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I recall the games managing to channel some of the bleakness into dark humor. I don't have a lot of hope that the writers will be able to achieve that with live
by jl6 3y ago
I recall the games managing to channel some of the bleakness into dark humor. I don't have a lot of hope that the writers will be able to achieve that with live-action characters. If they don't go down the comedy route, it seems certain to be an incredibly grim trudge.
- mattigames 3y ago"The boys" by amazon too has a lot of bleakness turn into dark humor without being exactly comedy.
- madeofpalk 3y agoThe Boys is explicitly Dark/Gore Comedy imho.
- barrkel 3y agoThe Boys is a comedy. The entire premise is satirizing superpowered heroes, as if they existed.
- mattigames 3y agoYeah no, I didn't laught when the protagonist gf got killed by a "train", or when the Nazi girl cries deformed and powerless in bed before deciding to commit suicide. I did laugh a few other times but categorizing it as a comedy is a disservice, maybe a tragicomedy or something like that would be more accurate.
- LinuxBender 3y agoI wanted to enjoy that show but most of the characters personalities map perfectly onto some people I used to work with. I have to wonder if corporate culture is what inspired the foundation for the characters.
- m463 3y agoI played fallout 4 recently, and there was a military recruiting office. Instead of a chair behind the recruiter's desk, there was wheelchair. wow.
- dan_hawkins 3y agoI guess it's been inspired by Robert A. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" book.
- aqme28 3y agoWas that character in the book or just the movie? They're pretty different.
- unixhero 3y agoHe was also in the movie. At the beginning with enrolment. EDIT: More precisely; https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Recruiting_Sergeant https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Recruiting_Sergeant
- senectus1 3y agoFallout 2, 3 and 4 and new vegas are all excellent games with really deep PRG fun in them. definitely on my classics list.
- petemir 3y agoAnd if you want to get that grim feeling from a game, check "This war of mine"
- pavel_lishin 3y agoSlightly less grim, with more humor (albeit still very dark) is "Papers Please": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papers,_Please https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papers,_Please
- MilStdJunkie 3y agoDepends on the story, but yeah, the comedy aspects are the absolute core of the universe. 1950s nuclear hubris. FNV had this whole "Old West" vibe as well, which was lovely.
- CapstanRoller 3y agoI hope they don't take all their writing ideas and atmosphere from the Bethesda games. Fallout 1 and 2 have a very different vibe than the subsequent games by Bethesda (with the exception of New Vegas, which was made by the Obsidian Entertainment team)