Your favorite video game moment of all time?

For me, it's when I realized, at the age of 13/14, that I had to switch controller ports to defeat Psycho Mantis in Meta Gear Solid. It was genius. I still think the MGS series hasn't been as good ever since.

Resident Evil 4: The part in between hitting the start button and when the credits ended(because even the mother fucking credits were good in that game).

This happened when I was very little, and I was playing A Link to the Past for the first time. And as I was on Death Mountain, making my way to Turtle Rock, and the Death Mountain theme played in the background, I was transported into the world of the game, and I was suddenly Link, on an epic quest to save Hyrule from Ganon, putting my life on the line against an uminaginable evil.

No game has ever quite made me feel that way since.

@mrintro: Two:

When I flipped the score in River Raid (Atari 2600), and in Halo 2 when I jumped off the 1st bridge on to the Scarab (you are not prompted to do it there, and the Halo theme kicked in).

the winter chapter - the last of us

Hard to say; my favorite moments have more to do with the people that I was playing the games with at the time rather than the games themselves. I guess if I had to pick something more recently, Panzer Dragoon Saga's fourth wall breaking ending did put a grin on my face.

GTA San Andreas. Rocket pack and mini gun, taking over gang territories.

Pretty much the entirety of Vanilla WoW.

The week-long Alterac Valley battles, world PvP (bosses), 40 man raiding. The dedication that game took (at one point in its life) made every single thing you do feel epic. Your first 5 man dungeon (especially as the tank or healer), saving for a mount, crafting weapons like the Arcanite Reaper, hitting level 60, epic quests, killing Ragnaros, defeating a rival guild in Warsong.

So effing good!!! And that game was beautifully designed (though much more so in The Burning Crusade). It's a shame that I can never return to it (given that it's an MMO and has moved on since TBC), but I wouldn't trade the time I spent playing that game for anything, and I think I spent upwards of 300 days in-game. My only regret is I didn't start playing sooner.

The game is a mess nowadays though.

I am guessing you just started playing video games.

just one of many but in saints row one i was running from a gang pursuit and they rear ended me, the guy flew through the window and landed in my trunk where he flopped about left and right for the remainder of the chase.

at the end they had almost caught me when the body flopped out of the trunk landed under the wheels of the pursuing car spun that car into another car and i got away.

that's when i knew saints row was the real deal and worth a franchise and not just another throwaway low quality gta wannabe.

• Seeing the MC unlock his power in Persona 4 Golden
• Winter lvl of TLOU
• First 20 min of TLOU (after that I knew I was in a ride...after I got my emotions back together)
• The first 10 min of ME2 (was like wut the hell)
• Seeing Rapture for the first time in Bioshock
• Punching a Titan in Titanfall and ripping out the pilot
• Taking in the scenery in Skyrim after you complete the first dungeon
• Getting my relic weapon on my PLD in FF14 ARR
• Getting my first piece of AF (gloves) on my RDM in FF11
• Downing Ragnaros in WoW when he was the endgame boss back in the day

I have a lot of fav moments :3

Hm, the ending of Kingdom Hearts 1 really sticks out.

Outside of that is probably the first time I did an X-Slash in Chrono Trigger...

Or you can choose any cutscene from Xenoblade and throw it in here...

OR sailing the ocean in Wind Waker with that Godly music in the background... Wow video games have some pretty good moments haha!

For me it was a old NES game called StarTropics, it had some odd new thing to do for progress in the game, this is from wikipedia im to lazy type myself:P

"A unique aspect of StarTropics was a saga involving a piece of paper, resembling parchment, that came packaged with the game. Written on it was a letter from Dr. Jones addressed to Mike, asking him to visit him at his laboratory on C-Island. It was as if the actual player had intercepted the message and was being invited indirectly to play the game. In later parts of the game, Mike receives an enigmatic message from his uncle through a third party:

"Evil aliens from a distant planet...." "Tell Mike to dip my letter in water...."

Even for a player who owned an original copy and thus, was more likely to have the letter, it was unusual for an NES game to refer to a physical object that would otherwise just be a novelty (although Infocom games had been doing this for some time, with the "Feelies" that they included with their games).This prompted the player to think that Dr. Jones might be referring to an object within the game. To add to the confusion of the puzzle, putting this paper under water might damage it. Regardless, the correct course of action was to dip the physical piece of paper in water. It revealed a secret message from Dr. Jones and the number "747" that must be used in the game in order to advance.

Since many rental stores and used video game retailers often do not have game boxes or manuals, it is difficult to find a copy of StarTropics with the original letter, requiring the use of game manuals or walkthroughs to complete this part of the game. Game magazine Nintendo Power was asked this question often enough that they published the "747" code as part of their "Counselor's Corner" soon after their article of the game. After completing the game a slideshow of events from the game is shown, including the letter being dipped in water and the number "747" visible on it."

Skyrim, I totally understand that feeling!

Fighting Colossus no.3 in SotC. The first 2 were awesome but no.3 was just so damn tall I wondered how I was ever gonna beat him

The End boss fight in MGS3. I had never played such an un traditional boss fight before that was so satisfying

Dark Souls. Going in a GIANT circle thinking I was lost and then realising I was back at Firelink.

The first 30 minutes or so of God of War 3 are also incredibly well paced

Taking our PC's to a mates house for Command and Conquer LAN parties

Clan matches in RTCW

40 man raids in WoW, the sense of achievement the first time we cleared Molten Core was awesome. That also reminds me of amazing battles in Alterac Valley, they really got that battle ground bang on and then proceeded to ruin it (or the player base ruined it)

Formation Napalm bombing in Battlefield Vietnam with a couple of mates

Recently, I thoroughly enjoyed taking a fort in Assassin's Creed IV, at the same time as fighting off two Frigates, during a storm, dodging water spouts and rogue waves. It wasn't hard but was great fun and my 6 year old twins loved watching every moment of it :)

I'll leave it at that, I could ramble on for pages here.

My friends, I feel Homeworld (everyone including 2) are prime example of how to make a cinematic game. Very much like taking part in an epic sci-fi movie.

did you know gearbox software plan to do a 'proper' remaster of these homeworld games?

http://segmentnext.com/2013/07/22/gearbox-remastering-homeworld-1-and-2/

none of this half-ass voodoo 1 shit. we're talking voodoo 2 sli level dommynashun. my friend this will be excellent for young people, the pretty colors of today combined with great gameplay long since departed.

1. Pretty much the entire Fallout 3 game but mostly when you get out of the vault and see the wasteland for the first time. You can hear the breeze and you imagine all the adventures you will have. Still gives me chills.
2. In Fallout: New Vegas when i entered New Vegas for the first time.
3. In Demon's Souls when i beat my first boss.
4. In Bioshock: Infinite, the "Hallelujah" moment after the rocket launches you to Columbia.
5. In every Pokemon game, when i get to pick my starter.
6. In Kingdom Hearts 2 when i beat Sephiroth.

There are probably more i forgot to mention.

Resident Evil 4, back when crapcom was good, and didn't used to screw up everything they touch.

I still mostly play single player ;)

I think one of my favorite moments in a videogame was getting to Luca in FFX. That was one of the first story based games I played and it felt like I was a part of the world or something. It's hard to describe, I was actually just thinking about that earlier. That game had so many memorable parts.