The most memorable, fond and simply enjoyable moments you had in gaming history.

Kopogero · May 2016

I'll start with one and add more later...

1) Many of my most enjoyable moments were around SWG Pre-CU. From the great faction PvP I had with my rifleman and commando to unlocking the force and becoming a light jedi knight. The journey of all I had to go through to get there and all those ganks I had to avoid or overcome, the visibility and being a wanted person on the terminals with a high bounty, etc. Playing SWG for me was like being part of a Star Wars world. It was huge with open, unexplored worlds across many planets, all full of mystery and unknown. The fact I could have my own home to decorate on one of the many planets was even more amazing. Trading and socializing with others was also very enjoyable experience.

NorseGod · May 2016

Yep, unlocking Jedi in SWG was it for me. It was amazing.

jesad · May 2016

First day in Dark Sun Online. I'm all bright eyed and bushy tailed and ready for adventure. I wander out of the city and into the desert where I come upon a passerby.

"Greetings my good fellow!", I say.

He throws something at me that I later discover was called a "Harm potion". I am suddenly stung by a thousand bee's. (11*!) (15*!) (18*!)

Me in real life, "Oh my god!! What is happening?!? Am I dying?!?!"

Harm potion, (8*!) (22*!) "You have died!"

That's how I learned about PVP.

Dark Sun Online. Watching my buddy get not one, but TWO different girls to come across country to sleep with him just because he was the most evil guy in the game.

That's how I learned about some girls.

Afro Day, City of Heroes. My super group decide to throw a party in my honor. I played a tank named "The Afro American" who had this big ole afro and wore a red, white and blue costume so they all dressed up in the same costume and put on afro wigs so that we could roll around the city as, dare I say it? "Team America" for a day.

That one actually choked me up a bit.

End of Beta, City of Heroes. All of the heroes get together for a group picture. I believe it was Valentines Day. The picture made the manual that came with the game. I am in there. Forever immortalized in Afro's tribal styled suit.

Still have the manual. #soweakbutsotrue

EQ1, first day. I wander off of the platform into the forest outside of Erudin and it is dark. REALLY DARK. So dark that I can't see and I find myself totally lost and unable to find my way back up. Suddenly this white elf in a light blue robe with white hair appears "sitting" in the air. He leads me back to the platform and instructs me to get a torch before wandering so far away from home again.

That was some magical shit right there.

EQ2, on the docks of Lavastorm on a pvp server early after release we learned that "Taunt" works on real players and that the Shadow Knights Lifetap makes it practically un-killable when backed up by a healer. Me and a group of friends stand on those docks and hold off a very large number of people for a very long time. At one point it got so bad that they were calling out for reinforcements from other zones and so we had people zoning in to try and take us down. Best PVP fight EVER!!!

They promptly fixed that.

Building my first lightsaber. "I'm not done with that game".

Riding around in space listening to "Eve Radio".

Raiding. Anything, anywhere.

And the best memory......

That one time when my buddy had been hiding this girl from us in EQ and we snuck over to where they were hanging out to find him power levelling her on New Years Eve because it was her birthday. I say to him, "Are you sure that's not a dude, dude?" He says to me, "Yeah, I'm sure." I say to her, "Hey, do you mind if I ask you something?" She says, "Shoot". I ask, "Are you a dude?" She says, "Yup". My friend asks "Why didn't you tell me?" She says, "You never asked".

He (my buddy) logs. HAHA!! Dude looks like a lady ends up joining our guild.

Legendary.

DKLond · May 2016

Way too many to mention.

If I had to pick a few:

As a kid, the first time a CRPG truly "clicked" for me was Pool of Radiance. I was with my cousin in the summerhose - and we spent an entire week glued to the screen instead of playing outside

I can still remember the first time we defeated a large army and then, afterwards, we looted our very first magical item. I'm not sure that experience has ever been topped

Some years later, my brother convinced me to play Diablo with him and a mutual friend. I'd played the demo in singleplayer - and I wasn't impressed. To me, it was just a fancy-looking rogue-like - a genre I was done with after playing Moria on the Amiga for a long time. Anyway, we started playing casually one day - and I was kinda meh about it. That is, until we met the Butcher and got slaughtered over and over. Suddenly, we had to actually use tactics - and it became a cooperative experience like no other. Much like Pool of Radiance - the experience was complete when I saw the very first unique item drop from him: "Dreamflange". I had no idea the game had unique items - and I was instantly hooked on the phat l00t

Finally, it has to be the 3 years I spent playing WoW with my ex-GF. Ok, the last year or so was bittersweet - and it cost a lot on a personal level. But to be able to share a game on that level - with such intensity - will always stand out as a very special time in my life. It's also the game I've been best at - and the only game in which I reached a level of competence I was satisfied with. I was really, really good at it

Jakobmiller · May 2016

First day in Darkfall Online. Was a nice day to remember.

But the biggest memory gotta be when I ran the guild Organized Chaos in Darkfall Unholy Wars and we got our first holding and started building stuff. That was goals

Kryziz · May 2016

Soo many...Uhm, a simple one is being chased in STV (WOW) as a priest, by a mage and a paladin. I must have counted at least 7 times I was down to around 10%. I used fear and healed myself to keep alive. Thank you cats and alligators and perfectly timed fears. I was new, this was 2004. Still haven't learned much more than that.

deniter · May 2016

1) My first days in Sid Meier's Civilization on my Amiga 500. I fell in love with that game as soon as the 30 min long non-skippable intro was complete. It's safe to say a big chunk of my early teen years was spent playing that game.

2) Fast forward a few years and 3D has become a big thing. Wolfenstein 3d had blown us away with its 3d graphics a year earlier, but you can't forget your first experience in Doom. My god, i can honestly say i hadn't had a gaming experience like that ever before. The whole 3D environment, darkness, sounds of monsters i can't see.. i could go on and on.

3) Again, a few years have past and i got a chance to jump into World of Warcraft, the MMO where hundreds of other players share the game with me. I have played the game for 10+ years and have had numerous characters, but i still can remember my first character and his adventures, which began at Northshire Abbey in Eastern Kingdoms.

cameltosis · May 2016

1) Killing the Balrog, Thaurlach, in LotRO for the first time. This was the second raid that Turbine added to the game, came out 4 months or so after release. I'd recently stepped up to raid leader and had recruited an awesome raiding team. For about 2 months we'd been working our way through this 8 man raid and having a blast. Took us 6 weeks to learn the Balrog fight, fight itself took maybe 20minutes but when we did it we were so happy! Great group atmosphere and awesome feeling, some lovely loot and then we all ported back to bree for a few pints in the prancing pony.

2) WAR Open Beta - I played as an orc and couldn't stop laughing at the first 20 minutes of greenskin gameplay. Naked dwarves, mushrooms, squigs, plus being catapulted onto a castle wall.....really great first impression. Also doing my first scenarios were great. I'd never done instanced pvp in an MMO before but Ekrund Gates was a good first experience.

3) SWG - KDS City Battle. On my server (Eu-chimera) there was a guild called Keepers of the Dark Side (KDS) who just kicked ass. They seemed to be the best at everything and super well organised. Anyway, they organised a mass pvp event at some point and the GMs spawned in an AT-AT at their city. It felt like half the server decended on their city for some fun. Granted my PC couldn't really handle it and I think we crashed the server, but it stood out in my mind of just how great an MMO can be if the community comes together.

Po_gg · May 2016

No such thing as "most memorable" - and on the same time have tons of them, since I'm a gamer right from the start

smaller stuff too (like the first docking in Elite) to big ones (like mapping the whole EoB).

In p'n'p I'd say our first session of Amber. Great lore (Zelazny was always a favourite of mine), and a unique and fun system, no dice just roleplay.

Cards: that's easy, during a math lecture in college, my first victory with a deck I just assembled for fun and around a theme

Buddy was like "wtf, no way that deck worked, it's nonsense"

PC, singleplayer, way too many... maybe the first playthrough of TLJ. Huge Ragnar fan since then...

Multiplayer, maybe the first Weatherstock in LotRO. Or... dunno, could write a 10-pages long list just from my main games

Blecod · May 2016

I remeber when me and my brother got our first gaming pc. And assasins creed 1 just came out. I remember it looked so beautiful. Climbing the tower and looking around. Still the best feeling to this day.

cameltosis · May 2016

Po_gg said:

Multiplayer, maybe the first Weatherstock in LotRO. Or... dunno, could write a 10-pages long list just from my main games

Ah, just reminded me of another one: Chicken Race!

For those who've never tried it, LotRO has a feature called "Session Play" where you play as another character. This allows them to show you stories from other times and points of view, for example, you get to play a dwarf at the time when the mines of moria falls and balin dies.

Anyway, one of the sessions you can play is as a level 1 chicken!

Your "quests" as a chicken is to travel around middle earth and recruit friendly animals to help the chicken cause in the shire. Problem is, as level 1, everything 1-shots you and you pull from miles away.

On my server (Snowbourn), one of the guilds organised a chicken race: Michel Delving in the Shire to the Last Homely House in Rivendell. About 50 of us took part, race time was approximately 15-20minutes from start to finish. Even leaving the shire was hazardous! Most tense part was between the Ford of Bruinen and Rivendell itself. There were loads of lvl35ish stealthed lynxes along the route and nothing we could do. Soooooo many people got killed on that last stretch. Most hair-raising for me was when a lynx de-stealthed just in front of me, but luckily it killed the chicken next to me. I came 4th in the race at the end.

Screenshot of the start line:

Image: http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x64/cameltosis_rocksoc/Divine%20Retribution/ScreenShot00116.jpg

WarWitch · May 2016

Shortly after the net was born on main frames we had an amazing team of coders that could code anything I could dream of. Paradox mud.

The day we got colered text lol Paradox Mud.

The rain was poring down, it was hard to see the rancor but my taming skills were up to the task. SWG

The wedding was awesome a pure white wookie priest a full band with dancers ay my decorated guild hall SWG.

Not the first but almost the First Real Jedi ! SWG,,, perma death style. SWG

Running a real town on an alien plannet, SWG.

Crafting and finding the best resources in all the worlds to conner the market, SWG.

Endless dog fights in open, explorable space, SWG.

Building missions with so maney mobs we had to stand on their head while we farmed the loot Coh-COV.

Massive zerg fights and hot sounding girls on team speek, GW2.

Playing Blade Runner with my wife for 48 hours start to finnish.

WarWitch · May 2016

Daoc the first sucesfull dragon raid after spending a week with the dev team on vacation with the wife.

Sid_Vicious · May 2016

I loved console RPGs and strategy games but its all about PC games for the most part.

The first time that I played Daggerfall. I was so into the game that I didn't figure out the quick travel right away and walked to the nearest civilization after the first dungeon. I put headphones on and played in the dark and pretended it was real. I am still far from finished playing Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim..

Being the first one to come up with certain effective PVP builds in Guild Wars was loads of fun.

Grand Theft Auto games I would pretend it was real and get totally immersed.. even follow the rules of the road like waiting for red lights. I tried my best to drive perfectly because once you start driving through lamp posts, etc. things start to look pretty fake..

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was the funnest first person shooter ever!! I loved the sniper class, taking peoples clothes, and waiting with a charged satchel to blow up a group of people when they came into range. This game broke me into a sweat often because I was at the edge of my seat so much.

Baulder's Gate I did not follow the storyline and instead tried to kill everybody that I came across... and made it faaaar into the game doing this, never picking up anybody else in my party. Sure did have many run-ins with the flaming fist! (I am the law!!) and must admit that I had to kite at doorways more than I'd like to admit.

Mount and Blade had one of the most realistic battle feels to it and easy to get immersed in... I love it on the hardest settings especially. This is another game that Id put on headphones and pretend was real.

Empire Total War on the hardest settings is so much fun.. trying for world conquest, and eventually accomplishing it, was a huge task when starting as a single spot on the map.

Creating PVP twinks with crafters of every kind in vanguard was very rewarding and I farmed thousands of infamy for years in that game from release until it was dead. Id hop on a lowbie twink and go to areas where I could take infamy by killing higher level people but was too low level to have to worry about losing any. Losing infamy just once in that game was a painful set back... like losing infamy once would be like losing a month of grind (if you can call killing people a grind?)

Age of Conan had epic gory graphics and I found killing every 'male' in Tortage Underhalls very satisfying.. my twink was named Lez Bow and I roleplayed her well LOL.. it was so much fun wiping out groups of people and doing fatalities on half of them. The ranger class was unstoppable... Id kite at doorways, stun, go invisible, etc. did my best to make sure that no male character could play in the dungeon. She did not like clothes.. haha

Darkfall gave me plenty of my most memorable experiences... like my first siege, first mount, first naval warfare, my first kill, the first carrot that I was able to loot when the game first came out and every spawn was too crowded, ... the funnest times were when people would try and camp me out of the game but I'd still manage to take their gear more than I'd lose it..... killing a group of people while outnumbered was such a rush!! Patrolling humanlands and looking for harvesters was a daily task and really fun when Id roll PKs that Id come across. Nooby PVP was fun but things became really interesting when I learned how to bunny-hop and ended up having every key of my keyboard do something important and be used often... only game that I have ever played that I can say that for.

YashaX · May 2016

In GW2 killing and stomping four players by myself at the keep in the Forest of Niflhel spvp map on my thief (they had used all their cds).

I arrived just as they had finished off my team, I cast a poison field with my shortbow, swapped to dagger/pistol, stole from the warrior dropped a smoke field and then obliterated all four of them with the stolen axe twirl. It happened so fast I don't think they knew what hit them. Those were four of the most satisfying stomps ever.

Sid_Vicious · May 2016

I almost forgot how fun it used to be to go invisible and then charm a cow and have it attack noobs at the bank.. hahaha

We did it in groups at times and called it 'mad cow disease' guild event.. yeah my guild was PK guild.. FFA PVP Vanguard

Po_gg · May 2016

cameltosis said:

Ah, just reminded me of another one: Chicken Race!

For those who've never tried it, LotRO has a feature called "Session Play" where you play as another character. This allows them to show you stories from other times and points of view, for example, you get to play a dwarf at the time when the mines of moria falls and balin dies.

Anyway, one of the sessions you can play is as a level 1 chicken!

Your "quests" as a chicken is to travel around middle earth and recruit friendly animals to help the chicken cause in the shire. Problem is, as level 1, everything 1-shots you and you pull from miles away.

Yep, Snowy was a great Eu server, too bad they've placed it onto the death list.
I love the session plays, just posted a screenshot in the other thread last night about my chicken in Isengard

My favourite is horsing around, and meeting with Gandalf and Shadowfax... great storyline.

For the 1shotting chicken part: even though chickens don't have any attack skills, they have a -minimal damaging- auto-attack, simply due to the overall combat system of the game. Which can be used for... (chickendrumstickroll) chicken raids

Ok, ok, technically it's an exploit, but man it is fun. Check this from Laurelin: https://youtu.be/xRtYwJgWJ6A
There was a similar attempt against the goblins of the Shire, but turned out level 13 is way too high, unfortunately. Level 7-8 wolves near Dora's farm, those are fair game if enough chickens pecking them to death

Amathe · May 2016

Arriving in the Karanas in original Everquest, circa 2002. It was the first place I went once I worked up the courage to leave the general vicinity of my home city of Kelethin. The music from there still haunts me - in a good way.

rodingo · May 2016

Logging in to SWG at launch for the very first time was it for me. This was only my third MMO and I still had no idea what I was supposed to do. Hearing the ambient sounds such as the occasional TIE fighter flying overhead and the music really was immersive and basically put a perma grin on my face for the first 3-4 hours of playing. Then being one of the server's first (Corbantis) Commandos, getting my first Stormtrooper faction "pet", Imp raids on Anchorhead, and killing my first player Jedi as a TK/BH.

Octagon7711 · May 2016

SWG, some guy ran up to me and taught me all the languages when I first started playing. Another guy told me about a good place to level and ran a bunch of us out to Tuskan Village. Had a good time meeting and talking to players in between spawns.
Becoming a master fencer/doctor, setting up in a hospital and having players come in to get their mind wounds healed while trading tips about the best merchants and shops.

GW2, the first time I followed a series of dynamic events that ended up leveling me from around 73 to 80.

Acebets70 · May 2016

Hunting a new Jedi when perma-death was active... He got away but told me he was so nervous he was shaking, he paid me to leave him alone.. BH life :proud:

nariusseldon · May 2016

1) Ultima 6 .. when i discovered that I am the "bad guy" for the gargoyles.

2) Dishonored .. when the empress is killed in front of your eyes .. and in the DLC when you are the bad guy killing the empress.

3) First time killing the Butcher in the original Diablo.

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FlyByKnight · May 2016

Aion was my first MMORPG. I had absolutely no clue a game could be that vast. I thought the entre world was pre-wings. Then when the game opened up... I was like:

Sid_Vicious · May 2016

DKLond said:

Finally, it has to be the 3 years I spent playing WoW with my ex-GF. Ok, the last year or so was bittersweet - and it cost a lot on a personal level. But to be able to share a game on that level - with such intensity - will always stand out as a very special time in my life. It's also the game I've been best at - and the only game in which I reached a level of competence I was satisfied with. I was really, really good at it

Yeah... I played with some really cool people.. thats what also can stand out in games...

I also played with my Xgirlfriend.. Darkfall.. and same with my brother... they played with me in a few other games as well, vanguard, guild wars. We have so many memories to share between these games..

The people that I would meet in game were really cool sometimes as well.. the one that I miss the most was a girl I met while crafting in Vanguard.. she was leader of the main antiPK guild... and I was able to talk her into decking out a twink with me (she was a crafter after all) and we farmed infamy together every day for 2 years or so. Its sad that we never exchanged info to keep in touch.

jesad · May 2016

DKLond said:

Way too many to mention.

If I had to pick a few:

As a kid, the first time a CRPG truly "clicked" for me was Pool of Radiance. I was with my cousin in the summerhose - and we spent an entire week glued to the screen instead of playing outside I can still remember the first time we defeated a large army and then, afterwards, we looted our very first magical item. I'm not sure that experience has ever been topped

Some years later, my brother convinced me to play Diablo with him and a mutual friend. I'd played the demo in singleplayer - and I wasn't impressed. To me, it was just a fancy-looking rogue-like - a genre I was done with after playing Moria on the Amiga for a long time. Anyway, we started playing casually one day - and I was kinda meh about it. That is, until we met the Butcher and got slaughtered over and over. Suddenly, we had to actually use tactics - and it became a cooperative experience like no other. Much like Pool of Radiance - the experience was complete when I saw the very first unique item drop from him: "Dreamflange". I had no idea the game had unique items - and I was instantly hooked on the phat l00t

Finally, it has to be the 3 years I spent playing WoW with my ex-GF. Ok, the last year or so was bittersweet - and it cost a lot on a personal level. But to be able to share a game on that level - with such intensity - will always stand out as a very special time in my life. It's also the game I've been best at - and the only game in which I reached a level of competence I was satisfied with. I was really, really good at it

That moment that you realize that someone else, somewhere else, was doing the EXACT things that you were doing at around the same time

Just goes to show you, we are never really alone no matter how much it may seem so. (Except mine was EQ2 and it was my ex-wife).

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