Would any of you be willing to do more comedy based games sort of like how sierra went with Al Lowe just less maybe "adult". Just for laughs and giggles I bet that kind of adventure game would blast through steam green light in no time at all.
Thanks,
Steph
Make one or buy one? I have no real talents in the making department but I think one might be fun to play. Something on the lines of the humor of the original Sam and Max game could be fun.
To me I find comedy to almost be a sign of lazyness so to speak.
Don't get me wrong I find a great comedy to be fantastic, but what I see so very often is comedy is used in place of better elements.
My favorite comedies were always something I could pull something else from it (mostly because I find so very few things to be absolutely hillarious)
QuoteI find a great comedy to be fantastic, but what I see so very often is comedy is used in place of better elements.
I've played some games with comedy I just didn't find funny at all. But having said that, there are some pretty awful games which don't try to be funny but are just really bad. I don't think comedy is a sign of laziness: I think *laziness* (or, you know, a bad game resulting from laziness) is a sign of laziness.
I mainly take issue with your point because Monkey Island is one of my favourite adventure game series because it's so relentlessly hilarious - so much so that I'm intrigued by any comedy adventure game project, just in case it turns out to be the new Monkey Island.
I'd also like to point out that humour can be agonisingly cruel at times: life is often cruel, and when it's cruel it's almost always funny. And sometimes a work of art can be humourous and deep and thoughtful and horrifying: look at
Infinite Jest. But I guess I haven't seen any games go down that particular rabbit hole, so maybe that's a point for another decade.
What I mean is, that Comedy is often used because it is seen as easier so to speak.
Drama or mystery so to speak are often seen as harder to do well. With Comedy being a "Well if we do comedy badly, it will still be funny".
Or rather Comedy saturation is done because people view it as an easy way, a lazy way, to do games and movies. Heck you have a plothole? It is a comedy you can ignore it. You need a character who pick up the idiot ball who is otherwise competent? It is a comedy this happens all the time.
Comedy is hard, very hard, if you are aiming for a great comedy... but Lazy "Barely good" Comedy is seen as easy, pathetically easy.
It is why I view Comedy as often the lazy way out or used instead of better elements.
I don't think even "easy" comedy is all that easy -- in order to be an actual comedy, it has to make people laugh.
I think what's easy is fluff. It often gets lumped in with "comedy" because it's so very obviously not any other genre -- but fluff isn't going to get a reaction from basically anyone. Even if it tries not to be fluff.
Honestly, I'd rather people tell stories and make games that aren't fluff even if there's not a shred of humor in them -- I don't want people to take the easy way out. That's one thing I love about PO Studios.... I've never, in like ten years, seen them take the easy route. It may not be a laugh riot (granted, I've not played Cognition yet, so maybe they are! :P) but it is not fluff.
.....I'm not really sure there was a point to this post. You're welcome. :P
Comedy isn't easy. Behind comedy, there's more pain than any dark drama could ever muster.
Bt
Quote from: Blackthorne on October 30, 2012, 10:17:32 PM
Comedy isn't easy. Behind comedy, there's more pain than any dark drama could ever muster.
Bt
BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Quote from: Lambonius on October 30, 2012, 10:53:52 PM
Quote from: Blackthorne on October 30, 2012, 10:17:32 PM
Comedy isn't easy. Behind comedy, there's more pain than any dark drama could ever muster.
Bt
BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Annnnnddddd..... scene.
Bt