Organic moments that seemed scripted

[MajorTomServo]

(Not sure how to phrase the question...)

Have you ever been playing a game, and just happened to come across a scene so perfect, so badass, or so hilarious, that it almost seemed like it could have been intentional?

For example, once I was playing Counter Strike: Source (Straight-up deathmatch on a Simpsons map, nothing fancy.) I turned the corner into a long straightaway, and at the other end an enemy spotted me and started shooting. Obviously, I shot back. I was already hurting pretty bad from a previous duel, and all I had left was a pistol with four rounds in it. I empty the clip, but to no avail, he's still coming at me. Not knowing what else to do, I dove into a small alcove in one of the walls, and sat there waiting for the inevitable. I see the muzzle of his shotgun. I see him turn the corner. I see him line up his shot. And, at the last second, I see him drop dead, gunned down by a sniper. One of my teammates nonchalantly walks into my field of view and finds me holed-up like Newt. He drops his pistol for me, I pick it up, and we go our separate ways.

Anyway, I always felt like that could be a scene from some generic 80's action movie or the opening set-piece in spunkgarggleweewee-of-the-day.

How about you? Be it funny, sad, action-y... Ever stumble across anything that seemed movie-ish?

 

[IllumInaTIma]

Title is a little bit misleading.

First I thought you were talking about some purely scripted that felt organic. For that I have very final battle against Nyx in Persona 3. Purely scripted battle that fits perfectly into game mechanics and just feels epic.

For what you meant, I have to say anytime me and my friends decide to stick a whole bunch of C4 on a jeep and go kamikaze on some tanks.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

I see the muzzle of his shotgun. I see him turn the corner. I see him line up his shot. And, at the last second, I see him drop dead, gunned down by a sniper. One of my teammates nonchalantly walks into my field of view and finds me holed-up like Newt. He drops his pistol for me, I pick it up, and we go our separate ways.

That's beautiful, just beautiful. A true team mate and bro.

I did have a picture of a soldier shedding a manly tear but fucking funnyjunk wouldn't let me embed it. So fuck them, I'm not going to link it and give them page views, the cunts.

OT: Best I can do is FONV. I killed Caesar in his tent and when I did so his body flew backwards onto one of the braziers and stuck there, so it looked a bit like the end of a film where the bad guy gets pushed into the lava pit or whatever.

 

[Dominic Crossman]

Very similar to first story but was on cod. Had 3 pistol bullets left.
However this is where the story diverges, I kill the first guy with last bullet, nick is gun and he has 4 pistol bullets. Kill the next guy but his gun falls somewhere where I can't get to it. So knife next 2 guys feeling pretty epic. At this point score is like 7300-3200, totally annihalting the team, so I see two in distance so I go to knife them at which point a. Friendly nuke starts counting. Down a kill one guy and having started swinging for other when the nuke goes off. SO F-ED OFF.

 

[Orange12345]

Halo 2 on sanctuary playing zombies (back then it was an honor game) me and my friend where the last two humans so we ran into a small tunnel on the map once we were in I started yelling "back to back! back to back!". All we saw was red dots on the minimap closing in and so here we were back to back in a tunnel each with dual pistols tense as fuck when we heard "oh their in the tunnel" they start streaming in on both sides and we gun the fuckers down and because the zombies had to enter the tunnel before they could attack we would kill them half way into their sword dash and the corpse (and ammo) would go flying past us. We actually survive the first wave of them we are losing it laughing but all good thing must come to an end and the zombies wised up and massed up before attacking and were able to take us down. Still one of my fondest gaming memories

 

[Daft Time]

My latest experience like this was while playing Farcry 3. I was driving along, and came across two enemies driving in the opposite direction to me. I hit their car, and both of our cars went spinning out of control. I hopped out and fired two rounds from my pistol - head shotting both of them before their car even had come to a stop. It was very reminiscent of this scene from Red:


Except in mine, I was a better shot than Bruce Willis. Fuck yeah.

Side Note: My auto-correct wants to change "head shotting" to "head shitting". He he.

EDIT: Forgot how to embed videos properly, should be fixed.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Here's another CS anecdote: I'm the last man standing from my team and I'm supposed to defuse a bomb that's ticking close to 0. Terrorist shows up behind me - he's also the last man standing on his side. We stare at each other for a bit, in disbelief we're in the same room. Then we try shooting each other, but both our guns are empty. After some click, click we discard our weapons and pull out our pistols - more click, click, also empty. And the bomb's going off any second. We both make a dive for weapons lying around, I pull out a shotgun and without even aiming blow him up. I turn around to defuse the bomb and it blows up on me - but we've already won the round, so... victory.

It reminded me of that scene in Saving Private Ryan where the two soldiers are desperately trying to shoot each other with whatever they have on themselves. For some reason it tooks us longer and there were more beats to it but the rush of desperation was there.

 

[In Search of Username]

There's been a couple times in Grid where I was in second place, the race was about to end, and the car in front just span out on the last corner. They were fun.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I have a couple from Bioshock Infinite but my favorite comes from the first Halo.

We were on the Truth and Reconciliation and we were in a hallway firefight and we're all taking out the last guy. Now usually when somebody in that game yells "hold your fire" you usually ignore them but some marine said it right as we got the last guy so here's how it went
"Hold your fire!"
We all stop shooting.
"I need a medic."
At which point Johnson (who I know wasn't actually Johnson in the first Halo but still) says "Hang in there, Marine."

The responses actually sounded like stuff people would say instead of the characters just saying something else like they usually do. Even better, the brief pauses in between the lines were timed so well. Everything was just so perfect it sounded like real genuine banter.

 

[Shanahanapp]

My favourite would have to be in Red Faction Guerrilla.

Me and a bunch of AI guerrillas were holed up in this sort of air traffic control tower. There was guys coming in from the ground and a bunch of space helicopters flying around. Just as we finished taking out the guys on the ground one of the guerrillas said something along the lines of "What are you gonna do now!?" at the EDF. Then (I'm not sure if it was a pathfinding error or an AI decision) one of the helicopters flies through the middle of the tower and explodes, knocking it down and killing me and all the Guerrillas inside.

One of my favourite moments from any game. I'm pretty sure that EDF pilot should get a posthumous medal.

 

[Longstreet]

I have been the sniper in your story on some occasions.

In BF3 if you knife someone from behind there is a little animation in which your guy grabs the other guy, jabs a knife in his throat and steals his dogtags.

So there i am, minding my own business and sniping a bit. TDM for those of you interested. When i see a enemy running.

I follow him to try and take him out running.

He runs into my teammate from behind.

I line my shot up.

Right before he can stab his knife.

BOOM. Headshot.

 

[waj9876]

Surprisingly, Skyrim seems to be almost devoid of these kinds of experiences. I only have one that I can remember.

As I play a stealth character, I was sneaking through a dungeon filled with bandits. Or some other human-looking enemy...Might have been vampires? Anyway, I un-crouch by accident, get seen, and slip back into the shadows. Before I became completely hidden, the guy who saw me came after me, only his buddy was behind me, right when he steps into the same room as me, I finally become hidden, and the dude walks away.

At the time, as I was rather new to Skyrim, I thought that he had assumed the guy behind me, who was wearing the same colored clothes as me, was what he saw. Nope, totally a coincidence.

 

[Guffe]

I was going a 1 on 1, 5 life match against a pal in Halo 2.
I got him to 3-1 (me leading) but then he got the kill to make it 2-1 AND he finds the beamsword, we're playing a very tiny map (like in a hotel-ish area with a palmtree in the middle) I run for the shotgun which I had dropped and he anticipating this goes onto the ledge above me. I happen to run past some plasma grenades so I pick them up and when he drops down to finish me I stuck him a second before (pushing the grenade button was just a fast reflex, nothign I had planned) he gets me killed and makes the score 1-1, then he, of course dies from the greande. Such an epic battle it was :,)

Not from a game but this is just so awesome I must put it here.

I read that in the movie Django unchained by Quentin Tarantino
The scene when Candylands owner (DiCaprio) talks about the 3 points in a niggers skull, a skull that he has on the table, when he goes all bananas and slams his hand down onto the table.

Well in the movie he hits a glass on the table and of course his hand starts bleeding from the glass, in the script he was just supposed to hit the table but even after hitting the glass, which shattered and went into his hand, he stayed in character and finished the scene.

Unfortuanetly I can't find the source since it's a few months since I read this but... damn...

 

[Alssadar]

STALKER Complete 2009 (<-I haven't played vanilla)
The naturally occurring weather seemed to perfectly tie into what was happening:
Gray skies and raining in Dark Valley, before entering Lab X-18, and then thundering after leaving.
Gray skies at dusk as I went through Red Forest, and it became night and thunderstorms as I got to the Brain Scorcher.
The Chernobyl Power plant itself was dark, though I don't remember what time of day it was.

The free actions of the npc's are fun too, as you find roving parties attacking one another.
Dima Bundle (some random guy who helped me advance towards Pripyat after leaving the Brain Scorcher) is a pretty rad dude.

 

[Irridium]

Never really got that feeling. But I have experienced many moments where a scripted section feels organic. All of Half-Life 2, really. It's linear and scripted up the ass, yet it feels like it's all happening of its own accord, and you genuinely found your way through a section instead of just moving forward because that's where the game wants you to go.

 

[LAGG]

There was one time in CS we where all playing on LAN, I was last man standing and there were two enemies alive. Somehow me and one of them engaged in a very epic long range firefight that somehow nobody hit each other. After a few burst I somehow guessed the other would try to stab me, pulled my knife in between bursts, turned 180 and zap, stabbed him instead, them turned back and continued the long range showdown.

Everybody started laughing it was so nice. My stabbed friend came form the other room like "WTF was that?!" hahaha. The even mimic-ed me shooting in the game and then stabbing him and going back to shooting in less then a second and saying stuff like "oh wait, let me dispose this annoying guy trying to stab me so we can continue. Ya, done, where did we stop?". It was really epic and so much fun.

 

[omicron1]

Crysis. It was the level where you're sneaking downriver away from the underground bunker thing.
I opted for a boat. Trundle my way downstream, when an attack chopper shows up. I take refuge under a bridge and engage in an RPG-powered hide-and-seek shootout with the thing, ending when it catches on fire and comes crashing down into the water, its smoking ruin sliding under the bridge, coming to a halt literally inches from my face.

 

[Mr Companion]

In Dragon Age Origins I was a Dwarvern noble, when I returned to Orzammar much later I helped a political campaign against my traitorous brother as revenge. When my brother ordered his men into a pitiable riot in a political assembly I found myself in the thick of it. The unscripted awesomeness that occurred was the point where I was in mid fray when I saw my brother's health getting low and hoping for a finisher I bore down on him, jammed one of my daggers into his gut and used the other one to decapitate him right in the center of the chamber in front of everybody.

Thats history in the making right there! History written in blood, I want to see a tapestry of the beheading of Prince Behlen.

 

[Vale]

My very first encounter with a Bloodsucker in STALKER went... not quite how it was supposed to go.
Underground part of Agroprom institue. Bloodsucker spawns in big black room, bandits spawn a ways ahead so the two don't fight.
Well, something stirred up the Blooducker. Maybe it got hungry. Point is, bandits and monster found each other.
So there I am, just trudging along in this godforsaken underground corridor, flashlight the only illumination (apart from a few still-flickering lights on the ceiling), the unearthly... "symphony" the pipes always do in STALKER games the only noise in the background. I already met and befriended my first Snork after the fucker attempted to eat my soul a couple rooms back.
And then I hear this ungodly roar, and then surprised shouting in Russian, then gunfire, then screaming, some more gunfire, some more screaming, and then dead silence. Except for the fucking pipes of course.
I seriously considered NOPE-ing the fuck out of there. As it turns out though, the Bloodsucker's little encounter with CHIKIBRIKI and his friends was a blessing in disguise, since they chunked away most of his health before it was my turn to shit pants.

The STALKER games in general are very, very generous with this sort of thing.

 

[Little Gray]

This was a wonderful battlefield 3 moment.

There were five enemies holed up in a house sniping most of my team. I come in behind and start knifing three them one after another on the bottom level. After that I head upstairs and go to knife the first one in the window. I grap him the knife animation starts and boom my buddy blows his head off. Walk to the next one grab him pull out the knife and right as its about to kill him he gets taken out by a teammate again. So for a little revenge I decided to pull out my launcher and take a shot at him. He sees the rocket coming and at the last minute jumps out the window to avoid it only for it to blow up in the face of the enemy right behind him trying for a knife kill.


I have been the sniper in your story so many times playing cod though. I would snipe none stop and always loved stalking enemies and killing them right before they could get a teammate.

This is the best one I have ever seen though.