Orkhepaj: Why would humor be subjective?
Darvond: I don't make a habit of replying to you, but just to make it blatantly obvious: There are cultural, lingual, and rearing difference between every person. If I walked up to you and said
893, you'd not get that I just said Ya-Ku-Za in Japanese. Japan loves number puns, but they often don't translate well.
Hey, that's like 555 in thai! "Ha-ha-ha". An overused pun in some thai TV commercials.
As for not-working humor in games... I seem to recall I found the Legend of Kyrandia trilogy games' attempts in humor pretty meh and groan. They were like written by a 6 year old girl.
But i has been quite long since I played them, and not sure if I even finished 2 and 3.
EDIT: Oh, and Rex Nebular! I don't quite recall if it had good jokes in there too that made me laugh, maybe it did, but generally it just felt it was very hard trying to be as funny as Space Quest 3 and 4, but failing in it.
Like the protagonist tripping over himself in the intro, and another person facepalming himself over it. Yeah yeah we get it, the alleged hero tripped over, ha ha ha, very funny, yes, he is not perfect after all, not really hero material.