10 Awkward Video Game Moments That Made You Feel Like A Total Creep

Although movies and TV shows can feature some questionable material and moments that make you feel a little ashamed of yourself, video games have always had a nasty habit of throwing you into awkward situations that make you looking like a total creep.

Because unlike many other mediums, games put you in direct control of the action, and that means feeling much more responsible over whatever weird thing is currently happening onscreen.

And although video games are more mature than they've ever been, the medium still can't quite shift the awkward juvenile humour that it's revelled in for so long. And while titles like The Last of Us and Gone Home have strived for complex and hard-hitting narratives, many other releases flounder and regress back to the most childish parts of the medium's history in an attempts to cater to a wider audience.

So, whether they're subjecting you to horrific sex scenes (that you just can't look away from), or barraging you with the most unintentionally creepy dialogue in the history of fiction, gaming's bumpy quest towards maturity has birthed some of the most ill-conceived moments you'd hate to have your parents walk in on...

The idea that Grand Theft Auto encourages you to have sex with hookers and then brutally murder them has haunted parents and politicians for years, even though the whole scenario is something gamers have to optionally orchestrate themselves.

But the feverish paranoia around the infamous feature has meant that now every GTA player has taken part in this dastardly deed themselves, just to see how it actually plays out. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that has resulted in every player rolling up to one of the many prostitutes in GTA, watching uncomfortably as they engage in soulless polygonal sex in a car and then driving off knowledgable to the fact that they've just lived out Fox News' biggest nightmare.

But while the process is pretty quick and painless, it ends up feeling much creepier than it should purely because the trademark GTA humour is missing from the experience.

Especially in the fourth and fifth games, it feels as though Rockstar only include the feature because of its legacy in the series, and thus picking up a hooker ends up being nothing more than a creepy, depressing experience.

I suppose in that sense, GTA succeeded in its march towards some semblance of realism.