Favorite lines in video games

[NeoGoomba]

"Hunger and weakness are no bar to vengance's call. I would find my assassins and send them back whence I came!"

"Vae Victus!!"
-Kain from "Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen"

Sarafan: "Surrender, fiend, and we will promise you an easy death."
Kain: "I could promise you the same, but it would be a lie."

[Duckie]

"Vae Victus!!"
-Kain from "Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen"

Except he totally pronounces it incorrectly like a tool- Vae Victus means gibberish. It's Vae Victis, or Victo, or Victae, depending upon the gender and number of people- never, unfortunately, -us despite the stereotype of Latin. And it's pronounced "Why Weak Tease" if you're doin' it right, "Vay Vick Tiss" if you're a catholic priest.

So I can never enjoy that line regardless of its supposed badassery because I get the image of Kain as a dyslexic catholic priest with poor grammar.

[Teleros]

*Copy-pastes half the Warcraft / Starcraft "pissed unit" lines*

Plus from DoW 1's Chaos Space Marines: "Do you hear the voices too?!"

Plenty of good /silly lines in WoW too

[Uraniun235]

"Wave goodbye to your secret crap, dumbass!"

[Silver Jedi]

"You think you can screw with me? With
Maurice Chavez? What you thinking, asshole?" GTA Vice City

"Lift this hairspray!" *Whomp*
"OH my nose!"

Although I think It's really the sound effect that sells that line. I think VCPR Was my favorite radio station in that game.

[Crazedwraith]

"You think you can screw with me? With
Maurice Chavez? What you thinking, asshole?" GTA Vice City

"Lift this hairspray!" *Whomp*
"OH my nose!"

Although I think It's really the sound effect that sells that line. I think VCPR Was my favorite radio station in that game.

"You're not a big shot! You're not even an medium-shot! You're an asshole!"

Maurice is awesome.

[Drooling Iguana]

"Avoid missing ball for high score."

[Ryan Thunder]

"Death comes in shadows!" - Vindicare Assassin, Dawn of War - Winter Assault

[Count Chocula]

"Suck it down!"

Duke Nukem

[TheFeniX]

Mass Effect
Turian Council Member: "Do you enjoy committing genocide, Commander?
Shepard: "Depends on the species, Turian."

Fallout
"You're a hero, and now you have to leave."

CoD: WaW
"They flood their metro in an effort to kill us. Once again, they fail. Once again, we cheat death."

Jedi Knight
Katarn: "There has to be a better way to make a living."

Left 4 Dead
Francis: "I hate zombies. I hate hospitals. I hate elevators."
Bill: "Damn it, Francis, is there anything you don't hate?"
Francis: "You know what I don't hate? I don't hate this." ::hefts shotgun::

[Joviwan]

Duke Nukem is disqaulified because 110% of his lines are lifted straight from Army of Darkness.

Even if he is awesome.

Also: Every line from Jon Irenicus. Yes, I'm a big baldur's gate fanboy, but his delivery of every single line is a work of art to my ears.

Oh, and more max payne love:
"The truth was a burning green crack through my brain. Weapon statistics hanging in the air, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Endless repetition of the act of shooting, time slowing down to show off my moves. The paranoid feel of someone controlling my every step. I was in a computer game. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of. "

And some L4D: "I'm calling zombie bullshit." -Zoey

[Ford Prefect]

Francis: "I hate zombies. I hate hospitals. I hate elevators."
Bill: "Damn it, Francis, is there anything you don't hate?"
Francis: "You know what I don't hate? I don't hate this." ::hefts shotgun::

I could have sworn he said 'I don't hate vests'.

[TheFeniX]

Francis: "I hate zombies. I hate hospitals. I hate elevators."
Bill: "Damn it, Francis, is there anything you don't hate?"
Francis: "You know what I don't hate? I don't hate this." ::hefts shotgun::

I could have sworn he said 'I don't hate vests'.

You could be right. It sounds like "This" to me he either shifts his arms or doesn't move at all. I always just assumed he was talking about his firearm. Either way, Bill's comment is what always makes me laugh.

[Stark]

So itt we have dramatic or interesting lines vs generic tough guy nonsense. I mean seriously, 'I am a vampire rar I like blood'? FANTASTIC LINE LOL. That people consider unit chatter 'best videogame lines' shows exactly why videogame dialog is generally such garbage.

[Ford Prefect]

Honestly, when it comes to video game dialogue, delivery is almost certainly most important, because the lines themselves are almost certainly bullshit. It's like how every line in Devil May Cry 4 is pretty stupid as written, but the voice actors manage to make it less offensive. Pretty much everything Nero says is faux teenage macho bullshit but is pretty well delivered.

[Drooling Iguana]

So itt we have dramatic or interesting lines vs generic tough guy nonsense. I mean seriously, 'I am a vampire rar I like blood'? FANTASTIC LINE LOL. That people consider unit chatter 'best videogame lines' shows exactly why videogame dialog is generally such garbage.

How appropriate, you fight like a cow!

[Stark]

That's the shit! I want to be a fireman.

[Peptuck]

"My name is Andrew Ryan, and I ask you a simple question: is a man not entitled to the sweat of his own brow? No, says the man in Washington, it belongs to the poor. No, says the man in the Vatican, it belongs to God. No, says the man in Moscow, it belongs to everyone. I rejected those answers. I chose something else. I chose the impossible. I chose...Rapture!"

Really, pretty much every line Ryan has in Bioshock is gold. Sander Cohen and Frank Fontaine are right behind him, but damn is Ryan one hell of an orator.

[Oskuro]

Super Mario Brothers 3: After plowing through the 7 worlds, making your way through the final over-militarized land, and beating Bowser through the power of his sheer stupidity, you finally find the princess, and she says: "Sorry, but the princess is in another castle.... just kidding"

DooM:
"The only way out is through"
"You've proved too tough for hell to contain"
"You wonder were bad people will go when they die now that you've devastated hell"

Monkey Island:
"There's a three-headed monkey behind you!" "Yeah, like I'm going to fall for that one" *cue to the three headed monkey walking up to Guybrush*
"I will walk through the gates of hell with your head on a pike!" "Walk? You've got no legs!" *grumbles* "Ok, I will roll throught the gates of hell!"

Sinistar:
"I LIVE!"

And, of course...

[chitoryu12]

"You think you can screw with me? With
Maurice Chavez? What you thinking, asshole?" GTA Vice City

"Lift this hairspray!" *Whomp*
"OH my nose!"

Although I think It's really the sound effect that sells that line. I think VCPR Was my favorite radio station in that game.

"You're not a big shot! You're not even an medium-shot! You're an asshole!"

Maurice is awesome.

Maurice is pretty much the single reason my mom loved Vice City. I used to be able to do a perfect imitation of him.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it is complete pandemonium here on the set of Pressing Issues, with the award-winning and soon-to-be-executed Maurice Chavez!"

[Ryan Thunder]

So itt we have dramatic or interesting lines vs generic tough guy nonsense. I mean seriously, 'I am a vampire rar I like blood'? FANTASTIC LINE LOL. That people consider unit chatter 'best videogame lines' shows exactly why videogame dialog is generally such garbage.

That's not why the lines are shit. That's just evidence that they are.

[Stark]

Why write quality when nerdlings will say 'OMG I SHOTZ MAN' is a great line? Remember the kudos Mass Effect got for writing? The game had ONE good line and I can't even remember what it IS.

[Isolder74]

Monkey Island

Everything Murray says everything!

[Lord Insanity]

How about screwing the Druuge from Star Control 2. Now on youtube. Of course for some odd reason that guy sold his hyperwave caster instead of the extra Mycon egg casing. Weird.

[Oscar Wilde]

Fallout 3-
What is the pass code?

Fuck you

Why must you do things the hard way? I'LL ASK AGAIN, WHAT IS THE PASS CODE?

No seriously. Fuck you.
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Anything Liberty Prime says.
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Call of Duty 5-
"Flamethrowers. We'll burn 'em out."
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"ZEROES! ALL AROUND!"
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"We thought you were among the dead in the massacre at the square"
"He was. Among them, but not one of them."
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"So long as you live, the Heart of this army can never be broken"