What the most memorable moment from any video game?
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The cake is a lie
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Bioshockโs big twist was so well done. I still think about that one a lot especially in games where thereโs no explanation for why youโre doing a mission.
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::: spoiler BioShock 1 spoilers
Atlas literally saying "Now, would you kindly do this? Would you kindly do that?"
:::Really, really takes me out of the moment every time.
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ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ!
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Assassinโs Creed 2:
โItโs-a me, Mario!โ
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The ending to crisis core. Even just watching it on YouTube makes me tear up every time
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The end of MGS2 was a prophecy.
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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.
weirdly this video of a playthrough of it is not timed nearly as well as described by you guys
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]GTA Vice City
When you kill someone, steal their car, and the radio is playing Vice City Public Radio and you notice how insane the banter is.
I found a utility to extract those as MP3s and to this day I still play them loud in my car sometimes.
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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.
Quake 4
The Space Marines being subjected to scientific experiments: "It hurts"
That still gives me nightmares
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Less than 1 week to TNNT!!
๐ข๐ฝ ๐พ๐ฟ๐ It's the mooooost wonderful time.... of the yeeeeeaaaarrrr! ๐ข๐ฝ ๐พ๐ฟ๐
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I'm gonna give this one the top moment because while I only ever played like ten minutes of the original Zelda games, this scene is pretty clear in my head, and very few other moments in gaming are as clear
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That first goomba in world 1-1
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At a LAN party 8 of our friends played Versus in L4D2 at the peak of our skill playing those games and the matches were very even and extremely competitive in a good way. I hosted a lot of LAN parties but that was the best of them all. The only game I ever surpassed it with hours played is Dead by Daylight.
The first time my friends and I got Resident Evil Outbreak Files 1 and 2 set up to play online via PCSX2 and the obsrv.org fan server. It's much easier now, but setting it up in the PCSX2 1.6.X days was awful. These games are so much better with voice chat. The only improvement I could dream of is a decompilation adding proximity voice chat. You already hear muffled commotion and gun shots of nearby players. Beat both games eventually on Very Hard difficulty.
The first time I booted up Roller Coaster Tycoon which I got in a cereal box for free. I'm still playing it via OpenRCT2! Parkitect is the true 3D fan sequel, fuck Planet Coaster. RCT3 devs kept making the same mistakes.
Too many to list.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]Aeris/aerith ff7
Kotor the big reveal
Halo when chief and arbiter team up
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wrote last edited by [email protected]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.
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Sending Floyd to his death in Planet Fall.
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Elden Ring the first time the tiny knights attacked me
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GTA Vice City
When you kill someone, steal their car, and the radio is playing Vice City Public Radio and you notice how insane the banter is.
I found a utility to extract those as MP3s and to this day I still play them loud in my car sometimes.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Dude yes! I had an idea to play those in my car when I met up with a friend interstate, but I then decided to do something that was higher effort, and I made my own mock radio station where I was the host, heavily inspired by the VC radio stations
It started off completely normal with subtle hints (the station name was BSFM), and then started having odd songs play like Minecraft parodies, music from other games and small indie artists only we would know, and towards the end I did "talkback" interviewing all of our friends that were in on it, giving weird takes on bread of all things.
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weirdly this video of a playthrough of it is not timed nearly as well as described by you guys
I'm going off memory from 10+ years ago in my recount, and I suppose similar to those who played 8-bit or 16-bit games and swore they looked better than they actually do, I just fondly remember just how much the 4th wall was broken there and how so much integrated together in the moment.
