Best Gaming Experience

Almost posted a similar experience. One time I was on a bomb run with head down on the Norden.
Flak smacked the fuselage and I about jumped out of my skin. Scary as hell.

Also, being stalked by 190s on the way home was really sad sometimes.

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Oh yeah! The number of times I had crew members passing out, reviving them only for ANOTHER crewman to pass out, revive them and ANOTHER one goes…

I recall once I had the pilot pass out, and literally seconds after I revived him the copilot went out, which would have been a real problem had I been a little slower to get to the pilot.

That’s when you descend below 10k ASAP!

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Multiplayer (LAN party setup):

Ghost Recon: We would play “lone wolf” where the highest scorer for the previous mission would be on his own team. Sneaking up on a big gun battle as lone wolf and annihilating both teams. They never knew what hit them.

IL-2: Multi-crewing a bomber for the first time and fighting off a buddy who was gunning for us in a fighter.

Unreal Tournament: HEADSHOT, MULTIKILL and UNSTOPPABLE announcements heard the first time.

Online MMORPG

Having a town meeting in Asheron’s Call with an entire guild sitting on benches in an outdoor amphitheater, each standing up to give input into how the guild should run. ■■■■■■■ trippy.

Asheron’s Call playing with an entire family, including kids, parents and grandparents. The roles they took in the game reflecting their family. Again, ■■■■■■■ trippy.

WOW flying on the griffin for the first time between ironforge and stormwind.

Battlefield 1942 having a car about to run over me be blown into the air by a tank or plane and flip over me, leaving me unharmed.

Offline:

The big reveal in System Shock 2.

The freaking sound of bullets hitting close in Op flashpoint.

Winning Baldurs Gate 2 (I never finish games, especially RPGs)

So many more great moments…

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Another of my favourites. SO many good memories. I played through BG1 and BG2 and their addons at least three or four times.

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So my wife and I are paying Age of Empires II, 1 v 1 against each other.

I fall back on my military training and build a well balanced army…in forward center I have a good sized force sword infantry with pike infantry to protect them form calvary; behind the infantry a nice double row of archers; a formation of calvary on each flank, to protect the flank or if the opportunity presents itself, turn the enemy’s flank; a few onagers in the rear to break up enemy infantry formations before they hit my lines.

I was all prepared and working up a reserve force when my wife attacked. Out of everywhere I got hit by calvary…lots and lots of calvary. She was taking losses but was wearing me down. She broke through and then brought up a couple of trebuchets to take out my castle. I was totally defeated!

Me - “How did you do that? I had everything absolutely, doctrinally, correct. You shouldn’t have won!!”
My Wife - “I just made a lot of little horsies.”

…and thus my wife discovered the RTS “Tank Charge” strategy…#@$% little horsies! :neutral_face:

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Hahaha not bad!
But yeah, realistic tactics don’t always work well in RTS games.
I had a friend whom I played Age of Empires 1 against. One day he built a lot of priests, and when he attacked me he converted a lot of my big units to fight for his side.

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“wolololo” “wolololo” and that’s 2 hours of building troops gone…

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Oh man how I hated that sound. :smile:
But a few years later I did the same thing to him in “StarCraft Brood War” using Dark Archons. :smiley: :smiley:

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Back when I was in Newport News, I got a party house in Virginia Beach with two of my best friends from the Truman and another guy we all knew from the Enterprise (that’s another series of stories though). Anyway, the three of us set up a LAN between our very powerful (for the time) gaming systems, and did a LOT of head to head gaming (when we weren’t hosting 16-player Halo battles between the living room/ game room/ dining room/ bedrooms).

We all picked up Jane’s Sub Command around the same time, shortly after it came out. I spent a bit of time learning the basics of the sonar suite and how to detect and track targets. Another one of my roommates (a guy who’d been a friend of mine since high school) spent a lot of time seriously mastering the sonar systems and actually beat the campaign pretty quickly after buying the game. The third guy installed it and promptly forgot about it.

One rainy Saturday we all decided to hop in for a bit of head to head gaming- the buddy who’d beaten the campaign took a 688, the roommate who’d barely played took an Akula, and I took a Seawolf.

After the match started, things happened in very quick succession:

-Akula blind-fired a torpedo based on where he thought he’d heard something.
-I snapshotted a torpedo at the sound transient from the Akula firing.
-688 stayed quiet, hoping to be able to develop a better sonar picture and find both of us.
-My snapshotted torpedo hit the Akula and sank him.
-The blind-fired torpedo from the Akula somehow found and sank the 688.

So, I won the match by default, while cries of “WHAT JUST HAPPENED” came from the two bedrooms of my roommates.

Good times.

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I guess you were lucky the 688 didn’t fire on you when you fired, lighting you up.

When I used to play Seawolf that was de rigeur…everyone tried to be very quiet until someone made a sound or got detected (or got bored and made an active ping!)
Then came a flurry of shots and people trying to evade/drop CMs/go over-under the layer.

In the end, the one who lived was more lucky than anything else with timing their evasions or the shooter taking a bad shot. Not uncommon for just getting MAD and everyone sunk. :slight_smile:

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That’s what I did. When I replayed the game few years later (which was newer version with Resistance expansion included) the mission was patched - you could no longer board that Hind, you had to run to the woods, although I think I managed to liberate BMP or was it UAZ?

Other mission I fondly remember was called “After Montignac”, where your team is regrouping for evacuation. Basically you had to get to evac point few km away on foot, with enemy patrols all around you. I remember getting killed at one point when trying crossing a clearing. Finally I was so frustrated that I said to mine then girlfriend to step in and do that part of mission for me. After quick tutorial how to move, she was able to cross that clearing without being killed after first try. I guess she was lucky.

This was a mission in first Call of Duty. First mission for British campaign.

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Outside of flight sims and flying games, the COD4 “all ghillied up” sniper mission really comes to mind.

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Historically? The opening sequence of Jane’s F-15, and gearing up for the first combat mission after your initial orientation/shakedown flight. I felt like I was one little guy in a huge overall war.

Recently? All the little recordings of the vantage points in Horizon: Zero Dawn coming together to that point where you realize the impending horror and realization that all life on Earth was going to be extinguished by one man’s mistake and then watching him wipe out all traces of human history with a keystroke. That was a truly awful moment when you realize this guy didn’t care about what would come after him, just as long as no one ever knew it was him.

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Yeah, I really liked that in Desert Storm campaign first two (three?) missions were basically training missions put into story contex. One was just a flight along the border so the Iraqi defences get accustomed to allied flights in the area prior to the start of Desert Storm, the other was bombing mission against mock airfield. First mission teached you navigation and the other one was basically a combat mission but without any enemy opposition so you could make that patch maps without worries of being engaged by SAMs or enemy air patrols. There were also few cool touches like limited supply of certain weapons and LANTIRN pods early in the campaign.

In the more modern Iran campaign one mission truly engraved in my memory: you had to support some special ops team on the ground deep behind enemy lines. At missoin start they were being chased by enemy convoy - some BMP’s and maybe mobile SAM and AAA. They were headed for an airfield where C-130 was waiting to pick them up. After you took that convoy with some cluster bombs, their HMMWV parked near that C-130 (I was monitoring them through LANTIRN targeting pod) and after short while it took off and headed for a friendly airspace while 4 Strike Eagles escorted it all the way to the gulf.

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Oh…cool, thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

…I always get MOH, COD and…that other WWII game…the one where you direct a squad…confused.

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Brothers in Arms?

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You ask… I deliver…

50% off single ones.
75% off if You buy all three.

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The squad management system and cover system was great in that. Good times.

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Late entry: Gears of War 3 when your battle bro Dom gives the ultimate sacrifice for his bros. The cinematics, the music, the fact that you played with him at your side for so many hours. Epic, must watch.

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That’s it!

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