[TheEnglishman]

Surely everyone's got moments from games that they remember for whatever reason. This is the topic to recount those moments with your peers.
For me the opening of Sonic Adventure was an important one. Not because it was mind boggling (though it was good) but because it was the first thing I played on Christmas day 2000 when I got my first proper console. Up until then I'd been playing on my sister's Megadrive or on my Game Boy Colour (when I had to settle for stuff like Harvest Moon) but the Dreamcast was the first system that I owned myself. In the end Sega stopped production like a few months later and the Dreamcast has since broke, but at the time it was special.

[Eugine]

I guess this topic will need spoiler warnings.

FFX/X-2/XII - Their openings were badass also. Not as exciting as before, when watching it now though ;_;.

I might need some help from Laharl to help me get a YouTube link ^^ (or even give a correct description of the scene or anyone who played X, but this was one of my favourite moments from FFX -

Spoiler

When Yuna denounced her belief on her faith, and decided the 10 year cycle of peace wasn't the right way to handle this Sin business. Also, when she realised she was going to die if she continued with the tradition...

[TheEnglishman]

I remember this fight from Paper Mario 2. It should have been the final fight but it wasn't. Best part of the game.

[Moonear]

I first played Street Fighter II on my older brother's SNES when I was 4 . It was amazing for me, it really opened up a new world. I was just mashing buttons, but it was still incredible to see the video game responding to me pushing buttons.

[TheEnglishman]

I felt that way when I saw Megadrive characters. They scared me at the time though.

[Folcon]

First time I played Mega Man X and mad it to the final boss, Sigma. Beat his dog, then I beat him. Then, OMG,

Spoiler

he has a second form and I've used all my sub tanks

. It took a few tries before I finally beat him.

[Drizzy Drake]

One of my first gaming memories was the first Spyro The Dragon. Getting to Gnasty Gnorc was fun.

[Moonear]

I also remember when I was six, I played Goldeneye 007 on the N64. I picked up the controller and started shooting randomly, but then this guy shot at me and I saw blood so I yelled and dropped the controller. Yeah, I was a scaredy-cat then.

[Caael]

I LOVED Goldeneye when I was 7. I wouldn't play anything else for like a month.

As for a video game moment, when I got my 360 at xmas I was playing it until 3 in the morning when I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer trying to get as much playtime in as possible. It really was brilliant.

[Drizzy Drake]

When I got my PS3 I litteraly stayed up all night till abotu 8 in the morning, playing it. Ya, I beat CoD4 that night, AND The Simpsons Game.

[Caael]

I need to play COD4. I dont wanna buy it because i'm not sure if i'll like it.

[Drizzy Drake]

You'll like it. Trust me.

[Caael]

I played a demo of a game simliar and I hated it. I'm not going to buy it until i've tested it, but its annoying because it's like the only game that doesnt have a demo on the Marketplace ( COD4)

[Folcon]

Just hit a blockbuster and rent it man. Three weeks of play for what ever the rental charge is. For a few games, that was enough time for me to beat it with a 100% compleation.

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. I think that was the title. You play as some guy who is trailing after the fellowship to help them. Along the way you get cutscenes from the movies and battle a bunch of orcs and other baddies. You even get to have a few battles where you get to team up with the main characters when they are not part of the story, like when Gandaulf is missing after the Balrog, he joins you temporarly. Best moment of the game, Fighting the giant eye of Saroun on top of his tower and winning.

[Caael]

My mate has a spare copy which he'll let me borrow.

[Folcon]

I guess that works too. Good luck.

[TheEnglishman]

Caael, on Feb 2 2008, 06:23 PM, said:

I LOVED Goldeneye when I was 7. I wouldn't play anything else for like a month.

It was amazing. Best movie game ever.

[Caael]

Nothing has matched it since in Film Games.

[TheEnglishman]

One thing that I did feel good about doing was beating both FFVII and Majora's Mask, since my sisters took both games away when they went to uni before I could finish them. It wasn't even that long ago that I beat Majora.

[Caael]

Revived.

GTA IV, the final mission was just awesome. Especially the very last cutscene where

Spoiler

Niko is taunting Pegorino before killing him, it was awesome!

[Lemontime]

Me111, on Feb 3 2008, 02:42 AM, said:

Up until then I'd been playing on my sister's Megadrive or on my Game Boy Colour (when I had to settle for stuff like Harvest Moon) but the Dreamcast was the first system that I owned myself.

Greatest games ever.nofoolin'.

[Split Infinity]

I find there's a lot of moments to be had in the GT games when you finally snag gold on a license test. So freaking hard. Funny thing is though, I can be torturing myself one day and getting it easily the next. <_<

[Aquamarine]

Lemontime, on Jun 3 2008, 11:57 PM, said:

Greatest games ever.nofoolin'.

You're having delusions of grandeur. Sorry to brake it to you, but Harvest Moon really quite sucks.

I mean, everyone has their own opinion but... HM sucks.

[TheEnglishman]

Doing the D-Day landings in Medal of Honour: Frontline was pretty amazing too. I know the WWII shooter is pretty generic now, but Frontline was great and that opening was pretty dramatic.

[Caael]

TF2, on 2fort.

I was a soldier as usual, and we were stuck in a stalemate, as most of their team were engineers with sentries covering their base, and we relied on actual skill to stop people, with spies behind the intelligence to backstab those who stole it.

Anyway, we were stuck in this situation of pressing the attack trying to take out sentries, and then dying and having to defend for a quite a long time (the match was on unlimited time). It was like this for about an hour, when I cracked with boredom, ran out onto the bridge, shovel armed. I sat there for about 10 minutes just taunting with the shovel, screaming at the oppostition. After a while, some teammates joined in with the shovel taunting. Eventually our whole team was on the bridge, yelling at the enemies with their shovels out.

Naturally, the enemies, being the scorewhores that they are, took advantage of this and went in and killed us all. Then we did it again. We did this for about 2 hours, just running out and taunting with the enemies killing us; their scores were skyrocketing over 1000.

Finally, we all spade rushed them, constantly swinging our spades, killing sentries. The best part?

We won 3-0

We were in fits afterwards laughing.

[Caael]

TF2, on 2fort.

I was a soldier as usual, and we were stuck in a stalemate, as most of their team were engineers with sentries covering their base, and we relied on actual skill to stop people, with spies behind the intelligence to backstab those who stole it.

Anyway, we were stuck in this situation of pressing the attack trying to take out sentries, and then dying and having to defend for a quite a long time (the match was on unlimited time). It was like this for about an hour, when I cracked with boredom, ran out onto the bridge, shovel armed. I sat there for about 10 minutes just taunting with the shovel, screaming at the oppostition. After a while, some teammates joined in with the shovel taunting. Eventually our whole team was on the bridge, yelling at the enemies with their shovels out.

Naturally, the enemies, being the scorewhores that they are, took advantage of this and went in and killed us all. Then we did it again. We did this for about 2 hours, just running out and taunting with the enemies killing us; their scores were skyrocketing over 1000.

Finally, we all spade rushed them, constantly swinging our spades, killing sentries. The best part?

We won 3-0

We were in fits afterwards laughing.

[Drizzy Drake]

Double post.

[Split Infinity]

Unconstructive post.

That sounds freaking awesome though, Caael. XD

[Caael]

Bump for great Justice

Blowing up Oil Rigs in mercs 2. Possibly my most incredible gaming experience ever.

I'll go through it in detail because it was so ****ing awesome.

First I got a little jet ski and infiltrated the bottom of the rig, climbing a ladder and dispatching of the guards around there. Then I went up onto the main platform, where the alarms were sounded. Soldiers flocked my way so I gunned them all down. Ran up a set of stairs to a large, crucial looking building which I promptly planted C4 on and blew up. Then I got the target I was supposed to verify, who I chased out of his office, tied him up and got him taken away by the UN for verification. All the soldiers were out to get me now, and about 3 helicopters were orbiting looking for me, so I placed 3 more C4's on large structures, and blew them all; crushing a majority of soldiers to death. Finally, I called in the big one; a bunker buster down on the main rig platform. I had only seconds to escape before the buster destroyed everything in its proximity, so ran to a chopper on the helipad and took off JUST as the bomb hit. The helipad crumbled below my chopper, but I managed to make it out just in time to watch the fireworks and the sinking rig.

This game is worth replaying just to blow up the oil rigs. It NEVER gets old.

[Nosferatu]

Final boss in DMC4 on Dante Must Die. I was on autopilot the whole fight.

Very good feeling when you get S for Time, S for Style, S for Orbs, No Item use bonus and No damage bonus.

[Mallick]

Caael, on Jul 2 2008, 03:17 AM, said:

TF2, on 2fort.

I was a soldier as usual, and we were stuck in a stalemate, as most of their team were engineers with sentries covering their base, and we relied on actual skill to stop people, with spies behind the intelligence to backstab those who stole it.

Anyway, we were stuck in this situation of pressing the attack trying to take out sentries, and then dying and having to defend for a quite a long time (the match was on unlimited time). It was like this for about an hour, when I cracked with boredom, ran out onto the bridge, shovel armed. I sat there for about 10 minutes just taunting with the shovel, screaming at the oppostition. After a while, some teammates joined in with the shovel taunting. Eventually our whole team was on the bridge, yelling at the enemies with their shovels out.

Naturally, the enemies, being the scorewhores that they are, took advantage of this and went in and killed us all. Then we did it again. We did this for about 2 hours, just running out and taunting with the enemies killing us; their scores were skyrocketing over 1000.

Finally, we all spade rushed them, constantly swinging our spades, killing sentries. The best part?

We won 3-0

We were in fits afterwards laughing.

A bit late, but if they're turtling at courtyard as engineers, the smartest thing is to do the exact same thing.

I've done some crazy epic **** as soldier today. Triple kill with a crit rocket. <3

Took out an engi + pyro + level 3 sentry as medic, too.

[Drizzy Drake]

Nosferatu, on Oct 19 2008, 07:32 PM, said:

Final boss in DMC4 on Dante Must Die. I was on autopilot the whole fight.

Very good feeling when you get S for Time, S for Style, S for Orbs, No Item use bonus and No damage bonus.

You are my ****ing hero.

[Toasty]

Caael, on Oct 19 2008, 03:42 PM, said:

Bump for great Justice

Blowing up Oil Rigs in mercs 2. Possibly my most incredible gaming experience ever.

I'll go through it in detail because it was so ****ing awesome.

First I got a little jet ski and infiltrated the bottom of the rig, climbing a ladder and dispatching of the guards around there. Then I went up onto the main platform, where the alarms were sounded. Soldiers flocked my way so I gunned them all down. Ran up a set of stairs to a large, crucial looking building which I promptly planted C4 on and blew up. Then I got the target I was supposed to verify, who I chased out of his office, tied him up and got him taken away by the UN for verification. All the soldiers were out to get me now, and about 3 helicopters were orbiting looking for me, so I placed 3 more C4's on large structures, and blew them all; crushing a majority of soldiers to death. Finally, I called in the big one; a bunker buster down on the main rig platform. I had only seconds to escape before the buster destroyed everything in its proximity, so ran to a chopper on the helipad and took off JUST as the bomb hit. The helipad crumbled below my chopper, but I managed to make it out just in time to watch the fireworks and the sinking rig.

This game is worth replaying just to blow up the oil rigs. It NEVER gets old.

Someone I know at school did something similar, except with a tactical nuke, and he didn't get out in time.

[Caael]

If you dont get out in time, just jump into the water. You'll lose health, but you wont die from the collapsing structures.

Anyway, its much more fun to fly out on a chopper in the last minute.

Theres also another mission in Mercs 2 where you have to destroy an entire castle, a bridge and a tower. The island was in the shape of a crescent, with the tower on 1 point of the crescent, the castle on the other and the bridge connecting them. I started with the tower; flew up to the top, put 3 bundles of C4 on it for good measure, flew down and detonated, watching the people surrounding get crushed by debris and the people on top fly from the explosions. Then I ran along the bridge to get to the castle shooting as many people as possible. I got to the castle but there were too many soldiers so i was on very low health, running back along the bridge. I threw an artillery strike beacon on the bridge with soldiers chasing me, so as soon as I was out of the way, the artillery fell, the bridge was annihalated and the soldiers with it, so no more troops could get to my position. Then I decided to blow up the castle using stealth. I jumped down off the remains of the bridge into the sea below, and swam round the side of the island and climbed up the side near an unguarded part of the castle where there were very few guards who were killed quickly. Ordered a bunker buster on the castle and ran for the hills. Watched the fireworks from a watch tower nearby. It was beautiful watching half of the castle fall down the hill and into the sea.

I do love mercs 2.

[Mallick]

Hahaha, TF2 in 2fort an engi built in our sewer, so I went spy to go take down his ****. I got owned a few times since I'm not the greatest spy in the world. So I went demoman (which I'm worse at)

after being dominated in the ass by the engi, I went medic, and told him. He LOL'd, I peaked the corner with syringe gun and started spraying the wall. Of course, he ran out to shoot me and ate syringe. I ran back and reloaded, a pyro AND a scout pushed me at the same time. I syringed them both then ubersawed the engineer who was rushing me with his wrench. Proceeded to syringe his level 3 sentry, dispenser, and teleporter exit. LOL.