Those "HOLY MOLY" moments...

Elite on the original BBC. 1st time a looked up from a game and realised it was getting light outside.

Unreal (yes the original) when I 1st installed my GeforceMX and saw lighting and mist in game.

DeusEx - such a good game, the story telling and implications of your actions.

Elite Dangerous on a rift - turning around and seeing the bridge of your FerDeLance, not the spare bedroom wall.
 
Hodders said:
Unreal (yes the original) when I 1st installed my GeforceMX and saw lighting and mist in game.
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Pretty much this when after I first installed my voodoo card WAYYYYYYY back. The opening cinematic


Another one would be Everquest. The first time I entered East Commons (the auction house) and realised just how big the community to this game was.
 
Jono said:
MOHAA Omaha Beach. It was basically like being in Saving Private Ryan.
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As if I forgot about that. It was superb and in general MOHAA would be the first game to completely WOW me. Up until then I was a console player and went round a mates on dinner at college and he had 2 high end rigs in his room both running MOHAA. I tried it online and never went back college that day.

Not long after my Dad bought a PC and I spent so many hours playing it.
 
Sega Mega Dave said:
As if I forgot about that. It was superb and in general MOHAA would be the first game to completely WOW me. Up until then I was a console player and went round a mates on dinner at college and he had 2 high end rigs in his room both running MOHAA. I tried it online and never went back college that day.

Not long after my Dad bought a PC and I spent so many hours playing it.
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I would love them to re-make it, but only on the basis they do not mess with the gameplay, just rebuild using a new engine. This was the game I loved as a kid and spent so many hours playing over and over again. Obviously I would like to see Breakthrough & Spearhead included in that as well.
 
Resident Evil 2, for me was:
The bit with the one-way glass and the licker. Panicked a bit (a lot) there.

And the Original Mass Effect: barring a few impressive moments (first experiencing the Citadel, for example) I'd gotten pretty jaded by end-game (especially the awful planet exploration/mako bits), but the ending just felt spectacular. Can't actually remember what happened now, and haven't played the sequels, but remember feeling pretty blown away by it.
 
When I built my first PC and fired up Farcry for the first time. So strange looking at how dated it looks now, at the time I thought it was amazing and nothing would ever look better.

Game story wise would have to be The walking dead

Lee :(
 
Rifte said:
Pretty much this when after I first installed my voodoo card WAYYYYYYY back. The opening cinematic


Another one would be Everquest. The first time I entered East Commons (the auction house) and realised just how big the community to this game was.
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That's the bunny :-)

Also remember the room in Unreal when the lights went out in sections each with a clunk. The whole place went into darkness and then the monsters came - Eeek !
 
gord said:
Still one of the best tech demos of all time..

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Yeah but not all of that made it into the final? Or did it? I was amazed by the mavity gun bit and the pool.
And the Combine soldier AI...
 
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RobTheMonk said:
COD MW2 -
When you get petrol poured on you and then Shepherd throws his cigar on you and you die; I was expecting to be saved. Kept thinking that Price was going to come in all guns blazing.
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oh yeah, that whole scene where he executes Ghost and burns you alive... I think I sat with my jaw on the floor for ages after that

The original COD series, those WW2 enactments of actual battles were intense. I needed a laydown after some of those assaults.
 
Last of Us

Giraffe

It had been really quite so when she legged it I expected poop and fans, instead big smiles :), and, well **** that's a first.
 
Last one for me would be Elite Dangerous on a Rift. I literally sat there in awe for about 10 minutes looking at how far away the nose of my Anaconda was!
 
So many to choose from -

KOTOR - The "reveal"

Monkey Island 2 - The ending sequence

GTA 3 - Seeing a GTA game that wasn't top-down and being stunned

James Pond - Seeing how long his neck will extend

Leisure Suit Larry - Glimpsing side boob for the first time in full EGA glory

Mass Effect series - Being emotionally invested in a game for the first time ever

Witcher 3 - Being emotionally invested in a game for the second time ever
 
Loads of excellent examples here.

One I would like to add was from Mafia 2 - not the best of games but it had a brilliant very short side mission where you and I think was Joe go off to perform a hit on some chap who had once betrayed 'the family'... Not many games make me back off from the PC and stand in complete shock.

Mass Effect 2 - Again not the best of sequels, but that ending cinematic with the big bads coming....
Mass Effect 3 - That flaming ending....and I mean it in a negative way!

Red Dead Redemption - What a kick in the face after such an unsurpassed gaming experience.
 
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