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For Love of The Game
A feature from Gamespot this week is an interesting look at gaming moments that moved you as a player. Emotional moments for several of the editors are explored. From the article: "This isn't an article about violence in video games. It's a chance for us to consider some of the moments in our lives as game players that made us feel strongly about something that, in the grand scheme of things, is probably pretty trivial. These are cases in which games drove us to relative emotional extremes. This is both how and why we play." What would be a gaming moment that drove you to an emotional extreme?
I got really angry and depressed when I saw that people were asking retarded questions like this. What's next here, favorite aftermarket game controller roundup? Forget I said that...
I remember when I was heavily into GTA:VC...long after I had actually completed the game, I would still start it up and tool around Vice City, looking to get into some trouble. Sniping multiple targets from the roof of a building or leading police on a mad chase with a PCJ was very relaxing and thereaputic after a hard day at the office.
After doing this for a while, I noticed certain thought patterns while out driving...like veering toward pedestrians, unconsciously judging the distance to the nearest self-serve car wash, and reflecting how easy it would be for me to just jump out of the car, run to the crotch-rocket idiling a few lanes away, giving the rider a smart rap in the face with my elbow, and jump on...the cop three cars back will never catch me...
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among Chessmaster characters. Ennemies too...
/wrld
I remember the first time I let that ball slip past me in Pong. I felt like I'd let the entire world down. Man, that was such a crushing defeat for me. I don't think I've experienced anything quite so humiliating since then...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Getting the top score in Stroker was definately the high point of all my gaming experiences.
Scoring a winning point or TD in the last second can be quite thrilling. The other week, in FIFA 2005, winning the game with an amazing bicycle kick that I had not converted ever (which was probably 5000 matches), into the top corner was enough to make me jump out of my chair...then I realized that it was a game and no one other than me really cared :)
One man's Funny is another man's Offtopic.
I remember when I got the end of an endurance race in GT2 at 2AM and I finally went to the bathroom and peed. What a rush!
I'll never forget the first time I beat Mike Tyson. My friend and I jumped up and down and hugged each other. Then immediately swore never to tell anyone that we, well, just hugged each other.
A five milliwatt laser? What do you do with that, tease the cat? :)
My personal moments would be:
1) Making Star Commander Rank 1 in Star Raiders
2) Getting that @#%$^%!! Amulet of Yendor above ground. The nice thing about the latter is that by the time you're badass enough to pull it off, you're badass enough to slaughter all those annoying shop-keepers on the way back up.
"I got yer potion of healing right HERE!"
I second the motion for Resident Evil 2. One time I was playing RE2 at a friend's house, with his wife sitting in the room watching TV. I climbed the ladder from the lobby to the second floor, and as soon as I got there I saw a licker not five feet away, crouched, ready to pounce! And the licker had that eerie-as-hell hiss that really sealed the deal. I screamed and nearly fell out of my chair. My friend's wife thought it was pathetic, but I couldn't argue with her as I had to go change my underwear.
Oh you just brought back some serious memories.
I played it on the Amiga wayy back in the day, and you are right, that game (and ending) was awesome.
Funny story about that game. Do you recall the part where you befriend the alien (after breaking out of the jail), and he pats you on the shoulder and says something alien like, 'Mien tru-blaa'.
Well, when my friends and I graduated in 1993 from High School, sure enough, one of my friends upon receiving his diploma patted the principle on the shoulder and said 'Mein tru-blaa.'
We died laughing.
++Om
This isn't a plot moment, which made it all the more powerful.
I'd played and beaten the game about eight times, and this time around was just playing a plain ol' horrible, horrible man. (Secret: If you have the "Gore" perk on, there's a few animations that are unlocked that can't be seen any other way. Like, um... critical hit with a minigun on a child. Like I said, I was being ~evil~.)
And in the middle of a massacre of about 20 children (in that area northish in New Reno), I finally sucked the Karma card hard.
Me: Wearing the best power armor in the game, wielding that bad-ass advanced minigun.
- Child throws Rock!
- Critical hit to Left eye!
- 212 damage.
- You have died.
That's right. A child, throwing a *ROCK*, crit-hit me for 212 damage. When I'm in the bloody power armor.
I just sat there and laughed and laughed, envisioning a legend growing up around the boy, the wasteland's newest David to my goliath, who singlehandedly slayed the scourge of the wastes.
"To pass through the jungle; silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands." -- Kamau, "Proper Passage"
All you whipper-snappers and your bitmapped graphics.
I am a recovering nethack addict - i have ascended (won the game) several times.
one time, however, I made it all the way down to the wizard, killed him & took the amulet, and slogged my way up with the rotten bastard coming back as a reincarnation over and over.
One time as i was near the top, he got the amulet from me, then went "double trouble" on me. I killed one or both, and picked up the amulet from the pile. I went on and went up from dungeon level one, expecting to enter the first elemental level (i forget now which it was) on my way to the astral plane.
Except I hadn't cast identify on the stupid amulet, and I escaped the dungeon with a cheap plastic imitation of the amulet of yendor.
I think I was more crestfallen then than when my first girlfriend dumped me.