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The Greatest Gaming Moment

Silva

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Can something surpass the first entry at UNATCO in Deus Ex?

Fuck these so called "role-playing" games. None of those ever gave me a stronger sense of being there, in this future earth, in the shoes of a badass special agent alter-ego, than that moment, and that music. It's the essence of what video gaming is. The Godfather in electronic form.

But go ahead plebs, cite something that surpass it. Amuse me.
 

skacky

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Booting Unreal and seeing the castle flyby sequence for the first time. Most probably the thing that wowed me the most out of any game I've played. It's even better when the game itself is amazing.
Another that comes to mind is playing Thief 1's Cragscleft Prison for the first time. I mean, I was very impressed with Bafford and thought Thief was already a great game, but when I finished this mission I knew that game was in its own league entirely, far above everything else I played in terms of immersion.
 

Dyspaire

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You had to be there, but when Ultima Underworld was first released, those first few moments of moving around in the game world were pretty astonishing.

The fact that the game itself lived up to such a wondrous technological advancement was also pretty astonishing.
 

Beastro

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The Superman bug that hit a version of Battlefield 1942 that allowed you fly into the air, then parachute down. On the Berlin mao it allowed you to fall down into the burned out buildings right by the Allied spawn point and could mercilessly gun em down and collect their weapons to keep going.

The butthurt was legendary.
 

Baron Dupek

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You had to be there, but when Ultima Underworld was first released, those first few moments of moving around in the game world were pretty astonishing.

The fact that the game itself lived up to such a wondrous technological advancement was also pretty astonishing.

Played UU in 2011 my first reaction was "it was really released before the Doom? Wow". And I think that clunky control gave it more charm to the exploration, empowering the sense of "first steps in hostile and unknown environment".

Gotta agree with skacky - Unreal was out of this world experience, bite me for saying this but it was similar experience to Another World when you swim up and find yourself in an alien world...
 
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Astral Rag

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Wolfenstein 3D with Soundblaster audio was something that blew my mind at the time. Seeing Myst for the first time on my friends Mac was also really impressive.
 

Master

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Unreal had that moment when the lights go out in a hallway. Not the greatest moment ever but I can't think of anything else right now.
 

Prime Junta

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First successful Mun landing in Kerbal Space Program ranks pretty highly for me.
 

Makabb

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Can something surpass the first entry at UNATCO in Deus Ex?
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Entering 'The Glow' in Fallout 1 for the first time.

You could almost smell the dread,fear and remorse of the place.


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Somberlain

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The release of Grimwah, obviously.

Ground trembled, clouds parted and golden rays of light struck the earth from the heavens as the Golden Baby descended to bestow the divine gifts of monocled entertainment upon mankind. The unwashed masses of Robert Sirotek fled before the the tsunami of incline as the 'Thal prophet issued his proclamation to humanity.

"Let there be incline.", and there was incline.
 

Uncle Skull

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Entering the Valley of Mines in Gothic II, having played the first game beforehand.

Honorable mention: killing the C-consciousness ending of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl.
 

Doctor Sbaitso

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I'm not a big story guy normally but the single most memorable moment for me has to be

Don't trust the skull.
 

Deathsquid

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Uninstalling Oblivion.

Someone had to
 

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