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

1. The last save frog in Mother 3. I shed a single tear.

1. The last save frog in Mother 3. I shed a single tear.

Amen.


Without tears though.

I never cry.

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 :]

1. Beating my first game: Super Mario World
2. Beating Earthbound for the first time, after so many attempts durin' my youth 
3. Playing RPG Maker for the PS1! A fun time that was. XD
4. Playing FF6 for the first time, it was great!
5. Playin' Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the entire game was a fun experience!

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.

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

1. when i got the missing no. glitch in pokemon

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.

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.

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.

I want to hear about that wedding chef

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.

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.