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Hey all, I am not sure if a topic like this exists, I tried to do a search but didn't find anything. If there is let me know.

I would like to hear what are your favorite moments in video games you have played.
They can be be funny, weird, frustrating, suspenseful, etc.  Just post them here.


I will start:

A funny moment I have is when playing Super Off-Road: The Baja for SNES, you would hit a deer, and it would scream like a person. It has got to be one of the most hilarious things I have experienced in a game.

Many funny things in Toejam and Earl for the Genesis, starting with the intro ("you should never let Earl drive").  The Earthlings sure are weird!  Toejam going "tra la la" when he's walking around for too long without really doing anything.  Then when you play with another player, Earl's pants falling down was pretty funny too, along with several other things I'm sure I'm forgetting (its been a while since I played).

At the end of TJ&E there is a alien that rips on Sonic :)

Even though the game itself didn't play out quite the same scenario, in this trailer, when the E chord sounds and Cortana says her classic line, it still gets me.  Such a Halo fanboy :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-bwW1czuL4

And here's the first gaming moment that made my teenage eyes well up in tears.  Yes, really.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6qjPj7O3g

And then there's pretty much all of Shadow of the Colossus.  An interactive meditation on loss if there ever was one.

I remember playing Hard Drivin' and learning you could hit the cow and it would moo. I probably never tried to actually race after that point.

bongo drum solos in age of empires II

My favorite moment wasn't within the game itself, it was what my friend did to himself physically that still makes me laugh many years later.

I can't remember what game we were playing but it was a one player game where we kept passing the controller around to each other after every level. I remember my friend was stuck on a certain part of the game and after much frustration of failing dozens of times he decided it was best to vent his frustration by smashing the PS2 controller on his forehead at full force.

Needless to say the controller snapped in half as it was crushed on his head and part of the sharp plastic edge from the broken controller left a large bloody gash on his forehead. A gash which lasted for months. He wasn't the brightest person.    

The first three things that come to mind for me are:

- The opera scene in FF6
- The reveal of Rapture in Bioshock
- The ending of Red Dead Redemption

All of these really left a big impression on me.

The end of The Walking Dead. I couldn't get that story out of my head for a few days.

Last year when I was playing NARC for the first time I didn't realize you had a rocket launcher and accidently shot a rocket off. After watching an enemy explode into a gory 8-bit mess I paused the game and was thinking "wft just happened!", "I must be imagining things....". I REALLY didn't see that coming and its pretty awesome!!

I've got tons of more moments, but I'll try and narrow it down to just a few for now.

The cut scene in FFIX when your airship is escaping from one of the Waltz is pretty much my favorite cut scene in any game ever. FFIX was the first PS game I bought when I got the system and the first RPG I really got invested in and that scene just blew my mind when I first saw it. Even today I think its really great.

First game that creeped me out was Castlevania II Simon's Quest. Those towns were just so empty and desolate and foreboding that they gave 6-7 year old me the willies. My friend and I never got very far into the game, but we loved exploring the world and trying to figure out where everyone was and what had happened to them.

forgot to mention so many funny moments in worms Armageddon, 2, and reloaded.

I once met Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson in Quest For Glory 3, which I already posted about in another thread. lol. It rocked my world, since part of my Username comes from Redd Foxx, who is my favorite comedian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnuyl4dDBIs

This made me cry big crocodile tears as a kid.... yeah that's right... as a kid.

DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT, I'M A MAN!  MAN MODE!

Moments I'll remember:

-The first time I saw Bowser in SMB on Christmas day, 1987. My sister was the one who beat him.
-Playing Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine vs mode for ~20 hours straight
-Going to my friend's birthday party and having him run through all of the FFVII summons
-An entire room filled with 12-13 year-old kids jumping as a creature came down from the ceiling in Resident Evil
-Getting called over when my roommate first entered a boss fight in Shadow of the Colossus and watching in awe

Pretty much discovering every nook and cranny in Symphony of the Night is one giant memory that I can't forget. Such fun me and my friend had with that game.

Playing Jedi Power Battles with my autistic neighbor and he getting better at it than me was also a good one.

Pretty much every other moment in the original Metal Gear Solid for PS1. When it came out it was like nothing before it: the constant breaking of the fourth-wall, the telekinesis demonstration, the torture scene that literally tortures the player, and even the big 'ole twist towards the end. It's not so remarkable nowawadays - especially considering all games try to be movies (with mixed results). But back in the late-90's, it blew my mind.

The three saddest endings of games for me:
1) The Walking Dead
2) Red Dead Redemption
3) Fallout

The three best endings of games for me:
1) Portal 2
2) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
3) inFamous

Heh. I have autism. We are good at games! :)

Very true, my old neighbor was a champ at TMNT and any Mario he ever laid hands on. He also loved the PS1 version of the Game of Life.