What the most memorable moment from any video game?
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Good or bad honestly
A fair warning, that mine is “political” in some respects.
The 3 final enemies in Another Crab’s Treasure. I say “enemies” not bosses because two of them wish you no harm, and the last one isn’t capable of fighting back. But beating them feels so damn right and deserved.
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The final boss (not a human) is a capitalist who genuinely wants to help the denizens of the ocean, but believes in doing so via mass pollution and business investment. The final enemy is the person who stole Kril’s shell, and after hours of trying to earn it his way and getting nowhere, you literally just kill him in cold blood to take it back.
:::The game definitely read as “Haha funny Spongebob Dark Souls parody” and at many times it is silly; but that often disarms you for the moments of pure character writing and active worldly commentary. I’d even say with the level of ethereal, unreadable high fantasy many Souls games use, it’s probably the best written Soulslike. I described the savage bits but there’s some heartfelt moments too.
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"Hey, Listen"
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Ghost Trick's entire second half is filled with them, but you cannot describe them spoiler-free... "When he looks at you" is the best I can come up with.
Return of the Obra Dinn, when you first look up in Abigail's death scene.
That fist slam onto the stove was both a big reveal, a tone shift, and an emotional character moment all in one.
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Bet those broken bones hurt quite a bit. How does it feel? Does it make you feel alive?
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Tiny me playing Zelda OOT when it released - in the days before guides were really a thing, so my dumb ass just had to figure it all out on my own.
Anyway, first 3D game I'd played - before that it was just some SNES and the original GameBoy cinder-block... and I was pretty much at the lowest end of that game's target audience, so tiny me was struggling to progress. Finally finish the Deku Tree after, idk a few weeks or so, which is about how long it normally took me to finish a game, so I thought that was it.
Cool! Well that was fun! All that's left is to escape the forest and that's a wrap! ...what's this chick on about with the ocarina?? Oh yeah, that's the name of the game, I got the thing! Woo! Okay, through that next log, and surely the credits will start to roll....... oh, I'm still in control of my character. Weird. OMG STFU YOU GODDAMNED OWL YOU'VE BEEN TALKING FOR LIKE AN HOUR!
And then the moment: taking my first steps into Hyrule field and seeing all the paths shooting off from it. Realized the was in fact not over, but had barely started.
Mind. Blown.
Playing OOT for the first time was pure joy.
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Lives, all mortal lives, expire
Souls go to their doom in flame
ForevermoreThere are great examples in this thread of great games from years past. But from more recent games, everyone who has played BG3 to its close (or near it) will likely agree with me. It was an amazing buildup and amazing scene when it happened.
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RDR2, the horse scene.
RIP Coffee. Had I known, I’d have walked.
The only time a video game got me choked up.
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That motherfucker.
Are you still mad about it? I'm still mad.
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Are you still mad about it? I'm still mad.
He POACHED our spot!
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The editing of that video delivers the joke poorly
it's definitely not helping
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That time I was playing Quake and I said 'I'm cocked, locked and ready to rock' and someone else said "You shouldn't lock your cock. Cocks should be free!"
It technically happened in a video game and I will never forget it.
But also getting Strogified in Quake 4.
Not during locktober they're not
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Aeris/aerith ff7
Kotor the big reveal
Halo when chief and arbiter team up
the remake makes that moment even more memorable.
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RDR2, the horse scene.
RIP Coffee. Had I known, I’d have walked.
returning from guam.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]Tha bit in Mario Kart when you finish a circuit and your guy rides up to the podium and suddenly there's a huge motherfuckin' fish and you're like, "what's this puffy guy gonna do?" and then ba-boom it fuckin' explodes and there's your trophy
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Thank you for the rush and immense chill bumps friend🥲
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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].”
"I'll come back when it's all over"🫡 -
Good or bad honestly
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Aeris/aerith ff7
Kotor the big reveal
Halo when chief and arbiter team up
"Wake me when you need me"🫡
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pwning and getting pwned by friends playing counterstrike dust 2 in the local cafe
I miss old CS so much
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some old guy in a cave distributing wooden swords.
Which is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses.
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Yeah, the game is designed in a way where your first encounter with a Reaper is probably going to be when you’re in a Seamoth. And you probably won’t have the electric shock module to shake the reaper off. It’s the best combo of “let the player potentially escape the attack” and “make the player feel completely powerless to fight back.” It’s also a great reminder that there is always a bigger fish, because the player usually feels pretty confident with cruising around after they build their first Seamoth.
I met the Reapers long before I had a Seamoth when I played
Terrifying game.
