Favourite Gaming Moments

What are your fave gaming moments from any game(s)?
I have quite a few....

1. Mario 64 intro: Seeing the castle and Mario in 3D was unforgettable for me and jumping into the portrait and watching it ripple as the camera closed in on the portrait was wierd yet cool....

2.SSX3: Purchasing the game and being dropped off at the top of peak one and realising this is nothing like Tricky in its structure and taking the time to explore the courses with trick attack or constantly competing against other races gave the game a more free flowing feel, classic!

3.Star Wars: Rogue Leader: The death star attack. The lasers filling the sky look amazing and the amount of textures on the surface of the death star was breathtaking along with the top notch sound and voices of Han solo, Obi Wan, and Darth Vader set the scene for one of my fave moments ever...

4. A hell of a lot of others.... :chick:

Here's a couple:

The "figure out the real murderer" scene in KOTOR. Very cool and a small taste of what can really be done with RPGs in the future.

In SWG, walking around and discovering a small-scale NPC battle between stormtroopers and rebel officers. Actually there's a lot of awesome moments in SWG.

When you blow up that fucking glass tube in Super Metroid. Super Metroid is the bomb, bitch.

"To beat the game, you must kill me, John Romero"

"You aren't supposed to be here-Levelord"

The aircraft carrier level of Sin and Punishment

and many more...on channel 4...

The Flood attacks in Halo.

Lots and lots of Battlefield 1942 shit.

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OVERHEAD DRIVE SHOOT.

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Is that Captain Tubasa!?!?

Some of my greatest moments:

Finally beating Star Road in Super Mario World and having the overworld be tinted a different color...........ahh, the satisfaction!

FF7, numerous parts. One of the greatest RPG's of the 3d generation's.

Like said above, Mario 64's newness when it came out. A backfilp INTO the picture!?!? whoa!

First time I broke out the Viggorian Flails in the Ninja Gaiden demo.

When the Town is on fire in Brave Fencer Musashi. Also when there are the zombies in the town.

I love that game.

First off, I'd like to second the Mario 64 / FF7 love.

One of my favorite gaming moments in recent memory has to be the scene with Memory of Alessa in Silent Hill 3. Hands down one of the most intense boss battles in any videogame ever... first you have to beat a bunch of impaled horses to death, then your evil twin oozes out of the ground and comes after you with all sorts of weaponry (including a freaking SUB-MACHINE GUN). Disturbing.

Beating the shit out of Nick and omfgninjas in Metroid Prime: Echoes stands among my favorite gaming moments of all time.

Other than that, the opening scene in Shenmue and the entire part of Shenmue 2 where Ryo and Ren are handcuffed together. Everything about it was brilliant and amazing.

doom - starting the shareware demo on my 386 after downloading it from a local bbs. also, cyberdemon death.

half-life - opening train ride + teleporting to xen in the initial fuckup (sound effects had a lot to do with this one.) i completely ignored the hype for this game. when i first booted it, the only screenshots i had seen were on its box.

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Originally Posted by Kano on the Phone

Other than that, the opening scene in Shenmue and the entire part of Shenmue 2 where Ryo and Ren are handcuffed together. Everything about it was brilliant and amazing.

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truth. ren's such a badass. the entire 4th disc is up there, too.

i also agree with the ssx3 one. i love that game.

to name a few, Mario 64 like you mentioned(and everything about it). The other would be seeing Daytona USA at the arcades on one of those 50" screen, the smoothness of the framerate, the detail, the sheer speed made me piss my pants infront of the machine! :eek:

seeing Mortal Kombat 2 at the arcades for the first time....it gave me that erie feel!

Virtua Fighter 3, i was in Japan at one of the HUGE sega arcade centers where VF3 was being tested, seeing the graphics go from VF2 to VF3 game me goosebumps! ofcourse, i only had one go since there must have been hundreds of people waiting for thier turn!(sega reps were there too)

Metroid Prime....EVERYTHING!!!

The beginning and ending of the original Shenmue. Buying and drinking sodas in the original was also quite memorable. The opening stage of Mickey Mania, due to it being surreal. Having a four way elimination match in Fire Pro Wrestling 2 reach the 99:99 time limit, with the Big Show of all people at the end of it.
First playing Jet Grind Radio via an ODCM demo, and being floored at the graphics, and how well the game played. Getting a Crazy license in the original Crazy Taxi ranks pretty high on the list. Popping in Animal Crossing for the first time and seeing how unique the game was, and still is. Playing Metroid Prime for the first time and being taken aback at the unbelievable atmosphere in it.

Metroid for sure, I got sucked into the world in a matter of minutes. I don't play many games more than once but this is one of them.

Prince of Percia, finally a game that makes climbing ladders quick and painless... not to mention a whole lot of other platforming elements. I loved the gameplay mechanics and found the world to be rich and disney/aladin like.

Breakdown, the fight with Solus and a few moments where... the time stuff... saying anymore could ruin it for others.

Back to work

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1. Standing in line to play Street Fighter II in the arcade. This represented both the revialization and the last deep breath of arcades in America. We just didn't realize the latter at the time.

2. Panzer Dragoon. Since games had been 2D since the beginning of time, it was hard to just be shocked by them, no matter how beautiful they had become. Panzer Dragoon was the sign that all of that was about to change.

3. MMORPGs. Let me get this straight. I can play a Star Wars game where I can choose between 32 different professions, visit ten different planets, and play with thousands of other people at the same time? Holy shit!

I'll vote again for Mario 64, as well as for Legend of Zelda OoT. I had gone with only playing 5 NES/Genny games to then seeing those. A nice sight to see.

-"The princess is in another castle"..... SH*T!

-First time putting english on the "ball" in Pong! (I am old)

-Star Raiders...Did I just blow up my own motherbase?

Seeing the moon slowly get bigger and bigger in the sky in Majora's Mask.

Seeing Dragon's Lair at the arcade for the first time.

Figuring out how this new-fangled "battery save" thing worked in NES Zelda.

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"To beat the game, you must kill me, John Romero"

"You aren't supposed to be here-Levelord"

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I loved both of those. Granted, I was cheating when I saw that in Duke 3D.

Silent Hill, when you see the actual "other side" of the entire city. Jesus Christ was that awesome and disturbing.

Playin' Quake 2 with someone who had enough patience to teach me WASD, followed by telling me I could join their clan if I could frag them. Of course, I couldn't.

Playing PSO for the first 120 hours on Dreamcast.

DC release games -
Sonic Adventure
Soul Calibur
Hydro Thunder (Still love this!)

First time seeing "mode 7" effects on SNES -
Castlevania 4
Super Contra
F-Zero

NES games -
Blaster Master, getting OUTSIDE the vehicle!
Ninja Gaiden
2d quest in Zelda

The AI of Halo on "legendary".

Having a crowd form behind me while I kicked ass at Gyruss at the local arcade. Then seeing a real master take my high score. :(

The industry crash in the mid 80's. You could go to a store and get an entire library of games for about $50. I remember getting Atari 7800 games; Galaga, Robotron, Joust, Centepede, Dig Dug, ect all for $10 each and arcade perfect.

First time I got to explore the North America map in Pilotwings64

The very first jiggle of DoA on PSX, I couldnt believe it.

All of Mario 64.....at the time N64 was just amazing.

The first time I saw Starfox in motion on the SNES I thought it was amazing.

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First time I broke out the Viggorian Flails in the Ninja Gaiden demo.

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YES! Respect. :)

Seeing some classic franchises and characters in 3D for the first time like: Mario, Sonic, The Legend Of Zelda, Metal Gear, Metroid, etc.

The realization that no matter what current consoles I own, I always end up playing Street Fighter II(or III) on them at some point.

Getting 500,000+ point combos in any one of the Tony Hawk games.

Every part of Metroid Prime.

The opera house scene in FFVI.

Meeting Frog in Chrono Trigger.

Lunar 2's epilogue.

The Castlevania theme.

Getting the airship in every FF game and spending an hour just flying around the world map with it.

F-Zero GX on Master difficulty.

Hitting someone with a red shell in Mario Kart.

A slime approaches, command?

Bubbleman's theme.

And countless more.

Playing PSO on Xbox with voice for the first time, and playing my Green Ranger Dragon flute everytime I used a summon monster thingg. "We need dragonzord power, NOW!"

Also, fucking around with the voice stuff on Alien Front Online (I used to play a little clip of Triple H's song everytime I killed someone in that game).

Seaman insulting me.

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Originally Posted by Jumpingflash

Getting 500,000+ point combos in any one of the Tony Hawk games.

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What is a 20 million point combo for $1000 Alex.

I still have my high Tony Hawk score from Tony 2 with just over 22 million in the Hanger. I'm still in awe about how I was able to get that score, my closest to it is just over 10 million. :eep:

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Originally Posted by BrAnDX105

What is a 20 million point combo for $1000 Alex.

I still have my high Tony Hawk score from Tony 2 with just over 22 million in the Hanger. I'm still in awe about how I was able to get that score, my closest to it is just over 10 million. :eep:

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:eep: :cry:

Do you mean in a 2 minute run or in one combo?

The first time I played Resident Evil (PSX).
All of Parasite Eve.
All of Vagrant Story.
All of Metroid Prime.
Flipping Yie Ar Kung Fu twice on one credit with a crowd watching.
First time playing doubles in Tennis 2K2 with three friends.
The end of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile ("favorite" as in "memorable", that is).
Quake III Dreamcast online.
Soul Calibur and Halo multiplayer.
Breaking 500 million in Burnout 2.

Playing Co-op with my neighbor on the first Contra.......Sweet.

500M in one crash? Or the score in the races?

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:eep: :cry:

Do you mean in a 2 minute run or in one combo?

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Both ;) It takes a full 2 minutes to pull off a combo worth that much. Tony Hawk 2 has been the only game I've been able to come close to that. I had around 9 million in 4, but that was with reverts. I've seen a video of someone scoring over 40 million in Los Angelas in THPS 3, now that was the most amazing combo ever! ::needs to figure out how to combo in that fire truck:: grrrrrrrr..............

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

500M in one crash? Or the score in the races?

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Single race. Palm Bay Marina reverse with the Roadster, I think, with a combo of just under 300M. I'd set a goal for myself of 500M and worked on getting it for a while. Now I'm trying to break 700M. Playing for score is a hell of a lot of fun. I've seen guys get over a billion - that's insanity.

Best I've done on Crash is something like 250M. I don't play it much because there's so much luck involved.

Some of my favorite moments:

-Phantom Gannon in Ocarina of Time, the first time I saw him running at me from inside the painting, I went nuts....

-Seeing the RE1 mansion recreated in Code Veronica, I was wondering, "WTF is going on here?!"

-Licker smashing through the one way glass in RE2

-First time I laid eyes on Sonic the Hedgehog speeding through a loop.

-Opening up the upside down castle in Castlevania: SotN.

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Originally Posted by BrAnDX105

Both ;) It takes a full 2 minutes to pull off a combo worth that much. Tony Hawk 2 has been the only game I've been able to come close to that. I had around 9 million in 4, but that was with reverts. I've seen a video of someone scoring over 40 million in Los Angelas in THPS 3, now that was the most amazing combo ever! ::needs to figure out how to combo in that fire truck:: grrrrrrrr..............

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:cry: I feel weak.

Psycho Mantis in MGS for the first time

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Originally Posted by dave is ok

Psycho Mantis in MGS for the first time

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Word.