catbarf on 2/11/2008 at 14:07
The last level from Freespace, where everything goes wrong and Command scrambles bombers to destroy the Lucifer. The race for the jump point is extremely tense, and then the actual fight (where you have no shields) manages to one-up the previous sequence.
Volitions Advocate on 2/11/2008 at 15:55
Tomb Raider 1 (the original not anniversary) T-rex encounter in the Lost Valley.
Far Cry. Standing on top of a mountain/volcano and zooming in on a spec thats in one of the inlets on the island only to realize its a patrol boat with 2 guys in it. and then sniping them from over a mile away.
Duke Nukem 3D when you're in area 51 (or wherever it was) and you come across the moon landing set and the monolith from 2001
+1 on unreal exiting the ship.
Sulphur on 2/11/2008 at 18:42
After convincing me into a Diablo deathmatch, my friend decided to let me know that his character was at level 21 after he slaughtered my poor level 6 fighter with a couple of swipes of his sword.
I'd been waving the Butcher's Cleaver and going 'ahh, fresh meat' at him before he advanced and hacked me to bits. Served me right, I suppose; but after that, he resurrected me and slayed me again. And again. And again. In a couple of minutes, the area around my corpse was squishy with all the blood-soaked ears dropping off of it. He laughed so hard that day, I swore bloody revenge.
A month or so later, we decide to have another deathmatch. Only this time, I choose the game, and it's Descent 2. He agrees after a little convincing, because he's only played Descent 1 and not 2 and didn't like the keyboard controls.
"It's pretty much the same thing," I say. "But it's more fun now," I lie, "because the controls are laid out like Wing Commander."
"Oh, that's peachy," he says, being the consummate Wing Commander buff that he is.
So we start off in level 1. "Hey," he pipes up, "the controls are still a pain."
"Use the mouse," I tell him while shooting the lights out of every mine shaft I pass through. "That makes it easier."
"Oh, okay, lemme try that. Don't start shooting me yet, okay?"
"Yeah, sure. I'll wait."
I coast through the darkness, looking for him, and find he's still at the entrance. Only, he's floating upside down and listing off to the side.
"You ready yet?" I ask.
"Yes," he says.
"Okay," I say, and fire a couple of concussion missiles up his upside down ass.
When he respawns, he's lost because he can't see his way out on account of there being no lights. I make use of one of the hidden passages that exits into the ceiling of the chamber he's in, and send him some flaming death from above.
By this time, he's gotten wise to my game and curses me for shooting the lights out. "Okay, I'm sorry," I say. "You can press the F key for flares, you know."
"Gee, thanks," he says, and parks his ass in a corner and fires flares out to cover all the possible angles from which I could come at him again.
"Damn, you're really getting better at this," I say as I blow the mine reactor, grinning all the way to the exit shaft as the countdown starts.
Apparently, he almost made it to the exit, only to get utterly lost at the final stretch because he can't read a Descent map to save his life. Well, talk about being literal - he blew up with the mine just as he saw where the exit shaft was.
Oh well. Revenge, after all, is a dish best served cold. Or flaming hot. And right up the ass.
To be fair, out of the next 32 times that I killed him, he did get me -- once. You can't be too unfair about things, after all. :cheeky:
Dam on 2/11/2008 at 19:41
First time getting to the top of a hill and then starting the decent in Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (Amiga). I swear I felt it in the pit of my stomach, like you do in real life.
Being an eternal System Shock 1 fan, seeing the last level of System Shock 2 as it had loaded. I came this (fingers barely apart) close to needing new underwear. Still get goosebumps just thinking about it.
Jason Moyer on 2/11/2008 at 19:53
You look like you need a monkey.
Ostriig on 2/11/2008 at 22:14
A few off the top of my head.
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Deus_Ex#Morpheus)
"God was a dream of good goverment."- Drakan: The Wartok Canyons, simply
awesome.
- KOTOR:
"He said he wants to rip your legs off and beat you with them."- NWN2 MotB:
Myrkul.
- Disciples 2: Not an actual "moment", but the way the narrator's voice so perfectly complemented the Undead Hordes campaign.
- TDS: Shalebridge Cradle.
- Unreal: The Nali castle menu flythrough.
- Hitman: Pulling off the Budapest Hotel on Hard.
Malf on 2/11/2008 at 23:26
Oh yeah, having just posted in the Cthulhu thread, it reminded me of the rooftop chase in Dark Corners of the Earth.
Fecking terrifying.
pdenton on 3/11/2008 at 03:00
I second that one man, just thinking about that chase freaked me out.
To add:
The first level in Hidden and Dangerous 1 in the rain. The sound design was killer and it was the first real game I bought with my own money for my new PC back then.
The monster(s) in the missile silo in HL1.
The "twist" of Bioshock and Andrew Ryan's death.
Just to name a few.
Oh, and the first level of Red Faction.
DIE MINER!
HamburgerBoy on 3/11/2008 at 03:45
Walking into a malfunctioning teleporter in Crusader: No Remorse.
Watching the falling airplane(?) in the beginning of Duke Nukem 3D, and jumping down to the streets just after.
Discovering first-hand what was behind the door on Level 4 of UNATCO.
Watching my human companions in Marathon die violently as a hulk flings them around the map.
The_Raven on 3/11/2008 at 16:56
Quote:
Watching the falling airplane(?) in the beginning of Duke Nukem 3D, and jumping down to the streets just after.
That was the Rigelatin spaceship that Duke got at the end of Duke Nukem 2. :mad: :mad: :mad:
