Favorite NPC barks

Sorry… I can’t get past barks and not think about dogs in games. :)

  • “Pick up that can” from the beginning of Half Life 2
  • “Stay a while and listen” from Deckard Cain in Diablo II
  • “Reticulating splines” during map generation in Sim City 2000
  • “They got Alex!” when you take out a rioter in The Division

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More on topic…

“Now it’s Reyn time!”
“Let’s not lose our heads, though.”
“Sharla! Did you see me? Did you see what I did?”
“Yeah, Shulk! Get stuck in!”
“You can’t have a rainbow without Reyn, baby!”
“Man, wha’ a buncha jokas!”
“Yeah! Reyn time!”

Infinite.

A couple more, all from Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Morrowind has quite a few great ones.

  • “We’re watching you… scum.” - Ordinators

  • “Short trip, long trip, you decide.” - Silt Strider operators

  • “Speak quickly outlander, or go away.” - random dark elves

“Wealth beyond measure, Outlander.”

Always wondered, is that triggered by a certain amount of clothing expense?

Loads from CoH, especially the Brits:

“Run you fucking wankers, run!”
“Stop lollygagging”

The best is clearly “Khajiit has no words for you”

“I SPILL MY DRINK!”

Another fun one - in F.E.A.R the NPCs would yell “Squad check in” but to me it sounded more like “Squat chicken”. Way more fun that way.

I am really liking Scotchmo’s lines from Wasteland 2. Sorry, I can’t find any videos. :(

Let’s just say he’s a drunk and an idiot. :)

“What a bunch of Jokers!”

“It’s Reyn time!”

edit: beat by davelong!

This could also work well as a quiz.

“Casualties”
“Damn your eyes!”
“Move here, move there…!”

All these are from one of the best RTS games of all time.

Wo lo lo… wo lo lo…

Go for the eyes, boo!

Stay a while and listen.

This is my favourite shop in the citadel.

Most deeply etched into my synapses are these falcon 3.0 ones: “Clean, Clear and Naked” (nothing on radar, RWR or visual). “Scratch one, down in flames!” (enemy aircraft shot down).

Company of Heroes has very memorable barks too; ‘Good enough for army work’ is something I often mutter when I finish fixing something.

What game was it where you could elicit a special bark from a unit by clicking it like 30 times?

More recently: “Friendship drive engaging in 5…4…3…2…1…brrrzzzzzAP!”

My husband is quite fond of the merchant from Resident Evil 4.

“What’re you buying? What’re you selling?”

And here’s an amusing video of a guy cosplaying the character and creeping people out. ;)

My recent favorite is from Disgaea 5. The moth overlord that joins you shouts “get out of here” in a nasally voice when you use his attacks on an enemy. I love it so much.

Anything from Warlords Battlecry 3.

I really loved, “Feeeeed me noooow!”

Some of the lines from the Dragon’s Dogma pawns are so unintentionally hilarious, and they repeat them ad infinitum. They’re always shouting them with such urgency, I laugh out loud every time.

“Wolves hunt in packs, Arisen!”

“Goblins hate fire, Arisen!”

“They hate fire and lightning both, Arisen!”