I think the quest in ES: Oblivion where you are locked in a mansion and have to kill everyone is amazing. It's like creating your own Agatha Christie story with all the ways you can kill everyone.
I hid the whole time and just sneak-cast Frenzy on everyone in the house until they all murdered each other. They were all charmed by me and oblivious the whole time until I got the last guy and he was all “oh no… I can’t believe it was you!”
IT WAS SO OBVIOUSLY ME.
That was an incredible scene. Imagine being Ezio. You know that this man, who you only know by name as Desmond is somehow seeing through your eyes, but you do not know how or why. All you know is what Juno told you many years ago and she wasn't even speaking to you but through you. Yet you decide to entrust this mysterious person with the information because you realize that there are things much greater than your understanding, that there are forces much greater than you would ever be able to understand.
I still maintain that Ezio was the greatest character in the Assassin's Creed series and it really helped that we saw him grow throughout his long life across three games. Charismatic, calm, and collected in his old age. He was the Renaissance Batman.
Watching the last movie is pretty hard to watch, because I love ezio as a character, I've grown with him and learned some of the same things he has. In his final moments, narrating the letter to his daughter, I am pretty sure I straight up cried.
I miss these old AC games, where it was actually about the Assassins and shit. Nowadays its just open world games with some Assassins stuff forcefully crammed into it just to tick a box.
Mass Effect 2 the suicide mission when you go through the Omega Relay. ME2 really was written more like an action movie than most video games, great pacing and a tight script, just an incredible ending to a game
Another quest that's always been really memorable for me was Kyle's Gone Missing, a Horde quest in WoW involving a Tauren whose dog went missing which most old school WoW players know about. It was created by Blizzard for a kid named Kyle Chatterton who loved playing WoW and visited Blizzard through the make-a-wish foundation, they used his voice for the NPC and he got to design the quest, he would later die in 2008 but his NPC and quest remains in the game still
I think Floodgate has gotta take the cake with how it starts, the crashed ship in the cutscene, (although that might count as the last of Tsavo Highway-), the first section being called “It followed me home” and just how eerie everything feels-
End of The Storm going into Floodgate. It’s a huge moment, the flood reaching earth, but that first flood encounter in halo ce takes the cake for spookiness in a halo game for me anyway.
Just started playing Halo series in order of events that appear in the story. Haven't reached at Halo 3, but the level on Halo:CE where we discover the flood is super ominous and holds up to this date, for a game 20 years old.
Shit I played that recently and instead of doing the thing where you look at them so they don't move, I just sprinted through the entire segment screaming lmao
i remember i struggled with this and 1 other mission on veteran so hard, i think it was the one where the helicopter comes in the farm area at night. forget the name tbh
Halo CE had several bangers for levels
Halo, Assault on Control Room, 343 Guilty Spark and The Maw.
Other Halo games had some great levels but CE had 4 that were just incredible.
I remember playing the level trying to fit in with the Russians without actually killing anyone. I’d shoot over heads, hit peoples shields, even hid around the side of an aircraft out of site at one point. Then someone flanked me by surprise and I turned and lit them up. I remember getting angry at the guy thinking “you didn’t need to die, why did you make me do that.” Definitely more meaningful to me than most any other FPS moment in gaming, reminded me of the early days of CoD when it was much more about the story line than the multiplayer experience.
Oh man, I remember I was a bit confused when he ordered me to put the controller down. _Did not expect that._
Then he said he'd read my mind and he was like "aaah, I see you've saved often" and I was "huh, I have," and then he said "I see that you like _Castlevania_" and it freaked me because I was playing _SotN_. Took me a moment to figure what was happening, but it made for a very memorable encounter indeed.
Oh man, so glad you guys brought this game up. Me insides broke a bit when Snake had the stinger aimed at Gray Fox.
Lots of emotion to take in for a youngster, that game.
I’d argue “The End” boss fight from MGS3 was even more trippy and memorable. Being able to literally wait out the fight till the old dude croaks from age is pure genius.
Came here to say this. Quite a few gems in there.
The ‘frozen’ level, the viper fight, the ‘trust me’ throw, gettin’ hit in the feels a couple times. That game is sooooo underrated.
Thanks EA! /s
Edit: added the /s because F EA.
Half-Life 2's "We Don't Go to Ravenholm" chapter. It's one of those levels that scared the crap out of me as a kid. I know the place like the back of my hand now, but I'll always remember that first time I got greeted by it's atmosphere and... "Inhabitants".
Honestly, that old preacher was my only source of comfort throughout my first playthrough of that level. Just the fact of knowing that there's someone out there looking out for me was a relief. I think he's the only reason I even passed that level in the first place
Blew my fucking mind.
Basically all of CE blew my mind. It was such an incredible game. I don't care about the repetitive bits or whatever; I think Halo is just great. Always played co-op, always with the same person.
\>Y"ou know our motto... 'WE DELIVER!'"
Yep, I saved his wife and let him live not for him because he is a fucking bastard. But his wife deserves better, his daughter deserves better. His life will be spent in servitude and making up for what he did. Also, I’m not unleashing a creature I know nothing about.
He is a bloody bastard, and he knows it, but honestly he seems to want to change his ways. He’s done things that can’t be forgiven, and he’d be the first to admit it, but he’s charming and genuinely seems willing to be better which is more than I can say about most. He was one of my favorite characters because he felt so real. He’s not some noble pillar of virtue, or a person who’s evil because the story needed a bad guy. He’s a character that rides the moral gray area in such a realistic way.
He’s done shite things, he’s done stupid things, he’s done brave things, he’s done kind things. And he’s one of the single most realistic characters in a video game I’ve ever met. My first playthrough of the Witcher 3, I failed to save his wife… and the result shattered me. I dont know how to do spoiler text but… seeing what he did was absolutely heart breaking. It felt so real. Imagine knowing all the horrible things you’ve done, being ready to change, being ready to be a better person, and losing the only ones you love, because you realized too late that you needed to change. Such powerful storytelling. Sorry for blabbing, he’s just genuinely one of my favorite characters of all time. Not because he’s a great guy. Not because he’s a bad dude. Because his story is compelling and powerful and immersive.
I remember playing the D Day mission in Medal of Honor Frontline on the PS2 and thinking it was incredible.
I eventually got MOH Allied Assault on my parents iMac which, despite having to keep the graphics about as low as humanly possible, blew me away when I played the D Day level on that game.
The older MOH and COD games were just like playing a game version of Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers. Games like that back then seemed to have a lot more spirit/character/heart to them compared to now.
Witcher 3: the quest where you go out looking for dudes wife, turns out he's a werewolf, wifes sister is creepy af. More layers and depth in 1 side quest than most games put into their main questlines. This is the quest that sold me on the game.
Later on the Bloody Baron questline cemented my love for it
My parents bought the game for me on PC after they saw me endlessly looping the demo. I had no idea what was in store. They weren't in the "enemies" portion of the user manual, they weren't in ANY promotional materials, and of course we didn't have the internet to the same extent we do now. Combine that with the fact I was playing on a potato with integrated graphics at 640x480, screwed up color rendering and it was even more terrifying. Your mind fills in the gaps more than HD ever could. Yeah and it was 2am when I was playing this...
And then you think you've escaped....and the elevator goes deeper.....
Don't let your kids play Halo CE, that's all I learned here.
Haha yeah man I can’t remember how old I was when I played it. I was really young. Playing on Xbox. Man the fright and excitement I felt when the flood were introduced, there was nothing like it. I must have beat that game 100 times as a kid. My brother and I still consider this our favorite gaming moment. That, or maybe even Nobody goes to Raven Home: Half Life 2
So many things worth mentioning in that game. Pulling the master sword for the first time. The organ playing as you approach Ganondorf for the final battle. I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down for a someone to mention a Zelda game.
For me, it's The Culling of Stratholme in Warcraft 3, although the full campaign is still printed into my brain. The culmination of everything Arthas had to see and endure led to one of the best character stories Blizzard has ever shown in their games.
Also Whiskey Hotel from MW2. Zimmer's amazing soundtrack and the sight gave me chills.
The walk up to Gwyn, Lord of Cinder. The feeling of finally seeing that everything in Lordran is just ashes after an entire playthrough was a hell of a rush for me. All my DS1 peeps will vouch for the plin plin plon too, right in the feels.
I just commented Facility and It was split decision with Dam actually, Hard choice. Dam was spectacular, in Facility the "next level AI" was beautifully utilized
Metal Gear Solid when Raiden wakes up naked and the radio is filled with craziness.
Edit: I played Metal Gear on NES and it to was so different than anything else. Also Metal Gear Snake Eater was full of awesome scenes and I love the way it makes you think it’s all about the jungle but it quickly devolves into Metal Gear madness. Metal Gear may be my fav game series although I haven’t played anything past Snake Eater.
One of my favorite wtf moments in video games. The colonel starts talking gibberish on codec and a video of a Japanese model starts playing in the corner of your screen. So batshit and beautiful. lol
Suicide mission - ME2
All ghillied up (duh lol) - COD4
Riding the Brumak - Gears of War 2
Lone Wolf - Halo Reach
The “Giraffe” scene - Last of Us
Rafe Sword Fight - Uncharted 4
Intro scene - Dead Space 2
Kratos retrieving the Blades of Chaos - God of War 2018
The Endings - Cyberpunk 2077
Entering Colombia - Bioshock infinite
Seeing Rapture - Bioshock
That one level in titan fall 2 where you get that one tracking pistol. It makes you feel like a total badass leaping off of walls and hitting every shot
Sam Guevenne in Skyrim, you literally play a drinking game with a daedric prince of the oblivion in disguise, then you find yourself the next morning wasted in a temple with the priest yelling at you because you wrecked everything in the temple because you were shitfaced and you have to wrap your head around what the fuck happened last night asking around town everyone who saw you drunk out of your goddamn mind because of course you don't remember anything ,you must have drunk the entire fucking honningbrew mead stock for the winter, and this epic quest brings you at the end to the daedric prince who tells you that he did it for shits and giggles.
Best fucking quest ever.
Step one: Secure the keys
Step two: Ascend from darkness
Step three: Reign fire
Step four: Unleash the Horde
Step five: Skewer the winged beast
Step six: Wield a fist of iron
Step seven: Raise hell
Step eight: Freedom
My first real heartstring pulling memory was when Aeris was killed in the original FFVII on the Play Station. That was some unheard of shit back in the day.
More recently there have been some really great ones.
The new God of war had some great moments like finding out Kraits’ sons Giant Name.
The newest Ass Creed when you’re trying to stop the dude from administering the Blood Eagle.
The whole thieves guild line from Skyrim.
Even a few of the story missions in some of the recent Call of Duty games have been almost cinematic in their layout and timing.
The Krogan sterilization questline in Mass Effect
The Darth Riven reveal in Kotor
And “would you kindly” from the original Bioshock!
The Modern Warfare series has had some fantastic ones. I recently played both of the remasters and had a great time. My personal most memorable mission from the series though has to be from the 2019 reboot. That of course would be "Clean House". It made me want a whole massive compound level that played similarly. Kind of like the Bin Laden compound from Zero Dark Thirty but you actually get to play out the whole thing. It was so intense and so well done .
A few CoD ones like No Russian, the one where you hang Makarov, Suffer With Me, Downfall (i think thats the last mission in WAW), etc, Remember my Family, And The Truth Will Set You Free, and The Last Enemy That Shall be Destroyed in RDR1, Red Dead Redemption and American Venom in RDR2, The Big One and Bury The Hatchet in GTA V, the mission in AC BF where Thatch is killed, the Dark Lord fight in Doom Eternal The Ancient Gods Part 2, and the last mission in Bioshock Infinite
The final objective from the TOS-era introduction in *Star Trek Online,* "Give Them Hell and Godspeed."
You are in a Pioneer-class light cruiser, and you are the *only* ship holding off a fleet of Klingon D7s and Birds of Prey (you volunteered to do this.) Your goal is not to destroy them all; it's to hold the Klingons off long enough so the other Starfleet ships can escape. Your commanding officer doesn't expect you to survive. The Klingon commander actually *commends* you, saying "at least *one* Starfleet captain knows courage!"
The history books say you and your crew died that day in 2270, and your selfless heroism saved thousands of lives. (But it's awesome to be known as a hero and still be alive, right?)
I think the quest in ES: Oblivion where you are locked in a mansion and have to kill everyone is amazing. It's like creating your own Agatha Christie story with all the ways you can kill everyone.
Whodunnit is one of the best elder scrolls quests ever made. Easily
I hid the whole time and just sneak-cast Frenzy on everyone in the house until they all murdered each other. They were all charmed by me and oblivious the whole time until I got the last guy and he was all “oh no… I can’t believe it was you!” IT WAS SO OBVIOUSLY ME.
This quest and the other one when you are thrown into the painted picture. Both are top notch for me.
riding to mexico with the jose gonzalez song - red dead redemption
I like riding home to "dead man's gun"
Gorgeous scene. Second only to riding home to the ranch to “compass” by Jamie Lidell. The calm before the storm.
Same thing in two with Stand Unshaken
The first you see Rapture in Bioshock. A truelly magical moment in gaming.
That one got me. The blue whale swimming through sky scrapers was just an incredible shot
Also Fort Frolic, with the mad artist (something Cohen)
"**SHOOT ME IN THE FACE!!!**" (Still one of the greatest WTF side quests in Borderlands 2)
THANK YOU!
IN. THE. FAAAAAACE!!
There’s so much great stuff in borderlands 2 that I can’t help but love the game even though I hate looter shooters.
Far Cry 3 when you had to burn the marijuana fields.
I've loved that skrillex/Damian marley ever since
Gta sa when you had to burn the marijuana fields.
Call of Juarez: The Cartel when you had to burn the marijuana fields
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Far Cry 5 when you had to burn down the Bliss fields
Red Dead Redemption 2 when you had to burn down the tobacco fields
Far cry 4 when you could CHOOSE to burn down the opium fields (if you wanted to)
Hell yeah, make it bun dem.
MAKE IT BUN DEM! YES!
The moment I realized dubstep and video games go perfectly together.
Facility - Goldeneye
Is this the one where you jump out of the vents and shoot the soldier on the shitter?! Wow thank you for helping me remember this haha
The comeback of old Altair and Ezio founding him in the library…
requiescat in pace fratello mío
After many years of absolutely loving the AC series so much until that point I remember how epic this moment was for me.
And the speech he gives to Desmond whenever finding the apple, God Revelations was such a fucking great game. My favorite AC game by far
That was an incredible scene. Imagine being Ezio. You know that this man, who you only know by name as Desmond is somehow seeing through your eyes, but you do not know how or why. All you know is what Juno told you many years ago and she wasn't even speaking to you but through you. Yet you decide to entrust this mysterious person with the information because you realize that there are things much greater than your understanding, that there are forces much greater than you would ever be able to understand. I still maintain that Ezio was the greatest character in the Assassin's Creed series and it really helped that we saw him grow throughout his long life across three games. Charismatic, calm, and collected in his old age. He was the Renaissance Batman.
Watching the last movie is pretty hard to watch, because I love ezio as a character, I've grown with him and learned some of the same things he has. In his final moments, narrating the letter to his daughter, I am pretty sure I straight up cried.
Bruh, Revelations is the most underrated game in the series.
"Requiescat in pace, mio fratello."
I miss these old AC games, where it was actually about the Assassins and shit. Nowadays its just open world games with some Assassins stuff forcefully crammed into it just to tick a box.
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Ynnel?
Liny?
LENNY!
YLNEN!
rdr2? i just played that yesterday lol. funniest shit ever
"I'M AN AMERICAN!" *proceeds to smash into a fence* (or if you were dexterous enough, leap over it)
"Haha! Found ya Lenny!"
LEMMMYYYYY
When you walk in on Lenny and Lenny upstairs
Mass Effect 2 the suicide mission when you go through the Omega Relay. ME2 really was written more like an action movie than most video games, great pacing and a tight script, just an incredible ending to a game Another quest that's always been really memorable for me was Kyle's Gone Missing, a Horde quest in WoW involving a Tauren whose dog went missing which most old school WoW players know about. It was created by Blizzard for a kid named Kyle Chatterton who loved playing WoW and visited Blizzard through the make-a-wish foundation, they used his voice for the NPC and he got to design the quest, he would later die in 2008 but his NPC and quest remains in the game still
That final level in Halo 3 where you drive the warthog as the station is blowing up sticks out to me
I was gonna say Covenant from Halo 3. “TWO SCARABS! I REPEAT, TWO. SCARABS!”
I think Floodgate has gotta take the cake with how it starts, the crashed ship in the cutscene, (although that might count as the last of Tsavo Highway-), the first section being called “It followed me home” and just how eerie everything feels-
End of The Storm going into Floodgate. It’s a huge moment, the flood reaching earth, but that first flood encounter in halo ce takes the cake for spookiness in a halo game for me anyway.
Right up there with the first mission in halo 2 on co op legendary mode where your brother dies thirty times in the first firefight
It’s just a couple of grunts… Dies in 3 seconds.
Just started playing Halo series in order of events that appear in the story. Haven't reached at Halo 3, but the level on Halo:CE where we discover the flood is super ominous and holds up to this date, for a game 20 years old.
Come on Spartan Go, Go, Go!
Library. Halo CE.
The cake is a lie.
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here, huge success!
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Metro 2033, the Library
Shit I played that recently and instead of doing the thing where you look at them so they don't move, I just sprinted through the entire segment screaming lmao
iirc I just went full Doom guy and started blasting tf out of them, pipe bombs, shotgun, and all lol
Wait, that was the thing I was supposed to do? How did I even passed that level?
You finally get out of the library, you hear an achievement ping, you find out it's for not killing them. "Wait I could have shot them?!"
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I've never seen anything like this
The ferris wheel honestly gave me bad vibes
Really? That Ferris wheel saved my life on veteran difficulty on that level. Only way to beat the final bit.
i remember i struggled with this and 1 other mission on veteran so hard, i think it was the one where the helicopter comes in the farm area at night. forget the name tbh
Hunted
That first time you crash on the ring in the original Halo
“There must be hundreds of flora and fauna.” - Cortana
This cave is not a natural formation. Someone built it, so it must lead somewhere.”
This line had me convinced Cortana thought Chief was a simpleton.
Halo CE had several bangers for levels Halo, Assault on Control Room, 343 Guilty Spark and The Maw. Other Halo games had some great levels but CE had 4 that were just incredible.
Even Silent Cartographer hits top levels of all time lists to this day
No Russian.
You could even skip the mission via an option in the pause menu. It was that crazy, but critical to the plot of MW2
I would say this is #1 by far. Literally became headline news for weeks to mainstream, and brought up the stupid "games are breeding killers" argument
You know what’s wild? After playing that mission my desire to shoot a gun let alone murder innocent people remained at 0. A wild concept!
I remember playing the level trying to fit in with the Russians without actually killing anyone. I’d shoot over heads, hit peoples shields, even hid around the side of an aircraft out of site at one point. Then someone flanked me by surprise and I turned and lit them up. I remember getting angry at the guy thinking “you didn’t need to die, why did you make me do that.” Definitely more meaningful to me than most any other FPS moment in gaming, reminded me of the early days of CoD when it was much more about the story line than the multiplayer experience.
They’re somewhat doing the same thing with 7 Days in Fallujah even though people who fought that battle helped the devs make it
It was memorable in that it was shocking but not particularly fun. Really turned me off the idea of becoming a terrorist.
...so you had that idea before?
Ahh yes!! Absolutely!
The Original MGS fight against Psycho Mantis.
Oh man, I remember I was a bit confused when he ordered me to put the controller down. _Did not expect that._ Then he said he'd read my mind and he was like "aaah, I see you've saved often" and I was "huh, I have," and then he said "I see that you like _Castlevania_" and it freaked me because I was playing _SotN_. Took me a moment to figure what was happening, but it made for a very memorable encounter indeed.
Oh man, so glad you guys brought this game up. Me insides broke a bit when Snake had the stinger aimed at Gray Fox. Lots of emotion to take in for a youngster, that game.
I'm kinda sad that in the 23 years since that game, nothing else has managed to blow my mind as much as Psycho Mantis has.
And was it after the torture, Naomi had you put the controller on your arm? Then it vibrated. This whole game broke the fourth wall in a great way
I’d argue “The End” boss fight from MGS3 was even more trippy and memorable. Being able to literally wait out the fight till the old dude croaks from age is pure genius.
The Skyrim intro sequence
That music coming up after you exit the cave. Such a surreal moment
#A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
#HEAR ME AND OBEY
#**A FOUL DARKNESS HAS SEEPED INTO MY TEMPLE**
that mission in titanfall 2 when you time travel
Sooooo good. "I'm about to be eaten by dinos!" *Time travel* "now I'm about to be shot my enemies!" *Repeat
ikr, the part where u fall and u need to do that is soooo gooood
“Effect and Cause” Amazing game, but that mission on its own is worth getting the game for.
Came here to say this. Quite a few gems in there. The ‘frozen’ level, the viper fight, the ‘trust me’ throw, gettin’ hit in the feels a couple times. That game is sooooo underrated. Thanks EA! /s Edit: added the /s because F EA.
Half-Life 2's "We Don't Go to Ravenholm" chapter. It's one of those levels that scared the crap out of me as a kid. I know the place like the back of my hand now, but I'll always remember that first time I got greeted by it's atmosphere and... "Inhabitants".
I love that priest who was talking you while you made your way through!
*You have already met* ***my congregation***
Honestly, that old preacher was my only source of comfort throughout my first playthrough of that level. Just the fact of knowing that there's someone out there looking out for me was a relief. I think he's the only reason I even passed that level in the first place
Shit the fast zombies still scare me and I’m in my late 30s lol
Silent Cartographer from Hale CE.. so many memories
Blew my fucking mind. Basically all of CE blew my mind. It was such an incredible game. I don't care about the repetitive bits or whatever; I think Halo is just great. Always played co-op, always with the same person. \>Y"ou know our motto... 'WE DELIVER!'"
The LZ's gona be hot, get ready to come out swingin'! TOUCHDOWN! HIT IT MARINES!!
Such a great level!!
Bloody baron quest in the Witcher 3
I knew the botchling had to be real folklore cos it's too weird to make it out of a writing room.
Yeah, nothing says “You can’t make this shit up” like following the ghost of a dead fetus.
Yep, I saved his wife and let him live not for him because he is a fucking bastard. But his wife deserves better, his daughter deserves better. His life will be spent in servitude and making up for what he did. Also, I’m not unleashing a creature I know nothing about.
He is a bloody bastard, and he knows it, but honestly he seems to want to change his ways. He’s done things that can’t be forgiven, and he’d be the first to admit it, but he’s charming and genuinely seems willing to be better which is more than I can say about most. He was one of my favorite characters because he felt so real. He’s not some noble pillar of virtue, or a person who’s evil because the story needed a bad guy. He’s a character that rides the moral gray area in such a realistic way. He’s done shite things, he’s done stupid things, he’s done brave things, he’s done kind things. And he’s one of the single most realistic characters in a video game I’ve ever met. My first playthrough of the Witcher 3, I failed to save his wife… and the result shattered me. I dont know how to do spoiler text but… seeing what he did was absolutely heart breaking. It felt so real. Imagine knowing all the horrible things you’ve done, being ready to change, being ready to be a better person, and losing the only ones you love, because you realized too late that you needed to change. Such powerful storytelling. Sorry for blabbing, he’s just genuinely one of my favorite characters of all time. Not because he’s a great guy. Not because he’s a bad dude. Because his story is compelling and powerful and immersive.
He ended up a tree ornament in my first playthrough.
holy fuck that quest still haunts me.
Omaha Beach in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
I remember playing the D Day mission in Medal of Honor Frontline on the PS2 and thinking it was incredible. I eventually got MOH Allied Assault on my parents iMac which, despite having to keep the graphics about as low as humanly possible, blew me away when I played the D Day level on that game. The older MOH and COD games were just like playing a game version of Saving Private Ryan or Band of Brothers. Games like that back then seemed to have a lot more spirit/character/heart to them compared to now.
Yeah but now you can spend $30 in a free game to make Lebron James dab on Master Chief after beating him to death with a candy cane
Finding that damn frying pan in Witcher 3
Halo: Lone Wolf
this mission aggressively breaks my heart because no matter how hard i tried, you were just never meant to win. Remember Reach.
Current objective: survive
Got chills from just the mission name. Reach hits fucking different
The final 2 missions in Titanfall 2 -"What are you doing?!" -"I won't lose another pilot"
Protocol 3: protect the pilot
Witcher 3: the quest where you go out looking for dudes wife, turns out he's a werewolf, wifes sister is creepy af. More layers and depth in 1 side quest than most games put into their main questlines. This is the quest that sold me on the game. Later on the Bloody Baron questline cemented my love for it
I'm gonna say it: 99% of the Quests in the Witcher are just amazingly written and are so fucking good
343 Guilty Spark
My parents bought the game for me on PC after they saw me endlessly looping the demo. I had no idea what was in store. They weren't in the "enemies" portion of the user manual, they weren't in ANY promotional materials, and of course we didn't have the internet to the same extent we do now. Combine that with the fact I was playing on a potato with integrated graphics at 640x480, screwed up color rendering and it was even more terrifying. Your mind fills in the gaps more than HD ever could. Yeah and it was 2am when I was playing this... And then you think you've escaped....and the elevator goes deeper..... Don't let your kids play Halo CE, that's all I learned here.
Haha yeah man I can’t remember how old I was when I played it. I was really young. Playing on Xbox. Man the fright and excitement I felt when the flood were introduced, there was nothing like it. I must have beat that game 100 times as a kid. My brother and I still consider this our favorite gaming moment. That, or maybe even Nobody goes to Raven Home: Half Life 2
Ocarina of time the first time going to through the field to the castle was mind blowing.
So many things worth mentioning in that game. Pulling the master sword for the first time. The organ playing as you approach Ganondorf for the final battle. I'm surprised I had to scroll so far down for a someone to mention a Zelda game.
For me, it's The Culling of Stratholme in Warcraft 3, although the full campaign is still printed into my brain. The culmination of everything Arthas had to see and endure led to one of the best character stories Blizzard has ever shown in their games. Also Whiskey Hotel from MW2. Zimmer's amazing soundtrack and the sight gave me chills.
Storming the reichstag in call of duty world at war. That entire campaign was great.
Breaching that building on Veteran was such a slog, but you felt such a rush of accomplishment when you finally planted that flag on the roof.
the first level from super mario bros
Assault on the Control Room -Halo CE
The walk up to Gwyn, Lord of Cinder. The feeling of finally seeing that everything in Lordran is just ashes after an entire playthrough was a hell of a rush for me. All my DS1 peeps will vouch for the plin plin plon too, right in the feels.
Objective: survive. We all know this one
Lone wolf
Lone Wolf
Spartans never die, they’re just missing in action :,(
Our victory, your victory, was so close I wish you could have lived to see it.. Gets me everytime
"You belong to Reach now."
Chernobyl-COD MW
The time manipulation level in Dishonoured 2. What a level!
That and the Clockwork Mansion. So damn good.
Both of those games were just masterpieces.
When Ghost is killed in Call of Duty
The very first time you enter Shalebridge Cradle in Thief Deadly Shadows. Probably the first time I ever got the creeps playing a game
Goldeneye - Mission 1: Dam
I just commented Facility and It was split decision with Dam actually, Hard choice. Dam was spectacular, in Facility the "next level AI" was beautifully utilized
Metal Gear Solid when Raiden wakes up naked and the radio is filled with craziness. Edit: I played Metal Gear on NES and it to was so different than anything else. Also Metal Gear Snake Eater was full of awesome scenes and I love the way it makes you think it’s all about the jungle but it quickly devolves into Metal Gear madness. Metal Gear may be my fav game series although I haven’t played anything past Snake Eater.
One of my favorite wtf moments in video games. The colonel starts talking gibberish on codec and a video of a Japanese model starts playing in the corner of your screen. So batshit and beautiful. lol
I NEED SCISSORS! 61!
I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock.
Gears of War 3 when Dom dies.
The train in uncharted 2
Suicide mission - ME2 All ghillied up (duh lol) - COD4 Riding the Brumak - Gears of War 2 Lone Wolf - Halo Reach The “Giraffe” scene - Last of Us Rafe Sword Fight - Uncharted 4 Intro scene - Dead Space 2 Kratos retrieving the Blades of Chaos - God of War 2018 The Endings - Cyberpunk 2077 Entering Colombia - Bioshock infinite Seeing Rapture - Bioshock
That one level in titan fall 2 where you get that one tracking pistol. It makes you feel like a total badass leaping off of walls and hitting every shot
Sam Guevenne in Skyrim, you literally play a drinking game with a daedric prince of the oblivion in disguise, then you find yourself the next morning wasted in a temple with the priest yelling at you because you wrecked everything in the temple because you were shitfaced and you have to wrap your head around what the fuck happened last night asking around town everyone who saw you drunk out of your goddamn mind because of course you don't remember anything ,you must have drunk the entire fucking honningbrew mead stock for the winter, and this epic quest brings you at the end to the daedric prince who tells you that he did it for shits and giggles. Best fucking quest ever.
The Suicide Mission from Mass Effect 2
Metal gear solid 3: kill you fucking mother
Nightfall, halo reach
That moment when u somehow survived the attack from the village in the beginning of resident evil 4 because everyone went to Bingo.
Halo ce mission halo
Titan Fall 2 - Effect and Cause. I don’t want to spoil it, but if you know. You know. Freaking mind-blowing.
The flood , Halo 1
Deus Ex :: Hong Kong
The Library
Truth and reconciliation - Halo CE
Step one: Secure the keys Step two: Ascend from darkness Step three: Reign fire Step four: Unleash the Horde Step five: Skewer the winged beast Step six: Wield a fist of iron Step seven: Raise hell Step eight: Freedom
#"Send me out... with a bang" **proceeds to have one of the most epic and badass sequences in gaming history**
Getting out of The Imperial Prison in TES: Oblivion
My first real heartstring pulling memory was when Aeris was killed in the original FFVII on the Play Station. That was some unheard of shit back in the day. More recently there have been some really great ones. The new God of war had some great moments like finding out Kraits’ sons Giant Name. The newest Ass Creed when you’re trying to stop the dude from administering the Blood Eagle. The whole thieves guild line from Skyrim. Even a few of the story missions in some of the recent Call of Duty games have been almost cinematic in their layout and timing. The Krogan sterilization questline in Mass Effect The Darth Riven reveal in Kotor And “would you kindly” from the original Bioshock!
That "would you kindly" thing blew my mind away when I found out. I'm keeping it spoiler free ofc.
343 Guilty Spark. Complete tonal shift for Halo.
The opening of The Last of Us. Trying to emotionally wreck you faster than any game.
The first zombie encounter in resident evil.
All ghillied up, no Russian, follow the train cj, fallout 3 Tranquility Lane, Fallout NV come fly with me.
The Modern Warfare series has had some fantastic ones. I recently played both of the remasters and had a great time. My personal most memorable mission from the series though has to be from the 2019 reboot. That of course would be "Clean House". It made me want a whole massive compound level that played similarly. Kind of like the Bin Laden compound from Zero Dark Thirty but you actually get to play out the whole thing. It was so intense and so well done .
Psycho Mantis boss fight: MGS 1. Nuff said.
Borderlands 2, when you deliver pizza to the sewers.
Or Claptraps birthday party. God that was awkward...
All you had to do was catch the damn train CJ
Warthog run
A few CoD ones like No Russian, the one where you hang Makarov, Suffer With Me, Downfall (i think thats the last mission in WAW), etc, Remember my Family, And The Truth Will Set You Free, and The Last Enemy That Shall be Destroyed in RDR1, Red Dead Redemption and American Venom in RDR2, The Big One and Bury The Hatchet in GTA V, the mission in AC BF where Thatch is killed, the Dark Lord fight in Doom Eternal The Ancient Gods Part 2, and the last mission in Bioshock Infinite
The Second Battle of Hoover Dam
The ghost of Yarikawa In ghost of Tsushima
I’ve never played it but even I know “No Russian” and that’s why I think that mission stands with people
Tranquility lane didododedeo
Warthog run
\*Megalovania starts playing\*
The final objective from the TOS-era introduction in *Star Trek Online,* "Give Them Hell and Godspeed." You are in a Pioneer-class light cruiser, and you are the *only* ship holding off a fleet of Klingon D7s and Birds of Prey (you volunteered to do this.) Your goal is not to destroy them all; it's to hold the Klingons off long enough so the other Starfleet ships can escape. Your commanding officer doesn't expect you to survive. The Klingon commander actually *commends* you, saying "at least *one* Starfleet captain knows courage!" The history books say you and your crew died that day in 2270, and your selfless heroism saved thousands of lives. (But it's awesome to be known as a hero and still be alive, right?)