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[Alloy007P]

So...what was your most memorable, epic, heroic ect moment in playing any game.

Mine would have to be when I was playing SH3. It was nearly sun down on the great high seas. I was stalking one a convoy of ships composed mostly of large cargo ships, I was waiting till night fall to strike. Although soon me and my crew would be running out of air and have to surface. I planned to make a quick attack and then surface, head full speed in the opposite direction of the nearest escort, and dive as deep as I could as soon as all oxygen was replenished. This would not be the case. I was busy scoping out the best targets while keeping a close eye on the two escorts that were guarding the rear end of the convoy. And then as I looked around through my periscope I quickly said to myself "where the hell did other one go". I almost instinctively looked aft of my sub and there he was coming in at full speed, not even time to lower my periscope. I broke away from the convoy intent on losing this escort, knowing if I didn't shake him soon he would land a set of depth charges on us making it even harder to escape. Of coarse I couldn't afford this as we were low on air. Sure enough he lands 2 depth charges right on us. That SOB comes around again; nails us hard. About half a dozen men down on deck three compartments flooding fast. This continues for about ten minutes before I decide to blow ballasts and surface. With nearly zero chances of survival, it was our only chance (go figure). At this point I accidentally hit the play media button on my keyboard and The Last Stand begins to play (orchestra, trumpets). I try to out run him but it's no use, so the battle becomes my deck gun against a fully armed escort. By some stoke of luck we actually defeated the escort (must have hit ammunition stash). During the battle we were hit several time by the escort. When we sailed back into port not to my surprise our hull integrity was only 7%.

So between the coincidental orchestral symphony playing, the beautiful sun set, and the classic case of David vs. Goliath this has to be the most epic moment of gaming history for me.

[MalaKa911]

Wow pretty epic indeed

[ImMoreBetter]

Halo 2, Midship. A 25 point death match between me, my friend, and his neighbor.

At the time the pecking order in terms of skill was: Friend's neighbor < Me < My friend.

I spent most of the match picking on the neighbor kid, as I knew I wouldn't be able to win enough times against the other opponent. This worked, I tied my friend for the lead at 24 points. One more kill would end the match.

I grabbed the dual needlers ( ), and prayed to find an easy victim. Midship is a very small map, I would have to find my friend's neighbor very quickly; a 30 second budget, being generous.

I never found him, however. Instead I ran into none other than the man I was tied with. He was carrying a battle rifle, a weapon he had mastered above all others.

I unleashed my can of Shaq-fu first, dumping a good drag of bright-pink needles into his breastplate.

He charged through the girly-colored procession and unleashed his own foray in the form of a plasma grenade. It did what plasma grenades do; melded into my own armor and began to amass toward it's explosion.

The slightest sliver of a second separated the detonation of my needles and the burst of the grenade.

I won. And have not yet lived that moment down.

[RAF_OldBuzzard]

Well now, mine is by no means heroic, nor would I call it epic...it was however memorable.

Back in 1999 I was playing BATTLEZONE online on HEAT.NET a LOT. I was really into the Deathmatch games, and would play for hours. LOTS of hours

One Sunday afternoon, I was in a pretty good match where I and two friends were playing as a team against 3 other guys. Now we had a serious advantage because were were using Roger Wilco for voice chat which was really new at the time and very few folks were using it.

Now we had been at it for quite some time, and it was pretty intense. We had a pretty good lead on them, and nature had been calling to me for some time, and finally I just HAD to go, or I was going to be sitting in a wet seat

So, I parked myself off in a corner, and told my buds that I was gonna take a quick whizz, and to keep me safe until I got back. I then, turned my swivel chair, and took a quick step in the directions of the john, and...

Have you ever sat for a long time with your legs crossed, and have one 'go to sleep'? I mean SERIOUSLY 'to sleep', to the point that it won't support you until you get some blood flowing? I have, and on that occasion it did. Now this wouldn't normally present a problem as you just wait until most of the tingling goes away, and you can use the leg. However, THIS time, I was moving fast and didn't have time to realize my condition.

I turned.

I Launched (with the good leg).

I crumpled to the floor after hearing a loud 'pop' from my right ankle as it folded under me due to absolutely no feeling in my right leg. Seconds later, I DID get feeling, and it wasn't plesant. That damned ankle HURT! I tried to stand, and couldn't, and ended up CRAWLING to the john on my hands and knees, and sitting to pee. As it turned out, that wasn't too bad of an idea, as the pain was getting so intense that I started to get tunnel vision like I was going to pass out, so sitting with my head down between my knees turned out to be a good option.

Well, that ended my BZ for the afternoon. In fact, I couldn't go into work on Mon and Tue because my ankle had swelled up so bad. To this day, I don't know whether I actually broke my ankle, or just seriously sprained it. All I know is that it hurt, and it was a month or two until I could really put any stress on it without some pain.

Now as bad as that was, what was worse was explaining to my employer, family, and friends, that, "Yes, I did it playing a game on my computer." Yes, I know I'm 54 but what does that have to do with it?".

Now there was one good thing out of the whole affair. HEAT.NET gave out PURPLE HEART awards for guys that got hurt somehow when playing online, and I was one of the very few that got one

[jadger]

playing NHL 95, I was down a goal with 5 seconds left. Stanley Cup finals, playing as the New York Rangers, skated out of my own end and with time winding down took a last desperate shot from the red line. The opposition goalie still in, Esa Tikkanen took a wicked slapshot and scored with 0.5 left on the clock. I then went on to win in OT.

[Airmail109]

On Battlefield Vietnam when I went all "Rambo" and hid in the back of an enemy MIL, placed c4 in it. Waited for a load of guys to get in then ran past them jumped out the back, parachuted then detonated the c4 killing about 9 of them.

I got a lot of insults over chat after that.

[WOLFPLAYER2007]

Cant remember all, there are so many mainly when i was used to play CFS 1 and 2 online or Nascar Racing 2003 online

both RIP.

[Breeze147]

When I figured out the Burning Floor puzzle in Tomb Raider (the one in Egypt). It took me weeks!

Finally winning the car race in Vice City. Also took weeks. Matter of fact, I've never played a game that had so many different things to do than Vice City.

Figuring out that killing the big bugs in the original Deus Ex made them multiply.

[danjama]

Ill say one thing, no game has ever produced such epic moments for me as il2 has. There are just too many to list.

I shared great partnerships, flew high altitude bombruns with coordinated escorts, flew low level bombing runs on sub pens and even flew displays for friends, this game just did it all for me, all of the highs and lows and wows a game should have. And i cant wait to be doing it all again. Even the landings produced in this game can be as tense as the high points of other games. One landing on a carrier?? yes please.

Other epic games? Show me them and ill give them a go. Ok i admit B17 was pretty heavy sometimes, with fighters all over you as you aimed the sight, and MOHFrontline was great for its time. Im also getting some pretty dramatic stuff out of F1 at the moment, but nothing comes close to the times ive had with this. It can just be so intense sometimes, so fun.

[Bremspropeller]

When I finished my first Solitaire session.