Playing Portal 2 with a guy I found on Steam.
Same - I was done with the SP story and wanted to play coop.
I got matched with someone and we communicated by head bobbing / jumping and very little text chat.Played through the whole thing together and never saw each other again, it was a special moment for sure.
I’m sure there are plenty but the ones that stick with me are :
The ending of Disco Elysium, and the friends you made along the way of a murder investigation. The writing is so good that it set a very high bar for future games.
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Finding out how and why the loop in Forgotten City is happening (the whole objective of the game is finding out why you’re stuck in a loop).
Similar to Groundhog Day, you start to get familiar with everyone’s routines and get to know them better each time the loop resets.
And then realising
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Galerius is your true bro all along.
Red Dead Redemption - the first ride into Mexico, during the nighttime, when the music came on
Pizza Tower final boss had me laughing. Its such an anime fight its unreal. The culmination, the twists, the showdown, the music, the choreography. Definitely a must experience.
2 of my favorite from Titanfall 2 are when:
1: During the home/neighborhood factory when you realize this is building the boss arena.
2: Using the time travel device to fight your way out of the facility in two different timelines.
The time travel sequence in Titanfall 2 is like the moment where the game clicked for me. I was hooked from then on. Such a good game, shame we’re not getting a third :(
Playing Mario Odyssey.
The segment right at the end where you
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play as Bowser was incredible. Just smashing through rocks as the whole place came crashing down I was grinning like a kid. It was just so incredibly fun and a great reward for beating the game.
Borderlands still tends to make me crack up. dem bandits are funny when they die
Metal Gear Solid 3, the ladder scene with the awesome soundtrack.
My first time playing no mans sky and finding out you get to fly around the solar system. I love how infinite the game is even if its a little repetitive
When that music kicks in when you start a game of We Love Katamari or Katamari Damacy
It will always bring me joy
It brings me back to a simpler time of being a kid during summer and picking the game up for the first time with a former friend.
Though that former friend is no longer here, those memories of that summer will be with me hopefully forever.
I had lost those memories (and many many others) a few years back when I had a traumatic brain injury, and last summer when my AC was broken and I caught myself humming a some I didn’t remember. And after a bit of working on the song it clicked what it was from. I listened too a few songs from it and booted it up on my old PS2. And that intro music while sitting in front of my TV on the floor, brought me to happy tears as those memories of that summer started to flood back.
The end of Portal 2, when the enrichment center barfs out your old companion cube. Such a charming way to end the story, and I couldn’t help but smile. Especially in contrast to the intense turret opera immediately preceding it, it just feels oddly wholesome.
Anytime I instakill myself in Noita with my own spell combos i think “Yeah, I could have seen that coming” and smile.
My coworker and I were working together and he was playing BOTW on some downtime. He ended up getting caught between a bunch of enemies and saved, then died, again and again and again. He decided he was gonna win the fight no matter what, and we ended up taking turns to see who could win the fight first.
It was a good moment, as we shared in that struggle together, dying time and time again to try and come out on top in camaraderie.
As a cat family, Stray had me and my wife smiling from start to finish. So many “yep, that’s a cat thing” moments.
The first thing that comes to mind was my first play through of Yakuza 0. Majima spends so much time winning stuffed animals for a little girl that lost her dad. Part way through the quest line she starts calling him dad and it made him so happy. It warms the heart and I could not stop smiling.
