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Times your mind was actually blown by a video game

So many great gaming moments here is 4

1. SNES, Super Mario World. Holy Crap there is Star Road after beating Bowser !?

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Wait and SPECIAL WORLD? this game never ends!
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2. Aim Down Sight in COD, Im sure other games did it first, this was my first experience
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3.Doom with system link between 2 PS1's
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4. Red Dead Redemption: First time in Mexico, ending
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Ending of The last of Us. I know a lot of people kinda excepted something like that too happen, but it blew my mind that Joel actually did that.
 
Super Mario 64 .....DS !

I was blown away because of the 3D graphics on a handheld.


Pokemon Snap/ Stadium on the N64.

If you were only used to tha anime and GameBoy games, seeing your Pokemon in photorealistic-N64-graphics™ was fantastic.


...and just recently (as in launch of the 3DS and Vita): Our GameBoys have come a long way since Tetris and Super Mario Land.
 
Diablo : ahhhhhh, Fresh Meat!

Chrono trigger: the hole game, triple techs... Etc.

Metal gear solid 2: the demo that came with ZOE. The facial animation, 60fps + badass graphics.
 
Vire said:
Another one: The Phantom Hourglass "Close the DS" Puzzle.

I must have been stuck on this puzzle for an hour, how simple, but incredibly ingenious - using the hardware itself to press the crest onto the sea chart! Why didn't I think of that?
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Someone hasn´t played Another Code .

A similar puzzle was in it, before Phantom Hourglass was released. I was stuck as well
 
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Sovereign: Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.


Still makes me chill....
 
Mario 64 was definitely one of the big ones. Just to be able to explore in a Mario game in 3D was astonishing.

Uncharted 2 had quite a few moments like that but specifically the way it started, in a way I've never seen in a game before, and the quiet exploring of the ice caves with a man who doesn't understand you and who you can't understand at all. It was beautiful and serene and kind of inspiring.

Tearaway. Most of the game just blew my mind with its inventiveness and beauty. So many little moments that made me think "wow".

There are many others, but these are a few that I'm thinking of right now.
 
Many moments, more than I can remember... But I'll do one:
Landing on Tallon IV in Metroid Prime.
I remember reading something which someone wrote about it a while ago, it was something along the lines of "I was skeptical when playing through the intro of the game, and thought Nintendo had made a linear shooter and just decided to call it "Metroid", but then when I landed on Tallon IV, got out of the ship and saw blue doors in various directions I could just think 'Holy shit, they actually made a 3D Metroid.'"

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Also, I'm still blown away by how good F-Zero GX looks.
 
The feeling of familiarity the first time seeing Fallout 3 and Conduit Subway. Living in DC, this must be how New Yorker feels in half the video games. Absolutely surprised that we don't see more of the city replicated in games.
 
Uncharted 2's train scene, where you enter the tunnel and arrive at the snow covered top of the mountain blew my mind. It was seamless and surprising.

Next is Last Of Us, Ellie blubbering her lips. Holy shit that just floored me.
 
Every Ace Attorney game, all the time. Those games keep surprising me, but that's because of the plot and not the graphics like in OP's case. I can't recall the last time I was blown away by the graphics, but I remember Rayman Origins making me say wow. In an age where almost everyone strives for realism, it was really nice to see something like that. Such a crisp and colorful world.
 
Most recent one was when I first played Planetside 2 with the old drop pod into a shitfight. Never seen that much FPS action.

I'd say the first was Mario64, coming from the SNES that was quite spectacular.
 
Playing through Dark Souls right now for the first time. Spent the first 8 or so hours beating my head against the wall, but now it's blowing my mind every time I come to a new section/boss. (BTY, just beat a boss named Sif alone, and it was damned satisfying to not have to rely on other humans for a change...I'm sure he's probably one of the easier bosses to solo, but it felt like I beat every game ever made all at once).
 
1. Metal Gear Rising Revengeance (The whole damn game)
2. Mario 64 (seeing full 3D for the first time)
3. Spec Ops: The Line (dat plot)
4. Modern Warfare 2 (US segments)

Just the ones off the top of my head.
 
- First time I accidentally found warp pipes in Super Mario Bros.
- Beating Zelda and discovering the second quest.
- Playing Star Tropics, and getting to the part where you have to run water on a letter that came with the game to reveal a hidden code. That was just awesome.
- Getting to play the SNES over a year before it was released here (got to play Super Mario World, Pilotwings and Zelda LttP). The thing that impressed me most was the music in Hyrule Castle. It was like nothing I had ever heard before in a game.
- The Mode7-effects in Super Probotector and Super Castlevania IV. Just fancy effects, but it was so cool back then.
- Star Fox and Stunt Race FX on the SNES. I was so fascinated that things were actually in 3D, and I could view different sides of them by altering the viewpoint, just like in real life!
- Final Fantasy VI... when the world ends and you get a whole new world to explore!
- Super Mario 64 and Zelda Ocarina of Time. So big and free and wow.
- Flying around in Pilotwings 64. It felt so real.
- F-Zero GX. The sense of speed was (and is) awesome. I often got a dry mouth because I was playing it with my mouth open...
- Metroid Prime. The detail and immersion blew my mind over and over again. It was like playing a game from the far future.
- Xenoblade's setting, and the sheer size of the environments.
- Zelda - A Link Between Worlds: hearing the remix of the Dark World theme! Yes, I can be very easily pleased :-)
 
Demon's Souls

I put down my Blue Soul Sign in world 3-2 to help someone beat Maneater and when I was summoned it was the Old Monk who turned me into the boss of 3-3 for some poor bastard. I waited at the side of the door and shot him in the back with a fireball while he was looking up at the Old Monk. Scared the shit out of him and then I proceded to chase him around the room for a few minutes until I put him out of his misery.

My face is now permanently :O
 
Jeb said:
Recently,me and some pals got together and decided to try to play a game none of us has played before.

We picked Godhand.


Jaws hit the floor.
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Haha, oh man. I wish I had played it when it was new. It didn't blow my mind but it was hella fresh and I had lots of fun with it. And the music is the shit man. I've modded GH songs into Street Fighter and Project M and they fit super well (the first ten seconds of Broncobuster are the victory themes of my mains :p)
 
Streets of Rage 2 - the difference between two and one was insane.

Virtua Fighter 2 Saturn - considering the other games on the system at that point.

Tomb Raider on the PS1 - I was halfway through the game on the Saturn when I saw it. I bought a PS the next day.

Soul Calibur DC - nuff said.

GTA3 on PS2- being chased by cops jumping over a bridge, opera music blasting, the game automatically goes into slow motion.

Halo - introduction of the flood.

Dead Rising X 360 - the first true zombie apocalypse game.

Dragons Dogma - fighting the chimera.
 
Grabbing the first big boss by the neck in Bayonetta and freaking suplexing it to the ground.

Goddamn, that game.
 
I have several:

My first ever video game - Super Mario World. Booting that up, learning that I could take alternate paths to get to certain levels and trying to break the game (via using Caped Mario to fly over levels) shaped my mindset towards both metagaming and video games in general.

System Shock 2 -
"The Polito form is dead, insect."
Still one of the best twists to a horror game in history, and one that's still unmatched because of its simplicity and shock value.

Mass Effect 2 - The fact that you could go into the final mission and potentially lose almost all of your squadmates, including some who were with you through the entirety of both games, is still an incredible technical feat. Granted, it probably screwed up a lot of things in ME3 (the priorities were totally lopsided when it came to supporting squadmates), but 2 is definitely the high point as far as everything building up to one great mission.

There's more - I'll write them up in another post down the line.
 
Mass Effect, choosing between Ashley and Kaiden.
The boss theme from that giant red chomping plant in Yoshio's Island wow was that epic.
 
KotOR's plot twist blew my mind, especially when it flashbacks to all the hints it gives you.
 
Suikoden
Holy shit, this Dungeon I beat is my HQ where I have 108 characters

Mario 64
Holy shit, open 3D gameplay, and that underwater stage with the calm music

Resident Evil
Fuuck, that Zombie chwing on the corpse gotta run away

Final Fantasy VII
the CG intro and those Summons

Street Fighter II
whoa, did you see that Hadoken I just did but ndon't no how I did it
 
Quite a few come to mind.

-My first time playing the PS2. The graphical jump from PSone was amazing.
-My first time seeing Dead Rising (the game that made me buy a Xbox 360)
-The whole Mass Effect series
-The ending to Metal Gear Solid 3
-Riding into mexico in Red Dead Redemption
 
At the end of bioshock infinite,
You finally take down the zeppelins, and then.....you're in RAPTURE! And then the thing with all the lighthouses as you walk across the bridges and see all the multiple Bookers, like multiple other people playing the game, man that shit was cool.
 
I think every iconic moment from a video game has been posted in this thread. Oh wait has someone mentionned the Gandalf/Ridley battle in the beginning of Metroid Prime 3 : corruption?
 
FFVII - Losing a character in a permanent way- shook me up.

Uncharted 2 - Utterly mesmerized by the realism and sense of detail being achieved; I had so many "I can't believe this is happening on my screen" moments.

WoW - Walking around so many iconic locations as 'me', a brand new character that created. Walking into Stormwind for the first time, getting a mount for the first time, taking to the skies for the first time, experiencing the world expanding for the first time with the Burning crusade, being in a 40man raid for the first time....too many to list.
 
The first time i was truly mindblown was when one of my party members in baldur's gate 2 started talking out of the blue.
At that time npcs were usually just characters you equip, but in BG2 they had personalities and developed love/hate relationships between you or other party members which made them very real to me!

Nowadays i can't wait to try out the rift, i truly believe games on it will be a mindblowing experience :)!
 
DK64: My earliest memory of the 1st 3D game that I had experienced.

Sonic Adventure: Playing Emerald Coast for the first time was amazing. The sense of speed was awesome at the time.

Marvel vs. Capcom 2: The fact that the game looked like something out of DBZ was pretty mind blowing imo.
 
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