Your immortal gaming moments/game reccomendations

[mikoyan29]

Probably one of my favorite moments was a time when I was playing Silent Service and I ran into an unescorted group of tankers. Got World's Great Submarine Commander for that one.

[AccountingDrone]

Probably one of my favorite moments was a time when I was playing Silent Service and I ran into an unescorted group of tankers. Got World's Great Submarine Commander for that one.

I loved Silent Service. Did you also play 688 Attack Sub? I still have it knockign around here with the rest of my Amiga games. [I found it hysterical when Rob got transferred to a 688I[/URL] after we moved up here ] It was a lot different from the old Sturgeon class he had been on. The most benefit I ever had from hanging out on the Spadefish was learning where and how to cut off the CO's personal shower hot water recirculation pump. He was a true jackass. ]

[RayvenQ]

Probably one of my favorite moments was a time when I was playing Silent Service and I ran into an unescorted group of tankers. Got World's Great Submarine Commander for that one.

Ever played the Silent Hunter series? (If you ever pick up any game from that series, ignore the latest one, its dumbed down from the other games, instead get either silent Hunter 3 (You play as Germany) or Silent Hunter 4 (You play as the US)

[Geek King]

Beating Thief II: The Metal Age on hard, getting 100% of possible loot, 100% stealth, and killing no humans

Battlefield 2142. I'm not normally good at shooters, but 2142 and I just had an understanding. I quickly became an ace in the hovertanks because I understood the dynamics of hovercraft movement and being able to "slide" sideways on an air curtain. Pair that with a leveled engineer class, and I started getting a name for myself on the servers I played. High points:

Being accused of aim-botting (cheating) on the server because I shot an assault chopper out of the air while both of us were moving in different directions.

Holding a flag point by myself for an entire round with the help of a good commander who kept me resupplied. Players learned to fear my placement of floater mines and the engineer's "sniper rifle" (anti-vehicle railgun).

Having the entire enemy force's air complement divert to hunt me down when I was spotted. Multiple times.

Suicide transport runs on the powerplant map. I'd hop in as pilot of the flying troop transport when the round started, load up on friendlies, then go tearing across the map, about ten feet off the river at max speed to sneak under the enemy aircraft screen and drop friendlies on flag points behind the battle lines. Best when everyone was on headsets, because I could hear my friendlies scream like little girls yell at how low I was.


Recommendations
For stealth games, Thief II is the game by which all others will be judged, though Dishonored and DARK are pretty good recent ones.

Dark Cloud II on the PS2 is an excellent action/adventure RPG, but can be a little grind-y if drops don't go your way.

I have a surprising amount of fun with the "musou" games (Dynasty Warriors, Samarai Warriors, Gundam Warriors) even though they're a bit looked down on by the critics. Sometimes hacking through a few thousand enemies is the best relaxation.

[KhirasHY]

I have a surprising amount of fun with the "musou" games (Dynasty Warriors, Samarai Warriors, Gundam Warriors) even though they're a bit looked down on by the critics. Sometimes hacking through a few thousand enemies is the best relaxation.

If you didn't play them, Warriors Orochi was a good addition to the musou titles. The 3rd one is great fun, and has one of the more "downer" stories of any title in that style thus far. Even the critics had to grudgingly admit it was well done. (And Orochi 3 finally lets you use the original voice acting, not the monotone English version )

[mikoyan29]

I loved Silent Service. Did you also play 688 Attack Sub? I still have it knockign around here with the rest of my Amiga games. [I found it hysterical when Rob got transferred to a 688I[/URL] after we moved up here ] It was a lot different from the old Sturgeon class he had been on. The most benefit I ever had from hanging out on the Spadefish was learning where and how to cut off the CO's personal shower hot water recirculation pump. He was a true jackass. ]

My roommate had 688 Attack Sub. I liked it but not as much as the Red Storm Rising game I had. Although I remember the diving officer on the Alfa had Lennon glasses which I thought was funny for some reason.

[Caffienated_Caramel]

Ooh gaming moments. :3 I'm sure I had many but I don't remember all of them well enough. Here are the few I do remember though.

Kingdom Hearts:

BG: I knew of Final Fantasy 7 as I watch some guy play it long ago. Heard of Sephiroth and how much of a badass he was, except I never saw what he looked like.

Back when I was teen, playing this, I [i]finally[/] beaten the Ice Titan and was brought back to the lobby, I noticed there was another match I could enter so I thought 'Cool, another Titan I can fight!'

Hah...

So I enter it, expecting a titan to pop up but instead, I get this dude. I'm like '...Who the hell is this?' (yes I'm serious). Watchin the intro, completely clueless to who this was. That is until I saw the title appear saying 'Sora vs Sephiroth

Cue the loud swearing as I realized who this was and knew he was gonna wipe the floor with me. (Which he did)

Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly This was the most recent. Back in January, I managed to convince the husband to play a little bit of this. Though somehow eventually, i wound up playing it while hubs watched. Due to not playing any of the Fatal Frames for years, I had a hard time remembering how to control the camera.

Also because of this, I forgot how terrified I was of this series. So yes, startled gasps abound. UNTIL

Was fighting the ghost that was a shout out to The Ring. During the battle, I kept missing the opportunities where the capture circle of the camera turned red a few times because they where fast. So I got damaged a bit. But it wasn't until when the ghost had low hp was when it was really scary.

She started running full speed instead of that slow walk! Last time she was pushed back, I was still having a hard time controlling the camera and was desperately trying to get her in my sight before she got me again. She was well hidden until nearly the last moment. Boom there she is, showing her ugly mug, making me let out a loud scream because it happened so fast. And THANKFULLY I kill her with one last shot before she could get me.

Husband finally started laughing at me because he thought the game was kinda lame while I was scared. Cue sad face and finally had enough of the game for the night. Hadn't played it since.

[jedimaster91]

Kingdom Hearts:

BG: I knew of Final Fantasy 7 as I watch some guy play it long ago. Heard of Sephiroth and how much of a badass he was, except I never saw what he looked like.

Back when I was teen, playing this, I [i]finally[/] beaten the Ice Titan and was brought back to the lobby, I noticed there was another match I could enter so I thought 'Cool, another Titan I can fight!'

Hah...

So I enter it, expecting a titan to pop up but instead, I get this dude. I'm like '...Who the hell is this?' (yes I'm serious). Watchin the intro, completely clueless to who this was. That is until I saw the title appear saying 'Sora vs Sephiroth

Cue the loud swearing as I realized who this was and knew he was gonna wipe the floor with me. (Which he did)

Everytime I play Kingdom Hearts, I forget what the Platinum Match is and stupidly click on it. Then "One Winged Angel" starts playing and I go "Ah crap." I find it funny to see how long I last before I get KOed. I think I was up to 30 seconds the last time.

[RayvenQ]

ARMA II
(ARMA II Is a multirole milsim, featuring land, air, sea infantry and armored combat, though I mainly played the infantry role, it's great fun when played seriously but can be hilarious if you play it not quite so seriously too)

Better than Expected

So me and my clan were messing around during training, being the awesome guy I was at this game (No, I really was) I started to get a bit bored, so I grabbed two other members of the clan in chat and asked them if they wanted to do a "James Bond" (explained below)

The Plan: I was to get into a MH-6 Little Bird, which one of the other two guys would pilot, which would take off, fly around and find the other guy, who was flying a truck, the pilot would then fly directly above the truck, barely missing hitting it, and I'd jump out and land on the truck.

The Result: Long story short, I managed to jump onto the truck, place a C4 explosive jump off the truck and detonate it in mid air, surviving throughout. Meanwhile, the rest of the clan got wind of this and started watching so on my approach, I was treated to a 30 somethign crowd of varying ages of varying nations beggining a vocalisation of the james bond theme, and while none of us were drunk, it was delivered abouT as well as a drunkard going "DA NA NA NAAAAAA NA NA NAAAA"

Boss shows us how it's done

Again, during training (funniest stuff always happens then) we were doing our grenade throwing and our Breaching & Clearing training, some of us were doing well, others, not so, so much so that our LT (in our terms head of the clan) decided to show us how it was done.

The Plan: We would stack up (line up against the outside wall, ready to go in) He would throw a grenade in (a flashbang to stun the enemies in the room) and we would breach and clear like we were trained.

The Result: Our LT messed up royally, not only did he throw a HE grenade instead of a flashbang, it hit the door frame, bounced out in front of us and exploded, al lyou heard on the radio was out LT going "Oh shit" and then the rest of us going "FUUUU"*boom* and then giggling our arses off at the LT, but oh no, the humiliation for our LT didn't end there, we got him to stand on the firing range, stock still, while we planted 100 satchel charges around him and then detonate them. I swear, his body took about 7 minutes to come back down!

Well, that worked

Me and the clan were doing a training mission, against the AI, things were going well until suddenly a enemy Helicopter Gunship appeared out of nowhere, we had limited carrying capacity and hadn't expected any air units on this mission, so we hand't brought any AA, we were basically screwed, until I saw the tank we had taken out earlier, damaged, but not unusuable, the turret and gun still worked, and thus sparked one of the crazier ideas that I'd had in the game.

The Plan: I'd hop in the tank, swivel the gun round, shoot the helicopter with the cannon and save the day.

The Result: Adrenalin pumping, I ran over to the tank, dodging bullets as I went, hopped in and swiveled the gun round, with barely any time aiming, and fired. Direct hit, the helicopter came crashing down, right in front of a building. It was then that I the more terror filled scream I ever had in my life (to use a common phrase, he screamed like a little girl). Turns out, that building that the helicopter crashed in front of? One of our clan members (Really tough manly man who was an active member of South Africa's special forces, as an aside, I really love that accent) was coming out of the front door when all he saw was a blazing helicopter wreck crashing to the ground in front of him, barely missing him. There's many memories I have, but this time, the time that I made a South African Special Forces soldier scream like a little girl, is one of my favourites.

Go Big or Go Nowhere.

Officially, I was my Clans lead scout and sniper (so much so that I actually set and wrote the training manual for the the scouts and snipers of the clan, which is still being used today, told you I was good) unofficially, I was also very good that the game.

Our Operation this time was to enter a compound, kill all the enemies there, kill the milita leader that was there and search his body for intel. I was to provide recon data and overwatch, so I was on a hill overlooking the compound, with my team 15 minutes away. All of a sudden we get word that the Militia Leader got spooked and was starting to pack up to get the hell out of there. I radio to my LT "Oh shit he's rabbiting" to which I get a one word reply, his tone filled with unspoken meaning, that word was "Go"

The Plan: Drop my Sniper Rifle, grab my SMG, run down to the compound and clear it of the few enemies we were told were there, grab the intel and run away.

The Result: Our intel lied to us about the amount of enemies, there wasn't the handful we were expecting, there were over 60 of them...and me. Oh and a reinforcement truck for the compound in the next village. By the time my Team got there, I was out of Ammo, but every last enemy was dead. Pretty much everyone in my team was stunned into silence. Final enemy body count? 94.

That's all my ARMA Stories I can remember for the moment, so now stories of me being awesome in other games

Mechwarrior 4

David vs Goliath

This was my first time ever playing a game online, against real people. So I wanted to join a clan, but not just any clan, but one that was arguable, at the time, one of the best out there. Instead of dismissing me as a noob, the Khan (clan leader), upon hearing my request, decided to give me a chance, stating, that if I could beat him, I'm in. There were several problems with that, 1. The way the clan worked, the best fighter in the clan was the leader, so I was against probably one of the best players in mechwarrior 4, me, the guy who up until now hadn't played aganst any real live people over the internet. Second problem, and people who have played MW4 will understand this, the 'mech he got assigned was the Atlas, one of the meanest, heaviest battlemechs there was, me? I got the Osiris, the lightest mech (if memory serves) in the game, and not the best armed either. For non Mechwarrior players, think of Bee vs Grizzly.

The Result: I very nearly won! By the time I died, I had severely damaged the atlas's arms and legs, reducing him to one usable weapon. Everyone in the clan was astounded , even the clan leader, who graciously, even though I didn't technically pass his test. I eventually rose to the position of saKhan, second in command of the entire clan (and this was a huge clan) for quite some time until I wasn't able to play anymore because of lack of internet.

Alien Vs Predator 2 (2001 game)

Bring it.

So there I was, enjoying a game of AVP2 as a predator, when one guy, who I had repeatedly killed, began trash talking me, calling me a cheap noob and such. I could not let such a stain on my honour remain, so I called for the server admin (who was a friend at the time) to switch everyone onto the side opposite from me and make them all Aliens. I'd remain as Predator, and could pick one weapon to fight all 32 of them off with.My weapon? Plasma Caster? Nah, Way too easy. Spear? Nope, still too easy. Throwing disk? Again, too easy. My weapon of choice, Wrist Blades (for those who don't know what they are, they've basically wolverine like claws attached to the wrist of my guy, and the aliens are close combat enemies, so to hurt them, I had to get into a range where they could hurt me, infact, with their tail, they had better range than me. Pretty much the most difficult weapon to use)

The Result: 32-0 to me. My final words to the guy who had been trash talking me? "You were saying something about me being a cheap noob?"

Thats most of the stories i can bring to mind, but doubtless I have more stuck in my head somewhere!

[crazylegs]

Goldeneye on the N64 - simply because it was the first game I ever completed.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Everytime I play Kingdom Hearts, I forget what the Platinum Match is and stupidly click on it. Then "One Winged Angel" starts playing and I go "Ah crap." I find it funny to see how long I last before I get KOed. I think I was up to 30 seconds the last time.

Yeeeah, that was my reaction, too.

And then one day I get a text from my girlfriend (who was also playing the game) basically going "HAHAHAHA YES I BEAT SEPHIROTH! FENRIR KEYBLADE COME TO MAMA! oh & while drunk too! *^_^*"

I think my reaction was something on the lines of "...I hate you."

[jedimaster91]

Yeeeah, that was my reaction, too.

And then one day I get a text from my girlfriend (who was also playing the game) basically going "HAHAHAHA YES I BEAT SEPHIROTH! FENRIR KEYBLADE COME TO MAMA! oh & while drunk too! *^_^*"

I think my reaction was something on the lines of "...I hate you."

Sepphy's actually significantly easier in KH2 than KH1 if you employ Trinity Limit + Elixer spam. Cheating? Nah. Winning. But I still can't beat him in KH1.

Although if she can do that drunk, yeah, I hate her too, lol. Someone else I know managed to navigate Monstro while drunk, which I have a really hard time doing sober. I found that impressive.

[KhirasHY]

Alien Vs Predator 2

That reminded me of another good one: Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Outcast.

I loved this game...yeah it was a FPS, but the best servers were lightsaber only, so you had to get good with that to really win. And god was I good. Was in a few clans, and generally netter myself the top spot on all of them...my practice was to use admin to switch everyone to the other team, and wade in against them all at the same time, while turning off friendly fire so they could let loose without hurting one another. The result?

Well, it looked like the first few minutes of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE8bADxNpjA (Note, spoilers for Naruto fans)

I tended to go into every fight with Force Absorb running too, so people would try to hit me with Lightning and such, and end up keeping me fully charged the whole fight Since our server was a CTF server, I could just rack up kills (while holding their flag, no less) and keep the game going.

My record, in one round before time ended, was 736 kills. And 2 deaths.

In JK2, a fall can kill you, a blaster can kill you, and Durandal WILL kill you.

[RayvenQ]

That reminded me of another good one: Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Outcast.

I loved this game...yeah it was a FPS, but the best servers were lightsaber only, so you had to get good with that to really win. And god was I good. Was in a few clans, and generally netter myself the top spot on all of them...my practice was to use admin to switch everyone to the other team, and wade in against them all at the same time, while turning off friendly fire so they could let loose without hurting one another. The result?

Well, it looked like the first few minutes of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE8bADxNpjA (Note, spoilers for Naruto fans)

I tended to go into every fight with Force Absorb running too, so people would try to hit me with Lightning and such, and end up keeping me fully charged the whole fight Since our server was a CTF server, I could just rack up kills (while holding their flag, no less) and keep the game going.

My record, in one round before time ended, was 736 kills. And 2 deaths.

In JK2, a fall can kill you, a blaster can kill you, and Durandal WILL kill you.

Come to think of it, that was another game I was eeriely good at, On the clan server I used to go on, we tended to have it as Deathmatch, but with the house rule that whoever was winning got piled on by everyone else. Which was always a blast for me, because, while I was damned good with a lightsaber, the one thing I was even better at was dodging and predicting moves players would do, practically intuitevely, so a lot of the time, people rushing at me and trying to fight me, all group around me, tended to die from each others friendly fire. The one challenge I used to do was no blocks while staying alive and fending of fother people. I walked away without a scratch. I also never used force powers, ever.

Looking back, my precience on being able to call exactly how people were going to swing at me, was actually kinda scary.

I have to say, my gaming self back then in JKO coming up against your gaming self back then would have been probably a damn epic fight, like the matrix except we'd both be Neo.

Another of my ARMA 2 Stories:

don't miss, don't miss, don't miss

Agains, forward scouting on an OP with my clan members, ahead of the rest of them, they were coming in by helicopter about 15 minutes away, I had to take out the 3 Shilka's (Anti Air Tanks) or else my entire team would get shot down. This seemingly straightforward thing, wasn't, at all.

Problem 1: The Shilka's were 700m away from me
Problem 2: They were Heavily Guarded so 700m was the closest i could get
Problem 3: The effective range of the LAW Rockets I had? 200m
Problem 4: I only had 3 rockets, I could not miss or my entire team was toast
PRoblem 5: As soon as I fired, the enemy would know where I was and start shooting at me, so I'd have to take out the remaining two, and not miss, while under fire

I'm pleased to report....I nailed all 3 square on

Thus once again saving my clan mates from certain doom.

[Jay 2K Winger]

You guys remember that arcade game Silent Scope? It was an arcade cabinet that had a sniper-rifle set up. Looking through the scope gave you the zoomed-in crosshairs view, while the main screen showed the map, as it were.

In Silent Scope 2, you could pick one of two snipers to be your PC, which would give you a potentially different path through the level. (Also, I think one PC favored an X-ray scope for darkened areas, while the other favored IR.)

Anyway, in SS2, the one I'm a little more familiar with, you encountered bosses that could take a while to beat, unless you happened to score the all-important headshot. Then you'd get a special "skull with a bullet hole" flash on the screen before seeing the boss' death animation.

At the arcade where I played this, a lot of people had trouble getting past the first boss, an evil chick with a flamethrower, because the flames would block out a lot of your view and it made it hard to line up your shot.

Then I took a desperate random shot and--

HEADSHOT

Cue astonished reactions from everyone watching, including me.

After that, however, I got real good at scoring that headshot on Flamethrower Chick, to the point where I could hit her before she even got off her first flame wave.