Heart pounding holy f**k this is awesome!!!! moments in games

[-Dragmire-]

The Bastion, near the end after a key decision.

Not much for extreme action as I was tearing up at that point but it was unforgettable.

Yahtzee wrote about it on extra punctuation, check there if you don't care about spoilers.

 

[Extragorey]

Just Cause 2: Finding a random hot air ballon in a valley. Which you can even use! And this was after I'd clocked over 100 hours on the game and thought I knew everything about it.

Holy shit you can do that? I've played for 100 hours and never found this? what area is it in? Is it easily visible from a difference? Thanks man, you've just given me an excuse to spend another 20 hours looking for this.

On topic: MGS4. the whole lot. LoZ - OoT did this to me in the final fight when i was a kid.

I'll help you out a bit: it's on one of the islands (empty except for the main road) in the Panau City area of the map. When you find it you need to shoot the sandbags holding it down before you can jump in and fire up the burner.

 

[funguy2121]

Granted, you've played quite a lot of games by now, and most likely most of them were pretty good, but have you ever really played a game, either for the first time or been playing one for a while and reached a point where things got so intense you were like "OMG, this is so awesome, I love this game! "

No, I don't just mean graphics purely or something as mundane as that, but simply because gameplay got chaotic but the good kind of chaotic, things probably got scarier, the plot started getting REALLY good or a boss fight just had you on the edge of your seat. That sort of stuff.

Now I can say I've played a lot of games and while I've love a majority of them, very few of them have had this impact.

But here is my list of games and the moments I enjoyed.

MGS3: Towards the end with the bike escape
Uncharted 2: With the train and a few other moments
Final Fantasy 8: During the massive wars (although its certainly not amongst the best FF games)
God of war: First time I ever played, demo battle against the hydra.

Ill add as I think of some more.

Just played God of War for the first time. I didn't find the Hydra battle to be mind blowing, but it was certainly fun.

No More Heroes - in ascending order, the battles with Shinobu, Bad Girl, and Henry. I used to drink, and I'd spend a 12-pack, a couple of hours, and an immense iTunes list fighting Bad Girl or Henry. This doesn't mean that I'd win. Both of them took numerous tries, but as long as I had my Mars Volta and my Tool and my Rancid, I had a blast. These were some of the most nail-biting battles ever, and I only ever won by the skin of my teeth. Also, the game was mocking me the whole time. The Shinobu fight was just the first time the game came together, and was perfectly dramatic and fun.

About 80% of Resident Evil 4.

I'll go ahead and be cliche (and probably ninja'd) and say "Ocarina of Time." The first seven-year jump is worth mentioning, and screw you guys, I loved the water temple. The flying ship with the stalfos knights was pretty damned cool as well, and the debut of Ganon baseball was awesome.

Captcha includes the word "ovary." Is there a connection to the return of Beavis and Butthead?

 

[Fernando Rivera]

The legend of Zelda Orcarina of time when shiek revealed herself as zelda i was like holy sh3$$ what in the world how did.. when did... how did.... best plot twist ever

 

[ColdBlooded]

I've got one. Fallout 3.

::Spoiler warning::

I had started the purifier, providing clean water to the wasteland. I had freed prisoners on board an alien spaceship, and took the ship as my own. I had wandered Lookout Point and unlocked its secrets, taking out a maniacal brain that had been manipulating helpless people since the war. I had completed the virtual reality simulator for Operation: Anchorage, and I survived the Pitt, helping to push forward an immunity to all radiation. Now, I had just defeated the Enclave and destroyed their mobile base, leaving only roaming bands of units unaware that their home base had been obliterated from their own weapon. I had done it all. All that was left was to wander the wastes.

I didn't intend on playing much longer. I was the most powerful entity in the wastes. I figured I'd just wander a bit, see any areas I had missed, maybe roll over some raiders or save a few slaves. I walked on the outskirts of downtown DC at night, and ran across a four way intersection among some bridges. Mines lay in random places, old cars scattered around the area, and large group of high level Super Mutants roamed the area, just waiting for someone to walk by for them to kill. I began attacking them from up high, hoping to just whittle them down without getting hit, but they started to throw grenades, so I gave up the high ground and decide to engage a little closer.

That's when the Enclave showed up. They dropped a number of units wearing Hellfire and Telsa armor from their vertibird, which barely let the last trooper off before I blasted it out of the sky with my Tesla cannon. All of a sudden, your average scuffle with some Super Mutants just turned into an epic 3-way war. Missiles, grenades, and mini-nukes flew through the air, crossed by streams of lasers and plasma weapon fire. The cars each exploded in turn, taking out some of each group and crippling one or two of my limbs. The mines were hard to avoid as I dodged and weaved through the gunfire and explosions, using a combination of free fire and VATS when available.

In the end, it was me and a single Enclave solider, and one last plasma shot with my trusty A3-21 rifle ended the battle that probably could have been seen and heard from the Citadel itself.

There I stood, victorious, the night sky just starting to recede in favor of the approaching dawn. Fires burned from the wreckage of the ancient automobiles that had stood there since the war, as the bodies of my enemies lay strewn in the street among piles of ash and goo. I was at less than a third of my health, even after using a few stimpacks in battle.

I had hundreds of battles up until that point. Killed thousands of people, monsters, and creatures. I had single-handedly wiped out every last slaver at Paradise Falls. I had defended Big Town from the Super Mutants. I marched along side a giant robot, racing it to get to the enemy before it did. None of it compared to that single battle.

I wish I had saved it right before that point, or at least wrote down where that battle had taken place. It only lasted a minute, maybe two, but damn what a battle that was.

Holy shit that sounds awesome!It was your poetic delivery that sealed the deal.

The second to last mission of infamous 2 when you ABSORB LIGHTNING FROM THE SKY!

Basically any moment in the first half of crysis.

God of war 3: Hades and Hercules fight.

Racking up a 50+ combo on arkham asylum.

Just being in the wasteland of new Vegas, a lone gunman with his floating robot and a dishonored scribe... and now we wander to our next battle... with a big iron on my hip.

 

[A Weary Exile]

Team Fortress 2 can provide some awesome moments, particularly if you're on a roll with a particular class. If you can get "in the zone," it can result in some insane "damn, did I just really pull that off?" zen moments.

This. I have had this kind of heart-pounding rush on two particular occasions. Once as a Spy and the other was as an Engie. Not typical camping Engie, mind you, aggressive Engineering, with the default wrench at that.

 

[busterkeatonrules]

Mini Ninjas. The waterfall.

There's a bit where you have to sail down a calm, tranquil river. As you progress, the current gradually gets stronger, the music gets more intense, the cliffs on each side get taller and the river gets more narrow until you can only see a thin sliver of daylight up ahead, and just as the rythmic drumming reaches its crecendo and abruptly stops -

- you're suddenly hovering in mid air, miles above a beautiful valley. I swear, I literally couldn't breathe until I'd landed in that lake far below. And that took some time, too!.

 

[RicoGrey]

BF2142

It was the first time I played Titan mode, when my squad moved into the enemies Titan, we moved swiftly like a real unit. We each played to our classes strengths, knocking out all their security measures, plowing through their choke points, and then setting up a parameter while our demolitions guy and our support guy took out the reactor. Also, we all made it out alive, barely, fighting every step of the way.

Words will never be able to truly explain the experience, IT...WAS...INCREDIBLE. I will always miss BF2142, as I don't think they will come out with a sequel, and if they do, I just have this feeling it will not be the same experience.

Metro 2033

I feel like there are plenty of scenes in this game to mention, but I will go with the one towards the beginning, where you and some other guys are in a train car, all of you fall unconscious, and you wake up to monsters chasing you. It was intense, it felt real, and again, it was incredible.

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Amnesia: Dark Descent

Just about every fucking thing in this game. Every scene...almost. Particularly the scene with the invisible water monsters. I have never been so scared in my life. This game, this game...THIS game, this is the best survival horror I have ever played, ever. Some people could not lose themselves in this game, but I could, and it was incredible.

Far Cry 2

There were only 2 things I didn't like about this game, but they were BIG. Terrible vehicle controls, and re-spawning checkpoints. However, one of the coolest moments I EVER had in any FPS, was when I swam through a swamp, emerged on the other side only to see an enemy combatant with his back turned to me. He turns around, sees me, sees my gun, and... puts his fucking hands up.

His gun was hanging on his back, so he knew if he tried to pull it out I would have killed him. He says to me "Be cool man, be cool, it doesn't need to go down like this" I look around slightly, without taking my gun too far off him, I see his friends about 20 meters away facing in the other direction. As I am turning back fully to the guy with his hands up, he goes for his gun. I kill him naturally, luckily my gun was silenced, then I wait for his friends to come looking for him, and take them out too. Holy hell, despite this game's very irritating flaws, this single scene made the game for me. Talk about immersion. Just to be clear, this was NOT SCRIPTED. It was all random, and it was all incredible.

 

[bruggs]

Valkyria Chronicles: The mission where Selmaria shows up and starts DESTROYING you, and you have to take down the massive tank. It just worked so well for me, I had just a few survivors, desperately pitting their all against the advancing tank. Comrades lying dying all around me. The feeling when I completed it was amazing. It hooked me in to the point where it wasn't just a game I could restart, it was something truly important.

This mission. I hate it, but I love it. I still haven't beaten it, but before this mission I had never had anyone actually die. This mission killed one my misplaced units on my first play through. I remember thinking "Its not that late into the mission, I could jut retart..." but I couldn't. I eventually did because I failed the mission, but that game is just so gorgeous and well done I couldn't restart just for a soldier, but I could kill every damn enemy to justify his death!

Valkyria Chronicles: The mission where Selmaria shows up and starts DESTROYING you, and you have to take down the massive tank. It just worked so well for me, I had just a few survivors, desperately pitting their all against the advancing tank. Comrades lying dying all around me. The feeling when I completed it was amazing. It hooked me in to the point where it wasn't just a game I could restart, it was something truly important.

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This game is so underrated. When a game gets you to tell stories about experiences you had while playing it, in hushed, emotion-filled tones like some kind of war veteran, you know it's a special game.

I only accomplished that mission on my first try because of Rosie. She went toe to toe with Selmaria, ducking all of her blasts, drawing attention away from my two lancers who were pounding away at the tank. Eventually, Rosie was taken out, but she had done her duty. And yeah, I also went to great lengths to make sure nobody died.

Oh, and I played Civilization IV for the first time just a few days ago. I wouldn't say it's the heart-pounding kinda awesome, which is a very particular kind in my eyes. But man, I don't know what's better: Butchering Queen Victoria and giving her land and gold to the ruthless warlord that is Ghandi,in order to get more votes for the diplomatic victory. Or sending Elvis to Birmingham so that Tokyo will be INGESTED into my nation by a wave of SHEER CULTURE.

 

[R4GNOR0K]

The Final levels of Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. One of the greatest moments in gaming. Especially that long windy corridor(?) at the end.

 

[coldfrog]

Peter Jacob. A news reporter during WWII. A horrible elderich abomination to which gunfire feels like a tickle. Same room. Good effing luck.

Eternal Darkness was awesome. XD

HAH! Been a while since I've played that game, but that is definitely one of my favorite moments from it.

As for me. Amnesia: The Dark Descent. A flooded basement. A splash. Is it a rat? Or is it AN INVISIBLE MONSTER COMING TO TEAR YOUR HEAD OFF?!?!

Hint: ruuuuunnnnnnn

 

[Drummie666]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The hostage situation conversation. Holy mother of fuck was that intense. Then the whole conversation thing got a hell of a lot less enjoyable after I got the social upgrade augment. It just made it feel so... dumbed down.

Medal of Honor (2010). The end of the first mission with the rangers. Fuck that was beautiful.

 

[Stravant]

The end of one mission in Deus Ex, where you fight two giant robots to be able to open a hangar door to be extracted, which wasn't actually that burly a fight to be honest, but...

Really what made the moment awesome for me was that when I first opened the door to the hangar I didn't actually notice them for about a second, and at first I was wondering where all the bad guys were...

You can probably guess from there.

 

[AGrey]

Every colossus in Shadow of the Colossus

Yes.

I have never had an experience in a game like the one I had playing shadow of the colossus.

My roommate got the game, and we played through it trading off to fight each one. I was fighting my first one (the second in the game) when I had this odd moment of serenity where I completely stopped playing, and just started watching. The music, the monster, the epic landscape. I completely stopped, and thought to myself- "This is f-ing awesome"

No other game has ever given me that feeling.

SotC is still in my top 5 games of all time.

 

[Pape juanito arce]

-Kingdom hearts series : If I have to pick it will be the moment leading to the 100 heartless
battle (all do the ending to birth by sleep was awesome too).

- Sonic 3, sonic and knukles : pretty much al of the levels and boss figths (execpt the water levels)

-metal gear solid last level : just wow...

 

[TheTim]

The end of MW2(at the time) was the greatest thing ever.

any of the battle cutscenes in Mass Effect universe.

I lost my train of thought so ill keep it there.

 

[Wither]

Half-life 2. The strider battle. I was on 12 health, no shields, desperately shooting at a strider. After I took it down, on about 5 health, I felt like a god.

 

[krection]

The first time you fight a Big Daddy in Bioshock. They had been hyping it up and it comes out of nowhere. You use all your resources just to kill it and get that sweet ADAM. It was really epic. The almost final part in Condemned. The part where you are in a house with a sadistic serial killer was FUCKING AWESOME. The boss in the Painkiller demo. He is FUCKING HUGE. But then again you have a minigun with a rocket launcher on it. The terrain keeps breaking and his huge ass hammer does that thing that makes you float.

 

[Condor219]

Most of Split/Second. Also, shooting a nuke into the face of the final boss in Mass Effect 2 and seeing it go down in a spectacular heap.