The 20 Best Video Game Quotes

The quotes of the games are as memorable as the stories, minigames, and soundtracks. Each of these legendary game quotes, some of them entertaining, some depressing, some of them guiding, some of them long and some of them short, have been engraved in the minds of almost every player in some way. 

The Best Video Game Quotes

In this list, we have brought together the best video game quotes that have somehow managed to get in the minds of gamers.

“It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum…and I’m all outta gum.” – Duke Nukem

The quote from the 1988 movie ‘They Live’ by the legend of Duke Nukem that we are dying to hear while playing: “It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum…and I’m all outta gum.”

“Ah shit, here we go again…” – Carl Johnson, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Returning home from his 5-year Liberty City adventure after hearing the news of his mother’s death, Carl Johnson’s line that we all memorize now: “Ah shit, here we go again.”

“War… War never changes.” – Intro, Fallout

A chilling phrase in the opening scene of the 4th game of the Fallout series, where we try to survive after a war in which atomic bombs fly in the air: “War, war never changes.”

“The truth, Walker, is that you’re here because you wanted to feel like something you’re not: A hero.” – John Konrad, Spec Ops: The Line

(Don’t watch this video if you haven’t played Spec Ops: The Line.)

At the end of Spec Ops: The Line, one of the games that never got the fame it deserved and showing the true face of war, Konrad’s crucial line to our main character Walker is: “The truth, Walker, is that you’re here because you wanted to feel like something you’re not: A hero.”

“Fifty thousand people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town.” – Cpt. MacMillan, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

Perhaps the most iconic and engraved quote in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series, the legendary line from the mission: “Look here. 50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town. I have never seen anything like it.”

“Bravo Six, going dark.” – Captain Price, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

In the trailer released in honor of the remake of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series in 2019, Captain Price’s words that gave us goosebumps: “Bravo Six, going dark.”

“Hey you! You’re finally awake.” – The man in the car, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Another one of the best video game quotes is from Skyrim, the 5th game of The Elder Scrolls series, which we have been waiting for a sequel for years: “Hey you! You’re finally awake.”

“Soap trusted you, I thought I could too. So why in bloody hell does Makarov know you?” – Captain Price, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Right after we lost Soap in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Captain Price pounces on our main character Yuri for the last words of Soap, whom he sees as his son, and says: “Soap trusted you, I thought I could too. So why in bloody hell does Makarov know you?”

“Mr. Salieri sends his regards.” – Vito Scaletta & Joe Barbaro, Mafia

When we realized that Tommy, whom we played in the first game, was killed by our main characters in the second game, the Mafia line that stuck like a bullet: “Mr. Salieri sends his regards.” And then Tommy adds: “Remember: Money, work, and even your closest friends pass by. But family… Family goes on forever.”

“The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.” – Gordon Freeman, Half-Life 2

In Half-Life 2, one of the games that guides the course of FPS games, that meaningful word that the main villain G-Man said to our aggrieved scientist main character Gordon Freeman and really meant: “The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world.”

“War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.” – Niko Bellic, Grand Theft Auto IV

The heartbreaking definition of war of our brother Niko Bellic, who came to the USA from Eastern Europe in GTA 4, the darkest game of the GTA series, to live the ‘American dream’: “War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.”

“At the end of the day, as long as there are two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead.” – Sniper, Team Fortress 2

Although it is a game with goofy characters in general, one of the lines that makes you think in Team Fortress 2 is: “At the end of the day, as long as there are two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead.”

“Remember: No Russian.” – Makarov, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, after Price asks Yuri, “Why does Makarov know you?”, the first line of the mission, which we see the truth of the event, feels like a crime against humanity even in the game: “Remember: No Russian.”

“Requiescat in pace.” – Ezio Auditore Da Firenze, Assassin’s Creed 2

Ezio Auditore Da Firenze, who made us love the Assassin’s Creed series, is the Latin phrase he used to send his targets out of this world when he killed them: “Requiescat in pace.”

“Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” – Oath of Assassins, Assassin’s Creed

“When other people blindly follow the truth, remember: nothing is true. When other people are constrained by morality or the law, remember: everything is permitted.”

“Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?” – Vaas Montenegro, Far Cry 3

In Far Cry 3, which many Far Cry fans call “the last good game of the series”, Vaas, perhaps one of the best-written villains in the game world, refers to Einstein: “Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity? Insanity is doing something over and over and expecting different results. This is madness.”

“I’m afraid.” – Arthur Morgan, Red Dead Redemption 2

More than just a fictional character, our brother, Arthur Morgan, said to the nun towards the end of the play, which brought tears to our eyes: “I’m afraid.”

“Would you kindly…” – Dr. Yi Suchong, Bioshock

In Bioshock, which makes you feel like you are living a novel rather than playing a game, the magic words that allow us to act when said to our character: “Would you kindly…”

“Makarov… knows… Yuri…” – Soap MacTavish, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

The saddest moment of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series is the last advice of Captain Soap, whom we have known since the first game, to Price, whom he saw as his older brother just before he died: “Makarov knows Yuri…”

“It is a good life we lead, brother.” – Federico Auditore, Assassin’s Creed 2

We talked about Ezio, who made us love the Assassin’s Creed series. Here is the legendary entrance scene of Assassin’s Creed 2, the game where we meet Ezio and his life story:

“Federico: It is a good life we lead, brother..

Ezio: The best. May it never change.

Federico: And may it never change us.”