NationStates Jolt Archive

With the talk about video game stories in that there other thread across the way, I decided that I wanna chat about and share some of those funny/unexpected and peculiar video game moments.

To accompany this as well I'd also like to just throw out there the question:
'Do you feel that video games or books/movies have given you a richer experience overall?' Note that I'm not asking which medium is better at delivering storyline/character development but rather what medium has left you feeling most satisfied overall after experiencing it?

If you play Aero Fighters 2 with Steve and the Ninja through two times you will get an ending, the most disturbing ending I have ever seen.

Steve rips off his clothing and proclaims his love for the ninja, who kills him.

The only reason no one has reacted to this is because I may have been one of the only two people (the other being the guy who played it through with me) who have ever bothered to play it all the way through. And we only did it because we worked there and had it on free play.

To your question, it depends on the movie/game in question.

As far as memorable game moments, I don't have a lot, and they tend to come about as a result of game play, not story. For example, I recall the following from playing the Star Wars: Empire at War demo. Basically, I was attacking an imperial force consisting of an Aclamator, a Victory Class Star Destroyer, and a Space Station. I had lost my entire force, with only the Millenium Falcon surviving. The enemy retained the station and at least one of their warships, if damaged. However, the Falcon was so hard to hit that it continued to evade until it finally wore down the enemy shields with anti-fighter guns and won the battle. Completely absurd, but completely awesome.:D

Another one happened in Battle for Wesnoth (specifically the Heir to the Throne campaign), when I found myself attacking an orc base. My entire army was wiped out, and I was down to three heros, none of whom could die or I lost the campaign. Surrounded by an army, they somehow fought on, with repeated levelings, until finally they went down. That one is high on my list of heroic last stands in games.

Of course, luck is a factor in Wesnoth, so I suppose it was just chance that allowed them to last that long.;)

There is a moment in Broken Sword 2 where, if you have reached the desperation point of trying everything with everything, you may end up feeding a goat some coal. If you do you find out the goat can talk and you can have a nice little chat with it.

I was playign through GTA 4 again yesterday, on a mission where you have to take Playboy X to the Heroin deal. I was getting a car to take us there when I was hit by another car. All of a sudden Playbox X pulls out a semi autimatic and kills the driver.

I sat in amazement for about a minute...

I was playign through GTA 4 again yesterday, on a mission where you have to take Playboy X to the Heroin deal. I was getting a car to take us there when I was hit by another car. All of a sudden Playbox X pulls out a semi autimatic and kills the driver.

I sat in amazement for about a minute...

That's almost as awesome as stealing a firetruck in GTA 3 and using it to make the cinematic jumps.

You havn't seen anything until you see a firetruck flying over an elevated crosswalk with people still on it.

That's almost as awesome as stealing a firetruck in GTA 3 and using it to make the cinematic jumps.

I've started doing that in 4 now. Nothing like seeing a firetruck clear a jump from an uncompleted highway and then plow straight into a car, causing mass destruction.

The ending of "Castle Crashers" is perfect in every way.

You save four princesses through out the game, and after saving each one, you get to kiss her. When you save the fourth, who's face has remained hidden throughout the game (When you see her being kidnapped shes being dragged along the ground on her face, and later she's tied to a pole by her face) you lift up the veil covering her face, and she turns out to be a clown, who blows the hero aside with a loud "parp". Cue dancing penguins and summersaulting cats while the clown dances in a technicolor whirlwind of spinning lights to a some weird ass music. It's epic.

And to your question: Books and movies, without a shadow of a doubt. Well, good ones anyway. I do play a hell of a lot of videogames, and spend much more time at them than books and movies combined, but that's probably because you can be assured at least eight hours of play out of a video game, while eight hours of a movie is probably the most painful experience you'll ever go through. Quantity vs quality FTW there.

there was a cool moment in Quake 2, a few years back, where i fired a BFG shot at some enemies, but rather than fire at them, the big green ball just hung there at the front of my gun. so i walked round the level killing everything in sight with its little death rays without having to fire another shot :) yay for glitches!

i also remember getting really excited in Donkey Kong Country on the SNES when a friend and i were fighting over the controller. we must have bashed some random button combination because we were suddenly transported halfway accross the map and skipped out half the game. must have been an inadvertant cheat or something.

I can't remember any specific moment from a game, sorry.

The order from which I get the most satisfaction is as follows:
Books
Games
TV series
Movies

"They're waiting for you, Freeman .... in the test chamber."

Disgaea 1, episodes 5-6 are irreplacable :)

If you haven't played Braid, you should.

Persona 3; just about any scene where Aegis doesn't understand human things.

I'll nominate the hot springs scene from Final Fantasy X-2 for being awkward to watch. I always made sure nobody was around when I played that game; battles were fun, but damn, everything else was embarassing.

Even more peculiar was diplomacy in Master of Orion 3. Jesus.

All of Katamari Damacy is made of pure win!

Matrix Online, Cryptos has had one of the best entrance ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jt2SlywUn4

hmmm... there's an old coin op game called Cadash.

when you complete the game, the princess talks to the characters, thanking them for saving the kingdom.

however, if you die at the same time the boss dies...

the Princess speaks in japanese and is talking to NO ONE!!!

Sega Genesis
Shining in the Darkness: after getting your 'team' together, there comes a point in time when your sorceress's mother comes visiting. Her purpose is to drag her no-good-lazy daughter home. she argues that she's helping you to save the town. the mother confronts you asking if this is true. if you say no, you are greeted with a scene of her spanking her daughter for lying... the sorceress then pleads you to tell her the truth. if you lie (again) the scene repeats with her asking again to tell the truth... get the idea.

Might and Magic III: with the old Game Genie. you put on 'monsters won't hit you' and while playing, go to sleep. if you are attacked by monsters, you might as well restart the game. because you won't wake up untill you get hit by a monster... which can't hit you...

PC:
Mechwarror: Ghost Bear
The final mission. there is a glitch in the game where a hole is present in the wall. through that hole, you can see the 100 tonne mech waiting to ambush you. you can proceed to shoot it to death. then you can safely enter the room to the boss's speech that he will destroy you in which, right afterwards you get an "enemy destroyed" message.

another fun thing is the arrow IV missle system. if you launch that to where the enemy mechs are waiting you get "Enemy mech detected enemy mech destroyed" message. :D

Almost all of Grim Fandango.

another fun thing is the arrow IV missle system. if you launch that to where the enemy mechs are waiting you get "Enemy mech detected enemy mech destroyed" message. :D

A big "Hell Yeah!" to this. Watching a Daishi basically fly apart was hilarious.

A big "Hell Yeah!" to this. Watching a Daishi basically fly apart was hilarious.
You ever play Mechcommander II? That was such win.

A big "Hell Yeah!" to this. Watching a Daishi basically fly apart was hilarious.

Mechwarrior II.

Running around in Velvet Hammer. in the lightest mech, you can litterally run over a Maurader II.

I ran up to it... watched my altitude gage move up then I was on top of it, then dropping off it's back. :)

it's funny when you can attack those mechs and they won't do a thing because they're waiting for the target. :p

Almost all of Grim Fandango.

Ah fond memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdM9oJRIGZ0

Ah fond memories

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdM9oJRIGZ0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipFSCgrXHA Better still.

One fun little "WTF?" moment in gameplay was when my friend Erik and I were playing aorund with Mercenaries 2 on the 360 after I beat the story mode.

Basically, we took one of the Chinese helicopters and set it on top of a buliding in Caracas. We then pointed the laser designator for a nuclear bunker buster at the building right at Mattias's feet. I took the controller and began to take off in the copter. Once I was a bit in the air, Erik comes over and hits me and the Y button, letting Mattias fall to his death. He lands on the ground next to the building with only 2 percent health left (cuz the game won't let you fall to your death for some reason...) and THEN gets nuked right in the face and LIVES. WITH ONE health percent left. We throw a grenade at the ground wich still doesn't kill him. Even though Mattias is now starting to heal, I take a pack of C4, set it, and then detonate it with Mattias on top of it, FINALLY killing him.

So apparently Mattias can survive flaling 1,000 feet, a nuke to the face and a live grenade, all in a matter of a minute.

It was the only time ever Erik had complained that his character didn't die.

You ever play Mechcommander II? That was such win.

Sadly, no. That's on my list of games I wanted but never got.

Mechwarrior II.

Running around in Velvet Hammer. in the lightest mech, you can litterally run over a Maurader II.

I ran up to it... watched my altitude gage move up then I was on top of it, then dropping off it's back. :)

it's funny when you can attack those mechs and they won't do a thing because they're waiting for the target. :p

Classic. I don't think I ever pulled this off, though.

Sadly, no. That's on my list of games I wanted but never got.
Microsoft released it for free about a year ago, well worth a download.

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

Alien space marines with Cockney accents. What more can you want for fun?

One that always stuck with me is a villain working over a female. You hear weapons click and charge up. The villain turns around, looks shocked and says "She was asking for it?" BLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAMBLAM......

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

Alien space marines with Cockney accents. What more can you want for fun?
"Over there is Blind Man's Mountain"
"I see no mountain"
"The poor bastard was blind!"

"Over there is Blind Man's Mountain"
"I see no mountain"
"The poor bastard was blind!"

:D I am just going to have to load it up again! One of the funnest games I played!

Warcraft:
Click on the war ballon
"I can see my house from here"
"Wish I had a bomb"

Click on the female elf:
"Do that again and you'll pull back a stump"

Mythos(sp)
Click on the grenadeirs wrong and their grenades will fly straight up... then down...

:D I am just going to have to load it up again! One of the funnest games I played!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zu7u9AcvHc - Classic :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zu7u9AcvHc - Classic :D

Indeed! :D You know in the yank version, she has to wear a top. Luckily there is a file you can remove to set things right.

I can't remember what game it was, but on some substandard N64 FPS one of my friends owned I found out that on a certain level one of the characters could walk through walls on the multiplayer. Bear in mind, my friend was a much better gamer than I was, and constantly won at basically everything.

The look of confusion on his face as I killed him a bunch of times with a headshot by poking a gun just through the wall behind him when he was in a prime camping spot with only one entrance was priceless. Eventually he saw what I was doing, because I started giggling as I was walking through the wall and he looked at my side of the screen, and I just burst out full-on laughing for about five minutes, after informing him that "I am sneaky sneaky NINJA" :p

Every moment in FF X-2 was memorable.

This was pretty unexpected: I was playing Fallout 3, wandering around the wasteland and raiders attacked. I was using brass knuckles or something so I punched the first raider in the head - and her head came off!

Then another raider taunted me, as if I was an easy kill. That's peculiar but not unexpected, since many games seem to follow the rule "petty criminals fear nothing"

Actually, funny moment in Dark Forces (the first of the Star Wars FPS)...

I came upon a room with a Stormtrooper and two other characters facing the wall, and looked to two male friends and said, "What the hell is up with that?"

They cracked up hysterically and invited me to inspect the room once I cleared it out. A well-placed thermal detonator, me backing out of the room and shutting the door... BOOM!!! ARRRGHHHH!

...and, yeah, I go back in and see three urinals along the wall.

;) I guess it was a guy thing and I couldn't understand.

This was pretty unexpected: I was playing Fallout 3, wandering around the wasteland and raiders attacked. I was using brass knuckles or something so I punched the first raider in the head - and her head came off!

What were you, Superman or something?

Then another raider taunted me, as if I was an easy kill. That's peculiar but not unexpected, since many games seem to follow the rule "petty criminals fear nothing"

Ah, villan stupidity.

This is another reason why I like the Exile/Avernum games. Despite being rather old and simplistic in some respects, they stand out in having the weak enemies sometimes actually run away. Its nice to sometimes fight a villain who's brain is bigger than his nuts.;)

Actually, that reminds me of a somewhat obscure game my cousin used to have (I think it was called Lords of Magic). I remember one incident with like three goblins and an imp against this massive army. And of course they decided to fight. Obliterated, probably with zero casualties.:D I mean, you'd think villains would swallow their pride when faced with an army 50 times their power.

I was playing pong and I realised that you could just place the bat in one place...

What were you, Superman or something?
No, just an relatively ordinary guy. I did put quite a few skill points into unarmed combat, but I don't think I'd even reached a very high level. So I was pretty surprised.