My god......

[Thespian]

Mass Effect 2.

They all lived.

I cringed and jumped whenever a party member was shown to survive. Tali... Garrus... Samara... They all made it... D

Also, AC:Brotherhood... Climbing to the top of the Coliseum, and rotating the camera to see all of Rome and the building itself... Wow.

 

[Realitycrash]

I am simply awesturck Escapist, just awestruck. Minecraft's world is estimated to be 8 times the size of the earths, I thought I had colonized a relativly large chunk of it when I decided to venture off into the distance with nothing on me just to recon the sorrunding area near one of my bases. I climbed over the nearest hill top and simply felt my breath leave me. Facing me, sitting there for what must have been miles, was a desert. Infinite and unyeilding, sitting there staring at me. I quietly slipped back down the hill and retreated into my base for the remainder of the day.

So my question to you Escapist, have you ever been simply awestruck by a game? Recount your tales for us.

Would it have killed you to put your last sentence as the topic-name?

 

[DarthFennec]

Eight times the size of earth is roughy the theoretical limit before the software becomes unstable and crashes, according to Notch.

Sounds sensible to me, probably has something to do with max address size or something. That's still fucking huge, it would take like six years of just walking to make it crashed out like that. That blows my mind lol.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

It's been said but Fallout 3, leaving the vault for the very first time is just like... whoah.

Bioware have got a few out of me for the big shock moments in their games, looking out the citadel window in the Wards in ME1 made me stop for a moment for example.

Tomb Raider tends to get this reaction out of me at some point, and TR:U in particular had several moments where I just stopped and stared at the scenery for a good five minutes.

Further back Final Fantasy IX, the first time the opening movie played I was like 'this is going to be like nothing else' and since this was one of my first games you can imagine just how excited it got me.

But going right back to the start, there was nothing quite like that point in Pokemon where you finally got out of Pallet Town, and just thought 'yeah, I'm gonna be a Pokemon master.' Especially if you saw the TV shows before you played the game, you wanted to be Ash, no questions asked.

Actually, looking back, games have been really good to me over the years. Even more than I already thought.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

My first use of the M-920 Cain...

Ha! I've only ever used it once... Killed me, my team, and all the enemies I was facing at the time...

OT: When I upgraded from a Gameboy Advance to a Xbox 360...

"The graphics... It looks SOOO REAL!!!!"

I don't even remember what game it was... The transition was more breathtaking than anything I'd ever seen prior!

 

[Nieroshai]

Assassin's Creed 2. It took 5 playthroughs for it to lose the new game shine, a new record for me. I still love it of course, I was just amazed by such a fantastic sequel to a pretty meh game.

 

[manaman]

How far games have come has constantly amazed me over and over again. Right from the first moment I stepped up to an arcade cabinet and dropped in a quarter. To the first time I picked up a controller of an Atari 2600. To the NES, Sega, interesting ventures in arcade games. Persistent world MMOs. The list goes on and on.

 

[DanDeFool]

Shadow of the Colossus - First look at the the final colossus.

Me: "Wow... do they really expect me to climb tha--SHITSHITSHITIT'SSHOOTINGLIGHTNINGBOLTSATME!"



"Okay... Now what?"

 

[Master Kuja]

The Arms Fort Answerer...The single, most intimidating foe I've ever faced down. It's not exactly difficult, but just the sheer size of it, the noises, the fact that it has a fucking heart beat. It just hangs there serenely in the air, not bothering anything until something moves in to attack it.

It's almost like a whale, how it just sits there, gracefully, a huge, daunting sight to behold, zero threat from a distance and absolutely exquisite to look at.

Just...My god...

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

That like 3x the population of the whole world, was virtually murdered on Call Of Duty: Black Ops

 

[cgmetallica1981]

1. I know many have said it, but stepping out of Vault 101 for the first time was a glorious moment.
2. Red Dead Redemption, every second of it.

 

[LCP]

FIrst use of bfg9000

*bbbbbbbrkkksksk* WHAM

IDKFA

*bbbbbbbrkkksksk* WHAM
*bbbbbbbrkkksksk* WHAM
*bbbbbbbrkkksksk* WHAM

IDKFA
and so on

 

[CountChocula99]

I was just blown away a few minutes ago by a game I haven't even played yet!

 

[lacktheknack]

Uru, after escaping the Gahreesen tower.

THE COLORS!

 

[LogicNProportion]

Metal Gear Solid.

ALL OF IT!

 

[Chancie]

Shadow of the Colossus. But since so many Escapists know and love the game, I doubt I need to really explain why. And if you don't know why, damn it, go buy it and play it because you owe it to yourself.

 

[Chamale]

First time I stepped outside the vault in Fallout 3. I mean, it got diminished over time, but that first glance at the desolate landscape... Wow.

Every few months, I make sure to start a new file in Fallout 3 to get that feeling again. I thought nothing could ever make me feel the same way, then I got Oblivion. Then I got an HD TV, and felt it all over again.

 

[LittleChone]

You have no idea how much this guy mindfucks you unless you've played the game. You just don't.

 

[DaJoW]

Minecraft for me too. Have been playing it a lot lately, landscaping and building pyramids with above- and below ground roads. While digging one of these underground roads the other day, I found a natural cavern. It was far larger in width than my two pyramids with connecting roads, as well as deeper than they are high. Took me ages to explore them (mostly for getting lost) and found my first magma and redstone, two underground waterfalls which together covered most of one chamber and just vast areas. My pyramids don't feel so impressive any more, but worst of all I need to find a way to incorporate an entrance to this cave from my road system and that would make it asymmetrical

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

...it's full of stars.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's mind instantly went to that.