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.
ugh, I used to have the soundtracks for those games on my iPod. might have to go requisition those again…
Anytime I instakill myself in Noita with my own spell combos i think “Yeah, I could have seen that coming” and smile.
In Control, the Hotel Ashtray maze:
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You put on headphones and some epic hard rock kicks in. (Old Gods of Asgard: “Take Control”.) The hotel hallways open up and transform into a surreal maze of twisting, sliding paths as you run through and hit a series of intense fights.
I’d never done the maze before, so I totally wasn’t expecting this: At the very end of it, basically unison with the in-game character Jesse, she & I both said “That was awesome”
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.
Not so much a smile, more of a ‘WTF?! 🤣😂🤣😂’.
THAT quest in Kingdom Come Deliverance with the Priest.
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.
Totally agree. I need to try out the new Portal: Reloaded co-op, see if it has the same magic.
Maybe it is nostalgia, but Prince of Persia: Sands of Time ending. That whole soundtrack was a banger too.
Any Dark Brotherhood quests in the Elder Scrolls.
Yes! Sands of Time ending was great.
Dayz ‘You are dead’ screen always makes me smile, knowing i wont get that 4-8hrs back but then immediately starting again.
Mass Effect 2, Grunt’s loyalty mission on Tuchanka. Always, always take the renegade interrupt to headbutt Uvenk and cut off his rant.
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.
Potential spoilers for Forgotten City
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.
Right at the beginning of Nier Automata when it shifts into a bullet hell game for a bit and the already amazing soundtrack changes styles to match I just knew I was in for an amazing experience.
Finally beating the asylum demon on my very first playthrough of dark souls.
Then i immediately realized i only just beat the tutorial.
Playing Dark Souls 1 for the first time has so many amazing moments like that - finally defeating the Bell Gargoyles, or surmounting Sens Fortress and pushing the Iron Golem off… But I don’t think anything will ever compare to the exhilaration I felt in beating Ornstein and Smough for the first time.
The first sight of Botw/genshin’s open world, Gaur plains and gormott from Xenoblade 1 and 2.
The indescribable joy of feeling the wind on your face as the world opens before you
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 :(
Think its gotta be THAT moment towards the end of Disco Elysium (if you know, you know, I don’t wanna spoil it for folk who haven’t experienced it for themselves yet), it made me cry but it was a happy cry so I think it counts
Which part?
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The shootout? Or the old man on the island? Or the cryptid?
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The third one
Yeah, that moment was awesome.
