History Narm / VideoGames

*** Also in the original quadrilogy, Kite's "[[DullSurprise Counter attack?]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y1h98yWpes No!]]" with a dramatic zoom in on his rather weird looking face.

** Neither is the fact the whole scene resembles the [[Film/KingKong1933 famous King Kong scene where he climbs the Empire State Building]]. [[spoiler: Except, Demon!Kong is being taken down by [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga SPARKLES]]]].

*** While the goblin version is not really narmy per say, the male goblin /cry emote (a sarcastic "Oh, waah, waah, waah!") which Gally Lumpstain, target of goblin players doing the quest, does from time to time just sounds hilariously inappropriate, like it's no big deal that he and his comrades have been imprisoned by undead warriors and are awaiting execution.

** The same voice actor, Billy Bob Thompson, voices the male (default) Pokémon Trainer in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. While many people got used to and even attached to his Greninja voice, his performance as Red is quite often seen as inferior to Michele Knotz's take on the character from ''Brawl'', as he now sounds like a stereotypical nerd in a high school movie that's often seen being StuffedIntoALocker of given a {{Swirlie}} The voice has been widely criticized as grating on the ears, making the Trainer hard to take seriously even by dorky KidHero standards and undermining how cute/heartwarming the interactions between Trainer and Pokémon are supposed to be. Thankfully, there's an option to switch to a female Trainer (Leaf, voiced to much more acclaim by Creator/KateBristol), but this incentive ''not'' to play as the male Trainer was arguably one of the many factors that turned the female Trainer into an EnsembleDarkhorse.

* Being the [[ObviousBeta black]] [[ChristmasRushed sheep]] of an otherwise venerable WWII-FPS franchise, ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun'' has its lion's share of narm.

** The same voice actor, Billy Bob Thompson, voices the male (default) Pokémon Trainer in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. And it's just... ''ugh''. While many people got used to and even attached to his Greninja voice, his performance as Red sounds like a nasally, uncharismatic nerd and has been widely criticized as grating on the ears, making the Trainer hard to take seriously even by dorky KidHero standards and undermining how cute/heartwarming the interactions between Trainer and Pokémon are supposed to be. Thankfully, there's an option to switch to a female Trainer (Leaf, voiced to much more acclaim by Creator/KateBristol), but this incentive ''not'' to play as the male Trainer was arguably one of the many factors that turned the female Trainer into an EnsembleDarkhorse.

** Every piece of armour is visible on characters outside of battle or even in cutscenes, so you can ruin dramatic moments by putting characters in bikinis, swimming trunks or hilariously mismatched armour sets (Heavy top + swim trunks, heavy bottom + WalkingShirtlessScene...). What makes this even better is that flashback cutscenes ''remember'' what armour you had on characters at the time, making it ''very'' easy to see [[spoiler: Fiora in a bikini during her HeroicSacrifice]] repeated throughout the entire game. Shulk's swim trunks alternate costume in ''Super Smash Bros Wii U/3DS'' is probably an intentional ShoutOut to this hilarity.

** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has one with Steve Haines during the mission "The Wrap Up", where he gets shot in the leg by an FIB SWAT agent and proclaims "Ah! Same goddamn leg!".

*** [[spoiler: Kat]]'s death might count for some. It's horribly sad at first because it's so sudden and she was just warming to Six, but when she drops to the ground, Six grabs a magnum and empties the clip into the dropship overhead. The rest of Noble follow suit, and you can't help but think of ''Film/HotFuzz''.
---> Danny Butterman: Ever fired your gun in the air and yelled, 'Aaaaaaah?'

* The ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series is known for having effectly creepy final bosses that clash well with the SugarBowl settings. While the final boss of ''VideoGame/Kirby64'' follows this, the fact that he has a comically oversized band-aid on his head takes away some of the impact.

* Creator/AnthonyBurch talks about this phenomenon in his lecture ''[[https://youtu.be/rm0rrGBin5Q?si=LTezOvNm3TJGn_Ag Dying is Funny, Comedy is Easy]]'', specifically in light of why comedy games are so rare or seen as difficult to make:-

** What's more, despite the game having some very good voice acting ([[SeinfeldIsUnfunny for its time]]), one of the reason being that the voice actors were known [[WTHCastingDepartment for their work on animated]] shows... ''especially'' on Nickelodeon. Some of which are using the ''exact'' same voice as some of their other characters. Say hello to [[WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} Drew Pickles]] speaking to you as a rabbit person. The person who helps you out in the first dungeon sounds like [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]] with a country bumpkin accent. One of the first characters you meet in chapter 4 is [[WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger Carl Foutley]]. What might end up ruining a genuinely serious moment is when you ''finally'' meet the BigBad of the game... and it's [[spoiler: of all things, Kath Soucie... using her [[WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger Blake Gripling]] voice, of all things]]! However, while [[LampshadeHanging the characters are just as surprised as the viewers]], it's probably ''not'' quite the intended audience reaction.

* In a [[{{VideoGame/Yakuza}} series]] already known for numerous over the top moments, ''VideoGame/Yakuza3'' features a stand out incident wherein an injured old man with no special abilities whatsoever manages to catch a charging bull by the horns, ''stop it in place'', and throw it off to the side.

* The very ''beginning'' of the classic BeatEmUp ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast''. [[{{God}} Zeus, God of Gods]], commands the two [[NoNameGiven nameless heroes]] to [[RiseFromYourGrave rise from their graves]], but the voice clip that accompanies this scene is of such low quality that Zeus sounds like [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Elmer Fudd]]: "Wise fwum your gwave!"

* Mediocre but entertaining StealthBasedGame ''VideoGame/SpyFiction'' would have been a better piece of, well, SpyFiction had the voice actors bothered trying. A particularly egregious example is when the lunatic terrorist Dietrich captures the positive, quirky agent Nicklaus, chains him to a [[FauxSymbolism crucifix-type device]], and shoots him in the heart in front of his best friend. If you weren't laughing at Dietrich's painfully badly-written mocking of the survivors -- "Boo hoo! Poor baby!", in a [[JustAStupidAccent nonspecific and ridiculous Eastern European accent]] -- you probably threw back your head and laughed as the survivor attempted to give a scream of bitter rage to the heavens and ended up making a sound vaguely like he'd finally passed a very stubborn stool.

** ''GX''[='=]s Story Mode's final chapter. After winning the [[ThatOneLevel notoriously hard]] F-Zero Grand Prix and defeating [[spoiler:the champion of the underworld]], one last opponent stands before Captain Falcon: [[spoiler:the creators of the universe.]] Which would be somewhat climatic, except the race is [[spoiler:just a glorified time attack against a developer ghost, which is even explicitly called a Staff Ghost by the game, that doesn't interact with the player at all.]] For a game that is hailed by many players as the best in the series, it sure is one hell of a DisappointingLastLevel.

** ''GX''[='=]s Story Mode's final chapter. After winning the [[ThatOneLevel notoriously hard]] F-Zero Grand Prix and defeating [[spoiler:the champion of the underworld]], one last opponent stands before Captain Falcon: [[spoiler:the creators of the universe.]] Which would be somewhat climatic, except the race is [[spoiler:just a glorified time attack against a staff ghost that doesn't interact with the player at all.]] For a game that is hailed by many players as the best in the series, it sure is one hell of a DisappointingLastLevel.

* ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' itself is a WidgetSeries with many of its really silly elements (The dancing aliens, the space police, Ulala outperforming Pudding on her own show) invoked and PlayedForLaughs, but the second game makes a few situations rather narmy. Mostly in stage four wherein Fuse is zapped with a laser. Despite that Fuse is only inside a ship, the electricity somehow hits him and he makes a scream.

** In ''Star Fox 3D'', Andross' EvilLaugh has been recorded as a completely flat, almost sarcastic-sounding "Ha-ha-ha." What's more, it doesn't even match the length of his laughing animation, leaving him silently wiggling for another two seconds after he's finished.

* [[FanonDisContinuity Most people prefer not to mention]] the CD-i ''Mario'' and ''Zelda'' games. If you're not [[SoBadItsGood laughing about the bad voice-acting]] and [[OffModel worse animation]], you're wondering [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs what the writers were on]] when they wrote the script. See Narm.TheLegendOfZelda for details on the Zelda games.

* In the arcade LightGunGame ''Friction'', enemies will sometimes ''[[LudicrousGibs explode into pieces]]'' upon being shot by the player. What makes it even more hilarious is the fact that there is [[BloodlessCarnage no blood]], which makes the enemies look like they're made out of crystals. And after a few seconds, their bodies sink into the ground (as opposed to simply vanishing, like in most gun games), as if they were being pulled into the ground by some evil corpse-manipulating magician.

** For the channel's "20 Million Loud" initiative intended to get young adults to vote in the 2004 US presidential election, the show aired a music video for an original song titled "Stand and Choose." The song itself is a cheesy, TotallyRadical rap song, but the video is the really absurd part; it features characters from every single game the show had a license to, resulting in a truly bizarre MassiveMultiplayerCrossover featuring characters from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', and '''''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''''' of all things standing side by side as they [[MundaneMadeAwesome vote, stand around waiting to register to vote]] [[note]]even though many of them don't live in the USA or even on Earth and shouldn't realistically be eligible to do so[[/note]], and perform coordinated dance routines, resulting in a music video that's more likely to baffle the viewer than inspire them.

** For the channel's "20 Million Loud" initiative intended to get young adults to vote in the 2004 US presidential election, the show aired a music video for an original song titled "Stand and Choose." The song itself is a cheesy, TotallyRadical rap song, but the video is the really absurd part; it features characters from every game the show had a license to and then some, resulting in a truly bizarre MassiveMultiplayerCrossover featuring characters from ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', and '''''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''''' of all things standing side by side as they [[MundaneMadeAwesome vote, stand around waiting to register to vote]] [[note]]even though many of them don't live in the USA or even on Earth and shouldn't realistically be eligible to do so[[/note]], and perform coordinated dance routines, resulting in a music video that's more likely to baffle the viewer than inspire them.

* The only way to maintain willing suspension of disbelief during ''VideoGame/TraumaCenter'' is to assume it's an over-the-top pastiche through design. A terrifically hilarious moment was when Dr. Stiles was wandering around in the city in misery after being negligent towards a patient. When it begins to rain, he doesn't mind -- 'maybe it will calm me down!'

* In ''Trauma Team'', the first forensics mission [[spoiler:shows that the electrician is the murderer, but his face when he is stabbing just kills the mood]].

* Albedo from ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' creates many instances of {{Narm}}. One notable instance being his [[ChewingTheScenery over-the-top]] "AHHHH, YEEEESSS.. FEED ME YOUR HOSTILITY, PIERCE ME WITH YOUR HATRED!"

*** [[spoiler:Asahi's death. What was supposed to be an emotional scene quickly get's kinda ruined by the excessive narration and the massive exposition dump that followed and everyone seemingly forgetting what just transpired]].

---> '''Green greasy greasels!!!''' Oh...(later on)...''HOORAH! MY KITTIES!!!''