The Damned Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Seriously? Out of all of 2008? Think back to January. I'm racking my brain for anything that fits, but I just can not think of what it was. Team Fortress 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Dare I say it? The Wrath Gate incident in WoW: Wrath of the Lich King...epicness to the max. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coop Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 At long last being able to play imports on my PS2 via Swap Magic 3.6, and having Thunder Force VI become a reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TehDonut Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 hmm...early 2008...Smash bros brawl?...or..no more heroes? as for the rest of 2008 I can only think of one thing that hasn't been mentioned yet. Dead space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCvgluvr Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Yes, the whole thing. A very close second would be beating Majora's Mask for the second time. Hadn't played it for a long time before then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalcyonSpirit Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I haven't had much time to play video games in the past year; too much college work to be done. But this summer I had a personal top moment in X3: Reunion: I flew a fighter 200 kilometers to the nearest jumpgate through the middle of a Xenon fleet consisting of 250+ fighters, corvettes and destroyers, 90% of which were faster than my fighter, and survived with 5% hull left. It took me two hours of constant dodging to make the trip. Oh, and just prior to that I had lost my entire fleet to the same Xenon force. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 23, 2008 Share Posted December 23, 2008 I haven't had much time to play video games in the past year; too much college work to be done. But this summer I had a personal top moment in X3: Reunion: I flew a fighter 200 kilometers to the nearest jumpgate through the middle of a Xenon fleet consisting of 250+ fighters, corvettes and destroyers, 90% of which were faster than my fighter, and survived with 5% hull left.It took me two hours of constant dodging to make the trip. Oh, and just prior to that I had lost my entire fleet to the same Xenon force. i had one of these a while back (not this year) in freelancer, where i basically flew through an entire system of corsairs (best pilots in the game) all flying titans. i was in a freighter...the bretonian one, whichever that was. it was horribly hard, but i managed it (barely). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum4n After All Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 The fucking release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Had a bunch of friends over, who normally bitch out early and go to sleep, come over and play midnight release. It was great fun. Then my Wii taking a gigantic shit in my hands a few months later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadofsky Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Smash Brothers Brawl, finally unlocking Snake and then finally Sonic, Wolf, and Toon Link Tomb Raider Underworld, the Kraken's tentacle slinking back in from the hole it protruded out (scared the living crap out of me, I wasn't expecting it in the slightest) Mega Man 9, finally getting to Willy's Stages, and still not having beat them yet. Mario Kart Wii races at my house, because the online battle matches suck, not to mention having left out what was perfectly good battle modes from Double Dash. Experiencing Lost Winds, only to get bored with it later. Playing through Banjo Kazooie (N64 one, I hated Nuts and Bolts) on XBOX live, and it being the first game for me to have found all the achievements. Halo 3, beating the campaign on co-op with my Brother in Law, and helping him find all the skulls. Portal, learning how to shoot forward momentum, and doing it. And beating Glados, and getting an awesome song out of it. Scoring 2 million points in tetris DS endless mode. Star Wars Force Unleashed, SPOILER...... A famous jedi master striking Vader, only to find that it's only the Apprentice's droid. End Spoiler.... Those were my top moments this year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linkmaster94 Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 Best gaming moment of 2008? That would be FINALLY completing the Wedding Mask sidequest from Majora's Mask. Or does that not count because MM wasn't released this year? Well, ideally it would be from this year...but hey, what the heck, it was a gaming moment from this year, so why not? Crap, forgot to include my top moment(s). Personally, as much as I've wracked my brain, I keep coming to Bioshock. I love those atmospheric, eerie adventures and Bioshock fit all that and more. The sounds of the ocean surrounding you, the history of that doomed city...all of that and more made for an incredible experience. Yes, the latter half wasn't quite as good, but it still was my highlight. In a very close 2nd place, seeing the sun rise in Crysis. Combined with the ambient jungle sounds around me, it was my prime reason to continue upgrading my system for PC releases of next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Vagrance Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Oh man, I just remembered a huge one: The ending in Braid. Took me a while to figure out the puzzles but me and a friend tag-teamed the game in a 24-hour span and beat it and got to the ending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red9 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 i played and successively beat each megaman game I thru X8 from jan 1st until two days ago. Epic, absolutely epic, it's such a great series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 and you had it last all year. that's actually really kind of cool - you could almost schedule it for a certain time each month =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liontamer Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 HD Remix wins by a mile for me And there you have it. We win '08! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zup Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Mother 3 Fan Translation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halc Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I don't play too many video games nowadays, but I would have to say Super Mario Galaxy with 120 stars. Uh... that was this year, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linkmaster94 Posted December 24, 2008 Author Share Posted December 24, 2008 I don't play too many video games nowadays, but I would have to say Super Mario Galaxy with 120 stars.Uh... that was this year, right? Late November of 07 actually, at least, for North America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alt.slack Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Yeah for speedruns I can understand, but if memorization is just as much a factor to merely progressing in the game as reaction and skill, that just smells of bad game design. Challenge is good, but that particular kind of challenge seems forced to me - it's unfair and is essentially a cop-out method of artificially lengthening games, IMO.I don't know if any of this actually applies to MM9, so don't take this as a bash against it or any other particular game, but it does seem to be a relic of the NES era that a lot of people have acquired a taste for when they actually had the time to deal with that sort of BS when they were kids. I'm just curious what you mean by calling MM9 and NES games BS. I have plenty of friends that never had an NES and have played one very little, never played a Mega Man game that absolutely love MM9. It's the challenge that makes it so addictive. Again what do you mean by BS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophetik music Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 i think he means bullshit, but that was an uncharacteristically not-nice post from him. maybe he was just drunk or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo-Egyptian Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to imply that MM9 and NES games are BS, but rather that certain elements of these games - like needing to memorise levels so you can look out for particular enemies/traps etc. before you can complete them - are tedious and were easier to tolerate when you were a kid. Tada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerrax Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Hmmmm.... Smash Bros Brawl release party Had a huge release party at the Gamestop near me. Tourneys, free stuff, and tons of nerds. Dragonforce DLC on Guitar Hero III Freakin awesome. Nuff said. "Ropeburn" chapter of Mirror's Edge I was screaming "OH MY GOD! I CAN"T BELIEVE I JUST SURVIVED THAT!" throughout the last few minutes of this level. Epic. and oh yeah... FALLOUT 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazygecko Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 I'm pretty sure he wasn't trying to imply that MM9 and NES games are BS, but rather that certain elements of these games - like needing to memorise levels so you can look out for particular enemies/traps etc. before you can complete them - are tedious and were easier to tolerate when you were a kid.Tada. I'd prefer that to having some hand-holder constantly tell me stuff like "Oh no, it's a BOTTOMLESS PIT! You'll need to JUMP over it using your JUMP button!". Modern games are just littered with shit like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomicfog Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Slipping grenades into the pockets of merchant guards in Fallout 3, and then having them dance around and explode whilst I sneak past them and steal all kinds of expensive device blueprints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperion5182 Posted December 24, 2008 Share Posted December 24, 2008 Played through HL 2 and Portal in one sitting Beating Sup Com in hard mode. A 5 kill spree in combat arms that led to a flag recapture and a game victory. Achieving 33 pyro achievements legitimately in the span of a week. Finally killing Vistrix on Age of Conan Beating AC nexus. Beating halo 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murmeli Walan Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 A lot of great gaming happened to me in 2008. The Super Smash Bros. Brawl release was the first big thing. After obsessively reading the Smash Bros. Dojo website every single weekday for nearly an entire year, the game is released, and it met every single expectation for me. Other highlights include singing "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" on Rock Band 2 in a full gaming room at an convention in Kentucky last Halloween, making an ass of myself at the OCR panel at Otakon over the summer (ok, so that's cheating, but video games were involved, so there!) and turning two of my friends into OCR fans in the process, and getting my old NES working again thanks to some screwdrivers and a ton of windex and building a nice NES collection for myself. But my favorite video gaming moment of the year has been mentioned before, but I'll repeat it: Mega Man 9. One night in particular stands out for me: A friend of mine went with me to another friend's apartment to download and play the game. She laughed her ass off at the two of us playing because we were literately playing out a Penny Arcade comic on her couch. And that's what MM9 made us feel like: little kids on Christmas playing a brand new NES game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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