History BuffySpeak / VideoGames

* In ''Anna's Quest'' the title character, who's somewhere around five years old, talks like this from time to time, from referring to a cut-up ball as "half a rubber thingy" to finding a "glowing orb thing" in a drawer.

* ''League Of Light'', an unreleased Creator/{{Activision}} game for the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}}, is described by a reviewer of Digital Press as being "some sort of 3D perspective tunnel-traveling thingus."

* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey Untold'' has this gem from ChildMage Arthur:

* Right before [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds inadvertently causing the destruction of his home universe]], Zetta, main character of ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'', exclaims, "Sacred Tome? Ha! More like... sucky... dumb... thing!" It's the first of many indications that, crazy freakin' overlord or not, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.

* The Scout in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', being the youngest and most hyperactive of the nine classes, has this in a bunch of his domination lines. For example, to the [[HuskyRusskie Heavy Weapons Guy]]: "I am ''owning'' you, you fat bald fatty fat... fat-fat!" or to the Sniper: "You'll never hit me! You'll never hit my tiny head! It's so tiny, I've got a frickin'... such a tiny little head!".
* Travis from ''VideoGame/SilentHillOrigins'', getting more and more peeved about being dragged around Silent Hill by Alessa, holds up a piece of the Flauros he found and yells out: "I got your... your ''thing'' for you!"
* When ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' got voices, Dominic Armato added this trait to protagonist Guybrush Threepwood.
--> "There are ants crawling all over it."\\
"There are other ants crawling all over it."
* In ''VideoGame/{{Discworld}}'', Rincewind describes a strange, distant shape as being "fraught with... with... shapeness". [[MediumAwareness Then he concludes that it has to be a plot element]] because otherwise it'd have a better label than just "Shape".
* Alistair from ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' is guilty of this and gets teased about it by Morrigan. According to WordOfGod, quite fitting for this expy of [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy's]] Xander.
** In the [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII sequel]], Hawke sometimes falls into Buffy Speak if s/he tries to lie. Telling Ser Roderick that Hawke saw Conrad sacrifice a goat leads to Hawke stammering "He was talking about how he wanted to do all kinds of... demony things!"
** Also when Hawke first learns of Anders ability to [[HulkingOut Hulk Out]] into Justice;
--> '''Hawke''': Not that part, the ''[[UnstoppableRage Angry]] [[PowerGlows Glowing]] [[BackgroundMagicField Fade]]'' bit?
* In ''VideoGame/CrashTagTeamRacing'', a Park Drone in the Tyrannosaurus Wrecks area, frustrated with Crash for not getting him enough money to leave the park, will exclaim "Again, you come back to haunt me?! Like some kind of haunting thing?! Haunting... and coming back?!"

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'': ("A shiny came out of the yucky".)
* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': Even Commander Shepard is not immune to this... after three hits of the strongest drink on the Citadel, followed by under the counter batarian ale, the bartender offers a krogan drink known as [[GargleBlaster Ryncol]].
--> "Hell yeah. Put more of the stuff in the... thing more stuff goes in."
** Grunt, being essentially a krogan teenager, often speaks like this, while trying to either puzzle through his tank-imprints or simply talking outside of combat. On Korlus, the squad will also encounter another tank-bred krogan who is even less experienced and articulate than Grunt, who speaks this way. Though he's also [[GeniusBruiser intelligent enough]] that he switches between this and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness quite often.
--->'''Grunt''': We should get behind... stuff.
** Jack, at one point, defines the Collectors as "fucked up...bug thing[s]". She's not ''wrong'', exactly...

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'''s "Aperture Science Thing That We Don't Know What It Does"
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' has some as well.
-->'''[[spoiler:Wheatley]]''': All right, fatty? Adopted… fatty! [[BigStupidDoodooHead Fatty-fatty-no-parents]]! [...] What’s wrong with being adopted? Um, well, uh… Lack of parents?.
** "[[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Holmes]] versus Moriarty, Aristotle vs '''MASHY-SPIKE-PLATE!'''"
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', when Mimiron activates the [[ShoutOut V-07-TR-0N]] he shouts "Bask in its glorious... um, glory!"
** The wolvar race does this enough to be verging on the point of a VerbalTic.
** The Gnomish Army Knife is being update in ''Mists of Pandaria'' to include a "Whirly Thing".
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'':
** "You're the absolute best star-getting guy!"
** The Power Punch item description: "Boosts your partner's Attack power by adding buffness".
* In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', the villain Mimi constantly uses childish phrases, referring to the heroes as "meanies".
* In the 2010 ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'', Tier 1 operators look and sound a lot less professional than the soldiers in the normal army, though obviously they're much more deadly. In Running With Wolves you're told to "stay stealthy."

* In ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin]]'', Snake Fist's attempt to describe Alma's motivations.
-->''She covets you. She's a... coveter...''
* In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', when you go to [[spoiler:Dropstone]] and tap one of the benches, Luke says that the bench sure is... benchy.
* ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' has one character who is exceptionally prone to this in [[BunnyEarsLawyer Pascal]]. Every other technologically savvy character is prone to just keeping the language simple enough that Asbel and crew can keep up. Pascal, on the other hand, gets an example of this every hour or two.
* ''Videogame/IMissTheSunrise'' has a single instance: Marie refers to the FOCS construct as a "big spinny ring thing" at one point when talking to someone who didn't know its actual name.
* ''VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1984'' text adventure has an inventory item called ''thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is''.
* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey Untold'' has this gem from ChildMage Arthur:
--> '''Arthur:''' I just go "Zoom!" and it goes "Whoosh!" and then "Bam!" and the enemies are like "Noooooo!" and I'm all "Hahaha!"
* Surprisingly, the normally [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness fustian]] Asura of ''Videogame/GuildWars2'' has one of these for the female characters. When attacking an enemy, occasionally she'll blurt out: "You're dumb. You'll die and leave a dumb corpse."

* In ''Anna's Quest'' the title character, who's somewhere around five years old, talks like this from time to time, from referring to a cut-up ball as "half a rubber thingy" to finding a "glowing orb thing" in a drawer.
* In ''Videogame/{{Evolve}}'', Val slips into this on occasion while trying to warn the team about Shear's rather bizarre wildlife. She has particular difficulty with the mammoth birds, calling them "glowing... squid things" and muttering about whether they're birds if they don't fly.
* Rippers from ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' have also been affectionately dubbed "That one bug that looks like a croissant that you can freeze and use as a platform", with the name [[MemeticMutation sticking]] due to the sheer audacity and specificity of it.

* An optional cut-scene in ''VideoGame/AtelierLydieAndSuelleTheAlchemistsAndTheMysteriousPaintings'' with Lydie and Sue involves Sue entering the atelier to discover that Lydie has synthesized a bomb. She calls it a "burning boom boom" and then Lydie shows her an ice bomb which she says should be called a "Freezy [=McFreezeboom=]," and a lightning bomb a "Shocking Blasto." Lydie says that she's losing her, as there's not even a logic to her naming conventions. She worries that Sue is taking after their father, but Roger says that's wrong, and there's a flashback of Honnete suggesting to Roger that a bomb should be named a "Hottie Boomster" and a craft an "Uni Buster." After the flashback ends, Sue pulls out a craft and suggests the exact same name. Lydie actually likes that one, and Roger realizes that Honnete's spirit lives on his daughters. "Some of the weirdest parts of it, anyway."
* BarbarianHero Amiri from ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'' uses very simple language and tends to go into buffy-esque tangents when trying to explain concepts that she lacks words for. It's implied the setting's CommonTongue (Taldane) is her second language, and the party later meets a barbarian from a neighbouring tribe to her own that speaks much better Taldane due to his long mercenary career.

* ''VideoGame/DeadInVinland'' sometimes goes into this for the game text itself, with enemy classes including Berserker, Archer, and... "Knives Guy." This may be due to the [[GoodBadTranslation inconsistent quality of the translation]].

* Rippers from ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' have also been affectionately dubbed "That one bug that looks like a croissant that you can freeze and use as a platform", with the name [[MemeticMutation sticking]] due to the sheer audacity and specificness of it.

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun: The Lost Age'': At one point, Kraden amusingly refers to a ship-powering crystal as "the thingie... that makes it go." Proving that the Lemurians' {{Magitek}} is exotic to him ''despite'' his lifelong studies of such.

* ''VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' text adventure has an inventory item called ''thing your aunt gave you which you don't know what it is''.

* In ''[[VideoGame/CrashBandicoot Crash Tag Team Racing]]'', a Park Drone in the Tyrannosaurus Wrecks area, frustrated with Crash for not getting him enough money to leave the park, will exclaim "Again, you come back to haunt me?! Like some kind of haunting thing?! Haunting... and coming back?!"

--> "[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Hell yeah. Put more of the stuff in the... thing more stuff goes in]]."