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What would you name as the most shocking event in a video game that you have experienced?

For me, there are two that stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. The first is the boss battle in Halo 3. I did not see that coming!

However, the prize has to go to the finale of Half Life 2: Episode Two. Admittedly, I haven't actually played Episode Two due to graphics issues. But since I own the Orange Box, I feel I have a right to know what happens. And the death of Eli Vance was one of the most shocking events I have ever seen. His last words, the horrific manner in which he was killed, and the fact that his daughter was watching, helpless to interfere, made this an unforgettable death.

I hope the advisors meet their punishment in Episode Three. And that punishment should take the form of Gordon holding them paralyzed with the Dark Energy Gravity Gun while Alyx beats them to death with a crowbar.

That was well done. The dialogue was well done, and it was... I was watching and it was no doubt way out of left field. Completely unexpected, and definitely well done. It made the story much more interesting.

I respect that they kept on theme with that this is a fight and not all fights have a happy ending.

Most shocking moment? Realising just how much chaos one can cause when playing free style in Elder Scrolls Oblivion and GTA: San Andreas. :) Woohoo! CARNAGE!!

... for me, Silent Hill Origins.

killing alot of things gives bad ending. :eek:

talk about being counter-productive... :(

Mr. and Mrs. Packman meet. :eek:













Yeah, I got nothing.

Space invaders where the aliens get really close and start going batshit insane with the sidestepping

that is how you make a hearts attack

Most shocking moment? Realising just how much chaos one can cause when playing free style in Elder Scrolls Oblivion and GTA: San Andreas. :) Woohoo! CARNAGE!!

creating a Highway death is amazing sometimes :)

Mr. and Mrs. Packman meet. :eek:

Don't forget about Baby Pac-man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Pac-Man)...

I mean seriously... how did Pac-man... where would Ms Pac-Man... where would the baby... :eek:

they're just circles with mouths for GODS SAKES!!!!

:D

It wasn't shocking, but i really liked gaz in COD4. and then they kill him. :(

Oh and when you get nuked and die in that game too. That was unexpected.

Two long blue sticks in a row in Tetris.

KOTOR.


Just the absolute... 'What the fuck' moment of having played through, making this character your own and then having it ripped away from you all of a sudden right before the final Starmap.

Two long blue sticks in a row in Tetris.

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The ending of KOTOR II, but that was mostly out of disgust and confusion.

OMG AERIS DIED WAAH.

If this was about the event that most shocked me in a video game, I would have to say the AI malfunctioning in MGS2 and the discovery of what I had actually been working for. I don't think I have ever been quite so thrown off-balance as I was when at 1am I get a codec call telling me to turn my game console off by this heretofor supporting character.

The most shocking event though I would probably give on reflection to the revelation of Raziel's identity as his own wraith blade in the finale of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2. It's come out of nowhere, and yet is clearly the result of a series of carefully orchestrated lures on the part of the now immensely-powerful Moebius, writing in stone Raziel's unavoidable destiny to get absorbed by the very thing he relies upon to change it. Brilliant bit of theatre there.

That was well done. The dialogue was well done, and it was... I was watching and it was no doubt way out of left field. Completely unexpected, and definitely well done. It made the story much more interesting.

I kind of expected it really. Dog only ever runs off when there's something that needs procuring, or if there's something that needs destroying. We already had transport, so it was obvious that the latter was going to occur, with much grief in between before he saved the day.

If this was about the event that most shocked me in a video game, I would have to say the AI malfunctioning in MGS2 and the discovery of what I had actually been working for. I don't think I have ever been quite so thrown off-balance as I was when at 1am I get a codec call telling me to turn my game console off by this heretofor supporting character.

Kinda reminds me of a time I was playing Swords and Serpents. the book said I needed at least one wizard to complete the game, so I made a team of 4. two fighters, one thief and one wizard. I played all weekend, non-stop.

Monday Morning... 12:00 a.m... final level... wondering why my wizard was dying so quickly and moving so slowly...

so I checked his stats...

from pretty decent stats at the start, he went down to
spd: 1
Att: 1
Def: 1

so basically, a level 1 monster would hit 3 times and kill my wizard before he even moved.

I kind of expected it really. Dog only ever runs off when there's something that needs procuring, or if there's something that needs destroying. We already had transport, so it was obvious that the latter was going to occur, with much grief in between before he saved the day.

I just figured Dog was being annoying and wanted to play. :)

What would you name as the most shocking event in a video game that you have experienced?

samus is a girl!?!

Well, not really shocking, but definitly surprising. My first time ever playing Halo online:
I step outside...and three seconds later, I get sniped in the head. It was just like "Cool graphics-" and then my SPARTEN goes flying with blood pouring out of his head. I was like WTF?

AERISDIESLOL would be in the top of the list, but then again, to people who played long enough to experience The Oregon Trail it's not too shocking. I mean, your American Pioneer era family died of dysentery,... if that's not too shocking for a 10 year old kid, I don't know what will. Resident Evil (the original) also introduced horror shocks to video gamers. (Phantasmagoria? The atmosphere didn't quite set)

I was playing pokemon snap all of the sudden this stupid jigglypuff started singing! So I was like GO TO HELL YOU ROUND SPAWN OF SATAN and I lifted up a crowbar to throw at the tv screen but then I fell asleep. I hate jigglypuffs. That thing drew all over my face while I was asleep.

When they made a sequel to FINAL Fantasy.:D

I just figured Dog was being annoying and wanted to play. :)

Maybe so, but even then, Dog's playing was heralded by a swarm of camera bots, explosions, and Combine troopers. I mean, seriously, when Dog shows up, it's almost always as a harbinger of doom to come or doom just smashed.

Call of Duty 4, when the nuke goes off. How many other games have the balls to kill off the player's character like that? You are leaving the city by helecoptor, thinking you're safe. Suddenly, the nuke goes off and your chopper comes crashing down. Soon, you're crawling around the wreckage. 30-seconds later, you're dead.

Call of Duty 4, when the nuke goes off. How many other games have the balls to kill off the player's character like that? You are leaving the city by helecoptor, thinking you're safe. Suddenly, the nuke goes off and your chopper comes crashing down. Soon, you're crawling around the wreckage. 30-seconds later, you're dead.

Oh, yeah, that. That sucked. To me it felt like the programmers were showing how worthless all those missions were. 'Hey, remember all those times when you cowered behind a dumpster with enemies all around you and prayed for your health to recharge? Well, it doesn't matter, because you're dead. Oh, and everything you did in that city? That also doesn't matter, because it got blown up. Nyah-nyah!' I was expecting to play a mission later in the game where you woke up and had to escape from the ruined city.

I'm 3 scenes into F.E.A.R., so there's a share of moments right there...freaky-ass little girl.

The twist in KotOR was obvious as soon as you reached Dantooine. Master Vrook damn near tells you explicitly. Looking back I'm surprised I was fooled as long as I was (and it wasn't very long).

Most shocking? Hmm. Tough one. Being sent on that suicide mission in TIE Fighter is the only one that stands out right now. "Show us the superior maneuverability of the TIE Interceptor" my ass...

When they made a sequel to FINAL Fantasy.:D
No no, when Final Fantasy saved a company from going under and made them one of the biggest names in gaming.

The cake was a lie.

The cake was a lie.

That wasn't shocking. It was awesome though. "Enjoy your victory candescence."

"This was a triumph..."




... now I want cake, but there isn't any... :(

I was expecting to play a mission later in the game where you woke up and had to escape from the ruined city.
Me too, was kind of disappointed when you didn't. The game was pretty good overall, though. Popping the hostage-holder in the head and seeing "20G-Mile High Club" come up on the screen was very satisfying.

COD:3. When the nazis died.

My most shocking moment was playing GTA: Vice City, and I was doing one of the missions you get from the phone calls, the one where you have to kill some mom or something.

It was while I was doing it that I kept hearing her voice screaming "Oh my god!" that I realized that I was murdering someone, and I backed away, quit the game, uninstalled and deleted it, and nearly formatted my harddrive.

I've never touched a GTA game since.

My most shocking moment was playing GTA: Vice City, and I was doing one of the missions you get from the phone calls, the one where you have to kill some mom or something.

It was while I was doing it that I kept hearing her voice screaming "Oh my god!" that I realized that I was murdering someone, and I backed away, quit the game, uninstalled and deleted it, and nearly formatted my harddrive.

I've never touched a GTA game since.

Jeeze its a game with bad graphics and shoddy physics. How is it any different then a movie? And it took you that long to realize that you killed someone in GTA?

Call of Duty 4, when the nuke goes off. How many other games have the balls to kill off the player's character like that? You are leaving the city by helecoptor, thinking you're safe. Suddenly, the nuke goes off and your chopper comes crashing down. Soon, you're crawling around the wreckage. 30-seconds later, you're dead.

That would have been a lot more of a shocking moment to me if the clip of it wasn't in every CoD4 commercial I'd ever seen.

Call of Duty 4, when the nuke goes off. How many other games have the balls to kill off the player's character like that? You are leaving the city by helecoptor, thinking you're safe. Suddenly, the nuke goes off and your chopper comes crashing down. Soon, you're crawling around the wreckage. 30-seconds later, you're dead.

Yeah, I like it when the bad guys actually get a good punch in.

Also, the part in Halo 3 where you work with the flood for like 1.5 mins :p. I was like wtf? Working with the flood? Shocking!

My most shocking moment was playing GTA: Vice City, and I was doing one of the missions you get from the phone calls, the one where you have to kill some mom or something.

It was while I was doing it that I kept hearing her voice screaming "Oh my god!" that I realized that I was murdering someone, and I backed away, quit the game, uninstalled and deleted it, and nearly formatted my harddrive.

I've never touched a GTA game since.I thought you said you were joining the Navy?

was realising I had just wasted several days of my life pushing a bunch of pixels around a screen and convincing myself this was enjoyable and meaningful.

Fatal Frame freaked me out a good number of times, but I dunno about a shocking twist. I pretty much figured it all out.

oh, I know...

Sim City 2: Aliens invaded my city. That was out of left field.

Shin Megami Tensei Persona 3, or Persona 3 for short. When the game first started and you have to envoke your persona, the chars. put guns to their heads and pull the trigger. Worse, my mom was in the room @ the time and gave me the worst look.

I think the number of people who've experienced this one is really really small, so gather 'round kiddies.

The Neo Geo game Aero Fighters II-two player mode, Steve and the Ninja. We where playing this game on free play in the lobby of the movie theater where I was a projectionist (time on my hands...). If you play through the game twice, something we just decided we were determined to do, you get a unique ending.

That ending? Steve rips his clothes off and professes his love and lust for the Ninja, who slices him in half.

Swear to fucking god. It took minutes to get our jaws off the floor. The only reason there wasn't a murmur about it I imagine is that we where among the few that even bothered finishing that game, much less in that combination.

KOTOR.

Just the absolute... 'What the fuck' moment of having played through, making this character your own and then having it ripped away from you all of a sudden right before the final Starmap.

This is it. Nothing else in my gaming experience compares. Closest would probably be "Would you kindly?" in BioShock.

Jeeze its a game with bad graphics and shoddy physics. How is it any different then a movie? And it took you that long to realize that you killed someone in GTA?

It was the feeling as though I was killing a real person that freaked me out. I've never gotten that feeling from a video game before and haven't since.

Don't forget about Baby Pac-man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Pac-Man)...

I mean seriously... how did Pac-man... where would Ms Pac-Man... where would the baby... :eek:

they're just circles with mouths for GODS SAKES!!!!

:D



Pac-mans like Alien...hes'got something that shoots out of his mouth...:fluffle:

The ending of Portal did not surprise me.

GLaDOS singing a song in the end credits, did however.

some Bronze age civilization declaring war against your Civ when you have nukes and the like in Civ

samus is a girl!?!
Worse, Bridget isn't.
My most shocking moment was playing GTA: Vice City, and I was doing one of the missions you get from the phone calls, the one where you have to kill some mom or something.

It was while I was doing it that I kept hearing her voice screaming "Oh my god!" that I realized that I was murdering someone, and I backed away, quit the game, uninstalled and deleted it, and nearly formatted my harddrive.

I've never touched a GTA game since.

But the killing people is the best part! Just ask Jack Thompson.

I'm not sure what I have would have the most shocking but right now the most annoying:

Playing Medieval Total War as the Almohads, conquered much of Europe and then the Spanish mount as huge counter offensive and wipe out half my Empire!

some Bronze age civilization declaring war against your Civ when you have nukes and the like in Civ

Heh, I once was attacked by several bronze age civilization (ok, one was in the middle ages). It was kinda pathetic to see them trying to destroy my mech. infantry. What surprised me most was that they actually succeeded...

I didn't stop laughing for ten minutes and then I decided to nuke their capitols. I felt rather stupid though :p

Heh, I once was attacked by several bronze age civilization (ok, one was in the middle ages). It was kinda pathetic to see them trying to destroy my mech. infantry. What surprised me most was that they actually succeeded...

I didn't stop laughing for ten minutes and then I decided to nuke their capitols. I felt rather stupid though :p

and there is the obligatory unit of tanks that are wiped iout by a unit of phalanx once in a while

and there is the obligatory unit of tanks that are wiped iout by a unit of phalanx once in a while

And the fortified longbows in cities. :headbang:

When I was told I would have to find every single goddamn tribal to finish Jet Force Gemini. What was more shocking was when I actually finished that game. Finding the 'Big bug fun club' was one of the more surprising and amusing events in a game too.

Neverwinter Nights: The plot was so predictable, but I got caught totally unawares by Fenthick's execution...

Playing Resident Evil for the first time was better than sex...and believe ive done lots of both...but blowing zombies heads off with a colt just tips it ;)

Playing Resident Evil for the first time was better than sex...and believe ive done lots of both...but blowing zombies heads off with a colt just tips it ;)

My friends and I had a contest, sometimes when a prone zombie would grab your leg, the character would kick the fucker's head off. We awarded points for the most impressive/longest kick. I think the winner was one that rebounded off of a few walls down a narrow hallway.

The arrival of the Number Nine train at the end of the fourth year of Grim Fandango.

I'm not sure what I have would have the most shocking but right now the most annoying:

Playing Medieval Total War as the Almohads, conquered much of Europe and then the Spanish mount as huge counter offensive and wipe out half my Empire!

Playing as the Brits in Napoleonic Total War (mod of Medieval) and having my entire kingdom fall into disarray when the Piedmontese blockade every sea region in the game while my king is away on a campaign in Greece causing half of my provinces to rebel. Then the Ottomans resurge and take back half my territory while I struggle to regain control of my home provinces...and then I run out of time and never get complete world domination because of this huge setback. :(

StarCraft.

Zerg/Kerrigan. Need I say more?

Heh, I once was attacked by several bronze age civilization (ok, one was in the middle ages). It was kinda pathetic to see them trying to destroy my mech. infantry. What surprised me most was that they actually succeeded...

I didn't stop laughing for ten minutes and then I decided to nuke their capitols. I felt rather stupid though :p

That's nothing. I've had barbarian infantry actually club my modern armored tanks into scrap metal. WITH WOODEN CLUBS!

I've even lost aircraft carriers and battleships to little itty bitty tiremes.

Since when did the stone age people get explosive arrows and armor piercing clubs?

That's nothing. I've had barbarian infantry actually club my modern armored tanks into scrap metal. WITH WOODEN CLUBS!

I've even lost aircraft carriers and battleships to little itty bitty tiremes.

Since when did the stone age people get explosive arrows and armor piercing clubs?

Sorry sir, we attacked the city like you ordered but then they started shooting arrows at our helicopters, we couldn't evade in time and they blew up our entire squadron. That and the fact that Mao is a real jerk...

My choice for biggest surprise in a game is the moment you see a berserker for the first time in Gears of War, even if it isn't a hard boss.

That or playing Doom 3 at 3 in the morning with the lights off when you are in the abandoned mine. My nerves still haven't recovered.

When I found out that Bowser was the one who kidnapped Peach, I was totally fucking blown away, insane plot twist!!!

That's nothing. I've had barbarian infantry actually club my modern armored tanks into scrap metal. WITH WOODEN CLUBS!

I've even lost aircraft carriers and battleships to little itty bitty tiremes.

Since when did the stone age people get explosive arrows and armor piercing clubs?

I regularly had helicopters shot down by archers. :(

When I found out that Bowser was the one who kidnapped Peach, I was totally fucking blown away, insane plot twist!!!

Your princess is in another castle
I nearly had a fucking heart attack. I did the second time.

That's nothing. I've had barbarian infantry actually club my modern armored tanks into scrap metal. WITH WOODEN CLUBS!

I've even lost aircraft carriers and battleships to little itty bitty tiremes.

Since when did the stone age people get explosive arrows and armor piercing clubs?

I regularly had helicopters shot down by archers. :(

Man, looks like a conspiracy to me! Them evil cavemen have uberweapons and they can destroy helicopters, carriers and tanks!

Now I'll never win at Sid difficulty :(

3 words from Bioshock: Would You Kindly
WHO SAW THAT COMING!?!?

KOTOR.


Just the absolute... 'What the fuck' moment of having played through, making this character your own and then having it ripped away from you all of a sudden right before the final Starmap.

Yea, that was a shock. I had kind of suspected something was going on, but that was a really good plot device on the part of bioware.

The ending of Portal did not surprise me.

GLaDOS singing a song in the end credits, did however.

That song rocks though.

For me it was San Andreas for xbox, I realized this when I was standing on top of a trolley, with a machine gun that blew up cars in seconds, and i was riding along on top of the trolley gunning down cops on the side walk and destroying the army tanks following me, and considering the point of the game is to kill cops, its pretty messy.

:mp5::gundge::sniper: DIE DIE DIE:sniper::gundge::mp5:

You must not have played any of the earlier GTA games. Mayhem and destruction are the bread and butter of the game. Really awesome bread and butter.

3 words from Bioshock: Would You Kindly
WHO SAW THAT COMING!?!?

They did that so damned well that when you play the game you never even think about it, but when you replay it you actually notice just how many times he said it.

For those wondering what we're talking about:

throughout the game you're being guided by radio message from a "friend" who turns out to be one of the villians in the story. He often suggests you do things, prefacing as saying "would you kindly" do this, "would you kindly" do that. It is revealed at the end that your character actually has a hypnotic suggestion built in, and "would you kindly" is the trigger phrase to get you to do what you're told, and that every time your "friend" said "would you kindly" he was manipulating you

Man, looks like a conspiracy to me! Them evil cavemen have uberweapons and they can destroy helicopters, carriers and tanks!

Now I'll never win at Sid difficulty :(Kids these days... Fucking militia routinely sank my battleships...

That song rocks though.

Indeed, it's been stuck in my head multiple times per day since the weekend. So catchy. "For for the good of all of us... except the ones who are dead."