Your biggest "Whoa" moments in video gaming (Possibly Spoilers)

YouSavedMyLife

Title say it all.

Off the top of my head ill list afew of mine.

The intro to Final Fantasy 8. The CGI in that was amazing at the time and the music coupled with the action on screen just blew me away when i first booted it up the game. I restarted the PSone as soon as it finished just to watch it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q09quI356sQ

The murder of Poseidon in God of War 3. The fight itself was amazing, but i was kinda spoiled by watching half of it on the net weeks before release. But I didnt see the cutscene/quicktime section where Kratos is brutally beating the crap out him. But the icing on cake was that for the whole section your view is the FPS of Poseidon instead of Kratos! Genius move!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEQc8n-844k

Everything Uncharted 2. Man that game was total eyecandy. The beautiful graphics, vibrant colours, the stunning vistas. Id sum up this game in a word it would be, GLORIOUS! Not to mention the killer gameplay sections: The Tank, The Train, The Plane. Its gonna be a tota media blackout of me on Uncharted 3. Review scores be damned this game will be GLORIOUS!

The first encounter with the Reapers in Mass Effect. The conversation with the repear was spine chilling. The type of language the use gives you a sense that they are the ultimate being, gods even. After that convo you just think.



I had more when i thought up the idea for this thread 2 days ago but i have forgotten :rolleyes:

obliviousgrudge

DRIV3R
Tanner leaves to Jericho to live, only to get shot and end up in ER, and the game ended with a cliffhanger, which is yet to be answered. Best FMV ever!

Xluna

Aeris dies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx3duFYCcho

SFII for snes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ZP_a389Dw

Realising how bad FFXIII sucks. That was a big "whoa" moment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTY-WxSyqxY

Discovering the fantastic Suikoden series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HBAaL0I1rI

The many plot twists of Terranigma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCnfHFiUuvE

pablomakaveli

My biggest whoa moment was playing Vice City for the first time.

I got it with my brand new PS2 and had'nt played GTA3 so it was my first time playing GTA in 3D. I remember tearing around in a jeep to Billie Jean on christmas morning.:D

Another moment was playing a demo of MOH frontline (which was the second level. ) I remeber i had the sound up loud so when i got to the machine gun at the start of the level just hearing it drilling into the germans was pretty special.

Playing Oblivion all the freedom and the size of the world i had to explore was also a bit of a whoa moment.

As mentioned Aeris's death in FF7 came as a suprise too.

Getting the magnum in Res 2 and blowing a zombies head of it made me go whoa.

Playing Call of Duty 1 when it first came out. When the mortar explodes beside you and it affects your vision and your hearing - no game had ever done that before.

Max Payne - the first time you enter Bullet-time mode.

VenomIreland

Finding The Master in Fallout.

His/Her/It's voice(s) scared me.

Gi joe!

I've always found bosses that were GIGANTIC to give me that 'whoa' feeling. Just the feeling of being dwarfed used to scare the hell out of me as a wee lad.

The stone temple boss in Majora's Mask, can't remember it's name exactly, but it was big centipede about 100 times the size of you. The coolest part was you had to wear that mask to grow a few stories just to fight it.:D

Don't know why I've never played SOTC. Sounds like that game was made for me.

Agricola

PscyhoMantis in Metal Gear Solid.

When he mentioned that I played alot of ISS Pro, I nearly bricked it!

Decerto

Onimusha 3 intro, hands down best intro to a game ive ever seen, this youtube clip doesnt do it justice due to the quality
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3nil3KC3n0&feature=related

Jaafa

seeing this on tv for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccWrbGEFgI8

bazzosh

all the GTAs after 3 blew me away! especially in GTA4 the vistas are mind boggling!

Being locked in the cell in MGS 1. that was kind of a wow moment.

The detail in the lighting and shadowing and texture of the weapons and surroundings in COD mod 2.

so many good times....

Blatter

Going back to Shadow Moses in MGS4 was amazing.

Daemos

Both in Uncharted 2

Shooting the guy who had the missile launcher in the distance and seeing the tower blow up and collapse. Made all the better by Drake's "sh1t, did I do that?"

And in the train yard after you crash the train through the wall, and you're surrounded with enemies, gunfire and grenades coming at you from every direction.

fuzztone

Medal of Honour Allied Assault - The Omaha Beach level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piTTgwSR-K0

Shadow of the Collossus - Seeing Valus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbqt_XlXRl4

Zelda 3 - Visiting the Dark World for the first time.

Oblivion - Leaving the sewer for the first time.

kwalshe

coming on to the beach in an early MOH game. When i completed the level and zoned out, my heart was racing and i was breathing like i'd just been bonking the oh

chin_grin

My face did this -> :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgjdFlUtgHI

Mr E

Finding Polito in System Shock 2 is one of my favourites.

From recent games, the whole scorpion fight on the last level of Enslaved Journey to the West.

Blatter

I was only around 10 or 11 when playing this and I nearly **** myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eTjMjehifY

Liber8or

In no particular order:

Medal of Honour: Allied Assault - When the front panel of the landing raft drops and you make your way up the beach.

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic -

Finding out you are Revan

Half-Life 2 - The Physics Gun.

World of Warcraft - Taking a flight from two very distant places and seeing the vastness of Azeroth or Kalimdor.

World in Conflict - The nuke; everything from that sound burst to the sheer devastation.

BioWare games - How easily they draw you in and keep you gripped with compelling stories and characters for hours/days on end.

Mortal Kombat - Pulling off a gruesome but awesome fatality.

To be honest, there are many many moments that make gamers go "whoa", I just can't remember them all! Great memories though!

fuzztone

Oo I nearly forgot this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfoXXefZVhc

Penn

Has to be Psycho Mantis in MGS. Reading your memory card, moving your controller (cheap trick, but still brilliant), then the method with which you have to beat him. An absolutely genius bit of work that completely blew me away at the time.

Others include your first encounter with a Licker in Resident Evil 2 (I'd never played RE1 so didn't know what to expect), the ending of Soul Reaver 1, the opening scene in Devil May Cry. Probably so many more but hard to think.

ProjectColossus

This early section from Half Life 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a82z5T02P9M

It was a real "Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" moment.

tonydude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6srxp1-9I

Was very young at the time when i played this, when i saw it for the first time i actually turned the ps off and didnt play it for weeks. Scary stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aalAPyVwlcg

My jaw fell off when i first saw this and to this day its amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNv-oJ8nB_8

Maybe ye remember this game, was a ''woah'' game for me anyway

K.O.Kiki

Secret of Mana -- Boss Thanatos music

Still sends chills down my back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLWc6iG-iuI

Tenchu 2 -- Stealth kills
I remember once dropping onto a guard's head (jump kill), then I had to quickly kill his mate (3m away, side kill).
JUST as the animation ended, a 3rd guard came round the corner, so I quickly ran up and just about got him before he could raise the alarm.
Felt GLORIOUS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhbAR9uOjv8

And...
Shadow of the Colossus.
Final boss (#16, Malus).
...
yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqeA106E0Qs

corcaigh07

shenmue-some incredible moments in the 2 games. best one i think of is actually the most unimportant one, its when you get your ass handed to you by Izumi in Shenmue 2, the 3rd floor of the casino. a cool way to lose!

red dead redemption-the moment after the bridge has collasped and John is looking down at the river. the water effects are amazing, a real WHOA moment. also was the first game i was stuck into after finally buying a HDTV. worth it even just to see that as intended...

marco_polo

For sheer initial impact, 12 years later this is still tops for me personally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAqbdtsK6NI

L31mr0d

Intro to Shadow of the Beast II on the commodore amiga. I was 8. I was sleeping over at a friends house. We woke up in the middle of the night to sneak down stairs to the back room to try out this new game he had gotten his hands on. To put some context to it, he lived in a country home in the middle of nowhere, and the house was freezing at night. So we sat shivering in front of his A500 in the dark, and booted up this game for the first time.

We where snickering about being up at 3am, and scoffing back frosties (the candy). Then the intro started.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-_8vz6eGf0

By the time it was over we where both white as a sheet, eyes fully dilated. Staring at the screen in shock.

Optimalprimerib

The very first time i played super mario bros. I had played a few games but died at the exact same spot doing the exact same thing each time. The next time i pressed start, the music began. The first few games i thought i was playing was just the demo. I nearly yet myself when the real game began.

Every little discovery i made in that game after that aswell.

The first boss battle in zelda ocarina of time. The sheer size of it had my jaw hit the floor.

In the same game returning to the rock people when you are grown to discover one of the children named after you. I nearly cried.

The free flowing gameplay of prince of persia sands of time. When this was released, games were bogged down with huge inventory systems and collectables. This was just pure gameplay.

The theatre level and napolean level in psychonauts. So so clever

The claw boss in half life. Sneaking past that had me backed up against a wall in a cold sweat.

Was Half Life the first to have introductions like that? I know Medal of Honour and Call of Duty had similar ones.

Pretty recent one, but from about 2:33 til about 4:21 of Dead Space has been the biggest "woah" moment for me in recent history

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we1oLVRobYQ

Oh- probably hearing Guybrush Threepwood speak for the first time in Monkey Island 3. I had grown up with these games so it was a monumental occasion for me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL0086T-u6A

Sephiroth_dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xucr6uBGxFY

Finding out master is actually liquid,my heart literally leapt out of my mouth.

JamBur

Agricola wrote: »

PscyhoMantis in Metal Gear Solid.

When he mentioned that I played alot of ISS Pro, I nearly bricked it!

or when he tells you to put controller on the floor and then moves it using the vibrate function...... was brilliant!