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[Patryn]

Mass Effect 1 - Basically everything from reaching Ilos on. Especially that final crazy chaotic drive into the Conduit and the cutscene that shows your arrival.

Deadly Premonition - All of Chapter 25 except the giant staircase.

Tales of Vesperia - Yuri's encounter with Ragou on the bridge.

Baldur's Gate 2 - After getting the Cloak of Mirroring, just sending my main character alone into a Beholder's nest and slaughtering everything that moves while I laugh. I've never felt so powerful in a BG game before.

 

[Yama]

Just about everything in Biohazard Rebirth. It looked genereations beyond the norm at the time. It still stands up and surpasses a lot of games this generation.

Edit: Silent Hill 3. It's just beyond beautiful.

 

[FunBoy]

Half Life: Pretty much all of it But especially the beginning and Tentacle monster.

TFC: Doing my 1st hand held concusion grenade jump. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

 

[a.wd]

Jet Set radio....probably from when the music starts...

 

[ganbareneopokekun]

kirbys dreamland on my old dot matrix hero.. srlsy as a kid i nearly cried at the end of the game after beating king dedede

 

[The_lascar]

 

[WJD]

Getting in a car while being chased by the cops in GTA IV... Then One Vision came on the radio.

Fuck yeah.

 

[kai3345]

The twist in KOTOR for sure

Mass Effect 1-Having to shoot my favorite character in the face with a shotgun (didn't realize at the time that you could save him)

Dragon Age -

Spoiler

The Logain fight and the events after it. Recriuting the main villain into my party, Alistair leaving and turning into a drunk, it was awesome. And shit only got more epic from there.

Demons Souls- Finally realizing that World 1-1 was, in fact, beatable. (And without a guide too)

Left 4 Dead 2 - Beating a campaign on Expert Realism

 

[BobsRevenge]

Shadow of the Colossus was full of them.

Hell in Doom 3 blew my mind at the time.

When the machine gun, gas-mask dude showed up in MoH: Airborne. :lol I don't know how that shit fit into the game, but I loved it. So over-the-top.

Of course, getting the upgraded phys gun in HL2.

Just being creative in Crysis gives me this feeling. You can pull off some crazy-awesome shit.

 

[Wazzim]

Killing a Kut-Ku for the very first time in Monster Hunter. After a tense 30 minutes of fighting, down to your last healing potion, it finally goes down. You're swamped with a rush of relief and the adrenaline that's running through your body just makes you want to jump up and down.

You feel like a WINNER.

.

 

[Sirius]

The last frame.. :lol :lol :lol

 

[rvy]

Yeah.

 

[Diseased Yak]

- Beating Ultima IV on my Commodore 128.

- Seeing Shadow of the Beast for the first time on my Amiga 2000

- Watching my best friend beat Ninja Gaiden on the NES for the first time, at 2am on a school night.

- The opening of Bioshock

- The building collapse in Uncharted 2

- The ending sequence/stage in Mass Effect 1

- The bridge scene near the start of MGS3. My skin nearly crawled off my body.

- Seeing the final achievement pop up when I got 1000/1000 in The Last Remnant.

 

[i hate bees]

Halo 3: Playing co-op with a friend, the mission with two scarabs fighting a fairly intense battle and soaking up quite a lot of fire, he reckons he can scuttle the scarab so I fly over it, he jumps out, I provide cover from the brutes on the deck while he knocks out the power source, I fly in to collect him from the rear and we fly out of the explosion radius just as it goes critical. Memorable.

Halo 3: ODST: Doing the Firefight challenge, 2 hours 43 minutes of unrelenting concentration and finishing it with a single person left alive, tense.

Dawn of War 2: The final mission

Spoiler

on primarch difficulty, the Armageddon is destroyed and your remaining squads escape in drop pods to the surface, Cyrus gives a speech about standing with his brothers to the last and I assumed that was it but wouldn't give up without a fight. The battle got desperate and just as I was about to conceed Gabriel and the Litney of Fury show up and hundreds of Blood Ravens drop in.

Crysis Warhead: The final mission was fantastically put together and you got a real sense of something going horrible wrong, the music, lighting and atmosphere of the level was awesome.

 

[Barberetti]

First multiplayer match of Quake. So much fun!

This. The same goes for my first Doom 2 deathmatch. I didn't know about Doom at the time, and was introduced to Doom 2 first. It was new years eve 1994 and I ended up at my cousins place. He shared with a friend, and they had their PCs linked via serial cable. I was already blown away by the single player game after just the first few levels, then my cousin hits me with it:

Cousin: "Fancy trying a deathmatch?"

Me: "What's that?"

Cousin: "Dave will connect with his PC, and you fight each other"

Me: "WHAT!? YOU CAN DO THAT!?"

Needless to say, what happened next was a complete mind blower for me, and was what kickstarted my PC gaming hobby. I've had plenty of other holy shit moments since, but that was by far the biggest.

 

[xRosvall]

The first time I played Halo 2 online.

 

[jett]

couple of seconds after that.

Spoiler

jump, grab, HOLY FFFFFFFFFUUUU-

I was gonna post some other stuff, but this is it.

 

[Akuun]

Rogue Squadron for Gamecube: Clipping a TIE's wing off and watching it fly out of control across the screen, trailing flames all the way at a fully smooth framerate. I had never seen anything look that good in a game.

Freespace 2: Having a dogfight while in between two warring capital ships that were raking each other with huge beams that were bigger than your fighter.

Zelda OoT: Title screen.

CoD4: AC-130 mission. Also All Ghillied Up.

Mario Galaxy 1 and 2: Both games have such a moment in the first level, and then they just keep throwing more and more of them at you until you have to be peeled off the floor.

Crysis Warhead: Train level.

Cave Story:

Spoiler

Hell.

 

[Hixx]

'The' building scene in U2 and the truck-hopping sequence. I'd just completed Wet before I played Uncharted 2 which also featured car-hopping scenes but in a QTE style. Needless to say Naughty Dog showed how it should be done!

More recently, sunrise in Red Dead Redemption. The sunshafts coming down when you're looking over the desert is fucking stunning.

 

[GCX]

Phoenix Wright: Trials & Tribulations. The last case.

What a perfect way to end a trilogy. My jaw was on the floor.

 

[Mithos]

I was gonna post some other stuff, but this is it.

Just think.. that next year you might be doing it again in "revamped" graphics on the PS3 ^^

 

[KongRudi]

Resistance - Fall of Man - When

Spoiler

millions of creatures come crawling towards you from the roof, walls, and everywhere in the church

..

Not awesome - but definately the most emotional moment.
Heavenly Sword - When

Spoiler

General Flying Fox catches up to Kai..
I've never been so angry at a videogame ever..
- Hanging my new favourite videgame-characther ever, and that infuriating evil laughter while doing it. I litterally screamed swearwords atleast for a minute to the TV, and it didn't help that I struggled for over 6 (!!) hours afterward to kill that bastard. Only pausing to check that it actually were a T-rated game. I never been as happy as when he finally died either..

Probably my most awesome death:

Demon's Soul - Beeing a black phantom for the first time.

Spoiler

I were showing the game too a friend, and were saying: - I havn't tried this yet, but I bet he (person beeing invaded) is scared shitless now.. I think he's probably seeing 'KongRudi invades your realm, on the screen or something like that... - hmmm, connected.. Let's see, just gonna find my soul arrow..
Where my friend yells 'watch out' and I look up and see a craszy looking dude with a giant flaming sword comes storming towards me - I turned around, attempting to flee in panic, while yelling to the TV, 'Nooo, I'm not ready yet!!'..
Two chops later, I see the all to familar 'You died!-screen' while my friend were giggling while saying drily 'He didn't look very scared'..

That game is full of awesome

Spoiler

the tutorial, recognising the big doors I just opened in 1-1, the dragon on the bridge, tower knight, basically the entire game is awesome - as far as you get.

..

Uncharted 2 -

Spoiler

Yeah, it's pretty much awesome the entire time aswell, my favourite moment is running and fighting inside the collapsing building..

MGS4 -

Spoiler

driving around in the giant derelict robot, wich we just fixed. I think had been a end-boss in the earlier games, from what I understood of the story. If he were as awesome as I felt, back then. I could probably never have beaten it.

 

[Philia]

Flower on PSN, just the first 20 minutes!

Super Mario 64, being shot out of the cannon and flying in that first level. God, I do that shit over and over again if I have to.

FFIV, just the intro!

 

[Solo]

The two most recent games Ive played, Alan Wake and Red Dead Redemption, are both chock full of greatness.

But I'll also throw in the minecart setpiece from RE4, and ME1's endgame/citadel siege.

 

[Urban Scholar]

The World Ends With You:

Spoiler

Latter half of week 2 when Joshua reveals his Jesus powers. The character goes from dealing subpar damage below you to dealing 3-5x as much?

 

[ChillWinston]

- When the building collapsed with you inside in Uncharted 2.
- Leaving the sewers for the first time and seeing the open world in Oblivion.
- Turning

Spoiler

to dark side in

near the end of KotOR and

Spoiler

murdering

almost half your party in the process.
- Entering the bridge of the original Normandy at the beginning on Mass Effect 2.
- The first 30 seconds of Gears of War, realising that holy fuck, this game really does look that good.
- When the

Spoiler

nuke goes off

in CoD4.
- Pushing the button in Fallout 3 and watching

Spoiler

Megaton vanish underneath a mushroom cloud.

A personal one, finally getting that fucking Overkill achievement in Halo 3. When the medal popped up and I heard the announcer say it, it was amazing.

 

[malingenie]

Had many over the years, but the last one was the 'intro' to God of War 3.

Was really drunk and havent been feeling like playing action games for a while, but decided to load it anyway (First time playing it).

One hour later, my mouth was agape and suffering from sensory overload.

Made me love gaming again!

 

[Clockblockers]

Donkey Kong Country - Snow Barrel Blast. Watching the snow start in the background and slowly moving closer until it engulfs the entire screen.

Mass Effect 1 - The last hour.

Chrono Trigger - Trying to decide if I should fight Magus or let him join me.

Plus too many to remember/list

EDIT: found the DKC level name

 

[Big Chungus]

The train part in Uncharted 2.

Even my parents had to sit down and watch me play.

 

[Glix]

Mario 64. I remember playing on the kiosk at Toys R Us. Mind Blowing.

Everything in SOTC.

 

[Nizz]

Resident Evil- Dog smashing through the window.

Tomb Raider- First time you encounter the T-Rex.

COD4- "All Ghillied Up".

Battlefield 1943- Was running around on Wake Island to cap a flag. Explosions going off all around me, bullets whizzing by. Somebody took out a Zero plane, what's left of it hits the ground in front of me, bounces up and over me and kept on rolling behind me.

God of War- Hydra battle.

God of War 2- Statue boss battle.

God of War 3- Opening/Poseidon battle.

 

[Skilletor]

Defenestrating somebody in DoA2.

Having lobbies in DoA2:U. Most amazing online experience ever. Still waiting for all fighters to have the same features.

 

[Aesius]

Flying around Panau for the first time in Just Cause 2, finding the floating strip club and realizing how massive the game world actually is.

 

[JADS]

Pokémon Gold/Silver: Yeah I beat the game, wait I can go to Kanto now?

Going to the Brain Scorcher in STALKER.

Finding the Pripyat Ferris Wheel and surviving the first night in the zone.

 

[olore]

Half Life: all of it.

Far Cry: Going from this lush, living, beautiful jungle to the confines of a tight, claustrophobic military base without waiting or anything loading. Also, how the enemy soldiers sneaked up on you if you hung around too long

 

[kamikazekoala]

A lot of SMT titles do that to me.

Also Secret of Mana when you get the dragon.

Also finishing moves from MK2 on the arcade back then.

 

[Raiden]

Time Dr.Freeman? Is it really that time again ...

 

[Mihos]

The first moment I walked out of my starting town in EQ1.

 

[ColonelColon]

Gusty Gardens and Bowser's Galaxy Reactor in Super Mario Galaxy.
Ending of Mass Effect (Illos and Citadel)
Intro to Bioshock and Fort Frolic (especially the fight set to Waltz of the Flowers)

 

[lsslave]

List time! Hell yes!!!

Secret of Mana

Three moments

#1 First boss fight. The music was INSANE and really got the blood flowing.
#2 Getting kicked out of town... sad music... just kind of a "WTF WHY" moment as a kid
#3 First time on Flammie

Final Fantasy III/VI

HOLY SHIT THE WORLD ENDED! HOLY SHIT I KEEP GOING ON? LEGENDARY!

Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

SHIT I HAVE THREE DAYS TO SAVE THE WORLD!!!!!!

and a recent one:

Heavy Rain

The major plot twist. Blew-my-mind

 

[Empty]

Vortal Combat in HL2: Episode 2. The moment is built up to perfectly, ratcheting up the tension and anticipation for the attack. Then the rockin' track starts just as the swarms of antilions emerge from the darkness in all of the entries and you start fucking shit up as you hectically run around shotgunning them to pieces in a killing frenzy while watching your vortigant buddies help destroy the others with their cool looking kill animations.

 

[kamikazekoala]

List time! Hell yes!!!

Secret of Mana

Three moments

#1 First boss fight. The music was INSANE and really got the blood flowing.
#2 Getting kicked out of town... sad music... just kind of a "WTF WHY" moment as a kid
#3 First time on Flammie

Final Fantasy III/VI

HOLY SHIT THE WORLD ENDED! HOLY SHIT I KEEP GOING ON? LEGENDARY!

Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

SHIT I HAVE THREE DAYS TO SAVE THE WORLD!!!!!!

Yep, those too.

 

[Joe Prodigy]

MGS3-Final act, I pretty much had a full hour of adrenaline going.

GoW3-Poseidon fight, every time the fight entered a different stage I said "Holy shit."

Zelda: OoT-Fighting Ganon when he comes out of the rubble after the tower collapses, When the Tri-Force lit up I knew it was going down.

Zelda: WW-Hyrule Castle.

Zelda: TP-The Boss fight from the Sky Temple, too sweet.

Super Metroid:-Screw Attack, as someone said earlier, you're pretty much invincible.

Metroid Prime: The first time you see Samus.

Metroid Prime 2: Quadraxis.

Metroid Prime 3: Most of Skytown.

Dead Space: Extraction-When your arm gets ripped off and you realize that it's the arm from the cover of the original Dead Space.

Mario & Luigi: BIS-Making Bowser alternate drinking water and stopping to solve things inside of him.

That's all I got for now.

 

[DryvBy]

Pokémon Gold/Silver: Yeah I beat the game, wait I can go to Kanto now?

That was pretty mind-blowing back in the day actually. I was a closet Pokemon fan. When I got to go back to the original land and replay it, I was in Pokéhéavén.

 

[fbgamer]

Fallout 3 -- When I was sent on a quest by a man in a village that had been pillaged by a band of vampire bandits. He told me to kill them all specifically the leader. I ended up talking to the leader of the bandits then going back to the man in the village to relay a message and in the end they came to an agreement and no one had to die.

Mass Effect --

Spoiler

When my Ashley killed Wrex

Mass Effect 2 -- When I had to explain to a couple Krogan why

Spoiler

I had Wrex die under my watch.

Metal Gear Solid 3 -- The boss fight with The End.

Metal Gear Solid 2 -- The ending and the opening theme

The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker -- Finding the haunted Ghost Ship by accident, and the music in the whole game.

 

[Vastag]

- First NOD level in C&C
- Playing Silent Hill alone at night when I was a kid and stopping because I was scared.
- Level 5 on ReZ, I was playing it almost on auto-pilot, a zen-like experience.
- Deus Ex, I can't choose an expecific moment.
- First hunt with some friends in Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, amazing 40 minutes full of adreline
- Same for the first online match in Left4Dead, one of us closing a door behind him and leaving the rest outside with a tank while he tried to escape. Everybody was shouting, swearing and laughing.
- Finding myself humming Mario Galaxy songs while playing with a big smile on my face.
- The amazing plataforming in Mirrors Edge.
- Getting out of the sewers in Oblivion and realizing how big the world is.
- Pulling out some twisted diplomatic ambushes in Europa Universalis III (and facing some dire consecuences some years later).
- Losing a night of sleep while playing Civilization IV, that game is made of crack.
- Scarecrow levels in Arkham Asylum, great.
- Wipeout HD Fury, as zen-like as ReZ
- First level in Demon Souls, realizing how much I was going to love that game.

And much more, portal, mass effect...

 

[sentry65]

Blazing Lazers TG16 - The ending. My first video game ending that wasn't 100% a happy ending

Veigues Tactical Gladiator TG16 - The ending was another bitter/sweet ending that I wasn't expecting.

R-type 1 TG16/arcade - stage 3, the whole stage was the boss

Dragon Warrior 1 NES- back in 1989, the game world was so much bigger than anything I had previously played

Dragon Warrior 2 NES - the world was something like 9x larger than dragon warrior 1 and still had the original land from dragon warrior 1

Zelda 1 NES - realizing there was a 2nd quest

Ninja Gaiden 1 NES - cinema style cut scenes

Street Figher 2 arcade - realizing how much strategy and styles of fighting you could do with controlling all the different moves. I was way different than most games where you have maybe 1 or 2 attacks

Street Fighter 2 SNES - holy crap, I was playing this on the SNES now!

Mortal Kombat 1 arcade - Fatalities

Wolvenstein 3D - first boss where he would actually come after you instead of just moving around in a pattern

Final Fantasy 2 (IV) SNES - the story telling and cut scenes integrated into the game

Metal Gear Solid 1 PS1 - everything

Heavenly Sword PS3 - massive crowds and final boss

Demon's Souls PS3 - the whole damn game....wow. Holy crap wow

Final Fantasy 3 (VI) SNES - After defeating Kefka on the flying continent

Megaman 3 NES - the bosses from megaman 2 made a comeback

Super Mario Bros 3 NES - world 4 where everything was larger in scale

ICO PS2 - realizing there's multiple ways to interpret the ending

Shadow of the Colossus PS2 - too many moments to list, but realizing it was possible to climb the shrine was crazy

Metal Gear Solid 3 PS2 - just being in the jungle with all the vegetation as well as hiding in it

Castlevania 3 NES - realizing all the branching paths you can take and multiple characters you can find.

Castlevania 4 SNES - whole game. Was just blown away with the whole production and the envisioning of it on the SNES which was still really new at the time

Oblivian Elder Scrolls IV - realizing just how much stuff you can do and how customized your character can become

GTA3 PS2/PC - realizing you can go anywhere and do anything

Resident Evil 2 PS1 - playing this game as a teenager with my friends late at night with the lights off and no memory card was awesome. Eventually died of course.

Gears of War 1 - damn that game looked good in HD when it first came out. I hadn't seen a console game in HD in person yet up until that point.

Uncharted 2 - the whole production level of the game

God of war 1 PS2 - playing as kratos where you actively must do the things he does in order to move forward in the game.

Uncharted 1 - about 90% through the game when the gameplay shifts

Deadspace - in space, muffled sound and your breathing. Also just a lot of the little moments here and there that would get you when you weren't expecting.

 

[Tiduz]

dmc1 and 3 - all of it

 

[Deleted member 1159]

Half-Life: Having an enemy troop toss a grenade by me, making me run from cover only to get lit up by two other troops waiting for me. They set me up!

 

[JumpJeff84]

Most recently, I had a fair number of these moments while playing Bayonetta. Some were during boss fights, and some were just while fighting random enemies.

EDIT: And Demon's Souls. Fuckin' awesome game.