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Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby L.Fist » Thu Dec 10, 2009 10:44 pm

Whether it was your greatest accoplishment, your most annoying encounter or just something that you'll probably won't forget ever. Let's hear some stories. ^_^

Mine:

Genesis Era

Game: X-Men

One of the games I just can't get out of my mind today all because of that whole
"Restart the computer" part. That thing took me weeks to figure out. I'm busy mashing all the buttons thinking that something was bound to happen. All for the timer to run out, and me getting Magneto's scary face followed by a Game Over. One day, I went through the whole game again, just to get stuck at that part again. That time, my bro and sis were watching. And just like certain siblings, instead of encouraging me, they were mocking the fact that I was taking something like this so seriously. I got so mad, I just decided to retrace my steps from the beginning, and push the reset button, only to find out that that was the way to continue the game. I decided to turn the game off after finally figuring that out while my siblings were still laughing at me. ^_^
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby guy07 » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:01 pm

Chili Con Carnage. The whole game. Best week of my life. :up:
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby CodeZTM » Thu Dec 10, 2009 11:13 pm

ZOMG Warning: Huge-ass list

Eternal Sonata

Spoiler :
When I had to fight my freaking main character as the final boss, and had only 2 viable party members in fighting condition. BASTARD!


Star Ocean 3

Spoiler :
Finding out that everything I'd been doing and the worlds I'd been visiting was just a video game made by higher beings, and we're on the "to delete" list. FUUUUU...

Oh, and if you've played it before, you'll understand this accomplishment. I pwned fucking Freya. :up:


Saint's Row 2

Spoiler :
When some punk-ass kid tried to change the boss's TV channel and he fucking OWNS him with a beer bottle to the head. Or when the boss buries the punk ass asian kid alive. Take yur pick. :lol:


The World Ends With You

Spoiler :
Joshua = God WTF?!


Modern Warfare 2

Spoiler :
When 4 main characters I'd been playing ass all get shot in the face. >.>


Earthbound

Spoiler :
EVERYTHING! From digging in trashcans to getting hamburgers, to having unassuming local guys get affectionate with Ness, and the final baddy actually have no physical body, but be the manifestation of pure evil's warped mind


Shin Megami Tensai - Persona 3

Spoiler :
Everything we did in the first 3/4 of the game actually triggered the end of the world. Just fucking wonderful....


Final Fantasy X

Spoiler :
More of an accomplishment here, but in a past life, I'd gotten Tidus, Rikku and Yuna and had their sphere grids completed and made weapons more powerful than their legendary weapons.[spoiler]

Valkirya Chronicles

[spoiler] More of an "ashamed" gaming moment here. I went through my ENTIRE roster of characters and actually got them all killed my first playthrough before I got more strategic...


W.O.W

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I don't have a warcraft account, but a friend of mine let me borrow his laptop and toy with it for a week. I remember I was still a newb and had an agg range of like EVERYWHERE. And another buddy of mine was helping me level up, and told me to STAY PUT. Behind me spawned a huge-ass monster and killed me in less than a second. I never did play it again after that. xD


Starcraft

Spoiler :
Playing competitively with my friends, spawning a HUMUNGASOUR amount of those little zerglings and having them take down an entire protoss base, whilst my friend was "building additional pylons". Lulz.


Any fighting game

Spoiler :
Randomly smashing buttons and being able to beat my highly trained friends who spend years in arcades/console matches. And the sad part being that if I actually tried to play right, I'd get my ass kicked. Lulz.


Kirby's Air Ride

Spoiler :
My cousin destroying my mother's vehicle on accident and having her yell "you bastard!" in the middle of a crowded room at Christmas. xD


Pokemon Platinum / Heart Gold

Spoiler :
Completing the national pokedex and "catching them all"




I'm sure I have more... I'll need to get out my "game's Played" sheet.
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby godix » Fri Dec 11, 2009 1:53 am

Phantasmagoria. By today's standards, it's pathetic. Even by the standards of it's day, it was insanely easy and not all that frightening. However, it was one of the first games I played that had graphics even close to believable enough to pull off a spooky mood well. A few of the flashbacks to various wives being killed were done well enough to be disturbing in that gothic horror type of way. That plus figuring out the ending took me awhile, so I saw the main characters head split open so many times that I can still picture the scene even though it's been over a decade since I played.
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby mirkosp » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:45 am

TLoZ:OoT
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When I first saw the cutscene of the sand temple, it felt fucking astounding and grand to me. Good ol' days.


TLoZ:MM
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The moon... getting close... cannot forget. Last day = brickshittan.


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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby Knowname » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:52 am

Either my first import Macross game on the NES or the invention of the Pwn. Yes I invented it :P

Time: 1999 or thereabouts

I was the last one in my Counterstrike game cuz I was just camping the flag, protecting it from the other team. The map everybody used on CS was SO dumb. there was a dark ally right by the flag, so I'd just hide in the dark ally till somebody walked by and pwned them from behind :P I killed mostly with my crowbar. Anyway it was down to two and I refused to move :D I know, I'd be kicked from current servers for this :D but what the hell did I care?? I hardly played the game anyway (and this was the first time I wasn't the first one killed!! lol). So like a few minutes went by and I realized no-one was left but me and the other guy. So refusing to leave my nest I ran around the area like a ninja :P ducking behind crates, shimmying and turning and seeing how fast I could draw my nail gun. And it happened! one corner that I shimmied around was the guy!! So I buried all my nails into 'im. He was so nuts lol he probly pee'd his pants -_-

I would've.

Next thing I know this move is put into MGS2 :/ I totally made it cool!

That and the one time I totally destroid my cousin's city with 5 tornado's in Sim City lol. I'd do it again too -_-
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby Knowname » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:59 am

I predicted that you'd be fighting the guy you make (from Mass Effect) in Mass Effect 2. It's still not official as far as I know, but that is what I predict. All thes idiots that mastered every skill in it are gonna get Pwned lol.
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby Kitsuner » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:03 am

Considering I grew up on Sierra adventure games, there are plenty of memories among those games for me, but the first one to come to mind is getting lost in the streets of Shapeir in Trial by Fire, my first Quest game.

My first run-through of Princess Maker 2 was also pretty memorable, because my daughter became a world-famous artist and married some magician that I still don't trust and generally lived a pretty amazing life, and the relationship between my second daughter and the little dragon kid was too cute to forget.

Dust: A Tale of The Wired West is another game from my childhood that all of my siblings played too, so we discussed and replayed it a lot. There are so many moments in there I could mention, but I guess the one that's stuck in my mind the most is the opening dialogue with Leroy, when he forgets what year it is and I finish his sentence for him. "Two. Yeah. Don't interrupt me, boy, else I'll whip ya damn ass!" The voice cast in that game was pretty spectacular, now that I think about it. I should play through it again.
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby dokidoki » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:44 am

Kitsuner wrote:Considering I grew up on Sierra adventure games, there are plenty of memories among those games for me, but the first one to come to mind is getting lost in the streets of Shapeir in Trial by Fire, my first Quest game.

I posted this long ago in the screenshots thread, but it was pretty memorable...

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That's from Hero's Quest (Amiga), before they had to change the name to Quest For Glory. Phrasing the system error as something in the game world really amused me.

GTA3: Stealing a car, driving it a little ways to point it towards the edge of the two-lane bridge with no rail in the middle, then watching the AI steal it back and drive off the edge into the water.

GTA: Vice City: Diving out of a sports car just before it went into the water near the beach. Then watched all the AI pedestrians run into the water to look at the "accident", and drown. Shooting the face-down floating bodies instantly snapped them to a face up pose.

Oh, and exploiting bugs in an old web game. :)

So off the top of my head, it seems the most memorable parts of games are the bugs, but I am a programmer after all. :)
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby Otohiko » Fri Dec 11, 2009 4:56 am

I've had lots of really cool moments - I could easily list MW2 in terms of the sheer "what the fuck" factor and adrenaline.

However generally my point of reference is a little different from this. Instead of just looking for an emotional/actiony kick, my biggest draw in games is what's generally called "suspension of disbelief" - a kind of "holy shit I'm there" feeling, which is really the reason I play so many simulation games. Just get a kind of kick from that.

Examples - recreating real airplane flights I made in my modded Flight Simulator 2004. Last week I made a successful transatlantic flight on an A-310. In real time.

In Falcon 4.0, when I finally actually learned to use the game properly - I remember the sheer awesome factor of flying my first successful airfield attack mission, going in at 100ft of altitude and lining the runway with bombs perfectly through heavy flak, punching out flares as I egressed. Once I got so caught up in "oh my god this is so realistic" that I had a mild vertigo attack on final approach and damaged my gear on landing, lol.

In Operation Flashpoint, I still remember the campaign fondly. One of the best-designed single player experiences out there, sadly underrated. The way they handled the player-character changes and made their stories interact was a lot better than CoD ever did, imho. My favourite part was where you attack an area as a tank commander, but you run into heavy resistance and have to pull back. You're then sent to 'soften up' the defenses as a special operations dude on a night raid; in the morning you come back as the tank and bust through; and then in the afternoon your infantrydude character takes his squad to mop up the last resistance in the area. Soooo good.

Then of course, my favourite Silent Hunter series. I would always get so involved with the athmosphere of it all, it's not even funny. I'd think up (and even write down) happenings aboard the sub and sort of made it my Das Boot simulator. It paid off in impact; I remember that an early and unexpected end to one of my careers made me feel shocked to an extent even MW2 can't. Just a "radar signal detected" call-out at night, crash dive, and just as we're about to pass 40 meters - BAM, everything shakes, lights go out, and in a few seconds it's all over. I seriously felt like 45 people I knew just died there; it made me a little bit sick.

So yeah. That's how I get my nerdy kicks .__.
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby ZephyrStar » Fri Dec 11, 2009 9:19 am

Also huge ass list, tl;dr.

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past: All of it.

Super Metroid: All of it.

Quake: Heat.net: Using a color/name change script to clean the red campers out of the rocket launcher spawn room over and over and over and over and over and over... Lanwar 14: 64 person House of Chthon & Claustrophobopolis. FUCK. YES.

Half Life: ZOMG.

Quake 3: Singlehandedly pooning a particular "clan" with a railgun. Fire_Starter will remember these guys...

All of Lunar and Lunar 2.

Starcraft: Created a 64 x 256 map entitled "The Meaty Desert." 2 human players located at the top of the map, 6 computer players, 2 of each race, at the bottom of the map. Adjusted prices of units and upgrades to be a little quicker/cheaper, adjusted minerals and gas to be very abundant, start human players off with 10,000 minerals, apply triggers for "desire this area" to the human base for 4 of the AI, triggers "defend this position" to the other 2. Played this with my buddy Luke, and even after 2.5 hours we were still at it, having to kill off wave after wave of carriers, mutalisks, wraiths, battleships... it was all TERRIBLY MEATY. Apparently I had stumbled upon the right combination of price tweaks and triggers that turned ALL our enemies into zerg rush kekekeke. We finally beat it when we advanced to the islands in the middle, covered every free spot with Protoss cannons, and made a needle attack down the right side of the map to eliminate the first computer player. That was only a small victory in the battle, as it took us about another hour to spearhead their base and wipe them out. We couldn't even save the replay, it was too long ;_;

Call of Duty: EPIC. Multiplayer Pavlov sniping sooooo goooood ;_;
Call of Duty UO: MOAR. Felt like I was in the war, getting to play Foy/Bastogne was amazing since my grandfather was there.
Call of Duty 2: EPIC.
Call of Duty MW: EPIC.
Call of Duty MW2: EPIC CINEMATIC EPIC.

Half Life 2: ZOMG!!!

Freelancer: A spaceship game by the guy who made privateer/wing commander. Felt really unfinished, but was fun as hell for about a month. My brother and I got on a big multiplayer server after single player, and the server was awesome. It had a couple of custom systems where you could rack up money really fast, but it was also really dangerous because there were trade lane pirates everywhere. These guys would just sit outside the base you needed to be in, best ship and guns in the game, and demand 200,000 credits from you or they'd rip your carrier to shreds. (Cut for EPIC FUCKING BATTLE)

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I got to the point where I would fly right up to the dock going at cruise speed and speed dock with it. They can't do much about that, except for kill you on your way back out. At least then I could sell my guns, but then they would camp you. We got real fed up with this, it was making it impossible to get the money needed to deck out a ship. We tried the escort thing, one fighter one freighter, but that didn't work either.

Then we formed Sons of Solaris. A couple of guys we knew that were filthy stinkin rich just wanted to pwn and camp these guys all to hell. We got in, and were given millions of credits. We bought the best stuff and decked our ships out. We noticed a couple of things. Practically EVERYBODY used Nomad guns. High powered guns that take 0 energy to fire. Refire rate of 4. (higher is bad, lower is good)

In a dogfight, each pass you make on somebody, you're only getting off about 2 or 3 shots. People would just run like 10 Nomad guns. But we found: Tizona del Cid: a gun with a refire of like 1.8 that does nothing but eat shields. And it's NASTY. Can take the best shield down in a few shots. Diamondback: a VERY high powered gun, 2200 damage vs 1800 of the nomad guns. Refire of like 3.8. So, it actually shoots faster and does a bit more damage than the nomad cannons. The only drawback to these guns is they eat up all your weapons energy in 3 to 4 shots.

So, if you covered your ship in like 4 Tizonas and 6 Diamondbacks, you can pretty much ignore your enemy's shields, as they're going down in 1 second with 4 Tizonas hitting them, then with Diamondbacks you're hitting them with much more damage, just a bit faster than they can hit you back with the nomad guns (and you still have most of your shields to boot!). And, while running Tizona x Diamondback drains ALL your firepower energy in 3 or 4 shots, you're only getting off 3 or 4 shots at somebody anyway before you have to manuver back around to fire again. By then, you have all or most of your firepower back. I guess everybody loves the Nomad guns because their energy drain is 0. But what's the point, when you're only getting a few shots off during a dogfight?

So, to make a long story short, SoS waged war against the pirates for about a week. We showed them no mercy. We flew to their "admin planet" (the one where you could get paid the most if you were trucking cargo) where they would wait outside the docking ring, and just light them up, over and over and over. They were all pretty shitty pilots too :O I guess when you just intimidate guys in slow, underarmed heavy cruisers all day, that's what happens to your skills. The funny thing is, the pirates owned the server and some were admins. They finally banned us from the server without a reason. Rageban. Sore losers I guess :3


Team Fortress 2: When the amv crew played on a server for 13 hours straight. It was a battle of epic porportions, we fought for the middle point back and forth and back and forth, but we finally took it over, covered it in sentries and snipers, and prevailed! VICTOLY!

Left 4 Dead: When we decided to throw caution to the wind and just speedrun that motherfucker. And it works REALLY WELL. PEELS ONLY PISTOLS ONLY GOGOGOGOGOGO.

WOW: Started a spacegoat mage. Leveled her to 62 I think. Spent a few weeks grinding for runecloth and doing newbie quests for the night elves just to get a fecking cat to ride. D: Then promptly quit WOW ;_;
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby dwchang » Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:36 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:All of Lunar and Lunar 2.


:up:

Glad to see another Lunar fan. There are so few of us. Lunar 2 is my favorite RPG of all time and there's one particular part that I guess I'll call a memorable gaming moment, but it's a spoiler:

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Near the end of the game you're about to face the big evil bad guy and then your love interest (who is a Guardian of a Goddess or something) decides that humanity is not strong enough and takes all your power and takes it on herself (and loses). Up to that point the game was pretty normal and this was the cliche final battle where everyone is like "Yeah we're strong together!" etc etc. and then turn it around into that literally had me drop my controller. You had to then play the game without any magic or special abilities. Very few games surprise me, but this one definitely did at such a cliche moment. The only other game to outright surprise me like that was Xenogears.

It also helped that the ending to the game was over 5 - 6 hours with a legitimate Epilogue and more dungeons to resolve some story parts.
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby Pwolf » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:40 pm

One of my most memorable and early gaming experiences of all time was when I picked up Jane's Longbow:

A friend and I would play together, one would fly, the other would monitor the flight systems, radar, weapons, and countermeasures. it was a pretty good system we had. This particular missions, we flew passed enemy lines undetected and were able to execute a sneak attack at an enemy base. the attack was successful but on the way back to friendly territory, we flew right into an anti-air nest and got shot up pretty bad. We lost power to the right engine but were able to find a safe place to land. at that point, instead of just restarting the mission, we decided to try and get home by changing some of the flight systems which then allowed us to achieve some extra power. I think we were hovering about 100ft above the ground at a snails pace. on top of that, there were anti-air all of the place so when ever a new one showed up on radar we had to find a safe way around it. it was a long process, but in the end, it felt very rewarding.

Back in the day, I played a WWII MMO called Air Warrior 3.... awesome game. Anyway, various units would plan large bombing raid against the axis. We'd have dozens of bombers and fighter escorts and each bomber had a full compliment of gunners. It was just great times all around. The unit i flew with ended up ordering patches for everyone, it was just a really cool experience.

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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby Kitsuner » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:16 pm

Don't you mean Parctic Wolf?
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Re: Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

Postby Otohiko » Fri Dec 11, 2009 3:17 pm

Pwolf wrote:A friend and I would play together, one would fly, the other would monitor the flight systems, radar, weapons, and countermeasures. it was a pretty good system we had. This particular missions, we flew passed enemy lines undetected and were able to execute a sneak attack at an enemy base. the attack was successful but on the way back to friendly territory, we flew right into an anti-air nest and got shot up pretty bad. We lost power to the right engine but were able to find a safe place to land. at that point, instead of just restarting the mission, we decided to try and get home by changing some of the flight systems which then allowed us to achieve some extra power. I think we were hovering about 100ft above the ground at a snails pace. on top of that, there were anti-air all of the place so when ever a new one showed up on radar we had to find a safe way around it. it was a long process, but in the end, it felt very rewarding.


Wow, that sounds really awesome :up:

Never did two people in one aircraft (just never had a game to do that), but would totally enjoy that. It reminds me of my own times flying Falcon 4.0 with a squadron - I didn't last very long due to technical problems unfortunately, but when it worked it was amazing. The stuff you could do when you play cooperatively in flight sims is great. I remember how we'd always set our radars to scan different altitudes and maximise our detection ability, or buddy-lock targets and alternate sectors to stay out of the enemy's firing range.

The reason I always really dug combat flight sims is totally not what people probably think. It's not because I have a hard-on for airplanes (although I somewhat do >__>), it's because the best of them really test your skills at situational awareness, a sort of "building a mental picture" of situations from fairly indirect sources and really having to think about your course of action. It's really... meditative, in a way, it's like learning to take at least a half-dozen information sources and figuring out which of them to trust and which of them to act on. When you throw in communication into the deal and actually have to talk through situational awareness - it becomes even more fun. It's really psychological in a lot of ways - you have to really develop reactions that you can trust, on the one hand, and also be able to trust the other player on the other.

I hope I can eventually get back into simulation multiplay of some kind. I miss it :cry:
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