Edge's "Moments in Gaming" Article Thursday, September 04 2008

Found a link in my mail to Edge Online's "Oh. My. God!!!" article where they go through 50 of their favorite moments in gaming. This is obviously a subjective exercise, but I really enjoyed the article as it reminded me of some of my favorite moments. Those include:

  • Final Fantasy VII - Aeris
  • Ico - The relationship with Yorda
  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem - Going "insane"
  • Knights of the Old Republic - Darth Revan revealed
  • Prince of Persia: Sands of Time - Meeting Farah again at the end of the game
  • Dead Rising - The lawnmower
  • Bioshock - "Would you kindly"
  • Call of Duty 4 - Shock and Awe

Fair warning - the article has what some might consider minor spoilers if you've never played the respective games. It's a tricky line to follow - at some point a storyline becomes well enough known that there really shouldn't be any hesitation about talking about spoiler points... everyone who watched Titanic pretty much knew the boat sunk at the end, right? Still, I tweaked my favorites above to not be as specific as the article.

I wish they'd caught a few of the really old school moments from games like Zork or King's Quest. "Count Leaves" or "Plugh" or learning to spell "Rumpelstiltskin" leap to mind... ah well.

6 comment(s)

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Xwar wrote on January 23, 2008

Meh, most of them were lame, "mandatory nods" and/or fluff, but hey, it's Edge - the World's Second Worst Gaming Magazine.

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Roland wrote on January 23, 2008

Andre, how'd your pax talk thing go? I'd post the question in a comment to the post about the panel, but can't.

Also, any word on whether or not a QWERTY keyboard will be available on the new dashboard? < puppyEyes="on" />

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Ozymandias wrote on January 23, 2008

Looks like the virtual keyboard is the same as the original - A,B,C, etc. Prettier, though!

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WiNG wrote on January 23, 2008

Remarkable moments are totally subjective to the writter per se and it is only logical that the reader tends to disagree as he/she would have included this or that and left other things aside.

I would have added, myself, these to the list:

- FreeSpace 2: All the missions that involved the SJ Sathanas Class ships, specially the second fight with the GTVA Colossus (those who played it will know what I mean).

- UFO (AKA X-COM 1): Thanks to Steam launching the whole pack for the series I had the (questionable) pleasure of remembering one of the scariest moments I had ever playing anything... When your screen is in black with the background image and only thing you can see is "ALIEN TURN: Moving", lots of opening gate sounds around without knowing where from... suddenly gunshots, civilian screams... and out of the blue suddenly your tactical screen shows you one of those aliens moving near you for an instant just to go to the black screen again. Ah, how much I love the tension of those moments till you get back into your tactical screen

- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of Earth. The town has looked strange from the start, you know there is something wrong and you have a bad bad bad feeling about spending the night in the hotel. Uh-Oh? What was that noise? They are comming for me! Wait, I have a gun... but what good is it for in Call of Cthulhu anyways!? Run you fool! Block the doors behind you if you have time! The fact that the town itself is called  Innsmouth did not help either...

Getting insane in game is worth another mention, for its awful consequences.

Day of the Tentacle: "Oh... a secret passage! This is too easy*thunk!*"

Dead or Alive Ultimate. You played DoA2 on your Dreamcast, you know its supossedly just a remake and you know you just like hitting your neighbor like mad when you two meet to play. However, the first time you kick him out of the rooftop and send his character flying across the street to crash against a gigantic Chineese Theatre signal, fall to the ground and see the signal falling over him is just priceless

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Islandkiwi wrote on January 23, 2008

Bioshock's "would you kindly", for sure...I would also add the ending sequence from The Darkness.

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