Closet Gaming

[Thaius]

Not really. My mom got grossed out when I was playing Gears of War, but whatever. She's sensitive to gore. Not my fault.

 

[geon106]

I used to pretend i never played my embarrasing games, but now i live with my fiancé shes seen me play the following games many times and called me sad for it:

Rail Simulator
Flight Sim X
Cities XL
Silent Hunter
Grim Fandango

^ i mean, WTF! The first 2 I can understand but the others are good games, esp GF. Besides, shes spent according to Xfire, thousands of hours on WoW so now whos sad? lol.

 

[The Last Nomad]

What kind of insult is "gay" anyways?

A friend of mine informed me that most dictionarys include another definition of gay...
as in 'stupid', as opposed to 'homosexual', like the way school kids say "thats gay"

 

[RyQ_TMC]

Not quite a "walk-in-on" moment, but I'd been playing Baldur's Gate once in the days before I used headphones... After some time, I went down to the kitchen to meet my sister and my mom bearing a very serious look on her face and asking quite aggressively "what have you been doing up there?"

It took me a while to connect the dots - I was playing through an area with a lot of sirens, which let out a disturbingly erotic moan when they die...

 

[Gestapo Hunter]

get caught watching the ball grabbing moment in Metal gear 3

 

[thiosk]

Animal Crossing.

/hides

 

[RanD00M]

Never.My friends and family know all about my gaming habits...Hell,my parents even know about my porn watching habits.I won´t go any further then that.

 

[Poke_Freak]

What kind of insult is "gay" anyways?

A friend of mine informed me that most dictionarys include another definition of gay...
as in 'stupid', as opposed to 'homosexual', like the way school kids say "thats gay"

Which proves my theory - language EVOLVES.

So people shouldn't get their panties in a twist when someone calls someone else a fag.

Why would they call them a cigarette anyway? ;P

 

[Kinguendo]

Getting caught by your peers playing Viva Pinata without any of your peers having any prior understanding of what the game is.

I was even called "gay" once because of this. Thankfully I have a friend who's way into the game luckily!

Really? Me and my mates are massive gamer-nerds so we really dont haze each other over what we play... Especially not the brilliant Viva Pinata, even seen some of the TV shows and I have to say very funny... especially in comparison to the rest of the crap they have on.

 

[Kinguendo]

Closet gamers? I always thought they were the kinds of guys who wont admit to playing games around any women and then once the women have gone the guy says something ridiculous like "Yeah, I play Madden and Fifa." to which I am forced to reply (by law) "F*ck off!".

 

[Kinguendo]

Ever been caught playing a game by a loved one (i.e. girlfriend) that you wish you hadn't?

Welcome to The Escapist!

And may I say thats quite a good way to start it, you have posted a topic that doesnt appear to be annoying anyone... I am sure someone will give you "The Speech".

 

[Tanfastic]

I was once playing Harvest Moons and my girlfriend walked in... Much embarrassment ensued.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

People thought I was gay for playing Halo 3. Then they bought it.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

I got caught by my parents while I was playing Civ 4 during finals week- my fault really, for deciding it was a good idea to fire the blasted game up during finals week.

My dad also saw me and my friends playing Beatles Rock Band once, which was amusing - while he loves The Beatles, he hates, HATES videogames. I could practically see the gears in his head cranking.

 

[dududf]

I was caught masturbating over Cortana from the Halo series!

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I had to put that in TEXT, to see what it said, that many [*/sub] should be illegal

 

[KaiRai]

I almost got caught in the strip club in The Godfather 2... by my mom... it has fully nude titties. Also, she walked in on me playing the airport level in Modern Warfare 2. Much badness.

Similar event. But pretty much every time my mom walked in while I was playing Saints Row 2 and every time while I was playing GTA VC.

It's always "Who bought you this game!? It's disgusting!"

To which I reply "You did."

 

[dududf]

I was caught masturbating over Cortana from the Halo series!

[sub][sub][sub][sub]JOKE![/sub][/sub][/sub][/sub]

I had to put that in TEXT, to see what it said, that many [*/sub] should be illegal

I'm a fan of my HD moniter. I want to use so many subs that something looks like a full-stop! Mind you now that I've said that you will have to check all my posts[sup][sup][sup][sup][sup][sup][sup][sup][sup][sup][sup][sup]xD[/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup][/sup]

That last one was evil, I spent 3 minutes trying to highlight the damn thing...

Then realised that I could just quote you and see for myself...