Epic gaming moments

[Mo-Nercy]

Tekken 5 at Uni versus a really good player. I had lost a couple of times already but I decided to try my Anna on him. Turned out that he wasn't so familiar with Anna's moveset so I had a slight advantage on his Christie. We got down to the final round and I really put the pressure on him. A lot of quick jabs and short mixups to keep him on the defensive. After a few custom strings, I got him with a uf+1,3,3+4. It knocks down and puts me right on top of him so I charged up my unblockable (d+1+2). It was the perfect tech trap. After that I kept up the poking pressure and won easily.

Beating Nitrous Oxide in the original Crash Team Racing was pretty huge for me too. I hit every turbo pad and was up half a lap when I crossed the finish line. If I had gotten a bit lucky and scored some more speed boosting items, I could've lapped him ^^

[Polaris]

when I passed 'Temple Ruins' I never had passed that level not even once! and once I check one thing on the internet (the only help that I had was an information to remove a cube) and then I started playing and it was amazing... But I'll never play that level again! It's scary Specially when I saw the dead dudes!

[Lost Number]

Final Boss in Shadow of the Colossus, at 4am. If you have played the game, you know what I mean.

[Reine]

SoTC is epic the whole way through it..

Completing Sonic 1 the very first time (Which was also the very first time I had ever completed a game) was very epic to me, id seen my brother's future father beat it several times, and I could only just get up to Labyrinth Zone. But one day, I finally got there with about 4 continues and 16 livesand cam out mostly unscathed, losing only 4 lives..Starlight Zone was mostly a breeze, but I did lose three lives along the way..an then the EVIL Scrap Brain Zone, lost so many lives in there, came into Final Zone with two lives, and no continues, I was bloody exhilarated and nervous, and just beat him with the last life..

I was extremely excited and happy, as you might expect from one of that age..(I was 6 at the time)

As for other epic gaming moments, defeating many of the bosses in the Tomb Raider series, namely the Giant Alien Thing for level 15 of TR1 and the Spider Insta-Death Ray Dude of TR3, fighting Baphomet in Doom 2, fighting Indalecio Unlimted in SO2 and so many other occasions

[JKTrix]

Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (possible spoilers)

The entire climactic ending sequence, particularly the HUGE battle before you get into Aumaan.
It's you (Jehuty), the Vic Viper, and 40 allied LEVs versus about 1000 enemy mechs trying to prevent you from breaking into their base. Not only do you have to fight your way through all of them, but you have to save as many allied mechs as possible. They're pretty useless on their own, and between you and the Vic Viper you'd be taking out most of the enemies. But your ranking on the success of the mission is heavily influenced by how many LEVs survive, and you will get an automatic game over if they are all destroyed.

The whole thing is truly epic in the scale of things: 42 good guys vs 1000 bad guys. Kingdom Hearts 2 tried to emulate the experience of this stage, but it's nowhere near as exhilarating or challenging.

And the final battle vs Anubis, where you are stripped of your armour and all but your most basic of abilities to battle him. This 'Naked Jehuty' is the most powerful in the game, as it is the pure, unbridled power of Metatron allowed to shine through.

ZOE2 is one of my favourite games. If a ZOE3 were to be made for the PS3, that would be the thing that would make me buy a PS3 immediately.

[Dreddz]

I'd only consider my epic gaming moments when I play fighting games. Sometimes Ive had 9 or so friends over all playing Street Fighter for hours.
It can get really tense at times.

My most epic moments were when Street Fighter III - Third Strike was still at my arcade, I used to love stepping up to people twice my age and whooping there asses :p

[ljkkjlcm9]

I think it was pretty epic when I beat megaman 1 through 6 on NES in one day one after another.

THE JACKEL

[Endless]

If you want epic, watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E2VtVStTSM

[ljkkjlcm9]

ha that's not epic, nothing is more epic than this!
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/14/me...the-same-time/

megaman X1 and X2 same time, using a single input

THE JACKEL

[Zeromus_X]

The first time I beat Lenneth in SO3 was epic. Half an hour of Aura-Walling, Fists of Furying, and Stun Bombing. Eventually I ran out of restorative items and all manner of bombs, and only Albel was left alive. Lenneth began running towards him. I knew it was over. Desperate, I did a long major attack. Pow! Right in chibi-Valkyrie's face! I won. The battle trophy, 'Defeat Lenneth' chimed onto the corner of my screen! Now I could show it off to all my friends. xD

Man, tri-Ace sure knows how to make the perfect superbosses for me.

Wow. Props to you...that's TOUGH.

Were you 255???

Nope, I beat her with levels in the 180-200 range.

That probably explains why it was so scary. xD

Freya is even harder though. -_-; Which, makes sense I guess. Still, at least this superboss inspired me to purchase a certain Norse-themed tri-Ace game...

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

ha that's not epic, nothing is more epic than this!
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/14/me...the-same-time/

megaman X1 and X2 same time, using a single input

THE JACKAL

Tool-assisted speed runs are all about emulation exploits and repetition--no skills required. They're not epic, and they're definitely not even in the same universe as the Daigo Parry.

[Spammerman]

zelda oot giant ganon ram thingy. Greatest gaming epic moment for me(first game i beat.).( are we supposed to make it story like?

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The topic is gaming moments that are uniquely epic due to your own personal gameplay experience, not epic in a general sense.

[Slicksword45]

Well my first time beating FF7 was epic for me

My party: Cloud, Vincient and Cid
Cloud was the healer. Big mastake.

anyway, The fight seems to be going fine. Sephroth was getting his ass handed to him for a wile. then he casted Super Nova. uh-o. I was able to get Cure3 all but as soon as I did cloud got murdered. Ammidley, I know i'm in a tight spot. I make Vin. cast Ultima wile Cid trys to res. Cloud. When I res cloud I get hit by another Super Nova. I don't have anymore Heal3 alls so I cast heal2 all. Then seph cased Trine. Cloud and Vin dies. Cid lives with 1HP! 1 FREAKING HP!

Knowing that i'll lose (And in my anger twords seph) I cast Bolt3. It killed seph.

Also, It was my first time beating FFVII which made it even more epic.

I think I cryed happy tears that night

[Shoeberto]

I'm sure I had some from my CS days, or at least during any of the various CS games I've been in since I was active. Basically, my proudest moments are noscoping anyone on any map other than scoutzknivez. There's just something so satisfying and e-peen-boosting about having your scout out, running up to a corner, having some dude with an M4 who could hand your face to you no problem, doing a complete impulse shot and then seeing his head explode in an orgy of old-school blood particle effects. Now, pulling off two or three of these in a round? That's a feeling that's just indescribable.

Of course, getting fisted the next round before you can pop off one shot completely revokes any of the bragging rights you had, so that's a shame.