Times when... you + parents + gaming = embarassment.

[hotdogoctopus]

I don't have any moments from it being my parents. However, I was playing Final Fantasy XII (Don't kill me) when my grandfather came in and started too watch me play. He then saw Ashe and said that she was hot.

Hahahaha, I wish I had had grandparents that wouldn't have thought that electronics were powered by the devil's magic.

 

[bcponpcp27]

*DOOR BURSTS OPEN*
ARE YOU WINNING SON?!

.. its the menu screen, Dad....

I LIKE your dad!

That quite literally made me laugh quite a bit.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

*DOOR BURSTS OPEN*
ARE YOU WINNING SON?!

.. its the menu screen, Dad....

Words cannot explain how funny that was.
Anyways, my dad tried to play MW2 with me.
He was taking too long finding out how to move AND aim at the same time, so I *accidentally* hit him with the 105mm.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

Random Phone call.

Mom: Hey Son.
Me: Hey mom.
Mom: What are you doing?
Me: Playing Borderlands.
Mom: You having fun?
Me: Yes.
Mom: You killing everything that tries to shoot you?
Me: Uh.... Yes.....
Mom: Keep up the good work.
Me: Sure....
Mom: Did you find the boat?
Me: What boat?
Mom: Go to Tracher's Landing. You'll find it.

15 Minutes Later - Phone call back
Mom: Yes son?
Me: The fuck did you know that?

Two years ago.

My Dad owns the hell out of me in Brawl.

With Ness. And me as Snake.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Parents walked in on the FF X laughing scene.

Ugh...

Always keep the remote by your side. Mute button, switch to tv, standby or whatever. It's Tidus and Yuna, what are you going to miss? More ridiculous sexual tension?

I played my dad on a video game once before Fifa... 98 I think. It was funny. Nothing else, my mother has walked in on worse but I'm sure you can use your imagination there. Don't invite people around for... congress if your family is in and definately don't near a front facing window. I had these two friends, we were like inseparable but we started to drift apart. They came to call on me and curtains were not drawn. That was pretty much game over for my social life in secondary school. xD

 

[Shynobee]

The game was God of War 2.

I had just got the game for my birthday the day before. As I was playing, I had just gotten to the little sex minigame in the pool area at Rhodes. Just as I started the minigame, my mom walks in... awkward....

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Spoiler: Image is a bit big...

When your 10 year old little sister walks into the living room while you're playing BioShock and this is on the screen...

That and sometimes on Counter-Strike: Source when my dad comes in the room. Almost always someone is swearing. Another time is when I played CoD:UO on the PC when I was much younger online and I will always remember this conversation. Someone had bound "WANNA BASH?????" in big yellow letters and kept pressing it so someone else decided to bind "NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!" or something like that in big yellow letters. By the way, bash means to have a melee fight but that's not the first thing that comes to mind if you don't play the game. Well, either way my mom comes over and starts talking on the phone right next to the computer. She takes a look at the screen and sees in big yellow letters "WANNA BASH?????" and "NO FUCKING WAY!!!!!" scrolling down the screen. Keep in mind that I was like 9 or 10 when I was playing this. Needless to say, my mom didn't appreciate that.

 

[Vallis]

*DOOR BURSTS OPEN*
ARE YOU WINNING SON?!

.. its the menu screen, Dad....

Words cannot explain how funny that was.
Anyways, my dad tried to play MW2 with me.
He was taking too long finding out how to move AND aim at the same time, so I *accidentally* hit him with the 105mm.

Mine isnt so much embaressment at the game either, the one and only game my father ever played start to finish was Super Metroid. I remember being particularly amused and proud of him when he finally noodled out how to wall jump up a chimney. waving his arms in the air as if he had a wiimote (this was on snes), too funny.

My mom, good god, she is a fiend for Dr. Mario. I was selling my nintendo gear to pick up a ps1 and she actually bought it all so she could keep dr mario.

As for ARE YOU WINNING SON?!

Hilarity!

 

[RanD00M]

No,my parents know all about the games that i play.

 

[Roxas1359]

I don't have any moments from it being my parents. However, I was playing Final Fantasy XII (Don't kill me) when my grandfather came in and started too watch me play. He then saw Ashe and said that she was hot.

Hahahaha, I wish I had had grandparents that wouldn't have thought that electronics were powered by the devil's magic.

Trust me sometimes it can be weird especially when my 86 year old grandfather can get 4 girlfriends and I can't get 1.

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

I know this may be a bit recent, but bear with me...
Gears of War 2, my mother walks around the television screen just as I am
executing a headshot w/the sniper (*splat* "yeah, eat it") and or lancer saw kill
or the "for all I care they can eat shit and die" moment
or bioshock, in the beginning, when the spider splicer guts johnny

 

[Snotnarok]

I decided to show my dad Mass Effect, he happens to like sci-fi stuff/shooters and what not, this being my playthrough I didn't know what was going to happen next.

...Suffice to say having hot lesbian sex with a blue alien isn't a great first impression on a game or my taste in games, he's jaded and understood that it was simply part of a story. ...Still, embarrassing as hell.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

I was playing GTA:San Andreas. My dad was in the room reading a newspaper9

He broke the silence and started talking:

"So, uhm, son. What are you doing right now?"
"Playing a game..."
"And what are you doing right now in that game?"
"Well, I just robbed a store and killed about 20 cops in the process of escaping. Then I went to conquer some of my enemies turf and slaughtered about 18 of 'em. At the moment I'm being chased by the police."
"Good to know, son, good to know. I'll just, go to the bathroom"

That was a weird moment...I guess the "killed 20 cops" and the "slaughtered 18 of my enemies" set the mood a bit.

I lol'd quite a bit.

OT: Killzone 2, where pretty much every other word that is muttered is "fuck".

FUCKING KILL THOSE FUCKING BASTARDS, SEV. FUCK!

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Parents walked in on the FF X laughing scene.

Ugh...

lol'd

During my WoW raiding days, my mum would come in and question me. Questions are always the same.

"I don't understand, what's so fun about this thing?"
"Does it get you a job?"
"Does it earn you any money?"
"So you just go into a place and kill monsters? What for?"
"Can't you do something useful for a change?"
"Don't you have anything else to do other than sit here for 8 hours?"
"Do you even know these people?"

Oh wow, this is my mum. Wow is a thing of the past now though, thank god.

 

[BonsaiK]

I don't know about you fellow escapists. But back when I was living at home, there were certain games that I felt extremely awkward about having my mom walk in on. And no, the answer is not: my penis,that was strictly multiplayer*. Some of those titles included an bloody little gem I had on my comp. called doom. Another was the PS2 port of Unreal Tournament. Lastly there was an incident where my mother walked into my room whilst my character from GTA III was having a hooker as a post mission dessert. All in all I felt extremely awkward being that people were either exploding or were simply the demons of hell...or that the image on the screen was that of a rocking car with a soundtrack of k-jah and moaning. But back to you; what were some gaming moments that involved your parents and blood rushing to your cheeks? Maybe daddy walked in on you watching your night elf dance, pants about your ankles. Or maybe you walked in on him and his.

*fun for the whole family?

When my parents were alive and I was living at home with them, gaming was much tamer than it is now, there wasn't ever really swearing, violence was always cartoonish even at its most extreme and nudity was like lego porn. However, my parents were of that older Michael Atkinson generation that is pretty much hostile to computer games, period. So it didn't really matter what I played, they always thought it was "stupid". My Dad was particularly disturbed by war games because he was in Berlin during the whole of WWII, he didn't understand why anybody would want to play a game like that. He liked war movies though so he probably would have liked Call Of Duty because that's very "cinematic", but I shudder to think what he would have made of something more realistic like Darkest Hour, the artillery in that game would probably be enough to give him post-traumatic stress.

 

[atomictoast]

I have the really rare situation of having a gamer dad, and a game-supporting mom.

My Dad's a huge TF2 player, he's playing the war event in the other room right now.

My mom's obsessed with SRPG, like Disgaea and Final Fantasy Tactics.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

Random Phone call.

Mom: Hey Son.
Me: Hey mom.
Mom: What are you doing?
Me: Playing Borderlands.
Mom: You having fun?
Me: Yes.
Mom: You killing everything that tries to shoot you?
Me: Uh.... Yes.....
Mom: Keep up the good work.
Me: Sure....
Mom: Did you find the boat?
Me: What boat?
Mom: Go to Tracher's Landing. You'll find it.

15 Minutes Later - Phone call back
Mom: Yes son?
Me: The fuck did you know that?

Two years ago.

My Dad owns the hell out of me in Brawl.

With Ness. And me as Snake.

How the fuck DID she know?