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

[zohmbee]

Every game I play, my mum's played. But there's way more than enough times when I've been on mic chat... like the time me and my friend were playing Left 4 Dead.

"Hold on, I'm coming!"
[Bill helps Francis up]
"Ah! Be gentle, it's my first time!"

My mum BUSTS the door open and screams "WHAT THE FUCK'S GOING ON IN HERE?!"

Apparently she thought I was fondling the Xbox or something, no idea. >_>

 

[MetaKnight19]

When any family member walks in on me playing Pokémon Battle Revolution and the ridiculous announcer is shouting something like 'JIGGLYPUFF IS SENT OUT!' I go almost bright red out of embarrasment. Especially since when you're playing online, you can't access the Home Menu. So now I keep the TV remote nearby, ready to change the channel as soon as the door handle starts turning.

Also when someone walks in while an unskippable JRPG cutscene is playing.

 

[camokkid]

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?"

your mom is a n00b

you should mute her

 

[MercenaryCanary]

*DOOR BURSTS OPEN*
ARE YOU WINNING SON?!

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

I love your dad.

 

[camokkid]

Every game I play, my mum's played. But there's way more than enough times when I've been on mic chat... like the time me and my friend were playing Left 4 Dead.

"Hold on, I'm coming!"
[Bill helps Francis up]
"Ah! Be gentle, it's my first time!"

My mum BUSTS the door open and screams "WHAT THE FUCK'S GOING ON IN HERE?!"

Apparently she thought I was fondling the Xbox or something, no idea. >_>

*mouth agape*

I... really have nothing to say to that...

I think I'll go to my room and... pray...

 

[Caligulove]

I usually laugh at it... and then they do too. my parents walked in on me playing GTAIII when that came in and I remember my Mom said "hey, whatcha doing?"

"Oh I just got a hooker and I can either take her back to her pimp or have sex with her and murder her to get my money back"

"hahaha thats horrible!... you can really do that? show me"

so I guess it depends on families...

 

[Tekyro]

Wasn't quite embarrassing for me as such, I found it pretty hilarious, but I was in some shop or other with my mum, her phone profile is set to "loud", and her message tone is the sound that plays when you pick up an extra life in the original Sonic games. She got a text. Picture the scene.

 

[AWC Viper]

playing the saboteur, and being in the burlesque house's basement watching a dance and my mum barging in with my grandma.

 

[Ophi]

My sister was swearing heavily when she couldn't find the last emerald shard on Sonic Adventure 2 Battle with Rouge. Dad walked by, but being the kind of guy he was, he just walked off laughing.

Damn, I was going to say that. *Is his sister*

Well anyways, on Dragon Age: Origins, I was playing in the living room and my mom was reading on the couch. I had just slain the High Dragon, and in my frenzy to get the epics loots, accidentally talked Alistair and accidentally selected the "Has anybody ever told you how handsome you are?" dialogue option trying to close the dialogue window. This spiraled into a total shitstorm of trying to say 'lol nvm' without hurting his feelings or something stupid like that and losing the constitution bonus he gets for having high approval with you.

Being something of a tomboy in real life, the entire situation was just incredibly awkward.

What made it even worse was that his character model was hiding inside of the corpse of the High Dragon.

So, in summary, I, a tomboy with no intention of making a 'romance' with my character, was having a rather lovey dovey conversation with somebody whose character model was concealed by a giant dragon.

With my mom watching.

Awkward. ><;

 

[camokkid]

That interactive sex scene in Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the US, but I don't think that version had that scene). Mom walked in on my 12 year-old brother playing it, then came to me asking what kind of game I had bought. Best thing was, I hadn't even gotten that far in the game, so I had no idea what she was talking about.

I have this friend named jessica (who lives in the U.S.) and she has indigo prophecy for the original xbox(or whatever, all I know is that the game had that name on the cover, because it was buried under about 300 other games, some of which she hasn't even played yet, like fallout 3)

[b/]EDIT: OH FUCK[/b], sorry I misread your post, I thought it said that fahrenheit was the american name!

 

[AdambotLive]

*DOOR BURSTS OPEN*
ARE YOU WINNING SON?!

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

 

[sgtshock]

My 10-year old sister will occasionally watch me play my 360, which can be quite awkward when I'm playing Gears of War 2, GTA IV, etc.

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?

Quit holding out on us, man. How did she know?

 

[Bob_F_It]

Should have hidden that porn better. Cover your tracks in electronicland.

For me I put a password on my computer, and all content of questionable legality is stored on an external hard drive which is hidden inside a box that is locked that is hidden somewhere else (in a different spot, I change it up).

Yep.

What gave you the idea that it was anything illegal? It was just something my mother thought was inappropriate.

You just make sure your parents can't see anything you don't want them to see when they use your computer. My parents get quite anal over what I do on it, be it gaming, forums, or lolcats. (Fortunately, my laptop is so slow, they'll never have the patiance to use it).

 

[TAGM]

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.

That's embarasing? I'd consider that to be awesome, myself...

Anyway, As for embarasing moments, about the only ones I've had are actualy self-inflicted, as in trying to EXPLAIN the games I'm playing. Mainly because I try my very best to make them sound as stupid as phisicaly possible...
Worst bit was probably them finding out I was using the best cheat in GTA 1 at age 8-10... And we all know what THAT one was, I'm sure. If you don't... It's a word. Starts with a B. Used to mean born of unmarried parents. Yeah... Explaining that without actualy SAYING the word at the dinner table... Embbarasing AND difficult.

 

[nathan-dts]

Parents should NEVER play Dance Dance Revolution.

 

[Haunted Serenity]

Sex scenes really. I used to get flushed about that when they saw those but it wasn't the end of the world. My grandpa liked watching me play WW2 fighter plane games because he used to fix them. He complained about the infinte machine gun rounds.

My mom would occassionally say good shot when i thought she wasn't watching. Scared the crap out of me sometimes.

 

[MR T3D]

INVERSION!
I walked in on my folks playing bad company 2 beta.
needless to say i was shocked.

 

[Artina89]

My dad waking me up at 3 in the morning, saying, "I can't beat the trenchcoat wearing dude, screaming SSSSTTTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSS!!!! (he was doing the guttural screaming voice too, which woke my mum and brother,) can you beat him for me? he scares the crap out of me..."
Also, one time, at around midnight or one in the morning, the whole family was woken up by this scream, so the whole family comes down the stairs, thinking someone is being murdered or something, and my dad is there, scared to death of the giant head of Eileen in SH4 (y'know, when you walk into that room and Eileens huge head is there, and theres all that heavy breathing.)
Mum banned him from playing videogames after 9 O'clock at night after that...

 

[Gardenia]

That interactive sex scene in Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in the US, but I don't think that version had that scene). Mom walked in on my 12 year-old brother playing it, then came to me asking what kind of game I had bought. Best thing was, I hadn't even gotten that far in the game, so I had no idea what she was talking about.

I have this friend named jessica (who lives in the U.S.) and she has indigo prophecy for the original xbox(or whatever, all I know is that the game had that name on the cover, because it was buried under about 300 other games, some of which she hasn't even played yet, like fallout 3)

[b/]EDIT: OH FUCK[/b], sorry I misread your post, I thought it said that fahrenheit was the american name!

Aww, you robbed me of my "Cool story bro"

 

[Jaranja]

Mine would have to be... The Mass Effect love scene. My dad walked in and saw that.

I suppose he walked in on me and my ex-girlfriend, once, so the Mass Effect scene isn't that bad...

I can imagine that.

*walks in on you and your ex*
"GOOD ON YA SON!"

*walks in on your at Mass Effect love scene*
"I know she dumped you... but this is not the answer!"