Real Is Brown/Quotes

""I'm sure with the benefit of hindsight we can all agree Quake wasn't exactly easy on the eye, which was your favourite Quake level? The brown castle, the greenish brown temple, or the other brown castle? Jericho shows us exactly how far we've come with the levels being in order: brown ruins, more brown ruins, brown castle, more brown castle and revenge of the brown castle.""

- Yahtzee

"I don't think I've ever seen so many brown robes together in one place. It's like a showroom for the world's dullest textile factory."

- Ben Skywalker, mocking the Jedi Order's tendency to wear brown-hued clothing for this very reason

""The next time you see some casual gamer tapping away at their Nintendo DS, show them a screenshot of Gears of War. Don't be shocked if they point out your game seems made up of three colors (brown, gray, and muzzle flash). Sure, hard-core gamers know the difference, they know the game is a marvel of technology. The rest of us just want to have fun, or be told a good story.""

- Cracked.com, on realistic graphics

""So I visited historic Over There. Don't be fooled by the old-timey photograph- the place really looks like that. Like, everything is tan and brown. The sky? Tan. And the streets are paved with a little different shade of tan.""

- Strong Bad on his vacation

""The only "Wonder of Thedas" is how everything got so very brown.""

- Shale, Dragon Age: Origins

""Kirkwall's not brown enough for me, but hey! No Darkspawn!""

- Hawke, Dragon Age II

"There's not a single primary color in this movie, only dingy washed-out sepia tones. I know, I know: He's trying to demystify the West, and all those other things hotshot directors try to do when they don't really want to make a Western. But this movie is a study in wretched excess. It is so smoky, so dusty, so foggy, so unfocused, and so brownish yellow that you want to try Windex on the screen."

- Roger Ebert on Heavens Gate

""Holy Color Explosion, Batman! Did a Crayola factory explode nearby? I'd forgotten what video games looked like before the 2003 Color Palette Standardization Act outlawed all colors in titles outside shades of gray and brown.""

- Let's Play of Chrono Cross By The Dark Id

""I long for the sweet peace of the pasture... but the bright colors of the world taunt me! Why must all things be so bright? Why can things not appear only in hues of brown! I am so serious about this! Dull colors are the future! ...The next generation!""

- Bullet Bull, Super Paper Mario

""What's this foolishness? You know the dirt harvest is about to come in! Without our constant efforts the planet would be consumed with rampant greenery. Flowers! Trees! ANARCHY! ""

- Chan, Hsu and Chan