The most beautiful sight in a video game
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1. Oblivion - many moments in the game; but I'll never forget travelling far to the north west and standing on a suspension bridge in the mountains and watching the sun rise over the Imperial City.
2. Bioshock - taking the bathysphere down to Rapture.
3. Gears Of War - Trekking though the knarled trees and driving rain to the refinery and after a few fierce fire-fights stepping in from the cold and wet. It looked so realistically miserable outside I was almost shivering.
2. Bioshock - taking the bathysphere down to Rapture.
3. Gears Of War - Trekking though the knarled trees and driving rain to the refinery and after a few fierce fire-fights stepping in from the cold and wet. It looked so realistically miserable outside I was almost shivering.
For me... it's a bad thing to see, but the "smiley face" on Flak shells in the Unreal Tournament series is a marvel to behold. And then you die.
Other highlights include:
- the opening (Zanarkand) cinema of FFX
- the opening cinema of Zelda: OOT (one of my first gaming moments: the N64 was the first console (not counting Game Boy) that I owned. I remember calling my family into the room to watch the first-person camera pop through the hole in the fence and fly up to your house. At the time it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen.)
- "Nuclear Launch Detected" is just classy.
- Most of FFIX... that game is just impossibly pretty.
And, last but not least... Watching the graceful flight of the Holy Hand Grenade from Worms and its sequels. "Shoop! Boing...boing... *ANGELIC CHOIRS!* *EXPLOSIONS!"
And, oh wait. Yeah. Bioshock in its entirety.
Other highlights include:
- the opening (Zanarkand) cinema of FFX
- the opening cinema of Zelda: OOT (one of my first gaming moments: the N64 was the first console (not counting Game Boy) that I owned. I remember calling my family into the room to watch the first-person camera pop through the hole in the fence and fly up to your house. At the time it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen.)
- "Nuclear Launch Detected" is just classy.
- Most of FFIX... that game is just impossibly pretty.
And, last but not least... Watching the graceful flight of the Holy Hand Grenade from Worms and its sequels. "Shoop! Boing...boing... *ANGELIC CHOIRS!* *EXPLOSIONS!"
And, oh wait. Yeah. Bioshock in its entirety.
When you run into Dullahan in Vagrant Story, his little cut seen where he drags his sword.
Barrel rolling exploding crashes on Burnout
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Amored Core openings and cut-scenes
The first time I got to summon Bahamut in FF7
Barrel rolling exploding crashes on Burnout
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The first time I got to summon Bahamut in FF7
The first time you fight a Big Daddy in Bioshock
The first time you get to play with the gravity gun in Half-life 2
The first time you see Alyx Vance in Half-life 2
The first time you actually get a zergling rush to work on Starcraft
Every cinematic the Blizzard guys have ever made. At the time they were made, those things were absolutely breathtaking.
The just amazing amount of beautiful vistas in Oblivion.
Chainsawing your first Locust in Gears of War
And defiantly that last giant cut scene in Mass Effect between the Citadel forces, Sovereign and the Geth
The first time you get to play with the gravity gun in Half-life 2
The first time you see Alyx Vance in Half-life 2
The first time you actually get a zergling rush to work on Starcraft
Every cinematic the Blizzard guys have ever made. At the time they were made, those things were absolutely breathtaking.
The just amazing amount of beautiful vistas in Oblivion.
Chainsawing your first Locust in Gears of War
And defiantly that last giant cut scene in Mass Effect between the Citadel forces, Sovereign and the Geth
Im surprised no one said the first time you see the Citadel in Mass Effect
In Half Life 2 when you exit the train station and see the Combine Citadel looimg off the square.
The 4th boss in Rez.
In Assassins Creed when you climb the cathedral view point in Acre
Any explosion in Crackdown
In Half Life 2 when you exit the train station and see the Combine Citadel looimg off the square.
The 4th boss in Rez.
In Assassins Creed when you climb the cathedral view point in Acre
Any explosion in Crackdown
In Resident Evil 4 when the gigantic goddamned Salazar robot suddenly chases you. Not so much beautiful as OH GOD WTF RUN AWAY.
In Bioshock when you are in the bathysphere.
In Assassin's Creed when you climb Salah Al'Din's citadel.
In Mass Effect, the cutscene at the end with the huge battle between the Alliance, the Citadel Armada, the geth, and Sovereign.
In Total Annihilation, both of the campaigns' ending cinematics. So fulfilling.
In Far Cry, the entire level Boat. I played it a good ten times through, just endlessly repeating it, exploring it a bit more every time.
The nuke in F.E.A.R.
The scene with City 17 destroyed and the Strider walking through it halfway through HL2:E1.
In Bioshock when you are in the bathysphere.
In Assassin's Creed when you climb Salah Al'Din's citadel.
In Mass Effect, the cutscene at the end with the huge battle between the Alliance, the Citadel Armada, the geth, and Sovereign.
In Total Annihilation, both of the campaigns' ending cinematics. So fulfilling.
In Far Cry, the entire level Boat. I played it a good ten times through, just endlessly repeating it, exploring it a bit more every time.
The nuke in F.E.A.R.
The scene with City 17 destroyed and the Strider walking through it halfway through HL2:E1.
Hmmmm... I'd say my biggest memories of jaw-dropping visuals were encountered on the N64, i mean sure, games like Crysis//Oblivion etc. do have amazing texture work and lighting effects and so on but they haven't really pushed the boundary in the same way that games such as Mario 64 have.
Nothing really convinced me that the world of gaming WAS changing as much as Mario 64//Goldeneye//OOT have, completely mind-bending what these programmers, designers and developers were capable of!
Others have come close to that level of shock, whether through the weaving of an immersive storyline and amazing visuals such as Half-Life.
Or my first proper sandbox experience with Gothic II, while not nearly as immersive in it's execution as Half-Life was, it really did give me the sense of being alone in a dangerous environment and with such deliciously satsifying visuals (for its time).
Nothing really convinced me that the world of gaming WAS changing as much as Mario 64//Goldeneye//OOT have, completely mind-bending what these programmers, designers and developers were capable of!
Others have come close to that level of shock, whether through the weaving of an immersive storyline and amazing visuals such as Half-Life.
Or my first proper sandbox experience with Gothic II, while not nearly as immersive in it's execution as Half-Life was, it really did give me the sense of being alone in a dangerous environment and with such deliciously satsifying visuals (for its time).
The Curse Of Monkey Island intro.
Most of Half Life 2's levels, specifically where you're riding to the top of the citadel.
The intro pf the original Half Life, which is similar to the above.
The Zanarkand intro, or the Blitzball scene in Luca, in FFX.
Getting a Zoo full of people, and releasing a T Rex and some lions in Zoo Tycoon.
Most of Half Life 2's levels, specifically where you're riding to the top of the citadel.
The intro pf the original Half Life, which is similar to the above.
The Zanarkand intro, or the Blitzball scene in Luca, in FFX.
Getting a Zoo full of people, and releasing a T Rex and some lions in Zoo Tycoon.
I'll add to the half life choir, except mine is from the opening of HL2: E2. Once you're off the train, and looking over the cliff at the citadel, then the portal burst or whatever they called it knocked down the bridge behind you... For me one of the most awe-struck, beautiful moments.
Then of course there's setting foot for the first time on the Presidium in Mass Effect, or the space ship in Crysis... really touch to decide
Then of course there's setting foot for the first time on the Presidium in Mass Effect, or the space ship in Crysis... really touch to decide
Favourite: The Shivering Isles, after trying to attack the Madgod. Man, that is one hell of a view, even more so due to the fact you can pretty much predict what's gonna happen after you see it. Close second is the view from the Knights o' the Nine expansion when you meet you-know-who.
Also, Assassin's Creed for the Jerusalem thing (well, that and the time I piled up around 20 bodies by throwing them off the roof) and two instances in Parkan II, one being having just landed for the first time and looking up at the hulking monstrosity that was my ship, and the other being landing on a planet after having captured it and finding it fully operational with a bunch of warbots and everything flying around. Bioshock's underwater journey to Rapture was also quite astonishing.
Also, Assassin's Creed for the Jerusalem thing (well, that and the time I piled up around 20 bodies by throwing them off the roof) and two instances in Parkan II, one being having just landed for the first time and looking up at the hulking monstrosity that was my ship, and the other being landing on a planet after having captured it and finding it fully operational with a bunch of warbots and everything flying around. Bioshock's underwater journey to Rapture was also quite astonishing.
Pretty much all of Oblivion. It's the kind of game that makes you subconciously mutter, "Wow" under your breath from time to time.
