Most Memorable/Powerful Moments in Gaming (Possible Spoilers)

ancapailldorcha

Batman: Arkham City. Crime Alley.

Resident Evil 3.

The final battle with Nemesis. I remember shouting frantically for the rail cannon's computer to help me when it was charging.

Metal Gear Solid. For reasons stated above.

Dead Rising. Mowing down dozens of zombies with a lawnmower.

Final Fantasy X. My first RPG. Story had me completely and utterly hooked.

Pac1Man

No spoilers here. I remember playing a mission in the real-time-strategy game Company of Heroes where you had to overrun and take control of a hill with various forms of enemy artillary on top. This was located on the far side of the map with numerous advancing enemy positions scattered throughout the map.

You had 30mins to do so with the timer kindly pulsing away in the corner of the screen. I was struggling. Trying to deal with random skirmishes involving enemy tanks, snipers, machine gunners etc. while also trying to make advances towards the hill with it's bombarding artillary was proving difficult.

About 1 minute left, I desperately rolled the dice for the last time. I highlighted every single troop/tank at my disposal and instructed them towards the hill, abandoning the critical positions they should have been defending. About thirty seconds left I knew all was lost. I moved the screen to a quiet section of the map not wanting to witness my failure, sat back, folded my arms and contemplated the different ways I was going to tackle this mission again. I knew it would be a day or two before I tried again since 30 minutes of full concentration took its toll.

10 seconds to go, I moved the screen back to the target hill. My troops had somehow broken through the enemy's defence, planted the explosives and ran for cover. Tick...tock...tick...tock.........KABOOM!. "MISSION COMPLETE" with 5 seconds to spare. It was very much a 'yeah right' Holywood moment but one which I still remember. What a fantastic game.

A-Trak

The ending in Darksiders 1.

"No, not alone"

Retr0gamer

Fragile Dreams on the Wii is full of very moving moments. It's all about how people strive for and need the company others and follows a boy in a post apocalytic world trying to find out if he really is the only person left alive.

Once you get to the very first ghost you meet you know it's going to be tears from here on.

You read about a woman who left her child behind during the apocalytic events before the game promising to come back but never did. Then you find the ghost of that child.

There's plenty more moments like that:

P.F. running out of battery

Finding out the truth behind crow and the merchant

But the biggie for me was

Seto finding the CB radio and finally finding out he isn't alone.

CORaven

Fable 2's ending. That was heart wrenching.

Logical_Bear

just finished god of war 3 there and some of the boss fights were pretty epic.At the start of the game you're crawling on Gaia and the battle against Kronos was fairly good too

K.O.Kiki

I just remembered another moment:

Elite Beat Agents (DS), Stage 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybjMrK7vT6o

Making grown men cry like babies since 2006.

Corholio

One of the most memorable was finally finishing Street Fighter and defeating Bison, firstly with Chun Li. Game endings were relatively new to me at that stage, so seeing Bison fall in slow motion and the ending roll up was quite the feeling of accomplishment.

MitchKoobski

Was reminded of this last night after a friend got the game.

Climbing the mountain towards the end of Journey. I had managed to come across another player so we followed each other towards the end of the game as it went on. Then we hit the snow, and as hard as we tried, he died next to me. And didn't come back. (Possible he left the game....)
I was upset, and decided I wasn't stopping here and I would continue on. Got feckin' emotional towards the top.

Azza

Corholio wrote:

One of the most memorable was finally finishing Street Fighter and defeating Bison, firstly with Chun Li. Game endings were relatively new to me at that stage, so seeing Bison fall in slow motion and the ending roll up was quite the feeling of accomplishment.

The day you completed Street Fighter 2 was the most memorable day in your life. But for Bison it was Tuesday!

Mike Litoris

Finishing my 1st Text Adventure, The Price of Magik, on the C=64 way back in 87.

Cargin

I know it's been posted already, but Bioshock.

OHMYFREAKINGCHRISTBIOSHOCK!!!!

http://www.gophoto.it/view.php?i=http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b66/GuardConvoy/Pictures/video-game-memes-would-you-kindly-play-bioshock.png#.UJ775eT0JQg

Temptamperu

Assassins creed 3. How'd you like those apples? Very much sir, very much indeed.

J. Marston

Temptamperu wrote: »

Assassins creed 3. How'd you like those apples? Very much sir, very much indeed.

Yes, that was cool. My reaction was roughly ''Wait...what? Well, son of a bitch....''

RoverZT

Seeing the Dinosaur in Tomb Raider and Resident Evil in general.



Coming from the mega drive and being 12, everything was a new experience.

I think the licker scene in Resident Evil 2, was the biggest wh4t the f2ck scene ever of my gaming career.

Remember playing it my brother who was 10 at the time and thinking what was that, what was that, did you see that!

Memories

TheFairy

Playing DayZ for the first time, nothing else like it period!

SeantheMan

TheFairy wrote: »

Playing DayZ for the first time, nothing else like it period!

Really ?.....really ?
That is your most memorable moment in your life of gaming ?

Good for you I guess that its fresh and you get to play it in its prime...but wow....you've played some of the other games mentioned in the thread?

Dercola

Have to agree with most that have been mentioned here already.Most of all Aries in Final Fantasy VII. I know its probably the obvious one, but that **** affected me when I was growing up

Another one that I haven't seen mentioned is from Ace Combat 5, The Unsung War. Namely

Chopper getting killed in action and the ceremony for him that followed

That was one game that seriously sucked me in!

Lockky

Quatermain wrote: »

As I said, in the game Beyond Good and Evil, you play a woman who runs a shelter for war orphans in the middle of an alien invasion. Said shelter is built into a lighthouse, which becomes a comforting influence during the harsh war.

Then,

it all turns bad. About two-thirds of the way through the game, the lighthouse is destroyed by the treacherous special forces meant to be protecting the planet, and the children are abducted. You are treated to the scene of the main character comforting the family pet, while mournfully cursing herself for a misplaced sense of heroism. If she hadn't been haring off around the world looking for evidence of a conspiracy, she would have been able to save them. It's an unbearably tragic moment.

Again, I am very sorry for not spoilering in the first place.

I remember being sick in Temple Street for about a month when I was maybe 10 or 11. This was the only game I would play the whole time. Definitely one of the best games I ever played, it was absolutely superb with regards to story and just the generally innovative gameplay. 10/10 everyone should try to get to play this at some point!!!

TheFairy

SeantheMan wrote: »

Really ?.....really ?
That is your most memorable moment in your life of gaming ?

Good for you I guess that its fresh and you get to play it in its prime...but wow....you've played some of the other games mentioned in the thread?

Erm not sure how to respond.....I didn't realise there was a menu I had to pick from.

noodler

Gonna pick something out that rarely get smentioned.

Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep

When playing as Terra and you return home and have to kill your Master Eraquis in order to save Ven

Terra's theme music in that scene was brilliantly used imo.

I also loved the hidden ending scene at the end

Seriously sad, everything that happens in the later games, the fact that armageddon was delayed so long, was down to the sacrifice of the original three Keyblade Masters and it really sets up KH3

GetInTheHole!

More than 25 years ago now at this stage..

But it has to be the part in Chucky Egg - when the duck in the cage gets out and flies about the place after you..

I actually think I may have **** my pants the first the time it happpened..

derfderf

Link's awaking

The ending when you realise the whole island was just the wind fishes dream. After you wake him you see everyone you met disappearing

.
Also being branded THIEF .

Grimebox

In Zelda: Ocarina of Time, accidently jumping out of the farm on the horse and thus stealing Epona for the rest of the game. I had no idea it was possible.

Beefy78

MitchKoobski wrote: »

Was reminded of this last night after a friend got the game.

Climbing the mountain towards the end of Journey. I had managed to come across another player so we followed each other towards the end of the game as it went on. Then we hit the snow, and as hard as we tried, he died next to me. And didn't come back. (Possible he left the game....)
I was upset, and decided I wasn't stopping here and I would continue on. Got feckin' emotional towards the top.

Is it possible to not die at the snow part then? I've 'died' both times I've played it through.

CruelCoin

That level in Hitman: Chronicles where you have to kill the guys in their manor house.

Sneak up to the loft, and throw a can of petrol down the chimney.
BA-BOOOOOOM! LOLOLOLOLOL

Dcully

Not quite a particular game sequence or anything but for me it has to be a league race for Celtic club against England race i had in iracing a couple of years ago.

In the Formula Mazda series i had a 25 lap battle for 2nd place in a crucial league race.
By far the most intense and rewarding experience ive ever had in gaming,quite literally heartstopping stuff.

Some footage of a few laps

https://vimeo.com/3556173

GarIT

I don't know if it's been mentioned but for me it could only ever be GOW3

Dom sacrificing himself to save the rest of the group

or maybe GOW2

Dom killing his wife after she went mental from being tortured

or GOW2 again

Tai killing himself even though he was saved from being tortured

Mike Litoris

Dcully wrote: »

Not quite a particular game sequence or anything but for me it has to be a league race for Celtic club against England race i had in iracing a couple of years ago.

In the Formula Mazda series i had a 25 lap battle for 2nd place in a crucial league race.
By far the most intense and rewarding experience ive ever had in gaming,quite literally heartstopping stuff.

Some footage of a few laps

https://vimeo.com/3556173

Haha the sweaty palms, the uncontrollable shaking and the worry you are going to fcuk it all up on the last lap!

My first online race win in Grand Prix Legends (11 years ago now :eek:) is similar.
After about 8 months of practise I was at the level that I could keep up with the front runners at Monza. I took the lead with 2 laps to go after dicing with the leader most of the race. Trying to keep him behind and to keep the car on the track with fast fading tyres was horrendous. I was a shaking, sweating, ecstatic mess after it.:P

Dcully

Mike Litoris wrote: »

Haha the sweaty palms, the uncontrollable shaking and the worry you are going to fcuk it all up on the last lap!

My first online race win in Grand Prix Legends (11 years ago now :eek:) is similar.
After about 8 months of practise I was at the level that I could keep up with the front runners at Monza. I took the lead with 2 laps to go after dicing with the leader most of the race. Trying to keep him behind and to keep the car on the track with fast fading tyres was horrendous. I was a shaking, sweating, ecstatic mess after it.:P

Yes the sweaty palms and uncontrollable shaking is so true.
GPL was and still is fantastic, it set the bar for everything else for years.