ioxles said:
that point in system shock 2 where I thought I had everything figured out, then the walls fell away and.... well.
Also I was reading several history/fiction books about Alexander the Great, Xenophon and a couple of other war books when I got into Rome: total war. Not really a moment in it but following ancient tactics I'd randomly been reading about and putting them into action was really really satisfying.
I have to agree with the Total War Series. It was amazing just how different the game can be as you play the campaign as different cultures. Going from the flexible and generally powerful roman infantry to the "fantastic in one direction and weak everywhere else" hoplite formations of the greek armies was such a dramatic change in pacing. No more constant maneuvering to try to gain an advantage or outflank my foes - it was all about keeping my line oriented correctly. Though it was far more difficult to win battles (especially later as other civilizations get newer and better troops and you're still stuck using slightly better hoplites), when I did manage to best the roman empire as the greeks I felt I had accomplished something profound. Of course, I relied incredibly heavilily on roman and barbarian mercenaries and I never did manage to actually seize rome through assault ( though I did absolutely choke the rivers with my dead trying - 4 assaults, wall breaches and limited success each time, but inevitably the inflexible hoplite formations just weren't enough to beat back the elite urban cohorts).
Shooting the moon in Skynet and eliciting pain from the satellite. If you continued the moon would run away, never to return.
Sneaking into a base in the original tribes (renegades mod) as a spy and planting satchel charges on the generators before the engineers build up the defenses. Then detonating the charges to the almost assured cries of lamentation from the opposing team who would then have to spend agonizing minutes blasting their way through the layers of force fields and guns protecting their now destroyed generators.
Finally struggling into the enemy base as a burster (renegades mod) in Tribes while carrying a suicide detpack, only to walk into a room with a multitude of foes awaitng your arrival. Then dropping the detpack and hoping to god you can hold them in place for the 10 second fuse of the closest thing to WMD even that I've seen placed in a multiplayer shooter.
Jumping through a gate in Eve only to find a pirate camp on the other side. Then, hoping against all odds that your defenses hold out long enough to burn back to the gate.
Absolutely dominating at multiplayer Ground control through careful use of combined arms rather than the usual strategy of picking the one shot 10 second invulnerability device and the most powerful (one shot) special weapons.
Playing L4D and making it to the safe zone with all four survivors in adversarial, all limping with the hoard hot on your tail.
Playing L4D as one of the infected and watching a well played ambush devastate the entire opposing team.
Encountering SHODAN in System Shock 2 for the first time.
Making epic last stands in the Frontline, a mod for the original Half-Life (I would always switch to the losing team just for the last stand).
Making the triple knifing achievement in COD4. That I first had to shoot two people with my primary weapon, knife a third person, kill a fourth with my pistol followed by two more knife murders made it all the more sweet. The fact that I then spent the remainder of the night playing like a complete retard was acceptable, since I'd clearly used all of my badass AND luck points in the one encounter.
