The Most Shocking Video Game Moments of All Time


I am the first to admit that I spend entirely too much time in front of a computer monitor. I am also the first to admit that the majority of the time in front of my computer is spent on video games. My obsession with video games is something that is beyond my control. I grew up in an age where beating Super Mario Bros. in under 20 minutes was something to be admired.
Many of my childhood memories, in some way, include video games. Over the last week I started putting together a list of my favorite video game moments. While I wasn’t directly involved in many of these video game moments, they certainly are worth remembering.
8. The first time playing through the original DOOM. The atmosphere was terrifying. The legions of monsters attacking you from all angles. The music drew you in. There were many moments in DOOM where I actually had to stop playing. The game was just too intense at times. This was the first game to actually give me nightmares.

DOOM

7. The first time your entire family died in Oregon Trail. As a fifth grader; this game was the greatest. You basically take your family through the wilderness to get to the west during pioneer times in the United States. The shocking moment in this game was when your family died off due to some strange illness that a fifth grader couldn’t comprehend. Why the hell did my family just die from Dysentery? What the hell was Dysentery? These moments shocked me, and also made me quite angry when I was in fifth grade.

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6. Mortal Kombat fatalities. Who can forget the first time that you ripped out Sub-Zero’s heart with Kano’s fatality? The fatality moves were extremely disturbing for a 13 year old kid. It was one of the first games that you could fight to the death, and then rip their beating heart out of their body. You were only given a few seconds to pull off the fatality move, and it was an excellent way to rub it in your friends face when you beat him.

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5. Grand Theft Auto: Hot Coffee. This is one of those moments in video gaming history that probably won’t be forgotten. The Hot Coffee Mod didn’t shock gamers as much as it did society. It is something that any gamer recognizes, and most non-gamers as the mod that made Grand Theft Auto get pulled from shelves; while making parents shudder across the globe. The code was always in place for the nudity, but the developers didn’t intend to flip the switch to activate the nudity. The Hot Coffee mod basically flipped the switch, and caused an uproar in society.

hot coffee mod

Samus Aran4. The Unveiling of Samus Aran. By the time Nintendo released the original Metroid, I was already one of those Nintendo minions. I played any game that got even the tiniest bit of hype. I read every issue of Nintendo Power, and even ripped out the posters to hang on my wall. Keep in mind, I was very young here; not an 18 year old college freshman or anything. Metroid was another masterpiece by Nintendo that grabbed my attention, and forced me to put long and hard hours into it, until it was finished. Samus Aran, the protagonist, was the ultimate badass. He worked alone, and traveled through the unknown to beat each mission. In the finally, I was absolutely dumbfounded when Samus finally revealed…herself. Up until this point, women were only featured in games as objects that needed saving. This was a huge jolt to the normal video game gender roles. Samus Aran is still one of the greatest female video game characters of all time.
3. The End of Hyrule. I have always been a follower of the Zelda series. When Nintendo unveiled Wind Waker, I was a little taken back by the new design, and play style. Being the dedicated Zelda fan that I am, I gave it a try. The game was a nice change for the Zelda series, and I quickly learned to love the new game. While many will dispute that this isn’t one of the greatest shocking moments in gaming history, it really brought a huge piece of Zelda history to an end. In the beginning of Wind Waker, I was stunned to find out that the lands of Hyrule were flooded by the gods. Hyrule had appeared in every Zelda game until this point. I knew every nook and cranny of Hyrule from all of the Zelda games, and now it is gone. On a possitive note, at the end of Wind Waker, Zelda sails off to find another Golden Land. After all, Hyrule was beginning to feel a bit small.

Hyrule Map Overview

2. Lord British Dies by Firewall. Probably my favorite game of all time is Ultima Online. To me, this is the game that started the MMORPG era. I had put more hours into UO than any other game to this day. There was so much to do in the world of Ultima Online. For me, it reigned king until the Trammel/Felucca expansion came out, and much of the fun of UO was lost. Way back in beta, Lord British (Richard Garriot) held a little meeting to talk about the game to whatever testers showed up. He was standing along side Lord Blackthorne in the game, and a group gathered accross a wall from him. One of the beta testers known as Rainz cast a firewall on Lord British, and due to a bug, killed him. He got so mad that he unleashed tons of Daemons on the crowd killing most of them. Rainz was later banned from the game for violating the beta tester terms and conditions. This is by far the greatest moment in the history of MMORPGs.

Lord British Dies

Aeris Gainsborough1. The Death of Aeris. There are three video game series that will never die. Zelda, Mario, and Final Fantasy. You can ask a person who despises video games (God forbid), and they will more than likely know about the Zelda, Mario, and Final Fantasy series. The reason for this is simple, these three series have popped out more quality video game titles than any other. One of the greatest gaming moments of all time happened in Final Aeris DeathFantasy VII. One of the most memorable and beloved characters in the Final Fantasy series was Aeris Gainsborough (Aerith was her original name in Japan, but was changed to Aeris in America due to poor translation). At the end of Final Fantasy VII Aeris was killed by Sephiroth, and this moment is considered by many to be the most shocking moment in video game history. Rumors still emerge now and then that she will somehow be resurrected in future Final Fantasy titles.
Edit: I stand corrected. Aeris dies in the middle, thanks for the hundreds of reminders.

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http://www.mobygames.com
http://www.gamespot.com
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Rainz Killing Lord Brittish was awesome I would have to agree it is one of the greatest moments of all time

Anyone ever seen the last guy in Serious Sam….that was a freaking shocker. Guy was huge.

One of my favourites: the death of Lisa in Silent Hill 1.

Tight article, although the most shocking video game moment for me was when mother brain was pounding me with a death ray and a metroid (my arch-nemesis) came to rescue me, killing itself in the process. I cried for days.

Aeris isn’t due to poor translation, it’s due to a difference of opinion. The Japanese name is “Earisu” which can be translated either way.

AERIS!!! NOOOOOOO! Now that was a shocker! I remember thinking “what the hell did they just do?” FF7 = Best game ever! Nice list, completely love it.

I agree, Metriod should have 2 shocker parts. The woman part and the power passing part. Kick ass rainbow colors and destroying of the boss followed my a near death escape. What a great game.

Sushi chef told me you can bring Aeris back to life. I always found it weird that her limit break, Heaven Sent, was in the manual, but she died before she even could get the item to allow her to get it. Something about defeating Emerald Weapon, winning items via the Black Chocobo… all the insane stuff you don’t have to do to beat the game + 2. Anyway, I’d say Google it; may chagne your outlook. Certainly changed mine towards sushi.

that scene with Sephiroth and Aeris isn’t at the end is it? I thought it was in the middle…

I would have to say my most shocking video game moment was playing the original DOOM on the day it was released, with my gravis ultrasound (3d sound) while tripping on acid… it was at the same time, the coolest and freakiest thing I had ever done. Hearing those imps grunting in the dark corners of my room, oh yah.. good stuff.

Yes, she dies in the middle of the game T_T.
Good job man.

I know you all mean well, but those of you talking about Samus getting saved by the metroid when fighting mother brain are, in fact, referencing Super Metroid for the SNES. You find out that she’s a woman in the original Metroid for the NES. Although, if you’re not old enough to have experienced it firsthand, I forgive.

On account of my being such an enormous pedant, I feel compelled to add that Hryule did not appear in every Zelda game prior to the Wind Waker. Hyrule (more specifically, the Temple of Time) was only featured in the opening cutscenes of Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons, and was merely mentioned briefly in the manual for Link’s Awakening.

By the way, if you were thinking of giving credit to the guy who spliced together that map of Hryule…

http://ian-albert.com/misc/gamemaps.php

How about in Goldeneye for N64, when you played the control level on 00 mode and Natalia DIDN’T die while hacking the computers, meaning that after a month of frustration, you might actually beat the level.

As indicated in other comments, Aeris died near the middle of the game. Also, about her name, there is no “th” sound in the Japanese language. The closest thing is the “su” sound. There are other sounds like this, such as for “l” and “r”. The Japanese somewhat combine those two sounds. So the way I learned Japanese, I would transliterate her name as “Earisu”, which could be translated as “Aeris” or “Aerith” or even “Aelisu”. The way I would pronounce it would kind of drop the “u” sound at the end, sounding more like Aeriss than Aerisuu. But I think the main reason many say her original Japanese name is Aerith is because much of the original Japanese artwork has her name romanized as “Aerith”, and only for the English release did they change it to Aeris. This seems to happen often, and sometimes is a sort of Engrish mistake, but in this case neither translation is wrong.

You can get Aeris’s 4th limit break on her before she dies. Its difficult, and requires knowing the timing in the game of where and how to do it. But you can definately do it.

There is no way to ressurect Aeris in FF7 without a game genie. And even then outside of battle there is no script for her from the moment of her death on.

Aeris is dead in FF7. She has shown up, or had references to her being alive again in subsequent games.

Karateka, if you don’t bow at the end…

In Ocarina of Time, when you first become adult link by pulling out the Master Sword from the temple stone and then go out into Hyrule and it’s in ruins. I almost cried. My beloved Hyrule!! Ok, enough sentimentality. Another great moment….

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When you find out that YOU’RE Reven. Wow.

The most shocking moment in video game history for me was when Sierra cancelled their Babylon 5 game! And when it occured to me that after 9 great years nobody has made a decent Stargate title :)

Correction: There are FOUR video game series which will never die. The 4th is Sonic the Hedgehog.
Myself, my 2 harshest shocks of the type you listed were both from the same game. Riven: the Sequel to Myst. There was a place called the Wahrk Feeding Chamber, where there was a glass dome at the bottom of a pool, and you were in the dome, looking up into the water. There was a red light that you turned on that would summon a strange creature, a cross between a shark and a whale with tusks. When you turn the red light on for the third time, the creature gets upset and rams the glass. When I first encountered this part of the game it was while I was in the hospital recovering from back surgery. When that beast rammed the glass dome I was so startled that my vital signs jumped and set off an alarm. The nurse came running in, worried that I might have had a heart attack. The other shock from Riven came when I made a foolish mistake detailed below

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This mistake was one that caused me to lose the game and end up being shot with a poison dart by the villain, Gehn. I had read that the Myst series was a series in which nobody died, although I missed the part that said you could die in Riven but only if you did something very foolish. Even so, when I stumbled across that scene where I was shot with some sort of dart and the screen’s image slowly went blurry and black, I was rather shaken up.

Great list, I enjoyed it. And, I agree with your no. 1. Damn it, I whitnessed that horrifying scene really late at night, and I spent the entire night crying in my pillow. Best game ever.
Oh, by the way, about her fourth limit break: it’s called “Great Gospel”, and you get it by bringing mythril to the blacksmith living alone on a peninsula.
When it comes to the “revival” part, we’ll just have to wait and see when Advent Children is released (yeah, I want the english version). I have a hunch…

Anyone remembers the Final cut scene in Descent 2 – when the ship is about to teleport back home and the fusion reactor core suddenly explodes (the ship still did teleported in time before the pilot got poisoned by the radioactive chemicals and drifts away into unknown space)
Oh, shit I waited almoust 2 years till Descent 3 came out so I could find out what would happen next!!!

How about the first time you beat Super Mario Brothers and you find out the princess is in another castle… I was just a lil kid, but I remember how shocked I was that was all that happened. What a letdown/shock.

I cried when Aeris died. Life is so unfair sometimes.

You forgot the ending of monkey island 2 where you find out Le’Chuck is your brother and you’re at a circus

earisu -> Alice. People will never learn.

Oh, the countless hours I spent inventing and chasing endless crackpot theories on how to bring Aeris back to life. Good times.

Thief should be on there. Anyone who ever bought the original Thief:Dark Project and snuck around the haunted cathedral or tombs knows that this was the first game to ever truly give a person fear _while_ playing it. Nightmares after playing Doom is one thing. But to feel scared out of your wits during a game? Something else.

Thinking you’ve remained unseen, hearing the rattles, whispers, and spooky poltergeist-like babbling of the invincible undead all around you, it really gave you a jolt when a hideous, leering skeleton winds up tracking YOU, without you ever knowing it.

i <3 aeris….

Not to be a nitpicker or anything, but I know Hyrule was not in Link’s Awakening (it was Koholint Island), nor do I believe it was in the Oracles games.

Some are going to say those don’t count, but for my money, all three of those games were top notch.

What about
“all your base are belong to us”

Hey, moron:
I hate to break it to you, but both “Aeris” and “Aerith” are interchangeable in Japanese – there is absolutely NO difference in the way they would be rendered in Japanese writing or pronunciation. There was no “poor translation” involved. In fact, using the “s” over the “th” was likely a deliberate decision by those in charge as it would likely be the easier to pronounce out of the two for English speakers.
Hell, even “Barret” could just have easily have been written as “Bullet” thanks to the ambiguous nature of the Japanese syllabary.
Get a clue.

fark nailed it. biggest shocking moment left off… your skill with video games won’t get you ass from hot girls.

maybe this will change with next gen consoles? one can only hope….

What r u..a bunch of nerds???

In the old text adeventure, Planetfall by infocom. You have a robot “companion” to help you through the game. When he “dies” it’s really a touching moment. Almost broke me up.

The Karateka bow. Brutal.

Zelda was a frightening and alluring passion of mine back in the day. Reading that just opened the foodgates of my nintentdo memories.

Aeris is resurrected/alive at the end of Final Fantasy VII. Her eyes open, as she floats in the life-stream, it’s the last shot of the final cinematics. Any other interpretation would be macabre and inconsistent with the tone of the rest of the game and the story’s arc. But, more shocking than Aeris’s death is the number of fights you have to undertake just to walk from one end of the damn airship to the other

Aeris!!!!! NOOO!!!!!!
Great list, I totally agree. I, too, cried when Aeris died. Of course, I had a broken leg at the time and was high as a kite (codeine and maryjane will do wonders).

The death of Aerith was a total rip-off of the death of Alys is Phantasy Star 4.

Totally agree with most of the games listed, Aeris’ death was indeed a very shocking moment and I did start to well up. Wasn’t a big fan of the UO series so I can’t relate. But I have to add – what about the Fallout series from Interplay? The first one when you do all the work that the Vault sets you out to do and then tells you you can’t come back and live in the paradise of the vault? Made me want to murder every NPC in there. Or how about thinking beyond the games a little bit and go to Interplay itself and the whole team getting sacked – Blew my mind…

One of the best moments is in the first resident evil game where the dogs come through the windows. Scarred the crap out of me even when i knew to expect it

sorry, but the death of Gremio in Suikoden should’ve been there. man, that was intense. the oregon trail part was dead on.

Great list… and *sniff* if only UO proceded with UO2. The Lord British moment was huge. I recall dreaming about that even after it happened.

When Aeris died I started swearing at sephiroth and swore I would get my revenge for killing the beloved Aeris. why did she have to die like that.

Good article. We all have our favorite moments in gaming history. Here are a couple of mine:

Halo: A great game with an even better multiplayer. My group of friends grew for 6 close friends to about 20 based soley on playing Halo every friday night.

Gaberiel Knight 3: The end of the game she leaves… If you played the series you know what I’m talking about… and no GK4!!!…

By Jim Rome:

Clones I thought I was the only one who missed the B5 game by Sierra. I beta tested it at Dragon Con 97. The game was great even by todays standards!

And like the B5 game by Sierra I am out!!!

Hey, You people realize she was just a poorly realized character in a video game right? No need to cry. restart the game, there she is again.

The death of Aeris in FFVII was definately the single-most emotional experience I’ve had when playing a video game. I was so dumbfounded and choked-up the first time I saw it. It was also the first time I’ve felt true contempt for any video-game villian. Cloud, you can have Sephiroth only AFTER I’m done ripping his spineless guts apart!

As for the Thief series: The single most nerve-racking mission in all of the series is “The Cradle” from Thief: Deadly Shadows. Abandoned orphanage and asylum. At night. Alone. The building is very old, and you can hear every creak and groan of the place echo through it’s lightless halls…and every once in a while, faint whispers coming from the shadows…

All of Doom and Doom3 put together are a day at the beach compared to this mission. 3 heart attacks and a couple of paranoia-filled hours later, I managed to beat the mission and move on to missions involving more mundane things like golems and zombies.

Yeah I was going to mention Link’s Awakening not being in Hyrule, but people beat me to it. I thought the end of that one was pretty emotionally touching too, kind of like finishing a good book with a sad ending.

Also, the Revolver Ocelot conversation after the credits in Metal Gear Solid for PS. I’ve never tried to skip the end credits since.

Cry about some dumb animated and pixelated bitch some more, then go have a session of violent masturbation, then push “restart”. Repeat.

I’m pretty sure that the death of Aeris took place closer to the first half of the game, not even in the middle. The game contained three CD’s and Aeris either died in the end of the first one, or the beginning of the second, so not even quite the middle. Although, it was a very shocking moment, because most RPG gamers at that point were expecting a battle with Sephiroth, not for Sephiroth to flat out kill Aeris.

Another vote for Bioware’s Knights of the Old Republic for shocking moments. That plot twist was fanTASTic.

the third CD barely has anything on it, the fight with sephiroth and thats about it

I agree with the #1 for sure. I also think the twist in KoTOR should be on the list, but I’m very surprised that nobody has mentioned the DEATH OF CHRONO! You can get him back (you don’t have to), but the death of the main character of one of the best RPG’s of all time should definitely be ont he list.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOORKS!

Umm, you clearly haven’t played the hot coffee mod or even read that much about it. It wasn’t a “nudity switch”. Its a mini-game where you get to have sex. The amusing thing is the participants are still fully clothed.

awesome dude. Ultima Online is still the best MMORPG out there.

NOt isure if you would call this shocking, but it was damned emotional… dunno if you guys played Tales of Symphonia for GC, but towards the end when your friends continually keep sacraficing themselves to help you out…especially Sheena…it was a powerful scene!

And the absolute most shocking incident in a video game. Lucas Arts Rescue on Fractalus. You are flying around picking up downed pilots on a hostile planet. The view is from the cockpit. You see the pilot approaching, but he seems very slightly different. All of a sudden he pops up in front of the windshield and just before he smashes it you see that he is actually a lizard monster alien. I used to let people play the game just to see how high they would jump when the alien appeared!

SPOILER!!!

I want to agree with the KOTOR fan above the moment when it hit me, and I realized who I was in KOTOR 1 hit me like a ton of freaking bricks. I had to save the game and go for a walk.

In Madden ‘06 when the Dallas Cowboys beat the Eagles by scoring two touchdowns in the last 3 minutes of the game. I cried for days. Then skipped town owing fifteen thousand dollars.

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How about in GTA when you wreck your car?

How about at the end of summoner when the D&D Parody starts up… Priceless… I believe it’s a DeadAleWives audio track with video overlay

Knights of the Old Republic the only time my jaw dropped when playing a video game…

It was shocking to find that the Sariens in Space Quest I killed everyone in the control room. I was in 4th grade and puked!

Having sex with a hooker then murdering her to get your money back. Priceless.

+1 for Rescue on Fractalus.

The alien scared me so badly that I jumped four feet backwards out of my chair and dropped the controller.

Can you honestly say that about any other videogame ever made? Yes, Doom was tense and had a lot of surprises, but it didn’t *physically make me overturn my furniture*.

Dead on with the shocking moments, but there are a few missing. I didn’t see anyone mention Custer’s Revenge (where you play as nude, pixelated Custer with a huge erection and have to walk across a screen full of falling arrows to have sex with a sioux woman). THAT was shocking to society, but it was before the industry was very big. Also, the NES game of Friday the 13th, where you get to play as Jason was a pretty shocking thing (at least to my parents).

KOTOR for sure

i’m very glad someone brought up Karateka

I wasn’t very attached to the FF7 characters

I’d say the first time i played Leisure Suit Larry was a huge shock. First ‘adult’ game i ever played as a kid. GTA has rasied the bar significantly since then though.

Most recent shock in a video game: playing Shaolin Monks (guantlet-like mortal combat game) for Xbox. I got to do the fatality for Kintaro. The bar has already been set pretty high by the brutal fatalities in this game, but that one just blows the others away.

in silent hill 2 when you’re in the elevator, and your radio starts up with the creepy ass game show. That series is filled with the most unexpected moments in gaming history.

Cancelling Fallout 3 should be on that list…

most shocking moment for me: playing hours on hours on the atlantis map of syndicate and then there is no end sequence, just the credits.

I think the most shocking was when I was playing Unreal 1… that whole first level. The way you never fought the aliens, but they were killing people left and right, only letting you catch a glimpse…. scary shit.
Or geez, there were plenty of moments in Half Life, or Deus Ex

The sniper scene from Golgo 13: the spy with the custom M16 (NES) was the most shocking moment for me. Putting a crosshair on a dude’s head, zooming in, pulling the trigger, and then watching him jerk and drop was like nothing I had ever seen befor in a game. I played the whole level over just to show my little brother that violent climax.

Actually Samus was a man, as a joke they added a swimming suit to the orig. aka (justin bailey / just in swimming suit) and samus then became a man b/c everyone loved the idea of the hero being a female.

What no mention of “the code” uuddlrlrba select start” Contra boss being a beating heart with spiders.

Super Metroid being saved by the giant metroid who once thought you its mother, only to see mother brain murder it seconds later. /cry

Starcraft – Kerrigan becomming a zerg.

KOTOR – Revan / Reven? *sp*

By far the most shocking/scary video game moment had to be in the LucasFilm Games 1984 classic Behind Jaggi Lines (aka Rescue on Fractalus).
My best friend and I (faces 6 inches from the Atari 5200’s monitor) were happily rescuing stranded pilots of the surface of Fractalus when one of them, just before entering the ship, burst our of his spacesuit as an enemy alien!
I completely spassed, had an asthma attack, and ran away to find my parents. My parents calmed me, and brought me back to the computer room (about 10 minutes later) where we found my friend still huddled under the computer desk crying!
I still get chills remembering it today. See the link below. Pretty ridiculous in hind sight… I guess you had to be there :)

http://www.electriceggplant.com/rescue.html

*note, the first minute and 20 seconds of the video clip at the bottom of the page uses only a black screen and sound (intentional)

It’s good to see the Wind Waker get some attention. That’s my favorite game ever. Great story, gameplay, graphics, etc. I also remember the sinking feeling of losing my entire family in Oregon Trail back in the day.

Great job with #1. I agree whole-heartedly. My #2, however, was in Half-life when you were struggling to escape the Black Mesa compound in the beginning. All of the inhabitants were raving about how the armed forces were there to rescue you, until you went down that stairwell and witnessed them laying waste to the other scientists, then aiming their guns at you. I was so shocked that I loaded up my previous save to try to reverse it.

Altough Aeris’s death was shocking I woudln’t nessisarily call the most emotional moment in gaming history. For me at least and millions of other gamers the most prevalent and powerful emotion induced by our gaming consoles is anger!The most emotional moment in gaming history for me was the third level of Kid Icarus for the N.E.S. I threw a controller through my TV screen and that made me sad.

Rainz is my uncle-in-law whom I live with. Says he cast the firewall spell on purpose (“why not?” he says). However, he lost his first account because of this and feels it was wrong since he didn’t intend on killing Lord British (“Lord British had 800 hp, it wasn’t supposed to kill him). He’s been playing U.O. since then (daily and all day).

One of the most shocking moments of gameplay for my Dad, was on the Nintendo64 playing Quake multiplayer. I was trapped in a pit located in a big castle room with a wooden floor. My father saw me fall in the pit and figured he had some time to look around before he would drop some grenades on me. I found a big button on the wall of the pit and figured I had nothing to lose and pushed it. That is about when the wooden floor opened up when my father was running across it and fell into the molten lava underneath the floor. I never laughed so hard, as my father accused me of cheating, or “knowing” the map level before we played it. I can still hear him saying “what just happened?” and “why am I dead?” or “you knew that was going to happen didn’t you?”.

Sorry Dad, but you went with me to the store when I bought the game only hours before we played it.

Now That, Is Fun!………….

One of My most shocking PC game moments was Quake2 in the “Detention” level. Seeing those half brainwashed soldiers crawling around begging to be killed, and the one pinned to the wall in crucifix fashion was most “Disturbing”. Their crys of “Kill Me Now” and “Make It Stop” haunted my nights and days for quite awhile.

Great Thread, Keep It Going.
I Gotta go now and play some Quake4!

C yA,
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great list……i actually couldn’t believe that the right one was at number one

The Village of Children and The Mother was awesome in Sanitarium.

wow… besides the scene where Aeris died, the most shocking experience i’ve had is when you were fighting the Sinistrals on Lufia and the Fortress of Doom and Lufia goes to the evil side. when she went back to the hero’s side, she ended up at the end of the dual blade. i was a little comforted when she appeared again, alive yet without her memory…

I actually played the ‘original’ Oregon Trail on a time sharing computer using a teletype machine. We died of dysentery also but you had to have a unique skill to kill your food. You had to be able to type ‘BANG’ fast enough with no typo’s whenever a deer walked by, which you were told in a teletype message. The faster you typed the more likely you were to get the food. Never did make it to Oregon….

Signed The Dad.

I personally am of the opinion that one of the more shocking moments occurs in Final Fantasy 6
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Right when Kefka ruins the world, and if you don’t wait for him, you lose Shadow. Another moment I consider shocking occurs only a few moments later in the game – during the minigame where you have to have Celes gather fish and bring them to Cid to save his life, and if you gather the slow moving fish, he gets sick and dies. And when he dies, Celes tries to kill herself (she fails at death!). That was shocking.

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I personally am of the opinion that one of the more shocking moments occurs in Final Fantasy 6
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The content below may spoil certain parts of the plot.

Right when Kefka ruins the world, and if you don’t wait for him, you lose Shadow. Another moment I consider shocking occurs only a few moments later in the game – during the minigame where you have to have Celes gather fish and bring them to Cid to save his life, and if you gather the slow moving fish, he gets sick and dies. And when he dies, Celes tries to kill herself (she fails at death!). That was shocking.

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i think shenmue is the greatest game in history cause it just is that damn good

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Ha Ha, Suckers. I’ve seen FF7: Advent Children… SHE’S DEAD. She’s hanging out with Zack in the Lifestream! She makes contact with Cloud twice: To convince him to save the children from the Star Scar Syndrome, and to give him a boost to kill Bahamut. Eat it!

Here are mine.

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Half-Life 2: The ending. The Citadel blows up and the G-man comes through the portal. All I could say was “and…….?”

Starcraft: When Kerrigan turns into one of the Zerg and Raynor becomes absolutely shocked. Also, when the UED withdraw to Earth knowing they have failed in their campaign against the Terrans, the Protoss and the Zerg.

MGS-SOL: When Olga gets shot in the head by Solidus. It played over and over in my mind all night.

Silent Hill: The scene where Harry gets surrounded by the demons for the first time.The entire School level with little ghost kids walking around. The scene in the shopping centre where the T.Vs turn on with the demons symbol on it and Cheryl crying “DADDY, WHERE ARE YOU!!?” again and again. In the Hospital where you watch a video tape that’s got static but can hear the doctor and a nurse screaming to subdue Alyssa who’s crying because of her burns in a recent fire.
Breaks down even the most hard-edged gamer!!

Doom 3: Walking through the levels switching between Flashlight and Pistol.
*Welcome to the future…a future without masking tape!!*

How come nobody put “the bosses in `Ocarina of Time?’” They were fuckin’ scary, man!Like the first one where you just walk in, it’s super dark, something’s falling from the ceiling, and there’s some wierd noise is goin’ on! Then you look up, and this huge eye stares at you, which is really a huge bug-thing!
And the second one, King Dodongo! That guy is huge! plus you have a fuckin’ square to walk on, and it took me 2 deaths to figure out how to kill him (bombs in his mouth) and his death is kool.
3: the mini-boss was gay but the real boss was hard and it didn’t even look like a jelly fish and waaaaaay too much electricity! ( the death was dumb, too much guts).
4: ganon’s phantom was hhhaaaarrrddd! he killed me at least 4 times and only on the 3rd time did find out how to kill him
5: haven’t met him yet
last one: easy, boring, and stupid death. that amoeba doesn’t deserve to be a boos.

P.S. (i’m the same guy fom above) Final Fantasy sucks ass, Mario rocks, Link is getting bad, Sonic sucks, metroid rocks, kirby’s getting bad, dk’s getting bad, pokemon sucked the second it was inveted, the ds sucks, and nintendo used to kick so much ass but is losing its awesome way.
-A gamer

oh yeah one last thing: the 2 last bosses
uno: Ganondorf as himself was easy after you find out how to kill im then right when he’s super tired, he uses his last bit of life to bring down the castle (fyi, this is like, 30 stories up) and then it takes a whole lotta time to go down when they only five you 3 mins
dos: once your outside, the catlse flattens behind you, you get the whole boring hero speech from zelda, then a noise comes from the rubble, she sends you to check it out, and you go over there. when you get kinda close allofasuddon ganondorf with glowing eyes busts out, floats in the air, then gives gives up his spirit to turn into this ginornous monster with 2 huge wicked swords. then link just stnds there while ganon smacks the master sword out of his hands and makes a fire barrier around you two wich gets smaller every second. i ain’t gonna tell ya howta killim, you curious noobs.

sorry i wright so much it’s hjust that i like to type-ically exprss my thoughts after reading posts…and posting
guh-bye

oh wait i did that boss list in the wrong order
it goes:
Queen Gohma………….Great Deku Tree
King Dodongo…………..Dodongo’s Cavern
Barinade………………….Lord Jabu-Jabu
Phantom Ganon………..Forest Temple
Volvagia………………….Fire Temple
Morpha…………………..Water Temple
Twinrova………………..Spirit temple
Bongo Bongo…………..Shadow temple
Ganondorf………………Ganon’s Tower
and Ganon………………Ganon’s Castle

it’s funny how you can beat them in any order…

some body freakin’ post!!!!!!!!!!!!
i’m bored out of my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

……………gyyaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once again, it is I, the guy who is waiting for a goddamn post!! For the love of God, man!

Really world, really?

eugh… just played dead rising, the start of thats shocking! where you’re in the chopper taking pictures, then you see the guy on top of his car with a baseball bat hittin them away an he’s shouting and waving at you.. Then when theyre surrounding the school bus… then the woman on the roof =’(

also, on condemned!
spoiler?

where you get an option of forgiveness or vengence.. lol he shoots himself, and then you turn into the source of madness or whatever it is

in majora’s mask when your in the dead vally thing and that little girls dad is in the dresser thing you go up to it then he pops out !. god i almost shit my self not to mention nightmares for a week.

same guy as above (i was only like 8 so thats why it was so freaking scary)

(not very scary) (i was very young and it was like 3 am and i was tripping thanx to marshmelows and coke a cola) i started to play gta III at the very begging and i accidently hit the channel 5 button so i scrambled to get the game back on the tv and when i did it was just in time t get shot man that freaked me and my friends out not to mention woke my mom up. hahahaha she thaught a gun went off!!

- total gamer

in dragon ball z budokai 1 in one of the fantasy sagas cell absorbs krillen who the fuck saw that coming

- same guy as the past three post above

some body freaking post !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

budokai tenkaichi shows that recoome could have killed goku. he tryed to but goku hit him in a lower regon ya his nuts! then vegeta later decapatated him.

same guy as above posts my friend clay has a post enjoy. iwas lvl 10 human rouge in wow and i was going to war song gulch 4 the 1st time in storm wind keep and lady anixia she spanwed elite guard (lvl 60) ha i died so i swore alot at the freaking flamers so i got a three day ban

Final Fantasy VII piekna gra!!! nigdy cie nie zapomne Aeris.

man I miss Aeris or Aerith however you like to say it

The person who wrote that Aerith/Aeris (the Japanese lang. is different than Eng. so either is correct) was dead in the lifestream with Zach is right. When Aeris died, her body and spirt returned to the lifestream. And Aeris died at the end of the 1st disc. And people, FFVII is has one of the most confusing story lines that it took me 2 times to beat the game to understand it. I’ve probaly played and complited this game 3 or 4 times and I’m at the part were Aeris dies for the 5th time. I’ve been playing FFVII since I was seven and I’m completly obsessed with it. My brother has been playing this game since it first came out. Now we’re 14 and 19. We basicly have the intier game memorized. we have the whole offical stratigie guide by memory on the top of our heads! FFVII ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

C’mon Kotor should be on the list to me it’s by far the most shocking moment in game.
FF VII was shocking but the problem is that Someone spoiled me the ending……

halo is better

majora will eat your soul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How about Metal Gear Solid 2 when you have to play through the second half of the game with a fairy named Raiden instead of Snake. That sucked, but was a shocker nonetheless.

That Ultima Online moment must’ve been a huge LOLZ.I wish I coulda seen that happening.

Man, don’t tell me you guys don’t remember System Shock 2? Aside from some of the most unsettling and creepy gameplay ever, the big reveal at the halfway point STILL stands as a milestone in the sci-fi game genre.

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Throughout the game, you’ve been communicating with one of the only survivors on the U.S.S. Rickenbacker (which has been overrun by nano-augmented zombies), a doctor named Janice Polito, who advises you on where to go, and rewards your progress as you make your way towards the central transport hub of the ship. When you finally reach the main deck, there is no one around, and when you run into her office to see her, you find out that she has committed suicide. As you are standing there trying to figure out what to make of all this, an insect-like voice calls out, “The Polito form is dead, insect.” You then find you can’t escape the small confines of the room, and the walls break down to reveal SHODAN, the malignant AI of the first game.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NOFZ5fv_pb8

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It’s still one of the best reveals in gaming history.

No He was right on the money the moment aerith died the game ended (figuratively) They should have waited a little longer to kill aerith what with one minute you get aerith and the next she’s dead. I tell you not there was enough time spent with her

You might enjoy this video on a related topic!

http://www.channelflip.com/2008/08/13/top-ten-worst-games-ever/

aerith dies in middle

The Zelda game Link’s awakening for the Gameboy was the first zelda to not be set in hyrule.