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Awkward Scenes in Videogames That Made You Cringe
- Thread starter Angelus Errare
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Meccanical
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Fuck that, I repressed the memories of that place and you made them come flooding back.
Now we all must suffer.
HungOverOnATues
Member
About every cutscene in Final Fantasy XIII made me embarrassed to be playing it. I'll give a nod to "Moms are tough" in particular though.
DanielJr82
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ViewtifulJC
Banned
Grooseland
XANDER CAGE
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I thought that was pretty funny. On the other hand, every time Claudia Black opened her mouth to crack wise about what a tuff grrrrl she was. Seriously, if you're writing a game (or anything) and your female characters can't stop saying shit like "you just got beat by a girl!" or "never get between a woman and a sale!" just
stop
stop writing
nobody talks like that
Keith Stack
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Angelus Errare
Banned
LMAO at Knuckles
CambriaRising
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afternoon delight
Member
Yeah, Otacon's life story elements were embarrassing to listen to in MGS2.
A Human Becoming
More than a Member
It didn't make me cringe, but I imagine if I was in the MGS4 scene where Meryl shouts "THIS IS BULLSHIT" and knocks over a chair I'd feel awkward.
Red Blaster
Member
95% of Mass Effect 3
Well they are.
Bahaha, I will never understand why that scene makes people cringe. One of the funniest scenes in a video game all gen. Tri-Ace has a pretty good sense of humor imo. "All we have are raisins" etc.
Meccanical
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"Moms are tough" actually became hilariously ironic later on though do to certain events.
Scalpel Knight
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GOD NO WHY
RyanardoDaVinci
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Even though it's my favorite (barring 4 & PO), the Metal Gear Solid series has a couple dozen of 'em.
Dreamwriter
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In before someone completely misses the point that this thread is supposed to be about purposely awkward scenes...too late.
SafeinSound
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DINNER DINNER DINNER
Dion Blaster
Member
Any Metal Gear Solid scene involving Otacon, or Snake hitting on someone over codec.
At the end of God of War 3 when my friend was watching me play:
Me: "Yeah dude, check out this game. It's so badass and brutal."
Pandora: "Hope is what guides us! Hope is why we are hear! Hope Hope Hope...."
*Kratos swimming through darkness for a few minutes*
Me: "uhhh, I can explain."
Also, I played through like half of MGS2 with some friends watching and there were too many cringe-worthy moments to count for us in there.
Me: "Yeah dude, check out this game. It's so badass and brutal."
Pandora: "Hope is what guides us! Hope is why we are hear! Hope Hope Hope...."
*Kratos swimming through darkness for a few minutes*
Me: "uhhh, I can explain."
Also, I played through like half of MGS2 with some friends watching and there were too many cringe-worthy moments to count for us in there.
You're just pissy because I shot down your post before you got a chance to make it.
WrenchNinja
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Theres no such qualifier in the op.
The Bioware scene described by the op is unintentionally awkward as we know Bioware thinks theyre beautiful sex scenes full of romance and drama.
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Wait, this thread is supposed to be about purposely awkward scenes?
Huevos de Oro
Member
Hah, I bought this game a few days ago, without any prior knowledge of this kind of stuff. A couple friends had shown me the nappy time video, but the second one seems to be even creepier.
As for my contribution, I guess it'd be Otacon in MGS4 PLOT SPOILERS
crying when Naomi died.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
"Man, this scene sucks"
"IT'S SUPPOSED TO SUCK YOU JUST DON'T GET IT!"
I don't buy that shit.
"IT'S SUPPOSED TO SUCK YOU JUST DON'T GET IT!"
I don't buy that shit.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Judging from the OP I thought it was either. That ME3 scene ain't no good.
TONX
Distinguished Air Superiority
Cringed then laughed uncontrollably when I first saw this.
Seriously, this game is the ultimate example of an awkward game that makes you cringe, basically any scene past the WW3 opening fits the bill.
Though to a lesser degree I think almost all JRPGs are guilty to some extent, and Bioware romantic scenes are also plenty guilty.
Metal Gear Solid 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZn2riiwIq0
When Otacon freaks the fuck out when Naomi hits on him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZn2riiwIq0
ChuyMasta
Member
AND I AM OUT OF HERE.
Otacon crying for Naomi in MGS4. The wet works start after 2:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxBpKgMQnbM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxBpKgMQnbM
D
Deleted member 81567
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BAHAHAHAHAHHAA
So many Japanese games...
But here's mine! Ghostbusters: The Videogame does a half-assed version of the MASS HYSTERIA bit from the original movie. The game is full of shameless callbacks, but this one was the worst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ofBjp9oyY&t=18m25s
Obviously a result of the actors being recorded separately, animators having no sense of comedic timing and lazy writing (Aykroyd and Ramis writing the script was 99% marketing; they probably did a weekend's worth of rewrites. Even if they did have a significant hand in it, they're both filmmakers who have Lost It at this point.).
Still dig the game for what it was because GHOSTBUSTERS IS AWESOME
But here's mine! Ghostbusters: The Videogame does a half-assed version of the MASS HYSTERIA bit from the original movie. The game is full of shameless callbacks, but this one was the worst.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ofBjp9oyY&t=18m25s
Obviously a result of the actors being recorded separately, animators having no sense of comedic timing and lazy writing (Aykroyd and Ramis writing the script was 99% marketing; they probably did a weekend's worth of rewrites. Even if they did have a significant hand in it, they're both filmmakers who have Lost It at this point.).
Still dig the game for what it was because GHOSTBUSTERS IS AWESOME
90% because of cultural maybe, but I'd say 50% AT LEAST due to bad writing that either wasn't or COULDN'T be repaired in localization. Something like Tales of Vesperia for example is generally not THAT bad, while SO4 is an abomination, yet they were going for similar styles of anime humor/story telling. Oh, and both were handled by the same localization company, so that eliminates one factor.
Pyrrhus
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Man, is one thread going to be enough?
I'm going to skip the obvious chestnuts and go for something a little more recent. Everyone rightly makes fun of the Press X to Jason component of Heavy Rain, but I think the scene where Special Agent Naahman Jayden confronts what appears to be the only black guy in this game's version of Philadelphia rates a lot higher on the scale.
I mean, the character is black, but he's motion captured by a white actor with this exaggerated ghetto swagger and voiced by a white guy with a script that has him yelling stuff like "Hey, cracka! Whacchu doin' in there!?" and doing rhyming jive talk like Roadblock from G.I. Joe. Maybe this all flew under the radar for a Frenchman like David Cage, but it comes off like something close to minstrelsy to American sensibilities.
Stuff like that is why it floors me that so many people lauded the game as an achievement in mature storytelling.
I'm going to skip the obvious chestnuts and go for something a little more recent. Everyone rightly makes fun of the Press X to Jason component of Heavy Rain, but I think the scene where Special Agent Naahman Jayden confronts what appears to be the only black guy in this game's version of Philadelphia rates a lot higher on the scale.
I mean, the character is black, but he's motion captured by a white actor with this exaggerated ghetto swagger and voiced by a white guy with a script that has him yelling stuff like "Hey, cracka! Whacchu doin' in there!?" and doing rhyming jive talk like Roadblock from G.I. Joe. Maybe this all flew under the radar for a Frenchman like David Cage, but it comes off like something close to minstrelsy to American sensibilities.
Stuff like that is why it floors me that so many people lauded the game as an achievement in mature storytelling.
It is if you disqualify tri-Ace.
snow: WE'RE GONNA SAVE WHATEVER WE GOTTA SAVE RIGHT GUYS?? SSSAAAAAVE
hope: oh god i can't do this OH GOD... yet somehow i'm like the most powerful character.
vanille: lalalalalalaalaaa hey look a ten-foot bloodthirsty monster oh that's nice lalalaaa
fang: i'm a respectable character, but i'll take a back seat because honestly i'm just trying to score with vanille
black dude whose name i forget: yeah i'm pretty cool but i'm a joke character. welp, maybe next token
lightning: i hate everything. i hate life. i hate the game i'm in. irritated one-liner. *lightning walks away, which is how 50% of the cutscenes end*
encephalon
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Team Nora and nearly every time Snowe opens his mouth in FFXIII.
Oh and,
Someone should point out that the line is actually derived from a Japanese saying "women may be weak, but mothers are strong." The line actually uses archaic, fancy sounding Japanese in the original ver (yes, the FFXIII script includes a throwback to a sexist point of view). The "mom's are tough" line has me believing the translators were making fun of the game they were working on with FFXIII.
Oh and,
Someone should point out that the line is actually derived from a Japanese saying "women may be weak, but mothers are strong." The line actually uses archaic, fancy sounding Japanese in the original ver (yes, the FFXIII script includes a throwback to a sexist point of view). The "mom's are tough" line has me believing the translators were making fun of the game they were working on with FFXIII.
WrenchNinja
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