Game moments that made you put down the controller and say WOW
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Bioshock: the plot twist. I don't set down the controller for these things, but now and then something happens that makes me move my character around slowly and no actually do anything for a while. This was one of those things.
Also, the ending to Shadow of the Colossus. I mean, dang.
Also, the ending to Shadow of the Colossus. I mean, dang.
Last night when I realised that I can't play Modern Warfare 2 anymore.
I guess I'll have to wait till BF:BC2 comes out and hope it'll be even more badass what with 12 v 12 matches with vehicles as opposed to the standard 6-on-6 or 9-on-9 with no vehicles in MW2.
I can't believe that I'm saying this but I might be getting bored with the Call of Duty franchise now. It took roughly 7 years all the way back to CoD 3, I could have that wrong in terms of timeline, but I need something new and exciting.
Of course the fact that I haven't played MW2 often the past week and a half may have something to do with it but still, I'd welcome a change in the FPS genre for me.
I guess I'll have to wait till BF:BC2 comes out and hope it'll be even more badass what with 12 v 12 matches with vehicles as opposed to the standard 6-on-6 or 9-on-9 with no vehicles in MW2.
I can't believe that I'm saying this but I might be getting bored with the Call of Duty franchise now. It took roughly 7 years all the way back to CoD 3, I could have that wrong in terms of timeline, but I need something new and exciting.
Of course the fact that I haven't played MW2 often the past week and a half may have something to do with it but still, I'd welcome a change in the FPS genre for me.
Intro sequence of Bioshock with the reveal of Rapture. First time I killed a dragon in Dragon Age, the slow-mo sequence was 'wow'-ing. Lost Odyssey beginning cutscence with the meteor falling on the battlefield. I'd also include Silent Hill moments, but those were more like 'bloody hell' moments instead of 'wow'.
I was playing halo 3 online, and My team had 47, other team had 49.
I figured we'd probably lose anyways so I just started driving around a mongoose, as I was driving I came across 3 people on the other team.
My first thought "Oh great, I'm gonna be the last kill."
One of them Threw a grenade, I ran over it, it blew up, pretty much catapulting me at them, and I got a triple Splatter or what ever you want to call it.
I was like "Wow,...I bet those three guys are PISSED."
I figured we'd probably lose anyways so I just started driving around a mongoose, as I was driving I came across 3 people on the other team.
My first thought "Oh great, I'm gonna be the last kill."
One of them Threw a grenade, I ran over it, it blew up, pretty much catapulting me at them, and I got a triple Splatter or what ever you want to call it.
I was like "Wow,...I bet those three guys are PISSED."
*MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR ACII*
The part in Assassin's Creed II where you just beat up the f*cking pope (I Kid You Not).
Ezio, over the length of the game which apparently spans 23 or so years, has killed HUNDREDS if not thousands of people, including an assload of likely innocent guards in the final mission to get to that point.
After nearing his archenemy and hitting him in the head a few times, he decides that killing him will not bring back his family (who he was trying to avenge).
AND HE JUST LETS HIM GO.
WHAT THE FUCK, Ubisoft? Couldn't he have thought that up a little earlier? Like before infiltrating the goddamn Vatican just to get to the target?
That was not a WOW-moment in the conventional sense, but more like: "WOW, this is badly written".
Other wow-moments are meeting the Basilisk in Harry Potter and the Camber of Secrets (which was one of my first "real" games), the end of Shadow of the Colossus and pretty much every single moment in Psychonauts and Half-Life II (The moment you enter Ravenholm deserves a special mention).
The part in Assassin's Creed II where you just beat up the f*cking pope (I Kid You Not).
Ezio, over the length of the game which apparently spans 23 or so years, has killed HUNDREDS if not thousands of people, including an assload of likely innocent guards in the final mission to get to that point.
After nearing his archenemy and hitting him in the head a few times, he decides that killing him will not bring back his family (who he was trying to avenge).
AND HE JUST LETS HIM GO.
WHAT THE FUCK, Ubisoft? Couldn't he have thought that up a little earlier? Like before infiltrating the goddamn Vatican just to get to the target?
That was not a WOW-moment in the conventional sense, but more like: "WOW, this is badly written".
Other wow-moments are meeting the Basilisk in Harry Potter and the Camber of Secrets (which was one of my first "real" games), the end of Shadow of the Colossus and pretty much every single moment in Psychonauts and Half-Life II (The moment you enter Ravenholm deserves a special mention).
The first time I saw "Through the Fire and the Flames" finished on expert difficulty in real life. the kid who was playing it actually aced it.
Of course, he was weeping by the end of it and had to go put his fingers in an icebox.
That's some serious determination right there.
Of course, he was weeping by the end of it and had to go put his fingers in an icebox.
That's some serious determination right there.
Well, i did scream "FUCK YEAH ************!" over and over after beating that giant tentacle boss on the cargo ship. does that count?
Edit: Durrhhh, i r forgot to mention it tentacle boss in resident evil 5, Hurr Durr.
Edit: Durrhhh, i r forgot to mention it tentacle boss in resident evil 5, Hurr Durr.
when I found a sniper rifle that deals 3x explosive damage on top of 268 ordinary damage and has a fire rate of 2.4 and a 2.something zoom. That has given me a lot of joy.TheNamlessGuy said:
(probably doesn't sound like much to people but this was the relative best weapon I had come across in about 10 levels)
This is actually one of those negative "wow" moments.
In Call of Duty: World at War, we had just gotten through an ambush. One guy asks "How did they see us coming so fast?"
The sergeant's reply: "They must have spotters..."
OK.
"...in the tunnels."
The idea of a guy sitting underground with binoculars looking for far-off targets actually made me stop, pause, and facepalm.
But in good terms, the ending to Braid did it for me. And not that stupid nuclear bomb one everyone is debating about.
In Call of Duty: World at War, we had just gotten through an ambush. One guy asks "How did they see us coming so fast?"
The sergeant's reply: "They must have spotters..."
OK.
"...in the tunnels."
The idea of a guy sitting underground with binoculars looking for far-off targets actually made me stop, pause, and facepalm.
But in good terms, the ending to Braid did it for me. And not that stupid nuclear bomb one everyone is debating about.