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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: Switchblade on 19 Oct 2006, 17:45
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This can be any moment - be it an FMV, a scripted sequence, or just some moment of gameplay that really stood out and has remained with you ever since. you're not even limited to one!
my first one comes from Half-Life 2, Episode 1. In the chapter "Lowlife", almost immediately after you first encounter a "Zombine", there's a section full of combat with these new foes in a pitch-black subterranean car park. the backdrop to this fight is a music file called "VLVX Song11" (found by unwrapping some of the GCF files in the game folder). The track starts off with a kind of descending mechanical/electrical scream noise.
The reason this is so iconic for me is that the first time I played through that section, a Zombine charged me with grenade drawn RIGHT at the point that scream kicked in. the timing couldn't possibly have ben more perfect. The next second, I blew it away with a shotgun blast, charged into the room and spent the next two minutes kicking zombie ass, only able to see by the light of Freeman's torch. that whole section was exceedingly cool - dark, scary, claustrophobic and intense.
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USE SPAGHETTI ON MUMMY
USE FORK ON SPAGHETTI
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Not all I got, but I'll lead in with a few from FF:
Final Fantasy VI: At the end of the Floating Continent. Kefka kills the emperor, moves the three statues out of balance and forces you to flee for your lives. The party is scattered, and the world ruined ? he has won. The rest of the game is just picking up the pieces and trying to make things as right as you can.
FFVII: The entire intro sequence was a revelation. Looks dated now, but zooming out from Aeris' face into an overhead view of Midgar for the title splash, then into another section of the city to introduce Cloud and co., was inspired.
FFX: The whole ending.
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Soul Reaver: The Legacy of Kain. The scene where Raziel encounters Kain for the first time since being chucked into the Abyss. The conversation is well written and brilliantly acted.
Anytime I initiate a Zergling rush in Starcraft of course. That's always humorous.
Knights of the Old Republic had a great moment when: the PC was revealed to have been Revan. (Tiny font for spoiler, in the off chance someone doesn't know.
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fuck you ruined it for me, no not really, though I pretty much guessed that after a few levels.
hm....I guess HK-47's definition of love after you talk to him for a while
"Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope... Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose against statistically long odds."
I use that any time any one asks me what love is.
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Halo. Meeting the flood.
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The intro movies for Fallout 1 and 2. I think they're just so damn awesomely done and set the mood really well.
The first time you waste a good 6 hours straight playing Morrowind.
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The world's all-time greatest supervillain:
"You DARE to attack me here? Do you even realise what you face? You will SUFFER! YOU WILL ALL SUFFER!" (*annihilates an army of wizards*)
-Jon Irenicus, Baldur's Gate 2.
My most impressive online kill ever -
Battlefield 2. I sniped the pilot of a jet just before he bombed my team as they captured a flag point. His jet came crashing down and exploded right on top of an enemy APC a split-second after all the guys inside it got out, killing them all. (alas, I only got the kill on the jet pilot, but it was still funny).
I think the single highest accolade any online gamer can receive from another is "WTF?". I got seven for that one.
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Hmm, actually just today, i was playing pocket fighter 2 turbo against my co-worker and all the blocks that i had, just fell into place and i make 99 blocks fall onto his screen. If anyone plays that game they will know that 99 blocks it instant death. Sooooo good
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Man, I really should not read these threads while I'm working. They always make me want to leave work and go play videogames for the rest of the day...
One scene that sticks out in my mind is the Airship cutscene in Final Fantasy II for the SNES. I was probably 10 years old when the game was released, and the first game I was ever addicted to. I still hum that song every so often.
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"You DARE to attack me here? Do you even realise what you face? You will SUFFER! YOU WILL ALL SUFFER!" (*annihilates an army of wizards*)
-Jon Irenicus, Baldur's Gate 2.
Oh yes. That part is simply briliant.
My best WTF was playing Co-operative halo on ledgendary when I sniped 3 elites and my partner with one bullet. accidentally
I was aiming at a jackal. As to other moments on halo multiplayer there are just too many to count. The amount of stupid thing you can do with that game is just ridiculous. Another good one is "warthog catch." Your partner wacks you a few times and you spill a shitload of plasma grenades under a warthog. then send your partner far far away. You then have to toss another granade in so that it detonates the rest of the grenades and sends the warthog flying. You can often send it several hundred meters with this trick to come crashing down on unsuspecting suckers.
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USE SPAGHETTI ON MUMMY
USE FORK ON SPAGHETTI
I love you for forever now. There is no way around it.
It was probably Day of the Tentacle for me too, but probably the whole thing altogether.
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Simon the Sorceror, Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle all defined my childhood.
FFVII
Slap fight.
On the end of the barrel of a gigantic cannon.
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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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Final Fantasy IX- The entire ending, including the final fight against Necron.
Final Fantasy VIII -The ending. Until the ending of the game, I was impressed with quite a few things about the game, but not very impressed with the story. The ending definitely made up for it.
Shadow Of The Colossus- I can't recall which colossus it was.. anyway, the first one that is very FUCKING ENORMOUS with the equally enormous sword.. that fight amazed me.
Chrono Trigger- The basic ending, the one achieved when the game is played completely and Lavos is challenged after Crono is revived.
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The cutscene in starcraft with the team blowing up the infested science vessel. Hell, quite a few parts of starcraft.
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Yeah, actually, Starcraft had a pretty incredible plot for a RTS.
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Did you guys know you can launch a spaceship in Tetris?
Seriously.
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So many scenes in Half-Life come to mind... Tripping the resonance cascade. The scene where you first encounter the Marines, and especially the first fight with the Black Ops assassins.
The original Unreal stands out as a defining moment for gaming. Sure, Quake 2 came out earlier and was pretty, but Unreal just blew me away. The scene in the Vortex Rikers where you're standing behind a door, listening to a crewman scream and fire randomly at something while the muzzle flashes are visible through the crack beneath the door... Incredible.
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More Final Fantasy ones for your consideration:
FFVII - The cutscene where Sephiroth kills Aeris. Also the one where he's walking through the flames. He's basically a pretty fucking iconic character, I have to say, and I don't even like this game all that much.
FFVI - Consider the final scene on the Floating Continent seconded.
FFIV - There are a few here. Cecil becoming a Paladin. The Big Whale rising out of the ocean. All the secondary characters combining their prayers to give you strength for the final fight against Zemus. These all seem ridiculously trite and/or overwrought now, but the fact that I could call them all to mind easily demonstrates their staying power.
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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*
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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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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... OMGHAX
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Half Life 2, stepping out of the train station and seeing the citadel...
Advent Rising, every cutscene...
Resident Evil 4, EVERY GODDAMN SECOND (major droolage hurr...)
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You people have failed me:
The end of Super Metroid! So incredible! Mother Brain charges up a beam that sends you down to one life and leaves you crippled on the ground, then starts charging again when the Metroid, protecting the only mother its ever known, swoops in and starts chewing on MB's head and sacrificing itself to revive Samus, giving her the ULTIMATE BEAM OF AWESOME POWER.
I love that game so much. You think you're completely and utterly fucked, then you turn into a GOD.
And, on the Metroid train, I also have to submit the second battle with Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 2 as one of the best toe-to-toe, one on one battles between equal opponents in the history of gaming and all of the times you see SA-X in Metroid Fusion and nearly crap your pants.
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Killing the entire opposing team in SoF2 with one well-thrown nade at the beginning of the round, caught them all rushing the same way. I may have shat myself laughing.
Or, pulling off those many 7-on-1s or 10-on-1s on the old Quakeshit server. Ah, those were the days.
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oblivion, while doing the dark brotherhood quests. SPOILERIn the end with the traitor in brotherhood, teaming up with lachance to fix it and discover he's been murdered.
World of warcraft, our first ragnaros kill. Was quite soon for a guild back then. Great times marching around in IF as well.
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all of the times you see SA-X in Metroid Fusion and nearly crap your pants.
Oh my god YES. That shit was scary as HELL. I felt really lame for being scared by a GBA game, but man did they absolutely nail the atmosphere with that game.
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Oh man, I agree with everything anyone said about any Metroid game in this thread. The ending of Super Metroid is classic, and SA-X instantly doubled my heart rate every. damn. time. it showed up.
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I think it worked so well because of the turnabout. Samus is always way stronger than most enemies, and even the bosses just take a pattern. But SA-X was AFTER YOU, and she was going to KILL YOU if she found you. I can't think of a more effective game where you simply have to hide and wait till the bad thing goes away so you can survive.
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Final Fantasy VI: At the end of the Floating Continent. Kefka kills the emperor, moves the three statues out of balance and forces you to flee for your lives. The party is scattered, and the world ruined ? he has won. The rest of the game is just picking up the pieces and trying to make things as right as you can.
Thirded. I couldn't agree more.
Lufia II - The entire ending was probably the most emotional experience a video game has ever given me. It was fucking amazing.
I know there are more, but these are the 2 that come to mind at the moment.
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I'm seconding everything said about Aeris' death. You spent the next half of the game wondering if she could be revived. Wow.
Lots of Square-Enix game spoilers. Because I am their bitch.
FFVII - Tifa/Cloud in Mideel
FFVIII - This is kind of cheesy, but Squall carrying Rinoa to Esthar on his freaking back. C'mon.
FFIX - The rest of the party trying to bring Zidane to his senses in Pandemonium
FFX - Such a well put together game, in my opinion. For a decidedly iconic moment, I'm going to go with the final scene with Jecht.
Kingdom Hearts - Sora making a Heartless of himself. Nuff said.
Kingdom Hearts II - The entire opening of the game with Roxas. I know I might be alone on this one, but so much happens during this part I was practically foaming at the mouth by the time I got to play as Sora.
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Lufia II - The entire ending was probably the most emotional experience a video game has ever given me. It was fucking amazing.
Also it just had a nice "badass" atmosphere to it. The crazy escher-esque towers, the flying island, etc... That's probably the game I've beaten the most times.
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To me, an iconic moment in gaming is that moment when you're playing Jet Set Radio (or any game, really), and you pull that, like, really cool wallride to jump to grind to tricky-thingy to wallride again and just get that rush, you know? Like, your entire body gets all tingly and you're just, like, totally absorbed in the moment. Like pulling a really, really good drift in NFSU, or reaching the 2 million point mark for one trick combination in THPS2 without cheats. Or in Resident Evil (the original), the first time you ever played it, and you never knew exactly what was waiting around the corner, but you knew from the sounds that you weren't gonna like it.
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Oh, man, I am like, totally there, you know?
I think every time the music started up in Half-Life 2 was a good moment. While music was used pretty sparingly throughout the game, the times that the techno started thumping, you knew you were going to be pulled through an action-fest.
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One I vaguely remember from Wingcommander II. There was one mission where you had to fly combat support for the concordia while it engaged 3 Kilrathi Heavy cruisers. I remember desperately fighting off wave after wave of fighters while the humongous capital ships exchange fire through the combat zone.
Or at the end of WC III where you are just like OMG the war's finally over... and we won!
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I'll only give a few. Some of these have been mentioned.
FFIV: When Cecil becomes a Paladin. The rising of that spaceship from the ocean floor. And yeah, the sequence during the last battle where all your old companions send their prayers to strengthen the party.
FFVI: Floating continent, Kefka.
Chrono Trigger: The death of Crono. Totally didn't see it coming. Everyone was down and he was the only one who got back up and I thought that surely, surely there was some miracle waiting to happen. Someone else jumps in to save the day or something, I mean the main character can't just die, that's not how these games work!
Ultima VII: There was a part where you talk to this sage, Alagner, because he supposedly has the dirt on a questionable cult-like organization called The Fellowship and its relationship to the Guardian, a rather malevolent otherwordly being who will sometimes talk to you. After completing a quest for Alagner he lends you his notebook on the condition that you return it when you have finished using it. So you do the quest with the notebook and, being the Avatar and all, you go back to Alagner's home to return the notebook. When you get there you find that Alagner has been brutally murdered. There is blood all over the floor. At this point the Guardian thanks you for the very useful information in the notebook and just laughs and laughs. The Fellowship strikes again!
System Shock 2: When you find Dr. Polito...
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But SA-X was AFTER YOU, and she was going to KILL YOU if she found you. I can't think of a more effective game where you simply have to hide and wait till the bad thing goes away so you can survive.
That reminds me of an old game I used to have called Iron Helix (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Helix) (way back when CDs were new). Basically you send a probe into a spacecraft to try and self-destruct it before time runs out and it destroys a planet. It had the scariest atmosphere I've ever seen in a game. For one thing, the graphics were fairly realistic (as you moved through pre-rendered screens), but more importantly: the spacecraft's crew had been slaughtered by a security droid on board; and this droid HUNTED YOU DOWN throughout the entire game. You had no weapons so you had to stay on the run throughout most of the game, and you had to take care not to get trapped in a dead-end.
Iconic moment in this game: One part of the game near the end involves luring the droid into the airlock to eject it out into space (which bought you about 5 minutes before another droid was activated). The airlock is situated at the end of a long dead-end corridor, and you need to pass through the airlock to get to the room with the controls (that's the only way in or out of the control room). One time I got to the control room, plugged into the console controlloing the airlock doors, then waited for the droid to show up. Eventually it does. Alarms begin to sound as the probe detects the droid closing in. I wait for the droid to enter the airlock (the alarms start going crazy, it's in the next room!), wait a little longer until it moves into the centre of the airlock, then quickly punch in the "open airlock door" code. Except I type the code in wrong and the connection to the console gets shut down and I panic and the droid moves towards the door and I reconnect the probe and begin to type in the code and the door the control room opens and SHIT THERE IT IS *static*.
Scariest moment in any game ever, period. And I've finished System Shock 2 and Aliens vs Predator 2.
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Oh god, SS2. You find Polito, and she's dead, sitting there, and every hope in the world dies with her.
Also, the ghost sequences were pretty cool.
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Kingdom Hearts II - The entire opening of the game with Roxas. I know I might be alone on this one, but so much happens during this part I was practically foaming at the mouth by the time I got to play as Sora.
I thought that whole beginning was brilliant. Although I just wanted to start the game, the way everything gradually built and spiralled out of control was an example of great, meticulous storytelling. It was also quite dark and adult for the series, which never went as far as it did in that beginning. Sure, some things could have been sped up and doing those fetch quests was quite dull, but when I look back on the whole picture, I have to marvel.
I gotta second/third/thirteenth the Chrono and FF references. I also have to mention the section in Chrono Cross where you go through the Dead Sea/Sea of Eden. Beautiful imagry, beautiful and barren landscape, and some devastating plot twists. It was truly awe-inspiring.
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Kingdom Hearts II - The entire opening of the game with Roxas. I know I might be alone on this one, but so much happens during this part I was practically foaming at the mouth by the time I got to play as Sora.
MC Chris has a little something to say about that: http://www.destructoid.com/mc-pee-pants-mc-chris-a-tribute
A few more moments:
In Command & Conquer after you win as NOD, you take over the GDI satellite and get to blow up the White House, the Eiffel Tower, the Vatican or ... uh, there was one more. Anyway, it was ID4's big money shot years before the movie was ever conceived. Awesome.
WarCraft III: When corrupted Arthas returns to take his father's throne.
In Resident Evil 4, the first time I got my head chainsawed off. I was not prepared. I just kind of turned off the game at that point and edged away.
The big explosion at the end of F.E.A.R.
And I second Shadow of the Colossus.
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WarCraft III: When corrupted Arthas returns to take his father's throne.
I agree. Probably the coolest cutscene, for whatever reason, I can think of in any video game.
I also agree with Shadow of the Colossus. The entire game just has "epic" written on it.
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I agree. Probably the coolest cutscene, for whatever reason, I can think of in any video game.
Incorrect. That cutscene would be the end of Brood War, when Admiral DuGalle kills himself.
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Nonono, that cutscene would be the start of Brood War, when DuGalle's battlecruiser abandons the overrun colony.
EDIT: this cutscene can be viewed here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ll8swEeX0)
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Some of the most memorable moments I have come from multiplayer Myth: TFL. If you played it you'll know what I mean...
That perfect lift in 3 dorf arena that just makes the other person start screaming at you for cheating
Winning a soulless fight when you started off outnumbered
Anything and everything having to do with stray satchel charges :evil:
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How about Half Life 1 near the beginning when you first go into the portal and you're in the completely dark space and all you can hear is your breathing and heart beat and all of a sudden you're surrounded by weird creatures that you were not expecting at all. That part freaked me out to hell.
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Half-Life 2, Episode 1 has so many iconic moments that it's difficult to count them all.
HERE BE SPOILERS
1: Alyx hugs gordon after he's pulled from the rubble by d0g. you can almost see the tears of relief in her eyes. (that's AWESOME game-making, btw)
2: the citadel core
3: The first "Zombine" battle.Think I already mentioned this above. I ripped the music from the game folder, and I still can't hear that track without seeinga zombine lunging towards me.
4: the underground elevator battle- claustrophobic, cramped, dangerous, frantic. Zombies aren't actually that dangerous to Gordon (they do piss-all damage when his suit's charged) but Zombine are nasty. the trick is to G-gun their grenades out of their hands and then return them with explosive interest.
5: there's a street with three antlion burrows on it at one point, and three cars to seal them with. The first time I played that, I just got my rhythm up and rolled a car down the street, crushing antlions and combine alike before my unstoppable wall of death, before releasing it at precisely the right moment, and it landed upside-down in a burrow, blocking it nicely.
6: the gunship battle, and the final moment where it falls directly towards where the player will naturally be standing.
7: the hospital corridor battle. zombies versus combine, big fight, and then Gordon and Alyx just rampage through the middle, shotguns roaring. Some of alyx's anti-zombie shotgun moves are awesome.
8: The strider battle.
9: the final journey out of city 17, and the citadel explosion. I won't spoil things for anyon
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Oh, an epic part of FEAR: you've fallen down to the basement of the ATC building and there's nothing else down there. Then the whole room shakes, with dust falling from the celing and crap like gas pipes breaking an spewing flames everywhere. It's awesome.
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Most of the "epic" moments would come from Valve-produced games. They got their storytelling down pat.
FEAR also had a few good ones, I have to admit.
If only I had that thing called "memory" I'd be better able to post in this thread.
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Maybe if you were less of a drunk.
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I have two or three moments myself.
1.) Chrono Trigger-Beating Lavos's shell. Excitement. Disappointment that it's not done. Beating Lavos's inner body. Excitement, then sheer disappointment again when the Core pops up. Defeating the core after a 30 minutes of not figuring out how to do it properly (I was 7, cut me some slack) and then waiting. White light followed by the ending sequences. Beating my first video game: Priceless.
2.) Final Fantasy 8-The Dollet invasion. During the first half hour of the game I was kind of impressed, but not necessarily hooked. After the invasion (and Quistis's use of the machine gun=sexy), I officially came out of my video game retirement, bought a Playstation and FF8, and played mercilessly.
2a.) Beating Omega Weapon in 20 minutes. Ok, not a feat that hasn't been done, but telling my friend (who took a good hour and a half to do so) and hearing his reaction was pretty funny.
3.)Secret of Mana (Yes, I am old school)-The last two boss battles against Thanatos and the Mana Beast. The music was thrilling. The combat was exciting (especially with me and my bro tag-teaming the bosses, me as the warrior and he as the spellcasters). And the ending was bittersweet.
Ok there are four
4.) Halo 2-Hearing Master Chief say "Sir. Finishing this fight." after struggling to beat the game on Legendary. Yes, the ending was a disappointment, but it was perfect for a second installment. It's like Empire Strikes Back: The action builds up, things look bleak, and just when things begin to get better, OH NO! You have to wait for the next installment! Plus, it kinda makes Bungee have to make a third one lest it have rabid Halo-ers banging at the gates demanding it.
So those are my happy moments from games. Hope you like them!
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Shadow of the Colossus -- various moments, but crossing the gigantic bridge (even though that was a cutscene if I recall correctly), finding the first colossus, and the magnificent last battle were all amazing. I didn't like the game as a whole, however which was a shame given some of the amazing things that are in it. It just managed to make fighting the colossi routine for me, which was really disappointing.
Katamari Damacy 1 and 2 -- The final levels. Holy shit.
Ico -- The whole thing. What an amazing game.
Thief: The Dark Project/Gold -- Sneaking around in Bafford's manor for the first time (and watching that stunning briefing). What a rush. Hearing the giggles in the upper levels of "The Sword" -- I was petrified.
Thief 2 fan mission, "The Enterprise" -- Just wandering around outside.
Silent Hill 1 and 2 -- minor spoilers here, so I'll make it a small font -- Entering the "nightmare world" -- the first one has the chain-link fence floors going for it, which is pretty creepy, but the second one is very frightening too. Also, generally the moments when it gets really surreal.
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I second Katamari Damacy, just in general.
There's nothing quite like when you first get your Katamari big enough to roll up houses to make you giddy.
Also, any time the king speaks, it causes joy in my bosom.
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Katamari Damacy. Oh god yes.
First time i rolled up a human and i heard them squeal and kick their legs, I nearly shit myself laughing.
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Katamari... I learned all of the words to both sound tracks... the greatest games ever created... other than Katamari, I absolutely love Legendary Theme on Gitaroo Man, and whenever Kirah puts her head on U-1's shoulder when the song is ending, you can almost feel your first crush puttin her head on your shoulder... Gives me the chills.
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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.
What the fuck ever.
Have you ever played Final Fantasy IV? Damn near every playable character dies in that sumbitch.
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Yeah, but they all come BACK.
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After advent children, didn't Aeris? Guess it depends on how you interpret the scene.
Also...
The whole of the first Metal Gear Solid. Especially Gray Fox sacrificing himself to blow up the Radome.
The Tanker section/ending stages of Metal Gear Solid 2.
This is hardly iconic, but APE ESCAPE was an AMAZING game that's better than almost everysingle other game EVER.
I'm not gonna comment on any Final Fantasy games.
But I HAVE to second facing the SA-X on Metroid Fusion. First time, I hid under the floor. I wonderred what'd happen if I didn't. So I didn't save, I went back, didn't hide, got my ass handed to me, ran away, only survived with a few health points by running BACK to the room you first see it and hiding under the floor intime.
WHO KNEW IT COULD FOLLOW YOU THROUGH THE ROOMS?
My heart was beating SO fast.
The whole of the Ocrina of Time.
Super Smash Brothers. Perfect Soundtrack.
OOOH! Skies of Arcadia. Just adventuring from place to place felt GOOD in that game.
GoldenEye.
Perfect Dark.
Not all of those are iconic, but they're all good.
Edit: I, AM TUROK!!!!
First Turok? Iconic. Second? Best Turok game ever made. Second had a GREAT soundtrack. Again.
Edit: BANJO TOOIE!!!!
Edit: WORMS! I STILL USE THE SAME TEAM NAMES I DID WHEN I WAS SEVEN.
We and my friends used this one team, the members based on ourselves.
The Smarties
Capt: Dipstick
Worm2:Spaz
Worm3:Wimp
Worm4:Div
For some reason, Spaz and Wimp often switched places. Because I still don't know which was supposed to go where in the end, I switch them eachtime I play.
There was also the Smarties 2, who were the 'B-Team' for huge tournament matches against the computer and things. I can't remember the ranking for this team though, so I'll have to guess.
Music
Jerk
Dumb
Dumber
In retrospect, I think Music should have been named after me.
You know what? After I'm done downloading all these Roms, I'm gonna re-install Worms 2, rebuild the teams and start campaign mode.
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After advent children, didn't Aeris? Guess it depends on how you interpret the scene.
Nah, I think that was all Cloud-seeing-her-in-the-Lifestream mumbo jumbo, like when she shows up in the game's ending. She still dead.
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I meant the scene in the credits where Cloud is riding to meet her in the fields.
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- FF1: Class change, airship. These were huge moments when it was the only FF.
- Maniac Mansion: Microwaving the hamster.
- Castlevania II: This game loomed large in my childhood for some reason... assembling Dracula's parts was like a little kiddie revolution inside my skull.
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I meant the scene in the credits where Cloud is riding to meet her in the fields.
Hm, don't remember. Going to have to watch it again.
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Oh wait, I jus thought of another one:
Halo 1-the Elite grabbing Johnson's butt during the special ending. I laughed for about 20 minutes.
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The ending to Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. It was just so awesome and just the perfect way to end the trilogy.
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FFVIII - I hate this game, but the scene where Squall & Rinoa dance floored me.? That was the most beautiful FMV I had seen at the time, and it still looks pretty decent today.
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysey - The first time I took over a slig's body and ran through the level mercilessly gunning down the other sligs was pretty amazing
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A couple of people have mentioned Shadow of the Colossus. The iconic moment in that game for me was the eel colossus: it's such a beautiful, graceful creature, and when you get to it it's not doing anything to bother you - hell, if you didn't go after it it'd just leave you alone and get on with its own business - and it was at precisely that point, when I leapt into the water with the full knowledge that I'd have to brutally slaughter this stunning creature, that I started to think "Hmm . . . who's the real bad guy in this game?"
Same thing, later on in the game, with that weird flying thing in the desert. Those are my two favourites from that game. It breaks my heart to have to kill them . . . and yet it's such a huge amount of fun, too.
Actually, one more: if we're talking "iconic", then in the final fight, the first time you do it, you're bound to fall off and have to climb all the way back up a bunch of times. The sound design and animation of the game is so perfect that by the time you've finished killing that final colossus, you're actually physically exhausted just out of sheer sympathy for your character, from all the grunting and struggling and hanging on for dear life he's done in the proces sof reaching the top of the colossus.
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Spoilers below.
Cave Story: quite a few moments, but particularly the second time you go through the dragon egg area. It's like "WTF HAPPENED HERE. WHY IS EVERYTHING SMASHED!?" and then zombie baby dragons attack you. Also when Curly gives you her air supply so you can live.
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Getting all 7 Chaos Emeralds in Sonic 2, getting 50 rings and jumping.
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I actually never played Shadow of the Colossus, but the Greatest Hits version is only like 20 dollars. Maybe I should pick it up.
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Yes you should. There's really not much to it apart from running around a huge, beautifully-rendered world and fighting collosi, but it's simply amazing
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That's the love-it-or-hate-it part of the game. I personally love exploring gameworlds (and it's so much easier when people aren't trying to kill you), but unless you like sightseeing and long horse rides, Shadow will probably turn you off.
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the entirety of Suikoden 2 (especially if you played and loved the first one)
The ending of Metal Gear Solid 3 (damn near wept)
Ace Combat 5!!! (this whole game was glorious, you really become attached to the characters, and the story almost outclasses the spectacular flight sim)
Monkey Island 1....Root beer, that's all i have to say.
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pretty much every moment of the thief games, those were some of the most brilliantly made games in my point of view.
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: Not only is it an amazing game from start to finish, but when you get to the end of the first castle, beat down the villian, and discover there's another castle to plod through before you're finished... priceless.
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Oh shit, I don't know how i forgot this... Mario Kart (any of them)
Hauling ass to the finish line, In 2nd place by a ways, and the last item you get is a green shell and you manage to shoot their ass less than a pixel from the finish line and get the win. Shit like that is just amazing.
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Going further than what someone said before about then end of MGS2, both when you fight off a HUGE ASS NUMBER OF METAL GEAR RAYs with a rocket launcher and when you and snake are surrounded in that circular room and the guys keep coming... I like to use the samurai sword there :DDD
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The final cutscene in Starcraft when Tassadar steers the Gantrithor into the Overmind. The first time I saw that, I actually cried.
On a TBS, Holding out against a force of almost a thousand men using nothing but my Pretender God while I conquered the rest of a continent. It took them over 50 turns to kill me. I love Dominions.
Mageslayer to Anti-Flags For Blood and Empire cd. They just go so well...
Alien Versus Predator(Orig) To Teenage Dirtbag. Stfu.
Beating 400 Zerglings without losing a single Seige Tank while I built a fleet of Battlecruisers and Valkyres.
My first game of AoE. I never made it passed the Stone Age and, though at the time I thought I hated strategy, looking back on it now I realise that it is what makes me love them. I remember the moment my Clubmen ran into a force of Archers and Axemen. Let's just say it wasn't pretty.
ARC. And everything it entails.
Especially being called a hacker or toggler when you win.
Especially when you always flag.
Especially when it's 1v4v4v4.
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Earthbound Spoilers Ahead:
The very end of the game, during Giygas's second form. Ness is dead, Jeff has been brutally robo-raped, Poo is dust, and Paula prays, and everyone in the game prays with her. On the very last prayer command, the game says, "Liam prays," and I really did. And I was raised Atheist.
That fight is just so powerful, because everything else in the game kept at least an element of goofiness to it. Even in the toughest, darkest parts there was an element of play to it, but once you actually faced Giygas, it was gone. The truth was, without help from God and everyone, Giygas was going to kill you.
I'm getting all choked up. Go play Earthbound.
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The opening video for Command and Conquer: Red Alert where Einstein uses the chronosphere to kill Hittler, I always thought that was so cool.
Zork Nemesis: I've never played a puzzle game with that amount of atmosphere ever, completely amazing and the story that weaves it way through was really awesome. Backed up by the incredibly well written manual that game with it (which was more of a story book then a manual).
The Crusader series, no remorse and no regret, such an awesome storyline and series, so much fun to play.
I had this old school game called XF5700 Mantis, was the most realistic space flight sim I've ever played. Flying that thing around was so freaking cool, I was an 8 year old kid when I first played it and to this day I still remember all the physics stuff I learnt like radial velocity, rate of closing, thrust and propulsion.
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Honestly, when you get scared shitless by a game, it's good, but not nearly as good as the moments that don't scare you shitless, but still make you look over your shoulder the next day. One of my favorite of these moments are in Medal of Honor: European Assault on the last level when you enter far enough into Von Schrader's bunker and suddenly there's a VO of him and he goes "William Holt. Yes, I know who you are." I heard that and was like "WHOA!" I also liked at the end when SPOLIERZ LOL you leave Von Schrader's bunker and a guy runs up and goes "Sir! Didn't know you'd make it out alive! Orders in from OSS, new assignment just went out." And Holt's just like "And I'll be with them." and walks away.
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In Resident Evil 4, the first time I got my head chainsawed off. I was not prepared. I just kind of turned off the game at that point and edged away.
Oh god. I remember I was playing the game at my friend's house for the first time and I was in the village, and they were like "just keep looking around", and I was like why? Oh, there's a guy I can kill. Then he chainsawed my head off and I just sat there in stunned silence while my friend was laughing.
Also, when you inevitably kill the merchant because you can't stand his smarmy ass and find out that you can't buy anything for the remainder of the game.
In Halo 2, when Cortana goes "bet you can't stick it."
Also:
You were eaten by a grue.
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In the original Resident Evil:
It was my first time to ever play a Survival Horror game, and really my first time to play a game that could be considered to be relatively hard. The moment I walked into the hallway off the statue room, and all of a sudden those zombie dogs jumped through the window- I screamed my head off, I swear. I just got the GC version of this game, and I can barely get passed the first zombie with how much harder and darker they made it.
Also, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem- when you're walking forwards go get the Tome off the altar, and the faces in the floor start rising up and screaming at you. This still freaks me out every single time it happens.
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You were eaten by a grue.
Thread over. dennis wins.
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Ah I mustn't forget in halo2 when guilty spark says
"This installation has a record of 2 trillion simulated firings and one actual"
I choked on whatever I was eating and sat there going huh... So thats what happened to the forerunners.
Such a sneaky way to clear up the biggest question about the halo2 backstory.
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The one that instantly comes to mind, and always will, when I think of iconic moments in gaming is the opera scene in FF6. I had never seen anything like that in a game before, and very few games have done anything close to it.
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I have a new one to add that isn't a scripted scene but just something awesome that happened in multiplayer.
Battlefield 2142: Running around with active camo and knifing people. It's like you're a fucking predator and you're collecting skulls. I was sneaking around and saw a guy climb a ladder to get on the roof of a building where I knew there were 3 other guys sniping my team to death. I follow him up and yank out my knife once they are all looking the other way. Chop, first guy goes down. Second guy looks at me for a second and then I stab him in the eyeball. Kill the next guy, and then the fourth must have just started thinking "Wow, it's awfully funny how three of my teammates are yelling for a medic and it says "Sandboato [BJ-2 Combat Knife] Teammatenamehere" for all of them" and actually gets out of prone. He popped a few shots off and they hit, but I still shanked him.
I imagine ripping my shirt off while my glistening Russian muscles flexed while I plunged my knife into their collective hearts.
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Ah I mustn't forget in halo2 when guilty spark says
"This installation has a record of 2 trillion simulated firings and one actual"
I choked on whatever I was eating and sat there going huh... So thats what happened to the forerunners.
Such a sneaky way to clear up the biggest question about the halo2 backstory.
I figured that out in Halo 1, when it was revealed that the halo was a weapon.
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I dunno if it's iconic, so much as it's just OMGWTF. Me and a friend of mine have become extremely proficient with grenades in Halo. In Halo 1 we'd play 2-player deathmatch with unlimited grenades at Blood Gulch and only use grenades for kills. In Halo 2, when Cortana says to the Master Chief, "Bet you can't stick it," my friend turns to me and, exactly in sync with Cortana, says "Bet you can't stick it," and I turn, look him in the eye and, exactly in synch with the Master Chief, say "You're on." Then, just to cap it all off, I hit the left trigger without looking at the screen, and stick a plasma grenade right to an Elite's face, just about going where it would go into his mouth. I didn't stop grinning for pretty much the rest of the day.
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Oh man, another Halo moment just came to me. I don't even need to set the stage for this one.
"Master Chief, defend this station!"
"Yes, sir!" *turns to Johnson* "I need a weapon."
"Right this way."
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This is more of a general feel that a game established, but...the only Silent Hill I've played is the second one. When you finally get into the town, and you're wandering through the main streets, and all you can see is fog everywhere, through which random creatures will come out of to kill you while your newly acquired pocket radio screeches static...just that atmosphere was scarier than any of the Resident Evil games.
However, bonus points go to Resident Evil 4 for when you have to fight those pincushion enemy guys. The invisible ones even moreso. THAT is how you create tension!!
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The one that instantly comes to mind, and always will, when I think of iconic moments in gaming is the opera scene in FF6. I had never seen anything like that in a game before, and very few games have done anything close to it.
FUCK THAT SCENE. I'm stuck SO hard. 5 minutes is NOT enough time to even REACH Ultros, let alone defeat him!
TOIAtuehds[rods;hafafdsh
(Still haven't got past that part)
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That part is pretty easy. Edgar. Autocrossbow. Sabin. Aura Bolt. Oh look, dead monsters.
Don't be afraid to burn your MP with Terra, as well. She has a pretty large mana pool if you stick with base level spells.
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I figured that out in Halo 1, when it was revealed that the halo was a weapon.
I always thought they had transcended and/or run off somewhere.
Now its pretty obvious they are humans.
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While we're on that subject, here's something interesting that was pointed out to me:
Technically, this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years, but once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life, or any least any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the Flood... but you already knew that. I mean, how couldn't you?
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That part is pretty easy. Edgar. Autocrossbow. Sabin. Aura Bolt. Oh look, dead monsters.
Don't be afraid to burn your MP with Terra, as well. She has a pretty large mana pool if you stick with base level spells.
Wrong party. I've saved right before that scene starts with Locke, Gau and Cyan.
By the time I reach the enemies, I have about 3 minutes left I think. Each battles takes about 90 seconds. You have 5 minutes to reach Ultros.
I might start again.
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I think the opera scene took me at most three tries on my first time through the game. I think I reset it because I screwed up the lines in the opera and thought I was going to 'lose' somehow.
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Taking out the master sword in ocarina of time or crawling thru the vents and picking off that guy on the bog in goldeneye.
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The Legend of Dragoon- Every. CGI. Movie. In. That. Game. I got chills, they were so perfect.
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If only the game play had been better ...
Here's another one for me: The first time I shot a dude at point-blank with the shotgun in F.E.A.R. and he exploded into mist in slo-mo. That was pretty cool. Also, the first time I noticed that the Penetrator had staked a clone to the wall.
And Spinless: You need to use the Sprint Boots, or whichever ones make your party move faster on the field screen. Makes that part a LOT easier.
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the first time you ever see an idle animation in a third person game. for most people, this is jill valentine in resident evil.
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Here are a couple that aren't so much plot oriented, but more so just times where I was actually impressed by a game.
The first time I performed bullet time in the first Max Payne game, back in '01.
Fighting the Hydra on the ship in the first part of God of War on PS2. (I hear the next God of War game will have you thrust into action involving something bigger than anything you fought in the first game, going for that instant action Indiana Jones sort of vibe.)
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Some cool games with moments worth remembering:
Alien Breed: Tower Assault - you're running in military base full of aliens (like from Aliens movie), no support, low on ammo and mission objective on some level is to find keys, open doors, find detonation switch and start countdown. Finally I got there, pulled switch... then all screen went red-glowing, alarm sound started buzzing and female voice announced: "30 seconds to self-destruct". Of course exit door was on the opposite side of level, so i started running like mad, alarm buzing, screen glowing, aliens everywhere, finally ran into long corridor, saw only few aliens ahead, fired on them... and instead of shooting hear only clicking sound: no ammo clips.
The horror I tell you... @_@'
Diablo 2: final animation with Dark Wanderer and old man in asylum was great. And many priceless moments while running away from champions with lighting aura, a few points of light and mana, no life potions, no town portal and map full of monsters in every direction -_-'
Baldur's Gate 2: as mentioned before, Irenicus is a cool badguy. Also all the "romance" scenes with party members, including special music and dialogs, were unexpected, refreshing and nice contrast to monster-slashing quests.
Carmageddon 2: mission with big truck for the first time was a shock. You start a race with only one opponent, at night AFAIR, and see only a dot on your radar. Well, you drive on road straight ahead, visibility bad, dot approaches from front... and then you see for a second huge truck that smashes your car without stopping and drives away X_x'
Pinball Fantasies, Pinball Illusions, Slam Tilt - all animations and mini-games triggered after hitting with ball some hard-to-reach table elements, they were even more enjoyable than pinball itself.
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Half-Life 2. When I first played the Ravenholm level I got to a point where I come hear a headcrab zombie coming but I couldn't see him and its cry just kept getting louder and louder until he jumped me from behind.
Second would be getting beaten by a stun stick in the beginning of the game.
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Finally figuring out MYST was a big one for me.
Also, Using the whistles in Mario 3.
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Ah, the orginial Lunar 2. This sounds SO lame, but when Ghaleon came back, I was both scared shitless and surprised. Seriously, I did not see it coming. Of course, it probably helped that I didn't have the guidebook at the time.
Oh, and when Zopher showed up and zapped Lucia of her powers. And when you got to the bottom of the Spire you get to fight FOUR of those lovely Guardian things. "OH GOD I'M SCRE- geh, Leo?"
The epilouge too. How could I forget that?
Man, I loved that game so much.
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Half Life 2:
"Pick up that can."
*picks up can*
"Now put it, in the trash."
*Throws it at the metrocop, runs like a sissy girl*
Ah, memories.
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I have a couple ironic moments in games, most of mine are from CS: S online play (scrims are the greatest)
the number one most ironic thing I've ever seen, de_cpl_mill my team is t we have one guy left when the bomb is planted, he runs and hides and waits for the last two ct's, one sits on ramp while the other defuses, teammate runs out shoots at the guy defusing and the guy on the ramp shoots at him, and kills his teammate w/ a hs AND my last teammember, but he can't get to the bomb intime to defuse.
the number two is my 5v1 clutch on mill again...bomb site b, I was 0 and 4 going in to this all four of my teammates die, I kill one ct grab bomb at the other bombsite and camp in the noob corner looking at the ladder up to B kill the first two up the ladder, hear ther other two behind me spray/miss reload own one defusing and empty the rest of the clip at his budddy (like the scene from Saving Private Ryan, both our guns empty at the same time) break out pistol...he has a usp, Me a deagle I win....yeah that was nice....I died with the bomb but a 5v1 ace clutch when you were killess for the previous 4 rounds is just AWSOME.
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I think one of the most iconic moments in gaming, specifically in RPGs, is the first time you run into one of those "you can't possibly win this, and for the plot to continue you are supposed to lose!!" boss battles. My first one was in Chrono Trigger. I think you know what I mean.
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I have to second the time in the original Resident Evil when you're walking along the hallway and the dogs jump through the windows. I freak out every single time that happens, knowing it's coming doesn't really help much at all.
I think an iconic moment for me was when I first realized that Atari games have no real ending. I think I was playing Yars' Revenge and I beat the "boss" only for the game to start over at a slightly harder difficulty level. I wanted resolution and there was none to be had.
Also, I came to loathe the phrase, "Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!" I didn't really know how many levels were in the first Super Mario Brothers and that got REALLY annoying. Also, the very last level where you have to figure out the specific pattern of going up, down, middle, whatever it was to get through the level, so frustrating.
When Link grows up in Ocarina of Time was pretty great too. It just felt like there was a lot of symbolism there, maybe that's just me though.
Finally I'd have to add the first time in one of the Fallout games you get a critical and blow away half of your opponents body. The sounds and animation are just so good, you really look forward to getting those types of kills.
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I think one of the most iconic moments in gaming, specifically in RPGs, is the first time you run into one of those "you can't possibly win this, and for the plot to continue you are supposed to lose!!" boss battles. My first one was in Chrono Trigger. I think you know what I mean.
Actually, thats not necessarily true for Chrono Trigger. All of those battles COULD be won in the + game, and they tended to be how you got alternate endings in the game. In the initial game though, unless your a grinding whore, yes you get your ass handed to you. I have to say though that i have yet to see a game handle those as well as Chrono did.
Another moment of note would have to be the entire premise of Contact for DS. I can't help but find it hilarious that the character your playing has no clue that he's being "helped" and the professor is quite happy not telling him that. :evil:
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The whole boss thing reminded me of an Ironic moment I had when playing FF8. At the end of the second disc the attempted assasination of the queen...I had found an abusable leveling place on the main continent....500 xp a kill high level spells like demi and earthquake, and an easy win....I beefed up so much I one hit the queen...and then watched my main char get owned...I was pissed.
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right now the only things i can think about are metal gear solid moments
when you meet pyschomantis (?) and he's all "i see you don't save that often, you're pretty reckless" or the opposite if you do! Having to switch controller ports so he can't read your mind was pretty awesome too!
metal gear solid 3... all the boss fights were awesome. the best would be The End (holy long ass sniper battle batman!) and The Sorrow(it took me 2 weeks before i beat that part) and finally the explanation of The Boss's defection.
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DDR: the moment the music and arrows start to make sense
The Sims 2: hitting a lifetime achievement goal
WarCraft III: the first time you build 25 defense towers right outside the enemy's base
Spore: just watching a demo
Unreal: M-M-M-MONSTER KILL
Duck Hunt: realizing you can't shoot the dog :x
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eternal darkness - the insanity.
i remember how much that screwed my up.
i was sitting there playing, then BAM i had a blue screen of death.
seconds later i realised, i was i playing a gamecube, not a pc.
and the cut scenes were amazing.
"may the rats eat your eyes"
also, the banjo duel in monkey island.
and for me. after being stuck on the same level of medal of honour: frontline. for a year.
i realised i just needed to walk into the next room, and i would finish the game.
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Chibi Robo...bear with me here.
This retardedly cute adventure game probably has one of the most mature story lines I've have ever seen in a game. It handles the story of a family with the parents on the verge of divorce, the 8 year old daughter not fully understanding what is going on and not sure how to deal with it all, and you just trying your best to bring a little happiness to the home.
Oh yeah, and there's a Teddy Bear with a drug addiction.
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Chibi Robo...bear with me here.
This retardedly cute adventure game probably has one of the most mature story lines I've have ever seen in a game. It handles the story of a family with the parents on the verge of divorce, the 8 year old daughter not fully understanding what is going on and not sure how to deal with it all, and you just trying your best to bring a little happiness to the home.
Oh yeah, and there's a Teddy Bear with a drug addiction.
Sign me up, how do I get this game?
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Twlight Princess:
Every light spirit cutscene, in fact every cutscene. I also love the wolf sections.
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Chibi Robo...bear with me here.
This retardedly cute adventure game probably has one of the most mature story lines I've have ever seen in a game. It handles the story of a family with the parents on the verge of divorce, the 8 year old daughter not fully understanding what is going on and not sure how to deal with it all, and you just trying your best to bring a little happiness to the home.
Oh yeah, and there's a Teddy Bear with a drug addiction.
Sign me up, how do I get this game?
It's for Gamecube, and It's going for under $20 if you buy it at Gamefly, eBay and Amazon Sellers. Amazon itself is out of stock, and I'm not sure how hard it is to find in retail stores now.
It's a wonderful game.
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Red Steel - finally cornering Ryuichi (the bastard who kidnapped your girlfriend) on the tarmac of an airport runway. He sends his bodyguard to face you one-one one in a sword duel. you win it. Ryuichi steps down from the plane and owns you without effort, then, just as he's walking away leaving you bleeding and defeated on the runway, he turns back and roundhouse kicks you in the face.
The most perfectly calculated insult/injury combo in history.
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Dude, why the hell are you playing Red Steel?
Not to mention putting it in the same category as games like Zelda and Half-Life.
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my two favorite game moments ever:
The first time i beat mortal kombat on the genesis with Scorpion, mainly because i was never good at fighting games and i OWNED MK
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The scene in monkey island 2 where, in order to make a voodoo doll, you must remove LeChuck's underware while he was bent down picking up a coin, and guybrush Nonchalontly does this, and LeChuck barely notices