Five Of My Favorite Moments In Gaming
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- Talking about a few moments across several games that I thought were great or simply had a big impact on me.
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Pathfinder: WotR
02:19 BG3
05:15 DOS2
07:17 Rogue Trader
09:31 Starfield
12:18 Wrap Up
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I love it when Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous makes one of your lists! One of my favorite moments in gaming was the big reveal in KOTOR 1 playing it the first time. I was blown away.
My pick as well. I didn't have to scroll down very much to find it!
I just posted mine right above! Lol! I sat there for several minutes in awe of that reveal. And the way they showed that the clues were there all along! Awesome writing!
So true! This plot twist made this game my nr.1 favorite game. Imagine my joy when remake was announced. Sad part is as we all know, there were some issues with its development and we still don't know much about it. I often think that maybe it would be for the best to not release this remake as I am worried it may end up being really bad in the end...
At the end of act 1 I knew it was the game I wanted since BG2
My favourite moment in Pathfinder wotr was the final fight of act 1.
The first time I played that part I was really worried how I would be able to defeat Minahgo on top of the grey garrison, as I got there by the skin of my teeth. And then you get your fist mythic level, a ludicrus buff, the mythic theme starts playing and Minahgo starts panicking. I never experienced such a great power fantasy in any game before, and the phrase "You look at her and feel like a titan gazing down at an ant" has been burned into my mind ever since.
-Nier automata : the credits. Weird choice for anyone who hasn't played the game to this point I suppose, otherwise you know why.
-Mass effect 3 the whole krogan mission : learning the past of the race, witnessing a kaiju battle between a reaper and the mother of all thresher maws while trying not to get stomped, seeing the end of Modin's arc... and all that with the 1st game's best companion : Wrex.
-Kotor 1 : the big plot twist, and to a lesser extent the same in Jade empire
-Divinity 2 (the dragon knight one) : whenever I can taunt a certain boss with "Maxos!" and jumping from cliffs to turn into a dragon mid-fall
-the Mr Freeze fight in Arkham city : it makes you feel smart in a game mostly about punching people
Yeah, man, the Krogan mission in ME3 is genuinely phenomenal. The Rannoch mission is damn near as good, too, especially if you can save both the Quarians and the Geth. Staring down the Reaper with the laser target designator, Legion's sacrifice, trash talking the dying Reaper, all great shit.
The entirety of Nier Automata was pretty much a wow moment for me, vibes of the game are unmatched
"Would you kindly?" is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about this topic for myself!
Yup, have to admit, that was a bit of a mind fuck for me as well.
Yeah probably the most unexpected moment in gaming for me. Wish I could play it for the first time again.
Planescape: Torment and the the conversation with Ravel about the nature of man fundamentally altered the course of my life. It radically changed my outlook on life and was liberating like a great book. Also, More, Annah, Fall-From-Grace, Nordom... anyways, that one moment in a sea of moments. Great channel, love your work!
I thought I was the only one ! That was indeed one very profound encounter and very memorable!
I remember realizing who the Deva was that you're freeing and having a really shocking sensation. Also at the end of the game if you kept the yellow ball thing
I love the premise of this video! Thanks for sharing! Here are some of mine:
1. The last level of *Halo 3* when you're in the warthog, the floor is falling down, and you and all your friends have to GTFO. One of my favorite campaign moments ever.
2. When the game asks you to "wait for Shadow" in *Final Fantasy 6.* I thought that was really clever. I also really loved the moment when Sabin joins back up post-apocalypse. Everyone else makes you do a side quest, but Sabin's the only real one who just joins up with you just because you asked.
3. The *Mass Effect 2* intro was killer
4. Arthur's conversation with sister Calderon in *RDR2* is the best acted scene in video game history, and I loved that moment.
Why was the me2 intro killer? They kill the protag for shock value then instantly revive him...not trying to be an arse but genuinely curious.
The reveal who you really are in KotOR 1. While I already know /what/ will happen ( thx Internet), I had no idea /how/ well all little hints and nods were sewn in into the story. Truly, it is one of the best plot twists of all the time.
The "Kaiser Soze" moment I like to call it.
- Meeting the Master in Fallout 1
- Loghain's betrayal in DA: Origins
- The fall of Haven in DA: Inquisition and the journey to The Keep
- First meeting a Reaper and the conversation with it in Mass Effect 1
- TES IV: Oblivion: The entire Dark Brotherhood questline, leading to The Purification; the butterfly opening to the Shivering Isles DLC
- The Fallout 3 tutorial, ending with the Vault door opening; plus the "Oasis" sidequest and blowing up Megaton.
- Fallout 4: The Prydwen's arrival in The Commonwealth; and arriving in Far Harbor - that entire DLC is one of my favourites ever
- Cyberpunk 2077's corpo opening
- The opening to Pillars of Eternity 1 is very simple, but it resonates a lot with me for some reason. It's incredibly... cozy. It helps that I really like Eora.
But I've been playing a lot of Starfield lately, and it has a bunch for me, besides the best one that one you've mentioned (spoilers below):
- I really liked The Hunter character, his variations and his interactions with the player. I especially liked his drawings that he did as The Pilgrim, with his investigation on the Artifacts and most notably the drawings of the people and societies he influenced across the multiverse. It's some good worldbuilding that isn't shown directly to the player, but is there for those that look for it.
- The main quest's final "boss fight" where you're jumping across the multiverse fighting both The Hunter and The Emissary (I'm not sure if the fight is the same if you side with one of them), sometimes with gravity shifting. This is easily my favourite Bethesda boss fight ever.
- The "Eye of the Storm" Crimson Fleet quest is set in a great location, with the electromagnetic storm and the adrift ship - plus once you get the treasure and you have to escape an exploding ship.
The moment you get to talk to a reaper in Mass Effect 1. The game had a lot of moments that really gripped me. I started playing it in the evening and at 10AM I just had to go to bed.
it gripped me as well and I just played through Mass Effect 1 for the first time a year ago lol
1) Arcanum: when you discover the actual identity of the game's antagonist. 2) Thief Deadly Shadows: The Shalebridge Cradle and the reveal at the end of that mission. 3) Getting to the neutral ending in Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl after getting the bad ending first XD
For me, my favourite moment from BG3 was the 'Devil' Song, its was surprising, funny, and completely nuts. In a game of many highlights, its funny that is what I remember the most. Though i have to give my 'topical favourite moment' to Bungie, for it's final Destiny mission and the chill moments after. A perfect way to end the ten year journey.
Same!
"Devil" song one of the best track made in the history of gaming !
Same!
Yeah, best marvel movie of all time!
Raphael singing his own boss fight music was amazing. And something that guy would do.
The end of Persona 3 moved me more than any piece of media ever has. I’ll never forget watching it for the first time and completely sobbing during Aigis’ monologue.
100%, reload hurts just as much
Ffs I just wrote the same thing. Time to play Memories of You and cry folks.
Yeah I started the persona series from 5 and then played 4, I thought the MC in 3 would be happy and live on with his friends like them...😢 was very sad when the realization hits
@@TheVegoran playing 5 then go straight to 3 was my biggest mistake. The Post-Persona Depression is real.
Cool video! Two of my fav are when Geralt, Eskel and Lambert get drunk in Witcher 3 and the party at Shepard's apartment in Mass Effect 3.
Both are so memorable
All those years and I still haven't played ME3 DLCs.
@@RAD1111ableI'd consider the series incomplete without those!
My favourite moment (and it's not even close) is THE moment in Star Wars: KOTOR. I had to sit back a few minutes to fully comprehend that the game had toyed with me until then and that I am really stupid.
One of my favorite moments dates back to 1997, Fallout 1. I had managed to sneak down into the lowest levels of the Mariposa military base without getting seen. It hadn't been easy, took a lot of patience and felt like a real achievement. Then, out of nothing, the game tells me I get 1000 xp for sneaking into this base without getting seen. The context of this: to me, authentic roleplaying means to avoid fighting if you can, and to this day I hate it that you mostly get xp for, well, fighting, and nothing for what any reasonable human being would do, ie. avoid fighting if it can be done without compromising your higher goal. Fallout was the first game to acknowledge this and also reward a playstyle that has been my favorite from the start, and for a long time it remained the only one.
I seem to remember Deus Ex gave more rewards for stealth and finding new areas as opposed to blasting your way through
I did a Human Revolution run with no kills, no alarms raised and another stealth achievement on the hardest difficulty. One of my proudest moments.
@@jekw23 DX:HR rewarded stealth runs with xp and achievements (and yes, I know it feels to get those achievements on the highest difficulty, since I did the same), but it's from 2011, 14 years after Fallout, and the original Deux Ex from 1999 did not. It rewarded exploration, but not stealth.
@@Asankeket suspected that. Been so long since I played the original. Interesting point about Fallout as I had no idea about stealth rewards (or not that big at least)
I had the same reaction to the heatleeches. As soon as it was revealed I immediately thought of every moment you arrive at a space port and hear the engineers complaining about the leeches, even from the very beginning of the game. Excellent foreshadowing. It's definitely a big "oh no, they're everywhere!" realization
My favorite moment in Wrath of the Righteous is the conversation with Areelu Vorlesh at the end of Act 3 where... and forgive any spoilers here...
Areelu takes the Magical 2×4 of Subtle Thematic Emphasis and carefully shoves it through your computer screen and smacks you across the face!
Never have I seen a game so masterfully tell you, the player:
"This is what this game, this story, is all about."
It is delivered perfectly, and timed in just the way to make every decision you've made, and every decision you're going to make, suddenly have multiple layers of meaning.
That conversation refrained the entire game & I absolutely love it!
A classic example of "whoa" moments for me in gaming, is in the original Homeworld game. Everything in the first 3 missions just sold me on that concept, to the point where I kind of consider that all one sequence. From the beautiful flyby of the Mothership, with Adagio with Strings playing in the background, to the whole concept of these people making this ship in the hopes of staving off extinction, to it being controlled by a woman who has fused her nervous system with the ship, making it a living vehicle (Giving the whole term Mothership more meaning, considering she's carrying hundreds of thousands of her people inside her mechanical womb, for colonization). To the first jump test, and the dread of seeing the Mothership coming into the foreground when the enemy POV approaches, to the shot when you re-emerge over your world, to see the northern icecap (the only habitable zone left) completely burning). The shock and disbelief in Karen S'jet's voice when she reports the devastation. It just hit me to my core. It was one of those times where I had a genuine emotional reaction to a video game, when I saw that they had glassed our planet's population, and now we were all that was left. That scene has stayed with me for 20+ years. Very powerful.
To be honest my favorite part of WOTR was the ending quest for the Romance of Arueshalae. It was the first time I've ever consider something like a romance in games, and was expecting a sort of more "oh she's the succubus you have lots of 'cheap body-to-body interaction'" type of quest, but in the end, I've accompanied a really complex, well written and interesting character, struggling with her past into the path of, until now, unheard of redemption. And I realize: I care about her and this makes me happy. I was blown away
Thanks for reminding me that Starfield, despite all the naysaysers, has a well-earned top spot on my to-play-list once I get some real life stuff sorted out.
its a solid 7.5 with some enjoyable aspects
Two moments I loved, from Wrath of the Righteous and Baldur's Gate 3 are when you play the Azata path, and go into the demon city slave market. That moment when you have the choice to unleash the power of the Azata (the beings of freedom and liberation) in a demonic slave market, was just awesome. Genuinely tearjerking for me. Between the way the music plays in that triumphant register, as you draw down the power into that den of evil, and all the slaves break free, the various demons either die, or are debuffed as a power directly opposed to them begins to take dominance, while your character stands there, arms up, weaving the power around them before engaging combat like "Alright bitches!! Time for some payback!" That was just freaking awesome to me.
A similar scene in BG 3 for me was towards the end of Act 2, when you are dealing with the Nightsong. All the dramatic, ominous buildup as you descend into the depths of the god of secrets, with Shadowheart constantly spouting her religious fervor, while you KNOW something really bad is building. But then, when she turns away from the dark, and tosses away the spear, and the Nightsong regains her power, and flies over the Shadowlands, purging the corruption with light. Just....damn. I'm a sucker for story elements where the theme is the cleansing of corruption and decay, but the sequence of her flying over on a beacon of light, while the soundtrack plays those triumphant horns, signaling the restoration of something beautiful, while the various NPCs look up at her passing, with renewed hope and determination. Just.....hell yes. That's the kind of shit that makes me love gaming.
Okay. They definitely added that after I played the game because after rescuing Aivu from being kidnapped I walked outside and the whole damn place turned hostile. One of the hardest fights in the game because everyone turned hostile completely unexpectedly. Had to reload like 4 times and cheese the hell out of it.
That Wrath of the Righteous moment is one for me as well, especially since I just replayed it myself a couple of days ago. There are some other grand moments there as well such as the Angel mythic paths final encounter with Deskari or Azata getting angry at the Fleshmarkets.
As a boring person, the next game that came to my mind was Dragon Age 2 with the final discussion with Arishok being an easy one, but the destruction of the Chantry is such a grand moment for me. Although the thing that always sticks to my mind is when playing the final fight with Meredith for the first time and suddenly realizing the smaller slave statues had started to move.
Do not know how they specify the genre, but in Horizon Zero Dawn when Aloy learns what Zero Dawn actually was. Or when she shouts at the Nora to stop bowing at her.
And finally my list would never be complete without the Mass Effect Trilogy. While there are so many epic moments there, for me that final culmination of assaulting Earth just keeps coming back to me. "There is no Shepard without Vakarian", the farewell to Liara, Shepard forcing themselves to the beam, "You did good, child. I'm proud of you." Just so many choices to choose from there.
For me:
-First time seeing Tekken 3 (the game that made me a gamer)
-Aerith death in original FFVII
-Finding DoS2, it made me believe that great games can happen even nowadays even if its extremely rare.
That was my favorite story line in Starfield. I was NOT expecting that.
The final reveal of Outer Wilds. Basically the whole ending.
Some if my coolest experiences in gaming have been in starfield, so glad you added it and can’t wait until you talk about shattered space!
My favorite experience was the terrormorph stuff aswell.
My favorite moment in Starfield was the end of the crimson fleet quest line, I thought it was just gonna be me and 2 other ships in space fighting, but once I really got a chance to look around it felt like a giant star wars battle and really showed the potential of how grand the game could be
Spoilers ahead for Knight of The Old Republic. To this day, one of my favorite moments in gaming happened about 20 years ago. When i played KOTOR for the first time and the plot twist occurect, I was absolutely blown away. The reveal that you are Darth Revan blew my young mind to pieces lol. It was how it was revealed as well that still sticks with me. The fact that they rewind and you show you all the hints that were dropped on you during your playthrough and then the cutscene of revan removing his mask... pure perfection!
"If you don't want to hear this, skip off". Was I just insulted? LOL loved that line!
Tried to say skip ahead/click off at the same time and decided to just keep it in lol
my favourite moment (this year) is when helldivers stood up against sony and made them back down on psn requirement for steam players. the game isn't available for sale on a lot of countries, where psn service doesn't exist for some reason or another, but i still see this as a huge win. for liber-tea!
My jaw dropped hard during the reveal of the origins of the terrormorphs. I played the UC questline near the end of my playthrough and by then I had been playing over a hundred hours. I had always wondered why terrormorphs ALWAYS showed up where humans are no matter how remote the location, I was mindblown that it was heatleeches all along because NPCs always said they were harmless (other than the "sucking your ship's power dry" part).
Yeah I think they do such a great job of building up that moment by making them just a thing you see and hear a lot of even outside of the questline. I had just chalked them up to space rats basically before that.
Some of my favorite moments in spoiler free fashion...
- Trails in the Sky First Chapter - The ending.
- Trails in the Sky 3rd Chapter - Kevin's backstory
Honestly all five could be from the Trails franchise so I'll leave it there. That series just had so many character moments and interactions both dramatic and mundane that I loved.
- Warcraft 3 - The ending of the human campaign and its transition to the start of the undead campaign.
- RE4 survive the cabin invasion with your allies.
- FF1 Building a bridge after defeating Garland. This might not be my first favorite moment in gaming but its the earliest one that comes to mind that still resonates with me when replaying the game as an adult.
Some of my absolute all time favorites:
DA: Inquisition - After Haven falls, the scene in the snow. Never felt so responsible for digital people before.
Dark Souls - Reaching the bottom of Ash Lake. Stunning,
Mass Effect - So many, gosh.. Vigil, the Suicide Mission, the Genophage and Quarian conflict endings.
Hollow Knight - Every time I found out the game just kept going, there was always another area. The abyss most of all, learning who the Knight is.
"No cost too great."
*goosebumps*
I fully am on thesame page with wrath and Rogue Trader. Both those moments were so absolutely epic. The RT one in particular filled me with pure DREAD.
Agree with that starfield moment, it's the most memorable quest from the game. I wouldn't mind if the main quest revolve around that Terrormorph quest.
A moment I will always love in gaming that has been burned into my brain and memory for as long as I live is when you step out of the cave in Skyrim or out of the vault in fallout 3...seeing the sky after being locked up for a hour. It was amazing
1. Nier Automata - Ending E.
2. FF XIV: Shadowbringers - the final moments of the story. I can't NOT remember them.
3. Witcher 3 - Finding Ciri.
4. Fallout 3 - Leaving the Vault.
5. Planescape: Torment - "what can change the nature of a man?" - the moment someone actually asks that question to your character.
I have to admit, WOTR left a very strong impression on me from that very beginning of your mythic ascension, but I found that scene "near" the end of the game incredibly powerful, when you have a choice to become the Legend, without spoiling too much, and btw, that Aurora fight in RT was a pretty solid "build-check" and a real test for the player to see if you've gotten the hang of the mechanics, movement and positioning etc. Great work from Owlcat really.
A bunch from Red Dead and RDR 2, usually involving death. But I love the house building event in RDR2, just fun and so tonally different than most of the game.
I have two moments that come to mind. Both are similar, and both had me picking my jaw off the floor, staring at the screen for a good couple of minutes after, thinking about how masterfully crafted the moment was, how much work went into it and how unique games are as an artistic medium.
First one was in Witcher 3, Priscilla's performance of the song Wolven Storm. It just hit right, I was incredibly immersed in the moment.
Second one was just now, in cyberpunk's 2077 phantom liberty dlc. The party at the top of the skyscraper... There's a song accompanied by holographic performance with a dancer... I couldn't take my eyes off it.
Personally, not in particular order my top 5 moments on top of my head would be
- wrath of the righteous choosing your mythic path in the end of the second act
- fighting Ifrit then acquiring it in ff8 (one of my favourite childhood moments)
- going out of the dungeon in oblivion for the first time to be in the middle of the map to choose wherever to go.
-ff12 beating Exodus for the first time ( for some reason this esper in particular I struggled with when I played the game the first time, maybe I was too low level)
- winning our first bastion in Revelation Online (MMO) in an epic last minute fight between 3 alliances.
Way back when I was making videos myself, I had a “Epic Videogame Moments” series. Lame name even for the time, but I love the idea of focusing on feeling in a game, especially as a first time player. Wouldn’t mind seeing more of these from you, maybe an updated version in the future!
Many favorite moments over the years. But one more recently: breaking the last seal in The Last Spell.
From the map that is different from all the others to the tough as nails boss that took quite a few tries to beat, and the cutscene that followed..
Felt like a great conclusion to a long, grueling, nail-biting journey to survive the horrors of the night.
10/10.
I completely agree with the part of the terromorph mission and you took the words out of my mouth with how you described it. I found that really cool and it really does explain why a lot of the settlements are not all that built up yet
One of the few recent ones that came to me is when i was playing divinity 2 and i discovered the teleport gloves and realizing you can pretty much go around with this one tool. It opened so many ideas and a ton of fun just messing around with... From there ive played all the divinity and now BG3.
One of my favorite moments i havent seen anyone mention was when you first transformed into a dragon in Divinity 2 Ego Draconis.
You just had a difficult bossfight in thr tower, and then suddenly become a dragon to fight off the black ring.
Alan Wake 'we sing' section, has to be one of my most surprising and amazing bits of gaming in a long time
When you first speak to the Reapers in ME1 is one of my favorite moments.
Wrath of the Righteous was also the first place my mind went when I read the title of this video. I'll always remember that first taste of mythic power along with that incredible soundtrack.
Love these, here's my 5 in no particular order:
1. Mass Effect 3 - the moment you realise Legion must die in order to upgrade the Geth
2. Wasteland 3 - the moment when Blood of the Lamb starts playing during the first serious fight just after the tutorial phase
3. BG3 - Same as you, Alfira. Also the redemption and resurrection after defeating Orin as the Dark Urge
4. World of Warcraft - entering Stormwind city for the first time
5. Temple of Elemental Evil - the fight against High Priest Hedrack in the Temple
Shodan's reveal in System Shock 2 was mind blowing for me as a kid. Especially since I never played the first one so she was almost mythical to that point.
Stepping into sovengard during Skyrim was a big moment from my childhood the music and the presentation. And the whole experience of BG3
5:16 I still can't believe how many people who absolutely adores Baldur's Gate 3 *never touched & still haven't played Divinity: Original Sin 2.* The experiences in gameplay & story are so nearly identical but D:OS2 runs so much more remarkably smooth on so many systems (including ones that can barely handle BG3, like the Steam Deck) it still just boggles the mind outright; even after playing BG3, D:OS2 doesn't feel like a "downgrade" in any way & it often costs 1/5th the price, plus BG3 is so much less challenging, it's almost a perfect precursor to D:OS2 for anyone who finished BG3. If you loved BG3, you'll very likely adore D:OS2, make no mistake. 🤷🤷♂🤷♀🤷♀
I’m not that surprised. BG3 is more accessible, dare I say “flashy”, and it is based in Dungeons and Dragons which already has a huge fandom and familiarity. I can see a lot of people not being into DOS2 because they don’t wanna learn a new system, or because it doesn’t have cutscenes.
I agree that they are missing out, though.
@@FernandoIncetta To be clear, DOS2 is also inescapably based in D&D & even a remarkably similar rule set, a near-identical UI (rather than a new system), etc.; I'm not sure many people who loved BG3 enough to play through it wouldn't love DOS2 but never noticed it years ago in the first place, notably for how much vastly smoother it runs by comparison & the difficulty difference.
@@Greydawg I hope they play it! DOS2 is beautiful and Larian deserves all the love ❤️
All time moment for me was SW: KOTOR, the big twist reveal! Jaw dropping cool!!!
When Bioware was at its peak (Dragon Age Origins and Mass Effect 2 IMO) they had a lot of epic moments. Even though it was a bit rough, the Mass effect 1 moment where you are driving the Mako through a gauntlet of geth into the portal to arrive at the citadel was a big hype moment for me. And Dragon Age Origins when you bring all the races together for the final battle against the Archdemon.
Im with you on that list but mine are:
DAO- When you go below Orzammar and start hearing the talking from the dwarf who became a brood mother.
FF Tactics-when you meet Belias
Nwn1-When you find out Aribeth betrays you.
Ff13-Bartandalus fight
Ds2-Lucatiel quest line.
All moments still with me to this day.
Honorable mention, Me1 when you meet Sovereign.
One of mine was playing Horizon Zero Dawn and entering one of those story places and finding out what destroyed the world. It was truly terrifying.Another moment in gaming was in God of War 4 when Kratos returns to his house and picks up his Blades of Chaos. So epic
You are reminding me how large my backlog is right now.
In BG3 when you end up sleeping with the illithid and then all of your companions see you and look disgusted 😂
Mass Effect 3 SPOILER -> For me, I only allowed it to happen on my very first play through, but Tali removing her mask then falling back to her death was an incredible shock and sad moment.
Well, I've been playing games for a long time, so there have been a lot of moments. But what percolates rapidly is the ending of ME2 when you finally discover why the collectors are snatching humans; and then fighting this new baby Human Reaper. Really hammers home how insidious the Reapers are.
Well, I just experienced something like this just a few weeks ago when I finished Persona 3 Reload.
I don’t want to spoil anything but somehow I think I missed the signs leading up to the ending, so when the MC is getting more sleepy in Aigis’s lap, the realization kicks in and I was in a state of horror and shock. Especially after spending tens of hours building relationships with everyone.
And then they roll in the credit with Memories of You playing in the background, damn. My mind was blank for like 5 minutes. I just sat there staring at the screen as the credit rolled in lol.
My top 3 moments in gaming:
1) The end of the story of To The Moon.
2) Nameless One facing his mortality (?) and finally finding an answer to the question of what can change the nature of a man. It was a very important moment for me in my formative years.
3) The aftermath of the fight with Emet-Selch in Final Fantasy XIV
Love these moments! This is what I am scared will get spoiled when watching reviews, so I try to beat games before watching reviews 😂
1. The haunted house in Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines. I'll never forget that experience. Also going into the doctor's office was one of those moments where you realize you're not in Kansas anymore.
2. Lasing down the Reaper in Mass Effect 3 as the Quarians were doing an orbital strike.
3. System Shock 2 the reveal moment and the ending.
4. Dragon Age 2 - Where you have to kill Merrill's home village.
5. Baldur's Gate 2 - "YOU SHOULD HAVE NOT COME TO THIS PLACE!" "AHH we are all friends now. Hamsters and Rangers everywhere REJOICE!!"
6. KoTOR 1 - The reveal moment.
7. XCom 2 - Beating Long War the first time.
I have experienced 3 of 5 moments and they were great moments, WotR, BG3, and Starfield. I really enjoyed BG3's in particular. I'm a huge save scummer, as I usually only play a game once and thus try to get the best ending the first time, but BG3's Dark Urge moment with Alfria was so unexpected and earned that I decided to roll with it. This moment also played into the my roleplay since I was redemption seeking Durge Bard that kept and used her, technically her teacher's, lute for the rest of game as a reminder of what happens when he doesn't fight his urges. I slightly regretted committing to killing her when in Act 3 I didn't get the achievement of saving all the tieflings.
Super Metroid, the Mother Brain fight. I was enraged. Hyperbeam felt SO GOOD.
Great vid as always. I know BG3 is super popular, but as someone who had been tracking the project since the start and played during the early access stages, it always makes me happy to see how the game sold/is selling. Agreed! Did NOT expect what happened to Alfira to happen haha
ME2: Suicide Mission. That entire last act was just amazing. From the set up on the Normandy, jumping through the relay, assigning jobs to the party, and the music! The whole thing was just an amazing experience.
You know it's a good list when there's 0% overlap with what I would have picked. Definitely excellent choices
1. Half-Life when the humans attacked me. 2. Neverwinter, when my rogue went turncoat and disintegrated my party. 3. Galaga, the first time they captured my spaceship. 4. The whole frozen throne dialogue before engaging The Lich King. "Champions ... attack!" 5. Not a moment in a game per se, but ... finding out I could play with and against other players for the very first time in Team Fortress. Probably one of the top 3 blow my mind moments in my long and storied life.
Nothing beats the HL2 Episode 2 Antlion defense. I was smiling the entire time.
I actually had one not too long ago. Sea of Stars. The scene where the older warriors betray you and that meteor shower hits Brisk. I wasn't enjoying the game as much as I thought I would as I played it, but that twist sucked me right back in. Awesome stuff.
Related to achievement:
- Finishing Chapter 7 in Celeste. I've done much harder things in the base and modded game that took longer to learn and generated more frustration, but this was the best experience. Counting down to the summit represents both the crux of the story of Madeleine overcoming her self-doubt to achieve her goal and the fruition of everything you've learned about playing the game.
- The final boss with Extreme Measures 4 active in Hades. An incredible way to add difficulty to a fight, going into the final phase where the screen is mostly dark and the music starts going crazy and then desperately finishing off the boss for the first time was absolutely exhilirating.
Related to story:
- The lead up to the final boss of Shadowbringers (5.0) in Final Fantasy XIV. This is a game that has mastered big narrative moments, especially those where your character steps up to be the hero (I could name at least 4 or 5 that might deserve a place on a list like this), but nothing quite tops this one. You and your friends are absolutely beaten down by a seemingly unassailable villain, you pass out, and then you get a huge combination the story tying together and a twofold 'power of friendship' moment, accompanied by the best timed music drop I've ever heard in a game, to enable you to get back up and face him.
Related to experience/spectacle:
- The first time me and my friends set sail in Valheim. This game has so much atmosphere, especially when exploring for the first time, and me and two friends played it together from the start. We'd cobbled together the materials to build a raft, and then set sail not knowing what to expect. The sailing music in Valheim is one of my favourite pieces of ambient music in a game, and this, the sense of discovery, and sharing it with my friends was just beautiful.
- The first time leaving Midgar in Final Fantasy VII. I was a kid and I didn't really know what to expect from a game like this. After playing quite a substantial chunk of the game all contained within one city, to suddenly be released into the world took my breath away upon realising the scope of the adventure I was on.
Honourable mentions to the same moment you highlight from WotR (I'm not very experienced with the game, and still in the later stages of act 3, but ascending to become and Angel was brilliantly executed) and Nightsong from BG3. And then a favourite moment of absurdity that I'll always remember: the guy with the Scrolls of Icarian Flight falling out of the sky in front of you in Morrowind!
The fish factory in what remains of Edith Finch. I will say no more about it, but if you're someone who suffered from depression this scene will probably resonate with you to the very core. Absolute must play, and a short game at that
It's really simple, but jumping through the spider web on the ground floor of the deku tree dungeon in Ocarina of Time still stands out to me.
It's the first dungeon in the game and it happens right after the tutorial that breaks down the controls. You enter on the ground floor and the first thing you do is walk over the spider web and start climbing into different rooms, which are all self-contained. Eventually you get to the top of the tree and can't climb any higher. That's when it clicks that you can use your momentum from jumping from the top of the dungeon to break through the webbing on the ground floor to get to the second half of the dungeon below the tree's roots. The one movement connects the whole dungeon together.
The selling point of the N64 is that it could render 3D worlds and, as somebody who had been playing on a Sega Genesis before, this was a big deal to me. That puzzle was the thing that really let it sink in.
When you first meet Jubilost in Kingmaker and have to do the story scene with his cart is when I knew I loved that game
Cool vid! Here are some from me I quickly recalled:
- In Gothic 2 when you return to khorinis in chapter 3. and are greeted by dark figures :);
- Black ops and Reznov plot;
- Morrowind when you face Vivec for the first time;
- Dragon Slayer Quest in runescape as it sends you in your first true Journey;
- Soma's ending;
- Control Ashtray Maze and Old Gods of Asgard song;
- Doom Eternal and Human Facility(when you see BFG 10k for the first time) it was funny ;p
The ending of the Tiny Tina's BL2 DLC. Never expected a Borderlands game to hit me in the feels like that.
Knights of the Old Republic... the reveal of the fate of Revan...
Ocarina of Time. Realizing the terrible mistake you’re about to make literally seconds before the end of the childhood section… and then awakening into the adult world where everything that was once familiar and safe has become warped and dangerous. One of the best “loss of innocence” narratives in any medium, ever.
MGS2: the sunset scene. “You can’t wait to be loved. You have to go out and find it”.
One of my favourite moments was entering the Outlands through the Dark Portal, during the early years of WoW. What a time…
Yeah, that Dark Urge moment... I'm glad / hate / love that I fell for the troll trap laid pre-launch by Larian recommending not playing as Durge for the first run, and still thought my dream came true, that something I did different in the early game actually made A-a decide to join my party instead of following her incredibly sweet storyline with L-a, that I had already seen to (almost, sans epilogue) completion, on the previous run. Absolutely a most memorable moment, one of my favorite worst heartbreaking moments in gaming, second only to a similar moment on the Lich mythic path in Wrath of the Righteous, where I accidentally laid the trap for myself by taking the opportunity to romance the obviously irredeemably evil alternative companion. Two of my most beloved characters in gaming, that the narrative of my favorite games unexpectedly used with shocking affect.
Oh man the Cazador fight in BG3 and the scenes following it easily make my list of top 5 moments in gaming
It's something I could never, in good conscience, recommend someone play just for the moment, but the last few hours of FFXIV Shadowbringers as launched is maybe my peak gaming experience. And I'm 43.
One of my favorite moments in gaming is riding the roller-coaster with Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077.
My fav moment was in POE2:Deadfire and the Crookspur mission. The many variants on the quest of helping out the auctioneers or the slaves and the ways to free the slaves really cool. And the big set piece when you free the slaves and help them take out the auctioneers was incredible to me. Fuck yeah!
i've been playing dark souls for the first time recently, and i'd have to say that finding out what happens to Solaire over the course of the game might be one of my favorite parts about it because, without spoiling anything, it just really caught me off guard and my jaw dropped when i realized what happened. if u know u know
Red Dead Redemption when you first gallop into Mexico and the music plays is one of the most beautiful feelings I’ve ever felt playing a game. I happened to get it just at sunrise and it was honestly surreal.
Man... first time I beat Gwyn. First souls game ever. I think I just sat there and stared at my tv for 5 straight minutes. 15 years old. Just bliss
1. Dark Souls, first time in Ash Lake
2. MGSV Mission 43 Shining Lights, even in Death
3. Resident Evil 4's village attack (both versions)
4. SOMA's ending
5. John and Dutch's last talk in rdr1 / Arthur's talk with the nun
Before watching the video, here's one of mine that might make this list also: exiting the Imperial Sewers in Oblivion for the first time. Incredible feeling to this day.
another one... Mass Effect.... "You exist because we allow it. You will end because we demand it!" that gave me shivers all over
I was surprised why you included Starfield (my own personal bias) here, but you are right. I was pretty much thinking the same thing at that moment. It was one of maybe 2 well made quests in Starfield, the other being the one with the parallel, apocalyptic world with the bugs.
I have a hard time choosing which of 5 moments from WotR stick out most to me:
There's the third mythic level as mentioned.
The first mythic level after a hard-fought battle through the dungeon (it was pretty hard first time through, not knowing what I was doing).
Planting the tree (Azata).
Breaking into the prison as Legend.
And turning the place of captivity into a place of freedom (Azata).
And a couple of classic ones:
The ultimate sacrifice in Chrono Trigger
The appearance of the time traveler in Final Fantasy 4
I'm surprised that yours are all from very recent games. Mine were mostly a bit older but still some recent ones.
1) First ever "top" moment for me was as a kid playing Ocarina of Time. Getting to Ganondorf and reflecting light arrows off of the mirror shield made me have my first ever moment in gaming where I felt like I had mastered the mechanics of a game, even if it was in hindsight easy and intended.
2) In World of Warcraft, killing Ragnaros for the first time while being only 1 of 2 people alive. Me, the tank, and a single healer finished the last 6% of the boss. Will never forget the people in VOIP cheering us on and the shouting that followed when we killed it.
3) Pretty much the entirety of Elden Ring, but if I had to pick a moment, it was fighting Radahn for the first time.
4) The "secret" ending with Johnny in Cyberpunk 2077. I don't think any other RPG has had an ending where you could flex so hard with how OP your build was at the endgame.
5) BG3 when Raphael comes back home. His boss fight, looking at his HP bar and seeing 666, and his theme where he sings his own song was such a surprise and solidified the game as one of the best ever for me.
KOTOR 2. So many twists and turns. Mass Effect... the entire series had some really interesting reveals, both for companions and the main and even side stories. BG 1... huge surprise at the end.
People bag on it a bunch, but the moment in Dragon Age Inquisition during the mage recruitment quest where you get out into the castle courtyard and the Veil is just...gone really floored me. I think woke up my wife by yelling out "HOLY SHIT!!"
When Amicia starts losing her mind in A Plague Tale: Requiem was such a powerful moment. Also, everytime she gets injured, you know that things are about to change. It's very impactful and immersive and I love the character development arc.