Greatest Video Game Moments Ever. (Spoilers)

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-23 01:17am

SpacedTeddyBear wrote:WC3: When you find out that Hobbes was a "sleeper agent", and when you blow up Kilrah.

About this, I was wondering: was Hobbes a conscious traitor, or was he 'programmed' to turn at a given moment? If the former then what a bastard! If the latter then...

(I haven't played WC3 all the way through, I just remember the scenes where all the other pilots snubbed poor Hobbes. He looks like a walking teddy bear.)

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-05-23 05:23am

The Opening Cinematic sequence for RA2 has always stayed in my mind.. the Kirovs slowly going over the streets reflected by the buildings....Then cue the invasion, with full blast HM02

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-05-23 05:48am

Freespace 2:

"DIVE DIVE DIVE!"

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2004-05-23 06:48am

Spyder wrote:Freespace 2:

"DIVE DIVE DIVE!"

The second time a Sathanas made me shit my pants.

The first time was it's original appearance, because I happened to be in front of the damn thing when it arrived! I saw those Beam Cannons suddenly appear around me, and I ran like hell.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2004-05-23 06:54am

I can't believe I forgot Mafia. The entire last level is absolute gaming brilliance.

The first time was it's original appearance, because I happened to be in front of the damn thing when it arrived! I saw those Beam Cannons suddenly appear around me, and I ran like hell.

My first encounter with a Sathanas was a bit too close for comfort. I was literally on top of where it came out of hyperspace or whatever it is and I ended up afterburning away to try and avoid being rammed to death. Didn't make it though.

McNum · Post by **McNum** » 2004-05-23 07:03am

Stofsk wrote:
SpacedTeddyBear wrote:WC3: When you find out that Hobbes was a "sleeper agent", and when you blow up Kilrah.
About this, I was wondering: was Hobbes a conscious traitor, or was he 'programmed' to turn at a given moment? If the former then what a bastard! If the latter then...

It's the latter. He had been programmed to trigger at the phrase "Heart of the Tiger", which Thraktah (Is that spelled right?) just happens to say in the beginning of the game. This isn't said directly in the game, but is in one of the deleted scenes.

Bill Door · Post by **Bill Door** » 2004-05-23 07:54am

Crazy_Vasey wrote:The Fallout ending was badass as well in a depressing way. All that to save the vault and then they won't let you back in because you've became dangerous.

Putting a .223 pistol shot through the Overseer's eyes and watching his unique death animation was my favorite bit

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-05-23 07:57am

I loved that ridiculous pistol. As I recall, you could only get it by getting to a certain level then clearing out some guy's house that had been taken over by Raiders.

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2004-05-23 09:15am

Freespace def had quite a few. Especialy Freespace II.

"DIVE DIVE DIVE HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!" is very much up there. I mean you almost ALWAYS, ALWAYS enter missions and have a nice long time to gun up and orient towards the action, take scope of the situation and start in.

THIS time (and I had my speakers up very loud because I had been listning to cool music on the precious mission) the game comes up...with a fucking Sathanas MOVING right at you and you hear the screaming order...I jumped halfway out of my chair while yanking the joystick forward and slaming the afterburner key so hard I damn near broke it.

That moment just rips into you the first time like nothing else. Then clawing back to self control and stabalising as you get back under control, your heart going like a jackhammer...

Another one is Mechwarrrior 2 Mercs. When the Clans first officaly make contact. You have the previous mission with the 'unknown bandits' attacking (stupid Claners, let me get in your six with 5 MPL's

) but this time the dropships fly over and they call you an Inner Sphere barbarian.

There is something about that level...possibly the complete lack of music and twilight red sky that just sets a chilling mood. Then the Omnimechs come stomping towards you...

Of course at that point I grin, hit the jump jets and unleash all manner of hell on the barstards

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-05-23 09:24am

Farcry:
When you come into a merc base courtyard and it's under attack by trigents. There's mutated soldiers jumping all over the place, big ass mother fuckers firing rockets every and then there's the mercs on top of that. And both sides will try to kill you!
Made the marine vs alien fights in Half-Life looks like a tiny argument.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2004-05-23 09:44am

Vympel wrote:I loved that ridiculous pistol. As I recall, you could only get it by getting to a certain level then clearing out some guy's house that had been taken over by Raiders.

Yeah. It's a bum in the hub whose farm has been taken over by raiders. Strangely enough you can buy it pretty much everywhere in Fallout 2 and the description still says that it's a unique weapon.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-05-23 02:07pm

2000AD wrote:Farcry:
When you come into a merc base courtyard and it's under attack by trigents. There's mutated soldiers jumping all over the place, big ass mother fuckers firing rockets every and then there's the mercs on top of that. And both sides will try to kill you!
Made the marine vs alien fights in Half-Life looks like a tiny argument.

And the best part of that fight was grabbing the Humvee and driving through all that, at least for me.

Absolutely manic, the beginning of that level.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-05-23 02:13pm

Replaying Mech4, some awesome moments there, replaying Ground Control, and i'm struck with some of the moments there.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-23 03:32pm

another one that i felt the need to mention.

Metal Gear Solid, on the PS1. sneaking into the bathrooms in the base and playing all kinds of fucked up pranks on them using the invisibility mode after you beat the game first time around. such as strapping c-4 to their back when they can't hear you behind them and are taking a leak, or punching them while they're doing business for kicks.

PeZook · Post by **PeZook** » 2004-05-23 04:44pm

System Shock 1:

-Placing a C4 charge on one of the antennas, turning around only to see you're trapped by a forcefield.

"Make yourself comfortable, hacker. Stay a while."

...and then working feverishly when juiced up with drugs in order to OPEN THE DAMN THING BEFORE THE CHARGE BLOWS!!!

System Shock 2:

-encountering the Midwife Cyborg for the first time. Then finding Nurse Bloom's logfile on it...

"The genetic sequence he specified for the prototype...it's mine..."

-The Polito revelation, of course. "I AM SHODAN!"

-Getting jumped on by a hybrid yelling "Run! RUN!". I turned around, saw the thing charging me with shotgun...nearly had a heart attack.

-Getting into the cargo hold where Delacroix was supposed to be, only to find her dead...

Planescape: Torment:

-encountering your three previous significant incarnations and learning what a sick bastard you were

-the entire encounter with your own mortality

[hated the ending, though. there was simply no point, no explanation, no epilogue to it]

-"What can change the nature of man?"

Homeworld:

-The firebombing of Karak. I promised the bastards would pay in blood for every single dead Kushan. Recovering the cryo pads, with Fleet Command calmly reading out "One hundred thousand colonists secure...two hundred..." in a serene voice was also incredible.

-The last mission, seeing my giant fleet advance upon the Emperor's flagship. And the ending. The ending was insanely good. Everything played perfectly with the rest of the game, right down to the music in the ending credits. You don't see something like this much.

Homeworld: Cataclysm:

-"Who will remember the crew of this ship? Or are flicker-lives not worth remembering? You are WORSE than the Beast! At least the Beast doesn't PRETEND to be righteous!"

-The ambush mission, with the Khar-Selim showing up at the last minute
"And we brought friends!"

-The ending. Marvelous. You may say whatever you want about Cataclysm, but they did the ending well.

Shogun: Total War

-Repealing wave after wave of enemy attack with just 240 troops, and at the end of the battle, seeing the enemy Daimyo fall down from his horse while he was cowardly running for his life. He nearly made it, too. He died right at the edge of the archers' range

-Many a glorious victory against overwhelming odds

Red Faction:

-I disabled the nuke at the end with precisely ONE FUCKING SECOND LEFT. You can't even begin to imagine how I've felt after seeing that goddamned counter stop

It was SO holywoodish.

Fallout:

-The ending. The rest of the game rocked, but the ending was incredible. Short and to the point, tying well with what preceded it.

I-War

-Every cutscene. There were no better ones in any of the games i've played to date.

-The mission where your ship gets boarded by a pirate, and you strike a deal with him...revealing a hidden cache of loot you've mined beforehand

-The ending when you remain loyal to SecPat, and follow the President's cruiser.

"We have to end it. Right now."

X-Wing:Alliance:

-Hypering into and area to get your sister out from a mining station, and seeing THE FUCKING EXECUTOR leading the attack. Getting out of there from under the Imperial nose was also a treat....of course, later on I realized that you could kill the Executor with the Otana, and the entire moment got cheapened immensely

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I could go on like that forever. Ah, memories, memories...

Agent Fisher · Post by **Agent Fisher** » 2004-05-23 11:52pm

HALO

I had just killed about 50 grunts(Spec Ops) and 10 Elites(also Spec Ops) on Legendary Co-op and I looked around and realized I was a god!

Then my partner threw a plasma grenade in the middle of the bodies and set off about fifty grenades killing me and hurling my body so high up you could barely see the ground.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-05-24 12:14am

Neverwinter Nights

Seeing your character shrug off her first epic spell and thinking, "God. I am TOTALLY BADASS now."

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2004-05-24 12:30am

SAMAS wrote:
Spyder wrote:Freespace 2:

"DIVE DIVE DIVE!"
The second time a Sathanas made me shit my pants.

The first time was it's original appearance, because I happened to be in front of the damn thing when it arrived! I saw those Beam Cannons suddenly appear around me, and I ran like hell.

Around you? Heh, first time through those beams suddenly appeared THROUGH me!
I was like "SHIT! ...um ...err ...okay, what the fuck was that?"

Dooey Jo · Post by **Dooey Jo** » 2004-05-24 03:55am

The Villa - Castlevania 64. Meeting Rosa, getting chased by Frankenstein in the Garden Maze, the Vampires at the end of the Maze. The whole Villa is one big, great, scary moment.

Zelda: Ocarina of Time - There's too many to mention. Seeing the beauty of Kokiri Forest for the first time probably was the greatest moment. Volvagia was cool to see to and Morpha... Like I said, to many to mention.

Zelda: Majora's Mask - Many great moments in this game too... Though the greatest is easy: Getting hugged by Cremia!! The mechanical bull boss comes in second.

SMB2 Ending - I tried to beat that damned Wart a long time before I succeeded. I felt great when I finally did!

Castlevania 3 - Sypha Ending - I tried for five years to beat this game. It's hard as hell!

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-05-24 04:46am

When you save planet Democratus and the government votes to aid you in your quest and shrink the planet to player-size and shows up at the bar your party is in

Shit I almost soiled myself... haahaha.

BTW this is from Anachronox.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-05-24 05:01am

Ace Pace wrote:Replaying Mech4, some awesome moments there, replaying Ground Control, and i'm struck with some of the moments there.

Mechwarrior 4 : Mercenaries had some great moments. Vengeance was too corny.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-05-24 05:27am

Here are a few that come up:

The good old Tex Murphy games (Under a killing moon...)

X-com: terror from the deep: nuff said

Duke Nukem 3D: especially the multiplayer (shrink-gun anyone?

)

Half life: the intro, the fact there were not seperated levels but just 1 _big_ level. First time the enemy (marines) actually show intelligence. In old FPS you only needed tto wait them up behind a corner and kill them so i was suprised to see they didnt came but trew a grenade instead).

Unreal: when you get out of the crashed prisonship to see the whide landscape with waterfall, flying birds,...

A few very fun multiplayer games with sudden strike. The most fun was when i was totally cut off from my allies, surrounded by massive soviet forces, short on supplies and forces, only 2 tanks that could actually penetratie the soviet heavy tanks, a flag in nomans land i could not allow the enemy to take or our team would loose. Luckely i had an excellent defencive position and some artillery so i held off attack after attack (with a VERY close margin) eventually turning the tide for our team and eventually win.

AvP: always scared to death when a facehugger got me. A friend who was sitting next to me fell over his chair once

Freespace: seeing the big capital ships shoot

Freelancer: the badlands (or how was it called) really looked like a scary place. And more was yet to come

MOHAA and Call of Duty also had a few (Omaha beach, sniperville, parachute drop, battle of the bulge, defending a building in Stalingrad,...)

X-Wing:Alliance: hypering with a heavy damaged correlian transport infront of a whole fucking fleet of ISD's that are doing target practice + escaping from the exploding DSII

First time i warped in Eve-online + the zooming in the galaxy map

most recent: Far Cry on multiple occasions. Finished it by rushing with about 0.00001 health left

WC3: When you find out that Hobbes was a "sleeper agent"

Oh yeah i forgot. Damn that was good

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-05-24 11:00am

AvP: Scaring the shit out of my brother when he was really getting into it. The best one was when he shot the explosive barrel thing in front of him and killed himself because i snook up behind him.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-05-24 04:54pm

System Shock II: shitting myself the very first time I "Heard" a nanny and saw laser beams come sniping at me from nowhere....

your song is not ours.

Bugsby · Post by **Bugsby** » 2004-05-25 01:18am

Let's see, off the top of my head:

FFX - Yuna falling through Tidus in the end cutscene
FFVIII - Rinoa posessed onboard the space station
Starcraft - "I love you, Sarge"; "Thank God for cold fusion"
FFVII - Northern crater: Weapon awakens
Warcraft III - Arthas vs Illidan
Diablo - End cutscene
Diablo II - Tyrael vs Baal/Diablo
Halflife - The resonance cascade

I know I forgot a lot. This is what I got in two minutes....