Most "holy shit" inducing game section ever?

[Zyplin1080]

The 13th colossus (the flying snake) from SOTC

Nearly any boss from MGS3, but to pick one, The End.

Maybe topping the last two: The end of Portal 2. I fired the last portal without thinking and realized what I just did literally a split second before it happened.

 

[Nuclear Pancake]

I think the only 2 moments that have made my heart pound like hell are the ending of the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2 , i had heard that people could die and 2 of my friends who had played it were talking about who they lost as i was playing, everytime someone fell over got hit i jumped and then the final sprint to the Normandy before flying away was my most emotional game moment yet.

An honourable 2nd was COD4 (but not the nuke)the mad dash to the helicopter as the ship is sinking and nearly falling at the end, just awesome.

 

[imnot]

Halo 3 ODST:
Final mission, just driving down the highway with my tank blowing up shit and HOLY SHIT

Spoiler

Well shit :O

 

[James Crook]

When I first used the MP40 is Call of Duty: World at War's multiplayer... holy nuts that thing was madly overpowered.

 

[Qmonster]

Hmm. Well, it was more something I did to annoy a friend, but I played through the entire first level of Stranglehold only shooting enemies in the crotch.

 

[books of war 13]

batman the third time facing scarecrow never been so scared when playing my console i'd recently had some technical problems with it.

 

[Alade]

The conversation with Sovereign from ME1, it came as a real shock and it really made the threat that the reapers pose very clear.

 

[T-Bone24]

Talking to Virgil on Ilos in Mass Effect was a very humbling experience as the scale of the crisis and the age of the Reapers just hits you full force. Similarly, the conversation with Sovereign earlier on in the same game.

And then in Mass Effect 2 when you find out that the *spoiler*s are really *spoiler* and have been *spoiler*ed by the great, big *spoiler*.

Spoiler: Of course I refer to:

When you find out that the Collectors are really Protheans and have been enslaved and altered by the great, big Reaper death fleet. And then realising that if Saren had got his way in the first game, the same thing would have happened to us, if life hadn't been exterminated anyway. The no-win situation didn't really sink in until that point.

 

[Vykrel]

the final level of Halo 1, when you escape the Autumn. that part was just so epic, and i dont think anyone expected it to be that crazy. when i was playing it, i expected to walk to a nearby ship or something. then when i got in the warthog i thought i was gonna drive like a few hundred feet or so. i didnt see that long, epic escape sequence coming.

 

[Zeraki]

The end of the original Star Fox, when Fox and the Admiral are actually speaking to each other. It was weird as hell hearing actual spoken words coming out of my SNES(people take stuff like that for granted now).

The Nuke scene in Call of Duty 4. Seriously, that scene had some major impact. Crawling out of that helicopter and seeing the mushroom cloud for the first time was... unsettling.

When the High Dragon landed in Dragon Age: Origins, I whimpered a bit. Still not as bad as dueling Loghain though. He was chasing me around in a circle and hitting me from across the room with his sword. I had to start playing the Benny Hill theme just to keep me from breaking my controller in half out of frustration.

Bioshock: Would you kindly?

Knights of The Old Republic:

Spoiler

you are Revan

. Unfortunately that was spoiled for me by someone else, because I could never get that far in KoTOR.

All the Scarecrow sections in Batman: Arkham Asylum(especially the last one).

The Vigil conversation in Mass Effect, and the battle of the Citadel.


I think I'm going to stop now, because I can go on like this for a while.

 

[WayOutThere]

Fighting (that is, running away from) a T-Rex in King Kong well fits the bill. Especially prevelent in my mind is when we were on a raft in rapids with a T-Rex chasing us. Its face was right there and my Tommy gun might as well have been a pop gun.

Edit:

Another good one, running away from the bear in Condemned Bloodshot. That was scary as shit.

 

[gCrusher]

"Snake! Plug your controller into the second port!"

...what.

"I can't read your mind!!"

...I reiterate. WHAT.

 

[FllippinIDIOT]

coming out of the vault for the first time in fallout 3.

 

[Dr Snakeman]

This thread sure is full of spoilers!

But my most recent holy shit moment was while playing Limbo, that game has a speed of like 3 hsm/m (holy shit moments per minute)

We Tropers use the HSQ (Holy Shit Quotient). It is determined by dividing the number of times one says "holy shit" by the number of scenes/levels/minutes/whatever.

Anyway, both Mass Effects have a high HSQ, particularly these moments: When you find out the true nature of Sovereign. When you encounter the Rachni. The entirety of the final mission in both the first and second games. The many, many quotes by Shepard and friends that contain 80-proof badassery. Among others.

Another game worth mentioning is L.A. Noire. That game is crazy. I can't think of a particular occurrence, but the overarching plot was very "holy shit" inducing. Learning how messed up the citizens of Los Angeles really are never ceases to give me chills.

Edit:

All the Scarecrow sections in Batman: Arkham Asylum(especially the last one).

Ooh, that's a good one. Can't believe I didn't think of it before.

 

[GiglameshSoulEater]

Well you startd this thread and took exactly what I was going to say.

The Librarians, dear God they are bullet sponges. It was easy with a volt river, but damn irst time I had just got a fucking shotgun. its not so bad once you learn the path and just run. But damn the first time is harsh.

I found they nort overly challenging (at least on normal). Just fire av few overcharged Hellsing bolts into their head and they go down.

OT: I would say the end level of Halo:CE. ?Driving frantically down the spine of the Pillar Of Autumn as the flood swarm, covenant panic and the ship explodes around you, timer ticking down, made for an epic expeirance on Legendary.

The sigh of relief when I arrived with literally seconds to spare...

EDIT: Ninja'd. Bugger.

 

[Pinkamena]

The ending of HL2:Ep2 was the most "WTF HOW CAN THEY DO THIS"-inducing moment ever. Did NOT see that one coming, which just made it even sadder.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Portal Gun + Moon equal HOLY SHIT.

Dragon age 2: Hawke vs Ariekshok (Spelling is incorrect, don't care) in a one on one battle.

Jade Empire: "You remember what I taught you, even the flaws."

 

[INF1NIT3 D00M]

The first encounter with the water monster thingy in Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

This. After playing the entirety of the Penumbra series, this water monster confused me so hard. First-person-water-physics-object-manipulation comes up a couple times in Penumbra, and the enemies in Amnesia behave similarly to the ones in Penumbra, but this water monster broke the rules I had established in my mind. The first half I was like "Aah! WTF is that!? I bet that hurts me!" *jumps on debris*. The second half, when I saw there was nothing I could jump on (besides barrels, but you aren't going to stay on those longer than a half second), I was like "Oh god dammi--" *splashing noises* "--Holy shit, ruuuuuuuuun! Aaaaaaaaargh!". This whole exchange being punctuated by my little brother's panicked instruction to run, followed by laughter at my fear.

Oh, and definitely all the snow/ice sections of Penumbra.
"Holy shit, I just smashed some ice with a rock!" (Awesome)
"Holy shit, the ice just bro-- Aaagh--blrblrblrblrblrbl!" (Dead)
"Holy shit, I'm freezing to death!" (Panicking)

And then there's the endings of the first two games...

 

[Reaper195]

Grappling to a motorcycle, jumping to another motorcycle, then surfing on a car, grappling to another car and stealing it, then surfing on that car, then grappling to a helicopter and hijacking it, then hanging from the bottom of that helicopter to grapple to a jetfighter, hijacking it, and then crashing it into a building while I parachute out to safety a second before impact.

This is all in Just Cause 2.

That game, man. It needs a svaed film/theatre mode similar to Halo 3 onwards. The amount of ridiculous things I have done on that game and survived, or just outright did in the first place.

 

[DSK-]

COD 4 "All Ghillied Up" and the very start of Mas Effect 2...in Zero G. That was a sad day for me indeed. Still, I got my revenge more than once

First exiting the vault in FO3 and at the end of destroying the very first Oblivion gate in Oblivion.

Also honourable mention goes to MGS1 with the Colonel telling you to "Look at the back of the CD case" and Psycho Mantis reading your mind, memory card saves and moving your controller.

In fact I may as well add in all MGS's fourth wall breaking in to the mix, too.