Your greatest moment ever in gaming?

[Stravant]

I've been wondering lately, what are moments in games that just really make the whole game worthwhile for you? Be it multiplayer, singleplayer, a single line of dialogue, whatever. What's the greatest experience you've ever had in a game?

My personal answer would be one time playing Battlefield 3 with the clan I'm in, we managed to get all of the players we had on the same team for once (All 14 of us, in a 64-player server), and had some great teamwork going, using Teamspeak to coordinate our moves.

What about you?

 

[The Wykydtron]

Hmm I got an amazing comeback in UMVC3 yesterday. Someone was running a Morrigan, Chun Li, Phoenix. (Phoenix on anchor naturally)

Somehow I ended up in the situation with my last character low health no X-Factor Investigation Mode Phoenix Wright stuck in the corner with Dark Phoenix projectile spamming me to death from near full screen away. Epic Lockdown style

Let me just say nobody uses Phoenix since her health is garbage. One simple combo just destroys her. You could just pull a cheeky full screen hyper while she's out as an assist and she'll die. So I have no idea what the hell she can do other than Dark Phoenix is something to be feared.

I send my Maya charge Hyper (basically Phoenix's assistant spawns from his current position and runs straight forward flailing her fists around) at the guy in some vain attempt to just buy myself more evidence hunting time expecting him to just jump and fire more projectiles.

Suddenly K.O. "Oh I must have gotten chipped out... Wait why is my Phoenix still standing... Wat" It wasn't even an "I can pull this back!" type situation it was "i'm going to lose this end of story."

But I won. Because he didn't jump. Fuck.

Oh and times where i'm successfully zoning with Phoenix Wright in Trial Mode are pretty awesome for me. It happens very rarely since super jump avoids everything except the phone. I think my perception of "success" needs to change. When it comes to projectiles i view anything less than complete lockdown as a failure. That's not exactly what zoning is, is it?

 

[Generalissimo]

i once (on command and conquer 3, kanes wrath) defeated 3 pro players. SINGLE HANDEDLY. with the most epic charge of units you ever did see.

i remember it in full glorius detail. i will always remember it as theempinator's (my acc name) charge.

 

[Terminate421]

In Halo: Reach 1-flag.

I was on Hemmorage and I managed to get on top of the enemy base. My team mates were going for the flag down below, I took on the responsiblity of keeping the enemy away from the base. I gotta tell you, hearing your Shield sirens go off and fighting a wraith, a ghost, 5 other spartans, and a warthog with no gunner with only a needle rifle, sprint, a couple of grenades, and assault rifle is pretty goddamn hard/intense.

Oh, I also managed to be that one that captured that damned flag. And I DID NOT DIE!

This situation pretty much proves that for everyone who says Halo is a generic shooter, have NOT lived a moment like that in their life.

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

Watching the end of maniac mansion on my friends c64. We finally beat it and it was a blast.

Close quarter combat in soldier of fortunes mp. Blasting heads, arms and legs was so good and sometimes i miss this kind of impact in modern shooters.

Exploring the landscapes and doing stuff for the first time in RDR. All with a big grin and the feeling that finally a developer managed to get a western game right. I was waiting for this since law of the west, red dead revolver and the Call of Juarez games (haven`t played outlaws).

 

[Trippy Turtle]

Some glorious moments of badassitude like the time I had to kill a guy in GTA and managed to do it by flying a motorbike off a really tall building into his face.
I can't name them all but they do happen.

Also when I get a really challenging level (There is a difference between challenging and annoying) and I finally beat it. An amazing example of that is Rayquaza if Pokemon rescue team blue.

 

[WalrusPowers]

Once in Search and Destroy in COD4 somebody launched an air strike right as the game began and killed everyone on my team but me. it was me, my silenced M16 and my knife verses 12 other players; and I won. Somehow.taking them down one by one made me feel like such a badass.

Also, fighting GLaDOS was pretty awesome.

 

[Odinsson]

Mount and Blade. The Prophesy of Pendor mod. It was me and 19 foot troops, at reasonable upgrade level (Fierdsvain axemen IIRC), vs. an army of 300 of Ravenstern's cream-of-the-crop soldiery.

I didn't lose a single man, and we ended up basically surrounded by the corpses of men and horses, just hacking at a wall of troops.

PoP's modded music made it that much more badass.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Also, fighting GLaDOS was pretty awesome.

Very much so.

As for more recent moments of awesomeness I was playing Fallout New Veagas and this happened.

Me and Boone and ED-E were heading towards Bitter Springs when we came across a old train yard with some Deathclaws, I was low level (15 with all DLC) so there were only a couple and after a sudden case of monster infighting with a group of nightstalkers the 2 that were left, (a Young Blind Deathclaw and a Blind Deathclaw) were easy to take down.

Entering the only building there were a few giant ants that were quickly dispatched, however when we stepped outside the Deathclaws had respawned... with a whole lot of others... about 10 metres away...

After trying multiple strategies including, switching out to optimized ammo, using the unique plasma rife, throwing several plasma grenades I "acquired" form legion hit-squads, even sneaking away with a Stealth-boy nothing worked. So I went F*CK it, dosed myself with all the chems I had found up to that point and went out blazing with my laser shotgun.

The train yard was liberally sprinkled with the ash piles of its former inhabitants.

And the Wasteland Omelet I made afterwards with the Deathclaw eggs was nice as well.

 

[Unas]

Vanilla WoW, me and 39 guildies were in Ashenvale killing one of the green dragons when an alliance raid-group and a half shows up. They keep standing at some distance for a while, probably organizing to kill us, some of them try to pick off some of our people in the back. So our raidleader decides to not wait and take the fight to them. After assigning a minimal group to stay with our main tank we wait for the right phase of the fight to engage and pounce on them. It turns into a full rout of the alliance groups pretty quickly. Cheers and laughs all around, but there's still a dragon around, so we return to our main tank who had been dancing with it during the pvp-fight. After a while the alliance start respawning and regrouping ... and don't leave. They probably have the dragon-debuff, so they are screwed if they get too close to it, but apparently still want to kill us. So we repeat our trick, and despite now knowing what they could expect, we destroy them again. By the time they respawn we killed the dragon and get another round of free kills while they try to get away.

So yeah, basically killing an outdoor dragon and 1.5x our numbers, twice, in one go and with hardly any of us dying, that was pretty exhilarating and fun. Nice example of how with teamwork/organisation and open-world events/conflict, MMOs can deliver some of the most fun game-experiences.

 

[Professor Putricide]

Algalon the Observer.

Probably the greatest fight in World of Warcraft, in my opinion. The memory of downing him and getting the Realm First with my guild and my friends was amazing. There are some other really great moments in gaming I've had, but this one comes to my mind first and is easily the strongest. Every aspect of that fight makes me smile. Algalon, the beauty of the his design and his arena, the raid he's in, the lore, the fight itself was a massive challenge but so much fun, everything.

This video does the fight great justice. If WoW kept up with fights like this one, I'd still be playing it over TOR. If you play WoW and haven't taken on this guy, you're really missing out.


The stars come to my aid.

 

[gigastar]

Whenever i play Heavy in Team Fortress 2, theres a symphony of bullets, death and me capturing the flag.

 

[Cranky]

Completing that Protoss-Terran mission in original Starcraft always felt epic. There are the times in Halo 3 where I shine too in matches.
But nothing could compare to the amount of awesome I felt when I made my first and most epic ME2 playthrough and the entire Suicide Mission ending. It felt like true bliss and I could swear I felt a strong tingle and many chills as the Normandy flew away from the exploding Collector Base. (Hell, I guess that qualifies as a nerdgasm.)

 

[TheGreatKlaid]

First, beating Sonic 1 without dying. Then coming back again and doing it on accident. I was half way through the final boss and I realized Hey I haven't died yet... Cool!

 

[MrShowerHead]

Ugh, too many to choose from... I was part of a 200v200 battle in EVE Online, flying a cruiser( I know, little compared what many others have faced). Then I took part in a 4-5 hour long firefight in Battleground Europe. Then there was the all night long match in Operation Flashpoint. Then there are many, MANY matches in ArmA II that were just amazing... I simply just can't choose one

 

[MiracleOfSound]

The final hour of Mass Effect 2.

Exploring Dc Ruins for the first time.

The Citadel in HL2.

 

[Nooners]

Leveling a house with 5 enemies in it in BFBC2.

Hd some epic Soul Caliber 2 duels with my roomies a few years ago.

Becoming Super Sonic for the first time in S3&K is probably the definitive one, though.

 

[AdamxD]

My shiny Steelix. Made Pokemon Platinum so cool.
And completing Fallout 3 for the first time. Such a good game.

 

[Llil]

That moment when your hammerdwarf hits a goblin so hard that it explodes into chunky salsa, one limb enging up in a tree, one on the top of a wall, each eye a dozen metres in the opposite directions etc.

Oh, and failures can be glorious too. Like when a carp drags a baby into a river, pulls out his eyes and stars tearing out parts of his brain, and all you can do is watch in horror.

Yeah, Dwarf Fortress is awesome.

 

[teqrevisited]

I can only remember a few moments right now so I'll just have to go with what I've got. Either downing Yogg [One Light in the Darkness] in the raid's earlier days or on Battlefield 3's Operation Firestorm where I shot from US deployment to the open area behind E, headshotted some poor guy in the back of a jeep moving at full speed and watched as his corpse was catapulted into the sky.

The atmosphere after Yogg was just the best feeling I've ever had with a game though. Beating such overwhelming odds with 24 other people that you've shared so many experiences with is quite something.