what was your first 'oh shit' moment?
What was your first 'oh shit' moment?
Morrowind.
OH SHIT I CAN JUST GO EVERYWHERE?!?!
when I shid my diaper
SSBM when they had an anime intro
this game taught me the meaning of kino
I never stood a fucking chance, it was rigged.
My first "Oh shit!" was when I first saw a PlayStation and thought to myself, "You can have colors and levels in a vidya"??
Up until then, I only played Tiger Electronic games
It’s debatable as to whether Tiger Electronics games can be called video games
OOOOOOOOODOMETER!
oh what's it for?
Look at the OOOOOOODOMETER!
Nothing has ever topped that for me.
Halo- The Library
I was 9 when Half-Life came out and the resonance cascade got me. The entirety of Unforeseen Consequences had me feeling so uneasy and feeling guilty that I had caused this huge mess of destruction and death. That game also temporarily gave me a weird phobia of silent rooms with the ceiling lights buzzing
Redeads in Ocarina of Time scared me shitless
You now hear the howling sound they make
music starts playing
Sonic going Hyper
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At least Big Arms had prepared me for that. Doomsday Zone made me a man even though I was 5 (even if it was much easier and had an inferior music than Big Arms).
What an epic final act.
either
Aah, fresh meat!
or first Ethereal terror mission (back when I didn't know how to cheese it and actually tried to fight them)
Age of Empires 2 Stage 5 of Huns Campaign.
Her introduction scared the shit out of me as little 5 year old boy
When this motherfucker showed up in person for the first time. I had played some Super Mario Bros. ports on my Gameboy, but seeing Bowser in 3D was terrifying. Probably the first time I felt "I'm scared, but I can do this" in a video game.
Beat Sonic 3 & Knuckles when I was 6
Didn't get all the emeralds, so the game ended after I stopped Robotnik from running away with the Master Emerald at the end of Death Egg Zone
Save File shows CLEAR and lets me choose whatever level I want to play
Later went back and played through all the special stages, unlocking Hyper Sonic and figuring that I've 100%'d the game
Still load up my save and play a few zones every now and then when I'm bored
One day, I play through Death Egg Zone again
Beat Robotnik's big robot and stop him from running away with the Master Emerald
Put controller down and lean back expecting to see the credits roll
Instead... THE DOOMSDAY ZONE
Sonic jumps in from the left side of the screen and immediately goes flying through space as Hyper Sonic
WTF, There's MORE!?
Jump up and grab controller
Frantically dodging through asteroids and grabbing rings, trying to stay alive
Catch up to Robotnik's ship
Can't hurt it, keep getting knocked around by missiles and turretfire
It takes me a bit, but I figure out you have to guide the missiles towards the exposed head
But I'm running out of rings, eventually run out of time and die
Get a few more tries with my extra lives, but eventually Game Over
Back on the title screen
Go and look at my save
The CLEAR and level select are gone, replaced with a picture of The Doomsday and the text ZONE 14
I haven't beaten the game...
That shit sent chills down my spine and got me so fucking excited when I saw it. Imagine thinking you've beaten your favorite game, just to find out there's actually more to it. Kind of a shame it was just that one level though.
the werewolves in secret of mana fucked me up because I tried to fight them without sprite
This animation. I thought it was the sickest shit and the best graphics I had ever seen.
I was maybe 14 at the time, I was playing this on a Playstation and I'd been playing 3D games on it for at least 7 years by that point, including Metal Gear Solid.
These fucking things on this fucking level. This is probably the reason I never played horror games.
WARNING: ENTERING ECOLOGICAL DEAD ZONE
The fact that you know it's up there, but it doesn't attack until you look in 1st person was perfect presentation.
The second skull blew my mind.
when you wake up outside the city in san andreas
Being born and seeing my moms asshole
I can't remember my first, but I remember my last one.
God I love VR
Cue the hypest boss music in human history.
Those are other people?
ceremonial cp
The hype from that intro was real, don't think any other game has come close to that feeling for me.
Is that how normandy was? Only like 20 people storming the beach?
Was gonna post this.
I remember being a kid and thinking the light world was already a massive adventure, only to be sent to the dark would and being like "oh shit! there's more!?"
The cutscene in resident evil before the first hunter.
Halflife2 EP1 Zombie Defense part I think
SSBM?
It was stuck in my head for months, I had premonitions about the intro before the game even came out.
FFVII, when you leave Midgar, and realize that there is a whole world to explore, and that the whole game doesn't take place in that one city.
hearing the ogre from quake for the first time
Melee. Not literally an anime opening, but it definitely feels like one. I get what they mean.
kid me didn't really play horror games
TS2's first stage cinematic creeped the hell out of me
finally reach this
And thus short of a little bit of a Mortal Kombat 2 rental back in the day, that's how I got introduced to decapitating zombies as a pasttime.
I spent over a minute thinking it was a cutscene. My mind blew when I accidentally touched the thumbstick
I wish there was a good game that had millions of enemies on screen at once. That would be an oh shit if you turned a corner and saw them all.
Played a Pavlov VR server with 128 player capacity on a D-Day map.
Several. Most memorable ones were about player freedom and graphics. The first one hit me when I was playing GTA San Andreas and realizing I can not only drive in a very expansive open world for the time, but fly aircraft around as well; the second one was seeing Square Enix cinematics for the time (FFXII intro and later KH II):
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blaster pals
blllaaaaster pals
learning much faster
with blaster pals
Normandy was a shitshow, and the beaches were a lot larger than most games bothered to depict.
Serious Sam, maybe?
Normandy was a shitshow
Depended on the beach and it went a lot better than Gallipoli
Check out Demon Chaos on PS2 anon. It aint million but its a lot.
Cod WaW. Beat the game and little me watched the credits and BAM I’m alone in a creepy place and fucking ZOMBIES start rolling up to me.
House of the Dead 2 and RE2's intro.
Also getting Leon decapitated in RE4 for the first time
Mario 64 in general was a gamechanger for me, playing in a truly 3d world was a spiritural experience after playing 2d games on the SNES and Genesis.
The big Hollow Bastion fight midway through Kingdom Hearts 2 with all the Heartless kind of has some of that too, though that one sort of cheats with a lot of Doom-style cutouts in the background. I didn't care at the time though.
Super Mario 64, as soon as I got control of Mario in the couryard and started jumping around.
Sorry for the bad screenshot, this game will never get a remaster.
Also getting Leon decapitated in RE4 for the first time
I went to SDCC '04, and Capcom's booth had the village demo for RE4, and it was being projected onto a giant elevated screen, and the number of people who were crowed around watching was ridiculous. Nobody had ever seen a game like that before, so it was a legitimate game-changer. Anytime someone would blow a Ganado's head off with the shotgun, it would get a huge pop from the crowd.
when i shid myself as a baby
Yeah same
I still remember visiting Kmart and seeing a bunch of kids standing at the GCN kiosk and the Melee intro was playing
We were awestruck
When I checked this 8
What did you ate?
encryption code required
you have thirty seconds to comply
Finding the secret world in DKC3
9 10 a big fat hen
Yeah, I imagine the increased graphical fidelity post REmake's release was probably phenomenal at the time. So watching that red mist spurt with the crunchy albeit stock SFX must have been something.
Maybe this. First one that came to mind, anyway. Been playing games since the NES. Or, maybe the entirety of Blaster Master
The jump from 2D vidya to 3D vidya blew my mind. I hate sounding like a boomer, but kids these days won't experience any huge jumps in graphics in their lives.
I remember watching the intro at the demo kiosk at Circuit City on repeat.
I did the same for Custom Robo's intro. What a time to be a kid.
GTA 3. I'd been playing vidya since the early 90s and no brand new game blew me away like GTA 3 did, I couldn't fucking believe it was on console either.
Or, maybe the entirety of Blaster Master
The final area of that game scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it. Everything about it, from the music to the "guts" motif to the gameplay, completely unsettled me. Even now it still shakes me up a little.
hey you know those flying skulls that drop bombs on you?
what if we made them drop PINK CATERPILLARS
and put them in EVERY ROOM
FUCKYOUFUCKYOUFUCKFUCKFUCK
The jump from 2D vidya to 3D vidya blew my mind
It both did and didn't blow my mind. When we got shit like Final Fantasy VII, I remember thinking "why don't they just make it look like pixels, kinda like Breath of Fire III?" because they clearly weren't ready for that technology yet with their lego people. On the other hand, I remember thinking Ocarina of Time was incredibly compared to Link to the Past.
Illusions of Gaia was a trip to play as a kid.
Can't remember. Maybe Perfect Chaos in Sonic Adventure.
Still scary
Resonance cascade in Half-Life
In some spots probably.
Omaha was a trainwreck full of bodies by the end of it though. Basically the entire first wave was wiped out.