When you are trying to listen to a cut scene or do a difficult bit and your partner keeps talking and you don't listen and then they ask you a question and you are stuck.
PlayStation Access Why not just apologize and admit that you were not paying attention then ask that they repeat the question? Does that also lead to a tongue lashing? I suppose it would depend on your S/O? Relationships aren't exactly my strong suit.
Rhys Myatt I HATE THIS! lmao My mom always comes in during an important cutscene and I can't pause cause that'll skip it. I just nod and say okay 100 times until she gets quiet. lol
I am glad I am not on my own with this! Well Rob if you do another 7 awkward situations then you will have another one. Thanks for all the awesome context Rob, as a wise man once said " you are pretty good"
I fixed the issue of being the 1 coughing or sniffing by having a mute button on my headset, I can't stop the other person, but can turn on something else to listen without them noticing.
I top the extra noise of other people in the background shouting and cursing someone or something in another foreign language and bonus with a baby or little kids crying as well.
My mum has actually seen some of the great bits in the witcher 3 and she still has the Gaul to say “all your games are boring it’s nothing nothing happens”. Closed minded plebs
I'm sorry to be that guy, but it should be gall, not gaul. Other than that my mother has at least had the deceny to admit that what I watch/play is just as good as the stuff she watches just she doesn't get it. So score I guess?
I remember the first time i play god of war 2 when The're 2 naked girls in bath. I don't know there's something like that and so were my parents, and you know everything goes awkward all of a sudden
Shawn Benjamin because it life isn’t fair, no one is going to do them any favors and the sooner they realize that the better off they will be. It has nothing to do with pride. It’s also disrespectful to let people win or even give them your all. Chris hit the nail on the head.
can think of one. your playing a game and someone asks you what your doing. and then when you explain (or rather, try to), they ignore you and start talking about themselves. real awkward
I always find it awkward when someone who clearly only plays a single type of game like Call of Duty or Fifa asks me what type of games I'm into and then they seem completely lost.
Nomyr7 literally happened to me today. Talking to a customer at work mentioning I had a ps4 and saying I just got Horizon Zero Dawn. Said he didn't know what an Rpg was including the Witcher 3, Mass effect etc. It was sad
Cava you were in one earlier, your friend had to go off and you forgot you were in one. You were previously in a multiplayer game and started one so you wouldn’t be in game chat or have to listen to people in game chat and then switched game. There’s two reasons and I’m sure there’s more.
It could also apply when you're not appearing offline and your friend spams you with invites. I just wanna enjoy this single-player game for awhile man
My girlfriend's parents came over while I was playing Bloodborne, and even better, I was about to fight the Orphan of Kos. We watched that entire cutscene together like a happy family. And by the way, I love you guys. You're all amazing.
I love that game. I don't normally go for platinum's but Bloodborne is one of the few games I liked enough to go for 100% completion. Which I did, including the DLC. I'm the only one in my family who's actually played it past the first area. My sisters think the game is to hard but they love the lore, characters and imagery, while my dad thinks the game's to unrealistic. Which is Ironic because Batman Arkham and Dark Souls 1 are some of his favorite games.
Whenever some politician tries to link violence to video games and having to justify myself to a paranoid parent. No, mum. I am not going to fly off the handle just because I love Mass Effect.
yeah, I know I will do no good to my little brother if I let him just win, so everytime we play fifa or something I win, but Im sure someday hell surpass my skill, it always happens, and Im not scared to face it.
My problem with this logic. Most gamers don't know the difference between teach a person to fight, and just punching them in the face repeatedly. Yes, there will be some people who learn to defend themselves with this method. But most people will just learn to avoid you.
ViveLaDiffèrence lol same I made a group of friends but then when I joined their party they were a bunch of damn 10 year olds. I know I probably shouldn't have but it makes me really uncomfortable being around kids online so I left and unfriended them all. Next week I saw them all again. 😁
When you removed a friend because they turn out to be a creep, but then your friend is friends with them so you still see each other's messages all the time >-< ''why did you remove me?'' (@-@)ummmmm
How could he forget the MOST awkward of them all? When you ask your friend a question and they don't hear you... "Hey where'd you get that upgrade from?" "...." "....Progamer99..." "Yeah dude?" "Where'd you get that upgrade from?" "......" "......" :s
How about when you are in the middle of a really tense game and you haven't turned notifications off and some1 keeps trying to message you over and over again constantly distracting you with the knowledge there expect you to respond instantly
FlamingoSandwich oh I hated that on Xbox where I was playing new Vegas or whatever other single player game. One of my friends would spam invite me to parties to play something I didn’t want to
When my friends wanted to show interest and asked me what I play and I had to repeat "Assassins Creed" like 5 times because they didn't understand the name.
The problem with all these social situations for me, is that, whilst absolutely true, I literally have no friends who play games now anyway. :( Sad face, but at least I can play single player without interruptions!
SmashingSnow Not as much multiplayer as I used to, Battlefield One is the last multiplayer I played a ton of, but since I don't have PS Plus now, I'm playing Fortnite as it's free! At the moment I'm playing Assassin's Creed Origins, Shadow of The Colossus, and Dark Souls 2, which I didn't play properly the first time, but I do miss summoning people! I also just finished Soma, a fantastic story game that I really recommend if you haven't played it!
You and me alike brother. I fell off from multiplayer games awhile ago, they're not all bad I just can't keep up like I use to. Now more than ever I'm into personal games that allow you to experience things however the player wants and I crank up the difficulty so I wont beat them so quickly. I'm currently between The Witcher 3, Horizon Zero Dawn, Nioh, Metro 2033 and Batman Return to Arkham.
When you’re really getting on with someone new and they’re about to be your best friend. You play the same games, you’ve had debates with them, you’ve loved the talks you’ve had, but then you realise that you have a PS4 and they have an Xbox One. Your hopes dashed, your dreams of owning noobs on CoD ruined, your talks of playing each other on Dragon Ball fighters crumble before you as you have to mumble about getting an Xbox 1 for Christmas when you know full well you’re not.
I'm starting to make this friend on Instagram. We are both equally obsessed with Destiny 2 and around the same age and gender (which is rare for me). Unfortunately, I play on PC and she plays on PS4 :(
Similar to number 1 but: the first time you play a game with someone from a discord server and your entire perception of what that person is like is shattered when you hear their voice!
1. When it's your bad internet that screws up a co-op game and you either leave to spare the others from your shaky connection (even though I have a WIRED connection, meaning the internet service itself is bad, not just the connection) or you keep playing, annoyed by the lag and constantly apologizing to your teammates. 2.For someone who tries to be polite in all online gaming situations. You are playing with a friend and friend of a friend, that friend-of-a-friend's friend joins the party, causing our game to lag for 1 second, and friend-of-a-friend unleashes a torrent of profanity that makes you remember why you don't play multiplayer games. 3. You turn on your console before your TV, and the Xbox app on your phone informs you that someone has already sent 2 party invites. You wait for your TV to boot up while preparing to inform him for the 28th time that one invite is enough. 4. When you share a console and your friend baggers your little brother with invites thinking it's you online.
Dude youre the best. You're probably the only one in you tube who gives me the awkward situation of having lunch surrounded by people and notice im laughing like a nerd while others are staring at me.
Rob, these are awesome! When you are having a chat with someone about a game you have both played, and you mention that you really struggled with a certain bit, only to find out there was a much easier way, which is NOW so obvious, and you then really don't want to talk about it anymore because you now feel like a total idiot. Awkward silence ensues as you are too scared to mention any other game. Or, when you are yelling like a crazy idiot at the tv, and mum walks in and wants to know if you are okay. I'm fine mum, I'm just having a slight apoplexy. It will pass...
Here’s one you missed: when your gamer friends are discussing a game they love that you hate (and they don’t know you hate) and try to draw you into the conversation. Do you own up to your loathing, or do you cheerfully pretend to admire it as much as they do? Or how about when you accidentally spoil a game for a friend because you assumed they were as far along as you were, or had played it already? That one always gets the innards totally knotted, upon seeing the look on their face.
I make clear that there are certain games and genres I am not even remotely interested in (anything EA, multiplayer focussed games, sports or racing games), my friends know my preferences well enough I’d say.
I love talking about video games around people that don't have a clue. When they try to join in acting like they understand it's hilarious. Not a mean person but I find it amusing. Great as always Rob. Cheers
God of War 2 for me. My dad was watching me play for a reason I still don't know. Found the girls for "that part" and very quickly and carefully avoided them like the plague...
Robert Cook lol what’s with fathers being around when sex scenes are about to happen? Literally almost every game I know thats about to have a sex scene in it my father will walk in and say “what u playing?” Me: “Witcher 3” Father: “what u doing” Me: “I’m in a brothel” Father: “oh” Awkward silence for about 30 seconds Me:”yes?” Father then leaves and then I pay for a prostitute.
Oh my gosh the part where Hollie had to explain Yakuza was so awkward to watch, such a true representation of trying to explain games to people who don't know what you're on about, amazing acting Hollie!
No, NEVER let a child win at a game. Children always know when you've let them win and they will feel cheated. Instead, turn to the kid and say "want to know how I did it?" and then teach them how to play. Doesn't matter how young the child is, never purposely allow them to win a game. Play a game that they have a realistic chance of winning, and teach them how to play better.
Sophie Jones also, maybe team up with the kids when you can. My family has different age groups of cousins. When the older cousins wanted to play a board game, the younger cousins were paired off and learned how to play the game.
I'm 24, been gaming all my life, and have an annoying nervous twitch in my chin which I get when intensely focused on a hard battle. Up to the point my 14 year old cousin asked to play some Smash Bros, it'd only happened during extremely hard single player boss battles (like Sephiroth in Kingdom hearts), but as we played I realized he was far better than I imagined, I came out of that barely winning after giving it my all and my chin twitching like a seizure victim. He wanted to play some more but I was stretched on time and politely declined and left with my dignity barely intact.
That has happened to me on more than one occasion when you're in a cut scene or trying to do a difficult maneuver etc..there's always someone that just has to talk to you about nonsense. Half the time I hear part of their conversation that's if I'm listening. If they are too loud you lose your concentration on what you're doing or trying to hear a cut scene that you can't play over..
My sister actually walked in when I was going through that bit with Geralt and Yennefer on the unicorn in Witcher 3. For some reason we didn't talk about it then and haven't spoken about it since. Wasn't that big of a deal, I guess.
Arttu Lehmonen I don't know but I'd easily prefer that over my dad walking in during you know what scene with Citra in farcry 3, man that silence is NOT one that i ever want to experiance again, that was kinda a big of a deal (I was like 11 or 10 years old)
Hollie's is everyone's when any relative asks about a game and you are passionate about it. Jak, Metal gear, Uncharted, all these series and then some......thanks family
Can definitely tick off every one of those boxes right there. Good job. Only extra one I can think off is when your partner asks you to do a job that you’ve been saying you will do for ages but they catch you playing instead, hello doghouse what’s your WiFi password
Honestly, normally if I'm playing online I have 0 social interactions with anyone. However, this video reminds me of my favorite online Starcraft 2 match I ever played. 1v1 terran vs. protoss and the guy almost immediately destroyed me, but he pulled back and we got to chatting. He left me a small area to build up in and we had a cease fire until I got a max population fully upgraded army and met him on the center of the map. To both of our shock, I steamrolled his forces in like a minute. Turns out he didn't realize I'd gotten every armor, shield, and weapons upgrade possible; and even though he had built enough production capacity to rebuild his troops within about a minute, he hadn't upgraded them. He still won the next engagement on account of controlling 80% of the map almost entirely of troop factories, but it was the most fun I ever had losing a match.
Thanks, Rob! Out of all of the friends I've made on PSN, I've never had that one guy who was a complete jerk. In fact, most of them were so nice enough that we just had a few friendly coversations about games and so on.
Offroader210 I often use to avoid online because of the stigma with "Other players are complete jerks". Sure the rival teams/players are jerks for thrashing, annoying and beating me (and my team) but I haven't found many yet. Even in GTA, I have only come across a couple, but then I've a jerk once or twice myself. I haven't got the courage for game chat yet but most seem to just get on with their own game.
Fantastic friday feature this week Rob. The awkward situation im usually involved with is falling asleep whilst in a party chat with my friends, as i only have time to play games late night after work. Maybe its more awkward for my friends as they have to listen to me sleep.
After binge watching most of these amazing videos on my Xbox One(please don't shun me) I'm happy to report this is my first video watched via the ps4. It just FEELS RIGHT. As always, spectacular job Rob. Loved the Nate and Hollie cameos as well
Manuel Koegler I agree. Outside Xbox is okay and Xbox On has a really cute ginger but the Access crew is just amazing. I love watching all their videos.
doesn't matter what you prefer to play on mate, as long as you're having fun. and i actually like outside Xbox too. the guys over there are pretty funny too. Rob actually did a cameo there once. it was about things in games that are totally out of place or something :)
Nothing wrong with having both. If the consoles didn't cost so much, I would upgrade my GameCube to the switch, and xbox 360 to the Xbone x, yet I love PlayStation the most, so the others got left behind :)
TheRaveNRolla you got that right. I love gaming for the joy of gaming. I think all the consoles have a lot to offer most gamers. Most of my games are over two years old but it doesn't lessen my enjoyment.
Does anyone else keep their index fingers on R1 and L1 and middle ones on the L2 and R2? I always see people holding their controller really differently
I play with my middle finger on r1 and my ring on r2 so I can press abxy while still using my thumb to control the stick. People always look at me funny when I do that. Cause my left is my index on l1 and my middle on l2.
brilliant rob! so many of these are relevant, particularly love the random mutual friend one and leaving the party like 30 seconds after saying bye haha
When you have your mic muted and have a whole conversation but not noticing that ur mic is muted and they ask hello are you here and you have to say oh shoot my mic was muted
The first one is so true. I remember when I would play with randoms on psn to try and do the Black Ops zombies easter eggs we'd usually just stay quiet unless we had to do something synchronized lmao
If you spent all your money buying the system and won't have much for games, make sure to check out Warframe. It's completely free and it's microtransactions are very very optional. I currently have just under 3,000 hours in-game and haven't spent a dime, so I'd recommend downloading it at least to give you something to play that won't drain your wallet until you get a larger library of PS4 games. Cheers m8 :-)
That's not the worst #7 can get. When you decide to either confess or make an excuse and send it. But then they reply and tell you they hadn't noticed you were online... oh man... that's when you know you messed up. 😱
That one day you have, free from work or other aspects of life and you're really looking forward to some co-op gaming or something online. Only for playstation to have maintenance and nothings available, on that one day you have 😫
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that's had every one of these situations thrust upon me during my gaming lifetime so far one of my favourite Friday features so far
Thank god I watched this on my phone and not on my TV in front of my little brother during the 2nd one. Thanks Rob for not preparing us for the sex scene. *I TRUSTED YOU!!!!!*
What do we learn from this? Never trust Rob. Or any of the Playstation Access crew actually. Or any RU-vidr, for that matter. Or, actually, come to think of it: never trust anybody on the Interwebz ever.
Something that has happened to me was recently on Apex Legends. I had died, and was waiting for my teammates to rez me ( Random other players, who both were on the mic and clearly hadn't yet hit puberty ) when I couldn't hold in my rage about my death any longer. So I muted my mic and began to let it out and I REALLY let it out. After about my 5th or so "bullshit" I heard a small meek little voice say "Uhhh, we can hear you" I literally turned my PS4 off, I didn't know how else to react.
Arth Banka It's not. It's at least the third time (maybe more, but I can only remember two others). First, in the list of games that prove how far Playstation has come, and second in list of signs that you love a game way too much, when Rob showed Hollie's Witcher 3 collection.
Once in my German class the teacher asked me what do I like to do, I answered that I like to play video-games,then she asked what Is my favourite game,I said Skyrim,then she asked what do you do in that game.I wanted to avoid talking the story so I said "You just kill dragons"
The want a night playing single player rang true with me. I'm in a WoW guild. WoW guild has a discord and that discord basically tattles on you telling everyone whatever game you are playing. "Can't raid tonight!" "Sorry can't do a mythic plus" doesn't really work when they see I'm playing skyrim or whatever all night long. Sure you could just tell the truth but something deep inside me tells me that "I'm not feeling sociable tonight, I just want to play by myself" is somehow not socially acceptable.
worst should be when you don't play a game like overwatch , pubg, etc. anymore and you have a friend you met through that game keep sending you texts (2+months later) to play with them .
Hi Rob, Have you played Kingdom Come yet? There's a horse named Roach in it. Her owner (Johann) has this to say about Roach, "She's a pretty good horse, though she's got a mind of her own. I bought her from some odd Polish fellow. He said now he's settled down with a wife, he's afraid she'll want him to stuff her. Them Poles are a perverse lot."
I havent finished the vid. But the first thing i can think of is when youre playing with a friend, and they invite a friend that you dont know, and thats all well and good til the mutual friend leaves and now u must decide if you keep playing together or leave.
Oh the last one. I had a stalker who even when you offline but the system still shows the last game you played and they noticed it changed and call you immediately to see why you never show online anymore and you tell them if is someone else who is stalking you and they act like whew 'it isn't me then' and it was them lol
My worst is always done to me like, instead of asking me in advance or actually looking at what I'm upto via the friends list? No let's just randomly invite me to a multiplayer session of a Game so I have to respond via message "Not right now mate I'm playing (insert title)" half the time it's for Games I don't even own it's hilarious 😁
Shadow Kitsune can relate, my best friend has been wanting to play fortnite all the time recently. I dont have anything against the game, its just I dont have fun playing it
An awkward social situation I find myself in at times is when I'm stretching or yawning and someone asks me a question. I finish my yawn or stretch, not knowing I've been asked a question and there's this awkward silence because I didn't know people were waiting for an answer.
