Func_Msgboard: Most Awesome Moments In Games!

Posted by Shambler on 2011/10/21 22:26:03

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.

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A Few

#1 posted by Tronyn on 2011/10/21 22:33:25

-the first fiend in Quake: e1m2, when the boxes float up in the air and you're thinking what's this weird magic shit going on here, the suddenly WHAM!

-the huge beach level in Far Cry (same one as in the demo). a really great overall experience of sneaking around and climbing up the island, the osprey at the top was epic too.

-having your head eaten in the Doom3 demo

-First seeing the Hell Knights in Doom, at the end of Doom episode 1 (shareware) - hearing that scream in the middle of that giant pentagram was a huge oh shit moment.

-Using a dwarf for the first time in Myth: The Fallen Lords... so awesome blowing the shit out of tons of guys and having their body parts fly around tracing blood in a then-unprecedented manner.

#2 posted by Zwiffle on 2011/10/21 22:35:18

The first zombie in Resident Evil. You know the one. This and the hellhound smashing through the window.

The first time the sirens come on in Silent Hill. You know those sirens.

Almost every time I did something new in Duke3D. The helicopter crash in level 1, the shrink ray, freeze ray, devastator, the first time the goo things climb your face, all of it was awesome and very innovative at the time.

Cthon rising out of the lava. Did not see that coming.

Nuking that one town in Fallout 3. And the nuke in CoD4 blew me away too - figuratively.

Hmm why is it so hard to think of these? I know I've been blown away so many times in games, hard to remember specific ones though. Maybe I'm jaded.

#3 posted by Gus the Steam Boat on 2011/10/22 03:25:05

Venturing into the East in Morrowwind. Seeing the spiraling fungoid cities for the first time. Speaking to an encampment of wild elves who were challenging the ruler of the city. I felt like I was in the middle of an old dying earth style fantasy novel.

#4 posted by [Kona] on 2011/10/22 03:33:39

Blacksite: the helicopter fight with the tentacle monster on the bridge

MOH Airborne: every time you jump out of the plane!

Prey: the shrunken planet

Call of Cthulhu: the tidal wave

King Kong: climbing up the mountain

Farcry: the level with the little wooden bridge

In fact, most of Crysis is awesome moments.

#5 posted by [Kona] on 2011/10/22 03:34:10

UT3: the spaceship level is quite awesome

Umm

#6 posted by bear on 2011/10/22 09:47:22

Super metroid ending, beginning of Zelda III made perhaps stronger by first playing it in a store before the release of the SNES and then anticipating it for months before getting to play it at home.

Playing stuff on LAN with friends.

Discovering Doom/Quake mapping/modding.

Hmmz

#7 posted by DaZ on 2011/10/22 15:18:16

1) Seeing the shaky-cam footage of half-life 2 at e3 for the first time. Serious nerd chills! I remember starring slack-jawed at the screen seeing what they were doing with physics and characters.

2) That shaky-cam footage of doom 3 from the nvidia geforce 3 presentation. It looked like pre-rendered footage! And then seeing it moving... THE bathroom scene with the pinky demon will stay with me until I die I think :)

3) My first ever online Quake deathmatch. Holy fuck that dude is another real person, shooting me in the face! I better move!

4) In Freespace when that giant enemy capital ship appears for the first time (the lucifer I think it was called). That game created such a fantastic sense of scale with the ships and seeing that impossibly large ship come out of the wormhole and annihilate my friendly capital ship was amazing.

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