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General Category => Entertainment and Media => Topic started by: Redfar on December 17, 2008, 03:54:21 am
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Thought about this in my rant post, just wondering if anyone else wanted to name just awesome moments/accomplishments in games they've had over the years it could be a great level, a good experience with freinds, or an accomplishment
heres me
5. The Motorcycle chase from Final Fantasy 7
4. The fight with liquid at the end of MGS4
3. First time I won in a COD match
2. Beating the original god of war on God
1. Me and my 4 best freinds playing Final Fantasy Tactics with characters named after ourselves that we made
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1. The last save frog in Mother 3. I shed a single tear.
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SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 1-5. First time i got multiple backstabs in one round in TF2
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In no particular order
1. Getting Knights of the round in Final Fantasy 7
2. Beating Final Fantasy 9 (after playing through it 3 times without beating it for some reason)
3. Just seeing the conclusion of the epic Metal gear solid series.
4. Playing Goldeneye with my friends til the wee hours of night...like every night
5. Ocarina of Time...period...
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1. The last save frog in Mother 3. I shed a single tear.
Amen.
Without tears though.
I never cry.
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In no specific order.
- Countless hours of playing Halo 2 online(I'm not too crazy about the game anymore).
- Chrono trigger....that's all I'll say.
- Playing World of Warcraft for the first time.
- LoZ: The Ocarina of Time; the whole game was an awesome experience for me.
- Discovering RM2k and RM2k3.
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When I screwed up in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, and my current save position ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED that Volug die in order for me to win.
edit: whoops I am a retard
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well guys I'm not much of a gam3r but sometimes I like to play some o' dem gams.
1. Getting 200% in Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
2. Finishing Varth.
3. Beating Megaman 1-4(Still workin' on the others)
4. Discovering Oblivion
5. Kicking tripod ass in Half Life 2
Edit: I love these topics because they require me to post no actual content :]
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1 - The first time I ever touched a video game. Double Dragon II NES. I had the chicken pox; and I was home sick from kindergarden. I only have vague recollections, but I remember my brother handing me the controller; and playing with him for several hours.
2 - Christmas morning years later, getting a Super Nintendo (that came with Super Mario World). I sat with my brother for many hours just watching him play. After he was finally done he let me have a go of it. I still remember how warm the controller was due to him holding it for so long. My brother, in many ways... Well; no. I'm mincing words. He is really my only friend; pathetic, huh?
3 - Fighting Magus in Chrono Trigger. I remember replaying Chrono trigger over and over just to play through that whole section of the game. Magus' castle, Frog slicing that mountain in half, and so on.
4 - Battle with the Masked Man. Mother 3 was really amazing the whole time through; and this battle was a fitting and satisfying conclusion you almost never see in a game. While I have never completed Mother 1 or 2, I know that each of them have unique and interesting final battles; and this was no exception.
5 - Kreia coming to the main character's aid towards the end of a Light side play through of Knights of the Old Republic 2. Despite the flak the game gets; I still prefer it over KOTOR 1.
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1. Beating my first game: Super Mario World
2. Beating Earthbound for the first time, after so many attempts durin' my youth :laugh:
3. Playing RPG Maker for the PS1! A fun time that was. XD
4. Playing FF6 for the first time, it was great! :D
5. Playin' Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the entire game was a fun experience!
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I totally splooged my pants back when I saw the intro to Red Alert 2 - the best RTS ever made.
Another intro (that sounds unlikely) was the intro to Gran Turismo Prologue when I fired up my PS3. That was so incredibly amazing.
Half Life. I will at least once a year play through the ENTIRE half life series including expansions and sequels.
Call of Duty 4 When your character is shown dying in the aftermath of a nuclear attack - this added such an element of realism actually writing out one of the characters half way through. All the missions were perfectly scripted and fantastic.
Metal Gear Solid 2 - I played in pretty much one very long sitting with a lot of junk food. Such a good soundtrack too.
There's 5 but I can't really place them in order. I have a massive thing about HL games though.
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these probably won't be top 5 but I'll just rattle off some interesting ones:
1. Apparently my first gaming experience was the original Super Mario Bros. (classic) I fell in a hole and died
but then I guess I beat the level after that
2. This one was actually a lot later on, I think it was some time in the 7th or 8th grade when I got my NES working again (I thought it was gone forever but it was just in storage and still worked aside from the stupid blinking grey screen) and I managed to find all the Dragon Warrior games and beat them (this was before emulation [well ][/well] so I actually had to /find/ the games) For all the games I was surprised there was even a real ending but the second one in particular blew my mind because while the other games cut you a break I thought the final guy in II was hard as fuck. And I actually had to get my dudes to level 50 to have any chance. The thing about Dragon Warrior games is that they're perfect at building suspense (or not), because the game gives absolutely no indication as to how close you are to beating the guy, he doesn't shake or turn red or change graphics or anything. I just hit FIGHT one more time and he disappeared and I'm like "wtf it's over??" I wasn't sure if I felt good or bad. But it was just mindblowing in its own way
3. RPG Maker was like the coolest thing when I first tried it. The Playstation one was a huge disappointment. I remember my first game was some thing where you fight a squid and then you were up on a roof or something and nothing about it made any sense but at that point in time I was still excited like 'whoa you can make rooms and go in them' Half of all real RPGs are based around fucked architecture anyway
4. I remember I beat Final Fantasy Mystic Quest on rental (so within the course of a weekend) and I was like omg this is unpossible
5. When I got the NES working again I had like FLASHBACKS of some really random game with weird environments and you could like take a rope and climb down a screen at any spot for no reason and I finally found out the game was RYGAR and I actually thought the game was awful but I had to play through and beat it
Edit: Basically it was like Vietnam flashbacks but for me it was flashing images of NES sprites
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1. when i got the missing no. glitch in pokemon
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1. Reaching level 256 in Gauntlet 2 (nes) with a friend way long time ago. We died after that..
I'll edit if I come up with more.
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5 - When I first managed to avoid the sight of a soldier in MGS3 by using camo and lying veeeery close to him in some grass.
4 - That first time I did a slowmo dive in Max Payne.
3 - When I first played Half-life 2 and saw the physics with my own eyes.
2 - The moment I stepped out of the first dungeon in Oblivion and found this massive world surrounding me.
1 - Getting Hyper Sonic in Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Fuck yeah. Best thing I ever did. OR completing Sonic 2, which had one of the most epic boss fights I had ever encountered in my early gaming days.
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1. getting an entire raid to stop for 10 minutes in world of warcraft so bort and i could pray towards mecca in game.
2. yelling at a guy for hacking in wolfteam who was clearly not hacking, and then when a real hacker came we blamed it on the first guy.
3. WINX!!! (i was not involved but it was v. funny)
4. being the priest at an online wedding in wow that like 200 people attended and then ruining it (or participating in ruining it because it was pretty awful to begin with).
5. getting banned from second life immediately after joining.
all of the things i listed were from online video games, and i guess the reason is that you can experience things entirely unique from anyone else in them. everyone kills magus in chrono trigger and everyone turns into super sonic in sonic 2, but interacting with other people/doing ridiculous shit to other people is so much funnier and more rewarding than becoming the leader of the wizard guild in oblivion or whatever. i would much rather play a game with friends than play a game by myself!
also it's funny that so many of them came from wow, since i think wow is a really awful game. it was more fun to fuck around and goof off than to actually play that game. pretty sure i had a much better time than people who constantly go raiding or do pvp or compete for epic loot or whatever.
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I want to hear about that wedding chef
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Experiencing the immersion of the first Half Life game.
Playing WoW, and feeling the gaming equivolent of Hellraiser's puzzle box shooting out dozens of hooked chains to clasp onto my virgin MMOer flesh.
All of Ocarina of Time.
5. Going to a girl's house down the street at least once a week, who I knew from school and who I also knew had a SNES right when they came out (when I didn't have one), just to ask her if I could play it with her. I would always come to her door with a stack of strategy guides and gaming magazines, and she would always say she was busy. I dropped the stack of magazines in a puddle once on my way to her house, so the image of their faded and wrinkled covers were so closely associated in my mind with my failure. They were also damn hard to read once I actually got the system.
4. Playing Ultima Underworld 2, one of the first FPSes I ever played, and felt like I was brought into a whole new world.
3. Playing my first modem-to-modem game of Doom, and subsequently connecting (with BNC cable) my system with another I made from parts from previous upgrades, so I could play my brother/friends in Doom, Heretic, Duke Nukem 3D, Grand Theft Auto, and Rise of the Triad.
2. Playing my first true 2+ player game online, Descent, and realizing that every ship was a different person playing.
1. In my earliest gaming years, going to my neighbor's house, where he always had the latest consoles and the latest games, easily one of the strongest influences on me becoming a gamer.
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Oh, my. I don't think I can put my most memorable gaming experiences in an order, so I will just list them as I remember them.
Beating LoZ: LttP for the first time. I got it along with Super Mario World when I got an SNES for my 11th birthday and I promptly ignored SMW in favor of LoZ. It took me something like five months to get through it.
Beating the snot out of my brother in Perfect Dark: I got Perfect Dark for the 64 and my brother and I had loads of fun shooting the crap out of one another. I remained the dominant player for about a month before he became some sort of super expert. I have no doubt, if we were to fire up that game again, that he would still be able to kick my ass.
Playing Guitar Hero for the first time: I picked up Guitar Hero for the first time at the first GW meet I went to. I got to shred like a mad pro with Bart. It was epic.
Beating Postal 2 without picking up arms: My husband found this game in a bargain bin and we discovered the ridiculously childish gross-out humor of the game was more enjoyable when you blazed through the game playing the most disgusting ways possible (gameplay was only enhanced by copious amounts of beer). One day, after discovering that you could, in fact, get through the game without being aggressive, I decided that I would do just that. I was going to beat Postal without firing a shot. And guess what? It took forever because I couldn't keep people from shooting at me. Hell, if I looked at one of the book burners the wrong way they were puncturing holes through my spleen. But, I did it.
Beating Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on Crushing difficulty: Generally speaking, I keep all of my games on the easier settings because I'm not very good with high difficulty. However, I figured I'd get my money's worth out of Drake's Fortune and beat it on every conceivable difficulty level and, to the best of my recollection, this is the first game I've ever beaten on its hardest difficulty setting.
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5. Beating my first RPG (FF9) and the ending cinematic froze right before the end. I was so pissed off.
4. Playing Puzzle Quest for so long that I could see the board in my head and play the game without my PSP. (seriously, this happened)
3. Playing 8-player Halo 2 with my friends.
2. Beating a Rathalos in Monster Hunter PSP. Anyone who's played the MH series knows how much preparation goes into a single hunt.
1. Winning a game of Dawn of War against my friends (I snuck around and destroyed the last guy's HQ while he was annihilating my base)
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5. Beating my first RPG (FF9) and the ending cinematic froze right before the end. I was so pissed off.
I remember playing this game - I wish I still had it! The most common point in the game for it to freeze for me was the "airship chase" scene with that black mage. It actually would freeze here on several dfiferent disks, so I suppose this point was pretty prone to freezing unless your disk was in great condition(mine never were.)
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No order
-Playing Persona 2. Period.
-Being so excited to get FF8 for Christmas that I played it for over 8 hours straight.
-When Leon joined my team the first time in SO2. I thought he was an arrogant SOB, but he kicked ass in battle (my party sucked).
-The first five hours of FF7
-The first time I completed an RPG (FF2/4) in the fifth grade.
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-Beating Mario 64 with all the stars to get on the castle for the triple jump or whatever.
-beating KOTOR 1 & II (I could've sworn i did Kotor II lightside and still had to kill Kreia)
-Upgrading my computer and playing Crysis/Oblivion on the highest settings.
-7 years of old school Infantry Online
-Playing Nifflas' games.
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i couldn't possibly narrow it down to 5
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The only MOMENT that I can really remember that was fantastic was beating Night Trap, just because it took forever. I kept losing, and there was one time where I was about to get the last like...20 augs, and the game just told me I wasn't good enough and I lost. In the middle of nothing. I don't know what triggered this. I was counseling a summer programming camp at the time and started going "YEAH!!!!" with a bunch of my campers around when I beat it, they had no idea what I was playing so they didn't know what I was excited about. But, another counselor who had been watching me play was excited too so I wasn't completely weird.
Also, as far as just best pieces of games, the curling in Digmon World was better than the rest of the game combined and I loved it. I'm gonna replay that game just for that.
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My absolute first gaming piece, Game Boy, couple with Kirby my very very first game. I still have Game Boy, Game Boy colour, and Game Boy Advanced. The next experience would be playing Star Fox for the first time on the Super Nintendo, I had a peculiar habit of purposefully trying to destroy my wings cause I thought the ship looked cooler without them. My third experience would be O2 from Kirby64, I mean when I first beat it the credits and end kinda baffled me a little bit (this was also the possible source of my enjoyment of the rough sketch Japanese Anime style) that they were so depressing especially the credits cause it was so subtle. It was only like a year later when I realised it was the Crystals when I decided to play it again, and when the whole ending changed I was really excited. I also enjoyed Ocarina of Time, irony for all of this though was I really couldn't read when I was playing it because my glasses were broken and I had to get new ones anyway so i was blind enough to not be able to read. So I had no idea what was going on but I still managed to beat it. And Hybrid Heaven the chase of good ol' Big Blue as I like to call him, I was still a game virgin at this point due to my ignorance to alot of game guides, and the fact that I was apoor and stuck with the games I got at the time with rarly ever getting new ones. So i stuck with Sega collection I had and still have.
Thats it, the most memoriable for me even if it doesn't do the same for me now then back then, the memories lives on.
I also hated Banjo Kazooie cause I fealt like en emo playing the game, or thats what I remember but it's feint fleeting memories and an old grudge so I don't think it counts.
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-7 years of old school Infantry Online
Damn that game used to be insanely fun. I remember the summer I first discovered that game... Then SOE Decided to make people pay to play and the game emptied out.
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I want to hear about that wedding chef
i kind of remember you being there. i guess you weren't. now that i think about it, i can't remember who all was there. ds, bart, jester, ramirez, bobjustbob, and probably a whole lot of other gw people were. anyway, for like 3 days straight this person with a chinese name was spamming in the dwarf city (i can't remember the name!!!) that they needed a priest for a wedding. i decided it would probably be exciting and funny to be a priest for a wedding, and i wanted to find out what was actually happening, so i decided to volunteer. they said i could be the priest as long as i had a tuxedo suit, so i had to get one. at the time i was like level 10 and had maybe 10 gold, so i had to spend all of my money on it.
anyway, they advertised this wedding for about a week and everyone on the server knew about it. i told our guild (it was called gw squad - this was before tailoring supplies i think) about it, and we decided we were going to show up naked and dance on the alter. so anyway, we decided to have the wedding in the king's throne room in that dwarf city and like 200 people showed up. they formed two long lines leading up to the throne, which is where i was, but it was super laggy and the server almost crashed a bunch of times, so we moved to the human city (i can't remember the name either!!) instead, where we had it at that big church.
there were naked people running all over the place and we really didn't get the chance to ruin it, since people were shouting and dancing everywhere. i made up a bunch of ZaNy passages from the book of goku or whatever and they were unofficially married. a lot of gw people jumped around on the alter and i guess they didn't realize that we were in the same guild. i also think the girl was chinese and the guy was american.
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i wanna hear the praying to mecca story. i actually started laughing when i read that
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good times in wow....god times...
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that was really, really funny. bort and i were in a pickup "baron group" to raid that city dungeon. panda told me the name like a week ago, but i forgot it, and the only thing i can remember about it was that there were zombies everywhere and the boss was "the baron", so i will just call it baron city. bort and i would come to this place a lot, but i can't remember why. there must have been something we wanted here, but i don't know what it was! i think we were just passing time.
one time we went there and i begged desperately in the raid for green chups. i would say "please guys, PLEASE, if [green ][/green] drop, can i have them?" and they would get kind of mad. eventually they told me i could have them if they dropped, but they were really angry at me! i can't remember, but i think that might have happened while we did this mecca thing too.
but anyway, bort and i told everyone there that we were iraqi freedom rappers who were jailed by saddam 15 years ago and were just freed by american soldiers. we were saying all these positive things about the war and iraq and islam, but one of the guys there served and i guess it made him really angry. he kept telling us to shut up and that he would kick us from the raid.
so anyway, eventually we told them that we had to pray towards mecca. i'm sure we gave them an ultimatum if they didn't stop, but i can't remember what it was! so they argue with us and we start praying in game towards mecca. we make up this arabic-sounding garbage and shout it while the whole raid just sits there. it's hilarious because this whole time there was this girl bowing towards us like she respected our culture. i think all in all we sat there for 10 minutes facing in-game to the east.
also panda is making fun of me but messing around and doing stuff like this was a million times better than actually playing the game.
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just for accuracy's sake (it's important >) it's stratholme and baron rivendare
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im not making fun of you; that kind of shit is fun as hell and the only reason to play mmos ever. that was more self-mockery than anything
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oh yeah top five
1. tfc, just after i started playing again after not playing for months and months someone recognized me and i felt really.. really good. felt like i belonged. then i sniped em in the head ^_^
2. ns!!! playing with friends!! i really just like playing games with friends. but a specific game well this one time on co_deimos... well we stacked as ns.players (ho ho great fun) and i think that was fun because no one knew who i was specifically and it was the only time i ever played with all those guys.
3. i was really bad at that resident evil game but it was really fun to play with gw people. also wizard wars. i don't know why i made people get that game but i'm sorry.
4. when an undead mage said i had really cute ears and kicked the ground softy. he would have blushed, but he couldn't. his face doesn't do that anymore. but no that's the best thing a wow person has ever said that i've seen.
5. all those times with the gaming club... you know who you are. love you guys.
actually just every time i have played a game with another human being, that is #1 to me. love you humanity.
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wizard wars.
we have to play that again.
ahhh, i'm burning!
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hahaha j.c. (jesus christ) do you guys do this in wolfteam too? if so, i will consider trying that again
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my best moment is playing L4D with goat and we were both like thirty feet from the saferoom on expert on like our thirtieth try, and i turned around and wasted him because i thought he was a zombie and someone (i can't remember who) just started screaming AAAAAAaaaaAAAAGggGggggHHHhh!!!! on the mic really loudly.
i got killed because i was laughing so hard
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1. Hours long multiplayer sessions in Goldeneye
2. The entire Kafei & Anju scenario in Majora's Mask
3. Walking out into Phendrana Drifts and seeing Ridley's shadow float across the snow as he flies overhead toward's the laboratory
3. Final battle with Ganon in Ocarina of Time. In particular, the fact that unlike the other bosses, there is no description to the name, you knew some shit was about to go down when all that appeared was the name "Ganon."
4. Obtaining a legit "Heaven's Punisher" in Phantasy Star online
5. Beating Through the Fire and Flames on Hard in Guitar Hero III. (that's as good as I'm gonna get, I can't even get past the first ten or so seconds in Expert)
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i screwed this up before :P
5. beating the space station in diddy kong racing before the rest of my friends, whom i'd been playing it with, even knew it existed!
4. capturing the outlaw in the mines in oddworld: stranger's wrath
3. beating the sand colossus
2. unlocking mew in pokemon blue
1. beating the ridiculously hard event mode in f-zero gx
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my best moment is playing L4D with goat and we were both like thirty feet from the saferoom on expert on like our thirtieth try, and i turned around and wasted him because i thought he was a zombie and someone (i can't remember who) just started screaming AAAAAAaaaaAAAAGggGggggHHHhh!!!! on the mic really loudly.
i got killed because i was laughing so hard
That was me. There were no zombies around me, and we were all heading to the exit, and you just turned around and shot me and I was like AUUUUGGGGGGH