That's definitely because it's taken out of context, and the first one sort of requires a bit of in-depth understanding of the game to semi-make-sense.
<- Intro
"Not on my watch, Monsieur Napolean Bonerhard!" - Tink, Disgaea 2
"I'll attract the enemy with my 'human call'! 'I'm SO wasted! I'm SOOO wasted!'" - Dryad, Warcraft III
"My LIFE For AIUR!.. I mean.. Nerzhul!" - Acolyte, Warcraft III
"All I see is BLACKNESS! ....Oh.. My hood's down" - Acolyte, Warcraft III
"Take a dump on the face of common sense!" Disgaea 4 trailer. XD
"So she told me to tie her up, and do whatever I wanted to her. So I took her Stereo." Goblin, World of Warcraft
"When I grow up, I wanna be a Blitzball!" - FFX
So pretty much a selection of random words arranged into a sentence.
Sure, if you're completely incapable of reading sentences.
I mean sure the third quote makes sense, but the other two are just trying too hard to be mystical and profound.
Agree completely, which is what I was getting at when I said I was enjoying dialogue that was in the moment or voice acted well, but could otherwise be just words; ie the "you stay away!" spoken by Tidus in FFX.
Even quotes that are poetic and do make sense don't have the impact they used to after playing RPGs for 15 years.
"Well done. Here come the test results: You are a horrible person. That's what it says: A horrible person. We weren't even testing for that" -GLaDOS
"All right, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! 'I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?' Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's going to burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!" -Cave Johnson
And pretty much the entire voice track for Portal/Portal 2
The first one meens that when the time to fight comes (Clash of swrods echo) you can't look back second guessing yourself (journey chasing the past ends). Instead you have to look forward and push on (Journey to know today)
Second one I really don't know how it can't make sense. It's just a statement of the emotions we go through, first we get sad, then we get angry with what ever made us sad, then we grow to hate it (seperateing simple anger from a deeper hatered) and then ***goes down.
And pretty much the entire voice track for Portal/Portal 2
"Good news: I figured out what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a morality core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, to make me stop flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, so get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters."
From Castlevania II Simon's Quest:
What a horrible night to have a curse.
The morning sun has vanquished the horrible night.
From Star Fox 64:
Do a barrel roll!
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link:
I AM ERROR.
From Secret of Mana:
Walk the seasons from Spring to Winter. Spring again and we can enter.
Suikoden II had a mailbox in the castle and you'd get letters from other characters. My fave was this:
AMAZING TRICK
I taught Bonaparte a new trick. I call it "Swallow the Man". I'll show it to you later. Bye-bye.
Millie
From Mike Tyson's Punch Out:
“Help! Doc!!” “Join the Nintendo fun club today! Mac.”
As for a Final Fantasy series one... too many to list, but this one comes to mind. From Final Fantasy VII:
This guy are sick.
The people that know that remember that one, are awesome, btw.
Now for something a bit more obscure, but truely great in my eyes. One of the original PS 1 games. As on... the first games released for it. It was called 'Silverload'. It was a point & click game so you were always clicking on things to see if... anything happened. My friends and I would play this together (well one person would play, and the others would watch). After hearing this SO many times, it's burnt into my brain. I saw a person on youtube was recording a play-through of it, and messaged him and asked him to record these two phrases for me. He makes them say the first a few times and then changes to the other one. This video is much longer than it should be (like a minute+) so in order to keep you from saying: I want that minute of my life back", just listen to the first one and then skip towards the end to hear the other one.
The first one meens that when the time to fight comes (Clash of swrods echo) you can't look back second guessing yourself (journey chasing the past ends). Instead you have to look forward and push on (Journey to know today)
Second one I really don't know how it can't make sense. It's just a statement of the emotions we go through, first we get sad, then we get angry with what ever made us sad, then we grow to hate it (seperateing simple anger from a deeper hatered) and then ***goes down.
In the LOD, Lloyd is trying incite war among the 3? nations. He's basically explaining how he's doing it. Kill a bunch of people. The survivors get sad. After they get sad, they get angry. After they get angry, the look to retaliate. War.
What the hell?
anyways, here's mine: "Enough expository banter! Now we fight like men! And ladies! And ladies who dress like men! For Gilgamesh...it is morphing time!" - Gilgamesh, FFV.
Not really a quote per say but the dialouge in this sceen (from 1:10 onwords only 2 lines before that, and minus the "what could the few of you ever do?") is my favourite pre boss talk... It's one of the few sceens I can never bring myself to skip XD
Audio is a bit weird at afew points in the video though : (
Ashman ALMOST got my favorite game quote. Same game, same character... That quote he had was awesome from Count Dracula though.. My favorite is when Dracula quotes the bible. "For what profit is it to a man, if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul. Matthew 16:26 I believe" I might have remember the passage number wrong, but thats the gist of it. I just thought it was so weird but awesome that they had Dracula quote the bible as you defeat him. And for those of you that don't know what game it is from, its Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. One of the best action/RPG games ever made for the PS1. If you haven't played it and own a PS3, buy it for 5 bucks on PS1 Classics. Its very much worth the money.
"Memories are nice, but that's all they are." - Rikku, X. Edit: I even made a sig. Using it for another site, haha. Anyone can use it of course. It's Etna from Disgaea.
I thought that quote was from Wakka... Maybe he just quoted rikku?
"Memories are nice, but that's all they are." - Rikku, X. Edit: I even made a sig. Using it for another site, haha. Anyone can use it of course. It's Etna from Disgaea.
I thought that quote was from Wakka... Maybe he just quoted rikku?
Deffinely Rikku says it... when your at the farplane and she waits outside.
"I made my living as an elevator attendant, but... I know several ways of inflicting pain. Don't worry, I'm not as fragile as I look. Try to kill me. If you can."
-Elizabeth, Persona 3
"You see, U-DO is a God in this dimension. If, in fact, God cannot be destroyed, then we shall be the ones who become Gods ourselves."
-Dmitri Yuriev, Xenosaga Episode III
"Fear drives evolution! Human beings have used their intelligence to conquer their fears and to obtain power! ...Oh yes! And this is that power that is speak of. I will teach you... The same fear that Albedo and I received!!"
-Dmitri Yuriev, Xenosaga Episode III
"For love? Ridiculous. That has no value."
-Wilhelm, Xenosaga Episode III
"as one bright star shines through the clouds at night.... And as one song rings clear above the roar of the beasts...
We hold to one hope in these darkest of times.
The star is you, and the song is yours.
And someday, that hope will become our dreams..."
-FFXI
I keep thinking of good ones then realizeing there from books not games XD
Working Designs has some of the most brilliant animation and storylines. If you never played half of their titles for Sega CD you are doing yourself an injustice.
I know that my favorite quote (that's not half joking) is from Lunar. I don't recall who said it but it stuck my head for most of my awkward adolescent years:
"To dream of the person you would like to be, is to waste the person you are."
"The body is but a vessel for the soul, a puppet which bends to the soul's tyranny. And lo, the body is not eternal, for it must feed on the flesh of others, lest it return to the dust from whence it came. Therefore must the soul deceive, despise and murder men."
—A.J.Durai-
Vagrant Story
This world is one of sadness. Battle brings death. Death brings sorrow. The living may not hear them. Their voices may fall upon deaf ears. But make no mistake - the dead... are not silent. - The Sorrow, MGS3
I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61! - Colonel, MGS2
I actually like all of the Colonel's misc. ramblings near the end, they made me laugh.