Hello,
Tere is one thing I would KC to be: humorous. Well i am not talking about humor as it is presented nowadays but old czech medieval humor, which as i beleive was quite brutal. I have read some medival stories and jokes and I must say that they were more cruel and disgusting then funny.
So if charecters in game would make such jokes and tell such stories it would add to autenticity. Even more I would love to see side quests with some shocking and/or “funny” ending,
Lastly I would like to say that I dont mean to make the game lewd, just kind of medieval fun.
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Wouldn’t mind, something of a cross between Fable/Monty Python Holy Grail and Witcher Humor.
humor wasn’t any less sophisticated than modern times. puns and hebrew inside jokes existed way back in the bible. medieval writers understood satire and parody. lots of medieval manuscripts featured doodles and jokes written on the margins by monks who were tired of copying text.
I did not mean to say that they were less sophisticated. I was trying to say that the things that made them laugh might be different than now.
Dark humor for dark time, gallows humor, slapping machine? Drunk humor, maybe easter egg in game from popular suggestion of ks backers. Slapping!
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I read Dr. Ian Mortimer’s A Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England, and I remember him saying that medieval English humor was very sarcastic, and that you’d likely make a prince laugh until he cries by falling off your horse and hurting yourself (then get some money for making him laugh so much).
Interesting to see that Czech humor was similar.
i didn’t say you said they were but you made this topic presumable so the topic of humor can be discussed.
+1 for humor (there are enough super-cool super-serious hard-boiled games out there)
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So you take slaping as humor? I though taht you are death serious about slaping 
I absolutely support idea of homor. In Fallout ( I only play 1&2) humor was implementet perfectly. You do notice it and still has feeling of postapocalyptical world. I meant that only as a example. I know that in Kindom Come: Deliverance it’s different as it is meant to be realistic - I just like the balanced result.
PS: I believe there were some humorous notes on the edge of manuscripts pages, hm? Maybe it could help as a inspiration.
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I hope there will be well hidden and well disguised popculture references Like the one from Guild Wars 2 - tombstone with engraving saying “Morgan Decker – The final victim of the Oxcart Killer” … this one did absolutely make me laugh out loud
yes, monks were writing things like “my ass hurts” and drawing pictures of trumpets coming out of men’s behinds. i think monty python even uses one of these pictures in their holy grail movie.
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I think that we can count on this one with czech developers. If we’re good at something, it’s making fun as much as we can.
Seriously now. The most awesome games made me not only drop my jaw at effects or stories, but also made me laugh. I am pretty sure, that guys from warhorse know this and the game will have a few satyric characters.
Pretty sure you see rabbits chasing knights in the margins, too.
Humor is fine when it’s done correctly. The reason I don’t like “comedy” films is because the jokes are so frequent and forced that it just becomes unfunny no mater how good the individual joke is. Take Game of Thrones for Instance. It’s a dark and serious series with very few jokes or humorous moments, so when someone does make a joke it’s unexpected and the value is thus higher. It relives a situation without it feeling forced. Having a character or two in the game with a humorous personality would be fine, but if you mean make it like Fable then heck no. Stuff like that just isn’t funny.
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Yep, just think of Legolas and Gimly in LotR. It would be nice to have a character or two to light up the mood. Certainly even in those times a kind of teasy and humorous people existed.
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Or remember Kalkstein and Zoltan in the first Witcher game. Those two characters are most memorable to me due to their unusual (and sometimes amusing) way they think and talk.
I think time appropriate cynicism or situational sarcasm would work well in this type of setting. Three Stooges slapstick would just be plain silly unless it’s in the form of a jester or at a country fair.
Brrrr. No. I’m not usually pedantic when it comes to those things, but Legolas and especially Gimli were done far too hamfisted.
A good and subtle dose of humor is always healthy to this kind of games, just like The Witcher series. I think sometimes humor help me, as a gamer, to relate better with the characters, even if the story is serious and dark.