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    As Sharp As Your Sword?

    Is it just me or are games these days just not as witty or funny?

    Some of you will have notice the Monkey Island reference, and the original two games had to be some of the wittiest/funniest games made. But they're only a couple games amidst a decent number that would evoke laughter, chuckles, or wry smiles. Not just adventure games like MI, Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Sam and Max, perhaps even Space Quest.

    I mean I even got a few good laughs out of Shogo MAD - with the hero's occasional one-liners - anyone for cat?

    I don't know, it just seems that the wit in today's games isn't as sharp as their graphics - or am I missing the point?
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    Id say your right, ppl "making games for fun" seems to be a thing of the past, and its more "what can we put in to sell this game" ppl dont generally buy a game cause its goin to make them laugh, theyve got lee evans and stuff for that, they want to kill people!
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    Gotta agree with you Galant. I've played monkey Island 1 + 2 many times and they are still funny. I think when they were first made they didn't really know how sucessful they were going to be....so they just made them how they wanted them. But the bigger monkey island got the more comercial the games since to get ( even though monkey island 4 is funny it is not on the same level as the first two)
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    i dunno i think max payne two was funny but it wasnt meant to be funny
    i just think the genius lines max payne has every so often are hilarious
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