Gaming

"You forget a thousand things everyday, make sure this is one of them." -Michael Townley from GTA 5

All your base are belong to us.

"Wind's Howling."

Not a quote but “Current Objective: Survive” from Halo Reach has stuck with me after playing it

“Our victory — your victory — was so close, I wish you could have lived to see it.” - Dr Catherine Halsey, Halo Reach

"Not bad, but it's not hard to improve on garbage!"

"Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honour matters. Their silence, is your answer." Javik, Mass Effect 3: Leviathan

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

"Another turtle made it to the water."

Random loading screen blurb from Spec Ops: The Line “do you feel like a hero yet?”. Really condenses the whole game into one sentence.

To kill for yourself is murder

To kill for your government is heroic

To kill for entertainment is harmless

->!Spec Ops: The line!<'s Loading Screen

Have you seen Gavin?

“All right, I've been thinking, when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons!

What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager!

Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man whose gonna burn your house down - with the lemons!”

A few.

• "In a world without gold, we might have been heroes." --Assassin's Creed Black Flag
• "Grown-ups were never real to me until I became one." --Everything
• "I have seen worlds bathed in the Makers' flames, their denizens fading without so much as a whimper. Entire planetary systems born and razed in the time that it takes your mortal hearts to beat once. Yet all throughout, my own heart devoid of emotion... of empathy. I. Have. Felt. Nothing. A million million lives wasted. Had they all held within them your tenacity? Had they all loved life as you do?" --Algalon the Observer, World of Warcraft

“In a world without gold we might have been heroes”

"Has your journey been good? Has it been worthwhile?"

Never have I encountered a video game character I've been this at ease with except for the character who asked this to the player in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker.

This expansion was released during the pandemic and it's also the culmination of nearly 10 years of story they've built up. Endwalker nailed both of these personally for me. Helped me keep walking forward in life for sure.

But suppose you throw a coin enough times... suppose one day, it lands on its edge.

"Am I more than human... or less?"

This line is said by Adam Jensen in the launch trailer of Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I'm not sure if Adam actually says it in-game. The line stuck with me because that one sentence practically sums up Adam's struggle with how to view having much of his body replaced with cybernetic augmentations after an attack left him wounded and unconscious.

Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun.

Well if it isn't saucy Jack

AC odyssey loading screen tip. “The best way to defeat an enemy is to decrease their health to zero, while maintaining yours above that.”

{gets gun}. "Hmmm....Point away from face and fire! Sounds easy enough "

Blood 2 was a treasure trove of quotes.

Despite everything, it’s still you

"We're not tools of the government, or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing I was good at, but at least I fought for what I believed in".

"For what profit is it to a man if he gains the world and loses his own soul?

Matthew 16:26, I believe".

And

"Don't be sorry, be better".

Actually GOW has a lot of quotes hitting hard now that I became a father.

The Gods gave you a sword, to cut your own path. —Soul Calibur.

Remember, no Russian

"Have I ever told you the definition of insanity?" and "The game was rigged from the start"

"Enchantment!"

"What can change the nature of a man?"

~ Planescape: Torment

Despite everything, it's still you

´´We have never sought to become a monopoly. Our products are simply so good no one feels the need to compete with us´´

*Does a backfip and procceds to do the twin finger gun point at the camera*

--- CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morgan Data Systems press release

"It is a good life we lead, brother."
"The best. May it never change."
"And may it never change us." (Assassin's Creed II)

“Stand up. There you go. You were dreaming. What’s your name? … Well, I heard them say we’ve reached Morrowind. I’m sure they’ll let us go. Quiet, here comes the guard.”

"you know the music time to dance." Halo 3 ODST

"And so he left, with everything but his humanity"

Sam and max: Now you've done it. You've broken Sam's spirit with your stupid attempts to pick up (object). In fact, if I didn't find his pitiful sobbing so amusing, I'd come out and rip your limbs off!

For those we have lost, for those we can yet save.

“Gary!”

• Gary, Fallout 3

They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.

Check those corners!

War ....war never changes

"Real darkness has love for a face. The first death is in the heart." -Disco Elysium

"God was a dream of good government." -Deus Ex

"In a nightmare, every choice you make is a bad one." -Max Payne

all your base are belong to us

CATCH A RIIDDEEEE.

I got a plan Arthur

"Choose to be the chosen one" -Control, The Board

"You had me under a gun... and yet you just walk away? No monster alive turns the other cheek. No monster does that. A thinking man does that." - Grace Holloway, BioShock 2.

"Oh, do not look at me so. A smile better suits a hero." - a moment when FFXIV turned (at least for me) from normal MMORPG into a story RPG I am invested in.

Return to Zork.

" Want some rye? Of course you do!"