Your favourite videogame moments

Remembered another one. Myself and a mate Played a arcade sega rally game all summer at lunchtime while on the J1 (worked in a beachside shop). By the end of the summer we could finish the game.

Then at the end of the summer went to a few of the theme parks in LA. Found the same game finished the game with an audience. Kinda funny memory.

Never played it since.

Thought of another. Half Life 1 that level where you meet the Marines. Then realize they are a bit clever in how they attack you. You realize we aren't in Doom anymore.

The Bloody Baron storyline in Witcher 3 - its just everything but some of the score over those sections really etched them into my memory.

MGS3 - Snake Eater. The final boss fight in this beautiful arena.

Red Dead Redemption 2 - The scene with Lenny genuinely had me roaring laughing

Knights of the Old Republic - The final reveal

Cyberpunk 2077 - The final battle into Arasaka. Totally overpowered and god-like.

Ghost of Tsushima - Opening horse ride through the field of white flowers

Medal of Honor - Can't remember which one but there was an undercover level where you had to show Nazi papers to guards. Always made me smile

Fallout 3 - The first time walking out of the vault

The Darkness - Jenny's death

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Ah yeah mass effect sending Mordin to distribute the cure was definitely a moment that you do not forget too soon.

Obvious shouts to ocarina already here and easily up there for me.

Still think Silent hill 2 hasn't been touched story wise by any game that's come since start to finish perfection and really shaped how a game should be presented if story based.

I think bioshock deserves a shout in how good the initial descent to rapture was brilliant in both showing the city and also the character of Andrew Ryan.

The MGS Demo I think came out in Oct/Nov in ps magazine, remember my mam picking it up in Blackrock and me playing it to the death up to the Feb release. The dad driving out to jervis St smyths and picking it up

Then there was the Friday in Oct 2001 myself and my cousin were in town picking up last bits for a school holiday to Italy over mid term, stroll into gamesworld on liffey st and see gta 3 is out. Nobody was talking about it we picked it up and played dot from 3 the Friday until 4 sat morning before getting picked up. Telling everyone on tour about this game and having to wait a week to play it.

Great memories.

Getting the Bee suit in Super Mario Galaxy.

I was living in the Canaries when GTA III came out. I was using (and still am) a UK Amazon account to buy my games as at the time there was no games shop on the island I lived in. It was rely on the electronics shops or order in.

A buddy had asked me to pre-order twisted metal for him and I think that was a December release. Anyway when I was browsing Amazon to buy it, I spotted GTA III and it was the very 1st I'd heard of it. Ordered it, think it was released and shipped to me a week later, I had it the day after UK release.

Neither my buddy nor I had heard any of the release news, no hype, nothing. We ended up playing it after work so much that we just took a PS2 into work rather than go home after.

Closing a bar at 4am, playing GTA on shots until the following afternoon then a few hrs sleep, shave shower and back to work again!

Oh to be young again!

So many great ones to choose from like the dogs through the window in RE1 and leaving midgar with the backstory in Kalm Town from FF7.

The best has to be from Zelda a link to the past. After months I thought I had finally just completed the game... but nope time to enter the dark world, I wasn't even at the games half way point yet. I remember putting on the game the next day and part of me was thinking that the dark would was just a dream I had in real life.

Playing Dayz and was up north on the Chernarus map. All of a sudden I bump into another player. We both have our guns in our hands, bolt action rifles. And for what seems like an age we just stand there guns pointed at each other. I have a round chambered, but I don't know if he has. But I know if I shoot and miss, he may have the upper hand and kill me.

Eventually I say "Well, what are we going to do here?".

He replies "Are you Irish?"

I say "Yeah. That sounds like a New York accent."

He says, "Yeah, it is".

I say, "I have relatives in Brooklyn".

He says "I have relatives in Clonskeagh".

I say " I used to live in Clonskeagh".

He says "Do you know O'Shea's?"

I say, "It used to be my local. Do you know Humphrey's in Ranelagh?"

He says "Fuck yeah man. I used to love that place".

I say "Well, I can't bloody well shoot you now, can I?"

So, we ended up having a virtual cook out in the game and swigging a couple of bottles of beer IRL.

The maddest, most surreal, experience I have ever had playing any game ever, and it really had nothing to do with the game at all.

Great memories playing Counterstrike (the one built off Half-Life) in Internet Cafes with a group… or in the university computer labs :D I knew every map like the back of my hand.

The one that always comes to mind is X-Men on the Megadrive. Found it to be a pretty tough game, and after ages trying I finally made it to the future level where the goal was to reset the computer at the end of the level.

I get there, interact with the computer and then the screen prompts ‘press reset to continue’

No response from the controller whatsoever, it couldn’t mean the actual reset button, could it? Do I want up risk resetting the game and having to go through the arduous process again? After a few minutes of deliberating I went for it. Screen went black and stayed black just long enough for me to think I’ve lost all my progress, before a load of binary flashes up and the game continues. Brilliant.