Moments in your gaming career which made you go, "WOW!"?


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Sonic the hedgehog - School trip to London, Old Vic theater via Hamleys. Sonic playing in the window display, only thing I cared about in the whole shop.

Flashback - First time the story in a game grabbed me.

Gunstar Heroes - Full on from start to finish.

Dynamite Heady - Some of the effect used blew my mind.

Wipeout 2097 - Some of the best graphics of the time + the soundtrack.

MGS - Local store had it on import a few days after it came out in the US, cost me ?80 but it was worth it.

Tekken 2 - Mastering Kings 5 throw combo and decimating everyone with it.

Shenmue - Just walking around the town was amazing.

My career started with the atari 2600, I could fill a whole page with these, but I'll stop here. :)

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"gaming career"??? LOL!

Dino Crisis 2 on the original Playstation: first time I played a game anything like it. Absolutely amazing. And it definitely deserves that 9.2 rating on gamespot! It was everything I wanted in a dinosaur game and much more! The dinosaurs were animated so perfectly. The WOW moment was the T-rex of course. Everytime it appeared lol.

Need For Speed High Stakes on Playstation: Now this was a very fun game on the playstation and it was what got me into racing games. The graphics look like crap. But the gameplay was great! The WOW moment was an intense jump I pulled off in a Ferrari F50 while getting chased by a Porsche 911 in the French countryside.

Half Life 2 on PC: Absolutely amazing and immersive gameplay. And that gravity gun, wow... just WOW! never saw anything like it in previous games I played. The whole game was new, fresh, atmospheric, and really really immersive.

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on PC: Ok. I hate games of this genre. But this.. this was something else. The switch between first person and third person view was very new to me. And the depth of the world and its sheer size was just jaw dropping to me. The real WOW moment came in when I get out of the sewers. There was soo much to do and so much to explore. All the community and official mods that were released just made the gameplay ever better.

Gears of War on Xbox 360: Hold a button to run and the camera zooms and shakes. Go close up to a person and chainsaw them. To me, I was playing hollywood here. It was literally an interactive freakin movie. It obviously was not as immersive as Half-Life 2. But it pulled off stylized gaming and use of cover very nicely. The WOW moment for me was obviously the reinvention of the melee using the lancer chainsaw. Marvelously satisfying!

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wow... there are quite a lot from NFS 2 over some funny ship fight game for PS1 and the n64 in general (oh how you gotta love the nintendo feeling. you don't just buy a console, you buy a feeling), to the dreamcast (oh how I LOVED the powerhouse the DC was and that when I was young as whatnot! XD).

visiting that son of a costumer of my dad back in 1998 or something was cool as heck, as he had a nice and big tv in his dorm and underneath a tv rack FILLED UP with probably 200 NES/SNES and N64 and probably some PS1 games...

HOLY MAMA!

my latest WOW was GTA IV (I know I'm late, but my pc isn't running it and when I got my Xbox 360 it was the first I popped in being the GTA fan I am since the days of GTA 2 (I played GTA 1, too, but I started at the times of 2, that being when I was like 12 xD haha)

Gotta love gaming!

Hooray to gaming!

Glassed Silver:win

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Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past:- Finding out what the number on your shield meant, and just what you had to do to get a 1!

Monkey Island 1 & 2:- Getting my Megadrive and SNES playing friends envious of my Amiga 500, and having them send notes to my work asking how do you get the monkey using the banana?

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time:- Getting the master sword and travelling to the future.

QuakeWorld:- When I found out what death-matches were all about and learnt what a LPB was.

Half Life: First FPS I played with good direction/scripted events.

Asherons Call: First MMO syndrome, loved it and still do although I could never go back and play it now.

Not sure if it's because I'm now an old git, but since 2000 nothing had made me go "WOW!"

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Max Payne - Part I, The American Dream.

Thats the most amount of atmosphere I've seen in a game, ever.

that was an amazing game. I remember playing that game so many times when I was 8 or 9. trying to get every part perfect and never get shot. which I think I actually was able to do on the subway mission

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Half-Life 2. Just the overall atmosphere of the game combined with how you start it and everything... very fun and different game compared to the rest. Wow indeed.

I will agree with the mention of Fallout 3, when you first come out of the vault. Even my girlfriend was absolutely blown away. :)

World of Warcraft when I first started playing. The game was unlike anything I've really played before. There was also so much I didn't know about the game, which left me so very curious. I still find the game amazing to this day. :)

Ocarina of Time. No words needed here at all.

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During Final Fantasy Tactics (The original PlayStation version) when you met up with Cloud Strife and had to take him to find The Flower Girl

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the very first call of duty, when you are in bastogne and **** is flying everywhere i was like WOW. pretty much every call of duty game single player campaign has a moment where you are like WOW this is crazy.

uncharted 2 made me saw wow more then a couple of time, the graphics are crazy. Playing halo 2 made me say the same thing, the single player was the best one IMO. Graphics in the GT5 time trial demo made me say WOW as well.

getting my first nintendo when i was four was pretty cool too. Beat mario at age four :) Zelda games are great, every one i have played i have loved, regret not finishing twilight princess though.

Love all the Final Fantasy games as well. Gaming has some pretty incredible games that were "game" changers.

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I have a couple:

1. The first time I played Donkey Kong Country on SNES - the graphics were literally a massive leap forward from anything else at the time. Not settling for just graphical WOWness, they game was also very good and humorous.

2. The moment in Fallout 3 (PS3) when you are introduced to the outside world for the first time - brilliant. The developers did a cool trick by making the sky sooo bright in that first moment so you were actually dazzled, just like your character would be.

3. More recently, taking down a helicopter by throwing people at it. I love Prototype.

What are yours?

lolwut?

Name one game that doesnt have HDR lightning and bloom nowadays

and no, fallout 3 was not the first

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lolwut?

Name one game that doesnt have HDR lightning and bloom nowadays

and no, fallout 3 was not the first

What are you going on about? He's talking about the blinding effect as you step outside from the vault to the outside world, only to be exposed to an incredibly devastating view of the world as it is now. Not just simple HDR / bloom in general.

Since you probably haven't played the game, here's a glimpse of what we're talking about:

(better when seen in game of course)

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I was with my cousin and installed World of Warcraft. We watched the opening cutscene (before the game) and we thought that was the actual game and we shat our pants. We went out and bought two game cards and imagine our dissapointment.

Still didn't stop us for playing for 2 years -.-'

Also, maplestory. We were just playing for a hour at around 3pm and we got so into it when we went to bed it was 4am . I only got to level 7 :(

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There are way too many for me making it impossible to pick my biggest 'wow' moment.

My first was when my neighbor brought Pong over and picked up those paddle controls and saw this line on my tv reacting to my control. wow! this lead to me getting my 2600 and so begone my 'gaming career'.

My most recent 'wow' moment was losing an excess of 200k souls in Demon's Souls... WOW :pinch:

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The only game I've been truly dedicated to this past year is Street Fighter IV. The competition is very fierce online and locally where I live. Instead of trying to explain my moments, I'll just show some messages that I've received from playing opponents online.

TPeezy80 - ggs g viper

NovaGrau - gg indeed

Skyfire Cascade – great fights thanks! your vipers really good!

Xx BOSP xX – lol thanks but u had a damn good viper ggs

ARMODILLOXX – hey ur great too! thxs

krimb – lol ldw your viper is amazing! :)

Krzysioxxx – 1# meeega ****ing nooob in SF !! that’s all 1 player fighter??!!

II Maru II – your too good

redhadouken23 – u 2 lol ur like da best viper player i seen so far

Saadaas – best viper ever… respect

AmySan – your are verry good with viper ^^

Dulvalius – got to go back to work…GGs…you whipped my ass

JpCafff – Your Viper is awesome. Keep Going !!!

stratonimbus – YOur good at viper. I don’t see many player her out there.

AnotherBayesian – same to you dude… yes, you have an awesome viper

SmthHeidern – nice viper

II Mr Bear II – badass C viper there!!!

Jude Blatt – nice fights m8

parabellum srk – your viper is good =)

AsgardTheDestro – nice viper. I actually dont see too many. Thats why I studied the matchup. You on SRK?

Senger – ggs even match

DaftOyster – I thought I’d get one eventually :p Good games, man.

Excalibur212 – GG’s, stikll got some training to do, to get on ur level.

TehAngryPierre – Viper is mean :( I should try to learn viper again… I quit last time i tried

rfxx – ggs. hey i just started playing viper. any tips for me? xD im not good with the canceling and mix ups yet.

flintsider – gg too good for me

These same messages can also be found in my blog post I made about the game last month.

http://ruizwashere.com/blog/review-why-i-play-sfiv/

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The engaging experience of playing in an alliance in one of the first renditions of Planetarion, probably my first (and only) mmo addiction :)

Also beating Densetsu kara Shinwa he on hard.

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BIOSHOCK!

Plane Crash at the beginning was an amazing opener

Same here.

And also Uncharted 2. Especially the collapsing/sliding platform part and the running on the bridge bit at the end.

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I got into computing when I was about 11 (97/98). I remember buying all the thick computer magazines that don't exist any more, out of my pocket money, that I hardly read either. Anyway, some came with CDs of demos, patches etc.

It was those that introduced me to the Quake 2 and Carmageddon 2 demos/shareware. Then a month or two later (just before Christmas) my dad and I were at a computer market (which also don't exist any more as far as I know) and I saw a version of Microsoft Flight Simulator running and it looked outstanding. I found the full version of Carmageddon 2 there, which I begged for. My dad also got me RollerCoaster Tycoon and Drakan out of the local newspapers (not quite second-hand, they came with the owners new PC and he didn't want them). I got all three games a week or two before Christmas because I really couldn't wait and I played them for months and months.

The next year, I wanted Quake 3 for Christmas 1999 but my mom said they didn't have any in in the local game store and got me Unreal Tournament. She said the guy there said it was a brilliant game. I was skeptical but played it online literally for years, from my winmodem days to my early broadband days. The amount of custom maps from websites such as Nali Maps (or something similar to that name) were amazing, I hardly played on the default maps.

Other notable mentions include GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64 and Halo on the Xbox. My brother and I spent so many months playing them, including going onto an early video websites and watching all the glitches in them at play and trying them out ourselves. We also played Halo online. albeit very laggily, using GameSpy's Tunnel - good times.

I also feel should mention Duke Nukem 3D, Unreal Tournament 2004, geoDefense (iPhone/iPod touch) and Fieldrunners (iPhone/iPod touch).

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So many great moments, but the one that really sticks out was when I was at a friends house and he was playing the leaked E3 Doom demo, real jaw on floor moment :yes:

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So many great moments, but the one that really sticks out was when I was at a friends house and he was playing the leaked E3 Doom demo, real jaw on floor moment :yes:

I remember running that on my GeForce 3 Ti200, and it was the game that was meant to be showcasing the power of the card. I know it was alpha code, but it was a complete slideshow ha. Turned out the final game would also run poorly on a GeForce 3 card.

P.S. Nottingham :)

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