Most memorable gaming moment in your life so far

[L.Fist]

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. ^_^

[guy07]

Chili Con Carnage. The whole game. Best week of my life.

[CodeZTM]

ZOMG Warning: Huge-ass list

Eternal Sonata

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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

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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.

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.

The World Ends With You

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Joshua = God WTF?!

Modern Warfare 2

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

Earthbound

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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

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

Final Fantasy X

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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.

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Valkirya Chronicles

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

[godix]

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.

[mirkosp]

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.

SMG

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Welcome... Welcome new Galaxy! ;_;

Ikaruga
FUCKYEAH BEAT YA MOTHERFUCKING REALITY!!!

[Knowname]

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

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 I killed mostly with my crowbar. Anyway it was down to two and I refused to move I know, I'd be kicked from current servers for this 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 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 -_-

[Knowname]

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.

[Kitsuner]

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.

[dokidoki]

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...



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.

[Otohiko]

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 .__.