10 EXACT Moments Video Games Gave Us The ICK
This embarrassing moment won't be in Resident Evil 4's remake.
There's no denying that gaming is still very much a medium in its infancy, especially compared to movies, TV, books, and music. It's certainly come a long way over the decades, but still has a lot of room to grow and mature.
Video games are still shaking the historic perception that they're vapid time-wasters aimed primarily aimed at teenage boys, and as much progress has been made in recent years, questionable moments like these continue to showcase the medium's fundamental immaturity.
For one reason or another, these 10 video game moments all made many players feel immediately queasy, and whether classic games or more recent ones, none of them really hold up to present day scrutiny.
From pointlessly sexualised gameplay to deeply disturbing narrative implications, atrociously misguided LGBT representation, and some of the creepiest achievements in video game history, these gaming moments made us all curl our toes and cringe in disgust.
While you can argue that some of the older games on this list are simply products of their time, that doesn't make revisiting these scenes today much less of a gross experience.
Needless to say, we all could've done without these insane, unhinged, and wildly inappropriate moments...
10. The Attack That Removes Women's Clothes - Medabots Girls Mission
Kicking things off with a bit of a deep cut, we have 2016's Nintendo 3DS RPG Medarot Girls Mission, which for reasons that will soon become clear, was the first entry in the series to receive a 15+ rating in Japan.
One of the game's bizarrely hyped features pre-release was a new combat ability called Hyper Finish, where players could charge their Medaforce up to 200% to administer greater damage. Sounds cool, right?
Except, using a Hyper Finish to win a match bafflingly results in the recipient's clothes straight-up getting torn off, followed by a glimpse of them sheepishly scrambling to cover up what little remains of their underwear.
One can assume that someone, somewhere thought this would be a neat way to show off the awesome power of the Hyper Finish attack, but for a series primarily aimed at younger players, it was a head-smackingly tacky, tasteless creative decision.
Yet given that the game has never received an official Western release, it's avoided a wider PR headache that surely would've followed.
All the same, it's pretty gross, and feels like a shamelessly desperate attempt to boost the series' sales figures with fan service.