Your most embarrasing, emasculating, video game moment

[Akisohida]

I had to turn off F.E.A.R. because it was about 1AM. Home alone, lights are off. After the little girl torches people the first time, you walk into a building and hear 'drip, drip, drip..' I see the drops but can not make them out so I move forward and look up..JUST in time for the workers corpse to be face-to-face with me as it fell. I yelled and left the room. I could still hear the dripping over my computer speakers so I had to put on earmuffs to go in and shut down the game.

I mean, the timing..I literally looked straight up JUST in time to be face-to-face with the corpse that falls from the walkway above.

Granted, I can not play horror games. My imagination runs too wild. I have yet to even TRY Jerecho. I mean, I LOVE bloody games and if a game has unique ways to kill people or deathtraps I can knock people into with little effort (The kick in Dark Messiah, how I love thee), I will try it but mindfucks will make me flee.

 

[Akisohida]

Oh! And the 'Tub' scene from Eternal Darkness, the only horror game I can play. For those of you who don't know, the game is one big mindfuck 'Eternal Darkness: Sanities Requiem' is the name and you have a sanity meter. When the Present Day main character enter the bathroom once, the camera flashes to the bathtub, now filled with blood with her OWN CORPSE in it. The character lets out a scream to wake the dead. I was playing, at 2 AM, lights off, and everyone asleep with the speakers CRANKED up. (It was at my friends, they have thick walls). The scream make me do the impossible, I swear. I jumped, from a sitting position, at least four feet straight up and it woke the damn neighbors and everyone in my house.

Whenever I play that game, I now have to mute that part. The scream of sheer terror is just too good for me to hear it.

 

[Benny Blanco]

The bit in Half Life 2 before the airboat section, where you're supposed to turn the valve to flood the place so you can go through, directly after the room with the manhack swarm and the barrels, with a ladder in the middle?

I spent literally hours transporting every barrel I could find into the water at the bottom of the ladder, spinning each barrel upright and building a pyramid like tin cans at a supermarket until I realise that this just takes me on to another place where I'm stuck.

Without a walkthrough guide I'd have been there for days.

 

[Vigormortis]

I'm still rather new to the FPS experience, so...whenever a fast headcrab came out of nowhere on Half-Life 2. Also when Alyx made zombie noises in Episode 1.

Those 4 legged "head-humpers" get me every time. EVERY time, lol.

Likewise, one of the most embarrassing moments I had was playing Half-Life 1. It was the chapter where you first come across a Gargantua. When I heard it in the distance all I could think was, "What the hell is that?" Then as I moved farther down the tunnel I saw that 20 foot tall, glowing-red-eyed thing slaughtering the marines that were trying to kill it. Then it spotted me and charged, making the ground shake. I remember practically jumping out of my chair, doing a 360 in game with the mouse and running like a coward all the while bouncing in my chair mumbling, "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, run, oh my god, don't turn around." Later I thought back to that moment and couldn't help but be embarrassed at how scared I was of that thing rushing at me. Just glad no one was around to see it. :/

 

[Akisohida]

The rattle-hiss of..poison headcrabs, was it? Always makes me put on god mode. ;.; Granted, I have arachnophobia and Poison usually have Fast nearby and THEY look like spiders. Yergh.

 

[Eykal]

My most embarrasing moment was when I was playing Half-Life 2, and I was going through the sewers right after *spoilers* Alyx gets captured *spoiler* and I'm running through the sewers going "Thank god theres no more of those damn Poison Zombies (they carry extra headcrabs, poison ones)" and getting pissed at valve for putting so many zombies in there, so I go and see this Lambda cache hidden in the wall, pull out the grav gun and start grabbing crap, I was picking up some ammo for a gun that was full when I heard the telltale poison headcrab flying sound, at which point my screen jerked around because I had the shit scared out of me and I flinched, I threw the ammo crate at it and ran backwards, at which point I threw a piece of fence at it, of course these bounced off, at that point my brain kicked in and I pulled out my RPG that hadn't been used for a few hours and killed it in one shot, still scared me.
My dad was playing FEAR once and he saw Alma crawling down the hallway, he yelled and fired the entire SMG clip at her, even after the hallucination was over!

 

[Wazzelbe]

That time I got really into the Sims 2 and realized I was playing with a digital doll house.

 

[Janosuk]

lol, Back when Resident Evil 2 first was released.
A friend of mine and I were playing through Leon's scenario B with a walkthrough no less (Yes I know how bad that sounds) and It got to the point where you had to go into the Press conference room and light up a few candles at the back to complete the puzzel.
Well the walkthrough said that the tyrant would smash through the wall, I thought okay well at least i know he's comming so i'll leg it!
Reading the guide it told me to go to a certain area afterwards though i can't remember where but .. after I escaped the room and the tyrant I started to run around the outside of conference room in the corridor .. what the guide had failed to mention was that he smashes back through and chases you around to the exit.
Well at that point where he smashses back through the wall both my mate and I screamed like little girls and legged it out the room.
It wasn't untill possibly 10 - 20 seconds did my friend realise what had happened and dived onto the controller to quickly escape.
Was the only moment in my gaming career that actually gave me a cold sweat afterwards.

 

[Kayevcee]

Alien vs Predator for the PC- PC Zone gave the "marine demo" away on a coverdisk. It starts off with you climbing out of your black APC into a black hanger with a black corridor leading off it, down which three black xenomorphs scuttle and eviscerate you before you're able to tell them apart from the wallpaper. My play experience ran thus:

What's thaDEAD
Got one... DEAD
I know they're in heDEAD
Got one... got two... DEAD
One... two... THREE! Out into the corridor. Dead 30 seconds later.
...
Repeat the latter two steps three or four times.
...
Got one... got two... and?

The traditional third alien failed to appear. I was bricking it. I started wandering aimlessly around the hanger hoping to catch a glimpse of it or, more likely, get eaten by it and reset the experience. Pretty soon I was back round where I'd fought the first two. Nothing on motion tracker. No sound (but then there never was before). then it happened.

"AAAH!" said my character.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" said I. It was behind me! It was trying to eat my brains! I wheeled round and unloaded about 4000 rounds into the wall. There was nothing there. I had stood in a patch of acid blood from one of my previous kills. As sheer luck would have it I had a mate round at the time and he has never let me forget my utter freak-out in that hanger. While I was busy thumping him to make him stop laughing so hard, the third alien finally showed up and decapitated me.

"F*** this," said I, and I never played it again.

-Nick

 

[TheIr0nMike]

Me and a group of REALLY good gamers got our asses kicked by a group of Pre-pubes in Gears of War. The worst part is that we only killed three of them out of a four match game.

 

[Rowan_of_Rin]

Well, I have two.
In HL2 at the start when the fucking Combine are chasing you up the stairs, somehow I managed to work myself up into a frenzy, and it really felt like I was gonna die if they caught me, I though I was gonna have a heart attack I was so stressed.
Also playing Doom 3 at 1 in the morning, I couldn't handle it, and had to keep going to menu every 30 seconds or so for a cool off to recover my nerves. Then there was this bit where I heard a noise, I turned around, switched to torch, and there is a zombie in my fucking face. I SCREAMED so loudly, fell of my chair and stopped playing. Bloody hell, that shit is messed up.

 

[GloatingSwine]

Alien vs Predator for the PC- PC Zone gave the "marine demo" away on a coverdisk. It starts off with you climbing out of your black APC into a black hanger with a black corridor leading off it, down which three black xenomorphs scuttle and eviscerate you before you're able to tell them apart from the wallpaper. My play experience ran thus:

What's thaDEAD
Got one... DEAD
I know they're in heDEAD
Got one... got two... DEAD
One... two... THREE! Out into the corridor. Dead 30 seconds later.
...
-Nick

Exactly the same here.

Except once I did really well, got the hang of killing the aliens.

Then Facehugger. DEAD.

Facehuggers made headcrabs look like the cheap low rent ripoffs they really were. One gets you, you're dead, and they were fast as hell. Even the poison headcrabs aren't all that dangerous once you realise that as long as nothing else is there to cause Critical Existence Failure they actually can't hurt you.

 

[Voltrox747]

Man, this brings back memories. I've got quite a few for you.

Spiderman 2: Tried playing it again after not doing so for about a year. I climbed to the top of a tall building as soon as I started it up and jumped off intending to begin swinging through the city. Problem was, I forgot which button you use for the web and couldn't remember in time to save him. Even worse, I hit the pavement right in the middle of a gang fight.

Smash Bros 64: I'm better by far than any of my friends at this, and when I have multiple friends over I often let them fight against me on a team and I still win. However, two people I know have been playing together a lot, and while neither of them are very good alone they somehow managed to learn some amazing teamwork skills. I didn't know about this, so I challenged them as usual. One plays as Kirby, the other plays as Captain Falcon, and I use Fox. Match starts and we fight for a bit as usual. They fight well, and we all end up with one stock left. I jump at them intending to kick both of them since they're standing together. Both of them dodge away in opposite directions so I land in the middle and am stunned for a second since I screwed up the kick. Both then step forward and pummel me with their standard A combos, then Kirby hits me upward with cutter while Falcon starts a Falcon Punch. Falcon hits me with it as Kirby brings me back down and ends the match. That was easily the most embarrassing loss I've had and I swear they'd been practicing that exact combo just for me...

Hey You Pikachu!: I've played the game...what more do you want?

Zelda, Wind Waker: Got to the point in the game where you're climbing a ladder and there's fire traps along the way. My first thought while climbing it was "hmm, this section looks burnt..." and of course, I stop to investigate. You can guess how that ended. This seems to be a common mistake, as my girlfriend told me she did exactly the same thing and I've seen it made fun of online.

Armored Core 3-Silent Line: This one happened to someone else, but it's funny enough that I have to post it. I'll do my best to explain it so that those who haven't played can appreciate this while still keeping it short. I start a match with a friend on the bridge level (long platform, bottomless pit underneath). I'm using a lightweight mech wielding the Karasawa (one of the heaviest weapons in the game) and a blade. My friend has a lightweight that has back weapons and a blade. We both boost under the bridge and begin shooting at each other. I fly above him and drop my Karasawa since I just ran out of ammo. When I turn around, he's out of energy and is falling to his death. He starts laughing hysterically, and when I ask what happened he just shakes his head and starts the replay. What happened is this- as I dropped my weapon, he tried to attack me with his blade. Since the blade uses the same button as picking up a weapon, he grabs the Karasawa that I just dropped on his head instead of attacking. Because the weapon is so heavy, he immediately goes over the limit for how much his mech can carry and is no longer able to fly well enough to get back onto the platform, making this one of the strangest and most embarrassing losses I've seen happen in a game.

I'll post more later if I can think of them. So far this has mostly been about horror games and I'd like to mix it up a bit.

 

[Stammer]

Two times:

One time was when I was playing Brawl single-player, I was doing All-Star Mode to complete it as every character. Man, you know how lame it is when you get to Olimar and he gets an item that kicks your ass and there's nothing you can do about it? Well, that seemed to happen every time. He'd always magically make a Golden Hammer, plain Hammer, Smash Ball, or Assist Trophy pop up right next to him and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it. Unfortunately, he's the only character who ever goes for items, and he's simultaneously the only one with an unavoidable Final Smash.

The other time was trying out World of Warcrap's ten-day free trial. I hated the game so much in comparison to every other MMO I've ever tried that I almost kicked the front-end of my PC tower through to the back as a faster way of uninstalling the horrible, horrible piece of turd that was corrupting my computer. But then I realized that my laptop didn't work, so I just uninstalled it the regular way, spat on the CD, and gave it back to my friend before writing a 4,600 word essay, a 6,800 word essay, and a four-verse song about how horrible it is.

 

[neems]

Again with the AvP (same demo in fact). I loved AvP, but on my first go I managed to use up all my ammo without killing a single alien. I sure taught those shadows a lesson though.

A clan mate, playing dod source, asked how somebody had managed to climb on top of a lamp post. "Oh you just walk up to it and press F10" comes the reply. He wasn't very amused when he rejoined the game. 2, 3 years later and we still rip into him about it.

 

[Mr.Expendable]

I was playing Doom 3 and I was at the part where you first go up against the skinny long gray dudes with no eyes. The ones who love to jump out and bite you in whatever place you don't expect when you're not looking. Remember them?..

Anyway, I was sick so I was naked in my computer chair in a dorm room with 3 other guys, headphones on and my covers on me (So no one knows I'm naked and no one cares) and I have the back of my chair all the way back.

*Spoiler Alert*

I'm in some industrial part and I'm walking towards a series of yellow, construction-looking ladders and as I step on the first step one of these creepy (excuse my French) Fucktards come jumping from right in front of my, through the ladder and hits me in the face. I not only scream as loud as my lungs will grant me, I also take a huge jump, fall backwards in my chair and in half a seconds time I'm lying on the floor on top of my covers and my headphone jack is broken...

 

[strangemusic]

Here's a couple that were fairly emasculating from my MMO experience... maybe not as scary, but certainly balls-shrinking.

City of Heroes... jumping from roof to roof with Super Jump, getting where I need to go, when all of a sudden I land right into the center of a mob of purple Carnival.

EVE Online: Any time you hear the "de-cloak/re-cloak" audio cue, hairs stand up on the back of your neck, because you'd swear to god someone in a Force Recon is about to gank you back to yesterday. Also: for scary, nothing beats running a LONG jump pipeline that's been mercifully clear of hostiles, get nice and bored watching the swirly warp graphics, only to gate through to the next system which is camped up the wazoo/full of red minus markers in Local. Instant panic, jump-outta-your-pants fear, and the necessity to make split-second decisions in order to maybe, maybe not die. See also: flying a Recon/Covert Ops, and attempting to fly into such shitstorms DELIBERATELY and not get found out.

 

[Kayevcee]

Gloatingswine- likewise! I had just enough time to realise what it was before it killed me. Of all the FPSes I've played, that AvP Marine demo was by far the most "I Wanna Be The Guy" like.

-Nick

 

[IanDangerously]

I was on Call of Duty 4 earlier today, and called in a Helicopter on an outdoor map which killed absolutely nobody. That was really embarrasing especially as everyone in the game was pointing out how it had been up there for a minute and not even hit a single enemy player.

When I was a kid, playing the first Tomb Raider game on the PS1, I was terrified and started yelling when the big T-Rex came out and ate me. That was another stupid embarrasing moment which seems stupid now lol.