Favorite video game quotes

[BrightShinyGirl]

Grim Fandango

Manny is exploring a locker room. He jiggles the handle of one and it doesn't open.

"They're locked."

Carla, from offscreen:

"They're LOCKERS!"

 

[Euphony]

Alyx = best wife

I am specifically avoiding any of the VR talk as I simply can't afford it any time soon.

I worry a top shelf Alyx tale would push me easily into "bad decisions" territory.

 

[Euphony]

Grim Fandango

Manny is exploring a locker room. He jiggles the handle of one and it doesn't open.

"They're locked."

Carla, from offscreen:

"They're LOCKERS!"

Equal parts clever as they were irreverent, many of those 90s PC games were high water marks.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

"I am sworn to carry your burden."
The true Skyrim quote

Do you visit the cloud district often? No, of course you don't.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

"I may be half human... but I'm all woman." -Houston, Vigilante 8

"The meek shall not endure to enherit thy earth." -Padre Destino, Vigilante 8 2nd Offense

 

[lovecraft68]

From the same game

"Get over here!"

"Fatality!"

 

[Devinter]

From the same game

"Get over here!"

"Fatality!"

https://i.imgflip.com/412h6q.gif

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

In various forms:

"I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee."

Skyrim

 

[AchtungNight]

I have to include this one-

“Nothing is more badass than treating a woman with respect!”

- Borderlands 2

 

[WyreBendr0417]

I really don't have any as of late. I'm still playing 'Unreal Tournament 2004'.

WB

 

[GlennJenko]

From The Last of Us Part II, "I know you wish things were different, I wish things were different. But they ain't." - Joel

From the same:

Joel: If somehow the Lord gave me a second chance at that moment, I would do it all over again.
Ellie: I don't think I could ever forgive you for that... but I would like to try.

From Mass Effect 3, "Had to be me. Somebody else might have gotten it wrong." - Mordin Solus

 

[Euphony]

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

From Mass Effect 3, "Had to be me. Somebody else might have gotten it wrong." - Mordin Solus

If I remember it right, there is a scene in the Shore Leave expansion where if Mordin dies there is a recording of him singing Gilbert and Sullivan. Quite a heart-wrencher.

 

[GlennJenko]

If I remember it right, there is a scene in the Shore Leave expansion where if Mordin dies there is a recording of him singing Gilbert and Sullivan. Quite a heart-wrencher.

His main Gilbert and Sullivan homage is in the main game with Very Model of a Scientist Salarian. In Shore Leave he sings part of Amazing Grace.

 

[sapphyrix]

"Inside the mailbox was absolutely nothing. Nothing after nothing came bursting out."

 

[AchtungNight]

“It’s our time now. Let’s get this shit started.” - Saints Row

 

[AchtungNight]

“I’ve been told if someone annoys you, either pray or polish your armor. High annoyance at the gods and their fanatics is why my armor gleams as it does.”

- The beautiful failed Paladin atheist Valerie, my favorite slow burn romance option in Pathfinder Kingmaker.

 

[AchtungNight]

“You had two mothers, Aloy. A dead woman and a machine.”

“No! First you shun me, now this? I will not be worshiped! I will not be your ‘anointed’. I don’t belong to you!”

“I’ll always have a moment for you, Erend. Maybe even two.”
“Two. She really likes me.”

- Horizon Zero Dawn.

 

[HeyAll]

Not in the game, but Nintendo had this quote on the screen which later became famous.

https://marcopeg.com/content/images/2021/11/everything-not-saved-will-be-lost.png

 

[Rob_Royale]

This Dwarven joke from WoW has become a long running gag with my son's and I. One of them will say it when an attractive woman goes by, which irritates the heck out of my wife.

"Oh I'm havin a wardrobe malfunction! ('twang') Ooo, there's me hammer"

 

[AchtungNight]

“If they want to fly into a war zone, I have first class tickets for them.”

- Robocop: Rogue City.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

"Do you get to the cloud district often?"

I'm lying.

 

[LibertineDaddy]

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

• Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
• Accompanies the Secret Project "The Planetary Datalinks"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sid_Meier's_Alpha_Centauri

 

[onehitwanda]

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

HL1 was great. But the sequel takes the cake for me. Alyx = best wife

This one deserves a full, HQ treatment. Even after so many years it still gives me chills.

Oh, Elizabeth. I still love you.

 

[NoTalentHack]

So, this isn't a videogame quote, but it is very much in the spirit of how I'm feeling now that I've hit my writing goals for the year, namely, "What now?"