Most Cringeworthy Moments in games

[Drathnoxis]

Hawke's brother, Carver, from Dragon Age 2. He constantly made me cringe with his pathetic whining about how much better Hawke was than him. It's all he ever did was whine and moan at Hawke, there really needed to be an option to give him a good backhand and shut him up.

Carth Onasi from Knights of the Old Republic was much the same with his constant whining of how he doesn't trust the PC.

 

[MirenBainesUSMC]

Hmmm --- well --- probably most of the cut scenes from The Last of Us.

 

[Fox12]

I loved Mass Effect 3, it's one of my favorite title (or it would have been). But there's one hilarious scene, out of nowhere, that made me burst out laughing. Steve Cortez sacrifices himself in the final mission, trying to buy you more time. It's really sad, and it drove home how bad things were probably going to get. Then, out of nowhere, Ashley releases the single most cringe worthy scream I've her heard in my entire life. You probably missed it if you didn't have her in your party, but the clash in tone was so great that I just couldn't stop cracking up. Its even wierder, because the voice a ting is usually REALLY good. Sorry Cortez, I felt bad, really.

Typically any story with an author surrogate. It's really weird and awkward, especially when the other characters interact with him/her. It's worse when they're clearly useless, and yet they still make themselves useful through deus ex machina. They don't even have to be Mary Sues to be annoying. Props to Eva for having such a character deconstructed.

 

[Tanis]

NOBODY mentioned the 'laughing' scene from FFX yet?
-Amazing-
Seriously, that was just...bad.

O, and freaking KOTOR!

 

[psijac]

Burial At Sea part 2

The lobotomy scene was very rapey.

The worst part is at the end it is reveled that she knew what was going to happen and was down for it anyway

 

[SUPA FRANKY]

...Just that.

It actually made me stop playing for a month or so.

*****, let me educate you.

*Slap*

IT WAS A FORCED LAUGH ON PURPOSE, TO GET RID OF THE DESPAIR THEY JUST RECENTLY HAD HAD INSIDE THEM, THEY EVEN LAUGH FOR REAL AFTERWARDS, PROVING IT WAS A FORCE LAUGH IF YOU EVER PLAYED THE DAMN GAME!

*Cough*

Seriously, why won't you idiots ever get off the laughs scenes back? if you played the game for real, you would know that the scenarios leading up to that point have slowly been getting more and more stressful, and what better way to make light of a bad scenario than making yourself look like an idiot? you know, as a way to make things light hearted? :/

Yes, it may be cringeworthy, but it was suppose to be, there's a difference.

I don't know why people keep saying that. It's preety annoying ( partly because FFX is one of my favorite games of all time)

I mean, it's not like he was relieving stress after realizing his entire City was destroyed and his father is...ya know.

 

[bpm195]

DMC: Devil May Cry

I was kind of annoyed at having the angels in the strip club at the beginning. It felt like it was there to pander to 13 year olds playing an M rated game. Plus I couldn't look past the sex negative view of putting of putting the main character in a strip club to show that he's a fuck up, while simultaneously providing fan service. Second most annoying thing in the game.

The real low point came for me come later when the villain and his mistress briefly dry hump in front of the camera. It just captured everything wrong with maturity in video games in a few brief thrusts. It looked jarringly fake, but at the same time it created a definite moment where I'd have been embarrassed to be caught playing. But the worst thing about it was watching to demons humping in human form. It just doesn't make any sense. It would actually be interesting if they were to unleash and go at it, but the way they presented it just felt lame, joyless, and juvenile.

Frankly, my biggest complaint about the game is they should have reduced the soft boiled edginess they included to make it cool for 13 year olds and made it something I wouldn't object to a child playing.

 

[Autumnflame]

I think the FFx laughing scene was supposed to be terrible.

 

[Clearwaters]

"It was never going to work out for me. It even rained the day I was born"

"You've got it all wrong. You were the lightning in that rain. You can still shine through the darkness."
From MGS 4
I cringed hard the first time I heard this line. Now I just laugh about it, but damn is it horrible. The melodrama is just too much and I usually like melodrama.

Most romance scenes in video games make me cringe too. They just feel so unnatural especially in Bioware games with their awkward character animations.

 

[rorychief]

Devil may cry, some supremely cringey delivery here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qG4AlK1qk

 

[SFMB]

Everytime anyone spoke in the '13 Tomb Raider reboot.

God, all these characters were horrid, and I couldn't wait for each of them to die off.

This so much! The gameplay was fun but the dialog and characters were horrible! You could not even skip the cutscenes, which would have made the game good. The one cutscene in particular comes to mind, when Lara is quietly watching her friend being dragged to a temple by the main antagonist... And not doing a thing, even when she had a clear shot and a kill count of over a hundred thugs... This was unforgivable.
I was just thinking of playing the game again, when I remembered the "story". No way.

 

[Reiper]

Probably most Cortez scenes from ME3

"Don't make me an anchor steve!"

 

[Headsprouter]

If you watch this for a bit, you're bound to cringe a few times at the sheer awkwardness.


So awkward they skipped it in 2 and did it better in 3. Some moments are pretty brilliant, though, like The Impersonator. And it's not as long as it looks, there's only 10 minutes of characters, the rest is showing the characters again with body cheats.

 

[JennAnge]

Devil may cry, some supremely cringey delivery here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8qG4AlK1qk

That one. That's the first example that popped into my mind when reading the OT, and I haven't even played the game for, damn, a decade or more. The entire midwest on a good year can't produce that much corn.

I'd also add: every other time Erin opened her mouth in Thief4 (I refuse to call it anything else). Yhatzee called it: they didn't know which cliché to go with, so they mashed two of them together into a confusing teeth-aching mess. The VA's bored, nasal drawl made it ten times more agonizing. And there wasn't an option for not saving her - other than turn off the PC and go for a walk. Like being stuck at Open Mic night during a sortie of young emo goths giving you an earnest rendition on their latest poem about death and despair entitled 'Suicide is my Mascara Brand' or something.

 

[wizzy555]

There's some dialogue in starcraft 2 heart of the swarm where kerrigan says "hey jim remember i slaughtered millions as the queen of blades".

It's one of the most obvious and terrible attempts of injecting exposition I know.

 

[cryogeist]

Most of the dialogue in Ace Combat 5 was pretty cringeworthy
made the game really awkward to play in the same room as other people

 

[remnant_phoenix]

Just about every dialogue between Raiden and Rose in MGS2. Thing is, I don't even mind the things that bother most people in MGS2. I don't mind playing as "pretty boy Raiden"; I don't think he's a bad character; I actually think it's an interesting way to go with the story (I'm also someone who found The Arbiter to be the most interesting thing to happen in the whole damn story of the Halo trilogy, so maybe alternate protagonists are just my thing) and he's essential to the commentary that Kojima makes about the role of the player in the story and the very concept of portraying war itself in video game form.

But damn...every time Rose goes off on a passive-aggressive tangent about Raiden not being open enough or not being committed enough or not taking their relationship seriously...I just want Raiden to shout, "YOU DO REALIZE THAT I'M IN THE MIDST OF A HIGH-STAKES, TERROR-ABDUCTION, NUCLEAR-THREAT MISSION?! ARE WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW?!" and I can't hit that "stop the audio for the dialogue and I'll just read the text" button fast enough.

 

[CaitSeith]

Other M's final battle.

Spoiler: Warning: Click at your own risk...

I understood Samus attitude towards Adam (he was a very influential part of her life when she was younger). I tolerated the incoherence of not allowing Samus on using her equipment whenever she wanted (Varia suit or nearly burned to death? Meh, she needed a tan anyways...) I barely stood Samus being rescued from Ridley because she was paralyzed from fear (total rescuing score: Samus 1, Anthony 3). But the last battle. THAT LAST BATTLE!

A cinematic with all the exposition just ended. The place is a mayhem, swarmed with enemies; and the responsible from this madness (MB) is just at the other side of the room. In first-person mode, you clear your view of fire towards her, press the missile button and... ending cinematic happens: MB gets frozen by an ice beam shot by the real Madeline Bergman, and shot down by the space marines machine guns. Madeline is almost taken by the Federation (and you can't do anything because you are an "outsider"), but Anthony (who saved you earlier appears twice), states that the rescue mission gives him the authority for keeping Madeline out of their reach, and soon all three are in your ship, flying through space, while Samus monologues about if MB should be considered the evil one? The End.

WTF!? Metroid should have this epic final boss battle where you can get to beat its ass with your best skills, or at least obliterate it at your leisure. Saying that Other M's version was anti-climatic is the understatement of the freaking decade! You don't even get to shoot the final boss once! Sure, there is a bonus after-game boss battle and a escape sequence. But not in hyper mode.

 

[CaitSeith]

The entirety of Ride to Hell: Retribution. Just pick any part of it and it's pretty cringeworthy.

On a more serious note, the later half of Fallout 3. The amount of pointless and avoidable deaths in the later half, starting with your dad and ending with you(unless you have Broken Steel), was mind-numbing.

Also, I'd suggest checking the Darkspawn's lore. They've always been Saturday Morning cartoons, just with more blood and rape. Their only reason to exist is to kill or corrupt anything and everything that isn't them and turn all the women into broodmothers.

Oh, yeah. Fallout 3 ending. I tried it with Fawkes. Totally hilarious:

- Without DLC: "I'm sorry, my companion, but no. We all have our own destinies, and yours culminates here. I would not rob you of that."
- With DLC: "Aha! Of course! My inmunity to radiation makes ME a better candidate for surviving in there."

 

[GrumbleGrump]

Any time anyone says "La-Lu-Li-Le-Lo" in the Metal Gear Solid series. It's kind of a magic word that destroys all drama.

Spoiler: Oh, oh! And...

Emma's death scene in Metal Gear Solid 2:

"- E.E!!!!