Current Events > Moments in gaming that made your jaw drop?

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Like, moments that impressed you so much that you still remember them.

For me, chronologically:

1) Donkey Kong Country: Its ACM graphics and multiple parallax scrolling were just amazing. Add to that the storm, snow and water effects and you got a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

2) Killer Instinct (arcade) - Basically same experience as DKC but bigger

3) Super Mario 64: Coming from SNES games, seeing the lakitu cam move through the actual gameplay world while "filming" made my jaw drop.

4) Batman - gamecube: Coming from N64 games, I finally experienced a game with CD quality cinemas and audio. The cinema where the joker says "Mary had a little boy, whose neck was on the noose! FOr every ___, the joker lights a fuse! - J" in actual Mark Hamil voice acting was amazing

5) Bioshock - just when I thought no game would ever shock me with is graphics, this game came out,... it was amazing.

the first time you lay eyes on the minotaur in Shadow of the Colossus....and also every subsequent boss (barring those 2 dainty fuckin boar shits)
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Massive spoiler for FFVII. It was shocking at the time.
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dreamcast launch day. soul calibur and nfl 2k were pretty huge leaps.
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dib153 posted...

the first time you lay eyes on the minotaur in Shadow of the Colossus....and also every subsequent boss (barring those 2 dainty fuckin boar shits)

oh yes!

The graphics in Uncharted 4. Particularly in Madagascar.
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The 2nd half of MGS2
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dib153 posted...

the first time you lay eyes on the minotaur in Shadow of the Colossus....and also every subsequent boss (barring those 2 dainty fuckin boar shits)

Lairen posted...

Massive spoiler for FFVII. It was shocking at the time.

These immediately sprang to mind when I read the topic title.

Also, Let it go from KH3 but for the wrong reasons. I kept thinking Why did they have to put the whole fucking song in?.

Finally playing mgs2 on release day. I didn't have a PS2 yet so I went to a friend's house to play it and I refused to go past the tanker area until I got my PS2 a few months later.

Also Christmas day when I got my PS2 and played gta3 for the first time. i was absolutely shocked by the 3d world. i dont think I could ever recreate the amazement.
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The 13th Colossus in Shadow of the Colossus
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Shadow of the Colossus wins this easily for me, with three different moments.

The first one of course.
The last one at its sheer size

And than Avion for a giant stone bird being able to fucking fly. Hitching a ride on it, trying to stab the thing to death while it does barrel rolls trying to shake you off is just such a damn epic moment. I remember pausing the game and thinking this is the single coolest thing i've ever experienced in a videogame.
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when you know who dies in FF7

when I was playing Gran Turismo 2 and hurled my car into another car in a corner at 180mph and my car bounced straight up in the air about 50 feet
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Last of us
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Out of curiosity, for those who said FF7, was that your first FF game?
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Diago going ham in SF3
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Most of my jaw dropping moments are either "Oh, come on! The boss has another form?" or "I won...? I won!"

The first time playing NHL 98 on Playstation, the first 3d hockey game I ever played.

Also the original Resident Evil, some of those guardians in FFVII, and Knights of the Old Republic conclusion.
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When you emerge from the dungeon/sewers in TESIV: Oblivion.
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PMarth2002 posted...

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

yes
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Many of the early gaming days though to not be specific
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dib153 posted...

the first time you lay eyes on the minotaur in Shadow of the Colossus....and also every subsequent boss (barring those 2 dainty fuckin boar shits)

jumi posted...

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

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Seeing the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey.
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When you leave Los Santos in GTA San Andreas

And you're driving

And you reach San Fierro and it's a whole new city to drive around in and you're like "holy shit"
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Ocarina of Time. Watched my buddy play the final boss and at the time I've never played a n64 i owned a SNES.

I was amazed that he was actually playing a video game it looked epic at the time.

Metroid Prime was another one my first gamecube game (I skipped from owning a SNES to a GC) that game looked gorgeous and the game had a detailed and lively world/environment i was sucked into its world. Great gaming experience.

Finally I'd probably say Fallout 3. I've esenever played a open world rpg like that so my mind was blow especially after leaving the vault entering a whole new world I really had no idea what to expect that universe was new to me at the time. These kind of moments are hard to recapture but these 3 games really changed my out look on gaming.
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When it was revealed in Assassin's Creed 3 that Haytham and friends were Templars

The train level in Uncharted 2

The final boss fight in Assassin's Creed 2

The nuke scene in Call of Duty 4
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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
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Everything about The Last of Us
The good ending to Red Dead 2
How shit the ending of MK11 was
The awesome scene in Claire's game in Remake 2 before she fights Birkin with the original soundtrack. Goosebumps every time.
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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.
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AvantgardeAClue posted...

When it was revealed in Assassin's Creed 3 that Haytham and friends were Templars

I just played through 3 and that totally came out of left field.
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AC3 plot twist
Phantasy Star III plot twist
When Colossus 1 turned his head and his eyes turned red
"Out of my way, human, or die!" (and freaking everything else about The Journeyman Project)
MGS1 elevator cutscene/title drop
MGS1 hind flyover cutscene (dat vibration)
MGS1 tank intro cutscene
MGS1 Sniper Wolf death
MGR Monsoon fight
KH2 final boss
KH Days, this one seriously underrated dialog between (IIRC) Demyx and Xigbar
I never actually played this one, but The Last Guardian when Trico rescues you from the stained glass shield bearers
When you summon Odin against Seifer
The abduction in ME2
The cutscene after the Bane fight in Arkham Asylum (probably the biggest ever for me)
The collapsing building in Uncharted 2
The collapsing tower in Tibet in Uncharted 2
The obvious parts in Uncharted 3.
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The end of Half life 2, episode 2
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I remember being impressed when I saw Link: the Faces of Evil in a store.

Chronolocical order...

Star Fox for SNES, and then Donkey Kong Country.

Playing Tekken in the arcades, sometime around 1995 or so. Such a huge leap over Street Fighter, it just blew my mind.

Decent and Half Life 1 on the PC, after buying a "Voodoo 3" 3dfx video card to upgrade my Pentium 2. I'd never experienced anything like it, and I instantly lost interest in my N64. Suddenly, Ocarina of Time, Turok, and Super Mario 64 looked 20 years old in a blink of an eye.

Seeing Anor Lando for the first time

Solid and Liquid being brothers

John Marston being killed

Meeting Solas at the end of Dragon Age Inquisition: Trespasser

All of Bloodborne.

Ending of Oxenfree

Ending of Last of Us

Seeing the Colusses in SotC
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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

I played FFIX first, but it was the first FF game where something like that happens.

Honestly, it only ever happened the same way in 5 and 6 before that, and not in the same capacity.

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

yeah Dragon Warrior was the first RPG I ever beat.
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Chrono Trigger: Crono dying was a real curve-ball. Even today, I can't think of many RPGs that kill off the main character
FFVII: Aeris' death, obviously, but also the entire sequence with Tifa in Cloud's head. That's a really heavy sequence that basically finally solves the mystery of what happened in Nibelheim and the mystery of what Cloud's deal is
Super Mario RPG: Wait...Bowser is in my party? He's working with Mario!? This. Is. AMAZING.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms VI: Wait...there's an event chain for the Girdle Decree plot that I've never seen?*
*This requires a number of things to happen starting from the 194 scenario that are highly unlikely to all happen.

Freespace 2: Pretty much everything about the Colossus and Sathanas
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Hexenherz posted...

AvantgardeAClue posted...

When it was revealed in Assassin's Creed 3 that Haytham and friends were Templars

I just played through 3 and that totally came out of left field.

In a good way for you or bad lol

Back in 2012 nobody saw it coming
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Jet Moto - jumping off the waterfall for the first time on the Blackwater Falls course
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Seeing Anor Lando for the first time

Ooh that is a good one. Was like whoa.
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NES4EVER posted...

Finally playing mgs2 on release day. I didn't have a PS2 yet so I went to a friend's house to play it and I refused to go past the tanker area until I got my PS2 a few months later.

Also Christmas day when I got my PS2 and played gta3 for the first time. i was absolutely shocked by the 3d world. i dont think I could ever recreate the amazement.

I got dkc on Xmas. I know the feeling...

AvantgardeAClue posted...

Hexenherz posted...

AvantgardeAClue posted...

When it was revealed in Assassin's Creed 3 that Haytham and friends were Templars

I just played through 3 and that totally came out of left field.

In a good way for you or bad lol

Back in 2012 nobody saw it coming

I didn't see it coming either. I had played 4 first so the Haytham name rang a bell and so did the ending credit scene in 4 where you're at the cinema with your son.

So the fact that he was a Templar really shocked me, especially since you're using the wrist blades and climbing to synchronize and stuff.

There were some moments in online games that always got me.

In the multiplayer FPS-RTS "Natural Selection", one team plays as Marines who get their gear from a commander and one team plays as aliens who get resources from their team and they can evolve their own abilities and stuff. And one of the late game evolutions is called an Onos, it's basically a giant rhino thing and if it catches you and eats you you're done. Virtually *every* time I saw that thing I felt this adrenaline rush as I tried to run to the nearest air vent before it could reach me. Or if it did eat me I was hoping my team would kill it while I was still alive in its stomach (you saw a weird screen of a moving stomach lining when it swallowed you).

And Left 4 Dead 2, when you're on that finale and you have like thirty seconds left, then twenty, then ten, then you're running to the landing zone and ... your teammate goes down and you gotta leave them behind. That was always tragic af but the timing always contributed to the atmosphere.
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Stumbling upon Ash Lake comes to mind
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jumi posted...

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

Oh yeah, for sure.

"It looks real!"
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Oh yeah, speaking of final fantasy games.

FF4: Going to the fucking moon. Okay, granted I was like 7 or 8 when I played it the first time.
FF6: An entire goddamn continent is torn out of the ground and sent floating in the sky, and than Kefka decimates the world's population shortly afterwards
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Bioshock Infinite - First discovering Columbia
GTA: San Andreas - My first experience playing a sandbox game coincides with that game being one of the best in its genre. I was like "you can do these things in a videogame???!!"
Dota, Tekken, Hearthstone - Awesome plays, strange interaction, etc. from tournament matches.
Spec-Ops: The Line - I spoiled the white phosporus scene, which is a shame. But the rest of the game still pulls off many surprises.
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