Exactly this!
That my name was in a important magazine. And be in a TV show, because I found a easter egg from Yoshi island... And again.... I Won a contest and the prize was a bundle special edition of Rockband.Video Games are a very powerful medium, they're capable of making one feel a wide variety of emotions and imprinting memories on the user that they'll never forget. You could say the same about a song that sparks a specific memory in you or a scene in a film that stays with you forever, but I believe Video Games are so much more special.
The fact that as a medium games are so vivid in how they always place you in the drivers seat, you aren't listening to a set song that has already been written and produced into one way, you aren't watching a film that always will follow the same structure with you as a mere observer, you are actually experiencing it all directly and gaining a vastly more memorable and emotional connection with said game. And whilst it is true that games too can follow a set structure and in some cases like a David Cage game you are for the most part literally watching it like a film, I believe Gaming is truly unique in how you can experience things and realise dreams you never thought were possible.
This forum is built off the widespread admiration for this medium and I think we can all agree on how special games are, I would love to know from some of my fellow Gaffers what moment/moments in your life time playing video games will stay with you forever and mean so much to you always, it can be a level/stage you adored, a character you fell in love with, a narrative that encapsulated you or a ending that left your mouth agape, in a time where there seems to be so much discourse between people over their gaming preferences, I think to be able to just reflect on what makes us love this art form so much would be nice.
So my friends, what moment and/or moments in Gaming will you never forget?
How old are you?The moment I saw this title screen.
My 30th birthday was just a couple of days ago.How old are you?
Cant stop playing MCC! so much funPretty crazy remembering stuff like this. I can tell you the very first map I played in Halo 2, Waterworks. The first map I played in the Halo 3 beta, high ground. I have so many amazing memories of bungies Halo games. The first time I hit level 50 in Halo 3 MP was on Guardian playing with a friend in 2v2. We literally tied the other team and it ranked me up to 50.
Kid's today could never!Starting up the Genesis I got for Xmas and hearing "Rise from your grave" for the 1st time. It was amazing stuff back then.
Absolutely, 500% thisThe QuickTime knifefight with Krauser. Resident Evil 4 - GameCube.
Coming from an Atari 2600 to an Amiga 500 and launching this.
Booting up Mass Effect for the first time and just listening to the menu theme
Exactly this!
The first piano key had me dead... and the Jenova fight, that always had its own techno theme, just had the Aeris theme playing through... I fought this battle through a curtain of fucking water!What's so incredible about the Aeris scene is then you have the boss battle right on the heels of it... and then after that triumph, you return to your previous mood.
That is a really special section of that game.
The first piano key had me dead... and the Jenova fight, that always had its own techno theme, just had the Aeris theme playing through... I fought this battle through a curtain of fucking water!
Dude. I first experienced that at a kiosk in Target. I was blown away by that too.Starting up the Genesis I got for Xmas and hearing "Rise from your grave" for the 1st time. It was amazing stuff back then.