Has a Game Ever Embarrassed You To the Point Where You Stopped Playing It?

[face_head_mouth]

The recent release of Duke Nukem Forever (which I haven't yet played) made me think of this question: Has a game ever made you so embarrassed that you stopped playing it? I'm not talking about the quality of the gameplay or the technical aspects; rather, has a game ever showed you or exposed you to something so childish, crude, sexually puerile or witless that you quit playing it or at least contemplated it?

As a personal example, I am currently playing Bayonetta. I love the game to death (maybe the best action game I've ever played), and it's far too well made for me to want to stop playing it, but...the other night I was playing and I pushed the 'Taunt' button (which you use to anger your opponents into attacking you, or when you feel like being a jerk) and the main character sat down on the ground and quickly bent her knees to her sides (which emphasized her crotch) while dipping her head back in a mock display of sexual ecstasy. To quote Yahtzee, "At this point I felt like my eyes were going to roll straight out of my skull". There is also some pretty over-the-top immaturity in No More Heroes (especially 'charging' your Beam Katana, which is basically miming masturbation with the Wii remote) but again, I liked the game too much to stop playing it.

So...have any of you actually went all the way and just stopped altogether?

 

[Julianking93]

Wow... ninja'd by the damn OP.
I thought Bayonetta right when I read the title

Though, I didn't stop playing. I just didn't play in the company of anyone >.>

 

[Snowy Rainbow]

Nothing like your examples. I saw 3D Custom Girl once. I had to stop the video playback after a few seconds >_>

 

[Grey Walker]

Never to the point that I stopped playing it, but if it stopped me from having fun I'd stop due to boredom.

 

[Aeonknight]

Embarassed? Nope. I did stop playing FFX-2 about 30 minutes into it, but that was more disgust than embarassment.

 

[KarlMonster]

In the 'never' dimension of Minecraft.

After initially getting my buttocks blown away two or eight times. I dug myself a little hole and made a good size cavern, and that got mostly blasted away. Then I realized a great way to build things with relative impunity - and still took some occasional damage.

However, despite the headway I was making, I just had to stop playing. The braying of those ghost critters sounded like babies crying, and I suddenly realized that since I was in my room with the lights out - and 5.1 surroundsound - I could be watching kiddie porn for all anyone knew.

 

[Jegsimmons]

i can't remember...but it was japanese.......well if it Japanese im embarrassed just to play it none the less honestly.

 

[Zhukov]

Knights of the Old Republic.

There's a side quest that involves dancing with a Twileck (I'm sure I spelt that wrong) woman so she can pass her audition. That was the point where I stopped regarding the game as potentially good and started seeing it as blatant nerd bait.

I'm still playing it, but the Star Wars setting weighs the game down like pair of cement shoes.

 

[LT Cannibal 68]

in mgs4 when you first go to south America they make you stare at snake's ass for a good minute and a half and then he starts doing this weird crawling motion it was so......weird.

 

[Nickompoop]

I'd have to say the sex scene in ME2 with Tali. I was fine with doing her, but the way the scene was shot made it seem like I was peeking through a hole in the bulkhead like some creeper. Gave me the heebie-jeebies.

 

[PurkinjeFiber]

Knights of the Old Republic.

There's a side quest that involves dancing with a Twileck (I'm sure I spelt that wrong) woman so she can pass her audition. That was the point where I stopped regarding the game as potentially good and started seeing it as blatant nerd bait.

I'm still playing it, but the Star Wars setting weighs the game down like pair of cement shoes.

I'm playing through that right now, but I haven't reached that point in the game...


There are a few points in Bioshock that were extremely disturbing to me. The part where you fight Dr. Steinman, the atmosphere in that area almost made me turn the game off. Personal hygiene as a moral imperative is a revolting philosophy, and its exposition to the player is extremely well done.

 

[Reaper195]

No. Some games have made me somewhat uncomfortable while playing them (Certain scenes in DNF, DOA Xtreme 2, etc), but never enough to outright stop playing them.

 

[CBanana]

Lighting Warrior Raidy. I really must have hit my head on something to think that I'd actually enjoy the game in the first place.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

No. But I can think of one game that has Embarrassed me so much that I refused to buy it or even look at it any more.

Looking at you Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 2

 

[Vault101]

the witcher certainly didnt help..(oh a card..yeah nice you know if you a sexually depraved male)

I actually FELT embarrased at one piont in DA:O one of the dalish elves was taking te piss out of me without me knowing it...my face actually went red with embarrasment...now THATS role playing

 

[face_head_mouth]

In the 'never' dimension of Minecraft.

After initially getting my buttocks blown away two or eight times. I dug myself a little hole and made a good size cavern, and that got mostly blasted away. Then I realized a great way to build things with relative impunity - and still took some occasional damage.

However, despite the headway I was making, I just had to stop playing. The braying of those ghost critters sounded like babies crying, and I suddenly realized that since I was in my room with the lights out - and 5.1 surroundsound - I could be watching kiddie porn for all anyone knew.

That's funny! It makes me think of when I played the three main God of War games last year. I would turn the volume wayyyyyyyyy down when the sex minigames would come up. They weren't so bad in the first two games (where they were more like sly little bonuses the developers slipped in and which could then be easily ignored after their initial discovery), but God of War III went ahead and (unwisely) made it a necessary and unavoidable part of the game. Funny the first time, but it will probably be kinda embarrassing if I ever play through it again (although I realize how that sounds, compared with the part that asks you to twist the head off a still-living god, among the countless other atrocities you commit).

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Not personally however, My friend did turn off the sound on his tv while playing FF13 becuase of the sounds Vanille makes in combat.

He figured his family would think he was up to somthing completely different lol.

 

[The Rockerfly]

Bayonetta. Fantastic combat but the quick time events and the ridiculous over sexualization just made it painful to press on. Which is kind of ironic considering the dominatrix art style of game.

Final Fantasy XIII because of the horrible combat system, embarrassing characterization and just stupid choices in gameplay. I made it about 30 hours in and I just didn't care enough to finish it

 

[Der Wolf]

I...uh...

Nope. Not really. I'm trying to think...

I always skip the cutscene in Ratchet 3 that shows a music video of one of the characters. It's supposed to be a jab at Britney Spears, and while it's funny for the first ten seconds it quickly gets annoying. The thing is that it lasts for an entire song length!! It was a stupid decision for Insomniac to let that go completely on. Luckily I can just skip that video and see the important part afterwards. But this doesn't stop me from playing the game, I just skip that one scene and am done with it.

Actually, that Britney Spears video is only about 30 seconds at most. The boss fight where she sings it though, is a different story.

And I stopped playing Afro Samurai simply because of Ninja Ninja. The game was fun violence, but listening to Samuel L Jackson break out so many childish swears was just to stupid.