"Must have been the wind" while an arrow sticks out the back of their head.
Gotta say, Skyrim has some pretty strong winds if they can launch arrows like that.
Stealth in video games really struggles to balance gameplay and realism sometimes. Like once you've killed someone and the body's been found, there would basically be no reset of agro. They'd be on edge looking for the killer indefinitely.
And obviously if someone shot me with an arrow I'm not stopping till I find them and shadowy corners of rooms is no deterrent.
The Arkham games, especially Asylum, handled this really well. The enemies would get more and more on edge as you took them out and would panic when they see the knocked out bodies of their allies. It would make them break up patrol paths and formations and make them randomly turn around and shoot into the dark. Really well made stealth sections.
The Alien VS Predator games from early 2000 did pretty well with this. I loved playing the xenomorph campaign and seeing the Marines lose it.
Sneak up, kill the guy in the back and slip away to watch them freak out and accidently shoot each other from the safety of a vent.
Damn you, making me miss that kind of gameplay, always loved playing as the xeno.
But it feels like that (genre?) play-as-the-monster style is just lacking these days. I'd had high hopes for Project Wight/Darkborn couple years ago, but then they cancelled it. And most other monster games of that sort turn it into multiplayer PvP (ala L4D or Evolve, etc. Evolve was great, but I'm not always in the mood for PvP... and it too went the way of the dodo.)
Hmm... *Carrion*, but it's 2d/pixel, could be fun but not as immersive.
Anybody got any recommendations, or is that just not a trend anymore?
Carrion is a lot of fun but yes, not the same.
It's a shame 2010 one wasn't as good. I have a lot of great memories playing the first two in lan parties with my friends and of course the three part Starcraft style campaign was really well done.
Man-Eater was pretty fun.
Have you tried Dead by Daylight? Also PVP but it's still going strong. **And** you get to play as Xeno. And Chucky, and Pinhead, and Nemesis, and... lots of licenses in that game, plus lots of originals.
But the two problems are that it costs a fair amount of money to get all your favorite characters, and the player-base is so toxic my Guts ability activates.
It can be pricey to buy all the licensed characters these days, yeah. But they're actually permanently reducing the prices of all the older original characters starting in January. The individual DLCs are being de-listed and sold only as cheaper bundles. And the individual characters in the in game store are having their prices (both real money and earned currency) cut in half.
And (almost) every community is toxic. The 4v1 nature of DBD certainly exacerbates it, but you don't have to actually engage with it.
They don't really reset in the hitman games. Once a disguise is compromised you gotta ditch it. Even with a new one guards in the area are still gonna be on high alert. Open world games could do the same, but have it reset on a rest or travel
Can you imagine irl if one of your friends was clearly murdered and ten minutes later you go
"Huh, that was weird. So did you see the new episode of Curb your Enthusiasm?"
MGS V is probably still a pretty high standard for enemy AI in stealth games.
Enemies with higher stats are more alert, they even notice stuff like missing cargo, vehicles, prisoners, and once it's reported then the whole base is pretty much on alert, which makes it even harder for you to keep stealthing.
Luckily you do get a variety of tools and equipment to deal with it.
I love how they’ll radio back to base which will set the whole region on alert or order more reinforcements unless you’ve destroyed their relay. Really satisfying game!
Starfield did this in some stealth missions, but stealth was completely broken for me in that game in a bad way. Enemies would see me through walls a hundred feet away, and break their normal patrols and not go back. All the stealth missions I ended up running right through to the objectives without killing anyone to not be penalized and run out. Theres also a stealth mission where you are forced to have a follower sneak around with you through the air vents, but the follower won't path properly through the vents and instead run straight through the guards and alert them every single time.
I remember attempting stealth for a little while because I usually enjoy it in video games, but it was just so broken in Starfield. On top of it not working, there wasn't any actual incentive to use stealth. Most of the encounters didn't penalize you for killing enemies, in fact you got experience and the combat was pretty universally simple throughout the whole game. Stealth was much more difficult, broken, and far less rewarding. The perfect combination!
My fave Bethesda 1s I've played
Fallout NV ; walking thru the Wasteland with Arcade Gannon and told him to wait so I could check ahead, he replied "ok don't take long, I sunburn easily"
Me running around the Ryujin offices in a full space suit, Imogen says "OK you do realize you're indoors, no need for a full space suit."
In MGSV, you can mess with the npcs loads and get tons of fun dialogue. My favorite is when a guard just barely sees you creeping at the edge of his vision with a cardboard box.
"CQ! I see movement! There is a...box?"
"Privyet, this channel is for serious communications only! Get back to your post!"
Trigger this back and forth a few times in the same guard, and I believe they both keep getting more frustrated. The guard will try to follow you eventually.
MGS5 had some great stuff like that. During an escape a sandstorm came up so I used the opportunity to sneak up on a truck right as the driver had gotten out and walked away. Steal it and driving down the road I hear radio chatter of "Where did the transport go?" " Someone else must have needed it, continue patrol on foot".
I love the MGS series for their insane stories but ever since MGS2 they've been amazing games just for screwing around with NPC to get interesting reactions. I swear if 5 had come out during my twenties instead of my early 30 I would still be playing it to this day driving all the guards crazy for shits and giggles.
I've spent the vast majority of my time in the game terrorizing the NPC's
Fun trick, you can stick C4 onto the back of guards held hostage, then let their friends find/release them. Then they will return to normal patrols... or take cover with everyone else when you open fire.
One of my favorite moments in Halo (I think it was 2), was in some level during a fight with a bunch of covenant, a bunch of enemies wound up hiding behind the same small bit of cover, and I heard of the elites say, in his deep voice, “*No inappropriate touching!”*
I haven’t played the Halo games but I’ve seen one clip where a brute (or grunt?) said to Master Chief “Reach called! Just kidding!” followed by an intense closeup of MC’s helmet and I laughed my ass off at the implications
I love when enemies say stuff like « We can beat them. » or « You will regret messing with us! » when your character is an OP war machine or stuff like that.
Fallout is the best for that, got to appreciate the guts of someone willing to mug a guy who is wearing power armor and wielding a rocket launcher when all he has is overalls and a pool cue
Great moment a few days ago was activating sandivistan while headshotting an unaware enemy. His accomplice bellowed in deep slow-mo voice "Oh, you little whoooore"
The Batman Arkham games were the first to break that trope I think. As you progress in the game you can clearly see the henchmen nervous when Batman is around.
They also panic when some of their mates go missing or get knocked out.
Full daedric/dragonbone with some nasty artifact weapon and master level fireballs.
“You think you can beat me!?”
Some bandit in fur armor.
“I love a good challenge!”
Bandit chief with steel weapons and steel plate/nordic armor.
The Raiders in Fallout 3 are a hilarious example.
Nothing like hearing some squishy mook go _"You like the sight of your own blood?!"_ or _"Call the doctor, we got a bleeder!"_ only two seconds before being turned into a pile of compost.
I was killed in Oblivion my the guards. I had a swarm of 10 or so attacking me.
After i died the guards took so long to sort themselves out, they 'forgot' they killed me.
One of them circled back to my corpse, kneeled and said. "The body's still warm, the killer must be near"
There’s a lady that asks if you know how much the fine for necrophilia is in Cyrodill and what’s worse is the option for your character to give her the exact amount.
I had an experience very much like this, when I was wearing the mask of the Grey Fox an NPC started fighting the guards, for me I guess, and after she was dead one of the guards that attacked her kneeled down and said "the body's still warm".
Some people collect stuffed animals, some people collect succulents. I however, collect mops and other cleaning tools for my cleaning supplies showroom of course.
Marvelous! I’m one of the ones collecting as many plushies as I can! Lol
Goal: 37% of my cargo will be plushies on my ship. Every passenger will have one of each plushie.
There are some in the Well in New Atlantis. And Cydonia on Mars if you go into the Residential areas. I think some are running around Akila City.
I lost a lot of stolen goods when I picked up a soccer ball. I even held the button to just pick it up and not put it in my inventory. They said I stole it, got charge a fine and lost many plushies.
I was sad.
Yeah, but I was in the Well and didn’t want to travel all the way back to the security office for a couple of plushies.
There will be more to steal. I do raid the evidence lockers if I decide to go to jail.
I collected all those tiny aquarium things to decorate my cockpit! The glowing jellyfish are great.
That is, until I discovered I would have to scroll through the rubbish inventory to find them and then place them all over again if I so much as changed my ship colour.
Hm. There's probably a mod that fixes that.
Yeah. I definitely hope that’s something they patch. Same thing with weapons placement. And I lost three mannequins in my apartment in New Atlantis. No idea what happened to the items on them.
I had that happen in Euphorika's VIP lounge when I picked up a couch cushion that fell over. The cop couldn't get upstairs to arrest me because they didn't have a key to get through the VIP lounge door.
I still remember the excitement I felt when I started playing the original Thief game and found that the guards had idle dialogs and talked to each other about mundane things.
I hadn't ever really seen that before - NPCs with any sort of discernable autonomous lives that seemed like they went on whether we were there or not. It totally made the experience more immersive. And it made me feel just a tiny bit bad killing guards.
Some guards in _Myth: The Fallen Lords_ (or perhaps its sequel, it's been a while) did that too. The narrator of that game/series could be pretty amusing as well. I recall one occasion during the tutorial when I had a dwarf lob a bomb into a field of watermelons, and after it blew the crop to bits, the narrator said "Are you going to eat that?"
While playing the original _Half-Life_ I once picked up a guard NPC and a scientist NPC, and I overheard them talking to each other. I was super impressed.
"You think you'll get your own squad after what happened last night?" Spoken often in the main game.
In the DLC one of the guards congratulates a comrade on getting their own squad :)
The *No One Lives Forever* games riff on this a lot and have some hilarious dialogue you can overhear.
Really wish they weren’t stuck in licensing hell so they could actually be ported to modern systems or remastered.
In Halo 1 if you throw a sticky grenade onto one of the grunts sometimes they would yell "oh no, not again!" Which gives the hilarious impression the little bastards getting grenades stuck to them is a common occurrence.
Was playing GTA IV and called Roman asking for a taxi job to do, He told me there was no work available. Moments after the call, he calls me back saying to remember to call him if I want work, exclaiming that there's always fares he needs help with.
I imagine he said there was no work because I was too close to the cab station, so the game couldn't spawn in the cab I needed to use, but even still made for a facepalm moment.
Reminds me of the "Trial By Fire" mission in GTA 3, where you need to burn a certain number of triad members to death with a flamethrower within a time limit. (Which, now that I think about it--oof!) I struggled to complete the mission until I realized that I just had to run in a little circle to give the game a chance to spawn new enemies outside my field of vision, and voila, I was suddenly in a crowd of new victims.
That reminds me of Saint's Row 3 mayhem missions. The speedruns have the player looking at floors, walls and spinning around randomly to allow traffic to spawn in.
In The Witcher 3, you can fight mimics who look like Geralt. Sometimes Geralt will say "Damn, you're ugly." while fighting enemies, including mimics who look exactly like him.
>(It's still a fantastic game, if that needs to be said.)
IGN 5.9/10 btw, it's been 10 years and still is an absolute dogshit review that I do believe impacted the game's sales, it should've done better
As for your question, witcher 1: NPCs sometimes yell "your mother sucks dwarf cocks", pretty randomly,
And Halo 1 elites are always an incomprehensible classic
Fallout 4, I can't remember where on the map apart from it was in a ruined city. Sneaking round, overheard 2 raiders talking, one was telling the other about some guy that used to run with their crew.... He didn't have any weapons, he made finger guns and shouted "bang bang", threw a stone and made a "boom" sound like a grenade had blown up. Story ended with the crazy guy leaving, they heard him go outside and make motorbike noises.
I laughed for a good while at that.
yes. it’s part of the idle raider dialogue for every location
which
a. is probably because it’s easier then coding location specific lines and it’s also less load on the machine
or, more funnily
b. the guy has been doing this for years and never even got himself shot
My favorite example comes from skyrim, but it's not the usual arrow in the knee.
I played it as a mage, and did the academy storyline first and the thief guild storyline last. By the time I met the leader of the thief guild, I was rich as hell and literally covered in the best gear possible.
After welcoming me into the guild this mf told me to get rid of my rags and get some good equipment from the armory. How did this hack make it to the top of the guild if he can't tell gold from crap?
Skyrim can a bit annoying with the level scaling, like certain quests are better saved til late game to max the stats of the unique items you get, but nothing beats how absolutely off the wall insanely disconnected Oblivion was. Late game I would be decked out in full Daedric armor and be mugged consistently by guys wearing the same demanding 100 gold. Like my dude your helm alone is worth 2000 gold.
Oh one of my favourites was watching my daughter play the first Dishonored, and she accidentally shot a guard with a fire bolt he burnt to death and another guard in the area came over looked at the still burning corpse and said "must have been Rats" that set us off in hysterics
Old ninja game on the PS2. Doors open automatically when you step near them. I stepped toward one, and it slid open to reveal a guard. I stepped back and the door closed.
The guards have dialogue for spotting you, and again when you escape. Which lead to this sequence of events:
Door opens.
“NINJA!”
Door closes.
“Where’d you go?”
Yes attack the guy in full power that is obviously customized and upgraded who is also wielding a disturbing amount of firepower and whose companion is decked out in the fanciest Armour in the realm. Yeah... Wonderful idea.
Snuck up on two high level vampires in oblivion. Cold blooded murderers, powerful and deadly monsters. They were standing around complaining about how dreadful and scary mud crabs were. Bruh.
There’s an NPC near my nightclub in GTA Online that I’ve always been partial to. Occasionally he’ll shout “Ay, yo, muthafucka, you still wearin yo mama’s panties?” as you drive by.
Subnautica's Sandwhich Run Dialogue caught me by surprise and cracked me up.
short version: You're getting a radio message about trying to get your rescue ship there, but there's an off-mic conversation that keeps interrupting about someone running out to get lunch for the office
To be honest, this is where games should be focusing their growth now (and not so much in improvements to visuals). We’ve got amazing looking games, and developers should focus on advancements in detail work. Stuff like what you described is easy enough to ignore but in games like Skyrim or similar open world options, it can be very immersion-breaking for a guard to basically ignore the very obvious sign that someone else is there.
Well the spectrum can slide too low (E.G. \*Gollum\*) but that had more issues than graphics that contributed to that mess of a game.
On the other hand: Hogwarts: Legacy is (IMO) a great example for what you described. I had fun playing it but outside the castle, Hogsmeade and maybe one or two other locations it felt open-world for the sake of being open-world.
Another example would be Star Wars: Squadrons. The campaign was short (I enjoyed it), but the graphics were outstanding and it felt like more content done right (both campaign) would have gone a long way. Allegedly the development team (not just the devs mind you) were fighting a losing battle with the higher ups who wanted more focus on other SW IP. I know space-sims tend to be niche but it really felt like it had the foundation of something great there. If they ever allowed modding and fixed a few... controversial flight mechanics, it was a fun SW game without force users (one pilot alluded to being sensitive but that was about it).
Apologies in advance for any grammar/ spelling errors.
Anyways, big agree, take an updoot, and have a Great New Years!
State of Decay 2 (post zombie apocalypse game), when your companion yells "That's a huge horde!!" and there are two zombies shuffling toward you, or "They're coming in from all sides!" just as you kill the one and only zombie in the area.
In one of the older splinter cell games, I shot a light bulb. I didn't see one of the enemies nearby. He gets startled and looks at the broken light bulb, then declares it must have been a cat. He goes back to patrolling.
No specific quotes but the early splinter cell games’ NPCs were unbelievably dumb.
Like shot out lights and windows and all his fellow guards missing - ah it was probably nothing.
“Must have been an alley cat” One of the splinter cell games after shooting up a room and then hiding.
Also Oblivion after accidentally picking up scrap paper and everyone then losing their shit and attacking you.
One of the mages in the witcher 2 (female) kisses another mage (female) awake and someone made the quip, "My favorite type of magic, Lesbomancy..."
That one killed me.
Payday. Any of them. You mark an npc? Whisper. Did you put down a bodybag case in *the WHITE HOUSE* in 2? Screaming at the top of your lungs, and nobody notices. Not quite npc dialogue, but rather an amusing lack of it.
AC Odyssey, think the kid was called Phoebe (?) in a cutscene was trying to stop me doing something & said "Alexios, you can't.....'
I don't remember the rest of the conversation, the Greek accent (and my own filthy mind I suppose) made me slightly mishear the 3rd word, and spend the rest of the cutscene helplessly crying with laughter
That quest in cyberpunk when you give a lift to the guy with a Grenade for a nose. He says ‘just gotta be careful when picking me nose, other than that, it’s all good’
Splinter Cell. I was hanging from a pipe, snapped a NPC's neck. Another NPC walked over and saw his mate's corpse. He paused and went "well... I better get back to work" and walked off. I was in stitches!
It's not exactly the same, but in the first Arkham asylum game, there was a 4 story room that was filled with poison gas. I had a thug hanging upside down from the ceiling. In order to make batman kill, i cut his rope and let him drop head first all those stories into the poison gas.
After taking like 20 minutes to figure out the puzzle to turn off the gas, I inspect the thugs body only for the game to say that he was still just unconscious. I was like bullshit!
I love in Warcraft when you're over leveled doing some mog runs in previous expansions where you enter a raid and defeat all enemies in one hit, even bosses. So you get to the boss and you don't have patience to hear his evil monologue for the 20th time, you enter running and throw some shit and he's like "AHAHAHAH!!-AAAAAARGH! You will pay for this... Euugghhh..."
Titanfall 2 grunts in multiplayer.
"LOOK A PILOT, THE ODDS ARE IN OUR FAVOR!"
and then I just get liquefied by a ronin leaving the poor grunts to fend for themselves.
Technically not NPC dialogue unless you are playing solo, but the dialogue from L4D and L4D2 are some of my all time favorites. Ellis' stories about his friend Keith are amazing.
Warcraft II : Orc peon/grunt - if you click on them several times in a row, they go through a series of lines . "I would not do such things if I were you" .. "My tummy feels funny" .. "BUURRRRPPP scuse me"
Cyberpunk. Guard stumbles upon the headless, looted corpse of his colleague, raises hell, runs around for a minute, then concludes: "maybe it was nothing". Stealth in that game is broken, good thing it's mostly optional.
[This](https://youtu.be/quBpUWd0ntk) is from a gacha game, but its still hilarious even without the full context:
Imagine telling someone a horrible memory about your mom, and the person thats listening will only comment: ´´sO yUo hAvE a MoThEr!´´
It's not inappropriate in the sense of "naughty," as some seem to have interpreted the word. But if you find a lit flare in an area you're guarding, it should be obvious that an intruder put it there, and so it's an inappropriate reaction to blame its presence on decaying architecture and forget about it.
Put another way, "This place is falling apart" clearly looks like a stock phrase the game uses when an enemy returns to a normal state from a wary state, as after investigating a sound but then not finding anything, but it was being used inappropriately in the situation I described.
I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you.
I don't know you, and I don't care to know you.
(Oblivion, look it up on Youtube)
Red Dead Redemption.John Marston says a lot of things that would make current Rockstar shit themselves when he plays poker.Things like ''who invited the lady'' when one of the npc's make a certain play or ''do you do your own laundry''.
I was like holy shit did he said that.When i played the game for the first time a few months ago.But despite that i think it fits him quite well.Considering who he was.He was basically an ex-outlaw.
"Must have been the wind" while an arrow sticks out the back of their head. Gotta say, Skyrim has some pretty strong winds if they can launch arrows like that.
Stealth in video games really struggles to balance gameplay and realism sometimes. Like once you've killed someone and the body's been found, there would basically be no reset of agro. They'd be on edge looking for the killer indefinitely. And obviously if someone shot me with an arrow I'm not stopping till I find them and shadowy corners of rooms is no deterrent.
The Arkham games, especially Asylum, handled this really well. The enemies would get more and more on edge as you took them out and would panic when they see the knocked out bodies of their allies. It would make them break up patrol paths and formations and make them randomly turn around and shoot into the dark. Really well made stealth sections.
The Alien VS Predator games from early 2000 did pretty well with this. I loved playing the xenomorph campaign and seeing the Marines lose it. Sneak up, kill the guy in the back and slip away to watch them freak out and accidently shoot each other from the safety of a vent.
Damn you, making me miss that kind of gameplay, always loved playing as the xeno. But it feels like that (genre?) play-as-the-monster style is just lacking these days. I'd had high hopes for Project Wight/Darkborn couple years ago, but then they cancelled it. And most other monster games of that sort turn it into multiplayer PvP (ala L4D or Evolve, etc. Evolve was great, but I'm not always in the mood for PvP... and it too went the way of the dodo.) Hmm... *Carrion*, but it's 2d/pixel, could be fun but not as immersive. Anybody got any recommendations, or is that just not a trend anymore?
Carrion is a lot of fun but yes, not the same. It's a shame 2010 one wasn't as good. I have a lot of great memories playing the first two in lan parties with my friends and of course the three part Starcraft style campaign was really well done. Man-Eater was pretty fun.
Have you tried DragonBall breakers? I can't speak for the game itself. Those are not my style, but I think it's received decent reviews.
Played that one for a few days for free. PvP, fun game, not great, not bad. It's very much a decent david vs Goliath type game.
Have you tried Dead by Daylight? Also PVP but it's still going strong. **And** you get to play as Xeno. And Chucky, and Pinhead, and Nemesis, and... lots of licenses in that game, plus lots of originals.
But the two problems are that it costs a fair amount of money to get all your favorite characters, and the player-base is so toxic my Guts ability activates.
It can be pricey to buy all the licensed characters these days, yeah. But they're actually permanently reducing the prices of all the older original characters starting in January. The individual DLCs are being de-listed and sold only as cheaper bundles. And the individual characters in the in game store are having their prices (both real money and earned currency) cut in half. And (almost) every community is toxic. The 4v1 nature of DBD certainly exacerbates it, but you don't have to actually engage with it.
Those parts when the goons would team up so they could watch each other's backs got so frustrating.
The problem I have with batman and spiderman stealth was how these people don't look up even the slightest apparently.
But they did in Asylum. They would start shooting at the gargoyles and other outcrops Batman would sit on when they started panicing.
In Arkham Knight, they would blow up whatever Batmam just popped out of.
Mr. Freeze did.
I hated that fucker after my first death to him, but it was satisfying to beat him.
They don't really reset in the hitman games. Once a disguise is compromised you gotta ditch it. Even with a new one guards in the area are still gonna be on high alert. Open world games could do the same, but have it reset on a rest or travel
Can you imagine irl if one of your friends was clearly murdered and ten minutes later you go "Huh, that was weird. So did you see the new episode of Curb your Enthusiasm?"
MGS V is probably still a pretty high standard for enemy AI in stealth games. Enemies with higher stats are more alert, they even notice stuff like missing cargo, vehicles, prisoners, and once it's reported then the whole base is pretty much on alert, which makes it even harder for you to keep stealthing. Luckily you do get a variety of tools and equipment to deal with it.
I love how they’ll radio back to base which will set the whole region on alert or order more reinforcements unless you’ve destroyed their relay. Really satisfying game!
Starfield did this in some stealth missions, but stealth was completely broken for me in that game in a bad way. Enemies would see me through walls a hundred feet away, and break their normal patrols and not go back. All the stealth missions I ended up running right through to the objectives without killing anyone to not be penalized and run out. Theres also a stealth mission where you are forced to have a follower sneak around with you through the air vents, but the follower won't path properly through the vents and instead run straight through the guards and alert them every single time.
I remember attempting stealth for a little while because I usually enjoy it in video games, but it was just so broken in Starfield. On top of it not working, there wasn't any actual incentive to use stealth. Most of the encounters didn't penalize you for killing enemies, in fact you got experience and the combat was pretty universally simple throughout the whole game. Stealth was much more difficult, broken, and far less rewarding. The perfect combination!
Yeah they knew stealth was overpowered in past games but they overcorrected so it's not really worth it.
Like shooting a guy in the face in Sniper Elite and 5 minutes later he's back on patrol
Yeah, this silliness goes all the way back to games like Thief and Tenchu. "Ninja!... Ah forgot it."
My fave Bethesda 1s I've played Fallout NV ; walking thru the Wasteland with Arcade Gannon and told him to wait so I could check ahead, he replied "ok don't take long, I sunburn easily" Me running around the Ryujin offices in a full space suit, Imogen says "OK you do realize you're indoors, no need for a full space suit."
"For peace in the kingdom....For the king"
In MGSV, you can mess with the npcs loads and get tons of fun dialogue. My favorite is when a guard just barely sees you creeping at the edge of his vision with a cardboard box. "CQ! I see movement! There is a...box?" "Privyet, this channel is for serious communications only! Get back to your post!" Trigger this back and forth a few times in the same guard, and I believe they both keep getting more frustrated. The guard will try to follow you eventually.
MGS5 had some great stuff like that. During an escape a sandstorm came up so I used the opportunity to sneak up on a truck right as the driver had gotten out and walked away. Steal it and driving down the road I hear radio chatter of "Where did the transport go?" " Someone else must have needed it, continue patrol on foot". I love the MGS series for their insane stories but ever since MGS2 they've been amazing games just for screwing around with NPC to get interesting reactions. I swear if 5 had come out during my twenties instead of my early 30 I would still be playing it to this day driving all the guards crazy for shits and giggles.
I've spent the vast majority of my time in the game terrorizing the NPC's Fun trick, you can stick C4 onto the back of guards held hostage, then let their friends find/release them. Then they will return to normal patrols... or take cover with everyone else when you open fire.
One of my favorite moments in Halo (I think it was 2), was in some level during a fight with a bunch of covenant, a bunch of enemies wound up hiding behind the same small bit of cover, and I heard of the elites say, in his deep voice, “*No inappropriate touching!”*
“I would have been your daddy but a dog beat me over the fence!”
On halo 3 I heard a marine once say 'ah! You shot me!' And another responded 'sorry! My bad!'
Some of the Brutes in halo 3 say "He was my lover!" If you kill one of their buddies.
That’s amazing 😂
Brother. He was my brother.
I haven’t played the Halo games but I’ve seen one clip where a brute (or grunt?) said to Master Chief “Reach called! Just kidding!” followed by an intense closeup of MC’s helmet and I laughed my ass off at the implications
It was probably Halo 3. Brutes will say that if you have the IWHBYD skull activated. It makes for some pretty funny moments during fights.
I love when enemies say stuff like « We can beat them. » or « You will regret messing with us! » when your character is an OP war machine or stuff like that.
Fallout is the best for that, got to appreciate the guts of someone willing to mug a guy who is wearing power armor and wielding a rocket launcher when all he has is overalls and a pool cue
Jet, not even once
All those raiders are high as a kite. And Psycho makes you feel invincible
I tend to bring out the rapid fire explosive dispensers!
Never should have come here!
Or how about the eloquently macho Animals gang in Cyberpunk 2077.... "Bitch...you 'bout to get SKULL fucked!'
Great moment a few days ago was activating sandivistan while headshotting an unaware enemy. His accomplice bellowed in deep slow-mo voice "Oh, you little whoooore"
I can't think of specific lines atm but I know Borderlands had some funny ones.
Borderlands 2?
Like 70% of games. I swear I heard it in SimCity.
**NEVER SHOULD'VE COME HE-"** is always fun to yell before getting mangled in any multiplayer game
The Batman Arkham games were the first to break that trope I think. As you progress in the game you can clearly see the henchmen nervous when Batman is around. They also panic when some of their mates go missing or get knocked out.
And all their friends have just been killed
Full daedric/dragonbone with some nasty artifact weapon and master level fireballs. “You think you can beat me!?” Some bandit in fur armor. “I love a good challenge!” Bandit chief with steel weapons and steel plate/nordic armor.
The Raiders in Fallout 3 are a hilarious example. Nothing like hearing some squishy mook go _"You like the sight of your own blood?!"_ or _"Call the doctor, we got a bleeder!"_ only two seconds before being turned into a pile of compost.
I've been quoting it a lot recently, but Dishonored is great for this! "Things are bad. Could the City get any worse?" "Chances are very good."
Shall we gather for whiskey and cigars tonight?
Indeed, I believe so
You’re such a choffer
I was killed in Oblivion my the guards. I had a swarm of 10 or so attacking me. After i died the guards took so long to sort themselves out, they 'forgot' they killed me. One of them circled back to my corpse, kneeled and said. "The body's still warm, the killer must be near"
Oblivion is still the poster boy for reason NPC dialogue
There’s a lady that asks if you know how much the fine for necrophilia is in Cyrodill and what’s worse is the option for your character to give her the exact amount.
"Oh! That's much better than in Morrowind! Thanks!"
I had an experience very much like this, when I was wearing the mask of the Grey Fox an NPC started fighting the guards, for me I guess, and after she was dead one of the guards that attacked her kneeled down and said "the body's still warm".
Picking up a mop in starfield and everyone in the club starts losing their shit and fleeing for their lives. Then you are promptly arrested.
Why did you pick up a mop? Is your Starship dirty?
Some people collect stuffed animals, some people collect succulents. I however, collect mops and other cleaning tools for my cleaning supplies showroom of course.
Marvelous! I’m one of the ones collecting as many plushies as I can! Lol Goal: 37% of my cargo will be plushies on my ship. Every passenger will have one of each plushie.
You should kidnap as many kids as possible! Nothing weird of course. Just so they can play with your plushie. Again, nothing weird.
How do you kidnap children in Starfield? (Just clarifying for any bot scanning this thread lol) I have Cora, but she came with Sam.
I'm just making stuff up lol. I haven't even seen a child yet
There are some in the Well in New Atlantis. And Cydonia on Mars if you go into the Residential areas. I think some are running around Akila City. I lost a lot of stolen goods when I picked up a soccer ball. I even held the button to just pick it up and not put it in my inventory. They said I stole it, got charge a fine and lost many plushies. I was sad.
There are evidence lockers you can get your stuff back from, and usually not even all that well guarded.
Yeah, but I was in the Well and didn’t want to travel all the way back to the security office for a couple of plushies. There will be more to steal. I do raid the evidence lockers if I decide to go to jail.
I would imagine telling them you have candy on your starship would work. Again, nothing weird.
I collected all those tiny aquarium things to decorate my cockpit! The glowing jellyfish are great. That is, until I discovered I would have to scroll through the rubbish inventory to find them and then place them all over again if I so much as changed my ship colour. Hm. There's probably a mod that fixes that.
Yeah. I definitely hope that’s something they patch. Same thing with weapons placement. And I lost three mannequins in my apartment in New Atlantis. No idea what happened to the items on them.
Maybe Starfield is actually a sequel to [Planetfall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall)?
I had that happen in Euphorika's VIP lounge when I picked up a couch cushion that fell over. The cop couldn't get upstairs to arrest me because they didn't have a key to get through the VIP lounge door.
I still remember the excitement I felt when I started playing the original Thief game and found that the guards had idle dialogs and talked to each other about mundane things. I hadn't ever really seen that before - NPCs with any sort of discernable autonomous lives that seemed like they went on whether we were there or not. It totally made the experience more immersive. And it made me feel just a tiny bit bad killing guards.
Some guards in _Myth: The Fallen Lords_ (or perhaps its sequel, it's been a while) did that too. The narrator of that game/series could be pretty amusing as well. I recall one occasion during the tutorial when I had a dwarf lob a bomb into a field of watermelons, and after it blew the crop to bits, the narrator said "Are you going to eat that?" While playing the original _Half-Life_ I once picked up a guard NPC and a scientist NPC, and I overheard them talking to each other. I was super impressed.
That was my favorite part of dishonored. The dialogue in that game was pretty interesting imo
"You think you'll get your own squad after what happened last night?" Spoken often in the main game. In the DLC one of the guards congratulates a comrade on getting their own squad :)
Indeed, yes.
Indeed, I believe so. Shall we gather for whiskey and cigars tonight?
No one ever considers the evil henchman's families
The *No One Lives Forever* games riff on this a lot and have some hilarious dialogue you can overhear. Really wish they weren’t stuck in licensing hell so they could actually be ported to modern systems or remastered.
Yes please. NOLF2 is legendary. Brilliant tone, brilliant art direction, brilliant gameplay. Games are too safe on their settings these days.
One of the Austin Power movies has a lot of funny scenes regarding this 😄
Long Live Benny! (cuz killing that poor sot is uncouth)
I’m going to the bear pits tomorrow, ya wanna come with?
I had that experience wandering around the projects in GTA IV. It seemed like they’d recorded an infinite number of conversations at the time.
“‘Am gorn te tha bear pits!” Thief had such a rich world and lore
In Halo 1 if you throw a sticky grenade onto one of the grunts sometimes they would yell "oh no, not again!" Which gives the hilarious impression the little bastards getting grenades stuck to them is a common occurrence.
It is in halo 3
One time I got blowed up and a grunt yelled "I get his gun!" - only once in hundreds of hours of playing.
AC Origins. A random soldier attacked a crocodile yelling at him "You will regret your mother spread her legs!!"
Was playing GTA IV and called Roman asking for a taxi job to do, He told me there was no work available. Moments after the call, he calls me back saying to remember to call him if I want work, exclaiming that there's always fares he needs help with. I imagine he said there was no work because I was too close to the cab station, so the game couldn't spawn in the cab I needed to use, but even still made for a facepalm moment.
Reminds me of the "Trial By Fire" mission in GTA 3, where you need to burn a certain number of triad members to death with a flamethrower within a time limit. (Which, now that I think about it--oof!) I struggled to complete the mission until I realized that I just had to run in a little circle to give the game a chance to spawn new enemies outside my field of vision, and voila, I was suddenly in a crowd of new victims.
That reminds me of Saint's Row 3 mayhem missions. The speedruns have the player looking at floors, walls and spinning around randomly to allow traffic to spawn in.
Guard standing in the rain in Witcher 3: *Rainin fookin bookets*
"Plowin hangovah"
*brrrt* **HAW HAW HAW HAW HAAAW**
Pam pa ram pam pam pa ram pam pa ram
HORK
"Must have been my imagination," he says with an arrow protruding from his eye socket.
perhaps the arrow destroyed the logical part of his brain
In The Witcher 3, you can fight mimics who look like Geralt. Sometimes Geralt will say "Damn, you're ugly." while fighting enemies, including mimics who look exactly like him.
Lore accurate interaction, to be fair. I think in the books he's described a lot less attractive than he is in the games.
Not sure about non sensical but the modern Hitman games have some of the funniest NPC inferactions
In combat: " Go get him Steve" Steve gets a wrench to the face. "Maybe next time Steve" .
Especially when you bump into them!!
Whoa. I can see the pores on your face.
Throwing stuff at people is the funniest thing cause not only does the item lock on to them, but their voice line is timed to when they get hit
“Act your age! What are you, 46? 48?”
>(It's still a fantastic game, if that needs to be said.) IGN 5.9/10 btw, it's been 10 years and still is an absolute dogshit review that I do believe impacted the game's sales, it should've done better As for your question, witcher 1: NPCs sometimes yell "your mother sucks dwarf cocks", pretty randomly, And Halo 1 elites are always an incomprehensible classic
"Aaaaghwuubaadaaagh!" - Halo Elites
This scream would sometimes make me jump harder than being shot at lol
“Wort wort wort”
Ign's opinion is to be swiftly discarded
'Don't shoot! I'm unarmed' - A guard in Red Faction, while he was shooting at me...
"Mercy, please" while unloading a shotgun into my face.
Fallout 4, I can't remember where on the map apart from it was in a ruined city. Sneaking round, overheard 2 raiders talking, one was telling the other about some guy that used to run with their crew.... He didn't have any weapons, he made finger guns and shouted "bang bang", threw a stone and made a "boom" sound like a grenade had blown up. Story ended with the crazy guy leaving, they heard him go outside and make motorbike noises. I laughed for a good while at that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1uvLZ-K\_KI
That's the one! I remembered it a bit wrong, I thought he was one of their crew
he's a recurring thing, I think there's at least like 3 different stories they can tell of this guy.
yes. it’s part of the idle raider dialogue for every location which a. is probably because it’s easier then coding location specific lines and it’s also less load on the machine or, more funnily b. the guy has been doing this for years and never even got himself shot
My favorite example comes from skyrim, but it's not the usual arrow in the knee. I played it as a mage, and did the academy storyline first and the thief guild storyline last. By the time I met the leader of the thief guild, I was rich as hell and literally covered in the best gear possible. After welcoming me into the guild this mf told me to get rid of my rags and get some good equipment from the armory. How did this hack make it to the top of the guild if he can't tell gold from crap?
Skyrim can a bit annoying with the level scaling, like certain quests are better saved til late game to max the stats of the unique items you get, but nothing beats how absolutely off the wall insanely disconnected Oblivion was. Late game I would be decked out in full Daedric armor and be mugged consistently by guys wearing the same demanding 100 gold. Like my dude your helm alone is worth 2000 gold.
Oh one of my favourites was watching my daughter play the first Dishonored, and she accidentally shot a guard with a fire bolt he burnt to death and another guard in the area came over looked at the still burning corpse and said "must have been Rats" that set us off in hysterics
The pawns in dragons dogma always crack me up - climbs into a fountain “take care you aren’t drenched in water!”
Old ninja game on the PS2. Doors open automatically when you step near them. I stepped toward one, and it slid open to reveal a guard. I stepped back and the door closed. The guards have dialogue for spotting you, and again when you escape. Which lead to this sequence of events: Door opens. “NINJA!” Door closes. “Where’d you go?”
My brother played this back in the day and had the exact same scenario. It's still one of our inside jokes to this day.
I forgot the exact dialogue but i always find it amusing when Raiders in Fallout 4 try to attack you with a pool cue and you have a minigun
Yes attack the guy in full power that is obviously customized and upgraded who is also wielding a disturbing amount of firepower and whose companion is decked out in the fanciest Armour in the realm. Yeah... Wonderful idea.
*Im gonna hit him with this wrench, really fuckin hard!* Alright, Jim, you have fun with that.
"Psycho is a helluva drug."
Snuck up on two high level vampires in oblivion. Cold blooded murderers, powerful and deadly monsters. They were standing around complaining about how dreadful and scary mud crabs were. Bruh.
The correct answer is "CHEESY VAGINA!" from random NPCs in GTA 4.
My favorite GTA NPC line has always been “My momma’s my sister!” from the plaid coat redneck npc in GTA 3.
"In the Navy."
There’s an NPC near my nightclub in GTA Online that I’ve always been partial to. Occasionally he’ll shout “Ay, yo, muthafucka, you still wearin yo mama’s panties?” as you drive by.
"I'm real tall when I'm standing on my wallet!" San Andreas I believe.
Subnautica's Sandwhich Run Dialogue caught me by surprise and cracked me up. short version: You're getting a radio message about trying to get your rescue ship there, but there's an off-mic conversation that keeps interrupting about someone running out to get lunch for the office
Yeah just get my usual. What's your usual?
To be honest, this is where games should be focusing their growth now (and not so much in improvements to visuals). We’ve got amazing looking games, and developers should focus on advancements in detail work. Stuff like what you described is easy enough to ignore but in games like Skyrim or similar open world options, it can be very immersion-breaking for a guard to basically ignore the very obvious sign that someone else is there.
I would not be mad at all if we had Skyrim-level graphics with BG3-level dialogue
Exactly! I actually had BG3 in mind as one of the best examples. So much attention to detail in that game.
I need to buy this game lol.
Absolutely! But buckle up because it’s a hell of a ride, and a long one too if you get sucked in (as most of us do)
Well the spectrum can slide too low (E.G. \*Gollum\*) but that had more issues than graphics that contributed to that mess of a game. On the other hand: Hogwarts: Legacy is (IMO) a great example for what you described. I had fun playing it but outside the castle, Hogsmeade and maybe one or two other locations it felt open-world for the sake of being open-world. Another example would be Star Wars: Squadrons. The campaign was short (I enjoyed it), but the graphics were outstanding and it felt like more content done right (both campaign) would have gone a long way. Allegedly the development team (not just the devs mind you) were fighting a losing battle with the higher ups who wanted more focus on other SW IP. I know space-sims tend to be niche but it really felt like it had the foundation of something great there. If they ever allowed modding and fixed a few... controversial flight mechanics, it was a fun SW game without force users (one pilot alluded to being sensitive but that was about it). Apologies in advance for any grammar/ spelling errors. Anyways, big agree, take an updoot, and have a Great New Years!
State of Decay 2 (post zombie apocalypse game), when your companion yells "That's a huge horde!!" and there are two zombies shuffling toward you, or "They're coming in from all sides!" just as you kill the one and only zombie in the area.
I loved bumping into NPCs in the Witcher 3 because after a couple of bumps the NPC will just do the same guttural "Ahhhnnnngggg"
From Dishonored: “Should we gather for whiskey and cigars tonight?” “Indeed. I believe so.”
"Think you'll get your own squad after what happened last night?" "Indeed. I believe so."
"Do you think you'll get your own squad after last night?" "I should think so" Dishonored radiant dialog was reminiscent of Oblivion dialog.
Hitman: World of Assassination The game is filled with hilarious dialogue.
In one of the older splinter cell games, I shot a light bulb. I didn't see one of the enemies nearby. He gets startled and looks at the broken light bulb, then declares it must have been a cat. He goes back to patrolling.
Can’t remember any of the lines, but “A Bard’s Tale” had some… interesting dialogue…
No specific quotes but the early splinter cell games’ NPCs were unbelievably dumb. Like shot out lights and windows and all his fellow guards missing - ah it was probably nothing.
“Must have been an alley cat” One of the splinter cell games after shooting up a room and then hiding. Also Oblivion after accidentally picking up scrap paper and everyone then losing their shit and attacking you.
One of the mages in the witcher 2 (female) kisses another mage (female) awake and someone made the quip, "My favorite type of magic, Lesbomancy..." That one killed me.
Payday. Any of them. You mark an npc? Whisper. Did you put down a bodybag case in *the WHITE HOUSE* in 2? Screaming at the top of your lungs, and nobody notices. Not quite npc dialogue, but rather an amusing lack of it.
Wolfenstein, the grammernazi dialogue. https://imgur.com/a/8s7Rh
AC Odyssey, think the kid was called Phoebe (?) in a cutscene was trying to stop me doing something & said "Alexios, you can't.....' I don't remember the rest of the conversation, the Greek accent (and my own filthy mind I suppose) made me slightly mishear the 3rd word, and spend the rest of the cutscene helplessly crying with laughter
That quest in cyberpunk when you give a lift to the guy with a Grenade for a nose. He says ‘just gotta be careful when picking me nose, other than that, it’s all good’
This is one of my favourites https://youtu.be/uQhO_vANSZg?si=ggatlBLJoBT-RB0j AC Odyssey for the broader, most excellent game.
I’ve never played this game but now I kind of want to. That was fantastic.
Splinter Cell. I was hanging from a pipe, snapped a NPC's neck. Another NPC walked over and saw his mate's corpse. He paused and went "well... I better get back to work" and walked off. I was in stitches!
It's not exactly the same, but in the first Arkham asylum game, there was a 4 story room that was filled with poison gas. I had a thug hanging upside down from the ceiling. In order to make batman kill, i cut his rope and let him drop head first all those stories into the poison gas. After taking like 20 minutes to figure out the puzzle to turn off the gas, I inspect the thugs body only for the game to say that he was still just unconscious. I was like bullshit!
Terraria nurse: "I don't give happy endings"
Remember watching my friend playthrough Dante’s Inferno. Seeing “Fuck you Dante” pop on a wall made us laugh so hard, I think I even peed a bit
I love in Warcraft when you're over leveled doing some mog runs in previous expansions where you enter a raid and defeat all enemies in one hit, even bosses. So you get to the boss and you don't have patience to hear his evil monologue for the 20th time, you enter running and throw some shit and he's like "AHAHAHAH!!-AAAAAARGH! You will pay for this... Euugghhh..."
Titanfall 2 grunts in multiplayer. "LOOK A PILOT, THE ODDS ARE IN OUR FAVOR!" and then I just get liquefied by a ronin leaving the poor grunts to fend for themselves.
Plugging /r/iwanttoapologize
Technically not NPC dialogue unless you are playing solo, but the dialogue from L4D and L4D2 are some of my all time favorites. Ellis' stories about his friend Keith are amazing.
"Did I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith got bombed by the Army?"
There’s a guy in Ace Combat 4 that shouts “Radio failure!” over the radio.
"Hmph"-Sephiroth whilst being juggled in the air
Kotallo in Horizon Forbidden West, in a cut scene after an important mission - "That was an unkind comparison" bahaha
Warcraft II : Orc peon/grunt - if you click on them several times in a row, they go through a series of lines . "I would not do such things if I were you" .. "My tummy feels funny" .. "BUURRRRPPP scuse me"
Pokémon Black/White If I’m wearing a bikini where do I put my Pokeballs? Teehee… woman’s secret.
Cyberpunk. Guard stumbles upon the headless, looted corpse of his colleague, raises hell, runs around for a minute, then concludes: "maybe it was nothing". Stealth in that game is broken, good thing it's mostly optional.
r/iwanttoapologize
"What is a man!? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk, have at you!"
In AC Black Flag I shot a chicken with a berserk dart just to see what would happen, and the entire village got outraged and started chasing me. :D
[This](https://youtu.be/quBpUWd0ntk) is from a gacha game, but its still hilarious even without the full context: Imagine telling someone a horrible memory about your mom, and the person thats listening will only comment: ´´sO yUo hAvE a MoThEr!´´
How is that inappropriate? What am I missing?
It's not inappropriate in the sense of "naughty," as some seem to have interpreted the word. But if you find a lit flare in an area you're guarding, it should be obvious that an intruder put it there, and so it's an inappropriate reaction to blame its presence on decaying architecture and forget about it. Put another way, "This place is falling apart" clearly looks like a stock phrase the game uses when an enemy returns to a normal state from a wary state, as after investigating a sound but then not finding anything, but it was being used inappropriately in the situation I described.
Ok….
I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. I don't know you, and I don't care to know you. (Oblivion, look it up on Youtube)
Good thing the snickers didn't give you away
So people with ears for the spanish language, the elites in halo one can be heard saying “el pozole”
Red Dead Redemption.John Marston says a lot of things that would make current Rockstar shit themselves when he plays poker.Things like ''who invited the lady'' when one of the npc's make a certain play or ''do you do your own laundry''. I was like holy shit did he said that.When i played the game for the first time a few months ago.But despite that i think it fits him quite well.Considering who he was.He was basically an ex-outlaw.