Funny / Streets of Rogue

• The tutorial NPC gets so overexcited at you getting past a (really rather simple) part of the tutorial that he explodes. A second tutorial NPC is swiftly brought in as a replacement.
  • The fact that the first tutorial NPC dies means that the tutorial has a death count of at least one person. If you kill the shopkeeper and the bouncer, that death count increases to three, leading the surviving NPC to comment that perhaps they should change their tutorial up somewhat.
  • After completing the tutorial, the player can enter the home base and talk to a Resistance Leader, who briefly calls the mission to kill the mayor a suicide mission before performing a Verbal Backspace. Other lines from Resistance Leaders include comments on declining leadership since the tutorial was implemented, describing how wonderful it is to have tasted a 3-year-old chicken nugget, and wondering if members should get a forehead tattoo.
  • After the second Tutorial NPC spends the entire tutorial fucking with you you're granted a chance to throw one of the rocks you pick up through the fence at him. If you hit him admits that, yeah, he kind of deserved it.
• The Home Base fills up with characters as you unlock them, and each one has a few lines.
  • The Cop reassures the player they're not going to arrest them, commenting that they have never made an arrest, only murdered people.
  • The Investment Banker made a large bet on the player dying from accidental cyanide pill ingestion.
  • The Doctor, who manages traits, states they know the player's body than they do, before realizing how weird that sounds.
  • The Blahd comments that him and the Crepe have a lot in common, including that they're both into standing in one spot.
  • The Bartender is at a loss for words after the Resistance Leaders asked them to make the base a "dry" base.
  • The Slaver is surprised that the Resistance is ok with neo-slavery.
    • Meanwhile, the Slave states they'd be at the base even if it weren't for the "'head blowing up' thing".
  • The Jock and Vampire are hanging out in the den, apparently drawn together by their mutual hatred of the "showers-are-fascist" hacker.
• The game's physics engine makes it possible for particularly powerful melee attacks to knock their targets right through particularly vulnerable walls. This gets even funnier if it happens out of nowhere as a glitch.
• Any time you can cause a prison break, the prisoners will immediately rush out — often being spotted by the prison's guards and beginning a fight with them. There's nothing stopping the situation from collapsing into a rather cynical anticlimax if the guards end up winning.
  • If you play as the Blahd or Crepe, even if you free a member of the other gang from a prison cell or jail, the first thing they will do if they see you is immediately attack you.
• It's entirely possible for a Blahd and a Crepe to spawn inside the same building. They won't notice until the player comes near, even if they are looking directly at each other.
• The Cop needs to kill or arrest NPCs who are marked as "guilty" for their Big Quest. Drug Dealers are always marked as guilty, even if they offer Optional Missions. It is both possible (and usually optimal) to receive a quest from one, complete it, and then immediately arrest the questgiver.
  • Another thing that causes an NPC to be marked guilty is escaping from a cell, regardless of their class. Including police stations. As a result, the optimal strategy here is to ask a Cop for the keys to the cell, use them to release the prisoner, then immediately re-arrest them. Black Comedy at its finest.
• Each one of the speeches the various classes gives at the end of the game.
  • The Slum Dweller states that they started from the bottom, but questions whether all the murder, destruction, and petty theft was worth it. They are certain of one fact, however: They never read anyone's emails.
  • The Soldier notes the many atrocities they've seen — and committed, possibly against the friends and family of some of the audience. Despite this, they stand firm in their belief that guns don't kill people. Then they propose that AI be put into guns to solve this problem.
  • The Cop states that the criminal justice system is inherently flawed, noting that they constantly saw people being beaten with batons. They then ask a very important question...
  Cop: Where is our machine gun budget???
  • The Doctor gives a half-hearted speech about not killing anyone, asking if anybody in the crowd had murdered in the past hour. They get a few affirmative responses, to which the Doctor asks that they kindly not do that anymore, thanks.
  • The Blahd's first order of business is replacing the color red with the color blue, which would "in a roundabout way" put an end to the city's gang warfare problems. The Blahd then provides an alternative of replacing both with the "more neutral 'fuschia'".
  Blahd: Look at the progress we're making already!
  • The Vampire successfully convinces the population they don't actually need blood to live. Somehow.
  • The Thief, knowing how difficult pickpocketing can be, announces "floppiness" requirements on all pants, promising to issue parachute pants to everyone.
  • The Jock promises "a chicken in every pot, and a man cave in every garage!" He then offers free wedgies for nerds and, lastly...
  Jock: And most importantly, a ban on all video games not titled Madden '07. I... really miss 2007. High school was the last time I remember being happy.
  • The Assassin proposes an "afterschool 'backstabbing camp'".
  Assassin: Better for them to learn a trade than kill each other on the streets.
  • The Cannibal admits to the unfortunate hostility between cannibals and everyone else, and invites everyone to a Barbecue Ribs party as a peace offering.
  Random NPC: Are they made with human ribs?
  Cannibal: Ye— No. (beat) ... Yes.
  Random NPC: Can you also provide napkins?
  Cannibal: No.
  Random NPC: Oh gross, I'm out.
  • The Mech Pilot - whose Big Quest involves gunning down everyone that could tangentially be described as a bad guy - asks if anyone in the audience has committed a crime recently. One of the random NPCs replies that they left the toilet seat up and their wife fell in it. The Mech Pilot proclaims it isn't a crime, and the NPC then elaborates that their wife died, and it was a deliberate, overly complex murder on their end.
• The ending narration can be this for a number of reasons:
  • If the Mayor is dead, the game will state that the Mayor "died a horrific death, thus making it impossible to govern with any degree of competence."
  • If the Mayor is threatened into surrendering his hat, the ending narration begins:
  Narrator: And so, the great and all-powerful Mayor succumbed to a threat from some random person they had just met five seconds earlier.
  • If the Mayor is arrested:
  Narrator: And so, the Mayor was arrested and sent to jail, destined to spend the rest of their life eating imitation brand jailhouse Fud.
  • If the Mayor dies and is resurrected (which generally isn't possible without player intervention of some kind):
  Narrator: And so, the Mayor died for a few seconds, which ended up being just long enough to lose the mayorship.
  • If the Mayor is turned friendly, Loyal, or Aligned and gives over his hat willingly (which has a high chance of failing):
  Narrator: And so, the Mayor managed to lose every single ounce of power after handing their hat to some random person off the street who 'seemed pretty cool'.
  • No matter how the Mayor's hat is obtained, however, as long as there are enough people for a speech to be given, the following line is always:
  Narrator: The denizens of the city rejoiced, as their new mayor brought hope for a brighter future.
  • Killing so many people in the Mayor Village that only a few are left will cause the new mayor's speech to be skipped, with the message:
  Narrator: Unfortunately, turnout for the new mayor's speech was so low that the whole thing was canceled. Bummer.
  • Then, the very end of the ending narration caps it all off with:
  Narrator: No, there is only one thing on everyone's minds, the only thing in this world that truly matters... Partying down. Or, at least, that's what would have happened if there were actually enough people around for a party. Mega bummer.
  • The line immediately after "The denizens of the city rejoiced" states that the Mayor became corrupted by power, money, and bacon cheeseburgers, causing a new Resistance to form.
• The game's "Bad Ending" occurs when you push the Mayor's hat down a hole, making it impossible for anyone to assume power. The city falls into chaos with no single figure dominating their lives, and the Resistance leaders become depressed and existential with no enemy to fight against. The game then congratulates you for getting the bad ending and informs you that you will not have any partying down this time.

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