Do as the title implies: List and discuss some of your favourite awesome moments in games. Can be gameplay, cutscene, design, atmosphere, plot, or whatever. Just something that made you go "fuck this is COOL".
I'll start with a few:
> Meeting my first Shambler in Quake. Had hardly played any FPS games and this was like raaaaaargh!!
> Bluff Eversmoking in Unreal. Took me two hours to play through and explore everywhere, it felt like a whole game condensed into one big map, and following the clues and trail and finding the dead trooper in the watchtower was really involving at the time.
> First encounter with water in Half-Life 2. It really did feel wet, my skin goosepimpled a bit.
> The "follow me" corridor in Doom3. Genuinely scary.
> The detail and immersion in Gothic3. Particularly in the mountain areas, it actually felt like somewhere I'd like to go and live. I never finished the game as I didn't want end exploring the world.
> The nuke in COD4. Even having heard about it and even not feeling that involved with the game at all, it was still pretty shocking.
> Some of the gameplay in Crysis. No moments in particular, just the combination of suit skills allowed some genuinely cool stuff.
> First encounters with the Wasteland, and the whole of Dead City in Rage. Stunning post-apocalyptic atmosphere, my eyes were on stalks in some of the latter. |
