Stand out moments in gaming

gaz38979

FF7: The Part where you see the Midgar Zolom after sepiroth getting too it & where you break out of the shinra building on the motorbike

lordsippa

In Super Skidmarks on the ol' Amiga, in the credits there was one of my favourite easter eggs in any game - "Winners don't lose frogs"

Paper Mario on the GameCube was just beautiful - Peach and the computer were absolutely fantastic scenes though. And the whole arena conspiracy.

FF4 - YOU SPOONY BARD!!!

Sid Meiers Pirates! - rescuing long lost after long lost after long lost brother/sister/mother/father/cousin/aunt/uncle/parrot/dog/etc

Eternal Darkness - The first time you see one of the "Old Ones" just that room and those eyes!

Alone in The Dark (the original) - in the first room after reading about the old man who'd lived there blocking his windows and then...

Sim City - Will Wright deserves kudos for allowing a Godzilla disaster.

Dungeon Keeper - the whole game was just wonderful but especially the intro

Playing the original Settlers multiplayer on the Amiga. We left for a few hours and came back to a map full of trees and dilligent little lumberjacks.

Yoda's Desktop Adventures - there's a special joy knowing that nothing will ever be worse than this.

Eternal Sonata - As the game progresses and the plot fades into the background and the characters delve into existential debates... beautiful.

Ultima 7 - Baking bread for money; Robbing the mint and tax offices without raising a single alarm; and of course the Kilrathi ship...

Morrowind - First time in Sadrith Mora was just wow.

Doom - Seeing that Cyber Demon. Wow!

The Godfather - When they kill your woman... Well a whole gang was killed that day.

Earth Defense Force 2017 - The feeling you get when you see half a city demolished taking out thousands of giant ants cannot be fully described.

5 Days a Stranger - The creeping horror of the game is beautiful. The increasing paranoia, tempered by classic wit was a complete joy. And then that scene when the killer is first unmasked...

Den_M

Glasgow83 wrote: »

Quake 2 when the strogg are torturing the marines and crushing them up nasty!

What a moment! I remember being a bit miffed because Ed Lomas or Tom Guise from CVG magazine kinda spoiled it during the games review but it was still really creepy when you found your lost companions hung on the walls and being processed into meaty chunks with blood soaked machines :pac:

funky penguin

Thief 3, The Cradle.

jesus this was a scary level, but the brilliance of it was realising there was only a handful of enemies AFTER your nerves had been completely shredded.

Morrowind

seeing Vivec for the first time and realising what you'd got yourself into!

FF7

stepping out into the world mappe for the first time and realising there was a whole world to discover!

Assassin's Ceed

Climbing to the top of the cathedral at Acre......taking in the View (on HD!)....then jumping!

Age of Empires II

William Wallace joinging the fray in the tutorial!

God there's so many.....

komodosp

Call of Duty - United Offensive - the first mission, your routine patrol discovers German scouts as a prelude to a large scale attack. You have to frantically fight your way through the gerries with a jeep-mounted gun so you can warn the bosses, and then join the defense against the attack

That whole mission is outstanding...

ReacherCreature

Standout moments for me are -

Splinter Cell Double Agent -

On the last level when you're fighting Emile and you've no gun when he's lacing the place with bullets. You get past the lasers and grab your gun, stood up and fired two rounds into his head. Brilliantly set up by the developers.

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory - Hanging off a pole and snapping a guards neck

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - Just the whole feel of the game. The danger was always there. Standout moments include - Crew Expendable Helo intro, the bomb and then the Bridge was something else.

Halo - Making a mad rush for the pelican with time falling off the clock.

Metal Gear Solid - For the whole 'movie-like' feel of the games.

Assassins Creed - Climbing the cathedral in Acre and making your first stealth kill on a 'boss'.

Mercenaries - Using the ability to call in an attack chopper for you. Then flying away in it. Loved that.

Nephilim Wolf

Doom - Propably one of my first (first person shooters) no pun intended game I ever played on the 32 - X, and then on the Super Nintendo. After a few years I seen it on my friends 486 DX, and I was totally blown away by the graphics, and how much superior they were in comparison. I then got my own PC in 1996 which was a Pentium 120, and its been one of my all time favourite since.

Quake - When this first came out I was seriously impressed with the 3D graphics and overall feel of the game. I wish this was re-released for windows XP and Vista.

Unreal - Agother first person shooter that I completely blown away by. I never bothered with any of the sequels, and this one for is the best. Again I love to see it being re-released for both XP and Vista.

Resident Evil - I got this game way back in 1996, when I came back from holidays. The first time I played it I thought it was very very scary. Definitly the scariest of the whole series for me.

Doom 3 - This game is not next or near as great as the original Dooms from the 90s, but when I first played it I thought it was very frightening. The levels are'nt quite as vast and open as the originals, but it has that real claustrophobic feel about. The Hell level was awesome. If only the rest of the game had these levels it would have been a better game overal.

Okami - I got this game from a lend of a good friend, and I was quite skeptical about it, because I thought it might be too hard and too confusing. Thankfully it was neither and I eventually managed to complete it, with the help of some online guides. Truly a fantastic game.

5uspect

You can get Quake on Steam for a tenner for XP/Vista.

Nephilim Wolf

5uspect wrote: »

You can get Quake on Steam for a tenner for XP/Vista.

Thanks. I never heard of that site before up until now. Is it also available in the shops by any chance?

Zombrex

Half Life - When you are crawling in the tunnel and a marine opens the end and lobs in grenades.

Half Life - You are in the vent and you hear the marines talking and suddenly bullet holes appear in the vent and it collapses.

Such a brilliant game for those types of moments.

Sand

UT (the original and best you johnny come latelies with your ****ing UT200X useless translocator bollocks...)- I remember playing against one of the better CTF teams in the UK/Europe on "our" map, CTF-Dreary, in some league game and managing to get the flag out of their base, dodging and diving all the way past their rather ****ing good players and capping the flag with them pouring into our base...."**** YEAH!!!!" was what I shouted over our coms and pretty much summed it up. We won 2-1 on that map too.

They beat us on CTF-Face though. ****ers.

5uspect

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

Thanks. I never heard of that site before up until now. Is it also available in the shops by any chance?

Steam is a content delivery system something like itunes.
You need to install, validate and run the Steam applications to play games that you buy through it. Its run by Valve that make the Half-life games. Not everyone likes Steam so read about it before you buy.

You might also find a Classic type copy somewhere in a shop that's been patched.

CiDeRmAn

Stand put moments in games.....

Eternal Darkness, when the books start floating about in the library, and seeing the same church again, during the war, knowing things are going to get hairy!

Final Doom, having a go of my mates copy, having finished it myself the year before, and in the 2 mins it took him to get a cuppa, I finished it on him as well, oops!

Star Wars, playing this in the arcade back in the day, holy mothers of gods!

Outrun, playing this in Dublin Airport for the first time, in the lovely Testarossa sit down cab, awesome.

Galaxians, finally getting this to work after fiddling with the head levels on my speccys tape deck, quarter turn this way, quarter turn the other.

Steel Batallion, finding out the hard way that you really really need to know when to eject!

Nephilim Wolf

5uspect wrote: »

Steam is a content delivery system something like itunes.
You need to install, validate and run the Steam applications to play games that you buy through it. Its run by Valve that make the Half-life games. Not everyone likes Steam so read about it before you buy.

You might also find a Classic type copy somewhere in a shop that's been patched.

Thanks, I'll hopefully give it a try sometime, because I have'nt played this game in years.:D

Goodshape

A couple of stand out moments for me ::

The main one that springs to mind is first time seeing Doom being played multiplayer over a LAN in an Internet cafe. Must have been around 1995/6. And then having a go myself. I had had no idea such things were even possible and it got me hooked on gaming up until I got bored with it around Quake3 (not a bad game.. I just moved on).


On a much more recent note, playing Guitar Hero for the first time last night (late to the party, I know) and strumming along to Pearl Jam's 'Even Flow' is the most fun I've had with computer games in a long long time. I'm not a musician by any means but the experience of playing along to songs I've been air guitar-ing to all my life was something else. Seriously surpassed any and all exceptions I had for the game.. which admittedly weren't very high (on paper, it sounds like a ****ing daft idea tbh).

Vegeta

A stand out moment for all the wrong reasons here:

Finished "Too Human" on the 360 over the weekend, probably the worst ending to a game bar maybe some of the Halo games.

L31mr0d

Vegeta wrote: »

probably the worst ending to a game

never played Clive Barkers Jericho have you :pac:

Vegeta

L31mr0d wrote: »

never played Clive Barkers Jericho have you :pac:

No, but if its any worse than "Too Human" it must be a REAL stinker.

I cant play horror games though, I am extremely jumpy so even in broad daylight I can not play anything in the shock genre.

sink

The original fallout. So many stand out moments but my favourite was going back to the Den later in the game with Power Armour and a Plasma Rifle and butchering Metzger and his slaver buddies. It felt righteous.

Fallout 2. In New Reno sleeping, with the crime boss Bishops daughter and then his wife, stealing all the cash and jewellery from his safe only to realise I had forgotten to bring a rope to aid in my escape and having to fight my way out of the casino, killing Bishop and all his men.

Kiith

L31mr0d wrote: »

never played Clive Barkers Jericho have you :pac:

I was about to post the exact same thing. Terrible ending.

marshbaboon

In left 4 dead verus when me and max reached the saferoom at the terminal on level 2, realized that I forgot my passport and max forgot his I-pod so we had to go back and get them. We succeeded.

Then we opened a suitcase inside the building so max could see what panties look like

Grimebox

marshbaboon wrote: »

In left 4 dead verus when me and max reached the saferoom at the terminal on level 2, realized that I forgot my passport and max forgot his I-pod so we had to go back and get them. We succeeded.

Then we opened a suitcase inside the building so max could see what panties look like

what?

Professey Chin

Grimebox wrote: »

what?

I dunno but apparenty he likes to wear panties for his friends while listening to music and travelling


Actually one of my stand out moments just came to mind(and nothing to do with the above)
Not long after the Mega Drive came out here my cousin got one and had it setup in my nannys.I was only about 5/6 at the time and just remember him going check out this game.Put in Sonic 1 but just the 1st time I saw the start up screen and it going "SEGAAAA" I was giddy

ScumLord

Surprised this hasn't come up already but the jetpack in GTA:SA, I felt like a God and laughed maniacally as I flew around the city, it opened up loads of places too.