Your most thrilling gaming experience.

[JackyG]

Hi Escapistists! I just started a new account (had one a while ago but cant remember the bloody name haha!) and I thought I would kick off my new one with a thread.

So; What are your most thrilling gaming experiences? I want a treasure chest of awesome moments!

off the top of my head;

Resident Evil 4; selling and buying pistols on the hardest difficulty to make it through the castle level alive. I've never been so conservative with ammo, or more creative with the heavier weapons! as those zombie monk things crept towards me! pant crapping thrills!

Call of Duty 4: Making it to the chopper on the hardest difficulty during the sniper mission, i've never felt my heart beat faster! CHRIST that was hard!

and finally;

Halo: Combat Evolved; Driving full speed in the warthog through the Pillar of Autumn on legendary with my best mate on the gun, need I say more?

Now over to you guys. What has scared, excited or hit you the hardest in your gaming lives? whether it be a plot point, challenge or just something really fun, funny or sad.

 

[baddude1337]

Halo's last mission was sweet.

Point Du Hoc in Call of Duty 2.

The last level in Red River, so tense and exciting.

Pretty much all of Vanquish.

Nuking the crap out of somebody in Civ 4.

Defence of Osgiliath with barely 1000 Gondor soldiers against thousands of Orcs in LOTR:TW.

Tense races in Rally games in general.

Close quarters fights in Bad Company 2 when a tank rolls up.

Surface Tension in Half Life.

Marine Survivor in Alien Vs Predator.

This list could go on for quite awhile...

 

[ChocoFace]

the last 30 minutes of Mass Effect come to mind.

 

[saxxon.de]

Every single colossus from Shadow of the Colossus, I think. Pure awesomeness. There have been some really thrilling experiences for me in the past, including fighting Gannondorf at the end of Ocarina of Time in '98, but still, there has been nothing comparable to the high-wire acts in SotC.

 

[Amarok]

the last 30 minutes of Mass Effect come to mind.

Ninja'd! Running up the side of the citadel with

Spoiler

Sovereign in the background, looking truly massive as he manipulates the master control system, or whatever that big spike was

and gunning down Geth with that "shit's going down" music playing was fantastic. Any and all cut-scenes around that time were incredible too.
I'm currently on my third playthrough of it... want to get that bad boy done on Insanity.

 

[k-ossuburb]

Silent Hill 2, from beginning to end. It was actually the first one I bought in the series as I couldn't find the original one until much later. Its just a brilliant game from beginning to end with a fantastic atmosphere, plot and characters. The voice acting sucks and some of the lines are cheesier than a mouses breakfast but its pretty easy to ignore its shortcomings because it does so much so well.

I'd say the same for Bioshock, I'd been waiting for that game to come out while it was still in its early stages and a short demo of it was played at E3. There was some minor changes in the finished game that I was a little disappointed didn't make the cut, like the idle animations for the plasmids (the Hypnotise one they demo'd was initially a spongey tumour-like ball that grew out of the hand and oozed a greenish liquid whenever the protagonist squeezed it) but the final game was (and is) still one of my most favourite games of all time. It was definitely worth the wait.

Also, completing the original Ninja Gaiden for the first time was a great moment for me as a kid.

 

[MrJKapowey]

CoD MW2 -

Driving at full pelt through some narrow streets in an Afghan town whilst taking fire from insurgents and giving the good news with a minigun on your HUMMWV.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising -

Once you've rescued the helicopter crew in that mission, all piling in a Hummer and driving like a maniac away from the town. (I drove round the town to the back side where no enemies were - The crew piled in and we drove off until machinegun fire broke the engine. From there we ran.

Assassins Creed -

Leading ten elite guards and a Templar in a rooftop chase round Jerusalem with minimal health. It lasted for like 30 mins.

OFR -

On 'Chokepoint', spawning in a 1v1 as the American Sniper 1 and ordering my team into the Mk19 Humvee. Ignoring the rest of my platoon I drove stupidly fsat across the map until I reached the CHinese spawn - teh AI hadn't moved into their vehicles yet so the player in command was mightily surprised when a 4WD vehicle travelling at high speed with a full auto grenade launcher on the roof sped over the ridge and plunged into his formations with explosions blossoming everywhere. I skidded around for about 30 seconds until his sniper took out the engine so I had to dismount and continue firing the Mk19 and m squad's weps whilst waiting for squads 1-3 to arrive.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Countless moments in Starcraft 2, playing 2v2 with a friend in the same room.

Beating Contra 4 for the first time, on Normal.

Matches of Brawl where I knocked an opponent of the stage off as Captain Falcon, and they tried to recover, only to be intercepted mid-air by a well placed Falcon Knee.

Beating Shadow Over Mystara for the First time with a friend in the Arcade - I was the Cleric, he was the Mage. Just as I jumped up and smashed the final boss's head with a mace, the Mage summoned a screen-clearing, time stopping (magic in that game is kind of cheap), Ice Storm. Nothing says teamwork like a flashy, synchronized pair of final blows to a friggin' huge dragon.

Once I was playing Smash 64 against a friend. He was falling to his death and on his last life. I was playing as Donkey Kong, and I jumped down and sped up my fall. Just before we both hit the bottom of the screen, I hit him with an overhead smash, knocking him downwards to speed up his fall. We both burst out laughing.

 

[Cridhe]

Getting into a lightsaber fight with an entire clan of people on Jedi Outcast because everyone's mad they can't beat you in a duel.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Maybe SWAT 4 when things go badly and your AI squad gets wiped out. The game is so heavily based around you ordering a fairly competent squad around, when it's just you things get hairy.

It wasn't a horror game, it didn't deliberately put jump scares in, but that game could be scary.