Over the years played lots of games there's always something in a story that sticks out. So lets hear it.
Final Fantasy 5 , Aerais dies
Final Fantasy 9, The ending was awesome
Knights of the old Republic, When you find out you are Revan.
SPOILER METAL GEAR V
Metal Gear Solid V, When Quiet talks to save your life knowing she will never see you again because of it.
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Stories from RP'ing in games would be another matter as I could probably write essay's.
And nope, still unable to think of a memorable scripted story that sticks with me while writing...
My ultimate favorite was playing WoW as a Night Elf with my son, and confronting 3 horde on the road near Maestras Post. It was like the second day of the games release and both parties took off in opposite directions! That moment hooked me, and is the warm fuzzy everyone talks about in gaming.
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, Death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387381/quotes
From the level "Never Burn Money"; for some odd reason I remember reading that line very vividly while playing the game. I must have been 14.
The last level in the Halo campaign, playing co-op with my brother; realizing that the Pillar of Autumn is about to explode and we have to get out of here, taking that Warthog through the obstacle course with Covenant closing in from all sides... it's every sci-fi movie trope ending from Alien to Sphere, but Halo pulls this off very well.
edit: the Marathon quote is actually from "Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap", and I've just learned that game was designed by a pair who met at my alma mater where I attended, four years after playing the game. Weirdly cool!
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
i was pissed....
Good memory, Logging into Asherons Call for the first time and actually seeing other players running around in the same online world. that was so amazing to me, and actually looking at the sky and seeing stars and planets/moons and the sun rotate around the world. blew my mind that a video game could do that.
My attacks were timed very carefully as not to provoke the patrol that could detect stealth rooms from a distance. This almost always turned into a massive hunt in the city for that damn NE Hunter that's ganking doods again.it was hella fun and I actually had people bitching about me on the Archimonde server forum. Lol
Way before I was doing the above I would always camp the Horde flight path in EPL which would also always turn into a huge fight at some point thanks to my harassment.
Thoes were the most fun and memorable times I have had, in online gaming atleast.
Played: EQ, EQ2, Vanguard, WAR, WoW, LoTRO, CoX, CO, GW2, FFXIV: ARR, AoC, Rift, TSW, SWTOR, TERA, BnS, ESO
Faith in Dreamfall. As much as I love TLJ, the story arch of Faith is maybe Ragnar's best writing. When you first see her room... it still gets me.
Shadow of Memories when you have all the endings and get the final one...
(lol, just checked the wiki... nowadays it'd be such a flop especially here on mmorpg.com peeps, with all those gameplay-addicted comments and views floating around...
two quotes from the wiki: David Zdyrko called the story "one of the deepest and most engaging that has ever been told through a videogame."[2]
And: Critics commented on the general absence of action in the gameplay.[1][2][3][15] Sanders considered it the game's greatest flaw and a possible source of frustration for players.[15] heh-he )
From MMOs it's either Narmeleth in LotRO, or something from TSW (Ragnar ftw ). Let's say Black House.
edit: two more, Therese and Jeanette from Bloodlines, and CO's Vibora Apocalypse.
So I picked up the Genie miniature put its mouth on the player's miniature's butt, and started making kissing sounds.
Oh you mean PC games?!?
There have been none.
So, there is really very little that stands out for me story wise.
However, games are the perfect medium for creating your own, personal stories, and it is these I remember most.
So, most memorable gaming moment for me is my guilds first kill of Thaurlach, a balrog who is the final boss of The Rift raid in LotRO. I'd casually played SWG, but LotRO was my first push into more hardcore gaming. I was raid leader, I was dedicated and the group of people in my guild was just awesome. The fight itself remains one of my favourite bosses in all games and the 12 of us who did it were all good friends. Fight itself took 30mins or so, we'd been attempting to clear it for 6 weeks so when the kill finally came, we were all ecstatic! We followed up the kill by all heading to the Prancing Pony for drinks.
I knew instantly I was home.
So, I had to spend the turn with everyone bringing out all their assassination cards and guessing my location. On the last assassination attempt available, the minister had to choose between my character being at the mistress or the bank. He said mistress and I turned my secret choice over to reveal I was in the bank. Everyone went nuts and although I didn't win the game, it was fun.
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Kyleran: "Now there's the real trick, learning to accept and enjoy a game for what it offers rather than pass on what might be a great playing experience because it lacks a few features you prefer."
John Henry Newman: "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault."
FreddyNoNose: "A good game needs no defense; a bad game has no defense." "Easily digested content is just as easily forgotten."
LacedOpium: "So the question that begs to be asked is, if you are not interested in the game mechanics that define the MMORPG genre, then why are you playing an MMORPG?"
Unlocking Jedi in SWG.
Holding rank 1 in 3v3, doing realm first lk25hc, rs25hc and in general all the fights i had against top 2v2/3v3/5v5 teams.
This is why WoW is legendary and there is no WoW killer they had really nice competative active arena pvp.
Being top1 archer and top3 arena for a season in Tera plus clearing all the possible content and earning the hardest to earn gear at the time Nightforge oh and leading the Alliance wars! :proud: .
These are few things that i will never forget, there's memorable moment in every mmorpg i played (for more than a month duh), but i was supposed to mention only 1 thing anyway Lol it'll end up a brag fest on my part.
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