Your favourite OMFG moment in Gaming

[NikolaeVarius]

When I realized that you could save Paul in Deus Ex.
Also "Sticks and Stones"

No game will ever come close to the open world RPG Deux Ex was. Ever. Nothing even slightly compares.

 

[Arg Clin]

Mass Effect 1:

Spoiler

When Wrex pulled a gun on me and Ashley ended up taking him out. Found that extremely intense and sad

 

[thejunglegod]

MLG winter..when DeMuslim knocked Nestea into the loser's bracket.. MKP dropping that factory down like a boss to block off Huk's gateway units.. then did the same thing against DRG

Hahahaha yeah. U remember Idra shooting down his own orbital????

 

[Fenixgoon]

When I realized that you could save Paul in Deus Ex.
Also "Sticks and Stones"

No game will ever come close to the open world RPG Deux Ex was. Ever. Nothing even slightly compares.

i think i was able to save paul. can't remember.

DE1 has so many good lines and story elements. goddamn what a fantastic game.

 

[drebo]

Anytime in UO when you saw a red name pop up on the side of the screen. Got the heart racing!

 

[ichy]

When Hobbes turns out to be a traitor in Wing Commander 3

God I loved that game, cheesy as it was.

 

[SLU Aequitas]

Oh, G-Nome, learning to use gas canisters to forcefully eject pilots out of their HAWCs, and then all of a sudden further into the campaign having the AI gas canister YOU out of your HAWC. First time I had seen AI do something like that.

 

[OCNewbie]

I'm sure I've had tons of these in the 25+ years I've been gaming.

I was super pumped when I got my first flying mount in WoW, that was an awesome feeling.

The first time I logged into Everquest, with my Erudite Wizard, just outside of Erudin (I think). The world loaded up, and all of a sudden there were all these things assaulting my senses, and I felt a tad overwhelmed. There were newbies practicing their casting skills, with the associated sounds, and particle effects, or casting spells at little newbie-area critters. I'd never felt so clueless about what I was supposed to do in a game. That was in '01, and the game came out in '99.

EQ and EVE contain some of my favorite moments in gaming, because you always felt like something was on the line -- dying actually mattered. It's something sorely lacking from current games. I'm currently playing SWTOR, and if I die, it's a 30 second inconvenience. Back in EQ, if someone yelled "Train" in Blackburrow I would get all tense and start panicking while I was looking for a place to hide or flee to the zone exit. I miss that!

I agree so much! When death actually carries a hefty consequence, it really alters the way you need to play a game, and makes the game MUCH more exciting/rewarding when you survive a challenge!

It really is unfortunate that so many gamers nowadays never had the chance to experience that, and have become so indoctrinated (is that the right word?) to zerg tactics, without concern of consequences.

 

[OCNewbie]

nt

 

[sm625]

You dont know gaming until you've played an epic siege in a game like Sahdowbane. You wont look at gaming the same way afterwards.

Imagine logging in at 6pm after you get home from work to find that your city is camped and there are 30 barbarians hanging around your spawn point. You get 5 minutes of invulnerability before they can kill you. In that time, you have to figure out a way to escape and get summoned out. Or just let them kill you and respawn in some remote ruins. I opt for the latter. When I respawn in the ruins I notice that there are also people here camping the place out. This happens in huge sieges.

After a couple hours of fighting there are enough of us logged in so we are able to push them out of our city and set up the bane defenses. The bane goes live at 10pm. We fight for a couple hours, win some, lose some. Then a giant zerg shows up and we are outnumbered 150 to 60. We call in some allies but it will take a while for them to show up. In the meantime its midnight and they are breaking through our outer walls.

After the outer wall breaks at 12:30 am our allies show up and we wipe the enemy and almost destroy the banestone.

At 1am a guild member with inner council access betrays us and unlocks the gates to the back of the city and starts banishing guild members. The enemy gets inside our city and wipes out all our bots and wreaks general havok. By the time we get control of the inner city area and get the traitor banished, the enemy has retaken the outer wall area and the banestone.

There were many nights like that. Lots of surprises. You never really knew what was going to happen. In the case of traitors, usually they dont make it to inner council level. But it was fairly common for them to be able to do damage to a guild. Back when money was important, people would do anything for it. There was lots of blatant cheating unfortunately, but there were lots of built in mechanics as well. For example, someone could literally give you 10 million gold for unlocking a door. You just take a small payoff and not tell anybody. Or you could go on the political forums and rub your betrayal in their face and talk about how bad of a guild they are. The politics is what drove the combat, resulting in battles where it felt like there really was something on the line besides just a score.

 

[SZLiao214]

When they told me the princess was in another castle. Feels bad man.

 

[raasco]

Necro, but I just finished Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon. The entire ending was one of the most fun, head shaking, actual LOL moments that I've had in a very long time. The entire final sequence was a OMFG moment.

 

[mizzou]

I regularly relive them in WWIIOL

 

[Rhezuss]

Trying to make Far Cry 4 to work

 

[cmdrdredd]

Back when Oblivion came out and walking out of the Prison and seeing the fields and rivers in front of you. Not knowing exactly where to go.

 

[raasco]

Trying to make Far Cry 4 to work

I guess I dodged a bullet with that game. I'll give it 6 months to get some patches, then I'll consider it.

 

[Fire&Blood]

There have been quite a few but the first one that comes to mind is DX: HR,

Spoiler

realizing I can save Malik,

 

[Borealis7]

FF7 Aerith. you all know what i'm talking about.

 

[Blue_Max]

Playing Unreal for the first time back when it came out. The game was stunning for the time. I remember the first time I got to the arena and thought "oh great now what" and then the doors opened and that Colossus came out. I had never seen anything so large in an FPS before.

I hear ya... it doesn't hurt that it was also one of my first experiences with real 3D accelerated hardware... especially since Unreal first started out only really supporting 3DFX Glide. I bought the best Voodoo1 card there was, the Canopus Pure3D with 6MB vs the standard 4MB. :biggrin:

Just that intro sequence alone flying around the castle...

In Wing Commander 2, I had a pure luck moment where two capital ships with impenetrable shields (and me in a ship with no torpedoes) just happened to collide with each other by pure computer error "luck"! I had just hit afterburners to leave the scene when my Roland MT-32 let out a huge BOOOOOOMMMmmm and I could see the capital ships exploding... I screamed "HOLY CRAP!!" loud enough to deeply concern my parents. :biggrin:

Later, Fallout 3 had that final battle sequence with the giant robot and explosions rocking you all over the place as you kept up with the team... just an amazing action sequence that excited the hell out of me the first time through!! The ending was sure significant... looking up into Honest Abe's approving face...

 

[Sulaco]

Since it says "Gaming" on not specifically PC Gaming...

The Last of Us.

I'll just say one word to avoid spoilers, but those of you who've played it will know:

Henry.

I sat there for probably 2 minutes with my mouth hanging open, and had to take a break for awhile afterwards.

Another from the game:

"You'll just come after her..."

That scene, and the whole segment preceding it, was about as intense as gaming gets.

That game had several. True storytelling excellence.

 

[Rezident]

Bioshock!

Moving from my rubbish old setup at about 640 x 320 res to my 27” monitor at 1920 x 1200!

TF2 – when my mate went Kritzkrieg Medic for my Solider on a pub and I got 53 kills in one life.

Half-life – a lot of it (Dog v Strider and many other scenes from the series)

 

[Dahak]

There has been a few, but two that come to mind is

1) fallout 3 - exiting the vault for the first time, that view
2) Bioshock

Spoiler

would you kindly

 

[geforce255]

The first was with my old Riva 128, and a copy of Quake II. I ran it for the first time in OpenGL and new that everything would change from that point forward.

6 months later I bought 2 Voodoo 2 cards and put them in SLI - the era of the thousand dollar video card had begun.

 

[ronbo613]

When Radeon drivers from 1990 to 2000 didn't wreck my computer

 

[Mai72]

The first time I fired up Skyrim.

I couldn't believe how beautiful the game was.