Merchant gets the good lines, and “ the straight man is you,” as Erik Wolpaw, the game’s co-writer, once put it during a discussion at New York University.īut the ambition of Jazzpunk, a new game that arrived last week for personal computers, is to let players actually deliver the punch lines instead of just sitting there and listening while the game says and does things that make them laugh. Portal 2 is not a game that turns you into a comedian. It’s not “funny for a game.” It competes with the best comedic work in any medium. The greatest video game comedy is almost certainly Portal 2, a 2011 first-person puzzler that stars Stephen Merchant. So perhaps it’s unsurprising that other than romance, comedy is probably the least developed genre in video games. Play is joyful and often filled with laughter, but you don’t usually think of it as funny.
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