Your favorite moments in video games (Or "WOW" moments"

Soygen said:

In Phantasy Star 2, at the end, when you realize the bad guys are the surviving Earthlings looking for a new planet after the destruction of Earth. Then your party said "fuck it" and attacks them, knowing they're going to die regardless. That shit blew my 13 year old mind! Now it would just look like some ham-fisted global warming propaganda.

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That whole thing was global warming.propaganda even down to the dams

Speaking of Mass Effect, I'm playing through them atm and working on ME2. the suicide mission is fucking epic. Totally dependent on how many side quests you did as to who lives and dies. Originally I was expecting the last boss to be something akin to Saren from ME1, but ended up being something else completely huge lol.

Biggest wow moment for me was probably SWG Beta when I first loaded into Tatooine for the first time. It made my inner fan boy squee.

Soygen said:

Right, but I wasn't woke when I was 13!

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Me neither

Aaron said:

A literal "wow" moment was logging onto WoW for the first time, creating a human warrior and entring Northshire Abbey. The immersion, epic music, dieing from standing in a camp fire, then running to this HUUUGE city of Stormwind.

Also, becoming a Spectre in ME1.

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when i walked into stormwind and saw the giant statues of the crew that went through the dark portal... wow gets a lot of crap but the vision they had when it started was amazing

I've been wow'd by both graphics and gameplay;

Graphics:
#1 Super Mario 64. Jaw dropping

#2 Farcy 1. Goofy fun FPS romp with decent multiplayer. Turned on HDR lightning for the 1st time ever and my Nvidia card nearly burst into flame but my god was that jungle map gorgeous

#3 Metal Gear Solid 1. Seeing Snake talk shit about sneaking cigarettes to the mission in his gut, and then lighting up and casually smoking before he murks motherfuckers, TOO COOL

Gameplay
#1 Tie between the SHEER FUCKING MADNESS of WoW Tarren Mill classic pvp and WAR online first month. Regardless of faction, non stop meat grinder gaming that I'll never forget

#2 Xenogears. The ideas, plot, and MUSIC of this game endure, apparently forever. Wild to think that it was released over 20 years ago.

#3 STALKER Shoc. Even among horror greats like SIlent Hill and Fatal Frame, the atmosphere of SHOC sank deeper into my soul than any film, novel or game ever has.

notable mention GFX: Planetside 2
Game: Lunar 2 on the good ole sega CD

My first quarter playing Space Invaders, Tempest and Robotron 2084.

Finishing Ultima IV in two sessions of 40 hrrs straight each when I was in high school.

Finishing Zork I (no hintbook).

Finishing Spindizzy on the C64. Hardest game I ever beat.

Getting grrandmaster ending of Wizardry IV.

My first session of Everquest.

Playing Diablo I free preview thing before it's release.

Starcraft I too.

Getting to lvl 44 on LoadRunner C64

Doom multiplayer on modems.

Baldur's gate 1-2 - sense of exploration and discovery and just nicely visualized D&D. Story developments quite the hook..

Mass effect - first time a story actually moved me nearly like a good film, especially the end. But just every big plot moment was incredible and I was amazed at the time how bioware combined so much Sci-Fi history into one hell of a compelling story. The whole damn thing was epic.

Eq2 - venekor pvp server, contested mob raiding in kingdom of sky, including pvp defense was probably best MMO moment ever. Guild I was in even announcing the time we were going to attempt the kill to drive up PVP action.

Witcher 3- see mass effect comment , story mattered and felt like a movie. When the redhead chick left in that boat.

#1 is Skyrim - exploring, sandbox I still play it to this day. Just the whole damn thing.

Battlefield Vietnam - drinking a 6 pack of Budweiser and smoking cigs, listening to the music from that era and my GF at the time coming over and was like WTF has happened to you.

shabushabu said:

Getting to lvl 44 on roadrunner C64

Doom multiplayer on modems.

Baldur's gate 1-2 - sense of exploration and discovery and just nicely visualized D&D. Story developments quite the hook..

Mass effect - first time a story actually moved me nearly like a good film, especially the end. But just every big plot moment was incredible and I was amazed at the time how bioware combined so much Sci-Fi history into one hell of a compelling story. The whole damn thing was epic.

Eq2 - venekor pvp server, contested mob raiding in kingdom of sky, including pvp defense was probably best MMO moment ever. Guild I was in even announcing the time we were going to attempt the kill to drive up PVP action.

Witcher 3- see mass effect comment , story mattered and felt like a movie. When the redhead chick left in that boat.

#1 is Skyrim - exploring, sandbox I still play it to this day. Just the whole damn thing.

Battlefield Vietnam - drinking a 6 pack of Budweiser and smoking cigs, listening to the music from that era and my GF at the time coming over and was like WTF has happened to you.

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Bro, Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam were definitely unforgettable and formative gaming experiences that no other FPS ever has come close to for me. The music, the emotes, the transport vehicles, and simple teamwork was amazing.

So sad what Dice has de-volved into.

Fight said:

Bro, Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam were definitely unforgettable and formative gaming experiences that no other FPS ever has come close to for me. The music, the emotes, the transport vehicles, and simple teamwork was amazing.

So sad what Dice has de-volved into.

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I played the shit out of battlefield 1942 as well !

Still makes me want to drink beer... TURN UP VOLUME.

j00t said:

when i walked into stormwind and saw the giant statues of the crew that went through the dark portal... wow gets a lot of crap but the vision they had when it started was amazing

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Yeah that was cool, not many people knew who they were either. I think most of the WoW players came from Warcraft 3 - me included but I went back to play Warcraft 2 and expansion.

Sucks that 3 of them just ended up being minor Burning Crusade quest givers, though they went back later and made Khadgar more important. Then they made the last two really anime with holy and shadow powers.

yeah, i would have liked danath to have had a larger role, it sort of feels like they've forgotten about him... and yeah, they made turalyon and windrunner super tropey because they want to focus on the idea of the light and shadow not being exactly what we thought those things were

Lots of stuff in EQ and WoW, playing FFII & III on SNES with my dad.

More recently tho, the sequence in God of War where BOY is sick and Kratos realizes what he has to do to survive the Ice. The whole boat ride, busting through the floor, strapping up the blades, then the first fight with them, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. One of my favorite moments in any game I have ever played or watched.

Aaron said:

Was thinking of mentioning Far Cry 1. Was pretty "wowy" crawling through the grass, sniping people on far away bridges.

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Until that fucking stealth section. That game went from one of the best at the time to one of the worst.

My favorite boss fight of any game and he was the first in it.

The first thing that spring to mind is solving a clever puzzle in Snatcher. It's a japanese style text adventure game by Hideo Kojima which is a mix of Blade Runner, Terminator and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The thing is I played it in japanese with very limited notion of the language and the clever puzzle required text input and was part visual clues and part word play... also this was pre-internet, I was the only idiot playing it that I knew and no one was fluent in japanese in my circle of friends. I don't think it took me that much time to solve the puzzle, but at first it seemed so insurmountable a task and the puzzle ended up being so clever that almost 30 years later I remember it vividly.

Playing a strange unknown game at the Konami booth at the ECTS in 1998. It immediately intrigued me because of its mundane american mid west setting and two minutes into the demo, you walk in a narrow L shaped alleyway and you get the most intricate 3D camera movement ever devised. WOW. The game was Silent Hill.

When you arrive in Kathmandu in Uncharted 2 (honorable mention in the same game: the nepalese village).

The first time you jump in Journey. The carefully designed friction of the leap, flight and subsequent slide-landing managed to turn one of the most basic video game action into a pure elation engine (honorable mention in the same game: just about everything).

At the end of 1990, having somewhat recently bought a NES and being told about some new store in town that is importing video games from Japan. Going there, finding the store closed, but as window dressing there was a TV with the running demo of F-Zero on SFC... WOW!