i want this to be a topic about your thoughts on barkley gaiden now that it's really old. i don't really have any good thoughts on it worth sharing (or any at all) so i'm just gonna put this out there and hope any of you bite since whatever you post will undoubtedly be insanely good. but not before my thought.s
 
personally i think it's really dated and i sometimes struggle to see why people like it (or even call it the best comedy game they've ever played and stuff like that (i hear it on 4chan a lot (you'll probably hate me for saying i come from 4chan but w/e (speaking of 4chan, every barkley thread i've seen there feels like the same three or four posters are just posting there, i've seen the same things being said about it a lot ("this game had no right being this good" being one that sticks out a lot but i digress))))))))). the game is really rough around the edges, the music is very amateur fl studio and maybe i'm illiterate or something but the writing/jokes don't really tickle me like they seemingly do most people. this definitely feels like a case where getting the joke and actually finding it genuinely funny is an indicator of good taste and probably intelligence (don't ask me how i came to this conclusion) so i kinda do want to understand the frame of reference i need to be in to "get" it in hopes that it increases my e-peen or whatever. though what i'm getting at is that barkley doesn't really hold up today, and is probably something that would've been mindblowing back in 2008 and left such a strong impression on the people that played it thensadjkfsd
 
so what i'm wondering is how do you feel about the game now, and how would you rate it objectively in 2016 A.D. i want to hear it from you guys since you're all very well spoken and i can't go another night without being told what to thingk

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I would have to play it again to be sure, it was a long time ago now. But back when the demo (and later the full game) came out, playing it was a blast.
 
Ignoring the actual storyline, in my memory the gameplay and the battles were pretty entertaining and it never felt boring. I always liked chef's music, I actually learned how to play one of the tunes in Barkley by guitar. You're right it is very amateur and sounds a bit cheap, but I think he has a talent for melody. Also the space jam theme song is incredible.
 
To me the main attraction was the story of the game. The way the storyline is just played straight all the way to the end was hysterical. Really enjoyed the whole ridiculous premise, dialogue between the main characters, barkley's personality and so on. There were some things which many people seemed to love, e.g. furry city/diabeetus/ghost dad/applebottoms that I didn't really find that funny. But overall playing through Barkley is one of the best experiences I've had playing video games.
 
Still eagerly waiting for Barkley 2, which looks very promising... I think it's the only kickstarter I ever backed.

So if you hang out in #saltw on espernet sometimes Frankie will come around and advertise that he's drawing art on Twitch and you can watch him making art for Barkley 2. I always loved Chef, I never played the game, but he always made me laugh so when I saw a preview of Barkley 2 on PCGamer (before they went super SJW) I got a big ole hard on.

this post was great, thanks chips. also sorry for the dumb spam.

not really new/a regular here but I played it a while ago and in my opinion you have to be the kind of guy that finds everything that doesn't make sense funny. some of the things I find the funniest are sort of subtle, like all the semi-obscure game rips. the background of the dating sim part is from a nancy drew game which I played like 15 years ago, that made me flip out. the whole dating sim part is great too and somehow I think without the girl's dumb look it wouldn't be as funny. "may be erotic for child" was great too
 
some things I found the funniest: the shrekmono (imagine if the meme didn't exist), incan gold, columbus day transformation, all of truckpump, vinceborg writing the furry poem, barkley/other character's weird outbursts (so desu ne, gatdam, baka, etc), gun's, the obvious plotholes, out of place sprites, and many more
 
I think thecatamites' Goblet Grotto kind of has this sense of humor but to a more insane degree, and some of million dollar extreme's stuff (example paradigm shift)

I remember Barkley Shut up and Jam Gaiden way back in the day, if I recall it might have even been during GamingW's prime. I thought it was a pretty hilarious game and also a pretty good game in general.

jjjj, how did you know to come here to ask?

i've known about this place for a while, i think i first discovered it from a barkley or space funeral thread on 4chan.

EDIT: i just wanted to say that every reply in this thread has been golden. seriously, thank you all for sharing your thoughts.

Ah Space Funeral, AKA: David Cronenberg presents Earthbound.