Your most memorable moments in gaming

SPOILERS BENEATH - I'n not tagging them since spoilers are bound to be in a thread like this.

In no particular order:

1. Arriving on the shores of Mexico in Red Dead Redemption, greeted by a horse and Jose Gonzalez's 'Far Away' as I make my away across the barren landscape to town.
2. Dying at the hands of Gunther and a squadron of troops and mechs in Central Park, only to wake up in the cells of Majestic 12 in Deus Ex. After being released by a mysterious figure, I make my way out of the cells only to find myself in UNATCO headquarters. NO F***ING WAY, so THAT's what was behind that security door...
3. Making my way through the Cathedral in Fallout. As I descend deeper and deeper, the walls and floor become more and more flesh covered. Then, at the bottom, I come face to face with The Master: a series of circuits, tubes, displays and a voice box connected to a mass of flesh and bone. After an eeire conversation with his many voices, you choose to be assimilated into the Super Mutant army, set off a nuke beneath the complex or just kill him.
4. Finding out that you are in fact Revan in Knights of the Old Republic. I did not see it coming, but on a second playthrough you realise they drop multiple hints that you are Revan.
5. Winning the FA Cup, the EPL and the Champions League with Arsenal in FM2010 after two seasons.
6. "This...is The End". Hearing him breathe as I crawl around trying to take him out.
7. Leaving the Pillar of Autumn escape pod and finding myself on the halo for the first time.
8. Destroying my enemies and beating Alpha Centauri by conquest with the Human Hive.
9. Being placed on a train heading to an unknown location, and then making my way through City 17 for the first time, meeting its inhabitants and then escaping from the patrols and meeting Alyx in Half Life 2.
10. The tram ride at the beginning of Half Life.

Sephiroth killed the tramp, enough said.

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-> Uncharted 3's cruise ship (especially the ending).

-> Finding out you're Revan in KOTOR

-> Heavy Rain, in the challenge where you cut off the tip of the finger

-> Becoming King/Prince-Consort in Dragon Age: Origins

-> Bioshock's revelation of the reality of "Would you kindly..."

-> Ending of Assassin's Creed 2

-> Blowing up Megaton in Fallout 3

-> Independant New Vegas ending for Fallout: New Vegas

-> Reaching the Space Stage for the first time in Spore

-> Battling Red at the end of Pokemon Gold

-> The sky arena in Paper Mario: TYD

-> The end of Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu

-> End of Shadow of the Colossus

Metal Gear Solid 4: walking through the microwave area (wow)

Metal Gear Solid 2: Roy telling me that I've played too much and have to turn off my console :S

Bioshock: Atlas being Frank Fontaine.. "Would you kindly" Scary stuff.

Metal Gear Solid 4: Snake dropping a cig on the floor to peak under naomis skirt

Metal Gear Solid 3: Killing The Boss (why???)

Devil May Cry: playing as Sparda

Metal Gear Solid 4: returning to Shadow Mosses (holy nostalgia)

Tekken 3: Winning local competetion as Eddy Gordo

Metal Gear Solid: Fighting Psycho Mantis

Heavy Rain: Having to cut of the end section of Ethan Mars' finger

Metal Gear Solid 4: Big Boss re-appearing at the end scene

Heavy Rain: Ethan Mars getting shot even though he was innocent and did all he could to save his son

Final Fantasy X: Finding out Tidus was dead ( :cry: )

Metal Gear Solid 4: the ending of the game

Metal Gear Solid 3: Fight The End and having him die of old age in the middle of the fight :lol:

Metal Gear Solid 4: Snake vs Ocelot scene

Those are some of the most memorable parts of my gaming.

Rage quiting and smashing ever controller on ever game system I've owned (except my PS3 I have yet to kill one of the controllers for that system)

Metal Gear Solid 2 - from Arsenal Gear to the ending. One of the most thought provoking segments in a game ever in my opinion.

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis - I was approaching an enemy town in a tank with comrades. Our tanks vs theirs. They won. I remember getting out of my tank in disbelief, calling out to any surviving members of my crew. There was no one. I was all alone, injured, in the middle of an enemy town. What I felt then was a sense of dispair, of emptiness. Then I realized I was playing a video game, and I was so immersed in the game that that moment changed my mood. Crazy.

Stalker series - all of the crazy adventures I went on in those games. I had many. One that stands out is one time I was approaching an enemy encampment. It was nothing I couldn't handle. Just 4 or 5 Duty members. I had a wimpy rifle, but it was again nothing to difficult. Well I approached, fired the first shot, and was overwhelmed by them. I jump from cover to cover because they'd force me out with their grenades. I ran and tried to approach them from a different angle. No dice. They were too much for me. I think I killed one or two. But they had good guns and lots of ammo and I didn't. I retreated. I could not win. As I depart, they radio me: "Don't bring a knife to a firefight, fool!"

Okay I'mma shut my eyes now and think what comes to mind...

Final Fantasy 8 the different calm and great atmospheric moments in the Garden. Fishermans Island, for example.
Final Fantasy 8 end of disc 1, with the great cutscene with that 10/10 music. (That sorceress parade).
Nier emil's scene and the endings! WAAAAAH!!!
Crisis Core, all the ending scenes. Most emotional scenes ever!
Final Fantasy X ending - also sad!
Etc... You know what, I could write a whole essay about this, time to lay off the nostalgia drug for now.

My most memorable? Way back in 1995.

Trying to shake off a Japanese Zero on my six o'clock in 1942: Pacific Air War. Microprose released a patch that made the AI pilots almost like human.

Not much altitude to outdive the Zero. So, I spent most of my time "jinking" around throwing off the Zero's aim just enough. It finally broke off when some "friendlies" happened by. I was actually sweating afterwards.

I haven't seen AI that good since.

My most memorable? Way back in 1995.

Trying to shake off a Japanese Zero on my six o'clock in 1942: Pacific Air War. Microprose released a patch that made the AI pilots almost like human.

Not much altitude to outdive the Zero. So, I spent most of my time "jinking" around throwing off the Zero's aim just enough. It finally broke off when some "friendlies" happened by. I was actually sweating afterwards.

I haven't seen AI that good since.

jun_aka_pekto

That sounds... breathtaking! This reminds me of another post I saw a while ago, where someone was playing a WW2 plane simulator online. He was fighting a difficult enemy. He was low on fuel and low on ammo. They fought for about 15 minutes until both guys ran out of ammo. They then simply said good day to each other and went their separate ways.

That sounds... breathtaking! This reminds me of another post I saw a while ago, where someone was playing a WW2 plane simulator online. He was fighting a difficult enemy. He was low on fuel and low on ammo. They fought for about 15 minutes until both guys ran out of ammo. They then simply said good day to each other and went their separate ways.

organic_machine

Yup. That encounter with the Zero in 1942: Pacific Air War brought home what real Allied pilots were briefed about the Zero which is never try to turn with it because the Zero will run rings around most Allied fighters. It's best to make slashing "zoom n boom" attacks:

Get the altitude advantage

Dive and make one firing pass

Zoom away and climb to replenish energy lost

Dive for another pass

Dogfights online are also much friendlier than say, your typical FPS online multiplayer although I haven't tried it in a while.

The opening to Mass Effect 2

Fighting the first berserker in Gears of War

Final Fantasy 8 ball room dance scene

Alan Wake rock concert

Fighting Lavos on Chrono Trigger

All of Chrono Cross

Legend of Dragoon ending

Going against the first chainsaw guy on Resident Evil 4

There are many. Some games were so memorable all the way through that I can't pinpoint one moment that stood out (OoT my first Zelda for example). My mouth just hung open the whole way through.

There are a few that come to mind immediately for some reason, while the games aren't necessarily great:
- The restaurant part in Indigo Prophecy, where you can see the cop walking slowly to the toilet about to find out about your crimez. Experiencing that what-should-i-do-?! feeling.
- Using the kitten in No One Lives Forever.
- The moment the wings of my airplane tore off with the sound of a fat fart in Red Baron 2.
- The person who flew an A-10 off of the aircraft carrier in Battlefield, managed to immediately turn it upside down without moving forward and exploding into the water next to the carrier.
- The protagonist in Shadows of the Damned reading the first fairytale. Caw! Caw!
- Blowing up that town Megaton in Fallout 3.
- The trial in Chrono Trigger.
- The bad ending in Karate Ka (C64).
- My first Objection with Phoenix Wright.
- Picking up the sword in Prince of Persia (original) and the mirror image.
- The snow level and its awesome music in Golden Eye (N64). First time I felt like actually treading through the snow in a game.
- The conclusion in Portal.
- The first day of World of Warcraft. All those people new to the genre, including me.
- Hearing the voice in Dungeon Keeper. Man that guy has a cool voice.

It´s hard to tell. This gen, the first dialog with Sovereign in Mass Effect, the opening of Mass Effect 2 and Skyrim as a whole.

Especially the first one, easly one of the most memorable moments in my 25 years as a gamer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnDp2mWU7ic

Everything in Chrono Cross, Metroid Prime, and Chrono trigger.

THAT IS ALL.

I don't think I'll ever forget the end to Half Life. Such a crappy (and weird) ending to an amazing game.

-My first video game (the original Arcade Donkey Kong)

-My first 3D game (Super Mario 64)

-Finding out that video games can have a well constructed and meaningful story line (The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker)

-Super Mario Galaxy 2 (completely blew me away the first time I played it because of how original and creative it was. I'm over it now, but nothing can replicate that initial feeling I had with it)

- Shadow of the Colossus ending - First time stepping out of the sewers in Oblivion - All of Nierfoxhound_fox

Geez, Nier completely took over your soul hasn't it

1. Revan's revelation that you are in fact Darth Revan in Knights of the Old Republic:Dand playing through it a second time as a dark side user :)

2. John Martson getting guned down by the US Army and betrayed by Edgar Ross only later playing as Jack Martson and slaying Edgar ina duel.

3.Wardog squadron evolving into The Ghosts of Razgriz in The Unsung War and the final battle in it.

4.Stepping out of the Bumblebee lifepod and walking onto the surface of Halo in Halo Combat Evolved.

5.Exploring "The Zone" in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl

6.Exploring the abanded town in Jurassic Park Trespasser (yes I throughrly enjoyed Trespasser despite all the negitive reviews, plus I was young when that came out too)

7.Enjoying Battlefield 1942 and Battlefield Vietnam on PC :)

8.Assaulting Omaha Beach in Medal of Honor Allied Assault and Medal of Honor Frontline

9. Assaulting Red Square in the original Call of Duty before Activ$ion destroyed that franchise :(

10. Just playing Mass Effect 2 in all its glory and deep story :)

11.Playing Star Wars Rouqe Squadron on the good ol' N64

12.Playing Zombies for the first time with my best friends in Call of Duty World At War

13.Pumping 100 hours into my Kahjit character in Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and completing both DLC quests,Theives Guild,Arena and Dark Brotherhood quests.

14. The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers games on Sega Genesis :)

15.Playing Guitar Hero back when it was cool and when it first came out like playing Cowboys From Hell on Expert

Geez, Nier completely took over your soul hasn't itPikminmaniac

• COD4 - The nuke
• Heavy Rain - When you find out the identity of the Origami killer
• MGS4 - Microwave Scene
• BIoshock - The plot twist
• Red Dead Redemption - The ending
• Mass Effect 2 - The whole final mission

you would think that people would put the name of the game first, then the moment just incase someone doesn't want a certain game spoiled for them, geez.

Finishing gears of war 3 on insane aaah good times