[willooi]

Gears of War 3: The entire sequence leading up to and including the Cole Train's bomb 'touchdown' in the stadium. How embarrassing.

[Meccanical]

That Kingdom Hearts Little Mermaid shit. Ugh oh god

Fuck that, I repressed the memories of that place and you made them come flooding back.

Now we all must suffer.

[HungOverOnATues]

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]

Devil May Cry

I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIIGHT!

>.<'

[Gomu Gomu]

Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy had a loooot of those.

[Chatin]

The whole child arc of Tales of Graces. Kids needed a serious beating.

[ViewtifulJC]

Grooseland

[XANDER CAGE]

Gears of War 3: The entire sequence leading up to and including the Cole Train's bomb 'touchdown' in the stadium. How embarrassing.

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]

[Angelus Errare]

LMAO at Knuckles

[CambriaRising]

Knuckle's face is priceless.

"wut"

[afternoon delight]

Yeah, Otacon's life story elements were embarrassing to listen to in MGS2.

[A Human Becoming]

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.

[nullset2]

Well... pretty much every single cutscene in Killer7 was awkward because of how batshit insane the whole thing gets... and some made me cringe, even.

I had people walk in on me while watching the... Harman/Samantha scene...

[Red Blaster]

95% of Mass Effect 3

[Roto13]

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.

Well they are.

[ZenaxPure]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHZrBUimuY

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]

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.

"Moms are tough" actually became hilariously ironic later on though do to certain events.

[Scalpel Knight]

Fuck that, I repressed the memories of that place and you made them come flooding back. Now we all must suffer.

GOD NO WHY

[RyanardoDaVinci]

Even though it's my favorite (barring 4 & PO), the Metal Gear Solid series has a couple dozen of 'em.

[Dreamwriter]

In before Final Fantasy X laughing scene by someone completely missing the point that it's supposed to be awkward.

In before someone completely misses the point that this thread is supposed to be about purposely awkward scenes...too late.

[SafeinSound]

DINNER DINNER DINNER

[Dinosaur]

Any Metal Gear Solid scene involving Otacon, or Snake hitting on someone over codec.

[slayzz]

All the scenes with Meryl and Johnny in MGS4. HOLY SHIT does it made me cringe.

[KingK]

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.

[Roto13]

In before someone completely misses the point that this thread is supposed to be about purposely awkward scenes...too late.

You're just pissy because I shot down your post before you got a chance to make it.

[Crewnh]

In before someone completely misses the point that this thread is supposed to be about purposely awkward scenes...too late.

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.

[cnizzle06]

MGS4. The majority of it was pretty cringe-inducing.

[Fantastical]

In before someone completely misses the point that this thread is supposed to be about purposely awkward scenes...too late.

Wait, this thread is supposed to be about purposely awkward scenes?

[SteelAttack]

A lot of cutscenes from Star Ocean 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t81RuMfJjyM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlN4E-1I80Q

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.

[Raonak]

no MGS4 mr & ms smith scene.
I love akward japanese kojima humour, but that was too bizziare, even for me.

[WanderingWind]

"Man, this scene sucks"
"IT'S SUPPOSED TO SUCK YOU JUST DON'T GET IT!"

I don't buy that shit.

[XANDER CAGE]

Wait, this thread is supposed to be about purposely awkward scenes?

Judging from the OP I thought it was either. That ME3 scene ain't no good.

[TONX]

Devil May Cry I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIIGHT! >.<'

Cringed then laughed uncontrollably when I first saw this.

[Eusis]

A lot of cutscenes from Star Ocean 4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t81RuMfJjyM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlN4E-1I80Q

The entirety of Star Ocean 4 qualifies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t81RuMfJjyM Star Ocean 4, 'kay

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.

[ZealousD]

Metal Gear Solid 4

When Otacon freaks the fuck out when Naomi hits on him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZn2riiwIq0

[ChuyMasta]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHZrBUimuY

AND I AM OUT OF HERE.

[Dead Man]

So, the reason 90% of the scenes are from Japanese games is because of language differences or something?

[televator]

Otacon crying for Naomi in MGS4. The wet works start after 2:50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxBpKgMQnbM

[Eggman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHZrBUimuY

BAHAHAHAHAHHAA

[90sRobots]

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

[CorvoSol]

EVERY SINGLE LOVE SCENE BETWEEN SNOW AND SERAH IN FFXIII.

[Eusis]

So, the reason 90% of the scenes are from Japanese games is because of language differences or something?

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]

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.

[Eusis]

Man, is one thread going to be enough?

It is if you disqualify tri-Ace.

[areal]

HD 720P Dom And Maria Emotional Cutscene Gears Of War 2

[Degen]

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.

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]

Team Nora and nearly every time Snowe opens his mouth in FFXIII.

Oh and,

"Moms are tough" actually became hilariously ironic later on though do to certain events.

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.

[Crewnh]

HD 720P Dom And Maria Emotional Cutscene Gears Of War 2

I shouldnt have read the YouTube comments

How can people actually think this is good

[TUROK]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xJ6WqSsf7A

Dom getting angry because of Maria. 55 seconds in.