Your greatest moment ever in gaming?
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Completing the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2 with no losses on the first try. I thought that was then ending for everyone, I didn't realize special conditions had to be met to get it. My achievement list was the envy of a lot of my friends for a few weeks.
Huh, this one is from a while back.
I was playing a one-on-one vs. game against a friend of mine on Super Smash Bros. Melee. I was playing Sheik and he was Link.
We had gotten down to one life each.
He was jumping over me while I had a Bob-omb in hand. I threw it up at him, and he managed to mid-air dodge it. There was a brief scuffle after, then I grabbed him and threw him behind me just as the Bob-omb came down.
KO.
I won.
I had to put the controller down and bask for a moment while he stared at me with a WTF!? face.
He always swore at me when I picked Sheik after that.
I was playing a one-on-one vs. game against a friend of mine on Super Smash Bros. Melee. I was playing Sheik and he was Link.
We had gotten down to one life each.
He was jumping over me while I had a Bob-omb in hand. I threw it up at him, and he managed to mid-air dodge it. There was a brief scuffle after, then I grabbed him and threw him behind me just as the Bob-omb came down.
KO.
I won.
I had to put the controller down and bask for a moment while he stared at me with a WTF!? face.
He always swore at me when I picked Sheik after that.
Just what springs to mind first:
Warcraft 2 - Destroying two fully functional Orc bases with a mage, a paladin and two rangers.
Resident Evil 4 - Killing Krauser with a knife.
Need for Speed: Carbon - Figuring out how to drift a million. (derp)
Warcraft 2 - Destroying two fully functional Orc bases with a mage, a paladin and two rangers.
Resident Evil 4 - Killing Krauser with a knife.
Need for Speed: Carbon - Figuring out how to drift a million. (derp)
I'd say some of the most fun and awesome moments of gaming I've had were during Rome: Total War. Especially during last stands, where I had an miniscule army, or an under-defended city, and the enemy had a massive army. Something about taking control in those battles, knowing you were going to lose, made it feel... epic, for lack of a better word.
I also really enjoyed Mass Effect's last couple of missions.
I remember one battle rather well; I had a single Town Watch (playing as the Brutii) stationed in... Apollonia, I believe, and an absolutely massive Greek Cities army laid siege to it.
There was no time to get another army to lift the siege, as I was rather busy with wars elsewhere and by the time I could get my closest army there, the city would already have surrendered out of starvation.
There were two options: let my city starve and eventually lose it to the Greeks after my people have suffered for two years, or go out with a bang and try to deal as much damage as I possibly could.
Of course, I chose the latter.
My 80-odd Town Watch stand in front of the city gates. Their captain gives them a final speech in the hopes of boosting their morale. It doesn't work. the Greek army, composed primarily of Militia Hoplites, Hoplites and Peltasts is positioned in a far corner of the map, in a defensive position. They had obviously overestimated my force.
I send my men out of the gates, them having presumably said farewell to their loved ones, and instructed them to march toward the enemy, but stay just out of range of their peltasts.
The gates swing open and they slowly begin what will probably be their final march. After a while, they are in position opposite the massive Greek army. Their hoplites' spears point menacingly toward the Town Watch.
Neither side makes a move. I try to devise a plan to flank them. I can't think of anything.
Eventually I come up with a plan I doubt would work: phalanx' are difficult to maneuver. My Town Watch may be able to simply run around them.
Knowing that against these odds I couldn't possibly win, even with the greatest strategy ever, (this is, after all, Rome: Total war, not Lord of the Rings) I decide that I might as well give it a try. My men start running to their right. The Greeks are obviously not expecting this move, as by the time they even start rearranging themselves, my Town Watch are already in close combat with a group of peltasts. By the time they're done with the peltasts, I had lost quite a few men, and the phalanxes were once again facing my men.
I try the same tactic, and for some reason it works again. This time I target a unit of militia hoplites. However, I am soon surrounded by other (militia) hoplites. My men now only had a narrow passage of escape, with spears on either side and .
Realizing that this is the end, my men desperately start hacking their way through any Greek they see. Their captain sounds his horn one last time before engaging 3 hoplites in battle, killing 2 and finally falling to the third's blade. Only 5 men remain. 4. 3... 2. The last one is able to stab a militia hoplite before he too finally meets his fate.
Thus ends the Battle of Apollonia. Ultimately, the last stand was pointless; the Greek armies were retrained and back to their original numbers within half a year.
However, these 80-odd men, led by captain Whats-his-name went down in (my) history as true Roman heroes.
There was no time to get another army to lift the siege, as I was rather busy with wars elsewhere and by the time I could get my closest army there, the city would already have surrendered out of starvation.
There were two options: let my city starve and eventually lose it to the Greeks after my people have suffered for two years, or go out with a bang and try to deal as much damage as I possibly could.
Of course, I chose the latter.
My 80-odd Town Watch stand in front of the city gates. Their captain gives them a final speech in the hopes of boosting their morale. It doesn't work. the Greek army, composed primarily of Militia Hoplites, Hoplites and Peltasts is positioned in a far corner of the map, in a defensive position. They had obviously overestimated my force.
I send my men out of the gates, them having presumably said farewell to their loved ones, and instructed them to march toward the enemy, but stay just out of range of their peltasts.
The gates swing open and they slowly begin what will probably be their final march. After a while, they are in position opposite the massive Greek army. Their hoplites' spears point menacingly toward the Town Watch.
Neither side makes a move. I try to devise a plan to flank them. I can't think of anything.
Eventually I come up with a plan I doubt would work: phalanx' are difficult to maneuver. My Town Watch may be able to simply run around them.
Knowing that against these odds I couldn't possibly win, even with the greatest strategy ever, (this is, after all, Rome: Total war, not Lord of the Rings) I decide that I might as well give it a try. My men start running to their right. The Greeks are obviously not expecting this move, as by the time they even start rearranging themselves, my Town Watch are already in close combat with a group of peltasts. By the time they're done with the peltasts, I had lost quite a few men, and the phalanxes were once again facing my men.
I try the same tactic, and for some reason it works again. This time I target a unit of militia hoplites. However, I am soon surrounded by other (militia) hoplites. My men now only had a narrow passage of escape, with spears on either side and .
Realizing that this is the end, my men desperately start hacking their way through any Greek they see. Their captain sounds his horn one last time before engaging 3 hoplites in battle, killing 2 and finally falling to the third's blade. Only 5 men remain. 4. 3... 2. The last one is able to stab a militia hoplite before he too finally meets his fate.
Thus ends the Battle of Apollonia. Ultimately, the last stand was pointless; the Greek armies were retrained and back to their original numbers within half a year.
However, these 80-odd men, led by captain Whats-his-name went down in (my) history as true Roman heroes.
I also really enjoyed Mass Effect's last couple of missions.
The best moment for me was also one of the earliest moments of epicness that I experienced as a gamer. It was obtaining all the Chaos Emeralds and going Super Sonic for the remainder of the game, which was fun as hell.
But that's not all; once I defeated the final boss (a feat that I previously achieved without gathering all the Chaos Emeralds) I was pleasantly surprised with the Doomsday Zone.
I...was...BLOWN...away.
Super Sonic in space, blasting through asteroids, dodging missiles, and taking on two forms of Dr. Robotnik's giant robot.
But that's not all; once I defeated the final boss (a feat that I previously achieved without gathering all the Chaos Emeralds) I was pleasantly surprised with the Doomsday Zone.
I...was...BLOWN...away.
Super Sonic in space, blasting through asteroids, dodging missiles, and taking on two forms of Dr. Robotnik's giant robot.
Once when I was playing Assassin's Creed, I was on a building kind of close to the main gate in Acre and there was a guard right next to the gate, so i told my brother i could assassinate the guard with my hidden blade from where I was. naturally, he said that was impossible. so I then had my best moment in gaming: I jumped from the building to literally right behind the guard and assassinated him WITHOUT BEING NOTICED and then walked out of the city while blending with some scholars.
One of my most awesome moments was actually a complete accident... I was playing Assassins Creed 2 and free-running along rooftops, trying to charge a ranged guard and assassinate him before he could see me. So when I saw the assassinate prompt I pressed the button and somehow jumped and flew sideways, through an alley and double assassinated two guards guarding a treasure chest. It was the longest range for an assassination I've made and I've never been able to do it since
Greatest moment... Well, I guess I can fall back on one of my all-time favorites: Okami. The whole fight against the final boss. A GOD AM I!!
Aside from that, Mega Man Starforce 3: Red Joker. It's... good *&^%ing god, it was amazing. I honestly didn't think a Mega Man game could affect me like that. I can't really put it all into words, it was just a godly awesome experience.
Aside from that, Mega Man Starforce 3: Red Joker. It's... good *&^%ing god, it was amazing. I honestly didn't think a Mega Man game could affect me like that. I can't really put it all into words, it was just a godly awesome experience.
Oh god.... Uhhhhh... Oh! I've got it! In halo reach my friends and I piled in a warthog and charged the flag, this was back when there were scorpions on Blood Gulch btw, anyway we charged the flag, got it, and as we were driving back the enemy tank shot at us. We were sent flying through the air and landed on top of the roof of our base and scored the point. It was awesome.
Or for a singleplayer experience:
Or for a singleplayer experience:
Grunts fake-out death in ME3. It uses the cliches of movies and other games with the whole go out like a badass shtick; and then he comes limping out of the rachni nest, covered in blood like the prom scene from Carrie, and he says "Anybody got something to eat?" That was both funny and awesome and I won't forget it anytime soon.
As soon as I find out who it was and beat his face in with his phone I might.Professor Idle said:
Anyway, now for the rest of what I was going to say.
Another great moment for me was one time while I was playing Beast mode on Gears 3. It was almost the end of the round and there was only one stranded left but he was on the other side of the map (we were on the beach map) were none of us were. I was playing as a boomer and decided to just lob a shot in the last guy's general direction and ended up nailing him at the last second. It was one of those moments were you wish games other than just CoD had a final kill-cam.
A third great moment for me was on Chomehounds on the final mission when I managed to beat it on the second try with the default hound that they give you. Of course that moment was immediately followed by the game freezing up before it had saved that data which lead to a rage-inducing two or three, possibly even four, weeks before I was able to beat it again and then get the top rank on the mission.
A fourth was when I was playing against a friend on Toy Soldiers and we were both down to our last health. I sent out a large wave to distract him and while he was so I flew an airplane strait into his base before he realized what I had done. What made this memorable was that he started yelling "RAPE!" over and over again in the most hilarious voice for like five minutes. Me and the other guy who was in a party with us at the time have since then referred to it as his "rape" voice and get a few laughs out of it every now and then.
It is also almost always a great moment for me whenever I am playing CoD (which isn't that often) when I'm just tearing through the enemy team. I get a particularly great sense of badassery when I'm doing so with the Spas 12 and dropping enemy after enemy with relative ease.
I wish I could remember some of my more spectacular fails that were truly awesome, but I can't.Llil said:
A time in Cod: WaW Multiplayer when I was in Seelow on hardcore more. I was walking around with my mosin-nagant(iron sights cuz i'm as hardcore as simo hayha) when I got sniped. Then I spawned and walked back again. Sniped. Walked back a third time; sneaked around a little bit, when, all of a sudden, I saw a little yellow blip on the screen for half a second. I snapped down the sights and fired. Head shot counter snipe from half way across the map.
In SSB Melee, I was playing as Pichu in a four person timed match. Two guys were fighting on the other side of the screen and one got knocked off and was about a second and a half from hitting the bottom of the screen when I jumped, grabbed a Mr. Saturn in midair, and threw it away, where it arced perfectly and hit the falling guy just a hair before he would have died. The other guy, who was furious that I stole his kill, promptly came straight after me. I rolled behind him as he whiffed a smash attack, hit him in the back with a smash of my own, and laughed maniacally as he flew into the background.
The following thought went through my head while playing Dead Rising 2:
"I'm dressed like James Bond in zombie infested Las Vegas. I'm cutting through the hordes of undead using a a fire axe duct taped to a sledge hammer while escorting a British rock band and a tiger. This is the greatest game of all time."
"I'm dressed like James Bond in zombie infested Las Vegas. I'm cutting through the hordes of undead using a a fire axe duct taped to a sledge hammer while escorting a British rock band and a tiger. This is the greatest game of all time."
Got caught up in a dogfight with some bf109s
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With rudder shot to bits and a swiss cheese engine. Somehow managed to get one bandit, then later crashed into the second.
Actually il2 1946 has plenty of these moments...
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With rudder shot to bits and a swiss cheese engine. Somehow managed to get one bandit, then later crashed into the second.
Actually il2 1946 has plenty of these moments...
It's actually very recent. It's the end of the Rannoch mission in Mass Effect 3. When I had to make the big choice, I put the controller down, took a few deep breaths and pondered the implications of both choices. Then I hesitantly entered my choice, joined my hands and felt my heartrate rise with every dialogue line. The emotional impact of that scene alone makes even the trilogy's shit ending worth it.
Yeah, I loved that too.a ginger491 said:
Not necessarily the GREATEST moment ever, but finishing off a round of ME3 multiplayer on silver or gold has this great sense of *sigh* now i can breathe again. On a similar note, using Sabotage on Primes/Atlases and watching them wreak havoc on their buddies.
