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[br0ken_shad0w]

Chrono Trigger:

Day of Lavos 1999 AD

One of my favorite gaming moments. It was short, but a very chilling scene.

 

[excowboy]

This part in Medal of Honor (2010) where the player has to defend the position

I honestly thought i could just prone and hide until the next cutscene...

This is a good shout - I remember thinking

Spoiler

the helicopters will be here soon and then the inevitable cutscene. Nope.

 

[Hidden One]

 

[jsnepo]

 

[Gsak]

Silent Hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CEJmFFDq4

 

[Kaleinc]

YOU'RE WINNER

Best EVO ever

Best moment ever

 

[GreenMakoEyes]

for me it was:

and actually fighting him in the FM version for the first time was.. wow

 

[ZackieChan]

Can you spoiler tag what happens here? I played the game but don't remember...

And I agree with Heavy Rain. The

Spoiler

car chase

wasn't a huge deal, but when you get to that room and have to

Spoiler

cut off your finger

that is the epitome of shit getting real.

 

[AniHawk]

infinite space - yuri the man

 

[Keasar]

Bayonetta

After a really long and kinda boring shoot'em'up section, this fight blasts out of nowhere and turns the game to 11.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

The definition of shit just got real. Good times.

Oh man, I'll never forget that one corridor. The one you see sticking out to the right in that picture. I was coming back from the garden and had dumbly stashed my shotgun and had nothing but a pistol (because hey, it's just weak zombies in the mansion right...? yeah, I was a noob), and I'm casually running down this hall when this hunter leaps from that right side corridor and startles me like I've never been startled ever before. I screamed so loudly my dad interrupted his work to ask me if I was all right. lol.

 

[Bayonettasbuddy]

Biggest "OH SHIT!" moment I've ever had

 

[hondulu]

this

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

 

[Roronoa95]

This...

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

The Cyberdemon in DooM is definitely up there. You start a seemingly remote level, all you can hear is something hydraulic... like a lift.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

We're talking about real though.

For example, shit just doesn't get real in Mario 64. At best, we get the illusion of real.

Ha! False. Dat hat doe.

 

[thewhitehawk]

Valkyria Chronicles

Spoiler

when Isara Gunther dies

. Pretty much changed the entire mood of the story and reminded the characters a new sense of purpose.

 

[DJwest]

Agreed.

Can you spoiler tag what happens here? I played the game but don't remember...

Spoiler

you are ambushed by a horde of clickers as soon as you switch on that generator. It was probably the most intense part for me in this game. Their noises as they approach were fantastic

 

[Aureon]

FFT has about ten of those.
A pair of which make you save JUST before them, just to be sure you can't go back and grind.
Then, shit gets REAL when you get the final classes, which rotflstomp anything and anyone.

Birth By Sleep plot is "Meh" until the True End, in which.. uh.
Same thing for 999, at the power of ten.

 

[catashtrophe]

Beat Phalanx, Tower Knight and the Armoured spider and got confident...

Then shyt got too real

The real Demons Souls starts here

 

[NZerker12]

Resistance 2

Spoiler

After you fight Daedalus, hale absorbs all of Daedalus' powers and you then have to escape while going god mode on everything.

 

[Atrophis]

The moment when you find out hiding behind the train carriages won't help you.

 

[Pakoe]

Worst "Shit just got real" moment: Half-Life 2 Episode 2 ends with one and...that's it. We get no follow up for 6 years and counting.

Sooo much this.

 

[andthebeatgoeson]

Shit got real after this:

How to get wing cap in Super Mario 64: http://youtu.be/vXmUiLzLPYw

 

[parski]

Boost Guardian in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. The most difficult boss I ever played during the Gamecube generation. I would like to see a death count on that battle alone cause it was From Software level bad.

 

[sn00zer]

Worst "Shit just got real" moment: Half-Life 2 Episode 2 ends with one and...that's it. We get no follow up for 6 years and counting.

I would argue Ellie's confession scene just prior was a much bigger "shit just got real moment"....

Spoiler

the only time another character has admitted to knowing of the gman

I was a huge fan of the series and that just blew me away

 

[Double]

Spoilers - the thread

 

[kyser73]

Supersonic in Zone mode:

I managed this once.

 

[Carpe Diem]

Minecraft when you enter the nether

 

[Aureon]

It's at this point that I gave up.

I saw this screen, HAD to buy it on the pure interface alone.
I'm now at that level. UUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

 

[Water]

The Windia portrait on the static decoration frame has been pre-emptively wearing a "WTF" expression for the whole game in anticipation of just how real shit gets at this point.

 

[killatopak]

When Nemesis showed up. My 7 year old self just got scared so much that I gave the controller to my father.

 

[Hurt and Scared]

A link to the past

infamous second son

Mega man x

Tomb raider

Resident evil 4

Spoiler

talk about throwing you in the deep end first

Sony 2013 e3 press conference

 

[R_Deckard]

 

[1up]

I could not believe it.

 

[Thorgal]

If you ever had the pleasure of playing a Touhou bullet hell game in your live you would know that their ain't enough shit in the world to get real to prepare you for this Madness!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhxmrplyFb4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOnfnNYkSlY

 

[ZackieChan]

I saw this screen, HAD to buy it on the pure interface alone.
I'm now at that level. UUUUUUUUUUUUUGH.

That is exactly where I stopped, and I've purchased the game on three different platforms. It's really amazing, but I just can't wrap my brain around it.

People in the gaf thread were getting pretty far, I think.

 

[matrix-cat]

"Huh, he just flies around? Guess I'll fire some arrows... hah, got him! Oh... Oh shit... Oh shit OH SHIT"

*Sudden flash of inspiration*

"FUCKIN' YEAH LET'S DO THIS!"

 

[MrJTeera]

Yakuza series is filled with these moments.

Shit keeps gettin' realler each fight!

 

[Tuck]

"Huh, he just flies around? Guess I'll fire some arrows... hah, got him! Oh... Oh shit... Oh shit OH SHIT"

*Sudden flash of inspiration*

"FUCKIN' YEAH LET'S DO THIS!"

Such a cool fight. I found it a bit clunky (Well, I found the game as a whole clunky), but the whole concept was awesome. Same with the desert one.

 

[Blink Me]

Dynasty Warriors 3: Encountering Lu Bu for the first time at Hu Lao Gate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaqL_1U8V6A

Apparently he was even harder to defeat in 2. Since then he's been relatively easy to beat or at least avoid.

 

[Alebeard]

C'mon. Right here.

 

[Aureon]

That is exactly where I stopped, and I've purchased the game on three different platforms. It's really amazing, but I just can't wrap my brain around it.

People in the gaf thread were getting pretty far, I think.

Done it. That took an hour and some, i fear what's to come.
Still great game. And shit is definitely getting real.

 

[Ashtar]

The first terror mission in the new Xcom. Chryssalids in particular

Was not expecting that at all, my whole team got slaughtered it was bad

 

[ryuken-d]

Dragon's Dogma post game. And all of Dark Arisen, from your first time through to the 2nd and 3rd replay variations. That thing that was a boss? Now it's a regular enemy!

Tonewise post game is insane though- the true ending and the post game environment is a huge "shit just got real" moment.

I gotta second and third this all over. I'm playing new game+ x5 probabaly lvl 105 or so and the dark island is still fucked up and amazing. cant wait for new game.

 

[Mr. Poolman]

The fight versus Solo Wing Pixy on Ace Combat Zero.
Yo buddy. Still alive?

Also it helps that this fight has quite possibly the most epic track ever composed.

 

[Vashetti]

TLOU (multiple):

Spoiler

Tess' final scene
First Bloater encounter
"He ain't even hurt" (after Bill's Town)
The basement where you have to turn on the generator
Henry/Sam deaths in the same cutscene
Joel impaled
Winter
Joel interrogating the guard in the hospital
"You'll just come after her"

 

[Chuckpebble]

I was throwing tranqs at a Royal Ludroth to complete a capture quest, then all of a sudden I'm one hit KOed and all I see is a screen full of this guy's foot:

Click to go to a Deviant Art page with very high resolution.

 

[twobear]

Homeworld

hyperspace jumping back to Kharak to find that the atmosphere has been incinerated while you were gone

such a good 'AND I WILL MAKE THEM PAY FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE' moment