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Jaw Dropping Moments in Games

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Yeap, it's cool to always remember that! But this is a first for me here (yeah, still a junior0

Let's see:

SNES: When you bring arcade quality games home, Street Fighter 2
GENESIS: When you do your first loop with Sonic The HedgeHog
SATURN: When you keep playing arcade @ home with Daytona USA
PS1: When Squall takes the map out of the camera scene and reveals the war in Final Fantasy VIII
PS2: When you have to kill the greatest soldier of all time in MGS3
X360: Would you kindly play Bioshock?
 
Portal 2 Ending, Metal Gear Solid 4 Last Parts of ACT V, Red Dead Redemption ending and fighting Pokemon Trainer Red on Mt. Silver the first time.
 
Uncharted 2: When the building colappses and the train ride. holy shit!
MGS4: Rex vs Ray??? ARE U KIDDING ME?!!!
God of War 3: Kratos against the biggest Titan, of course i forgot his name -.- but u know which one i mean. the fight against poseidon was also stunning.
 
Most recent games were:

Assassin's Creed 2 - also the first game where I unintentionally lipsynched the last dialouge
MGS4 - Credits Roll

The only game that truly managed to immerse me and make my jaw drop was System Shock 2 (which sadly made the later Bioshock pale in comparison through nostalgia glasses)

MGS1 and Thief also have to get notable mentions for gameplay, cinematic presentation and atmosphere.
 
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Also in the Truck chase scene. OMG I was shooting from one truck right.. and I saw the other truck getting close i was like holyy crappp Let me just try to jump and see if I survive.. OMG WTF?! I JUMPED TRUCKS?!?!

My Jaw was on the floor
 
Acquiescence said:
Fear Effect - Chapter 3 at the whore house, where everything goes horribly wrong.
Two of the three controllable leads meet grisly ends, with Deke getting horribly slaughtered by the brothel owner, though the killer moment was seeing Glas step out of a room just after a boss battle and having his arm sliced off by the villain, lying in a pool of his own blood and quietly weeping.
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I concur with this choice. Disc 3 of Fear Effect still give me the chills
 
Ocarina of Time: Pulling the Master Sword for the first time, stepping out of the Temple of Time and looking up at Death Mountain.

Half-Life 2: Almost every moment after stepping out of the train station and into City 17. It was jaw-dropping moment followed by jaw-dropping moment from then.

Read Dead Redemption: Going to Mexico and the ending

inFamous: Oh yeah, Dat ending.
 
All the Far Cry talk in the earlier pages of this thread has convinced me I need to install Crysis again and jawdrop at it. Words do not convey the awesomeness of it at times.
 
FFX -
Killing Seymour for the first time.
**** just got real. :O

Gears of War - My first chainsaw kill. Dayum!! :O

Mass Effect - What do you mean *I* pick the dialogue? :O

Mass Effect 2 - I can romance Tali???!!! :O

Grand Theft Auto IV - This whole city is seamless?! No waaaiiiii! Dude! Check out this mini-van! :O

Red Dead Redemption - Those horses still impress the hell out of me.

God of War Series - Intros to all three games are spectacular.
 
FFIV Spoiler:
Cecil becomes a Paladin and the leitmotif plays.
I was a young child when I first saw that, and my mouth was literally wide open during the entire sequence. I quickly jumped up and did spinning roundhouse kick in my living room out of pure excitement. Many years later when I saw the DS trailer for this game for the first time, my eyes teared up slightly and I bit on my clenched fist and whispered
to be a paladin, you must not fight now.
 
Alundra: Ending, wanting to continue to play as the main character in whatever other adventures he gets into
Xenogears: Id vs. Fei, the ending with the voice acting (even though it's piss poor nowadays), Krelian giving up while acknowledging that he was wrong, understanding Grahf and killing him
Star Ocean 2: Beating that fucking hard as shit final boss with no guide or anything just plain kicking his ass
Zelda II: Beating the game as a 10 year old right before school one morning outside of Tokyo, I didn't even want to go to school I was so excited
Final Fantasy Tactics: Getting Cid and realizing the gameplay of the game was basically over
Final Fantasy VII/Crisis Core: going to the basement on Disc 4 of FFVII and then actually sort of playing that same ending in Crisis Core 10 years later. Friggin amazing.
Final Fantasy IX: You are not alone.
Phantasy Star IV: Alys was Aerith before Aerith
 
TheBranca18 said:
Phantasy Star IV: Alys was Aerith before Aerith
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Oh yeah! I forgot about that, wow, very emotional stuff. We need another main series, offline Phantasy Star title in my opinion. So many unanswered questions and I still don't know what an eight-stroke warrior is.
 
Heh, I'm gonna have to mention Minecraft as well. One time there was a bug that crashed my save. I was given a tip on how to create a new world but with the same save file, and I crossed my fingers that I would find my old encampment. Sadly I did not see anything...at least not the first few hours, then suddenly looming in the distance...OH CRAP MY OLD BASE! The whole experience was so beautiful lol.
 
Buying my first property in GTA: Vice City and after going to the rooftop, realizing it came with a heli-pad + helicopter.

I still smile thinking about that.
 
Getting to and flying through the Karos Graveyard in Homeworld, the sense of scale is still unprecedented. Realizing that that big shape in the background was the hull of some ancient spaceship, light years in size....amazing.

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clip said:
Getting to and flying through the Karos Graveyard in Homeworld, the sense of scale is still unprecedented. Realizing that that big shape in the background was the hull of some ancient spaceship, light years in size....amazing.

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god damn you are bringing me MEMORIES man
 
Most recently, basically every environment in The Witcher 2. I'm convinced they are, quite probably, the most natural and authentic looking environments in any videogame to date. Immaculate attention to detail in realistic terrain sculpting and ferna distribution is only enhanced further by shifting colour filters, gorgeous godrays and shadows, and various weather and time of day effects.

Visually it is probably the most 'romantic' game I've ever played, at times so utterly convincing and awe inspiring its almost frightening.
 
Soul Reaver - Opening cut scene

THPS - I literally played this game for months with no knowledge of special moves whatsoever. I bought an issue of Tips & Tricks and saw that every character had them and found a whole new layer of depth to it

Resident Evil Code: Veronica - Opening cut scene

MDK2 - Opening where you drop down from the space ship, very cool

Driver - The President's Run

GTA 3 - First time I saw the slo-mo jump camera. It was one by the train tracks. You know I had to jump a car onto the tracks in slow motion

Manhunt - Just over and over again with each brutal kill

Just Cause 2 - First time I was in a jet and you see how big the game really is

Gears of War - First game online. Been playing games online for years and it blew everything else away

Bioshock - First time I was running around and could hear a Big Daddy lumbering about

Many others in 8/16 bit eras that I would have to think hard on to really remember.
 
milkyjay20 said:
playing gta3 for the first time. one of those "had to be there" games, and i was there
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Same for me. I couldn't stop thinking about it/talking about it with friends for weeks.
 
There are so many scenes in games that are amazing, but when I played Tomb Raider on the Saturn and PSO on the Dreamcast my jaw dropped so many times I couldn't count. Dark Falz was a great surprise and places like The Cistern and Damolces room in TR just gave great feelings of vastness or depth, was so cool at the time.
 
Piggus said:
Same for me. I couldn't stop thinking about it/talking about it with friends for weeks.
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it was such a liberating effect. the first cutscene ends, you escape from the prison van, and the game prompts you to drive. then you realize this is a whole city, complete with buildings and roads, traffic lights and crosswalks, bridges and boats. and you can go anywhere; you can even run over people! there was just nothing else like it at the time.
 
Psychonauts - One of the later levels,
Black Velvetopia.The Artstyle is absolutely amazing and I was completely in awe the whole time I played it.Wrestling,although I'm not a fan of it,was awesome.And the asylum.

Legend of Kay - The swamp area and it's levels (besides the village).Exploring the water temple and invading the fortress,awesome!I also liked the Indiana Jones-like tomb level.

Final Fantasy XII - Fran,normally a silent character,freaks completely out.What she does after that is absolutely amazing.Also,several of the last mobs you hunt:
Deathgaze,you fight him on an Airship ;Gilgamesh,badass of course ;Ba-Gamnan,and you finally defeat him

Wild Arms 3 - Right after the Prologue of the four protagonists,
you fight on the top of a train.
 
I am trying to think of a less likely candidate to add... Actually what really wow'd me was the second titan in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. They really presented the scope well. The shot of the castle also comes to mind.
 
clip said:
Getting to and flying through the Karos Graveyard in Homeworld, the sense of scale is still unprecedented. Realizing that that big shape in the background was the hull of some ancient spaceship, light years in size....amazing.

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I was reading through this thread - totally ready to comment on how apparently jaded I am as none of the mentioned moments were close to what I'd call "jaw dropping", but then I hit this post.

In a word, yes. You are correct, sir. The entire game was actually pretty stunning. Okay, let's say I call almost the entirety of Homeworld jaw dropping for me.
 
So many good picks in this thread...
 
The one I'm thinking of isn't an actual event, it's just something I did.

In Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts, in the first level, I swam out into the water, and climbed to the very top of the cogs (so high the music faded out), then I jumped off. As a game it wasn't my ideal sequel to one of my favourite series, but that moment really showcased something about the feeling a game can give you; sometimes it's so real you can't help but feel you are there.
 
Oh and when I went from thinking I was hot shit at World of Warcraft to finally getting an invite from a guild working on Black Temple...........this was in the middle of a shitty Kara run with a small guild I was with.........

Blew my mind at how different the game was lol, and going from a guild struggling to finish Kara to one that told me to read up on a few BT fights and get to it


When WoW was fun :p
 
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