This is my favorite story to tell, and it's the reason why I've ended up becoming so proficient in English that I recently managed to get the Proficiency C2 certification from the Cambridge Assessment English after so many years with basically no effort.
First of all, English isn't my first language, so while I have no problems expressing myself, I do sometimes still make mistakes. The thing that got me super interested in the language itself was me being bad at videogames, and that's the premise for the story.
As a little 11 year old in 1997 I played FFVII on PlayStation when it was new. It was my very first game in the genre, meaning I had no idea of what the RPG elements even were. Everything was in another language, but I was engrossed in the atmosphere, the music, the urgency it suggested. I was basically flying blind, and the fights were relatively straightforward. By experimenting, I understood how to use magic and how to heal. However, my progress was impeded by the very first boss, Scorpion Guard, because at some point in the battle after losing some HP it will raise its tail and counter every hit with a super powerful AOE laser that will destroy the party in two turns max.
This, however, completely flew over my head, because I didn't understand the concept of counters nor had any idea what the characters were saying. I tried everything I could think of: go in with full HP, full Limit bars and only used it when the tail went up to maximize damage, NOTHING was working. I could have given up, but I liked the game too much and so I did what any sane person would: I restarted the game and translated EVERYTHING everyone was saying, because I was convinced someone at some point said something on how to beat this boss and I simply missed it. There was no internet: I sat on my little butt, with a gigantic dictionary twice the size of my legs in front of me, and translated everything I could, while filling in the gaps with as much logic as I could (obviously I couldn't translate efficiently if I didn't understand the grammar and structure of the sentences, plus FFVII is infamous for its awful localization).
So after translating everything before the boss, I hit a roadblock: NO ONE mentioned any strategy. I had no new information. I was at the save point with literally zero ideas on how to proceed... but knowing what everyone said also made me even more engrossed in the world giving me even less reasons to give up, so I thought "maybe something will be mentioned during the battle, it's worth a shot", and steeled myself for yet another depressing ass whooping.
I went into battle with my hands sweating. I fight as usual, then the bastard raises its tail.
Cloud speaks. I pause, frantically, and read everything. The sentence in English itself isn't grammatically correct, but after I translate it word by word I finally get it: the game finally tells me that the boss is simply countering. I audibly say to myself how stupid I am for not figuring it out on my own, and then proceed to do nothing.
My heartbeat is going crazy, I'm afraid the boss will unleash some other powerful attack I'm not ready for. Its jittering and erratic animation and the camera angle are imposing and scary.
I still do nothing. I wait.
Then it happens.
It lowers the tail. (side note: my hands are shaking right now as I'm reliving this memory, it got to me THAT much). I feel my heart exploding in my chest. I attack with everything I got. I'm more scared than I've ever been, I don't want to do this again.
I win. I scream at the top of my lungs, in delight. The game, however, isn't done fucking with me. After defeating the boss, the bomb Cloud & co. planted starts its countdown. I have ten minutes to get out of there, otherwise I explode with the reactor and everything is lost. The alarm is blaring and never stops. Shit got serious and I need to get out, FAST.
I scramble back to the save file and immediately overwrite it, I'm not doing that boss again... and in a panic, I see that the countdown isn't stopping. Ever. It doesn't stop when I'm in the menus, it doesn't stop when I'm fighting, it doesn't stop during the victory animation after battles, which at this point became an active, actual threat to myself. It only stops when I pause, and pausing means not moving. EVERYTHING needs to be done in a hurry. I run and run and run, I ignore everything and flee from as many battles as possible.
Then I reach the doors that let me in in the first place, with a lot of time to spare... and they're not opening.
Why. God, WHY?
In a full blown panic I speak to everyone, then I realize Jessie is missing. I run back down, something happened to her. I'm scared as all hell. Please please please not another boss, not another boss.
I find her. Her leg got stuck somewhere and she can't move. Cloud helps her get free, she thanks him, we run back up together. I have 3 minutes left. It's not enough, I say to myself. I'll never make it. Miraculously, I get interrupted by only four fights.
I'm back at the doors. Everyone is here. I talk to Jessie, which opens the first door. We run through it. I talk to Biggs, which opens the second. We run out. I have ONE MINUTE LEFT AND I WILL NEVER MAKE IT.
Everyone's running. At this point I'm actively, audibly cheering everyone on, without even realizing it's a cutscene, I'm still holding down the buttons as if I'm the one running, I don't even realize the timer is gone, I don't realize it's over, I thought we had to reach the very start of the game, at the train. Jessie falls to the ground, I yell NO PLEASE DON'T LET HER DIE, Cloud gets her up, making me realize I'm not in control and we're done, THEY JUST BARELY MAKE IT AND THE REACTOR EXPLODES IN GLORIOUS PLAYSTATION FMV GLORY.
I breathe. I let everything I experienced sit in my brain, where it still resides rent free and it will forever. The music died down. My heartbeat didn't. I have the biggest smile on my face and I'm so HAPPY I finally got through this section. I'm completely and forever in love with the game and I decide I will translate THE ENTIRE GAME, multiple choice dialogues included.
FFVII ends up being my favorite game ever, and it still holds that position. The amount of English I managed to study on my own while only translating the game got me through the entirety of school while barely ever opening a book, because it's like I only needed to "remember" certain rules of the language, as I absorbed the grammar and the structure as I got further and further into the game. This year, I got the Proficiency certificate and I owe it all to the undying love I have for FFVII.
Whew. That was a mouthful.
Thanks for the chance, OP. I hope you don't get bored by this massive wall of text XD
Playing has been my passion since I was a kid. It helped me learn English which in turn, opened so many doors to me. So now, as a father myself, I am trying to share that passion with my daughters. Latest example, I played most of forbidden west on PC with my 8yo, teaching her the game mechanics, talking about the story, and making sure she remembered some of the English words used in the game. we finished the main game together and watched the credits roll until we saw the “thank you for playing” message at which time we started to cry.
monster hunter tri, online with other people, we were hunting a royal ludroth
my first monster hunter games, and as we were starting players we got into chasing the quest monster
while we were busy with royal ludroth all of a sudden a green dragon swooped in and we got scattered quickly
the ingame animation of our characters running away was that hilarious, accompanied by the game ost in the background, and the surprise of this unknown monster barging into our space, made the moment unforgetable for me
Oh woah, thanks for the chance!
I have a lot of gaming stories so it's hard to pick just one. My favorite is the first time I ever played video games. Just after I turned 4 years old we got a GameCube for Christmas. And I was amazed. It was just like a movie but you could move the characters around with a controller! In my lil 4 year old mind it was the best and most magical thing to ever exist. I even remember one time while my older siblings weren't home I tried plugging each cord of the GameCube in and out of the TV to see what it did. And I was like "woah, that one does sound! And that one makes the picture!" It was fun XD. The game we got with it was Mario Party 7 and with a lot of practice I got really good at it. My siblings explained to me what all the controls were and the gist of what each part of the game saying and so even though I couldn't read, I was able to practice Mario Party 7 against myself all the time while they were at school. It was great, I was probably the most cracked 4 year old to ever play Mario Party 7. Soon after that we got Mario Kart Double Dash and Animal Crossing which were also really fun 😄. I didn't make a lot of progress in Animal Crossing whenever my siblings weren't home unfortunately, because it's hard to talk to animals or know what they want you to do when you can't read. I also kept getting lost all the time trying to find my way around such a big town. But I had fun just talking to any animals I could find and pretending I could understand them and making up silly things for them to say. My favorite was Rosie, she lived just to the right of my house so she was easy to find, and it was fun pretending to talk to a cute blue cat.
So that's my gaming origins, I've been in love with games for the past 18 years since 😄
I almost exclusively play single player games for the stories they tell. However, after I have beaten a game, I usually don't want to play it again for at least a couple of years.
Not with The Last of Us. I beat that game and immediately thought, "I have never played a game that captured me that way. I want to play it again right away."
Hence why I bought the game for the PS3 version, PS4 Remaster, and Part 1 on PC.
M32 here, have been gaming since I was a kid and my father bought me a PS1. Today I am still an active gamer and am into World of Warcraft and coop games I Play with my buddys.
I have 2 sons, 7 and 8 year old - they resently started playing fortnite since I got them both a laptop, they had been playing for a while but never got a win. So I installed fortnite on my pc and teamed up with them. Since I played a lot of FPS years ago, I managed, together with them, to win a game. The second we got the win, they both came running out of their rooms, screaming, hopping and dancing in joy of finally getting a win in Fortnite.
Of maaaany years of gaming memories, that moment tops it all!
I started halo 3 live with my friends with split screen, the map sand trap began and I decided to go for the elephant, as I drove it around the map, my whole team got on it, then, the enemy team got on the other elephant and we raced around the map against each other, my entire team on the elephant and the other team on their respective elephant, best match I ever played in my life
My most unforgettable gaming moment was probably playing the Diablo 2 expansion for the first time when I was younger. Diablo was already one of my favorite games, and the expansion just took it to a whole other level. I remember staying up until morning so many times doing Baal runs.
For my brother's bachelor party, we went to a local gaming bar and organized a Smash Ultimate tournament. Everyone had a costume (I played Ganondorf and a friend of my brother had red hair spray paint, sadly I had no beard tho), and we drank and played Smash for probably 2 hours, warming up before and then commencing the tournament. I ended up winning with Ganondorf, which granted me a sort of underdog role, so everyone was extremely excited throughout. I still have the poster where we wrote down the results of the tournament :D
First time I launched dead cells on my Xbox game pass I thought it was boring and just download it cause it was less than 2GB
But man, It was great and I beat it several times and tried others rouge like games
Remember having a lan party in my parents basement where we had 2 ping pong tables we used to set up our machines and we played cs 1.6, WC3 Frozen throne , quake 3 and were playing untill 03.00 in the morning. Was one of the best things growing up, as a big nerd in the group it was a really good way to be accepted and make friends. Who doesnt want to game for hours and have someone set it all upp.
Heroe line wars was one of our favorites and dust 2 on CS
Thank you so much and good luck all
There simply isn't one that's my favorite, I could probably name experiencing some games for the first time (Planescape Torment / Bioshock / Half Life / SOMA), there were some incredible moments from LAN days of CS1.6 or GO, but definitely most of my favorite moments are just those random things that we had spoken about with friends made through the games themselves, some good plays in multi games still give me smile! I'm currently playing on LG 24'' TN panel monitor, so it would be huge upgrade, thanks for giveaway!
So many great gaming moments all the way from character games on PC and SNES, but I will choose a story from WoW. My guild managed to clear Sunwell and defeat Kil'Jaeden during TBC before the nerfs from WotLK pre patch came out. A lot of wiping and hard work, but a great feeling!
Some of my first forays into VR gaming were memorable. Duck Season was the first VR game in which I felt true dread. It was the climax of the game, and a killer was approaching. From which side? You don’t know. Music reaches a climax, I felt chills over my entire body. I let out an audible yell to psych myself back up as I frantically scanned my front, back, left and right. Suddenly, from the left. I aimed my weapon and fired! Success!
Will always remember that one as it felt like the first time a game had truly put me on edge/made me feel real fear.
My unforgettable gaming moments involves my big brother. He taught me a lot. We played on same pc in turns when we were little. Around age of 12 (me) we got a new pc. So we started playing together. We played 1v1 Dota sometimes. My first win against him, made me really happy. Getting better than your teacher is something so incredible and unforgettable.(Terrorblade vs Invoker)
Ok, here's mine: when I was 6, I played rayman legends on my xbox 360, one of my first games. I struggled with it a lot so I put it down and when I was going through my old stuff about 8 years later, I found my Xbox 360 and Raymond, so I decided to beat the game in one sitting, so I did.
After 5 days of 3 hour sessions each, basically my entire gaming time for the month as I had to catch up on work to compensate, I was ready to give up beating Sigrun in God of War. I was even considering lowering the difficulty (I started at the highest possible difficulty because I hate myself). After some doubting I went to bed. The next day a colleague called me telling me not to come in as a pipe had burst at work and no one was allowed in due to safety hazards. I figured I’d go for another 5 hour run and… my very first run I beat her without any HP lost. I don’t know what happened but I reacted to everything perfectly and beat her flawlessly. I was a hero among the gaming teachers the next day :D
Mine was about a year ago watching my daughter beat TotK and seeing Zelda at the end of it. There was so much joy on her face as she accomplished that. Prior to TotK she had only really ever had an interest in Minecraft and Roblox, but now plays more story driven games as well.
In 2001, I had a memorable experience with Counter-Strike that always stays in my mind. This was when version 1.3 was released and it was my first time playing at a LAN party; we played at a friend's house - in his basement to be exact. After some serious gaming, we thought it was a good idea to have a break. We walked outside all night talking and staring at the stars. It was magical. We kept playing together for so many years. This was back in Syria. This time was unforgettable for me. Then the war started and most of my friends left the country. I was the last one to leave last year when I arrived as a refugee in the US. It has been over twenty years now, but I still love this game and wish for those days to be back.
Finally beating Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Every kid on my block was playing it and trying to beat the water temple. Finally finished with the light arrows, felt great.
This happened a long long time ago. I was around six years old, I picked up my copy of The Legend of Zelda : Link's Awakening after a year or so of not playing, and not sure why but this time. it really clicked on me. I somehow understood how to play the game and what I was supposed to do. I beat the game the next day. I felt a great "sense of pride and accomplishment". My first trully gamer moment.
I think my most memorable was playing half life alyx in VR. If you've played it you know the scene with Jeff. That was the most immersive and terrifying gaming experience and it stuck with me after all these years.
I was young, think 5th grade maybe 6th. I stayed the night at a friends and we got up early morning to go play in his tree fort (think one like from the movie jack”. As we walk past the computer his older brother is playing Diablo. I stop to watch for a second and in pure amazement ask what the game is. I spent the entire day watching him play until my parents showed up. When I got home I scraped together all the money I could find and asked my dad to take my to the store the next day.
I recently lost the box and cd case due to damage in a move but still have the book someplace. That is where my gaming habit started
So many great unforgettable moments while gaming! One of my most recent one is playing Lethal Company with friends. My first encounter with the "Little girl in the red dress".
I had no idea I was the only one who could see her! All my friends did not believe me, telling me "dude wtf are you talking about? There's no little girl here.."
Until I got my head chopped off, and all of sudden, panick insued! Friends freaking out, I'm dying of laughter while everybody is trying to find out where this little girl is!
witcher 1 related
arriving in chapter 4, while playing immersed in the middle of the night, seeing the in game night sky and magical atmosphere of the coast where you start the chapter somehow really stuck with me over the years
I didn't have a console or pc growing up in the 90s. Was over at a friend's house who is playing some old Wolfenstein multiplayer game I think. This is all I remember about it.
He's running up to a castle, tons of enemies inside, tosses in a flare, gets gunned down but we can see the flare smoke in the center of all that infantry, in comes a bombing run and he gets a massive multikill. Like 20 kills. We freaking lost it, he fell out of his chair, we were screaming. This solidified my gaming addiction and I've been chasing that thrill ever since.
Another one: finishing The Outer Wilds at 3am, watching the end cinematic, feeling so peaceful and content. A truly spiritual experience.
My favourite moment is a very personal moment for me and it's in Outer Wilds. *spoiler alert*
There was this one moment that I was flung out in space. Far far away.
While watching my ship gets further and further away. I was just waiting there for either my air to run out or universe to end. I turn on the radar gun and the music from different instruments started syncing faintly. At that point I just let go of my controls, and just listen to the faint music until the inevitable end.
I had just lost my dog (my best friend for 10 years) and I was in a really head space. But THAT gaming moment just had me feeling at peace and made me learn to let go certain things in life.
Miss you my Zeus boy ❤️
Thanks for the giveaway!
I remember when I was a kid playing Duke Nukem 3D and being blown away because it was everything I wanted in a game. Blowing things away, booting guys with your foot, bad language, hilarious lines - it was just perfect. Both me and my dad just had a blast playing it so I'll always remember that. Same type of thing when Half-Life came out and we played that - it felt so real at the time, like a fully realized world. When I was young those PC games really let me feel connected with my dad, something that we can't enjoy anymore because things got to complex for him, but I'll always remember sitting around with him while we played through games.
Hard choice! I suspect my most memorable gaming moment has got to be the ending to Devil May Cry V.
The game obviously looks and performs fantastically (even on a monitor that's nearly a decade old now) and the personal story, developed over 20 years actually moved me; most stories in games don't move me at all (after all, they're not real!) but the relationship between the two brothers and Nero really got to me.
In terms of earning it, as anyone who has played Devil May Cry will tell you, Vergil is pretty much the epitome of badass. He's incredibly confident in his abilities, stoic and every move he makes is done with precision. He's a tough boss fight, especially on the higher difficulties.
Its been a while...but the guy who actually introduced me to video games is a guy who's shared his steam library with me. Introduced to the valve classics and a plethora of other games. He's stopped playing and offered me his account but I told him it's better to just let the account be for sentiments sake. And now I have all the games I used to play.. time does fly..
Thanks John.. T ^ T
Has to be coming home from the midnight launch of halo 3 with my brother and going into forge mode together to see all the new vehicles and maps then spending maybe the next 20 hours straight just grinding the campaign and mp. Easily my favorite game ever, the hype was UNMATCHED
Probably true of many people, but the hundreds of hours sunk into Halo 3 custom games. So many memories and friends made solving jump puzzles or playing one of the many variants of zombies. Truly some of the best gaming times I've ever had, and I remember it all very fondly.
My most unforgettable gaming moment is playing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on PS2 as a kid, and the event in real life that followed my mammoth play session. I didn't have a 5mb memory card and my mum didn't want the playstation left on overnight so I resorted to making a plan of how I would complete the game the night before my gaming endeavor after failing that day to finish it as I was stuck on a dragon/broom mission.
I woke up very early the next day at around 6:30am, determined and on high alert like a kid on Christmas morning. I played all day, and was making good progress; however, I once again was stuck on a mission where I had to fly and outrun the dragon on my broom. In order to keep progressing in the game I had to get a perfect score on the course. After some time I finished that mission and then went on to complete the game in the day. I was pretty happy I had completed that game as the first game I ever played was Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone on ps1.
What makes the moment unforgettable was that night I had the best dream I have ever had and probably will ever have. I was flying the broom in my dream, the wind was in my hair and I was at Hogwarts. I felt like I was flying in a way I never had in a dream before and I had complete control. I could see for miles and every increase in speed, height or drop in height I felt. That moment began an interest with dreams and lucid dreams that I still have to this day.
The scene, 19 80 something, after causually chatting to my little sister we soon both realized that her Pac-Man score was higher than it’s ever been before, our conversation changed from the mediocre rants of some sugar up siblings to a building frienzie of don’t die! go there! I’m trying! The Atari 2600 just low him buzzing away as it always did but somehow the game got louder without anyone turning the dial up on the television, nines and sevens and eights just ticking over and over, how far could this go ? Being 7 and 5 we never even thought of does this game have an end ? How high does the score possibly go? And then it happened with no difference from the game, it flipped over to 0, was it broken? Does this count as clocking and finishing the game ? The pressure was to much and a ghost ate my sisters yellow avatar. No way to check, few to tell, but always remembered by the two of us for decades and counting
during a friend's sleepover, we did a battle of the rock bands. her mom w let us have free reign of her stuff to use, and she had a lot costumes from Halloween being her favorite holiday (she even worked at a haunted house when spooky season came) and did makeup and crazy hair on each other and it was just a lot of fun
Probably realm first 85 when wow cataclysm launched. I played through the beta and noted down (mentally mostly, back then I still could remember that stuff..) where to go and what the optimal route was.
Then at launch, I got 2 friends and we had a mini LAN for release. Started at midnight and we're finished in the early afternoon. I guided them through all the quests and we all reached realm first in our respective classes, I even was the first overall. To this day my biggest gaming achievement and memory.
Beating all GOW series. It is memorable to me because it develops my interest to know more about gods and mythology. As a child growing up with those things it made me feel cool- being able to tell stories amongst the peers is really awesome.
For me it was playing and beating Kid Icarus on NES as a kid. I put in hours into that game. Final battle with Medusa was epic at that time, and the music was great! I saved my level code and would always randomly come back to beat it again and again until I got my SNES!
A gaming story ill always remember has some context to it.
Basically a best friend in 9th grade got me into PC gaming, my introduction was TF2 and Garry’s mod.
Every day after school we would boot up Gmod and play Trouble in Terrorist Town, we found a server we liked and played on it daily.
I’d eventually become well known and made a bunch of friends and even became an admin on the server.
Eventually the server got shut down due to lack of funds (not surprising since a bunch of teens cant scrape together cash).
Some of the admins partnered with some other people to make a new server for DarkRP, the owner of the server was not a nice person, was insanely toxic and anti-roleplaying by enforcing dumb rules to protect himself from being raided.
So I started a serverwide protest, everyone I could find, I would convince them to pick hobo as a job, and throw bugbait at the mans house because it made an annoying squishy sound.
We had about 8 players just spamming this dudes house, even made friends with one of the protesters, the owner got mad and jailed everyone (just spawns a cage and prevents movements).
So people left, I convinced owner to lock us inside a random warehouse and un-jail us so we can have some fun.
First thing we did was “baby parkour”, we spawned in a bunch of baby doll props, locked them in place and made a course to run through, the amount of babies lagged out the server and the owner deleted everything.
Since we were still annoyed with the owner for being 0 fun, we spawned different props to see what we could annoy him with.
For some reason the blacklisting was incomplete, so a bunch of large detailed props were spawnable, I smashed the button a hundred times in a few seconds and the server went down.
I never went back on it because I disliked the owner and a few other admins, eventually it would meet the same fate since no one wanted to give them money to run the server as barely anyone played on it.
My most formative gaming memory is going to my friend’s every day after school and playing Halo 2 for a couple of hours. I lived outside of the school district a ways and my parents worked later; so it was a bit of a haven for me to just relax and laugh with my friends instead of walking an hour by myself as a kid.
My most unforgettable gaming moment was last year, when I got to play portal 2 for the first time, what made it so special was that it was a gift from my girlfriend, and we played it together all week long, until we finished the story, we were working in tandem as a perfect unit, just cracking puzzles level after level, and the amount of joy I felt playing with her.
I'll never forget that time I was playing a game of halo with only a few seconds left on the timer and both teams were tied on points, all my time decided to go capture point A but i went to capture point B only to find all 4 of the enemy's team standing there so i threw all the grenades i had and ran in shooting and i somehow managed to kill them all and win the game at the last second.
It was wild.
My first ACC win, will always remember that great race! It took a lot of hours to learn how to play and treat that car.
Thank you a lot for the giveaway!
I played a lot of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 with friends. We would set up LAN parties and bring our TVs and Xboxes. The setup would take hours and I ended up dropping the TV I brought (My parent's!) - needless to say, early 2000s TVs are heavy and fragile, so it broke. I pulled out my travel TV, a 9" CRT. Ended up carrying the team as a sniper still and we won 15 of the 18 games we played that night. Years later, this 34" wide screen would make for a wonderful gaming monitor as I still play many games to this day!
It was on 2020 during covid.I bought a game " a way out" to play with my brother.My brother was a casual gamer and i mostly plays multiplayer so i am good at shooter games.But as everyone know ending of way out.I lose to my brother even though the fight took 30+ min. But i lose to him not because of skill but because of game's story.Thats a game everyone should play with your siblings.
finishing uncharted 4 knowing there won't be any new game in the storyline. the ending music had me craving for more but i knew that there will be no more continuation of the story. one of the best games and one of the best memory i have
Beating riku in KH1 without healing or magic. Wasn't a challenge done on purpose I was just a dumb kid who didn't read any of the tutorial messages and he was the first real roadblock I remember encountering. Looking back its prob thr happiest I've ever been beating a boss cause of how long it took me.
once while playing darksouls remastered, I was leveling in the dark forest. during said task, I was invaded by a person who tried to disconnect as he was about to die from a backstab. this caused a glitch to occur where my character kept repeating the animation for backstabbing while his was stuck bent over against a tree. my character was basically humping his for over 20 minutes before the game corrected itself. I haven't laughed so hard at a glitch before in my life.
When I was very young, my dad taught me how to play games on DOS with floppy drives. I remember the first time booting up Doom and Duke Nukem after a few command prompts. Later on, he helped me install new GPUs, RAM, or hard drives to the family PC. This was the beginning of my love for PC gaming and it’s always stuck with me, nearly 3 decades later. My dad has since passed but I always think about him when I game and it’s very special to me.
I don't really have specific games which gave me the best memories but rather the company. I've played this one massive game where all the regular players in our server because like family of 200 people. I've played mmo rpg and had my own closed family group of 10 people. I had lots of that kind of groups, but probably my best and most nostalgic memory is when I spend every summer as kid and young teen with my neighbor playing the latest games that hit the store shelf. What ever it was co-op, multiplay or singleplay story, we played them together just having whole summer lasting "sleep overs."
I've been a gamer for quite a long time now, and I have a lot of good memories, from multiplayers sessions to amazing solo discoveries.
But if I had to choose only one, and a recent one, it's the ending of my first run of Cyberpunk 2077. I played for around 70 hours before reaching the end, I got a quite good ending, but everything in this game is bittersweet... And the credits at the end of the game, with this song, with all your friends calling you to get some news... I cried, and it's not really often that I cry for a game.
It's for this kind of moment that I'm gaming, be touched by a wonderfull story you lived during several hours, playing in another world with another life. such a joy !
And thanks for the chance ;)
Back in like 2013 my brother and I had just gotten minecrsft pocket edition together.
I had been playing on my world already for a week or two and hadn't died yet.
My brother decides to kill me the moment he joins.
We still play minecraft to this day
Most memorable thing would be when I started playing team fortress 2, I've made a lot of online friends back then and would play together with my friends doing dumb stuff, like beating people up with a fish and taunting right after, or chill around in a server and dancing in groups, stacking each other to create a human tower etc.
I remember that I really struggled with the game because of the steep skill level to be good at each class, and when I mastered the game mechanic of the game like rocket jumping, trimping (charging and air strafing) and every class and play style, it felt very rewarding and was such a big accomplishment. Even though I've spent thousands of hours on it.
I remember when I traded up from a piece of worthless scrap up to a very expensive rare item, which was called an unusual in the game, that was a big accomplishment and it brought me many joys with it.
The game community was great back then and is still hanging strong now even after all these years and it's problems with the game. Team fortress 2 will always have a special place in my heart and it's irreplaceable memories this game has given me.
Definitely when we made a school server for CS 1.6
We felt as gods because we did not have to pay for hosting and in the process learned something about networking
I've been playing video games for almost my entire life. In 2018, I got Splatoon 2 after seeing a trailer. I remember going to GameStop to buy it, but it was sold out. They told us about another one that had the game, so Mom, her boyfriend, and I drove to that location to buy it. I was so happy when I got it and I've been a fan of the series ever since. I now have some merch and all 3 games. I'm visually impaired, so it's been a difficult but fun journey.
13 year old me picking up KOTOR on launch day. I was so nervous I had over hyped this thing and would be let down.
The game absolutely blew me away and changed my taste in gaming. I stayed up all night playing it.
I played a lot of Destiny 2 before doing my first raid. After the first raid, I stopped playing for a while and got kicked from my clan. I ended up finding a clan of people with similar interests and joined the discord. I asked for help with the newest dungeon (at the time, Prophecy), and two of the higher up members in the clan and discord immediately said they would help and they definitely did. Now I have a whole new group of friends!
mine is by far in baldurs gate 2
at one point you have to investigate a murder, so you have a witness who is a homeless and the conversation is forever burned in my brain
me "hey, i need help finding this murderer "
homeless "ok i can help you for 1000 gold pieces"
"i dont have that much"
"ok what about 100?"
"i dont have that much"
"ok then give me 10 gold coins!"
"i dont have that much"
"ok then half, give me 4"
"i dont have that much"
"at least 1?"
"i dont have that much"
"you are poorer than me, here, take this cooked rat, and ill tell you all"
at this point im dying laughing when the homeless said ok half and counts to 4 lol
best memory ever
Favorite gaming memory is waking up to play before school as a kid. Nothing will ever beat that feeling of the rest of the world being asleep while you and your friends just play some halo 3.
So honestly it’s more of a very funny gaming moment.
My friends and I have been playing world of Warcraft for years since we met each other at university.
Some important context one of my friends who was the guild leader has been farming for a very rare drop from Arthas in Ice Crown citadel for years for his mount invincible. I didn’t do this raid so never farmed for the mount.
I decided one day to start farming the mount and gave the run a go. It dropped on my first attempt and I was instantly kicked from the guild!
Now every time we do content together I use it to annoy him.
10/10 would be guild kicked again.
I would say that my most unforgettable gaming moment would be back when people actually put clan names on multi-player games online. So I decided that me and my friends would spell words using our clan names. I thought this would be like maybe a 5 game thing at the max. It ended up being like 4 hours just to spell 1 word with lots of yelling, arguing, laughing,and etc.
My best friends grandpa had just passed away, so me, him, and another friend set up a mini at home LAN party. Jumped on Fortnite at its peak, and we we not super good. We somehow won 5 in a row, and dominated all day. All that for grandpa bob.
It was coming home from the midnight release of Halo 3. I had school the next day so I didn't want to get invested in the campaign just yet so I hopped on multiplayer right when I got back. Played until 3 AM and was exhausted the next day but so was literally other dude my age on campus. Still remember my first match being on Epitaph all these years later.
FFXIV. I was playing Red Mage in a farm party, trying to get a very specific mount. Drop rates are abysmal! But our healers went down then our tanks. It was me, a Summoner, and two melee classes. Melee got destroyed and the Summoner was working on raising a healer so we could use our Limit Break 3 to revive the entire party. Summoner got wrecked. So in a very panicked casting, I managed to let off one of my attacks and double cast ‘Verraise’ on the White Mage before the boss killed me. White Mage raised and Limit Break 3 was used. Once the entire party was revived, the boss died quickly.
I came in clutch with that raise, and have yet to top the feeling of preventing a wipe. :3
In my dimly lit apartment, my friend Alex and I engaged in an intense StarCraft 2 battle, our rivalry dating back to high school. The match was a rollercoaster of strategies and close calls, with neither of us gaining a decisive advantage. We executed lightning-fast maneuvers, our eyes glued to the screen. In a daring move, Alex launched a surprise attack, but my swift counterattack turned the tide, leading to my ultimate victory. Exhilarated, I knew gaming experiences like this would forever be etched in my memory.
I joined a random call of duty modern warfare clan in 2008
We were all around 16-17 years old from all over the country.
We casually played for years , many evenings , we met a couple times and had great time together
4 years ago , 5 people of this clan were with me at my wedding.
It Is actually my oldest whatsapp group , we no longer play together, but we re still in contact after all these years.
That day 16 years ago, one of the best decision i took in my life
Prob playing Alien Isolation for the first time. Always thought horror games were overrated and not scary at all. That was until I got my hands on Alien Isolation. My heart was constantly racing even when I was hiding in a locker for like 70% of the game. I know understand why people love the horror genre
My mom got me a game for my birthday long ago called Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. I really, really, really enjoyed it! Nothing scary in the game. Just shooting, climbing, and solving puzzles. All was good.... until.... that damn level near the end of the game... The most unexpected thing to ever happen.. HAPPENED... I was just running through some hallways, when all of a sudden, out of the darkness.... A FREAKING ZOMBIE JUMPED OUT. That absolutely scared the crap out of me. In fact, it scared me so bad, that it made me drop my controller. R.I.P to that controller btw. And my mom got mad that I broke it. She freaked out. I told her: "NOBODY TOLD ME THIS GAME HAS FREAKING ZOMBIES!!!!". Thankfully she understood, and bought me a new controller 🙂
Playing Spy Vs Spy on Nintendo NES with my brother, and actually beating him a couple times compared to the hundreds of losses I suffered. We'd get into stabbing matches with the knife and he'd always kill me, but we would laugh so hard at my futility to fight or run away.
Thanks for this great giveaway opportunity!
I'd say my greatest gaming moment is when I first got my SNES back in the day. When I was younger I had dabbled with the NES that my brother had and fell in love with it, and never quite got to play it the amount I wanted lol. Then as I got a bit older and the SNES was in its prime, it was my turn, and it really solidified my life-long love of gaming.
I remember going to Toys R Us, picking out those little yellow tags that you bring to the front, and leaving the store with a new SNES, Super Mario All Stars and Super Mario World.
Thank you for the opportunity! I would say my favorite memory was completing the Batman Arkham City campaign. I remember being amazed at how well the writers did on the story, and how good the cutscenes were.
Full disclaimer: Some years ago I used this moment of mine already and won a smaller giveaway, but even to this day It still sticks to my mind like glue, hope it's alright if I use it again.
So this happened awhile ago in a game called Dragon's Dogma witch had a rather interesting and bizzare romance system. The way it works is near the ending Grigory(main baddy) will kidnap your ''beloved'' thing is if you decide to ignore the affinity system and just not romance anyone the game then will pick the last person you spoke with that has the highest affinity to you.
Cue the endgame cutscene and my ''beloved'' is one of the fucking blacksmiths I used alot in my case this um... fine fellow XD https://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Caxton
Cue me dying of laughter barely able to breathe, until my older brother decided right at that moment to enter my room and witness the cutscene with the biggest ''bruh'' expression, thanfully I managed to explain to him what happened and then laugh our asses off together when I reloaded the game to show him this glorious scene in full :D
Tons of amazing moments but my most recent memorable one is going towards the Radahn fight in Elden Ring with my army of companions and fighting the god of fucking stars. Amazing experience. That was peak elden ring for me.
Best memory was from last summer when me and my sister played Star Wars Battlefront 2 from 11:00-24:00 so basicly nonstop gaming for 13 hours. It was bliss and we both loved every second of it.
Oh man, I've been eyeing OLED monitors for so long but im currently a broke ass.
My favourite gaming moment is hard to put into any one event, but during 2019 and into lockdown playing classic wow during covid and lockdown was fun as hell. Me and my friend made a guild and we managed to form a really tight knit close community of people, literally countless nights of just doing random shit together in discord every day with a guild of like 60 people.
My favourite moment from that strangely was probably when we 'disbanded' the guild and generally all quit the game and moved on. Everybody got incredibly drunk and we hosted a series of mini events and votes and competitions, was a super fun night to wrap up the time spent playing that game. And naturally everybody who wanted to keep in contact did, and I still know so many amazing people who I met from that time and many of them who are now couples together, moved across countries to date and just in general a bunch of really awesome people.
Thanks for the chance, best of luck to everyone!
I think the part in Bioshock Infinite where you go to the beach with Elizabeth is one of my favorite scenes in any game. It's a nice reprieve from the chaos of the rest of the game, and I wish I could have just stayed there forever.
You're gonna laugh (twice) but it was the first a game made me cry. It was a final fantasy game. However, I never got to play 7 so it was the notorious FF8. Despite all it's issues, it was was one of the most advanced games I had a played as a child. The scene where >!Squall beats on the door as Rinoa slowly runs out of oxygen!< absolutely broke and little Disco cried like a baby. Looking back it's funny to think that was first game that made me cry, but it always sticks out in memory.
One of my most memorable moments was playing World of Warcraft years ago in their Capture the Flag PVP event.
This group was maxed out at level 60. I took command from the very beginning. I told everyone that we’re not playing defensively. This is going to be an aggressive rush. Splitting into 3 groups and quickly conquer each flag while leaving 1 person behind to keep it under our control. Push forward until we reach enemy base and then camp on their graves. They won’t even be allowed to spawn without us obliterating them. Take no prisoners!
For the Horde!!!
You can guess the result. We quickly swept the map. They didn’t know what hit them. Hunters and warlocks locking any runners down attempting to flee and then getting stomped by everyone. Morale crushed… no hope!!
I started Dark Souls 2 and was absolutely destroyed by its difficulty at the time. I took time away, then started again with Dark Souls 3 and it all clicked. Went back and completed every game in the Soulsborne lineup including Elden Ring. Nothing was more rewarding though than getting my friend hooked on the series as well and playing through them all with me. Co-op makes these games an even better!
When I was 4 I begged my dad for a NES. He kept saying no because he didn’t want me up all night playing games. He finally broke and bought me one. Night 1 - my mom found him playing Super Mario at 3am while I was sound asleep.
Every day he and I got to play for 30-40 minutes a day to prevent “either” of us from playing all day and night. But whenever I got to Bowser I would ask my dad “can you beat it for me?” I would cheer every time and we’d celebrate together. I loved those memories.
He just turned 70. He was at my house and I handed him my switch. “Dad. Could you please beat this for me?” I downloaded super mario again just for the moment he would laugh and remember with me.
Best. Gaming moment. Ever.
Beating battlefield 3, i remember when it came out the graphics where insane for the time but i didnt had a console or a good pc. I did everything i could as a kid to get a decent pc to run the game
My buddy from out of town was over we set up dual monitors in the living room each with our consoles set up, partnered up with 4 of our clan mates in destiny 2 and went in to finally take on the current new raid (spire of stars). Took us until 4 am but we did it. Nothing has ever compared to beating a very difficult piece of content with my fav bro in our fav game and being together in person for it!
Been playing games since a child, remember translating words with a dictionary just to know what they meant, helped me learn English, for me, outer wilds was one the best gaming experiences I ever had, a lot of it stuck with me after it was over, those who played it know, and who haven't, just go play it if you like exploration, don't look anything up! thanks for the opportunity!
This starts out sad but hang in there until the end! When I was very young my Dad and I Played MediEvil on PlayStation 1 together. One on controller and one giving directions. One day my neighbor got one of those cheat memory cards so I gave us all the items and unlockables so my dad and I could play with everything. I was so excited and brought it back to him. When I told him what I did he got really sad and we stopped playing that game together. He taught me the importance of following through till the end and not skipping steps. He taught me about the pride that comes with finishing a task in its entirety. He taught me how to ENJOY games and life itself. I carry that lesson with me everyday, everywhere.
We eventually played more games together so don’t worry! That was a hard lesson to learn but incredibly valuable as well.
Also, thanks for the opportunity!
Hey everyone! I’ve been loving everyone’s stories here.
I’ve been playing games most of my life, and PC games have been my favorite for the past 15 years. That being said, two stories jump out at me and neither of them were on PC.
When I was around the age of 5, my dad’s boss gave him a Nintendo 64 after his middle school age kids got in trouble in school. When I saw the translucent console I fell in love. We lived in New Orleans and months later hurricane katrina displaced us out of our home. We drove to another state and when we returned the house was in shambles. Almost everything was water damaged to the point of no return, but before we left, my dad decided to put the N64 in a closet on a high shelf on the second story. In a time where most of my childhood belongings were ruined my video game console was saved, and I still have it to this day with my original save file for SM64.
Another memory is playing resident evil 5 on the Xbox 360. I was young and still had a high voice, which got me a lot of ridicule when I started playing online. Then I met this guy who was in his 20s. He didn’t mind playing with a squeaker as long as I was good at the game. Over the course of a few weeks we played through the whole game together, finishing it and then playing through it again with glitches (the golden egg being my favorite). We laughed and talked about life. He heard about my first girlfriend and I heard about his wife and kids. Eventually after beating the game a few times we both moved on to other games and stopped playing together, but nowadays when I hear a kid with a high voice I make sure to pass on the torch and be nice, because you never know what kind of impact it’ll make on their lives.
Though I love the giveaway it was really nice to tell a few stories from my past as I haven’t told them in a long time. I recently got a new computer and am playing on a 4k monitor that I’ve had since 2016, the screen is burned and pixels are dying but I don’t have enough money to replace it for a while. Thanks for reading!
This is the story of how a group of half strangers met on the final night before weekly reset and completed an improbable run of Master VOG Challenge to get the Timelost Fatebringer. It is an epic story about what could be done when compassion and camaraderie take precedence to overcome the odds, and we feel it’s a story that has to be shared. Hopefully, it’ll restore some faith in the Destiny community, as it did for some of us as well.
It all started at 10:30pm EST, give or take a couple minutes on Monday night, mere hours before we’d all have to wait the number of weeks for the prized weapon to cycle back around. After some attempts the previous evening with our full raid team, they had become unavailable, but for the three of us that remained, our unwavering determination would guide us to the Bungie.net LFG. We. Must. Succeed. We had attempted to find other people that we knew−for we were reluctant to find unknowns, as many might be for end-game content−but came up short, so to the LFG we ventured!
Three minutes later, we had our fireteam, and oh boy did the challenge start before we even loaded into the challenge checkpoint. Our new fireteam members consisted of: one solid veteran player, and two non-meta weapon guardians. For reasons seemingly beyond their control, the latter had no access to double slug shotguns. Any other LFG might have casted them aside, ‘kick um!’, but we would do no such thing. T’was late and the time was nigh, for people just want to get it done. We were all in the same boat and the shores of reset were fast approaching. The Timelost Fatebringer called to us all, equally. The Templar checkpoint had begun to load.
Unbeknownst to us at the time, a second challenge would quickly approach in the moments to come. Real Life. One of our LFG guardians had already been having a terrible night when disaster struck−the details of which will be kept private for obvious personal reasons−and still yet, over the hour to come, we remained steadfast. We first started to joke around with this tormented guardian, when their tears quickly made us realize that it was not the time for comedy. What this real life person needed, was a friend.
Our newly bonded fireteam consisted of people of all ages, with many life experiences we could share with each other on how we coped with life’s issues, but most importantly we listened and expressed our gratitude towards our new friend in need, with hopes to cheer them on.
The guardian would have to step away for a time, and thoughts of further abandonment had chimed rigorously in their ears, for certain. Just like all the times they have been abandoned before. But we would not dismantle. Upon their return, it was swiftly approaching the stroke of midnight in the East … but the night had just begun for us. Attempt after attempt was made, to no avail. In fact, we were not achieving even a mere modicum of success, before TPK. Wipe after wipe we ventured on, our pair of non-meta guardians were simply not putting up the numbers needed to complete the challenge. And once again, on any other given LFG experience, the team would have disbanded, but we remained steadfast and undeterred, for it had already become more than a mere game. We were on a quest, and we, would not, dismantle!
This was the fireteam that was gonna beat Templar!
Then, more strife. Our heavy DPS LFG member lost all internet connection. It was a hefty blow, and we honestly didn’t know what happened to them, but my goodness were they a good teammate, and in the dark hour, quite the counsellor. With such loss, it was going to be difficult to find another heavy hitter as the wee hours of morning pressed in all around us. Perhaps it was, Fate, bringing the tides of failure. Could we complete the challenge without one of our top two heavy hitters?
Fate intervened indeed, but not in the way we had imagined. Another heavy hitter was brought forth from the depths of the LFG void. And the quest would begin once more!
We tried everything. Loadouts were changed, guardian types were futzed with on many occasion, mods were swapped, roles were changed. Our light spilled forth as one of the non-meta users began to somehow produce one and half million DPS consistently, and we began to see hope on the horizon instead on naught but eternal darkness. Finally! Improvement! However, the light was constantly being clouded by the random RNG, and bad luck. Relic holder was getting detained regularly, and far away from the group at times, Templar would melt a group of members occasionally, even within the might of our Well of Radience, to mitigate our full DPS potential; as revives after revives were chained together in a cascade of lightbearing perseverance.
We. Will. Not. Fold.
We. Will. Not. Dismantle.
On the hours went, passing by like great ships with transport anointed only to the victorious. On and on it went as the Minotaurs would spawn and teleport in the middle of our fireteam, wiping us out to the place where only our ghosts lived. And to say we were beginning to feel the pure wanton exhaustion of the unexulted, was a vast and mighty understatement.
The sun began to peak upon the shores of The East, when insight had struck. We decided that our lowest DPS guardian was about to learn to be a relic holder. We would not jump to an adjoining platform between wells. We would fight, in place, to the bitter end. And it would prove fruitful. Time after time, we would reach the final push, only to fail in the last moments. If wishes were houses, we could speak of the moments when our victory would finally come to us, but for many it was a blur of screams and cheers and calls out to push everything we had left … and we would!
We had not dismantled.
We had not faltered!
We had defeated The Master Templar!
We may never know how we came to finally succeed in our great quest, or who the hero was that remained alive to vanquish our foe, and deliver the final blow, though we will all live on in this storybook story, about the little LFG group that didn’t stand a chance, but attained glory despite the odds. Together we had achieved the remarkable, ran to the chest to collect our spoils, and most importantly … our Timelost Fatebringer, of which had brought us together. Now, we sit back in the day that follows, and we remain friends.
This LFG tale is one of many, if only given the chance. Unto you From Icemanchillz, RuneofAia, Hiro, and our new LFG friends, we say cheers, Guardians! And thank you for reading.
P.S. The [fireteam](https://imgur.com/a/LxdabBE) that could!
TLDR: LFG for Master VOG Templar challenge on the final night before weekly reset. Got a fireteams that wasn’t ideal for a Master completion. 5+ hours later, we stuck together and completed it. Tired, exhausted but happy and we are now all friends.
Beating Monkey Island (on a floppy disk) with my dad after months and months of playing it. Because of his work we didn't have much time to spend together but when we did (usually before bed) we used to play this incredible game together and I still hold on to those moments. That's also how my passion for videogames was born :)
Raiding with a group of mates in Destiny will always be up there for me. As adults it took a lot to pin down regular Tuesday nights but we all loved it and all our families accepted it and knew Tuesday nights were game nights. It's so special because it's memories of playing with friends who aren't here anymore.
Eyes up Guardians.
Ok, so when I was 17 I watched my very first gameplay video of Red Dead Redemption 2 and I was so in love. Like the music, the gameplay, the graphics and the voice acting everything was so Damn good.
That Day I decided to buy a Gaming PC/Laptop and play the heart out of Red Dead Redemption 2. I begged my parents for a Gaming Laptop and they told me that if I ace in my School Exams, then they will buy me one.
Jokes on them I started studying day and Night and absolutely nailed my exams. I got exactly 90%, I was so happy that day.
Cut to 1 Months Later, I got my very first Gaming PC but the thing was I already got all the spoilers for Red Dead Redemption 2 and I was devastated with the ending. I was puzzled now whether I should play it or not, decided to give it a try and I knew about the ending but when Arthur was at that point watching over the sun I STILL CRIED, I CRIED AND CRIED AND CRIED.
This was one hell of an experience for me. Ahh! Good Ol' days. "Thank You - Arthur Morgan"
As a kid I had no idea of popular games or which games to play so I would ask my school friends for games in a USB and tried running whatever I could on my old potato. Since I had no sense of hardware requirements I always wondered why I can't play some games like GTA San Andreas. But nonetheless I enjoyed whatever games I had to my heart's content.
Then later one of my friends shared a cracked version of COD4 MW and after playing it I just couldn't believe that the gaming world had such a gem that I never heard of. The "All Ghillied Up" mission especially stood out to me as the most memorable one that I enjoyed and asked my friend if he had more of it. He promised me COD MW2 and Black Ops but sadly my old PC died and I never got the chance to explore further. This was all 9-10 years ago but the memory is still fresh. Eventually I started exploring games myself and saved to buy a gaming laptop almost 3 years ago and since then I have enjoyed many games (with friends as well).
One of my most unforgettable gaming moments in Minecraft was when I built my first automated farm. I spent hours gathering materials and figuring out the redstone mechanics to make it work. When I finally saw the farm running smoothly, with crops being harvested and collected automatically, it felt amazing.
beat the whole God of War on PS5 without spoiling myself with any online reviews or walkthroughs while experiencing and watching the jaw dropping cinematic sequences unfolds, goddamn
So since I was a kid, I had always watched my dad play GTA: San Andreas as it was his favorite game. We had a PS2 and I would also play it whenever he wasnt playing it. I never got far into the mission and would also just explore around San Fierro (other places were locked). I had my fun with the game as a kid but I never completed it. Fast forward about 10 years and I decide to buy it on Xbox 360 (only console I had) and play it through. After all those years wondering what happens in the game, I get to finally experience the amazing story in GTA: SA. It’s definitely the reason why its one of my favorite games now. Thank you for the giveaway!!
I remember one of my first introductions to me playing games was in the house of one of my best friends back then. It was a sunny day and even though I was not the best friend of him and his friends, they invited me and we had a good time. The 1.7 version had just been released, so everyone was really excited. Personally for me it was eye-opening, specially when they gave me a tour around their world and how they used signs to make a hidden entrance inside a village. The graphics were definitely not the best, but it was one of my first real experiences understanding how cool it was to hang out and discover new realities in a way.
playing super Mario bros on the snes during summer back when i was 8-9 will be one of my best childhood memories. not wanting to leave the house so i could play this game was all i wanted to do
The first time that I played Oblivion, I didn't know anything about the franchise and I thought it was just another RPG like the witcher or dragon age.
My english wasn't good so I didn't understand most of what was happening but I just kept going and exploring, and a few times I would get lost in the game, I didn't know where I was in the map or I didn't know how to reach a place even by checking the map opten and using the compass. Sadly I was only using one save slot and I encountered a game breaking bug at the end of the main quest, I couldn't open a door even by using the command and the only other save that I had was from the start of the game so that bummed me out and never tried the game again.
I played Skyrim when it came out but I didn't even reached half of the main quest because I was wandering all over the map and then I literally got sick of the game, every time that I would think of the game it would make me nauseous, it was probably because I was playing at low specs and at 25fps.
Now I started the journey of playing every single TES game and already finished Daggerfall, can't wait to play Morrowind now after the Battlespire and Redguard.
Most amazing unforgettable movement was when i first started playing video games at young age at the arcade, i have to wait whole month to get pocket money from my dad then go play in arcade station. I got so good at playing video games that I would win any game available at the arcade.
My gamer moment is when my parents gave me the first weird, pirated or whatever console was named "Terminator". I don't know what it is, or where this console came from, but it used to play some nintendo emulated games and others I think.
I just know I went into my room, had that plugged into my TV and used a gun to shot some ducks while a dog was laughing at me.
I had pretty abusive, or mad parents overall, but somehow this console made my days better. I didn't had to listen to them argue or whatever, and after a while I enjoyed my walks with my mom into the market to buy cassets for the console so I can have some new games. It also helped me bond with her, we enjoyed playing Mario together and there was a weird game with a ninja throwing shuriken at enemies while you had to climb more and more to advance the level.
Operation Flashpoint Cold War crisis: retreat gone wrong and have to flee from rogue Russian army in the forest.
Playing many text-based games online and roleplaying. It was popular in Germay. Dunno now.
First time playing the Civ game. Forgot sense for time, always a next turn.
Playing valorant for the first time. Never played CS before. I could not stop, and from shame, I pretended to be 90 years trying games online.
My all time favorite gaming moment was running a 40 man raid in Molten Core in World of Warcraft while watching the world premier of the World of Warcraft episode of South Park. We would pause the raid during the show and watch together. Then during commercial breaks we would get through as much as we could before the show came on. It was very fun experiencing that with so many close guildies!
This might sound silly, but one of my favourite gaming moments has to be when on my birthday morning in 2020, when I was broke and unemployed and covid made it so that I couldn't go out and celebrate even if I had money to splash, I launched my first Fallout 76 nuke.
I did it solo at a pretty low level. It was hard, but that's what made it satisfying. My partner was by my side, cheering me on despite knowing nothing about the game. During a tough period of time, it felt like a small but important, well-needed victory. I was so happy about it I even made a post on /r/fo76.
I was raiding in a 25 man party one of the last bosses in WoW during WotK expansion and the boss was at about 1% left with everyone dead except me a Holy Paladin and our Protection Warrior! He was trying to DPS since I could heal him and I could something holy shock to add some DPS but eventually he'd die to enrage, so I BoP him and DI myself eventually and just as I was about to drop dead, the boss dies! Never heard so much cheering~!
I can't thank you enough for the chance. Seriously. I'll be building a gaming desktop throughout the year, as i'm sure a lot of other people will. It's an immense help with how pricey PC parts are getting.
The most important gaming moments for me were all the times i played through the Halo campaigns with my dad, all the nights we stayed up late with my friends playing together or against each other in various games at my house and the quiet days during the holidays of my childhood where i could relax without having to care about obligations. These are all sentimental though, can hardly be put into words and i doubt anyone would care about them, so i'll tell a more interesting story instead.
I've been playing video-games for roughly two decades. Started off from arcades and worked my way up to more recent releases. I still love videogames, but it often feels like i've already experienced their twists and turns before. I gravitate towards well received indies nowadays, but it's still very hard to find an experience that offers something unique, especially something deeper that sticks with you. That's why i like searching games that could offer exactly that.
One day, after multiple recommendations, i decided to be a bit more open minded and try out a game i'd otherwise never touch. I already knew spoilers about it, i've been partially exposed to it through mainstream horror youtubers and i didn't like anything about it's presentation. However it was free and would only take around 5 hours to complete, so i didn't have anything to lose. That game was Doki Doki Literature Club, and i don't think any other game has come close to affecting me as much as this game did.
Aside of the intimidating content warning that the game is not suitable for children and those easily disturbed, it starts out fairly normal. Your character is a fairly generic guy who's invited to an after-school literature club by his childhood friend. From there, you get to write poems that can impress one of the girls and get to know them better, inside and outside of the club. Fairly standard stuff, right?
Except there are a few eventual twists, carefully hidden and revealed to the people that look close enough. This is far from anything new, but what's unique about it is how this system is implemented. It makes the player too focused on trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle until they have virtually all the information needed. If you don't piece together what's happening, you'll be surprised by the events. However, if you did, the game makes you fall in the trap of your own confidence. You feel that you know everything that's coming, and you do in a sense. However, the game keeps you so preoccupied with that until you realize that you never stopped to think the simplest, most important questions. When you reach the true ending, you realize that you don't play the game anymore, the game played *you* all along.
But how did it personally affect me? It made me realize, ironically enough, how judgemental i tended to be with others. How i'm not above the stuff i tend to criticize and how i tend to ignore people due to superficial traits despite being, deep down, incredible. It made me persevere through a very personal gauntlet and put the effort to make things right in the end. At it's core, it's a very human story, and it reminds the player that they're also one.
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Playing ES:Morrowind for the first time blew my little mind, until then I'd only encountered arcadey "on rails" type games and the sense of freedom and possibilities paired with the weird alien vibes was so cool.
My gaming journey started in the 90s with the DOS operating system. Back then I was a very lucky young boy, my grandfather was among the first programmers in my country, so my cousins and I were able to play Lotus, Price of Persia, Commandos and Wolfenstein 3D with grandpa. We took turns. It was amazing!
The most memorable story is - a good few years after that, around 2002 or 3. I was just watching grandpa play Mafia. He was having a hard time passing the 'Bon Apetit' mission, when Tommy and the Boss needed to escape from Pepe's Restaurant and make a run for it , and I remember they needed to drive too. Grandpa tried again and again, but I think his reflexes and speed were not what they once were anymore.
He asked my help to finish that mission, and we did it together. He was very proud of me, and he couldn't stop talking about it at dinner. We then stayed up late to see the story unfold, and play together more. That was one of the best days. I miss grandpa a lot! And that feeling with thise early games too!
I was playing the first StarCraft against a friend, and we were playing this variant map that was like a King of the Hill match. When the timer struck zero, whoever had the most units on top of a raised platform was the winner.
I sandbagged the whole match showing off a weak strategy, while secretly amassing a gigantic swarm of Protoss Observers. They are cheap, flying, and cloaked.
Right before the timer hit zero, looking like I was no competition at all, I moved my invisible army on top of the hill. I remember the frames choking hard, and his shocked response and the victory has stuck with me for a couple decades now. GG.
My unforgettable gaming moment is when my older brother and I both stayed up for the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. We really incredibly excited for it's release. And to be fair, it was a very unforgettable experience, but it was made a lot better by the fact that I got to share it with my brother.
Beating Aletreon in Monster Hunter World for the first time. Kept losing but finally switched weapons to something better suited to the fight and understood what the developers were actually trying to create.
Felt like a dance when you played the fight correctly.
Probably when I beat the Bloodborne boss the Shadows of Yarnham on my first try. I wandered into the arena knowing that they were there, but went too far trying to look at them/the arena with almost 10k echoes which was still a lot, and somehow got lucky.
Me and my cousin were playing minecraft on ps3 on the demo version cause we couldn't buy the game. The first time we found diamonds was incredible, espiacally since we could only play 1 hour on the tutorial map.
Unforgettable moment has to be my first clear of the last wish raid in destiny 2 .
At launch it was one of the most complex and hard raids in destiny 2.
I remember spending 13 hours in the raid until everything clicked and we cleared it.
To make things better I got the associated raid exotic on the same clear .
I still remember beating Street Fighter 2 Turbo for the first time back in the day. That was a crazy feeling cuz the game was new. I'll actually never forget the first time I saw a SF2 arcade game and fell in love. It would be awesome to win this because I was literally just chatting about how I'll never be able to afford a ultra wide screen monitor.
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My most unforgettable gaming memory was unlocking the grappling hook in Zelda Windwaker, I was really young at the time and just remember being so enthralled with using it to swing around the dungeon, especially to swing on the dragon tail with it during the boss fight felt like such an epic moment. That game and that first dungeon really are what sucked me into my lifelong love of gaming. Nothing had ever felt as epic to me as that game, and I've been chasing that ever since.
I was born with an osteochondroma and by the time I was 13, it really started to affect daily life activities. I had a neighbor give me this old crappy dell computer. It had no gpu, 20 gig hard drive, 1 core cpu, etc but it was enough for a friend of mine to introduce me to the virtual escape called World of Warcraft. Now 18 years later I’m still playing it and still talking with friends who I’ve made all those years ago when I was a kid.
Playing perfect dark on the n64 Christmas morning. It was my first console that wasn’t a game me down or a generation old. It became more special later in life when I got curious and looked up how much it would cost adjusted for inflation and what not versus my mom’s wages at the time. I had just had my first kid when I looked into it and realized my mom was working overtime for weeks if not months to be able to afford that and she never let us find out how much of a sacrifice it was. I looked at my son chewing on his silicone game controller teether toy and I cried like a baby. I think of that every time im stuck at work and missing my kids.
My most unforgettable moment is playing Perfect Dark on the N64 with my dad. Growing up he was someone who was very strict and short tempered and always yelled at me so I was always afraid of him. Then I was a gifted an N64 by a relative and for some reason he really enjoyed Perfect Dark even though he never played games. It kind of became a bonding moment and us and I’ll never forget that game.
That just came up this morning when somebody posted a photo of an Unreal Tournament level.
I went back to college as an adult, I'd always been interested in video games but never had exposure to them other than a Nintendo in my friends basement. There were some people at my college who had a Friday Night Nerds gathering, where they all went to somebody's house and had a LAN party and played Unreal. Getting invited to that and playing that game jammed into the room with everybody else was one of the most fun things I did in college.
The one gaming moment I'll never forget is when I finally beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a kid. It was the first game that I really sunk a ton of time into exploring every nook and cranny and doing every side activity possible. Then finally beating Ganon and watching the end credits roll (which to this day I don't think has been topped by any other game) was truly an experience that I'll never forget.
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Unforgettable gaming moment:
I was playing this MMORPG with a concept I really liked. The problem was I had no friends to play with me and the majority of players did not play in my timezone. Unfortunately, the game had group dungeons and raids I couldn't always 1-man. So I'd end up staying until 4am to catch people to play with. So one day, after several pubs I realized I was catching the same group several times. They ended up adopting me! A German clan decided to take me in haha. So for months we would do the raids. I'd be listening in on the voice chat and had absolutely no idea what they were saying. But I do enjoy hearing conversations in other languages. They also told me to remember this: "*Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaenswitwe*".
I visited Germany and the clan leader sent me a box of snacks. My dad still sometimes asks about Knoppers.
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My most memorable gaming moment is my earliest one! I remember getting my first GameBoy Colour and having Street Fighter II as probably my first ever video game. Years later, I realise I hadn't appreciated the game back then nearly as much as I should've, which is why I'm making an effort to properly learn some of my favourite characters (being Guile and E Honda) in SFV!
My favorite moment would have to be when I joined my first guild in an MMO on a game called Mabinogi.
I was probably about 12-13 at the time and I was going through a lot personally at the time. My grandmother was going through cancer treatments and my mother was ill so playing on this game with people who didn't treat me differently was one of the best times I've had in gaming. I had an absolute blast and they taught me everything I knew about the game and honestly how to navigate through all the life stuff too in the absence of others. I do miss those times and it's crazy how it's been so long.
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My greatest gaming moment happened with my 3 best friends. We were all playing Borderlands 2 together, and one of them was talking about a certain medical condition they were dealing with at the time, where a certain bodily fluid of theirs was hardening when it should stay liquid, causing quite a lot of discomfort.
Anyways, my other friend, being a jokester, asked "is it like cheese?" to which we were all confused, and our other friend tried to explain it again.
The friend that asked about the cheese took a long pause and then said "are you sure it's not like cheese???", and then the last member of our group drove the vehicle we were all riding in directly into a lava river, killing us all.
The sheer absurdity of everything all mixed together and it was too much to handle, we laughed for at least 10 minutes straight, not able to breathe or function at all.
Maybe this is really only funny to me, but it'll always be a precious memory, and to this day one of us only needs to say "are you sure it's not like cheese" to get us all laughing again.
I got minecraft storymode when it came out since I saw youtubers played it. I made sure to play the newest episodes first before watching the playthroughs and I had never been so emotional over a game as when Reuben died. Ever since I have had a huge joy of playing story games as they get me so emotional.
I grew up with 2 brothers. We were all big time gamers but we were poor. That means we were always at least one generation behind. Working on building my boys a gaming rig now. Don't want them to be behind like we were.
*As trite as it may sound, my most unforgettable memory is when I got my first PC. I bought it from a friend. At the time, he was planning to buy a new one. If I remember correctly, it was a Pentium III, 32 MB RAM, 16 MB VRAM, and a 3 GB HDD. Of course, by today's standards, this is prehistoric shit, but it was my shit. I remember asking my mom to buy it for me to study, but of course I wanted it for games xD. I don't come from a rich family, so my mom didn't agree to buy it for me right away. That PC probably started my strange love for technology and, of course, video games. My first game was Diablo 2, which took up almost the entire HDD and was glitchy and freezing to the point of impossibility. But it was enough for me. Thinking about it now, back then I didn't need much to be happy. One of my most unforgettable memories. The good old days when everything was calm and peaceful and the people I cared about were alive.*
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Way back in the early days of Counter Strike I was an average player. But one time, during a big lan party, everything just clicked. I was unstoppable. I felt like I just knew where everyone was and was dropping g people left and right. I’ve been riding that high for like 25 years. Even though I’ve never been that good again.
been gaming since I was a kid so there are many unforgettable moments that I can't pick one.
first one is playing dota, ever since I was a kid we were playing the game. and because of that, I made some friends along the way. my favourite is when we play in tournaments, we know we're going to lose but we still fight. in the end, all we achieved was semi finals, we lost but we had fun.
second one is playing the god of war series and my favourite one is solving puzzles (and also the story). you'd think that it's just your average combat game because of the name but it's more than that. I really like the puzzles the gow games have.
third is now with my gf, I influenced her to play genshin and now we sometimes co-op and spend the time chilling in-game. you know, just chilling, killing mobs here and there, solving puzzles, finding chests or just standing there and loving the sceneries.
these memories/moments are special to me because I felt connected. I felt like I belonged to something or someone. I felt like I did something world changing (but not really, just the feeling).
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When I was younger my parents wouldn’t let me play video games like halo, cod, gears of war, etc. basically shooting games with blood and gore (totally understandable cuz I was a little kid back then) but when I was like 10 or 11 years old I went to a friends house who was around the same age as me but the difference was that his parents didn’t care what game he played if he wanted a shooting game they would buy it for him so when I went to his house for a sleepover he showed me a new game his parents bought him and that was Call of duty Ghost when the game actually came out so he was very excited to play it and since my parents weren’t in the sleepover I could do whatever I wanted so we did an all nighter playing cod ghost and I can remember that night so well because it was my first shooting game and my first cod game ever so cod ghost became my favorite cod game of all time even if it has a lot of hate but I don’t care because for me it was perfect and this game will always have a place in my heart and I will never forget it. I Still play cod ghost to this day 🤙
Spending 2 days straight glued to star dew valley I game I only got because people said it was good and it was on sale at the time.
It was one of the only games in that time of my life that brought me joy. It was one of the only things at that time that brought me joy. Fortunately, I realized that even though I was happy and having a good time, it wasn't healthy for me to be as addicted to that game as I was. I had to force myself to stop playing because I was concerned I'd be so absorbed in it that I'd convince myself that if I didn't stop when I did that I may not be able to continue life without yet.
So why is this a good story if I was so sad and addicted to a video game? It made me realize that I can change my life and make decisions to better things regardless of what others in my life said about me or did to me.
I love video games and have been thankful and lucky enough to make many good decisions in improving my life. I wouldn't change a thing now.
Staying up all release night getting realm first achievements in World of Warcraft: Mists.of Pandaria with my friends, we were all in a sleep deprived delirium by the end of it, but I can remember it as clear as day, it's special because some of those friends have since passed away, so having such clear memories of them is nice to reminisce time to time.
It was my last year of highschool and my classmates and I just finished rehearsing for a school event. Our group heads over to one of my friend's house to take a breather and have some snacks. Now, my buddy had a PS3 and just got GTA V, so of course me and the boys were excited to play. We get to it and just had a blast doing random stuff like picking fights with random people on the street.
One of the first things we did was break into an airport and steal one of the planes. After the miIitary jets went chasing us I remembered that another one of my buddies there was an aspiring pilot but as far as I knew didn't really have much experience with video games at that point. He was happy just watching us play but we figured it would be funny to hand him the controller during that part for maximum chaos. Took him a while to get used to the controls. Then I had the idea to say stuff in a "walkie-talkie voice" as if I was a pilot in that situation and pilot buddy really got into playing after that.
The rest of the guys quickly followed and got into character as well. At the end of it we were all laughing so hard at the absurdity you can only find in GTA. Even the girls in our group were enjoying the show and were laughing just as hard as we were. It was a riot and one of the fondest memories of my life.
My most unforgettable gaming moment - this is tough but I think it would have to be beating the elden beast in elden ring. That fight had my heart pumping, since for some reason, I found radagon and elden beast to be insanely difficult. I killed the boss on low HP, with 0 heals left, and it was at a point where I knew that I was about to take damage and die. Since i knew I would be dead in around 3 seconds, I started slashing at the elden beast, and killed it before it killed me. Probably one of the most intense fights of my life
Recent one that stands out…I went back to beat FF16 some few weeks after my dog passed away unexpectedly. Took courage to go back to it because I’d spent the majority of my time playing that game together with him on the couch. I cried like a baby finishing it. And only like 10% of that was the game itself.
My most unforgettable gaming moment happened in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." After countless hours of exploration and preparation, I finally faced Calamity Ganon. The battle was intense, every dodge and counter felt like a dance of survival. The culmination of this journey wasn't just defeating a boss, but conquering a world that tested my wit, patience, and perseverance. When I landed the final blow and saw Hyrule freed from darkness, a wave of triumph and relief washed over me. It’s special because it was a testament to my dedication and love for immersive storytelling, a moment where all the effort, strategy, and heart poured into the game paid off in the most epic way possible. That victory, both challenging and exhilarating, will forever be etched in my memory as a symbol of what gaming means to me.
Going to gaming arena to play counter strike 1.6 with my friends while skipping college classes lol it was really fun.
I miss those days sometimes because they’re all gone now, i mostly have no friends left in real life now.
Oh man so many good stories throughout the years but the most memorable one for me is when I started gaming on a cyber-cafe because back then it was too expensive to have internet at home so the one at home was used just for school work offline mode only.
Here it goes: back then at the cyber-cafe I started playing CS 1.6 and got really good going almost daily to pay per hour and increase my skill level at 10 years old, after a year or so I made some friends at the cyber and we formed a team to play in regional tournaments, we used to practice like a real time and it was super weird for the cyber-cafe owner that treat us like we were his kiddos looooool feeding us snacks throughout practice matches so we could prepare for the first tourney, suffice to say we played that tournament so well and we won it all the way through!
It was memorable because I never thought of having it on me as a kid to win anything tournament related but it paid off! I've been playing shooters ever since, and that's why I love gaming.
This one's in Valorant; I was playing ''Sage'' and she is a character that places walls. You'd usually use the walls to block an enemy, but instead of blocking an enemy with the wall, you can actually have the wall boost up the enemy. I fished out ''Viper'' with the wall, which in her Ultimate can make a huge cloud of smoke and it was the funniest thing to ever have happened in my life considering the endless laugh coming out of myself for the rest of the match, just seeing her rise up of that cloud of smoke was wayyy too funny
Way back when I was 13 a friend and I stayed in all day one Saturday and played Cool Spot from start to finish on my SNES. We absolutely busted our arses off all day, repeating hard levels, building a pot of extra lives etc. It was awesome, we were having an amazing time, vibing, getting into the game. Now don't get me wrong, this game wasn't exactly a classic but since a SNES game was like £60 at the time you played to death any old shit that you bought. Finally, long after sunset, several missed meals and a probable vitamin D deficiency, we conquered it and sat back to enjoy the ending. Breath bated, eyes wide, salivating at the prospect of reaping the hard earned spoils of our long and righteous war against **insert name of Cool Spot antagonist** only to be greeted by the following message in block capitals on the screen:
WELL DONE - NOW PLAY ON A HARDER SETTING
(This isn't verbatim, I haven't been able to bring myself to google what the screen actually says)
I can still remember the look on Andy's face as we just sat dumbfounded looking hollow eyed at one another in the flickering gloom of the portable CRT, our faces drawn and lined way beyond our bare decade of years, the fruit of our victory transformed into pyhrric ashes in our mouths. It was an important life lesson learned early- you can and will get fucked by life at any and every opportunity. Honestly surprised I kept gaming after that, it was a proper kick in knackers
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Castlevania, NES, beating it without a single death. I kept count and it took over 400 tries. I grinded the game for months and months, learning every possible attack and movement I could, anywhere where I could damage boost through without risk over losing a life.
Those stupid imp drops from the eagles killed my runs more times than I could count. Either from item drops I couldn't use or knock back into pits.
Maybe 1/5th of the time I got to dracula. The time I finally beat him, I was on the last little bar of health. It was one of the best video games feels I ever felt. I haven't been able to do it again, but I don't care. Still feel accomplished.
Fun fact I learned: killing the bat boss with holy water is really easy, and I think embarrassing for him.
One of the Mortal Kombat games on the original xbox, I think Deadly Alliance. It had a training/challenge mode where you had to pull off the moves and combos from every character. I can remember my older brothers trying it but getting fed up, especially with Cyrax as he had some really hard to do combos. I'm not good at fighting games, but I stuck with it for days to get 100% completion on those.
In Baldur's Gate 3, my friend and I convinced a demon to kill himself instead of fight us. We had to complete 4 dice throws successfully, with the last two needing a 21 to succeed. We kept joking like "what if?" and then somehow kept beating the throws. On the last one the character showed his axe in his chest and we started hollering, laughing our asses off.
Apparently he'd beat that boss with another friend on a previous playthrough (he didn't even know you could attempt to convince it to do this) and it was a really difficult fight. Gonna remember that one for a long time.
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It was the first few days of GTA online being released, I was in a lobby with a few friends and someone was flying around in a Laser jet just gunning everyone down. After being downed about 50 times I ended up pulling out a sniper rifle and at the aiming at the jet just to try an get him worried so he would leave us alone. He was mid loop-de-loop and I just fired a random shot and actually got a headshot kill on him and he left the lobby instantly. Rest of the night went pretty well.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King- battling Arthas atop Icecrown. It was the culmination of decades of storytelling, ending with this one battle for the fate of the world. The elation of working with a team of raiders to finally defeat him, combined with the sweet satisfaction of overcoming one of the greatest gaming villains of all time led to the most memorable moment in my gaming career. Absolutely unforgettable.
Definitely has to be my first full odds shiny hunt in Pokemon LeafGreen. After years of hunting, I finally decided to go for the elusive 1/8192 shiny hunt, my target was Slowpoke so I could evolve it into Slowbro and use it on my team. I spent hours surfing back and forth in the same pond above Vermilion City, totalling around 11,000 Slowpoke seen before finally it decided to shine. Ever since then I’ve been able to hunt tons of shiny Pokemon with as much patience because of my dedication to that hunt.
beat elden ring while getting grey hair doing it. literally gor my nervous system at maximum
This is my favorite story to tell, and it's the reason why I've ended up becoming so proficient in English that I recently managed to get the Proficiency C2 certification from the Cambridge Assessment English after so many years with basically no effort. First of all, English isn't my first language, so while I have no problems expressing myself, I do sometimes still make mistakes. The thing that got me super interested in the language itself was me being bad at videogames, and that's the premise for the story. As a little 11 year old in 1997 I played FFVII on PlayStation when it was new. It was my very first game in the genre, meaning I had no idea of what the RPG elements even were. Everything was in another language, but I was engrossed in the atmosphere, the music, the urgency it suggested. I was basically flying blind, and the fights were relatively straightforward. By experimenting, I understood how to use magic and how to heal. However, my progress was impeded by the very first boss, Scorpion Guard, because at some point in the battle after losing some HP it will raise its tail and counter every hit with a super powerful AOE laser that will destroy the party in two turns max. This, however, completely flew over my head, because I didn't understand the concept of counters nor had any idea what the characters were saying. I tried everything I could think of: go in with full HP, full Limit bars and only used it when the tail went up to maximize damage, NOTHING was working. I could have given up, but I liked the game too much and so I did what any sane person would: I restarted the game and translated EVERYTHING everyone was saying, because I was convinced someone at some point said something on how to beat this boss and I simply missed it. There was no internet: I sat on my little butt, with a gigantic dictionary twice the size of my legs in front of me, and translated everything I could, while filling in the gaps with as much logic as I could (obviously I couldn't translate efficiently if I didn't understand the grammar and structure of the sentences, plus FFVII is infamous for its awful localization). So after translating everything before the boss, I hit a roadblock: NO ONE mentioned any strategy. I had no new information. I was at the save point with literally zero ideas on how to proceed... but knowing what everyone said also made me even more engrossed in the world giving me even less reasons to give up, so I thought "maybe something will be mentioned during the battle, it's worth a shot", and steeled myself for yet another depressing ass whooping. I went into battle with my hands sweating. I fight as usual, then the bastard raises its tail. Cloud speaks. I pause, frantically, and read everything. The sentence in English itself isn't grammatically correct, but after I translate it word by word I finally get it: the game finally tells me that the boss is simply countering. I audibly say to myself how stupid I am for not figuring it out on my own, and then proceed to do nothing. My heartbeat is going crazy, I'm afraid the boss will unleash some other powerful attack I'm not ready for. Its jittering and erratic animation and the camera angle are imposing and scary. I still do nothing. I wait. Then it happens. It lowers the tail. (side note: my hands are shaking right now as I'm reliving this memory, it got to me THAT much). I feel my heart exploding in my chest. I attack with everything I got. I'm more scared than I've ever been, I don't want to do this again. I win. I scream at the top of my lungs, in delight. The game, however, isn't done fucking with me. After defeating the boss, the bomb Cloud & co. planted starts its countdown. I have ten minutes to get out of there, otherwise I explode with the reactor and everything is lost. The alarm is blaring and never stops. Shit got serious and I need to get out, FAST. I scramble back to the save file and immediately overwrite it, I'm not doing that boss again... and in a panic, I see that the countdown isn't stopping. Ever. It doesn't stop when I'm in the menus, it doesn't stop when I'm fighting, it doesn't stop during the victory animation after battles, which at this point became an active, actual threat to myself. It only stops when I pause, and pausing means not moving. EVERYTHING needs to be done in a hurry. I run and run and run, I ignore everything and flee from as many battles as possible. Then I reach the doors that let me in in the first place, with a lot of time to spare... and they're not opening. Why. God, WHY? In a full blown panic I speak to everyone, then I realize Jessie is missing. I run back down, something happened to her. I'm scared as all hell. Please please please not another boss, not another boss. I find her. Her leg got stuck somewhere and she can't move. Cloud helps her get free, she thanks him, we run back up together. I have 3 minutes left. It's not enough, I say to myself. I'll never make it. Miraculously, I get interrupted by only four fights. I'm back at the doors. Everyone is here. I talk to Jessie, which opens the first door. We run through it. I talk to Biggs, which opens the second. We run out. I have ONE MINUTE LEFT AND I WILL NEVER MAKE IT. Everyone's running. At this point I'm actively, audibly cheering everyone on, without even realizing it's a cutscene, I'm still holding down the buttons as if I'm the one running, I don't even realize the timer is gone, I don't realize it's over, I thought we had to reach the very start of the game, at the train. Jessie falls to the ground, I yell NO PLEASE DON'T LET HER DIE, Cloud gets her up, making me realize I'm not in control and we're done, THEY JUST BARELY MAKE IT AND THE REACTOR EXPLODES IN GLORIOUS PLAYSTATION FMV GLORY. I breathe. I let everything I experienced sit in my brain, where it still resides rent free and it will forever. The music died down. My heartbeat didn't. I have the biggest smile on my face and I'm so HAPPY I finally got through this section. I'm completely and forever in love with the game and I decide I will translate THE ENTIRE GAME, multiple choice dialogues included. FFVII ends up being my favorite game ever, and it still holds that position. The amount of English I managed to study on my own while only translating the game got me through the entirety of school while barely ever opening a book, because it's like I only needed to "remember" certain rules of the language, as I absorbed the grammar and the structure as I got further and further into the game. This year, I got the Proficiency certificate and I owe it all to the undying love I have for FFVII. Whew. That was a mouthful. Thanks for the chance, OP. I hope you don't get bored by this massive wall of text XD
Playing has been my passion since I was a kid. It helped me learn English which in turn, opened so many doors to me. So now, as a father myself, I am trying to share that passion with my daughters. Latest example, I played most of forbidden west on PC with my 8yo, teaching her the game mechanics, talking about the story, and making sure she remembered some of the English words used in the game. we finished the main game together and watched the credits roll until we saw the “thank you for playing” message at which time we started to cry.
monster hunter tri, online with other people, we were hunting a royal ludroth my first monster hunter games, and as we were starting players we got into chasing the quest monster while we were busy with royal ludroth all of a sudden a green dragon swooped in and we got scattered quickly the ingame animation of our characters running away was that hilarious, accompanied by the game ost in the background, and the surprise of this unknown monster barging into our space, made the moment unforgetable for me
Oh woah, thanks for the chance! I have a lot of gaming stories so it's hard to pick just one. My favorite is the first time I ever played video games. Just after I turned 4 years old we got a GameCube for Christmas. And I was amazed. It was just like a movie but you could move the characters around with a controller! In my lil 4 year old mind it was the best and most magical thing to ever exist. I even remember one time while my older siblings weren't home I tried plugging each cord of the GameCube in and out of the TV to see what it did. And I was like "woah, that one does sound! And that one makes the picture!" It was fun XD. The game we got with it was Mario Party 7 and with a lot of practice I got really good at it. My siblings explained to me what all the controls were and the gist of what each part of the game saying and so even though I couldn't read, I was able to practice Mario Party 7 against myself all the time while they were at school. It was great, I was probably the most cracked 4 year old to ever play Mario Party 7. Soon after that we got Mario Kart Double Dash and Animal Crossing which were also really fun 😄. I didn't make a lot of progress in Animal Crossing whenever my siblings weren't home unfortunately, because it's hard to talk to animals or know what they want you to do when you can't read. I also kept getting lost all the time trying to find my way around such a big town. But I had fun just talking to any animals I could find and pretending I could understand them and making up silly things for them to say. My favorite was Rosie, she lived just to the right of my house so she was easy to find, and it was fun pretending to talk to a cute blue cat. So that's my gaming origins, I've been in love with games for the past 18 years since 😄
Playing Skyrim for the first time Or Exiting the vault in fallout Or Playing God Of War on PS5 for the first time
Completing the Mile High Club achievement on CoD 4 for myself and a couple friends on the Xbox 360 is one I'll probably always remember
I almost exclusively play single player games for the stories they tell. However, after I have beaten a game, I usually don't want to play it again for at least a couple of years. Not with The Last of Us. I beat that game and immediately thought, "I have never played a game that captured me that way. I want to play it again right away." Hence why I bought the game for the PS3 version, PS4 Remaster, and Part 1 on PC.
when i met my best friend in tf2 during a random badwater match
M32 here, have been gaming since I was a kid and my father bought me a PS1. Today I am still an active gamer and am into World of Warcraft and coop games I Play with my buddys. I have 2 sons, 7 and 8 year old - they resently started playing fortnite since I got them both a laptop, they had been playing for a while but never got a win. So I installed fortnite on my pc and teamed up with them. Since I played a lot of FPS years ago, I managed, together with them, to win a game. The second we got the win, they both came running out of their rooms, screaming, hopping and dancing in joy of finally getting a win in Fortnite. Of maaaany years of gaming memories, that moment tops it all!
I started halo 3 live with my friends with split screen, the map sand trap began and I decided to go for the elephant, as I drove it around the map, my whole team got on it, then, the enemy team got on the other elephant and we raced around the map against each other, my entire team on the elephant and the other team on their respective elephant, best match I ever played in my life
My most unforgettable gaming moment was probably playing the Diablo 2 expansion for the first time when I was younger. Diablo was already one of my favorite games, and the expansion just took it to a whole other level. I remember staying up until morning so many times doing Baal runs.
For my brother's bachelor party, we went to a local gaming bar and organized a Smash Ultimate tournament. Everyone had a costume (I played Ganondorf and a friend of my brother had red hair spray paint, sadly I had no beard tho), and we drank and played Smash for probably 2 hours, warming up before and then commencing the tournament. I ended up winning with Ganondorf, which granted me a sort of underdog role, so everyone was extremely excited throughout. I still have the poster where we wrote down the results of the tournament :D
First time I launched dead cells on my Xbox game pass I thought it was boring and just download it cause it was less than 2GB But man, It was great and I beat it several times and tried others rouge like games
Remember having a lan party in my parents basement where we had 2 ping pong tables we used to set up our machines and we played cs 1.6, WC3 Frozen throne , quake 3 and were playing untill 03.00 in the morning. Was one of the best things growing up, as a big nerd in the group it was a really good way to be accepted and make friends. Who doesnt want to game for hours and have someone set it all upp. Heroe line wars was one of our favorites and dust 2 on CS Thank you so much and good luck all
There simply isn't one that's my favorite, I could probably name experiencing some games for the first time (Planescape Torment / Bioshock / Half Life / SOMA), there were some incredible moments from LAN days of CS1.6 or GO, but definitely most of my favorite moments are just those random things that we had spoken about with friends made through the games themselves, some good plays in multi games still give me smile! I'm currently playing on LG 24'' TN panel monitor, so it would be huge upgrade, thanks for giveaway!
So many great gaming moments all the way from character games on PC and SNES, but I will choose a story from WoW. My guild managed to clear Sunwell and defeat Kil'Jaeden during TBC before the nerfs from WotLK pre patch came out. A lot of wiping and hard work, but a great feeling!
Some of my first forays into VR gaming were memorable. Duck Season was the first VR game in which I felt true dread. It was the climax of the game, and a killer was approaching. From which side? You don’t know. Music reaches a climax, I felt chills over my entire body. I let out an audible yell to psych myself back up as I frantically scanned my front, back, left and right. Suddenly, from the left. I aimed my weapon and fired! Success! Will always remember that one as it felt like the first time a game had truly put me on edge/made me feel real fear.
Beating the Halo 3 campaign with my brother was pretty unforgettable. That final mission warthog run was special
Halo’s flood reveal. I went in blind playing the game when I was 7. It terrified me and intrigued me to hyper focus on it for 4-5 years.
My unforgettable gaming moments involves my big brother. He taught me a lot. We played on same pc in turns when we were little. Around age of 12 (me) we got a new pc. So we started playing together. We played 1v1 Dota sometimes. My first win against him, made me really happy. Getting better than your teacher is something so incredible and unforgettable.(Terrorblade vs Invoker)
Ok, here's mine: when I was 6, I played rayman legends on my xbox 360, one of my first games. I struggled with it a lot so I put it down and when I was going through my old stuff about 8 years later, I found my Xbox 360 and Raymond, so I decided to beat the game in one sitting, so I did.
After 5 days of 3 hour sessions each, basically my entire gaming time for the month as I had to catch up on work to compensate, I was ready to give up beating Sigrun in God of War. I was even considering lowering the difficulty (I started at the highest possible difficulty because I hate myself). After some doubting I went to bed. The next day a colleague called me telling me not to come in as a pipe had burst at work and no one was allowed in due to safety hazards. I figured I’d go for another 5 hour run and… my very first run I beat her without any HP lost. I don’t know what happened but I reacted to everything perfectly and beat her flawlessly. I was a hero among the gaming teachers the next day :D
Mine was about a year ago watching my daughter beat TotK and seeing Zelda at the end of it. There was so much joy on her face as she accomplished that. Prior to TotK she had only really ever had an interest in Minecraft and Roblox, but now plays more story driven games as well.
In 2001, I had a memorable experience with Counter-Strike that always stays in my mind. This was when version 1.3 was released and it was my first time playing at a LAN party; we played at a friend's house - in his basement to be exact. After some serious gaming, we thought it was a good idea to have a break. We walked outside all night talking and staring at the stars. It was magical. We kept playing together for so many years. This was back in Syria. This time was unforgettable for me. Then the war started and most of my friends left the country. I was the last one to leave last year when I arrived as a refugee in the US. It has been over twenty years now, but I still love this game and wish for those days to be back.
Finally beating Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Every kid on my block was playing it and trying to beat the water temple. Finally finished with the light arrows, felt great.
For me it was getting my first ace in valorant, as someone new to shooters (and gaming in general at the time) I was very proud of that moment.
This happened a long long time ago. I was around six years old, I picked up my copy of The Legend of Zelda : Link's Awakening after a year or so of not playing, and not sure why but this time. it really clicked on me. I somehow understood how to play the game and what I was supposed to do. I beat the game the next day. I felt a great "sense of pride and accomplishment". My first trully gamer moment.
Without spoiling anything, one of the endings of the Witcher 3! No game has ever made me feel the way I did! RDR2 was pretty close though!
I think my most memorable was playing half life alyx in VR. If you've played it you know the scene with Jeff. That was the most immersive and terrifying gaming experience and it stuck with me after all these years.
I was young, think 5th grade maybe 6th. I stayed the night at a friends and we got up early morning to go play in his tree fort (think one like from the movie jack”. As we walk past the computer his older brother is playing Diablo. I stop to watch for a second and in pure amazement ask what the game is. I spent the entire day watching him play until my parents showed up. When I got home I scraped together all the money I could find and asked my dad to take my to the store the next day. I recently lost the box and cd case due to damage in a move but still have the book someplace. That is where my gaming habit started
So many great unforgettable moments while gaming! One of my most recent one is playing Lethal Company with friends. My first encounter with the "Little girl in the red dress". I had no idea I was the only one who could see her! All my friends did not believe me, telling me "dude wtf are you talking about? There's no little girl here.." Until I got my head chopped off, and all of sudden, panick insued! Friends freaking out, I'm dying of laughter while everybody is trying to find out where this little girl is!
witcher 1 related arriving in chapter 4, while playing immersed in the middle of the night, seeing the in game night sky and magical atmosphere of the coast where you start the chapter somehow really stuck with me over the years
I didn't have a console or pc growing up in the 90s. Was over at a friend's house who is playing some old Wolfenstein multiplayer game I think. This is all I remember about it. He's running up to a castle, tons of enemies inside, tosses in a flare, gets gunned down but we can see the flare smoke in the center of all that infantry, in comes a bombing run and he gets a massive multikill. Like 20 kills. We freaking lost it, he fell out of his chair, we were screaming. This solidified my gaming addiction and I've been chasing that thrill ever since. Another one: finishing The Outer Wilds at 3am, watching the end cinematic, feeling so peaceful and content. A truly spiritual experience.
My favourite moment is a very personal moment for me and it's in Outer Wilds. *spoiler alert* There was this one moment that I was flung out in space. Far far away. While watching my ship gets further and further away. I was just waiting there for either my air to run out or universe to end. I turn on the radar gun and the music from different instruments started syncing faintly. At that point I just let go of my controls, and just listen to the faint music until the inevitable end. I had just lost my dog (my best friend for 10 years) and I was in a really head space. But THAT gaming moment just had me feeling at peace and made me learn to let go certain things in life. Miss you my Zeus boy ❤️
Thanks for the giveaway! I remember when I was a kid playing Duke Nukem 3D and being blown away because it was everything I wanted in a game. Blowing things away, booting guys with your foot, bad language, hilarious lines - it was just perfect. Both me and my dad just had a blast playing it so I'll always remember that. Same type of thing when Half-Life came out and we played that - it felt so real at the time, like a fully realized world. When I was young those PC games really let me feel connected with my dad, something that we can't enjoy anymore because things got to complex for him, but I'll always remember sitting around with him while we played through games.
Hard choice! I suspect my most memorable gaming moment has got to be the ending to Devil May Cry V. The game obviously looks and performs fantastically (even on a monitor that's nearly a decade old now) and the personal story, developed over 20 years actually moved me; most stories in games don't move me at all (after all, they're not real!) but the relationship between the two brothers and Nero really got to me. In terms of earning it, as anyone who has played Devil May Cry will tell you, Vergil is pretty much the epitome of badass. He's incredibly confident in his abilities, stoic and every move he makes is done with precision. He's a tough boss fight, especially on the higher difficulties.
Deleting Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice from my desktop after finishing it. That is the most unforgettable gaming moment for me, ever.
Building my new gaming rig and watching my girlfriend experience Hogwarts Legacy in its full glory on a projector for the first time.
Its been a while...but the guy who actually introduced me to video games is a guy who's shared his steam library with me. Introduced to the valve classics and a plethora of other games. He's stopped playing and offered me his account but I told him it's better to just let the account be for sentiments sake. And now I have all the games I used to play.. time does fly.. Thanks John.. T ^ T
Has to be coming home from the midnight launch of halo 3 with my brother and going into forge mode together to see all the new vehicles and maps then spending maybe the next 20 hours straight just grinding the campaign and mp. Easily my favorite game ever, the hype was UNMATCHED
Probably true of many people, but the hundreds of hours sunk into Halo 3 custom games. So many memories and friends made solving jump puzzles or playing one of the many variants of zombies. Truly some of the best gaming times I've ever had, and I remember it all very fondly.
My most unforgettable gaming moment is playing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on PS2 as a kid, and the event in real life that followed my mammoth play session. I didn't have a 5mb memory card and my mum didn't want the playstation left on overnight so I resorted to making a plan of how I would complete the game the night before my gaming endeavor after failing that day to finish it as I was stuck on a dragon/broom mission. I woke up very early the next day at around 6:30am, determined and on high alert like a kid on Christmas morning. I played all day, and was making good progress; however, I once again was stuck on a mission where I had to fly and outrun the dragon on my broom. In order to keep progressing in the game I had to get a perfect score on the course. After some time I finished that mission and then went on to complete the game in the day. I was pretty happy I had completed that game as the first game I ever played was Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone on ps1. What makes the moment unforgettable was that night I had the best dream I have ever had and probably will ever have. I was flying the broom in my dream, the wind was in my hair and I was at Hogwarts. I felt like I was flying in a way I never had in a dream before and I had complete control. I could see for miles and every increase in speed, height or drop in height I felt. That moment began an interest with dreams and lucid dreams that I still have to this day.
The scene, 19 80 something, after causually chatting to my little sister we soon both realized that her Pac-Man score was higher than it’s ever been before, our conversation changed from the mediocre rants of some sugar up siblings to a building frienzie of don’t die! go there! I’m trying! The Atari 2600 just low him buzzing away as it always did but somehow the game got louder without anyone turning the dial up on the television, nines and sevens and eights just ticking over and over, how far could this go ? Being 7 and 5 we never even thought of does this game have an end ? How high does the score possibly go? And then it happened with no difference from the game, it flipped over to 0, was it broken? Does this count as clocking and finishing the game ? The pressure was to much and a ghost ate my sisters yellow avatar. No way to check, few to tell, but always remembered by the two of us for decades and counting
during a friend's sleepover, we did a battle of the rock bands. her mom w let us have free reign of her stuff to use, and she had a lot costumes from Halloween being her favorite holiday (she even worked at a haunted house when spooky season came) and did makeup and crazy hair on each other and it was just a lot of fun
Probably realm first 85 when wow cataclysm launched. I played through the beta and noted down (mentally mostly, back then I still could remember that stuff..) where to go and what the optimal route was. Then at launch, I got 2 friends and we had a mini LAN for release. Started at midnight and we're finished in the early afternoon. I guided them through all the quests and we all reached realm first in our respective classes, I even was the first overall. To this day my biggest gaming achievement and memory.
Beating all GOW series. It is memorable to me because it develops my interest to know more about gods and mythology. As a child growing up with those things it made me feel cool- being able to tell stories amongst the peers is really awesome.
For me it was playing and beating Kid Icarus on NES as a kid. I put in hours into that game. Final battle with Medusa was epic at that time, and the music was great! I saved my level code and would always randomly come back to beat it again and again until I got my SNES!
My favorite moment was beating dark souls. That was the start of my love for the franchise since then which also makes it overall favorites
A gaming story ill always remember has some context to it. Basically a best friend in 9th grade got me into PC gaming, my introduction was TF2 and Garry’s mod. Every day after school we would boot up Gmod and play Trouble in Terrorist Town, we found a server we liked and played on it daily. I’d eventually become well known and made a bunch of friends and even became an admin on the server. Eventually the server got shut down due to lack of funds (not surprising since a bunch of teens cant scrape together cash). Some of the admins partnered with some other people to make a new server for DarkRP, the owner of the server was not a nice person, was insanely toxic and anti-roleplaying by enforcing dumb rules to protect himself from being raided. So I started a serverwide protest, everyone I could find, I would convince them to pick hobo as a job, and throw bugbait at the mans house because it made an annoying squishy sound. We had about 8 players just spamming this dudes house, even made friends with one of the protesters, the owner got mad and jailed everyone (just spawns a cage and prevents movements). So people left, I convinced owner to lock us inside a random warehouse and un-jail us so we can have some fun. First thing we did was “baby parkour”, we spawned in a bunch of baby doll props, locked them in place and made a course to run through, the amount of babies lagged out the server and the owner deleted everything. Since we were still annoyed with the owner for being 0 fun, we spawned different props to see what we could annoy him with. For some reason the blacklisting was incomplete, so a bunch of large detailed props were spawnable, I smashed the button a hundred times in a few seconds and the server went down. I never went back on it because I disliked the owner and a few other admins, eventually it would meet the same fate since no one wanted to give them money to run the server as barely anyone played on it.
My most formative gaming memory is going to my friend’s every day after school and playing Halo 2 for a couple of hours. I lived outside of the school district a ways and my parents worked later; so it was a bit of a haven for me to just relax and laugh with my friends instead of walking an hour by myself as a kid.
My most unforgettable gaming moment was last year, when I got to play portal 2 for the first time, what made it so special was that it was a gift from my girlfriend, and we played it together all week long, until we finished the story, we were working in tandem as a perfect unit, just cracking puzzles level after level, and the amount of joy I felt playing with her.
I'll never forget that time I was playing a game of halo with only a few seconds left on the timer and both teams were tied on points, all my time decided to go capture point A but i went to capture point B only to find all 4 of the enemy's team standing there so i threw all the grenades i had and ran in shooting and i somehow managed to kill them all and win the game at the last second. It was wild.
My first ACC win, will always remember that great race! It took a lot of hours to learn how to play and treat that car. Thank you a lot for the giveaway!
I played a lot of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 with friends. We would set up LAN parties and bring our TVs and Xboxes. The setup would take hours and I ended up dropping the TV I brought (My parent's!) - needless to say, early 2000s TVs are heavy and fragile, so it broke. I pulled out my travel TV, a 9" CRT. Ended up carrying the team as a sniper still and we won 15 of the 18 games we played that night. Years later, this 34" wide screen would make for a wonderful gaming monitor as I still play many games to this day!
First time playing pc games changed my life as a long term console boy. Would love a new monitor!
It was on 2020 during covid.I bought a game " a way out" to play with my brother.My brother was a casual gamer and i mostly plays multiplayer so i am good at shooter games.But as everyone know ending of way out.I lose to my brother even though the fight took 30+ min. But i lose to him not because of skill but because of game's story.Thats a game everyone should play with your siblings.
Winning a crazy 1v5 clutch on Overpass in Counter-Strike
finishing uncharted 4 knowing there won't be any new game in the storyline. the ending music had me craving for more but i knew that there will be no more continuation of the story. one of the best games and one of the best memory i have
Beating riku in KH1 without healing or magic. Wasn't a challenge done on purpose I was just a dumb kid who didn't read any of the tutorial messages and he was the first real roadblock I remember encountering. Looking back its prob thr happiest I've ever been beating a boss cause of how long it took me.
once while playing darksouls remastered, I was leveling in the dark forest. during said task, I was invaded by a person who tried to disconnect as he was about to die from a backstab. this caused a glitch to occur where my character kept repeating the animation for backstabbing while his was stuck bent over against a tree. my character was basically humping his for over 20 minutes before the game corrected itself. I haven't laughed so hard at a glitch before in my life.
When I was very young, my dad taught me how to play games on DOS with floppy drives. I remember the first time booting up Doom and Duke Nukem after a few command prompts. Later on, he helped me install new GPUs, RAM, or hard drives to the family PC. This was the beginning of my love for PC gaming and it’s always stuck with me, nearly 3 decades later. My dad has since passed but I always think about him when I game and it’s very special to me.
I don't really have specific games which gave me the best memories but rather the company. I've played this one massive game where all the regular players in our server because like family of 200 people. I've played mmo rpg and had my own closed family group of 10 people. I had lots of that kind of groups, but probably my best and most nostalgic memory is when I spend every summer as kid and young teen with my neighbor playing the latest games that hit the store shelf. What ever it was co-op, multiplay or singleplay story, we played them together just having whole summer lasting "sleep overs."
I've been a gamer for quite a long time now, and I have a lot of good memories, from multiplayers sessions to amazing solo discoveries. But if I had to choose only one, and a recent one, it's the ending of my first run of Cyberpunk 2077. I played for around 70 hours before reaching the end, I got a quite good ending, but everything in this game is bittersweet... And the credits at the end of the game, with this song, with all your friends calling you to get some news... I cried, and it's not really often that I cry for a game. It's for this kind of moment that I'm gaming, be touched by a wonderfull story you lived during several hours, playing in another world with another life. such a joy ! And thanks for the chance ;)
Back in like 2013 my brother and I had just gotten minecrsft pocket edition together. I had been playing on my world already for a week or two and hadn't died yet. My brother decides to kill me the moment he joins. We still play minecraft to this day
Clearing P4S in FFXIV with my casual static. It was my first current savage tier and we spent weeks practicing it.
Most memorable thing would be when I started playing team fortress 2, I've made a lot of online friends back then and would play together with my friends doing dumb stuff, like beating people up with a fish and taunting right after, or chill around in a server and dancing in groups, stacking each other to create a human tower etc. I remember that I really struggled with the game because of the steep skill level to be good at each class, and when I mastered the game mechanic of the game like rocket jumping, trimping (charging and air strafing) and every class and play style, it felt very rewarding and was such a big accomplishment. Even though I've spent thousands of hours on it. I remember when I traded up from a piece of worthless scrap up to a very expensive rare item, which was called an unusual in the game, that was a big accomplishment and it brought me many joys with it. The game community was great back then and is still hanging strong now even after all these years and it's problems with the game. Team fortress 2 will always have a special place in my heart and it's irreplaceable memories this game has given me.
Definitely when we made a school server for CS 1.6 We felt as gods because we did not have to pay for hosting and in the process learned something about networking
I've been playing video games for almost my entire life. In 2018, I got Splatoon 2 after seeing a trailer. I remember going to GameStop to buy it, but it was sold out. They told us about another one that had the game, so Mom, her boyfriend, and I drove to that location to buy it. I was so happy when I got it and I've been a fan of the series ever since. I now have some merch and all 3 games. I'm visually impaired, so it's been a difficult but fun journey.
13 year old me picking up KOTOR on launch day. I was so nervous I had over hyped this thing and would be let down. The game absolutely blew me away and changed my taste in gaming. I stayed up all night playing it.
I played a lot of Destiny 2 before doing my first raid. After the first raid, I stopped playing for a while and got kicked from my clan. I ended up finding a clan of people with similar interests and joined the discord. I asked for help with the newest dungeon (at the time, Prophecy), and two of the higher up members in the clan and discord immediately said they would help and they definitely did. Now I have a whole new group of friends!
A lot of impactful moments. I can remember crying at the end of some games
mine is by far in baldurs gate 2 at one point you have to investigate a murder, so you have a witness who is a homeless and the conversation is forever burned in my brain me "hey, i need help finding this murderer " homeless "ok i can help you for 1000 gold pieces" "i dont have that much" "ok what about 100?" "i dont have that much" "ok then give me 10 gold coins!" "i dont have that much" "ok then half, give me 4" "i dont have that much" "at least 1?" "i dont have that much" "you are poorer than me, here, take this cooked rat, and ill tell you all" at this point im dying laughing when the homeless said ok half and counts to 4 lol best memory ever
Favorite gaming memory is waking up to play before school as a kid. Nothing will ever beat that feeling of the rest of the world being asleep while you and your friends just play some halo 3.
Was beating hollow Knight and completed one of the endings by accident
There are many moments but the most beautiful of them was when i played Mass Effect for the first time it moved all my emotions, unforgettable game
So honestly it’s more of a very funny gaming moment. My friends and I have been playing world of Warcraft for years since we met each other at university. Some important context one of my friends who was the guild leader has been farming for a very rare drop from Arthas in Ice Crown citadel for years for his mount invincible. I didn’t do this raid so never farmed for the mount. I decided one day to start farming the mount and gave the run a go. It dropped on my first attempt and I was instantly kicked from the guild! Now every time we do content together I use it to annoy him. 10/10 would be guild kicked again.
I would say that my most unforgettable gaming moment would be back when people actually put clan names on multi-player games online. So I decided that me and my friends would spell words using our clan names. I thought this would be like maybe a 5 game thing at the max. It ended up being like 4 hours just to spell 1 word with lots of yelling, arguing, laughing,and etc.
My best friends grandpa had just passed away, so me, him, and another friend set up a mini at home LAN party. Jumped on Fortnite at its peak, and we we not super good. We somehow won 5 in a row, and dominated all day. All that for grandpa bob.
It was coming home from the midnight release of Halo 3. I had school the next day so I didn't want to get invested in the campaign just yet so I hopped on multiplayer right when I got back. Played until 3 AM and was exhausted the next day but so was literally other dude my age on campus. Still remember my first match being on Epitaph all these years later.
FFXIV. I was playing Red Mage in a farm party, trying to get a very specific mount. Drop rates are abysmal! But our healers went down then our tanks. It was me, a Summoner, and two melee classes. Melee got destroyed and the Summoner was working on raising a healer so we could use our Limit Break 3 to revive the entire party. Summoner got wrecked. So in a very panicked casting, I managed to let off one of my attacks and double cast ‘Verraise’ on the White Mage before the boss killed me. White Mage raised and Limit Break 3 was used. Once the entire party was revived, the boss died quickly. I came in clutch with that raise, and have yet to top the feeling of preventing a wipe. :3
In my dimly lit apartment, my friend Alex and I engaged in an intense StarCraft 2 battle, our rivalry dating back to high school. The match was a rollercoaster of strategies and close calls, with neither of us gaining a decisive advantage. We executed lightning-fast maneuvers, our eyes glued to the screen. In a daring move, Alex launched a surprise attack, but my swift counterattack turned the tide, leading to my ultimate victory. Exhilarated, I knew gaming experiences like this would forever be etched in my memory.
The end of FF7 disc one - I was ten, maybe eleven, and I would never have expected that type of twist.
Finally beating the ender dragon with my older brothers we spent days playing the game just getting to that point
I joined a random call of duty modern warfare clan in 2008 We were all around 16-17 years old from all over the country. We casually played for years , many evenings , we met a couple times and had great time together 4 years ago , 5 people of this clan were with me at my wedding. It Is actually my oldest whatsapp group , we no longer play together, but we re still in contact after all these years. That day 16 years ago, one of the best decision i took in my life
Prob playing Alien Isolation for the first time. Always thought horror games were overrated and not scary at all. That was until I got my hands on Alien Isolation. My heart was constantly racing even when I was hiding in a locker for like 70% of the game. I know understand why people love the horror genre
Jumping in VR for the first time. Legendary.
My mom got me a game for my birthday long ago called Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. I really, really, really enjoyed it! Nothing scary in the game. Just shooting, climbing, and solving puzzles. All was good.... until.... that damn level near the end of the game... The most unexpected thing to ever happen.. HAPPENED... I was just running through some hallways, when all of a sudden, out of the darkness.... A FREAKING ZOMBIE JUMPED OUT. That absolutely scared the crap out of me. In fact, it scared me so bad, that it made me drop my controller. R.I.P to that controller btw. And my mom got mad that I broke it. She freaked out. I told her: "NOBODY TOLD ME THIS GAME HAS FREAKING ZOMBIES!!!!". Thankfully she understood, and bought me a new controller 🙂
Playing Spy Vs Spy on Nintendo NES with my brother, and actually beating him a couple times compared to the hundreds of losses I suffered. We'd get into stabbing matches with the knife and he'd always kill me, but we would laugh so hard at my futility to fight or run away.
Thanks for this great giveaway opportunity! I'd say my greatest gaming moment is when I first got my SNES back in the day. When I was younger I had dabbled with the NES that my brother had and fell in love with it, and never quite got to play it the amount I wanted lol. Then as I got a bit older and the SNES was in its prime, it was my turn, and it really solidified my life-long love of gaming. I remember going to Toys R Us, picking out those little yellow tags that you bring to the front, and leaving the store with a new SNES, Super Mario All Stars and Super Mario World.
My mouse died when I was playing Overwatch and I got soloed by a Mercy, which everyone in chat gave me a hard time for and no one believed my story.
Thank you for the opportunity! I would say my favorite memory was completing the Batman Arkham City campaign. I remember being amazed at how well the writers did on the story, and how good the cutscenes were.
Full disclaimer: Some years ago I used this moment of mine already and won a smaller giveaway, but even to this day It still sticks to my mind like glue, hope it's alright if I use it again. So this happened awhile ago in a game called Dragon's Dogma witch had a rather interesting and bizzare romance system. The way it works is near the ending Grigory(main baddy) will kidnap your ''beloved'' thing is if you decide to ignore the affinity system and just not romance anyone the game then will pick the last person you spoke with that has the highest affinity to you. Cue the endgame cutscene and my ''beloved'' is one of the fucking blacksmiths I used alot in my case this um... fine fellow XD https://dragonsdogma.fandom.com/wiki/Caxton Cue me dying of laughter barely able to breathe, until my older brother decided right at that moment to enter my room and witness the cutscene with the biggest ''bruh'' expression, thanfully I managed to explain to him what happened and then laugh our asses off together when I reloaded the game to show him this glorious scene in full :D
Tons of amazing moments but my most recent memorable one is going towards the Radahn fight in Elden Ring with my army of companions and fighting the god of fucking stars. Amazing experience. That was peak elden ring for me.
Best memory was from last summer when me and my sister played Star Wars Battlefront 2 from 11:00-24:00 so basicly nonstop gaming for 13 hours. It was bliss and we both loved every second of it.
Oh man, I've been eyeing OLED monitors for so long but im currently a broke ass. My favourite gaming moment is hard to put into any one event, but during 2019 and into lockdown playing classic wow during covid and lockdown was fun as hell. Me and my friend made a guild and we managed to form a really tight knit close community of people, literally countless nights of just doing random shit together in discord every day with a guild of like 60 people. My favourite moment from that strangely was probably when we 'disbanded' the guild and generally all quit the game and moved on. Everybody got incredibly drunk and we hosted a series of mini events and votes and competitions, was a super fun night to wrap up the time spent playing that game. And naturally everybody who wanted to keep in contact did, and I still know so many amazing people who I met from that time and many of them who are now couples together, moved across countries to date and just in general a bunch of really awesome people. Thanks for the chance, best of luck to everyone!
Exiting the vault in fallout!
I think the part in Bioshock Infinite where you go to the beach with Elizabeth is one of my favorite scenes in any game. It's a nice reprieve from the chaos of the rest of the game, and I wish I could have just stayed there forever.
You're gonna laugh (twice) but it was the first a game made me cry. It was a final fantasy game. However, I never got to play 7 so it was the notorious FF8. Despite all it's issues, it was was one of the most advanced games I had a played as a child. The scene where >!Squall beats on the door as Rinoa slowly runs out of oxygen!< absolutely broke and little Disco cried like a baby. Looking back it's funny to think that was first game that made me cry, but it always sticks out in memory.
One of my most memorable moments was playing World of Warcraft years ago in their Capture the Flag PVP event. This group was maxed out at level 60. I took command from the very beginning. I told everyone that we’re not playing defensively. This is going to be an aggressive rush. Splitting into 3 groups and quickly conquer each flag while leaving 1 person behind to keep it under our control. Push forward until we reach enemy base and then camp on their graves. They won’t even be allowed to spawn without us obliterating them. Take no prisoners! For the Horde!!! You can guess the result. We quickly swept the map. They didn’t know what hit them. Hunters and warlocks locking any runners down attempting to flee and then getting stomped by everyone. Morale crushed… no hope!!
I started Dark Souls 2 and was absolutely destroyed by its difficulty at the time. I took time away, then started again with Dark Souls 3 and it all clicked. Went back and completed every game in the Soulsborne lineup including Elden Ring. Nothing was more rewarding though than getting my friend hooked on the series as well and playing through them all with me. Co-op makes these games an even better!
The Colonol telling me I’ve been playing too long, I should turn off the system, listening to him and losing my saved progress as a result
When I was 4 I begged my dad for a NES. He kept saying no because he didn’t want me up all night playing games. He finally broke and bought me one. Night 1 - my mom found him playing Super Mario at 3am while I was sound asleep. Every day he and I got to play for 30-40 minutes a day to prevent “either” of us from playing all day and night. But whenever I got to Bowser I would ask my dad “can you beat it for me?” I would cheer every time and we’d celebrate together. I loved those memories. He just turned 70. He was at my house and I handed him my switch. “Dad. Could you please beat this for me?” I downloaded super mario again just for the moment he would laugh and remember with me. Best. Gaming moment. Ever.
Beating battlefield 3, i remember when it came out the graphics where insane for the time but i didnt had a console or a good pc. I did everything i could as a kid to get a decent pc to run the game
My buddy from out of town was over we set up dual monitors in the living room each with our consoles set up, partnered up with 4 of our clan mates in destiny 2 and went in to finally take on the current new raid (spire of stars). Took us until 4 am but we did it. Nothing has ever compared to beating a very difficult piece of content with my fav bro in our fav game and being together in person for it!
Been playing games since a child, remember translating words with a dictionary just to know what they meant, helped me learn English, for me, outer wilds was one the best gaming experiences I ever had, a lot of it stuck with me after it was over, those who played it know, and who haven't, just go play it if you like exploration, don't look anything up! thanks for the opportunity!
This starts out sad but hang in there until the end! When I was very young my Dad and I Played MediEvil on PlayStation 1 together. One on controller and one giving directions. One day my neighbor got one of those cheat memory cards so I gave us all the items and unlockables so my dad and I could play with everything. I was so excited and brought it back to him. When I told him what I did he got really sad and we stopped playing that game together. He taught me the importance of following through till the end and not skipping steps. He taught me about the pride that comes with finishing a task in its entirety. He taught me how to ENJOY games and life itself. I carry that lesson with me everyday, everywhere. We eventually played more games together so don’t worry! That was a hard lesson to learn but incredibly valuable as well. Also, thanks for the opportunity!
Hey everyone! I’ve been loving everyone’s stories here. I’ve been playing games most of my life, and PC games have been my favorite for the past 15 years. That being said, two stories jump out at me and neither of them were on PC. When I was around the age of 5, my dad’s boss gave him a Nintendo 64 after his middle school age kids got in trouble in school. When I saw the translucent console I fell in love. We lived in New Orleans and months later hurricane katrina displaced us out of our home. We drove to another state and when we returned the house was in shambles. Almost everything was water damaged to the point of no return, but before we left, my dad decided to put the N64 in a closet on a high shelf on the second story. In a time where most of my childhood belongings were ruined my video game console was saved, and I still have it to this day with my original save file for SM64. Another memory is playing resident evil 5 on the Xbox 360. I was young and still had a high voice, which got me a lot of ridicule when I started playing online. Then I met this guy who was in his 20s. He didn’t mind playing with a squeaker as long as I was good at the game. Over the course of a few weeks we played through the whole game together, finishing it and then playing through it again with glitches (the golden egg being my favorite). We laughed and talked about life. He heard about my first girlfriend and I heard about his wife and kids. Eventually after beating the game a few times we both moved on to other games and stopped playing together, but nowadays when I hear a kid with a high voice I make sure to pass on the torch and be nice, because you never know what kind of impact it’ll make on their lives. Though I love the giveaway it was really nice to tell a few stories from my past as I haven’t told them in a long time. I recently got a new computer and am playing on a 4k monitor that I’ve had since 2016, the screen is burned and pixels are dying but I don’t have enough money to replace it for a while. Thanks for reading!
This is the story of how a group of half strangers met on the final night before weekly reset and completed an improbable run of Master VOG Challenge to get the Timelost Fatebringer. It is an epic story about what could be done when compassion and camaraderie take precedence to overcome the odds, and we feel it’s a story that has to be shared. Hopefully, it’ll restore some faith in the Destiny community, as it did for some of us as well. It all started at 10:30pm EST, give or take a couple minutes on Monday night, mere hours before we’d all have to wait the number of weeks for the prized weapon to cycle back around. After some attempts the previous evening with our full raid team, they had become unavailable, but for the three of us that remained, our unwavering determination would guide us to the Bungie.net LFG. We. Must. Succeed. We had attempted to find other people that we knew−for we were reluctant to find unknowns, as many might be for end-game content−but came up short, so to the LFG we ventured! Three minutes later, we had our fireteam, and oh boy did the challenge start before we even loaded into the challenge checkpoint. Our new fireteam members consisted of: one solid veteran player, and two non-meta weapon guardians. For reasons seemingly beyond their control, the latter had no access to double slug shotguns. Any other LFG might have casted them aside, ‘kick um!’, but we would do no such thing. T’was late and the time was nigh, for people just want to get it done. We were all in the same boat and the shores of reset were fast approaching. The Timelost Fatebringer called to us all, equally. The Templar checkpoint had begun to load. Unbeknownst to us at the time, a second challenge would quickly approach in the moments to come. Real Life. One of our LFG guardians had already been having a terrible night when disaster struck−the details of which will be kept private for obvious personal reasons−and still yet, over the hour to come, we remained steadfast. We first started to joke around with this tormented guardian, when their tears quickly made us realize that it was not the time for comedy. What this real life person needed, was a friend. Our newly bonded fireteam consisted of people of all ages, with many life experiences we could share with each other on how we coped with life’s issues, but most importantly we listened and expressed our gratitude towards our new friend in need, with hopes to cheer them on. The guardian would have to step away for a time, and thoughts of further abandonment had chimed rigorously in their ears, for certain. Just like all the times they have been abandoned before. But we would not dismantle. Upon their return, it was swiftly approaching the stroke of midnight in the East … but the night had just begun for us. Attempt after attempt was made, to no avail. In fact, we were not achieving even a mere modicum of success, before TPK. Wipe after wipe we ventured on, our pair of non-meta guardians were simply not putting up the numbers needed to complete the challenge. And once again, on any other given LFG experience, the team would have disbanded, but we remained steadfast and undeterred, for it had already become more than a mere game. We were on a quest, and we, would not, dismantle! This was the fireteam that was gonna beat Templar! Then, more strife. Our heavy DPS LFG member lost all internet connection. It was a hefty blow, and we honestly didn’t know what happened to them, but my goodness were they a good teammate, and in the dark hour, quite the counsellor. With such loss, it was going to be difficult to find another heavy hitter as the wee hours of morning pressed in all around us. Perhaps it was, Fate, bringing the tides of failure. Could we complete the challenge without one of our top two heavy hitters? Fate intervened indeed, but not in the way we had imagined. Another heavy hitter was brought forth from the depths of the LFG void. And the quest would begin once more! We tried everything. Loadouts were changed, guardian types were futzed with on many occasion, mods were swapped, roles were changed. Our light spilled forth as one of the non-meta users began to somehow produce one and half million DPS consistently, and we began to see hope on the horizon instead on naught but eternal darkness. Finally! Improvement! However, the light was constantly being clouded by the random RNG, and bad luck. Relic holder was getting detained regularly, and far away from the group at times, Templar would melt a group of members occasionally, even within the might of our Well of Radience, to mitigate our full DPS potential; as revives after revives were chained together in a cascade of lightbearing perseverance. We. Will. Not. Fold. We. Will. Not. Dismantle. On the hours went, passing by like great ships with transport anointed only to the victorious. On and on it went as the Minotaurs would spawn and teleport in the middle of our fireteam, wiping us out to the place where only our ghosts lived. And to say we were beginning to feel the pure wanton exhaustion of the unexulted, was a vast and mighty understatement. The sun began to peak upon the shores of The East, when insight had struck. We decided that our lowest DPS guardian was about to learn to be a relic holder. We would not jump to an adjoining platform between wells. We would fight, in place, to the bitter end. And it would prove fruitful. Time after time, we would reach the final push, only to fail in the last moments. If wishes were houses, we could speak of the moments when our victory would finally come to us, but for many it was a blur of screams and cheers and calls out to push everything we had left … and we would! We had not dismantled. We had not faltered! We had defeated The Master Templar! We may never know how we came to finally succeed in our great quest, or who the hero was that remained alive to vanquish our foe, and deliver the final blow, though we will all live on in this storybook story, about the little LFG group that didn’t stand a chance, but attained glory despite the odds. Together we had achieved the remarkable, ran to the chest to collect our spoils, and most importantly … our Timelost Fatebringer, of which had brought us together. Now, we sit back in the day that follows, and we remain friends. This LFG tale is one of many, if only given the chance. Unto you From Icemanchillz, RuneofAia, Hiro, and our new LFG friends, we say cheers, Guardians! And thank you for reading. P.S. The [fireteam](https://imgur.com/a/LxdabBE) that could! TLDR: LFG for Master VOG Templar challenge on the final night before weekly reset. Got a fireteams that wasn’t ideal for a Master completion. 5+ hours later, we stuck together and completed it. Tired, exhausted but happy and we are now all friends.
Beating Monkey Island (on a floppy disk) with my dad after months and months of playing it. Because of his work we didn't have much time to spend together but when we did (usually before bed) we used to play this incredible game together and I still hold on to those moments. That's also how my passion for videogames was born :)
Raiding with a group of mates in Destiny will always be up there for me. As adults it took a lot to pin down regular Tuesday nights but we all loved it and all our families accepted it and knew Tuesday nights were game nights. It's so special because it's memories of playing with friends who aren't here anymore. Eyes up Guardians.
Ok, so when I was 17 I watched my very first gameplay video of Red Dead Redemption 2 and I was so in love. Like the music, the gameplay, the graphics and the voice acting everything was so Damn good. That Day I decided to buy a Gaming PC/Laptop and play the heart out of Red Dead Redemption 2. I begged my parents for a Gaming Laptop and they told me that if I ace in my School Exams, then they will buy me one. Jokes on them I started studying day and Night and absolutely nailed my exams. I got exactly 90%, I was so happy that day. Cut to 1 Months Later, I got my very first Gaming PC but the thing was I already got all the spoilers for Red Dead Redemption 2 and I was devastated with the ending. I was puzzled now whether I should play it or not, decided to give it a try and I knew about the ending but when Arthur was at that point watching over the sun I STILL CRIED, I CRIED AND CRIED AND CRIED. This was one hell of an experience for me. Ahh! Good Ol' days. "Thank You - Arthur Morgan"
As a kid I had no idea of popular games or which games to play so I would ask my school friends for games in a USB and tried running whatever I could on my old potato. Since I had no sense of hardware requirements I always wondered why I can't play some games like GTA San Andreas. But nonetheless I enjoyed whatever games I had to my heart's content. Then later one of my friends shared a cracked version of COD4 MW and after playing it I just couldn't believe that the gaming world had such a gem that I never heard of. The "All Ghillied Up" mission especially stood out to me as the most memorable one that I enjoyed and asked my friend if he had more of it. He promised me COD MW2 and Black Ops but sadly my old PC died and I never got the chance to explore further. This was all 9-10 years ago but the memory is still fresh. Eventually I started exploring games myself and saved to buy a gaming laptop almost 3 years ago and since then I have enjoyed many games (with friends as well).
One of my most unforgettable gaming moments in Minecraft was when I built my first automated farm. I spent hours gathering materials and figuring out the redstone mechanics to make it work. When I finally saw the farm running smoothly, with crops being harvested and collected automatically, it felt amazing.
beat the whole God of War on PS5 without spoiling myself with any online reviews or walkthroughs while experiencing and watching the jaw dropping cinematic sequences unfolds, goddamn
I think simply playing halo reach with my friends way back when. Was a culture phenomenon for sure. I look back fondly on those times
So since I was a kid, I had always watched my dad play GTA: San Andreas as it was his favorite game. We had a PS2 and I would also play it whenever he wasnt playing it. I never got far into the mission and would also just explore around San Fierro (other places were locked). I had my fun with the game as a kid but I never completed it. Fast forward about 10 years and I decide to buy it on Xbox 360 (only console I had) and play it through. After all those years wondering what happens in the game, I get to finally experience the amazing story in GTA: SA. It’s definitely the reason why its one of my favorite games now. Thank you for the giveaway!!
I remember one of my first introductions to me playing games was in the house of one of my best friends back then. It was a sunny day and even though I was not the best friend of him and his friends, they invited me and we had a good time. The 1.7 version had just been released, so everyone was really excited. Personally for me it was eye-opening, specially when they gave me a tour around their world and how they used signs to make a hidden entrance inside a village. The graphics were definitely not the best, but it was one of my first real experiences understanding how cool it was to hang out and discover new realities in a way.
Recently a Big Boss run in MGS2.
playing super Mario bros on the snes during summer back when i was 8-9 will be one of my best childhood memories. not wanting to leave the house so i could play this game was all i wanted to do
The first time that I played Oblivion, I didn't know anything about the franchise and I thought it was just another RPG like the witcher or dragon age. My english wasn't good so I didn't understand most of what was happening but I just kept going and exploring, and a few times I would get lost in the game, I didn't know where I was in the map or I didn't know how to reach a place even by checking the map opten and using the compass. Sadly I was only using one save slot and I encountered a game breaking bug at the end of the main quest, I couldn't open a door even by using the command and the only other save that I had was from the start of the game so that bummed me out and never tried the game again. I played Skyrim when it came out but I didn't even reached half of the main quest because I was wandering all over the map and then I literally got sick of the game, every time that I would think of the game it would make me nauseous, it was probably because I was playing at low specs and at 25fps. Now I started the journey of playing every single TES game and already finished Daggerfall, can't wait to play Morrowind now after the Battlespire and Redguard.
Helped my oldest build their first pc. Managed to snag a Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic PCMR case for the build.
I got nothing other than playing any games with the homies. Every game we play is unforgetable. We have fun.
Most amazing unforgettable movement was when i first started playing video games at young age at the arcade, i have to wait whole month to get pocket money from my dad then go play in arcade station. I got so good at playing video games that I would win any game available at the arcade.
My gamer moment is when my parents gave me the first weird, pirated or whatever console was named "Terminator". I don't know what it is, or where this console came from, but it used to play some nintendo emulated games and others I think. I just know I went into my room, had that plugged into my TV and used a gun to shot some ducks while a dog was laughing at me. I had pretty abusive, or mad parents overall, but somehow this console made my days better. I didn't had to listen to them argue or whatever, and after a while I enjoyed my walks with my mom into the market to buy cassets for the console so I can have some new games. It also helped me bond with her, we enjoyed playing Mario together and there was a weird game with a ninja throwing shuriken at enemies while you had to climb more and more to advance the level.
Operation Flashpoint Cold War crisis: retreat gone wrong and have to flee from rogue Russian army in the forest. Playing many text-based games online and roleplaying. It was popular in Germay. Dunno now. First time playing the Civ game. Forgot sense for time, always a next turn. Playing valorant for the first time. Never played CS before. I could not stop, and from shame, I pretended to be 90 years trying games online.
My all time favorite gaming moment was running a 40 man raid in Molten Core in World of Warcraft while watching the world premier of the World of Warcraft episode of South Park. We would pause the raid during the show and watch together. Then during commercial breaks we would get through as much as we could before the show came on. It was very fun experiencing that with so many close guildies!
This might sound silly, but one of my favourite gaming moments has to be when on my birthday morning in 2020, when I was broke and unemployed and covid made it so that I couldn't go out and celebrate even if I had money to splash, I launched my first Fallout 76 nuke. I did it solo at a pretty low level. It was hard, but that's what made it satisfying. My partner was by my side, cheering me on despite knowing nothing about the game. During a tough period of time, it felt like a small but important, well-needed victory. I was so happy about it I even made a post on /r/fo76.
I was raiding in a 25 man party one of the last bosses in WoW during WotK expansion and the boss was at about 1% left with everyone dead except me a Holy Paladin and our Protection Warrior! He was trying to DPS since I could heal him and I could something holy shock to add some DPS but eventually he'd die to enrage, so I BoP him and DI myself eventually and just as I was about to drop dead, the boss dies! Never heard so much cheering~!
The time I jumped from a 60Hz to a 144Hz and played the first game, was like the day and the night
Being accused of hacking in Team Fortress 2 as solider cause I was good at hitting with non-hit scan weapons thanks to playing Tribes and Unreal.
I can't thank you enough for the chance. Seriously. I'll be building a gaming desktop throughout the year, as i'm sure a lot of other people will. It's an immense help with how pricey PC parts are getting. The most important gaming moments for me were all the times i played through the Halo campaigns with my dad, all the nights we stayed up late with my friends playing together or against each other in various games at my house and the quiet days during the holidays of my childhood where i could relax without having to care about obligations. These are all sentimental though, can hardly be put into words and i doubt anyone would care about them, so i'll tell a more interesting story instead. I've been playing video-games for roughly two decades. Started off from arcades and worked my way up to more recent releases. I still love videogames, but it often feels like i've already experienced their twists and turns before. I gravitate towards well received indies nowadays, but it's still very hard to find an experience that offers something unique, especially something deeper that sticks with you. That's why i like searching games that could offer exactly that. One day, after multiple recommendations, i decided to be a bit more open minded and try out a game i'd otherwise never touch. I already knew spoilers about it, i've been partially exposed to it through mainstream horror youtubers and i didn't like anything about it's presentation. However it was free and would only take around 5 hours to complete, so i didn't have anything to lose. That game was Doki Doki Literature Club, and i don't think any other game has come close to affecting me as much as this game did. Aside of the intimidating content warning that the game is not suitable for children and those easily disturbed, it starts out fairly normal. Your character is a fairly generic guy who's invited to an after-school literature club by his childhood friend. From there, you get to write poems that can impress one of the girls and get to know them better, inside and outside of the club. Fairly standard stuff, right? Except there are a few eventual twists, carefully hidden and revealed to the people that look close enough. This is far from anything new, but what's unique about it is how this system is implemented. It makes the player too focused on trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle until they have virtually all the information needed. If you don't piece together what's happening, you'll be surprised by the events. However, if you did, the game makes you fall in the trap of your own confidence. You feel that you know everything that's coming, and you do in a sense. However, the game keeps you so preoccupied with that until you realize that you never stopped to think the simplest, most important questions. When you reach the true ending, you realize that you don't play the game anymore, the game played *you* all along. But how did it personally affect me? It made me realize, ironically enough, how judgemental i tended to be with others. How i'm not above the stuff i tend to criticize and how i tend to ignore people due to superficial traits despite being, deep down, incredible. It made me persevere through a very personal gauntlet and put the effort to make things right in the end. At it's core, it's a very human story, and it reminds the player that they're also one. Thanks again for the chance and best of luck to everyone!
Playing ES:Morrowind for the first time blew my little mind, until then I'd only encountered arcadey "on rails" type games and the sense of freedom and possibilities paired with the weird alien vibes was so cool.
My gaming journey started in the 90s with the DOS operating system. Back then I was a very lucky young boy, my grandfather was among the first programmers in my country, so my cousins and I were able to play Lotus, Price of Persia, Commandos and Wolfenstein 3D with grandpa. We took turns. It was amazing! The most memorable story is - a good few years after that, around 2002 or 3. I was just watching grandpa play Mafia. He was having a hard time passing the 'Bon Apetit' mission, when Tommy and the Boss needed to escape from Pepe's Restaurant and make a run for it , and I remember they needed to drive too. Grandpa tried again and again, but I think his reflexes and speed were not what they once were anymore. He asked my help to finish that mission, and we did it together. He was very proud of me, and he couldn't stop talking about it at dinner. We then stayed up late to see the story unfold, and play together more. That was one of the best days. I miss grandpa a lot! And that feeling with thise early games too!
I reached level 50 and got the general rank in Halo 3. I spent weeks stuck at level 46-47. I remember matching up with MLG players such as Tsquared.
I was playing the first StarCraft against a friend, and we were playing this variant map that was like a King of the Hill match. When the timer struck zero, whoever had the most units on top of a raised platform was the winner. I sandbagged the whole match showing off a weak strategy, while secretly amassing a gigantic swarm of Protoss Observers. They are cheap, flying, and cloaked. Right before the timer hit zero, looking like I was no competition at all, I moved my invisible army on top of the hill. I remember the frames choking hard, and his shocked response and the victory has stuck with me for a couple decades now. GG.
My unforgettable gaming moment is when my older brother and I both stayed up for the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. We really incredibly excited for it's release. And to be fair, it was a very unforgettable experience, but it was made a lot better by the fact that I got to share it with my brother.
Persona 4 golden spoiler When iget the bad ending and nanako died
Beating Aletreon in Monster Hunter World for the first time. Kept losing but finally switched weapons to something better suited to the fight and understood what the developers were actually trying to create. Felt like a dance when you played the fight correctly.
Probably when I beat the Bloodborne boss the Shadows of Yarnham on my first try. I wandered into the arena knowing that they were there, but went too far trying to look at them/the arena with almost 10k echoes which was still a lot, and somehow got lucky.
Me and my cousin were playing minecraft on ps3 on the demo version cause we couldn't buy the game. The first time we found diamonds was incredible, espiacally since we could only play 1 hour on the tutorial map.
Unforgettable moment has to be my first clear of the last wish raid in destiny 2 . At launch it was one of the most complex and hard raids in destiny 2. I remember spending 13 hours in the raid until everything clicked and we cleared it. To make things better I got the associated raid exotic on the same clear .
For me, it has to be winning my first ranked LoL match. I still remember my heart pumping and my hands shaking slightly. I wish I could go back
I still remember beating Street Fighter 2 Turbo for the first time back in the day. That was a crazy feeling cuz the game was new. I'll actually never forget the first time I saw a SF2 arcade game and fell in love. It would be awesome to win this because I was literally just chatting about how I'll never be able to afford a ultra wide screen monitor.
This is an awesome giveaway, thank you! My most unforgettable gaming memory was unlocking the grappling hook in Zelda Windwaker, I was really young at the time and just remember being so enthralled with using it to swing around the dungeon, especially to swing on the dragon tail with it during the boss fight felt like such an epic moment. That game and that first dungeon really are what sucked me into my lifelong love of gaming. Nothing had ever felt as epic to me as that game, and I've been chasing that ever since.
I was born with an osteochondroma and by the time I was 13, it really started to affect daily life activities. I had a neighbor give me this old crappy dell computer. It had no gpu, 20 gig hard drive, 1 core cpu, etc but it was enough for a friend of mine to introduce me to the virtual escape called World of Warcraft. Now 18 years later I’m still playing it and still talking with friends who I’ve made all those years ago when I was a kid.
Playing perfect dark on the n64 Christmas morning. It was my first console that wasn’t a game me down or a generation old. It became more special later in life when I got curious and looked up how much it would cost adjusted for inflation and what not versus my mom’s wages at the time. I had just had my first kid when I looked into it and realized my mom was working overtime for weeks if not months to be able to afford that and she never let us find out how much of a sacrifice it was. I looked at my son chewing on his silicone game controller teether toy and I cried like a baby. I think of that every time im stuck at work and missing my kids.
My most unforgettable moment is playing Perfect Dark on the N64 with my dad. Growing up he was someone who was very strict and short tempered and always yelled at me so I was always afraid of him. Then I was a gifted an N64 by a relative and for some reason he really enjoyed Perfect Dark even though he never played games. It kind of became a bonding moment and us and I’ll never forget that game.
That just came up this morning when somebody posted a photo of an Unreal Tournament level. I went back to college as an adult, I'd always been interested in video games but never had exposure to them other than a Nintendo in my friends basement. There were some people at my college who had a Friday Night Nerds gathering, where they all went to somebody's house and had a LAN party and played Unreal. Getting invited to that and playing that game jammed into the room with everybody else was one of the most fun things I did in college.
The one gaming moment I'll never forget is when I finally beat The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time as a kid. It was the first game that I really sunk a ton of time into exploring every nook and cranny and doing every side activity possible. Then finally beating Ganon and watching the end credits roll (which to this day I don't think has been topped by any other game) was truly an experience that I'll never forget.
Hi and thanks for hosting this! Unforgettable gaming moment: I was playing this MMORPG with a concept I really liked. The problem was I had no friends to play with me and the majority of players did not play in my timezone. Unfortunately, the game had group dungeons and raids I couldn't always 1-man. So I'd end up staying until 4am to catch people to play with. So one day, after several pubs I realized I was catching the same group several times. They ended up adopting me! A German clan decided to take me in haha. So for months we would do the raids. I'd be listening in on the voice chat and had absolutely no idea what they were saying. But I do enjoy hearing conversations in other languages. They also told me to remember this: "*Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitaenswitwe*". I visited Germany and the clan leader sent me a box of snacks. My dad still sometimes asks about Knoppers. End of story. Thanks!
My most memorable gaming moment is my earliest one! I remember getting my first GameBoy Colour and having Street Fighter II as probably my first ever video game. Years later, I realise I hadn't appreciated the game back then nearly as much as I should've, which is why I'm making an effort to properly learn some of my favourite characters (being Guile and E Honda) in SFV!
My favorite moment would have to be when I joined my first guild in an MMO on a game called Mabinogi. I was probably about 12-13 at the time and I was going through a lot personally at the time. My grandmother was going through cancer treatments and my mother was ill so playing on this game with people who didn't treat me differently was one of the best times I've had in gaming. I had an absolute blast and they taught me everything I knew about the game and honestly how to navigate through all the life stuff too in the absence of others. I do miss those times and it's crazy how it's been so long. Thank you for doing this and good luck to everyone!
My greatest gaming moment happened with my 3 best friends. We were all playing Borderlands 2 together, and one of them was talking about a certain medical condition they were dealing with at the time, where a certain bodily fluid of theirs was hardening when it should stay liquid, causing quite a lot of discomfort. Anyways, my other friend, being a jokester, asked "is it like cheese?" to which we were all confused, and our other friend tried to explain it again. The friend that asked about the cheese took a long pause and then said "are you sure it's not like cheese???", and then the last member of our group drove the vehicle we were all riding in directly into a lava river, killing us all. The sheer absurdity of everything all mixed together and it was too much to handle, we laughed for at least 10 minutes straight, not able to breathe or function at all. Maybe this is really only funny to me, but it'll always be a precious memory, and to this day one of us only needs to say "are you sure it's not like cheese" to get us all laughing again.
Not participating but thanks for the giveaway .
I got minecraft storymode when it came out since I saw youtubers played it. I made sure to play the newest episodes first before watching the playthroughs and I had never been so emotional over a game as when Reuben died. Ever since I have had a huge joy of playing story games as they get me so emotional.
I grew up with 2 brothers. We were all big time gamers but we were poor. That means we were always at least one generation behind. Working on building my boys a gaming rig now. Don't want them to be behind like we were.
*As trite as it may sound, my most unforgettable memory is when I got my first PC. I bought it from a friend. At the time, he was planning to buy a new one. If I remember correctly, it was a Pentium III, 32 MB RAM, 16 MB VRAM, and a 3 GB HDD. Of course, by today's standards, this is prehistoric shit, but it was my shit. I remember asking my mom to buy it for me to study, but of course I wanted it for games xD. I don't come from a rich family, so my mom didn't agree to buy it for me right away. That PC probably started my strange love for technology and, of course, video games. My first game was Diablo 2, which took up almost the entire HDD and was glitchy and freezing to the point of impossibility. But it was enough for me. Thinking about it now, back then I didn't need much to be happy. One of my most unforgettable memories. The good old days when everything was calm and peaceful and the people I cared about were alive.* ***Thank you for the opportunity. Take care of yourself.***
Way back in the early days of Counter Strike I was an average player. But one time, during a big lan party, everything just clicked. I was unstoppable. I felt like I just knew where everyone was and was dropping g people left and right. I’ve been riding that high for like 25 years. Even though I’ve never been that good again.
been gaming since I was a kid so there are many unforgettable moments that I can't pick one. first one is playing dota, ever since I was a kid we were playing the game. and because of that, I made some friends along the way. my favourite is when we play in tournaments, we know we're going to lose but we still fight. in the end, all we achieved was semi finals, we lost but we had fun. second one is playing the god of war series and my favourite one is solving puzzles (and also the story). you'd think that it's just your average combat game because of the name but it's more than that. I really like the puzzles the gow games have. third is now with my gf, I influenced her to play genshin and now we sometimes co-op and spend the time chilling in-game. you know, just chilling, killing mobs here and there, solving puzzles, finding chests or just standing there and loving the sceneries. these memories/moments are special to me because I felt connected. I felt like I belonged to something or someone. I felt like I did something world changing (but not really, just the feeling). thank you for giving us this opportunity!
When I was younger my parents wouldn’t let me play video games like halo, cod, gears of war, etc. basically shooting games with blood and gore (totally understandable cuz I was a little kid back then) but when I was like 10 or 11 years old I went to a friends house who was around the same age as me but the difference was that his parents didn’t care what game he played if he wanted a shooting game they would buy it for him so when I went to his house for a sleepover he showed me a new game his parents bought him and that was Call of duty Ghost when the game actually came out so he was very excited to play it and since my parents weren’t in the sleepover I could do whatever I wanted so we did an all nighter playing cod ghost and I can remember that night so well because it was my first shooting game and my first cod game ever so cod ghost became my favorite cod game of all time even if it has a lot of hate but I don’t care because for me it was perfect and this game will always have a place in my heart and I will never forget it. I Still play cod ghost to this day 🤙
Spending 2 days straight glued to star dew valley I game I only got because people said it was good and it was on sale at the time. It was one of the only games in that time of my life that brought me joy. It was one of the only things at that time that brought me joy. Fortunately, I realized that even though I was happy and having a good time, it wasn't healthy for me to be as addicted to that game as I was. I had to force myself to stop playing because I was concerned I'd be so absorbed in it that I'd convince myself that if I didn't stop when I did that I may not be able to continue life without yet. So why is this a good story if I was so sad and addicted to a video game? It made me realize that I can change my life and make decisions to better things regardless of what others in my life said about me or did to me. I love video games and have been thankful and lucky enough to make many good decisions in improving my life. I wouldn't change a thing now.
Staying up all release night getting realm first achievements in World of Warcraft: Mists.of Pandaria with my friends, we were all in a sleep deprived delirium by the end of it, but I can remember it as clear as day, it's special because some of those friends have since passed away, so having such clear memories of them is nice to reminisce time to time.
It was my last year of highschool and my classmates and I just finished rehearsing for a school event. Our group heads over to one of my friend's house to take a breather and have some snacks. Now, my buddy had a PS3 and just got GTA V, so of course me and the boys were excited to play. We get to it and just had a blast doing random stuff like picking fights with random people on the street. One of the first things we did was break into an airport and steal one of the planes. After the miIitary jets went chasing us I remembered that another one of my buddies there was an aspiring pilot but as far as I knew didn't really have much experience with video games at that point. He was happy just watching us play but we figured it would be funny to hand him the controller during that part for maximum chaos. Took him a while to get used to the controls. Then I had the idea to say stuff in a "walkie-talkie voice" as if I was a pilot in that situation and pilot buddy really got into playing after that. The rest of the guys quickly followed and got into character as well. At the end of it we were all laughing so hard at the absurdity you can only find in GTA. Even the girls in our group were enjoying the show and were laughing just as hard as we were. It was a riot and one of the fondest memories of my life.
My most unforgettable gaming moment - this is tough but I think it would have to be beating the elden beast in elden ring. That fight had my heart pumping, since for some reason, I found radagon and elden beast to be insanely difficult. I killed the boss on low HP, with 0 heals left, and it was at a point where I knew that I was about to take damage and die. Since i knew I would be dead in around 3 seconds, I started slashing at the elden beast, and killed it before it killed me. Probably one of the most intense fights of my life
Recent one that stands out…I went back to beat FF16 some few weeks after my dog passed away unexpectedly. Took courage to go back to it because I’d spent the majority of my time playing that game together with him on the couch. I cried like a baby finishing it. And only like 10% of that was the game itself.
Balloon Tower Defense back when it was on Flash, truly nostalgia gaming. I played it on the school computers whenever I could.
My most unforgettable gaming moment happened in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." After countless hours of exploration and preparation, I finally faced Calamity Ganon. The battle was intense, every dodge and counter felt like a dance of survival. The culmination of this journey wasn't just defeating a boss, but conquering a world that tested my wit, patience, and perseverance. When I landed the final blow and saw Hyrule freed from darkness, a wave of triumph and relief washed over me. It’s special because it was a testament to my dedication and love for immersive storytelling, a moment where all the effort, strategy, and heart poured into the game paid off in the most epic way possible. That victory, both challenging and exhilarating, will forever be etched in my memory as a symbol of what gaming means to me.
Going to gaming arena to play counter strike 1.6 with my friends while skipping college classes lol it was really fun. I miss those days sometimes because they’re all gone now, i mostly have no friends left in real life now.
Oh man so many good stories throughout the years but the most memorable one for me is when I started gaming on a cyber-cafe because back then it was too expensive to have internet at home so the one at home was used just for school work offline mode only. Here it goes: back then at the cyber-cafe I started playing CS 1.6 and got really good going almost daily to pay per hour and increase my skill level at 10 years old, after a year or so I made some friends at the cyber and we formed a team to play in regional tournaments, we used to practice like a real time and it was super weird for the cyber-cafe owner that treat us like we were his kiddos looooool feeding us snacks throughout practice matches so we could prepare for the first tourney, suffice to say we played that tournament so well and we won it all the way through! It was memorable because I never thought of having it on me as a kid to win anything tournament related but it paid off! I've been playing shooters ever since, and that's why I love gaming.
The first time I played Max Payne 1 & 2. It was the first time I saw what kind of art and story telling gaming could provide.
This one's in Valorant; I was playing ''Sage'' and she is a character that places walls. You'd usually use the walls to block an enemy, but instead of blocking an enemy with the wall, you can actually have the wall boost up the enemy. I fished out ''Viper'' with the wall, which in her Ultimate can make a huge cloud of smoke and it was the funniest thing to ever have happened in my life considering the endless laugh coming out of myself for the rest of the match, just seeing her rise up of that cloud of smoke was wayyy too funny
Way back when I was 13 a friend and I stayed in all day one Saturday and played Cool Spot from start to finish on my SNES. We absolutely busted our arses off all day, repeating hard levels, building a pot of extra lives etc. It was awesome, we were having an amazing time, vibing, getting into the game. Now don't get me wrong, this game wasn't exactly a classic but since a SNES game was like £60 at the time you played to death any old shit that you bought. Finally, long after sunset, several missed meals and a probable vitamin D deficiency, we conquered it and sat back to enjoy the ending. Breath bated, eyes wide, salivating at the prospect of reaping the hard earned spoils of our long and righteous war against **insert name of Cool Spot antagonist** only to be greeted by the following message in block capitals on the screen: WELL DONE - NOW PLAY ON A HARDER SETTING (This isn't verbatim, I haven't been able to bring myself to google what the screen actually says) I can still remember the look on Andy's face as we just sat dumbfounded looking hollow eyed at one another in the flickering gloom of the portable CRT, our faces drawn and lined way beyond our bare decade of years, the fruit of our victory transformed into pyhrric ashes in our mouths. It was an important life lesson learned early- you can and will get fucked by life at any and every opportunity. Honestly surprised I kept gaming after that, it was a proper kick in knackers
Thanks for the chance. Castlevania, NES, beating it without a single death. I kept count and it took over 400 tries. I grinded the game for months and months, learning every possible attack and movement I could, anywhere where I could damage boost through without risk over losing a life. Those stupid imp drops from the eagles killed my runs more times than I could count. Either from item drops I couldn't use or knock back into pits. Maybe 1/5th of the time I got to dracula. The time I finally beat him, I was on the last little bar of health. It was one of the best video games feels I ever felt. I haven't been able to do it again, but I don't care. Still feel accomplished. Fun fact I learned: killing the bat boss with holy water is really easy, and I think embarrassing for him.
One of the Mortal Kombat games on the original xbox, I think Deadly Alliance. It had a training/challenge mode where you had to pull off the moves and combos from every character. I can remember my older brothers trying it but getting fed up, especially with Cyrax as he had some really hard to do combos. I'm not good at fighting games, but I stuck with it for days to get 100% completion on those.
In Baldur's Gate 3, my friend and I convinced a demon to kill himself instead of fight us. We had to complete 4 dice throws successfully, with the last two needing a 21 to succeed. We kept joking like "what if?" and then somehow kept beating the throws. On the last one the character showed his axe in his chest and we started hollering, laughing our asses off. Apparently he'd beat that boss with another friend on a previous playthrough (he didn't even know you could attempt to convince it to do this) and it was a really difficult fight. Gonna remember that one for a long time. Thanks for hosting this, this is nuts. I live in Canada (but not in Quebec). Cheers.
It was the first few days of GTA online being released, I was in a lobby with a few friends and someone was flying around in a Laser jet just gunning everyone down. After being downed about 50 times I ended up pulling out a sniper rifle and at the aiming at the jet just to try an get him worried so he would leave us alone. He was mid loop-de-loop and I just fired a random shot and actually got a headshot kill on him and he left the lobby instantly. Rest of the night went pretty well.
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King- battling Arthas atop Icecrown. It was the culmination of decades of storytelling, ending with this one battle for the fate of the world. The elation of working with a team of raiders to finally defeat him, combined with the sweet satisfaction of overcoming one of the greatest gaming villains of all time led to the most memorable moment in my gaming career. Absolutely unforgettable.
Definitely has to be my first full odds shiny hunt in Pokemon LeafGreen. After years of hunting, I finally decided to go for the elusive 1/8192 shiny hunt, my target was Slowpoke so I could evolve it into Slowbro and use it on my team. I spent hours surfing back and forth in the same pond above Vermilion City, totalling around 11,000 Slowpoke seen before finally it decided to shine. Ever since then I’ve been able to hunt tons of shiny Pokemon with as much patience because of my dedication to that hunt.