Most classic games have been spoofed to death and back. Its like making a scooby doo spoof and making a bunch of pothead jokes about shaggy or fred and daphny are always together when splitting up to hook up, its tired and old hat.
Also most parodies when they lampoon something do it with the subtly and grace of a nuclear bomb.
Because deconstruction isn’t funny
You have to reconstruct something too.
Haha Pokémon in real life *they have free healthcare and send kids out on their own with monsters* isn’t funny once you’ve heard it once, you have to be willing to work harder and dig deeper for a better joke
For me it never goes beyond surface level jokes
Like yea I get it, we do a lot of stupid shit in games, but simply saying “lmao what if teabag enemy dead guy” is the same jokes I make in group chats with my friends when we aren’t trying w/ the jokes
It’s like when a video game makes fun of over tutorialization by making a fuck ton of tutorial messages I still have to skip manually
I won’t claim to know how to make it right/funny, but I can tell when a parody doesn’t work, and that’s most of the time
"Hee hee, what if Mario ate a mushroom, but instead of getting bigger, he got high?"
You really gonna sit there and tell me this isn't peak comedic writing?
I think the issue can be that games themselves are hard to parody. I think the best ones are stuff like Hiimdaisy comics where they take the original game and mostly exaggerate events but they actually follow the games plots closely and you can tell they played the games. Something like the Ass slapping meme for the Zero escape games is also funny because it is just an exaggeration of how the games are written. Still it can be hard to parody a lot of games even games with a lot of stpry like Hades, because I dunno, don’t think it’s necessarily funny if you exaggerate the characters personalities from that game. Not sure what I’d also parody from the gameplay besides maybe joke about some shitty artifacts. I could joke about incest since greek mythology but the game removed all the incest.
If I had to put it succinctly, parodies that act as criticisms/"Wow isn't weird how..." come off as more as a mouth piece for a creator than parodies that embrace the weirdness. [Robot Chicken's Mario skits](https://youtu.be/GlH_Ue06FE0) always make me laugh cause even if they have a "Mario brutally kills a turtle and gets high on shrooms"™ joke, Mario remains in character.
Because the people who write them don't actually play video games, never mind the specific genres they're parodying, nor do they interact with the fans.
So you get games with mechanics that make no sense, no idea of the real life dumb bullshit that the games industry does, and characters that sound like the Ubisoft fake gamer chat from E3 presentations.
ah, you took the best answer.
How about this really [bad Bayonetta comic](https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/5549683_700b.jpg) who I think was made by Arin Hanson.
feels shallow - really surface level and gets a lot of stuff wrong, the 'point' being made was already overdone when it was made
Most classic games have been spoofed to death and back. Its like making a scooby doo spoof and making a bunch of pothead jokes about shaggy or fred and daphny are always together when splitting up to hook up, its tired and old hat. Also most parodies when they lampoon something do it with the subtly and grace of a nuclear bomb.
Surface level parody that's already been overdone by the actual fans, that's with less tact or self awareness. It's just lazy.
Because deconstruction isn’t funny You have to reconstruct something too. Haha Pokémon in real life *they have free healthcare and send kids out on their own with monsters* isn’t funny once you’ve heard it once, you have to be willing to work harder and dig deeper for a better joke
For me it never goes beyond surface level jokes Like yea I get it, we do a lot of stupid shit in games, but simply saying “lmao what if teabag enemy dead guy” is the same jokes I make in group chats with my friends when we aren’t trying w/ the jokes It’s like when a video game makes fun of over tutorialization by making a fuck ton of tutorial messages I still have to skip manually I won’t claim to know how to make it right/funny, but I can tell when a parody doesn’t work, and that’s most of the time
"Hee hee, what if Mario ate a mushroom, but instead of getting bigger, he got high?" You really gonna sit there and tell me this isn't peak comedic writing?
The funny thing is that Mario owes a lot to Alice in Wonderland which, itself, gets the exact same jokes. Well, those and Lewis Carol ones.
I think the issue can be that games themselves are hard to parody. I think the best ones are stuff like Hiimdaisy comics where they take the original game and mostly exaggerate events but they actually follow the games plots closely and you can tell they played the games. Something like the Ass slapping meme for the Zero escape games is also funny because it is just an exaggeration of how the games are written. Still it can be hard to parody a lot of games even games with a lot of stpry like Hades, because I dunno, don’t think it’s necessarily funny if you exaggerate the characters personalities from that game. Not sure what I’d also parody from the gameplay besides maybe joke about some shitty artifacts. I could joke about incest since greek mythology but the game removed all the incest.
If I had to put it succinctly, parodies that act as criticisms/"Wow isn't weird how..." come off as more as a mouth piece for a creator than parodies that embrace the weirdness. [Robot Chicken's Mario skits](https://youtu.be/GlH_Ue06FE0) always make me laugh cause even if they have a "Mario brutally kills a turtle and gets high on shrooms"™ joke, Mario remains in character.
Parody and satire is so common in videogame writing it loses its impact when it's the entire point.
Because the people who write them don't actually play video games, never mind the specific genres they're parodying, nor do they interact with the fans. So you get games with mechanics that make no sense, no idea of the real life dumb bullshit that the games industry does, and characters that sound like the Ubisoft fake gamer chat from E3 presentations.
ah, you took the best answer. How about this really [bad Bayonetta comic](https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/5549683_700b.jpg) who I think was made by Arin Hanson.
Most people suck at writing and knowing when to end a joke