i'm embarassed that I'm afaid of poison headcrabs :S

well, its probably quite strange, but when i first played hl2, ravenholm fucked me out, and iw as new 2 zombie games, and i was so terrified of ravenholm, i cheated so i could do the nxt lvl, but i got over that now, but i have like wierd spazm attaks when fast zombies jump out of nowhere, and im always like 'wtf?' when alyx makes wierd zombie noises in episode 1. Also when i first played ravenholm, when a fast zombie came out, and i promise you, i am ot joking, i wet myself. There, i said it.

Playing the demo of the first "Quake", and going into the castle when an Ogre comes out of nowhere! I ran around in circles in panic, fired in every direction and somehow managed to kill it.

Or there was my first fleet battle in EVE, where I leapt into action....and somehow pressed the wrong keys and went to the solarsystem map for most of the fight, unable to see WTF was going on. Then I started taking massive damage from someone, so I hit the warp drive and shot off in a random direction, unable to see where I was going. Somehow, I survived.

Icedrake402:
Or there was my first fleet battle in EVE, where I leapt into action....and somehow pressed the wrong keys and went to the solarsystem map for most of the fight, unable to see WTF was going on. Then I started taking massive damage from someone, so I hit the warp drive and shot off in a random direction, unable to see where I was going. Somehow, I survived.

I've got too excited and hit all my F keys up to F10 before too... not cool.

Actually, it would have to be in half life 2. Well there are a few. That game ruined me.

The airboat part where you have to raise the jump by pushing the washing machine down a hole. I had a huge argument with my friend about whether you should do that and then how you could get out. He said that it was what was supposed to happen. Whimsically, he ran off the edge and into the hole, promptly pulling a lever and climbing out.

Not a minute later, as we head back to where our airboat was parked, we see a supply crate in the middle of a pool of water. Good old supply crates, a safe haven of health and ammo. O GOD ITS A ZOMBIE HOLY CRAP. My friend threw the controller so high it dented the ceiling where it hit. We really freaked out, as it was about 3 AM. We were not too alert.

Ravenholm. I hate that place. Zombies just keep COMING man! every time you turn around, there is another pile of zombierape waiting shuffling after you.

Half life 1 had its share of not-so-dead zombies too. For some reason that zombie having a seizure in front of the laptop in the red-lit lab disturbed me.

I had to turn off F.E.A.R. because it was about 1AM. Home alone, lights are off. After the little girl torches people the first time, you walk into a building and hear 'drip, drip, drip..' I see the drops but can not make them out so I move forward and look up..JUST in time for the workers corpse to be face-to-face with me as it fell. I yelled and left the room. I could still hear the dripping over my computer speakers so I had to put on earmuffs to go in and shut down the game.

I mean, the timing..I literally looked straight up JUST in time to be face-to-face with the corpse that falls from the walkway above.

Granted, I can not play horror games. My imagination runs too wild. I have yet to even TRY Jerecho. I mean, I LOVE bloody games and if a game has unique ways to kill people or deathtraps I can knock people into with little effort (The kick in Dark Messiah, how I love thee), I will try it but mindfucks will make me flee. :)

Oh! And the 'Tub' scene from Eternal Darkness, the only horror game I can play. For those of you who don't know, the game is one big mindfuck 'Eternal Darkness: Sanities Requiem' is the name and you have a sanity meter. When the Present Day main character enter the bathroom once, the camera flashes to the bathtub, now filled with blood with her OWN CORPSE in it. The character lets out a scream to wake the dead. I was playing, at 2 AM, lights off, and everyone asleep with the speakers CRANKED up. (It was at my friends, they have thick walls). The scream make me do the impossible, I swear. I jumped, from a sitting position, at least four feet straight up and it woke the damn neighbors and everyone in my house.

Whenever I play that game, I now have to mute that part. The scream of sheer terror is just too good for me to hear it.

The bit in Half Life 2 before the airboat section, where you're supposed to turn the valve to flood the place so you can go through, directly after the room with the manhack swarm and the barrels, with a ladder in the middle?

I spent literally hours transporting every barrel I could find into the water at the bottom of the ladder, spinning each barrel upright and building a pyramid like tin cans at a supermarket until I realise that this just takes me on to another place where I'm stuck.

Without a walkthrough guide I'd have been there for days.

My most embarrassing game moment requires a little bit of explanation.

My first game console was an NES that I got when I was a kid for Christmas one year. My first game was Super Mario Bros, and on Christmas morning when I tried playing it I got killed by the very first enemy in the game, a Goomba. Over the years I became much better at video games, and today there are few games that I can't beat.

Two years ago I was over at my sister's house where she had the NES hooked up. I decided to play Mario out of some sense of nostalgia. After spending ten minutes trying to get the cartridge to work, I finally started playing......only to be killed by the same Goomba that got me all of those years ago.

Granted, I probably hadn't picked up an NES controller in ten years, but it was still humiliating.

windfish:
I'm still rather new to the FPS experience, so...whenever a fast headcrab came out of nowhere on Half-Life 2. Also when Alyx made zombie noises in Episode 1.

Those 4 legged "head-humpers" get me every time. EVERY time, lol.

Likewise, one of the most embarrassing moments I had was playing Half-Life 1. It was the chapter where you first come across a Gargantua. When I heard it in the distance all I could think was, "What the hell is that?" Then as I moved farther down the tunnel I saw that 20 foot tall, glowing-red-eyed thing slaughtering the marines that were trying to kill it. Then it spotted me and charged, making the ground shake. I remember practically jumping out of my chair, doing a 360 in game with the mouse and running like a coward all the while bouncing in my chair mumbling, "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, run, oh my god, don't turn around." Later I thought back to that moment and couldn't help but be embarrassed at how scared I was of that thing rushing at me. Just glad no one was around to see it. :/

The rattle-hiss of..poison headcrabs, was it? Always makes me put on god mode. ;.; Granted, I have arachnophobia and Poison usually have Fast nearby and THEY look like spiders. Yergh.

My most embarrasing moment was when I was playing Half-Life 2, and I was going through the sewers right after *spoilers* Alyx gets captured *spoiler* and I'm running through the sewers going "Thank god theres no more of those damn Poison Zombies (they carry extra headcrabs, poison ones)" and getting pissed at valve for putting so many zombies in there, so I go and see this Lambda cache hidden in the wall, pull out the grav gun and start grabbing crap, I was picking up some ammo for a gun that was full when I heard the telltale poison headcrab flying sound, at which point my screen jerked around because I had the shit scared out of me and I flinched, I threw the ammo crate at it and ran backwards, at which point I threw a piece of fence at it, of course these bounced off, at that point my brain kicked in and I pulled out my RPG that hadn't been used for a few hours and killed it in one shot, still scared me.
My dad was playing FEAR once and he saw Alma crawling down the hallway, he yelled and fired the entire SMG clip at her, even after the hallucination was over!

That time I got really into the Sims 2 and realized I was playing with a digital doll house.

lol, Back when Resident Evil 2 first was released.
A friend of mine and I were playing through Leon's scenario B with a walkthrough no less (Yes I know how bad that sounds) and It got to the point where you had to go into the Press conference room and light up a few candles at the back to complete the puzzel.
Well the walkthrough said that the tyrant would smash through the wall, I thought okay well at least i know he's comming so i'll leg it!
Reading the guide it told me to go to a certain area afterwards though i can't remember where but .. after I escaped the room and the tyrant I started to run around the outside of conference room in the corridor .. what the guide had failed to mention was that he smashes back through and chases you around to the exit.
Well at that point where he smashses back through the wall both my mate and I screamed like little girls and legged it out the room.
It wasn't untill possibly 10 - 20 seconds did my friend realise what had happened and dived onto the controller to quickly escape.
Was the only moment in my gaming career that actually gave me a cold sweat afterwards.

Alien vs Predator for the PC- PC Zone gave the "marine demo" away on a coverdisk. It starts off with you climbing out of your black APC into a black hanger with a black corridor leading off it, down which three black xenomorphs scuttle and eviscerate you before you're able to tell them apart from the wallpaper. My play experience ran thus:

What's thaDEAD
Got one... DEAD
I know they're in heDEAD
Got one... got two... DEAD
One... two... THREE! Out into the corridor. Dead 30 seconds later.
...
Repeat the latter two steps three or four times.
...
Got one... got two... and?

The traditional third alien failed to appear. I was bricking it. I started wandering aimlessly around the hanger hoping to catch a glimpse of it or, more likely, get eaten by it and reset the experience. Pretty soon I was back round where I'd fought the first two. Nothing on motion tracker. No sound (but then there never was before). then it happened.

"AAAH!" said my character.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" said I. It was behind me! It was trying to eat my brains! I wheeled round and unloaded about 4000 rounds into the wall. There was nothing there. I had stood in a patch of acid blood from one of my previous kills. As sheer luck would have it I had a mate round at the time and he has never let me forget my utter freak-out in that hanger. While I was busy thumping him to make him stop laughing so hard, the third alien finally showed up and decapitated me.

"F*** this," said I, and I never played it again.

-Nick

Me and a group of REALLY good gamers got our asses kicked by a group of Pre-pubes in Gears of War. The worst part is that we only killed three of them out of a four match game.

Well, I have two.
In HL2 at the start when the fucking Combine are chasing you up the stairs, somehow I managed to work myself up into a frenzy, and it really felt like I was gonna die if they caught me, I though I was gonna have a heart attack I was so stressed.
Also playing Doom 3 at 1 in the morning, I couldn't handle it, and had to keep going to menu every 30 seconds or so for a cool off to recover my nerves. Then there was this bit where I heard a noise, I turned around, switched to torch, and there is a zombie in my fucking face. I SCREAMED so loudly, fell of my chair and stopped playing. Bloody hell, that shit is messed up.

Kayevcee:
Alien vs Predator for the PC- PC Zone gave the "marine demo" away on a coverdisk. It starts off with you climbing out of your black APC into a black hanger with a black corridor leading off it, down which three black xenomorphs scuttle and eviscerate you before you're able to tell them apart from the wallpaper. My play experience ran thus:

What's thaDEAD
Got one... DEAD
I know they're in heDEAD
Got one... got two... DEAD
One... two... THREE! Out into the corridor. Dead 30 seconds later.
...
-Nick

Exactly the same here.

Except once I did really well, got the hang of killing the aliens.

Then Facehugger. DEAD.

Facehuggers made headcrabs look like the cheap low rent ripoffs they really were. One gets you, you're dead, and they were fast as hell. Even the poison headcrabs aren't all that dangerous once you realise that as long as nothing else is there to cause Critical Existence Failure they actually can't hurt you.

Man, this brings back memories. I've got quite a few for you.

Spiderman 2: Tried playing it again after not doing so for about a year. I climbed to the top of a tall building as soon as I started it up and jumped off intending to begin swinging through the city. Problem was, I forgot which button you use for the web and couldn't remember in time to save him. Even worse, I hit the pavement right in the middle of a gang fight.

Smash Bros 64: I'm better by far than any of my friends at this, and when I have multiple friends over I often let them fight against me on a team and I still win. However, two people I know have been playing together a lot, and while neither of them are very good alone they somehow managed to learn some amazing teamwork skills. I didn't know about this, so I challenged them as usual. One plays as Kirby, the other plays as Captain Falcon, and I use Fox. Match starts and we fight for a bit as usual. They fight well, and we all end up with one stock left. I jump at them intending to kick both of them since they're standing together. Both of them dodge away in opposite directions so I land in the middle and am stunned for a second since I screwed up the kick. Both then step forward and pummel me with their standard A combos, then Kirby hits me upward with cutter while Falcon starts a Falcon Punch. Falcon hits me with it as Kirby brings me back down and ends the match. That was easily the most embarrassing loss I've had and I swear they'd been practicing that exact combo just for me...

Hey You Pikachu!: I've played the game...what more do you want?

Zelda, Wind Waker: Got to the point in the game where you're climbing a ladder and there's fire traps along the way. My first thought while climbing it was "hmm, this section looks burnt..." and of course, I stop to investigate. You can guess how that ended. This seems to be a common mistake, as my girlfriend told me she did exactly the same thing and I've seen it made fun of online.

Armored Core 3-Silent Line: This one happened to someone else, but it's funny enough that I have to post it. I'll do my best to explain it so that those who haven't played can appreciate this while still keeping it short. I start a match with a friend on the bridge level (long platform, bottomless pit underneath). I'm using a lightweight mech wielding the Karasawa (one of the heaviest weapons in the game) and a blade. My friend has a lightweight that has back weapons and a blade. We both boost under the bridge and begin shooting at each other. I fly above him and drop my Karasawa since I just ran out of ammo. When I turn around, he's out of energy and is falling to his death. He starts laughing hysterically, and when I ask what happened he just shakes his head and starts the replay. What happened is this- as I dropped my weapon, he tried to attack me with his blade. Since the blade uses the same button as picking up a weapon, he grabs the Karasawa that I just dropped on his head instead of attacking. Because the weapon is so heavy, he immediately goes over the limit for how much his mech can carry and is no longer able to fly well enough to get back onto the platform, making this one of the strangest and most embarrassing losses I've seen happen in a game.

I'll post more later if I can think of them. So far this has mostly been about horror games and I'd like to mix it up a bit.

Two times:

One time was when I was playing Brawl single-player, I was doing All-Star Mode to complete it as every character. Man, you know how lame it is when you get to Olimar and he gets an item that kicks your ass and there's nothing you can do about it? Well, that seemed to happen every time. He'd always magically make a Golden Hammer, plain Hammer, Smash Ball, or Assist Trophy pop up right next to him and there wasn't a damn thing I could do about it. Unfortunately, he's the only character who ever goes for items, and he's simultaneously the only one with an unavoidable Final Smash.

The other time was trying out World of Warcrap's ten-day free trial. I hated the game so much in comparison to every other MMO I've ever tried that I almost kicked the front-end of my PC tower through to the back as a faster way of uninstalling the horrible, horrible piece of turd that was corrupting my computer. But then I realized that my laptop didn't work, so I just uninstalled it the regular way, spat on the CD, and gave it back to my friend before writing a 4,600 word essay, a 6,800 word essay, and a four-verse song about how horrible it is.

Again with the AvP (same demo in fact). I loved AvP, but on my first go I managed to use up all my ammo without killing a single alien. I sure taught those shadows a lesson though.

A clan mate, playing dod source, asked how somebody had managed to climb on top of a lamp post. "Oh you just walk up to it and press F10" comes the reply. He wasn't very amused when he rejoined the game. 2, 3 years later and we still rip into him about it.

I was playing Doom 3 and I was at the part where you first go up against the skinny long gray dudes with no eyes. The ones who love to jump out and bite you in whatever place you don't expect when you're not looking. Remember them?..

Anyway, I was sick so I was naked in my computer chair in a dorm room with 3 other guys, headphones on and my covers on me (So no one knows I'm naked and no one cares) and I have the back of my chair all the way back.

*Spoiler Alert*

I'm in some industrial part and I'm walking towards a series of yellow, construction-looking ladders and as I step on the first step one of these creepy (excuse my French) Fucktards come jumping from right in front of my, through the ladder and hits me in the face. I not only scream as loud as my lungs will grant me, I also take a huge jump, fall backwards in my chair and in half a seconds time I'm lying on the floor on top of my covers and my headphone jack is broken...

Here's a couple that were fairly emasculating from my MMO experience... maybe not as scary, but certainly balls-shrinking.

City of Heroes... jumping from roof to roof with Super Jump, getting where I need to go, when all of a sudden I land right into the center of a mob of purple Carnival.

EVE Online: Any time you hear the "de-cloak/re-cloak" audio cue, hairs stand up on the back of your neck, because you'd swear to god someone in a Force Recon is about to gank you back to yesterday. Also: for scary, nothing beats running a LONG jump pipeline that's been mercifully clear of hostiles, get nice and bored watching the swirly warp graphics, only to gate through to the next system which is camped up the wazoo/full of red minus markers in Local. Instant panic, jump-outta-your-pants fear, and the necessity to make split-second decisions in order to maybe, maybe not die. See also: flying a Recon/Covert Ops, and attempting to fly into such shitstorms DELIBERATELY and not get found out.

Gloatingswine- likewise! I had just enough time to realise what it was before it killed me. Of all the FPSes I've played, that AvP Marine demo was by far the most "I Wanna Be The Guy" like.

-Nick

I was on Call of Duty 4 earlier today, and called in a Helicopter on an outdoor map which killed absolutely nobody. That was really embarrasing especially as everyone in the game was pointing out how it had been up there for a minute and not even hit a single enemy player.

When I was a kid, playing the first Tomb Raider game on the PS1, I was terrified and started yelling when the big T-Rex came out and ate me. That was another stupid embarrasing moment which seems stupid now lol.

Convincing a friend of mine online (Who was American) that the main difference in time between us was the "fact" that Canada uses the Metric minute.

strangemusic:
Emasculating? Hmmm.... the introduction of the ghost children in Prey was hair raising enough... and then it goes and throws the other kid onto a big sharp spike. Oh. Okay. Attempting to not soil garments. Nevermind that they come back later in a school bus from hell.

It was listening to the radio in Prey that made me crap my pants. Some of the phone callers...

And FEAR I used to waste atleast a clip of ammo each time Fettle or Alma appeared.

BioShock, the room with the dentist's chair and the smoke machine. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but it made me squeal in such a way that the neighbours called my girlfriend's cell and asked if she was alright...

>_<

My friend bought a new PC and told me to try out Doom 3 while he sees how it runs on the maximum settings it can go. Man I was scared shitless of that. And everytime I'd hear a noise every corner becomes a enemy. That was pretty emasculating for me.

For the Cradle level in Thief 3, I took one look at the old insane asylum / child nursery... and immediately quit the game. The next day, when it was light enough out, I turned the game back on, and armed with a walkthrough and the highest possible brightness settings on my monitor, I went through the level. Still the scariest gaming experience of my life. The insane child murdering asylum patients still give me shivers.

Most Embarrassing: Playing through "A Series of Unfortunete Events" and actually enjoying the gameplay elements.

Most Horrific: Resident Evil Four, roughtly 95% of the gameplay. Actually the opening sequences scared me more than most of the other stuff.

Most "Feel Good": In Final Fantasy X and in Earthbound. Final Fantasy X because I got Rikku around the ENTIRE sphere grid and in Earthbound when I got the Sword of Kings for Poo. :O

Wow, lots of people are scared of Half-Life 2 moments. Me? I'm a wuss, use the God code so I don't end up dying. Wow and as I'm talking my T.V. is talking about the MP7, otherwise known as "That submachine gun that Gordon Freeman uses."

My scariest happens to be in BioShock where I had to quit the game for about a week because I opened that door to the Medical Bay above the plaza, saw a swarm of Splicers. I hid in a hallway upstairs and the door was open. But I remember random hisses and stuff, and then, explicitly, a female Splicer saying "We can see you through the walls..." It scared me shitless, and in fact is the ONE reason I never got any further than the very beggining of Neptune's Bounty.

I didn't played a scary game in a good long time. I could watch my friends play them, and play mercs mode in RE4, but the story modes scared the hell out of me. Silent Hill, RE and RE2 are the reason, for although I got pretty far into them, I ended up having to play more upbeat, colourful games immediately after to prevent dreams of zombie damnation.

I'm slightly better now, though. I usually jump, then find it very funny. Like when the zombies burst through the shop window in RE2 or the dogs in the original. It's like "ARGH!" then "Wait, I have zombies/dogs to kill."

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