Wow moments in gaming

[SurferRosa]

Find out who Strelok is in STALKER. Never even guessed it :|

 

[kbag08]

MGS4 - the bit where you have to hammer the triangle button for ages and the sweet relief once its done

 

[Jolly Madness]

In "Whack your boss" when your character rips off the water-tank from the water cooler and shoves it into his mouth forcing your boss to drown.

And there's been a lot of "wow!" moments together with D0G...

And in Painkiller as the necro giant comes out of the fog and you realise not collecting the tarot cards was a bad idea "Wow! Oh SHIT!"

 

[shrew armies]

oh yes. forgot to mention the singing at the start of the second disk from Curse of monkey island

now thats good

 

[Ares Tyr]

The first time I derailed a train with an RPG and the first time I caused someone to eject from their seat through their windshield while driving into oncoming traffic in Saint's Row.

 

[Daymo]

MGS4's final boss fight, it made me think FF12's ending was shit when i finaly finished it.

 

[flatearth]

I'll go old school on this one.

Impossible Mission on c64, Synthesized speech
"Stay for a while, stay here... forever" Oh god that was great to hear speech on your c64

Any Amiga game by Bitmap Brothers
Those were just so beautiful, I didn't think anything like that could be done

Duke Nukem, Spiral staircase
Even though it wasn't really 3d, but it was done so well in 2d that you actually thought you had the first real 3d engine in your hands. That was wow big time.

Nethack on every little detail
Having silver rings on fingers actually deal extra damage to silver hating creatures when fighting without weapons, but not when wearing gloves.

Joke addition for last

Guitar hero on c64
It actually was done, and it worked, and on 64K RAM, daaaaammmn

 

[Labyrinth]

Just about any of the killsplatterdeathpain effects in I Wanna Be The Guy. They also tended to be a laughing matter the first time, the last three words being the most important there.