Game moments that caused a *FACE PALM*

[Nouw]

Every moment I have spent trying to do multiplayer on a Dawn of War game.

I love these games, guys. But you SERIOUSLY NEED TO FIND A MULTIPLAYER NETWORKING SCHEME THAT I CAN FUCKING USE.

Same here. Find online game. YOU CANT PLAY SOUL STORM WITH 3 PEOPLE ON ONE TEAM USING THE ONLINE GAME WAY.

OT:When I lead my soldiers into death thanks to a machine gun emplacement in Company Of Heroes. Or 'accidentally' delete my save files.

 

[Insanum]

Everytime i hit a window ledge with a grenade. Thats usually more of an "OH SHI*Boom*" moment, But its followed by hard facepalming.

...And i KEEP doing it.

 

[Tele-screen]

My absolute #1 that does it to me every time from Halo 3:

Nameless grunt: "Where do I tell them to go?"

Amanda Keyes: "To War..."

 

[Dr. Paine]

The fight system in FFXII. Why squeenix? Why?

Because the last 12 games screwed it up?

My personal facepalm moment... too many to count, actually, playing Metroid: Zero Mission. Or any time when I get lost and backtrack.

 

[Angerwing]

I've died at least 700 times in Spelunky through things I could have easily avoided. Most of them were my fault.

 

[toadhall]

Repeatedly running into the goomba and dying at the beginning of 1-1.

 

[Ranorak]

In Tales of Vesperia.
Where

Spoiler

Raven turned out to be working with the enemy all alone. Then turns around and saves you. dramaticly dying in the progress. Only to turn up 5 MINUTES later like nothing happened.

 

[Thoric485]

Starting up Warrior Within for the first time. Dear God. (combat system was fucking awesome though)

 

[Layz92]

Everytime i hit a window ledge with a grenade. Thats usually more of an "OH SHI*Boom*" moment, But its followed by hard facepalming.

...And i KEEP doing it.

Yes window frames are my nemesis in many games.

When a character says something or you see an object that is such an obvious "subtle" plot device it almost hurts your ears/eyes. It happens sometimes in books too. One of the most common is the "last lesson of your training" where the trainer says "use this only in desperation" or something similar and you just shake your head knowing it will without a doubt turn up in the fight with the big boss at the end of the book/game/movie.

 

[Voodoo_Person]

Sheva after seeing the Lickers in RE5, something along the lines of, 'Glad there werent any more of them, could you imagine having to fight a whole crowd of them' godamn you sheva...goddamn you.

Littlebigplanet in general

Minefield in Fallout 3

Doing the RoboCo mission in Fallout 3 and realising that you did have a hight enough science rating to hack the terminal, despite the fact that you've already done that mission...3 times

Dying from being attacked by molerats and radroaches in Fallout 3 because you werent keeping and eye on your health or using stimpacks regularly

 

[Vrex360]

The Miranda/Jack confrontation in Mass Effect 2. I think the biggest annoyance was that I was playing it with intent to stay faithful to the ME1 love interest but both of these characters seemed convinced that I was romantically involved and/or interested in them... which I wasn't.
The facepalm thing though was that by siding with Jack and thus losing Miranda's loyalty I then started trying to get it back so that I could have everyone be loyal and no matter how much paragon I got (like seriously there had to have been a glitch) Miranda just wouldn't concede... even after I finished the suicide mission and saved my entire team and crew, still mad at me.
I don't know why, but that annoyed me.

 

[Hutchy_Bear]

The laughing scene in FFX. That made my skin crawl and balls retract.

This, except the balls thing.

Lucky you, it wasn't a pleasant feeling.

I'd think so. But it was so cringeworthy that it's not even funny anymore and it literally makes me want to shift my skin about from the crawling it most likely did. That's why I typically mute that scene.

I mean there are a few games with embaressing scenes, MGS3 when Snake is talking enthusiasticly about a gun, most dialog in EDF 2017 but that laughing scene takes the piss. I'm sorry but I think that is the first time I've ever walked out on a cutscene, I mean I watched it the first time but for subsequent playthroughs just no.

 

[andreas3K]

HL2 ep1

Alyx: A combine zombie. A zombine lol get it? A zombine! roflmao!
Gordon: *FACEPALM*

 

[Velvet Kevorkian]

ALL of the cutscenes/voice acting in Typing of the Dead.

I know it's basically just House of the Dead 2, but that dialogue XD

Anyone who's played it will know what I'm talking about.

 

[pln9fos]

Godzilla: Unleashed. I was bummed when Pipeworks lied about using a more advanced destruction engine for the buildings; they failed to deliver a good few other promises as well.

 

[jtr477]

playing halo 2

I was like : THIS IS IT?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!

 

[Space Cowgirl]

The laughing scene in FFX. That made my skin crawl and balls retract.

This, except the balls thing.

Lucky you, it wasn't a pleasant feeling.

I'd think so. But it was so cringeworthy that it's not even funny anymore and it literally makes me want to shift my skin about from the crawling it most likely did. That's why I typically mute that scene.

I mean there are a few games with embaressing scenes, MGS3 when Snake is talking enthusiasticly about a gun, most dialog in EDF 2017 but that laughing scene takes the piss. I'm sorry but I think that is the first time I've ever walked out on a cutscene, I mean I watched it the first time but for subsequent playthroughs just no.

I think the same thing. I do the same thing whenever that scene comes on, I'd rather just go make a sandwich or something than watch that. I mean, I'd seriously rather sit through all of Metal Gear's cutscenes than watch that piss.

 

[ultrachicken]

After years of having people talk aboot how amazing it is, playing Half Life 2.
My theory is that the entire gaming community plans on dumping pig blood on Gabe Newell with the release of episode 3, and they are just acting like it is amazing to get him excited so it will hurt even more when he is betrayed.

That happened to me when I bought Half Life.

Spoiler: assassin's creed 2 spoiler

The ending of assassin's creed 2, when they pull that failure of a plot twist involving gods. What the hell?

 

[minarri]

The ending to Borderlands, the huge monster coming out. I swear i called it too knowing it was being too hyped up about the vault i knew it would be some prison to keep something out. but i didn't expect it to be so bad. Really one of the worst endings ever.

Facepalm to that writer.

Yeah, I honestly thought the ending was a joke and that you'd eventually find it. But no, they were serious. It's as though the writers just gave up before they finished. Argh. I'm with you on this facepalm moment.

Also pretty much any romance-related scene in BioWare games makes me want to headdesk. Also it's creepy.

 

[clzark]

anytime any of the kids talked in Lost Odyessy