Your favorite "WOW! Did I just do that?" moment in a game.

[Teh Ty]

I won a game of halo, 1-4, me being the one, but I won 20-19, and i did some major league hiding. Meh, kinda.

 

[Dorian6]

In Halo 2, I was running away from another player, shooting at him with the sniper rifle. I missed him, shot over his right shoulder, and accidentally no-scoped a guy on the other side of the map

 

[Brad Shepard]

Halo 3, team snipers, shot a guy through the balls, the bullet bounced off the back of the wall, and shot him in the back of the head, very, very epic.

 

[tahrey]

Wow, this thread makes me feel both old and out of touch

Best I can think of right now is coming 5th in Gran Turismo 2. With an unmodified Fiat 500. No other car quite makes the game's sheer level of bot cheating and poorly coded auto-balancing so plain or downright frustrating as that one. You will *ALWAYS* lose, and *ALWAYS* by a very slim margin unless you do something like drive around in 1st gear. Maybe they didn't count on anyone tiring of all the really rather samey uberpowered supercars (once you've played with the Escudo Pikes Peak, they all look a bit passé) and going thru all the funny little rarities and classics instead, so never bothered to make it work right at the lower end.

Getting up out of 6th place, then staying in front of that drastically more capable other car* for a couple more laps - one which had at first been taunting me, feathering the throttle to stay just that 1mph and 20 metres in front - was a major achievement that I don't think I've ever matched since in the game. Or anything else, because I must have been in the middle of a long period of either unemployment or study to persevere that long.
* I'd long since tired of expecting any kind of fairness from the actual "Fiat 500 challenge" race, and went for something like the Sunday Cup on the go-kart sized Rome mini circuit. Can't even remember what I beat. But the robo-driver must have self destructed out of shame.

Thinking of GT2, there was also finding the very hard to trigger glitch on the actual go-kart track where you could drive out of the normal boundaries. Take the actual drag car onto it, with as high a gearing as you can set... take it up to 600+ km/h. Never let on to anyone how you set that record ("nope, I don't even HAVE an action replay") and see them try to beat it... Or in GT4, finding that another one of the funny little cars you get as a prize (Subaru 360?) can't even get up one of the hills on a certain track... unless you go one-on-one and take advantage of the slightly more fixed difficulty balancing to boost past the similarly stuck CPU car with the 1-2mph advantage it grants til you overtake them (thereby allowing THEM to get over the hump, so you can both actually finish).

Those two are more a case of wierdness in games, but still one-offs that made me pause for a moment first time out and go... wha?
Plus... driving... having ALL the police cars crash in Driver. Or at least, all the visible ones. Do a few doughnuts to celebrate and rub it in. Unfortunately, once you go far enough for them to fall off the mini map, they all reset.
Never was good enough at the FPS thing to get any truly good moments, save the first time discovering the gravity settings in Quake

All the recent stuff has been emulator based anyway. Too many skin of the teeth escapes in F19, nursing a crippled plane back to base just avoiding enemy radar or at least safe ejection range to mention any specific ones but I recommend it as a good epic-moment generator.

 

[AgDr_ODST]

me and my friend where messing around in Keys to the City mode in Crackdown, I spawned one of the two fast agency vehicles(I forget which one) and he jumped in and we started speeding down the empty highway and at random I spawned a ramp truck infront of us it launched up hundreds of feet up we started spinning out of control we went so high we damn near clear the agency towers before crashing down into the water, we tried atleast 20 times afterward to do it again and attempt only saw us glitch into the ground stuck in our vehicles.

 

[Taneer]

Mostly L4D2. Taking out a tank with a crowbar while all my allies were crippled was pretty fun.

Taking out the Witch under the same circumstances (Though my allies were cowering, not dying) with the same crowbar was semi-awesome, if not completely.

Killing 2 survivors in one life as a Hunter.

Nothing too amazing. I enjoyed turning the horde against the Tank.

 

[geddydisciple]

During BC WoW i was playing warsong gulch with my hunter. I was alone at the enemy base so i sent my pet down at the 4 horde guarding the flag. Then told him to run back up after they saw him. All 4 of them chased him up to the top so when they were half way up i jumped down, grabbed the flag and made it all the way back to our base without any help.

 

[Leodiensian]

Taking out a room of 20-30 people in batman arkham (yeah I know that games easy as shit but its all I could think of)

To be fair, there is a pretty big "hell yes I am in fact Batman" feeling when you get the medals for clearing a room in one interrupted combo for the combat challenges.

Mine quite recently came from the first couple of hours in Ninety Nine Nights.

Did I just kill a hundred people and get a thousand-hit combo in a TRAINING MISSION? It's the sort of game where yes you do have an army with you, but they're largely there to watch you slaughter the other army rather than actually do any fighting.

And this one is less "JESUS CHRIST THAT'S AWESOME" and "Wait, what?". SPOILER. The character I was playing suddenly goes "lol war crimes" and kills defenseless civilian children just for being goblins. I stopped playing to go have a shower after watching that.

 

[Scorch_Phoenix]

I've had one nearly every time I sit down to play bf:1942, but one particular game was so full of awesome I just had to write it down. Later I won a competition by recounting it. I'll copy paste it for you:

So there I am, one sunny day in 1942, soaring above the Philippines in my Zero fighter. I'm on the hunt for a hotshot Corsair pilot that my team tells me has a knack for swooping down and decimating tanks and PT boats. I want to see if he can dogfight as well as he can divebomb, but I've only got 30 rounds left and grey smoke is trailing from my fighter. If I was smart I'd head back to my carrier to rearm and repair, but dammit there were people DYING out there because of this guy! I decided to 'quickly' finish him off and THEN return to base. That was the plan, at least....

Out of the corner of my eye I spot a movement, and bank just in time to see a speck in the distance hurtling earthwards like a meteor. As I get closer the distinctive gull wings of the corsair come into focus as it swoops down, missing the ground by inches and rockets up into space on the other side of a now charred tank. I've been playing on this server long enough to know that this pilot uses a joystick, and as I'm stuck with keyboard and mouse the zero's turning circle (which is normally better than the corsair) will be no match for his. I'm going to have to get in close without him seeing me. This won't be easy.

He soars up into the sky, losing speed. I'm still a bit further away than I'd like to be, but I take aim and wait for him to level out where he'll be at his slowest and most vulnerable. He begins to level out, but even as I first fire my guns he snaps off a half roll and dives away, unscathed.

I had been spotted. Now it was everything or nothing.

He uses his dive to gain speed and loop up towards me. I had been climbing and losing speed for some time so I jammed hard right on the rudder and barrel rolled out of his line of fiery leaden death. Instead of turning to get behind me he continues his climb to get height over me. Crafty blighter. So I dive a bit and then swoop up to stitch him from underneath. Unfortunately seeing the danger he twisted like an eel and as I came roaring up I didn't get a clear shot.

The fight continued like this for some time. As he could out turn me he would often get on my tail, where I would wait until he was about to fire before pulling off a high G manoeuvre and spoil his aim, and then have a split second where he was in front of me, but always managing to evade my crosshair with a move of his own. As with all do-or-die dogfights, ours lost height, and soon we had to keep one eye on our opponent and the other on the rice paddies near the landing beach that loomed ever closer with each swoop.

At this stage, my team had none of the flags on this island -the big Western one- and sure enough tracers from below started whizzing close to my airframe.

My fighter was crippled and low on ammo. A deadly enemy fighter pilot was after me, and people on the ground were taking potshots at me. Should I bail out? NEVER!

No, there was only one thing for it- get the hell away from that ground fire, even if it meant getting the corsair on my tail. I shot away from the beach, heading for the mountains. If I could get there before he completed his turn I'd be able to get some cover. I skimmed over the peak and plummeted down just in time- bullets were zipping around me just as I got out of sight. I hugged the jungle path through the valley, staying as low and fast as I dared, and crossed out to sea again near the US marine base, searching the sky all over.

There was no sign of the Corsair. Had I shaken him or was it a trick?

There he was, above and behind me. I was easy meat. I figure I may as well go down swinging so I snapped my fighter around to face him. He didn't seem to expect that, for it spoiled his aim and in his dive he overshot me. As he went by I stitched a line of bullets into his fuselage. Thick smoke coughed from his engine but he swooped upwards, still in control. I had 2 bullets left.

He started zig zagging towards the coast. I started climbing and following him- too far away to guarantee a hit. I thought he'd try flying in the valley like I did, but as he got to the beach he turned and came up to meet me. He started firing a long way off but i held my fire until I was absolutely sure I'd get him. I squeezed the trigger and popped off my shots. The first shot hit him in the wing root and the smoke became solid black. The other bullet missed. I had taken hits and my fighter had dark grey smoke now, but he was climbing in a plane that isn't good at climbing, so I pulled up, and he struggled to lift his nose, losing more speed. Then I dived down on him, and I was close enough to see his face as I yanked my plane upwards, releasing my bomb at the same time. It must have been the last thing he ever saw, as it struck the plane square in the middle and he disappeared in a ball of fire and twisted debris. With intense relief I turned towards my carrier and started heading back.

My team had been busy in the meantime. They had launched an assault on the landing beach and were gaining ground. Even so, I was going straight to my ship no matter what happened. Trouble is, I made the mistake of taking the direct route, which took me over the West Harbour which was still in enemy hands. It seemed deserted, but just as I was about to cross the final mountain range, a puff of flak burst across my nose, setting the engine on fire.

Now I make it a point never to bail out if an enemy aircraft is about to get me- air to air kills take more planning and time than most kills so it's only fair to get your kill reward from downing the plane. But AA guns can be used with just one hand, so I have no problem with bailing out of a plane crippled by AA guns or mounted MGs. So I did. I parachuted safely down as my faithful zero met it's fiery end on the rocks below. I had been so close to getting home that I decided to hell with it. I'll attack the Harbour single handed.

Peering cautiously over the hilltop, I surveyed the base. A few soldiers were about, a PT boat was pulling away from the pier, and a tank was trundling around. I crept down the slope and made my way towards the base, moving parallel with the path. As I watched, the tank got snagged on something and lurched over. It rolled down into a ditch and the driver leapt clear just before it exploded in the shallow water. Nobody else seemed to have noticed. Well I decided to have some fun about that. I type, so that everyone can see:

'I could make a joke about the dude that just rolled his tank...'

'...but then that might give away my position, hey'

Plenty of lols from my team- from the other team not so much! The driver in particular was now looking wildly around trying to spot me. It was then that I saw a soldier sitting calmly in the AA gun nearby. He was staring up in the sky, almost bored. I just knew I couldn't pass up this chance to get the guy that stopped me getting home, so I crept a bit closer and gave him a quick burst to the head. He didn't even have time to swing the gun around. No sooner had he slumped over the controls when I saw three or so soldiers running up the hill towards me. So much for stealth...

I run around a curve in the hill, hoping to find a path away from them, but to my horror find just an alcove with the ruins of a bunker sitting surrounded by sheer cliff. Like it or not, I would have to take on all those soldiers at once. I run for the bunker, reloading my submachine gun as I go. They mount the rise and start firing on me before I get to the bunker. I keep my cool and keep running to the ruins as if I hadn't seen them. All three of them set their sights on the right side of the bunker, half expecting me to continue running out that side, but instead I reappear on the left and start blasting them. One marine crumples to the ground and the others dodge and return fire. I take cover again as their bullets take chunks out of the concrete in front of me. The remaining enemies split up and approach the bunker from both sides.

In a matter of seconds they'll have me surrounded, so I decide to launch my attack first. I fling a grenade out to their right flank and charge out to the left, my gun chattering. The soldier on the left recovers his surprise enough to score some hits on me before he fell, but on the right the other guy was too busy running away from the about-to-explode grenade to notice. I knelt and fired, and he bit the dust just as the grenade went off.

The immediate danger was gone, but I was still in a pretty tight spot. It wouldn't be long before they respawned and had another go at me. As I ran further down the path, reloading and healing myself as I went, the three soldiers rounded one of the huts and started firing from long range. Then they exploded.

I look up and see a friendly tank charging for the harbour. It seems we had won the landing beach and our troops were now reaching further out. I run into the base to help my friend. The flag is in a small courtyard between huts, a very dangerous spot for a tank. The three respawn again, one right near me, pulling out a mine to toss under the tank. He turns and sees me, still holding the mine, looking dumfounded. I kill him and dive through a doorway as a grenade comes sailing over a nearby rooftop. It explodes on the tank, which swivels around looking for the aggressor. I spot him up on a hill. I silence him just as he throws his next grenade. The tank begins to smoke from damage. THE FLAG IS GREY.

I reload, then creep around the huts looking for the third guy. He probably doesn't want to attack the tank without knowing where I am first, and yet I know he is close, because the flag refuses to go to our side. The tank keeps looking wildly around, changing it's direction every now and then. I peer through a window and see the last man, his back to me, watching the tank with a bazooka slung over his shoulder. He's waiting for it to face away from him to hit it in the weakest spot- the thin rear armour. The way the jittery tank driver is going, this wont be long. Nevertheless, I decide to make this a cinematic climax, so I put my gun away and pull out my dagger. I creep into the hut, silent as possible...

Outside, the tank trundles up near the window, still looking around wildly for an unseen enemy. Unable to go forward, he decides to turn around. The rear end of the tank swings round and the anti-tanker's aim quivers with anticipation. I loom up in the darkness behind him and as his grip tightens on the trigger, I give him a savage slash across the back of the neck. He slumps to the floor silently. I look out the window to see the tank cannon pointing at me. Looks like the driver spotted him after all. Better late than never, I suppose...

I head outside, we capture the flag and he fixes the tank, and we both jump in and trundle away in search of more adventures.

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That, my friend, earns you 100 million rock points.

 

[dolfan1304]

probobly during halo when a grunt threw a grenade at me and right as he released it from his hand i shot it and it killed him, 2 other grunts and an elite

 

[Jacksoni]

Far cry 2. I was attacking a village, i had armed myself with a dragunov, grenade launcher and an LMG. I saw that there was a huge gas tank and a bunch of gas bottles lying around. I sniped one of the gas bottles and it did what it does best: spinning around like crazy. It went straight to the huge gas tank wich exploded, and the grass under it caught on fire. The fire started burning everything and exploded all the oil barrels and explosive piles, killing everyone in the village. After that a car came behind me and drove over me. That was... A pretty lame ending for such awesomeness.

 

[The Heik]

KH2 slaughtered Sephiroth on the first try on proud mode.

they found me on the roof crying

 

[Ocelot GT]

MW 2.

In a back alley on skidrow.

-Stabbed a guy in a face
-Threw a knife into another guy
-Dropped to the ground and shot a guy with the USP pistol
-Stabbed another guy
-reloaded then shot another guy


this happened in about... 5--6 seconds It was like I was solid snake!

 

[Kud]

the first time i got a perfection on halo 3.

or, the first time i beat the final boss on metroid prime 3 on the hardest difficulty.

 

[paasi]

One was in Fallout 3 when in the trenches near the congerss house I blew a supermutant's head clean off from with a sniper rifle just at the scopes maximum range with a single shot.

Other was in Assassins creed. I was going to assassinate the knight in a castle, so I sneaked in there, went over to the battlements overlooking his position and accidentally jumped;
Midair assassination. Never succeeded at it again.

 

[gxs]

A mission in Hitman.

I entered a room that had 4 soldiers sitting and playing cards. I had a Silenced gun and last four bullets in the chamber and I expected the room to be empty.
They jumped up and I twitched or something because I shot all four of them with my four bullets. Straight in the head and two of them didn't even stand up.

I wasn't aiming and I'm trying to convince my brother that it wasn't an accident but he can't be fooled that easily.

 

[Larmo]

I was playing Fallout 3 and spawned right on top of a Super Mutants head, and didn't alert him my stealth was so good. So i just sat on his head as he wandered around, till i got board and killed him.

Pardon me for asking but, how exactly did you "spawn" did you walk through a door or something?

Sorry I quick-traveled technically into D.C. somewhere and arrived on his head.

 

[Just Joe]

GTA: San Andreas. You know how sometimes, when you jack a car, you grab the person inside by their jacket and hurl them out the door? I did that, and at that precise instant a bus went past, knocked him out of my hands. I swear, it was kind of like a bull-fight.

Oh, and a more egotistical example: Empire: Total War. In 1717, Russia, Prussia and Poland-Lithuania declared war on my Austrians, who were already at war with the Ottoman Empire. I beat them. Comprehensively.

 

[QGandalf]

Getting the "Be Efficient" award in TF2.

 

[Joachim Aachen]

Well, the first time I played Prototype. In the beginning before the actual mission starts, I had no clue that Mercer could fly. Really.

I about wet my pants at that, it was so awesome.

But I digress. What really was a "WOW! Did I just do that?" moment in Prototype was when I got far enough in the game to get the blade, then had to try it out on Elizabeth Greene (when she turned into that 'thing' in the middle of the city) before I actually got any use out of it. I back flipped off of one building, equipped the whip-fist, and proceeded to launch myself to kick her in the face.

After landing, I promptly got my ass out of there by slicing through the near-by hunters before they could take a huge chunk out of my health. I then jumped on top of a building.

All of this without taking any damage.

About two minutes after I died due to a swarm of hunters avenging their fallen friends accompanied by Elizabeth's mucus ball projectiles. I couldn't do it again.