Great gaming moments: what's yours?

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Whether it be part of a cut-scene or within gameplay, a fantastic plot point or a sporting victory, a beautiful bit of art direction or an ace piece of music. There are some moments when you're playing a game, that make you sit back and think, 'wow'.

Here's some moments that have stood out for me:

Hitman: Blood Money (spoilers)

The Paris opera house: after planting a bomb in the theatre chandelier and replacing the replica gun used on stage with a real one. I watch from above as the singer is 'accidentally' shot, killing my target, then i kill the second target as he trips running to the stage by dropping the chandelier on him. As I make my way out to the street, everyone is in panic, but none have a clue it was me, with Jesper Kyd's Apocalypse theme kicking in for added impact. Oh yes!

Shadow of the Colossus (spoilers)

When you finally reach the last colossus, eagerly gallop with Agro across that bridge, suddenly your whole world collapses, you're friend is lost. The climb up to the colossus seems so dismal and lonely, reaching the top with it going dark and stormy, exagerating the feeling of doom, before the utterly amazing final battle. I never felt so sad before a big battle.

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

Cruising through Vice City for the first time, the sun sets, the streets filling with neon, Jon Hummer's 'Crockets Theme' starts playing on the radio....

-Beating both Max Payne 1 and 2....such great story telling in those games.

-Getting my first Chaos Chao in Sonic Adventure 2: Battle.

-First capture the flag game on Halo 2. Coagulation, Multi-flag, 16 players.

-COD4 Single player. WOW.

I'm sure there's more, just those are the ones off the top of my head:P

SPOILERS of course:

Being saved by the baby Metroid at the end of Super Metroid.

The first time I played the Silent Cartographer(sp?) level in Halo.

Playing the opening scene in SotN.

Farah dying at the end of Prince of Persia.

Fighting the El Gigante for the first time in RE4.

Playing DOOM for the first time.

Just a few that come to mind....

Breath of Fire: When I killed the main character's sister.

Chrono Trigger: When I bought the darn game.

Secret of Mana: When I found out I had to kill Flamme

Final Fantasy VII: When Aeris died.

Final Fantasy Tactics: When Delita was killed by Ovelia

MGS3: When The Boss died + The Ladder

Kingdom Hearts: When I first heard the song Hikari

Xenogears: When Id appears and destroys Yggdrasil (is that how you spell it?)

Playing Ultima: Online, I was a Master Miner but had enough combat and magic skill to fry most of the players that would try to hunt me for my ore, but because my mining skill was just a bit higher my avatar showed I was a harmless " Master Miner" and I was wearing a long, cheap robe.

Some guy tried to kill me so I paralyzed him, he was stuck and I kal vas flam'd him to the nearest Rez ankh. I took all his stuff, hid myself and waited for him to come back and get it. Once he was back I paralyzed him again and cast walls all around him.

I negotiated with him and in exchange for his stuff he was going to be my hunting slave and he helped me clear dungeons while giving me the items. At the end of the dungeon I led him to this PvP place where everyone would die, so I told him to go inside. He died and lost all his stuff again while I teleported out. I felt evil, but good at the same time, poetic justice!!

It's not necessarily a great moment, but I always laugh when in Resident Evil 2

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Leon drops Ada off of the platform after she gets shot by Annette.

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