What the most memorable moment from any video game?
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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.
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It's actually not viable. I must be misremembering and was almost certainly wishing for a cockatrice corpse there.
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Waka waka
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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.
I remember the moment having quite an impact as well
I just feel that they did actually miss with the timing a little bit
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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."
Yeah, that was pretty memorable. Like, it was pretty strongly implied but so much worse than expected.
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When Majora’s mask grew legs. Freaked me the hell out as a kid lol.
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wrote last edited by [email protected]When Joel has to choose to save Ellie from having the brain surgery or not in The Last of Us. When Monika in Doki Doki Literature club removes other characters in the game from the player's file + when she breaks the 4th wall. "It's just a prank, Han!" from Until Dawn.
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The part where you launch white phosphorus in Spec Ops the Line
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:::spoiler Outer Wilds
the begging when the gimmick is presented, and the end when everything is at stake.
:::Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Skip Button. It filled me with so much dread.
Getting hugged in VR chat during the pandemic.
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RDR2, the horse scene.
RIP Coffee. Had I known, I’d have walked.
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Hmm, there are quite a few of those, I think. Let's see.
Bioshock reveal. A man chooses, a slave obeys.
First time talking to Sovereign in Mass Effect, oh and the ending sequences from going through the Conduit and Sovereign attacking the Citadel, the Alliance fleet coming through. The cinematics and music were just so well done.
D:OS2, fighting Alexander when Battle for Divinity starts playing. Or the end fight, with Sins and Gods. The soundtrack was a delight.
The Witcher 3, the first time you arrive in Skellige, the landscape and the music, it just made me feel these things, it was beautiful.
The Deep Roads in Dragon Age:Origins, when Hespith starts reciting her poem and the Broodmother afterwards. Oh dear lord, I still remember the first time I was there, it was so fucking creepy. "First day they come and catch everyone." Truly superb.
In Kingdom Come: Deliverance, when you're forced to flee Skalitz, but you're so incredibly noob that you can barely ride a horse, and you realize this game is different from many others, because you're really just a nobody without any skills - and you'll stay a nobody, pretty much. This entire game was a joy to me.
There are also some games that are entire masterpieces, where I can't really pick a single moment but the entire game would count, for example Disco Elysium, a true masterpiece. This game made me experience the entire rainbow of human emotions.
Another example would be Deus Ex, which to me will never get old, however bad the graphics might be.Let's stop here, before this turns into simply a list of my favorite games.
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Watching the credits for Super Metroid for the first time.
That end card probably stayed on my tv for for like an hour while I just sat there.
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Every time I played Dead Rails on Roblox. I even recorded it all.
