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10 most unbelievable lines of dialogue from Too Human

Fidgit's Tom Chick writes:

"Regardless of what I think of Too Human as an action RPG*, there's no denying that it contains some of the most memorable writing in a computer game since Richter barged in on Dracula and was told something about a man being a miserable pile of secrets. Early on in Too Human, I was sent scrambling for a pencil because I couldn't quite believe what I'd heard. I made sure to keep it handy throughout.

After the jump are the top ten most unbelievable bits of dialogue from Too Human."
* Not much
SUP3R - contributor
Published: 491 days 10 hours ago | Article | Xbox 360
 
 

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Bombibomb - 491 days 10 hours ago
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ROFL poor Denis Dyack. That was some of the most horrendous dialogue I've ever seen in my life.
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el_bandito - 491 days 10 hours ago
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LMFAO! ""If that's your best, bring on your worst."
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Millah - 491 days 8 hours ago
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Holy wow, is it really THAT bad? I knew it would be comical, but I didn't think it would be THAT horrible and cheesy. I'm pretty sure I wrote better than that in Middle School. Dang Denis Dyack, if Too Humans your best then bring on your worst.
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jmalc - 491 days 8 hours ago
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Dyack and Co. knew that by hyping the game so much, actively baiting forum trolls, and then including such lines as "If that's your best, bring on your worst," they could ensure their game immortality as an internet meme.

Damn comedians.
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StephanieBBB - 491 days 3 hours ago
1.4 - Sorry to be off topic but..
This thread is full of win! ^^
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Amsterdaam - 491 days ago
1.5 -
Come on boys, let's forget this game's epic fail and PARTAY!!!!

HAY HAY HAY! 2 Snaps and a twist!

A man walks into a doughnut shop

MAN: Give me your best doughnut
DOUGHNUT MAN: Here you are
MAN *lowers his head, takes bite of doughnut*
DOUGHNUT MAN: What do you think?
MAN *Spits out doughnut, raises head and glares at DOUGHNUT MAN*
MAN: <In a dark, gravely voice> If that's your best, give me your worst.
DOUGHNUT MAN: Double-U Tee Eff?
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VigorousApathy - 491 days ago
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At least he tried. Most people just copy the cliche exactly. This guy went to the next level.
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xhairs9 - 490 days 23 hours ago
1.7 - IF anything
They need to have someone grammar check the whole game apparently.
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Hellangelzx - 490 days 21 hours ago
1.8 - You know
It was actually pretty funny...For being so bad.
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Lew_Ijgee - 490 days 21 hours ago
1.9 - @ Amsterdaam
+ bubbles for that one. Funny as Hell
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tplarkin7 - 490 days 20 hours ago
1.10 - SK has no talent.
I don't know why people thought SK was a AAA firm. I assume it was due to them being a 2nd party Nintendo developer in the past. Microsoft should dump SK ASAP.
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Sheddi - 490 days 19 hours ago
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yeah those are some funny lines
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iHEARTboobs - 490 days 18 hours ago
1.12 - LOL
That was hilarious, ALF!
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IcarusOne - 490 days 14 hours ago
1.13 - who cares?
I don't get why this is so hot right now?

Off the top of our heads, every one of us can name ten games with far worse dialogue than this - dialogue that truly deserves to be made fun of. I could give you a manifesto from MGS4. And let's see if any lists go up when RE5 launches. They should. Clearly this author seems to not enjoy the game. But if this is the worst one can gripe about it, I may have to check it out.

And some of those lines actually sound damn cool.
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Adriana Lima - 491 days 10 hours ago
2 - holy sheet
i'm embarrassed for the game.

that is some horrible dialogue

a 5th grader could write better dialogue.
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Fox Jeffworthy - 491 days 10 hours ago
2.1 - did someone
say 5th grader?
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Bombibomb - 491 days 10 hours ago
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I just spit soda all over my keyboard thanks to Jeff.
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Adriana Lima - 491 days 9 hours ago
2.3 - lol
lets have $3X jeff
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GiantEnemyCrab - 491 days 9 hours ago
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Do you understand anything about this game? It is based on Norse Mythology so the people talk like vikings. Man, this is why this article sucks because without the context you make the assumption like you did.

Go watch something like the Thirteen Warrior to see what I mean.

You want some bad dialog fire up SC IV.
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zo6_lover27 - 491 days 9 hours ago
2.5 - @ Jeff
OMG I can't stop laughing, and it sure doesn't help when your a fan.
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PirateThom - 491 days 3 hours ago
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Whoa... hold on... people talk like vikings?

Vikings didn't speak in English, to start with.

It's like a bad movie where the Nazis talk with German accents while speaking English. Absolutely no need for awkward sentence construction. If they wanted to make it authentic, they could have made them speak in some Scandinavian language, not broken English.

This game is as close to Norse Mythology as Eaters of the Dead was to Beowulf. Lots of artistic liberties. The fact there's robots makes the entire Norse mythology schtik nonsense.
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Rock Bottom - 491 days 2 hours ago
2.7 - @GiantEnemyCrab
"If that's your best, bring on your worst."
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VigorousApathy - 491 days ago
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Wait, so Vikings talked in 1970's cliches with nonsensical ideas and poor sentence structure?

And I you can't have a movie about Nazi Germany for English speaking people without having them speak English. It's a commonly excepted style for movies that would be entirely in a foreign language otherwise. They do it in the accent because that is the most they can do. And don't give me that subtitle idea. If subtitles were any good at all everything would have subtitles. No one picks subtitles as their first choice. Unless they are Mel Gibson.
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ozhuerta - 490 days 23 hours ago
2.9 - @GiantEnemyCrab
You're just one of the "Damn comedians".
Sorry, had to do it.
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reckoner - 490 days 19 hours ago
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Ahahah Jeff that was gold.
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Ozzyb - 490 days 15 hours ago
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LOL.. Fox Jeffworthy! OMG, LOL! That is freakin' funny!
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Figboy - 490 days 15 hours ago
2.12 - LMAO
well played, Fox, well played...
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cr33ping_death - 491 days 10 hours ago
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"there be fanboys here" on N4G :) damn really
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Rock Bottom - 491 days 2 hours ago
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"There be crappy dialogs here" in Too Human.
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cr33ping_death - 490 days 21 hours ago
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Yeah no Sh!t i was poking fun at that. slow mcuh?
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iHEARTboobs - 490 days 17 hours ago
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So was he Cr33ping Death.
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Mc Fadge - 491 days 9 hours ago
4 - Stupid article
Makes me question the intelligence of the author. Some errors are bad syntax and some sound rather strange, but with no context or characters it's hard to tell. That being said, I could clearly understand many of the meanings, which he then twisted to make it sound ridiculous

Bad article :/
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Rock Bottom - 491 days 2 hours ago
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Explain "If that's your best, bring on your worst." for me then.
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VigorousApathy - 491 days ago
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Even most of the little kids on here could understand and enjoy the article. Yet you question the intelligence of the author?
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Mc Fadge - 490 days 18 hours ago
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First of all, it seems to mean to be quite melodramatic in writing, that being said, I'll explain myself:

10) "What would monsters want with the Norn's datastacks?"

Hard to judge this one, we haven't played through it (though he states we know nothing about it). But there's nothing wrong with the writing.

9) "Make sure courage guides your sword hand, not your fear."
Why would courage guide your fear? That makes no sense.

It obviously means don't let fear guide your sword, bad syntax.

8) "Make sure you die on your feet and not cowering behind some fetid corpse."

It's not common speech therefore it's ridiculous?

7) "I aim to get out of here."
"Yeah, but will it be in a bag or on a pair of Valkyrie wings?"
"Damn comedians."

Context needed, sounds bad though

6) "Come on, boys, let's party."
Wait, did I really hear that? Did one of my followers just enjoin his cyber-Norse companions to "party"? What game is this again? And can I get David Cross in here for a reading of that line?

Context

5) "We shall free the world from cold stagnation."

Really that bad?

4) "Your fear soaks your armor. I can smell it."
Not many videogames feature characters who smell each other.

It's not literal.

3) "There be monsters here."

What's wrong with that?

2) "As executor of the will of the Aesir, I will destroy you."
Then, as the keeper of the materiel manifest for the Aesir, I will either equip or sell the items that you drop.

Sounds lame in writing, but it's not really bad :/

1) "Did you toast to me when I lay upon a marble slab in hell?"
This line is followed by an awkward silence. No joke. The character says it at a party and then everyone clams up and won't make eye contact with him. I'm not sure why, because I'd long since given up trying to make sense of what passes for a story in Too Human. But in my head, the awkward silence was from everyone wondering whether to correct his usage of "lay".

The fact he couldn't get the meaning of that is why I questioned his intelligence, it really is quite obvious :/

1) "Your agonized shrieks shall be your only monument."

Drama again

1) "If that's your best, bring on your worst."

Nonsense statement :P
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VigorousApathy - 490 days 11 hours ago
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No I'm not happy. If something's bad I want everyone to know about it and agree with me.
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Mc Fadge - 490 days 11 hours ago
4.5 - Really now
It's just criticising an aspect of a bad game, and that aspect really isn't that bad :/
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GiantEnemyCrab - 491 days 9 hours ago
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Is it just me or are people going the extra mile to bash this game?

I mean picking apart dialog before the game has actually hit the store shelf? Something which noone can put into context without seeing the game.

Where is the article complaing about the CD artwork? Or how about that the CD booklet is too shiney?

Yes some of it is funny but it all seems a bit much.
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kenshin22up - 491 days 9 hours ago
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if that's your best, bring on your worst
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Munky_Mafoo - 491 days 8 hours ago
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Damn comedians
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devilhunterx - 491 days 3 hours ago
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Your agonized shrieks shall be your only monument.
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bunbun777 - 491 days 1 hour ago
5.4 - No Silly Crab Man.....
We are not going out of our way to bash this game, but we are enjoying some ridiculous lines of dialogue. What I can't get my head around is that you are so busy defending a game that you may or may not be enjoying, just because some of us are having a good time.

"Your fear soaks your armor. I can smell it."

Lawl.
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I LOVE my xbox - 491 days ago
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"Come on, boys, let's party."

This game is full of loss.
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ElementsUnknown - 490 days 23 hours ago
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GiantEnemyCrab,

Dyak invited the criticism when he baited people on message boards and attacked videogame journalists for the past 3 years. If he or his game can't take it then he shouldn't have dished it out.

There is a huge difference between someone eccentric and somewhat annoying like Cliffy B doing his shtick but then delivering an amazing game like Gears and dyak being so confrontational and then delivering a mediocre product like Too Human.
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juuken - 490 days 19 hours ago
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Why are you defending the game so much Crab?
If that's dialogue...then...wow.
That's just horrible.
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WIIIS1 - 490 days 14 hours ago
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The question should be why you're attacking this game so much? There's nothing particularly wrong with the dialogue and as rightly pointed out by Mc Fadge above, the author is plain daft with certain quotes. Pick up a copy of Conan or Thor comic book, the dialogue is pretty much the same. PS fans try so hard to laugh at something that is unfunny just to put it down, its pathetic. Do your worst, fools.
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The Lazy One - 491 days 9 hours ago
6 - That was sad...
I can pick 10 lines that make less sense IN THE DEMO ALONE.

I'm not defending the dialogue in the game at all, but those are some crappy picks.
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Irving - 491 days 9 hours ago
7 - "Your fear soaks your armor. I can smell it."
"Not many videogames feature characters who smell each other."

lmao :D
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andron666 - 491 days 3 hours ago
7.1 - That line makes sense...
The Vikings despised cowards, and it means the person has pissed himself...

Not so funny then eh...LOL
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Strife Lives - 491 days 9 hours ago
8 - Cue Mass Effect 2 already
Too Human 2 ? Damn Comedians
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