Current Events > What are your most memorable "Oh, wow" moments in gaming?

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As in, what moments most stick out in your memory as truly great events, where you think that the industry took a big step forward that permanently got etched in your memory.

For me, there are three big ones that stand out for me.

1) In Chrono Trigger, when I first entered a gate. Just the tunnel and the lines going back and forth shocked my young mind, and I still remember thinking, "graphics can't possibly get better than this" for some reason.

2) Playing GTA3 and hitting a hooker with a bat repeatedly. That was really my introduction to sandbox gaming and the realization, "oh, you can do anything? Awesome!"

3) Playing Fallout 3 and nuking Megaton. Was initially playing the game and thinking that it was lackluster, and then that just was like event #2 on steroids for me and transformed the experience permanently.
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FFVII, there's a background early in Midgar that is just gorgeous. I played it for the first time in 2013 on my ps3, fully expecting everything to look like shit but that background still floored me with how good it looked.


I thought fighting Killer Croc in the sewers of Arkham Asylum was pretty scary.
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that scene at the end of CoD MW2 where you pull a knife out of your leg and throw it in the dude's eye, i remember thinking that was the sickest shit ever
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