Favorite Video Game Moment *Spoiler Warning*

[Wood]

Same idea as the favorite movie moment thread.

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I'll never forget how intense this part of the game was, best part of a great game IMO. I used a knife to do it I'm pretty sure

[3 Justin 3]

When Ganondorf becomes Ganon in Ocarina of Time.

[Sr. Mints]

Mass Effect 2 ending spoilers

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I don't think any game has left me so starved for a sequel than Mass Effect 2. It was a fantastic ending to an almost perfect game.

[Wood]

The first time you see a monster in Amnesia: Dark Decent

[jhunt223]

The first time you see a licker in Resident Evil 2.

[Hemi-Cuda]

playing Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight and the point where your actions in the game determine if you go to the dark side or the light. no cookie cutter choices like in the sequels, just the game keeping track if you were a nice guy or a dick. no other game has gotten that good/evil path down as well

the Mass Effect 2 intro, stepping onto the bridge of a half blown up ship and staring out into space. such an awesome way to start the game

the first encounter with a Cyberdemon in DOOM. that was almost a #### your pants moment

[Slacker]

Fighting Mother Brain in Super Metroid. When you think you are kicking MB's behind, she uses hyper for the first time and you lose all your missiles and power bombs and you only have the plasma beam. As a 12-13 year old at the time, that was a scary moment but also one for the memories.

Also, playing classic DOOM in nightmare for the first time. Simply terrifying and epic.

[octothorp]

The scene early-on in Portal 2 where GladOS is reassembling while Wheatley is carrying on, oblivious, is pretty epic.

[kirant]

To show my age...:
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I remember being on lunch in elementary school and everyone was watching one guy manage to win this...back in the day when Pokemon was relevant.

Civilization III's and Master of Orion II's victory cinematics mean a lot to me given the amount of time I've spent playing both those games (can't seem to find videos of either)

This also looks like it'll be on of my top trailers/opening videos as well...
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[Pacem]

Too many favorite moments...

Playing Super Mario 3 for the first time.

Beating FF2.

Playing NHLPA for the first time on the Sega Genesis.

And the game Everquest got me thru college, lol. I was broke and it was cheap entertainment. So getting my monk epic was awesome, and the peak of that game for me was beating the Avatar of War.

There is many more but those are a quick few.

[Esoteric]

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

When you realize you're Revan; that was so awesome at the time, my 15 year old self had his mind blown.

[Meelapo]

I suggest that you put the *SPOILER* tag in the thread title as there are a few spoilers. Then again some of the games in here are pretty old and I'm not sure what the statute of limitations is on spoilers.

[zukes]

Playing NHLPA for the first time on the Sega Genesis.



This was the happiest video game moment of my life. I had been calling video stores for days on end waiting for a copy to come in. I must have sounded so excited whn the guy said a copy was there because the guy at the store said he'd hold it for me, something nobody did back then.

[Wood]

Thread title changed. Also how could I forget, Hitman Blood Money ending:

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[The Yen Man]

Not favorite moment, rather it was the most shocking moment, was Final Fantasy 7, when they kill off Aeris.

[MickMcGeough]

Coming out of the dungeon into the daylight in Oblivion.

[Blaster86]

Windwaker when Link puts the sword in Ganondorf's forehead.

[gottabekd]

The scene early-on in Portal 2 where GladOS is reassembling while Wheatley is carrying on, oblivious, is pretty epic.

I thought it was pretty epic when I found out what the white goo did...

So, this topic lends itself well to scripted single player events. But I think some of the best video game moments come in multiplayer.

Like anyone who is a a PC gamer, I played a lot of Counter-Strike (back in high school). I can still remember some epic rounds where I single-handedly killed 8-9 players on the other team. The nature of the game, where everyone dead is watching you dominate, makes it a pretty awesome when you pull it off.

[Esoteric]

I thought it was pretty epic when I found out what the white goo did...

So, this topic lends itself well to scripted single player events. But I think some of the best video game moments come in multiplayer.

Like anyone who is a a PC gamer, I played a lot of Counter-Strike (back in high school). I can still remember some epic rounds where I single-handedly killed 8-9 players on the other team. The nature of the game, where everyone dead is watching you dominate, makes it a pretty awesome when you pull it off.

I remember playing CAL-M matches where my entire team would die, and I'd successfully defend the bomb/kill their entire team myself :cool:

[Frank MetaMusil]

When I finally beat Battletoads for NES. What a freaking hard game.

[endeavor]

In MGS4 when Snake
returns to Shadow Moses. What an awesome moment that was.

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[Hemi-Cuda]

I thought it was pretty epic when I found out what the white goo did...

So, this topic lends itself well to scripted single player events. But I think some of the best video game moments come in multiplayer.

Like anyone who is a a PC gamer, I played a lot of Counter-Strike (back in high school). I can still remember some epic rounds where I single-handedly killed 8-9 players on the other team. The nature of the game, where everyone dead is watching you dominate, makes it a pretty awesome when you pull it off.

as a spy in TF2 and you end up behind a long line of enemies running towards your base. stab stab stabaroo

[SebC]

End of ME1 where the Alliance fleet moves in on Sovereign and saves the council on the way

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More of a personal feat, but did a nerd fistpump...

Dragon Age Origins:
When I finally killed Flemeth on hard, after going to try to kill her about 4 different times during the game... felt like an immense victory

[YYC in LAX]

Any breakthrough moments in Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

[Hemi-Cuda]

End of ME1 where the Alliance fleet moves in on Sovereign and saves the council on the way

i preferred letting the council be blown up and having humans become the dominant species in the galaxy. it was very Star Trek alternate realityish

[LockedOut]

Starting up Unreal for the first time with my Voodoo 3Dfx. Jaw dropping gorgeous at the time.

[Tinordi]

All of the original Half-Life.

[LChoy]

2 older games:

Deus Ex:
- Finding out that Paul Denton doesn't have to die at the apartment

Max Payne:
- The whole story, especially when Max finds out that his wife's death wasn't random

[bradster57]

Not really an epic moment in the game, but in Red Dead Redemption when you cross into Mexico for the first time and Jose Gonzalez' "Far Away" starts up.

[To Be Quite Honest]

Not really an epic moment in the game, but in Red Dead Redemption when you cross into Mexico for the first time and Jose Gonzalez' "Far Away" starts up.

I just started that game over and when I landed in Mexico I whistled for my better horse from America instead of the one the game gives you and the song didn't play.

[Sr. Mints]

In Zelda: Twilight Princess, when it dawned on me how massive the world map was.

[troutman]

Scoring my first goal in Intellivision NHL Hockey was cool.

[Burninator]

All of the original Half-Life.
Easily one of my favorite games. I remember when I first loaded it up and you are in the tram and I am patiently watching everything go by and by accident I bumped the mouse and noticed I could move around. It sounds stupid, but I was shocked. Every other game I had played up until that point wasn't like that. It was usually a cut scene, training, then normal game. Half-Life put all those things right into the game play. Such a great experience that game was.

[Rathji]

The first (modern) game I every really played on a computer was Myst on my uncles Mac. Right at the moment I solved the first puzzle - the stars in the planetarium thing was glorious.

That afternoon was amazing and got me hooked on computers.

[burn_this_city]

When I finally get Battlefield 3 loaded on my computer, patched up and connected to a server.

[Hanni]

Fighting crazy mechanical Hitler in Wolfenstein, also the mini-gun in Wolfenstein.

Hacking guys with a chainsaw in the original Doom.

[Hemi-Cuda]

taking my first head with the demoman's "Eyelander" sword in TF2, and hearing him scream "There can be only one!"

[gottabekd]

taking my first head with the demoman's "Eyelander" sword in TF2, and hearing him scream "There can be only one!"

Getting my first taunt kill in TF2 was pretty memorable.

There was one especially memorable point in Half-Life 2 for me. After battling in Ravenholm (for a few gaming sessions, I got stuck), finally emerging from the dark back into the sunlight. Something about the lighting, music and general atmosphere really impressed me.

This is a video I found. Does a terrible job at capturing what I mean, though.
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[The Yen Man]

When I finally beat Battletoads for NES. What a freaking hard game.

Dude, you're my hero. Battletoads and Ninja Gaiden were probably the two hardest games I've ever played on the NES. I could never get past the second speed bike stage on Battletoads.

[Sr. Mints]

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I don't recall playing either of those games, but Mile Tyson's Punch-out as pretty freakin' hard when you got to the final Tyson. My brother beat him, and that was certainly a magical moment in our videogame-land.

[CaptainCrunch]

The first time that I stole a 727 in GTA San Andreas and flew into Los Santo's jumped out over downtown and landed on top of a building where I watched over 100 cars crash and explode in the ensuing air liner accident.

The first time I got a loop kill in Battlefield 1942 where I jumped out of a plane, shot down my opponent with a bazooka and landed back in the cockpit to fly away.

[Mazrim]

The first time I played through Final Fantasy III (or VI if you roll like that), and watched Kefka destroy the world. You definitely don't expect the game to change so significantly like that! Immediately following that, the feeling of despair is super strong since Celes tries to save Cid (if you're really good you can!) and when he dies, she tries to commit suicide. Very strong stuff from a video game back then.

[Hemi-Cuda]

The first time that I stole a 727 in GTA San Andreas and flew into Los Santo's jumped out over downtown and landed on top of a building where I watched over 100 cars crash and explode in the ensuing air liner accident.

The first time I got a loop kill in Battlefield 1942 where I jumped out of a plane, shot down my opponent with a bazooka and landed back in the cockpit to fly away.

the first time i managed to get "lawn mower" kills in BF1942, where you fly a few feet above the ground and mow down all the campers on the other team waiting for planes to spawn. god i miss that game

[Hanna Sniper]

Night Trap with Dana
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[Hockey_Ninja]

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One of my favorite games growing up. So glad i downloaded it on my wii. So much nostalgia

[Hack&Lube]

Going to the washroom exactly when my cousin reached Ganon and killed him with the blue arrow in The Legend of Zelda in 1988 and missing everything completely. I have never seen Ganon again to this day and probably never will. The entire collective experience of playing through The Legend of Zelda (with a friend) with the gold cartridge in the NES when you still have your childhood imagination is something I have never been able to beat.

[Hack&Lube]

Aside from those moments of Legend of Zelda though...

Before EA bought them, scrapped them, and a decade later turned their name into their Origin direct delivery service.

Origin's Wing Commander series is the game series that has shaped the way I think of and desire games for the rest of my life. Sadly, we will likely never see space combat with live action ever again.

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LOL I never noticed the major Star Wars ripoff at the end of that segment when I was a kid. I was too busy being blown away by it.

[Sr. Mints]

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One of my favorite games growing up. So glad i downloaded it on my wii. So much nostalgia

Me too! I've been playing it on occasion on my N64 the past few weeks. I had to hunt down a controller to play it, which reminded me how horrible the N64 controllers were, but the game is a classic.

[Wood]

Yeah I've been playing that too on my DS. I got my girlfriend into the game when we were camping and she's addicted now

[CaptainCrunch]

Aside from those moments of Legend of Zelda though...

Before EA bought them, scrapped them, and a decade later turned their name into their Origin direct delivery service.

Origin's Wing Commander series is the game series that has shaped the way I think of and desire games for the rest of my life. Sadly, we will likely never see space combat with live action ever again.

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LOL I never noticed the major Star Wars ripoff at the end of that segment when I was a kid. I was too busy being blown away by it.

The Wing Commander series is one of my favorite series of video games (possibly soon to be supplanted by Mass Effect). But the amazing thing is that you can really see the progress of video game technology as you played the game, as each new game was vastly improved over the previous game

Wing Commander 1 was just a pure space combat game with really primitive interaction with your crew mates, but had some really cool concepts such as rank promotion, medal ceremonies, and you could use your wing mates and have to attend their funerals.

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Wing Commander 2 was a giant step forward with far better graphics, the same strong interaction, but they used graphical based movies to push forward one of the best story lines that I've ever seen in a video game. The combat was tougher especially against Capital ships as they were invulnerable to normal weapons and you had to use a bomber and torpedo that forced you to sit pretty still for 30 seconds while it locked on.

The combat was not quite as good as Wing Commander 1 as the AI wasn't as good and the Kilrathi were more likely to ram you then dog fight you. One of the biggest innovations was the addition of the speech pack that you had to buy separately.

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Wing Commander 3 was a massive step up over 2 as the graphics were even more improved, but more importantly the story line was pushed forward through the use of FMV and starred Luke Skywalker, Biff Tannen, Malcolm McDonald, Ginger Lynn Allen and other well known actors. There was a massive twist three quarters of the way through the game, and you felt that no matter what happened you were going to lose the war.

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With the end of the war with the Kilrathi, it was the end of Wing Commander right? Not true, Wing Commander IV was highly anticipated and well rewarded, one of the best and most tragic story lines in video game history to that point, the major improvement was that the FMV scenes were filmed using actual sets and it had a very movie like quality. The script writing was better and the combat was a lot better, you could no longer just turn and burn. The game also features a surprising twist, and the most tragic end to a video character that you will ever see. It also had multiple endings based on your actions in the game.

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The next game was the often maligned Wing Commander Prophesy. The idea was to bring in a all new cast and it was the first time that you didn't play as Christopher Blair, but you played as the Iceman's (A character in the first game that was killed off) son. Unfortunately while the story was incredibly strong, the combat was really good and incredibly tough, the FMV segment was never completed properly and a lot of the in fight graphics were never completed. After that EA stupidly decided not to continue the series and we never really got closure on Chris Blair and the Nephilum.

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Make no mistake Wing Commander was a historic game series, it also spawned about 7 excellent novels, a whole other series of games in privateer Privateer, a animated series and one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Its the one rare game that you really miss after its gone.

[Tinordi]

Agreed on Wing Commander Capn.

Wing Commander 2 was the first computer game I ever bought for my 386.

Loved that game.

[CaptainCrunch]

Agreed on Wing Commander Capn.

Wing Commander 2 was the first computer game I ever bought for my 386.

Loved that game.

I really liked Wing Commander 2 because of the story line, but when I sit back and think about it, in terms of game play Wing Commander 1 was just a better game.

Wing Commander 2 got rid of the story tree that made wing commander 1 really strong. If you lost a key mission in 2, you were sent back to your space station duty and had to listen as the Concordia was destroyed. In wing commander 1 if you failed a whole other mission tree opened up and you could find yourself on a losing path. It made its so the game could be different every time you played it.

The dog fights in Wing Commander 2 were turning and burning battles, Kilrathi would either hit their after burner then turn back into you for a head to head. Or they would just circle around you endlessly trying to take advantage of their superior speed. In wing commander 1, and I'm going off of memory, the Kilrathi would do a whole wack of different things. They used different maneuvers like the Skelton Slide, the cut throat, pull immelmens, and one would lead you on a tail chase while his wing mate would drop in behind you and kill you.

For the most part your wingmen couldn't die in wing Commander 2 unless the game called for it. If they got to beat up they either ejected or screamed, I'm outta here and took off. In the first one, your wing men were very mortal and you had to work very hard to keep them alive even if you didn't want to in terms of Maniac.

Don't get me wrong, WC2 had some really cool features, the bomber feature was actually quite cool and stressful when you lined up on an enemy cruiser for a torpedo launch while it tried to close the distance and kill you with missiles or point defense systems. The ability to jump into a gunner turret was cool as well, and the story line was great and to an extent heart breaking as you watched Spirit die and your first wing man die and there was nothing you could do.

Wing Commander 2 also introduce a character that I think was a gaming icon in Admiral Tolwyn, who was later excellently portrayed by Malcolm Macdonald.


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Behind the scenes and bloopers from WC 3

[Hack&Lube]

^ That's famous American porn star Ginger Lynn Allen in Wing Commander III LOL

She was the mechanic.

As far as WCI vs WCII, WCI was always the superior game to me. WCII lost a lot of the interaction and was more like today's games where you just play a bit and then get a cutscene. In WCI, your wingmen could be killed and it would have a permanent affect on the game and the character interactions. You could lose missions, etc. and it would affect the branching storyline, etc. Lose too much and the terrans lose the entire war. Lose a lot but start winning and you can make a comeback. WCII also lost the whole aspect I liked about travelling around the ship. Giving me one room was something I hated. I wanted to goto the bar, use the simulator, etc. but all I could do was save my game or go out the airlock and die.

I still need to get the other Wing Commander novels. I only have Freedom Flight.

[Hack&Lube]

Make no mistake Wing Commander was a historic game series, it also spawned about 7 excellent novels, a whole other series of games in privateer Privateer, a animated series and one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Its the one rare game that you really miss after its gone.

Look at the cast list for Wing Commander Privateer 2: The Darkening:

Clive Owen
Christopher Walken
John Hurt
Jürgen Prochnow
David Warner
David McCallum
Brian Blessed

That blows the entire cast of WCIII, IV, and V away. I can't believe that game itself was not that great and we can't somehow recycle or save the FMV segments to make another game. It hurts me to see the interlacing on the video of Privateer 2 and wish there was a DVD version like WCIV without interlacing (is there?)

[calumniate]

Well ET only plays multiplayer but in my years playing have certainly had some wow moments. Funny, unrelenting action. You never know when you're going to die :)

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[CaptainCrunch]

^ That's famous American porn star Ginger Lynn Allen in Wing Commander III LOL

She was the mechanic.

As far as WCI vs WCII, WCI was always the superior game to me. WCII lost a lot of the interaction and was more like today's games where you just play a bit and then get a cutscene. In WCI, your wingmen could be killed and it would have a permanent affect on the game and the character interactions. You could lose missions, etc. and it would affect the branching storyline, etc. Lose too much and the terrans lose the entire war. Lose a lot but start winning and you can make a comeback. WCII also lost the whole aspect I liked about travelling around the ship. Giving me one room was something I hated. I wanted to goto the bar, use the simulator, etc. but all I could do was save my game or go out the airlock and die.

I still need to get the other Wing Commander novels. I only have Freedom Flight.

The wing commander novels outside of the ones based on the games Wing commander 3 and 4 were amazingly well written pieces of science fiction.

Freedom Flight to me was kind of the weakest of the bunch.

Action Stations takes place about 20 years before the game, the only characters that you might know about were Ensign Tolwyn and Vance Richards. Thrakath was mentioned but he was a cub, from the Cat side the main characters were Thrakath's father and brother. It talks about the events leading up to and the opening of the war. It was amazingly well written.

Freedom Flight was ok, really focused on Hunter and Paladin and Hobbes as the main characters, it was directly related to the Special Operations add on game to Wing Commander 1.

End Run was the next book, and to me it was the second best of the bunch. It's actually two stories that leads to a all or nothing strategy by the confederation who knew at that time that they were losing the war. The main characters was Jason Bondaresky who was featured in Wing Commander 2 and Geoff Tolwyn, you began to see the signs of what he was going to become in WC IV. But if you can find that book, get it.

Fleet Action took place right after End Run. It shows that the results of that book have really hurt the Kilrathi and they decide to sue for peace, but is it sincere. Most of the main characters show up in the book except of Blair. But it was really a great book as well

False colors was the final book in the Bondaresky story line. The war is over for the Terran Confederation, but there are troubles in the Border Worlds and we see Geoff Tolwyn and his nephew Doomsday from wing commander 1 and 2 and Bonderesky becoming volunteers in the Border world as they not only try to fend off a new Cat threat, but there is also a conspiracy that is bought to fruition in Wing Commander IV. This is the ultimate Geoff Tolwyn book.

Some important things to note.

While Tolwyn is often portrayed as a uncaring cold callous man who has been shaped by 30 years of war in WC 2 3 and 4 you get a key understanding of the man in the novels above.

With the exception of Freedom Flight Blair is rarely mentioned until False Colors.

Jason Bondarevsky is the main character in most of these books, he was a bit player in WC 2 SO as he leads a mutiny against his Captain.

You get some really good insight into the Cats in the books and they become a lot less sympathetic in the books. If I had read the books before I played WC 3 I wouldn't have accepted their surrender at the end of the game, I would have killed the lot of them.

But if you can find the books, buy them.

I believe that you can download End run off of wcnews.com for free.

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[CaptainCrunch]

Look at the cast list for Wing Commander Privateer 2: The Darkening:

Clive Owen
Christopher Walken
John Hurt
Jürgen Prochnow
David Warner
David McCallum
Brian Blessed

That blows the entire cast of WCIII, IV, and V away. I can't believe that game itself was not that great and we can't somehow recycle or save the FMV segments to make another game. It hurts me to see the interlacing on the video of Privateer 2 and wish there was a DVD version like WCIV without interlacing (is there?)

I wish Privateer 2 was a better game, but it just wasn't even with the strong cast.

I would love to see them finish the Nephilum story lines that were started in Prophecy with the rumored Blair returning as the ultimate big bad, but I doubt that it will never happen.

[Daradon]

The first time I played through Final Fantasy III (or VI if you roll like that), and watched Kefka destroy the world. You definitely don't expect the game to change so significantly like that! Immediately following that, the feeling of despair is super strong since Celes tries to save Cid (if you're really good you can!) and when he dies, she tries to commit suicide. Very strong stuff from a video game back then.

Beat me to the punch. About as dramatic as any movie. What a great game.

[QuadCityImages]

The "Would you kindly" reveal moment in Bioshock. That and the Revan thing in Kotor 1, although I kind of saw that coming. Definitely didn't in Bioshock.

[Ashartus]

They just don't make games like Wing Commander anymore - if someone re-released them with updated graphics (wouldn't need to be cutting-edge) but without messing with the gameplay or story I'd buy them in a flash.

[Muta]

The first time I got a loop kill in Battlefield 1942 where I jumped out of a plane, shot down my opponent with a bazooka and landed back in the cockpit to fly away.

Yeah right.

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[Bigtime]

I never got into the Wing Commander series, but played the crap out of X-Wing and Tie Fighter (and there expansions).

Memorable moments for me would have to be from the Descent: Freespace series. The massive scale of the capital ships, a storyline of humanity getting it's ass kicked with no hope (Freespace 1) and the awesomeness of the beam weapons in Freespace 2.

Descent: Freespace intro:
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Freespace 2 intro:
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Beam turrets:
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[CaptainCrunch]

Yeah right.

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I originally had a friend show me and it only took several hours or cursing and swearing and some outright hilarious moments of getting run over by my own plane to have in happen once, and I was never able to do it again

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^^ My favorite was jumping out of a plane/helicopter at top speed right before it'd crash into whatever you were trying to kill... at a certain altitude you'd survive the landing... of course the exploding plane usually did you in.

[I_H8_Crawford]

I have a couple memorable ones from FF VI (3 when I played it on SNES hehe)

Kefka poisons Doma: (Skip to 5:18)
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The Opera scene blew my mind the first time I played through it (and I keep hoping for a remake where you can somehow get a CGI version of this scene)
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[dissentowner]

My favorite video game moment was when my buddy had a double of the Nintendo game Blades Of Steel and we decided to see if we microwaved it for a few seconds would it still play. It still played but all the commentary was gibberish except for one golden moment where I checked his guy right in front of the net and instead of saying "penalty shot" it would say "penile slot". Guess what we spent hours doing? We lost contact over the years but I wonder if he still has that game,lol.

[Sainters7]

Probably not my favourite, but one that stands out is beating the Golden Axe arcade in the Calgary Tower on my 10th bday. Man I pumped that thing full of quarters, felt like I played all night. The one and only time I actually beat an arcade game from start to finish in a public place. I felt such a sense of accomplishment when I finally beat it.

[ernie]

Perhaps the worst final boss battle ever but it was so nice to shoot Guilty Spark at the end of Halo 3.

[MarchHare]

Playing the new Deus Ex made me think of another great moment: the part in the first game where you escape from the secret MJ12 prison and then suddenly realize exactly where you are...

[CaramonLS]

I have a couple memorable ones from FF VI (3 when I played it on SNES hehe)



FF3 had so much win in it regardless.

My favorite part was probably where everyone gets split and you've got the 3 quests to do (in the order you choose), you slowly reunite everyone w/ all your extra allies and start taking the offensive vs. Kefka.

Fight with Ultros was pretty damned cool as well.

But speaking of FF - my favorite part was in FF 2 when Rydia jumps back in the middle of the fight when you are fighting Golbez, much, much older with a bunch of kick ass summon magic.

Cecil fighting himself and becoming a Paladin.

The twins (Porum and Palum) turning to stone to save you and your friends.

Tellah using "White Meteo".

[Blaster86]

FF3 had so much win in it regardless.

My favorite part was probably where everyone gets split and you've got the 3 quests to do (in the order you choose), you slowly reunite everyone w/ all your extra allies and start taking the offensive vs. Kefka.

Fight with Ultros was pretty damned cool as well.

But speaking of FF - my favorite part was in FF 2 when Rydia jumps back in the middle of the fight when you are fighting Golbez, much, much older with a bunch of kick ass summon magic.

Cecil fighting himself and becoming a Paladin.

The twins (Porum and Palum) turning to stone to save you and your friends.

Tellah using "White Meteo".


If you want to go off memorable images, Final Fantasy is damn near full of em. VII has more than I can count; the nuke in space, Mako Cannon shooting Sapphire Weapon, Dane and Barrett, the fight at the pillar, first time arriving at the gold saucer. Just so many vivid images. VIII has a couple, the opening scene and the parade are just fantastic. IX with all the Black Mages coming to life or Atmos behing summoned and destroying Lindblum or the Bahamut/Alexander Battle. While I hated X, the game played like a movie so incredibly visuals were all it had. The first time Sin attacks or the crashing the wedding are nice and intense.

[ComixZone]

If you want to go off memorable images, Final Fantasy is damn near full of em. VII has more than I can count; the nuke in space, Mako Cannon shooting Sapphire Weapon, Dane and Barrett, the fight at the pillar, first time arriving at the gold saucer. Just so many vivid images. VIII has a couple, the opening scene and the parade are just fantastic. IX with all the Black Mages coming to life or Atmos behing summoned and destroying Lindblum or the Bahamut/Alexander Battle. While I hated X, the game played like a movie so incredibly visuals were all it had. The first time Sin attacks or the crashing the wedding are nice and intense.


To this day X is the only FF I've ever finished. I loved that game.

The storming of the beach in MoH Allied Assault is definitely up there for me.

The final fist fight in MGS4 and the entire mashing buttons to crawl down the hallway are probably my most recent "wow" moments.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

My first encounter with a red PK outside of Moonglow in UO. :(

Then my second when I came back and killed his ass and looted my stuff back. >:)

Beating the dickhead leader of our guild alliance on the roll for Earthfury shoulders in MC and completing my set before him.

Wanting nothing other than a copy of Rebel Assault for Christmas but not getting it under the tree and feeling totally let down and choked about not getting the one thing I really, really wanted. Then going downstairs to the computer and finding one more present wrapped up sitting on the keyboard...

[CaramonLS]

My first encounter with a red PK outside of Moonglow in UO. :(

Then my second when I came back and killed his ass and looted my stuff back. >:)

Beating the dickhead leader of our guild alliance on the roll for Earthfury shoulders in MC and completing my set before him.

Wanting nothing other than a copy of Rebel Assault for Christmas but not getting it under the tree and feeling totally let down and choked about not getting the one thing I really, really wanted. Then going downstairs to the computer and finding one more present wrapped up sitting on the keyboard...

That game consumed 6 years of my life....

SO many good moments in UO.

[Hemi-Cuda]

playing through Tie Fighter for the first time. it was the absolute pinnacle of story and gameplay when it came out, and still stands as one of the best space sims of all time

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i remember feeling so much more powerful as you progressed through the ranks and went from a feeble base Tie Fighter up to the massively overpowered Tie Defender. taking out capital ships solo with that thing was awesome

[Yeah_Baby]

Tie Fighter was my favorite game growing up. I even loved playing it before I got my joystick. The mouse wasn't so ideal though.

[Daradon]

Totally forgot about Freespace! That was a fun game.

[FlameOn]

I never got into the Wing Commander series, but played the crap out of X-Wing and Tie Fighter (and there expansions).

Memorable moments for me would have to be from the Descent: Freespace series. The massive scale of the capital ships, a storyline of humanity getting it's ass kicked with no hope (Freespace 1) and the awesomeness of the beam weapons in Freespace 2.

Beam turrets:
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Loved FS2 beam cannons... Getting blasted out of space by something thousands of times your size was great. Sadly I haven't felt that type of awe since this game.
They release freespace 2 source code and the community has updated the engine lots of times for higher textures, graphics, etc. Looks quite a bit better now than the original.

Look up Freespace 2 Open

[Buff]

Scoring my first goal in Intellivision NHL Hockey was cool.

I'll bet you can count on one hand how many goals you ever scored too. That game was hard... at least for me when I was around 8 years old.

[CaptainCrunch]

Tie Fighter was my favorite game growing up. I even loved playing it before I got my joystick. The mouse wasn't so ideal though.


The Plot lines in Tie Fighter were really well done, I will admit that I just didn't like the Assault gunboat though, it just wasn't a Tie Interceptor which was my favorite.

There was something about flying a Tie Fighter knowing that you had no shields having to energy balance for high speed because you had no after burners.

That first betrayal when you were clearing a mine field and were jumped by a bunch of your fellow tie Fighter Pilots.

Flying on a Wing with Vader and making a run on a Star Destroyer, and the fact that it took a minute to fly over the whole thing.

I really liked X-Wing Alliance as well especially the final mission where you flew the Falcon through the Death Star to blast the reactor, then you had to race out just ahead of the blast wave.

[Yasa]

Not my absolute favourite, but very memorable was walking out of the vault in Fallout 3. The world and sounds blew my mind.

[CaptainCrunch]

Come on how about the first time you played Leisure Suit Larry.

You ended up in a room with a girl typed in the famous "F$$k chick"

Watched the censored box bumping awat, did the cool guy thing and left, then suddenly your junk exploded because you forgot to use a condom.

[sclitheroe]

The ending to ICO is pretty cool - its a complete tragedy after you are completely emotionally invested in the game from dragging the girl all over the place..unless you wait until well into the credits to see the full ending.

[Tinordi]

First playing Mario 64. That blew my mind.

[North East Goon]

Learning the cheap goal technique on SEGA NHL hockey before your buddies could figure it out. Nothing like trouncing your buddies ego's in a video game.

[sclitheroe]

Learning the cheap goal technique on SEGA NHL hockey before your buddies could figure it out. Nothing like trouncing your buddies ego's in a video game.

We eventually had to outlaw that goal, to reduce the chances of fist fights.

And then someone would pull it out at the last moment anyways, because a win was worth a pummelling

[MarchHare]

The Plot lines in Tie Fighter were really well done, I will admit that I just didn't like the Assault gunboat though, it just wasn't a Tie Interceptor which was my favorite.

There was something about flying a Tie Fighter knowing that you had no shields having to energy balance for high speed because you had no after burners.

That first betrayal when you were clearing a mine field and were jumped by a bunch of your fellow tie Fighter Pilots.

Flying on a Wing with Vader and making a run on a Star Destroyer, and the fact that it took a minute to fly over the whole thing.

Agreed about the Assault Gunboat (and especially the TIE Defender and Missile Boat from the expansions) ruining the game. They were just far too overpowered to be interesting. The best missions in the game were the ones where you flew a fragile and unshielded TIE Fighter, Bomber, or Interceptor.

[CaptainCrunch]

Yeah, once you got the defender it was pretty much game over. You could knock out a Star Destroyer with it single handedly.

And the tractor beam was too big of a cheat.

I remember the first part of the game, when you were lowered out of the Nebulon B Frigate, and you tore off with the distinctive Roar of the Engines on a simple mission to inspect ships, and you got close to one freighter and scanned weapons, and they ordered you to escort a inspection ship in, then you saw the Y-Wings pouncing in and your first thought was . . . I'm totally dead in this thing.

The Story in the guidebook was very well written as well.

[chemgear]

The Story in the guidebook was very well written as well.

Yeah, the X-Wing and Tie-Fighter guides were one of the few ones that had a story to it. And man, they were huge! They got me into grabbing guides for many of the games I played.

[Bigtime]

X-Wing and Tie Fighter were amazing games, the Freespace series is the only one IMO to be as good.

I've also got to throw out any night missions in X-COM. Turn based terror, I just started waiting for the site to end up in the sun before going for it after a while. Or the first time you intercepted a battleship and it one shots your interceptor from maximum range. Damn.

Or the first time you take the hover power suit onto the battlefield, rocking a heavy plasma and kicking ass and taking names.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

The strippers in Duke Nukem.

[CaptainCrunch]

X-Wing and Tie Fighter were amazing games, the Freespace series is the only one IMO to be as good.

I've also got to throw out any night missions in X-COM. Turn based terror, I just started waiting for the site to end up in the sun before going for it after a while. Or the first time you intercepted a battleship and it one shots your interceptor from maximum range. Damn.

Or the first time you take the hover power suit onto the battlefield, rocking a heavy plasma and kicking ass and taking names.

So many great games.

When I look at space simulations, I'm still just a huge fan of Wing Commander, then the X-Wing series, then Free Space.

And the first X-Com game was awesome, When you did the first couple of missions, you thought it would be easy as you blasted those little Gray aliens, but they kept ramping up the aliens to terrifying levels, like the ones that laid eggs in you, or the ones the hovered over you and killed you. Or the ones who would take over your mind.

I never used the plasma based weapons, because Elerium was really tough to come by in that game. The worst though was the first time the Aliens invaded your base.

[Bigtime]

So many great games.

When I look at space simulations, I'm still just a huge fan of Wing Commander, then the X-Wing series, then Free Space.

And the first X-Com game was awesome, When you did the first couple of missions, you thought it would be easy as you blasted those little Gray aliens, but they kept ramping up the aliens to terrifying levels, like the ones that laid eggs in you, or the ones the hovered over you and killed you. Or the ones who would take over your mind.

I never used the plasma based weapons, because Elerium was really tough to come by in that game. The worst though was the first time the Aliens invaded your base.

You never used the plasma based weapons? In the mid to late game every mission had you scooping up huge amounts of heavy plasmas from the crash site. I was always overstocked so I kept selling them on the market for bucks.

The Elerium was a real b*tch to get, until you started following battleships with your assault craft and waited for them to land before starting the mission. I can't remember how much it was, but you got a lot of elerium for a fully intact BS.

Have to agree about the first alien invasion to your base. Which was usually your first base, that had the preset layout. So many different entry points, always a nightmare to try and defend. Future bases I would always build with the hangars connected by the elevator and then lead to everything else, so there was only one choke point to defend.

I would totally buy an updated X-COM, just the same game with new graphics. Don't change anything else (same goes for X-Wing and Tie Fighter).

[GreenLantern]

The first time I heard this..

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[CaptainCrunch]

You never used the plasma based weapons? In the mid to late game every mission had you scooping up huge amounts of heavy plasmas from the crash site. I was always overstocked so I kept selling them on the market for bucks.

The Elerium was a real b*tch to get, until you started following battleships with your assault craft and waited for them to land before starting the mission. I can't remember how much it was, but you got a lot of elerium for a fully intact BS.

Have to agree about the first alien invasion to your base. Which was usually your first base, that had the preset layout. So many different entry points, always a nightmare to try and defend. Future bases I would always build with the hangars connected by the elevator and then lead to everything else, so there was only one choke point to defend.

I would totally buy an updated X-COM, just the same game with new graphics. Don't change anything else (same goes for X-Wing and Tie Fighter).

The worst part in that game was getting your troops safely off of the ship when they had limited movement points.

You'd get the first four off and into hiding behind the landing gear or a mid sized fence, and then you'd see the rest of your guys cut down while they were still in the lander, and the last guy's mind taken over.

Until you managed to get a landing party filled with really senior guys it was like watching Saving Private Ryan.

[Hemi-Cuda]

X-Wing and Tie Fighter were amazing games, the Freespace series is the only one IMO to be as good.

Freelancer is right up there. the story may not be as tight, but the ships and space combat were incredible. and as for "Holy ####..." moments, on the last mission when you chase the aliens to their home and you warp into the middle of a dyson sphere? one of my all time favorite gaming moments

it also had multiplayer which was an absolute blast on a private server with a bunch of friends. trying to make a cargo run in your Humpback while trying to avoid pirates was pretty nerve wracking

[Mazrim]

The first time I heard this..
I know this is your favorite, but I'd say the complete presentation of Antiquity (12,000 B.C.) was the most memorable thing about Chrono Trigger. The music, the floating islands, the Undersea Palace, the Black Omen...everything about that area was awesome.

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[Teh_Bandwagoner]

The Opera scene blew my mind the first time I played through it (and I keep hoping for a remake where you can somehow get a CGI version of this scene)
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Final Fantasy Anthology for PSOne, my friend. This is likely as close as you'll get:

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[Teh_Bandwagoner]

And while we're on the topic of Chrono Trigger too, loved the anime intro they did for the PS as well:

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Loved all the music in this game, but the intro music still seems to resonate with me the most.

[CaramonLS]

Man, one of the things that kept me playing chrono trigger was the combo attacks. I couldn't wait to unlock the next one for my team.

I'm really surprised Square hasn't tried to copy the joint attack system into many of its other franchises. Chrono Cross was a huge disappointment because of the lack of combo attacks (only few players could link, and I think there was only like 3 triple attacks in the whole game, and there were TONS of chars).