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Luisinan

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"Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Tue 28 Oct 22:00

Don't know why I thought of this. The board had been kinda boring lately (though that seems to be changing KOF 2K3). Anyway, list your mood alterning gaming moments here. I'm talking about moments when you were suddenly filled with adrenaline or extreme fear or happiness. I'll list a few, and you'll get an idea about what I'm talking about.

NES era- "Get The Hell Outta Here!"
Game: Bionic Commando
Situation: Getting to 'Hitler's' base. Killing Hitler. Escaping exploding base. The whole process of the last stage is nerve wracking. The intensity builds up and doesn't stop after you kill 'Hitler.' It gets worse when you find out the base is gonna explode. Shakey hands. Sweat on your brow. Intense.

PSX era- "Afraid of the Dark"
Game: Silent Hill
Foggy neighborhoods. Dark classrooms. Beating hearts. Nuff said. Never been so 'virtually' scared in my life. Turn on the damn lights. Turn off that damn psx.

N64 era- "Ultimate Battle"
Game: Legend of Zelda- Ocarina of Time.
Fighting Ganon. This is THE FIGHT. You forget about everything, you become Link, and your final fight with Ganon is the reason why you were born. Your there. That's all there is to it. Immense. Best boss fight ever.

GC era- "Take that Biatch!"
Game: Megaman Battle Network
There have been a lot of Megaman games where I start talking shit to the tv set after I defeat a robot master. Why? Cause they are so hard to beat. "Take that Gutsman! Your not so Gutsy anymore huh? Sucked hard on my buster shots huh!?"

Arcade era- "Me Against You For Everything"
Game: Street Fighter 3- Third Strike
Everytime I participate in an SF3 tournment, I get that instant rush of adrenaline when it's my turn to step up and fight for my right to stay. Weak knees. Churning stomach. Super adrenaline. Me against you for everything.

Anyway, you get the idea. hope some of you share your mood alterning gaming moments.

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Megane

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"Re(1):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Tue 28 Oct 22:13

Any vs match in SF:Third Strike. When the match resets (both of us stops and backs up) in the final round, and we're both close to getting KO'd, just before one of us decides to tap forward-forward.
A final round match with Gill.

Mike Tyson's Punch Out: When Bald Bull backs up for a Bull Charge, and you got a sliver of life left, and 2 KOs already. "BRING IT ON!"

Can't seem to remember if there was an RPG final battle that made me say "What. The. Fuck."

The look on someone's face when you obliterate his best friend - PRICELESS

I don't know

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Gen

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"Re(1):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Tue 28 Oct 22:31

King of Fighters 96

Vice and Mature altered my mood. Sort of. Maybe more enhansed a mood.

Dr Baghead

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"Re(2):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Tue 28 Oct 22:37

quote:
King of Fighters 96

Vice and Mature altered my mood. Sort of. Maybe more enhansed a mood.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Oh no he didn't!! Oh no he didn't!

(on topic)
Soul Calibur 2.

Several challenges I found very nerve wrecking, so much so after winning/quitting I was shaking/tense all over.

And yes I realize pushing Spawn off a cliff shouldn't send me into a nervous break down, but I can't afford the mental help right now

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"Re(1):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 00:56

- The beginning of FF6. For some reasons, by the time I got to play it, since I was so hyped and it turned out to be so much like I expected it, I think I've never been so close to the the gamer's Nirvana: that "that's it, I'm playing the perfect game" sensation

. I still love that game, but the feeling has never been the same.

- I felt proud of myself when I got all through Grim Fandango, the first graphic adv. I played all through using no external help of any kind.

- Anytime I've "discovered" a game I've enjoyed it a lot more (for example Super Metroid or Chrono Trigger). And when I say "discovered" I mean any game I almost didn't know anything about when I played it for the first time and that I liked a lot afterwards. So even when those 2 examples are very famous I still didn't know almost anything about them (only vaguely recalled having read about) by that time.

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Zepy

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"Re(2):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 01:06

Sumadera's scenario in Tenshi no inai jyuunigatsu. uho! let us all kill ourselves.

Come to think of it, these games alter my mood too much.

Fatality
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"Re(3):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 02:15

Chrono Trigger. when discovered that the game had many endings, made me feel like i was playing the best game ever...

Time Mage

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"Re(1):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 05:04

Great topic!

SNES:
Terranigma, at the end, when

Spoiler (Highlight to view) -
you realize that everything created by Dark Gaia is going to dissapear, including you, of course. I took that last day in Krysta talking with all the people, knowing that I wasn't going to return. It was a very emotive goodbye.

End of Spoiler

PSX:
Final Fantasy Tactics, at the end (I've told this a lot of times, but...),

Spoiler (Highlight to view) -
when I defeated Altima, I wasn't prepared, because some strange reason I didn't think that the Murond battles were the end, so I felt shocked when I saw it was the end, indeed. And I also felt mad at Delita in the last scene. However, the shock left me sorta depressed, because I had SO MUCH fun with that game, and then all finished suddenly.

End of Spoiler

N64:
I have to agree here, that last battle with the most terrorific Ganon I've seen ever really put me in that state of shaky and sweaty hands, with all my attention put into the fight.

GC:
Metroid Prime: Fight with Meta Ridley for 5th try. First time with a clear battle plan in mind. Few energy tanks left. That was a very tense battle, bu I won at last.

Phoenix
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"Re(2):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 07:42

Kefka and the Orochi Team in 97...both situations might as well have been RPGs. Very desperate, dramatic battles etched into my memory.

"My only enemy is myself...and my ex-girlfriend and..."

Krzyzewski Man
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"Re(3):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 08:30

I pretty much just get pissed off at games: Soul Calibur arcade, King of Fighters '99 for PSX, games with cheap AIs basically. However, I do have a few moments I remember: The flashbacks in Final Fantasy VII and manipulating the VFX in Viewtiful Joe among them.

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VManOfMana
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"Re(3):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 08:32

Final Fantasy IVe / Final Fantasy II
* The first time I faced Zeromus. I was literally shaking. The tension, the music, the background. It had all the elemens of an epic battle.

Seiken Densetsu 2/Secret of Mana
* Fighting the Dark Lych was an spectular but easy fight. But when I found out it was not the last battle everything changed. The fight vs. the Mana Beast is epic for me. Fighting at the end of the Mana Fortress, with a humongous beast at the end of the sky, added with one of my favorites BG musics ever also gave me the chills.

Interestingly, FFVI/III and Seiken Densetsu 3 did not give me the same impression. FFVI has all the "epic battle" elements of FFIV plus more, but the the relic and Esper system break the game's difficulty (I still have the theory that (FF6 - relic - esper) > FF6). In the case of SD3, I think the excitement was killed by playing the game with a walkthrough (I got the Japanese cart).

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"Re(4):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 10:01

quote:
Final Fantasy IVe / Final Fantasy II
* The first time I faced Zeromus. I was literally shaking. The tension, the music, the background. It had all the elemens of an epic battle.

Seiken Densetsu 2/Secret of Mana
* Fighting the Dark Lych was an spectular but easy fight. But when I found out it was not the last battle everything changed. The fight vs. the Mana Beast is epic for me. Fighting at the end of the Mana Fortress, with a humongous beast at the end of the sky, added with one of my favorites BG musics ever also gave me the chills.

Interestingly, FFVI/III and Seiken Densetsu 3 did not give me the same impression. FFVI has all the "epic battle" elements of FFIV plus more, but the the relic and Esper system break the game's difficulty (I still have the theory that (FF6 - relic - esper) > FF6). In the case of SD3, I think the excitement was killed by playing the game with a walkthrough (I got the Japanese cart).

imo, it was both FF6's system and Kefka's strength. no offense to anyone (i know a lot of you adore dear Kefka), but he was a pathetic final boss. i was extremely disappointed when i first faced him. i expected a god and found a child. there was an interesting story behind him, but i didn't buy his insanity or his character

i was going to answer this thread a long time ago but there's way too many moments and way too many games for me. a lot of those moments happened during Final Fantasy IV though. i was only about nine years old when i first played it and the world it opened up overwhelmed me. defending the innocent, the betrayal of a friend, facing the four fiends -- i could go on forever. there are moments in this game that can still fill me with blinding, hateful rage, or complete and utter sadness. after eleven years, this game can still bring tears to my eyes

the only game that was able to take Final Fantasy IV's place as my most favorite rpg is Skies of Arcadia (Eternal Arcadia). i won't even try listing any particular moments from that game. it is a faultless masterpiece

i don't know what the factor was that made me feel this way towards those games. it might've been the music, a well-placed story, the ending, or maybe other certain elements. i've spent more than half of my life trying to figure it out

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Just a Person

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"Re(1):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 13:07

quote:
PSX era- "Afraid of the Dark"
Game: Silent Hill
Foggy neighborhoods. Dark classrooms. Beating hearts. Nuff said. Never been so 'virtually' scared in my life. Turn on the damn lights. Turn off that damn psx.

Agreed. Silent Hill was really scary when I first saw it. You know, if I did like my friends who cut all the dialogues, maybe it wouldn´t be so scary, but when you find out what´s really going on Silent Hill, THAT´S when you really feel the sickness in the air...

My moments were: seeing Bowser in Super Mario World (SNES), beating Vega/M.Bison in Street Fighter II (SNES also,though it could be in other console), teaming up with your friend in Sonic 3 (Genesis,BTW, I used to be Tails, since my friend was more resistant to death), and hearing all the songs in TLoZ: Ocarina of Time (N64; that game is classical!), and the teaming-up in SFA3 (Arcade and DreamCast). All these moments gave me an adrenalin rush (except the Zelda songs, they just gave me a good and calming feeling).

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"Re(2):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 15:23

quote:
PSX era- "Afraid of the Dark"
Game: Silent Hill
Foggy neighborhoods. Dark classrooms. Beating hearts. Nuff said. Never been so 'virtually' scared in my life. Turn on the damn lights. Turn off that damn psx.

Agreed. Silent Hill was really scary when I first saw it. You know, if I did like my friends who cut all the dialogues, maybe it wouldn´t be so scary, but when you find out what´s really going on Silent Hill, THAT´S when you really feel the sickness in the air...

My moments were: seeing Bowser in Super Mario World (SNES), beating Vega/M.Bison in Street Fighter II (SNES also,though it could be in other console), teaming up with your friend in Sonic 3 (Genesis,BTW, I used to be Tails, since my friend was more resistant to death), and hearing all the songs in TLoZ: Ocarina of Time (N64; that game is classical!), and the teaming-up in SFA3 (Arcade and DreamCast). All these moments gave me an adrenalin rush (except the Zelda songs, they just gave me a good and calming feeling).

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"Re(2):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 15:28

quote:
- The beginning of FF6. For some reasons, by the time I got to play it, since I was so hyped and it turned out to be so much like I expected it, I think I've never been so close to the the gamer's Nirvana: that "that's it, I'm playing the perfect game" sensation . I still love that game, but the feeling has never been the same.

- Anytime I've "discovered" a game I've enjoyed it a lot more (for example Super Metroid or Chrono Trigger). And when I say "discovered" I mean any game I almost didn't know anything about when I played it for the first time and that I liked a lot afterwards. So even when those 2 examples are very famous I still didn't know almost anything about them (only vaguely recalled having read about) by that time.

Final Fantasy 3 U.S. / 6 Japan was one of the best Super Nintendo games. I really liked it, and still do. Secret of Mana I really liked and still do. Chrono Trigger I also liked. And still like.

Holiday

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"Re(1):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Wed 29 Oct 23:57

Happiness is playing Rez really really loud with the trance vibrator. Bbbb... Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Neh, just joking, although I wish I had the vibrator.

A recent experience for me would have to be yesterday when I finally reached stage X-D in Psyvariar R and stage 6-D in Border Down and beating both of them, when previously I was nowhere even close to unlocking them.
My horoscope must have read "you will be blessed with shmup godliness today"!

I was so happy that I went out to eat something expensive and ordered some expensive figures online.
Being happy is bad for my wallet ;_;

EternalNewbie
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"Re(2):Your Mood Altering Gaming Moments" , posted Thu 30 Oct 01:36

Ah, so many good ones said. I still remember the ending for Terranigma. So sad... The Ganon battle in LoZ:OoT is indeed, the best end battle I fought (not so much in difficulty, but the mood was great). Other good end battles I remember are the games that have the final boss music that changes. I know Skies of Arcadia did this, but not talking about that game because it would do that alot even if the battle didn't look like it was going to turn for the worse. Though I remember Seiken Denetsu 3's end battles. They first start off with that heavy music that most end bosses have, then about half way through the boss, the boss starts pulling out the stops and that second "We can't fail now after having come this far" type music starts playing and you get all hyped up. Ah, I love it when games have great final battles...

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