TOP TEN TOPIC: MOST MEMORABLE VIDEO GAME MOMENTS

Halo 2... on legendary?

10. Beating Morrowind through some cheap exploit (there are several) after killing off an NPC essential to completing the main storyline.

9. Most Final Fantasy games: Killing some boss with an elixir. Particularly awesome in Final Fantasy IV DS when Lugae casts reverse on everyone, which makes him vulnerable to death by elixir.

8. Breath of Fire IV: Choosing to join with the bad guy at the very end of the game, and instead of fighting him, fighting your former party members as the final boss and slaughtering them.

7. Dragon Quest 8: Transforming into a bird and flying around the first time.

6. Halo 3: Drunken local multiplayer matches with grotesquely unbalanced match rules.

5. Bioshock: The amazing intro scene.

4. Dragon Quest 1: Deciding to join up with the Dragonlord and getting a game over after struggling so hard to get to him (seriously that dungeon is rough).

3. Final Fantasy IV DS: Learning that the old way to beat Bahamut doesn't work and that WIP's retard method is the way to go.

2. Ninja Gaiden 2: Getting killed by the exploding armadillo boss (jesus that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen in a video game).

1. Dragon Kingdoms 5: That enormous blue MS Paint whale that was beached out in the wilderness that I couldn't interact with.

4. Playing "Through the Fire and Flames" for the first time during the credits (Guitar Hero III)

Never had so much overall fun playing a video game in my life.

3. Chrono's Dying and Resurrection sequence (Chrono Trigger)

I was young enough at the time to feel like a real friend had died. My nerdy buddies in school got pissed at me for spoiling it since I just couldn't help tell everyone who would care that Chrono died.

2. Getting Terra back in the World of Ruin (FF6)

My whole life I've been really attached to one person at a time, be they a family member, best friend, or girlfriend/fiance. When I'm with them, I'm "home" whether or not I'm in a house. Terra was like "home" to me, and somewhat inexplicably, I felt SO much better after I finally got her back in the WoR. Again, I was like 12.

1. Finally getting the AIRSHIP after the horrifying ice cave (FF1)

Not much to be said here. The most frustrating and punishing dungeon in RPG history is the ice cave. Running away is a core strategy there!

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Watching my at-the-time-girlfriend as she plays (and enjoys) Diablo 2.

Who doesn't?

My wife and I still play Diablo 2 regularly. In fact, we just played through Act II on Hell difficulty a couple of nights ago.

This time I don't have any real order. I just come up with them as I go along.

Beating Manchester United (Championship Manager 97/98)
I was a third division team (Scarborough) and had been fighting my way through the FA Cup and in the semi-final (I think it was) I was up against the mammoth of Manchester United. I pour all my heart into that game. Making sure my players were at the top of their game.

I won 2-1 and it felt awesome. Especially considering that the team (despite playing for over ten seasons) never made it out of the third division.

Playing through Nintendo World Cup co-operatively on Ice
Nintendo World cup is an awesomely violent football game. And you can play it on multiple surfaces. The rocky one where people stumble and the ice one are the two that are the most fun. There's something awesome about being slide-tackled and then sliding over the whole field.
Playing it co-operatively is even more awesome.

Beating Tecmo World Cup
Another football game. Strange how these appear. We were a gang of guys who cheered and played Tecmo World Cup quite a bit. Fighting our way through super shots and impossible Russian goalkeepers. I'm fairly certain it took several weeks from our escapades into the quarter finals to get to that final game vs Brazil and beat their asses.
Good memories. I even made a board game inspired by Tecmo World Cup and the whole concept with super shots and other fun stuff has made this one of my favorite football games every. Why don't people do RPG-Football mashups anymore?

Beating Super Mario Bros ten time
This was actually pretty stupid. But a lame rumour went around the neighbourhood that if you played through SMB ten times Mario would, instead of jumping regularily, do somersaults. So we sort of sat out to prove that this was most definitely not the case. So we sat down and played some Super Mario Bros for a couple of hours.

Still Alive
Playing through Portal, having an awesome time and then being rewarded by that awesome song. I had been looking around internet and found that there was SOME meme going on. And that there was SOME awesome song around. But I didn't know where, how or what. I was immediately sucked inand it was aweseome. And I loved it.

Playing Perfect Dark with my sister
Perfect Dark's multiplayer was something special and fun. Playing co-operatively against an assortment of bots made for every skill level out there. It was fun and me and my sister player a lot of that game over one year.

Final Fantasy VIII Hype
This was during my early days of internet and I remember going around for everything Final Fantasy since I was a huge Final Fantasy fag after playing VII. There was something awesome about this video and my hopes were sickeningly high.
That part of the game did deliver. But by the end of the game I had already begun my road towards disliking jRPGs. I never finished IX, feeling it was just the same thing over again. And meanwhile I had played a lot of they're-all-the-same SNES RPGs as well as finding the awesome that was Fallout.
FFVIII was my last great jRPG experience. And it was really great in the beginning.

Getting my NES
I remember this day like it was yesterday. It was my first summer holiday from school and I was visiting some relatives over a couple of days. It wasn't exactly the greatest of times but I managed. When my parents came to get me they told me we had a NES!
It still bugs me a bit today that everyone else in the family got to play that thing before me.

Finding RPG Maker
Now I hate RPGMaker as much as anyone else, but upon finding it the first time it was the awesomest thing ever. Finally I could realize my gamemaking dreams, even if it was in a jRPG format. During my first day of having the program I'd already made my first town, with puzzles and a lame dungeon and I was well on my way. Obviously that early game sucked big balls but it was also my path to the gamemaking community that I've been part of now for far too long.


I don't know how many this is but I'm sure it's enough for now. It's getting more forced by the minute 8^)

I can only think of 5.


5. Defeating Yiazmat in FFXII- This bastard had over 50 million health and took me about 3 hours to defeat him. Overall it was an intense fight and i just barely won.

4. Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core- I had been waiting to play this game for ages and it was awesome when it finally came out.

3. Age of Empires- Getting destroyed by the opposing army and throwing my mouse out the window in rage.

2. RPG maker- I was excited when i discovered this especially when thinking about making my own games. Now it controls most of my life.

1. Final Fantasy 1- Playing the first ever Final Fantasy game and i was really young when it first came out. This game was the best.

1) Losing to Nyx after defeating Nyx Avatar (Persona 3)

They say it's impossible to lose the very last vent fight in P3, but I proved them wrong by casting Total Reversal with a level 97 Abaddon. Then, when my friends' "belief in me" healed me for 999, it turned into damage.

2) Losing to Yu Yevon (FFX)

Another loss in an guaranteed victory battle. I equipped my characters with Stonestrike weapons and went for it.

3) Beating "The Answer" (PERSONA 3: FES)

Erebus is a DICK. I got REAL tired of 9999 damage to my main character. (Of course, all of my characters where level one so I guess it's my fault.)

4) Beating Nemesis in one shot. (FFX)

Zanmato OWNS. Yojimbo ftw.

5) Penance cheese (FFX)

Also Zanmato. Zanmato for prez.

6) Yiazmat with Level 1/1/1/2/2/3 (FFXII)

Yiazmat with bottom-level characters was PERFECT. Especially since I shot him from outside his attack range.

7) The Cow Level (Diablo II)

They speak the word "Moo". It's hilarious - you'll die laughing.

8. Disc Read Error (FFX/FFXII)

I was bored, so I swapped discs while it was loading, and I had Tidus instead of Vaan. Wtf?

9) RPG Maker (PC)

If you need an explaination of what this is, die.

10) RPG Maker (PC)

If you need an explaination of what this is, die.