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[Come On Tars]

Witcher 3 is one of those games you would walk instead of sprint. I would keep fast forwarding to sunset time becuaee it looked so incredible

 

[NahaNago]

Feelings of awe for me are mostly final fantasy based.

• ff7 train scene left me in awe the new ps4 version though doesn't
• ff8-10 cg cut scenes from the beginning of ff8 to that touching ending of ff10 plus blitzball cg
• the beauty of the forest at night in horizon zero dawn at times.
• I was really impressed by the visuals and the flying of infamous second son but then I found out how hollow the city was.
• mega man legends mention just because I like mega man legends.

I'm sure there was many more but I have a crap memory.

 

[ipukespiders]

Seeing DOOM for the first time 25 years ago.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Gravity rush
- Intro Scene
- Too many secrets chapter ( The most beautiful of the gaming story and the best of Gravity rush saga)
- All the game.

Gravity rush 2
- The three endings of Gravity rush 2
- Final Boss (One of the most emotional and intense of the gaming story)
- Raven DLC Boss Battle in Hekseville
- All the game and Side quest

Gravity rush 1 and 2 are Masterpiece of this Generation and for me of all time

Nier
- All the Game and the intro scenario


Metal Gear solid 2 Sons of liberty

- Arsenal Gear Scenario and the twist plot.

Chrono trigger

- The multiples ending and time paradox

 

[real1]

first time leaving those sewers in oblivion

 

[Lionel Richie]

The GOAT and still unmatched HOLY SHIT moment. Everyone posting recent games is confirmed underage.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The GOAT and still unmatched HOLY SHIT moment. Everyone posting recent games is confirmed underage.

Still Mario 64 was awesome in their moment and yes... was special moment, for me visit the Ghost House xD.

But still, Gravity rush is my top tier =)

 

[Yumi]

Witcher 3 Skellige is the first recent one that comes to mind. Also recent, watching 3 monsters duke it out in monster hunter world. New to the series and didnt know that could happen.

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Spoilers: The Thread

Tomb Raider (2013) when you escape the cave in the beginning of the game and get to see the beautiful ocean landscape.

 

[Poordevil]

Never played an MMO before. On a whim decided to try World of Warcraft. This was just after launch and before digital distribution. Took over a week of looking almost every day to locate a hard copy.

Was playing a dwarf in the starting area, doing quests, digging the open world, thinking this is pretty cool! I noticed this stone structure up on a hill with a wide path leading up to to it. What could that be? Hike up there to this huge entryway. I remember walking through a zig zagging hallway and awesome music began playing. I turn the corner and I could not believe what I was seeing. What seemed like 100s of OTHER PLAYERS, inside this massive indoor city! I remember walking around in genuine awe trying to wrap my head around it all... Ironforge.

 

[Deleted member 752119]

Playing Mario 64 for the first time.

The giraffe scene in TLOU.

 

[Trogdor1123]

The first bit of freedom in Skyrim for sure

 

[GermanZepp]

Metal Gear solid, psycomantis. And before when you got to call Meryl, campbell says to you something like.. "the frecuency number was in the reverse of the CD case" I rember gettin stuck. Then I grab the game CD case and I see in the back of the artwork the Meryl codec number. Boom. IT blew my mind.

Dark souls blew my mind Every time I figured out a shorcut And realized the structure of the map. And years after beatin IT, I go back and find zones like ash lake. Amazing stuff. Kojima, miyazaki and ueda are the greatest.

 

[pennythoughts]

Super Mario 64, first experience with 3D.

Metal Gear Solid, Psycho Mantis reading your memory card and shaking the controller.

Metal Gear Solid 2, all the crazy codec conversations near the end.

The Last of Us - Giraffes

Metroid Prime - that title screen music...

Fire Emblem - When Lyn's story ends and the game wasn't over

League of Legends - First time experiencing a Lux ult

Dota 2 - gushing nonstop over how much cooler everything in it was over league.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Forgot about first mode 7 parts on SNES! Was amazing

Best unreal!

 

[alf717]

I've had so many awe moments in games. The first one that popped into my mind is the one level in Super Mario Galaxy where you are underwater for most of the level and at the end is a star and a very nice sunset. I don't have a pic though sorry.

 

[semiconscious]

Wander entering the Forbidden Lands > all

yeah, this's a pretty hard one to top...

 

[Tarkus98]

Wow, so many great gaming moments but a few that really stand out:
- Booting up KingsField for the first time. Bought the game on a whim and was totally blown away with the complexity of the maps and dungeons. Yes the frame rate tanks but from the start of the game it just helped create a dream like atmosphere. Loved this game.
- Resident Evil. Graphics haven’t aged well but but whoa, this game introduced me to the horror game scene and I absolutely immersed myself into this game. Then came the part in the beginning with the zombie munching on one of the officers and the whole urban legend with the eyeball.....yeah this game legit shook me in a good way.
- FFXI on the PS2. The entire game just blew me away. To this day some of my very best memories are playing this game. Met friends that I still keep in touch with even now. The quests, properly executed skill chains, helping someone get their class armor until 4 in the morning and having to go into work at 6 and totally not giving a fuck. Yeah, great times.
- Silent Hill 1 and 2. ‘Nuff said.

 

[LOLCats]

For some reason i expected stories of real life awe, i had a good story for that.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Metal Gear solid, psycomantis. And before when you got to call Meryl, campbell says to you something like.. "the frecuency number was in the reverse of the CD case" I rember gettin stuck. Then I grab the game CD case and I see in the back of the artwork the Meryl codec number. Boom. IT blew my mind.

Dark souls blew my mind Every time I figured out a shorcut And realized the structure of the map. And years after beatin IT, I go back and find zones like ash lake. Amazing stuff. Kojima, miyazaki and ueda are the greatest.

Dont forget Mr Keiichiro Toyama, he is a genious too

 

[Zenaku]

Xenoblade 2.

Amazing cutscenes, almost one great every chapter, with camerawork and timing that puts even the best AAA western games to shame. I'll ocassionally boot up the game just to rewatch some of the cutscenes, and the ending makes me cry every time without fail.

 

[Myths]

Honestly, only SE has really wowed me. Specifically, their trailers... I think they know exactly how to invoke that awe.

 

[Romulus]

Two main eras:

Late 90s Mario 64 and Zelda

This generation with VR.
Never thought I would be blown away as an adult, but it happened. VR itself is revolutionary, and RE7, Wipeout, and Astrobot are unforgettable.

 

[EightBit Man]

But still, Gravity rush is my top tier =)

Arguably my favorite PlayStation Vita game.

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

Seeing DOOM for the first time 25 years ago.

Doom was one of my genuine awe moments too. Seeing the 3d world, the blood/violence and the atmosphere those things created, really blew me away.
My second awe moment was seeing Street Fighter 2 for the first time. I was about 11, at the shops with my dad and they had a unit in the milk bar there. No one was playing, but the cpu had a demo fight in Brazil with Blanka fighting. His ferocious appearance, the splatters of blood, the color and the animation quality made it so I couldnt look away. Me and my friends were obsessed with the game for a few years afterwards. I think lots of people were though.

 

[Kadayi]

Fighting the marines for the first time in Half-life. Pretty rudimentary AI by today's standards but an actual mind blown revelation at the time.

Also Portal. Playing that felt like my brain was being rewired as it went along.

 

[Spukc]

I had 3 big moments in gaming

Sonic 1 on genesis
Super mario 64
Lone echo in VR

Nothing beat the pure wow factor imo

 

[Karmacide]

Moments where I felt awe in videogames:

Seeing the scale of some of the levels in the original PS2 God of War.

The first time I unlocked the upside down castle in Castlevania SOTN and then realizing that I had only played about HALF of the game.

The bosses in Shadow of the Colossus.

Seeing the world open before me in The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion after I got out of the prologue stage.

 

[bumleforce]

Pretty much most of Castlevania Lords of Shadow. The entire game was filled with awe.

At the beginning of the level right after a battle in a nearby town, you just jogging along a ice cliff and the camera pans back and draculas castles entrance looms ahead. It was spectacular.

A bit further into the game you are out on the rooftops of the castle and half to run along a giant chain or cable connecting towers. Its all iced over and snowing and again, the camera pans back. You see the castle spires in the moonlight. The moon is looming in the night sky, bats flying around. The art direction in that game was amazing. I loved Lords of Shadow so much.

Why dont you think people like it? Iv always wanted to try it

 

[bumleforce]

So many for me.
Star fox. First 3d game I played.
Doom on snes never played anything like it before.
Chrono trigger. Magus fight
Super Mario 64 water level when you can see the bottom from so high up.
God of war I played at a Sony both at warp tour before it came out. So epic. Made ut a day one buy.
Half life 2 seeing the guys face in such amazing detail at the start of thw game.
Worldbof warcraft. Seeing so many players in stormsind then in a raid killing my first raid boss
Halo 1 watthog run
Gears of war next gen graphics
God of war ps4 stranger fight
Seeing red dead in 4k on the xbox one x. Made me excited for next gen

To name a few

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

These aren't all of them, but some off the top of my head are Sonic R, Sonic 3 and Knuckles, Super Mario 64, Megaman X4, God of War III, The Wonderful 101, etc.

 

[PacificNW]

Why dont you think people like it? Iv always wanted to try it

Lots of people enjoyed it. And a lot of people didn't like the combat and some of the jankiness around it. I understood where they were coming from, but I didn't care. I loved the entire game, warts and all. I got all 1000 gamer score.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Defusing bombs in S&D in Call of Duty am I right?

 

[Kadayi]

Beating Ornstein and Smough and then encountering Gwynevere

 

[Generic]

When I created my first amplified world in Minecraft.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

The moment in Metroid Prime when you step on to a cliff in Phendrana Drifts and Ridley's enormous shadow is cast over you as he flies above the area

 

[SpartanN92]

Two Scarabs-Halo 3

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Xenoblade 2.

Amazing cutscenes, almost one great every chapter, with camerawork and timing that puts even the best AAA western games to shame. I'll ocassionally boot up the game just to rewatch some of the cutscenes, and the ending makes me cry every time without fail.

That's great to hear. I love Xenoblade 1, and after initially disliking Xenoblade X, I went back to it this year and fell in love with it as well. Just gotta give it some space and I'll be ready to jump into Xenoblade 2. Hopefully I'll adore all 3 of them.

 

[Eiknarf]

The first Colosus in Shadow of the Colossus... and the rest of that game.

Playing that right now

Just defeated colossi #9

What a pleasant surprise this game is

 

[appaws]

first time leaving those sewers in oblivion

Came to post this. It blew my mind as well to realize what the world was.

Also beating Gannon in Legend of Zelda when I was a kid. It felt so important to me at the time, like I had such an accomplishment under my belt.

 

[Convicsik]

I was born in 1981, started playing Atari at the age of 4. Here is my timeline.


Night Trap on Sega CD (First time seeing FMV in a game, blew my mind)

Mortal Kombat (Could not believe how realistic and bloody it was)

Mario 64 (Still the most amazing gaming moment ever for me, the first time I tried it at Toys R Us I played it for an hour straight )

Motorstorm ( First HD game I ever played, graphical leap from PS2 blew my mind)

Wii Sports ( Finally the Power Glove concept I was promised in the Wizard brought to life)

PlayStation VR (Very close second to Mario 64 in an OMG this is insane reaction, tried Battlezone at a Bestbuy demo before launch, complete game changer)

 

[lachesis]

As an old timer, it was non other than Pong and Space Invader. Next was Galaga, Pacman and Zaxxon, and Pitfall..

Then I moved onto famicom and MSX - I was blown away by Metal Gear on MSX2, and Ys II.

 

[egocrata]

Shadow of the Beast, Amiga. The intro was mind blowing, The game looked amazing.

X-Wing, playing on a 486 with a Sound Blaster. I am flying an XWING. I am saving the galaxy. The Imperial March kicks in. A Star Destroyer drops from hyperspace. OMG SHIT JUST GOT REAL.

 

[Winter John]

The first time I played GTA III. That 3d world was mind blowing

 

[Ulysses 31]

That's great to hear. I love Xenoblade 1, and after initially disliking Xenoblade X, I went back to it this year and fell in love with it as well. Just gotta give it some space and I'll be ready to jump into Xenoblade 2. Hopefully I'll adore all 3 of them.

So you left X unfinished?

Oops I misread!

 

[ExpandKong]

One that stands out in my mind still is the first time I got a car to explode in GTA3. It was raining, the car was upside down, then on fire, then BOOOOSH.

The next gen of consoles (at that time) wasn’t really real for me until that moment.


Oh yeah...Link’s Awakening. I never gave the Zelda series any attention growing up, then one day randomly at school some other kid saw a game I was playing (don’t even remember what it was) and offered to trade me his Link’s Awakening for it. I’d already beaten my game so I figured what the hell.

Fwoosh, instantly hooked. Burned through LA in maybe three days. Standout moment in that game for me was

Spoiler: Spoiler since REmake is coming soon

finding the mural in the Southern Face Shrine and finding out the true nature of the island

. That was some deep shit to my little youngling mind.

 

[Deleted member 752119]

Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy level in Yoshi’s Island.

 

[Wunray]

Ocanrina of Time title screen music and basically the entire game
BoTW when you first leave the chamer of ressurection
Xenoblade chronicles when you first enter the guar plain
Twilitght Princess dark beast ganon
Super mario 64, all of it
Ocarina of Time again but this time fighting ganon beast form
That comercial for KH1 and kh1 opening cgi custscene
MW2 No Russian mission
Black ops 1 when you hit that big twist near the end
Experiencing 144hz display in person for the first time
God of war 2 opening sequence.

 

[Africa's Toto]

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[Labolas]

The scope of Jublieus fight in Bayo 1 was awe-inspiring for me.

And getting to the character select screen for Capcom vs SNK. The music still gives me goosebumps.