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The best "Reveal" in a game
- Thread starter Victrix
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Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
A lot of good ones that I agree with.
I have to say the ending of Halo 2. I know it's not exactly what's being looked for, but even though you know it's coming, you're so into the game...the way it ends...it's unbelievable.
I have to say the ending of Halo 2. I know it's not exactly what's being looked for, but even though you know it's coming, you're so into the game...the way it ends...it's unbelievable.
Good stuff, but no one has mentioned this one (because you all suck, probably):
Red Alert, when you beat the Soviet Campaign, the ending reveals a very familiar character as the mastermind of a WHOLE LOTTA SHIT.
Too bad Red Alert 2 went with a totally different story line and Tiberian Sun's story was laaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. (Gameplay was good, however). And of course, Generals represents EA's final fuck-over of Command & Conquer.
Oh, and another cool one - install Red Alert with the Soviet Disc and you get a different intro movie.
PS, if anyone likes C&C (or hasn't played it) EA is doing ONE good thing.
They're releasing a 10-year anniversary pack thingy of EVERY C&C game and expansion ever released (except for C&C 64, of course, which was an abortion of a port).
Red Alert, when you beat the Soviet Campaign, the ending reveals a very familiar character as the mastermind of a WHOLE LOTTA SHIT.
You beat the game, and you're in now-Soviet-controlled London, talking to the head Soviet leader guy. You're offered tea (when in Rome...) and a man and a woman serve both of you. The head Soviet guy is poisoned (I beleive, it's been ages) and the lady who served you informs you that he was a turd, and they're taking power and such. Bitch gets shot in the back by the man, who proceeds to inform you that you are to keep the peace until the Brotherhood of NOD is ready to kick ass in the 90s (I think it was 90s) and etc. Motherfucking guy is SO familiar. You see him when he's serving tea and shit, and when the bitch is talking. But it's been fucking AGES since you played Tiberian Dawn, so you don't realize until the end, when he's talking, that it's mother-fucking KANE, who orchestrated the whole fucking the war in Red Alert as preparation for his future war DECADES later. Then you notice that the fucker is the same fucking age as he was in Tiberian Dawn.
Too bad Red Alert 2 went with a totally different story line and Tiberian Sun's story was laaaaaaaaaaaaaaame. (Gameplay was good, however). And of course, Generals represents EA's final fuck-over of Command & Conquer.
Oh, and another cool one - install Red Alert with the Soviet Disc and you get a different intro movie.
PS, if anyone likes C&C (or hasn't played it) EA is doing ONE good thing.
They're releasing a 10-year anniversary pack thingy of EVERY C&C game and expansion ever released (except for C&C 64, of course, which was an abortion of a port).
Musashi Wins!
FLAWLESS VICTOLY!
Victrix said:
yea, I hope you knew that was implied. I laughed aloud by myslef it was such a bad cut off.
Jive Turkey
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I saw and I'm buying. EA releasing anthologies of games made by companies they absorbed is fantastic: See Halflife Anthology.conker said:
what happened in strangers wrath?
Half way through the game you get captured, they hang you up, strip all your gear off and when they pull off your boots it turns out you are one of the four legged creatures everyone (including you!) are hunting! you spend the rest of the game running around on four legs!
Having both Shadow and Spirit die in Wing Commander 2 were WTF moments. I was thinking, why are they killing off the chicks? Why not kill that asshole Jazz? Heh, little did I know...
And fighting Spider-Man (or his lookalike anyway) in Revenge of Shinobi was pretty damn cool, heh.
But for me, no reveal comes close to this one...
I knew Lan Di appeared briefly in the game, and I probably even knew how and when he'd appear, but seeing it happen after experiencing 40 floors of tension and intensity with that gorgeous looking sunset made for the single most memorable gaming scene I've ever come across. The music that played after defeating Don Niu, with Ryo and Lan Di glaring at each other before the chopper pulls away made that entire moment complete. Just an extremely well done scene.
And fighting Spider-Man (or his lookalike anyway) in Revenge of Shinobi was pretty damn cool, heh.
But for me, no reveal comes close to this one...
I knew Lan Di appeared briefly in the game, and I probably even knew how and when he'd appear, but seeing it happen after experiencing 40 floors of tension and intensity with that gorgeous looking sunset made for the single most memorable gaming scene I've ever come across. The music that played after defeating Don Niu, with Ryo and Lan Di glaring at each other before the chopper pulls away made that entire moment complete. Just an extremely well done scene.
Jiggy37 said:FFVIII and the orphanage scene, if only because it further drove home just how stupid that game truly was.Worst plot twist ever, at least until Star Ocean 3 later on.
I bought SO3 some months after released, played about ~15 hours, and stopped dead
So then my friend, who was a big SO2 fan, wanted to borrow it from me
He made it about ~20 hours in, and stopped dead
Everything I hear about it indicates we merely dodged a bullet, rather than missed something special
Game was so much less fun than SO2, and the music, blech. It even lacked the epic horrible voice acting of SO2, stuff so bad, it was good (that's about 50 points). SO3 was just bad in a 'that's not good, boooooooooring' sort of way, and I've heard we missed out on the truly wretched VA later in the game
Yuck.
Reveals:
1. KotOR
2. Arbiter
3. NG and NG2 - Masked Devil and Jaquio respectively
5. Breakdown - Solus, the "twist"
6. WC3 (not Warcraft) - animatronic Kilrathi!??! Mark Hamil?!??!
Anti-Reveals:
1. Raiden - Snake's removal
2. Ultima V - LB's removal
3. WC3 - Angel bites it in the first 5 minutes??!?!
1. KotOR
2. Arbiter
3. NG and NG2 - Masked Devil and Jaquio respectively
5. Breakdown - Solus, the "twist"
6. WC3 (not Warcraft) - animatronic Kilrathi!??! Mark Hamil?!??!
Anti-Reveals:
1. Raiden - Snake's removal
2. Ultima V - LB's removal
3. WC3 - Angel bites it in the first 5 minutes??!?!
AgentOtaku
Member
Link1110 said:
QFT!!!!
some defining moments in my gaming history actually
