Moments when good games became AWESOME.

[soren7550]

For me, Borderlands 2 became awesome when I replayed as the Mechromancer. Sooooooooooooo much better than the Siren.

Also when playing through Pokemon SoulSilver, when all those hours of playing the original came flooding back. "I REMEMBER EVERYTHING!! I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THAT THING IS, WHERE TO GO, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE THERE, AND WHAT POKEMON ARE THERE!!"

Saints Row the Third really took off after you jump out from the plane.

There are others, but I'm trying to not repeat what others said.

 

[Frybird]

Real Quick, let me quote Wikipedia on No one lives forever 2:

(...)After doing so, Cate escapes a tornado while dodging ninjas before getting caught in a trailer home and having a swordfight in the middle of the tornado with Isako.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

The mission on Virmire in the first Mass Effect.
Definitely the first emotional punch in the trilogy for me, and for me it was a bit of a double blow, seeing as I ignored doing a certain beloved crew member's loyalty mission, and paid the price for my disregard.
It was the first moment of the whole trilogy where I realised I was legitimately emotionally invested, and from then on I saw the Mass Effect trilogy as a (almost) whole awesome.

 

[Spinozaad]

The Operation: Flashpoint demo. There's this point in the demo level where you and your platoon are dropped at the top of a hill, and run down to take a small hamlet. When the opfor starts shooting at you. My team got shot down all around me, leaving me the only one to actually make it down the hill.

That moment I realized this game wasn't scripted. The emergent kind of gameplay, the actual confusion of combat with explosions all around you and radio chatter on enemy locations and shot teammates, it was amazing.

Operation: Flashpoint is the reason why I hate games reliant on set-pieces, and that game was released in, what? 2001? Amazing.

 

[Avalanche91]

Mass Effect 1: The game overal was kinda meh to me, but then you reach Ilos. Trough both my playtroughs, once I reached Ilos I had to keep playing cause from there on out the game's finale start and it is glorious.

Shadow Of The Colossus: I was kinda struggling with the controls for the first few colossi. Number 5 however I was completly ready and by god was that a good fight.

Persona 4: After beating that incredibly annoying Shadow Yukiko

 

[Milkman]

Dead Space 2, when you make the HALO jump.