Your Biggest," Holy crap," moment in a game

[dWintermut3]

6 words: "A man chooses, a slave obeys"

 

[SangRahl]

XCom Apocalypse... Was doing a raid on the local cultists and had just finished swapping a squaddie's HE-loaded laucher into one of his hands to fill up his packs with loot to sell. I figured there was MAYBE one or two targets left in the building, so was going to load down and make a run for the exits. Hit[End Turn], and I watch not one or two, but AT LEAST five enemies step into the room from multiple doorways. One of them got a popper shot off, and I watched the squaddie take a single reaction-fire shot that took out the entire room, and collapsed that section of the building, killing himself and all targets, and clearing the encounter.

At first I was "Holy sh*t!", followed shortly by "Aw, crap, there goes all his gear and loot."... But then all I could think about was the fact that he gave his life for the squad, regardless of monetary losses. If that group had taken him and moved into the corridors with poppers, the battle would have been very grim indeed. (I had his name painted on the transport fighter, in his honor. Hawk "Sgt.Parker")

 

[blue spartan 11]

The first Halo. First timeyou encounter the flood. I was looking at the video of Jenkins when something went through my head: "Wait, there were no bodies when I went there!"

 

[Antidrall]

Teta's death in Final Fantasy Tactics. This game made me put a tear in my beer for several reasons. when it first came out, the spritework was great, their movements in cutscens almost fluid like. The Story was beautifully told, with a shitload of interesting characters and compelling storylines. But the moment I'll always remember is what set the real story in motion. Teta was a more likeable character than Aeris and she had like 3 minutes of screen time. Go to hell, Aeris. You deserved to be ran through the chest with an improbably long sword for not making a man outta Cloud.

 

[Hemlet]

The whole super-gravity-gun sequence in Half-Life 2 made for a good climax.

Also, pretty much the ending segments of ANY Ace Attorney game, with the exception of Apollo Justice.

Serius?I though that hole thing of Phoenix start speaking to the player and in the end you discover that it's not the player he's talking but yes Apollo and Trucy's mother(Don't remember her name) pretty mindfucking.

A game who made go "HOLY CRAP" was when Kefka blow up half world in Final Fantasy VI, that was awesome... HE BLOW UP HALF OF THE WORLD! Did Sephirot succeed in blowing up the world? No? Then Kefka is the most awesome Final Fantasy villain!

Not but he did succeed in destroying almost very other planet in the solar system.

There are life in those Planets? No?
Then why he did that for? And he couldn't destroy whatever planet which passes Final Fantasy VII, so Kefka >>>>>>> Sephirot.

Do Kefka gotta legion 'a bitches he can get with a snap like my boy Seph?

Yep, the Cult of Kefka. Which I am a proud member of!

Spoiler

You do realise that Kefka blowing up the planet is more like evidence that the protagonists sucked rather than Kefka was unstopable. I mean when you have 20+ games in a series, at least one of the protagonists must be a screwup.

This is very true: The protagonists of FF2 were COLOSSAL screw ups. Like, in terms of protagonists, we're roughly on F-Squad (weak pun not intended) level. Almost every single bad thing that happened in that game was because the protagonists a)took their sweet time and missed their opportunity, b)were too incompetent to do anything about what was happening, or c)were off doing something rather unnecessary while the villain was following through on his plans.

EDIT: Woops, forgot to reply to the topic! My biggest holy crap moment in a game as of late was while playing Bulletstorm during the "wheel segment". If you've played you know what I mean.

 

[zwoodco10]

the ending of mass effect two... i was just "noooo!!! gualkdhfga" the entire time lol.
or as previously mentioned the dog and window in resident evil o.o

Hahaha. Which ending?

 

[ChupathingyX]

Dawn of War: Ordering loads of units to charge the enemy at once, watching particular sync-kills and Orbital Bombardment for the first time.

Especially the Force Commander's sync kill against the Bloodthirster, best one in the game.

 

[Zhukov]

Bioshock: "Would you kindly.."

Bioshock: The first time I pissed off a bouncer Big Daddy. Seeing him go from gentle, lumbering guardian to thundering engine of violence was kinda shocking.

Bioshock: The "Hatred" audio diary.

Half Life 2 Ep 2: D0G Vs Strider.

Half Life 2 Ep 2: Vortigaunts Vs antlions.

Half Life 2 Ep 2: "Come on Gordon, next to me."

Amnesia: The first monster encounter. In fact, every monster encounter.

Mass Effect: Running up the side of the council tower, literally in the shadow of Sovereign.

Mass Effect 2: The intro. Stepping out into the silent void.

Dead Space: The eight kiloton mass in food storage.

Dead Space 2: The eye machine. You know what I mean.

Heavy Rain: Ethan's pinky finger.

...

And many more. I could go on for quite some time.

 

[Athol]

The end of ME2 when you see the scope of the Reaper armada. If it took an entire fleet to kill one Reaper, we dont have NEARLY enough fire power for this!

 

[zwoodco10]

The only real "holy crap" moment I've had in recent memory is when you first meet Sovereign in Mass Effect and he says "You are not Saren." There was this undeniable sense of "Christ, we're fucked."

My ME1 "Holy crap" was that, plus Sovereign's entire monologue, and pretty much everything that happened on the Conduit planet.

Another "Holy Crap" moment was when I fought against all the Flood forms for the first time in the first Halo. I remember clearing a room of mutated mo-fos, sighing, reloading, and hearing the telltale sound of the little pod bastards. I pretty much ignored them, until one of the combat forms I had just killed jumped up and threw me across the damned room. I was like, "SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT THEY CAN REVIVE EACH OTHER DAMN!" Needless to say, I brutalized every Flood corpse after that.

Also, when you discover the "Truth" video in its entirety in Assassin's Creed 2, and when you discover the big reason the future Assassins actually want the Pieces of Eden. I was like "Holy crap, Ancient Astronauts FTW."

EDIT: I have more of these than I thought!

Fable 3: When I found out why the Prince's brother was being such a dick, I was like "I feel like a jerk now..."

Mass Effect 2: Breathing a sigh of relief after everyone survived, then nearly crying when I saw 30+ Reapers just chillin' outside our galaxy.

Enchanted Arms: (Not necessarily a GREAT game, but I enjoyed it) Watching the protagonist's best friend go batshit insane.

 

[Moka Lamme]

Another one pretty cool it's the scene in Parasite Eve, where Eve burns everyone in the theater, for a PS1 era graphic it is still pretty impressive.
And another in Parasite Eve is Eve's Son screaming and exploding a flet of battleships, that was awesome...

^ indeed

mine however, would have to be Meta-God from Shadow Hearts. You're just chilling on a platform above Earth and alluva sudden HOLLYCRAPOMFG IT'S GOD! and then you proceed with one of the most epic fights of all time. mabye God killing isn't original with how much it's been done as of late, but something about the buildup to this fight is just amazing. Even down to the boss music, everything has been set up just to set you on edge for this one climactic showdown

Spoiler

Where Yuri earns his title for the second game, Godkiller.

All in all really well done, this hit me really hard for some reason.

 

[Fanatical]

You are Revan.

 

[tjbond911]

resident evil 4 when u first see a regenerator

 

[The Boy in the Hat]

It has to be the end of that dimension hopping game with Spongebob and other Nickelodeon characters.
They've beaten the crap out of the bad guys, but there's no way to stop the countdown on the multiverse-obliterating doomsday device.
So Spongebob pulls out the plug.
It was awesome.

 

[Chatato]

Probably realizing how truly hard Super Meat Boy is after playing the tutorial levels at first it was like "I don't get what all the hype is about i mean it's not that hard' Then later "Arrrgh c'mon you little son of a B***h, what I totally made that jump Haxxxx HAXXXXXX"

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

The confrontation in Ryan's office in Bioshock. Of course I can't say what it is because it's spoilertastic, but if you've played Bioshock (and if you haven't then what the hell is keeping you?) then you know what I'm talking about.

This. Exactly this. One of the very rare moments in gaming that was literally jaw dropping.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

The MW1 nuke scene has to be up there. Holy shit.

Spoiler: Mass Effect 1 spoilers

Listening to Sovereign in Mass Effect is probably up there too. I swore something in my house was rattling whenever it spoke.

 

[DasDestroyer]

Star control 2
The when I found out that the Kohr-Ah were simply going around, nuking everything sentient in the galaxy, I was like "what. the. fuck.".

 

[Noala]

My few would have to be

MINAC (Borderlands) actually made me yell out "holy crap!"
Once you realize what you've done in GOW 3

The very first time I played God Of War
ALL of Brutal Legend ("Oh my god did i just melt his face off with a guitar solo?")

 

[Solo-Wing]

3 words: Would you kindly.

This. Oh and the fire pit in Portal. Oh and you must not forget the blue gravity gun in HL2. Went from mute physicist to immortal god of gravity and physics. Who was still mute.