Glass Shark
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When you realize how to understand the alphabet in FEZ.
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The Moment You Realized You Were Playing One of the Best Games Ever
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veloxStrix
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Halo 2 has such an amazing opening. It's actually a little ridiculous.
WheelHoss1
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Pulling out the sword in the Temple of Time and returning to Castle Town.
Sheik taking off the mask.
I love BotW but it never really had these kind of story moments.
Sheik taking off the mask.
I love BotW but it never really had these kind of story moments.
BassForever
Member
I expected this to be a stealth botw thread, then saw the thread started in September, course now its a botw thread lol.
Botw the moment I called my horse to me when some raiders attacked while I was getting bugs, the horse ran to me and link did a special animation to quickly jump on the horse and I began to fight the mounted bokoblins. It was an OH SHIT moment that defined botw for me.
Botw the moment I called my horse to me when some raiders attacked while I was getting bugs, the horse ran to me and link did a special animation to quickly jump on the horse and I began to fight the mounted bokoblins. It was an OH SHIT moment that defined botw for me.
KO Traveling Hobo
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When I loaded up Nier and heard the opening dialogue.
SlipperyFishes
Banned
After taking down Smough and then Ornstein gets his second wind. Boy what a fucking rush.
Then the ability to fast travel right after?
Then the ability to fast travel right after?
OrbitalBeard
Member
I don't think a story moment has ever made me realize I'm playing one of the best games ever.
For BotW, I knew I was playing a classic when I received the paraglider and then got to choose which direction to go when leaving the Great Plateau. That moment was greater than anything in any other 3D Zelda for me.
Stereogatari
Banned
Using the glider in Zelda BOTW to get off the plateau.
It reminded me of another great game realisation moment. FFVII when you first step out of Midgar onto the World Map.
It reminded me of another great game realisation moment. FFVII when you first step out of Midgar onto the World Map.
- The first flying Colossus in SOTC
- The moment you get to Ravenholm w/ the gravity gun in HL2
- Your second or third encounter Pyramid Head in SH2
- The "Milkman Conspiracy" level in Psychonauts
- "Welcome to Rapture"
- "Lost at Sea" chapter in Uncharted 4, directly following that chase scene
- The moment you find out what Stranger's operation is for in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
- First encounter with a crimson head in REmake
- After defeating the first 3 bosses in Ninja Gaiden I knew it was going to be an amazing action game where the stylish combat had as much depth as a fighting game
- The moment you get to Ravenholm w/ the gravity gun in HL2
- Your second or third encounter Pyramid Head in SH2
- The "Milkman Conspiracy" level in Psychonauts
- "Welcome to Rapture"
- "Lost at Sea" chapter in Uncharted 4, directly following that chase scene
- The moment you find out what Stranger's operation is for in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
- First encounter with a crimson head in REmake
- After defeating the first 3 bosses in Ninja Gaiden I knew it was going to be an amazing action game where the stylish combat had as much depth as a fighting game
LinkSlayer64
Member
When I went on a date with a Sexy Skeleton.
castaction
Member
Dmc 3 after the first stage and after i beat cerberus what a awsome game
Mgs3 when i was fighting the sniper boss
Mgs3 when i was fighting the sniper boss
tiebreaker
Member
When I first saw a colossus in Shadow of the Colossus
When I defeated blood starved beast in Bloodborne
When I defeated blood starved beast in Bloodborne
Yup that one for me. I just couldn't believe I could go in any direction without some stupid sidekick telling me what to do next. Just looked at the horizon, saw a cool mountain and thought "I wonder if I can get there". And I did, and felt awesome.
Zelda OoT: Moving from Kid to Adult Link, realizing that everything had changed.
Zelda MM: When Everything Reset
Xenoblade Chronciles: When I fall of the edge of the starting village and realized the world was fully realized and not just backgrounds, I was damn shocked and started exploring everywhere in the zones I went.
SM64: Not long after I booted the game up, was stunned at what I was playing.
Binary Domain: About 30% through the game it goes from meh to wicked.
World of Warcraft: My first time in Ironforge, everything was a roller-coaster from then on.
Final Fantasy XI: The cities, the world design, the music. Game was amazing from the get go and I loved it until the end of wings of the goddess.
Metal Gear Sold PS1: Psycho Mantis and Meryl Codec on the Cover, that out of the box logic so crazy.
FF7: Forgotten Capital
Castlevania SotN: Reverse Castle
Shadow of the Colossus: Avion and Hydus
Halo: This game was a series of, holyshit moments, I couldn't get over this roller-coaster ride Halo > Silent Cartographer > Assault on the Control Room > 343 Guilty Spark > The Library > Two Betrayals. Those levels are some of the greatest moments in gaming history for me, just amazingly well done.
Demon Souls: Armored Spider
GTA3: When I realized I didn't need a map to navigate the city I learned the streets and were things were by simply remembering where they were and going to them when I needed, it was fantastic design.
Minecraft: When I realized I had spent my entire vacation playing a single game, not much has hooked me quite like that game did since I was a kid.
Super Metriod: When I finished it, couldn't believe how good the ride was.
Chrono Trigger: When I went to school and talked to my friends about finishing it, he said he had just finished it and we talked about the ending only to realize we had gotten to different endings. When we figured out the game had multiple endings we flipped out.
Diablo 2: Was nothing quite like it, similar but the thing blew the competition away once you got into multiplayer.
Body Harvester: Java, once you get there it's amazing. Game was so underrated.
Persona 4 Golden: When your vita goes flat because you didn't notice it tell you it was about to die.
Jedi Knight 2: Physics, shit blew my mind. Picking up a stormtrooper for the first time and tossing him into another was so satisfying.
MGS3: Ocelot
Dues Ex: Paris
Baldurs Gate 2: When I got up to the city and realized I had no idea where to start.
I think that's about it, only times I realized I was playing really amazing games.
Zelda MM: When Everything Reset
Xenoblade Chronciles: When I fall of the edge of the starting village and realized the world was fully realized and not just backgrounds, I was damn shocked and started exploring everywhere in the zones I went.
SM64: Not long after I booted the game up, was stunned at what I was playing.
Binary Domain: About 30% through the game it goes from meh to wicked.
World of Warcraft: My first time in Ironforge, everything was a roller-coaster from then on.
Final Fantasy XI: The cities, the world design, the music. Game was amazing from the get go and I loved it until the end of wings of the goddess.
Metal Gear Sold PS1: Psycho Mantis and Meryl Codec on the Cover, that out of the box logic so crazy.
FF7: Forgotten Capital
Castlevania SotN: Reverse Castle
Shadow of the Colossus: Avion and Hydus
Halo: This game was a series of, holyshit moments, I couldn't get over this roller-coaster ride Halo > Silent Cartographer > Assault on the Control Room > 343 Guilty Spark > The Library > Two Betrayals. Those levels are some of the greatest moments in gaming history for me, just amazingly well done.
Demon Souls: Armored Spider
GTA3: When I realized I didn't need a map to navigate the city I learned the streets and were things were by simply remembering where they were and going to them when I needed, it was fantastic design.
Minecraft: When I realized I had spent my entire vacation playing a single game, not much has hooked me quite like that game did since I was a kid.
Super Metriod: When I finished it, couldn't believe how good the ride was.
Chrono Trigger: When I went to school and talked to my friends about finishing it, he said he had just finished it and we talked about the ending only to realize we had gotten to different endings. When we figured out the game had multiple endings we flipped out.
Diablo 2: Was nothing quite like it, similar but the thing blew the competition away once you got into multiplayer.
Body Harvester: Java, once you get there it's amazing. Game was so underrated.
Persona 4 Golden: When your vita goes flat because you didn't notice it tell you it was about to die.
Jedi Knight 2: Physics, shit blew my mind. Picking up a stormtrooper for the first time and tossing him into another was so satisfying.
MGS3: Ocelot
Dues Ex: Paris
Baldurs Gate 2: When I got up to the city and realized I had no idea where to start.
I think that's about it, only times I realized I was playing really amazing games.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
"You ... you shot him"
It was at that point I realised I was about to play something I've been waiting for all my gaming life.
It was at that point I realised I was about to play something I've been waiting for all my gaming life.
Definitely when I reached Eventide Island in Breath of the Wild.
BotW is a massive game where its best moments lie on the small adventures you end up in some places around Hyrule. The Eventide quest is one of them. I don't want to spoil anything, but there's a whole thread about it on Gaf that explain perfectly this highlight of maybe the best game of the last 10 years.
BotW is a massive game where its best moments lie on the small adventures you end up in some places around Hyrule. The Eventide quest is one of them. I don't want to spoil anything, but there's a whole thread about it on Gaf that explain perfectly this highlight of maybe the best game of the last 10 years.
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chemicals
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when I broke out of the prison at the opening of ES4 Oblivion and went open a random door and the people behind it are all like "hey! get the hell out of my house!" so I flipped out and left, but just outside was a lawman saying "stop! you are trespassing, etc."
My first western dev RPG. My damned jaw hit the floor. Loved that game.
My first western dev RPG. My damned jaw hit the floor. Loved that game.
Miniature Kaiju
Member
Horizon, the moment the first Thunderjaw hit the ground dead and I realized I was white knuckled.
when I realized I played 9 hours straight of RE4 and it was amazing the entire way through
I think that's the true sign of a great game. It's not a specific moment happening in the game, it's when you lose yourself in it to the degree that you lose track of time and realize just how much you've been enjoying it for hours and hours.
I think that's the true sign of a great game. It's not a specific moment happening in the game, it's when you lose yourself in it to the degree that you lose track of time and realize just how much you've been enjoying it for hours and hours.
FingerBang
Member
Didn't expect to find this so early in the topic but yep.
Nostremitus
Member
When I first realized I could climb anything and again the first time I was one-hit in Breath of the Wild.
Archangel mission in ME:2
Gaur Plains in Xenoblade Chronicles
Archangel mission in ME:2
Gaur Plains in Xenoblade Chronicles
Starlightmuse
Member
Tw3: the moment I saw Yennefer and Kaer Morhen in the prologue, with that beautiful music playing in the background, I knew this game was going to deliver, and hell, it rreally did.
NieR: the moment I met Weiss, I knew I was playing something special.
NieR: the moment I met Weiss, I knew I was playing something special.
When Demon's Souls came out in the US I bought it, disliked it, put it away for a month.
Was bored and tried it again, beat the tower knight, and realized I had never experienced anything like it before. Just the sheer sense of accomplishment and learning. It clicked for me, and the rest is history.
Was bored and tried it again, beat the tower knight, and realized I had never experienced anything like it before. Just the sheer sense of accomplishment and learning. It clicked for me, and the rest is history.
The Artisan
Member
the ending of chapter 4 in Yakuza 0
Yoda
Member
Vanilla WoW (I was coming from SWG so MMOs weren't a new concept for me). The game's amazing design (for the time) dawned on me when I had the chance to raid Molten Core. It was a reasonable challenge (for the time) and surprisingly enough wasn't brimming with bugs, which can't be said for raids of other MMOs @ the time.
pixelation
Member
Jak and Daxter TPL, rolling and jumping and spinning in the air in sentinel beach.
Tawney Bomb
Member
There are a lot of moments in The Last of Us.
Pulling the master sword out in A Link to the Past is memorable for me. Mostly because I thought I was just about to beat the game after that.
Pulling the master sword out in A Link to the Past is memorable for me. Mostly because I thought I was just about to beat the game after that.
Tavernacle12
Member
Bloodborne : When I realized I wasn't supposed to fight the rioting villagers and could/was supposed to run past them.
Breath Of The Wild: Fighting and beating the
in the Zora quest. Which I learned later I was not in any way shape or form supposed to that early.
Wind Waker: When I stumbled upon an abandoned vacation house with a Redead in the basment.
Fire Emblem Awakening: When my Gale Force team started taking root.
Breath Of The Wild: Fighting and beating the
Lynel
Wind Waker: When I stumbled upon an abandoned vacation house with a Redead in the basment.
Fire Emblem Awakening: When my Gale Force team started taking root.
CharminUltra
Member
Breath of the Wild: when I got the paraglider and left the great plateau.
I already liked all the new stuff in the game, but I didn't truly 'get' the scale of the world until I landed outside the plateau for the first time. 110 hours later I'm still addicted to it, and I probably still haven't seen more than 30% of everything.
I already liked all the new stuff in the game, but I didn't truly 'get' the scale of the world until I landed outside the plateau for the first time. 110 hours later I'm still addicted to it, and I probably still haven't seen more than 30% of everything.
poipoipoi9
Member
Yakuza 0. I think th exact moment was when you threw a guy off a window after smashing his head on a urinal in a toilet you just entered from jumping off a nearby stairwell. It's over the top and brilliant. And then Kuze's theme starts playing a few moments later.
Violence Jack
Member
In Saints Row 4 when you're playing Keith David's mission and you run into
and it turns into a
reunion.
Deadly Premonition was when I looked past the jank, and started playing the greatest Twin Peaks homage ever. The jank just added to its charm.
Rowdy Roddy Piper
They Live
Deadly Premonition was when I looked past the jank, and started playing the greatest Twin Peaks homage ever. The jank just added to its charm.
Dusktildawn48
Member
The giraffe scene in last of us.
BotW: I'm very early in the game (7ish hours). Just got off the plateau, decided to go south first. Was riding along Lake Hylia on a horse at night when suddenly
. I thought "Holy shit!" but couldn't do anything so I moved on and just thought it was some crazy random thing. Cut to several hours later, and I'm exploring the jungle looking for this statue to pray at. I get to the statue, and it tells me I need a
. So I thought, ok I'm gonna have this crazy fight. I teleport to the other lake in the jungle where it goes to. I'm trying to figure out how to get what I need, and on a whim
. It started glowing and shot off, and when I went to the spot where it landed, I got exactly what I needed. That's one of the most satisfying puzzles I've ever solved, and it was so organic.
Also, everything about the top of Mt. Lanaryu
an electric dragon appeared
scale of the dragon I saw earlier
I pulled out my bow and shot it with an arrow
Also, everything about the top of Mt. Lanaryu
Pull_Shapes
Neo Member
Leaving midgar in ffvii.
Spent the whole first few hours wondering why there's a button for world map. Then when you see it you realise the game has just begun.
Spent the whole first few hours wondering why there's a button for world map. Then when you see it you realise the game has just begun.
Omega Kirby
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R: When you're being attacked by bandits and then zombie dogs come out from nowhere and attack them. Or the alerts of a blowout and npcs running for cover.
Zelda BOTW: When you realize you're playing a truly open zelda game with loads of different weapons, armors and freedom.
Zelda BOTW: When you realize you're playing a truly open zelda game with loads of different weapons, armors and freedom.
Lord of Ostia
Member
Just recently playing Horizon Zero Dawn actually, where
The writing in this game is top notch.
you complete the quest where you have to save Avad with Erend. Once you save everyone, Erend remarks that "I thought I was some big shot who found a pretty girl in the middle of nowhere. Now I know I'm just lucky to have had a minute of your time." It's a great acknowledgement of Aloy's prowess, while also a great character moment for Erend as he admits his past behavior toward Aloy and reveals how much he now respects her and admires her.
Dangansona
Member
Honestly I think it was just the inner peace I felt sitting at my table in The Stray Sheep in Catherine after a few days had passed in game.
So many old games had the moment just during and between change from intro cinematic to the early gameplay.
Pirates!, your are pirate in Caribbean.
Tie Fighter, 'Rebel Scum' line and then the first time you are free to fly.
Wing Commander 2, 3, 4 intro.
Ultima Underworld, the exile to the dungeon and then you move for the first time.
Ultima 7 starting with mystery and then the world opens up for you.
Final Fantasy 6, the march.
Final Fantasy 8 intro and waking up.
Elite first proper landing.
Warhead meeting the Berzekker.
Populous creating a forest and accidentally setting it on fire.
Pirates!, your are pirate in Caribbean.
Tie Fighter, 'Rebel Scum' line and then the first time you are free to fly.
Wing Commander 2, 3, 4 intro.
Ultima Underworld, the exile to the dungeon and then you move for the first time.
Ultima 7 starting with mystery and then the world opens up for you.
Final Fantasy 6, the march.
Final Fantasy 8 intro and waking up.
Elite first proper landing.
Warhead meeting the Berzekker.
Populous creating a forest and accidentally setting it on fire.