Your greatest moment ever in gaming?

[Cameron Hyatt]

1.)Playing Rainbow Six 3 on Xbox. Team Deathmatch. Round is still early and I'm the last man standing. Staying in the same general area, I managed to kill the entire enemy team with a single clip of ammo.
Felt so bad ass.


2.)Was playing Ghost Recon 2 with some friends in a 3 on 1 match up in a dark night time map. Joe, Justin and Chris.
They were talking and coming up with plans while I was creeping around Lone Wolf style.
I managed to cap Chris and was moving around looking for the two others. Joe set up on a hill with a sniper rifle by the time I got to him and it went like this:
Justin: "If you see him, let me know."
I pop my gun around the corner of a house he was aiming near and pop him off with one shot.
Justin: "Oh, f*ck"
Joe: "Found him."
I cracked up laughing for a good ten minutes before I could start playing again.

 

[Adultism]

Sudden death, entire team is spawn killed. I play spy and backstab every person on the enemy team and win

On xbox

 

[Odinsson]

Mount and Blade. The Prophesy of Pendor mod. It was me and 19 foot troops, at reasonable upgrade level (Fierdsvain axemen IIRC), vs. an army of 300 of Ravenstern's cream-of-the-crop soldiery.

I didn't lose a single man, and we ended up basically surrounded by the corpses of men and horses, just hacking at a wall of troops.

PoP's modded music made it that much more badass.

Playing that at the moment, and knowing how much harder PoP is, I find that impossible to believe.

Well, I did have it on the lowest possible difficulty, so the AI was pretty frakking stupid. But still, it was one of the more epic things I've done in a game.

Also, it may have been more like 50 of my lads and 200 of theirs. It was a while ago, and I do tend to exaggerate a little

 

[gee666]

It's actually very recent. It's the end of the Rannoch mission in Mass Effect 3. When I had to make the big choice, I put the controller down, took a few deep breaths and pondered the implications of both choices. Then I hesitantly entered my choice, joined my hands and felt my heartrate rise with every dialogue line. The emotional impact of that scene alone makes even the trilogy's shit ending worth it.

Off topic but what choice did you make? I chose the one that would aid the war effort the most and was gutted at how it all played out. i knew it would be bad but that??? My god it was if I had made the choice for real the reaction i had.

 

[Blind0bserver]

As I like to call it, "The Battle of the Silent Line" in Sins of a Solar Empire.

In a nutshell this happened towards the end of a very long game of Sins. There were a few different empires other than my own, but for the most part I was content just sitting in a star system all on my own playing Advent and silently trading with just about everyone, otherwise remaining neutral. By this point I had pretty much everything researched on the Advent's various tech trees. so my fleets were hands-down the strongest in terms of upgrades and basic fighter superiority. With the exception of the 5th Fleet, which was still in my home system, all of my forces were deployed elsewhere in allied gravity wells as a deterrent to their enemies. They weren't actively engaging with anyone, but rather just sitting there in an attempt to make the planets they were at far less appealing as a target.

Now, with how the map was generated there was only one jump lane to my home world, and that was through a small asteroid base. From that asteroid the jump lanes branched off in a few different directions, one of this being a warmhole. Out of mostly paranoia, I heavily fortified that asteroid with a fully upgraded starbase and several fighter hangers and jump inhibitors, dubbing the area "The Silent Line". The idea here was that it would be the no-man's land between the home world and that wormhole just in case somebody got any bad ideas.

As luck would have it, someone did get a bad idea.

Some Vasari player sent literally everything he had through the warmhole and launched an all-out assault on the Line. The only fleet in my system all the way on the other side from where the battle was taking place, so they quickly jumped from planet to planet while this guy slowly but surely started chipping away at my defenses. The sheer amount of fighter defense I had to throw at him slowed him down, but not by much. Eventually the 5th Fleet arrived and the two group of ships exchanged blows for a while before he decided that it just wasn't worth it anymore. He turned tail to flee the gravity well and jump back through the warmhole to his own space.

... only by this time every last ship I owned that wasn't already engaged at the Line was waiting for him at the edge of the warmhole's gravity well. Not a single one of his ships made it out alive. He surrendered not long after.

 

[Torrasque]

Algalon the Observer.

Probably the greatest fight in World of Warcraft, in my opinion. The memory of downing him and getting the Realm First with my guild and my friends was amazing. There are some other really great moments in gaming I've had, but this one comes to my mind first and is easily the strongest. Every aspect of that fight makes me smile. Algalon, the beauty of the his design and his arena, the raid he's in, the lore, the fight itself was a massive challenge but so much fun, everything.

This video does the fight great justice. If WoW kept up with fights like this one, I'd still be playing it over TOR. If you play WoW and haven't taken on this guy, you're really missing out.


The stars come to my aid.

The last great boss of the last great raid in WoW.
My guild beat him really late, and we beat him as a 10 man just for shits and giggles, but I had my gameface and tryhard panties on the whole time. It was one of those fights where I am running around doing everything by instinct before things can be called out even:
I brezed our OT after he failed the transition, before anyone could even call it out.
I got 2 Healing Touch crits on our priest raid healer when he was about to go down, saving his ass.
I managed to tank Algalon for 20 seconds when there was an aggro issue, and our MT got aggro of all the little sprites.
I solo'd 3 of the little sprites during his second drop when all dps was needed on Algalon to push him to his next phase (the hard burn)
All that, and I still had 12k dps (this was during ICC days)

Ahhh... those were the days. I miss my Feral so much, but the game I enjoyed is no more =/

I've had many many stellar moments in my gaming career, across many games. My most recent that I can think of was when I was playing league in SC2. Now, I know I am pretty good at Starcraft and Starcraft 2, but I am no good at league. I decided to try my hand at it since I have been watching a LOT of SC2 gameplay these last few weeks and got inspired by the likes of Stephano and IdrA. So I join a 1v1 ladder match and it is ZvZ. Things are going pretty good, I have lots of drones on my main and my natural, a couple spines at my entrance, and three queens up, but I don't have many lings. Right as I get my 8 lings out, 16 rush my natural... My spines are in my main, I didn't think to move them to my natural (derp), so he mows my lings down and a queen, all while I am frantically trying to get some kind of defence... More lings come, take out my natural, and I am suddenly on the defensive. Thankfully, this guy was worse than I am, so he didn't pressure me further. For the rest of the game, I am on the defensive, but I am not down and out. He takes out my third base twice, my natural again, and even has a HUGE muta ball of like... 30 mutas I'm guessing, against my hydra/roach comp. Since I got 2/2 on my hydras and spammed the fuck out of them, I managed to push up to his base and start to wreck face. I get up to his doorstep with 15 hydras, 20 roaches (no more resources at all) and am "ok, lets do this!" and he drops.
At first I just laughed at how ridiculous the game just was, and how I managed to be losing the game the whole time, but still won... I was so proud of myself xD

Captcha: how sweet
Thanks bro! captcha!

 

[Kataskopo]

I'd say some of the most fun and awesome moments of gaming I've had were during Rome: Total War. Especially during last stands, where I had an miniscule army, or an under-defended city, and the enemy had a massive army. Something about taking control in those battles, knowing you were going to lose, made it feel... epic, for lack of a better word.

Spoiler: An example

I remember one battle rather well; I had a single Town Watch (playing as the Brutii) stationed in... Apollonia, I believe, and an absolutely massive Greek Cities army laid siege to it.
There was no time to get another army to lift the siege, as I was rather busy with wars elsewhere and by the time I could get my closest army there, the city would already have surrendered out of starvation.
There were two options: let my city starve and eventually lose it to the Greeks after my people have suffered for two years, or go out with a bang and try to deal as much damage as I possibly could.
Of course, I chose the latter.

My 80-odd Town Watch stand in front of the city gates. Their captain gives them a final speech in the hopes of boosting their morale. It doesn't work. the Greek army, composed primarily of Militia Hoplites, Hoplites and Peltasts is positioned in a far corner of the map, in a defensive position. They had obviously overestimated my force.
I send my men out of the gates, them having presumably said farewell to their loved ones, and instructed them to march toward the enemy, but stay just out of range of their peltasts.
The gates swing open and they slowly begin what will probably be their final march. After a while, they are in position opposite the massive Greek army. Their hoplites' spears point menacingly toward the Town Watch.
Neither side makes a move. I try to devise a plan to flank them. I can't think of anything.
Eventually I come up with a plan I doubt would work: phalanx' are difficult to maneuver. My Town Watch may be able to simply run around them.
Knowing that against these odds I couldn't possibly win, even with the greatest strategy ever, (this is, after all, Rome: Total war, not Lord of the Rings) I decide that I might as well give it a try. My men start running to their right. The Greeks are obviously not expecting this move, as by the time they even start rearranging themselves, my Town Watch are already in close combat with a group of peltasts. By the time they're done with the peltasts, I had lost quite a few men, and the phalanxes were once again facing my men.
I try the same tactic, and for some reason it works again. This time I target a unit of militia hoplites. However, I am soon surrounded by other (militia) hoplites. My men now only had a narrow passage of escape, with spears on either side and .
Realizing that this is the end, my men desperately start hacking their way through any Greek they see. Their captain sounds his horn one last time before engaging 3 hoplites in battle, killing 2 and finally falling to the third's blade. Only 5 men remain. 4. 3... 2. The last one is able to stab a militia hoplite before he too finally meets his fate.

Thus ends the Battle of Apollonia. Ultimately, the last stand was pointless; the Greek armies were retrained and back to their original numbers within half a year.
However, these 80-odd men, led by captain Whats-his-name went down in (my) history as true Roman heroes.

I also really enjoyed Mass Effect's last couple of missions.

Oh who I loved that game, Rome: Total War.
Those moments were the bugs and glitches didn't seem to show up and the games just shines. You can almost feel how they would have, fighting for their life, getting a little sad each time one of those dies, getting euphoric every time a well-executed maneuver works and the enemy routs, all incredibly framed by those amazing Gregorian chants...

I don't remember any in particular, but every time a long battle ended I was left with this feeling of tiredness, I was actually worried of my little men out there, planing strategies to take that city or repel that invading army.

Hmm, I am remembering one, but jut some details. I was the romans, and I think I was fighting Carthage, my main army was almost destroyed, the only ones remaining being the Principes. There were only 2 units, with 20 -15 each, completely surrounded by enemy light infantry.
The reinforcements were coming, but they had a long way, and I wasn't sure my Principes could survive long enough to see their friends.

But they did. And as soon as my reinforcements came, the enemy routed because it was tired. They gain so much experience that day, and I was so proud of them.

Later, as I was reading on roman history, I found out that Principes would normally be on the back of the army, and only fight when the fight was getting lost (there was a phrase, I think, "things have gone principes" that meant shite had hit the fan)

Great game. I may run it later when I have more free time.

 

[DirgeNovak]

It's actually very recent. It's the end of the Rannoch mission in Mass Effect 3. When I had to make the big choice, I put the controller down, took a few deep breaths and pondered the implications of both choices. Then I hesitantly entered my choice, joined my hands and felt my heartrate rise with every dialogue line. The emotional impact of that scene alone makes even the trilogy's shit ending worth it.

Off topic but what choice did you make? I chose the one that would aid the war effort the most and was gutted at how it all played out. i knew it would be bad but that??? My god it was if I had made the choice for real the reaction i had.

Spoiler: Spoilerific!

I had Legion upload the Reaper code to the Geth fleet after much hesitation (After visiting the Geth consensus I considered the geth to be the true victims of the war, despite my love for quarians and Tali, so I thought it was the right thing to do), but I managed to convince Gerrel to stop attacking, so I got both fleets, but Legion had to upload his consciousness to the geth consensus, aka die, to upgrade the fleet. Even though I had the happiest conclusion possible (I don't think Legion can survive no matter what you choose), I litterally had trouble sleeping that night.

 

[Bravo 21]

I was playing DEFCON, Large map, survivor mode, so whoever has the most people at the end wins, and everyone has hundreds of nukes. After a long buildup, there was a stalemate, everyone had used up their conventional weapons, but no-one was willing to go nuclear. So, all in one moment, I fired all my nukes at every other nation. This ended up with everyone else going nuclear. When the dust settled, I had one, and something like 500 million people were dead, But I WON! I felt like a horrible person after that, for starting a nuclear war, but I still won.

 

[Little2Raph]

Many years ago playing Age of Empires.

I'd led my army to destroy the enemy's civilisation and got my arse handed to me on a plate instead - all I had left was a handful of villagers and one transport ship. Facing imminent anihilation at the hands of a vengeful enemy army I loaded up my villagers onto the ship and headed for the open sea (I was playing as the Greeks - luckily my enemies weren't strong in the naval area). While my first city was destroyed I found a cluster of tiny islands upon which I was able to build a small settlement. After depleting every resource I now had enough room to build military barracks and start building up my army again. From the jaws of utter defeat I arose phoenix-like and returned to the mainland to exact bloody vengeance upon my foes.

Awesome it was. . .

 

[imagremlin]

Curiously, one of my best just happened. Over ten years in the making.

Some room rearrangements had me reconnecting my old Dreamcast and firing up some classic games. One of those Daytona USA, you know from when games were hard.

I played it to death back in the day, but never was able to beat Dinosaur Canyon, not in the Arcade, not in the Saturn, and not in the Dreamcast. Sixth position had been my all time best.

Lo and behold, after a couple of semi-obsessive days at it, I finally did it. First place.

Sea side street galaxy, here I come.

 

[DaKiller]

Finishing all of the story missions in F-Zero GX on very hard.

I felt like I could run down the street naked and not give a flying fuck after that.

 

[Cheesus333]

Recalling these moments of epicness is always really hard for me, but I can remember when I got the 'Unbreakable' achievement on Left 4 Dead.

For those who don't know, you get Unbreakable by completing all five chapters of a campaign without using a single health kit. Pain pills are okay, but no first aid. I was going for this with three friends, who were also doing it, and we were in the starting saferoom of chapter 4 when disaster struck: they all lagged out. Their AIs instantly set to work healing themselves and, L4D AI being what it is, all I could do was impotently smack them and plead with them to stop. They healed, though, and killed the other guys' chances at the achievement. Worse still, the AIs will try and heal you if you don't do it yourself, unless you have your first aid kit in your hands, so I backed myself into the corner with the little red package held out protectively like some kind of counter-intuitive shield.
The guys rejoined, their efforts in vain, but I still had a chance to limp to victory: I was pretty fucked up by then, but still entirely unhealed. So we made our way through the chapter, and the next, bringing us to the Farmhouse Finale - which, incidentally, is a fucking awesome name for a pizza. I was on what we call 'black-and-white-o-vision', which means that if you go down you die, no chance for revival. Worse still, my health was draining, so by the time the APC rolled around I was at absolute minimum speed and 1 health with a tank up my arse and a worldview like a 1920's film.
But we made it. I got in the APC and we fled to safety. Bleep-bloop. It was glorious.

Not my best moment, but a story worth sharing all the same.

EDIT: OH, ACTUALLY, I have another one. This will count as a singleplayer one, I guess, so that's one for each.

The 'Little Rocket Man' achievement in HL2 E2: bring the garden gnome at the very start all the way to the rocket, and put him in. Made especially difficult by the fact that there's a fairly sizeable and very intense driving section in a vehicle with no on-board gnome storage. This lead to me having to drive down a whole helicopter chase section, then drive back when it was complete and pick up the gnome so I could slowly edge my way back without dropping him out of the car. Even worse: there's a part where you can choose to either prop the gnome up against a door for later collection, or drag him around a whole area. I chose the former, and was horrified when I found that I couldn't get him through the unopenable door. Managed it anyway, though.

So I got to the rocket and put him in. Then, as the rocket launched in the game's climax, I played the only song that would do my little rocket man [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GAKOLOnfV4] justice. It was very awesome. Good luck up there, little bro.

 

[Balimaar]

Playing black ops ^_^

i was the last man standing on the team. one bomb site had gone and the enemy had just planted the second one.

i dolphin dived through a window, let loose with my smg and gunned down their whole team in a few seconds.

i then had to defuse the bomb. Defused it with, literally, one second left before detonation

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Seeing the old Aperture labs in Portal 2 for the first time totally vindicated my choice in pasttimes forever.

Surviving my first Zerg rush was pretty cool.

Doing a run of Earthbound and killing every major enemy with Psi Flash was pretty sweet. One shots on bosses? Hells yea.

Oh, and beating Mario Kart: Double Dash's 16-race all star cup on the hardest difficulty with a friend to the point where we could come in last in the last four races and still be in first at the end was pretty damn sweet. Strategically taking out enemy racers so that they tripped up, preventing them from getting enough points to challenge us was pretty, well, challenging.

 

[jetriot]

Space Station 13. Games that have unlimited choices always make for the best experiences. In one round I started a syndicate member and my team was massacred by a very experienced captain and his crew. I was all the was left. I had 4 shots left in my energy gun as well as a bomb.

I took out my locator and tracked the nuke disc(the objective I needed to take back to my base) to the science station. There I ambushed all of them. Bam! One shot hits the captain and he is stunned, droping his bag and the nuke disk. I run in, snap up the back pack and dodge an energy bolt from a sec member. Bam! Bam! Bam! I stun the 3 members of the captains detail and stop long enough to set a 2 second time to the bomb, lob it at my stunned opponents and pick up the bag and run back into space.

BOOM! All of them die in a horrible mess of gibs and as I sail off into space and towards victory, the admin that had been watching the entire thing go down starts playing 'The Final Countdown'. One of many awesome moments in that very old game that I continue to play more than any other game out there.

 

[VoidWanderer]

Star Wars Battlefront 2 - Co-Op map Geonosis.

My mate and I were playing on this map on hard difficulty, a few years ago, and our side was wiped down to two people, while the enemy had over a hundred. Taking the rest of their army down felt great.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

One of my most epic ones was back in the 90's. A little game I like to call Mortal Kombat 2.

I was in my cousin's dorm, and for those of you who don't know, there was a code that you could input when you just turn on the game. If you did it correctly, during versus, each player could pick 4 characters to play a tourney style match. My cousin's friend picked his characters. I picked Kitana, Baraka, Johnny Cage and Jax. I always like to keep my strongest characters at first and last.

I proceeded to get a double flawless victory with Kitana. Eight Characters. Not a single one of them even hit me for chip damage from block. And my cousin's friend was really playing. After I chopped his head off with my fan, I placed the controller down and NEVER played Mortal Kombat 2 again. I simply didn't think there was anything left for me to do in that game.

 

[SweetNess_666]

Your all going to think I'm sad but my finest moment.happened last night on mw3 I won my very first free for all multiplayer game with a k/d of 30kills-3deaths using my stealthy class and just being careful where I ran, I was sooooo happy