Most embarrasing gaming moments?

[Menckenstein]

Accepted someone's "fite me IRL" offer and had to uppercut a hot Asian girl to avoid being stabbed to death by her. Fuck Counter-Strike.

 

[Baron Dupek]

Getting first PC somewhere in 2000 (Celeron 366MHz, 128MB RAM, 30GB HDD), could be decent if not the GPU - VooDoo2, with no drivers installed and I didn't know "drivers" were a thing, not to mention lack of internet to download them. 2-4 years later they opened first internet cafe, with few empty floppy disks I managed to make the PC bearable to use.
Pity that I was not yet cRPG player (that happened later with Gothic, most popular game in potato and pre-kaliphate germania) and more FPP player cockblocked by shit GPU.
Then GPU died and I got Riva TNT2 + CD with driver (about fkn time).

Oh and Win98 was error sensitive and unstable for someone, who barely started his experience with computers. Format+reinstall every few months, some people do this every month.

Got Amiga CD32 to socialise with other people and have something to talk, only to get my ass laughed off for saying "Amiga" and "console" in the same sentece. Another brick in the wall...

And I wish I got machine to run Morrowind earlier, cause now I can't stomatch it for more than few hours. Everything distract me from it.

 

[NotAGolfer]

I remember trying everything to get more fps out of Oblivion back when the hype was strong.
Had a really shitty PC back then and somehow managed to squeeze 13-20 fps out of it in those beautiful beautiful Oblivion forests by making a science out of tweaking inis and stuff. And somehow that slideshow was good enough for my taste.
I felt great relief because I knew that now I too could marvel at the miracles of modern open world gaming.

Boy was I naive and man did I feel cheated after a while.

I also remember failing to finish even a single one of the Sierra adventure games I played in the late eighties/early nineties. My english was rudimentary at best and I always got stuck early in the games. In Police Quest I failed the walk around the patrol car safety check and in KQ3 I didn't know how to use the magic book in the cellar. In Space Quest at least I reached that settlement on the planet but somehow didn't manage to enter the course to that Sarien ship.
Guess a manual would have been helpful in some cases but since the games were pirated by my dad I was out of luck. ^^
Found walkthroughs a few years later and finished all three. More than I can say about most adventure games, in nearly all of them I get stuck eventually.

I also think that I fapped to some pixilated half nude girl in Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender.
I think it was her:

But maybe it was another scene, can't really remember much about the game.
To my defense I must say that I was 13 and fapped to nearly everything that vaguely resembled the female form.
Also online porn wasn't that big back then so I had constant withdrawal symptoms.

 

[pippin]

I was about 15 when I played KotOR, thought it was the best shit ever however.... my families computer was complete and utter trash at the time. I played the whole game on about 10-15 fps. It was really really bad in some areas, like you would push 'W' for half a second, the screen would freeze and my pc would teleport 30 steps forward. Took a long time but I got through it.

When I first played Neverwinter Nights, soon after release, the game was like a power point presentation even at the lowest configurations. I managed to beat the first chapter but resigned since it was unplayable. Years later I picked it up again, with a better pc, but the same problem was present again: shitty fps everywhere. I didn't had internet back then so I had no way to search possible solutions. Also I avoided internet cafes because the thought of too many people using this computer to search for porn was too gross for me.
I finally managed to run it at acceptable framerates but I still had many glitches here and there. Looking at GOG's forums and similar websites I learned this game is quite capricious when it comes to hardware configs. My latest problem was menus getting invisible or transparent. Symptom of shitty toasters I guess, but still, it's a game from the early 00s, come on.
I tried to play Morrowind in that first pc I mentioned as well. It was even worse than Silent Hill. Minimum detail, heaviest fog. I didn't even made it to Balmora.

 

[Sodafish]

I recall another weird thing I did when I was a kid. I used to LARP flight sims (early 1990s DOS) with my brother

This reminds me of my playthrough of Half Life. I was the WSAD guy while my brother was aiming with the mouse. And we were really good, almost synchronized. We've beaten the whole game like that. That was a very unique experience.

Me and my best friend used to play the shit out of Wolfenstein 3D like this. Good times.

 

[Azrael the cat]

you actually tried to buy leisure suit larry and you looked too retarded?

holy fuck lmao

you gotta be the biggest aspie on these forums and that says alot

Nah, he's not talking about purchasing it. The early LLL's had a series of random trivia questions when you loaded the game up, that you had to answer to prove to the game that you were over 18. Otherwise you'd get a message telling you to piss off and stop trying to play your Dad's computer games

 

[Azrael the cat]

There was a guy I was in a guild with in Ultima Online. It was mostly a PvP-oriented guild called D*C on Atlantic. Anyway, every time we would kill a bunch of players, there was this one guy who would almost always go hidden so that he could be AFK for a while. Plenty of people go AFK a lot in MMOs, mostly smokers or folks with tiny bladders. But this guy only ever did it after we had made some kills. There was a definite pattern to it. So I asked him about it. And then he explained that he found that killing other players almost always gave him an erection. So he got in the habit of, uh, taking care of the problem. And he further explained that after the first few months he could no longer get an erection any other way. So he then felt obligated to always take advantage of that situation because he was worried that even the stimulus of player killing may one day lose its effect. I was like 13 at the time and this guy's problem really blew my mind. I couldn't even respond.

I always wonder what happened to that guy and his problem. I left the guild when Ultima Online started imposing stat loss penalties on murderers. Did he find another game? Does he continue to participate in Ultima Online's now-limited PvP to this day? Has he just given it all up and suffered from erectile dysfunction for the last 15 years?

Wow. I think we just discovered the true cause of the infection in Crossed.

I suspect he might have recovered somewhat if he stopped playing - maybe it works like fetish porn, where over-use makes it increasingly difficult to get turned on by 'vanilla' sex (I've got a friend who I used to date when we were both young, she's both strongly feminist and strongly religious, but has a hilariously out-of-control addiction to ultra-hardcore rape porn, despite being anti the porn industry prior to her addiction. Not even like 'bondage' porn, I mean (simulated) ultra-violent gangrape porn clips. She says she originally just checked out some mild bondage on a whim, and then things just spiralled badly out of control when she discovered that she could no longer get turned on by normal porn/sex, and has to keep finding harder and harder pornography to feed her habit:D).

Anyway, OT:

I started playing Wizardry when I was 5-6, and I was pretty good with numbers/grammar at that age, but I didn't know what a lot of the nouns referred to. I just had to take the game's word for it that a 'ghoul' was something nasty, a 'samurai' was good at fighting, etc. Anyway, I had a friend who would come round and we'd play the game together, collaborating on when to cross-class, one mapping while the other works the keyboard, etc. At that stage I hadn't beaten the game, nor ever got so far as to work out how to switch to one of the two prestige classes, Lord or Ninja (the other 'advanced classes' like bishop and samurai were within the range of what you'd have the stats to multi to if you had good rolls at character creation, or otherwise not too long aftewards - Lord and Ninja differ in that they're straight upgrades instead of trade-offs; to get them you need truly massive stats, in fact I think for Ninja you need minimum 18 in every stat, which would require a LOT of grinding levels, or you can use an item you get when winning the game to go Ninja before resetting the dungeon or importing to the sequel).

As a result, my friend never actually got to see 'in game' the class I had told him about from reading it in the game manual, the 'ninja'. Or, as I pronounced it due to a gap in my 5 yr old reading ability 'nine-jaa'. Thing is, both me and my friend had watched ninja films at that age. I knew what a 'ninja' was, I just didn't make the mental connection between this 'ninja' [again, I thought it was pronounced 'nine-jar'] and those cool guys in the black head-to-toe garments that you saw in asian fighting movies.

Cue 5 years later, when my friend walks up to me in the school playground and says 'Hey, I just bought Wizardry 3. NINJA dude, it's fucking NINJA, like WHAT THE FUCK! I've spent the last 5 years trying to work out what the hell a nine-jar is, you dickhead!'

 

[Mustawd]

1. It's pretty embarrassing how bad I am at fighting games. All my friends in HS were good at them, and we'd play and I'd always get my ass kicked. After a while I just resorted to watching them play if that's the type of game we were playing.

2. I once tried to get a shareware version of Diablo 1 to work on our family IBM toaster. The initial loading screen to install the game had a red bar that said "Loading". Thinking it would run as long as I gave it enough time to load, I let it run for hours. It finally crashed the PC. Felt like a retard.

3. I was mostly a solo player in UO. So I'd get ganked all the time in Felucia. So I did a lot of leveling up and farming in Trammel. One day some craftsmen comes up and says he's leveling his tailor skill or whatever. And that he needed a ton of hides. In return I can use one of his houses and decorate as I see fit. So he gives me a runestone that transports me to an island that he says no one ever goes to and has plenty of beasts to hunt. Ok cool.

So fast forward to the next day, I teleport over there...and it's cool. There are beasts everywhere and I'm getting hides like gangbusters. What he failed to mention is that Ogre Kings, big ass dudes that were way above my level, would randomly spawn. And not like 1 or 2. But like 4-7 of 'em on a tiny island. So yeah, I got killed and was stuck there because I couldn't teleport back as a corpse. So I ended up having to beg my RL friends for help and they had to organize this whole thing with their guild so a guy with a boat could come pick me up. It was pretty embarrassing....especially after it happened like 2 more times. The third time I just said fuck it. He's probably still there...wandering around.

 

[Mustawd]

no drivers installed and I didn't know "drivers" were a thing, not to mention lack of internet to download them

I remember being utterly confused on what "drivers" were. I thought it was like some software that ran the computer itself or whatever.

 

[Mustawd]

Getting discovered playing Pokemon at the age of 27

EDIT: Not trying to make fun. Just pondering how embarrassing that would actually be.

 

[sser]

Sold Civil War Generals 2 to a Gamestop for $0.50.

 

[MRY]

I literally could not (and cannot) operate a N64 controller, so for a good two years of high school I was routinely humiliated at Golden Eye, Mario Cart, Star Fox, etc. By contrast, I was so good with the Sega Genesis controller that I once beat someone at NBA Jam using only my toes.

 

[pippin]

Drivers and patches were weird for me too. I remember being angry at a patch because it didn't worked for the demo of the game

 

[octavius]

no drivers installed and I didn't know "drivers" were a thing, not to mention lack of internet to download them

I remember being utterly confused on what "drivers" were. I thought it was like some software that ran the computer itself or whatever.

I had a similar confusion about "disk images". I thought it was a picture printed on a physical disk.

 

[rashiakas]

getting caught fapping to party games on my amiga 500.

 

[Blowhard]

Well, I consider it very endearing and cute, not at all embarrassing, but since this thread seems to be partially about "silly gaming shit you did as a kid, my brother and I used to play Mechwarrior 2 single player together. I was younger and horrible at the game, so my brother did the actual playing, but I would go around the desk and under it "fixing" things and being co-pilot, operating on a bunch of imaginary equipment. We also did the same thing with Tyrian. I remember I looked up to him a lot because he knew how to get things to play in dos!

 

[Excidium II]

Arguing about Bethesda making shitty games, and my friend calls me out on my total playtime. I have since set my steam profile to private.

Maybe you should have shown your dickgirl harem instead.

 

[Great Deceiver]

playing 6k hours of dota 2

 

[Mustawd]

I literally could not (and cannot) operate a N64 controller, so for a good two years of high school I was routinely humiliated at Golden Eye, Mario Cart, Star Fox, etc. By contrast, I was so good with the Sega Genesis controller that I once beat someone at NBA Jam using only my toes.

I'm always amazed at how some people can be so effective with a console controller when playing an FPS. It boggles the mind.

 

[Lady_Error]

When me and a friend of mine first found CRPGs (the Eye of the Beholder series), we didn't figure out how to attack enemies because right-clicking on an icon was beyond us. He discovered we could do a tiny little amount of damage by throwing items at enemies, so that's how we played it.

You must be my long-forgotten friend in Germany, since I have exactly the same story to tell. Seriously, have you lived in the Schwarzwald?

 

[Aenra]

Saturday morning, downtown so i can buy games, big part bookstore part tech-related shop.. probably smiling like a dork. Back then, i definitely looked like one anyway.

I got like 5,6? Only remember phantasmagoria being one of them, but definitely a lot, one almost fell down on my way to the counter. Anyway, while i am waiting for the receipt to be printed, i hear the sound from hell, girls giggling (if you were like me, you know what i mean, lol..). I turn my head and yeap, three of them, from the same school, one is from my classroom.. Will refrain from repeating the commentary. At that time, nerd was a nerd was a nerd. Zero tolerance or understanding

Almost 20 years later, we met again by accident. Was still the first thing she asked the bitch.. "do you remember when..?" I now make about 10ish at least times her salary, so THIS time around, was happy to say "yeah, how fun was that huh!"
(though still embarrassed. Even now, i play gaemz ffs.. shh..)

 

[GewuerzKahn]

Almost 20 years later, we met again by accident. Was still the first thing she asked the bitch.. "do you remember when..?"

After 20 years she (I guess the classmate?) remembered making fun of you because you bought some games?

 

[Eirinjas]

Bought my first computer in 1996 or so - had no clue what the relationship of hardware and driver software was. In a desperate, and misguided, attempt to improve the FPS of my crappy Tseng Labs video card so I could play Quake, Hexen 2, etc. in higher resolutions - I downloaded and installed drivers from other manufacturers video cards. Yea. I killed my monitor doing that.

 

[skacky]

When I was a kid the Silent Hill demo frightened me so bad I switched the console off and watched cartoons for hours afterwards. I had never seen anything quite like that before.
I used to play Halo 2 MP with a friend of mine almost a decade ago.

 

[Serus]

When I first got into gaming I had no idea what the "save" and "load" functions did (not a native english speaker) and for a while I assumed that in order to finish a game you had to beat it from the beginning to the end in one sitting, unless it had some sort of level selection screen in the menu.

YEAH ! I wasn't the only one ! :D To my defense i can say that it happened in early 1990s and i was very young back then.