My god......

[mattttherman3]

Seeing the amount of detail in the cities of Assassins Creed.

 

[ChippedShoulder]

First time I realised that my brand new copy of Halo 3, in my first X-box 360, hadn't frozen; that actually was what the game looked like. Awww yeeeah.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

Minecraft.

Falling through a randomly occuring hole in the ground, to fall into the most ore filled cavern I have ever seen.

 

[Kadoodle]

Red Dead Redemption. Watching the sun come up over the mountains, slowly lightening the vast plain in front of me. Wow.

Also, when you first enter Mexico after the mission on the river. Beautiful.

This.


Oh yeah, BIOSHOCK. I had a "my god" moment at the very beginning of the game when you plunged under in the bathysphere...

I swear, every time I see a big daddy with a little sister, shivers run down my spine.

 

[funguy2121]

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.

Well, first of all OP, I simply must ask: how many earths are we talking here? Just the two - the one we inhabit and its mirror image that orbits our son's twin some trillion light years away - or are we including the many Earths of the many alternate universes?

Ocarina of Time blew me away like no prior game ever had. The scope, the thoroughness, the attention to detail...

I wish I'd had some mushrooms handy when I first picked up Super Mario Galaxy. There were what my roommate and I came to refer to as "Oh my god" moments around every corner.

Resident Evil 4 particularly struck me as the realization that the entire genre had been building up to for about a decade.

 

[Drake_Dercon]

This may sound a little weak but I once climbed to the top of a mountain outside the imperial city in Oblivion and I just went quiet for a while. It's odd that pixels have created a beauty I seldom see in reality (especially at TESIV's graphical quality), but it really just took my breath away.

 

[dudehead]

Scenery based awestruckness happens to me ALL the time in Shadow of the Colossus. I can just ride around and constantly get chills and never get sick of exploring.

I never play that game anymore, but every few months I end up popping it back in and inadvertantly playing it for like 10 hours. Such an amazing game.

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Playing Fallout 3, just standing on a hill and looking out to the devastated world as far as the eye can see. It was impressive to say the least.

I snapped out when a super mutant started shooting at me.

 

[noxymoron19]

In portal when you get the full gun and I realised I could see myself. Kept me and my small attention span in awe for atleast 10 minutes of crouching and jumping around.

 

[Solo-Wing]

Shadow of the Colossus. EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. The beautiful maps, the fantastic design of the Colossi, and everything in the game.