Best lines in gaming?

- Mr. Salieri sends his regards.

- I treat you as if the shadow from the worst day of our lives is going to suffocate you and take you from us too!

- What? Who is Desmond?

- That's the old passage to Ravenholm. We don't go there anymore.

- Whenever I smell asphalt, I think of Maureen. That's the last sensation I had, before I blacked out: the thick smell of asphalt. And the first thing I saw when I woke up was her face. She said she'd fix my bike. Free. No strings attached. I should have known then that things are never that simple. Yeah, when I think of Maureen I think of two things: asphalt... and trouble.

- Alright, 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 who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

- I want to have fuck with you.
 
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"The happiest people live somewhere between what they want, and what they got." - Random alien dude sitting in my cantina in Star Wars Jedi Survior. Definitely didn't expect to hear such a great line from what equates to a background npc that you have the option of ignoring.
 
"I'm the evil part of your brain. You cannot beat me, because you are the one who forced me into being".

Fuckin "A" perfect.
 
"There were only personal apocalypses. Nothing is cliché when it's happening to you" -Max Payne

So many quotable lines in the Max Payne series and James McCaffrey's delivery is great. Sam Lake and Dan Houser are some of the best writers
 
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"I have always been proud to call you my shield. But now… it is the world that needs you. Thank you, Clive… for being my brother"

"On this, my sword, I swear to shield the firebird's flame forevermore."

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

"I never asked for this"

"Anyone got a smoke???" (After snakes just been fried by a gigantic microwave tunnel and on oxygen 😆)

I could quote 100s of lines that are well delivered and voiced so well, But the scene in FFXVI where Joshua dies in Clives arms was incredible voice work it genuinely made me feel sad but to be fair it is a depressing game especially the last few hours. MGS always had good lines too.
 
The best line is the left line of Pong. The right line is also good, but the left one has more character.
Thomas Was Alone also has some good lines.
 
Actually many 90s build engine shooters like Blood, Duke3D or Shadow Warrior had great lines.

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum... and I'm all outta gum."

"I'm gonna get medieval on your asses."

"When you get to Hell, tell 'em I sent you — you'll get a discount."

"I will kill you softly with my sword."

"I've got the skills to pay the bills."
 
Whatever that shit is that Raiden bellowed out while flying across the screen in the original Mortal Kombat.
 
Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.

There a quest with a poem you need to read to someone who is illiterate that a scribe wrote for him to give to a woman he like, before you go and deliver the poem. He asks you to read it to him.

The Poem:
How many miles you've wandered,
at such a gruelling pace.
Rest your feet, dear maiden,
sit here upon my face.
 
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Rocinante618 said:
Disco Elysium has amazing lines, every skill has some insanely poetic lines, god I wish that game should have been a book but eh whatever, pretentious drivel but made very competently, with a soul.

The limbed and headed machine of pain and undignified suffering is firing up again. It wants to walk the desert. Hurting. Longing. Dancing to disco music

The man does not know the bullet has entered his brain. He never will. Death comes faster than the realization.

Everyone knows you can't trust artists. They're nearly as bad as clowns

This is a very, very sad man who has just seen something that's made him forget his sadness

Think about the seagull's story. It's one of endurance and adaptation. The seaside was paradise once. They were birds of that paradise. Then their paradise became *shit city*. And what did they do? They became urban survivors! Eating burgers out of trash cans! Killing and eating pigeons! No time for that sentimental bullshit. They're hustlers, getting shit done. They're one pair of track pants away from gangsters. Just like you

Good on you. I know you were tempted to shout *fuck*, but you controlled your impulse. Well done."Fuck."This is a shame and a disappointment.

Kim: I think this racist is better than the last, but the next racist will be the really good one.
You: That will be our lucky racist!
Kim: He will grant us three wishes.

Say one of these fascist or communist things or fuck off.
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I always knew that game was over-hyped shit.
 
Fallout: "You're a hero, and you have to leave."

Kill.Switch: "...and Archer?"
"I see a body. Bishop out."

MGS: "I was born on a battlefield, raised on a battlefield. Gunfire, sirens, and screams – those were my lullabies."

Deus Ex: "I used to dream about working here at UNATCO. All those heroic fantasies… but the reality is this place is nothing more than a cinderblock bunker with a carpet."

FF Tactics:
"You mistake me for a better man."

"T'was your birth and faith that wronged you, not I."

"What was your lot, Ramza? ...This is mine."

Lost Odyssey: "This is not goodbye. It's just the start of your journey." He speaks his final words to her. "We'll meet again." His final lie to her.
Hanna makes her departure.
Her face is transfused with a tranquil smile as if she has just said, "See you soon." Her eyes will never open again. A single tear glides slowly down her cheek.

This game hurt me in special ways.

Vagrant Story: "Ah, vintage wine." (always made me laugh)

Legacy of Kain: Defiance: "This was the edge of the coin – the minute flicker of probability upon which Kain had gambled everything."

"Would Mobius be so devout if he knew his god is a giant squid?"

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver: "We all knew what it meant when Kain drew the Soul Reaver from its sheath. It meant you were dead."

Final Fantasy X:
"People die and Yuna dances."
"It was beautiful. I had never seen anything like it before. I never wanted to see it again."

"Legendary guardian? I was just a boy. A boy about your age, actually. I wanted to change the world, too. But I changed nothing."

Front Mission 3:
"I wonder if time really does heal all wounds… I don't want to be healed. I want to remember forever."

"When I came to Japan, I gained a family. I was very happy. But you've been alone all this time, Emma. It's your turn to be happy."
 
Final fantasy 7 Cloud
"lets mosey"

Final fantasy 7 Cid
"@!£&#!, can't you say something cooler!?"

Final fantasy 7 Yuffie
"GROOSSSSSNNEESSSSSS"
 
Most certainly one of the many lines from the Uncharted series.

'There's a guy above you, there's a guy above you...there's a guy below you, there's a guy below you'
Etc.,
 
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