The Return of HTWingNut's NBR Christmas Giveaway - Part I

You can participate in each part of the giveaway, just not multiple entries for the same one (yes because some people would spam their name a hundred times if they could).

 

most memorable gaming moment: back in the day (circa 1994 or so) when i had my Packard Bell computer with a 486SX and 2MB ram, i finally got Doom to load with a boot disk.

now, i feel kind of old...

 

Hmm... favourite gaming moment *ponders... I actually have many, but there are a few that I kept close since I was a young little gamer. The Legacy of Kain Series were games that marked my childhood. I loved them for their setting, storyline and mostly for their puzzles and problem solving mechanics. I was always left with a sense of awe from the moment the game launched the intro cinematic, thus linking the story in a very awesome way, til the end when everything was left unanswered.
I did not play any game with voice acting as good as Simon Templeman (Kain's voice) or Michael Bell (Raziel's voice).
Intro and ending quotes/cutscenes were just awesome.

"Given the choice; whether to rule a corrupt and failing empire or to challenge the Fates for another throw--a better throw--against one's destiny...what was a king to do?". You really have to play the series to feel it.
These were just inspiring and poetic and the voices did their best to immerse the player. Here are some funny outtakes that are worth watching. R.I.P. Tony Jay.

The Soul Reaver 2 ending was one of my favourite gaming moments. "History abhors a paradox." - Unforgettable quote.

Everytime I go back and play the series, I get this warm feeling, despite the obvious cliches and other things.

 

favorite gaming moments

those 3hr + Halo 3 gaming sessions w/ college friends every Friday night....

 

You are not alone! I bought my first PC that was my own just out of college in 1994 (prior to that I had an Amiga 500, and my parents' PC's).

I think my greatest gaming moment goes back almost as far, and that was the first time I bought my Monster 3D card. The birth of true PC 3D gaming. I was an avid Descent/Descent II fan, and first I thought it was kind of a gimmick, but what the heck, I had a good job out of college and could finally buy cool stuff. So I bought it, and OMG! It was the best investment I ever made.

 

My favorite moment is when I play TF2 and the two teams are evenly matched and round goes on like forever . And the bloodbath is quite nice .

 

@ HTWingNut

you've got me beat by a few years - i was in high school at the time

prior to my first Doom experience, it was Jupiter Lander and Zork for my Commodore 64. i even remember loading programs from a cassette tape drive! but i was young and it was the 80s...my memory is a little fuzzy that far back

 

Ha! Zork! I loved Hitchhiker's Guide books, and loved the text game too. Nothing better than those games. They make you think and use your imagination. Quite amazing how well it worked with typed input too.

You can play it online now: BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

@HTWingNut...i already have the Witcher2 so I didn't enter but i think this is a great thing you're doing for the community here. Great for the holiday spirit!

The greatest gaming moment for me was years ago, when i was at a girlfriends house, and her dad just bought a smoking fast Intel 486 dx-66 computer and i saw Doom2 for the first time. It was mindblowing. The first person shooter concept was so new to me. I ended up playing the game all night till the next morning. Everyone woke up and I was still there in front of the computer lol

 

LOL. Her dad didn't freak out? Spend the night at her house and still there in the morning. True geek though, spends the time on the computer instead of with the girl.

 

Those early gaming memories are so precious. Laboring my way through an old EGA parser from Sierra. The first time I ever figured out how to jump and kill the first boss in Stellar 7. High-score runs on Commander Keen against my siblings for first choice of big, gaudy, sugary lollipops courtesy of my late grandpa. Playing the shareware version of Wolfenstein 3D for hours on end, trying to figure out just what that guy with the machine gun was trying to say. Chip's Challenge, Kroz, Mines of Moria (oh Mines of Moria! - Terraria delights me so much because it feels like a modern take on the roguelike). Escaping the robotic yeti in Skifree. Spending countless hours running aimlessly around Brittania in Ultima 6 with nary a clue what's going on or how to progress in the story, but at the same time not caring a bit. Aldo's Adventures. Paganitzu. My grandpa named his computer after Herkimer, the protagonist of that game.

Wow. There's a lot of stuff there that I haven't thought of in years. I get the feeling this is going to be worth revisiting some time.

 

that's why he said "at a girlfriend's house"

 

My first computer gaming moments were when I was about ~6 years old playing Street Rod on my Dad's 286.

I loved that game (it didn't hurt that that's all the computer could run) and would spend hours customizing my own cars trying to figure out what made the fastest combination. I still think it was a better designed game than any of this NFS garbage.

 

LOL...she was pissed. I spent all night on the computer. So everyone went to bed (including her) and i was still there in the morning playing Doom2.

Her dad didn't freakout. I often slept over (but in the basement )...while everyone went upstairs

You want to hear true geek? I had just bought Skyrim, and was walking about...my wife, who knows how i get with a new game decided to mess with me, she stands naked in front of me...but I had my eyes glued on the mountains of Skyrim instead of the mountains on my wife.

Man, i think i have a computer addiction

 

Ha, my favorite moment wasn't on a Computer.

It was when I was playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time on my N64.

Man it was hard not to clear without looking up anything, it took me like 2 years to clear the game...

Actually the ocarina songs were pretty good. Song of Time, etc...

 

Precious memories bro! This thread has brought back some really precious memories. i should go look them up on facebook to see what they are up to 20 years later

 

Ha! Yeah, been there, done that. I remember when the first Starcraft came out. My wife (just GF at the time) did the same thing with me. Over time she became jealous of the computer. Until I bought her a decent one and she got addicted to Tetris, Sim City, The Sims, and Poker, lol.

There was a great advertisement I remember of a guy playing his video games with a hot girl in lingerie taunting him and he's holding his hand out to keep her back, lol. Wish I could find it.

 

Reminds me of the time I was over at an old gfs house playing Mario Cart with her all night. Her N64 just happened to be in her room and we were sitting on her bed. Eventually we both passed out around the same time and I woke up to her dad just staring at me with a "w t f" look on his face. Hilarity did not ensue.

 

Playing Armagetron Advanced in University and altering my sleep cycle so I could play with Americans when I woke up at 3 p.m in the afternoon, aussies at night, and euro's right before I went to bed at about 7 a.m. Yeah, it was an easy semester.

 

I did something similar with Ultima Online. I would wake up early in the morning and play with my mates in Italy at 7.am and like miss all my morning classes.... I didn't do too good the first year :*(

 

Thanks for the giveaway! Not entering, I already have Witcher 2 on GOG, love that site.

Fave gaming moment: The first time I played SMB and discovered the hidden passage to warp gates at the top of the screen in 1-2.

 

Probably my most favorite recent gaming moment was when I FINALLY was able to make a full set of Daedric Armor / weapons in Skyrim. All of the 35+ hours put in thus far have been worth it (even if it is driving my wife crazy....I won't fall for her naked tricks ha ha)!

 

I remember playing Super Mario World when I was much younger and after beating the whole game the turtles would now have Mario helmets... That was something I was not expecting!

 

Great gaming moment?

The night starcraft 2 was released, me and all my buddies got it the same night and played the game all night long until morning the next day!

 

I have A LOT of great games moments... it's too difficult to pick one, so I'll take 1 console and 1 PC to make it fair, left aside "emotional" moments (like playing with my dad as a child xD)

- Console: Playing Castlevania 4 on my brand new SNES. I remember a relative gifted me the console almost on launch from USA. On that time, so FEW people own a SNES here in my country, so there were too few gaming titles to buy. A friend that has a relative traveling by the time Castlevania 4 launched, ask him to bring us that game and Zelda 3. The whole SNES experience was brutal (Mario world being one of the best Marios), also Zelda 3 was great, BUT, as I never played any Zelda before, but played every single castlevania title, The Castlevania 4 was such an experience. That game is THE BEST Castlevania title so far. Followed by Castlevania 3.

- PC: It MUST be playing Ultima 7 the Black gate for the first time (The BEST game ever). BUT, the most exiting game moment was buying my first Soundblaster + CD kit. It costs me about 500$ by the time, and came with almost 20 GOOD games. Playing Ultima 7 and 8 with sound was AWESOME!!

 

Favorite Gaming Moment:

I had tons of them while playing EverQuest with my wife and friend back in 2001. That game essentially got me back into PC gaming. The best moment was definitely getting my Emerald of Corruption from Innoruuk, the god in the Plane of Hate, for my Ranger Epic weapon.

 

One of my favorite moments, and the first that comes to mind would be getting over 5 million bounty in NFS most wanted

Losing the cops at level 6 after about a 2 hour chase was no easy task

 

That was a GREAT game. I got tired of all the NFS games they kept spitting out, but that one seemed to get favorable reviews. I loved it. It was challenging and fun, and not frustrating really.

 

favorite gaming moment: Playing Project C.A.R.S. and managing on Connecticut Hill Short (Watkins Glen) to properly drift a Caterham R500 Superlight around the big turn at 160km/h without crashing. Keyboard or no keyboard, it was nervewracking hoping the backend wouldn't cut loose and send me flying into a million pieces

 

Cloudfire - DQ'd!

j/k - but to get back in the drawing, you have to streak down your street completely nude...

 

Favorite gaming moment (old school!):

Game: Ultima V -- the first RPG I ever really played through.

Setting: There is a quest for an artifact that takes the Avatar to the underworld, requiring the player first to talk to a particular NPC who narrates (what I remember to be) an extremely long and complex set of directions involving landmarks, geographical clues, and obscure riddles. After an unbelievably long journey down nine levels of mines, into the dark of the underworld (which is as large as the above world), down winding paths so deep that they make you think that maybe the directions lead to nowhere, the Avatar reaches seemingly impassable mountains. Following a possible interpretation of the directions, one starts simply to climb the mountains, which seem to have no end, until one finds a long series of waterfalls.

Moment: I pulled out my magic carpet, which served as a skiff, and took the leap of faith off over the falls. Falling...falling...falling...falling...for a minute or more, taking damage...I landed finally in a calm lake below. In the center of the lake was an island. I dug at the center of the island and behold, the artifact was actually there.

Epic.

 

My fave moment in gaming was when warhammer online was still new and I was able to join a warband taking a keep on tier 3. While on the way we got into contact with a chaos warband when they got word that we are trying to take the keep from them. It took us around 2-3 hours before eventually pushing them inside the keep and finally taking it from them. I even manage to get an epic loot from the keep lord after killing it. Those were the days..

 

My favorite gaming moment was watching my Brother beat Final Fantasy 3 (US edition), and getting so excited that when he accidentally yanked the controller the SNES went flying and broke the lamp and game in the process.

 

Ok here it is,

A few years ago I was playing Modern Warfare on my 360. A co-worker and I were chatting via Xbox live during the game. My wife called me on the phone and I told my buddy I had to go, but I didn't take off my xbox headset or turn off the console. I started a conversation with my wife and told her how I had gotten free session that morning at a local tanning salon to help get my skin ready for a cruise vacation we were going on in a few weeks. My wife then proceed to tell me I could get skin cancer if I kept going there, that tanning salons were filthy inside, and that I should never do that again. I told her it was a free 1st session, and I didn't really like it anyway, so no harm done. She was worried about the whole thing for some reason and made sure I knew her stance on the matter. Our conversation ended, and we said goodbye, love you etc.

As soon as I hung up the phone, I head my co-worker say into my ear via the Xbox 360 headset, "hey, you tell your wife, if wanna f***in tan, you're gunna tan". I about laughed my butt off when I realized he had heard the whole conversation through his TV speakers on Xbox Live.

The next day at work, all my co-workers knew about it and busted my chops saying I couldn't get a fake tan without a permission slip from my wife. We all had a good laugh.

Watch out, what happens on Xbox Live will be in the work place tomorrow!

 

My favourite gaming moment was when I was able to beat Max Payne. I had a tough time back then, I even had to buy a new VGA card to be able to play Max Payne, since my old S3 Savage 4 was not enough for it and the game was all black outdoors...but after I got a better VGA (Geforce 2 FTW), I was finally able to beat the game and I was very happy

 

My favorite moment was probably waaay back in vanilla WoW. My guild was the new up and comers on Daggerspine server, and I had just switched factions to join them. We were working on AQ40, and they had just killed twins when I joined. We spent several weeks bashing our heads on C'Thun and I was having a blast. We finally managed to kill him in a near perfect run, our first and only kill, and it felt incredible. No other WoW experience has been able to approach that level since.

 

My favorite recent gaming moment was getting a "Clutch Ribbon" (i.e. kill 3+ players as the last man standing to win the round) on my first versus game in Gears 3. I felt so proud, even though I mostly suck. Lol.

 

ha...classic

This thread is bringing back some great memories

 

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My favorite gaming moment... hmmm thats a tough one! Probably when my clan formed. We had been gaming as a group for awhile with different clans, but always played together. One day somebody's kid said "why dont you guy make your own clan?" (not in those words, he was 10 at the time) and everybody just kinda looked "derp". Three years ago now, but still my fav =-)

 

My favourite gaming moment was defeating the Lich King in WoW. After 2 months and many wipes with the guild raid team we eventually got him down Such a sense of acheivement which I have never felt in any other game

 

My favorite game moment was at a friends house when I was in I think Jr High seeing his PC and seeing/playing Starwars Dark Forces, Tie Fighter, and Starcraft.

I did not have a computer yet and compared to the stuff I had like an Atari it was just ultra amazing. Dark Forces to this day remains one of the most nostalgic games I have ever played.

If you sit back and analyze the old shooters like Dark Forces, Doom, Wolfenstein as well as others. It is kind of sad the direction they have taken. Its more graphics driven than experience driven, I miss those long winding corridors with tons of secrets to find and huge open maps that you could get lost in if you didnt find some way to memorize your path.

 

Absolutely How long did it take developers to come up with the concept of the minimap I remember playing Metroid 2 on the gameboy...that game was HUGE, and I had to memorize the entire layout.

 

Very nice giveaway! I entered, in spite of some trollish comments

One of my favorite gaming moments is playing Need for speed: High Stakes with my older brother. We played this awesome game alot. A true classic in my eyes.

It was also the first game we downloaded any mods too. I remember download a couple of extra cars. One was a big semi-trailer that was extremely heavy and had insane acceleration. When we started a race in the last position, we would just hit Drive and the trailer would ram it's way to the front, leaving wrecks behind it. Hilarious

 

Favorite gaming moment... when I was kid playing Final Fantasy 3 (6), and the transition to the World of Ruin after I thought I had just beat the game.

 

Was playing through Mafia 2 recently, and there was a part that I really liked.

Spoiler

I loved the part when you kill the protagonist of the original Mafia game, exactly like in the last cutscene of Mafia 1 (a game from 2002).

However, this has to be the most epic Battlfield kill I've ever seen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOaGhE_sejI&hd=1

 

My memorable moment was the first time that I launched free 4 all in Xwing VS Tie Fighter, man I was alive for the whole 3s

Another memorable moment was when I was playing C&C generals zero hour, with some pals on LAN, the first game lasted a whole 15min before I blitzed with some choppers and nailed both friends, after that they have swapped strategies, both went for the chopper blitz, however I went for some chinese tank rush, it was done before they launched their 5th chopper in the air, lasting less than 10min

 

Favorite gaming moment is beating ganon in Ocarina of time. So satisfying and the end of my game of the last century.

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I am not entering the giveaway, but I still want to share one moment, not very crazy moment though

The start of crysis 2, especially the textures in the sub, I was instantly driven crazy, considering the 90s games we experienced, 15 years of development brought us this far, it is magical, never thought this kind of graphics would be possible.. keeps me wondering what will happen in the next 10 years

 

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