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[Ichabod]

Have you ever been playing a game and suddenly realize you've become Neo, turning into some unstoppable force of nature that inexplicably face-rolls anything that gets in your way?

I remember back in the Halo 1-2 LAN days, my cousins and some friends of ours would regularly get together on weekends to frag it up til the wee hours of the morning. Because the skill gap between us was pretty equal, matches were fun and intense, with games usually coming down to the wire. One time in particular, though, I remember a match I played on Ivory Tower (Halo 2) where I went into berserker-mode and began to uncharacteristically eviscerate the other team. It didn't matter what gun I picked up, I couldn't miss--if I spotted them, they died. The entire match I guessed with 100% accuracy when and where they would be trying to make pushes from and was able to stop them cold each and every time. Not once did they ever overwhelm us and take the high ground.

The pinnacle of that particular match was lobbing a sticky grenade right around the corner of a doorway I just had a feeling someone was going to be trying to flank from. Lo and behold, my cousin traipses through the doorway just in time to get two-shotted from a grenade explosion/BR headshot combo. I was grinning from ear to ear when I heard him throw his controller and shout from the next room, "WHAT ARE YOU SOME GODDAMNED REINCARNATED CIVIL WAR GENERAL?!!"

Dat feel when

 

[SwiftDeath]

Yeah Halos a good one

I had one match in Halo 3 where I got like the 30 kills with no deaths or maybe it was 40 I dunno

Other team was pretty damn bad though lol

 

[Tagyhag]

Those super rare CS matches where you single-handedly kill the enemy team. Best feeling.

 

[Goddard]

1% comebacks in Street Fighter, there is nothing even remotely comparable to me. Same goes for double perfects.

 

[plainr_]

20 kills and no deaths in Socom 2 before. The very next game I went 25-1. Both times, the opposing team never won a round.

I was accused as a cheater. Best compliment ever.

 

[McDougles]

Those super rare CS matches where you single-handedly kill the enemy team. Best feeling.

I AMMMMMMM THE ONE AND OHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNLYYYYYYYYYYYY

 

[Shun]

When you parry all those hits in Street Fighter III: Third Strike and punish them with a game-winning combo.

Punishing and landing any combo in any fighting game.

Getting those stylish combos in any Kamiya Action Game.

When you fuck someone up in Mario Kart.

 

[nabe_shogun]

Those super rare CS matches where you single-handedly kill the enemy team. Best feeling.

I know the feeling. It doesn't happen often, but when it does its amazing. Especially when you're really low on ammo the entire time picking up whatever gun you find laying around.

 

[LiK]

Counter-Strike 1.6. Those times when my entire team was killed and I was the lone survivor. Managed to kill the entire enemy team and win the game. The kudos from my teammates is always satisfying.

 

[Wurdfurd]

Those moments in Halo 2 and 3 were intense. Such a rush.

Also, in COD where you are playing S&D and are the only player left and you get a ninja defuse or completely wipe the other team just to get into the mid-round scoreboard to hear all the dead players losing their shit (either happy with you or other team mad at each other)

 

[Sails]

Yeah, just a bit ago in Titanfall. Attrition scores of over 70 are fantastic...but 123? Damn.

 

[Retro]

I've had a few moments like that in Halo. Here's one that I not only saved, but made the cut for a GAF Montage: http://youtu.be/V27NUP-pdZU?t=2m28s

That whole fucking thing is great, too bad about Halo 4 though.

Slipping into "Zen Mode" is always a great feeling, when you sort of 'feel' what the game is doing. I've had that in everything from Mario to Guild Wars 2. It doesn't necessarily have to be "beast"-like, as I've been playing something like Terraria and just sort of dig without really thinking (that's usually dangerous, as it ends up being 4am when you snap out of it).

 

[ShinMaruku]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ-BTTrpbSo
This is just one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbvK-q6gH_Y
Another.

 

[potam]

Counter-Strike 1.6. Those times when my entire team was killed and I was the lone survivor. Managed to kill the entire enemy team and win the game. The kudos from my teammates is always satisfying.

Or halfway through the map realize you're like 32-0. I loved those rare games where everything was somehow muscle memory and I was unstoppable. Then the next match I'd go like 1:1

 

[Jack Scofield]

The time in MW2 when I went 52-3 in a Mercenary TDM match.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Battletoads obstacle course levels.

A higher plane of existence is required

 

[LookAtMeGo]

My most recent beast mode was in Killzone SF on The Wall level. 43 kills and 9 deaths. A lot of people cussing me out after that round.

 

[WheelHoss1]

Placing my summons sign down in the Duke's Archive for Crystal Cave runs. Tanking with my +5 head-to-toe Giants Armor, +5 BK Shield, and +5 BK Halberd, running ahead and taking out everything including Seath with almost no assistance from the host, getting amazing thank you messages.

Beating Metroid as a kid with my best friend watching without going back to the metroids to fill up my health (once you reach Mother Brain).

 

[Fornaximus]

I crushed 3 friends in a 3-vs-1 in Goldeneye 64 with the final score being 104 to 7. They were all allowed to be Oddjob and I was Jaws, too. It was just sad. Easily my most lopsided beast mode domination. I think we stuck to Mario Kart after that.

 

[LegendofDragoonLives]

Call of Duty 1 and 2 cal-o and cal-m matches here and there in search & destroy (back when I considered COD great). I remember once I went 27-0 in a 5v5 clan match where the opposing team where the entire team would rant (type) how I was hacking and then the girl in my team killed me because she heard a sound from the other side of the map. I got a few more kills and it was the only death of the match. I think that was definitely my most dominant match as even though our team was noticeably better than theirs, everything I touched turned to kills.

I was not happy.

 

[Atomsky]

The first time when I unlocked Saiga 12K in BF4, I killed 16 guys with all my ammo, picked up some guy's M416 and killed 8 more. It was like a trance.

Some times I play as an engineer, cripple someone's tank, kill the guy who gets out, repair the tank and go on popping open other tanks.

These are the good times in BF4

 

[Wolf Akela]

During my peak in TF2, I could walk into any random server and secure at least top 3 if not MVP. If I pocket a friend, then it's just massacre.

Can't aim to save my life nowadays so I just go offensigineering and kill people with the most random and constantly changing mini-sentry placements. Got kicked once for it (lol).

 

[Metalingus5150]

Well, this one time in Dark Souls, I kept getting invaded by the same person over and over again. This person beat me once, but I used that to my advantage to learn their playing style. So every time we fought after that I defeated her. No matter what things she changed like weapons or armor or strategies. Turns out she is a youtuber who likes to put "people in their place", invade "noobs", and generally just trolls newer players.

 

[Gherid__lacksGPS]

When I used to play Tekken "competitively." During t4 days I had a pretty decent Lee. I was playing a very solid player, I was literally all muscle memory and reaction's with ss+2 124:4, 1,3:3:3 was like 90%, all my low parry's were solid as fuck,I wasn't even thinking, just reacting, almost felt like I wasn't looking at the game, just feeling it with movement, spacing, baiting and punishing. It was fucking surreal how good it felt. The dude was like "GD" and gave me props, which was cool because I really respected him as a player.

 

[pretty done]

Yeah, just a bit ago in Titanfall. Attrition scores of over 70 are fantastic...but 123? Damn.

45 AI kills.... beast mode!

 

[Napalm_Frank]

There are some days in HoN/DotA2 that I absolutely cannot miss a single hook as Devo/Pudge and destroy the entire enemy team early game almost by myself.

Then there are times when the team curses me to the lowest pits of hell.

 

[Culebra 64]

Tetris DS.

I'm pretty good at it, and to prove a point to my roomies at the time, I set it to unlimited mode and played for over an hour straight.

Never even came close to losing. Only stopped due to boredom.




Super Mario Bros

Grew up with the game, still play it at least once a year, beginning to end without shortcuts. Some kind of ninja spirit takes over sometimes, and the run goes prefect. NOTHING feels more badass than rocketing through that game with perfection.

 

[Zetta]

First Gears of War game in gridlock. I remember going in as usual and my whole time just dying right away, I then go and end up killing them all by tagging one with a bomb, roll/shutgun two of them and lancer on the last one. That match felt great. Also, those Smash Brother Melee matches where you're just untouchable and nothing goes wrong item wise and dodging.

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

I used to play MW2 with a clan on the 360. Often times my clanmates kept up with me pretty well, but I usually led us with most kills and flag captures. Anyway, one time we were facing off against another clan match after match. We were split 2-2 and we decided to stick around for one more match. Afghan comes up, and that was basically MY map back then. Anyway, we are playing TDM and we are down about 70-55. I ended up yelling at my clan mates to basically hide in the bushes / remote areas of the map. I ended up switching to my "try hard" class which was my trusty Tar-21 silenced. I literally got into this zone where my reflexes were on a whole new level. Something I had never experienced to that extent before. It literally felt as if I had popped a pill like in "Limitless." Anyway, I ended up bringing us all the way back to 74-72 and ended the match with a triple kill off of one predator missile. It was insane! The shit talking was endless, haha. Man... Good times. I miss those days.

 

[Raonak]

Metal Gear Online
When you have that perfect TSNE game where you're the last guy on your team left and you use all the tools in your arsenal to systematically eliminate the enemy team.

 

[Korosenai]

I had a lot of moments like that in Halo 3.

 

[Pinkerton]

When I was a kid I went beast mode all of the time, mostly because I was doing things incorrectly and had to solve them BY FORCE. Also because I had a lot of time.

And if I had to choose an online game, I would have to go with CS. Playing with my friends with terrible cheap netbooks, all of them against me and killing them non stop somehow.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

SFII arcade with a full day of undefeated free gaming wins, challengers paid to play back then and I had them lining up with rows of coins on the screen. Literally all my friends went home while I stayed and played until the place shut.

You never walk away when you're on the heater.

I've had that feeling a good number of times in any Halo online game too, CTF or assault especially. The amount of times I've had the game winning bomb arm or defense is ridiculous and too many to count.

 

[Harpuea]

In Chivalry Medieval Warfare at launch, I was unstoppable. unhittable, untouchable, undefeatable for 1000 duels. It is because I played the predecessor, Age of Chivalry.

 

[Fou-Lu]

My greatest match of Dota involved getting something like 41 kills and 3 deaths, single handedly winning a nearly two hour long match for my team. I think that qualifies.

 

[ninjarr]

I know the feeling. It doesn't happen often, but when it does its amazing. Especially when you're really low on ammo the entire time picking up whatever gun you find laying around.

Yep. This is it for me. I can't do it anymore but when I was younger (12?) I have distinct memories of beast-moding to 37-0 with a five-seven or p250.

 

[feel]

I think this fits
csgo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ4U76DqBdY

 

[Tablo]

Yeah, feels fucking good man.
I need to step my game up and get back into some competitive spirit soon, I want that feel once more.
Halo 3, Cod 4/cod waw/mw2
Also Halo Wars. Battlefield Bad company 1/2. Bf3, bf 4 I have had limited godly runs, need to step my game up some.
I've been pretty clutch at Mario kart double dash, and planetside 2. If you play enough it happens, and it feels great.

 

[Surface of Me]

My Gears 1 days had plenty of these moments, I was a bit of a force in that game. Bad Company 2 at times as well.

I do remember one instance of Mortal Kombat 9 in High School. Me and two of my friends had the game for a few months and were all just about even skill wise with our respective best characters. One other friend was hanging out with us and had never played the game. We played a tag match and I got stuck with the new guy. I ended up winning almost entirely on my own. I must've channeled the spirit of the real Skorpion, because I was barely taking any damage and stringing combos that I barely could manage on their own before in that match. My other two friends were flabbergasted as I silently teared their assholes asunder.

 

[xxracerxx]

45 AI kills.... beast mode!

Ha....that's harsh.

 

[neurosisxeno]

Those super rare CS matches where you single-handedly kill the enemy team. Best feeling.

Back in the day I played CS competitively with some friends and we had made our way up to CEVO-Main (basically above average), and I was so pumped. I played tons of Pugs and deathmatch to work on my aim and basically did everything I could to improve. The first match we played was on the map de_tuscan (the CEVO take on de_cpl_mill). Well, as enthusastic and pumped for the higher tier play as I was, my team mates were not. They didn't bother doing anything but the 2 warm up scrims we did before our match.

I remember the first round of the match starting and my friends just getting destroyed... but I.... I was a god amongst men. I don't know if it was the amount I worked towards it, or just frustration, but I manhandled the other team. First round -- kill someone who pushes down mid with a deagle and headshot the 2 people playing up mid, and from that point on I was average like 2 kills a round. I remember finishing the first half with nearly 30 frags (think I finished the half 28-9), the next closest person on my team having something like 9. My friends could not get a kill anywhere and died pushing, but I just dismantled the enemies. Unfortunately it wasn't enough to win and I stumbled during the second half leading to a disappointing 16-9 loss, but in doing so I had clutched like 3 rounds on T-side in 2 and 3v1's, and put up the second most kills out of anyone in the game.

The only other story I can remember was the first time I went to a serious LAN event. It was at Holodek in Kittery Maine some years ago. I had gotten with 4 random guys through ESEA to go to this tournament Holodek were hosting, and we had done a bunch of ESEA Scrims online and were working well together. Well, as anyone will tell you, LAN and Online are sometimes like night and day. When I got to the place I found the guys I was meeting and we sat down and watched some of the matches. There were 8 teams divided into 2 groups. Group 1 was the local Holodek team, and 3 random teams of local players and one of some kids from I think NH. There there was Group 2, which had us, one of the best teams on the East Coast, a pug of all Premier/Invite level players, and a new team with some of the best online people from ESEA. We were outmatched pretty god damn hard. The irony is that we had played the Holodek team online 3 times in preparing for the tournament, we had never lost more than 6 rounds to them.

Anyway, we were matched against the Pug first, on CT side of de_nuke. Now, Nuke is a CT-sided map, so this should have been a good sign for us. Nope, we got housed, but not before I went super saiyan in the first round. I was playing Ramp solo, and we had 2 people rafters, 1 on floor, and 1 outside. All 4 of them died without a single kill when 4 people rushed inside, I picked one off ramp and rotated inside. I somehow had a moment of clarity and shot up the ladder into rafters, picked 2 off then went for front door as they planted the bomb. I rounded the corner and managed to 1 shot someone in hut until it was down to a 1v1. He was hiding near squeeky and the bomb had like 15 seconds left, I faked a defuse and landed the hail mary of reaction shots to 1 bullet him and complete an ace... but I didn't have a kit. I missed the defuse by about half a second. We ended up losing 16-4, but that round was my time to shine.

 

[B_Spooky13]

Had that a few times in BF3 and BF4... 30's to single digit K/D... Even I was questioning myself on how I even pulled that off

 

[oneida]

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Dropping Moabs in MW3 and going ham in shotty snipers in Halo 3.

 

[RedAssedApe]

45 AI kills.... beast mode!

lol i didnt want to say it since i don't know how the game calculates "attrition pts"

 

[Sword Of Doom]

Yeah, just a bit ago in Titanfall. Attrition scores of over 70 are fantastic...but 123? Damn.

Are the matches still short like they were in the beta? If so how do you kill so many pilots in that short a time. That's impressive

Edit: pilots AND titans in such a short time

 

[SeanTSC]

Have you ever been playing a game and suddenly realize you've become Neo, turning into some unstoppable force of nature that inexplicably face-rolls anythings that gets in your way?

Dat feel when

When I streamed AC4 on my PS4 for the first time and was just mowing down towns, collecting every collectible in an extremely efficient manner, and just flawlessly killing anyone in my way. It was just smooth as butter, totally in the zone. Friends were pretty floored at how much of a machine I was.

Sadly, Twitch doesn't archive PS4 streams.

 

[Dark Octave]

Halo 2. My buddy and me just started running down the stage a straight line non-stop taking out everyone in front of us. The magic was that when one of us was in the red we would duck behind the other and use him as cover until the shields came back on and alternated like that from one end of the map to the other. It wasn't planned and nobody could stop us.

 

[RyudBoy]

I used to grief certain players in Lineage 2 (MMO game) over and over until they'd eventually log off out of frustration. It'd be a group of 9 people killing monsters and I'd just roll in all by myself and ruin their party. Suffice to say, I was really hated by some people. Some dude even made a MySpace page that claimed if he ever met me in person he'd kick my ass lol. No one pointed it out to me, I just stumbled upon it one day.

Ahh, those were the days.

 

[Benzychenz]

Capture the flag BGs in WoW where some healer decides to be your friend and you steamroll the other team 3-0.

Man the miss the good ol' WoW days