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[Phediuk]

My mom was appalled by Wolfenstein 3D back in the day lol. She couldn't believe there were games entirely about shooting people.

On a more positive note, my dad thought Ridge Racer looked amazingly realistic back when I first got my Playstation. That's just about the only time I can remember him taking interest in a game, ever.

 

[Frankenstrat]

My mom was pretty taken aback by the violence in Team Fortress 2 of all things, though I suppose with actual gibs it's understandable.

Edit: I forgot about smash Bros! Mom bought it without realizing what it was and I was 9, so as soon as she sat down, realized it was a fighter, and saw the T rating on the box, it was gone until I was 13.

 

[lucebuce12]

Most recently it'd have to be Cassie Cage's X-ray in MKX.

Even though my brother has played the classic MK games and isn't really squeamish, he was shocked at a woman

Spoiler

crushing someone's balls

, shown in such high fidelity.

 

[ApharmdX]

Silent Hill 2 - Angela's story. I was shocked that kind of story made it into the game. It still stands out today for game narratives for Team Silent's bravery on that.

 

[Zombie James]

About 18 years ago my mother walked in on me playing Silent Hill, and by "playing" I mean I was chopping down a nurse with an ax. Fun times.

Imagine if instead of chopping down a nurse, I had walked in on someone while they were sick in the shower. That would have been deranged and perverse!

 

[mullet2000]

I rented God of War when I was 15 or so not knowing there would be nudity.

Sure was interesting when the scene after the intro came on...

 

[Duchess O'Death]

The death by Bloater animation in The Last of Us!

 

[Panthalassic]

My dad happened to walk in on the Joy cutscene from Bayonetta and was very surprised. He asked me if they were lesbians and I was like "omg".

Very embarrassing....


On a different not, he hates Smash Bros. because he doesn't "like the idea of Nintendo characters fighting each other".

 

[Otakumegane]

THAT scene involving Karol, Estelle, and that spear lady from Tales of Vesperia.

I picked Karol.

I haven't heard my sister laugh that hard in a while. My mom was not so impressed.

 

[Transistor]

My dad wasn't too thrilled about what he saw in Doom when I was about 10 or so.

 

[Taliban Stan]

My mom thought Streets of Rage was too violent but she still let me play it obsessively. I think she needed me quiet in my room for something, so she gave me the go ahead, I stayed quiet, and that was the last I heard from her about how games were ruinous.

From that point forward, "go upstairs and play video games" or "go outside and play" had a secret meaning of "you haven't don't anything wrong but I need me time so go do something you enjoy that doesn't require adult supervision."

 

[Willenium]

my brother walked in on me playing Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete during one of the musical animated cut scenes and he punched me in the arm and called me a nerd :\

 

[JetBlackPanda]

I was staying at my wife's aunts house over Thanksgiving one year. In the basement I was playing Gears of War 2. She walked in right when i was giving a locust the old rip saw up the taint.

Yeah.

that's the only time.

 

[Memento]

I remember God of War 3 blowed people's mind back in 2010 when I was playing during a family lunch hahah

 

[eso76]

Must have mentioned it before but mom was quite upset at the sight of the blonde, blue eyed Billy Lee beating black guys (for the most part) to death in DD arcade.

I never made the connection until much, much later.

 

[Luminaire]

My mom requested that we play GTA VC in the living room while her mother was over in an effort to drive her out. Needless to say she was horrified and left to get a hotel for the remaining days.

They don't get along.

 

[snow in jamaica]

Mara from SMT threw my family into hysterics. Not when I was playing a game, but when my figurine arrived.

"hahahahaha holy shit you've gotta see this"

 

[Kent]

My dad happened to walk in on the Joy cutscene from Bayonetta and was very surprised. He asked me if they were lesbians and I was like "omg".

Please tell me you finished that fight with a Torture Attack right in front of him.

 

[oddj0b]

GTA IV launching in the 8th grade coming home with this

 

[ultron87]

When I was 10, I got Goldeneye banned from my house because during a multiplayer game I killed my dad with a headshot, and said something along the lines of "yeah, a headshot!" I guess the realistic damage modeling was a problem for him?

 

[Richie]

My brother and I were playing Super Smash Brothers Brawl on release day, my father walked into the room as we were choosing characters, and shouted, in genuine disbelief: "PIKACHU? That thing still exists?!"

 

[Indecisive]

The death by Bloater animation in The Last of Us!

This.

Mom never spent a single moment watching me play a game, so the only time for me was when my uncle visited and said, "Hey you have some of those video game things, right? Give me something where I can kill zombies. I wanna kill a zombie"

Only thing I had was LoU. He obviously failed on the controls immediately and settled on watching me. I could feel him getting more and more uncomfortable with the violence, but the real thing that did it was the Bloater death scene. He just put his hands over his face, gave and "Oof" and walked out of the room.

Spoiler

I let the bloater kill me on purpose because I knew what happened and I wanted to see his reaction. It was worth it

 

[Kikorin]

My grandma was shocked about Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance. First day I bought it, she was always in front of the TV telling me that this game was not instructive.

Another time my mom has been disgusted about one of the last scene of The Last of Us.

Instead I've great memory of me and my dad playing Steep last year before he pass away. My dad has never been interested in games, but he loved the mountain and ski so much, but was 3 years that he couldn't go to ski because of the disease. He watched me playing and he wanted to try, and we spent about all the evening playing randomly.

 

[djplaeskool]

I like bringing Racing games when I visit the fam.
Been doing that since Gran Turismo 3. Its always fun to see their reaction to the progress in graphics.
Recently, Driveclub left minds blown.

 

[AlexFlame116]

No Russian. My cousin freaked out at that.

Also my dad nearly went ballistic when I showed he found my Game Informer magazine with the cover about Halo 4 and on the back was a "naked blue woman". The thing is, he's the one who introduced me to Halo: CE in the first place way long ago. After reminding him of that he was so surprised at the mention that Cortana was actually in Halo 1.

 

[PSqueak]

Playing SRW V, my brother asked me what the hell i was playing because he heard the porn-tastic jazz music that plays during story segments.

 

[conpfreak]

I've had many of these moments with my Jehovah's Witness aunt. Whenever I stayed over her house, she had a strict rule of no violent or blasphemous games. She walked on my sister and I playing The World is Not Enough. She cancelled that once she saw us shooting each other with guns. Also, I couldn't play any game featuring any kind of magic or Nordic influences. Super Mario Sunshine was okay though.

 

[Prophaniti]

They never cared about violence.

My dad came over to my apartment the day skyrim launched to drop something off and ended up spending the whole day watching me play.

 

[Ouroboros]

Spoiler

Marking spoilers I guess, but at this point...who doesn't know?

Anyway, my Mom was clipping coupons when I got to this scene. It was shortly after Columbine shootings....I convinced her to let me keep playing because I had to read a lot of dialog text.

 

[UberLevi]

I played Ape Escape when I was a kid and I remember my dad being taken aback by the protagonist saying he was going to spank the monkey to the main villain.

 

[Sydle]

When my mom saw a fatality in the original Mortal Kombat for the first time she couldn't believe it. She got genuinely upset. First time I had a game taken away where I was allowed to play only under supervision.

She eventually relaxed about it after several months.

 

[blame space]

I still remember playing goldeneye multiplayer at our family Christmas in whatever year that was. my aunt kind of had two living rooms, the adults were in the main one and the kids were playing N64 in the secondary one; both of them connected by the kitchen. eventually my parents checked in on us and noticed we were killing the fuck out of each other and loving it. so they asked my aunt, the host, what we were doing. it's a game where they kill each other and it's fun and fine. we had paintball mode on and everything. like slappers only would have been better. fucking hell.

we switched to NBA showtime. I had my own N64 within the year. it just always stuck with me. they were shocked.

 

[MorshuTheTrader]

Playing the original God of War at a friend's house, my mom found out that the game had explicit nudity and didn't want me to play it.

She brought it up to my friend's mom and her response was "Eh, if you've seen one pair of boobs, you've seen them all" lol

 

[AlexBasch]

My uncle couldn't believe there was an interactive game where you could play The Beatles music with plastic instruments. He sang Here Comes The Sun and Get Back and watched me play. Ended up passing away a week later but he had a lot of fun.

 

[Grettir_the_Swole]

My parents gave me a copy of Gears of War for Christmas in '06 and I had a blast playing the campaign in front of the whole family after Christmas dinner. Fun times with cranberry sauce.

 

[RenegadeXV8]

My dad has always played videogames so nothing really fazes him. He went through TR2013 and just laughed at Lara's death scenes.

My mom has no interest in videogames but doesn't have a problem with them. That said, I used to call her in during shocking moments just to see her reaction. Last time was during the God of War 3 scene where Kratos rips off that one dudes head with his bare hands. She simply said "oh wow, that's gross" and walked away. Pretty sure she's desensitized.

 

[blame space]

My uncle couldn't believe there was an interactive game where you could play The Beatles music with plastic instruments. He sang Here Comes The Sun and Get Back and watched me play. Ended up passing away a week later but he had a lot of fun.

the beatles rock band was really a zeitgeist moment. your story made me happy.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

In the Knights of the Old Republic games you selected from preset faces which also determined hair and skin color.

I always make a character as close to myself in character creators. The only exception I remember to this is Morrowind where I went for Dark Elf since none of the options looked like me.

I'm Indian with kind of a medium-darkness skin(?) so in the first game I had to settle for fourth down in the first column, who looks more Southeast-Asian.:

When my dad saw my player-character he burst out laughing and asked if that was supposed to be me. I'll always remember this because this was the only time my dad ever commented on what was actually in a game I was playing.

Luckily KOTOR II had some options that while a lighter were still perfectly fine. The last two faces all the way at the end:

I had long hair during most of high school so I went with the second from the last.

Playing through Mass Effect right now and am satisfied with my current player-character.

 

[Mathieran]

My wife saw the intro of Shadow of Mordor including the

Spoiler

main character's whole family get slaughtered, and especially hated when they slit his wife's throat

and was pretty appalled. Which is weird cause we watch Game of Thrones and sorts of other really violent stuff and never seems to really mind.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

My mum was shocked by the last of us

Spoiler

the scene where Sam and Henry die

 

[SliceSabre]

Dark Soul 2

My mom wanted to see some of the video games I was playing so I show her Dark Souls 2. She deemed the game unholy and "full of devils" and was upset I played such violent and dark video games.

 

[Reszo]

I remember when I first got GTAV , my mom was so shocked at the graphics she thought it was a real movie Everytime she came into my room

 

[sixteen-bit]

Gex would say "ass" sometimes.

 

[sphinx]

I was blown away by Resident Evil 4 back in 2005.... I went to my friends and was dying to show it to him..

made it to the village,

"agarrenlo!!!"

and everyone starts chasing me

I get the shotgun, I went back to the front gate with the idea of punishing those ganado and chainssaw guy with it.

I shot at a group of enemies, blood everywhere.

my friend: "AAAAHHH! TURN IT OFF TURN IT OFF!!!!!"

 

[HylianTom]

My sister-in-law and her husband were staying with us for a month while between houses. She's lightly ribbed me for years regarding my "geeky" gaming habit. So for Launch Night of the Switch, she sat down and watched me play Breath of the Wild, wanting to see why I was in such a tizzy over this silly game.

After hours of watching me figure out how to get off of the Great Plateau, she went to her husband and told him:
"you're finding me a Switch."

This absolutely floored him. They ended-up standing in line at Toys R Us a few days later, and she spent the rest of her vacation in our guest bedroom, wandering around the ruins of Hyrule. Breath of the Wild shocked her, changing her perception of gaming for the better.

Her husband still thanks me, haha..

 

[tesqui]

My Mom would not let me play GTA3. I assume there was a lot of news about it on TV and how violent it was. I remember my Dad was playing it on PC and I would watch in awe.

 

[Acquiescence]

My mum caught me playing the very first Dead or Alive once while she was chatting to someone on the phone. Her jaw dropped when she saw Tina's big ol' titties flopping around all over the place.

Spoiler

so did mine. jiggle physics were a unique selling point back then

 

[Neiteio]

A buddy and I were playing SC4 in plain sight of my mom and grandma, who was visiting that day. My friend picked Ivy.

Also, my dad was repulsed by the scene in RE4 where the village chief's eye falls out. "But it's a glass eye, Dad!"

 

[Meowster]

I remember my religious grandmother babysitting me when I was like seven or eight and I had just gotten Final Fantasy VIII. I showed her the opening cutscene with Squall's bloody face and talked about killing things. My parents got a huge talking to that evening lol.

 

[PataHikari]

My grandfather was once shocked by the violence in the video game I was playing.

Spoiler

It was Kingdom Hearts