Funniest RPG?

Anto and Moe

Any one got thoughts on what the funniest ever RPG was? I think I'v gotta go with the Monkey Island Series, Although now that I come to think of it the Disk World games were a larf to.:D

Laguna

Final Fantasy 8 had some funny moments in it..

jonnybadd

I thought Paper Mario II was one of the funniest games I've even played.

Nevyn

Planescape Torrement

monkeyfudge

jonnybadd wrote:

I thought Paper Mario II was one of the funniest games I've even played.

Yep... Paper Mario 2 is definitely the funniest I've ever played.

That computer on the moon base was such a perv.

Haha.. look at this:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=125

Oh.. and I wouldn't really consider the Monkey Island or the Disc World games to be RPGs... they're Graphic Adventures...

RPG stands for roll playing game... which is to do with the rolling of the dice which pretty much takes place in RPG video games when you are in battle to determine how much damage you do to your enemy... none of that takes place in Monkey Island or Disc World, so you really can't consider them to be RPGs.

Matthewthebig

Kingdom of loathing

thank you sarky

Laguna

Monkeyfudge,

RPG stands for role playing game, not roll playing games. It's origins are founded in Dungeons & Dragons, where one would assume a 'role' to play the game, yes dice were involved, but not necessary for a game to be deemed as an RPG (for example some of the Heroquest card games didn't use dice but were RPG's).

Raphael

Technically speaking, you could qualify pretty much any game as a role playing game....

monkeyfudge

Laguna wrote:

Monkeyfudge,

RPG stands for role playing game, not roll playing games. It's origins are founded in Dungeons & Dragons, where one would assume a 'role' to play the game, yes dice were involved, but not necessary for a game to be deemed as an RPG (for example some of the Heroquest card games didn't use dice but were RPG's).

Well corrected... it's been a while since I played Call of the Cthulhu...

But the Monkey Island games are definitely seen as Graphic Adventures or Point and Clicks.

And RPG video games involve leveling up and stats in the same way as the D&D style games did... okay.. that sounds better.. ha

Sarky

Any RPG can be hilarious, depending on the GM. There has been a Call of Cthulhu game where players have married a shoggoth, concieved a half-shoggoth son which matured fully in under three weeks, and promptly witnessed it being beaten to death by the others "for its own good". An odd take on the Orient Express adventure, but there you are...

I took part in a Warhammer 40,000 game as well, where we all played Ogryns. I've never laughed for so long.