The best time you've ever had in a game

[MiracleOfSound]

What is your favorite gaming memory?

Something you always look back on and wish could play again for the first time?

For me, it was exploring the DC Ruins for the first time in Fallout 3. So much to discover, and such a feeling of excitement and anticipation whenever I found a new settlement or area.

Finding Rivet City by night for the first time was one moment that I always remember fondly.

 

[grimsprice]

Farcry instincts. That game was so bad, so appalling, that when me and my friends rented it, we couldn't stop laughing as we played it. So bad it was good. I think XKCD has a graphic to demostrate this phenomanonomonom.

It works for games too.

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[Katherine Kerensky]

Tombi II probably.
I miss that little pink-haired punk... *sniff*
it was just such a great game. so many fun memories.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

The first time I played Half-Life 2, I was more excited than a cat in heat.

 

[A random person]

I have very fond memories of Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Also, I loved the bridge in Half Life 2.

 

[Thegreyfox666]

-Killing Ragnaros for the first time in Vanilla WoW (Nothing like screaming out of sheer joy with 39 other people after working on this for a long time many hours a night)
-First time I beat Sonic 3 & Knuckles
-End of MGS4

Best times I can think of right now.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

The first time I played Half-Life 2, I was more excited than a cat in heat.

Me too... the journey up the citadel was an amazing piece of interactive art that just blew me away.

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Also, I loved the bridge in Half Life 2.

So atmospheric and un-nerving. It stood out for me too. Especially the quiet parts with no enemies

 

[Daedalus1942]

Tombi II probably.
I miss that little pink-haired punk... *sniff*
it was just such a great game. so many fun memories.

It would have been awesome if they'd given that a sequel.

 

[Vrex360]

After three years of excitment and impatience I finally played Halo 3 and every virtual step I took playing that game was like a sacred step, I let the music flow through me and I felt alive.

 

[Superior Mind]

My first time playing BF1942, the Wake Island Multiplayer Demo that I played after school with a few friends at an internet cafe back in 2002. My experience with gaming had pretty much been limited to Age of Empires, (the first one,) so I was blown away by litereally everything. Everything that happened was laugh-out-load fun, trying to learn to fly, driving around Wake in Jeeps only to collide into each other while yelling, (the graphics amazed me, it was so real!) Shooting a corpse until it disappeared because I though he was probably just "playing dead", finding out how to switch clases and being amazed at a different gun or HEY WOW a bazooka!

It was my introduction to real gaming and I was hooked from then on.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

Call Of Duty 4. Five hours staright, sleepless night. All good fun.

 

[twcblaze]

I'd have to say the 1000 heartless battle in KH2.

There've been so many times where a game shows you a battalion of enemies marching at you and almost every single time I pop my knuckles and say "time for a real fight" only to have some amazing force of pure destruction wipe everything out for me... and then I never get to use that ability or ally again...

maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment, but I prefer fighting against overwhelming odds.

addendum: I just thought of a runner-up: the SeeD exam cutscene in FF8, where it shows a scene of the moon reflected on water, when the ships pass over it and the moon starts pulsing with the song in the background... I still have to find that damn song.

 

[Cowabungaa]

The Half Life 2 singleplayer, a rush unlike anything I had ever played before, and still pretty much unrivalled. Especially the Water Hazard, gods that chopper chase was amazing.

Also, I loved the bridge in Half Life 2.

So atmospheric and un-nerving. It stood out for me too. Especially the quiet parts with no enemies

So I'm not the only one! The wind blowing, the bridge creaking, the sea crashing, the seagulls..ehh, making seagull noises. I think I'll have to play HL2 now, again, for the gazillionth time.

 

[irrelevantnugget]

Playing the Fallout demo over and over again

Good times...

For me, it's hard to pick... I'll probably go with something from Morrowind, the atmosphere there was amazing... even though it didn't stand out as a very special moment in my playthrough, I'll always remember the first time I passed through the Ghostfence, into Red Mountain...
All the time spent playing before, I had to hear from dozens of NPC's what a dangerous area it is, how corprus lepers are plenty abound, how no one can help you once you've entered.
And of course, those goddamn sandstorms.


... brb, reinstalling Morrowind.

 

[WindScar]

When I finally killed my "Uncle Paulie" in The Darkness, that man took the one thing that I acctually cared for in a game, a woman who I liked, without the need from a story telling me "You'd hit this." But she was funny and she wanted to snuggle, so I formed her into something called "MINE" which means I owned her. And you DO NOT take from ME, PAULIE.

 

[Kajt]

Exploring Vvardenfell for the first time.

Oh, how I miss that.

 

[wooty]

Im gonna be sad and say yesterday while playing COD4, completed 7 challenges in one round and did this:-

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[http://img697.imageshack.us/i/goodgod.jpg/]

 

[ZaCloud]

Me and my brother only rarely got to play online on Halo 2 back when he got it... He didn't have high-speed internet, and he visited my apartment for a few weeks and brought his console, where we did some online fragging for the first time.

We didn't have a headset, so we couldn't communicate with the other players through speech. But eventually, we found odd ways to communicate through actions. We were in a red vs blue match (I forget if it was to point or time limit) with several others on our and the opposing team. After a while, we just started messing around by twirling in circles and letting the enemies shoot us.

Eventually though, they figured out that we would just keep twirling, so they'd stop and watch for a while. Then they started doing it too. We'd all gather in an area and all twirl. Then we started duck-stand-ducking over and over, and they did it too. It was like a big tribal dance, or mass-humping.

And then finally, we all went out to a balcony (it was the purple alien type map), and my bro and I started throwing up plasma grenades and firing plasma rounds or needles into the night sky. And the enemies-become-friends did the same. The bright flashes in the sky, in varied colors and patterns, were like a fireworks display. All of this synchronized and unified, among friend and foe alike, without a single word spoken.

It was a beautiful celebration of the human abilities of nonverbal communication, and the overcoming of our differences in favor of understanding and creating things together. ^_^

 

[inglioti]

i really liked bioshock, so when i went through it on the second playthrough to find all the audio diaries and secret rooms. gosh it was awesome.