Game moments that made you put down the controller and say WOW
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The part on Metal Gear Solid before you fight Psycho Mantis when he tells you that he can move your controller with his mind. That made me put down my controller, but it more made me laugh than say wow.
On a serious note, that part on MW2 when you are running through the trenches in DC and it is totally blown to hell (Whiskey Hotel I think), that was blown away.
On a serious note, that part on MW2 when you are running through the trenches in DC and it is totally blown to hell (Whiskey Hotel I think), that was blown away.
In a horribly negative way, NWN2's "rocks fall, everyone dies" ending did that for me. I was like, "wtf is this shit?"
On the other side, the PoP: Sands of Time trilogy saw me just staring, eyes glazed, at the beautiful environments.
Shadow of the Colossus was much the same. I was also blown away by the game's ending... And by Ico. I hope the team's next game comes out on a console I own... (PC would be cool, too, guys!)
The first time I loaded up FFXII, it was on an HD widescreen TV, and I was totally awed by the graphics. It was a life changing moment! Vagrant Story also got me, the whole way through. Not that I've ever finished; I always stop at the final boss. Gawyne's attack in The Last Remnant plus the battle against The Fallen were also just pure eye candy.
The death scene of the Archdemon in Dragon Age: Origins was spectacular... Though how everyone survives the explosion, I don't know.
Artifact hunting in STALKER: Clear Sky was super exciting to me, too.
On the other side, the PoP: Sands of Time trilogy saw me just staring, eyes glazed, at the beautiful environments.
Shadow of the Colossus was much the same. I was also blown away by the game's ending... And by Ico. I hope the team's next game comes out on a console I own... (PC would be cool, too, guys!)
The first time I loaded up FFXII, it was on an HD widescreen TV, and I was totally awed by the graphics. It was a life changing moment! Vagrant Story also got me, the whole way through. Not that I've ever finished; I always stop at the final boss. Gawyne's attack in The Last Remnant plus the battle against The Fallen were also just pure eye candy.
The death scene of the Archdemon in Dragon Age: Origins was spectacular... Though how everyone survives the explosion, I don't know.
Artifact hunting in STALKER: Clear Sky was super exciting to me, too.
That really got me too, a really cool moment.Piorn said:
OT: Modern Warfare 2 had a lot of them, like coming out of the bunkers and following your squad across to the Capitol Building, where everything is blowing up, and also after the nuke goes off in the sky and you are going along where all the helicopters are falling on top of you.
Who cares if it is uninspired Hollywood fluff; its fucking cool!
Also, meeting Andrew Ryan in BioShock, what's slightly embarrassing is how before you meet him, you see "WOULD YOU KINDLY.." written on a wall, and I was like "Oh shit! That must mean Andrew Ryan is Atlas! WHAT?!", then the actual twist got me and it totally blew me away.
And finally I a few places in Prey, like after fighting the big hell knight type thing, where you cut of his gun-arm with the force field and pick it up fire it back at him, and when you are in the lift looking out into the spaceship thing, and a whole 747 flashes through a portal and crashes around the corner.
That reminds me about the plane crash in Dead Air, that was fucking epic. I think I am pretty lucky since the first time I played L4D, I played it in a room at 3am on LAN with 3 friends on the same table, only one of which had played it before, and fuck me, it was the tensest game I have ever played, like sneaking in between a witch and an alarmed car... Seriously, just thinking about how mind blowing it was when I first played through all the campaigns, it gives me goosebumps. I am actually holding out playing L4D2 until me and my friends annual LAN so I can play it through fresh with people in the same room again. Totally awesome.
Half Life 2 (pretty much the entire game including episodes, though there are some particular points where...oh man)
Shadow of the colossus (when that really really bad thing happens just before facing the last colossi)
Valkyria Chronicles (several points, but the ending was just...wow)
MGS 4 ending
Heavenly Sword ending
just to quote some
Shadow of the colossus (when that really really bad thing happens just before facing the last colossi)
Valkyria Chronicles (several points, but the ending was just...wow)
MGS 4 ending
Heavenly Sword ending
just to quote some
hmmm most recent coming to mind would be a couple from fable 2; when you leave the dream world with your sister and when your dog gets shot :'(
Hey it's Marla Singer.ShotgunSmoke said:
Um, the whole of the Brutal Legend campaign, and Jak 3 did that for me.
Most of the first person cut scenes from MW 1 + 2. I think that they're just plain cool or moving.
When Roach and Ghost get killed by Shepard
Half-Life 2: Episode Two's rocket launch. Purely because the sound design had me looking out of the window for the low flying plane before my jaw dropped.
Modern Warfare's Nuke is of course a moment for that. The ending of Mother 3 was a moment when I had to really sit back and dry my eyes.
Yeah, I felt the same way, infact, I thought she was going to end up okay. But oh god. The most emotional I've ever been in a video game :'(.Sensei Le Roof said:
But anyway, OT: As a kid, probobly the Spiderman/Spiderman 2 on PS1(Not the movie tie in games) were awesome, based on some comics, I think. And recently probobly either Muramasa(The whole combat sequences and bosses are awesome), Okami(last boss is a lot of fun) aaaand... Dragonage(Just about all that I've played, so far), methinks!
When you exit the prison spacecraft near the beginning of the first Unreal. The whole combination of walking out of a dark, murky spacecraft into a beatiful landscape with the goosebump-inducing music that plays at that very moment makes you just stop where you are, look around, and wisper to yourself "where the fuck am I?"
Uncharted 2 basically. That entire game just made me go: "wow" It's so cinematic and packed with action. It's unbelievable. I mean, fighting a group of people in a building that is literally crumbling underneath you.
