Games that made you go "that's so cool!"?

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#1 lm2f
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I have a few


C&C Red Alert 2-My first RTS, it was awesome how you could control everything and all the units had cool animations. In particular I loved how tanks could run down chain link fences.


IL-2 Sturmovik-The damage, management, graphics, dynamic campaign, etc everything was top notch back in 2001, it's still one of the best flight sims in 2009.


Assass Creed-Animations and climbing.


No One Lives Forever 2-Switching ammo types, the separate armour and health bars was pretty fresh back in 02 as well.


Silent Hunter 3-With not your grandmother's mod it was a very special game, manual torpedo solutions, deck gun attacks, the excitement of hunting down and sinking the tommies :twisted:, escaping attacks, and realistic sinkings.


America's Army-Launched grenades don't arm themselves after some distance, backblasts kill. I was just playing AA when I first got cod4 and it was completely stupid how short the arming distance was in cod4.


Endwar-Voice controls that actually work well! unlike Silent Hunter 3. Not that it was a particularly good RTS though.


Brothers in Arms:Road to Hill 30 & Earned in Blood-I loved the massive amounts of effort that went into making sure everything was authentic, every house, every engagement, and actually having a good story! There were also German missions so the game was not entirely "killin em evil nhatseeeezz!!!!"


Battlefield bad company-This game had nearly full terrain and building destruction, the aspect of pieces being blown off of a vehicle was also a nice touch.


Far Cry instincts-Map editor for consoles and those maps could be played online. Too bad the MP in FC2 wasn't that good.


Forza Motorsport-The car painting blew me away, you can pretty much paint pretty much anything you want in FM2 and FM3 given that you take the time.



So what are your nominations?

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The endless secrets I could still find today in Donkey Kong Country.

The Starfox taunts in Brawl/Melee

Using the force in StarWars Force Unleashed

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EVERY 360 launch title. No matter how bad it was.

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Prince of Persia- Animations, combat, frequent wall running, awesome art design etc.

Shattered Horizon- omnidirectional movement, awesome graphics, awesome music

Crysis- Nanosuit, awesome graphics

Forza Motorsport 3- Audi R8 (awesomest car EVAR!!!)

Mirror's Edge- Awesome art design, awesome gameplay

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This part in MGS4:

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#6 mdisen2
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Portal, no explanation needed.

No More Heroes, be honest, that was a pretty ****ing cool game.

Mirror's Edge (PC), slick presentation and plenty of cool moments.

Braid, story-telling and certain moments.

Call of Duty 4, C-130 mission.

Crysis, blowing up a hut with a grenade.. awesome.

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#7 Trinners
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The sheer detail and scale of WoW was pretty awesome.

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#8 CyberRuler
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All of MGS4
All of Braid
All of GTA4
All of Shenmue II

To be specific though, the Rooftop Fight in Shenmue II amazed me... idk why it just did:oops:

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#9 brandontwb
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Lots and lots of games. Pretty much any game I've dedicated time to.
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C&C: Tiberian Dawn: I loved the lines "Nuclear Warhead Approaching" and "Airstrike ready."

Doom: Seeing the Cyberdemon made my jaw drop. And after getting the BFG9000, I felt like laughing like an evil maniac XD

C&C: Tiberian Sun: The Mammoth MKII, Cyborg Commando and the soundtrack just astounded me.

Super Metroid: The amazing soundtrack and the Mother Brain surprise just made it all better.

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The first time you fired up Half-Life 2 back in 04. If that didn't make your jaw drop, I don't know what it would take.

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this screenshot pretty much shows one of the few games that has made my jaw drop with beauty, I know there are others with better GFx, but IMO the art style in Nuts and Bolts just cant be beat

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heavenly swords qte combos

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Dead Rising: What? Really? There is no way THIS is going to be a weapon...*ten seconds pass* ok..I was wrong.

Halo1,2,3,0DST: So my dreams are complete of what makes a fantasy, futuristic shooter.

Mega man every one: This boss is SO getting pwned by me. *after 10 tries later* "*** you *** *** ***." you get the point.

Dead Space: *jawdrop*

Mirror's Edge: Not your typical FPS that is to say the least.

Final Fantasy everyone: I don't give a crap about the new "Uber magic casting system"...give me the story.

The World Ends With You: My half way portable gaming zen master piece.

Bloody Roar everyone: A classic since I was a young'n

These games where awesome, and most of my life, along with the anime and comic book (even manga) read ins. With slight intervention with my bands.

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Four words, Metal Gear Solid Four. Im still amazed at their incredible attention to detail. And the graphics are top notch.
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Scribblenauts, Zack and Wiki, Shadow of the Colossus, Way of the Samurai, Megaman x, Final Fantasy 4 and 6.

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Infamous boss fights

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All of the weapons in Perfect Dark 64 especially the secondary fire mode for the Lap top gun :o!!!!!
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Flower.

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Golden Eye 64 "A tank!? I get to use a tank!?". You know dual wielding a grenade launcher and a P90 was complete awesomeness as well. Shadow of the Colossus. Every Colossus.

Final Fantasy 7. FMVs. Back when I was 8 they were stunning no matter how dated they look now. Battlefield 2. The huge fights.

BF: Bad Company. Destructible environments.

MGS series. Too many moments to say really. Uncharted 2. Almost any time a helicopter shows up awesomeness is about to happen. Left 4 Dead. All of it. Those are the ones that pop in my head right now. There are of course many many more.
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Super Smash Bros Brawl - just from the fights with friends, it gives so many memorable moments.

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Games did this when?
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God of War 2- The whole game. Incredible.

Uncharted 1 and 2- be it the graphics, animations, and story of the first or the train and those "moments" in 2, both were amazing

Heavenly Sword- QTE!!!

MGS4 Raiiden vs. Vamp- nuff said

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SSX of course.
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Too many to name...
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#26 unknown1z
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MGS4- Too many

Uncharted 2- choo chooo!!!

Back in the day: FFVII summons

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inFamous & Assassin's Creed.
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Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time (Clank) Demo. It was so awesome, but kind of annoying.

Uncharted 2. It's so interactive, and the faces made you feel like you were there.

Wii Sports Resort: 1:1 Sword Fighting = Amazing!


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Volvagia in ocarina of time

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#30 deactivated-5b78379493e12
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Games did this when?sonicthemegaman

You mean you don't really enjoy the games you play?

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This

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#32 sonicthemegaman
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[QUOTE="sonicthemegaman"]Games did this when?jimkabrhel

You mean you don't really enjoy the games you play?

I mean what is supposed to wow me about games?
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#33 deactivated-5b78379493e12
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[QUOTE="jimkabrhel"]

[QUOTE="sonicthemegaman"]Games did this when?sonicthemegaman

You mean you don't really enjoy the games you play?

I mean what is supposed to wow me about games?

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Rolling around in water with drake
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#35 treedoor
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this screenshot pretty much shows one of the few games that has made my jaw drop with beauty, I know there are others with better GFx, but IMO the art style in Nuts and Bolts just cant be beat

dragonfly110
Yah, truly one of the beauties of this gen. I never played through it though. My friend doesn't own an HDTV, so trying to read all the text in that game was horrible :( Anyways for me I'd say Half Life 2. The gravity gun is awesome. I always thought it was cool using it.
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#36 sonicthemegaman
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[QUOTE="jimkabrhel"]

[QUOTE="sonicthemegaman"][QUOTE="jimkabrhel"]

You mean you don't really enjoy the games you play?

I mean what is supposed to wow me about games?

Sorty if game community is in shambles. I didn't do that.