Funniest Game - Round One

[This Old Neon]

Round One of the "Funniest Game" side-event includes 4 polls of 11 games each.

• You can vote for UP TO FIVE (5) games per poll, or skip a poll entirely.
• The top 5 games in each poll will advance to the next round.
• You can't change your votes once they've been submitted, so click carefully. Voting closes on Saturday at midnight ADT.

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Poll 1 of 4
Day of the Tentacle / Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle (1993, PC)
Crazy Taxi (1999, Arcade)
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (2006, PS2)
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (2003, PS2)
Final Fantasy V Advance (2006, GBA)
Lego City Undercover (2013, Multiplatform)
Lisa: The Painful (2014, PC)
Maniac Mansion (1987, PC)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004, GCN)
The Messenger (2018, Multiplatform)
TimeSplitters (2000, PS2)

Poll 2 of 4
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (2010, DS)
Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage (1993, SNES)
EarthBound (1994, SNES)
Fat Princess (2009, PS3)
God Hand (2006, PS2)
Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012, 3DS)
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (2003, GBA)
Parodius / Parodius! From Myth to Laughter / Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy (1990, Arcade)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations (2004, DS)
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991, PC)
Wandersong (2018, Multiplatform)

Poll 3 of 4
Goat Simulator (2014, PC)
The Stanley Parable (2013, PC)
Earthworm Jim 2 (1995, Genesis/SNES)
Elite Beat Agents (2006, DS)
Golf Story (2017, Switch)
Katamari Damacy (2004, PS2)
Mister Mosquito / Mr Moskeeto (2001, PS2)
Overlord (2007, Multiplatform)
Pony Island (2016, PC)
Reverie (2018, PS4/Vita)
West of Loathing (2017, PC/Switch)

Poll 4 of 4
Portal (2007, Multiplatform)
Tales from the Borderlands (2014, Multiplatform)
Borderlands 2 (2012, Multiplatform)
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (2009, PS3/X360)
Guildmaster Story (2019, Mobile)
Hogs of War (2000, PC/PS1)
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (1997, N64)
No One Lives Forever (2000, PC)
Popful Mail (1991, SCD)
Psychonauts (2005, Multiplatform)
Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I (1980, PC)

[The Shoemaker]

Heh, this is an interesting one.

I found The Messenger to be hilarious with the banter between the player character and the merchant. Honestly looked forward to finding the shop in every level just to see what he had to say. The story twists are also funny in a "this is crazy" sort of way.

Kid Icarus Uprsing - Every stage is packed with never ending banter between Pit, Palutena and the other gods. I can't definitely see people hating the dialogue, but I loved the humor. Self aware and fourth wall breaking, witty banter and an off the walls story. They did a great job of injecting new life into these NES characters. I like that the style extends itself to Smash Bros as well with the Pit and Palutena conversations.

West of Loathing - lots of soft chuckles in this one. It has sort of a dungeon master approach to it's dialogue, always explaining what you're doing in sometimes detailed, sometimes extremely simple terms. Very funny, and the stick figure art style just adds to it.

[SkyPikachu]

Disgae is funny? I've never played it generally curious what type of humour it is and how much humours in it

[Ouenben]

Hope conkers bad fur day shows up in later polls because its hands down funnier than every single title on this list.

[Kong Wen]

Disgae is funny? I've never played it generally curious what type of humour it is and how much humours in it

It's a comedy anime game with some light tactical gameplay layered over top.

Hope conkers bad fur day shows up in later polls because its hands down funnier than every single title on this list.

Conker's is one of the least funny lowbrow games ever to have dumped all of its eggs into the easy comedy cash-in basket. IMO.

[Kichijoji]

Disgaea is pretty funny, Disgaea 2 is hilarious (imo) at least in the main storyline. It's also a lot of dungeon grinding/leveling up which isn't for everyone. But great voice acting and fun gameplay that can make the hours disappear pretty quickly. Worth a try if you can get it.

It's currently losing to Paper Mario and Maniac Mansion which is kinda shocking to me :/

[Kong Wen]

Disgaea is pretty funny, Disgaea 2 is hilarious (imo) at least in the main storyline. It's also a lot of dungeon grinding/leveling up which isn't for everyone. But great voice acting and fun gameplay that can make the hours disappear pretty quickly. Worth a try if you can get it.

It's currently losing to Paper Mario and Maniac Mansion which is kinda shocking to me :/

I never thought I'd call Disgaea underrated, but in this context (this context, this community), lots of Nintendo folks have played Paper Mario and know what it is, and lots of old geezers have played Maniac Mansion and remember it as an early paragon of videogame comedy.

PS: That bitter feeling of seeing a beloved game losing to undeserving opponents is uniquely characteristic of the "BGE!!!"'s masochistic appeal.

[SkyPikachu]

Disgaea is pretty funny, Disgaea 2 is hilarious (imo) at least in the main storyline. It's also a lot of dungeon grinding/leveling up which isn't for everyone. But great voice acting and fun gameplay that can make the hours disappear pretty quickly. Worth a try if you can get it.

It's currently losing to Paper Mario and Maniac Mansion which is kinda shocking to me :/

I never thought I'd call Disgaea underrated, but in this context (this context, this community), lots of Nintendo folks have played Paper Mario and know what it is, and lots of old geezers have played Maniac Mansion and remember it as an early paragon of videogame comedy.

PS: That bitter feeling of seeing a beloved game losing to undeserving opponents is uniquely characteristic of the "BGE!!!"'s masochistic appeal.

This is what I feel about Fable TLC. (not funniest game but in other categories.)

[Kong Wen]

Poll 1 of 4
Day of the Tentacle / Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle (1993, PC)
Crazy Taxi (1999, Arcade)
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (2006, PS2)
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (2003, PS2)
Final Fantasy V Advance (2006, GBA)
Lego City Undercover (2013, Multiplatform)
Lisa: The Painful (2014, PC)
Maniac Mansion (1987, PC)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004, GCN)
The Messenger (2018, Multiplatform)
TimeSplitters (2000, PS2)

Speaking of which, here I am voting for the Maniac Mansions and LISA. Even though the humour was literally the best thing about the Disgaea games, I can't say I was a big fan of them otherwise.

Poll 2 of 4
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (2010, DS)
Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage (1993, SNES)
EarthBound (1994, SNES)
Fat Princess (2009, PS3)
God Hand (2006, PS2)
Kid Icarus: Uprising (2012, 3DS)
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (2003, GBA)
Parodius / Parodius! From Myth to Laughter / Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy (1990, Arcade)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations (2004, DS)
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991, PC)
Wandersong (2018, Multiplatform)

I haven't played Wandersong (yet) or I suspect it would get a vote.

Poll 3 of 4
Goat Simulator (2014, PC)
The Stanley Parable (2013, PC)
Earthworm Jim 2 (1995, Genesis/SNES)
Elite Beat Agents (2006, DS)
Golf Story (2017, Switch)
Katamari Damacy (2004, PS2)
Mister Mosquito / Mr Moskeeto (2001, PS2)
Overlord (2007, Multiplatform)
Pony Island (2016, PC)
Reverie (2018, PS4/Vita)
West of Loathing (2017, PC/Switch)

Poll 4 of 4
Portal (2007, Multiplatform)
Tales from the Borderlands (2014, Multiplatform)
Borderlands 2 (2012, Multiplatform)
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard (2009, PS3/X360)
Guildmaster Story (2019, Mobile)
Hogs of War (2000, PC/PS1)
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (1997, N64)
No One Lives Forever (2000, PC)
Popful Mail (1991, SCD)
Psychonauts (2005, Multiplatform)
Zork: The Great Underground Empire - Part I (1980, PC)

Guildmaster Story is a comical little free-to-play puzzle story game. Decent if you want to read some jokes on the couch for a few minutes at a time.

[This Old Neon]

Poll 1 of 4
Day of the Tentacle / Maniac Mansion II: Day of the Tentacle (1993, PC)
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories (2006, PS2)
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness (2003, PS2)
Maniac Mansion (1987, PC)
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004, GCN)

Poll 2 of 4
EarthBound (1994, SNES)
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga (2003, GBA)
Parodius / Parodius! From Myth to Laughter / Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy (1990, Arcade)
Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (1991, PC)

Poll 3 of 4
Goat Simulator (2014, PC)
The Stanley Parable (2013, PC)
Elite Beat Agents (2006, DS)
Katamari Damacy (2004, PS2)

Poll 4 of 4
Portal (2007, Multiplatform)
Tales from the Borderlands (2014, Multiplatform)
Borderlands 2 (2012, Multiplatform)
No One Lives Forever (2000, PC)
Psychonauts (2005, Multiplatform)

Winners.