Your Top 3 Shocking Moments in Videogames

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So tonight , I was with some dolphin friends and we were discussing a bunch of video games. It ended up as a conversation about what moments in Video games Shocked you most?
Anyway , what are some moments in video games that blew your mind?

I covered the spoiler bits, but left the game title in so people can figure out for themselves if they want to see it.

Here are my top 3 counting down to the most shocking moment for me.

Boyo - you already know!

1.) Final Fantasy 7 -

"The Death of Aeris" , While it was shocking to say the least, it also made me extremely angry, not at Sephiroth for killing her but at Cloud. After it happened I was sitting there yelling at my screen telling cloud "He just offed one of your women, and all you can do is give him a speech about "your pain?" "Why are you not cutting this guy to pieces right now??" "Ohh you're just going to let him walk away!?!" Yeah so Cloud might have gotten it handed to him if he did attack, but if one of your friends goes down you got to at least try and put the guy that offed him into a hurt locker.


2.) Metroid (The NES one) -

"Samus Aron is a woman", Something I never expected, and I believe it was the first game with a woman hero in too. You found out at the very end if you beat the game under a certain time.


3.) World of Warcraft -

"The Scarlet Crusade is a Lie!", The whole game you fight these self righteous people who hate all things undead only to find out at the end of Stratholme their leader is a demon and Brother of Varimathras. Does this mean the Forsaken are behind the Crusade? Or that Balnazzar hates his brother and is working against him?
 
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2. KOTOR ending
3. Aerith

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Probably should just put a spoiler warning in the title that there will be open spoilers so we don't have to pussyfoot around using spoiler tags. Most of my "wow" moments were when I was a kid.

Anyways, for me,
Being able to recruit Magus blew my little kid mind. I couldn't remember ever recruiting a 'villain' in a game before. I say villain because I was too young to understand the complexity of his character at the time. Then that Triple Tech with Marle and Lucca, dayum.

The first time I saw Knights of the Round. I was blown away by the graphics (lol) and the long animation, how epic it felt. I literally stood up the first time I saw it like I was watching an arc finale episode of DBZ.
 
at the top of my head

1.Mass Effect 2 intro,

Shepard "dying" was pretty awesome and shocking at the same time. Those few seconds where he just drifts in space with no air was peak Bioware.



2. Batman Arkham Knight and bonus Origins

the Joker reveal was quite the shock, since I had 0 info about the game at prior to playing it, no trailers nothing, Awesome moment.



bonus points here for Origins handling it super amazing as well



3. Modern Warfare 2 the og

Shepard killing you and Ghost was truly shocking and fucked up

 
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1. Logging into neogaf.com and see "You are banned until xx/xx/xxxx".
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That'd be a shock for most of us, for Ass of Can Whopping:

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Anyway... Spec Ops: The Line is a smörgåsbord of them.

The white phosphorus bombing, the marksman guy getting hanged by civilian survivors, the protagonist being certified insane.
Game is a misery trip and I love it.
 
NieR ending D fucked me up for many reasons.

Drankengard E for similar reason. For all that, this is his fate?

While technically not an ending, The hero of Kvatch's fate has many implications theologically especially in regards to the possibility of Talos' current state. Manimarco is kinda in the same situation after all the dragonbreak thing and his existence in TES4.
 
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The original Bioshock is it for me…. 'A man chooses, a slave obeys' moment was special.

the legend of zelda nintendo GIF

Pulling the Master Sword in Ocarina of Time literally blew my mind as a kid

Celebrate Red Dead Redemption GIF by Rockstar Games

John Marstons last stand rocked me
 
Too many to count but let me narrow it down to a couple.

The first time I was riding into Mexico in Red Dead Redemption listening to that Jose Gonzalez track. I think about that sunset and horse galloping to those guitar notes.

Metal Gear Solid 2 4th wall breaking gameplay moment. We all know it. "Raiden turn the game console off." Shit rocked my world after playing for 5 hours straight and this happened at 4:30 in the am. A gaming moment that will stick with me forever. Also that menacing song playing during the conversations after that moment is eerie and easily my favorite doom and gloom track.

The first time I heard the rest room music in Pikmin 2. I had never really heard it before until I heard it on a loud sound system and it was when I gathered the Japanese leaf and hearing that song as sunlight peers through the grates is a spiritual experience for me. I cry pretty much every time I hear this song when I reply the game. Its the game going hey I know your having a hard adventure but your doing great. Relax, breathe, take your time, and will start again when your ready baby chicken.
 
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Are we talking SHOCKING moments or moments that WOW'd me?

Not many SHOCKING moments for me..ut Wow moments is a different story.

I guess, my most Shocking moments would be:

- Taking control of Abby in TLOU 2. Ellie being the fucking final boss, looking exactly like me when I play as her. AMazing.

- Ninja Gaiden 2 - Staircase, 12FPS, loved it.

- Getting the Blades of Chaos in GOW 2018. Didnt expect it. All time epic moment.
 
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The ones that spring to mind:
  1. Delita's ending scene in Final Fantasy Tactics.
  2. Realizing what the Dark World really was in Dragon Warrior 3 (I wasn't aware I was playing a prequel in 1993).
  3. BioShock's would you kindly moment.
And I wouldn't put it top 3, but I was shocked I killed the blacksmith in Hollow Knight. I didn't think it would actually happen.
 
1) Portal
The final part of the game where you escape. The whole thing feels like the devs wanted you to think you are playing a puzzle game but in reality it's a survival action game. It's like playing Tetris for a few hours and then you realize you can climb to where the pieces fall from and sneak into the background mechanisms in order to escape this existential nightmare. Sure there are hints that tell you this world might be more than it seems but i thought they were just 4th wall breaking jokes, until i reached the final part.


2) DOOM
The moment i saw the game moving for the first time in early 1994 was a shock. It felt like i was watching something that shouldn't exist, it was that much ahead of it's time.


3) Inside
After you become this Tetsuo like blob monstrosity and you continue playing to escape and wreck havoc
 
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My most shocking moment was this

How the hell can someone pass off a borderline to literal war crime by claiming it was actually their enemies that did that? To this day I am still shocked that this kind of historical revisionist crap got greenlit and put into the game.
 
Being told that that character on the screen can be moved by pressing buttons on this "remote". That was me first seeing Mario on NES at a family friend's house. Had never played an arcade or anything so the concept blew my mind.
 
Getting one 'shot' killed by the chainsaw guy in RE4.
This is honestly the only time I can remember being shocked in a video game.
 
Skull kid debut on top of the moon as you're looking through the telescope was shocking, Ganon with Zelda in the beginning of ocarina of time was shocking.
 
Game moments:

1) Upside Down Castle in Symphony of the Night
2) Donkey Kong (Gameboy) after level 4
3) MGS 5 reaching end credits and then seeing "Chapter 2"

Story moments:

1) FFX

Tidus being a ghost/dream all along

2) MGS 1

Master Miller was actually Liquid Snake the whole time.

3) God of War 3

Coming to the realization that you/Kratos are a villain(just as bad or worse than Zeus), and you begin to brutally kill characters that didn't really need to be killed. No going back at that point and you know where things end, with everyone dead.
 
The twists in KOTOR and Witcher 1 are cool and I didn't see them coming.

I think the only time I remember experiencing anything close to shock from a game was the meat cleaver scene in Mafia 2.
 
The ending choice of Fear Effect (time stamped)



Never had that in any game before (when I played it of course) so it was a big shock to chose between the two
 
Heavy Rain
Cutting off my finger

Link to the Past
Dark World after finishing the first dungeons. Yes, that was a shocking thing back in the day!

FF 9 and FF 10
You are not real? Come on, two times in a row?
 
1. Joel sucking at golf
2. Everything sonic fans do with sonic
3. Not being able to kill people in farming simulator 2025
 
The invisible bug melting your face off in RE4.

Seeing Dragon's Lair in arcades in 1983.

Finding out who killed Kiryu's parents.
 
Silent Hill 2:
James actually having murdered his wife. So Silent Hill is basically the manifestation of his guilt. It was a pretty neat twist.

Pokemon Gold/Silver:
Kanto being included in the game was kinda mind-blowing for me.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic:
That you are actually Darth Revan was a crazy reveal and changed my point of view completely. BioWare really knew how to write cool shit back in the day.

Honorable mention:
P.T.:
Figuring out that each time you complete the loop, something changes for the worse. So you basically know that you are looping into your demise. I found that kinda cool.

Prey (2017):
In the intro, when you break the windows in your apartment and figure out that you were part of an experiment. And then towards the end of the game, when it is revealed that you are actually not a human but a Typhon.
 
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Spec Ops The Line. Can't say more about that.

As for an RPG, a character dying isn't really shocking. The word is boring.
 
1) that time Barve misgendered someone and had to do some pushups.

2) that time mary jane blamed everything on Peter parker, even though it was all about herself.

3) that time magic girl was impressed she had magic and could do magic now.

Truly some of the best writing we've ever had and i was truly shocked by how impactful and moving these moments were.
 
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Hudo said:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic:
That you are actually Darth Revan was a crazy reveal and changed my point of view completely. BioWare really knew how to write cool shit back in the day.
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I remember working out the Revan twist after a first person cutscene happened and the character talking to me called me Revan. After playing as my own character, why now would I suddenly be involved in a cutscene from Revan's POV. Then it clicked.
 
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