Your most embarrasing, emasculating, video game moment

[blizzardwolf]

Being that there's an influx of "glory days" threads, (Your greatest/most awesome/scariest VG experience) I wanted to do something different. Everyone and their wife has made up a story about gaming glory at one point or another, (You know you have. I have. We don't want to be the only ones without a severed hydra's head torn from its writhing body on our walls) and it's usually pretty easy to tell which ones are made up for the sake of topping someone else.

But be honest. We as videogamers have all screwed the pooch so hard at one time or another that the pooch had to lock itself in the bathroom for an hour with a tube of soothing ointment.(Yahtzee) AND we've done it a lot.

So, let's hear your worst moments. Moments that made you weep for your own videogame masculinity. Moments that made you look at yourself in a mirror and go "What. The. Fuck?" Moments that made you contemplate seppuku because you just unlocked Easy Automatic Mode in Devil May Cry.

For me, one of my worst moments was playing F.E.A.R.

*SPOILER ALERT*

Me: In the room with the ladder. THAT ladder, otherwise known as Insta-Cardiac.

Me: *muttering and looking around nervously* I will not fear, fear is the mind killer...

*get to the ladder and start climbing*

I will not fear, fear is the...

*I see Alma standing at the top, and LITERALLY feel every possible hair on my body rise at once, and my heart leap into double duty. But I maintain control!*

*bug-eyed, climbing down, and freaked right the hell out* Iwillnotfear, fearisthemindkiller, Iwillnotfear, fearisthe-

*I see Fettel walking toward me, and in a screamy, high-pitched voice yell* FUCK THIS SHIT!!! *POWER BUTTON*

I sat there for like a full minute in the dark with my lifeless CPU right in front of me, going "What the hell is wrong with me?"

Understand that at this point, I had already done the roster of scary. System Shock 2, Doom 3, RE and RE2, Silent Hill 2 & 3. This was not even the scariest moment I've ever encountered in a video game. (Shodan! I hope you DIE) But for some reason, it got me to panic and scream like a little woman.

I held my videogame-hood cheap for days after that.

 

[Kermi]

The day my fiancee's skills overtook mine in Halo 3, with Halo 3 being her first Halo game and my third. With her never having played online multiplayer FPS before that point. With her not even liking the XBox and only agreeing to buy a 360 back in 2006 because there was a new Sonic game out on it.


Sadface.

 

[AngryMan]

man, okay, the ladder got me too, but I just jumped. Then tried to shoot Fettel.

I can honestly say that my videogame-manliness remains unsullied. I am yet to scream like a little girl, shut down my PC in terror, or do anything other than make like that marine with the minigun from "Predator".

Which, let's face it now, is a fairly badass way of panicking.

 

[Mr Scott]

In Resident Evil 4--

Looking through the surgical glass at the grotesque creature beyond, inanimate I thought: "I probably have to go in there, and the bastard inside will probably come back alive."

*PS2 Power-switch sound*

Later, approximately a half an hour: "It's gonna be OK, it's a video game, it cant hurt you... (I was not entirely confident about the statement .) Again approaching the ER rooms I unlock the doors, and wait for blood-gory-head-exploding death, nada. The closest door, containing Luis's fourth memo, describing the Regenerators, practically invincible monstrosities.

Crawling skin anyone?

Hearing the junkie-in-pain moan coming from the accompanied room, a friggin' ten-foot, skinny, venom look-alike shambles towards me, I emit what could be described as a fear-strangled garble of seething swear-words. I blasted the thing to shit with my shotgun, but that doesn't mean not frantically.

 

[stompy]

In hindsight, I'm really ashamed about playing this really, really lame Spongebob game. Then another one.

But-but-buh, I was young. Young and stupid. Forgive me, forgive meee...

 

[blizzardwolf]

In hindsight, I'm really ashamed about playing this really, really lame Spongebob game. Then another one.

But-but-buh, I was young. Young and stupid. Forgive me, forgive meee...

No! Only if you pay penance by getting all 101 Dalmations in KH.

 

[Mnemophage]

I doubt this can be called emasculating, given I'm not male, but I have an aversion to death. Meaning every time I die in a game I will turn off the console or quit out before I can see the death animation. Regardless of game. I just do not like to die.

 

[propertyofcobra]

First time playing Resident Evil 4, my dad was eagerly watching, so was my sister.
After a few panicked minutes, I get cleanly beheaded. They both had a good giggle at that one... I can't think of any other really good ones right now, but I know I've had some. Luckily I managed to keep most of them very well under wraps or write them off as plain o'l mistakes.

Aside that despite having played WC3 for a full year and a half, I had never played a single round of DotA. THAT made me feel embarassed when my friends found out.

 

[windfish]

I'm still rather new to the FPS experience, so...whenever a fast headcrab came out of nowhere on Half-Life 2. Also when Alyx made zombie noises in Episode 1.

 

[barryween]

Me and my dad r playin halo and he jumps out and pistol whipped me and i screamed like a little girl!!

 

[strangemusic]

Emasculating? Hmmm.... the introduction of the ghost children in Prey was hair raising enough... and then it goes and throws the other kid onto a big sharp spike. Oh. Okay. Attempting to not soil garments. Nevermind that they come back later in a school bus from hell.

 

[Thediscoducky]

Ok so this is pretty embarassing:
I was young when I got Ocarina of Time (5 years old probably).
So I got to the Grass Temple with older Link, right around the part where there is this hallway that twists upside down.
So I enter the room, and then I see this shadow form below me...*what could that be?* I say to myself?
Then...all of a sudden I hear this noise and a giant hands comes out of nowhere and grabs me!
*Eek!*
I literally throw the controller on the ground and run out of the room.
*blushes*

 

[Karisse]

When I first bought Condemned, I played it straight through, so the levels of creepiness continued to escalate and build on me. I was in the second to last stage (the creepy house in the orchard) and creeping along in the basement and all of a sudden A ZOMBIE JUMPED UP AND ATTACKED ME.

I subsequently screamed like a little girl. This apparently served as an invititation for my housemate to come into my room and start making fun of me. Before he got a chance, however, another zombie attacked me and he ran out of the room screaming.

And then I screamed, "Wait, Pat, don't leave me!"

Emasculating fits pretty well.

 

[rosiethorn]

Memnophage, glad it's not just me.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

Psh... The scariest stuff in FEAR is the last level with all the little "goolies" popping out everywhere and running straight into your face, while the scary girl is all loose phasing around... I've yet to finish the game.

And in FEAR, the first office building you went into and you walk by two cubicles only for two bodies to fly through the glass and smack against the wall. That was scary. And the guys that were invisible that attacked you also and they'd only appear RIGHT IN YOUR FACE.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

I used to turn off the megadrive halfway through the third boss in Sonic one because I was terrified of the platforms disappearing under him. I was 6.

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

I also near-shat myself after playing Project Zero (fatal frame in the US. Scariest. Games. EVER. This includes SS2,) for 9 hours straight. I finally finish playing near the end of the second game and I go to the toilet. And the bulb blows up. I woke my flatmate up at 3 o clock in the morning as a result of the scream.

 

[Calobi]

I have to say, although I never scream, any time I see little girls in video games (Prey's ghost-kids, FEAR's Alma, etc.) I have to pause so that I can stop shaking. Games are going to be the reason I never have kids.

 

[zacaron]

im not sure if this realy counts but i was playing a puzzle game on the web and (swears at memory) they rigged it to have somthing jump out and screem after 4 deaths sure got me i almost fell out of my chair

 

[rusty_cage]

One time me and my friend were playing halflife and were really intently watching the screen and a headcrab came out of no where causing us both to scream.

Although my most embarassing came pretty recently, I downloaded Super Mario 3 to my Wii and was killed by the first Goomba in the game.