This is a hard question... but I think it would probably be in City of Heroes. There was a particular badge that you could earn in one of the end-game raids that very few people on my server had... and for good reason: if a single person in the 24 person raid was in the wrong spot at the wrong time, the badge failed. Needless to say, it took a LOT of determination, coordination and forward thinking leadership to pull it off. I lead probably 20 attempts at that and other badges during the same raid and earned all but that one.
I was running this same raid for the second to last time that evening, and due to some sort of weird glitch, the patch of instant death we were supposed to avoid... NEVER happened at all. So, we earned the badge in that run.
I went on to lead another 10+ raids to try to help others get the badge on my server who had missed out on our odd run. Finally, we got it for real. Both times were pretty memorable in terms of gaming moments. In fact, pretty much every succesful raid I lead in CoH was an awesome achievement... just to be able to herd 18-24 people toward the right objectives was prety awesome.
I just wish the game hadn't been killed before its time.
I think it was the first rpg I played, Fallout 3.
Just the first time I walked out of Vault 101, I was so amazed by the scenery and all the places you could go to. Actually the first time you can discover a whole new world like the wasteland, Cyrodiil or Skyrim.
You never forget your first time.
When I finally beat Rawr In Fallout:New Vegas,and finally getting the Fist Of The North Rawr.
Killing Bowser in Mario 64,after years,and having to make a new save
Getting All the stars in Mario 64
Killing a Legendary Dragon on Legendary as a level 80 mage!
Getting my Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 to work again
Beating Sephiroth on Critical In Kingdom Hearts 2
Beating Every story on Critical in KH:Birth By Sleep
Beating Sonic And The Secret Rings,after years
Getting Perfects on every boss fight in Sonic and the Black Knight
Beating Luigi's Mansion
Finally beating the time trial mission in Eggmanland in Sonic Unleashed,beating the game soon after
Getting A Platinum in Skyrim
Finally Beating Arena
Beating Shadow The Hedgehog
Thats all I can think of right now.
Baldur's Gate, the first one. I was twelve years old, it was the second RPG I'd ever played (the first being The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening on the Gameboy). I killed a virtually unbeatable NPC called Drizzt by buying dozens of wands of monster summoning and literally summoning an army around him. I equipped my entire party with ranged weapons and they stood in a circle taking potshots at him while my mage just kept spamming wands to keep him busy. I think it took about 40 mins and 5 or 6 wands to finally take him down but the feeling, not to mention the loot, was totally worth it. I remember trying to explain it to my parents and my mother just said, 'Oh, but aren't you supposed to be a good guy?'
I had to reload the beginning of that fight quite a few times until I saved vs that death spell his mage buddy opens with. Looking back I really didn't have much of a grasp of the mechanics back then. I just min-maxed a fighter and blundered through the game. Played it more recently with Tutu installed. So much nostalgia.
Know what you mean. It's still a damn good rpg and adventure game even now. Pretty much still used as a benchmark for evaluating today's RPGs. Still got my original copies of both and the expansions. Just can't throw them away. Am thinking about reinstalling them, but someone's has actually reproduced BG using the NWN2 engine as a mod within NWN2 itself. Obviously you need NWN2 (which I have anyway), and also both expansions MOTB and SOZ to play it (only got one of them at the mo). I shall give it a whirl as a mod and see what it is like in 3d. Now where can we get some modders to reproduce this as a mod in Oblivion or Skyrim ?
Played a lot of NWN 1 online, never made it to NWN 2. MMORPGs just ate up too much of my life. The best gaming moment I've had in Skyrim specifically would be during my first playthrough. I was running with the Circle up to the Tomb of Ysgramor. Somewhere on the road north we were attacked by a Blood Dragon (the 1st time I had encountered one). We took it down as a party within minutes, with Farkas getting the kill cam animation with his greatsword. Team work.
For this specific gen, I would have to say that the ending of Red Dead Redemption was my favourite and best remembered moment in gaming.
:Spoilers ahead:
When I stepped out of that barn, my game bugged. There were a solid 30 seconds in which I stood there, finger hovering over the trigger button, thinking how the hell am I going to get out of this situation. When I finally got to shoot, taking something like 4 of the guys down, I could do nothing but sit and watch John get riddled with bullets while thinking 'S**t, I messed up'. I got so attached to that character that It was just pure shock and awe. Brilliant.
That being said, the ending of Bioshock Infinite left my jaw on the ground. Going to have to add that moment into this reply - just to epic for words.
It's a tie for me. The time I finally beat Shao Kahn in the end of the newest Mortal Kombat on the hardest difficulty was exhilarating-considering he was OP to the max. That is tied to the satisfaction I got for beating Red on Mount Silver in Pokemon Silver as a kid. An honorable mention goes to Skyrim the time I killed that bastard Nazeem in a creative fashion (which involved Soul Trap+Fear+Ignite+Ash Shell).
I'm not going to answer because theres so many.
Reading this particular discussion has riddled me with nostalgia so much...
I have just phoned my best childhood friend... we're gonna chill on morrowind adult style with a pizza and a few beers in substitute of lemonade and sweets on friday night.
Thank you for this discussion, all of you !
Surprisingly, I think it would have to be a moment from Runescape, when I finally defeated Nomad. At the time, he was the second most powerful boss in the game. He was level 699, and by comparison, I was level 110-ish. It took me about 7 or 8 attempts, but that glorious feeling of victory at the end was unlike anything I've felt in a game before. Plus the loot was sweet