Most intense gaming experience ever.

[Duskwaith]

1. Finally attacking the Senate in Rome: Total War.

Jesus how did you get enough popular support and how long did it take?

Just take over loads of places and keep your people happy with tonnes of gladitorial games then just start hacking the place up.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Call of Duty 4, Heat, on Veteran.

 

[thousandfaces]

Halo 2 LAN party at college, 8 vs 8, game ended 250-249, the uncertainty when the announcer says game over and then realizing that you won is out of this world. Long live the lan parties!!!

 

[GamingAwesome1]

L4D on Expert. Everyone was quite pissed off with my spazz reaction to victory at the finale.

Also the poetic.

"OH MY GOD! THE RESCUE VEHICLES HERE! RUN! RUN! RUN!!!!"

That made my blood pressure rise.

 

[thousandfaces]

I'd have to say the Belmont fight in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow takes it for me. It wasn't intense in the sense as you put it with Killzone 2, but rather, it was intense by the sense that the battle passed so smooth and quickly. I was almost immersed in the fight. In the end, I won, courtesy of the Balore soul(aka, the FALCON PUNCH! soul(you'll believe it if you see it)), but I will not soon forget the feeling I had when in that fight.

I hear you brother, that fight with him was awesome in its simplicity. For the record he didnt even touch me on that fight but after that he was a ***** to kill, guess my inmersion was over by then.

 

[Delicious Anathema]

Being 12 and popping REmake on my Gamecube. Within 5 minutes of playtime (in daylight), I turned off the console, shaking. I then sold it.

I'm now eager to buy the game again, but I've never understood why I reacted like that.

 

[Jurassic Rob]

Mass Effect!

 

[Lemur_Ninja]

I was relatively new to the FPS genre, I had some experience from Halo and some WWII games, and I tried Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I didn't have X-Box Live and I just played the campaign... Wow... That was probably the most intense gaming experience I had. Then I got Live and I was corrected, that was the most intense gaming experience I had.

I'm not saying CoD4 is the greatest gaming experience ever, it was just the greatest gaming experience I had when I started.

 

[Sev72]

All Gillied Up on Veteran, man when those tanks roll by, that was pretty intense, I have to say. Also winning my first "real" game of Starcraft on battlenet.

 

[Cunnysmythe]

System Shock 2-the whole game...i played it years after it's release, and it was the most intense gaming experience i ever had.
And i've played a lot of games...

Agreed. Those telepathic monkeys and zombies were terrifying.

The Polito form is dead, insect!

 

[RetiarySword]

EVE Online. If you loose your ship, you don't respawn back at base. YOU LOOSE YOUR SHIP. There is noting more terrifying than sitting in a battle-cruiser you just saved for over three weeks for knowing that there is a good chance you could loose it in about five minutes.

 

[NIHILHATE]

The first time I played silent hill, when i was five. The alley scene, jesus christ. That started a lifelong obsession with anything SH.
Plus the Shalebridge Cradle in thief: deadly shadows.

 

[MClardizzle]

Yeah idk why it was never popular cuz its a great surival horror game.

 

[Dread Pirate Pete]

The first time I played the Dawn of War demo, I just couldent stop and ended up comming away from the computer a full 29 hours later (after it crashed lol).

 

[Custard_Angel]

I'm a DotA player and I have to say that a good close game of DotA is the most intense thing ever... Not one of the crap games where someone rolls everyone... The ones where everyone dies constantly and no one has an advantage...

Good times.

 

[Zallest]

Duke Nukem 64 when i was a kid was intensely awesome

 

[Shadowfaze]

i thought playing bioshock on hard was really intense- especially when you turn off autosave and vita chambers.

death= right back to start. SO DONT DIE FOR GODS SAKE