Favorite video game quotes

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.
 
"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
 
From the same game

"Get over here!"

"Fatality!"

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

 
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