best gaming experience?

The Bollox

what would be your best gaming experience? a game you played and think back upon wishing you could play it like that again? or that makes you want to play the game again.

For me it's Half Life, because I first played it about 5 years ago, the game was out a good while then, so what I did was I started playing it at the hardest difficulty, and my god, it was absolutly brilliant. I progressed slowly, but it meant I fully appreciated the game, it seemed to go on forever. I eventually got stuck at one point in I think it was in the Lambda Complex. There was a Tank, which you had to use to blow open a door, and then a sh*t load of enemies came running at you. I had f*ck all health.

I played the game again on medium difficulty and it was not nearly the same. I got through to the same point waaay too fast. And all the keystone parts of the game I remember from playing on difficult I flew through.

that was my best gaming experience, and unfortunatly I can never re-live it, what's yours?

Cuddlesworth

Having sex while playing Mario Kart. I lost but in many ways I won.

The Bollox

super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64 or Mario Kart DS? and before you ask, yes it does matter!

savemejebus

beating Thardus in Metroid Prime with only one bar of energy left, and then narrowly avoiding getting squished when he fell towards me.

DarthWraak

Planetside:

Loading a full galaxy dropship with the platoons elite.
Flying into enemy terrority where a huge battle is going on.
We drop on the fkkrs, and gun the bitches down, the base is ours.

Its times like that I wonder why people are leaving Planetside

EDIT: W00Ps, I didnt know we were talking retro :eek:

humanji

There are probably too many to go into them all. Hal-Life was probably the best. Just the first 5 minutes where you can't do anything but look at everything that's going on around you on the monorail. The story just sucked me in.

And on a more sentimental note, installing Call Of Duty 2 on my Dad's computer and showing him how to play it (he hadn't played a game since the original Doom). Seeing his face light up in amazement was like watching kids opening presents at Christmas. Ah, good times, *sniff*

Mr E

Funnily enough my best gaming experiences are from a long time ago.... Playing through games like Super Mario World, System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Doom/Doom 2 (on ultraviolent), Zelda Link to the Past.

I don't think I've enjoyed many 'modern' games as much as those....

Ciaran500

TmB wrote:

Funnily enough my best gaming experiences are from a long time ago.... Playing through games like Super Mario World, System Shock, Ultima Underworld, Doom/Doom 2 (on ultraviolent), Zelda Link to the Past.

I don't think I've enjoyed many 'modern' games as much as those....

BadCharlie

Playing CS beta 3 in 1999 online. It was just so much fun i had never played on line before until that day. Some othere golden old's like Vulkan and lords of mid night. Lots of games to think of it but i wont start or i will never stop.

Kimbot

My best was when I got Street Fighter on the SNES. My bro was excellent at it and we were playing a 2 player he was Ken and I was Blanka. I bet him in 2 seconds flat!! First time I beat him at the game!!

Vegeta

Zelda the ocarina of time. The first time i ran out into Hyrule Field i knew i was on to something big. What a game!!!!

Retr0gamer

Just recently I've had a really nice fussy feeling while playing a game. It was while playing Gradius V for the first time. At the midway point of the first level after flying out of the space station the music calms down and then the pilot says 'this is vic viper T301, commencing attack on the enemy' and the music kicks back into gear. I was sitting there sayign to myself 'Yep, I'm going to enjoy this game'. It also did it a second time when you are chasing after the huge mothership while it enters the earths atmosphere.

Most of my other best experiences are from older games. Playing FFVII for the first time, the MGS demo, Megaman 2, buying a saturn and discovering both how much of a wonderful machine it was and the superb Pnzer Dragoon Saga, being so jealous playing Super Mario World, Axelay and Contra 3 on my mates new SNES and discovering the superb Gunstar Heroes on the Megadrive.

I've had a lot of great times playing multiplayer games with mates at a lan were the atmosphere is uncompetitiive and the only goal is to have a much fun as possible. The buggier the game the better. Remember a particular game of CS in the jeepathon level, a bug ridden level which valve included to test out the vehicle code. We used to play it by fitting about 8 players on each jeep and using only gangster weapons while trying to do drive bys on each other. I Remember the team we were playing against took themselves out when the went up the big ramp awkwardly and they all fell out when the jeep did a spectacular physics defying jump only to have the jeep land on top of the whole team after they hit the ground. It was magnificient to watch.

Had some great game of the Hidden a recent lan. Looks like we will be playing it an awful lot more at lans since it can be played with any amount of players.

Gizzard

Ultima 2 and 3 on the Atari, Half life on the PC, Doom on the PC also, ICO, some of the text adventure games on the atari were excellent too, Everquest 1, and WoW while it lasted (about 2 months)

DarthWraak

Final Fantasy 7. So indept, the bits that made u go WOW! Awesome experience

Ho-Hum

MGS 1 for me, that game had some absolute great moments such as:
Wandering around for about an hour checking everywhere to find Meryls secret codec on the cd case, until you finally look at the back of the game box and there it is in a screenshot. Genius.

Sand

Road Rash on the Mega Drive - booting Public Enemy #1 into an oncoming truck to take the lead - still smile to this day.

Goodshape

Ciaran500 wrote:

Nonsense. Has to Doom for me also.

I remember playing a death match game in a net café about ten years ago. There was absolutely nothing else like it at the time and I was totally blown away by the experience.

And I must have played through the shareware game (first nine levels) about 50 times back in the day.. was a good few years before I managed to get my hands on the full version.

Best. Game. Ever.

Cravez

BadCharlie wrote:

Playing CS beta 3 in 1999 online.

You got that sh1t right there! 1999 was the BEST year i have had so far for playing games online, the old CS ROCKED compared to the new ones, i loved playing escape missions! Team fortress Classic! Action Half life! One game id love to go back and play would be Ultima Online: the second age, when Ultima was good! Half life on PC as many mentioned. X-com apocalypse on PC( i still play it the odd time ). I prefered DOOM on the sega saturn, it seemed to run a bit slower but i prefered the music in it. Iv got a few more games but in the past 1 or 2 years i have been VERY disapointed in games, the only two recent games iv enjoyed and still regularly play them if i have the time is Oblivion and Dawn of War. Iv been let down so many times its putting me off games! bring back the oldies!

Mr. Presentable

Doom
Duke Nukem
Descent

In Deathmatch on PC. Blew me away.

Retr0gamer

Michael Cravez wrote:

I prefered DOOM on the sega saturn, it seemed to run a bit slower but i prefered the music in it.

Ah now. Doom on the saturn was the worst conversion of it. Even the GBA, jaguar and 32X versions were far better. It had missing levels, crap framrate and only the front view of enemy animations were included (the Ps1 version had full animations despite it having less RAM). I think it was programmed by those shams at probe software.

Dcully

At the moment and the last 18 months its WOW that im loving,nothing else comes close for me
Also enjoy my racing sims like rfactor and GTR2,competed in some GPL and nascar leagues in the past.
Fond memories also of my DOD days playing in UK and Euro leagues.

On consoles i totally loved PES,tempted to by a 360 just for PES6

tman

Super Metroid;
I'm not going to bother explaining why this game is just so goddamn special to me. Stop reading this, fire up an emulator and play the damn thing for yourself already!

Resident Evil 4;
It just had so many of those special "moments"... moments that make you sit back and realise what an utterly fantastic game you're playing.
Even the low point of the game had those moments in spades...

playing as Ashley

Stop reading this and scoot over to play.com to buy it!

KdjaCL

SF2 in Arcade then on Snes
Zelda Hyrule field.
Wipeout on Ps2 being a mates score by .0009999 seconds
Bf42 1st time getting into a tank online i "hur hur hur hured" for hours TANKS!!! big ones!!!
Rogue Trooper (this year) just an oldie type thing that was well made.



kdjac

Anima

Probably the most memorable experiences have been from RPGs. FF7 and Chrono Trigger to name a few. Chrono Trigger was a great find because I had never heard that it was a brilliant game, I just happened to have it.

CS has always been my favourite game though ever since beta 6.5 when I started playing. I still play on and off these days.

rainbow kirby

There's been a few....
- Metroid Prime 100% ending - set up the sequel so nicely... shame MP2 just wasn't as good!

- Finishing Zelda: WW in the early hours of Christmas Day 2003... beating Ganondorf while everyone around me was frantically wrapping presents!

- Hitting lv60 in WoW with my paladin... pretty much solo'ing the last 40k of exp with just one guildmate online keeping me going the whole time, then hearthstoning to get my PvP blues from the SW bank and realising that, though it was 6am server, she'd got 5 of my best friends in-game standing outside to congratulate me.

Stoichkov

Finishing Alex Kidd in Miracle World on the Master System,

Sonic 1&2 on the Mega Drive

FFVII on the ps

For this gen, I have to agree with tman, RE4 is superb. The best thing about the game for me is that its just so replayable.

BloodBath

Damn so many.

Thunderhawk on the mega cd. One of the very few great games on it. Really was amazing for it's time.

Getting a playstation on the day before it's release with a copy of wipeout. Such a huge leap in graphics, sound, control and gameplay from what I was used to.

The original resident evil and mgs were pretty mindblowing at the time as well as there was nothing else like them out there. Amazing experiences with both.

Solidly playing zelda ocarina of time on a borrowed n64 trying to finish it before I had to give it back while my girlfriend at the time got more and more pissed off at the amount of hours I was spending on it. Was worth it though

Playing half life and cs beta 3 at our local net cafe with mates got me into pc gaming. Both were like nothing I had played before. I was hooked to say the least.

humanji

OH, I also remember, years ago, my older brother was mates with a guy who owned a computer shop off O'Connell St (back in the days when you could rent PC games). They had a little back room that my brothers mate and another guy were playing some game. It sounded fun so I popped in to see what, at the time, was the most amazing game I'd ever seen. He told me he had just downloaded it off a BBS and that it was doing the rounds of all the colleges. It was my first glimpse at Wolfenstein 3D. Man I loved those Nazi b*stards

Mitch Connor

finally beating CoD2 on vet mode - loved that game so much. Got it for the 360 and getting the 1000 GPs for it was great, i'd never have replayed it if not for the GPs.

Playing Final Fantasy 7 - so much to do and experience in it, the scale of the game was massive, spent hours in that Arcade place in it, can't remember what its called now.

Cravez

Retr0gamer wrote:

Ah now. Doom on the saturn was the worst conversion of it. Even the GBA, jaguar and 32X versions were far better. It had missing levels, crap framrate and only the front view of enemy animations were included (the Ps1 version had full animations despite it having less RAM). I think it was programmed by those shams at probe software.

i agree with you, it was slow, slow as HELL. However on the saturn it was the first time i played a DOOM game at all and in fairness after playing the PC one the only reason i like the saturn version is because of its atmospheric music, just somthing about fast electric techno music on the PC didnt get my attention as much . Another game was Hexen on the saturn as well, man i loved that game, it was so hard, it was impossible to find where you had to go to continue and you were going in circles trying to find the right exit!

Darnell13

The bit with the dogs through the window in Resident Evil.

You know the bit.

What a moment.

Also Bllodbath said:
Solidly playing zelda ocarina of time on a borrowed n64 trying to finish it before I had to give it back while my girlfriend at the time got more and more pissed off at the amount of hours I was spending on it. Was worth it though

I hear that my friend! Worth every minute. (the game, not the girl).

SFII and Zelda on SNES. The first time i got the extra video/music after finishing SFII on 7 stars. Christ I love that game.

The bit where link opens the desert palace after reading the book of madura - remember that? when the little spotlight shines on him and the music changes? Everything about that game was class.

This gen, my first Silent Assassin after bloody ages trying in Hitman Contracts was nice. And every single second of Resi 4 on the gamecube. Especially the village (i love this bit in the mercenaries).

youcancallmeal

Being ecstatic at finally beating sepiroth at the end of ff7 then disapointed at realising the game I had just put a 100+ hours into was finally over
Best game ever

seraphimvc

miss those old days so much...playing games day and night...

just write down watever i got in mind when i m thinking 'happy game time and wish to try that again':

megaman(especially the one on GB with bosses are named of planets),
megaman X (especially 1 and 4),
FF(4,6,7),
Resident evil 1&2,
zelda:link's awakening/ocarina of time on GB/N64,
mario/warioS on GB/N64,
Super Robot Wars Alpha,
Starcraft ,
warcraft3,
and of course,playing CS with friends on LAN!:D

emm....dreamy....

Darnell13

Jaysus, I forgot long long nights of ISS on N64, This is football on PSone and various Pro Evos on PS2.

Me and my mate would get a rake of cans and play for hours and hours, both on the same team winning world cups etc. I remember he scored one from off the underside of the bar with Patrick Vieira in an Ireland shirt (we did a half arsed effort to get Arsenal and put them over Ireland - doesn't make sense to me either) from miles outside the box. That was in 1999. It's one of my favourite memories of any game ever.

Good times. F*cking good times.

EWheelChair

Lemmings, Mario, Half life death match, CS, TFC and DAOC.

The Bollox

Retr0gamer wrote:

Ah now. Doom on the saturn was the worst conversion of it. Even the GBA, jaguar and 32X versions were far better. It had missing levels, crap framrate and only the front view of enemy animations were included (the Ps1 version had full animations despite it having less RAM). I think it was programmed by those shams at probe software.

sounds like the SNES version

Retr0gamer

At least the Snes version was a playable technical achievement. It also ran better than the saturn version. The saturn was capable of much more, just look at the excellent Duke 3D and Quake conversions.

Zapp Brannigan

For me it's gotta be:

SFII
Zelda: OoT
Half Life 2
RE4
Various Pro Evos

And the ultimate, FFVII! What a game, so many hours well spent playing that masterpiece!

Mitch Connor

shockingly - i enjoyed FF8 even more!

Vegeta

Tauren wrote:

shockingly - i enjoyed FF8 even more!

Freak


ahhh i'm only kiddin.

but who ever mentioned road rash just bought so many memories flooding back there. Absolutely love that game. Input the cheat from aertel and unlock the black bike. awesome game.

Goodshape

I've never played FFVII.

100+ hours? Really?

marius

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marius

Silent Service 2!! legend game - seriously oldschool....

Dune 2 - best game ever

Civ 2 - better than Dune 2

and much later on

FF7 - so big....

Lastly - Counterstrike, first LAN game I ever played - 'Holy sh1t - im actually shooting my mates!'

Nalz

Mario Cart
SFII Turbo
4 player system link HALO 2
International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
Donkey Kong Country
Pro Evo 4
Tiger Woods 2004
Armagetron
Tetris

Japseye

So many games to think of ..... so little time.

Donkey Kong 1,2,3 on Snes.....wasted so many brilliant hours on it.
007 Golden Eye on N64......wasted so many brilliant weeks on it.

Half-Life 2 was a top game but my best experience was playing the first Call of Duty . I had just got a 21" monitor, new speakers and the bird had gone out for the night . Sat down, turned off the lights and installed the game. That first sequence when the boys are parachuting down beside ya accompanied but the deafening sounds of the nazis blasting rounds at ya ... I was numb......best buzz ever!!!!!

Can't wait for Call of Duty 3 by the way

johnny_ultimate

Final Fantasy 7 : After probably ten - twenty hours of chocobo rearing, when that little gold chocobo was born and I ran across sea and mountains to unlock Knights of the Round and unleashed the devestating force of that attack. I probably peed a little.

Half Life 2 : After 3 hours installing the blooming thing, the GMan came on the screen and my jaw hit the floor. Then I walked outside and was hit with the most spectacular sight in computer gaming history : City 17 in all it's glory. AND THEN running across rooftops while getting fired at. Why it instantly registered in my Top 2 games of all time.

Resident Evil 4 : The siege. After five minutes of frantic fighting i got my head chopped off by a chainsaw in the most gory effect id ever seen in a game. I litreally had to pause the game for a while and just sit in stunned silence as the terror and excitement of what Id just played finally kicked in.

quad_red

on the PS in the front room of our student house in 1999.

10+ screaming people (most of whom never before and never since) have had the slightest interest in computer games.

Alot of fun

BloodBath

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Final Fantasy 7 : After probably ten - twenty hours of chocobo rearing, when that little gold chocobo was born and I ran across sea and mountains to unlock Knights of the Round and unleashed the devestating force of that attack. I probably peed a little.

Lol how could I forget ff7. I put some serious hours into that game and loved every minute of it. Took bloody ages to get that gold chocobo.

BloodBath

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Final Fantasy 7 : After probably ten - twenty hours of chocobo rearing, when that little gold chocobo was born and I ran across sea and mountains to unlock Knights of the Round and unleashed the devestating force of that attack. I probably peed a little.

Lol how could I forget ff7. I put some serious hours into that game and loved every minute of it. Took bloody ages to get that gold chocobo.

TacT

ahh, we can't just have one best gaming experience, there's too many to even list them

Mario Kart -- any of them but esp. the N64 version
Goldeneye N64
Zelda and the ocarina of time N64
HL and HL2 + mods
Double Dragon arcade
Golden Axe arcade
Street fighter II arcade
Worms
Lemmings
Tetris arcade
Super Sprint arcade

C64 listing:
Bubble Bobble
Bionic Commando
Buggy Boy
Combat School -- because we killed every joystick known to man completing it
California games
Dig Dug
Frogger (I've gone too far now)
The Last Ninja series
Nebulus
Nemesis the Warlock
Outrun
Paperboy
Skate or Die
Spy Vs. Spy
Wonderboy
Winter Games

Oddworld Abe's Oddysee on the PS and so many, many more I have failed to mention because I have somewhat relieved my little stint of boredom. I'm getting all nostalgic looking at those games from others now

I can't pick one but if I really have to then it goes to Zelda and the ocarina of time

jesus_thats_gre

Doom on the PC and then my 32X..
Super Mario Kart on the Snes.
Streets of Rage 1 on the megadrive.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the megadrive.
Street Fighter 2.
Nemisis on the Commodore64.
1942 in the arcade and some spectrum.
Road Rash on the 3DO.
Mario 3 on the Nes.
Wipeout on the Playstation.