Ah the fleeting moments, where to start?
Old N64 Goldeneye
- playing for the first time on a friend's console. No idea what I'm doing. I can barely work the controls right. I am surprised by a guard. I panic and run around a corner to evade. Weapon! I need a weapon, where is it? O.K. I seem to be holding a grenade now, I'll try that. I try to throw the grenade so it will land just past the corner that I just came around. The guard appears around the corner while I'm throwing. Oh no! I panic again. The grenade leaves my hand and strikes the guard in the groin area. The guard says "oh.." and stops, the grenade bounces back towards me!! RUN AWAY!!! I get maybe 10 feet away and around another corner to hear "BOOOM! Aaaaah!" Bahahahahahahaha!
At that moment, I swear to purchase this game.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six:
- Discovering that it is entirely possible to complete the single player mission 'Winter Hawk' using only a sniper rifle. [Terrible AI played a big part in this]
- Explaining to my buddy how to do the same in 2-player co-op
(this included the following sentence: "No, don't shoot! It's m.." (bang! thud)
Counter-Strike:
- Killing the all 7 or 8 of the OPFOR single handed with a Mac-10 (9 on the WTF-o-meter)
- Killing all the remaining 5-6 OPFOR with an M-249 (6 on the WTF-o-Meter)
- managed the same with the pump shotty a few times, but that's not nearly so tough
- creeping along, I heard an enemy on the floor above me checking the cameras and killed him by firing through the ceiling/floor (pro tip: know which walls are soft!!!)
- 4v4 round is down to 1v1, no FBs left, low ammo. Tango is on the rooftop directly above me, I'm on the ground with no cover and nowhere to go but to hug the wall. This isn't good, but maybe I can distract him. I pull the pin on my only frag - but realize to my dismay that I cannot throw it at a high enough angle to get it over the edge of the roof without breaking cover. Pin is already out, so I take a step back and throw it as high as I can. I know its going to bounce off the wall, just below roof level, and I get moving to get out from under it and maybe get as far as I can undetected. The 'nade goes off and I win - wait, what? Well, the guy happened to go look from that corner of the roof at that very moment....
Battlefield 1942:
- after a lot of practice (because every single smacktard joins the Tobruk, Bulge, etc maps on the NAZI side so they can spam tanks at the allies) I have become *very* proficient with the bazooka. Many capture the flag players hate me because I can nail light tanks in the ass that are traveling directly away from me at a high rate of speed. Also, I am more proficient with the engineer's rifle than most snipers are with the sniper rifle. Seriously - once or twice I accidentally spawned as a sniper and said "Ah fuck! What the hell am I supposed to do with a sniper rifle???" [Ah, capture the flag, good times! If only it was 1/2 that much fun in CoD4:WaW!!]
BF 2
- Uh... whats the name of that north-south winding river valley map? Chinese base at the top, Yankee carriers at the bottom? Anyway... as squad leader, my group held on to the (sawmill? lumber yard?) control point on the river bank on the far right side of the map for the entire game. We got shelled. We got bombed. We got strafed. We were assaulted amphibiously. It was brutal. We had enormous casualties. Yet we held on. I was so proud.
Honorable Mention (because I had so very many ragequit moments); EVE: Online
- getting into a spatial anomaly (or whatever they were called) for the first time. Very big "Ooooh! Ahhhh!" moment.
[This space reserved for my next multi-player game]