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Favourite gaming moment

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meltdown75

Lifer
What's yours? I'd like to know just in case I missed out on it.

Mine's fairly recent... and maybe not my all-time greatest, but getting the upgraded gravity gun in HL2 and whipping bodies around was a lot of fun. thx in advance for any replies.
 
Not my best of all time, but one that was interesting- last level in Painkiller, wandering through the freeze-frame different stages of mankind's destruction. Nice touch.
 
A couple parts of the original Deus Ex that unveiled an interesting twist in the story. Such a good game that was.
I haven't really played a PC game since then, I've gone console only. But I kind of miss the PC world, some of the game are so much more artistic.
 
Mine came in KOTOR

****Spoiler Alert****

I played all the way through as light-side, not quite angelic, but more of a show-off, arrogant type of jedi that could be tempted. I saved right before confronting Bastila where she asks you to join her. So I was able to replay from there as dark. That's when it happened...

...when you can order your wookie buddy with the life-debt to kill that one chick, his best friend. Talk about a jaw-dropper. Call me a wuss, but it actually made me feel bad doing it.

I'm sure there are hundreds of other gaming moments that could come to mind, but that one sticks in my mind the most because it was so surprising and had an amazing dramatic effect on the game.
 
oh and i had to add, finally shooting par on Highland Links, Tiger 2004. took me probably 30 or so tries and i'd always end up double-bogeying or tripling one of the last holes. argh

lots of good times on the old consoles too, esp. SMS & NES 8-bitters.
 
When I was in college, there were two guys in my dorm who were UNBEATABLE at StarCraft when they played together. They'd take on 5vs2 games, and win every time. Then one time my roommate and I took them on 2 on 2. I had a ghost set to nuke one of their main defensive lines, and out of dumb luck I had 3 or 4 medics within range of the ghost. When his tanks opened up on the ghost, the medics were able to heal him fast enough to keep him alive until the nuke got off. That was the beginning of the end - it put us ahead in the game, and we eventually won. They were so pissed off, none of us played again for almost a year, and that game was never spoken of again. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: mugs
When I was in college, there were two guys in my dorm who were UNBEATABLE at StarCraft when they played together. They'd take on 5vs2 games, and win every time. Then one time my roommate and I took them on 2 on 2. I had a ghost set to nuke one of their main defensive lines, and out of dumb luck I had 3 or 4 medics within range of the ghost. When his tanks opened up on the ghost, the medics were able to heal him fast enough to keep him alive until the nuke got off. That was the beginning of the end - it put us ahead in the game, and we eventually won. They were so pissed off, none of us played again for almost a year, and that game was never spoken of again. 🙂
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hell, I woulda brought it up at least three times a week 😛

My best gaming experience was probably UO, when it first came out, the first year of that was awesome, feels like another life almost, lol...

Now, WoW, is starting to get really interesting 😛
 
A mission to save a shopping mall from malignant alien take over in X-COM Apoc. It turned into a scene out of Ghostbusters where the place was in complete ruin; the aliens finaly eradicated but unfortunatly so were the hapless shoppers caught in the cross-fire. It was the only one of my missions that went really wrong but damn it was funny.
 
Well, killing 3 people with one bullet in CS:S was hot. Throwing a knife halfway across a map in sof2 and it actually hitting(and killing) someone was pretty funny.

I think my favorite moment was beating lvl 5.6 in Crimsonland with my friend in 3 seconds, thus establishing the record time for that level, and it has never been beaten. During that time we took the top score of nearly every level in act 5, though since them some of those have been taken from us. But 5.6 is ours now and forever.
 
Beating Earthbound was one of my best moments, my favorite game of all time [I was too lazy to get poo's weapon the first time through]
Buying my first house in UO [Almost 7 years ago]
Killing Adam Ant [Anyone remember him?] Adventures Of Adam Ant

Nothing real recent, games in general haven't impressed me enough to play them long enough 🙁
 
Pulling my first all-nighter playing Privateer - I must have spent six hours in the first star system alone trying to soak in everything it had to offer.
 
This was probably 5-7 years ago playing Rogue Spear on MSN Gaming Zone.

The maximum number of players in the game is 16 (limited to 8 on each team) .

My friend and I were playing 8 other players in a 8vs2 round.

In the end, we won and I killed 7 of their teammates.
Even got a screenshot of the end-of-round-stats page.

Mind you, I was injured and limping around near the end but still ended up on top with the trusty MP5 and 9mm pistol.

Oh man, I miss playing RS. 🙂
 
Diablo II US East Barbarian Tournament on Classic. (Summer of 2001)

I can remember like it was yesterday...

So... There's around 50-100 barbarians claiming they're the best on east for some number of months. And one guy plans a tournament.
WHAT A GREAT F*CKING IDEA. Now we can see who is #1.

Well...

It took two weeks to contact every "good" barbarian that was left in Classic and try to get everyone to join in to the tournament. Lots of spammage. And then, on Sunday night... We met in a private channel.
DAMN PACKED.

Every realm in Diablo II has some kind of "duped godlies". Duped Godlies are made when someone finds something that is totally almost perfect in specifications. Then someone else tries to create a dupe hack. So then they take that "godly" rare item and duplicate it. Anyway..... In USEast we have our own dupes for barbs. Almost every "good" barbarian utilizes duped items. Some people are so rich they could even get items that are better than godlies and aren't duped.

ANYWAY, around 95% of the barbarians in this tournament were using dupes.

The main setup was...

Armor = Raven Flange 897 DEF 14 DEX 35 LIFE (Red) Ornate Plate /// Carrion Carapace 888 DEF 14 DEX 38 Mana (Blue) Ornate Plate
Helm & Shield = Sigon's Helm and Shield. These had Life Leech and if you combined two of them, your AR would go sky high. You also have good blocking because of the Sigon Shield. Also, it added +1 Skills.
Boots & Belt = 98% of the barbarians used Hsaru's Boot's and Belt. They were simply the best. When you combined two of them, you get sky high AR and DEFENSE (AR = Attack Rating).
Rings = Shadow Coil (13 Strength/13 Dex 6 LL Ring) , Bitter Turn (5 LL, 13 Str, 13 Dex, 13 Mana)
Gloves = Ghoul Finger (107 Defense, 19 Dex, some AR)
Sword = Soul Scratch (Best Name Ever) (137 1H Dmg, 256 2H Dmg +2 Barbarian Skills, Nat Life Leech, Socketed with Gem of Choice, Natural AR, Ahh this sword was THE BEST)

Anyway....

Everyone used the same gear and the levels ranged from 80 to 94. The best barbarians gathered around. Ahh...

So there we have it. Around 50-100 Barbarians using almost the exact gear. Some had some NON-DUPED, but you couldn't find a barbarian that DIDN'T use a DUPE.

We decided to have 1 Referee in Each game because each game was limited to 8 People. Ahh. We had like 20-40 games.

So it began, the first round. We also had a tournament chart setup on a website for this.

In Classic Diablo II around patch .08-.09, barbarians usually did their War Cries before they went into battle because it doubled their life, mana, for around 1 minute (depending on how much skill you put into it). After that, all you did was whirlwind each other until one or the other was dead. Oh, but it wasn't that boring. There is LIFE LEECH in which if you have a weapon and good attack rating, you can steal life back from the opponent while you whirlwind.

So, each battle was about 5 minutes and only around 50 barbarians stayed for more than 1 hour. Some couldn't wait. Ahh. I had won 4 rounds but then lost to a 93 barb. I was level 90. It was fun as hell.

The battles had a lot of drama. Ah it was fun...

The thing is, the 93 barb was Sharp_Knife. Sharp_Knife is also the same person who controls Sharp_Arrows, who was .08's first level 99 and he was an Amazon. This guy's strategy was MAD gay. I call this the pussy barb technique, because in order for it to work, the barbarian doing it would have to taunt the other barbarian into whirlwinding first. Thus, after the barbarian that whirlwinded , whirlwinded... The person that did the strategy would immediately whirlwind after the other finished. This was CHEAP.

Some of you may think this is smart. I say it's retarded and time consuming. THE GUY doesn't whirlwind WITH/AT YOU. He WAITS for you to whirlwind and gets the cheap hits. So I get pissed off, and wait 6 minutes for him to whirlwind first. He doesn't! I didn't have any patience so I just whirlwinded at him and he kept cheap/smart wwing me back. A few more of these and I was dead. Score was 3-2 and you had to be first to 3 to win.

So there, I lose in the tournament. BUT, who says I'm done?

When you are defeated, you can watch or you can leave. You can't compete in the tournament anymore. Anyway, after each round, the winners would go into private games where only they and the referees know the password.

So me and some other barbarians that got pissed off because of this Sharp_Knife guy chat while the remaining barbarians dueled. This guy had wasted a combined time of around 2 hours waiting for us to fVcking whirlwind. So, we decide to "RAID" the tournament. This is the FUNNEST PART. Almost everyone knows each other, so it was easy for us to contact the referee and get the password, because some of us knew him. Now, the funny part...

Just because he's a referee doesn't mean you can't hit him. So.. We stand on the border of Town and Rogue Encampment pretending we're watching. Then, we click on HOSTILE so we could attack them.

ROFL....I PK'd the referee and then the other barbs killed off the two barbs dueling. (In Diablo II, when you die, you go back to town and you have to go pick back your body up. If you rejoin, it will be in town) So, we "naked kill" the referee and the remaining barbarians for 5 minutes.

Then, they make another game. And, We crack the password to it.

Again, Again, Again, and Again... Until 4 hours later they cancel the tournament and I'm kicked off the computer by my Parents because I was on it for so damn long...

NOW THAT WAS FUN...

BTW: I haven't played Diablo II since January of 2004... Thanks to patch 1.10 that KILLED the game that came out on October 28, 2003.

I would have screenshots of it, if I didn't fVcking reformat the HD!
 
Getting it on with that elf chick in BG 2 then finding out I knocked her up! 🙂 Seriously (although that really does happen), I thought the romance stuff from that game was a fun distraction.
 
Tough to say:
Many moments in Windwaker (and other Zelda games too)
My first truly epic battle in Rome: Total War
My first time playing a FPS with Q3 test back in the summer of 99
CS 6.6 (and to some extent beta 7)
 
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