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Ocarina of time: first time exploring/seeing hyrule field

Mass Effect 2: shadow broker dlc... first seeing the shadow broker's ship and then running across it's surface and through it

Doom 2016: first level when you walk out on the martian surface... they just nailed the amount of detail on the terrain and I remember just looking at all the orange for way too long haha
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Even though I started gaming in the 80s with the NES, I would have to say that my first time playing phantasy star online, well, online, was the most mind-blowing for me.

No one me or the family knew had a PC with the internet in those days (and those online modems that released for the snes and genesis were nowhere in sight in south carolina. Even if they were, my family had no PC or anything to even take advantage of having the internet until the year 2,000), so online gaming was still a foreign concept to me.

Here comes the dreamcast with it's built in 56k modem. As a huge rpg fan, and someone that was curious on how an online rpg would work (I heard stories about how fun diablo 2 was for PC players, and wanted to try something like that on consoles), I went in completely blind and bought phantasy star online day 1 of it's NA release.

.....man, going online with PSO and popping my online gaming cherry had to be the most amazing gaming experience to me ever. Being make a class and play with 3 others, looking for rares, chatting with the keyboard, having a friends list....the addiction was real for a then 18 year old me. I never experienced anything like this ever, so I was constantly wanting to play this every single moment of the day.

My addiction actually got unhealthy for a good bit, but when it comes to gaming moments that made me jaw drop, first time online rpg gaming is definitely at the top of my list.
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The best thing about DKC's graphics are that they still look great now. Most early 3D graphics aged like milk.
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MedeaLysistrata posted...

Streets of Rage 2(?) when Mr. X sends you back to stage 6 depending on how you answer a question

i was playing co-op with my mom, and we got to the last level. i was mashing buttons to get through the dialogue faster, and she kept being like "hey, read what it says!" i ignored her then we got sent back

edit: this event made my draw drop because at my young age at the time, i could never even think of a video game doing something like that. always read the goddamn dialogue friendos.

Mastered copy: lol I said draw drop
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M&L:Bowser's Inside Story when the final boss shows up with this track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckxy-i7Dc5U" data-time="

I was just staring at my DS for a good 5 seconds.
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Alan Wake - the stadium level fight

Deadly Premonition - when you find out the truth about Zach

Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - Dunning being Osterzone

Max Payne 3 - the airport level fight
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I is smart posted...

I was just staring at my DS for a good 5 seconds.

...you mean in amazement, right? Because that's a killer track lol
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@DuranOfForcena posted...

inFamous, the revelation that Kessler is Cole from a ruined future timeline, come back to mold his past self into the savior he himself failed to be

Ctrl+F'd infamous, happy to have found this. There will never be a more mindfuck moment for me.
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Off the top of my head:
Devil May Cry 3, the first Vergil fight
Jak 2, Jak speaking
Ocarina of Time, how bittersweet the ending was
Using the nuke for the first time in Turok 2
Seeing Samus' reflection in Metroid Prime
The Deep Dive movie in Kingdom Hearts 1 (duel wielding was the coolest shit to me back then)
The original Bioshock trailer.
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when i saw 2b's ass & thighs

Oh, Disgaea! Chapter 8- Laharl throws a fit because his prinnies are leaving to go get reincarnated in the light of the Red Moon. When he finally succeeds in defeating the guardians, he discovers that one of the prinnies is his mom, who killed herself in a magic spell that saved his life. He relents.
Oh, and then there's Heav-err, Celestia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6a4EFa7wK8" data-time="
It's basically a 24/7 rave, I guess?
Oh...and this is bigger spoilers...
Mid-Boss is actually Laharl's dad watching over him.

Several times during the Halo games, though I can't remember specific ones atm.
In Breath of the Wild when you first get a glimpse of how truly massive the game is.
The first time fighting a dragon in Skyrim.
When you get rocket clubbed by a giant for the first time in Skyrim.
In WoW, it was several of the vistas in Pandaria that really wowed me mareep
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HairyThotter posted...

I is smart posted...

I was just staring at my DS for a good 5 seconds.

...you mean in amazement, right? Because that's a killer track lol

Oh yeah definitely, I was surprised that that kind of sound was coming from a DS.
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It's basically a 24/7 rave, I guess?
Oh...and this is bigger spoilers...
Mid-Boss is actually Laharl's dad watching over him.


Wait what the fuck

This is the first time I'm hearing this

Where did it confirm that
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davidg4l posted...

Spec-Ops: The Line

Oh man good one.

The whole game, really.
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idk, was going to say I couldn't think of anything, but probably at least the final colossus from Shadow of the Colossus (given how massive it is, even compared to the others; granted, that's in pure height rather than length) and then maybe the landscape from an Elder Scrolls game.
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Too many to name, but the immediate ones that come to mind are
Demon's Souls, facing the Tower Knight for the first time. All I could think was 'how the hell am I taking this guy down?'

Playing Super Mario 64 for the first time at Blockbuster. I had no idea how to move in 3 dimensions, and the controller wasn't intuitive. I came back at week later and I immediately felt like I was born with the game in my hands. Everything just clicked.

Got a 64 a few days later.
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sm64
Soul caliber ii
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Sans in Undertale. All I heard were rumors, and boy did he live up to the reputation. The fight starts with a simple yet foreboding "Here we go".
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I dropped my jaw (and controller) in shock at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4 when snake put the gun in his mouth and the shot sounded. They really let that moment sink in before revealing that he didn't do it.
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For me, it was the moment that didn't happen. When the PS3 was being released, there was a little game called Killing Day that was given a small trailer. Now at the time, the things in the game were pretty incredible. These days most of those things are commonplace.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I dropped my controller in shock at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4 when snake put the gun in his mouth and the shot sounded. They really let that moment sink in before revealing that he didn't do it.

Good. Good. No need for you to go just yet.
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FFVII has too many moments for me to list, and I've mentioned them plenty of times before.

For a more recent example, Portal 2.

"What? Are you still alive?! You are joking! You have got to be kidding me!
Well, I'm still in control, and I have no idea how to fix this place! Oh, you had to play bloody cat-and-mouse, didn't you?! While people were trying to work! Yeah, well, now all of us are going to pay the price, 'cause we're all gonna bloody die! Oh, brilliant, yeah!

Take one last look at your precious human moon, because it cannot help you now!"

If I were to illustrate manga-style my reaction, I would be placed in one of those black backgrounds with a shocked expression as I suddenly realized what I had to do. "No... No fucking way. It can't be..."

I slowly aimed the portal gun at the moon, and fired.
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Suikoden 2... Like what 100+ characters lol that have special combinations to attack...

Shit a link to the past when discovered there's a whole nother dark World

Ff7 .....we all know who died...

Metal gear solid...psychosis dude fight

Grand theft auto 3d lol...everything

Licker scene...Resident evil 2 original and I suppose remake...
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A certain character's sacrifice in Grandia 2
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ps3/360 gen: buying a game and finding out you need to pay more to unlocked content already on the disc.
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Hearthstone - Tried dungeon run solo game lost 5 times to final boss the exact same way:

Shit starting hand, mulligan, and first 5 turn card draws are 7-10 mana cards. While boss gets perfect mana curve. I uninstalled after this bullshit and left a 1 star review on play store.

I can handle losing because of being outplayed but losing because "Fuck you for not being a streamer and advertising our game for free on twitch!" well fuck you too Blizzard I will spend my time and money on games that are fun and require skill.

Battlefield - Ended up knifing an entire squad because the teammate the squad spawned on was running towards an objective and I was chasing him so they literally spawned in front of me one at a time.
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The first one to come to mind for me was Call of Duty 4.

The nuke going off and your American protagonist actually getting killed, and you having to play his last moments
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most recently for me was the stranger fight in god of war
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Voice Cast
Big Boss [Richard Doyle]

I freaked the fuck out.

oh yea,

Nier: Automata - the preview for Route C
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Thank you Mario!
But our princess is in another castle
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Stepping through the Dark Portal for the first time in World of Warcraft on The Burning Crusade launch day.
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MGS4 ending when its revealed that Big Boss is still alive.

jumi posted...

When you emerge from the dungeon/sewers in TESIV: Oblivion.

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I think most people figured it out before the reveal, but I was absolutely shocked at the identity of the man in the radio in Telltale's The Walking Dead's first season.
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MabusIncarnate posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

PMarth2002 posted...

Out of curiosity, for those who said FF7, was that your first FF game?

yes

Yeah it was, I grew up in the NES, SNES era also, I just never played one. I played a lot of Dragon Warrior and Crystalis for RPGs

Yes because VII was the first FF to come out in Europe.

For me Life is Strange Episode 4.
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All of Gears of War 2. That game was a mastahpiece.

Stepping out into the wild for the first time in Breath of the Wild.

Mario Odyssey - the 2D New Donk City party bit. That was amazing.
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The big plot reveal in Knights of the Old Republic.
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Seeing King Kong many years ago on the Xbix 360. The graphical quality was such a leap from the PS2/Xbox era that I didn't realize the cutscene had already ended.
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SNAKE, Insert controller one into port 2.

I was like WTFFFFFF
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Many of the summons in FF8. Also, Shiva in FF10, and all of the summons in FF15.

The beginning of Route C in Nier: Automata. I was like "Oh... So I guess everything before was just prologue."

And Super Mario Odyssey when Mario Cappy's Bowser and not only do you play as him but the music turns into a vocalized remix of his boss music from 64. I was so pumped!

There was a moment in Mass Effect, I think 3?. I was playing purely as a paragon the whole trilogy and at some point in the story Kai Leng fatally injures one of your crew members, eventually after the boss fight with him, I was watching the cutscene after and a RENEGADE prompt came up but because I was so drawn into it, I just kinda freaked out and slapped it by accident without realizing what it was. The ONE evil deed my Shepard ever did was stabbing that bastard to death. It was kind of amazing, like killing his friend was the one thing he couldn't Superman his way through. "That was for Thane, you son of a bitch."

When I played The Darkness, after either a loading screen or a cutscene (I forget which), the game puts you in the subway. It looked so good I didn't realize it was gameplay so after about 20 seconds of nothing happening, I tapped the joystick and was like "Ohhhh!".

Hitman: Blood Money. The Mardi Gras level, I think that was the first time I had seen that particular technology used to put so many NPCs in one place at a time, it was pretty jawdropping and I kinda take it for granted these days.

Obviously there are many more, just trying to add ones I haven't seen in here already.
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MGS2.

I was like 10 years old when I first played it.

When the Colonel told me to turn the console off I actually did, I was freaked out

- Finding Hyrule Castle in Wind Waker
- The title sequence in Assassin's Creed Unity, which was one of my first open world games
- Realizing how fucking big the map in The Crew is
- The end of episode 3 (maybe it was 4?) in Life is Strange
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Oh yeah, Life is Strange has some good ones, like when you're talking the girl down from suicide and you can't use your time power mechanic. If you wanted to save her you either had to have stopped to talk to her AND remembered what she said and looked at the items in her room, or you get extremely lucky. I was surprised at that being in there.
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Dead Rising 2: that betrayer security guard dude shooting the cute reporter chick in the face (IIRC).
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BioShock.

Y'all already know.
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Fairly recent game.

Nier Automata - That final gameplay segment where it's switching between 9S and A2 at ever increasing speeds, Bipolar Nightmare playing in the background. As if its a race to the top of the tower.
It sounds like a bad concept on paper, but it was executed masterfully and is probably my favorite moment in gaming

massive Nier Automata spoilers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf_9h70_FKg" data-time="&start=1745
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