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Bored last night and popped on Half Life 2. I'd forgotten how immersive the opening scene was as you step off the train into the desolate station hearing the propoganda broadcasts in the distance, being herded by muffle-voiced guards and passing desperate looking civilians. The whole thing sets the scene beatifully and really gave me a sense of vulnerability.
The only other game moments that stick in my mind are the first Halo jungle stage with the rain dropping on leaves in surround sound and of course the first time I got hold of the double barrelled shotgun in Doom.
Anyone else have stand out gaming moments?
Quite a few actually...
Earning the rank of "Deadly" playing Elite on my speccy to the accompaniment of S-Express playing through the tape deck back in the day!
Flying my Cobra MkIII over a clock tower that showed the correct (game) time in Elite II back in the early 90s. Also, completing Turrican II.
And being let loose in San Andreas on my PS2 with guns, cars and VTOL jets.
Getting past this bugger to complete the game.
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I miss my old student life where this was, without a shadow of a doubt, the most taxing thing going on in my life
A 90 minute game Unreal Tournament played over a LAN in my Uni Halls of residence.
3 of us Vs 'Godlike' Bots on Facing Worlds, first one to three captures. took us almost an hour to get our first flag, then they got one back and so it continued, it was so evenly matched.
Just remember the whoops and shouted encouragement from the nextdoor rooms, we all emerged totally wired and grinning like fools, good times.
One of the big arcades in Glasgow ran a weekly competition on Ferrari 355 challenge. Best lap time every week won £100. I won it three weeks in a row - they cancelled the competition. It remains to this day the only time gaming has been remotely profitable
Older stuff probably Final Fantasy VII, probably not been bettered as a story driven RPG
Recently Dark Souls and Dark Souls II, unlike a lot of recent games they really don't give a shit if you complete it or not so the sense of elation when you beat a particularly tough boss is great.
Fighting my way through Midgar Tower in FFVII then getting access to the open world. Actually pretty much every moment in FFVII from start to finish.
Tomb Raider on the PS1, notably the dinosaur bit and the level where you flood the room.
Completing the early TombRaider games...I think it was the old X-box.
In 2002 I became the 25th highest ranked unreal tournament player Europe.
Oh and Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2.
Somehow they captured "joy" and put it in a game. I wish I could go back in time and play them for the first time again
completing Zelda Ocarina of time and the terribly dull cut scene that followed
Completing entire laps on Mario Kart on the SNES whilst blindfolded.
I'd go Half Life as well but go for that moment just after the start when it all goes to shit and the portal opens. I can't ever remember a feeling quite like that before in a game.
Also, the start of GTA3 where you spent several minutes just thinking "wait, so I can just wander about this massive city?".
Recently Dark Souls and Dark Souls II,
Yeah I can relate to that, I may have let out a loud and rather camp 'whopee' when I finally nailed the Capra demon, much to my wife's amusement.
The original Half Life with a 3dfx Voodoo 2 graphics card & Aureal Vortex 3D soundcard was a the most immersive experience I've ever had. Brillant game.
The second one come close though, especially the Ravenholm level 😯
Taking out my mate with great prejudice in Goldeneye on the N64. Didn't happen too often as he played solo religiously, but was glorious when it did.
The second one come close though, especially the Ravenholm level
Urgh... Don't go there.
Getting the maximum possible score on Asteroids (99,990) before it reset back to zero.
completing wipeout on the PS1. I don't think I blinked for a week.
Can't decide between reaching level 5 of MustGetOutMore or level 10 of Bedroom Challenge.
getting to 999,999 on williams defender ( boooiiing)
unlimited lives fantastic
and my playing partner was none other than dev from coronation street
the holloway road arcade was the place to be :-0
of course the first time I got hold of the double barrelled shotgun in Doom.
The whole game TBH but I played it real-time. No stopping and going to sleep like normal folk, oh no. I did the whole game over the course of a weekend using just coffee and weed. The second evening was the most absorbing - there was a point (can't remember what stage) where I'd used almost everything I had and was clutching my last few shotgun shells with blood drenched hands, foul-smelling carcasses of hell all around me and in the distance I hear another bloomin' door open and the sounds of yet another wave approaching.
Almost fell into despair...
*slips on knuckle duster*
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Chuckie Egg (BBC B) in 1987 or so. Can't recall which level but there ducks and hens all chasing me around at lightspeed.
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These all seem to be greatest video game achievements which isn't quite what the OP was asking?
In terms of achievements, I 100%'ed Red Dead Redemption, one of the few titles I've bothered to hunt down every last scrap with. That game is full of stand-out moments though, the number of times I've caught myself just sitting on my horse, looking out of the plains admiring the sunset, there's been little like it.
I also completed Manic Miner... 😳
Not sure exactly what part of FF7 it would be, and I'd give different answers on different days, but it'll definitely be FF7. And not even the obvious ones like Aeris <spoiler> but little beautiful moments all the way through the game- Red XIII's dad, waking up in the church, zolom kebab, everything with the Turks, heroic missions doomed to fail... Ah it's so good.
Homeworld probably has the runner up though. Or possibly Stalker:SOC, not for the gameplay but for those moments in the Zone when nothing's happening at all and you can almost smell it.
I've played a lot of Civ... And just occasionally, when it comes together right in the end game, it's amazing- the music and the beat of the game just click and it's all coming down to a turn or two and still too close to call... Mostly this sort of game is pretty much done by halfway through and the rest is just tidying up, which is a bummer.
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It remains to this day the only time gaming has been remotely profitable
I'm assuming you meant for you, because
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Playing through the original Tomb Raider and original Resident Evil on my PS1 when they were first released.
Close second would be playing Unreal (original not Tournament) with mates when I used to run an online server. Used to make our own maps then run around battering each other 😀
Slappers only and proximity mines on Goldeneye, diddy kong racing, mario kart. Completing Mario 64
Edit: chuckie egg and elite played a lot too, and play Doom regularly, probably best game of all time.
two holes in one in the same round, to win the tournament -playing Tiger Woods Golf!
Most of the best moments for me have been messing about online with mates. Nothing's made me laugh so much as GTA V recently, again just pissing about. Eg there's a mission called 'Holed Up - Burton' where you go and rescue a guy and then escort him as he drives to his/your boss. If you shoot out his tyres and then work together 3 or 4 people can push him around the city. We pushed him bloody miles just because, despite him changing cars when they get too smashed up (SHOOT THE TYRES!).
The other one was sending a text to everyone in the lobby 'SAILING PARTY!' and having 12/13 strangers meet up at the marina and take a sailing boat each out. So stupid but so funny.
Have the strangest urge to play cs source for the first time in over a decade. Lots of big kill streaks such as 42-0 on a gun game server packed full of good players. Best moment though probably against one of the best clans out there on dust2, my team were all dead, five enemies left and the bomb planted I stormed in there killed them all and somehow diffused the bomb with about half a second left to win the match. I went by the name of n000bz!ll4 as I could swing between being an unstoppable killing machine and total garbage in a split second. Master of spray and pray!
John Maddens on Megadrive, winning the superbowl with rushing plays only, no throwing allowed, I was so proud.
Love that chuckie egg one, I was explaining chuckie egg to my 6 year old at the weekend, I could see in his eyes that he thought it sounded shit, he needs educating!
Oh just thought of one, playing mate at old NBA game on the SNES, 2 points down. My player with ball on halfway line, no time so shot. BUZZZZZZZZ full time - followed by the animation for a 'Swish' basket. Won by one point!
Completing Zelda on the 1st Nintendo with my dad when I was ickle, what an adventure.
Getting Cisco Roma from Serie C2C to the Champions League on FM in the Uni days, utterly epic game.
Just thought of one 🙂
Goldeneye (N64 of course) multiplayer on the temple level. I was just about to lose as the clock ticked down when I managed to throw a proximity mine up the tunnel/ramp I was in, across the main hall and down the tunnel one of the other guys was in. It went in a perfect parabola and killed him meaning I won 🙂
Most of the best moments for me have been messing about online with mates.
True dat.
SOCOM II:
"Cougar, watch out for that mine!"
"Yes, yes, I've seen it."
*bang*
"Oh, [i]that[/i] mine!"
I did so enjoy SOCOM. And I did so suck mightily at it.
Playing red dead redemption for the first time back 2010.
smacking down yanks at COD:Ghosts is always a goto favourite, but the greatest was the sense of achievement at completing the original Ultima Underworld.
getting picked form Asherons Call Beta 0 was also pretty special - that was pretty much my crack for 5 years or so, before the kids happened.
Up until a fortnight ago, I was top of the world rankings on one of the driveclub drift tracks with a bmw m5
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two moments spring to my mind. Call of duty, modern warfare 2, 1st mission, where you're in the turret going through the town. It only a few seconds, but the cowering civilians, scanning the rooftops, knowing that something is about to happen, made my heart beat a little faster (likewise running across rooftops in the favela).
second epic moment has to be falling through the sky with michael in GTAv, whist high. Its a beautiful moment and took me back to some strange places!
GTAV
5mins into the game and saw a NPC on a mountain bike. Screeched to a stop, pushed him off it & headed to the mountains. Got there just in time to see the sun come up. Awestruck !!
But GTAV really needs a sitdown action ( similar to Destiny )
Laying down smoke in the paris underground on BF3 before breaking through and getting behind the opp-team to take their flag forcing them to fall back and turning a game is pretty good too.
But GTAV really needs a sitdown action ( similar to Destiny )
Except it lasts longer than an hour.
So many good moments but yes multiplayer provides the best ones.
Playing GTA IV online with 2 good friends, we were all on a shoot out at some crossroads in the centre of town. I was killer them both over and over after joining them. Whilst trying to take down one I could hear sirens in the distance. Stupidly I ignored them even when they got closer, at the last second I realised they were getting closer very fast. I spun around to try and take the source out only to be wiped out across the map high speed by one of them driving the ambulance.
Dying Light is currently providing some great online moments.
Dark Souls, facing the Asylum Demon for the first time... and every other boss encounter after that.
Escaping Midgar in FF VII was also a high point for me, first time hitting an open world in an RPG.
The whole of Metro 2033 and Last Light - it was the most immersive game I've played in years.
Completing Super Ghouls n Ghosts on the SNES plus Demons Souls on PS3
Oh and I'd add playing Painkiller with a mate, switching out sections, for 6 hours straight and then going to the pub to function as human beings whilst still twitching and gibbering.
Ambulance take-down is one of my favourites!
Finally beating Jack during No Fear Downhill MTB on the PS1,
Riding the Llama on Downhill Domination
The D-Day scene in Medal of Honour Frontline, having watched Saving Private Ryan the day before...
Completing my first multi-player strike in Destiny
(yes I'm a bnm and was a noob to on-line gaming, for years I'd avoided it as getting pwned by a 12 year old as well as being laughed at by my own kids was too much for my ego to handle)
lemonysam - Member
Also, the start of GTA3 where you spent several minutes just thinking "wait, so I can just wander about this massive city?".
Yeah, that was a big moment for me. Love R*. Maybe I should play through GTAV again...
First one at school to get to Elite status, and finally finding that strange bunch of aliens you had to wipe out in the mission.
there i was, round 36 on Call of Duty Zombies, 3 other players have died and are now spectating me.
manage to pulverize ever last zombie to take us to a PB. internet fails and i get disconnected.
devastated.
Many many great memories from my XBOX.
Point of order: The double barrelled shotgun wasn't in Doom, it appeared in Doom 2.
Way back then, the Aliens Total Conversion for Doom was fantastic. Very atmospheric and a very thorough conversion. The designers remapped the teleporter sound effect to a screech from the Aliens soundtrack and when you heard that you knew there'd be aliens coming at you (out of the goddam walls, obviously) on all sides. One of those games where no matter the threat you just wanted to unload your biggest guns at it, just in case...
I can't think of many personal moments but I recall one game of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. I was in a team of 3, defending against 4 on a map that involves frozen lakes, with the attackers having to make a truck journey and then a train journey carrying stolen gold. We got totally rolled over in short order, right until the very last checkpoint. Then suddenly the three of us started working together brilliantly and held the the line until the mission timer ran out. We held it so firmly that by the end the attacking team, which had looked assured of victory, were resorting to every desperate gambit and tactic to try to break our defence.
Getting through this stage of Downhill Domination (as Mai) on my first super career, watch!
Beating this guy
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and this guy on level 7 probablt felt like the biggest achievements.
Most fun was probably booze fueled multi player sessions on Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 (and urban terror mod), Far Cry and Crysis.
Point of order: The double barrelled shotgun wasn't in Doom, it appeared in Doom 2.
You're quite correct, though I seem to remember it was a combined game on the PS1.
But... not quite my greatest moment but memorable nonetheless was a dual player game of said Doom with my partner on the other controller (I know, right!). Two distinct memories - one of the early encounters with the Mancubus, you round a corner and they're in the distance letting off a couple of rounds. I know what they are and immediately turn to avoid getting hit only I can't because she's standing to my left cooing at the bright lights... she runs at the last moment leaving me to get trounced.
Same game, different, earlier level - I'm about to open a door and tell her to beware of what sound like Bullpigs. I open the door, she spots the said hell shits and charges at them and straight into the hidden ditch of red hot lava or whatever that crap was. From my perspective it was hilarious, almost like a Benny Hill sketch.
I did like a bit of Doom it has to be said, but she was shit hot at Tomb Raider whereas I just used to make Lara crawl for the most part... 😉
I beat my 6 year old nephew at bowling on the wii recently. And when I say beat, I absolutely pulverised him. I was magnificent.
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Having done numerous laps of Stockholm on Project Gotham Racing, few years later, whilst on business in Stockholm, ended up in the old stadt, and there I was stood on the streets I had raced round, it was all very surreal at that point.
I'm trying to remember a game on the PC in, would have been about 2003 which, as a fps, you were a mdern soldier, but could control anything on the map, from Russian attack helicopters to tanks. Hiding in bushes while personnel carriers were hunting for you was actual heart racing stuff.
Other than that, the best was taking over an internet cafe and playing counterstrike as a team from about 9:00pm until it was time to go to work the following day. Unbelievable fun.
Back when I was sixteen and going out with Jane, my first ever proper girlfriend, who was sat on my lap in my my parents' study playing Xenon II on my Amiga. While the next level was loading, she turned around, kissed me passionately on the lips and then returned to her on-screen carnage with a the occasional wiggle from her hips to remind me to pay attention.
This theme continued for a good thirty minutes or so, the passionate kisses grew ever more breathless and urgent. The wiggling to became more confident and brazen, the atmosphere in the room became charged with a strong hint of expectation and promise.
What happened next was something I'll never forget, for I finally got to see something I'd waited a very long time for.
She completed Level Four.
*applause*
I'm trying to remember a game on the PC in, would have been about 2003 which, as a fps, you were a mdern soldier, but could control anything on the map, from Russian attack helicopters to tanks. Hiding in bushes while personnel carriers were hunting for you was actual heart racing stuff.
Other than that, the best was taking over an internet cafe and playing counterstrike as a team from about 9:00pm until it was time to go to work the following day. Unbelievable fun.
Operation Flashpoint?
Everquest was my dirty little secret for about 5 years. So many good times it's hard to put a finger on it but conquering The Plane of Earth, to gain access to the Plane of Time with the guild a guild coalition and numerous multiboxers was definitely up there as one of the best momentsand then going on to defeat Quarm over multiple nights of Raiding.
Happened very recently to be fair as I've been nailing BF4 before the BF Hardline Beta comes out today.
Anyway, playing on Campaign mode and as I've jumped out of a heli I've been attacked by a plane. Not once but a couple of times this happened.
Next time I'm up for a fight and low and behold I see the plane turn in the distance....gets the RPG out and waits while he comes closer, a fraction before impact I've let the RPG fire and BOOOOOM!!!! Takes out the plane mid air!!! Yeehaa jesters dead!!! 8)
Mine was getting the gf hooked on jak and daxter. I woke up one night at 3am and she was still playing after I had dozed off in bed.
I shouldn't have bothered tho in hindsight as she now moans when either me or the kids are playing and don't bother to look in every nook and cranny or read quest text etc.
Completing Star Wars Arcade Trilogy (incl bonus stages) on a single credit whilst on a cross channel ferry with about 30 school kids watching and cheering (seriously, I was so cool once...)and finally nailing the 1080 as Ricky Winterbourne on the N64 and
I think if it's "things I did in a game" rather than "things that a game did" then it's Eve Online for me... Playing in faction war with the gallente, and routinely getting our arses kicked, we ended up fighting a sort of constant rearguard for weeks on end... Eve's never better than when it's tight, I could barely breathe at some points, flying a battered ship into fight after fight, spending hours hunting and murdering stragglers... Most people went for disposable cheap ships but where's the fun in that, I flew a half billion isk deimos called Unsinkable Molly and almost shat every time it was in hull, which was often, but damn did it feel dangerous.
I spent a lot of time on Eve, most of it was lacklustre, those few weeks were pretty incredible.
PC. Early 90s. Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat. Me in an F86 versus 3 Mig 15s. They were very, very good. I managed to down 2 of them, but the 3rd guy was proving tricky. We were fighting for what seemed like ages (about 15 mins probably). I was knackered, I was shot to pieces, just about out of fuel. We’d gone from about 30,000 feet down to about 50 feet.
He managed to get behind me, hit me and my engine went out and alarms started ringing. At that moment though, he overshot and I managed to fire my last single round off at him. He exploded.
I had to eject and he had too, so we ended up parachuting down to the ground right next to each other.
I like to think we both realised the futility of war in those quiet moments.
Switching my 'Heavy Sixer' 2600 on and off really quickly while playing 'Space Invaders', only to find that I now could shoot double bullets 🙂 1980?
Still don't know if it was a bug or a feature!
tinybits - MemberI'm trying to remember a game on the PC in, would have been about 2003 which, as a fps, you were a mdern soldier, but could control anything on the map, from Russian attack helicopters to tanks. Hiding in bushes while personnel carriers were hunting for you was actual heart racing stuff.
As BenjiM says sounds like Operation Flashpoint. The thing that seperated that from a lot of games of the time was the peril, no saves in levels, massive open levels and horribly good AI.
For a war game it was great as the last thing you wanted to do after 45 minutes of crawling across maps hiding from patrols etc was fire your weapon and let the (what seemed like) 100s of buggers know where you were! Made it all the more satisfying completing missions though.
The new Flashpoint (Dragon River) was brilliant on the PS3, as long as you could find someone to play it 'properly' with. After 2 or 3 weekends of being partnered with Rambo types shooting at anything that moved and not getting anywhere one glorious saturday I got chucked in a lobby with a guy from the states and we spent about 18 hours straight completing the game in one sitting. Played some GTA V and Portal 2 with him every now and then if one of us is online, although it's strictly business (don't even know his name!).
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I had to eject and he had too, so we ended up parachuting down to the ground right next to each other.I like to think we both realised the futility of war in those quiet moments.
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Goldeneye, played it to the point where I could complete most levels with single headshots, especially the jail escape, AK47 was silent as long as you only took single shots.
Took to doing a similar thing with COD2 & 3 Multiplayer, bolt action rifles were brilliant, wasn't happy with the modern warfare change....
I killed someone by hitting them with a smoke grenade in CS:GO about 5 nights ago.
Two friends who I was playing with saw it, felt pro.
With some housemates back in the day long before online gaming, we used to play the original Gran Turismo on the PS1. There were a few memorable days where we spent hours and hours shaving off fractions of a second off each others scores driving the TVR Cerbera LM around Trial mountain.
We played this thing to death and then one day our mate Gerry turned up and shaved a whole second off our best time. We were not pleased... never did beat it. I lost jobs because of that game.
Finishing super mario on the game boy, shooting that parrot thing and seeing the credits roll, then doing it about 3 months later with just one life. So much time spent staring at that little screen
Finally beating the "ghost" car in Ridge Racer on the PS1.
It's got to be Bike '99 - Maximum MTB (I think; they've long since closed) had a competition running - fastest time on "Downhill Bikers" over the weekend won an (unspecified) high-end mountain bike. By the close of the show on Sunday I could barely move from the stand and was taking on all-comers (it was two person head to head) to make sure I stayed at the top of the board. As a skint student (at the time) anything would have been worthwhile; but to walk away (well; pick up from a bike shop a few weeks later) with a shiny new Marin was brilliant 🙂
My Bro; who'd spent considerable coin attempting to beat my time finished 2nd. That was a quiet minibus ride home afterwards I can tell you....
Happy days.
During a particulalry tense climax to game of worms I found myself surrounded by my two opponents last surviving worms but both far enough apart to prevent me using a single conventional ordnance to clinch victory. A moment of high drama ensued where each protagonist tried to pursuade me to kill the others worm. Reaching like a lightening bolt for the SNES controller I selected shotgun and strode (wriggled) over to the first ememy and despatched him with a single shot to the head. The second opponent looked on at first pleased with my choice of victim but with a slowly dawning realisation that I still had 'one up the pipe'. As i wriggled toward his stricken combatant his pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears and I mercilessly gunned him down. The sweetest victory. It was seventeen years ago and I remember it as though it was yesterday.
^ worms - so many quality moments, shotguns 'n ninja ropes!
a lazy weekend playing 2 player co-op Portal wit my gf, it was just chilled and funny and lush, one of my fav memeories, let alone gaming ones.
Telling every one on here what I thought of Trevor on GTA V when I finished it 😳
PS1 time and racing backwards on Gran Turismo
3 of us spent about 1 month trying to kill the Big Boss at the end of a Star Wars PC game circa 1997. then one random bored afternoon I did it, except no one else was around to celebrate!