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Ambulance take-down is one of my favourites!
Finally beating Jack during No Fear Downhill MTB on the PS1,
Riding the Llama on Downhill Domination
The D-Day scene in Medal of Honour Frontline, having watched Saving Private Ryan the day before...
Completing my first multi-player strike in Destiny
(yes I'm a bnm and was a noob to on-line gaming, for years I'd avoided it as getting pwned by a 12 year old as well as being laughed at by my own kids was too much for my ego to handle)
lemonysam - Member
Also, the start of GTA3 where you spent several minutes just thinking "wait, so I can just wander about this massive city?".
Yeah, that was a big moment for me. Love R*. Maybe I should play through GTAV again...
First one at school to get to Elite status, and finally finding that strange bunch of aliens you had to wipe out in the mission.
there i was, round 36 on Call of Duty Zombies, 3 other players have died and are now spectating me.
manage to pulverize ever last zombie to take us to a PB. internet fails and i get disconnected.
devastated.
Many many great memories from my XBOX.
Point of order: The double barrelled shotgun wasn't in Doom, it appeared in Doom 2.
Way back then, the Aliens Total Conversion for Doom was fantastic. Very atmospheric and a very thorough conversion. The designers remapped the teleporter sound effect to a screech from the Aliens soundtrack and when you heard that you knew there'd be aliens coming at you (out of the goddam walls, obviously) on all sides. One of those games where no matter the threat you just wanted to unload your biggest guns at it, just in case...
I can't think of many personal moments but I recall one game of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. I was in a team of 3, defending against 4 on a map that involves frozen lakes, with the attackers having to make a truck journey and then a train journey carrying stolen gold. We got totally rolled over in short order, right until the very last checkpoint. Then suddenly the three of us started working together brilliantly and held the the line until the mission timer ran out. We held it so firmly that by the end the attacking team, which had looked assured of victory, were resorting to every desperate gambit and tactic to try to break our defence.
Getting through this stage of Downhill Domination (as Mai) on my first super career, watch!
Beating this guy
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and this guy on level 7 probablt felt like the biggest achievements.
Most fun was probably booze fueled multi player sessions on Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 (and urban terror mod), Far Cry and Crysis.
Point of order: The double barrelled shotgun wasn't in Doom, it appeared in Doom 2.
You're quite correct, though I seem to remember it was a combined game on the PS1.
But... not quite my greatest moment but memorable nonetheless was a dual player game of said Doom with my partner on the other controller (I know, right!). Two distinct memories - one of the early encounters with the Mancubus, you round a corner and they're in the distance letting off a couple of rounds. I know what they are and immediately turn to avoid getting hit only I can't because she's standing to my left cooing at the bright lights... she runs at the last moment leaving me to get trounced.
Same game, different, earlier level - I'm about to open a door and tell her to beware of what sound like Bullpigs. I open the door, she spots the said hell shits and charges at them and straight into the hidden ditch of red hot lava or whatever that crap was. From my perspective it was hilarious, almost like a Benny Hill sketch.
I did like a bit of Doom it has to be said, but she was shit hot at Tomb Raider whereas I just used to make Lara crawl for the most part... 😉
I beat my 6 year old nephew at bowling on the wii recently. And when I say beat, I absolutely pulverised him. I was magnificent.
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Having done numerous laps of Stockholm on Project Gotham Racing, few years later, whilst on business in Stockholm, ended up in the old stadt, and there I was stood on the streets I had raced round, it was all very surreal at that point.
I'm trying to remember a game on the PC in, would have been about 2003 which, as a fps, you were a mdern soldier, but could control anything on the map, from Russian attack helicopters to tanks. Hiding in bushes while personnel carriers were hunting for you was actual heart racing stuff.
Other than that, the best was taking over an internet cafe and playing counterstrike as a team from about 9:00pm until it was time to go to work the following day. Unbelievable fun.
Back when I was sixteen and going out with Jane, my first ever proper girlfriend, who was sat on my lap in my my parents' study playing Xenon II on my Amiga. While the next level was loading, she turned around, kissed me passionately on the lips and then returned to her on-screen carnage with a the occasional wiggle from her hips to remind me to pay attention.
This theme continued for a good thirty minutes or so, the passionate kisses grew ever more breathless and urgent. The wiggling to became more confident and brazen, the atmosphere in the room became charged with a strong hint of expectation and promise.
What happened next was something I'll never forget, for I finally got to see something I'd waited a very long time for.
She completed Level Four.
*applause*
I'm trying to remember a game on the PC in, would have been about 2003 which, as a fps, you were a mdern soldier, but could control anything on the map, from Russian attack helicopters to tanks. Hiding in bushes while personnel carriers were hunting for you was actual heart racing stuff.
Other than that, the best was taking over an internet cafe and playing counterstrike as a team from about 9:00pm until it was time to go to work the following day. Unbelievable fun.
Operation Flashpoint?
Everquest was my dirty little secret for about 5 years. So many good times it's hard to put a finger on it but conquering The Plane of Earth, to gain access to the Plane of Time with the guild a guild coalition and numerous multiboxers was definitely up there as one of the best momentsand then going on to defeat Quarm over multiple nights of Raiding.
Happened very recently to be fair as I've been nailing BF4 before the BF Hardline Beta comes out today.
Anyway, playing on Campaign mode and as I've jumped out of a heli I've been attacked by a plane. Not once but a couple of times this happened.
Next time I'm up for a fight and low and behold I see the plane turn in the distance....gets the RPG out and waits while he comes closer, a fraction before impact I've let the RPG fire and BOOOOOM!!!! Takes out the plane mid air!!! Yeehaa jesters dead!!! 8)
Mine was getting the gf hooked on jak and daxter. I woke up one night at 3am and she was still playing after I had dozed off in bed.
I shouldn't have bothered tho in hindsight as she now moans when either me or the kids are playing and don't bother to look in every nook and cranny or read quest text etc.
Completing Star Wars Arcade Trilogy (incl bonus stages) on a single credit whilst on a cross channel ferry with about 30 school kids watching and cheering (seriously, I was so cool once...)and finally nailing the 1080 as Ricky Winterbourne on the N64 and
I think if it's "things I did in a game" rather than "things that a game did" then it's Eve Online for me... Playing in faction war with the gallente, and routinely getting our arses kicked, we ended up fighting a sort of constant rearguard for weeks on end... Eve's never better than when it's tight, I could barely breathe at some points, flying a battered ship into fight after fight, spending hours hunting and murdering stragglers... Most people went for disposable cheap ships but where's the fun in that, I flew a half billion isk deimos called Unsinkable Molly and almost shat every time it was in hull, which was often, but damn did it feel dangerous.
I spent a lot of time on Eve, most of it was lacklustre, those few weeks were pretty incredible.
PC. Early 90s. Chuck Yeager’s Air Combat. Me in an F86 versus 3 Mig 15s. They were very, very good. I managed to down 2 of them, but the 3rd guy was proving tricky. We were fighting for what seemed like ages (about 15 mins probably). I was knackered, I was shot to pieces, just about out of fuel. We’d gone from about 30,000 feet down to about 50 feet.
He managed to get behind me, hit me and my engine went out and alarms started ringing. At that moment though, he overshot and I managed to fire my last single round off at him. He exploded.
I had to eject and he had too, so we ended up parachuting down to the ground right next to each other.
I like to think we both realised the futility of war in those quiet moments.
Switching my 'Heavy Sixer' 2600 on and off really quickly while playing 'Space Invaders', only to find that I now could shoot double bullets 🙂 1980?
Still don't know if it was a bug or a feature!
tinybits - MemberI'm trying to remember a game on the PC in, would have been about 2003 which, as a fps, you were a mdern soldier, but could control anything on the map, from Russian attack helicopters to tanks. Hiding in bushes while personnel carriers were hunting for you was actual heart racing stuff.
As BenjiM says sounds like Operation Flashpoint. The thing that seperated that from a lot of games of the time was the peril, no saves in levels, massive open levels and horribly good AI.
For a war game it was great as the last thing you wanted to do after 45 minutes of crawling across maps hiding from patrols etc was fire your weapon and let the (what seemed like) 100s of buggers know where you were! Made it all the more satisfying completing missions though.
The new Flashpoint (Dragon River) was brilliant on the PS3, as long as you could find someone to play it 'properly' with. After 2 or 3 weekends of being partnered with Rambo types shooting at anything that moved and not getting anywhere one glorious saturday I got chucked in a lobby with a guy from the states and we spent about 18 hours straight completing the game in one sitting. Played some GTA V and Portal 2 with him every now and then if one of us is online, although it's strictly business (don't even know his name!).
2orangey4crows - Member
I had to eject and he had too, so we ended up parachuting down to the ground right next to each other.I like to think we both realised the futility of war in those quiet moments.
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Goldeneye, played it to the point where I could complete most levels with single headshots, especially the jail escape, AK47 was silent as long as you only took single shots.
Took to doing a similar thing with COD2 & 3 Multiplayer, bolt action rifles were brilliant, wasn't happy with the modern warfare change....
I killed someone by hitting them with a smoke grenade in CS:GO about 5 nights ago.
Two friends who I was playing with saw it, felt pro.
With some housemates back in the day long before online gaming, we used to play the original Gran Turismo on the PS1. There were a few memorable days where we spent hours and hours shaving off fractions of a second off each others scores driving the TVR Cerbera LM around Trial mountain.
We played this thing to death and then one day our mate Gerry turned up and shaved a whole second off our best time. We were not pleased... never did beat it. I lost jobs because of that game.
Finishing super mario on the game boy, shooting that parrot thing and seeing the credits roll, then doing it about 3 months later with just one life. So much time spent staring at that little screen
Finally beating the "ghost" car in Ridge Racer on the PS1.
It's got to be Bike '99 - Maximum MTB (I think; they've long since closed) had a competition running - fastest time on "Downhill Bikers" over the weekend won an (unspecified) high-end mountain bike. By the close of the show on Sunday I could barely move from the stand and was taking on all-comers (it was two person head to head) to make sure I stayed at the top of the board. As a skint student (at the time) anything would have been worthwhile; but to walk away (well; pick up from a bike shop a few weeks later) with a shiny new Marin was brilliant 🙂
My Bro; who'd spent considerable coin attempting to beat my time finished 2nd. That was a quiet minibus ride home afterwards I can tell you....
Happy days.
During a particulalry tense climax to game of worms I found myself surrounded by my two opponents last surviving worms but both far enough apart to prevent me using a single conventional ordnance to clinch victory. A moment of high drama ensued where each protagonist tried to pursuade me to kill the others worm. Reaching like a lightening bolt for the SNES controller I selected shotgun and strode (wriggled) over to the first ememy and despatched him with a single shot to the head. The second opponent looked on at first pleased with my choice of victim but with a slowly dawning realisation that I still had 'one up the pipe'. As i wriggled toward his stricken combatant his pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears and I mercilessly gunned him down. The sweetest victory. It was seventeen years ago and I remember it as though it was yesterday.
^ worms - so many quality moments, shotguns 'n ninja ropes!
a lazy weekend playing 2 player co-op Portal wit my gf, it was just chilled and funny and lush, one of my fav memeories, let alone gaming ones.
Telling every one on here what I thought of Trevor on GTA V when I finished it 😳
PS1 time and racing backwards on Gran Turismo
3 of us spent about 1 month trying to kill the Big Boss at the end of a Star Wars PC game circa 1997. then one random bored afternoon I did it, except no one else was around to celebrate!
PS1 time and racing backwards on Gran Turismo
So many great GT memories. Toiling away relentlessly to finish in 5th place and earn just enough cash to buy a new air filter and add a couple of BHP. Repeat ad infinitum. Never played a racing game anywhere near as good since.
emsz - Membera lazy weekend playing 2 player co-op Portal wit my gf, it was just chilled and funny and lush, one of my fav memeories, let alone gaming ones.
Portal 2 is awesome for lazy weekends! And lazy weeks tbh.
^ worms - so many quality moments, shotguns 'n ninja ropes!
A long distance triple kill with the baseball bat from my last worm with single digits health ranks highly on my Worms honour role.
65% more bullet per bullet 😆
OMG OMG OMG, they're only going to re release ELITE!!! It'll be like going out with your girlfriend from the nineties, only she'll be forty and well woth one!
[quote=brokebony said]OMG OMG OMG, they're only going to re release ELITE!!! It'll be like going out with your girl from the nineties, only she'll be forty and well woth one!
Welcome to the internets.
Worms, the cause of so many arguments at uni 😆
For drama I always remember moments of the first tomb raider, the first time the T. Rex appears was awesome.
Most recently clutching 1 v 4 on world of tanks blitz, heart was pumping like a mad thing after that.
Playing Super Hexagon on a massive projector while Chipzel was doing a set in front of it.
Clanmates splitting up to rush a UT aimbotter, and being the one to get a kill in before we all disconnected.
About a dozen of us racing ice cream trucks around Time Square in GTA IV multiplayer. Grenades+first corner=massive pile of mangled, burning ice cream vans. No one escaped. For the few seconds before everything blew up, all we could hear were ice cream jingles and everyone pissing themselves laughing.
Edit: Sneaking around in Medal of Honour with my brother watching me. I took out all of the sentries around a house without a sound, and just after I ran into a room and did two headshots before the guards playing cards could even react, my brother asked: "You know if there's ever a war… can I be on your side?"
Northwind - Member
I spent a lot of time on Eve, most of it was lacklustre, those few weeks were pretty incredible.
I decided two weeks was enough of Eve, but wanted to leave it with more finality than just logging out. Setting course for the edge of the galaxy, just watching it occasionally for the few hours it took to get there, then getting blown up by pirates and leaving my pod orbiting a rock on the very edge was a great way to leave it behind.
allthepies - Member
"brokebony said » OMG OMG OMG, they're only going to re release ELITE!!! It'll be like going out with your girl from the nineties, only she'll be forty and well woth one!"
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Yup
Really hope it comes to consoles though!
Why, what format is it likely to come out on?