Awesome Gaming Moments (Spoilers?)

[Skyblade]

This is a totaly rip off of Laddy's thread. While I was racking my brain for what I felt were the most powerful video game moments my brain started drifting to some of the more memorable other moments in my gaming history.

What moments have made you think "oh man, this is going to be awesome!" This isn't so much about which parts were the funnest, but those moments when you get to see or do something that you think is going to be super cool. (Bonus points for those of you who remember being super excited about something that turned out to suck)(And more bonus points for having a play by play of what you were thinking)

Mega Man X3
A minute or so into the first level X meets up with one of his old comrade who *gasp* turns out to be a traitor and captures X and beams out. The screen keeps panning along to the next room and sits there for a few seconds and I'm thinking "ok, so now what?".
Cue awesome theme music and Zero breaks in through the roof. "OMG! I get to play as Zero now! Best game ever!" Too bad it only lasted for about a minute or two of the first level until I saved X.

Chrono Trigger
Magus actual joined my party?! Sweet.

Eh, I though I had more but they all kind of evaporated between the two threads.

Megaman X3 hint: Pause the game, and press one of the shoulder buttons. It should open up a comm system that lets you call out Zero. You can switch between Zero and X on almost any level, though only X can fight bosses. During one mini-boss fight, in fact, something special will happen to Zero, if you are playing as him...

And, yeah, Zero was awesome in that game. As was his theme music.

[qwertysaur]

Destroying the Spanish empire in Civ 4 by getting EVERY single civilization on the map to declare war on them.

[Raistlin]

The battle against Luca Blight in Suikoden II was a major one because of how epic it was.

Getting Tir McDohl, the main character of Suikoden 1 to join your party in Suikoden 2; and then the first time he's in your party, you see he is still as horribly broken and unbalanced as he was in the first game, especially with Riou in your party cause the two of them share Tir's kick ass combo attack with his master from Suikoden 1. This does not even include the fact his Soul Eater is still the cheapest True Rune in the series.

Yes.

Getting some badass characters, even temporarily, in some games is pretty awesome: Orlandu (FFT) and Ghaleon (Lunar SSSC) come to mind.

Watching Georg Prime activate every single boost ability he has while counterattacking a boss that resulted in a critical hit and watching him K.O. one of the games final bosses who also happened to be highly resistant to physical attack in one single physical attack... Its not often you see damage in the four digits in the Suikoden series even more rare to see damage over 2000hp...

Georg is definitely a badass, but Richard is the king of that game. You think Tir and Soul Eater is cheap, well Richard and Firefly blows that out of the water. I remember being out of sorts in the final dungeon because my two parties that did not have Richard were actually taking damage from random battles.

[VeloZer0]

I found out about that in MMX3 later, but playing as Zero was massively underwhelming with the only being able to play like 1/3 of a level at a time and only getting one life. (He warps out before the Bit/Byte boss rooms even if they aren't there )

[Slothy]

I found out about that in MMX3 later, but playing as Zero was massively underwhelming with the only being able to play like 1/3 of a level at a time and only getting one life. (He warps out before the Bit/Byte boss rooms even if they aren't there )

Not to mention that should he die you miss out on being able to fully upgrade X.

[Wolf Kanno]

Yeah but you get the better ending if you don't upgrade X...

[Slothy]

Screw that, I want my Gold plated X.

[Carl the Llama]

When you find out the truth about Boss in MGS3.

All the stealth boss kills in Assassins Creed.

When you see Raiden Kicking ass in MGS4.

The sword fight with Ganon in Wind Waker.

[Greatermaximus]

The purpose of this thread is what 'you've' done to be awesome, not what was programmed to be awesome.

Since I understand the thread better. It happened over a decade ago in one of my first GE multiplayer. I thought we were doomed down in the temple with grenade launchers near the armor.

But to all of our surprise the least experienced player on my team (1 and 4 vs. 2 and 3.) got a double kill for us through all the explosions and commotions.

He stole 'my' moment. It happened fast too. It was cool and he said he was smart.

I figure out how to fly with Lupus by accident in Jet Force Gemini during multi. I jump and hit 'c' again to plan ahead a double jump of some kind.

In GE multi number 2 had to kill 3 in multi so I wouldn't score the win in another game.

Any of my videos on youtube.

I might have reported this once on the net years ago. But one of the first times through Final Fantasy 3, I looped MagPwr. I had Relm exceed her 145 limit on the SNES version causing her Ultimas to deal 12-15 damage.

I've played newer games, but the older ones have heart. Halo simply has good graphics. On Brawl the most impressive thing I did was master Didi Kong on the first day and beat a level 9 computer on the second.

But the game is for ten-year olds imo.

[VeloZer0]

The purpose of this thread is what 'you've' done to be awesome, not what was programmed to be awesome.

The purpose is just to share times you thought "this is going to be/is/was awesome". I was thinking of scripted scenarios when I made the thread, but personal experiences are completely in the same vein of thought.

[black orb]

>>> FF9: when Garland appears..
Thats was my most awesome/exciting gaming moment..

[Realm25]

Overlord - Rockin the Tower with Velvet in our bedroom!

Final Fantasy X - Defeating Jecht.

Pokemon Platinum Version - Catching Giratina with a regular pokeball on the first try, without doing ANY damage first.

[Shiny]

Kingdom Hearts: When Mickey Mouse first appears and you hear the theme song M-O-U-S-E MICKEY MOUSE!

Red Dead Redemption: You arrive in Mexico for the first time and Far Away plays. It's like a scene out of a movie! Alternatively, when you go home to your family and Compass plays and then fades out as you get closer and closer to your ranch.

Metal Gear Solid 3: The amazing chase sequence whilst on Eva's bike.

Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations: Jean Armstrong

Final Fantasy X: The opening FMV.

[Vagrant]

MGS4: The return to Shadow Moses was a masterful touch of storytelling and really hit home the power of the PS3.

Shadow of the Colossus: Spending hours trekking through empty wastelands with Agro trying to find the next Colossi.

Ico: The first time Yorda screams for help as the shadows crawl out of the ground, but I'm the other side of the map trying to negotiate a puzzle. So I'm racing back to rescue her with nothing but a piece of wood! Heart in mouth.

Fallout 3: I was reading The Stand at the same time so stepping out of Vault 101 and seeing the wastes of Washington nearly knocked me for six. Overwhelmed and immersed in an instant.

Tekken 3: Pulling off my first 10 move combo.

World of Warcraft: Milling around as a low level Paladin and experiencing a raid for the first time. I panicked like a baby.

FF7: When I finally left Midgar and entered the world map, that was a cool moment where I realised the enormity of the game.

FF8: The opening FMV is still my favourite of the series.

[Pete for President]

Just running through the landscapes in Okami remains so so awesome. Especially during sunset. Nice touch.