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I liked Dragon Age: Inquisition, but this shit right here?

Everyone involved in the creation of that scene needs to never work in entertainment ever again.

BioWare is the master of absolutely cringeworthy scenes.

Check out this beauty from Mass Effect 3's 'Citadel' DLC:

Warning: Insane cringe inside.

 

[Imbarkus]

My son walked in one time while I was beating the Cleopatra boss in Dante's Inferno.

Demon babies crawled out of her nipples. Yeah.

 

[Trance]

In before:

"FF10 laughing scene"

"That scene was SUPPOSED to be embarrassing"

"Yeah but the writing and acting are so goddamned awful that it doesn't matter"

You covered everything to be said about that scene. Conversation over 'til the end of time.

 

[eXistor]

3 pages and no mention of Danganronpa Another Episode's groping minigame?

So weird, I had to look this up because I played and finished the game and I literally don't remember this at all. Apparently there was a whole bit in a train as well. I just cannot for the life of me remember I played that part and the groping mini-game as well. Was it cut in the European release or something or is my memory just shot?

 

[BrosukeHanamura]

The one time I did a Gigolo mission in Killer is Dead.

 

[Acquiescence]

The minstrel song performance in The Witcher 3, where everyone starts getting emotional for some random reason but the animation can't quite pull it off.

 

[RetrospectiveLamb]

The "HAHAhHAHAAHAHAHAHA" tidus scene in FFX

 

[Pyramid head]

I hate to say this since I really liked the game (and the facial animations were really good), but a few cutscenes from DmC. The opening scene and pretty much anything involving Kat would make me hope against hope that no one came into the room.

I'll also echo the mentions of Bioware sex scenes, and I love those games too. Inquisition had improved romance scenes in my opinion, so that's something.

Oddly enough, I've never felt a shred of embarrassment playing Bayonetta in front of my family. To me it's so obviously tongue-in-cheek that I really can't feel ashamed of it, but I understand why it makes some folks uncomfortable. I'm pretty sure my parents gave a big eye roll when they watched me play it one time.

Same here. I never got the impression that the games were ever genuinely trying to be 'arousing'. The entire thing is played for laughs. The 'titilation' in the Bayonetta games is about on level with something like the Austin Powers movies. If anyone gets embarassed by that, it's on them frankly.
It's when something is played totally straight that sets my eyes rolling. The sex scenes in the God of War games for instance are totally supposed to maje you feel like some powerful manly alpha male, with every naked woman Kratos crosses paths with submitting instantly to him to either be fucked or brutally killed. And never with a hint of humour or irony.

 

[Dark_castle]

Oh come on, this scene is classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy44s_de15Y

That FFIV battle music, and the hysterical laughter. Perfect.

 

[Enjolras]

Persona 4: Dancing All Night.

Could those "seized by ribbons" images be any more unnecessarily fanservicey? Was very glad that I played through the story mode at home, and not on a bus.

 

[Spman2099]

How am I the first person to mention the Ridley scene from Other M?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDX6NgXUc8

Amazing.

 

[shmoglish]

Maaaaariiiiaaaaaa

(Gears of war 2)

I am Sure someone posted it already.

 

[SpokkX]

Most cutscenes from TR 2013 and RoTR

Sad to agree. The cutscenes sour the whole experience and makes everything feel just stupid. In fact the gameplay would be better with no story at all, just find som trinkets etc

 

[Langdon Alger]

Easy..

Saints Row

Imagine someone saw you beating people with a dildo...

Nah, I wouldn't be embarrassed by stuff like that since it's supposed to be a joke. It's when video games try to get serious that I start cringing.

 

[Weltall Zero]

I don't like "magical girl" stuff. There's plenty of silly and girly animations that I like such as this and this.

What is girly about Ryuune or Mio aside from them being girls? They're both considered tomboys both in-game and in real life.

As an aside, Masou Kishin is the pinnacle of SRW originals and at this point I doubt they'll ever be dethroned. Such iconic mecha and music themes.

 

[MMarston]

Otacon crying over Sniper Wolf in MGS1.

 

[hans_castorp]

So weird, I had to look this up because I played and finished the game and I literally don't remember this at all. Apparently there was a whole bit in a train as well. I just cannot for the life of me remember I played that part and the groping mini-game as well. Was it cut in the European release or something or is my memory just shot?

I played the european version and it was there. It's really short and you just have to play it once though.
I get what they were going for the character and the reasoning for the minigame. But it makes you feel really uncomfortable.
Danganronpa AE should be a 18+ game.

 

[cj_iwakura]

While I loved the game, the first thing that popped up in my head.

The Big Boner - Shadows of the Damned

"YOU LIKE IT HUH? TASTE MY BIG BONER!"

Get it? His gun is called a Boner, because it shoots bones? Aha... Ha... Ha...

Also in the chapter is a kind of shitty shooting gallery 'minigame' you need to complete, and parts where you run over a giant girl's

Spoiler

(Paula's)

bare chest and butt as a bridge. I didn't mind and actually found a lot of the juvenile humor in Shadows of the Damned strangely endearing, with the exception of this chapter which felt more embarrassing/dumb than anything else, and not in a funny way.

I did like the weird gramophone dance at the end, though,

I bet none of this was in Suda's original design document for the game, considering how much he said EA kept making him change it.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

Near every sex scene in every game ever. So bad. They all tie for being top-tier trash.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Have the sex scenes from this abomination been mentioned yet?

 

[RealityCheque]

Quiet. On almost every level.

Good sniper, terrible everything else.

The rape scene was beyond ridiculous and the part with all the guys perving while she's locked in a cage is utterly cringeworthy.

 

[Meccanical]

Have the sex scenes from this abomination been mentioned yet?

The greatest dry humping ever witnessed in an interactive medium.

 

[Garlador]

The massage scene in FFX-2 was embarrassing. That was a moment my mother walked into my room asking me if I was watching porn.

Second one is Quiet. I tried, and failed miserably, to explain to my fiance that "oh no, honey. She's a complicated, complex, self-empowered badass soldier and the reason she's nearly naked at all times is that she breathes through her skin!"

... Even I didn't believe what I was saying.

 

[Lime]

I hope Saints Row 5 includes actual depiction of their sex scenes if they decide to go that route again.

 

[serenewarfare]

Mass Effect 2, Miranda romance.

https://youtu.be/MP1gfoVQSyY?t=1m36s

Fools saying what a setback Quiet is for gaming and women don't actually realize it's the opposite and how far we've come since 2010

This isn't even close to as bad as Quiet. I mean, yeah it's janky as hell and ultimately unnecessary, but at least with all the Bioware stuff you have to build to it throughout the game and in the end it at least makes narrative sense and is a choice by the player. With Quiet it's there and in your face to at least a certain degree no matter what you do.

 

[Powerpuff]

...and there will be a movie with live actors. v_v

 

[Staf]

Seeing a bunch of these scenes makes me glad that i've missed the majority of these games.

 

[The perfect Dark]

This is a great topic because it reminded me of one thing I forgot: The german techno song Angry Joe uses in his Witcher 3- Review (sex scenes). It's hilarious. Does anyone know what it's called?

Topic: Pretty much everything in the new Saints Row games. Horrible.

 

[kennyamr]

In before:

"FF10 laughing scene"

"That scene was SUPPOSED to be embarrassing"

"Yeah but the writing and acting are so goddamned awful that it doesn't matter"

this lol, i was like

X is my least favorite. BOOM I said it.

Long Live IX.

 

[demosthenes]

I bet there will be a lot of Quiet in here (from MGS V)

One and done.

 

[StrawberryJam]

This was when I realised Square games could be bad.

 

[RustyNails]

The song in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Non stop laughter from me. So, SO bad it's good!

 

[petran79]

I dont know if playing that game was the worst or best experience of my video game history
but it definitely was funny

 

[Staf]

I dont know if playing that game was the worst or best experience of my video game history
but it definitely was funny

Hmm, i recognize that game. What's the name of it?

 

[Instro]

Yeah, because let's completely ignore:

The fact that she spent years taking care of him and probably developed some infatuation over that time.

The fact that BJ is an emotional and psychological wreck from waking up to find everything he knew is gone

And the fact that the girl just lost her parents.

Both of them are damaged people who just happened to connect - it's neither embarrassing or uncommon.

What's embarrassing is the stupid dream kid sequences that made it into Mass Effect 3...such garbage.

Truly awful stuff. People act like just the ending was bad in that game when in fact the entire game is pretty shit.

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

My son walked in one time while I was beating the Cleopatra boss in Dante's Inferno.

Demon babies crawled out of her nipples. Yeah.

Satans giant dangling cock could have caused an awkward situation, if certain people walked in on me during that too. Still, I liked Dantes Inferno and it was good to see someone brave enough to put darker sexual themes in their game.

 

[Bisnic]

Whatever that singing that Tali did in ME3. *shiver*

https://youtu.be/nGnbEtube-g?t=74

 

[Menome]

I dont know if playing that game was the worst or best experience of my video game history
but it definitely was funny

Hmm, i recognize that game. What's the name of it?

Lola's Sexy Empire or something along those lines, isn't it?

 

[Ultima_5]

I was pretty embarassd during there last of us dlc when they were in the arcade room. That scene was quite pervy

 

[Lys Skygge]

I was pretty embarassd during there last of us dlc when they were in the arcade room. That scene was quite pervy

 

[MaximumSpider]

When Joel says 'Ya know Ellie, we really are The Last of Us."

Did Naughty Dog really think their audience would like this line!?
Cringed.

 

[Jonneh3003]

How am I the first person to mention the Ridley scene from Other M?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDX6NgXUc8

Amazing.

I actually really liked this scene, Samus had already killed Ridley in Super Metroid so to see him again before her eyes makes this devastating beast seem immortal. Ridley has caused Samus so much emotional pain over the years and I'm glad she felt something when she found out he'd come back to life. I think its good for Samus to be scared of Ridley and her reaction in Other M was perfectly rational in my opinion. It wouldn't be as tolerable in most other games but because she was convinced he was dead it makes more sense.

 

[Xbro]

I actually really liked this scene, Samus had already killed Ridley in Super Metroid so to see him again before her eyes makes this devastating beast seem immortal. Ridley has caused Samus so much emotional pain over the years and I'm glad she felt something when she found out he'd come back to life. I think its good for Samus to be scared of Ridley and her reaction in Other M was perfectly rational in my opinion. It wouldn't be as tolerable in most other games but because she was convinced he was dead it makes more sense.

She already killed him 5 times

 

[mcz117chief]

Space Pirates

The whole thing! every time I hear the word "cringe" I think of this. I actually have an original copy of that somewhere.

 

[Crossing Eden]

I was pretty embarassd during there last of us dlc when they were in the arcade room. That scene was quite pervy

What?

 

[notaskwid]

Did Naughty Dog really think their audience would like this line!?
Cringed.

I never know who is joking every time this "scene" is brought up.

 

[Kinyou]

Oh come on, this scene is classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy44s_de15Y

This is amazing.

The problem is that the game allows the players to screw up, but still wants them to succeed with the chase, so what you end up with is the most incompetent human in the world.

 

[Toxi]

I actually really liked this scene, Samus had already killed Ridley in Super Metroid so to see him again before her eyes makes this devastating beast seem immortal. Ridley has caused Samus so much emotional pain over the years and I'm glad she felt something when she found out he'd come back to life. I think its good for Samus to be scared of Ridley and her reaction in Other M was perfectly rational in my opinion. It wouldn't be as tolerable in most other games but because she was convinced he was dead it makes more sense.

Why would she be be surprised after the last six times he "died"?

He came back in after being blown up at the beginning of the Metroid manga. He came back in Prime after being defeated by Samus in Metroid/Metroid Zero Mission. He came back in Prime 3 after exploding in Metroid Prime. He came back again in Prime 3 after falling down a bottomless pit. He came back in Super Metroid after disintegrating in Prime 3.

And even just in the context of Other M, Samus mentions Ridley once before his actual return, and that one mention is little more than a footnote. She never mentions he killed her parents. She never has flashbacks to him. So when Ridley appears and Samus is terrified of him to the point she is paralyzed, the moment is completely unearned by the script. There is nothing in Other M that justifies that sort of character destruction.

 

[Drilbit777]

Lol this is so accurate.

 

[Shaanyboi]

I bet there will be a lot of Quiet in here (from MGS V)

Everything about Quiet is an embarrassment.