Games that gave you chills

[willard3]

Not the scary kind of chills, but something that just hit you good and literally sent a shiver down your spine because it was so awesome or cool or something.

This usually relates to the soundtrack for me, so my time I can recall is during the first time I saw the opening of Oblivion, immediately after the voiceover by Picard. When the camera starts panning around Imperial City, the Elder Scrolls theme begins playing like a fanfare, and BETHESDA SOFTWORKS PRESENTS gets plastered on the screen, I literally got chills.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

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[Cherry Cola]

When fighting your doppelganger in the air in Afro Samurai.

Best. Boss. Ever.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

In Earthbound, after Ness has collected all eight melodies, I always get a shiver when the piano kicks into the song playing during his vision.

 

[MrSpider]

I got chills when I first booted up Gran Turismo and the opening cinema started. If I hear that song now, I want to race.

 

[Joa_Belgium]

Getting the power back on in an early chapter in Alien Vs Predator 2 on the PC. Every time that bleeping sound could be heard and at least one dot appeared on the radar, I literally got chills. And once I got such a scare when an alien leaped at me from the darkness, that I had to pause the game.

What really gave me the "awesome" chills as you describe it: climbing certain Colossi in Shadow of the Colossus. That is one amazing game.

 

[Editos]

The Perfect Chaos battle as Super Sonic in Sonic Adventure, it was just epic!

Also, the whole of Mass Effect.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Diablo II, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Dragon Age: Origins.

 

[Roxas1359]

Getting the Ryno V in A Crack In Time. What gun is more awesome than a one that plays the 1812 Overture Finale whenever you fire it,and with over 2000 ammo you'll keep the song going for quite some time.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Hide the frozen peas.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Probably Fable II, as much of a bloody disappointment it was...and I know there's another one but I just can't remember...

 

[GodsAndFishes]

Halo 2 when I first started playing as the Arbiter.

 

[Joa_Belgium]

Getting the Ryno V. What gun is more awesome than a one that plays the 1812 Overture Finale whenever you fire it,and with over 2000 ammo you'll keep the song going for quite some time.

I loved that as well! It's sad though, that the music isn't any louder. Tchaikovsky would've been proud.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

The fight with Kuchinawa with sheena. Few things made my hair stand one end. and that was one of them. Ninja on ninja, friend against friend, killer vs the orphan, fight to the death.

 

[Roxas1359]

Getting the Ryno V. What gun is more awesome than a one that plays the 1812 Overture Finale whenever you fire it,and with over 2000 ammo you'll keep the song going for quite some time.

I loved that as well! It's sad though, that the music isn't any louder. Tchaikovsky would've been proud.

Yes I think he would be proud as well. At least the music is somewhat in sync with the gun when the missiles fire.

 

[Bobtowna]

When I did my fist fatality in Mortal Kombat 2.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

Fighting

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Flemeth

in Dragon Age Origins. Not only was it incredibly suspenseful for me because I kept thinking, "Oh my God, oh my God, she's going to kill me any second," but the fact that

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you're fighting a High Dragon who is ALSO Morrigan's mother, which says something about how powerful she is.

Also, the whole of Mass Effect.

Quoted for truth.

 

[Deleted]

rat Man in Portal. The whole game is creepy actually.

 

[Jiggabyte]

The opening of Elder Scrolls IV. Fantastic.
Or perhaps my first Holy Hand Grenade. Nobody forgets that glorious weapon. "Haaallelujah- BOOM" and a whole chunk of the map is gone.

 

[ShoryukenDude]

Driving up the side of a bus on a motorcycle, both of which had just been spit out by a giant worm.

God I loved Ninja Blade.

 

[Abedeus]

Thief 3. God, every moment in that game.