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[Photon]

I want to hear about some of your favorite gaming moments. Whether it be victory, fear, surprise, whatever... I want to hear about those moments that for whatever reason drove you to keep playing xyz game or just hit that sweet spot. I use the term moment loosely; we could be talking about a series of moments or events if you really want to. Its something I've been thinking about lately because, frankly, I just don't experience those moments much anymore. Understandably, I don't play as much as I used to, but still, I'd like to hear your favorites.

I'll start with a game you might not expect: Pikmin 2. Pikmin 2 is easily the most difficult of the trilogy with a ridiculous amount of content. Getting to the end of its dungeons typically culminated in a big boss fight, but one that totally took me aback was the Man-At-Legs. OH. MAN. "Another spider thing? It sure is fast. Maybe I could- WAIT. Is that a tracer OHMYGOODNESSRUNAWAYHELPMETHEHORROR!" Pikmin 2 just had this way of being like "Yeah, I did that. Deal with it." It was such a blast trying to manage your forces through a long dungeon, particularly the final ones.

[ProgramGamer]

One of my favorite was when I was playing Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones. Eirika attacked a wall in order to destroy it, and in doing so gained enough experience to level up, effectively giving her a level for hitting a wall. I remember laughing so hard I had to take a break from the game for a few minutes.

[gunswordfist]

Snake's crawl and the fight with Ocelot at the end of MGS 4.

[Eigen]

The ending of Little Big Adventure 2 when Baldino flies the shuttle up from the volcano and the children are on board, alive and waving at you and the most beautiful music plays. I cried.

[Schoq]

winning with 11 frags when the fraglimit is 10 in a 3 player deathmatch

[jamesprimate]

ash lake.

[Miziziziz]

probably the star rabbit moment in To The Moon

[Türbo Bröther]

Icon Of Sin, Ultra Violence, no damage.

[s0]

1. playing super mario 64 at a store and freeing chain chomp. that game was my very first 3d game and blew my mind 5ever. it's what turned me from a kid who sometimes plays videogames into a "gamer". super mario 64 ruined my life.

2. discovering the missingno glitch in pokemon red.

3. finding out that you could pick up any item in morrowind.

4. staying home sick for a month and using world of warcraft as a way to stay in touch with my friends. i played it on my laptop in bed using a baking tray as a makeshift lap desk. this was before even burning crusade came out

5. playing nethack for the first time

6. seeing a world generated in dwarf fortress for the first time and thinking "you can do that in a videogame?"

7. declaring war on a random country in europa universalis 3 and getting stomped by their allies. thats what made me think about politics in games for the first time, specifically how terribly politics are portrayed in popular strategy games like civ.


8. opening the door to executioner miralda in demons souls for the first time.

[Netsu]

Final scene of Soul Reaver 2.

Finishing Super Hexagon.

[quan]

When I was a kid, renting Majoras Mask from a video store in my hometown that had a bunch of old N64 games. I was really in love with Ocarina of Time at that age and I was really interested in this other Zelda I didn't know about. It was mindblowing to me how different that game was to OoT in terms of atmosphere.

[Alevice]

Having Pacman being slammed with a door for the first time in Pac-Man 2

Playing Lemmings for the first time

The dragon showing up in the shadows behind some bars in the collosseum during Demons Crest prologue

When I killed the naval Piranha Plant without fighting it by accident and Kamek was like Oh My! over Yoshi's Island

Seeing Killer Instinct on a huge screen at an arcade for the first time, and hundreds of kids and teenagers queueing up to play it

The huge vertical shaft on Brinstar near Kraids Lair, with the glowing organic pillar on the background and the background music

The boss gauntlet and the (again!) great music against  the bird guy, the gargoyle and death on Castlevania 4

Terranigmas first overworld

Dealing with Giygas and his eventually more distorted background forms and music

Watching Resident Evil for the first time. It was soooo creepy back then. And the zombies howling... maaan.

While we are on that, getting cornered in a house nearby the chapel against a bunch of ganados breaking windows to ambush me.

When I first dealt with the Butcher in Diablo 1 and got murdered in seconds

When you ask the usually humorous farnham about the Butcher and he cries in pain in a very serious tone

When I realized how brilliant the level design was on Tricks and Traps and The Pit over Doom 2

Dealing with my first deathclaw over fallout 1

Kerrigan letting Zeratul go in Starcraft

Learning I could create my own campaigns and non-rts things (like a poor mans packman and asteroids) in the Starcraft editor

Entering Dafoes mind near the end of 6 Days a Sacrifice

Battling the Bloodthirster on the Dawn of War campaign

Choosing between saving hostages or capturing Balahk on the Mass Effect 1 dlc

[Nillo]

Mine has to be reaching the ultra ending of Ancient Domains of Mystery. This game dominated my childhood; I played it for at least five years and it took me about half that long to achieve my first victory. But it was only towards the end of those years I became good enough to go beyond that and truly dethrone the Chaos God. My Drakeling Wizard who did the deed was a product of months of careful planning down to the finest detail.

[Netsu]

When I first dealt with the Butcher in Diablo 1 and got murdered in seconds
...
Dealing with my first deathclaw over fallout 1

How could I forget... the most amazing moments were when I was a kid and

a) the vault door closed behind me in Fallout 1
b) I stood in front of the cathedral in Diablo 1 with that red glow coming out

Both left such a strong impression on me, it felt so real and unreal at the same time back then, I guess it had more to do with me being young (I was 10) than with the games being that amazing, but nothing since then can compare.

[Sgt. Pepper]

Going into Lavender Town in the original Pokemon and still being able to talk about it

[One-bit Punch]

Ah old memories..

One time I summoned the tornado in Castlevania II completely by accident. I've been stuck on that game for months and couldn't progress further. It felt awesome! Made me into a true believer in the joy of exploring / discovering stuff in games.

[Miziziziz]

oh man, watching the cutscenes in the original Starcraft was so great, I thought the zerg were so terrifying, and the terran so badass.
just Starcraft in general was freaking awesome.
I remember my dad would overhear me playing and then start walking around saying things like "GIMME SUM'IN TO SHOOT" or "ROOOCK AND ROLL"

[Saithir]

Most of the times I've been playing EvE Online.

I mean, once we "bullied" (well, it's a big word, but this is what this game is about after all - basically we shot at him a bit, he shot at us a bit, but he was alone and we were not) a player living in "our" low security system enough for him to finally decide he should move elsewhere. He was trying to take his structure anchored in space with him. We saw what was happening (totally by accident - I was bored and decided to log in to see if maybe there is someone to shoot at), so we waited in cloaks until he finished deactivating everything (so he can put it in his cargo), then we uncloaked, shot him and got all the structure parts for ourselves. He wasn't too happy about it, but hey, it was his fault, he clearly saw us on the local chat and knew we were around and not in the station.

Some other time we took a freighter all the way from Jita (main trade hub) to some enemy null space. Its cargo hold was full of alcohol and other useless stuff from npcs. We got pretty far into the enemy territory (obviously with armed escort) before they finally shot it down.

[shinygerbil]

Completing all levels, Dark World levels, hidden levels/warp zones in Super Meat Boy was the pinnacle of my existence.

[Katsusiro_7]

One of my first games on PC was Half-Life: Opposing Force. Previously, I played the original Half-Life, but got stuck at "Blast Pit". So, I decided to start playing this add-on and got stuck in the beginning. I couldn`t find the body armor to go outside the first room! And after I found it, what a great feeling was to get on the surface in the sunset! To be honest, the whole game left more great memories than the original Half-Life. For example, the moment where you need to go into the sewers full of super dangerous aliens still scares me.