What are your best "holy shit" moments from video games, where a game completely blew you away?

drewlynoted · 8 months

Knights of the Old Republic

I don't know about you guys, but I did not see that coming. Sure there were hints, but how was I supposed to know that I was Darth Revan, former Sith Lord?

Sevryn08 · 8 months

Bioshock's Would You Kindly twist blew me away. The atmosphere really led up to that point, and everything made sense and shocked me at the same time.

nomlive · 8 months

When I realized I had to use controller port 2 in Metal Gear Solid so Mantis wouldn't be able to read my mind.

JohnsonMG · 8 months

The moment i played Halo: Combat evolved and was so pleased after the first mission... but THEN, your exit pod crashes towards a mysterious ring and you your controller goes crazy with the rumble pack which was incredible then IMAPCT! I expected to enter an odd alien technological environment but was stunned with the beautiful graphics and scenery when i began my favourite mission of all time. Halo. That is probably my favourite moment in any video game. Starting off with my favourite weapon the over-powered pistol and taking out the oblivious covenant. That and the beginning of truth and reconciliation where you had to stealthily take out enemies with your sniper rifle in what was an incredibly well put together level. That was the day i fell in love with Bungie and today i will still gladly, blindly buy their shit because i owe them for those moments.

bobmystery · 8 months

Samus is a girl.

tamzta · 8 months

Beginning of mass effect 2. And riding into mexico for the first time in RDR.

Chobeat · 8 months

Dwarf Fortress, when i opened a bottomless pit for the first time. A 20 hours fortress gone in 20 sec.

Paxman94 · 8 months

Returning to Hyrule halfway through The Wind Waker.

jackHD · 8 months

Fallout 3 : leaving the vault.

kevlarvest1893 · 8 months

also, when the Gravity Gun in Half Life: 2 goes haywire and you can fling enemies around freely. that was sooo liberating.

baconofsanity · 8 months

G-Man in Half Life. When I played through the second one and he comes out at the end during the explosion in the Citadel. I have never been that terrified of a video game character ever. Everything from the way he talks, to how he just comes out of the explosion.

Pretty much everything about the Half Life series. I couldn't believe some of the things they made Freeman do. But one of the cool things that I always laugh about is when Dr. Breen is yelling at the Combine soldiers in the prison about how Freeman is a theoretical physicist, not some former government operative.

Taking down my first building in Bad Company 2. I honestly just stopped fighting and sat and watched the thing come down.

In Assassin's Creed 2 when you first really realize that Altair is the one who wrote the Codex pages. Not to mention the brutal assassinations Ezio is capable of.

Bioshock. Everything about it. Especially when you first float down into Rapture. I've never seen anything like that.

Fallout 3. The first time I saw downtown D.C. I live on the east coast, so that really struck home.

And I almost forgot when I realized that Half Life and Portal take place in the same universe. I can't wait for Freeman to get a Portal gun.

xmashamm · 8 months

Shadow of the Colossus.

You know when.

cartoon_violence · 8 months

GTA IV - The brilliance with which the writers of GTA handle the ending of the game: The person who dies is the person you whose advice you follow, thus guaranteeing that the the story is more personally tragic by killing the one you like more.

Rilgon · 8 months

First time fighting Dark Falz in PSO.

hazzy · 8 months

System Shock 2, when you walk into a room after Dr. Polito tells you to, and find out that she's been dead all along and SHODAN was basically telling you what to do the entire time. Also, walls melt away, creepy voice, etc. Best moment in video games ever.

amanojaku · 8 months

OOT: leaving the Temple of Time the first time as an adult.

[deleted] · 8 months

The first time you reach the surface in Half-Life. Never before was I so relieved to have finally escaped in a video game. Then I saw the soldiers and thought "cool, these guys are totally gonna help me and together we'll kill all the aliens and live happily ever after". Turns out they didn't want to help me they just wanted to make the situation go away along with me and anybody else in Black Mesa. So I was forced back underground and I raged hard. I covered the walls with their blood.

MaxPowerzs · 8 months

Nobody is going to mention this game, but Saint's Row when your main character SPEAKS. I thought he was a silent protagonist, but it completely blew my mind when at the final missions for each faction, your character has a witty one-liner.

linearcore · 8 months

Fable 2 at the end when Lucien shoots your dog. He kidnapped my friends and killed my family and I felt little. I could even let killing my sister go. But when he shot my dog, I decided then and there to rip him apart as messily as the engine would allow. I was surprised a game could make me hate so much.

oNrG · 8 months

Crysis 2: Seeing the entire central park lifted miles above the ground Oblivion : Opening of the sewer doors

Screap · 8 months

In World in Conflict, when Mark Bannon sacrifices himself as a distraction to keep a russian tank battalion from reaching the supposed "STARS" base.

Link to the scene. Edit: Forgot to put the name of the game.

nobatus513 · 8 months

Braid...

when you understand what he's really looking for...

mind = blown

Zuken · 8 months

Pretty much every boss fight in Shadow of the Colossus is a "holy shit" moment of awesomeness.

In Final Fantasy 10 when you find out Auron has been dead the whole time and Jecht is Sin.

In Chrono Trigger when you realize the kid you met in the sky city is Magus

In Chrono Cross when you see the bell from Leene Square towards the end of the game

The psychological terror you experience from Silent Hill 2. Truly a masterpiece of horror and good storytelling.

When I first left the sewers in Oblivion. The whole environment really blew me away along with the perfect soundtrack. I was about to embark on a great journey.

When flying mounts were introduced in Burning Crusade.

The Ice Valley in Metroid Prime. That's when I fell in love with that game

NottaNoveltyAccount · 8 months

•Resident Evil 4: The game was mind blowing from the beginning, but that scene where you try to hold out in the cabin with Luis was amazing. Frantic, tense, and very well done. Haven't felt that in another shooter since.

•Gears of War 2: The scene where Dom and Marcus find Maria and what transpires. The Gears story doesn't get enough credit; that scene, I mean holy shit

•Indigo Prophecy: The very first gameplay moment. After the intro finishes and you're in the bathroom standing over the person you've just murdered while the police are coming with the game basically saying "alright, you take it from here." I was scrambling to make a clean getaway.

•Duke Nukem Forever: Coming to the realization that I must be the only person in the world that thought this was a great game; campaign, multiplayer and all.

SteamCrunk · 8 months

I have plenty of these, spoilers all round!

FFVII: The realization that everything you've learned about what happened in the past has been in Cloud's head, and everything that didn't make sense before now clicks

Bioshock: Would you kindly? twist Blew my mind.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Finding Malik on the aug-harvesting operation table with her head cut open in the final scenes Not exactly on the beaten path, but holy shit.

Metal Gear Solid: Remember me Snake? Master Miller, this whole time, has been Liquid Snake

Metal Gear Solid 2: Sup Patriots? Fuck your shit, I'm Ocelot! Ocelot has been pulling the strings THE WHOLE TIME

Metal Gear Solid 3: Being forced to 'die' in The Sorrow's little cut-scene.

Batman: Arkham Asylum: Finding the secret room belonging to the Asylum Director, promoting the second game.

Borderlands: Fighting Crawmerax for the first time, fighting the Eridians for the first time.

Portal 2: White Goo (I can put my portal on anything?)and the relevation of who GLaDOS really is, and her relation to Chell

Assassin's Creed (all of them): EVERYTHING EVER

Bayonetta: Cereza is actually Bayonetta as a little girl I figured out who Bayonetta was pretty early on (they're pretty giving with hints in regards to that), but Cereza blew me away.

PappyAL · 8 months

Hearing Steve Merchant voicing Wheatley in Portal 2. Stellar performance.

Adbazm · 8 months

Portal: Walking through a Portal for the first time. I spent at least ten minutes walking back and forth through the portals before moving on.

prabhbhambra13 · 8 months

the first time i played mario 64, ocarina of time and metroid prime blew me away, i was amazed at how well these 2D games transitioned into 3D

gamerx11 · 8 months

More recently, my best moment was the ending of Bastion. Never experienced a game like it.

VermilionLimit · 8 months

Bioshock 2 near the end when you control a Little Sister and see the world from their perspective - and the interspersed cuts to reality.

PacSack · 8 months

The ending of Portal 2 was kinda surprising. And, like tamzta, I loved the sequence in RDR when you ride into Mexico.

Sykotik · 8 months

Final Fantasy 7: So many moments. When the very first cutscene ends and you take control of the character seamlessly. Almost every summon. Aeris :(

The very end of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. You're laying on the ground dazed, the pistol comes up and you instinctively aim and fire... pow... pow... POW! Three headshots... can't believe that actually worked!

IAngel_of_FuryI · 8 months

Zone of The Enders: When I realized that I was moving my Orbital Frame faster than I could think.... Zone of the Enders 2nd Runner: When they made it even faster and I could teleport....I think my brain about exploded at that point...

Hideo Kojima needs to make a new one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dannostar · 8 months

GTA IV I was speechless when Roman was killed

L33tMasta · 8 months

The ending to Assassin's Creed 2 when you realize JUST BEFORE Minerva says that the message isn't for Enzio that she's talking about Desmond and that she knows he's going to see this in the future. BLEW MY FUCKING MIND.

[deleted] · 8 months

When I played Max Payne for the first time on the level where you follow the trail of blood. That was the first time I had to turn the game off so I could wait to play it in daylight.

bennmann · 8 months

Seeing Samus' face reflected in the the UI in Metroid Prime comes to mind. 4th wall broke and I was there.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Every. Moment.

Morrowind when you find out what really happened to the dwemer (dwarves) and also the first time you really start to experiment with Levitate.

Oblivion: the Shivering Isles when at the end.

Hell the first time anyone plays any of the Elder Scrolls games and realizes they can do so much more than in any other game in the entire world.

Starcraft in 1996 - "You mean the races are different?!"

Runsapuusa · 8 months

Battlefield 2 multiplayer moment, when a good plan comes together.

shmiddy · 8 months

The end of Halo Reach. You knew what was coming, but after all that happened to the people through the campaign you were like, fuck it, let's kill em all. That was one of the most engaging/sad moments in any FPS games for me, and I wasn't expecting it in a Halo game since so many people bash it for being superficial. I hope I didn't say anything that needs to be blacked out. Felt too lazy to use the spoiler alert, so I just avoided saying exactly what happened. Regardless, Halo Reach was fucking great.

Nimero · 8 months

Red Dead Redemption. When you come to Mexico the first time and this song played.

DelusionalZ · 8 months

The opening to FF VIII. Absolutely brilliant, I remember watching it at least twice before starting a new game or loading a save.

tryptophan01 · 8 months

The ending cutscene in the first Fallout. I was like 14 and had spent sooo many hours playing that game, fell really into it, this ending really broke my heart.

Brofey · 8 months

In Mario when you find out the princess in a different castle.

[deleted] · 8 months

Blowing up a door in Deus Ex to get through it because I didn't have the key.

GamingGandhi · 8 months

In Civilization V. When I burned down villages and conquered the world.

glenfert · 8 months

STALKER SoC first time I went into the underground. That light that turns and makes that noise along with all of the other creaking. Still sends shivers down my spine.

Volkarin · 8 months

The good ending in Infamous 2 blew me away. The setup, the way they fleshed out the characters it had me holding back man tears.

Kedarik · 8 months

The beginning of Shenmue.

McBackstabber · 8 months

When I realised my true identity in SW:KotOR

kratan · 8 months

The entire first sequence of PREY. Holy shit was it cool!

Blue Oyster Cult! Walls crumbling! Being sucked into the alien mothership! People harvested!

neurobry · 8 months

D-Day in CoD 1. Running in over and over and over again and getting blown up a million times while explosions went all around me gave me a new appreciation for the actual event.

Victor_Zsasz · 8 months

off the top of my head Opening video of Red Alert 2

KotoR (you know what i'm talking about)

When GDI blows up Kane's base, and the Scrin shows up (C&C 3)

Death of Terenas Menethal (WC 3)

The Battle of Ostagar (Dragon Age: Origins)

Would you kindly? (Bioshock)

Final Stand in Halo: Reach

CoD: Death of Sergeant Paul Jackson

CoD:MW 2: Return of Cpt.Price

jaketessem · 8 months

In sequential order:

TES IV: Oblivion - The great gate opening

Mass Effect - The entire game

Halo 1-3, ODST, and Reach - The entire game

CoD 4 - Dat Nuke

Gears of War 2 - Epic ending boss fight

Mass Effect 2 - The entire game

Starcraft 2 Campaign

Volatyle · 8 months

The opening of God of War 3. No other game IMO has had a better start.

oD3 · 8 months

Recently? Xenoblade. That first moment when you step out onto the Bionis' kneecap that overlooks the ocean and you can see the silhouette of the Mechonis in the background. I must have stood there for 20 minutes admiring the scenery, watching the sun set.

NotAnotherDecoy · 8 months

The first time that an Imp tore through the bottom of a staircase in order to get at me in Doom 3 in the middle of general gameplay. It was the first time that I'd encountered a game that had this type of realism.

bleakzero · 8 months

Seeing the beautiful panoramic views of the Prince of Persia and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow games.

electricmice · 8 months

When I walked into the Chiron apartment and the blinds automatically came up with the lights shining through and the AI talking to me. That scene was magical.

charlander · 8 months

almost every mgs4 cutscene, especially the ones with raiden

the nuke in cod 4

Naota10 · 8 months

I highly doubt anyone remembers this, but in CoD 1, you begin basic training with a bunch of generic soldiers and one who's slightly less generic looking (who's name I can't recall). As you continue playing the game, this soldier participates in every battle as an American, but towards the end of the American campaign, he gets killed in/near some trenches.

Up to this point, I figured he was just another invulnerable NPC and rolled with it, but when he was shot right in front of me, I sorta had an oh shit moment.

TastyKool · 8 months

In Omikron (the Nomad Soul), when I entered the bar and stumbled upon a live David Bowie concert.

HarveryDent · 8 months

Hearing the war cry of the Boomers as they flew over the Hoover dam to carpet bomb Caesar's Legion in Fallout: New Vegas.

Gave me goosebumps.

Iforgetusername · 8 months

when i landed the fucking plane in top gun...

rockchalk · 8 months

Seeing Northrend for the first time. Fucking Northrend man. Fucking Northrend.

StranaMechty · 8 months

Numerous moments in Homeworld, including when you watch your world be burned from the galaxy, or in the final battle as fleet after enemy fleet warps in around you and you finally hear the voice of Fleet Command get a bit emotional. He had never been anything but profoundly calm the entire game, but when I heard that note of panic creep in I thought "Ohshitohshitohshit".

Or in Homeworld: Cataclysm when you find the Bentusi fleeing the galaxy and have to destroy the gate to stop them, and Bridge starts shouting his anger and fear across the comms. "Look what you've done to our fleet! The aloof, the mighty Bentusi, slaughtering those who ask for their help! You're worse than the Beast, at least the Beast doesn't PRETEND TO BE RIGHTEOUS!"

Youtube link for part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcN-2l0ON9M

BubbaWoop · 8 months

Half-life 2 episode 2, guarding alyx from the antlions, when all the lights are on 3 and the epic music starts playing. You feel like 'fuck yea'.

Asmith1995 · 8 months

Halo 3: Sgt Johnsons death... I never get the slightest bit emotional over films/death, but this was something that nearly brought a tear to my eye. Only time i have ever felt emotional over something not real.

tombibim · 8 months

A ton of good ones over the years, but Mass Effect 2 the end when I ultimately had to make every single decision about every person on my squad. I thought the game was pretty good at that point, but when that happened, it turned amazing. Then I started realizing choice I had made before the end were now effecting everything.

jeppyjoh · 8 months

The intro of ME2 when Shepard get's brought back to life

theVice · 8 months

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

The entire game.

stormtrooper8 · 8 months

When Sephiroth killed Aeris. :(

Dairhenien · 8 months

The first time I started exploring the world map in Dragon Quest VIII. Great music, truly epic environment. It made the PS2 shine.

embrigh · 8 months

When the 4th wall was broken at the end of Mothership 2: Earthbound. I've never had my mind blown more in a video game.

K2J · 8 months

Pretty much the latter third of Ghost Trick.

Nikolaithesurvivor · 8 months

in s.t.a.l.k.e.r when i realized that anything can and probably will die. such is life in the zone. i'll just take that p.d.a then....

TheSupaBloopa · 8 months

The first one is kinda stupid but, in the LoZ Phantom Hourglass there was this part where you had to copy down a map and I couldn't figure out how to do it. I looked up that part online and was amazed at how you had to close the lid on your DS to "print" your map. That and, the ride into mexico in RDR as well as THE very last part of the story in RDR. Hell of a game.

TheSupaBloopa · 8 months

Oh and the ending to MW2 with a throwing knife to the eye and Nikolai saying "I know a place." Fucking epic.

WhiteGravy · 8 months

Playing single player Call of Duty (2003) with a 5.1 surround system, fighting in France and Stalingrad. I felt as if I were actually there.

SyrioForel · 8 months

Modern Warfare 2 - you are the conscious perpetrator of a civillian massacre. The tense music that plays in the background is just icing on the cake.

I also liked how the game went out of its way to showcase one of your AI teammates being the ultimate bad-ass, only to show him getting unceremoniously murdered in a betrayal. Again, the music makes this scene.

hybridtracer · 8 months

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ...when the nuclear missile explodes and you get out of the helicopter and and see the destruction as you die. First time I actually thought about "this is what happens in real life...fuck"

bc4t · 8 months

Quake 4, the Stroggification scene.

tPRoC · 8 months

Bastion. The entire game.

Wallybanger · 8 months

Perfect Dark on N64. It blew Bond out of the water for me. The multiplayer with bots, the weapons, and atmosphere. The first time getting kills with the rail gun through walls was epic!

Also the beach landing level in Halo was awesome. My friends and I would play the beginning of that level a few times before moving on. Halo co-op was beast!

Probably the most holy shit moment, for me, was finally beating someone online in Starcraft!! :D

Considerable · 8 months

This is nostaglic for me. As a little kid, i spent an insane amount of time at my cousins so I could play Jak and Daxter on their ps2, as i didn't have on yet. Fast forward a couple years and my parents buy me a ps2, and the first game i get? Jak 2. Everything blew me away about that game. The size of the world. The awesome plot. Dark Jak and the fact that he now talks. The metal head invasion at the end of the game. I can't even begin to describe how amazing that game was for me.

EbagI · 8 months

The part in Brothers in Arms Hell's highway when you found out the opeing scene was your character being fucking insane.

PiGuy31415926 · 8 months

Free indie game called Descent (3rd from the bottom) The combination of weird atmosphere and the intense music made this one of the most exhilarating games.

I find it hard to get that kind of rush from games i can save every 10 seconds.

mrhighwayz · 8 months

When Catherine died in Halo: Reach. NOOOOO NOT CAT!!!!!!!!!!

and When Emile went down like an OG taking down some Elites :)

ToBoldlyPost · 8 months

DIVE, DIVE, DIVE, HIT YOUR BURNERS, PILOT!!!

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yum_muesli · 8 months

No mention of Okami in this thread? Sacrilege!

There are several parts I could mention. The ending cutscene (holy crap my heart), the first time in the snow area, the 'back in time' section.

What. A. Game.

MayorThis · 8 months

Final Fantasy IV: when you go into the wishtower and see all of your fallen comrades praying for you. I was so overwhelmed with emotion I literally started weeping.

thefezhat · 8 months

The missile launch in CoD4. That was a pretty major "oh SHIT" moment, especially during the cutscene where it shows the projected casualties numbering in the tens of millions.

The reveal of Rapture at the start of Bioshock. I was awestruck by the beauty of it all. Also the plot twist midway through the game, it just came together so well and surprised me big time while making a lot of sense.

The crane jump in Mirror's Edge. Merc's reaction cemented the holy shit factor.

Putting a portal on the moon. "Did I just... no way."

Edit: After playing a little more DX:HR, I feel the need to add that I was totally shocked when I found out that Megan wasn't dead. I had thoroughly accepted her death especially after investigating it, and my jaw probably dropped as much as Adam's did when I heard Zhao talking about how she had actually been kidnapped.

MustangGuy · 8 months

Silent Hill: the first time I encountered the alternate world, I knew my gaming would never be the same. Prior to that it was all happiness and good times with Mario games, Silent Hill changed how I looked at games.

nybbas · 8 months

I really loved the end scene in MGS4, when you are mashing the button as fast as humanly possible, and its showing your progress, while all that other crap is going on, and you are just mashing the CRAP out of x like you have never mashed it before

SergeantStapler · 8 months

Homeworld. When you come back from hyperspace and the platform is destroyed, and Adagio for Strings (the Platoon song) is playing in the background and you know that you're on your own from then on.

[deleted] · 8 months

Just seeing Super Mario 64. A game in 3D? And you control it with an analog stick? And you can go anywhere you want? Count me in.

Niserox · 8 months

Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

The part where you return to Shadow Moses Island and the epic MGS1 music starts playing and as you run around, Snake starts having flashbacks from the time he first visited it.

Also, not so much as a "Holy Shit!" moment in where it blew me away per-se, but more kinda ran me down into a tearful baby was also in Metal Gear Solid 4. At the end of the game when you see Snake in the cemetery and the camera pans up to the sky and you hear a gunshot, then it goes back to the Meryl and Jonny's Wedding and Sonny asks Hal "when is Uncle Snake coming back?" and Hal replies "Snakes... very sick, and he has to get better.." That just broke me right the fuck down for like 10 minutes straight.

AsteroidJuice · 8 months

I'm sure this has been said before, but the entirety of Half Life 2. I never played the first Half Life. So I popped in number 2 and started playing.

What got me was how there were no cutscenes. Everything was fluid and segued into the next scene. I WAS Gordon Freeman. And by the end of it, it felt like I had just finished a really long day.

Also:

The iconic beginning to Bioshock. The sound of the plane going downwards. Looking up from the water at the amazing tower, moonlit. Going inside. Sinking underwater with Ryan's speech.

In Left 4 Dead, standing in a subway car with a tank somewhere outside. Then running like hell.

Kordyon · 8 months

Portal 2 - The Turret Opera... After all the shit you go through, then that as a reward... I almost cried.

Daviz0 · 8 months

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 1, The intro where you assume the role of the guy about to be executed. To me it was such a great scene, My heart actually skipped a beat, I feel they tried too hard to recapture a similar moment to that in the MW2 & never really did.

ThatGuy20 · 8 months

when i stepped out of vault 101 and looked at the wasteland.

I_Climb_Most_Things · 8 months

Playing Sonic Unleashed for the first time. The game told me to press X to do a sonic boost. I was not expecting to go so fast, it was such a big "holy shit" moment that I fell out of my chair.

ObViousMaf · 8 months

Starting my first multiplayer match in Battlefield 3 Alpha, it completely amazed me, every single match I played in the following 48 hours I was constantly "ooh"ing and "aaaah"ing. Absolutely amazing. (Edit, how does a comment in a thread with opinions get downvoted? If you dont agree with my opinion, make your own comment with your opinion )

Grakos · 8 months

I had some moments in World of Warcraft of course. In HM Ulduar, fighting Mimiron with my unprepared but aspiring guild had us wipe on the final phase when he turned into Voltron. Standing strong, the off-tank along with me and my shaman friend (both healers) barely survived. With no dps alive we quickly chose roles to focus on and finished off the 3 body parts seconds before fire purged the stage.

skocian · 8 months

whenever I beat a portal level.

Megadanxzero · 8 months

When I got the Portal gun in Darksiders. I thought... "I can't believe they did that". Then I thought "These people are awesome"

In fact also when I first got to the Twilight Cathedral in Darksiders. The game instantly went from "average DMC-clone" to "amazing modern-day Zelda but with decent combat"

Just Cause 2 when I first stood atop an enormous mountain, jumped on top of a flying jet, then hijacked it, flew it to an enemy base, flew it straight into the ground killing several guards, jumping out just before it exploded, then pulled myself around whilst parachuting, killing guards left and right.

And this isn't a good one, but Splinter Cell Conviction, when I realised that it wasn't even a Splinter Cell game, it was some weird action thing, and I realised I'd never been more disappointed in my entire life

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