Recently Final Fantasy VII Remake with the whispers and also Dragon Quest XI with it's unique take on the New Game Plus.
Magical, "holy shit" moments in games.
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Returnal, the very first boss, being in a large room filled with fog that is fully interactive. Blew my freaking mind.
This series is specifically engineered for this purpose, both for good and for bad.
The first credits roll in MGS4 and reveal of a certain character's appearance made me drop my controller and actually say "holy shit" out loud and my mouth was agape for almost the entire scene that followed. One of my favorite gaming memories.
Mario Odyssey - Capturing Bowser to play as him
Mario Odyssey - Peach's Castle
God of War: Chains of Olympus - Calliope in the Garden
God of War 2 - Getting the Blade of Olympus
God of War 3 - Poseidon Fight
God of War (2018) - Athena + Blades of Chaos reveal
Fallout 3 - Stepping out into the Wasteland
Fallout 3 - Megaton blowing up
Batman: Arkham Knight - Driving the Batmobile for the first time
Bioshock - the reveal
Deus Ex Human Revolution - the ending
Mario Odyssey - Peach's Castle
God of War: Chains of Olympus - Calliope in the Garden
God of War 2 - Getting the Blade of Olympus
God of War 3 - Poseidon Fight
God of War (2018) - Athena + Blades of Chaos reveal
Fallout 3 - Stepping out into the Wasteland
Fallout 3 - Megaton blowing up
Batman: Arkham Knight - Driving the Batmobile for the first time
Bioshock - the reveal
Deus Ex Human Revolution - the ending
Talking with my cousin about Bloodborne and us slowly realizing that the more insight you gained the more of the world was revealed to you as a player. And realizing that Amygdala was always there on the building just completely invisible because we lacked "eyes". So cool.
I recently had one in Tiny Tina's Wonderlands which involved
Torgue.
You seek his help to bless your crummy boat so you can cross a cursed ocean and instead he blows it up with a barrage of nukes but not until he finishes giving a fantastic musical peptalk:
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Almost all of Half-Life: Alyx for me. Especially the very first thing you see as the white background fades away and you're looking out at the Citadel over the city. Such a treat, especially for Half-Life fans.
This. I had played through the whole game along with a friend and we both lost our shit when that came up. Such a simple reveal, but so well done.
I was recently watching the Kinda Funny guys play through the MGS series and they were like 'hmm, that's funny he wasn't in this game' and then saw them realise what was happening was brilliant!
I was going to post this if nobody else had yet. I just got here and had a legitimate :O reaction.
This was so damn cool. I did Mt. Lanayru pretty early when I first played the game so I had not yet seen the other two dragons, so I had no context for what I found at the top. The way the music shifts to a creepy song you haven't heard yet while getting near the top, making you wonder what the heck is up with this mountain, to when you reach the top and see *that.*Getting to Mt Lanayru the first time
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My contribution would be when you leave Elun in Metroid Dread...
...and see the X Parasites escape through the door you came in from and realizing how significant that was going to change the game from there on.
Another would be the second phase of the final boss against Dracula in Super Castlevania 4:
Where the music shifts from the slow, creepy final boss theme to the triumphant theme of Simon Belmont. Hard not to get pumped up at that point.
Outer Wilds starts really really on the wrong foot.
If you pick it back up again, just think:
"I'm an archaeologist with a newly invented translator. For the first time we can read the writings of a long dead advanced alien race, whose ruins cover the star system. Go uncover their secrets!"
Sadly the game's opening minutes bury this lede, but beae this in mind and you'll be grand. There are secrets everywhere.
Good oneThe first time you realize that there is another kind of puzzle in The Witness.
Pretty much had the same experience as OP. To discover that there was a Z-axis to Elden Ring's world blew my mind.
Numerous moments in FFXIV come to mind as well. More recently: during the Endsinger boss fight the music that plays is a medley/remix of all of the major songs and themes of each expansion from the past 10 years. It felt absoluately exhilirating, and I don't think I've ever felt that way from a piece of music before.
Numerous moments in FFXIV come to mind as well. More recently: during the Endsinger boss fight the music that plays is a medley/remix of all of the major songs and themes of each expansion from the past 10 years. It felt absoluately exhilirating, and I don't think I've ever felt that way from a piece of music before.
Disco Elysium is full of little absurd, funny, sad and creative moments but the phasmid reveal scene is just fantastic
"I exist"
"I exist too."
The feels. The music. The way it catches you completely off-guard. You spend the whole game finding sad and mundane answers to any of the mysteries the local populace hold on to, but somehow the most obviously made up one is in fact real. The way your character begins to understand their worth and their role in the world. The way that his mind finally seems to work in complete tandem. Ah just all incredibly pretty
"I exist too."
The feels. The music. The way it catches you completely off-guard. You spend the whole game finding sad and mundane answers to any of the mysteries the local populace hold on to, but somehow the most obviously made up one is in fact real. The way your character begins to understand their worth and their role in the world. The way that his mind finally seems to work in complete tandem. Ah just all incredibly pretty
Whenever the Gestalt project logs start appearing on the loading screen instead of the cute letters in NIER
Getting to Mt Lanayru the first time
Came here for this. I was in complete awe when I realized I had to glide off the mountain and shoot him down during the descent.
In Dark Souls 3 there's a series of consecutive levels where you go deeper into darkness, first in a creepy forest, then a dark swamp full of monstrosities and finally dark crypts full of skeletons, you spend a good chunk of time in dark oppressive environments and you fight a boss that plunges you into a pitch-black arena. Then you emerge from that fight into a crypt and a staircase leading upwards, into one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever seen. Everyone who's played Dark Souls 3 experienced this moment.
Not only is it a beautiful environment but it's situated in the perfect spot within the game to bring it to life and fill us with beauty right before we're smashed to the ground by some of the harshest enemies in the game.
This is where the real Dark Souls 3 begins.
Utterly LOVED the reveal of this after Wolnir.
When you let Yurt out of his cage and then get into his cage (Demon's Souls).
Also, things later on, involving Yurt!
Bad Company 2's near perfect tuning to frequently result in "Battlefield Moments".
Realizing that the E3 trailers for Snake Eater only showed Snake doing things which you can actually do in-game. The trailers are setup with cinematic camera angles. But everything Snake does and everything the enemies do: all of it is actually doable gameplay.
Also, things later on, involving Yurt!
Bad Company 2's near perfect tuning to frequently result in "Battlefield Moments".
Realizing that the E3 trailers for Snake Eater only showed Snake doing things which you can actually do in-game. The trailers are setup with cinematic camera angles. But everything Snake does and everything the enemies do: all of it is actually doable gameplay.
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Portal, when suddenly you
, all the muscle memory from the previous levels made me search for a way to deal with it and
The way I was surprised, the way I reacted without thinking and the payoff were such a high.
It's because of moments like this that I think that no matter how old something is, care should be taken to not spoil it. Someone playing it today, or in 10 years deserves to have this moment waiting for them, unnanounced.
see yourself going into the fire
I instinctively searched for a place to land a portal and then realizing that I was outside a level and a new world opened
It's because of moments like this that I think that no matter how old something is, care should be taken to not spoil it. Someone playing it today, or in 10 years deserves to have this moment waiting for them, unnanounced.
I brought my PS2 to the family christmas just so I could show my cousins (and keep playing) Shadow of the Colossus.
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FF4, discovering there was an underworld.
FF6, the World of Ruin. I racked up a large Blockbuster bill and my parents just bought me a new copy a month later.
Chrono Trigger's sheer scope at the time.
The dogs in Resident Evil.
Silent Hill world shifting and disturbing me.
GTA3 existing.
My favourite one is in Halo CE. Just coming down the mountain in the snowy dark, lit up by lasers and Banshees. Something in that moment just hit me the same way I felt the first time I played Mario 64. It just felt like, "Oh yeah, this is why we bought the console."
FF6, the World of Ruin. I racked up a large Blockbuster bill and my parents just bought me a new copy a month later.
Chrono Trigger's sheer scope at the time.
The dogs in Resident Evil.
Silent Hill world shifting and disturbing me.
GTA3 existing.
My favourite one is in Halo CE. Just coming down the mountain in the snowy dark, lit up by lasers and Banshees. Something in that moment just hit me the same way I felt the first time I played Mario 64. It just felt like, "Oh yeah, this is why we bought the console."
I'll keep it real simple: the moment I first encountered a dragon in BotW. Saw it flying in the distance and couldn't figure out what it was. Then as it got closer and closer it got more "uh, the fuck is about to happen?" until it just kinda… flies by.
It's a worldie. One of the big reasons why AA6 is probably my favourite game in the series. I alternate between AA3 and AA6 on the strength of their final cases.
Not a specific game, but rather the first time you play any game in VR. You only get to experience that feeling once, and it's incredible.
Agreed. Very few vistas rival this one in all of the Souls games (until Elden Ring that is).
And right after your beat Sulyvahn and explore the second part of Irithyll, there's that moment when you start thinking "hey, these knights look familiar", followed by "wait, I know this giant stair-elevator" and "ho no they didn't", and then, bam, ANOR LONDO appears with the usual sound of a newly discovered area. I was so happy and confused, it was incredible.
