What the most memorable moment from any video game?
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When I first got out of Midgard in FF7. I honestly hated the gameplay, but the story and level design kept me stuck.
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Super Mario Bros 1, I pretended Superb Mario was the Pony Express and had to deliver mail ASAP.
Made me realise what metagaming and speedrunning was.
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The end of chapter 6 in RDR2, pretty much the entire final mission but especially the final scene on the mountainside.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]The moment in Phantasy Star III on Sega where it is revealed that the entire world was actually just one node in a vast interstellar ship
EDIT: Originally posted the wrong one (PS IV). Please forgive me; it was like 30 years ago and I was drunk AF when it happened. I may have wept a little at the time. It was a special moment. I almost called my parents.
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Bioshock’s big twist was so well done. I still think about that one a lot especially in games where there’s no explanation for why you’re doing a mission.
“A man chooses… a slave obeys…”
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wrote last edited by [email protected]Portal 2 - The Part Where He Kills You
The player is put into this spike trap by the antagonist (Wheatley), and at this point the chapter text comes up saying "Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You", you get an achievement of the same name, and Wheatley then says "Hello! This is the part where I kill you!"
The timing and delivery of it was so perfect.
GTA Vice City - taxi and ambulance driving
I loved the part of VC (and I think other installments have this too) where you jump into either a taxi or ambulance and you can then become an actual driver for them, earning money. Loved that minigame for being such a different thing to all the other missions.
Driv3r - the Bascule Bridge
In one of the maps of Driv3r (kind of a GTA clone), there was a Bascule bridge you could actually toggle, and so I'd usually get a wanted rating, bait as much police and cars onto the bridge (even blocking the roadway with my own car) and then draw the bridge up with all of them on it, and watch how the physics bug out and some officers end up in water (should never happen in normal gameplay) and the cars just all explode in the water.
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The moment in Phantasy Star III on Sega where it is revealed that the entire world was actually just one node in a vast interstellar ship
EDIT: Originally posted the wrong one (PS IV). Please forgive me; it was like 30 years ago and I was drunk AF when it happened. I may have wept a little at the time. It was a special moment. I almost called my parents.
When does that happen? I’ve played through that game a couple of times but I don’t remember that reveal. It’s cool seeing someone mention it though! I feel like that game doesn’t get enough love but it’s in my top 3 RPGs.
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pwning and getting pwned by friends playing counterstrike dust 2 in the local cafe
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LAN party 2012ish. Playing Farcry 2 team Deathmatch multiplayer on the Clear Cut map. First team to 100 kills win. I got 60 of the 100 kills to win and from that point forward I was no longer permitted to use the 50cal sniper rifle.
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Eric fucking Sparrow claiming credit for the chopper hop in T.H.U.G.
most hatable villain in any game, hands down
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wrote last edited by [email protected]The first zombie in Resident Evil.
That uuh... thing that happens to Aerith in Final Fantasy 7.
Max Payne 3 in the airport level when Tears by Health starts playing.
Leaving the vault in Fallout 3.
The end of season 1 of Telltale's Walking Dead.
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That moment in Final Fantasy 7 when Sephiroth, um, drops in.
Gotta be up there.
Or in Deus Ex when, if you haven’t been paying attention (or just running through killing) the twist hits. I saw it coming but still. “That’s right JC. I’m [redacted].”
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Portal 2 - The Part Where He Kills You
The player is put into this spike trap by the antagonist (Wheatley), and at this point the chapter text comes up saying "Chapter 9: The Part Where He Kills You", you get an achievement of the same name, and Wheatley then says "Hello! This is the part where I kill you!"
The timing and delivery of it was so perfect.
GTA Vice City - taxi and ambulance driving
I loved the part of VC (and I think other installments have this too) where you jump into either a taxi or ambulance and you can then become an actual driver for them, earning money. Loved that minigame for being such a different thing to all the other missions.
Driv3r - the Bascule Bridge
In one of the maps of Driv3r (kind of a GTA clone), there was a Bascule bridge you could actually toggle, and so I'd usually get a wanted rating, bait as much police and cars onto the bridge (even blocking the roadway with my own car) and then draw the bridge up with all of them on it, and watch how the physics bug out and some officers end up in water (should never happen in normal gameplay) and the cars just all explode in the water.
And right before that, GLaDOS also says, "Well, this is the part where he kills us." Then the caption. Then the achievement pop. Then Wheatley says, "Hello! This is the part where I kill you."
He then fails to kill you.
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When you first walk out of the shrine of resurrection in Zelda Breath of the Wild and view over the landscape
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wrote last edited by [email protected]Walking into this in the first Watch_Dogs. (NSFW. Very much so.)
If you take the time to interact with all the hackables and scan all the people in this area you'll have revealed to you the incredible depths of depravity and cruelty going on here. It is incredibly fucked up. It was at this very moment in my first and only playthrough that I decided that no, fuck that. Aiden Pierce was now going to be murdering a lot of very specific people.
"Business must proceed."
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When you first walk out of the shrine of resurrection in Zelda Breath of the Wild and view over the landscape
I'm old. I was thinking in ocarina of time enteric Hyrule Field for the first time
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Not going to look the same to everyone, but being scammed in runescape for the first time. I remember trusting someone taking me to their training spot in the wilderness to level up prayer, and got back stabbed
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“It’s dangerous to go alone. Take this.”
I bet there are people out there who hate video games but recognize this line.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]This is incredibly niche but in the Blue Planet mod for Freespace 2 you're on the losing side of a war for the whole campaign - your elite unit pulls off a bunch of small-scale clutch victories but overall things are not looking good. Near the end of the campaign there's an elaborate series of missions involving disabling a bunch of hostile ships, intercepting and manipulating distress comms, and otherwise setting up a trap for the opposite faction's command ship, the Carthage (culminating in a mission called, appropriately, "Delenda Est"). All the setup missions go smoothly, as does the first springing of the trap, but then
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a counter-trap is sprung as soon as your forces are fully committed - another fleet's flagship and elite escorts who are supposed to be somewhere else warp in at murder range and start absolutely obliterating your people. The absolute dread as you realize almost nobody is getting out alive sticks with me.Edit: found a video for the voice-acted version
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