What are the most epic moments in gaming you've experienced?

One of my favorites is the stair sequence in the original Metal Gear Solid. Why is it special? Playing this game in 1998, you just had endured the torture sequence and are now trying to escape. All of a sudden you find yourself trying to climb through flights of stairs while trying to fend off what seems like hundreds of enemies lol..and then when you finally reach the top, you have to fight odd the Hind D on top of a roof.. which then leads to yet another epic moment, escaping the facility by climbing down the side of the building with a rope.. And that my friends is one of the most epic moments in gaming.

How about you, SW? What are the most epic moments in gaming you've experienced?

Shooting fruit in Halo Infinite with Doom 1993 physics has to be the best gaming experience in decades.

Was playing DCS World and flying my A-10C in a mission. Lined up an absolutely perfect bomb run with some CBU-97 cluster bombs that took out every tank in this armor column. Was super rewarding and epic.

Did a couple gun runs on some trucks and light armor after that and returned to base. It's nice when missions go according to plan.

Not my video, but kind of an example.

There are heaps that come to mind, but I'll just say all of Super Mario Odyssey.

Very old video but still one of my fav moments in an MP game.

The final level in Halo: CE for the first time.

Coming out of the sewers in Oblivion for the first time.

Just a couple off the top of my head. :P

Most epic moment in gaming ever was the very first time I played 3D. I remember seeing the TV commercials for Mario 64 in 1996 and it showed a 3D world that prior to seeing it, you couldn't even comprehend was possible. And playing it for the first time did not disappoint. Nothing will ever be as epic in gaming again, at least not for a very long time as the first ever jump to a third dimension having grown up on 2D.

• Shooting down a J-10 jet in Battlefield 2 by myself in a attack chopper using a tv missile
• Pulling off infinite combos in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
• Sniping somebody in mid air playing MOHAA MP
• Doing a backwards flip on a motorcycle over a house in GTA V using Franklin's speed ability.

Playing the Halo 5 campaign. Will never forget.

and on and on and on..

The train never stops.

Going to Labx16 for first time in STALKER SoC was mind blowing.

Alot of great memories from World of Warcraft back in the day.. A guild on the Alliance side had some ceremony in game for someone who died IRL, and for some stupid reason, they did it on neutral ground and posted it on the forums. This guild talked alot of shit on battlegrounds, so we waited until they all got together for this ceremony and slaughtered every last one of them. They where backtracking, trying to re-equip their gear, and screaming in rage as we went full Viking on them. It was beautifully brutal and hilarious.

Going to be boring and say playing mario 64 was unlike anything I'd played anywhere else a truly classic experience.

when weltall transform into xenogear.

Most of Half-Life 2's unrelenting action sequences (except the waterboat)

The keystone battles in Hellblade VR were so intense - from Fenrir to battling big mobs at once. Head on a swivel!

Coming out of the sewers in Oblivion

Encountering the dinosaurs in Tomb Raider

Intense final moments of battles in StarCraft leading to a plot point

Blowing up the Eiffel Tower with one of your friends inside in Twisted Metal 2 comes to mind.

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. Start of a clan match. Both teams are rolling out of our bases. I'm driving a tank. Rolling at full speed when I line my sights straight down the map above their base and fire a shot. About 3 seconds later 5 kills tally at the top of the screen. I just shot down their chopper not even 10 seconds into the match. My team goes crazy over the mic and we steamroll the other team.

Metal Gear Solid 4 ending and the last level. That part where you have to crawl through that burning microwave was bloody insane.

God of War 3's opening for sure

Other's ...

Something from Shadow of the Colossus

Mass Effect - most of the 2nd half of Virmire

Ending of Act4 in MGS4

Motorstorm Apocalypse had this one race where a Ferris wheel gets knocked off it's support and there may have been water spouts raging around you. Pretty cool

honestly, the first RE1 on ps1. I had never seen anything like that at the time. Then, probably beating FF7. It was just such an odyssey when I finally got to the end of it.

Most were playing Unreal Tournament 2013 on PC. Countless moments.

Conan seems to disagree about that but I agree it was memorable (and frustrating lol).

They are mostly Arma/Dayz related back in the original Dayz mod era.

one that stands out is in a Arma 2 mod called Wasteland where you try and set up a base and defend it against attackers while going out and completing objectives and scavenging for weapons/supplies.

Me and a bunch of friends were playing and discovered another even bigger group had set up a massive base on one of the old castle ruins on the map. It became our mission to invade and take over the base as our own or at least steal all their shit.

Our first couple attempts were not successful - they were defending it well and had a spawn beacon so they kept returning.

Eventually, a few of us managed to infiltrate the base, and destroy the spawn beacon. They had a ton of hard to obtain weapons and supplies so we decided to steal everything and take it back to our base. While we were loading it all into a truck, the other group rolled back in with a bunch of vehicles. They killed one of us, but me and the other guy managed to take them all out and escape with all their stuff.

If you haven't played Arma or this specific mod even its hard to convey how intense an experience this was but I don't think I've ever felt so excited while gaming before or since.

the other guy even made a video of the endeavor

Maybe the boss battles in Shadow of the Colossus, and the implementationof its dynamic soundtrack that changes along with the progression of the fights. And the narrative transitions are subtle, beautiful, but effectively minimalist as well.

In rome total war i managed to beat a large Egyptian army with a few catapults and a small contingent of infantry. they just kept sending up small numbers from their army and i managed to just chisel away at them with the catapults. I was on top of a hill which was always helpful. when the army finally retreated it was such a relief :D.

....of course in the next turn the army attacked me again and wiped me out so.... :(.

Another one was an unexpectedly great result in Hungary in F1 2017. Hungary is not a track i am strong on. I was also in a very poor Mclaren. but this race was wet. for whatever reason the car handling felt great on intermediate tyres. The AI was switching to full wets and i was advised to do the same but i was putting good times in on the intermediates so i stayed out. Eventually the track dried up but i essentially pitted one time less than everyone else so i managed to finish 8th which was brilliant! I wasn't expecting to score any points at all.

I've been gaming since the 2600 so I've seen so many epic moments that it's honestly hard to remember them anymore. :(

Playing arcade games on the 2600, even though they sucked compared to the actual arcade games for 7 year old me it was amazing! Pole Position and Pacman at home on my own tv, WHAT!!!

The first level and boss fight in God of War, I got a demo disc of the game in the mail (they use to do this for ps1 and early PS2 games and it was awesome, an epic moment in itself) and it blew me away, the character was awesome, the setting was amazing, the boss was huge and badass, it made me need that game.

Getting my brothers childhood SNES from him (he had it in his garage stashed away for 10 plus years) and playing Turtles in Time with my son, and beating the game with him. Same with X-Men the Arcade game (ps3) and Streets of Rage 2 (ps3).

The End boss Fight in MGS3

Kuze Final boss fight in Yakuza 0 (I was so pumped, Kuze was such a great antagonist the entire game, loved finally being able to put him down for good)

Web Swinging in Spiderman PS4

Off the top of my head

Final Fantasy VII - Crazy Motorbike Chase

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty - Intro

It is so weird that most of the epic gaming moments are just cinematics.

Pretty much anything in Outer Wilds is epic AF.

I’ve experienced many epic moments in gaming over these many years. A couple of my early ones are:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game - most everything in the game felt epic but mostly the boss fights and the Technodrome stage. When I first saw this game at my local arcade it blew my mind. It was the tv show come to life.

Contra III: The Alien Wars - most of this game was epic as well. Cool boss fights, the plane zooming in and bombing the stage in the first level, riding missiles while shooting out the back of the jet, etc. The game just felt like an epic thrill ride.

Lmao... what a clown he is.

@Pedro: Ummm...there's way more gaming moments then cinematics in this thread.

Ouch...

STALKER Anomaly.

Entered the Garbage when an emission siren began blaring. Booked it to the train yard and fought my way into a train car in the center. NPC bandits, also seeking refuge from the storm, began pouring in from both sides, as well as another faction, both of who were enemies as well as hostile to me. Already low on ammo and health, I managed to fight off encroaching enemies from both sides while the emission rocked the building, which made aiming nigh impossible. In addition to this, my weapon was in poor shape and kept jamming. I ended up surviving by the skin of my teeth, with only a few pistol clips left and a sliver of health. Best gaming experience I’ve ever had.

STALKER, by far, has given me many of these moments where various systems come together to make emergent situations that are highly immersive.

@ghosts4ever: 👍🏼

@SolidGame_basic: I got Halo 2 at launch. Took the day off of work to play it. When I got to that section where you have to board the scarab, I assume what most people do/did is follow it to the end of the trench, and board there. Me? I grabbed a rocket launcher off the bridge and jumped on it while moving. As soon as I did, the "Rock Anthem To Save The World" music came on, and I was like "Oh, yeah!".

It was a very cool and unexpected moment.

The final boss in Yoshi's Island- Baby Bowser.

Breath of the Wild- emerging from the cave at the beginning

Opening of Resident Evil 4

Discovering the world layout and connectedness in Dark Souls

@eoten: Yeah, the jump to 3D was pretty epic. For me it was Quake, though playing Mario 64 the first time was quite memorable as well. At first I remember being kind of disappointed with how boxy and jagged everything looked, but those concerns went away once it hit me just how much more interesting level layouts could be. Whenever I reached the end of a level, I would go back and search every corner, jump in every puddle (early 3D swimming was so fun) looking for secrets and hidden passages. I got more enjoyment out of exploring than shooting in that game.

Then a few years later, Soul Reaver came around and did the same thing but with one continuous, sprawling, interconnected world. Blew my little mind all over again.

Correct answer. One that was solidified with Extreme Beach Volleyball.

1.) Del Lago boss fight in Resident Evil 4.

2.) The bank heist in GTA IV

3.) The sequence after the final boss in Mario Odyssey (want to avoid spoilers for whoever hasn't played it... It's not *that* old)

4.) The opening sequence of Uncharted 2

5.) Delivering Cortana in Halo Reach

The first time I ever chainsawed a locust in Gears of War. I was so giddy.