YOUR greatest moments and/or fondest memories in gaming

[Zen Bard]

I have two from the Magical World of Ancient Role Playing Games.

A) Elder Scrolls: Morrowind.

There was a quest where I had to obtain a book from an evil mage who could be found at the base of a huge tower. Now it was an open air tower, so the only way in was from the top. Of course, the ramp leading down was crawling with undead and daedra, so it would have been a brutal slog to fight my down.

However, I had an Invisibility Spell and the Staff of Levitation. So, I just turned myself invisible, floated across to the center of the tower and lowered myself gently to the floor...bypassing all the angry baddies. I sneaked up behind the mage, stabbed him in the back and snatched up the book. Then I floated back up to the top to safety.

It was at the minute that I realized the game really DID let you do anything you could imagine.

B) Ultima II

Back in the day, my friends and I used to pirate games before it was actually a thing (and thus, in my mind, not illegal at the time...how's THAT for rationalization?). So we used to trade games but without any documentation. Keep in mind, the internet was just starting back then (showing my age) so I couldn't just go online and get it. But that was part of the fun for me, especially for an RPG. It was a real sense of discover to play a game and figure out the rules, objectives and goals as I went along.

So I had just "obtained" Ultima II. I played that thing for hours, exploring every inch of the continent and diving in every dungeon. But I couldn't seem to find the quest items I was tasked to find. Finally, I bought a boat. I'd initially used it to sail around the continent. But then a weird idea struck me. What if I just pointed my boat East and set sail? So I did...and to my joy and excitement, I discovered a whole other continent!

It turns out there were four continents the player could explore. But discovering that in-game was a really neat experience.

Those were the days...

 

[Mcgeezaks]

It was back in 2012, when DayZ was new and exciting.

Me and a friend was looting the big town called Cherno, while passing some apartment buildings we ran in to 2 other players, we looked at eachother but we let eachother pass because no one wanted a firefight. So time passes and we decided to go back to our camp not far from there, we thought we hid it pretty well in the forest but when we arrived, there they were, the 2 players we didn't shot by the apartment buildings. We started to exchange gunfire which ended up with me and my friend getting killed. Naturally, we were kinda pissed that we let them go earlier, when we spawned we decided to run to our camp as fast as possible since it wasn't possible that they could've taken all of our weapons.

We called in another friend to help us hunt them down, we started hearing gunshots further in to the forest so the chase was on. We saw a smoke grenade that one of them threw, so we were still on their heels. After a little while we didn't hear or see anything and our friend got lost from rest of the group, luckily (for us) he ran in to them and got killed but now we knew exactly where they were. We started walking carefully when all of the sudden I saw one of them squatting next to a tree around 5 meters from where I was standing, unfortunately he saw me as well so we both raised our guns and shot eachother, he went down with one bullet while he hit me in the leg which broke it. My friend saw the other guy running away and started shooting, though he got away but we still got a lot of our loot back.

It was epic as fuck.

 

[MCerberus]

During the Ostfront of Red Orchestra, I was part of the clan group known for "oh those wacky guys". Not really pushovers but never expected to challenge the top tier. But we had a habit of being able to sneak past the front lines and our MGers were always top-of-the-line.

So we were against the top NA clan. Now we got along well, and had the same "home map". In an expected easy mop up, we took the map 2-0 through a combination of mad flanks and a 2-man doom squad with a bag of dirty tricks constantly eating up reinforcements and recapping a point.

We lost the next map 2-0 but managed to bring the tie-breaker map to 1-1 through a last minute push with glorious SMG spam. They eventually got us on the 3rd tiebreaker, but we MADE THEM BLEED.

Also RO was made for glorious last stands. Just, all the time forever. When reinforcements hit 0-0 things get intense

 

[Fijiman]

Two come to mind at the moment. The first was when me and a friend were playing through Gears of War 2. We were almost at the river raft section when one of the beast riders showed up. One of us managed to kill the rider and his friends, but the beast was still running around. It downed my friend and I went to go pick him up. Not two seconds after doing so it down him again, thus starting a cycle that lasted five to ten minutes of me running back and forth, picking up my friend only for him to be downed again a few seconds later. Eventually he managed to stay up long enough for us to kill the damned thing, but it was still fucking hilarious. In fact, I'm still not quite sure how I managed to pull it off considering I was laughing my ass off the whole time it was happening.

The other one was on World of Tanks. I was driving my KV-2 on the map Live Oaks(picture below). I'd been having a decent enough match and the only enemy left was an arty. I was by his base and he was trying to run away and was already down the southeastern part of the map. Because I was bored and had no hope of ever catching him before everyone else on my team would have I decided to just auto aim a shot and hope for the best. I managed to lob the shot, fired while at full speed, over 500 meters, between the ground and a train car and hit him while he was also moving. That shot was truly guided by the hand of both Stalin and God to do that and made me really wish that WoT had a CoD-style final kill cam.

Spoiler

 

[Erttheking]

Final level of Fire Emblem Awakening on hard. The final boss was a typical final Fire Emblem boss, meaning he can only be hurt by people with sacred swords or very powerful magic users. The level was set up so that enemies would keep respawning, so I couldn't defeat them via attrition, the way I normally do, so I had charged the boss. My character, Chrom and Lucina all took a shot at him, and he was alive. I thought I was done for...then I remembered that I had Olivia. A dancer that gives units an extra move and I never really ended up using. I moved her forward, gave Lucina an extra move, and then she killed the boss.

And thus the world was saved thanks to Lucina's closet homosexual tendencies.

Also there was one stupidly hard part of Gears of War 3 where me and a bunch of randoms were playing on the hardest difficulty. We kept dying over and over and over again...and somehow we glitched and respawned out in the middle of nowhere where the enemy couldn't hit us but we could hit them. We laughed hard as we finished the enemy off.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I'll always remember the best kill of my Assassin's Creed career.

It was Assassin's Creed 1, I was chasing down some random fleeing guard and I jumped off a box to my right and right on top of him for the kill. Air assassinations were possible but really hard to do in the first game and the jmp off the box was so fluid and looked so part-of-the-kill, ah, it was golden.

 

[blackrave]

C&C:Tibarian Sun
GDI Mission to extract Tratos from Nod imprisonment
3 soldier task force
Extraction was performed as planned
BUT
Instead of evacuating Tratos, I continue to annihilate Nod bases
Killed everything with said 3 units

The catch?
I was supposed to evac Tratos and receive reinforcements, including MCV (for base building)
I found out about second part of the plan only when I replayed game for 2nd time
Later when I realized what I did the first time I had "Oh, shit!" moment.

Still not sure how the fuck I pulled it off.

 

[Saulkar]

Staying up late playing Goldeneye, Turok 2, and Battletanx 2 4 player multiplayer. Some of the most fun I have ever had and something I fondly remember to this day.