Demeaning things to do in video games

What is the most demeaning thing that you can do in a video game to someone or that can happen to you?

for me, theres nothing more demeaning than the Dog laughing at you when you suck at Duck Hunt!

I hate when games offer you the option of changing the difficulty to an easier setting when you die. God of War did it to me the other day, and I was not impressed.

I always hated the large "YOU FAIL" signs in Guitar Hero. Nothing quite like losing and then have an inanimate object rub it in your face.I_haz_teh_gamez

Haha ugh that was why i quit playing guitar hero...got too depressing after awhle

When you die in Resident evil 4 "YOU ARE DEAD". It's like it's laughing in your face.

I hate when games offer you the option of changing the difficulty to an easier setting when you die. God of War did it to me the other day, and I was not impressed.

broken_bass_bin

I would say - have you played Postal? There's a whole encyclopedia of demeaning things to do and to happen to you in that game - from being kidnapped and turned into some hillbilly families leathered love slave to getting powned by Eddie Murphy in a Dookie Suit... Its just... sick.

Or let me reach way back... in Legend of Legaia you had a part where you had to travel through a monsters doodie shoot. coming out of it's anus. That's mighty demeaning if you ask me...

When you die in Resident evil 4 "YOU ARE DEAD". It's like it's laughing in your face.

FreshTillDeath

Heh, that's in all of the RE games. Talk about adding insult to injury!

I hate when games offer you the option of changing the difficulty to an easier setting when you die. God of War did it to me the other day, and I was not impressed.

broken_bass_bin

Haha man that's funny but I agree. Although some games I just don't give a crap if I beat on hard or easy. Like I bought this game Deadly Premonition, a value game but very well made if you like adventure games. I didn't give a crap I just put the combat on easy because the combat sucked anyway and definitely wasn't a part of the story. I'm glad I did, the combat sequences are mildly spooky but so repetitive it would have been insanely annoying to die during any of them.

If you're talking demeaning as in demeaning things to do to the A.I in games or another player in a multiplayer game let's see.

To A.I. In any sandbox GTA style game like Saints Row 2 or GTA 4 it was always fun to get the A.I to get into mass battles with each other. If you did it right you could get 10 or 12 people beating up on each other.

To another player, shoot them after you already killed them before they respawn. Of course teabagging but I find that very unoriginal and no longer annoying or funny, just boring. Stealing items constantly or loot when the game is supposed to be cooperative. Like Borderlands. Jerks always take the best weapon off the boss even if they already have it, just to sell it. They don't care if you don't have it. COOPERATIVE doesn't mean all for yourself.

Demeaning to us the consumer from the Developer to the consumer well the list is huge.

It's demeaning to release a game or an expansion to us without absolutely thoroughly bug testing it first. Many companies use the consumer the person actually playing the game as the guinea pig, and i @#$@$# hate that! My wife plays WoW I can't tell you how many times she's not been able to play because of an expansion or a botched patch. It is inexcusable to me to release a game with so many bugs it's almost unplayable. This was the case with Divinity 2 Ego Draconis. That game was a horrible mockery of gaming. It had so many bugs in it I nearly gave up. That to me is the cardinal sin of game developers, sheer laziness.

It's demeaning to make fun of a female player on xbox-live just because she's female That's very mean and childish. HOWEVER ladies it is equally as demeaning to use your feminine persuasion on xboxlive or any multiplayer game. Take World of Warcraft. Female players use their sex to gain favors and free stuff, that is pathetic and very demeaning to those who rise above that sort of nonsense.

I could care less if you're a guy or girl on xboxlive or the internet. I'm not there to pick you up or make friends with you, I'm there to play a game with you. I don't care if you're a hot model with huge boobs, if you suck at MW2 I don't want you on my team and I won't babysit you because you have a vagina.

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When you die in Resident evil 4 "YOU ARE DEAD". It's like it's laughing in your face.

MathMattS

Heh, that's in all of the RE games. Talk about adding insult to injury!

On Super Smash Bros. series when you fail at doing something it says "FAILURE" every time you fail at accomplishing what your trying to do.

After a kill in a fps game, I've always been a huge supporter of dropping down into the prone position with my crotch over thier face, repeatedly. (tea bagging) or just running up to thier body and pulling out my hand gun and delivering one "Assassination Shot" to the head. It's so choice....

I think this was found by James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) when he got the game over screen in Friday the 13th.

"You and your friends are dead. Game over." It's priceless. Like, I can't believe it. Isn't that a mean thing to say to kids? Nobody ever dies in Nintendo. They either "defeated" or they turn into an item and, like, float away. But, here comes a game, like Friday the 13th that just cuts the bull ****, shows some balls, comes flat out, and says, "You're ******* dead. And your friends too. Beautiful. And if there was a sequel, it should say something meaner. Like, I got it. I got a good idea of what it should say. It should say: "You're dead. Your friends are dead. Your family's dead. Your ******* pets are being skinned alive. Your mom's a ******* *****. You suck at life. The whole world hates you. You're going to Hell. Live with it. Game Over."

You and your friends are dead. Game over

Greatest game over screen ever