Most epic moments of your gaming life

[SvennoJ]

Playing civilization for the first time (1991), could not believe a video game could be that awesome. That entire night is still vivid in my memory.

Playing Descent (1995), 6 axis of freedom, true 3D map, when it clicked it was amazing to fly around in. It was also the first game I (later) played in stereoscopic 3D. I can also still exactly remember where and with who I was when we first tried that game.

Half-Life (1998), Soundblaster hooked up to my new surround amp. I watched the intro sequence at least 3 times before starting the game.

Everquest (1999) Nothing as epic as falling in love, meeting up, and getting married a couple years later.

Shadow of the Colossus (2005) Chasing down the flying Colossus on horseback in the desert, to leap on and climb to the top.

FF12 (2006) I took a detour, got lost underground somewhere (some 'shortcut'). It turned into a 2 hour epic struggle to survive, close to death numerous times, retreating to survive but that gave the enemies more time to respawn. In a final push a mini boss showed up, yet somehow I pulled through and got out of there.

Dark souls (2011) Lost in the depths, in a desperate attempt I jumped off something and ended up at a Bonfire. Then had no clue how to go back or forward. Underpowered, death around every corner, weapons degrading more and more, I managed to map the layout fight by fight to finally find the way out 2 hours later.

Fract OSC (2014) True exploration and discovery in a vast open fully 3 dimensional cavern. This gave me the same feeling as playing Descent. I just wiped my save game to start another playthrough.