What's your favourite gaming moment ?
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Nom de ploom said:
the first time loading Commando on the C64 and hearing the SID chip push that music out - superb, we used to turn off the load and sit and listen to the music it was that good.
beating the final boss on kung fu master...dum di di dum di di dum di di dum, wah! wah!
Two of my favourite theme tunes ever in gaming are Lotus Turbo Challenge II, and Cannon Fodderbeating the final boss on kung fu master...dum di di dum di di dum di di dum, wah! wah!
vonuber said:
Nom de ploom said:
the end of Mass effect three was pretty good I thought.
I do like a good bit of sarcasm. 
Instead of choosing what the catalyst puts in front of you (effectively all three are the same false ending - you have surrendered your will to them, what follows are lies as you are now part of them). Turn around and shoot the little s
t A 2v2 online match in Vanilla Company of Heroes, map was rails, playing as US.
Hard fought game, we let the Axis get ahead of us, and they can be unstoppable. Inch by inch we recovered territory, pitched battle after pitched battle, intially a bit of to-and fro, but then began slowly regaining ground. Pushed them back into base, and won. Think it took around an hour, heart was pounding, hands were sweaty, totally exhausted!
Hard fought game, we let the Axis get ahead of us, and they can be unstoppable. Inch by inch we recovered territory, pitched battle after pitched battle, intially a bit of to-and fro, but then began slowly regaining ground. Pushed them back into base, and won. Think it took around an hour, heart was pounding, hands were sweaty, totally exhausted!
The first time I played Doom (on a 386 with the screen set small so that it would run).
Emerging from the ship at the beginning of Unreal to see the open world.
Playing Half-Life, then Half-Life 2 (the gap between the two seemed very long, until it became clear that the gap to HL3 may be infinite). Both games had so many clever set pieces that the first time you played just felt unscripted.
Deus Ex - the whole game.
Emerging from the ship at the beginning of Unreal to see the open world.
Playing Half-Life, then Half-Life 2 (the gap between the two seemed very long, until it became clear that the gap to HL3 may be infinite). Both games had so many clever set pieces that the first time you played just felt unscripted.
Deus Ex - the whole game.
HarryFlatters said:
Zod said:
HarryFlatters said:
We don't go to Ravenholm.
The first time you see a buzzsaw blade and think, "hang on, what if..." 
glorious I still play HL2 on my Shield portable. It's just brilliant.
Agree with the guy who said about Cod, MW and MW2 I played a lot with a solid group of guys and it was indeed a lot funnier when you all jumped on after a good night out, and I can confirm what was said about the French and Americans, funniest to play against are the Irish.
Lots of talk of Gran Turismo, I seem to recall that one of them used to show all of your laptimes after an endurance race and I am sure I can remember after one race where I had gone into a very trance like state that my lap time had come down consistently every lap of the race.
Burnout 2 - learning where every car was on each track and doing "Fast and Furious" style replays with a mate on splitscreen
Diablo II with friends
Multi taps and a bunch of mates on Smackdown
Two TVs, two Xbox and 8 player Halo was good
Pass the controller GTA, so many funny moments on that
Perfect Dark with my cousin and his mates
Playing Double Dragon and getting my Dad to help on the hard bits
Two player Sonic and Knuckles
Driving through the missing wall into the building on Driver and watching the cops smash themselves up trying to get in, also my Gran nailing the tutorial level one Christmas
More recently many great moments in Rocket League and finally catching a Dragonite on Pokemon GO.
Loads!
Atic Atac, Knight Lore, Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum.
Adventure on the Atari 2600.
Looping on the Coleco Vision.
Last Ninja on the C64.
R-Type, Out Run on the PC Engine.
Mario Bros 3, Zelda on the NES.
Pulstar and Last Resort on the Neo Geo, and Samurai Showdown was amazing at the time.
Super Mario World, Zelda, Mana, Mario Kart, F1 Exhaust Heat 2, Pilot Wings, Contra III, R-Type 3, Terranigma, Yoshis Island, Super Tennis, Castlevania IV, Final Fantasy III, Out of this World and so many more on the SNES.
Ridge Racer on release day on a Jap PSX was pretty amazing at the time. FFVII, Biohazard, Metal Gear Solid all on PSX.
ICO still in my top 5 games of all time.
Mario 64 and Pilot Wings on the N64 was another level at the time, truly stunning.
Ocarina of Time still probably my ultimate gaming moment though.
Sure have loved some games on the PS2, PS3, Saturn, DC, Gamecube, and modern consoles, but in all honesty, the best time was with the SNES, it was a massive jump from what went before, same with the N64 and PSX, Ridge Racer was stunning compared to what we had seen before, and the jump to Mario 64 was just something else, gaming perfection at the time.
Sure graphics have got better, but it is just that, better graphics.
Maybe when VR is more mainstream I will get excited again.
Atic Atac, Knight Lore, Jet Set Willy on the Spectrum.
Adventure on the Atari 2600.
Looping on the Coleco Vision.
Last Ninja on the C64.
R-Type, Out Run on the PC Engine.
Mario Bros 3, Zelda on the NES.
Pulstar and Last Resort on the Neo Geo, and Samurai Showdown was amazing at the time.
Super Mario World, Zelda, Mana, Mario Kart, F1 Exhaust Heat 2, Pilot Wings, Contra III, R-Type 3, Terranigma, Yoshis Island, Super Tennis, Castlevania IV, Final Fantasy III, Out of this World and so many more on the SNES.
Ridge Racer on release day on a Jap PSX was pretty amazing at the time. FFVII, Biohazard, Metal Gear Solid all on PSX.
ICO still in my top 5 games of all time.
Mario 64 and Pilot Wings on the N64 was another level at the time, truly stunning.
Ocarina of Time still probably my ultimate gaming moment though.
Sure have loved some games on the PS2, PS3, Saturn, DC, Gamecube, and modern consoles, but in all honesty, the best time was with the SNES, it was a massive jump from what went before, same with the N64 and PSX, Ridge Racer was stunning compared to what we had seen before, and the jump to Mario 64 was just something else, gaming perfection at the time.
Sure graphics have got better, but it is just that, better graphics.
Maybe when VR is more mainstream I will get excited again.
paul99 said:
Think I vaguely remember the name, not sure if I ever played against you, I ran a clan called [RoAr] as CarTmaN for a long time then joined {AV} under the name Quivver. To this day I haven't played an FPS that felt as good and as balanced as AQ2. Single headshot deaths from all weapons made it a super tough learning curve, Counter Strike just seemed so slow and clunky in comparison.
Christ, I remember you as RoAr CarTmaN... Almost as clear as day. Mental.I played it religiously, went to quite a few tournaments etc.
Still up there as one of the greatest gaming experiences I've had, it was rewarding and frustrating, clever and pacey. You could be stealth, or all guns blazing. The maps were brill too. Jungle my fav, with some of the strafe jumping on the trees and rocks etc.
So many moments,
1) The first fatality I did on Mortal Kombat at the arcade was pretty special...Scorpion revealing the skull head and burning his opponent. Block Up Up
2) Finally getting Knights of the Round in FF7...and promptly going to the water snake and unleashing hell
All latest games have had some great moments as graphics and scores have been super impressive especially with those 'That Mission' in games - Far Cry 3 (burning drug fields), RDR (entering Mexico - though returning to home at the end was imo a better piece of music), GTA 4 (bank job), GTA 5 (big score) to name a few.
1) The first fatality I did on Mortal Kombat at the arcade was pretty special...Scorpion revealing the skull head and burning his opponent. Block Up Up
2) Finally getting Knights of the Round in FF7...and promptly going to the water snake and unleashing hell
All latest games have had some great moments as graphics and scores have been super impressive especially with those 'That Mission' in games - Far Cry 3 (burning drug fields), RDR (entering Mexico - though returning to home at the end was imo a better piece of music), GTA 4 (bank job), GTA 5 (big score) to name a few.
Steven_RW said:
1. The first time we linked up two pcs and I found my friend in Doom. Looked at each other moving around and then shotgunned him. It was the start of real FPS and competing for me
Heh. I did that late one night at work in about 1994. Took ages to load the game onto two PCs from floppy disk!Gassing Station | Video Games | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff