Evening Reading

Wow Thanksgiving week just kinda snuck up on me. What is up with that?

As for the the videogame news around these parts:

Lastly, don't worry about that silly economy. It's all just a bunch of goofy numbers. We'll all be fine!

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

From The Chatty
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    November 20, 2008 6:02 PM

    Your favorite quotes from characters in video games...

    GO!

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      November 20, 2008 6:04 PM

      Gordon Freeman: " "

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      November 20, 2008 6:04 PM

      "Grabbim Peels"

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      November 20, 2008 6:04 PM

      Larry Laffer

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      November 20, 2008 6:04 PM

      "Looks like you hit the tree Jim." <- my fav.

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        November 20, 2008 6:07 PM

        I worked on Links. I had to listen to that sound clip at least six times a day for over five years. I hate you.

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          November 20, 2008 7:25 PM

          Nice! For access software? I miss that game.

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          November 20, 2008 8:06 PM

          Oh man, I loved that game.

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          November 21, 2008 1:43 AM

          Too bad you aren't working on Links still. Too bad no one is :(

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          November 21, 2008 4:24 AM

          <3 <3 <3

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        November 20, 2008 6:36 PM

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      November 20, 2008 6:05 PM

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      November 20, 2008 6:05 PM

      Anthony Carmine [while killing Locust]: "Suck it, SUCK IT!!!!!"

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      November 20, 2008 6:06 PM

      huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huhhuhuhuh

      No one will even find this one hahah

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      November 20, 2008 6:09 PM

      "Wake up, Crono!"

      "But the future refused to change"

      "Not Enough Time Units!"

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      November 20, 2008 6:10 PM

      "I'm not putting my tongue on that"

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      November 20, 2008 6:10 PM

      Mobius one, engage

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      November 20, 2008 6:10 PM

      NEED A DISPENSER HERE
      Ho ho ho, ho ho ho... y-you got owned!
      Basically... kind of a big deal.

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      November 20, 2008 6:12 PM

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      November 20, 2008 6:12 PM

      Oh, he's gotta be taking the PISS! We just busted our arses to get to this LZ, and now they want us to go ALL THE WAY BACK DOWN?!

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      November 20, 2008 6:12 PM

      various ones i cant remember right now from gta4.

      stay a while and listen!

      meh, there are others. im too tired

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      November 20, 2008 6:12 PM

      From Psychonauts: G-Man: [as a housewife] Although over time my husband will lose desire for me sexually, he will always love my pies.

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        November 20, 2008 6:30 PM

        It had so many! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395252/quotes

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          November 20, 2008 6:37 PM

          Yeah Psychonauts was a freaking goldmine of hilarity.

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          November 20, 2008 11:50 PM

          Bwahahaha:
          Lungfish Civilian: Oh no! Goggalor is headed for the orphanage!
          Lungfish Civilian: [the building gets smashed] No, wait, that wasn't the orphanage!
          Lungfish Civilian: Oh no, that *was* the orphanage!... for dogs, it was the puppy orphanage everyone!

          Lungfishopolis was really the highlight of an amazingly well put together game! Man, this is making me want to go play it again for the 4th time....

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            November 21, 2008 2:34 AM

            hahaha I loved that level, the crazy third guy that just mumbled something every time had me in stitches

            "Victory!"
            "VICTORY!"
            "blrgglhhhh!"

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        November 20, 2008 10:09 PM

        :D! Yes!

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      November 20, 2008 6:16 PM

      Sup Bitches!

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      November 20, 2008 6:16 PM

      This is just like counterstrike!

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      November 20, 2008 6:17 PM

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      November 20, 2008 6:19 PM

      I'm coughing up blood that doesn't even belong to me.

    • Ely legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      November 20, 2008 6:21 PM

      Not really a favorite, but I often get lines stuck in my head that are from the Hong Kong areas of Deus Ex. I think it's mostly the bad deliveries by the voice actors they got to do Chinese characters.

      "You made a big mistake, homeboy!"

      "I cannot. I am not allowed.
      Time is up.
      One customer twice... not allowed.
      Satisfied? Yes?"

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        November 20, 2008 7:17 PM

        One customer twice... not allowed.

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      November 20, 2008 6:21 PM

      IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME LENNETH. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW THE STATUS OF OUR EINHERIJAR?!!?

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      November 20, 2008 6:22 PM

      From Grim Fandango, Manny: Run you pigeons, its Robert Frost!

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      November 20, 2008 6:23 PM

      "As cold as ice." - Locke

      "May the rats EAT YOUR EYES! The darkness comes." - Maximilian Roivas

      "Stay awhile and listen." - Deckard Cain

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      November 20, 2008 6:24 PM

      "Daggit, naggit, nabbit, daggit!"

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      November 20, 2008 6:28 PM

      zug zug

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      November 20, 2008 6:29 PM

      Work Work.

      What is the nature of your medical Emergency?

      *Kefka Laugh*

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      November 20, 2008 6:29 PM

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      November 20, 2008 6:33 PM

      "You called down the thunder. Now reap the whirlwind."

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      November 20, 2008 6:33 PM

      "I'm gonna light you up, sweet cheeks!" - Millhouse Manastorm

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      November 20, 2008 6:34 PM

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      November 20, 2008 6:39 PM

      "Sure I've got my invitation. It's right here in this seltzer bottle."

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      November 20, 2008 6:39 PM

      "Vlad was one of those old time bad guys with honor and morals, which almost made him one of the good guys. None of us was a saint."

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      November 20, 2008 6:40 PM

      Tickle!

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      November 20, 2008 6:42 PM

      You fight like a dairy farmer.

      How appropriate, you fight like a COW!

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      November 20, 2008 6:45 PM

      oh shit, also MEIN LIEBEN!

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      November 20, 2008 6:48 PM

      I SPEEL MY DRINK!

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      November 20, 2008 6:51 PM

      "Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire and i was like 'goodbye' and you were like 'NO WAY' and then i was all 'we pretended we were going to murder you'? that was great..... "

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      November 20, 2008 6:54 PM

      I thought you died

      I DID

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      November 20, 2008 6:56 PM

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      November 20, 2008 6:58 PM

      You look like you need a monkey!

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      November 20, 2008 6:59 PM

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      November 20, 2008 7:00 PM

      By fire, be purged!

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      November 20, 2008 7:02 PM

      What you want me kill?

      STOP POKING ME!!!!

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      November 20, 2008 7:03 PM

      "enemy submarine spotted!"

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        November 20, 2008 7:04 PM

        especially in the middle of a desert.

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      November 20, 2008 7:07 PM

      Mooo moooo moo mooooo moo

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      November 20, 2008 7:08 PM

      What can change the nature of a man?

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      November 20, 2008 7:08 PM

      "Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes!"

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      November 20, 2008 7:10 PM

      "excuse me, excuse me GET OUT OF MY WAY!

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      November 20, 2008 7:15 PM

      "It does look like shit" from a video game, but is still good.

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      November 20, 2008 7:17 PM

      Die, monster! You don't belong in this world.

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      November 20, 2008 7:19 PM

      I'm thinking of a number between one and ten, and... I don't know why.

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      November 20, 2008 7:23 PM

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      November 20, 2008 7:24 PM

      NEED MORE RAGE

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      November 20, 2008 7:25 PM

      "All Your Base Are Belong To Us!"


      did it really take this long?

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        November 20, 2008 8:05 PM

        I'm still waiting for a Duke3d quote. I'm baffled at that.

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      November 20, 2008 7:33 PM

      Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors.

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      November 20, 2008 7:33 PM

      Stay a while, STAY FOREVER!

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      November 20, 2008 7:35 PM

      "your heart will explode" coz it was creepy and so unexpected the first time.

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      November 20, 2008 7:35 PM

      You want to wash Wang? Or you want to watch Wang wash wang?

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        November 20, 2008 8:08 PM

        Two wangs are better than one.

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        November 20, 2008 8:25 PM

        Baseball wrong.

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        November 20, 2008 8:45 PM

        Ha! You half the man you used to be!

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      November 20, 2008 7:47 PM

      Some chick in Oblivion: What is the charge in these parts for necrophelia? Just asking..."

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      November 20, 2008 7:49 PM

      I don't even know what a Reunion is!

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      November 20, 2008 7:51 PM

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      November 20, 2008 7:57 PM

      Jill.... Don't.. open that... door.

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      November 20, 2008 7:57 PM

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      November 20, 2008 8:01 PM

      Get out of here Stalker. Get out of here Stalker. Get out of here Stalker.

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      November 20, 2008 8:02 PM

      "...Did you just tell me to win one for the Gipper?"

      Oh, Sam Fisher...

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      November 20, 2008 8:03 PM

      We Require

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      November 20, 2008 8:04 PM

      "Want some rye? Course ya do!"

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      November 20, 2008 8:09 PM

      My vision is augmented.

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      November 20, 2008 8:09 PM

      SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!
      HURRY UP WITH THAT STATION!

      Also, every line from a bad guy in MGS2.

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      November 20, 2008 8:10 PM

      "Hi, I'm Misty!"

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      November 20, 2008 8:11 PM

      How appropriate, you fight like a cow.

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      November 20, 2008 8:11 PM

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      November 20, 2008 8:14 PM

      While I'm in here I may as well pick up something for myself...

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      November 20, 2008 8:16 PM

      I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIIIGHT!

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      November 20, 2008 8:16 PM

      they're ready for you Gordon... in the test chamber

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        November 20, 2008 8:21 PM

        tesssst chamber

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        November 20, 2008 8:33 PM

        That's a good one. Everyone that's ever played Half-Life remembers that.

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          November 20, 2008 9:50 PM

          even PAPABOO has gotten that far!

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      November 20, 2008 8:21 PM

      WELCOME BACK...TO THE STAGE OF HISTORY!

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      November 20, 2008 8:24 PM

      Look at that, it's like two assholes on their first date.

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      November 20, 2008 8:27 PM

      " Go Suck A Dwarf's Cock"

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      November 20, 2008 8:30 PM

      Vae Victus

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      November 20, 2008 8:32 PM

      Nyah! You shot me! Nyah!

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      November 20, 2008 8:36 PM

      anything said by an old person in Diablo II, from Marius the narrator to "stay awhile, and listen!"

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      November 20, 2008 8:49 PM

      Reinforcements? I am the reinforcements.

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      November 20, 2008 8:54 PM

      It took hundreds to kill me, but I killed men by the thousands!

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      November 20, 2008 9:17 PM

      The candles burn out for you; I am free.

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      November 20, 2008 9:22 PM

      time Dr Freeman, is it really that time again?

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      November 20, 2008 9:26 PM

      The text above NPC heads in the original Fallout Ow, my ribs!

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        November 20, 2008 9:28 PM

        Also the new Death Knight ghouls say cool stuff. Me like.....shiiiney]q

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      November 20, 2008 9:29 PM

      DIVE, DIVE, DIVE! HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT

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      November 20, 2008 9:34 PM

      Hail to you, Champion!

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      November 20, 2008 9:42 PM

      My mind is a swirling miasma of scintillating thoughts and turgid ideas.

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      November 20, 2008 9:43 PM

      Snake? What happened? Snake? SSSNNNAAAKKKEEE!!!

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      November 20, 2008 9:43 PM

      "NOM NOM NOM, NOM NOM"

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      November 20, 2008 9:49 PM

      I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled. Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools!

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      November 20, 2008 9:53 PM

      any line from Robert Logia in Freespace 2

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      November 20, 2008 9:54 PM

      "THOSE ALIENS BASTARDS ARE GONNA PAY FOR SHOOTING UP MY RIDE"

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      November 20, 2008 10:01 PM

      "Want some rye? 'Corse ya do."

      -Return to Zork

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      November 20, 2008 10:02 PM

      I-76: Taurus (to Groove, when asked for advice) "I have nothing constructive for you at this time."

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        November 20, 2008 10:03 PM

        Oh! I-76: Skeeter (car on fire): "Things don't look too good for SkeetEEEEERRRRRR!!!"

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        November 20, 2008 11:15 PM

        "Groove, Check yo' map!" is my favorite line from I-76. someone should make a FO3 carwars mod.

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          November 20, 2008 11:18 PM

          car wars and auto duel. they need to redo that stuff. at least on xbla or ds

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      November 20, 2008 10:08 PM

      Are you a bad enough dude to save the President?

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      November 20, 2008 10:09 PM

      Fool! You have just ensured the doom of this world. You cannot even begin to imagine what you've set in motion this day.

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      November 20, 2008 10:11 PM

      Not my Favorite but.

      "There comes a time in every Gladiators life when he has to realize he is Completely and Utterly screwed!"

      Please someone get it :(.

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        November 20, 2008 10:30 PM

        Omfg I take that back.

        Weasel boss: "Some of us around here haven't shown any respect."

        Weasel boss: *Walks over to Chicho* Was it Chicho?

        Weasel boss: *Walks over to Frankie* Was it Frankie?

        Weasel boss: *Walks over to Ali* "Was it Ali?"

        Weasel boss: *Standing next to Paulie with a wooden bat in his hands* "Or was it."

        Weasel boss: "Paulie... "

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      November 20, 2008 10:13 PM

      Hurt me more Snake! Make me feel alive again!

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        November 21, 2008 12:21 AM

        I've been waiting for this pain~~~

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      November 20, 2008 10:13 PM

      "HEY! You get back here and apologize. I'm bleeding!" - Guard, Thief III

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      November 20, 2008 10:19 PM

      ZUG ZUG!!!!!!

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      November 20, 2008 10:26 PM

      HuurDUUUUR! Or whatever the onomatopoeia is for the Pyro in TF2. I'll literally say that to anyone who's played TF2.

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      November 20, 2008 10:59 PM

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      November 20, 2008 11:05 PM

      No one is left. Everything is gone. Kharak is burning. Kharak is being consumed by a firestorm. The scaffold has been destroyed. All orbital facilities destroyed. Significant debris ring in low Kharak orbit. Receiving no communication from anywhere in the system. Not even beacons. :(

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      November 20, 2008 11:05 PM

      LINK!

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      November 20, 2008 11:07 PM

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      November 20, 2008 11:13 PM

      HARD RAIN IN FALLING EVERYBODY DOWN!


      -Henchman from NOLF

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      November 20, 2008 11:17 PM

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      November 20, 2008 11:21 PM

      SOUP'S ON! --Soup, 11th Hour

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      November 20, 2008 11:27 PM

      Fool! You have just ensured the doom of this world. You cannot even begin to imagine what you've set in motion this day. Go to the Temple of Light, in the eastern ciry of Kurast. There you will find the gate to Hell opened before you. You must find the courage to step through that gate Marius. Take the stone you hold to the Hellforge, where it will be destroyed. Now run! Take the stone and run!

      and

      Guten Tag!

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      November 20, 2008 11:37 PM

      Dark MetamorphosisI

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      November 20, 2008 11:38 PM

      POWER OVERWHELMING!!!

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      November 20, 2008 11:39 PM

      EVERYONE! I AM ON FIRE !!!!

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      November 21, 2008 12:20 AM

      "Your song is not ours!"

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        November 21, 2008 12:42 AM

        This one always creeped me out.

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      November 21, 2008 12:35 AM

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        November 21, 2008 12:42 AM

        Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in! Don't just stand there, come in!

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        November 21, 2008 1:23 AM

        Oh, god. I was lucky and played those quite a while after release and people had made mods to not have to wait for everyone etc.

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      November 21, 2008 12:41 AM

      "Grave Digger is doing it.... in the air!

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      November 21, 2008 12:42 AM

      I've got a present for ya!

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      November 21, 2008 12:43 AM

      Stay awhile...stay forever!

      Back when voices in games was a big thing.

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      November 21, 2008 1:07 AM

      can't beat SHO-RYU-KEN!!!

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      November 21, 2008 1:12 AM

      You are finished... here.

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      November 21, 2008 1:25 AM

      "Excuse me. Do you know where I can find some sailors?"

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      November 21, 2008 1:31 AM

      Nordom: Attention, Morte. I have a question: do you have a destiny... a purpose?
      Morte: Is Annah still wearing clothes?
      Nordom: Affirmatory.
      Morte: Then, the answer is yes.

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      November 21, 2008 1:35 AM

      "They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger. And then it was over."

      "The word was out. A deadly virus released into the City's corrupt circulatory system. Something wicked this way comes. Max Payne at large."

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        November 21, 2008 1:36 AM

        also "Valkyr was supposed to be a maiden that would lift you to a warrior's heaven. Instead, it had turned out to be a one-way demon ride to hell."

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          November 21, 2008 1:37 AM

          One more... "I had a bullet with Nicole Horne's name on it. I had ten thousand bullets with the hag's name on them."

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          November 21, 2008 1:42 AM

          Max Payne had tons of awesome lines. One I remember is something like:

          They all grabbed for their guns. I made like Chow-Yun Fat.

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            November 21, 2008 1:48 AM

            Gognitti bailed. I made like Chow Yun-Fat. :)

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            November 21, 2008 1:50 AM

            "You know what I'm talking about. In all the cool action movies, and I'm talking about the coolest of the cool, it always seems like time slows down in the middle of the action. You know, you can see the bullets flying through the air, the hero dodging in slow-motion. Oh man, it would be so cool to be able to do that. Bullet-time, that's what they call it. Bullet-time, yeah heh, would be so cool."

            Random Thug <3

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      November 21, 2008 1:40 AM

      "A bomb is a bad idea for close range combat." - JC Denton, Deus Ex

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        November 21, 2008 1:43 AM

        "You never know you're in a bad spot until you stop in one; keep moving."
        -Sam Fisher, SC:CT

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      November 21, 2008 1:43 AM

      “Didn’t we have some fun though? Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said ‘Goodbye’ and you were like ‘NO WAY!’ and then I was all ‘We pretended we were going to murder you’? That was great."

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      November 21, 2008 1:47 AM

      "My life for Aiur ... uhm I mean Nerzul!"

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      November 21, 2008 2:17 AM

      TAKE THAT!

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      November 21, 2008 2:19 AM

      Wake up Mr. Freeman. Wake up and smell the ashes.

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      November 21, 2008 2:21 AM

      "Hey - you that one that kill all! You get me magic banner or we attack! You no leave with life! You kill big uglies and give back magic. Go past corner and door, find uglies. You give, you go!"

      Snotspill, Diablo 1

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      November 21, 2008 2:25 AM

      Tellah: You spoony bard!!!

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      November 21, 2008 2:45 AM

      "By Sigmar's sizzling sausage!" - Warhammer Online

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      November 21, 2008 2:58 AM

      Oh no, the ____ is damaged. You'll have to go to the ____ room and activate the ____ switch. But be careful, there's a lot of activity out there.

      -every generic order-giving guide type character in every shitty generic shooter ever

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      November 21, 2008 3:25 AM

      Why do pricks go in cunts?

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      November 21, 2008 3:28 AM

      "Look behind you, a three-headed monkey!"

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      November 21, 2008 3:50 AM

      Stay awhile, and listen!

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      November 21, 2008 4:04 AM

      Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time and I can tell you they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I am or why I say this. Sit down and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard.

      I love how they started and ended the last trilogy on that too.

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      November 21, 2008 4:10 AM

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      November 21, 2008 4:32 AM

      I have awoken

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      November 21, 2008 4:36 AM

      "Tandis qu'ils dorment, nous gagnerons victoire!"

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      November 21, 2008 4:53 AM

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      November 21, 2008 9:07 PM

      Dayum, I'm Lookin' Good

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