keeps on repeating his line ad infinitum. |
| 933 | ** The Wrathgate cinematic that bridges the first and second acts of Wrath of the Lich King is an action-filled scene that is very tense and emotional for fans of the lore, bridging together several different storylines and changing the game world significantly. But most fans still cringe at this overused action movie cliche: |
| 934 | ---> '''Bolvar Fordragon''': I was wondering if you'd show up! |
| 935 | ---> '''Saurfang the Younger''': I couldn't let the Alliance have all the fun today! |
| 936 | ** In a Narm moment related to the above, when High Overlord Saurfang [[spoiler:comes to reclaim the body of his son, now Deathbringer Saurfang (the Younger), in the Alliance version of Icecrown Citadel, it is played out as a very touching moment of Alliance-Horde cooperation.]] The Narm comes in when High Overlord Saurfang [[spoiler:picks up his son's body to carry him home in his arms. Saurfang uses a normal-sized male orc model. Deathbringer Saurfang uses a double-sized boss model with huge shoulders, which clip hilariously through the ground as his teeny-tiny father waddles over to King Varian Wrynn to thank him for his kindness]]. |
| 937 | ** Which, for the Alliance at least, is immediately followed by [[spoiler: Jaina letting our a hilarious over the top crying session, and then stating how proud she was of her king, if you managed to pull it off right, JR's body might actually be near normal size, if that did ruin it, this certainly would]]. |
| 938 | %%** Thorim: "What? You...? I remember you. In the mountains..." For a time it was a pretty big meme. |
| 939 | ** Sindragosa casting Unchained Magic: "Suffer mortals, as your pathetic magic BETRARARARAGRAHRAGHS YOU!" Her lines don't strike much fear into players' hearts. |
| 940 | ** If you roll a death knight, you get a different version of [[http://www.wowhead.com/quest=12746 this quest]] for each race. The draenei version contains such lines as "Remember Argus. Don't let that happen to this world." However, it would be a ''lot'' more poignant if it didn't ''also'' contain the phrase "face tentacles." |
| 941 | ** The undead version's just as bad, undead death knights themselves are walking bags of [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment extreme redundancy]] in and of itself, but the NPC doesn't hesitate to point it out to you. |
| 942 | *** While the goblin version is not really narmy per se, the male goblin /cry emote (a sarcastic "Oh, waah, waah, waah!") which Gally Lumpstain, target of goblin players doing the quest, does from time to time just sounds hilariously inappropriate, like it's no big deal that he and his comrades have been imprisoned by undead warriors and are awaiting execution. |
| 943 | %%** Kael'Thas Sunstrider in Magister's Terrace: |
| 944 | %%--> '''Kael''': Don't look so smug! I know what you're thinking, but Tempest Keep was merely a setback. Did you honestly believe I would trust the future to some blind, half-night elf mongrel? Hahahaha... Oh no, no, no, he was merely an instrument, a stepping stone to a much larger plan! It has all led to this...and this time, you will not interfere! |
| 945 | %%** Thanks to MemeticMutation, not only is everything now "merely a setback" to Kael, but the same phrase is applied to any lore character who turns out not to be quite dead. One of the [=WotLK=] raid bosses even says it himself, ''in-game''. |
| 946 | %%** One excellent example would be The Devourer of Souls. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43NJmbkwmzY voice acting]] is so amazingly narmy that words cannot describe it. |
| 947 | ** Svala Sorrowgrave sounds like she smoked for way too many years, and when you kill her in Utgarde Pinnacle, her death quote sounds like she threw up at the end. |
| 948 | --> "I did not come this far to.... BLEEEEEEEGH!" |
| 949 | %%** Any scene with LargeHam Tirion Fordring. They're meant to be either rousing or heartwarming, but end up being narmtastic. |
| 950 | ** The boss battle with Anub'arak in Azjol-Nerub. It would seem he's not as good at burrowing as the rest of his people. He actually [[SpecialEffectFailure uses a ladder]] to pull himself back out of the ground. Cheater! |
| 951 | ** The titles often seem quite out of place with the players' names, as you'll often see someone like "[=L33tk1ll3r=] the Twilight Vanquisher" or "[=H4xx0r=] of the Ashen Verdict". There's also quite a bit of unintended humor when someone with "the Patient" title drops out of a raid group at the first wipe, or leaves when they're still recruiting., |
| 952 | ** Can be invoked thanks to the Transmogrification feature. You will see people wearing RainbowPimpGear or {{Stripperific}} outfits. Or transmogrify their weapons into really goofy looking ones - such as for example a dagger which is literally ''a broken bottle''. |
| 953 | %%** Ladies and gentlemen. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2wEcyo7o-Q Theralion]]. |
| 954 | ** Cataclysm features some... questionable voice acting. |
| 955 | *** General Husham in the Lost City of the Tol'vir sounds like [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Heavy]] and when he dies, shouts "TURN BACK. BEFORE. IT IS TOO. LATE." |
| 956 | *** One wonders how the voice actors for the Stonecore kept a straight face, saying such gems as "Break yourselves upon my body! Feel the strength of the earth!" and another smoker-voiced woman shouting, "Witness the power bestowed upon me by Deathwing... FEEEL the FURY of ''EARTH''!" |
| 957 | ** This part of the Genn Greymane-focused short story, [[http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2058992#blog Lord of His Pack]], where, having saved his wife and daughter, Genn gets trapped inside the sinking ship. |
| 958 | --> ''Relieved and proud of what he had just done, Genn began to pull himself through the porthole, but before he could find his way through...\ |
| 959 | Whooooosh!'' |
| 960 | ** The ''Warlords of Draenor'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLzhlsEFcVQ cinematic]] has this in spades. |
| 961 | *** Gul'dan is convincing Grommash to drink demon blood for ultimate power. Grom asks what he has to give in return, and Gul'dan's response? Remove his hood, show off his {{red|EyesTakeWarning}} GlowingEyesOfDoom, and ominously say "Everything...". What? Blizzard themselves made fun of how ridiculous the exchange is in ''Legion'', with a pair of Drogbar repeating it word for word but the Grom stand-in being fully convinced by that answer. |
| 962 | *** Mannoroth shooting ''lasers'' out of his spear. As if the big pug-face demon couldn't look any sillier. Not to mention his [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy Stormtrooper aim]]. |
| 963 | *** Remember Grom's emotional death scene in ''Warcraft III''? Apparently he would've been fine if someone had just pushed him out of the way. That's ''exactly'' what happens. |
| 964 | ** There's one dramatic scene in ''Legion'' where Malfurion discovers that [[spoiler:Cenarius has been corrupted by the Emerald Nightmare]]. At least, it would be dramatic if Malfurion's voice actor didn't [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EitgtZd4s4 give the strangest delivery possible]], turning what should have been a BigNo into a whiny fart. |
| 965 | * The New War quest in ''VideoGame/Warframe'' introduces a new opponent faction which is coincidentally enough named Narmer, though the name was taken from an Egyptian pharoah, it doesn't sound very intimidating. Not helping matters is how many players were reminded of this very trope because of it. |
| 966 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}: VideoGame/DawnOfWar: Soulstorm'', Lord Firaveous Carron's reaction to the Blood Ravens' Rhino transports is, well, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO3MttgvHUY rather ridiculous]]. By the way, the "SINDRI!" is actually from the original campaign. |
| 967 | ** Particularly ridiculous when you remember that they're Chaos Marines, and have much of the same kit as the Space Marines. In particular, they have Rhinos too. So Carron's reacting with incredulous derision at "metal boxes" that he uses as well. |
| 968 | *** This quickly [[MemeticMutation mutated]] into [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BSfIvYV2Qs Lord Carron's Rhino Report.]] |
| 969 | ** He also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf__Mf9zptU cries like a little girl]] when you beat him. |
| 970 | *** "The horrid blossom of Chaos will wither, will die!" The fearsome Chaos Lord is no stranger to poetry, it seems. |
| 971 | ** Not to mention Brother-Captain Boreale's hilariously bad accent. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbRGg3e1b68 SPESS MAHREENS! WE HAVE FAILED........THE EMPRA!]]" |
| 972 | *** MemeticMutation has made his voice a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGiNE-FmrLM powerful weapon.]] |
| 973 | ** Also worthy of attention are the Eldar's Howling Banshees. Their lines would be badass if they weren't so hilarious from their squeaky voices. |
| 974 | ** More bad Eldar voice acting from ''Soulstorm'' is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1u4mI0GefE the Eldar warlock from their intro]] with a very thick and obvious [[OopNorth Yorkshire accent]]. [[Series/DoctorWho Apparently many Craftworlds have a norf]]. |
| 975 | ** ''Everything'' the narrator says is over-the-top. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAJjHjid0oY Example.]] |
| 976 | ** The Imperial Guard Commander somehow "lost" ''100 Baneblades'' in a case of bad timing. For those not in the know, a Baneblade is an incredibly rare and valuable supertank. An Imperial Guard commander is lucky to see ''one'' in a ''century.'' So ''having'' '''100''' Baneblades is freaking epic. '''''Losing''''' 100 Baneblades is EpicFail. |
| 977 | ** And there's the voice for the Cultists, who all have a high-pitched Creator/PeterLorre accent going on while giggling maniacally. |
| 978 | *** And thus [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Cultist-chan Cultist-chan]] [[MoeAnthropomorphism was born]]: |
| 979 | --->'''Cultist-chan:''' Nho hwan eez loyal. Everywahn eez hereteec. |
| 980 | ** The Dark Eldar Warriors' battle cries, especially if you order them to capture an objective: |
| 981 | ---> '''RAISE OWAR STADAAAAAAAAAARD!''' |
| 982 | ---> '''For KOMORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!''' |
| 983 | ---> '''HOIST THE FLAAAAAAAAAAAAG OF...................KOMORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!''' |
| 984 | ** From ''Soulstorm'' (yet again) there comes the Tau commander's very... emotional reaction to his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar5MTBBLZD0 ethereal's death]]. |
| 985 | ** Imperial Guardsman yelling "STOHM THEM!" |
| 986 | ** The cutscene for defeating the Sisters of Battle is good, but when they [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gckj7dkW8eY sacrificed themselves not a single enemy unit was killed by that sacrifice.]] |
| 987 | ** The way the Guardsman stuttered their lines when destroying the Necrons. |
| 988 | ---> '''Guardsman''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYte2B_bw00 Cha-Cha-Cha-Charge!]] |
| 989 | ** There's one example of Narm in Dark Crusade during an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPeNOEdVmbc&t=0m32s exchange between Chaos and the Necrons]]. |
| 990 | ---> '''Eliphas''': Soulless Automotons! You cannot prevail against Chaos. |
| 991 | ---> '''Necron Lord''': (Remains Silent) |
| 992 | ---> '''Eliphas''': It... [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Your soul is gone!]] I will destroy you. |
| 993 | * The ending of ''VideoGame/WelcomeToTheGame'' is this to some players. We're treated to the Red Room livestream and it is... a video that buffers a lot, with the torturer giving a Creator/MarkHamill impersonation, namely of ComicBook/TheJoker, which can take the scary aspects out quick. |
| 994 | * ''VideoGame/WiiFit'' has a Narm moment. Yes, a Narm in a fitness game. The step-aerobics portions, actually. Don't get me wrong, they're fun and all, but someone thought it would be a good idea to put it on ''a stage''. In front of a packed audience. |
| 995 | ** Who'll even clap along to the beat when you do well. |
| 996 | * ''VideoGame/WildARMs'': |
| 997 | ** ''VideoGame/WildArms5'': "It's your ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRM!" ([[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 How much of that arm is]] VideoGame/{{bionic|Commando}}?) |
| 998 | *** "METEOOOOOORRRRR ''DRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVEEEE!''" Creator/YuriLowenthal, that was seriously painful. |
| 999 | ** Anytime anyone makes a grunting or shout of pain in ''VideoGame/WildArms2''. Due to the game's BlindIdiotTranslation, these were often rendered as "Oooouuu. Graaaaa. Owwwww." Periods included. |
| 1000 | ** ''VideoGame/WildArms3'' began with the terribly overdone line, "ItWasADarkAndStormyNight..." The cliche did not help the game start off on the right foot. |
| 1001 | * In ''VideoGame/WinBack'', when you killed enemies they would flash on and off before disappearing. In one cutscene the hero encounters a dying civilian who has been shot by the terrorists. After the man, dying in the hero's arms, makes an emotional speech about wishing he could see his family again...he flashes on and off and vanishes. |
| 1002 | ** It also doesn't help that the heroes are members of a special forces team called SCAT, and one of the villains goes by the name of Gunt. |
| 1003 | * For the most part, nothing really stood out in ''VideoGame/WingCommander IV'', but in the conversation scene after TheDragon blows up the station and escapes by riding the shockwave of an intentionally detonated mine, Creator/MarkHamill's delivery of the line "That was the move of a true master" fell somewhat short of the intended emotion invocation. |
| 1004 | * In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', the drama of the flashback of [[spoiler:Rhyme and Beat dying]] is spoiled when you realize ''[[IdiotHero how stupid Beat was being]]''. He [[spoiler:basically tried to protect Rhyme... ''by jumping in front of a car and trying to stop it like he thought he was the Incredible Fucking Hulk'']]. |
| 1005 | ** The utterly absurd OptionalsBoss, [[spoiler:Hanekoma's noise form. It's a palette swap of ''Pi-Face's noise form'' on the bottom screen and ''Iron-Maiden's noise form'' on the top screen and he bellows out lines like "ENJOY THE MOMEEEENT!" and "OPEN UP YOUR WOOORLD!" as he kicks you in the face. "What the Christ?" doesn't come close to describing it]]. |
| 1006 | *** The really disturbing/hilarious part? [[spoiler:Iron Maiden/Konishi's Noise form is a sexy cat girl. With ''boobs.'' Hanekoma is ''male'', yet his Noise is identical aside from the color. Yeah.]] |
| 1007 | *** Also, [[spoiler:Hanekoma taught Sho Minamimoto how to summon Taboo noise. As his Taboo form Leo Cantus is identical to Panthera Cantus' red lion-y half, Sho could've just copied it from him]]. |
| 1008 | * The two ''[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames WWE Day of Reckoning]]'' games both included prominent sound effects when applying submission moves to mimic the sound of hyperextended joints. So far, so good; plenty of other wrestling games have done likewise, but it takes a one-way trip to Silly Town when you notice that, for reasons known only to the designers, these effects sound almost ''exactly'' like heavy "grandma" flatulence. [[CantUnhearIt Once you've made that connection]], matches instantly become an exercise in hilarious absurdism where every hold slapped onto an opponent gives them a horrible case of [[{{Gasshole}} the farts]]. |
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| 1010 | |
| 1011 | [[folder: X]] |
| 1012 | * ''VideoGame/XMen'': |
| 1013 | ** When you get to the final-ish stage of the arcade game, Magneto rewards you with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdAmkx8eAos "X-MEN! WELCOME...TO DIE!"]] This has now been parodied by ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''. |
| 1014 | ** Also "[[ThirdPersonPerson The White Queen]] welcomes you to die!" midway through Stage 5. |
| 1015 | ** Not to mention the Blob boss fight in that game. "NOTHING moves the Blob!" Overly amusing as you can respond to this with a special attack and knock him on his butt. This doesn't stop the voice at all. Website/{{YTMND}} made an in-site fad out of the Blob's line in their early days, just to say. |
| 1016 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjuWKAMAlQU I KILL YOU, X-CHICKEN. HA HA HA HA.]] |
| 1017 | * Many enemy pilots in the ''[[VideoGame/{{X}} X-Universe]]'' games let off very narmy death screams: |
| 1018 | --> '''[[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Split:]]''' "Split curse you! AAAAAAAAARRRRGGHHH!"\ |
| 1019 | '''[[ProudMerchantRace Teladi:]]''' "Lost profitsssssss! Aaaargh!" |
| 1020 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' |
| 1021 | ** One of the game's notable aspects is that during battles, your party members will [[FillingTheSilence constantly exchange banter among themselves]]. While it helps to establish each member as TrueCompanions while making each fight more dramatic, it can get awkward during particularly long battles when everyone just won't shut up. In addition, the banter does not take the current context of the fight into account, which can seem hilariously awkward when, for example, the party delivers dramatic lines such as "The future is ours to decide!" while fighting some random level 1 rabbit that barely poses a threat. Shulk's best friend Reyn in particular is known for cheerfully saying [[MemeticMutation "It's Reyn time, baby!"]] in almost every fight, even an emotional boss battle against the giant robot who [[spoiler:just murdered Shulk's girlfriend right in front of him]]. |
| 1022 | ** Every piece of armour is visible on characters outside of battle or even in cutscenes, so you can ruin dramatic moments by putting characters in bikinis, swimming trunks or [[RainbowPimpGear hilariously mismatched armour sets]] (Heavy top + swim trunks, heavy bottom + WalkingShirtlessScene...). What makes this even better is that flashback cutscenes ''remember'' what armour you had on characters at the time, making it ''very'' easy to see [[spoiler: Fiora in a bikini during her HeroicSacrifice]] repeated throughout the entire game. Shulk's swim trunks alternate costume in ''Super Smash Bros Wii U/3DS'' is probably an intentional ShoutOut to this hilarity. |
| 1023 | ** The way the characters make new gems for the weapons. You have to choose two characters and use them to use the forge, one of them throws the matarials while the other one operate the switch. If you have more friendship, you get a better bonus and the rest of your team may help you by shouting motivational lines. That sounds simple enough right? The problem is that the process is all voiced and they never stop talking! It's so over the top it makes you wonder if it was intentional, most lines are cheesy like "To you!", "To me!", "Yeah!", "Alright!", "Wohoo!", "That's it!", "We did it!", and then another friend shouts "You can't just give up now!" or "You are the only one who can do this!" |
| 1024 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has some... mixed reactions to its voice acting. Especially with Rex and how [[DullSurprise blase]] he sounds for the first half of the game. |
| 1025 | ** The giant robot maid fight at the end of Chapter 4 and in the beginning of chapter 6. Fortunately [[InvokedTrope the characters react to this just as much as the players do]]. |
| 1026 | ** The characters are ''VERY'' loquacious in battle. Since you have six on field at once (Three party members and three blades) there is a ''lot'' of overlap. Sometimes they overlap at just the right moment. |
| 1027 | -->'''Mòrag''': THIS! Is the culmination of- |
| 1028 | -->'''Brighid''': -my ''DEAD BODY'' |
| 1029 | ** Pyra's unrealistically huge, gravity-defying breasts tend to be a major distraction during cutscenes. |
| 1030 | * ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'': Remember -- Chu-Chu [[CrucifiedHeroShot died for your sins!]] |
| 1031 | ** There is also one scene wherein the characters are drinking tea on the Yggdrasil. Except that [[SpecialEffectFailure they didn't animate their sprites moving the cups to their mouths]] - the teacups just FLOAT up to their mouths. |
| 1032 | ** In the animated ending cutscene, Fei and Elly are trying to escape from [[spoiler: Deus]], and at one point, Elly falls. Fei somehow ''goes practically parallel to the ground'' to try and grab Elly while yelling [[SayMyName EEEELLLLLYYYY]]. The fact that the characters are completely nude during this makes it even more unintentionally funny. |
| 1033 | * Albedo from ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' creates many instances of {{Narm}}. One notable instance being his [[ChewingTheScenery over-the-top]] "AHHHH, YEEEESSS... FEED ME YOUR HOSTILITY, PIERCE ME WITH YOUR HATRED!" |
| 1034 | ** His [[spoiler:death scene]]. After the horrible, horrible things he did, [[spoiler:Realian-angels come out of nowhere and take him to Heaven in crucifix position, all while he's more-or-less dressed like freakin' Jesus Christ]]. Bonus points for [[spoiler: The fact that four are holding onto his arms and shoulders... while one is holding onto his leg.]] |
| 1035 | ** The video games have something called [[http://xenosaga.wikia.com/wiki/Kirschwasser Kirschwassers]]. This becomes somewhat hilarious if one has become familiar with just what [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsch Kirschwasser]] is in real life. They were literally named ''after a type of booze'', and that makes the above scene even more unintentionally funny when [[spoiler: Junior is all "Kirschwassers?!" during a dramatic death scene]]. |
| 1036 | ** "Wheat, eh?" |
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| 1038 | |
| 1039 | [[folder: Y - Z]] |
| 1040 | * ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'': In a [[VideoGame/LikeADragon series]] that is already known for numerous over the top moments, this game features a stand out incident wherein an injured old man with no special abilities whatsoever manages to catch a charging bull by the horns, ''stop it in place'', and throw it off to the side. |
| 1041 | * ''VideoGame/YIIKAPostModernRPG'': |
| 1042 | ** Alex's constant PurpleProse narration throughout the whole game. The general opinion is that it's excessive and hard to take seriously, especially when he gets redundant. One of the standout points is when he says that an elevator [[ShapedLikeItself "...shook, vibrating with motion."]] |
| 1043 | ** Near the end of Chapter II, Rory reveals that [[spoiler:his little sister wasn't missing, she killed herself]]. This is immediately -- not as in "in the next area," as in within the same cutscene -- followed by a fight with a Golden Alpaca from nowhere that shouts "Lemonade!" The MoodWhiplash is severe and ruins the whole punch of the reveal. |
| 1044 | ** Chapter VI opens up with [[spoiler:Alex losing his last companion, who fades to an inanimate object and drifts off in Soul Space. The problem with this is that said companion was a toy panda, and Alex screams out for him, resulting in a grown adult screaming out "PANDAAAAAAAA!" to a stuffed toy.]] |
| 1045 | * The ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' game ''VideoGame/YuGiOhTheDuelistsOfTheRoses'' is The Wars of the Roses WITH CARD GAMES. As Yami is Henry Tudor, this means that he's married to Tea (Elizabeth of York), and his parents are ''Mai Valentine'' (Lady Margaret Beaufort) and Pegasus (Thomas Stanley). Also, the idea of Yami Bakura playing Jack Cade, a rebel leader whose rebellion ultimately failed, is pretty funny too since they put him on the Lancastrian side of the battle, even though the real-life Jack Cade died trying to rebel against Henry VI--while it has parallels with Thief King Bakura's rebellion against Yugi's father, he and Yugi are on the same side of the war in the game, and the real Jack Cade died years before the game's time period. |
| 1046 | --> A card! A card! My kingdom for a card! |
| 1047 | * The Japanese-made video game ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' opens with a dramatic scene showing a military spaceship rocked with explosions. The crew reports that [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb bombs had been planted on the ship]], and moments later the ship is hailed by the enemy commander. He informs them that [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs all of their bases have been taken over]], and laughs at their imminent demise. Left with no choice, the Captain [[FighterLaunchingSequence dispatches the ship's ZIG fighters]] (one of which will be controlled by the player) for a [[ForGreatJustice last-ditch counterattack.]] ...Then the game was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfwqvUPIRkg translated into Engrish]]. |
| 1048 | ** HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN. {{ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US}}. {{YOU ARE ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION}}. {{YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME}}. HAHAHA. |
| 1049 | ** Still, to say that it lost something in translation is to sound ungrateful for all that was [[Memes/VideoGames gained]]. |
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| 1053 | * Anthony Burch talks about this phenomenon in his lecture ''[[https://youtu.be/rm0rrGBin5Q?si=LTezOvNm3TJGn_Ag Dying is Funny, Comedy is Easy]]'', specifically in light of why comedy games are so rare or seen as difficult to make:- |
| 1054 | -->"But in my opinion, comedy isn’t harder to do in videogames than tragedy or badassedness – in my opinion, it’s considerably easier. Most videogames are inherently funny. Their gameplay is based around things that are either really surprising, or really crazy and over-the-top. When you accidentally fall onto a spike trap in Spelunky, you laugh. When you hit a pedestrian with a car in Grand Theft Auto, and when that pedestrian then flies into a hot dog cart which explodes, you laugh. When you build a little fort made out of vending machines so that nobody can see you hacking a terminal in Deus Ex Human Revolution, you laugh. When the AI looks stupid, or something unexpected happens, or when you do something so clever that you seemingly trivialize the game mechanics, you laugh. But in many cases, the stories of these games want us to take them seriously. We used to have a phrase to describe this kind of inconsistency – a phrase that rhymed with “bludonarrative kissonance” – but for some reason saying it these days discredits your entire argument, so let’s not use that phrase." |
| 1055 | * Creator/{{MTV}}'s [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Mods Video Mods]] was a show where the network contacted video game companies to make music videos with engines from their games. The results tended to be narmful due to the mashups either having WhatWereYouThinking crossover choices (Music/FranzFerdinand's "Take Me Out" vs. the ''Star Wars Episode III'' licensed game), or to some of the games having comparatively poor graphics, engines, and animations. The host didn't help by saying things like "These ninjas are about to get a lot less violent and a lot more sexy" of Creator/BioWare's ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'' mashup, which got a contemptuously mocking mention in ''Magazine/ElectronicGamingMonthly''. To be fair, some of the mashups, like ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' vs. Taking Back Sunday and ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'' vs. Sum 41 were pretty cool. |
| 1056 | ** For the channel's "20 Million Loud" initiative intended to get young adults to vote in the 2004 US presidential election, the show aired a music video for an original song titled "Stand and Choose." The song itself is a cheesy, TotallyRadical rap song, but the video is the really absurd part; it's a truly bizarre MassiveMultiplayerCrossover featuring, among various others, characters from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', and '''''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''''' of all things standing side by side as they [[MundaneMadeAwesome vote, stand around waiting to register to vote]] [[note]]even though many of them don't live in the USA or even on Earth and shouldn't realistically be eligible to do so[[/note]], and perform coordinated dance routines, resulting in a music video that's more likely to baffle the viewer than inspire them. |
| 1057 | --->"IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU BLACK OR WHITE, JUST STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHT AND VOTE!" |
| 1058 | * [[FanonDisContinuity Most people prefer not to mention]] the CD-i ''Mario'' and ''Zelda'' games. If you're not [[SoBadItsGood laughing about the bad voice-acting]] and [[OffModel worse animation]], you're wondering what the writers were on when they wrote the script. See Narm.TheLegendOfZelda for details on the Zelda games. |
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