Most intense gaming experience ever.

[Delicious Anathema]

Being 12 and popping REmake on my Gamecube. Within 5 minutes of playtime (in daylight), I turned off the console, shaking. I then sold it.

I'm now eager to buy the game again, but I've never understood why I reacted like that.

 

[Jurassic Rob]

Mass Effect!

 

[Lemur_Ninja]

I was relatively new to the FPS genre, I had some experience from Halo and some WWII games, and I tried Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I didn't have X-Box Live and I just played the campaign... Wow... That was probably the most intense gaming experience I had. Then I got Live and I was corrected, that was the most intense gaming experience I had.

I'm not saying CoD4 is the greatest gaming experience ever, it was just the greatest gaming experience I had when I started.

 

[Sev72]

All Gillied Up on Veteran, man when those tanks roll by, that was pretty intense, I have to say. Also winning my first "real" game of Starcraft on battlenet.

 

[Cunnysmythe]

System Shock 2-the whole game...i played it years after it's release, and it was the most intense gaming experience i ever had.
And i've played a lot of games...

Agreed. Those telepathic monkeys and zombies were terrifying.

The Polito form is dead, insect!

 

[RetiarySword]

EVE Online. If you loose your ship, you don't respawn back at base. YOU LOOSE YOUR SHIP. There is noting more terrifying than sitting in a battle-cruiser you just saved for over three weeks for knowing that there is a good chance you could loose it in about five minutes.

 

[NIHILHATE]

The first time I played silent hill, when i was five. The alley scene, jesus christ. That started a lifelong obsession with anything SH.
Plus the Shalebridge Cradle in thief: deadly shadows.

 

[MClardizzle]

Yeah idk why it was never popular cuz its a great surival horror game.

 

[Dread Pirate Pete]

The first time I played the Dawn of War demo, I just couldent stop and ended up comming away from the computer a full 29 hours later (after it crashed lol).

 

[Custard_Angel]

I'm a DotA player and I have to say that a good close game of DotA is the most intense thing ever... Not one of the crap games where someone rolls everyone... The ones where everyone dies constantly and no one has an advantage...

Good times.

 

[Zallest]

Duke Nukem 64 when i was a kid was intensely awesome

 

[Shadowfaze]

i thought playing bioshock on hard was really intense- especially when you turn off autosave and vita chambers.

death= right back to start. SO DONT DIE FOR GODS SAKE

 

[Proteus214]

The completion of the Kafei/ Anju subplot in Majora's Mask. Raw fucking emotion.

People seriously don't see this one enough. That scene is fucking amazing.

 

[Mosstromo]

Well, here is a different one.
Most of the answers so far are derived from playing a heavy action packed game, and probably that was the real direction the question wanted the thread to take. But, if we are talking intensity as sensations or emotions existing in a high degree; forceful or extreme (invoking the dictionary's terminology), then to me, nothing has ever beaten the last sequence of The Longest Journey: Dreamfall.

Purely adrenaline-wise? The very first time I fought the final villain in Return to Castle Wolfenstein. It was one of my first games and my inexperience added to the thrilling mix. The battle raged for almost an hour.

 

[Jadthegreat]

Nazi Zombies on a high wave and running out of ammo quickly....

 

[funksobeefy]

-The last level in Kotor, So many dark jedi and droids! Intense!

-First time I played Halo Combat Evolved. For when you first drop out of the Piller of Autumn to driving around on the second level, to sniping your way into the Covenant ship all the way the first time you fight the flood and blowing up the reactors and driving away on the last level. That game was the greatest experience of a first person shooter I have ever had.

-First time I played 2017 earth defense force. That was not what I expected