Coolest Video Game Moments - Page 2

Couldn't agree more.

also, playing NFL Blitz against a friend for like 3 games while doing shots of cheap vodka between quarters(5 min). That was some of the coolest football I have ever played.

- Seeing Mario in 3-D in Mario 64

- The first time Sonic shot of the screen in Sonic 2

Most have already been mentioned, with the black and white scene of Wind Waker being the standout for me.

Another one of my faves is the end of Yellow Head Building scene in Shenmue 2. In particular the final attack of that fat thug. Cue a flashback in which Ryo thinks of the move Lishao Tao taught him. Make the QTE and you'll be treated to a brilliantly choreographed sequence of Ryo opening up a can of whoop-ass. And all the while your enemy is watching, hanging down a helicopter. Brilliant, brilliant game.

GTA3 Getting the tank without codes.

Killer Instinct Seeing the arcade game for the first time and thinking I was watching one of the greatest video game players ever. ULTRA COMBOOOOO!!!!! Five minutes later would be one of the worst moments when I realized the combos were all pre-programmed.

Conker Whole game, start to finish.

Metroid: Prime Being amazed that a FP game could have spectacular platform jumping. Getting the morph ball for the first time and using it in a dark tunnel.

The bit in Quake when you step over the symbol in front of the door, the two stone cubes lift up and merge into the door, and the fiend jumps out at you. Scared the life out of me.

I love hitting people with those green turtle shells. They're merrily going on their way, safe in the conviction that nobody can hit them from behind with a green turtle shell, then BAM!

-- Defeating the final bad guy in Icewind Dale with the last surviving member of my party, and with him down to only one hit point on top of it. You could have heard me screaming in Miami.

-- The time-travel portion of Neverwinter Nights. Just incredibly good story-telling.

-- Dogfighting in multiplayer on Crimson Skies in a black Bloodhawk on the Manhattan map, sticking low to the ground and flying down the city streets. I never got shot down and managed to make my opponents crash about a dozen times trying to chase me. I can't aim for shit in that game, but boy could I fly.

Fuck yeah!

First time I saw this it was late at night, everything was dark and quiet and I swear, when that fiend jumped out, I leapt out of my chair and away from the monitor!

Of course, I died and had to start the level over because I had been so engrossed I'd forgotten to save, but ohhh, it was worth it.

Just a few from the top of my head:

-the end fight in Bionic Commando
-beating Mike Tyson in Mike Tyson's Punchout
-the ending to Zelda- A Link to the Past
-the ending to Super Mario 2- still on of my all time favorites, I fucking love that music.

-the cable car ride with Aeris in FF7. Aeris getting skewered. The heartbreaking realization that there's NO WAY to bring Aeris back.

-beating Super Mario Bros in 12 minutes
-the betrayal mission in Tie Fighter (mentioned a few times above, you guys are SO right on!)
-skipping school to play Ultima Underworld and realizing what true video game addiction is

-the feeling in my gut when I ran across an alien in X-COM in a dark corner with only 1 soldier who had only a few shots left... in a pistol...

-raiding a witches coven in Darklands, and then stopping the Apolcalypse

-all of Sam and Max
-making grog and the insult duels from Monkey Island

Unlocking Everything IN Tekkan Tag in one day

Beating Wrestlmania 2000 with my Custom Raven

Defeating the predator sniper in AVP 2 using movie logic: Hiding behind some crates and throwing flares to confuse it with the heat signature and draw it out in the open.

"When I think of asphalt, I think of Maureen..." and everything from that moment on in Full Throttle.

Staying true to the light side at the Sith academy on Korriban, getting discovered, and then single handedly taking down the entire academy. And those dark side folk think they're tough. They just never had the pleasure of using Force stasis.

Going down some unkown corridor in Ultima Underworld and getting freaked out because you have no idea what might be ahead. That game is brilliant.

Riding the fake fish to the top of The World's Second Largest Ball Of String in Sam & Max Hit The Road.

I like the few mentions of Mario Kart and the Green turtles and bananna peels. I kinda of a newbie to that series, only started playing in college.

I also would like to mention Silent Hill 2.

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The scene where you fine out that is was you that killed your wife this whole time, and yet you still went to Silent Hill looking for her. I tell ya, one of the best scenes in a game, music was awesome as well.

Hey FutekiNa. For Full Throttle, ya damn right. In fact, most momments from all LucasArts adventure games. I can hear Ben's gravely voice just saying that line right now...I'm glad they're making a sequal. hopefully it'll be longer.

I would like to add......REZ

Particularly Area 6, the "How the World was formed?" level. Great music to it, and one hell of ride and sight seeing. Just got the soundtrack for the game about a month ago, damn I love the "Fear is the mind-killer" song.

Have you seen any of the screen shots? It looks oddly old and new at the same time. Count me in as pumped.

Yeah, the new Full Throttle does look...interesting. I like how they're going with the Grim Fandango/Monkey Island 4 3d adventure style. As long as I can still have him say, "I'm not putting my lips on that," the game is golden.

This is great..I loved all the animation parts in FFX in fact....very very nice in deed and really fun to watch!

old school:
dunking with john stockton in sega's "bulls vs. lakers"
your first fatality on "mortal kombat"

new school:
the twist in "knights of the old republic"
taking out two targets from the water tower with one sniper shot in "hitman 2"

also:
i know it's been immortalized in swingers, but making gretzky's head bleed in nhl 95 (at least i think it was nhl 95).

To be an after-school library tutor again. Those were the freaking days. Sure, it was all good to help grade school kids with math and other assorted questions, but the perks were well worth the time...as after recruiting some friends into tutoring with me...we got permission to do some after-hours gaming on the library's LAN. We secretly installed our copies of Duke Nukem 3D, and spent so many hours playing that game.

For me, the coolest moment was one of the first games we played...in which I amassed a huge assed collection of laser mines. I riddled one of the hallways with the bastards and watched giddily as the guy across the table scowl as he got obliterated by the numerous explosions after tripping the wire.

Some games need that laser trip mine weapon. I don't see it implemented enough (or at all) in games these days. Goldeneye was the last game that recreated that old loving feeling, or something.

The second coolest moment had to be finding the jetpack and raining hell down on the poor SOB's below who didn't have a clue I had a jetpack.

Dreaming about those duke matches last night is swaying me to pick up Battlefield 1942 and the expansions, especially the secret weapons edition.

This is gonna sound really stupid to you, but for me, it was so exciting playing Die Hard Nakatomi Plaza (one game I am alone in liking) for the first time, and seeing that every room and floor that was in the film was perfectly and accurately translated to the game. I'm gaga over the architecture of that building.

A couple of, not the coolest, but the bloodiest/most shocking moments in video games:

-Ben Bertolluci/Chief Irons getting ripped in half by William Birkins' offspring in Resident Evil 2. Best "holy fucking shit" scene of the whole series. The character death animations, which varied depending on the monster that killed you, were pretty nasty as well.

-Seeing one of the three main characters from Fear Effect dying halfway through the game via facial impalement.

-Dante disimpaling himself from Alastor, with blood flowing a go-go.

-Using the chainsaw in Vice City. Booyah.

-Vamp knifing his way through a Seal Team.

-and finally, the one scene to rule them all (WARNING: MEGA SPOILER): Silent Hill 3, Heather swallowing an abortion pill and vomiting the foetus of God, followed by Claudia eating said foetus. Yuck.

Cyberdemon.

I know some of these are probabbly already listed, but hey, I wanna contribute too!

Ok, in no particular order

-CastleVania:SotN-When you crack the orb over Richter's head, freeing him of Shaft's spell and beating the ga-...HOLY CRAP, IT'S A WHOLE 'NOTHER CASTLE! Well, technically its just inverted, it was still a great idea. Not to mention the game allready kicked MAJOR ass.

-HALO- Kicking back to the final cinema of the game, and taking well-deserved breather after the final warthog run. Destroying the planet, taking out an entire species, not to mention some covies, which won't hurt the war effort (not ours anyway only to have the dust settle and our little friend emerge from it all. and the little more bad-assery from MC.

-Grim Fandango-Reaching the ninth underworld, ending to one of the best PC games ever. VIVA LA REVALUTION!

that's it for now, I'll be back though!

Another moment, one that's not so big, but fun non the less

-Buffy the Vampire Slayer-Dusting your fist vamp.Fans of the show know it, it was just pure magic! (not to mention fighting the master in corpeal form!)

When James Bond gets the ZMAG pistol in GoldenEye; mowing down people has never been this much fun. wink

..Tomb Raider 4, the ropes

..beating Xaero on Nightmare in Q3A

..MDK. Whole game.

..Dogs. Hallway. Resident Evil

..D-Day, Medal of Honor

..the "Timmy" moment in Giants-Citizen Kabuto

..the first experiences in Black & White

..Monkey Island 1-3

..Outcast Intro

..Unreal

..Quake 2 opening, White Zombie´s music launches you into the game

- Setting a grueling pace and bringing zero food, then stopping to hunt over and over, leaving hundreds of pounds of excess bison meat rotting in the sun in Oregon Trail.

- Managing to jump on top of a chicken and ride it around town in Landstalker.

- Acro Circus, motherfuckers. Acro Circus.

- "Just a girl. Get out of here!"

- Walking up that wall near the end of the first level in Double Dragon, for absolutely no reason.

- Grenade hopping, and the insane lengths to which you could take it, in the Marathon series.

Ahhh, Tie Fighter, it's been years since I thought about that game (mostly because I don't have a sound card that works with DOS anymore). I definetly remember the two moments brought up, due to the fact that they both took me so long to get past.

Playing Knights of the Old Republic and realizing that Star Wars games can still be damn good even after a few years of (mostly) disappointing titles.

In MGS, when Snake starts to show more of his compassionate side and acts less like a somewhat cliched, hardened, semi-bitter veteran. Also, the incredibly fun Psycho Mantis fight.

First time playing any Zelda game.

First time playing either Shenmue game. Hell, I still love them, even though I only have access to the English dubs.

Starting and eventually finishing FFV (can't remember if it was ever officially released in America), FFVI(or III in America), FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX (yes, I'm admitting a soft spot for both 8 and 9), and FFX. I'll admit I haven't played all the way through the first four though. The ending to X is one of my favorites of all time

Both Jet Set Radio games, goddamn I loves me some funky music. Except for those Rob Zombie and Cold tracks...

Every golden bit of dialogue and the hallucinations in Eternal Darkness. Not to mention the fun gameplay. Just check out my sig...

That you don't play as Snake throughout the whole game in MGS2 being spoiled by a friend who wasn't thinking at the time. This actually allowed me to be more open towards playing as Raiden. Either way, I love the whole damn game.

Super Mario 2...god I love pulling up those plants.

The first time I was able to beat a Megaman game (part 4).

Buying GTA3 before everyone and their grandma had played it. Then promptly asking people if they had played it, most of whom said something along the lines of, "What's GTA?" The fact that it was the first GTA game that was good enough to shell out $50 for doesn't hurt either

Playing the original F-Zero.
Playing F-Zero GX.

Beating Halo and still trying my damndest to beat it on Legendary mode

Beating any good game on the hardest difficulty setting.

Nights with the Saturn analog controller.

The two Panzer Dragoon games I own (the original and Orta)

Being killed by a grue for the first time in Zork.

Trying to get as far as I could on Kid Chameleon for the Genesis but never, ever getting to the end.

When I first got addicted to Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast, which leads to me becoming addicted to Soul Calibur 2 (I picked up the Cube version because of Link)

First time viewing some of my fave games in progressive scan mode ^_^

Buying Gunvalkyrie the week it came out and still not being able to beat it.

Playing the Viewtiful Joe demo and realizing how much that game will rock me.

Any time a game can make me truly care for the characters and their struggles (see MGS and Eternal Darkness above)

Okay, so I'm not all that specific with these, sorry. Too many great, memorable things for me to list, half of which are being clouded by all the awesome stuff that's been coming out over the past few years.

Props for the Oregon Trail love, Saucy.

Morrowind - Realizying the epic size of the gameworld and how detailed it was. Then noticing that anything you drop will stay there for the rest of the game.

Halo - When I got inside a banshee and realized I could fly in it! Also when I heard the short aliens screaming when I ran at them! Hilarious!

Vice City - Driving a motorcycle down a long stretch of road while listening to Tears For Fears!!!

GTA3 - Discovering that I could clobber a whole crowd of people to death with a baseball bat and then kill the paramedics who showed up and steal their car! Getting into a giant fire fight with the police while having a 6 star? rating and having a good hiding spot.

Omikron - Finding a bar where David Bowie is playing in concert!