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What was teh last game that made you go "WOW" at something in the gameplay?

The last one was Psi-Ops, specifically Edgar Barret & the Oil Tanker :D

Props to Shpankey mentioned Out of this World, which was Another World in the UK. It is a timeless classic that game. Also from my point of view I have to mention it's successor Fade to Black on the PC, whilst most everyone seems to hate it from what I've read, I *loved* it; it was the first intelligent fully 3D polygonal game of it's kind on PC. The camo effects on the enemies were just insane for the time. The sequence in Fade to Black where the boss monster is chasing Conrad is a great homage to the opening sequence of Another World which Shpankey mentioned.

Whatever happened to Delphine?
 
Just wrapping up MGS3 and loved the whole trip, but particularly the battle with The End really tickled me pink. Been waiting for a set piece like that to be realized in a videogame for a long time.
 
Last one was GTA: San Andreas...

If they had just kept the game in the first city, but added even more details to everything, I would've probably been in even more euphoria. But doing drivebys with your gangmembers, dressing up your character and all of the little details made the game great for me.
 
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat and it's "fullymetric" gameplay. Long combos rock!

Wario Ware didn't make me go "WOW", but man you have to see my face! wigging out...
 
HL2 + Grav Gun

Physics in CS:S (shooting the tire in de_dust for the first time, I didn't care I got killed, I made the tire roll :D)
 
Just finished up Mercenaries, and it has tons of "Wow!" moments. Great sense of scale, epic battles (especially the final one!) and a wide open style of play. Nothing like 'jacking a tank and unloading some whup ass on someone. Great game.

I've finally got around to staring Half Life 2, about halfway through it, and it's great as well. Awesome graphics, wonderful physics, great level design, and tons of moments where you just chuckle and go "cool!"

I'll give another vote to Out of this World. A game that was way ahead of it's time and had some very cool elements that up that point were unheard of. Great game!
 
A lot of good choices, but I get them all the time. Even with games that aren't particularly noteworthy as a whole. That's why I game. Maybe I'm easy to please, but it's why it's a favorite hobby of mine.
 
Resident Evil 4: the cabin by the bridge
Counter-Strike Source: Physics and graphics
Half-Life 2: 2nd stage, Ravinholme; gravity gun
Metroid Prime: everything
 
Half-Life 2 - picking up junk at the train station and moving it around. A bit later arriving at the playground and messing with bricks on the seesaw. Piling them up, jumping on the other end and watching them fly away. Amazing.
 
Ninja Gaiden's engine: The moment I decapitated an enemy, Izuna dropped someone, the impact knocked another enemy down, and then I finished him off by performing another decapitation, all in about 12 seconds.
 
The Nur in GT4.

Also, I once made a noise in MGS3, just outside of a guard's 'range'. Due to the terrain, he couldn't get closer to investigate, and I knew that, I was looking at him with the scope and I was laughing... Until I saw him looking in his pouch and pull out a pair of binoculars of his own.

he subsequently proceeded to spot, and gun down my sorry ass :P
 
Jet Set Radio: scaling the heights and distances of a level on the momentum of a single action, grinding powerlines and wall jumping off billboards. It opened my imagination to a new feel of play in a way similar to NiGHTS a generation before and the original Sonic the Hedgehog a generation before that.
 
I would have to say Zelda: Link's Awakening. I remember I came home from school and my dad was crying, and I asked him what was wrong. He said it’s so sad, So he saved his game and gave the gameboy to me and I loaded my save. 2 hours later I caught up to where my dad was and sure enough I started crying to and I was like “WOW” this is deep. The scene was when you talk to Marin near turtle rock, and find out that even though all you want to do is go home and see Zelda, everyone in Koholint Island will die. Including Marin the new girl that cares for you and has help you during your travels, just so she can be killed by you in the end. Man that dug deep.
 
lockii said:
Yes, it's a painfully underrated game and to this day is one of the most grittiest, atmopsheric games I've ever played.
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it's a fantastic game, but flashback is better.
 
Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat
I thought it would play like shit but the fact is that the controls work like a charm. One of the greatest ideas ever.

Prior to that I would say Jet Set Radio and Street Fighter III: New Generation.
 
Spazbiohaz said:
I would have to say Zelda: Link's Awakening. I remember I came home from school and my dad was crying, and I asked him what was wrong. He said it’s so sad, So he saved his game and gave the gameboy to me and I loaded my save. 2 hours later I caught up to where my dad was and sure enough I started crying to and I was like “WOW” this is deep. The scene was when you talk to Marin near turtle rock, and find out that even though all you want to do is go home and see Zelda, everyone in Koholint Island will die. Including Marin the new girl that cares for you and has help you during your travels, just so she can be killed by you in the end. Man that dug deep.
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wow, you truly are the best poster on this board.

Links Awakening is one of the best Zelda's ever made....i almost cried too :(
 
SantaCruZer said:
it's a fantastic game, but flashback is better.
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Flashback has better "gameplay", but it can't touch the setting/mood/feel of Out of this World/Another World. OOTW and Mario 64 are probably the most HOLY FUCKING SHIT gaming moments I've had.

Lately, I'll go with MGS3. :)
 
Spazbiohaz said:
I would have to say Zelda: Link's Awakening. I remember I came home from school and my dad was crying, and I asked him what was wrong. He said it’s so sad, So he saved his game and gave the gameboy to me and I loaded my save. 2 hours later I caught up to where my dad was and sure enough I started crying to and I was like “WOW” this is deep. The scene was when you talk to Marin near turtle rock, and find out that even though all you want to do is go home and see Zelda, everyone in Koholint Island will die. Including Marin the new girl that cares for you and has help you during your travels, just so she can be killed by you in the end. Man that dug deep.
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Why remind me you fiend.
 
IJoel said:
Ninja Gaiden's engine: The moment I decapitated an enemy, Izuna dropped someone, the impact knocked another enemy down, and then I finished him off by performing another decapitation, all in about 12 seconds.
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Ah, that's what I was going to say. The game is just so incredibly fluid and playable. It's hard to play things like Castlevania: Lament of Innocence afterwards.
 
jett said:
Flashback has better "gameplay", but it can't touch the setting/mood/feel of Out of this World/Another World. OOTW and Mario 64 are probably the most HOLY FUCKING SHIT gaming moments I've had.
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Yeah it was very moody. Too bad it was so short though :(


Have you played Blackthorne something?
 
This generation has had the least "wow" for me. The special games to Snes (super metroid, another world, ff6 etc), N64 ( mario64 goldeneye, Zelda oot etc) and PS1 (sotn, FF7, FF8 etc) had me wowed more times. And then there are nes, master system genesis blah blah.

This gen it's RE4, GTA and Metroid Prime.
 
The love for Out of this World in here has put a big fat grin on my face. So glad to see others give one of my top favorite game props. I still remember all of the puzzles. :)
 
shpankey said:
The love for Out of this World in here has put a big fat grin on my face. So glad to see others give one of my top favorite game props. I still remember all of the puzzles. :)
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Yeah good thing you brought up it :)
 
shpankey said:
I often feel that masterpiece [Out of this World] doesn't get the respect it should. It's easily one of the top 3 games of alltime for me and some of my local gaming buddies; but on internet gaming forums, it's rarely even mentioned let alone recognized.

The whole game was just genius. On an incredibly clever and brainiac level I have never since seen repeated. You really had to think, but when you figured it out, it was one of those "slap forehead" oh yeah, that totally makes sense! Loved it. :)
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I had fun just reading through the Gamepro walkthrough, even though I never played the game since I had a Genesis and not a SNES...
 
shpankey said:
The love for Out of this World in here has put a big fat grin on my face. So glad to see others give one of my top favorite game props. I still remember all of the puzzles. :)
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I'll never forget that game and how jaw droppingly awesome it was for its era. My friend and I rented it kind of on a whim back in the day and we were so blown away by it that we spent every waking hour over the next couple of days working on it.
 
SantaCruZer said:
Yeah it was very moody. Too bad it was so short though :(


Have you played Blackthorne something?
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Yeah man, it was pretty cool, but pretty different from OOTW as well. Much more emphasis on action rather than on puzzles. Too bad all Blizzard does these days are Diablo/Craft games.
 
Tenchu: Return from Darkness. The first time I got the stealth kill where 3rd-character Tesshu breaks/bends backwards the victim's elbows, twists head backwards, then lets the victim loose to waddle aimlessly until he drops....sick stuff but I can't help but :lol every time

And the game I spent a LOT of time with before Tenchu was RE4, which actually had too many WOW moments to reasonably list.
 
jett said:
Yeah man, it was pretty cool, but pretty different from OOTW as well. Much more emphasis on action rather than on puzzles. Too bad all Blizzard does these days are Diablo/Craft games.
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indeed. Their Snes games rocked...
 
I feel compelled to post this icon I made a while ago of OOTW's intro.

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I suck horribly at the game though, never finished it.
 
RE4
Using the Heaven's Cataract blue Magic in FFX-2 and realizing that many enemies are weak to it
Mario Sunshine (in a "wow...another tedious jumping-oriented/no FLUDD secret episode" kinda way)
Getting beat down by Mukai in KOF 2003
 
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