Epic gaming moments

[ValkyrieWing]

The first post made me laugh and shake my head at the same time. It is made up of equal parts funny and wow.

The only 'epic' gaming moment I can think of is as follows:

I am an RPG player, to the point where I own maybe half a dozen games that are not RPGs. I own somewhere in the realm of 100-120 games. So when I say that I am horrible at saving my game, I think you could understand my situation. I mean, I am horrible at it. Never do it. Always forget to.

So I was playing Suikoden III and I was towards the end so I figured I would go for broke and beat it, skipping the save points beforehand. Somehow "close to beating it" turned into me playing for three or four hours without saving my game. Now, normally if this was just time spending gaining levels, I would not care. But I did a whole lot of stuff in those hours.

So after I finish getting ready for the final dungeon, I enter. I breeze through it because my characters are mid-50s/early 60s and I get to the boss fairly easily. My combination of characters is pretty deadly, to the point where I did not have any problem with anyone before this damnable final boss.

So I fight him. And I do pretty good at the beginning, trading blows, healing when needed, using magic to cause heavy amounts of damage. And then something goes horribly wrong and he manages to kill off most characters, including my main healer. I do my best to recover quickly but on his next turn, he wipes out more characters. So after a few more turns I am down to one character: Chris. She has, literally, five hit points left to her name. I begin to concede. Telling myself how stupid I am for not saving my game and how I am not even going to try and beat this anymore. It will collect dust before I make a second attempt. I start getting angry.

But I input my command of Attack. Chris strikes. The boss is defeated. It takes a minute to process the victory. I am bad at telling stories.

My party was, if I can remember right: Hugo, Geddoe, Chris, Landis, Viki, and Nei.

I almost had the same problem....

I had the three main characters, Nei, Futch and Bright, I think..I dn't really remember, and it's been a LONG time.

[Lionx]

Ehh most of your stories are RPGs or some single player game but most of my epics were in the arcades playing Capcom vs SNK 2...usually its either both me and the other guy with a sliver of life left playing footsies with one another in the zone, or i had a sliver left, somehow either bring the other guy down to the near same life as me or finishing it off with that little margin for error.

I either die or make it, but i remember the mosts was when i did a HP xx Super Tiger Cannon into a high Tiger Shot...which brought the guy same sliver as me..and everyone watching going "OHH OMG THATS NUTS" or something to that effect...like...tension and stuff....then he fazed out and i got him with a lame jump in lol xD; guess he thought he had it until i hit him with a super and made it even. I liked the reaction everyone that was watching did though, it made me felt like i was hella good even though i am probably around average imo.

[pinkmage]

for me it was the first time i beat train on 00 agent on goldeneye 007 on the N64. It was so freaking hard! after that i had lots of fun with control and aztec.... but after unlocking all of the cheats and getting 007 mode it was fun to play it all over again!!

[Saku]

But I input my command of Attack. Chris strikes. The boss is defeated. It takes a minute to process the victory. I am bad at telling stories.

My party was, if I can remember right: Hugo, Geddoe, Chris, Landis, Viki, and Nei.

I think I seem to have this problem regularly with Suikoden in particular... the first time I go in... it comes down to one person... 5 HP and a miracle that to this day I can't explain.

Other epic moment..... hmmm... I'll go with just this one....

Final Fantasy 7.... The boss in the Sewers (Aps I think its called). I'm there about to throw my controller at a boss that is very much proud of spamming its tidal wave attack.... not that it was killing me... but spamming is not cool... even if it IS a cheap computer boss. Anyways, I take him down... only to have him kill himself. Now... what fun is a battle if the boss kills himself? I think about when I last saved and it was.... a ways back. I said screw it, and reset and went back to Aerith's house and played on. This time I saved when I first got to the wall market. Made quick work there, got to boss... boss killed itself... again. By now... this is getting amazingly unfair. I would repeat this reset ten more times before I could finally say... I gave the death blow.

PS: I would be shown latter on in the game that spamming is real bad.... Super Nova x 5 in the same battle.... yeah... my PSX hates me....

[Elite Lord Sigma]

The most epic was when I got to the Final Chapter of Fire Emblem 7. I felt confident that my team would be indestructible.

Unfortunately for my predictions, the level proved harder than I thought. After failing countless times (due to poor luck), I decided to change around my team a bit. The team I eventually won with was comprised of Eliwood, Nils, Lyndis, Hector, Athos, Raven, Harken, Fiora, Jaffar, Pent, Wil, and Bartre. I failed three times before actually succeeding in killing Nergal.

Attempt 1:

I had killed off all of the morphs, and Nergal was revealed. I felt that nobody could stop me now, when a Druid berserked Jaffar. Jaffar then proceeded to kill Pent in one hit. At that point, I felt an urge to hurl my DS out the window.

Attempt 2:

All the doors had opened, and only Kenneth, Ursula, Jerme, and the Reed brothers were left. I sent Fiora down to kill Ursula with Rex Hasta, thinking that she'd be able to take her out in one strike. Unfortunately, Ursula scored a critical hit with Excalibur, killing Fiora in a single strike. I then proceeded to hurl my DS at my bed and not play for a few hours.

Attempt 3:

Again, nobody was left except for the Reed brothers and Kenneth, who I always take out last. I sent Hector to take out Lloyd with a Swordslayer. Unfortunately, Lloyd attacked twice, and the second strike was a critical, which killed Hector, which resulted in a game over.

Attempt 4:

With a bit of luck, I was able to remember to bring a Restore staff, but I didn't need it for the first half. Using my usual strategy, I took out Uhai and his Snipers with the help of Bartre, Harken, Raven, Athos, and Wil. Moving on, Kenneth appeared, but I ignored him. Sending Harken to take out Brendan, I weakened Brendan with Bolting from Athos, and Harken, all though taking heavy damage from Basilikos, managed to finish Brendan, and not die. After that, Darin appeared. I weakened him with Athos' Bolting, using it up. After that, Hector with Armads finished him. Then, Ursula and Jerme came. Using Fiora, I finished Ursula. Then, I sent Harken and Raven, who were able to take out Jerme with ease. Then came the two hardest people, Linus and Lloyd. Retreating for a couple of turns, I got them where I wanted them. First, I had Wil weaken Lloyd with a Silver Bow. Then, Athos came and finished him off with Forblaze. Nils played for Athos, giving him another turn. Then, Athos got a critical hit, killing Linus in a single spell. I then used Forblaze, and again killed Kenneth in one hit with Forblaze. I then had Athos finish off the remaining mages with Luce, and had my remaining forces take care of the three Generals from the South. Finally, only Nergal was left. I sent Athos with Aureola to take care of him. With the power of Aureola, and a bit of luck dodging Ereshkigal, Athos was able to take down the dark druid. The next half was much simpler, and with Armads and Aureola, despite Athos getting killed by the dragon due to an oversight on my part, the dragon was killed, and the game was won. Not that Athos dying mattered, as (SPOILER)he dies anyway even if he's alive after the fight.