Gaming

While the lack of laughter can be from depression or stress (the podcasts I used to die laughing from only get an actual laugh out loud moment every once in a while now), I feel like most story-based video games that do humor try too hard nowadays and it doesn't land (like outer worlds)

Most of my laughter in video games, personally has been from interacting with other people. Valheim, Helldivers 2, REPO, overcooked, stardew valley, etc...

Probably the last single player game I laughed with was A Hat in Time or something.

We laughed a lot while playing RV there yet. But by myself, probably Disco Elysium.

Several times in Yakuza Kiwami, courtesy of Majima Everywhere system. Basically, you arrive in town completely weak and this dude who is also a yakuza, called Goro Majima, takes it upon himself to "train you up". For the player this means having to fight him all the time. At first, it's just meeting him on the street. Then, he starts making ambushes around corners. Then, he starts dressing up as a cop just so he can have an excuse to beat you up. THEN he starts muscling into fights he didn't even start and it just gets more and more ridiculous from there. I found it super funny just how annoying they made him. In a good way, though!

In Clair Obscur, convincing your fifth party member to join you had me actually cackling

Last month I fell into Cyberpunk 2077. There is a lot of humor in that game, but I remember getting a call at 2 in the morning to pick up dick melting off guy and I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.

I cackled playing Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth

...when some NPCs moonwalked in the background during some dialogue.

Before that, some parts Yakuza: Like A Dragon which I thought was a much funnier and better game

Goat Simulator 3 - absolutely ridiculously stupid funny.

Joy and Laughter are woke, so I stopped with them years ago. (/s on the "so", literally just on that word)

Played yesterday with friends at NFS underground 1 it was quite fun

I'll second Dispatch. Enjoyed it more than I thought I would and legitimately looking forward to the next chapters.

Not a funny line but I laughed out loud when selling items in Lethal Company for the first time. It's an absurd game made with humor, and the multiplayer gameplay creates a lot of hilarious situations.

Sir Whoopass when the goblins are looking for a wifi connection.

My partner slipped on a banana peel in PEAK, I got a cheap chuckle out of that lol.

Portal Revolution

The Messenger was hilarious