Your favourite OMFG moment in Gaming

[KingofBladez]

FF7
KotOR
Halo
Morrowind - the moment I realized there was no hand holding and I just had to figure things out and go places. It actually made me mad at the time because Id never played a game like that before. I was thinking damn those lazy designers making me pay attention to what people say and look at the map.
So this was before the first town you had to go to Balmora? I decided to test things out and just stuck to the coast and circled the entire continent...that was awesome.

 

[SZLiao214]

When you find you find out about Vorman in Vampire Bloodlines.

 

[thejunglegod]

So this was before the first town you had to go to Balmora? I decided to test things out and just stuck to the coast and circled the entire continent...that was awesome.

Yeah i remember that too. Initially found the reading too cumbersome and uninstalled the game. Kept thinking to myself that you play games to entertain yourself and not to read stuff. Cut to a few years later and maturity sank in. Played the game with a different perspective and nothing made me feel as good as figuring things out on my own. Not hating, but maybe one of the reasons why i do not like linear FPSs.

 

[Via]

How could I forget?

The end of Fallout 1 left me hollowed out.

To have that happen after spending weeks getting to know a world inside and out was just gutting.

 

[thejunglegod]

I think everybody mentions the Elder scrolls moment coming out of the sewers, but i think emerging from the vault onto a barren and dead wasteland was a sight i still remember from Fallout 3. The patches of desecrated roads, a deserted petrol pump, a broken bridge. A post apocalyptic world was never this fully realised.

 

[darkxshade]

-KoToR Reveal
CoD had a lot of shockers from the fate of Sgt whats his name, to prisoner 627, to getting owned by Shepard as well as who Resnov is in black ops.

 

[Belegost]

Playing Xcom UFO defense in shifts with my friend so we could finish the entire campaign with all research in 3 days, I apparently was talking about kill stupid aliens in my sleep.

Unreal 1, but the first time you come out on the smoking bluff, that monastery high above a glowing green lake, the lighting and sound there was just awesome.

UT99 finding a little mistake on a CTF map that let my ladder team take out the top of the ladder in a 27-1 win.

Warcraft 3 on LAN with my friends, my night elf ally raids our friend's orc base, killing all the visible defenders while only losing half his group... Then hearing FOOK! From the other room as warlocks raise all the dead and obliterate him.

Running a 6 man guild in Age of Conan that managed to build one of the first 6 PvP battlefields on the server - beating out 40 obnoxious little brats through a combination of hard work, and smart manipulation of the auction house. Was hilarious explaining to the guy how he paid for my keep by buying the radically inflated materials I auctioned while my guild mates bought them at 1/10th the price through private deals.

WoW going into the scarlet monastery as an 70+ druid, rushing straight up to the altar, popping bear form and swiping down every mob in the place, just seeing all the numbers light up at once is so pretty.

 

[Clinkster]

KoToR and Bioshock twists for obvious reasons.

And if nobody else will say it, an underrated game that flies underneath most people's radars: Star Wars Republic Commando. The whole game was so immersive, nothing could prepare you for that ending.

 

[byteman99]

Vampire: The Masquerade- Bloodlines
That game is full of those moments. But if I had to chose one moment that really had me going wtf, it would be the ending. Finding out about the Voerman sisters was pretty intense as well. And going through Grout's mansion was also pretty crazy.

Fallout 1
The ending! It is still one of the best endings in video game history. Going to The Glow and finding out about the FEV. Also The Master himself was pretty wtf himself.

Fallout: New Vegas
No other moment in this game stuck out more to me than the entirety of Vault 11.

Command and Conquer: Red Alert
The Soviet ending! OMG! I remember it blowing my mind.

 

[Stuka87]

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 would actually love to see a remake of that game. Although admittedly it probably would not be as good as I remember it. Old games rarely are when you go back to play them 13 years later.

 

[OCNewbie]

"Your favourite OMFG moment in Gaming" - Considering there are many popular games that I've never played, but do intend to someday play (ME1&2, KotOR, etc.), I'm staying farr farrrr away from this thread.

Spoiler

SPOILER CITY!

 

[exar333]

Finally beating Super Ghouls n Ghosts only to be told I had to do it all over again because I didn't find the hidden chalice. Yea...that was definitely an OMFG in a bad way.

The ending of HL:Ep2. Completely unexpected

The moment the Whale was exposed in FF2(FF4).

Playing a demo of Stonekeep. You're running around the dungeon when the Dark Knight appears and talks to you (fully animated and voice). I think it was the first time I'd seen anything like that on a PC and that was pretty OMFG at the time.

Yea most of mine are old games. Most games don't make me go OMFG these days unless they just piss me off

I never had the cash to play that game. Let me explain...the number of broken controllers would have been in the hundreds!

Kudos to finishing that game...crap that was tough....thats game cred +1M there....to 'gamers' today who think they play 'hard' games, try that one.

 

[exar333]

Well you're not referring to a "moment"' you're talking about an entire game's vast world. I've played Morrowind, and it was awesome, but arriving at the docks in Morrowind compared to having the vast open world almost devouring you as you step out of the sewers in Oblivion is vastly different as a moment, which is what we're talking about as far as the points I myself was referring to in Oblivion, both superb games anyway in the end.

And... side note, I just have to say it... but why oh why is it that in similar threads when someone simply does not mention a specific game that automatically it should mean that the person in question never played it? Do you want me to actually create a list of every single video games I've played within the past twenty years? Sorry but this irks me.

*Omits to mention Morrowind*

«OMG, look! He didn't mention Morrowind! That means he never played it!» <-- (OMG moment right there)

I agree with you here. For me, PC RPG games had three BIG 'revalations' in the last 15 years:

-Baldur's Gate: OMFG is this game REALLY this big? Can I just walk wherever I want and read scrolls/books thats I find? This is rediculous!

-Morrowind: The first interactive-3D world that was immersive and allowed you to touch/feel anything. You could go anywhere, do anything.

-Oblivion: The quality/depth of the world was staggering. It took the quests/depth of Morrowing and married it to the best FPS graphics around. The lighting effects, detail in the world, was un-matched.

I still say the first was the most shocking for me. Playing BG and walking across miles of hand-done terrain with shocking detail and music/sound was amazing. It just sucked you in and you couldn't stop playing. Morrowing/Oblivion had this too, but not quite to the same degree to me.

 

[exar333]

Well you're not referring to a "moment"' you're talking about an entire game's vast world. I've played Morrowind, and it was awesome, but arriving at the docks in Morrowind compared to having the vast open world almost devouring you as you step out of the sewers in Oblivion is vastly different as a moment, which is what we're talking about as far as the points I myself was referring to in Oblivion, both superb games anyway in the end.

And... side note, I just have to say it... but why oh why is it that in similar threads when someone simply does not mention a specific game that automatically it should mean that the person in question never played it? Do you want me to actually create a list of every single video games I've played within the past twenty years? Sorry but this irks me.

*Omits to mention Morrowind*

«OMG, look! He didn't mention Morrowind! That means he never played it!» <-- (OMG moment right there)

Your such a tool...I bet you never played Elder scrolls 1 or 2 either. You should list out 100's of games everytime you say a 'blanket' statement like 'I like XXX game'.

 

[HumblePie]

I don't know why, but this one quest in Vanguard (horrible game) had me absolutely rolling with laughter. Your quest was to help out a wizard needing a slave to help perform some physical duties he needs done. He'll pay you for bringing him a good slave, but he doesn't want to get into a lot of trouble with the authorities so he asks you to capture some less reputable citizen that might already be in trouble with the law. so you go capture a human bandit and bring it back. He says come back later for a bonus if the guy works out.

So you come back and find out that the slave you capture did work out for some reason. Basically he was worked to death and too weak for the experiments and work the wizard needed done. So instead of a bonus for this slave, the wizard pays you to dump the body. You go dump the body and come back to the wizard. He asks you to try capturing a slave elf. He heard that elves were a bit more hardy than humans and didn't want his next slave dying so easily.

So you capture an elf and bring it back. Again he says he'll give you a bonus if the slave works out so come back later. You come back to find the elf dead as well. Not because the stress of being a slave was to much, but because the wizard couldn't stand him anymore. The elf was lazy, always trying to hug trees, being a la-le-da douchebag. The wizard wanted a slave to work and not constantly day dream or cry over his predicament in life. The wizard couldn't stand the elf anymore so killed him out of frustration. So now you need to dump that body.

After dumping the body, the wizard asks you to get him a dwarf slave. He has heard they are as hardy as elves, but are also not lazy. Now you capture him a dwarf slave and deliver it. You come back later to find the dwarf has died. The wizard tells you the dwarf did work out at first. He was hardy and a good worker. After having on dwarf worker slave, he decided to get another one. At which point they got uppity on him. They started yelling "FREEDOM!" and wearing blue paint on their faces. He couldn't stand their disobedience any longer so killed them.

Now you dump the bodies of the dwarves for the wizard. He says to come back later when he has put more thought into the next type of slave he wants. You come back later to find him happy as all can be because he found his slaves. It turns out the place you've been dumping the bodies had some necromatic energy surrounding it. When the wizard was in the area doing magical research, he found the bodies you had dumped before. With a little work, they came back as undead and the perfect slaves! So here is your bonus for a job well done.

 

[thejunglegod]

Well thanks to you guys, i will definitely be giving certain games a try, games which i knew were good but was too skeptical to try them out. Im talking baout Baldur's gate 2, Fallout 1 and KOTOR. I donno whether BG2 & Fallout 1 will work on Win7 though, but atleast ill give it a shot.

 

[badb0y]

Ending of Dead Space 1.

 

[MustangSVT]

When my save was wiped in Baldurs gate....

O M F G

 

[mirandu04]

in manager 2009 when i came back from 0-4 in min 75 and won by 5-4 ....

 

[JSt0rm]

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 would actually love to see a remake of that game. Although admittedly it probably would not be as good as I remember it. Old games rarely are when you go back to play them 13 years later.

I consider rtcw team game play style to be almost unmatched. I know that was years ago but man that was a good multiplayer game. You can tell that whoever made the remake didnt hold the candle high/

 

[terry107]

I donno whether BG2 & Fallout 1 will work on Win7 though, but atleast ill give it a shot.

You can get both of those at GoG.com and they have already been optimized to work under Win 7. BG2 is also part of a buy 1 get 1 free promotion that they're currently running.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Everybody mentioning morrowind or oblivion, I experienced that same OMFG moment in Arena way back in the day. Seeing the world for the first time from a floppy disk install was flat out amazing.

 

[exar333]

When my save was wiped in Baldurs gate....

O M F G

Ouch!

I had MANY saved games, just in case. Actually found the save games took an UNGODLY amount of space when my 10GB HDD was almost full and I wasnt sure why. I had like a 200 saved-games and each was like 10-15MB or something. LOL.

Good times.

 

[raasco]

Ending of Dead Space 1.

And the opening sequence.

Using "bullet time" in Max Payne 1 for the first time.

 

[HumblePie]

And the opening sequence.

Using "bullet time" in Max Payne 1 for the first time.

Lol, funny thing is I went through the whole game beating it the first time without realizing there was a "bullet time" ability that could be used. I learned about it AFTER I beat it the first weekend I got it. The I was like wtf??? I had to go back and rebeat it again. Man it was sooo much easier the second time because of that.