Your Most Emotional, Immersive, Saddest or Greatest Gaming moments

[ZombieGenesis]

Saddest: Aeris, we all know why.

Greatest: Beating Virgil in Dante Must Die mode in the original Devil May Cry 3 using very limited items in an -hour long- epic battle.

Scariest: Playing Project Zero (Fatal Frame) and looking up in the shrine.

Most Godly: Forging "Armour of Gerreth" (daedric armour) in ES4: Oblivion with Sigil stone enchantments and peak levelling. I assault and lured out at least a dozen guards- not one could put a scratch on me as I just stood there.

Glitchiest: Fell through the floor in GTA3, tumbled through a biege background before coming down through clouds and eventually dying as I hit the ground I had gone through.

Most memorable: Turning Super Sonic for the first time as a kid.

 

[Carnagath]

Saddest... The ending of Fatal Frame 2, sad and beautiful at the same time.

Emotional... Killing Kil'Jaeden in WoW TBC with my guild at a top 10 world ranked position after massive effort from a team of greatly skilled players. All the years I've spent playing that game lead to this moment I think, I was torn between screaming my ass off on vent and shutting up to enjoy the beautiful lore event that happens after you do it. Then the game went to hell and I quit.

Immersive... This is a hard one. Every game that I bother to play seriously, I do it because I find it immersive. If pressed, I'd go with The Dig, it was one of the first adventure games I played and I found myself completely lost in this alien world.

Greatest... Fair and square, that prize goes to Fallout 2, which, due to its "tolerance" for player freedom and choices, allowed me to enter the gambling town of New Reno, meet all its mobster families, get to know all those extremely vivid characters, work for all of them at the same time to make some quick cash, then decide that they are all parasites, betray everyone to everyone else, become the most hated person in town, leave, and then come back the next day, all rested and armed to the teeth, to go door to door, casino to casino, and gun EVERYONE down. When I left, my inventory was full of machine guns and the place was a ghost town. The game basically allowed me to create my own version of a mob showdown like the ones the classic movies always end with, but in a post apocalyptic world. I could headbang to this game.

 

[SithLibrarian]

Emotional: I recall crying twice during Metal Gear Solid 4: the micro-wave hallway and the ending.

Immersive: Finding myself ducking (my chin was resting on the desk) during Call of Duty's Russian campaign.

Greatest/Memorable: Playing through Batman: Arkham Asylum's Scarecrow sequences (hopefully that counts ).

 

[NeutralDrow]

I'm sorry. I'm just going to have to point to this game and say "pretty much everything."

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I'm not really sure I could narrow it down. I'd just have to say most of Aeka's scenario, half of Mizuki's, and the last third of Nekoko's. Couple of examples...

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There's no real way I could narrow down from Aeka's route, but trying desperately to talk her down from suicide near the end was a huge one.

For Mizuki, I could narrow it down to her two endings. Her Unhappy Ending is one of the saddest and most painful I've ever read, and her Happy Ending is probably the most heartwarming thing I've ever read.

For Nekoko<color=white>, real name Hiroko, it's after finding out her secret (no, not the fact that she's on drugs, her actual secret).

 

[efrim]

Isn't that a Japanese wank game?

 

[Thegoodfriar]

Beating King of the Monsters 2 for SNES, granted I was 5. And it was the first game I had ever beat, it was a big deal.

That and beating Tekken 4 only using 1 quarter when I was about 11.

It is sad when you're almost an adult and those ore some of your "greatest moments" oh well...

 

[Birras]

Saddest:

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A tie between two moments in Saints Row 2. The deaths of Carlos and Aisha. In both cases, they come after a fun mission involving sticking it to a rival gang, and in both cases I had gotten respect by doing mini-games involving setting things on fire by driving through them on a flaming ATV. These were both characters I had grown attached to, and they were killed before my eyes, and in Carlos's case, by my very hand. Needless to say, I savored every moment of the boss fights when I killed the people responsible.

 

[TIMESWORDSMAN]

Beating Pokemon Gold was the high point of my childhood because I had been playing the game for years but had never beat it. I was amazingly immersed during the last battle, I wooped and cheered at wining and was sad because I knew it was over.

All in twenty minutes.

 

[theSovietConnection]

Saddest experience for me is quite strange, it's one of the audio logs on Dead Space

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Processing log. Supervisor 2nd Engineer Dallas reporting. This will be my last report. I've seen what they do...to the bodies. What they become. I can't let that happen to me. At least if I don't have any limbs...I won't be able to kill anyone when I'm infected... (Gun charging in the background) Please, tell Dawn... and the kids... that I love them. (Boom!) Oh God... (Panting in pain, second gunshot) One more...one more... (3rd and last gunshot)

For some reason, that got to me and I started crying first time I heard that.

Most immersive experience I've had would be Cryostasis. Incredible game, that one.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Isn't that a Japanese wank game?

<url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.135672>Much, much more.

 

[RavingPenguin]

The latest moment I can think of is a moment at the end of Mass Effect.

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Shepard beats Saren and Sovereign and then a giant bit of Sovereign comes smashing through the window. The game leads you to beleive Shepard had died,it totally pissed me off for about a minute. I fell to my knees praising god when I found out he lived.

 

[The Warden]

Saddest moment?
Hmm, I'd have to say SR2,

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Carlos' death

, it's effects you, man.
Emotional?
Godfather 2 the game:

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Fredo's betrayal, as well as Roth's and the Manganos, that with Micheal Corleones speech, and I was actually angry, I sent all of my men, everywhere, I was done with enemy gang bullshit.
We took over every racket, many by myself, singlehandedly, with 20, 30 guards each.

Greatest?
I'd say the end of SR2, I felt pretty damn awesome.

 

[Vuljatar]

Saddest: The end of MGS3 (And the end of MGS4, though I have technically not played it--just watching it on youtube almost made me cry)

Most Immersive: The first 5 or 6 hours of Fallout 3, and literally every single second I spent playing Morrowind.

Also, the "Escape from New York" in Freelancer.

Greatest: Many, many moments from World of Warcraft. My first kills of Onyxia (old-school), Malchezzar, and Kel'thuzad in particular.

Also, discovering the "g_saberrealisticcombat" cheat in Jedi Outcast.

Also, beating Ninja Gaiden. Just on normal. I felt like one hell of a badass.

 

[oppp7]

Beating Boss Battles on Insane difficulty in SSBB was one of if not the happiest moment in my life. Let me explain: for the last 2 days I had spent most of my time trying to beat the bosses, but I couldn't even get to Tabuu, let alone beat him and his 1-hit KOs. It took about 10 hours to finally get good enough to reach him. When I finally did, I killed him on the first try. Here's a breakdown of why it was so great:
1. It had momentum. I've realized if something just runs up and hits you without being too conscious about it beforehand you are a little dazed about it and it seems unreal. But playing for 10 hours and seeing it slowly get closer to winning made it apparent when I won.
2. I got a trophy.
3. Beforehand I hadn't been good at dodging or blocking. For the boss battles I learned how to, which is the first time I can remember that I trained myself in a video game skill and got better noticably quick. Plus, now I was much better at the game, which gave the whole ordeal meaning.
4. When I reached Tabuu, I hadn't died beforehand, so there was no irritation to lower my hope. And aside from 1 small hit from the chain explosion, he didn't hit me at all, which kept my hopes up and made it more impressive.
5. When I got to Tabuu, all of my adrenal sacs emptied into my body, so I was rediculously energetic and it made my mood more extreme.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

WHY DID GAZ DIE BAWWWWW

 

[Wyes]

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WHY DID GAZ DIE BAWWWWW

+ Price

 

[The Atomic Irishman]

Excellent posts everyone! I had perhaps one of my most godly/immerse moments playing HAWX where I was literally gliding and drifting through dozens and dozens of missiles that had locked onto me, my heart was pounding hard and when i dodged each and every one by the skin of my teeth, I was getting that "Yes, I am a bad ass" feeling.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

Spoiler: Saddest

Final Fantasy X, when Tidus finds out what happens to summoners at the end of the pilgrimage.

Tidus: I spent so much time talking about how great it would be to get the Final Aeon and defeat Sin, and Yuna, she'd......just smile.