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--- Quote from: rasufelle on 20 Oct 2006, 20:29 ---In Grandia 2, when Millenia then (can't remember his name at the moment, big Beastking guy) sacrificed themselves to save everyone else.? Crappy cinematics, but the entire time I was thinking that I was bawling my eyes out.? The ending of that game's pretty good too, but I probably just think so because it's the first (and so far only) RPG I've ever actually kept my attention on long enough to beat

Really, the spot in just about every Final Fantasy game where one of the main characters dies or sacrifices themselves to save the others.? That always gets to me... *sniff*

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that would be mareg.
lets see who i can remember from that game
ryudo, skye, millenia, elena, roan, tio, mareg, melfice, pope zera, aira (blind girl), hrmm

BEAST KING SMASH
TENSEIKEN SLASH
THE SOMETHING FAMILY SECRET.   TRUE DRAGON RISE
AH AH AH, LOOK BUT DONT TOUCH
LOTUS FLOWER, BLOOM
thats about it

Neuvost:
Good topic. Note: I've got Final Fantasy VII spoilers in this first section, but unless you've been living under a rock (even if you haven't played the game) you probably already know the spoiler.

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Final Fantasy VII has one of the biggest twists in all of video game history at the end of it's first disk. A main character dies. Never before have we seen a person we generally cared about die so suddenly that could not be revived with a magic spell or by reverting to save. But this was simply a movie inside the game. The part that so many gamers forget about is the gameplay leading up to this climax, that I consiter to be one of the game's most brilliant moments.

When Cloud first approaches Aris, her back is turned. You are unable to turn Cloud in any direction other than directly towards her. Annoyed at what seems at first to be faulty game design, you try pressing as many buttons as you can to make the game respond. He approaches her. You can't move. Press the X button. This has Cloud draw his sword. Press it again. He raises it over his head. You just barley realize what he's doing, but you have no other choice. You can't do anything else, and before you know it, Cloud has sliced at Aris violently.

"What have I done?" was my first reaction. Games have always mirrored life in our control of them. If I want to walk away from my computer, then I do so. If I want to go into somebody's house in an RPG, then I walk in. But life doesn't always work that way. Addiction. Mental illness. Felling like there is no other choice. Cloud battled mental illness in Final Fantasy VII and his lack of control in his own actions was passed on to you: the player.

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There is something inherently beautiful about a great multiplayer game. My first real experience with that is Mario Kart 64. There's not much better than being so close to the finish line when someone pulls a head of you on a boost and you line up that perfect green shell shot and just barely beat them out for the win. And when you lose you hate it but you love it and you want to play again to show 'em you can beat 'em.

Much of my high school social life was based entirely on Halo. Every weekend we hauled our Xboxes and our controllers over to somebody's house and played all night. And every once in a great while you'd hear that Killtacular as all your friends cry out and you take the lead. I lived in Blood Gulch for a while, and I still feel at home there.

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I'm sure I'll think of a quite a few more examples of this and post them soon.

Narr:
Most the things that stick out in my mind are random moments from actually playing the game, although I agree that the whole Irenicus thing was great.  Seriously, Baldur's Gate 2 is quite possibly the best RPG ever made.

This is for Street Fighter fans.  Have you ever 360 Piledriver'd Akuma out of Raging Demon?  It's the biggest exhilirating rush ever.

Most my disgusting "did that just happen?" type moments happened back in the hay-day in Call of Duty.  I recall running in Pavlov and firing my pistol at a building randomly.  I didn't even know there was anyone inside.  I got a headshot on some guy, and immediately got accused of hacking.  I typed in "Honest to god, I wish I could replicate that because I have no idea what the fuck just happened." Another time, it was just me and my brother skirmishing against each other (we used each other as practice, which worked out because we were both pretty damn good) and I jumped out of a window, firing blindly at him.  Somehow got a headshot.  It was brilliant.

Still, the ultimate "Do I have cheats installed? I didn't think I did" moment happened for me in Railyard.  I popped out from behind a train and aimed at some guy crouched in a corner.  Fired, and got TWO headshots because one of the other krauts on their team had popped his head out to look in the corridor.  Two birds with one stone, completely unscripted.

Sarcasmorator:
Oh man, the lucky shots remind me of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. I was a merc on the hospital map, and was searching one of the rooms. I had "heard" the spy sneaking around with the HUD arrows, but he was gone when I got there. On a hunch I popped a grenade into one of the ventilation shafts. And I got 'im.

Also this one time in WarCraft III I had a zeppelin full of most of my Undead army, with the rest at my base. I was flying my zep over to attack the other guy's base, and noticed his army on the way to mine. So I dropped my troops a ways behind him, then doubled back to grind his forces between my ziggurats and home army and my main force. It worked real well.

And another time I Windwalked my Orc Blade Master into the middle of a massing army and turned on his ultimate. It was like a Cuisinart!

Switchblade:
a couple of nights ago, I hit a UT2004 deathmatch server for kicks.

Spent a few minutes struggling on in my usual idiom - about halfway up the server ranking ladder, with a respectable number of frags, but not enough to put me up top.

Then I hit my limit break or something. randomly, after getting fragged one time, I spawned, grabbed a lightning rifle, and proceeded to score a quadruple "HOLY SHIT!!!" with a seemingly unstoppable series of headshots.

Then I got taken down from behind by a flak cannon blast, and when I respawned, whatever magic was driving me had apparently ended, because my performance returned to it's usual level. I finished third on the server for that round. It was freaky, but gratifying.

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