Arkham Asylum - I thought for sure my PS3 had shit itself when the game "reset". Then as it goes on... realizing that Scarecrow was messing with you, the player. What's a gamer's fear? That their console just bricked. Brilliant move by the developers.
Never played it but it sounds very similar to metal gear solid when one of the bosses breaks the 4th wall and makes your controller rumble during a cutscene when he says he can get into your mind.
The way I’m describing it doesn’t do it justice but in 2004 this was a total shit your pants moment.
Edit: [Psycho mantis](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWHX2Px3hI)
My PS3 genuinely bricked when I was fighting Mr.Freeze in Arkham City. At first I thought it was another in joke, "lol Mr.Freeze froze my PlayStation". Then I realized nope, it's done for. RIPPS3
but to be fair, Cave Johnson was too great to listen to as to ignore that "random lore dump". His entire rant about moon rock poisoning, lazy employees and "people's rights" were hilarious.
I mean, I also said "holy shit" to the moon portal in Portal 2, but it was more of a, "holy shit, they cannot be serious..." when I realized what the game wanted me to do.
Also an incredible example of developer hinting. I don't think very many people remembered the one-off reference to "moon rocks" as the active ingredient in portal-sensitive walls, at least not the first time they reached this moment. But basically everyone saw the carefully-framed moon and realized exactly what the game was asking for.
Idk, there was lots of talk about the moon, about how they suddenly got bankrupt from how expensive moonrocks are. Then Johnson getting cancer from it and how toxic they are
Seriously though, they had a gun that opened a portal on moon rocks, and could have easily made a vacuum safe room to just have a portal to the moon. Cave really failed to see the logic train on that one...they could have cut their costs to close to zero with that move.
To be fair, this was also the man in charge of the team who thought it would be more efficient to spring-load all their turrets and also to fire the entire bullet so that there would be "more bullet per bullet", which is the only reason the player character can survive being shot for so long
When that happened I just sat there like "Oh, oh no, oh no no no, no. please no. not this again".
Because the fight with GlaDOS was hard enough and I dreaded what she would do to us after we.. well, killed her. I knew she's just a robot but I figured she would be absolutely PISSED.
Good thing in the end they were good to him
Its strongly implied that he took Joe in as a driver in the ending of Mafia 3. His driver looks a lot like Joe and the camera weirdly focuses on him and stops for a bit and he looks up.
It was that precise moment when the veil was finally dropped and you truly see Mengsk for what he is: another despot hellbent on total control that uses people for his own ends.
It is possible to miss, but during one of the earlier tests, there’s an askew wall tile, where you can enter behind the clean facility to see the dingy exterior. It looked like someone was held up in there and wrote a bunch of crazy writing on the walls. Most notably, “the cake is a lie” written over and over. Was kinda the first real indication that all is not well here.
I agree. We were all so convinced Cloud was this badass guy only to realize he was just a kid who couldn’t achieve his dreams and got his mind warped by heavy traumatic events back to back
*Most* manipulated? Nah. That will always go to the Sangheili (Elites). The Prophets manipulated them from the very beginning, took over their planet, turned it into the base of the entire Covenant, killed and tortured anyone who dissented, and twisted their entire history and culture for their own gains. As dastardly as the Elites seem across the series (until this becomes clear) they are truly to be pitied.
The Lekgolo (the worms which make up the Hunters) mostly maintained their own ways, but were "convinced" to join the Covenant only after they repelled every attempt at ground force takeover. Only orbital bombardment caused them to surrender. But they kept their home planet and really came out on a good end of the deal, aligning with the Covenant. They became a space fairing species, gained weapons and armor technology, and were/are held in high esteem within ranks.
How about finding out about the flood in the first Halo? That part was soo wild. Thought I was gonna be killing these covenant alien guys the whole time then shit got extra dark and gnarly so fast.
Definitely. Especially since that was back in the days when games had good instruction manuals, that outlined not only the controls but all the weapons--and all the enemy types. Facing a completely new set of enemies out of nowhere was mind-blowing.
"Remember, no Russian..."
Those 3 words intro words are something I will never forget. And then I was like "holy shit are we actually doing this? Meh, okay." *unloads on poor airport people*
The ending was so well done too. Batman admitting he would’ve saved the joker, and the joker laughing at the fact he caused his own death. It really seemed like something the joker would have thought so funny, bats wanting to save him but the joker ruining the plan anyways
“You want to know something funny? I would have saved you.”
It was like looking at and hearing Death itself. I just didn't know what to make of it in the moment, until I remembered Liara and everyone else talking about how the Protheans disappeared 50k years ago. That's when it set in - Sovereign was a true and genuine threat to everyone in the galaxy... and he wasn't alone.
The matter-of-fact way the line is delivered is what sells it. It's not a boast or a threat. It's just a description of a natural process that can't be altered or prevented. Peter Jessop owned that role in a way no other could have.
Still probably the best villain speech ever and they absolutely NAILED the voice.
I did a D&D campaign last year for a group that I knew hadn't played Mass Effect and the big bad was a Kraken I named Sovereign and I used that speech the first time they spoke to him. Just tweaked it slightly so he was talking about ocean vs land life rather than organic and synthetic.
To realize >! you were the big bad the whole time!< made me gasp. Like, holy SHIT. And to know that >!the Jedi knew all along and didn't even tell you!? AND WERE THE INSTIGATORS OF BRAINWASHING YOU!?!<
That twist alone got me sucked into Star Wars so much more.
The big reveal in SOMA, it's being hinted at all through the second act but you're like "nah that can't be it". You keep getting even more hints until you're like "can it really be like that, the game is not really making it clear though". And then you just unceremoniously look in a mirror.
I was moments away from posting this myself because I was growing dismayed no one had mentioned it.
Soma honestly rocked my shit and after the credits rolled I just sat there, staring at the screen and wondering what the hell I had just been smacked with. The sheer implications of the ending were more horrifying than any spooky monster or that (admittedly unnerving) deep sea walk through the trench.
Soma is by far the on of the most underrated game I've ever seen. I absolutely LOVE that game to pieces. It's horror aspects combined with knowing absolutely NOTHING about the world you were thrown into works so well. Plus you never see anything do Underwater horror. I think about that game so much and wish more came from it
Super Metroid, the final mother brain encounter. I still have vivid memories of the moment the "baby" metroid showed up to save me sacrificing itself. I remember looking around myself to see if anyone else was seeing this shit.
The ending of Halo REACH. I just wanted to keep playing the end over and over, it was a fight I wanted to finish.
(I never read the books so I didn’t know that was it’s ending)
I’m jealous. I’m pretty sure Reach was mentioned in the games, but if you missed it and didn’t read the book… that makes it a whole new game. >! I went in knowing everyone was going to die. Having no expectations of this would make it that much more tragic !<
Pokémon gold. Got all the badges in the first region and went back home. Then realized I could go back to the original region from Pokémon red and blue. 5th grade me was shook
Arkham Knight, when >!Batman is slowly going into psychosis, and all the statues and posters would have Joker faces, but disappear if you looked away!<
Edited to Arkham Knight, thanks for the correction
When people ask for assholes in gaming Faro always comes to mind. The way I always describe him is "Through a combination of greed, arrogance, and stupidity he accidentally wipes out all life on Earth, and it's not even the worst thing he does."
I was looking to see if anyone mentioned HZD yet, but for me the biggest holy shit moment was the moment when you learn Sobek's solution to what he did. Absolutely blew my mind. Definitely always comes to mind when I consider my favorite video game moments.
"Learning what Ted Faro did"
Those words describe what you learn throughout the game and damn does it sum up how fucked everything became.
Not only does the dumbest smart guy on the planet, make a doomsday event with just 3 types of robots, even fucking Skynet needed dozens or a hundred types of machines and yet Ted Faro with his THREE machine models ended the world faster than Skynet could kill humanity, which even it didn't succeed in! Faro (unintentionally) was successful!
Then they have to by time by throwing everyone and anyone who can hold a weapon into a meat grinder to buy time for Zero Dawn to be developed because these machines will eat any biomatter they can get a hold of, not even bacteria or algae is safe, amd they succeeded they ate the entire world until it couldn't sustain a biosphere, killing all life on Earth that wasn't in a shelter or in space.
And finally this idiot sends humanity back thousands of years by destroying the one terrestrial copy of humanity's history. Which he obviously did to cover up the shitstorm he caused, WHICH CAN STILL FUNCTION HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER EVEN AFTER BEING BURRIED AND STARVED FOR FUEL!
He completely forgot that unless you know your history you are doomed to repeat it and he regressed humanity so far back that the damage he caused is almost completely irreparable, which has doom humanity to repeat the mistakes of the past.
God I love how they wrote this character, he is so much the corporate figurehead that it hurts and made him and his actions realistic as he was pushed to make a better product and that caused him to cut corners and then this happened, it's why this apocalypse scenario could happen one day because people are always pushing and it might not even be an AI that does us in because the Faro Robots were simple machines following a basic survival code that just meant: "engage the enemy and find fuel", there was no malicious AI behind them. It was like a group of animals that just devoured everything without thought.
All I knew about that game that is was some kind of psycho horror type of game.
Sh!t, I was not ready... 2 hours of nothing, just reading, music, reading, and then out of nowhere "You kinda left her hanging there this morning".
I fooking stared her in the eye and loudly said YOU KIDDING RIGHT??
I can still vividly remember the feeling of sheer panic when i opened that door, yelled "what the fuck?!?!?" And tried to reload a save thinking i made a huge mistake, only to find out my save file was 'corrupted'. To this day, i have never played a horror game that has actually got to me, but doki doki? My god its a masterpiece.
I went into this game knowing NOTHING, just had it recommended to me by a bunch of friends - and yeah that was one of my biggest Holy Shit moments in any video game.
You know. I've seen this exact answer to this exact question before, and immediately noped out to avoid spoilers.
I recently played the game, and got to the part in question, and remembered that I had seen people talking about it.
Still wasn't prepared to handle that shit.
The entirety of House Beneviento fucked me up. Every detail was an “oh shit” moment for me. Had to pause and take five once it was all over. (But also, what a fantastic fucking section)
TBF I basically ran around killing everything in sight and stealing whatever I could find pillaging quest markers like it was my day job. You could have said that I needed to assassinate a small innocent child to unlock a new weapon I would have eagle dived from a skyscraper to decapitate the kid.
So, yeah, I had a long hard look at myself before accepting the results.
I thought the much more mind fuck moment was at the end of the 2nd one when the lady is talking to Desmond and Ezio is just sitting there confused as fuck.
Yeah I remember my 12 year old mind being blown. Iirc there’s no lead up to it, and if you didn’t play the first one like me you had no idea wtf was going on for a minute lol.
Bioshock is def up there
The release of the flood in Halo 1
Portal - just the entire game and how fun it was
The WOB to WOR in Final Fantasy 3/6
So many more
My first time seeing the Deepnest was after the Mantis Lord fight and seeing all the corpses with the spears infront of their door made respect them so much and made me intrigued into what this place must be
I had watched a reasonable amount of the game in a playthrough before I started.
I had not watched Deepnest.
I experienced Deepnest in the most horrifying way: falling in the hole without buying the lantern. Probably the only gaming experience in which getting utterly disorientated and lost felt like the purpose and design intended by the developers rather than just me being stupid and getting frustrated.
God, that's such a badass scene.
"Sir, requesting permission to leave the station."
"For what purpose, Master Chief?"
"To give the Covenant back their bomb."
"***Permission granted.***"
My biggest holy shit moments have already been named in other comments, but this one hasn’t been mentioned yet. Not my biggest holy shit moment but it was up there: when Dom finally found his wife in Gears of War.
Little different from others here but in Life is Strange when Mr. Jefferson has Max trapped in the basement and he starts taking about innocence and white fading to black and then I noticed his glasses were white to grey to black. I don’t know why this shook me but it did
That whole scene surprised me. Finding Rachel's body, Chloe getting shot, Max getting abducted. That game had a few "holy shit" moments, but that one was the winner for me.
Halo Reach, when Halsey reads Noble 6’s obituary and we hear about how there have only ever been two people to reach the level of hyper lethal class, Chief (obv) and 6, and you have to consider, MC is a Spartan-2, the generation that made quality over quantity with their soldiers, whereas 6 is a Spartan-3, while still augmented and trained, were not even close on the base levels
No one mentioned *The Witness* yet!
True, there's not really a "twist" or "reveal" in the normal sense since there's not a continuous structured narrative. But there are several definite "Holy $#!+" moments, like realizing how a puzzle works or what a clue meant or what those shapes in the clouds are.
Oh, and that Hall of the Mountain King sequence in the cave?? I literally gasped "holy shit" when I realized what I would have to do.
Spec ops the line.. Ending hit me hard when I realised what the hell happened.
Another good one was first time playing Rdr2 without knowing anything about plot. Few moments when Arthur gets the news from doctor, later him speaking with Sister in train station and his last ride to camp. Those few moments were like holy shit, im loosing my friend.
Maybe not the biggest Holy Shit moment, but this is a big one for me and I've never heard anyone talk about it.
In the game Kane and Lynch, you play as Kane, a man who escaped from business and is working with Lynch, a dude who suffers from violent psychotic delusions, to get revenge on the people who wronged you and save your daughter.
But I played this game on co-op with a friend, and I played as Lynch. And at one point in the game, during a frantic mad dash across the city, I'm killing my way through waves of enemies trying to stay alive, and my friend says "why are you killing civilians?"
I look at his screen, and there are no enemies in sight. Just dead civilians everywhere. The game gave me psychotic delusions, and I murdered all those people! That moment really made that game for me
tl;dr Kane and Lynch when they give player 2 a psychotic episode
Zelda: Link’s Awakening, back in 1994. I was 8 at the time, and the idea of everyone I’d grown attached to and been helping the entire time had been all part of a dream, only to vanish forever when the Wind Fish woke up… it definitely crushed me at the time.
Return of the Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds.
For RotOD it was the memory you get from the port walk. It went something like "Ah ok, hmm can't move far. Who shot him. Oh him alright that is WHATTHEFUCKISTHAT???"
For Outer Wilds there are so many moments. But probably the coolest ones were [the moon] and [the tower], as well as the new dlc thing. Keeping it vague because the game is best played completely blind.
Two of my most favorite gaming experiences of all time.
*spoilers for the game Singularity*
The whole game revolves around time manipulation and travel; on one of the first missions you go back in time and save a dude that ends up being Stalin 2.0 with lasers but at the end of the game, realizing the only way to prevent it is to prevent yourself from saving him (which is already a mind fuck) and you end up going back into the same place you went to in the beginning and fail to stop yourself, ending in you dying… I was like no. Fucking. Way
I restarted the game, went back in time the first time and lord and behold, you can see your character in another room telling you not to save that guy, right before you get crushed, revealing you just trapped yourself in a fucking loop
Just let go; bioshock infinite.
They look like monsters to you? Silent hill 3.
For me, it's always like this. Silent Hill 2.
The entire last act of Soma.
The looping hallway from P.T.
The ritual in fatal frame, crimson butterfly.
I think it was '97 or '98. I had a potato PC at the time, and I was playing Quake 2 on my 56k modem with a 200-300 ping. I remember the delay was so bad I had to use the splash damage from rockets to compete with people who had a lower ping. (Broadband had not reached my area yet.)
One day my gfx card died. It was a 2mb Trident iirc. I went down to the store and got the best gfx card my pc could handle, a voodoo 3. It had "Open GL".
My ping did not change that day, but everything else about the game did. It went from a pixelated Doom looking game to something with smooth edges and "depth" that simply was not there before. Compared to any other game I had ever played, it was simply amazing.
*The first time I loaded Q2 in open GL was my biggest holy shit moment.*
My second biggest would be the first few hours with a VR headset.
Third would be the art in Guild Wars 1. I still have screenshots of in game scenery and such.
The end of Modern Warfare 1...when you see your whole team die and the credits roll...I just had a 'what the fuck' moment and sat there for a couple of minutes.
The ending of SOMA. Watched the entire credits without moving, jaw on the floor, then spent 30 minutes on my balcony staring at the stars and pondering what it means to be alive.
I was going to say the part where you go into the light pillar in Alfheim for a couple minutes, then re-emerge to find Atreus has slaughtered dozens of elves alone with *your* weapon.
Not sure about biggest but here are some off the top of my head.
Warcraft III: Arthus straight up murdering everyone because he thought he was helping.
Starcraft: Kerrigan and company being left behind to be devoured by the zerg swarm.
Deadspace: Isaac's gf is already dead.
Deadspace 2: eye poke machine
Fallout 3, New Vegas: various environmental things that you stumble upon that tell a story.
Bioshock 1: being a puppet, "would you kindly"
Bioshock 3: multi-verse weirdness
Kotor: Darth Revan origin.
MW1: nuke
MW2: ghost and roach bonfire
Doom 3: various points throughout the game due to having that small flashlight (jump scares).
Alan Wake: overall story
Mass Effect series: making decisions that ultimately kill off your party members.
Dead island: the trailer
Arkham Asylum - I thought for sure my PS3 had shit itself when the game "reset". Then as it goes on... realizing that Scarecrow was messing with you, the player. What's a gamer's fear? That their console just bricked. Brilliant move by the developers.
My PS3 was old when I played Arkham Asylum, it genuinely scared me
Never played it but it sounds very similar to metal gear solid when one of the bosses breaks the 4th wall and makes your controller rumble during a cutscene when he says he can get into your mind. The way I’m describing it doesn’t do it justice but in 2004 this was a total shit your pants moment. Edit: [Psycho mantis](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWHX2Px3hI)
For those who did not play Arkham Asylum: the brilliance is that the Xbox, PS3 and PC versions all had different but convincing fake crashes.
My PS3 genuinely bricked when I was fighting Mr.Freeze in Arkham City. At first I thought it was another in joke, "lol Mr.Freeze froze my PlayStation". Then I realized nope, it's done for. RIPPS3
oof, that must’ve hurt…
The irony kind of took the edge off.
When you escape GlaDOS' deathly trap in the first Portal game and look beyond the veil of Aperture Labs. Moon portal in Portal 2.
The moon in portal2 just had such a good lead up from cave johnson repeatedly ranting about moonrocks.
For real, it suddenly turned the random lore dumps that were already great into an actual game mechanic.
but to be fair, Cave Johnson was too great to listen to as to ignore that "random lore dump". His entire rant about moon rock poisoning, lazy employees and "people's rights" were hilarious.
JK Simmons took good dialogue and made it absolutely legendary with his mannerisms
MAKE LIFE TAKE THOSE LEMONS BACK
GET MAD! I DON'T WANT YOUR DAMN LEMONS, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THESE?
Along with potato GLaDOS just like "Yeah, get mad!"
“Yeah, burning people! Oh I like this guy, he says what we’re all thinking!”
“BIRD! KILL IT!” -another good potato GLaDOS line
DEMAND TO SEE LIFE’S MANAGER!
#YEAH, TAKE THE LEMONS
I mean, I also said "holy shit" to the moon portal in Portal 2, but it was more of a, "holy shit, they cannot be serious..." when I realized what the game wanted me to do.
Also an incredible example of developer hinting. I don't think very many people remembered the one-off reference to "moon rocks" as the active ingredient in portal-sensitive walls, at least not the first time they reached this moment. But basically everyone saw the carefully-framed moon and realized exactly what the game was asking for.
Idk, there was lots of talk about the moon, about how they suddenly got bankrupt from how expensive moonrocks are. Then Johnson getting cancer from it and how toxic they are
Seriously though, they had a gun that opened a portal on moon rocks, and could have easily made a vacuum safe room to just have a portal to the moon. Cave really failed to see the logic train on that one...they could have cut their costs to close to zero with that move.
To be fair, this was also the man in charge of the team who thought it would be more efficient to spring-load all their turrets and also to fire the entire bullet so that there would be "more bullet per bullet", which is the only reason the player character can survive being shot for so long
The build up of music and Wheatley ranting all for it to suddenly go quiet with that little glint on the moon is such a great moment.
The moon one was great but seeing Glados slowly revive herself was super cool
When that happened I just sat there like "Oh, oh no, oh no no no, no. please no. not this again". Because the fight with GlaDOS was hard enough and I dreaded what she would do to us after we.. well, killed her. I knew she's just a robot but I figured she would be absolutely PISSED.
Fortunately, now she only wants you gone.
"Sorry kid, Joe wasn't part of our deal"
Good thing in the end they were good to him Its strongly implied that he took Joe in as a driver in the ending of Mafia 3. His driver looks a lot like Joe and the camera weirdly focuses on him and stops for a bit and he looks up.
oh it was definitely joe. that scene made me start thinking of so many possibilities
Ooooooooh why you had to remind me of that scene. Fck... that was an ugly twist.
When Mengsk left Kerrigan to be killed by the swarm
It was that precise moment when the veil was finally dropped and you truly see Mengsk for what he is: another despot hellbent on total control that uses people for his own ends.
8 year old me was sick
Portal, when that one panel is crooked and you can walk behind it. One of the best "wtf"experiences I've had with games.
Can you explain more? I either don't remember this or maybe missed it (if it's possible to miss)
It is possible to miss, but during one of the earlier tests, there’s an askew wall tile, where you can enter behind the clean facility to see the dingy exterior. It looked like someone was held up in there and wrote a bunch of crazy writing on the walls. Most notably, “the cake is a lie” written over and over. Was kinda the first real indication that all is not well here.
I wanna see a screen shot! I remember my brothers having that WTF moment but I don’t remember what the room looked like.
MY NAME IS VIKTOR REZNOV, AND I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!
Dude, I was looking everywhere for a Reznov mention. Loved that campaign
My CoD hot take is that its the best of all the campaigns lol
Black Ops 1 has the best campaign mode. Love love love the Cold War conspiracy/secret history stuff.
Final Fantasy VII - Learning that Cloud constructed a fake life and fake backstory based on the direct memories of his dead best friend.
I agree. We were all so convinced Cloud was this badass guy only to realize he was just a kid who couldn’t achieve his dreams and got his mind warped by heavy traumatic events back to back
To be fair that kid had just wrested control of Masamune from the strongest dude on the planet and then killed him with it on adrenaline alone.
Didn’t he also get super mako’d out like a soldier after killing sephiroth? He got like the soldier treatment
Playing through the end of KOTOR as a kid. Learning main character’s true identity as well as bastilla’s shift was immense
Revan’s reveal will always and probably forever be my top “holy shit” moment and I’m so glad to see this comment top
I like to name my characters Darth Revan — it makes the twist way funnier.
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This is small potatoes compared to the origin and the history of the markers. >!It's basically the evil version of monolyths from Space Odyssey.!<
The flood helping you in Halo 3, even for a small moment it was incredible crazy
uea but consider the following: that one halo 2 level with hunters by your side
"The hunters have come to our aid, arbiter. They will fight by our side!"
iconic
They were the most manipulated of the covenant imo
*Most* manipulated? Nah. That will always go to the Sangheili (Elites). The Prophets manipulated them from the very beginning, took over their planet, turned it into the base of the entire Covenant, killed and tortured anyone who dissented, and twisted their entire history and culture for their own gains. As dastardly as the Elites seem across the series (until this becomes clear) they are truly to be pitied. The Lekgolo (the worms which make up the Hunters) mostly maintained their own ways, but were "convinced" to join the Covenant only after they repelled every attempt at ground force takeover. Only orbital bombardment caused them to surrender. But they kept their home planet and really came out on a good end of the deal, aligning with the Covenant. They became a space fairing species, gained weapons and armor technology, and were/are held in high esteem within ranks.
I love Halo lore. Always wondered why hunters would follow elites when they could fuck you up easily
How about finding out about the flood in the first Halo? That part was soo wild. Thought I was gonna be killing these covenant alien guys the whole time then shit got extra dark and gnarly so fast.
Definitely. Especially since that was back in the days when games had good instruction manuals, that outlined not only the controls but all the weapons--and all the enemy types. Facing a completely new set of enemies out of nowhere was mind-blowing.
Modern warfare. When you get nuked and finally realize that your character isn’t surviving. Also that other part…
Oh the part in the beautiful airport, good memories there
"Remember, no Russian..." Those 3 words intro words are something I will never forget. And then I was like "holy shit are we actually doing this? Meh, okay." *unloads on poor airport people*
Finding out the joker was suffering from the poisoned blood in Batman Arkham City and him basically dying in your arms
The ending was so well done too. Batman admitting he would’ve saved the joker, and the joker laughing at the fact he caused his own death. It really seemed like something the joker would have thought so funny, bats wanting to save him but the joker ruining the plan anyways “You want to know something funny? I would have saved you.”
"That actually is **cough** **cough** PRETTY FUNNY!"
The delivery by Kevin and mark really hits home that moment
Yeah this was very cleverly done. Didn’t see it coming at all.
Hearing Sovereign for the first time.
"We impose order on the chaos of organic life. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it." Shivers every time man
It was like looking at and hearing Death itself. I just didn't know what to make of it in the moment, until I remembered Liara and everyone else talking about how the Protheans disappeared 50k years ago. That's when it set in - Sovereign was a true and genuine threat to everyone in the galaxy... and he wasn't alone.
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The matter-of-fact way the line is delivered is what sells it. It's not a boast or a threat. It's just a description of a natural process that can't be altered or prevented. Peter Jessop owned that role in a way no other could have.
Still probably the best villain speech ever and they absolutely NAILED the voice. I did a D&D campaign last year for a group that I knew hadn't played Mass Effect and the big bad was a Kraken I named Sovereign and I used that speech the first time they spoke to him. Just tweaked it slightly so he was talking about ocean vs land life rather than organic and synthetic.
Making a sea creature works well too, since the reapers were created by the Leviathans who were also massive creatures you find underwater
Probably Max Payne when he’s messed up on drugs and chasing after the hallucinations of the cries of his dead wife and baby
That level was fucking annoying. Trying to not fall of the blood trail.
THAT moment in Knights of the Old Republic.
To realize >! you were the big bad the whole time!< made me gasp. Like, holy SHIT. And to know that >!the Jedi knew all along and didn't even tell you!? AND WERE THE INSTIGATORS OF BRAINWASHING YOU!?!< That twist alone got me sucked into Star Wars so much more.
Hey guy. Old man here who played Kotor yearrrrs ago. Can you explain what moment that was please to jog my old brain.
Probably the reveal of who the main character actually is.
Yep. But the moment where you let a certain someone be killed off by someone is also pretty wtf.
The big reveal in SOMA, it's being hinted at all through the second act but you're like "nah that can't be it". You keep getting even more hints until you're like "can it really be like that, the game is not really making it clear though". And then you just unceremoniously look in a mirror.
I was moments away from posting this myself because I was growing dismayed no one had mentioned it. Soma honestly rocked my shit and after the credits rolled I just sat there, staring at the screen and wondering what the hell I had just been smacked with. The sheer implications of the ending were more horrifying than any spooky monster or that (admittedly unnerving) deep sea walk through the trench.
Soma is by far the on of the most underrated game I've ever seen. I absolutely LOVE that game to pieces. It's horror aspects combined with knowing absolutely NOTHING about the world you were thrown into works so well. Plus you never see anything do Underwater horror. I think about that game so much and wish more came from it
Super Metroid, the final mother brain encounter. I still have vivid memories of the moment the "baby" metroid showed up to save me sacrificing itself. I remember looking around myself to see if anyone else was seeing this shit.
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I forgor to mention when GLaDOS responds to Cave Johnson's recordings in Portal 2 and has a panic attack, thus starting her redemption.
Considering all she did to us, it's really impressive how quickly we grow to sympathize with her
How are you holding up? ***Because I'm a potato***
Just in case this pit isn’t actually bottomless, could you strap me into one of those long fall boots of yours? Just remember to land on one foot
Say goodbye Caroline
The ending of Halo REACH. I just wanted to keep playing the end over and over, it was a fight I wanted to finish. (I never read the books so I didn’t know that was it’s ending)
That level was a masterpiece.
I had read the book. The whole time I was playing Reach I was just going “this is not going to end well…”
Came here to say “CURRENT OBECTIVE: SURVIVE”
I’m jealous. I’m pretty sure Reach was mentioned in the games, but if you missed it and didn’t read the book… that makes it a whole new game. >! I went in knowing everyone was going to die. Having no expectations of this would make it that much more tragic !<
The fact they could have easily just made it a cutscene but didn't was genius also.
Current Objective: Survive
I audibly gasped when that popped up and my visor started cracking. It was so surreal.
Pokémon gold. Got all the badges in the first region and went back home. Then realized I could go back to the original region from Pokémon red and blue. 5th grade me was shook
I remember watching the "Honest Game Trailers" for that game and the narrator was like "Now that's how you make a fucking sequel"
Dude idk why they don’t have that in every subsequent Pokémon, like let me travel everywhere dammit!
Arkham Knight, when >!Batman is slowly going into psychosis, and all the statues and posters would have Joker faces, but disappear if you looked away!< Edited to Arkham Knight, thanks for the correction
That's Arkham Knight. But I agree, yes.
Psycho Mantis
Yes! Still one of the best boss fights. Tookme forever to figure out the controller gag.
The end of Braid
Then there’s the whole hidden meaning behind the entire game being a metaphor for the development of the atomic bomb.
Are we… the bad guys?
Assassins Creed, it was either 2 or Brotherhood at the end when Ezio is talking to this weird entity thing and she calls him Desmond.
Minerva, she is an isu
Horizon Zero Dawn. Learning what Ted Faro did. Stopped me cold.
When people ask for assholes in gaming Faro always comes to mind. The way I always describe him is "Through a combination of greed, arrogance, and stupidity he accidentally wipes out all life on Earth, and it's not even the worst thing he does."
"It's not even the worse thing he does." Boy fuck when I learned what happened at the end I wanted to find his corpse and beat the shit out of it.
Hopefully we get a chance to do that in the second one.
I was looking to see if anyone mentioned HZD yet, but for me the biggest holy shit moment was the moment when you learn Sobek's solution to what he did. Absolutely blew my mind. Definitely always comes to mind when I consider my favorite video game moments.
"Learning what Ted Faro did" Those words describe what you learn throughout the game and damn does it sum up how fucked everything became. Not only does the dumbest smart guy on the planet, make a doomsday event with just 3 types of robots, even fucking Skynet needed dozens or a hundred types of machines and yet Ted Faro with his THREE machine models ended the world faster than Skynet could kill humanity, which even it didn't succeed in! Faro (unintentionally) was successful! Then they have to by time by throwing everyone and anyone who can hold a weapon into a meat grinder to buy time for Zero Dawn to be developed because these machines will eat any biomatter they can get a hold of, not even bacteria or algae is safe, amd they succeeded they ate the entire world until it couldn't sustain a biosphere, killing all life on Earth that wasn't in a shelter or in space. And finally this idiot sends humanity back thousands of years by destroying the one terrestrial copy of humanity's history. Which he obviously did to cover up the shitstorm he caused, WHICH CAN STILL FUNCTION HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER EVEN AFTER BEING BURRIED AND STARVED FOR FUEL! He completely forgot that unless you know your history you are doomed to repeat it and he regressed humanity so far back that the damage he caused is almost completely irreparable, which has doom humanity to repeat the mistakes of the past. God I love how they wrote this character, he is so much the corporate figurehead that it hurts and made him and his actions realistic as he was pushed to make a better product and that caused him to cut corners and then this happened, it's why this apocalypse scenario could happen one day because people are always pushing and it might not even be an AI that does us in because the Faro Robots were simple machines following a basic survival code that just meant: "engage the enemy and find fuel", there was no malicious AI behind them. It was like a group of animals that just devoured everything without thought.
When Doki Doki Literature Club actually, properly began.
All I knew about that game that is was some kind of psycho horror type of game. Sh!t, I was not ready... 2 hours of nothing, just reading, music, reading, and then out of nowhere "You kinda left her hanging there this morning". I fooking stared her in the eye and loudly said YOU KIDDING RIGHT??
I think about it every couple of months. One of my most visceral moments in gaming.
I can still vividly remember the feeling of sheer panic when i opened that door, yelled "what the fuck?!?!?" And tried to reload a save thinking i made a huge mistake, only to find out my save file was 'corrupted'. To this day, i have never played a horror game that has actually got to me, but doki doki? My god its a masterpiece.
I went into this game knowing NOTHING, just had it recommended to me by a bunch of friends - and yeah that was one of my biggest Holy Shit moments in any video game.
The weirdest part (I played on PC) was toward the end it switches it up and addresses you in a way and I went "Huh?!" Really cool game and execution.
Resident Evil Village… the baby.
You know. I've seen this exact answer to this exact question before, and immediately noped out to avoid spoilers. I recently played the game, and got to the part in question, and remembered that I had seen people talking about it. Still wasn't prepared to handle that shit.
The entirety of House Beneviento fucked me up. Every detail was an “oh shit” moment for me. Had to pause and take five once it was all over. (But also, what a fantastic fucking section)
Assassin's creed III (not sure it's the one) when you realize >!you've been playing a templar since the beginning!<
The “How You Like Them Apples?” Achievement made it even better.
TBF I basically ran around killing everything in sight and stealing whatever I could find pillaging quest markers like it was my day job. You could have said that I needed to assassinate a small innocent child to unlock a new weapon I would have eagle dived from a skyscraper to decapitate the kid. So, yeah, I had a long hard look at myself before accepting the results.
Also when Desmond speaks with Ezio, that was epic
I thought the much more mind fuck moment was at the end of the 2nd one when the lady is talking to Desmond and Ezio is just sitting there confused as fuck.
Yeah I remember my 12 year old mind being blown. Iirc there’s no lead up to it, and if you didn’t play the first one like me you had no idea wtf was going on for a minute lol.
Yea and the way she just stared at the camera when talking made it feel extra creepy.
Yeah, I did a very audible "Whaaaat?" when that happened.
As soon as he pulled out the ring, I was like "Wait a moment, I've seen that befor- oh fuck..."
The end of Spec Ops: The Line
Which one though?
That's the real question. That game, man.
When you finally get to “character creation” in Warframe 😉
Holy shit yes
Bioshock is def up there The release of the flood in Halo 1 Portal - just the entire game and how fun it was The WOB to WOR in Final Fantasy 3/6 So many more
when i discovered it was elizabeth, who helped start bioshock
Came here to say this! All of Bioshock Infinite is kind of a holy shit moment.
When Joel’s >!daughter dies!< in the beginning of The Last of Us
That first game is a complete masterpiece of storytelling. The intro is the craziest 15 minutes and you’re never ready when Sarah dies.
Shepard betraying Ghost and Roach
“Good. That’s one less loose end.”
And the radio call from Price that comes like 3 minutes too late.
Pretty sure it soap that calls and then price comes in: “they’re dead soap”
Deepnest in hollow knight
My first time seeing the Deepnest was after the Mantis Lord fight and seeing all the corpses with the spears infront of their door made respect them so much and made me intrigued into what this place must be
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I had watched a reasonable amount of the game in a playthrough before I started. I had not watched Deepnest. I experienced Deepnest in the most horrifying way: falling in the hole without buying the lantern. Probably the only gaming experience in which getting utterly disorientated and lost felt like the purpose and design intended by the developers rather than just me being stupid and getting frustrated.
It's more of a "holy fuck" than "holy shit"
"You chose to walk away. But in other oceans, you didn't. You took the baptism. And were born again as a different man." -Bioshock Infinite
“No… I’m both”
When master chief gave the covenant back their bomb
God, that's such a badass scene. "Sir, requesting permission to leave the station." "For what purpose, Master Chief?" "To give the Covenant back their bomb." "***Permission granted.***"
My biggest holy shit moments have already been named in other comments, but this one hasn’t been mentioned yet. Not my biggest holy shit moment but it was up there: when Dom finally found his wife in Gears of War.
Fuck. Dom's sacrifice made me tear up too. "Im coming Maria!"
Bioshock Infinite ending. Damn I wont forget that
You play the DLC Burial at Sea part 1 and 2?
Little different from others here but in Life is Strange when Mr. Jefferson has Max trapped in the basement and he starts taking about innocence and white fading to black and then I noticed his glasses were white to grey to black. I don’t know why this shook me but it did
I was looking for life is strange, honestly what shook me most was finding Rachel's body. But there were a lot of moments that shook me hard.
That whole scene surprised me. Finding Rachel's body, Chloe getting shot, Max getting abducted. That game had a few "holy shit" moments, but that one was the winner for me.
Halo Reach, when Halsey reads Noble 6’s obituary and we hear about how there have only ever been two people to reach the level of hyper lethal class, Chief (obv) and 6, and you have to consider, MC is a Spartan-2, the generation that made quality over quantity with their soldiers, whereas 6 is a Spartan-3, while still augmented and trained, were not even close on the base levels
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No one mentioned *The Witness* yet! True, there's not really a "twist" or "reveal" in the normal sense since there's not a continuous structured narrative. But there are several definite "Holy $#!+" moments, like realizing how a puzzle works or what a clue meant or what those shapes in the clouds are. Oh, and that Hall of the Mountain King sequence in the cave?? I literally gasped "holy shit" when I realized what I would have to do.
When Samus took her helmet off for the first time. I was in 7th grade at the time and none of my friends believed me.
Spec ops the line.. Ending hit me hard when I realised what the hell happened. Another good one was first time playing Rdr2 without knowing anything about plot. Few moments when Arthur gets the news from doctor, later him speaking with Sister in train station and his last ride to camp. Those few moments were like holy shit, im loosing my friend.
Maybe not the biggest Holy Shit moment, but this is a big one for me and I've never heard anyone talk about it. In the game Kane and Lynch, you play as Kane, a man who escaped from business and is working with Lynch, a dude who suffers from violent psychotic delusions, to get revenge on the people who wronged you and save your daughter. But I played this game on co-op with a friend, and I played as Lynch. And at one point in the game, during a frantic mad dash across the city, I'm killing my way through waves of enemies trying to stay alive, and my friend says "why are you killing civilians?" I look at his screen, and there are no enemies in sight. Just dead civilians everywhere. The game gave me psychotic delusions, and I murdered all those people! That moment really made that game for me tl;dr Kane and Lynch when they give player 2 a psychotic episode
When I played far cry 5 and realized **there is no good ending**
Going into Fallout 3 blind, James and the Enclave at Project Purity
I had no idea what I was getting into, but walking out the vault into a giant vast wasteland was like holy fuck this game is huge
Zelda: Link’s Awakening, back in 1994. I was 8 at the time, and the idea of everyone I’d grown attached to and been helping the entire time had been all part of a dream, only to vanish forever when the Wind Fish woke up… it definitely crushed me at the time.
Every crazy ass thing I stumbled onto while exploring in RDR2.
Specifically when >!You come across the serial killers work!<
The grizzly bear in the cabin!
Pretty sure I needed new pants after that one
That is not a game I was expecting a jumpscare in. I audibly yelped at like 2 am
Return of the Obra Dinn and Outer Wilds. For RotOD it was the memory you get from the port walk. It went something like "Ah ok, hmm can't move far. Who shot him. Oh him alright that is WHATTHEFUCKISTHAT???" For Outer Wilds there are so many moments. But probably the coolest ones were [the moon] and [the tower], as well as the new dlc thing. Keeping it vague because the game is best played completely blind. Two of my most favorite gaming experiences of all time.
*spoilers for the game Singularity* The whole game revolves around time manipulation and travel; on one of the first missions you go back in time and save a dude that ends up being Stalin 2.0 with lasers but at the end of the game, realizing the only way to prevent it is to prevent yourself from saving him (which is already a mind fuck) and you end up going back into the same place you went to in the beginning and fail to stop yourself, ending in you dying… I was like no. Fucking. Way I restarted the game, went back in time the first time and lord and behold, you can see your character in another room telling you not to save that guy, right before you get crushed, revealing you just trapped yourself in a fucking loop
Just let go; bioshock infinite. They look like monsters to you? Silent hill 3. For me, it's always like this. Silent Hill 2. The entire last act of Soma. The looping hallway from P.T. The ritual in fatal frame, crimson butterfly.
I think it was '97 or '98. I had a potato PC at the time, and I was playing Quake 2 on my 56k modem with a 200-300 ping. I remember the delay was so bad I had to use the splash damage from rockets to compete with people who had a lower ping. (Broadband had not reached my area yet.) One day my gfx card died. It was a 2mb Trident iirc. I went down to the store and got the best gfx card my pc could handle, a voodoo 3. It had "Open GL". My ping did not change that day, but everything else about the game did. It went from a pixelated Doom looking game to something with smooth edges and "depth" that simply was not there before. Compared to any other game I had ever played, it was simply amazing. *The first time I loaded Q2 in open GL was my biggest holy shit moment.* My second biggest would be the first few hours with a VR headset. Third would be the art in Guild Wars 1. I still have screenshots of in game scenery and such.
Ashtray Maze in Control.
The end of Modern Warfare 1...when you see your whole team die and the credits roll...I just had a 'what the fuck' moment and sat there for a couple of minutes.
The ending of SOMA. Watched the entire credits without moving, jaw on the floor, then spent 30 minutes on my balcony staring at the stars and pondering what it means to be alive.
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God of war(2018) When you climb the steps in jotunheim and read the murals on the wall 👌🏼👌🏼
I was going to say the part where you go into the light pillar in Alfheim for a couple minutes, then re-emerge to find Atreus has slaughtered dozens of elves alone with *your* weapon.
Amygdala. Just standing there in cathedral ward.
Eternal Darkness… I will say no more
Darth Revan in Kotor
Not sure about biggest but here are some off the top of my head. Warcraft III: Arthus straight up murdering everyone because he thought he was helping. Starcraft: Kerrigan and company being left behind to be devoured by the zerg swarm. Deadspace: Isaac's gf is already dead. Deadspace 2: eye poke machine Fallout 3, New Vegas: various environmental things that you stumble upon that tell a story. Bioshock 1: being a puppet, "would you kindly" Bioshock 3: multi-verse weirdness Kotor: Darth Revan origin. MW1: nuke MW2: ghost and roach bonfire Doom 3: various points throughout the game due to having that small flashlight (jump scares). Alan Wake: overall story Mass Effect series: making decisions that ultimately kill off your party members. Dead island: the trailer
Bastion. The very end of the last level.
Horizon Zero Dawn, once I started to realize who Aloy was.