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What are your fondest videogame memories?
This could be either an accomplishment that was made in a game, playing a certain game with some pals, or a certain moment in a game. For myself, my fondest memories was in high school/college dragging my TV sand Xbox over to my friends house and LANing Destiny every Tuesday night. Also, getting all the achievements in Dark Souls 3 was an enormous grind but felt so good to actually accomplish.
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Gathering with my friends and playing Pokémon; Gen III and IV were the peak of this and I will always have the fondest memories of these years.
Playing Street Fighter with my cousins (rather, watching them play it). They don't really like videogames, so any moment of them actually playing games, a way for me and them to connect more, is cherished. When the Wii was the hottest thing in town still my family became a fan of the bowling game in Wii Sports, so much that it would be played at almost every gathering in my house. That was so fun. |
Beating Ornstein and Smough on my first playthru of Darksouls. It was intense, the feeling of euphoria I felt as I finally delivered the finishing blow to an enhanced Ornstein after what felt like my 20th try was amazing.
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Honestly, I think it's just the anticipation I had as an 11 year old waiting for Majora's Mask to be released on the N64. Never had I (and still haven't) been so excited for a game's release. Use to spend the whole school day just drawing Link's weapons and stuff. {XD} Suffice to say, it exceeded my expectations and then some! It's still my favorite Zelda game by far.
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The first time I ever played a video game, it was Mario Kart for the Wii, and I was really really really really really horrendously bad at it (and I still am kinda bad at video games)
Also the first time I ever beat a video game, it was Pokèmon Omega Ruby |
Leaving my PS2 on all night long due to lacking a memory card. I was playing Need for Speed Underground at the time and got really far into the game, my room's window was wide open, night air was blowing through it, and some friends and I (I was about 7 or 8 at the time) were doing an endurance race. It just felt epic, what with the wind and all.
Unfortunately, due to never catching a break, my original PS2 eventually stopped working. I burned through 3 of the things during my time. |
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Obviously Couch Co-op Halo 3 and Reach. Especially Halo 3, that was a good time to play with friends, and it got even better joining full matches of custom games.
Hell that game is what originally united my pals and I! |
Just roaming around the classic Spyro's hub worlds (notably, those in Spyro: Ripto's Rage), listening to the amazing music, and coming up with all sorts of scenarios in my head. My imagination just ran free, and it was fun and calming at the same time.
Speaking of Spyro, Ripto's Rage was the first game I ever completed 100%. To my younger self, that was quite an achievement. In that vein, the first few times I beat the E4 in Pokémon (I can remember Silver and Emerald off the top of my head) got me pretty excited. Also, beating MD1 with a Skitty and a Chikorita, considering all the flying bosses, made my middle-schooler self pretty content. Also, in grade 6, Pokémon was pretty popular with the guys in my class, and we got to battle a couple of times. My best moment was when my Skitty managed to KO one of their Groudon. I mean, she got revenge killed pretty quick, but the bragging rights were still there. A lot of Pokémon related stuff, really. I played a lot of Sims, and I recall being pleased when I got several kids from my main family into private school. And when I maxed one of my Sim's career ladder, and a helicopter came to pick them up for work. Talk about an epic way to carpool... Digimon World 1 was a lot of fun when I rented it from the local video rental place, playing a Digimon game was a bit novelty for me. Sadly, I sucked, but I remember it fondly none the less. I could go on... |
Definitely has to be my first proper playthrough of Dark Souls, with my friend. Getting fucked up by a Black Knight, blown away by the Hydra, sniping the Hellkite Drake for the Clutch Sword, mashed by Havel... good times, good times.
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Getting 1000/1000 on FF13 Lightning Returns. Defeating all the last ones took some time and I hardy ever get all achievements on games.
Also getting a complete Pokedex in X. It was easier than it should have been as I am not fussed about keeping Legendaries but with so many Pokemon it is an achievement nevertheless |
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I actually gave away my 3rd one after getting a PS3, so I didn't really burn through it. Now I'm kind of paranoid when it comes to games and maintaining them. n_n~ |
My fondest memories are playing Myst with my dad. We would draw and make sketches of puzzles and try to solve them together. We played a lot of games "together", but most of the time I was either watching him play games too hard for me (Half-Life, Doom 3, Tomb Raider) or him watching me and translating dialogue when I played Pokémon and Spyro. Myst is special because it felt like we were both playing, and exploring this beautiful, peaceful world together.
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So many memories...
I remember the Christmas I got my N64 with Super Mario 64. I was 5 or 6 years old and had no prior experience with videogames. At that point, it was the best day of my life. I still use the exact same console whenever I feel like playing the N64. |
My single fondest memory was when I first Beat Megaman X. It was the first game I had ever completed.
Man, I wish I still got that excited about beating games. |
i'd say my fondest gaming memories would be getting an invite into the guiter hero/rock band elite 8 best players in the world, and being part of the longest game in SOCOM history on Easter 2010 which was a game that lasted for 6 hours and 40 minutes
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Most recently I convinced a friend to buy Hatoful Boyfriend while it was on sale and we spent the evening playing that in her apartment, and I really enjoyed myself because they don't play games much and were utterly weirded out by the concept of a dating sim and the fact you're dating pigeons in this one.
Older memories, I fondly remember playing Mario Party on the GameCube with my brothers whenever they babysat me. I haven't played it in a really long time, but I still think it's one of the best party games. We played a lot of Mario Kart too, but I definitely enjoyed Party more. In high school, sometimes my friends would come over after school and we'd play Just Dance on the Kinect, those were also hilarious times. And on the topic of Just Dance, I also distinctly remember recording a great video of my mom busting moves on it once, and she was furious when she noticed me recording, yelling profanities at me - I really want to find that video. :P |
Playing through the Water Temple in Twilight Princess while snowed in. :) I'm one of those weird people who likes the water temples, aside from the annoying Iron Boots in OoT 64.
And seconding Ornstein & Smough. Even more satisfying if you kill Smough first instead of Ornstein. That was the moment when I got gud and learned to roll. |
Just watching my brothers play Tales of Symphonia for hours every day one vacation. I have no idea why I loved doing that ^-^; it was basically like watching a very long anime.
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Fondest memories involve playing Chrono Trigger and Earthbound.Especially Chrono Trigger, traveling to 600 AD and listening to the overworld music "yearnings of wind" oh my, nothing has ever remotely come close to that experience.
Link for those interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqZaFDA7PXY |
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But on that note, my fondest memories were associated with OoT 64. I think I'll just stick to describing those, otherwise I'll end up posting a massive wall of text. :P So for starters, it was actually my Mom that got the game for herself, because she was a huge fan of the Zelda games for the NES. One day, before I had ever played the game, I watched her breaking all the pots in that one room near the entrance to Hyrule Castle town. She was doing it by picking them up and throwing them, for some reason she thought you couldn't break them with the sword. So I asked if I could try. Even though I never played that game, I immediately began mashing the B button and breaking all the pots. My Mom was shocked, because again, she didn't know you could do it that way. Not long after that, I made my own save file and began playing it. The no1 reason this game remains my favorite of all time is that it actually played a huge role in teaching me how to read. I was in 1st grade, and I was really struggling with that. In order to know what the characters in the game were saying, I had to have one of my parents read it out loud. But, they couldn't be around 24/7 to help me play a game. But, I had noticed that the characters usually said the same thing every time they talked. Remembering what my parents had read out loud, I was finally able to put 2 and 2 together. Years later in 6th grade, I was reading at a college level, and I can safely thank video games for that. :P And lastly, to avoid turning this post into a book, is Ganon's Castle. Going through the whole thing, every time you walk up one of those flights of winding stairs, you hear this creepy organ music getting louder and louder. Eventually, you get to the top, open the final door, and inside is Ganondorf playing an organ, as most bad guys seem to do. Just that whole setup with the music and everything was so well done, it was awesome. :D |
- holding off 5 warmongering friends in Civ V. To this day I have never know what I did wrong :(
- Playing C&C with my dad altho I'm always called a cheater |
- Obsessively playing the Burnout games, starting with the first game in the series. Burnout 3 was the one I enjoyed the most however - I had the most fun with the takedown mechanic.
- me and my sister spending too much time on New Super Mario Bros Wii over Christmas and nearly 100% the game. - Playing co-op mode in SSBB when I came over to my friend's house. I never played the game before. |
Mario Kart 64 battle mode.
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One that still sticks to me this day was when I beat the second Riku battle in Kingdom Hearts 1 with 1 HP. What really defined that moment was how I somehow blocked and parried just enough to refill my MP enough to use Ars Arcanum to win the fight.
For slightly more recent achievements, I'd say beating Contra for the first time without the Konami code or Continues was pretty amazing. Then, there was when I finally beat Beato's Big Break for Shovel Knight's Challenge Mode. I still have a couple more challenges to beat but that one was really hard. |
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