My favorite COD moment is definitely the nuke scene in COD4. You just finished rescuing the downed female pilot and are hauling ass out of there and I remember feeling so victorious because we managed to pull it off and get away, and then that bright mushroom cloud bloomed in the distance. The helicopters behind you start to spiral out of control as the shockwave races toward you and all you can do is watch silently as you pray that you're out of reach and that maybe you'll survive because you're the MC, only to have that hope shattered as your chinook shakes violently and joins the others in a death spin that ends up with you crashing. Then you wake up to a devastated city, the red hue making everything seem like a scene straight out of hell as you limp forward before falling and finally succumbing to the radiation and wounds from the crash. A very memorable scene indeed.
Well, all those games will surely stay in our memories forever when there were boring school or work hours, we had no internet and played these games so often that we literally became champions.
Some of my memorable moments 1.Exiting the tunnel out of Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 2.The whole bridge section in Half-Life 2 3.Airport shootout at the end in Max Payne 3 4.Reaching Hound Pits Pub after the long journey(the 3 level long mission) in Dishonored 5.Defending Hole station in Metro 2033 6.Landing on earth after the Moon base mission in Wolfenstein The New Order 7."Dancing" with splicers during Cohen's outburst while Tchaikovsky is playing in Bioshock 8. End parts of Inside. 9. Flying into the sunset while classic rock is playing in GTA San Andreas. 10. Playing through Hotline Miami and getting amped up by the music. EDIT: Added nr.10
It's a shame Half-Life 2 is such a buried treasure. But using the suped-up gravity gun on people should be on there. Grab guys and shoot them at other guys. One of the best weapons in FPS history.
Love the half life 2 in there! Going up the citadel is one of my favourite bits in the game, just looking on the view of the massive world you’ve just explored! Though finishing ravenholm and seeing daylight does also make my day.
My own top 10 ( which will make me feel old once I'm done ): 10- In Starcraft (1), the first cinematic with the terran scavengers encountering a protoss warship. A classic, just like the other cinematics, but this one just made you want to play the game. 9- In Baldur's Gate 2 when you exit Irenicus' dungeon and end up in Waukeen's Promenade. You had this feeling of freshness, like going outside after being stuck forever in a dark place. 8- Similarly, in Ocarina of Time when you exit the Kokiri Forest and discover Hyrule Fields. Back when the game came out, it was quite out of the ordinary to find vast maps like this. 7- In The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind, when you figure out for the first time that you can kill any single character, even main quest characters, and take their houses and pretty much do anything you want. Even in Skyrim they don't let you do that unless you mod it. 6- FF7, the death of Aerith of course, it was very rare back then for a character to die like she did before the game was over. A real shocker even for those who didn't particularly like her. 5- In Metal Gear Solid when Psycho Mantis would break the fourth wall, playing with your TV screen, looking at your save file, etc. it was very original and surprising for the gamer. 4- Saving Ellie in The Last of Us. So intense! 3- Protecting your family in Red Dead Redemption. Devastating indeed! But somehow, it had to end like this so the game would reach a higher, perhaps more artistic and human level. 2- The microwave room in Metal Gear Solid 4. Who had more sweat at the end? Us or Snake? My controller was slippery when I was done lol. 1- The first level Super Mario Bros. Just the first seconds when the music kicks in. First game I've ever played and we all know the design of that specific level. Back when it was released, the game was a blast. Colorful, fun theme song, highly responsive controls, etc.. No wonder why it created one of the biggest franchises ever.
Halo flood that scene, and just the atmosphere of your arrival there, the freeing covenant in the swamp the erie emptiness,when you make your way inside.
+Arhkadian dude whats sad is thing that sticks with we most was how they armed you, and worse it was the only map in the entire game that had neadler in ammo form.
Lord I hate the flood. Not only that, because Halo so closely aped the Alien movies, it was obvious to me that some kind of parasitic life form would appear in the story. Still a great game though.
For me it was Dragon Age Inquisition right After the Haven incident. When they start singing "The Dawn will Come" and they start bowing. That was some of the best scene writing I have seen in a game.
It's funny because I remember not enjoying the game that much other than the characters but I stuck it out because Bioware knows how to make a plot gripping and once that scene happened my resolve to continue playing was never stronger
agreed, I didnt get the game until a year after it came out but I made a point to avoid spoilers so it was all new for me. That scene really helped me shape my character.
I got the game at release, being a bit skeptic because i'd never played Dragon Age before, but it didn't take long for it to become my favourite game (Until The Witcher 3 came and jizzed all over any game ive ever played) and I remember that part gave me goosebumps and a tear in my eye
I played FC3 in different modes, but I think this mission is more fun with a lover difficulty, just because you can chill and burn down the weed without needing cover. ^^
Mass Effect - going sniping beer cans with Garrus at the citadel and missing on purpose to make him happy... That was most likely the strongest moment in gaming for me.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Emma's death. That scene still sticks with me way after I saw the scene. That was definitely the saddest thing I've ever seen in a video game.
That whole game was filled with memorable shit, emma's death is a good one. For me, it was the crazy codec calls and finding out the truth about the Patriots
I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!
Im with you on that one bruh! Actually the whole story of first ME, and lore as well, it's amazing and breathtaking, triple A sf saga! While we at Bioware, i have to mention some more of their gems: Neverwinter Nights 2 (i wont say what cause i dont know if you played) and Dragon Age origins (the part where its explained how broodmothers are made). Those three are my most memorable gaming moments lorewise. Cheers!
GTA 3, when u first get in the car with 8 ball on the bridge after u escape. Driving into the city as the radio blasts push it to the limit, with all the npc activity...I still remember the faint tingle I felt in my scalp lol
Assassins Creed Black Flag ending. Seeing all of your fallen friends drinking rum, huddled around the table while the woman was singing in the background. Then seeing your daughter arrive on the island from the ship that brought her there. Literally had me crying like a baby lol.
just gunna walk along this path and theres a dead guy... ok check for ambush, ready weapon scout out local area cautiously... oh... this guy... did a me... created something balls to the wall... and fucked up majorly... glad im not the only player in morrowind. wait..
Mass Effect 2 suicide mission or mass effect 1 talking to vigil on ilos or mass effect 3 reapers on palaven moon or mass effect 2 intro or meeting the leviathans or the shadow broker or the citadel dlc party..basically the whole mass effect series.
Red Dead... but the part where he wins his freedom and is riding home to his family in the snow. The moment, the music, the expectation... that, and returning to Shadow Moses Island on MGS4 had me teary eyed. God I love a good videogame.
I think it was halo 2 or 3 that did this, but when you go into that canyon and the main theme kicks in while you're riding a vehicle when a scarab comes in after you is the best! Ahh memories
Sounds like halo 3 level The Ark. That was my favorite level in that game with all that firepower at my disposal. Having the ship master congratulate me was so satisfying as a kid.
1-Resident Evil 4- Dr. Salvador 2-Fallout New Vegas-Battle of Hoover Dam 3-Mass Effect-Virmire 4-COD MW3-Soap's Death (say what you want about COD, but that scene is perfect) 5-Hitman Blood Money-A New Life Honorable Mention--> Half Life 2-Ravenholm
+AgeofJP I don't like COD anymore, but I had lot's of fun with it back in the 360 days, I really liked the COD games since COD3, until BO2. I pretty much only played them for campaign, believe it or not, never been an Multiplayer guy, and from all the memories I had with those games, Soap's death stand out the most imo, All Ghilled Up came close too, but Soap's death is iconic as hell. If you didn't liked it, good for you man. But I'm just giving my thoughts about what games made me happy, sad, excited, scared and just made me have great memories that remind me how life was simple back then, and how I loved these games, isn't that kind of the point? ;)
A huge one he may be too young to have witnessed was the death of Nei (one of your actual, playable party characters) about halfway through the game in Phantasy Star 2. That was the 1st time anything like that occured in the video game industry.
+Junk Genes I don't know this game. But I'm actually 19 years old(born in '97). I started with a Super Nintendo back in the day, but I don't remember most of the games I had, nor they had iconic scenes that made me remember them that much. But, I really like old games, they're just so special, I don't know how to explain it, but they have a soul that games nowadays don't have. I just don't know what game is this you mentioned, is that a JRPG? I'm not really into them, sorry :(
+Vlad 117 I didn't kill Wrex, I had enough charm to convince him, and I also had his family armor. The whole mission was epic though, the Salarian speech, the fight with Saren, choosing between a girl you wanna bang vs a good friend. The mission structure, and overall design of the level were badass, for sure one of the most epic missions in the Mass Effect franchise.
Jade Champagne As I'm not 1 year old I didn't need to look up the definition of "moment". Me saying "the definition of" doesn't mean I had to look it up in any way:P Pluss, he obviously didn't know what it meant (or at least didn't think it through) since he suggested something that WASN'T a moment. I don't know why you find my comment so weird.
I just bought COD 4 for $5 from a thrift store and played it for the first time. When I got to "All Ghillied Up" I thought "Oh! This is that mission that no one on the internet ever shuts up about! This is gonna be good!" Aaaaand it sucks. It's nothing special at all. I guess the 60 seconds you spend sniping people is kinda cool, and there's the dog quick time events that you can't ever seem to get quite right, but other than that? What's so special? Honestly, it really says a lot about how totally boring and ordinary the single player campaigns are in COD games that A.G.U. is supposed to be some amazing experience. It's so average it's painful. But people point to it constantly.
yeah indead and roxas fight in kingdom hears 2 final mix. Roxas was damn hard. But both roxas and the boss ,some of the boss bosses fight i had. And as Will Finnegan says it really gets amazing when the music kicks in.
I'd have to say losing the first ssv Normandy was the most memorable for me.. when your walking through the shop being torn In half and you hear Joker over the comms begging for anyone to receive their distress signal yet knowing that they were all alone against the collectors... powerful
The flood in Halo brought another memory I'll never forget. The day I learned to be VERY careful about plasma grenades. (I'm sure many know where I'm headed here.) To keep it short, me and my brother are working through the library together. Killed, mowing, having a good time. We know there are some grenades behind us, so one of us throws a plasma into a group of flood pods. Grenade sticks on one, and it heads right for us! Faster than we can react. And of course when it goes boom, remember those grenades behind us? They were under us now because of our retreat path. There is now a crater where we once were, while the real us were on the floor laughing. It's a "you had to be there" moment, but still one of my favorite moments while playing the game.
My all-time favorite "plasma grenade" moment was in a MP match. Dude was sniping from one of the perches in "Ivory Tower" with his teammate running cover beneath him in front of the gravity lift. I ran in, meleed his buddy backwards into the lift and jump-stuck a plasma to him as he rose up... he exploded next to his sniper buddy, killing them both... It was the most satisfying "DOUBLE KILL" I have ever had uttered by epic MP voice guy... ever.
The death of Mordin Solus was chock full of feels, whichever path you take. Either you shoot a good man for doing the right thing, or watch your friend sacrifice himself to save a race that he himself had helped to doom.
Even worse one? death of tali on rannoch if you failed to get her and Legion to cooperate. That was probably the biggest nerve breakdown for me in games. I've never finished that playthrough, but start over, just to save them both (well, sadly Legion still" dies", but at least he has saved quarians and geth in process) .
The original Kingdom Hearts opening has never left my mind, that and the final boss in KH2... Then there was the end of the first level in Time Splitters 2, that was awesome, that and the portal demon scene. That side quest in skyrim where Narfi wants his sister's necklace... Oddworld Abe's Oddysee, when you finally get outside and see the moon... That and a ton of other mystifying scenes. Legend of Mana, the opening, and the whole town of Lumina, and Rubens' "death" too... I could go on for days... Good memories...
i love LoM too,i also shocked when Ruben dies and saw him in the underground world like "HUH? you're still alive?" back then,i didnt know it was the place for Ghosts even tho i see the Dungeon entrance has the Tombstone funny thing,i never realized theres a male Protag,i do believe i mistook it as another female protag because of the Glorious Artwork XD
The labored breathing of regenerators from re4, the first look at anor londo in dark souls, the music in the temple of time in OoT, and the cabin cutscene in the last of us. Those are the most memorable gaming moments that I can think of.
Agree that was the first true open world survival game i have ever played i spent countless hours capturing all the bases stealthily and unlocking everything
Vaas was the only half decent thing from that garbage game IMO. That and it had great gunplay with some cool guns. Too bad they took it in the direction they did with the lame protagonist and awfully dull story. To each his own though.
Can we have another far cry 3? Without it being set somewhere else's? Just like, another one? Maybe change the story to be someone's else's experience? I don't care, but I want more.
What about Life is Strange? The only truly poignant moments are the killer's identity (which even if you somehow don't guess, isn't that surprising considering there are like 4 or 5 relevant male characters in the entire story) and the ending, which you know is coming from the start!
Don't be a fool, "ending, which you know is coming from the start!" Nothing indicates the end in the first episode. Look at the title before cagar pela boca.
I love the portuguese at the end there mate. First, you know the town is going to end, that's literally the premonition you have before your powers unlock. Second, that game has the shoddiest dialogue and characters on a story driven game I've seen. Third, every single thing you do in the game is completely and utterly pointless because the last choice undoes it all, one way or another. Finally, considering most of the people in the town proper are jerks, idiots or assholes (the exceptions being Kate and Warren), my choice of Chloe wasn't even something I took a second to consider.
She wanted to live on in your memory, not as a solider, but as a woman. But she was forbidden to tell you herself. And that's why she told me. Snake, history will ever know what she did. No one will ever learn the truth. Her story... her debriefing, will endure only in your heart. Everything she did, she did for her country. She sacrificed her life and honor for her native land. She was a real hero. She was a true patriot. Damned feels
i played Halo Combat Evolved when i was 6 i honestly 1 night was to scared to come out from underneath the covers because i thought the was a Flood Paracite right next to my leg
I remember seeing the flood for the first time in halo ce on Xbox I got so scared that I decided never to play again till I told myself that I can get over it and stop been afraid
Jesus, am I the only one who didn't think No Russian wasn't a big deal? It's a pretty forgettable mission, don't act like you haven't mowed down civilians in games like GTA long before MW2 ever came out.
Chad L No Russian, is the most overrated video game money. MW2 was easily my favorite game in the series but for story moments, the most memorable to me was the chem attack family video from mw3. when the gas explosion just wiped a vacationing family out.
I don't think anyone was expecting to do that in MW2. And that was not the only surprise about it. Being taken out in the end was a huge surprise, which led to an international incident and eventually war between the United States and another significant power. It had a couple of things going for it, and it definitely reverberated with concerns about mass shootings more than the concerns about being a criminal (generally speaking) in GTA. I think you have a point in one sense, for sure.
Final Fantasy VII: That moment. And I'd replace the first zombie in Resident Evil with "The Dogs." You knew there was going to be zombies in your zombie game but EVERYBODY jumps when the dogs are introduced.
Yep no doubt Red Dead Redemption /Marston's death stuck with me for a bit. Can't believe nothing from the Mass Effect series was on the list. Several moments were worthy.
Sure, all mgs series has its epic moments, but when i played the first one, i was like 12, i haven't played anything like that before... its like when i first played silent hill when it came out, in the beginning before you wake up in that bar, when your chancing after your daughter and then you enter those alleys and then that industrial creepy sound keeps increasing and increasing and then you first encountered those crawling things and you have nowhere to run... i turned off my playstation in terror...
I was under 10 the first time i finished MGS1, I cried during this scene, legit tears, it remains my favorite scene from my favorite video game to this day.
I was a grown man when I played Bioshock, and I had tears pouring down my face at the ending with the grown-up Little Sisters by your side on your deathbed.
The ending to Saints Row 1. I remember feeling a numbing anger, almost grief. Fast forward a year and I felt genuine joy and that sense of being reunited with a dear friend when number 2 came out and I found out my character survived. I never thought the ending to one game and the opening to its sequel could give me such strong feelings for one character, especially considering that character isn't given a fixed name and up to that point had barely spoken and had little personality other that what you brought to the game. Then when your character has a voice and a personality it made them even more lovable to me. Even more so in a series that built itself on it's sheer craziness, psychoathy and escapism, the fact it features characters and stories you can invest deeply in I think is pretty damn impressive :)
Yes, I can't relate with most of the games in the list except from Resident Evil scene. Also, for me it was Alone in the Dark on the PC which is a similar game, although no cutscenes, how the dogs/zombies entered in the first few rooms and the music changed. Resident Evil must have been inspired from Alone in the Dark. Then I have memories from 3d spaces in oldschool FPS, or when I first went outside in Unreal 1, or Max Payne some of my favorite times, and then some modern tearjerker indie games, and more I can't remember.
Yes,that's true,but I'm sure these were some of the more common ones that they were told. They couldn't possibly put them all on this list, although some honorable mentions of some other ones near the end would of been nice (if the had enough time left). There were some games on their list I haven't played, so they don't apply to me,but I think they did get some big ones on there so I think they did a pretty good job for a subjective topic. I don't know if they had a "one per franchise" rule, but Personally I would add the endings to Bioshock infinite,Life is strange,and gears of war on the list. (In this order, The ending,the part leading up to the ending, Dom's euthanizing of his wife). oh I almost forgot, the game Thief: deadly shadows for Xbox.
What about Fallout 3, the scene where you leave the vault and stand staring into the horizon, bleary-eyed, alone, unprepared, as the expanse of the wasteland comes into focus. Damn. I'd also mention the moment from System Shock 2 that everyone knows, but by the time I was able to get a copy on Steam, I already knew about it..
Dreaming that your sister is alive - Fable 2 October 23, 2077 - Fallout 4 Sora almost saves his friends... almost - Kingdom Hearts 1 Killing The Boss - Metal Gear Solid 3 "May we meet again... In a better life." -Fire Emblem: Awakening That little girl is basically satan - Final Fantasy: Lightning Returns
Man I remember when halo first came out, I wasnt really into shooters but loved watching my dad play. He'd turn off all the lights, move the couch in front of the tv so he could lie down with a perfect view and put another chair behind it for me. I VIVIDLY remember the first fight with the flood. I was sitting in my chair out of sight of my dad shaking and curled up with my knees tucked to my chest. It was one of the scariest things I had ever seen and it still sticks with me today
1) Death of Noble 6. 2) Killing the boss in MGS 3. 3) Highway 17 and death of Eli Vance in HL2 . 4) Last Mission of Metro Last Light. 5) 1st Mission of Dead Space. 6) Vorkuta in COD Black Ops. 7) Getting your hand chopped in Resident Evil 7.
If they ever did a remake of that game, and kept that in the remake, it would cause me nightmares considering the graphic quality we have now. If it was in vr, I'm not sure I could even play that part of that game.
I agree. It didn't really affect me. It was trying to create controversy for publicity. Also, I get the feeling that they felt that players would be more amenable to murdering Russians than any other group. I got fed up with the Russia-hating, like the whole COD series was dreamed up by some survivalist nut who masturbates to Red Dawn.
The part about No Russian that I remember it most is it being shit and arbitrary. The US was able to isolate the data of a bullet from video footage of the event, and track down the manufacturer. Yet Russia wouldn't be able to figure out that it wasn't the US? I guess I remember it for being a very bad example of story design.
it may not have effected people but the airport scene is extremely memorable, mainly due to the controversy it caused. The scene from cod that should have been on this list from COD is from MW3 where the child gets blown up.
Yeah but by this point COD had desensitized everyone. Each COD game we were expecting something "shocking and awful" to happen. Now that bit in Spec Ops - that was shocking and tragic.
For me the most powerful moment I've experienced playing a video game was in the first Bioshock, but it wasn't the reveal of Rapture or the Would You Kindly twist. For me, it was when I had made it to Apollo Square and was engaging in my usual past time of scouring every nook and cranny for resources to use to survive. I remember picking a lock to a door, expecting to find the usual abandoned derelict room. Instead I found an entire family, a mother and father and three little girls, sitting dead in the living room lit only by a static television. Upon closer examination of the plastic cups and bottle of pills sitting on the coffee table, it was all too clear what had happened. That moment is the closest a video game has ever brought me to tears.
AC 2, the first race across the rooftops with OST track "Venice Rooftops" playing, or the introduction sequence of Mirror's Edge, and even Mirorr's Edge Catalyst... oh god I'm a fanboy :D
I can handle any other flood mission alone in halo. But I refuse to play 343 guilty spark alone. I always get lost and begin to panic sometimes. I even get bad dreams about the flood. I'm fucking 19
+Felix yeah that mission wasn't too pleasant either but the way the first encounter with the flood was setup was done so well. You went into the mission expecting to fight standard enemies but found them terrified and running away from something. It was a mystery. At least going into the level cortana you knew what you were fighting
ahh yes 343 'stay here and hold em off while I go open the door for the twentieth time in the last 5 minutes' GS, THAT fucking mission. I thought that mission was fine, then I beat it on legendary. I beat the fucker, but it was the worst experience of my life because on that difficulty in THAT fucking mission in particular it feels like every 3rd combat form you meet is carrying a rocket launcher. And considering there's roughly 1,000 of those fuckers on your screen at any given time on that particular mission, happy times obviously ensue.
There was never a part where you had to wait for somebody to open the door in the mission 343 guilty spark. it was the first mission with the flood and it was a pretty confusing level at first and thats it. The mission you are talking about was much later when you had to go down the 5 levels to get the key to activate halo.
Max Payne: walking through the house at the beggining and hearing his child cry and later in the game walking the titght rope in the daek room again hearing his child cry. fucked me up when i was 12
Halo 3 when you're escaping in the warthog. Playing it through the first time was so epic with the music going, explosions happening and the urgency to escape. It was class
I seriously watched this video purely for the validation I knew it would give me about the Flood. I played Halo: Combat Evolved for the first time when I was seven years old, (having seen my dad and slightly-older sister give it a play-through first,) and I am thoroughly convinced that the Flood infection forms gave me my life-long fear of creepy-crawlies. To this day, the Flood intro theme music and squirmy noises of the infection forms sets off alarm bells in my head and kicks my heart-rate up by about 100 bpm. Well done, Bungie.
The ending of Halo 3 is a personal favourite of mine, speeding through explosions with your best friend on the back of your warthog gunning down the flood left right and centre.
Never mind all these modern 1st person shooters what about when you collect all the super chaos emeralds in Sonic 3 & knuckles on the Sega Mega Drive?!
Mrmuscom I've never played Sonic 3. I'm a bit too young to have owned a Sega console. Where I'm from they call the Mega Drive the Genesis. I'm from the US btw.
OMG... another ORIGINAL PhSt (not that PSO bullshit) fan... I thought I might be all alone in the universe... The end, yeah... but the real "moment" of PS4 is Alys' death... I was a bitter, mostly enraged teen when that came out... and I flat out bawled right along with Chaz at that.
Uncharted 3, the scene where you see Sully die, and you happily join Drake in his mad rage to kill Talbot and Marlowe, only to be re awoken from the hallucinations and have Sully still alive. Possibly the most angry and then most relieved I've ever felt in gaming.
The ride into Mexico was more memorable than his death imo. The lighting, the soundtrack, the fact that it felt like an actual journey. Rather than a few extremely sad moments that happened just before you stop playing the game.
Khuratokh - so glad someone mentioned Homeworld. For me it was the battle for Higara. I fought wave after wave and my massive fleet was down to only a few capital ships. I remember thinking "one more hyper space single and I'm done for" and right after that thought a hyper space signal was detected only this time it was the rebel fleet coming to our aid. It was the first and perhaps only time the 4th wall was shattered and I felt like I was really part of this amazing world that Relic created.
Getting Pokémon blue when I was 4 years old. I never could've realized that young how big of an impact that would have on my life. That's what started it all for me. I have other moments but nothing compares to that feeling.
The scene where Saria gives you the fairy ocarina as you leave Kokiri Forest in Ocarina of Time?! HOW IS THAT NOT ON THIS LIST? All of the sort of upbeat music of Kokiri Forest and the Lost Woods stripped away, leaving only the sound of crows in the distance and their feet on that bridge... all of the usual lush greens of the forest sort of stripped away in the scene, leaving only a hazy, muted color palate (with the green of their clothing and Saria's hair standing out, unifying the two characters)... one of the most masterfully executed, emotionally stirring scenes in gaming.
The opening credits of TES4: Oblivion. Can't resist wistling that tune along, as the quiet, tired voice of the emperor gives way to some of the most glorious imagery I had ever seen, and the orchestral theme finally kicks in in full.
The intro to the first level of Crash Bandicoot, I'll remember that for the rest of my life; Crash washed up on a beach, getting up, scratching his head, and spinning around to start the level.
