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do you actually laugh out loud??

dumpling321dumpling321
edited August 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
when playing a monkey island game do you have a tendancy to grin, giggle, gaffaw, or just lose it??

i am the type that doesnt laugh out loud alot :) when i'm alone, i may giggle a little :rolleyes: at the funnier jokes but i rarely just LOL :D at jokes in games, tv, or video games. i do however laugh out loud :D when i'm with friends for some reason... idk why but it's just funnier for me when i have people with me to share something with :D:D:cool:
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  • plrichardplrichard
    edited August 2009
    I have, on many occasions.
  • Toothless GibbonToothless Gibbon
    edited August 2009
    Something has to be VERY funny for me to "LOL" when on my own too.

    There was one or two moments in LotSN that I did though (and then looked around for someone to share the moment with!)
  • EznyEzny
    edited August 2009
    When I first played SoMI way back I was with two other people and we laughed a lot.

    I'm the same way in which I don't necessarily laugh out loud all the time, even if I do think it's funny... It's gotta really get me goin on it's own I guess. Unless I'm in a really good mood or something..

    I laughed out loud quite a few times in LotSN, Guybrush punching himself and other people got me just about every time.
  • bigdondoobigdondoo
    edited August 2009
    GIMM - Giggling in My Mind.
  • bugzbunny90bugzbunny90
    edited August 2009
    monkey island makes me LMAO and fall of chair..i guess because i am playing since 95 or so ...attached with the game alot
  • adventureaddictadventureaddict
    edited August 2009
    Toothless Gibbon wrote: »
    There was one or two moments in LotSN that I did though (and then looked around for someone to share the moment with!)

    I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who does this! :p
  • Guybrush ThreepwoodGuybrush Threepwood
    edited August 2009
    Rarely laugh when playing a game, and something has to be really funny to even get a small chuckle out of me. That's not to say I don't find the stuff funny, I just don't laugh. However, like you, if there are other people around then I will. It's not quite the same/as bad (?) with films or TV, but similar.
  • Lennie MelvinLennie Melvin
    edited August 2009
    Toothless Gibbon wrote: »
    There was one or two moments in LotSN that I did though (and then looked around for someone to share the moment with!)

    I normally look around to make sure no one was watching...
  • Crasher86Crasher86
    edited August 2009
    "LIKE A BIG VULCANO !!!"
    """
  • FrogacudaFrogacuda
    edited August 2009
    Monkey Island has never made me laugh out loud all that much. Sam and Max absolutely have. I still find MI funny, but it wasn't as able to hit me on that level.
  • NabaDwANabaDwA
    edited August 2009
    Crasher86 wrote: »
    "LIKE A VOLCANO!"

    THAT and the way Guybrush dances with D'oro when he finds dark ninja dave had me laughing out loud alone, but controllably.

    For the rest of the games i would usually just grin or smile and appreciate the humour, like when guybrush died on blood island and the game ended.
    Sam n Max had a few lines here and there that had me smile too
  • bugzbunny90bugzbunny90
    edited August 2009
    laughter is good for health so keep smiling and keep laughing :)
  • MadMuppetMadMuppet
    edited August 2009
    Hard to remember all original reactions to the original 2 games - after all, it has been 17-18 years. I rarely react the same way when seeing it a second time - it's the shock of a funny bit the first go round that can catch you off guard. But here's a couple I do recall laughing out loud to:

    SOMI:

    With Stan on the dock, looking at the sea monkey, with the shooting star and "I think we're having a real moment here"

    Near the end, by the river of lava: "How did you get in here without using the head?" (and the reaction from the crew, alternatively Herman)

    MI2: LR

    On Kate's ship: "What did you do, order this ship out of the back of a comic book?" and "This ship is so small the rats leaving it are humpbacked" - and the retort: "The guy who writes your lines is as funny as your tailor"

    (oh, by the way, another one in that scene is "I've seen COFFEE CUPS bigger than this ship" - another "he's really in an amusement-park" reference?)
  • SubSidalSubSidal
    edited August 2009
    I lol and tears come to my eyes.
  • SilverwolfpetSilverwolfpet
    edited August 2009
    Only ToMI actually made me laugh out loud. There were plenty of giggle-y moments in the other games, but laughing out loud... only in Tales.
    My brother doesn't like to play adventure games, he likes to watch me play them. ToMI is the only adventure game/episode that he actually played, enjoyed and finished. :D
  • guitarsareboringguitarsareboring
    edited August 2009
    I laugh outloud at cultural references mostly and when things become completely insane. Oh and whenever Sam answers the phone at the beginning of the episodes.
  • meandermeander
    edited August 2009
    Yup, all the time :) even got my boyfriend to play through Tales after he watched me almost fall to the ground laughing several times. Particularly "D'oro the Explorer"... and for some reason "giant mystical voodoo sea sponge" just cracked me up... it's so ridiculous that it's hilarious.

    And in other games, yep. Esp Sam and Max :D I still can't hear the War song without laughing out loud.
  • MarzhinMarzhin
    edited August 2009
    I smiled and chuckled a lot during LotSN, but never actually LOL'ed. But I did laugh out loud when playing Sam & Max season 2 : the scenes with Timmy the rat with his Tourette's syndrome really cracked me up :D
  • Toothless GibbonToothless Gibbon
    edited August 2009
    Is that a funniest-moment-in-LotSN poll I hear approaching?
  • MatakuMataku
    edited August 2009
    I think us people who rarely laugh it's not because we don't have any sense of humor, but probably because we have too much of it, so we kinda "heard it all" already, and the bar for what's funny becomes higher. For me, making me laugh means to surprise me with something i didn't see coming, which, for example, TOMI, failed to do.
  • Toothless GibbonToothless Gibbon
    edited August 2009
    Mataku wrote: »
    For me, making me laugh means to surprise me with something i didn't see coming, which, for example, TOMI, failed to do.


    Even Guybrush dancing? :)
  • MatakuMataku
    edited August 2009
    Toothless Gibbon wrote: »
    Even Guybrush dancing? :)

    I saw it more as "god, 3d dancing looks ridiculous" and less in terms of "look at guybrush". But then again, I might have a different sense of humor. For example, I never got what was so funny about, say, 'spider pig' segment in the Simpsons' movie. I remember seeing the movie with my cousin who literally fell on the floor laughing at that and I was like "did I miss something funny that happened here?"
  • Javi-Wan KenobiJavi-Wan Kenobi
    edited August 2009
    I'm an amateur stage actor, so I did laugh out loud in the first scene, when Guybrush is talking with Elaine and she said: "I'm not shouting, I'm projecting"
    Maybe I just don't get some other better jokes because english is not my mother language.
    But I remember several moments in SBCG4AP and both Sam&Max seasons where I actually LOLed (I can't remember exactly wich moments, though)
    With Wallace & Gromit, I've only had big smiles and GIMM's XD
  • TeppicTeppic
    edited August 2009
    I laugh out loud sometimes, but not so much uncontrollable, can't breathe, tears rolling laughter.
  • FrownFrown
    edited August 2009
    I played through the game with my cousins, and everything became a lot more funny that way. When we heard "LIKE A VOLCANO", we had to pause the game until we calmed down.

    When I played through Sam & Max Season 1, this was the funniest dialogue for me:

    Sam: Hey, Sybil. What's new in the world of frequent, random career reassessment?
    Sybil: Hi, fellas. I'm really excited! I found the perfect job for me.
    Sam: You don't say.
    Sybil: That's right. I, Sybil Pandemik, am now a professional matchmaker.
    Max: I thought I smelled phosphorous.
    Sam: I thought I smelled that joke coming down the turnpike, burning oil and dragging its muffler.
    Sybil: It's a dating service, Max. I figured that if a smart, successful career woman like me could be having so much trouble finding a date, there must be plenty of other people who could use help.
    Sam: You're having trouble finding your soulmate?
    Sybil: You don't know the half of it. It seems like all the guys I meet are total losers. No offense.
    Sam: None taken. Hey!
    Sybil: Or else they're borderline psychopaths. No offense.
    Max: None taken. It's the borderline cases you have to watch out for!

    I didn't hear the rest of the dialogue because I was laughing so much.
  • MatakuMataku
    edited August 2009
    I laughed out loud at sam and max 204 when old Sam was saying random lines out of nowhere. When he talked about finding lint in his pocket i really lost it.
  • thatdude98thatdude98
    edited August 2009
    yes. I've even LOLWDCCSIEROTFL.
  • NabaDwANabaDwA
    edited August 2009
    Mataku wrote: »
    I think us people who rarely laugh it's not because we don't have any sense of humor, but probably because we have too much of it, so we kinda "heard it all" already, and the bar for what's funny becomes higher. For me, making me laugh means to surprise me with something i didn't see coming, which, for example, TOMI, failed to do.

    yeah i feel that way too but sometimes it helps to stop looking at the humour so deeply and just take it at surface value. it's more appreciating the humour rather than laughing out loud.
    For a large part I thought ToMI was rather childish but i'm an MI fan so i just have to play it. Characters like DeSinge and Van Winslow made me cringe.

    I also thought spider pig was rather dumb...
  • MusicallyInspiredMusicallyInspired
    edited August 2009
    On my own, not very much. But I do happen to laugh every now and then out loud when I find something very funny. Definitely moreso when I'm playing with other people.
  • bigdondoobigdondoo
    edited August 2009
    thatdude98 wrote: »
    yes. I've even LOLWDCCSIEROTFL.

    That sounds painful...
  • tmfm2000tmfm2000
    edited August 2009
    I don't get it. Why do people need other people around to laugh?
    I laugh when I'm alone just as much as I do with friends if I see something fun on tv, computer etc. But I have a habbit of talking to myself too. And I always talk to the newspaper in the morning. I sing in the shower and I dance when I'm alone. So yeah, I LOL'd from time to time during most of the MI games :)

    ..should I see a doctor?
  • CaptainWicketCaptainWicket
    edited August 2009
    I usually just chuckle if I'm alone, but there have definitely been a few moments in the series that made me guffaw. For ToMI, that moment was Guybrush's "girly throw" at the dock when you try to throw a bomb at Winslow. I don't know why, but I just found it so funny that I had to make him do it a few more times.

    Another moment I remember laughing out loud was in CMI, when you are talking to Lemonhead. Guybrush says something like, "Oops, did I say I want to be a cannibal? I meant...cannonball! Yeah, I want to be a cannonball! WHOOSH!" Lemonhead replies, "You're not quite stable, are you?"
  • bigdondoobigdondoo
    edited August 2009
    tmfm2000 wrote: »
    ..should I see a doctor?

    http://www.sutterhealth.org/health/preventcare_guidelines.html
  • MatakuMataku
    edited August 2009
    CaptainWicket wrote: »
    Another moment I remember laughing out loud was in CMI, when you are talking to Lemonhead. Guybrush says something like, "Oops, did I say I want to be a cannibal? I meant...cannonball! Yeah, I want to be a cannonball! WHOOSH!" Lemonhead replies, "You're not quite stable, are you?"


    lol, also in CMI when you show the skeleton arm with paste to Murray, he's like "You're a sad, strange little man." Demeaning people is fun.
  • TacobobTacobob
    edited August 2009
    Yeah, Curse had plenty of LOL moments..As did #2, with that Skeleton Dance, and ofcourse when Guybrush stuffs a living dog down his pants.
  • CarnageCarnage
    edited August 2009
    Playing SoMI SE and laughing hearty at that, "Tales of" is more of a "heh" game, but the characters feel a bit more lovable and the plot is more interesting. I also appreciate the better animation, and I like Guybrish with a beard more.
  • TacobobTacobob
    edited August 2009
    Yeah, I've enjoyed the game so far, but the new and original characters in this series haven't really done anything for me yet. Kind of reminds me of LeChuck's Revenge. Great game, but alot of forgettable characters. :(
  • SubSidalSubSidal
    edited August 2009
    Tacobob wrote: »
    Yeah, I've enjoyed the game so far, but the new and original characters in this series haven't really done anything for me yet. Kind of reminds me of LeChuck's Revenge. Great game, but alot of forgettable characters. :(

    I agree. The character's in ToMI aren't memorable. Except for maybe De Singe and D'Oro ("How I loathe Pink Pajama Pierre..."). Winslow is not good at all in the 'Guybrush crewmen department'. In the past Guybrush's crews have all been terrific character, Winslow seems a little off. Even the almighty LeChuck seems forgettable. If I wasn't a fan of the series I'd forget all about the fearsome Zombie-Demon-Whatever. But mind me, love the game and LOLed a lot. Specially when De Singe is stuck inside the idol-thing. Priceless!
  • MatakuMataku
    edited August 2009
    tmfm2000 wrote: »
    But I have a habbit of talking to myself too. And I always talk to the newspaper in the morning. I sing in the shower and I dance when I'm alone.

    thank god, I though i was the only one. I also talk to the tv, sometimes repeat lines i thought were delivered in a good way in a show i'm watching. :eek:
  • corruptbigginscorruptbiggins
    edited August 2009
    It takes a very good or unexpected joke to make me laugh out loud, and that doesn't happen very often in games and very rarely after at least one play through.
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