WTF moments in gaming

[hashiriya1]

The first time I actually felt good about a Game Over screen...playing Sega Rally.


GAME OVER YEEEEAHHH!!

[CRTGAMER]

My favorite WTF moment was the battle against Psycho Mantis in the playstation release of Metal Gear Solid. That scene broke down the 4th wall as Psycho Mantis addressed me as the player, not as Snake the character. He knew that I had also been playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night recently and he knew how much time I had spent playing MGS. It took me a minute to realize that he was figuring this info out by accessing my memory cards, but it weirded me out for moment. I was really shocked and I realized that I was going to have to do something really unusual to beat him. I tried a bunch of things: I turned off the power and that didn't do it. I think I (embarassingly) might have even tried talking to the screen. Eventually I figured out the trick that you have to use the 2nd player controller to defeat him. That was a big WTF moment because the game played head tricks on me and got me to do some stupid things. Definitely one of my top 10 most memorable boss battles.

Can't top JT 's story. Agree that is one of the best WTFs.

Okay how about Conker on the N64. Sweet Corn a real laugh. Then the ending game lockup.

[Gamerforlife]

My favorite WTF moment was the battle against Psycho Mantis in the playstation release of Metal Gear Solid. That scene broke down the 4th wall as Psycho Mantis addressed me as the player, not as Snake the character. He knew that I had also been playing Castlevania: Symphony of the Night recently and he knew how much time I had spent playing MGS. It took me a minute to realize that he was figuring this info out by accessing my memory cards, but it weirded me out for moment. I was really shocked and I realized that I was going to have to do something really unusual to beat him. I tried a bunch of things: I turned off the power and that didn't do it. I think I (embarassingly) might have even tried talking to the screen. Eventually I figured out the trick that you have to use the 2nd player controller to defeat him. That was a big WTF moment because the game played head tricks on me and got me to do some stupid things. Definitely one of my top 10 most memorable boss battles.

Can't top JT 's story. Agree that is one of the best WTFs.

Okay how about Conker on the N64. Sweet Corn a real laugh. Then the ending game lockup.

Conker was great, I mentioned it in my last post. I like the scene where he stumbles onto some enemies who are "out of character" until they notice him or the one where an enemy threatens to beat up Conker...as soon as he gets within a certain distance of him. Subtle little jabs are strange game design conventions. Conker wasn't all about toilet humor, peeing on people and fighting big piles of opera singing poo. They managed to throw in some clever stuff in there for the smarter/older crowd

[GamerMON]

The ending of House of the Dead Overkill. It was like 4chan decided to make a HotD game.

[Pulsar_t]

Leon getting chainsawed in Resi 4
The Doom Experience™
Mortal Kombat
Half Life's ending
Psycho Mantis

[Redline9]

(1) The final boss of NARC. During your first encounter with him, he's sliding all over the place in a wheelchair and then slithering on the ground when you knock him out of it. Next time you meet him, he's a giant head and then it gets REALLY weird after that. The game's message was "Say NO to drugs" and it was the most batshit-crazy, psychedelic game in the arcade at the time.

(2) On Final Fight, after demolishing the bonus stage car, a guy comes out, falls to his knees, and cries, "Oh My God!" It's pretty unexpected.

(3) The arcade ending of Golden Axe......breaking down the 4th wall.

[Pulsar_t]

Plus the ending

[Lord_Santa]

having spent about 6 years(!!!!) playing through Bloodwych on the Amiga coop with a friend
(we'd play, have to shut off and start over the next time, due to not knowing how to make a save-disk and of course we were playing on/off shifting through heaps of other games)

when we finally did reach a certain point in the game, after about 2 years of playing and had no way of saving the game, I had to go home to eat dinner

on my way home I got ran over by a car and thus my friend had to shut off the computer (again)

needless to say, as the years progressed and we grew older (and wiser) learning how to make save-disks (yeah.. you format a disk....^^), etc. we were finally ready for a beat-down of epic proportions

during these years our friendship had been on and off and we'd been playing very sparsely, when I finally bought the expansion for the game, it explained that one place where we'd get every time and not being able to go further

finally we got Serpent Tower beat (took us a couple of days/nights playing) and we were ready for the final towers before facing the boss

of course these six years later we had been imagining how all the monsters would line up and there'd be a great fanfare of trumpets and other strange things we'd imagine had to happen once you've beaten the game

it was early in the morning as we finally beat the Chromatic Tower and found ourselves facing the final boss (whom looked nothing like the dragon we'd imagine him being)

well, we beat the living daylights out of him (knowing the battle-system inside-out by this time) and finally approached a column with a banner, stating:

"Thy quest has come to an end
Bloodwych is restored"

and that was it
no music, not even a sound
no fancy army of monsters lining up, no golden ray of light shining down upon us

just two 18-year old stoners, sitting and staring at that sign

six years...

what the fuck!