RyaNtheSlayA wrote:My most treasured gaming moment was when I was 7 and managed to get 100% complete on Spyro the Dragon (PSOne). That game is still a neat platformer, and IMO better than Super Mario 64.
OH SCREW THAT ONE. I REMEMBER A BETTER ONE. WHEN I BEAT DOOM, DOOM2, AND FINAL DOOM IN ONE NIGHT ON NIGHTMARE WHEN I WAS TWELVE.
- My first deathmatch in Doom (14 years ago!!) - not just the 3D world which blew me away but the whole concept of online multiplayer where you didn't have 4 guys crowded around one keyboard sharing a tiny monitor !!
- Killing Anna Navarro in Deus Ex and the whole story shifting from that moment.
- The first hour of Resident Evil 2 - "Who are ya, what ya doin here?"
Currently Playing :
Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
Resident Evil 4 (Wii)
Final Fantasy III (DS)
Valkyria Chronicles (PS3) (Wii)
Shenmue (DC)
Killzone 2 (PS3)
goaferboy wrote:Launched off a ramp in GTA4 into the water. Decided to be a smart ass and jump out of the car whilst it was quite high up and land in the water. Out of the whole river, I managed to land on the only boat and die. Good times!
Talking about GTA, my greatest moment was probably in Vice City (strange, since it's my least favourite, I hate the 80's theme...). There were this staircase, on the side of a house, that you could use as a ramp to reach a rooftop across the street. One time I decided to try and do the jump with a fire truck, which was not an easy thing to do since the staircase was so tiny, only the wheels on one side of the truck would touch it. Anyway, I managed to do it, but then something amazing happened. The fire truck was already pretty beaten up and at the top of the staircase there was like a tiny wall. When I touched it the truck suddenly caught on fire and did the jump with flames coming out of the engine. Wow!
First time I saw a video of MGS running. My friend was sitting in front of a computer during class (not doing his work obviously) and he turned to me and said that the game he was looking at looked pretty cool. I watched the video with him, it was showing game play footage from the fight against Grey fox. Grey fox was backflipping all around the room and Snake was shooting at him with the FAMAS, glass was shattering and papers were fling all over the room. The action and the visuals were so fucking amazing to me ( bear in mind this the 32bit era) that I new then and there I was looking at something special. It's still my favourite game ever. (cuddles game discs)
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
One of the first moments that springs to mind is going with a bunch of my friends up north in Michigan. I had just had knee surgery so there was no way I was going to be hitting the slopes. So I remember sitting around the ski cabin playing FFII for SNES while all my friends were hitting the slopes. I played it all weekend when everyone was gone. I just remember all the people of the world telling me that they know I could defeat who ever the main boss was and it gave me goosebumps. I never did end up defeating him and didn't even return to the game. Kind of wish I would've but oh well.
pompeyparsons wrote:I just remember all the people of the world telling me that they know I could defeat who ever the main boss ... I never did end up defeating him ...
Mine isn't a gratest moment, but it's a moment that I still remember very clearly, and I look back on it fondly.
I had just learnt how to do SNES emulation. Somehow (still don't remember how) I found out about a little Farming Sim called Harvest Moon. I played it for weeks, getting up at 7, playing till lunch, playing till dinner then playing it more till my mum would come and shout at me. Finally, after weeks of the same routine (feed, harvest, water, collect berries, bed) I got to the end of my 3 year spell on the farm. I was so proud of the money I'd made, the cows I'd raised, the farm I had made. But when the man came to rate my farm. He told me it was rubbish, and that I had failed. I actually cried, it was like working for weeks on a painting, then having someone tell you it looked stupid. Looking back, those were some of my happiest gaming moments, and even though I failed, I still had so much fun playing it.
I have two more to add to Ack's stories about me in that gaming club...
In Aliens Vs Predator Gold (with the "controllable" disc mod) we were playing in Subway free for all with only two predators. Being that I had the most experience with the game I was asked to play Predator, both because it is the most difficult to play and that I had the least experience as one out of all the classes. Well halfway through the game I came out from the underworld from the far entrance in alien vision mode. I threw my disc and it started towards an alien on the otherside of the stage. After it sliced him in half, I switched vision modes and angled it back toward a human just standing there, giving me a twofer. I decided to recall the disc right as a predator walked infront of me. A three species kill. I just stood up and left after that one - no one really noticed it until after the game.
I often got bored of the standard killing in deathmatch and would try to find other ways to play and still win. Be it just using the crowbar in Half Life, the terrorist car in Battlefield 1942 Desert Combat, or just swinging in Call of Duty. Well this time we were playing Call of Duty United Offensive with about twenty in the server. I had played this version a couple times and was not a big fan. However when you obtained 20 or so kills you were given binoculars (at 30 or 35 you could use those to call in an airstrike). This time around we had a cocky guy playing who was actually really good and I discovered by chance that you could swing these binoculars as a melee weapon. It took some work but I figured out where the cocky guy was camping with his machine gun and dropped down behind him, went prone, and locked him in the corner long enough to get the five swings in to kill him. I stood up and left the room, along with everyone but the cocky guy and his friend. It was beautiful. The guy came back a couple times and was actually really cool, but it took him getting binoced for him to come around.
I could go on about some beautiful Call of Duty team games or when I etched out a win in eight player Daytona from my cousin by one millisecond. But I dont think yall want to hear me gloating..
