Every enjoyable game has a "that moment"

Face it, we're Holla Forums with video games at this point, Mark's decision to allow porn in the doom threads outside the of the general really didn't help either.

Saging for my off topic reply, It truly hope this thread prospers.

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And then there's the moment you realize the game will fucking piss you off

Yeah, but wii u bayo fixed that.

A little long, but this was a great beginning.

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I'll never get to go back to that moment.

How did they fuck it up so bad?

The opening to Snatcher.

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It's so much worse now, user. So, so much worse. Outland was WoW at its best.

Some more

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This too.
I damn near pissed myself there playing this when I was younger

Man these moments were just insane.

I'd pay good money to forget my playthrough and relive it.

Honestly this isn't the "this is gonna be a pretty fucking good game" moment, this is the "this game IS a fucking good game, GOD DAMN SON!"

I know for most people this Metal Gear is one of the ones they played much later, but can you imagine playing this scene as a kid?

When this shit started playing.

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ok kill me if you want to

but the first 15 min in skyrim after you get out of the tutorial is perfect

PERFECT
the scenery
the first quest " the golden claw "
the village everything

how do you downvote on this site?

My. Fucking. Nigger.

Is Journey worth getting? It's on sale on PSN right now and my friend recommended it to me but it just looks like a literal walking simulator to me.

I actually agree, the parts from after the end of the tutorial to after you kill he first dragon is pretty damn good. Then the whole game quickly turns to shit

It's pretty. It's short. It has minimal gameplay. It's an experience - like walking on the beach during the sunset. Not really a game. Watch a youtube video for free unless you have more money than sense.

So good.

Disclaimer: I do not trust Double Fine to make a sequel.

And from there on out it all becomes shit.

yeah when you go down to city everything fall apart everything

i don't know why

Nothing has beaten it.
Absolutely nothing has gotten so close to the sense of strange awe I felt when that happens.
Feels horrible man.

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within the first 5 minutes

a little bit grindy tho

Mother 3 was the 1st game in the series that I played. I heard the games were really fun and cheerful so when I got to this part I was really caught off guard.

This. And in particular, actually getting to the other side of the portal, seeing the ongoing demonic siege, and hearing pic related.

I'm still baffled they didn't make more out of the stairs of destiny.

>Divinity Original Sin : getting to first village and hearing this track play youtube.com/watch?v=XoTVxjLlypk

Also, I don't exactly remember the exact moment but there was a scene in Deadly Premonition that really changed my perception of the game and I appreciated the game much of after that.

Smacking the rich kids in their hideout is close 2nd for me but just being thrown into the school and after that visiting the city on your shitty bike made me love that game.

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This

Plus when your spacecraft leave the hangar in Battlefront 2.

How do i get into E.Y.E?

try playing it

When the lightning flashes in that first hallway and this starts playing.

Are your legs OK?

just thinking about nier makes me want to fuckin cry

Say what you want about Half-Life 2, but the atmosphere is still impressive (and oppressive as fuck)

And this moment was one of the best examples of how the Earth had been fucked up while Gordon was sleeping

Getting to the main part of the town of Targos in Icewind Dale 2 and hearing it's theme.

Posting a couple more "those moments" for good measure

"Is your name Joey?"
"No."
"Because that's what I'm calling you now - Slowey Joey."
"That's not my name!"
"What's that Slowey? I can't hear you, you're talking too slow."

If only the second half of the game was as good.

that had me fooled too, i also enjoyed the game more than most because a played as an archer and im not some rpgfag that follows quests, i just randomly explored the place and only noticed all the copy pastiness and dumb fetch quests after a good 30 hours of playing.

Skyrim is definetly the best TES game, Morrowind and Oblivion were fucking shit not matter how ou played them

Project: Snowblind

the combat is shit, it always is in bethesda games

and they make combat based games

unlimited health potions make any kind of challenge obsolete, unbalanced weapons and spells, almost no combat mechanics.. just mash light attack and you will be fine

bethesda is clueless about good gameplay. And so are casuals. Thats why it sells and thats why it will never change.

and then you just spam MB1, turn your monitor off and win

literally.. try it
game is cool tho

I'd still say Vagrant Story has one of the best pre-title intros of any game. Nice music, covers the subject matter of the game, snappy editing, and not too long. It's one of the few I sit through every single time.

And speaking of VS, if I could wish for an upgraded graphical remake of just one game, this would be it.

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It was a game with a lot of love put into it.
The art, the low poly 3D that's really good, the music and story, hell even the translation was filled with love

They removed the social aspect.
If you wanted to raid you had to find a tank, a heal and a few DDs. You had to ask in chat, you had to talk, communicate and socialize with people. It put you in a situation where you received rewards for being coordinating a group of people and keeping everything together until the end.
If you didn't want to ask around for a group member every time you just join a stable group of players, a guild or a clan. You get to know them better, become friends over time, and get to do more advanced stuff. And that advanced stuff was actually advanced, it was hard and required coordination and teamwork. If your group wasn't a bunch of really good friends or absolutely professional, then you would break at the first boss.
It was a highly social experience, where friendships were forged and broken, where even the greatest autists could find a stable group of friends to play with. I am still in contact with one of my former guild mates, even though I have not played WoW for years.

Now you just click a button, do the thing and leave. Just like a social one night stand.

I'll go with one truly memorable moment for me.

AAAH, FRESH MEAT

you mean Holla Forums with reddit

Don't forget the fact that you can actually play through it and it can also be skipped

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All of these.

Bonus points: It's a toggle

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How to get into EYE:
There, you filthy Jian

Also, back on topic:

I was referring to the pre-rendered FMV, actually. You know, with the belly dancer and all that. I mean it has the best intro animation of most any game ever, to be more clear.

Not that the… whatever that beginning gameplay segment is called bad by any means, but I wouldn't say it especially shines compared to other, uhm… "very beginning of game" parts.

don't listen to this faggot, just play the game

Stat yourself so you can easily obtain the bear killer, and buy the bear killer, but otherwise just play the game.

Best odds for me are when there are epilepsy warnings at the start of the game.

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You aren't just going to post that without the full frame are you? Do you do this as some sort of sick joke?

I can't express how much I agree with this, large, continuous worlds get my dick hard in a way that's hard to match.

one of the bigger issues with skyrim was how damn small everything was. it is near impossible to get immersed in that shit, when I'm supposed to believe that there exists some village that occupies the space of a city block that's inhabited by 15 people.

That's not a city, that's not a town, that's not even a fucking village, its a cum stain

You're right, until you figure out the combat is shit in a game that takes focus on combat

what do you have against cum stains nigger

i feel you
even fucking riverwood felt just as big as whiterun
only solitude sort of looked like a town since it had a lot of space for buildings
still too small to call it a city
meanwhile, the imperial capital in oblivion actually looked like a huge city

nothing, you just can't live in a cum stain

fucking this.
then you realize they're two titans

my double niggers

up until that point everything was lighthearted and going smoothly.
Just your average demon summoning but then fucking boom.
It's a nice little twist how Jeanne summons it at the end to kill the evil guy

Remember when Bethesda brought Arkane and people thought it meant that Elder Scolls was going to get Dark Messiah's combat?

When this song kicks in and then it's not a good fuckin game it's a horrible emotional rollercoaster i'll never get off

I fucking love Rune Factory 4. I really hope RF5 becomes a thing.

huh

Today was a good day.

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Who the fuck are these bandits robbing that makes them so successful?

It's an issue most of today's RPGs have. Witcher 3 got it right. It's better to set shit in a relatively small area but get things on correct scale, rather than making an entire fucking country with many villages etc. and just end up making even the biggest city feel like a small hamlet

I went in to expecting pretentious shit. and for half the game it was. then I met my first partner. and it was fun running around with each other without communicating. when your partner has low health and you can't help him is devastating and when you go far away from each other you disconnect and just sit and wait for your partner that never shows up. I don't really see myself playing it again so think of it as a one play experience and if it worth the price.

This shit too. I recall it in Path of Exile where you got a """village""" of literally five faggots, who asked you to deal with bandits. You take three steps outside and are confronted with fucking hordes of them - dozens, if not hundreds of people that allegedly make a living out of robbing five faggots.

What happened to fucking world building? Whenever you see this shit, you just know that the devs didn't give two fucks and just said "Lol we need an enemy? Put some bandits there".

Personal Frame from Fragile Dreams
in a game about everyone in the being dead you find a computer that talks to you. I thought it was a clever way to make your character have some dialogue. then after a short while PF batteries dies down and you have to say goodbye to him even though your character has found other batteries he don't know how to use them and buries PF.
I felt really sad and it came from nowhere.
then the game just made me sadder

Raven Shield: When I held down the alt button and moved my mouse. Also when I used the scroll wheel on a door.

I still play game and talk to ppl from my first guild, 12 years later. My guild disbanded during MoP beta, but right now I'm in Vent talking to them. There's still a good 15 of us hanging out regularly and playing games.

Anyways, my "that moment" was probably talking to the ghoul sign-post in Planescape: Torment. I spent like 10 minutes being immersed into talking to a zombie that acted a sign post in the middle of town.

Oh god I wasn't even aware of more than half of those things. That game sounds so fucking good now, and it was already really fun. I'm gonna play more of it.

I was playing MH4U and man is that shit good but maybe I'll put off hunting for a bit to do some farming and shit.

speaking of which
Holy shit this game had so many moments in it like this. I'm like 370 hours in and it's still fun as shit. Why can't more games be like this?

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The exact moment after having both your cavalry and infatry in formation following you, then as you are charging hitting F1 + F3.

This also works in Total War but on a larger, isometric to semi-isometric scale.

Is that Mount and Blade? That looks surprisingly good, you must have modded the hell out of that.

also what does pressing F1 and F3 at the same time do?

>F3 under F1 = CHARGE

Ah, thought you mean both at the same time (like a combo button press or something). I already know what that did.

at least it has eye candy and isn't in some homo's home

Best feel

It's the Anno Domini 1257 mod

The opening cutscene of Deadly Premonition did it for me.

I really enjoyed that game but are there any graphical mods that improve the PS2 look of the game?.

Afraid not, m8.

RPGs have had freakishly tiny towns forever. The first Final Fantasy had supposedly big, important… four-building towns with about eight citizens.

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For me it was when I first arrived at Balmora and peered through the arch into the city.

Raz: the jig is up, phantom!
Jasper: what? How dare you accuse me of being the handsome and daring rogue that has thrilled and terrified audiences for years!
Raz: Yeah, you're probably right. He's so athletic and limber and thin, he could never be you!
Jasper: …..why you…OF COURSE IT'S ME!

42. An interesting number, don't you think? Although I suppose the significance of it is lost on someone of your organically-developed intellect.

The first time there's a flashback and the game remembers what you had equipped at the time.

That really put a smile on my face.

That part of the game was intense as fuck.

Especially the first time you meet these guys.

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I remember the first time I played it as well, was completely hooked from day 1.

I really love this game I played a few months ago for the first time. I really love it when you get a good economy going and you have all those npcs shopping and stuff. It is also really fun to rearrange your buildings to try and make your little town look nice. Another thing I love is making a garden/farm on the third deck. It is really satisfying to see all your plants grow and then sell them to merchants. The fact that all the npcs are 3d and have animations that let them interact with nearly everything really makes this game come to life. It is shame no one talks much about Startopia.

Also, the entire segment with Armaros was amazing. Lucifel a shit.

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GET OUT

Yeah it was scary
right up until you actually fought it

literally worst bossfight in MGS history

Nothing wrong with that. Wish more games had that PS2 look if it means they will put effort.

>in the second trial when the batshit crazy Genocide Jack/Jill shit starts
it didn't make a ton of sense for a murder mystery but it is super entertaining

I really hated the game until in the first murder when you realize that it was backwards and Sayaka was the aggressor, then I thought it was decent until the second one.

Why couldn't it have played like Dark Messiah of might and magic? Why?

Ace combat 5

this shit starts playing

The whole journey after that gets fucking crazy.

It was never pretentious like Gone Home though, and it never pretends to be.

It's one of the less deep gameplay centric games that I tolerate.

Journey is pretty neat, fam

I like it because it looks good, sounds good, and tells a nice little story and lets you make up your own about your experiences with other players.

It isn't pretending to be some sort of masterpiece of gameplay, it's just fun to play around in the sand.

Startopia 2 was planned but Muckyfoot was shut down and all assets were sold off to EA.

Did you really enjoy going through that stupid play over and over?

Journey is atmosphere based and has a great gameplay
It has exactly the amount of mechanics it needs to have, and it has challenges you have to overcome, and even a beautifully implemented multiplayer. There is no need for combat mechanics, or for some score based competitive gameplay in a game like that

Journey is a great game, maybe you like only competitive based gameplay, but that doesnt mean everything else is shit

dunno about Gone Home, havent played it and havent even seen any gameplay of it

Did we play the same goddamn game?

This shit makes me cry, man. The sequel might actually hold up, even though Cavia is dead and Taro isn't involved.

We just have to hope for based Platinum Games to come through. They haven't failed us yet.

And the amazing thing is it kept the feeling going for the whole game

That's a good feel but the fucking first fucking B7R engagement man
Jesus fucking christ
I'M THE FUCKING KNIGHT OF THE ROUND TABLE HOLY SHIT

so Journey doesnt have challenges to overcome ?
Its supposed to be easy, comfy and relaxing…it cant be just press W to walk and then press E to open door but making it have boss battles, attack power and speed for weapons and a screen "YOURE FUCKING DEAD SCRUB" every time you missclick would be stupid for its genre

Its not the kind of came that youre able to enjoy, we get it. But why are you saying its shit and nobody else should be able to enjoy it. Its like you were saying "Wow I dont like the taste of that food, anyone who likes it is cancerous fucktard"

yes, nowadays most indie game that are atmosphere based are hastly made shit by a bunch of pretentious, useless dumbasses
and we should hate that, but dont throw everything in the sam bag just cuz thats the dank meme right now

AC4 and Stonehenge was more terrifying to me because you have yo get below 2000 feet. Except you're over top a mountain range the first time it's fired on you.

Journey's stupid because you can't know who you're playing with or communicate in any meaningful way. I can guarantee you, if I was stuck somewhere with someone who didn't speak English, we could at least make our own language and communicate. And to me, it felt less like 'see, our game's so artsy' and more 'that sounds like too much work to put in, so let's call it an art design.'

SMT 3 after discovering the joy of buffs and debuffs.
Literaly tore through Trumpeter before the 8th turn.Though to be fair the rape train went full steam at the horsemen,where I stacked it with Dark Might on my Hell RIder critting fucking everyone with Attack All and my home-boy in pic as back up with all the buffs and debuffs.
I later fused him to create the Pale Rider and lost all the buffing spells and debuffing besides the phys damage one.

that is the point. The way they made it works, stop lying to yourself

autism

no arguments already ?
thx then

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EDF 4.1 had so many of these moments and I loved every minute of it. Pretty much everything involving the mothership and Erginus was great and the ending missions of the game were fucking brilliant. I can't even pick out one moment in particular because they always built things up over time but the final fight against the earth eaters core was one of the best moments i've had in a modern game.

Kill yourself.

no

I just began Vagrant Story a few days ago, that opening really got me interested. Sakimoto's amazing score really helped as well.

Not exactly a moment, but Final Fantasy Tactics' intro gets me every time. The first time I heard the music I knew I was in for a great game. The first battle cemented that thought.

I thought that track was going to get old by the time I finished the game, but I was very wrong.

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that was in OP but still, nice

why do redditors even format like that?

That what happens when you try increase subscription numbers whit casuals who don't get that MMO is't single player game.

it's called a "hamlet".

The first 30 seconds of this.

ok.

My theory would be, redditors are normalfags who go outside and check plebbit on their phones. Phones have narrower screens than a PC screen, so short bits of text wrap around a lot more. To keep shit readable when it becomes more than a few screen-widths long you add a paragraph. Imagine that the standard quick-reply box's width was the actual width of your post, something like that.
Or maybe newfags in general base the length of their lines on the width of the quick reply box itself. Ask a redditor if you want to be sure. Inform said redditor that single linebreaks are fine too while you're at it.

You're kidding me right. It has nothing special in it at all, it's one of the shittiest FMVs of all time.

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Really? They kept bringing it up in MGS1. The only reason nobody brings up MG1/2 is because the games are pretty archaic.

Gotta disagree. MG1 is archaic, MG2 plays pretty much exactly like MGS only in 2D.

many modern Bethesda games
…and then, it all goes to shit

haha

It's a pretentious, minimalist, artsy fartsy shit game.

Nice meme.

I believe it's because they think Holla Forums uses the same format as plebbit

youtube.com/watch?v=rFr-4_Kykd0&list=PLc3QkV-L-tFsYAsIOsgu16D0jNGdrsvAX&index=5

You are my eternal nigger.

When I saw this guy pick up a soldier and throw him into his friends and knocked down some trees.

The office Level in FEAR

Before I even played the game

Fucking this.

I never felt the same thing in a video game like i felt in the end of ac4.

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youtube.com/watch?v=T5AU6arzG1o

That moment, when I first walked out of sids bunker in 2007. I knew, that this game would be my jewel.

yes

Every time DM is mentioned.