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My favourite moment was with Descent Freespace. At the end of one mission you encounter the bad guys flag ship but I wasn't expecting it so in the exit area I was waiting for my warp to trigger but instead the flag ship pops out and catches me by the way it's designed and ended up killing me.

Happy late cake!
I thought for sure you'd been here for longer. It's good to see newer members be so active on SG that you forget they weren't always here ;)

The Witcher 3 makes me unable to stop playing, interlocking stories, different worlds with different choices, and a lot of sexy...

Horizon Zero Dawn is my favorite after the control, watching the mechanical war, and just picking up the loot at the end.

Diablo II is a forever classic, a memory of connecting with classmates during college.

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I like your threads, they always bring a good atmosphere, thank you for being here !

in astroneer game,long time ago when the game has lot of bugs (now fixed already),
a rover instead of stay in terrain is fly away,and because i create the rover like a sort of train with attached some fans,solar panels,materials storage etc. they fly awy with it,
i can't see the rover in the sky because it was so much far,but i can see it like a point draw
i don't know why but i mad so much about this hahaha then i promise to myself that i will not play any other games until i not try do all i can to take it back,maybe is possible,maybe is not.. but i must try...
Then for 1 month the only thing i do in this game is get terrain and build a sort of giant ramp that go up up to the sky direction of rover,
and i wrong many times too... because i was "stupid" to not calculate well how much far i must start to build the ramp,because every time i start buid it,it looks like can reach the rover,but after more time i go up,the ramp go "next\after" to the rover...
so everytime i must detroy it go far in the planet and restart build it,

then finally after around 30-40 days i was able to build\finish the ramp and to reach the rover,
but instead to build it perfect until touch the rover a leave a little space between ramp and rover,
then i run the ramp with another new little rover,jump the space between the ramp and trainrover,fly in sky,and hit the train rover with my new rover (like billard) in away that then the trainrover is hit push to go down because of gravity , and it has worked hahaha the train rover go down down , problemthen was for some strange reason the game don't show me where the rover is (in normal situation this can be seen by icons\compass but in this case it was not present) and i can't find where the rover is go,i has need play the game 2 days by explore planet north to south and east to west for find it by use some beacons as helper then finaly i find it,for some strange reason the parts of the train was not attached was separated,but i was able to grab then and plug it back all

also if this is not about storytelling or achievements and "not give" nothing as a "Result" i don't know why but for me was one of most awesome gaming experience,i have many others too in other games,but this was particular too.

another one was,before my dad passed away and my mom and me sick,i was youtuber gaming too so i try to make something for advertising my yt channel,so i grab the game claybook and also if i'm not a developer and had 0 aknoledge about build games etc. i was able to create a level where you get some objects (ufo etc.) reach\activate some places and clouds that do rain,then rain\water go inside tunnels and create the words ita360.com with physic,that was awesome too (you can see it in playlist ds art in my channel)
now i stop to do my channel because i hae many problem m life and must do hard work low salary,and btw it was not worth it too for me,but i continue use it as a personal tool for memories or wishlist games that cant be wishlisted on platforms or things like this

another one funny was create doraemon fan draw in animal crossing new horizon (and i share it also free for others)

Happy Cakeday!!!

Happy belated Cakeday! I enjoy your posts a lot. You introduce a lot of fun discussions.
Keep doing you!

Happy Cake day!

How do I know when you giveaway starts?

Happy belated cakeday, and here's my story:

It wasn't console, it wasn't PC, it wasn't anything but arcade. I was in an arcade and I was totally hooked on Tetris. Mind you, not the Atari one with the different levels (of which I have a bezel, framed with a mockup of the famous intro screen) , but the Sega one, continuously accelerating until reaching gravity 20, when pieces go directly to the bottom without passing by intermediate space.
I was also one of the best Tetris players in the arcade. Back then I thought the difficulty was ok; I've played many other Sega Tetris machines and it seems that one was in the most difficult setting, or close. Every other machine I played was dead easy. More on that later. For now, not many players were able to reach 200 or even 100 lines, and only a handful were able to reach around 400. Apparently there people lost concentration or something, while I was able to reach 500 to 800 several times.
It was a summer afternoon and I was playing quite relaxed. Some mistakes, easily fixed. Things were going well, and as usual, I was doing about 100 lines every six minutes, thus reaching 1000 should take a bit more than an hour. Why 1000 was a significant number? Well it was the entrance to the thousands, it was also one hour of playing, and it would decide a big doubt we had there: the line counter had only 3 digits or 4? Would it count to 1000 or reset to 0?
So as the hundreds kept coming, more people stood by my side or behind seeing me playing. I remember one of the arcade tuff guys at my left, one of those persons who gets in the game even when not playing, like "save that for a red" or "get the next L to the left side!" and I kept being cheered... Something that made me quite nervous.
Making a mistake can take a few pieces or two dozens to fix, depending on luck. The problem is not making another mistake while you try to solve your last one. Three accumulated/consecutive mistakes put you in danger, specially if you left the pieces to get higher. That's, for what I remember, what happened to me on the last hundred. I was nervous, people weren't helping, so before I fixed the very last mistake left on the screen, I ended making more mistakes. As the lines kept coming, and getting closer to 1000, things were real bad. I really don't remember well the last 10-15 lines, because I was trying to do two things at the same time: one was keeping an eye on the line counter, the other was desperately sending pieces to far left and far right and always on the edge of losing.
Yes I was really messing up the opportunity by looking outside of the field, and then well, I made 2 or 3 lines (don't remember) but couldn't fit the next pieces and I lost. I saw the counter and it said... 999 Lines.
I didn't notice people's roaring, I just turned back and sit on the floor, with my back against the machine and hands on head saying "I was so close, I was so close" when that tough guy shaked my shoulders and told me "no man, you did it, I saw the last lines and you made it to 1000! It's just the game got stuck on 999, but I swear you made that extra line!"
As I stood up again to watch the screen and the 999, more people at my sides told me the same, that I got to 1000, but the counter stopped after 999. Clappings and roar, my 15 minutes of fame.

Since then, it wasn't the same. I see now vids of people playing Arika's Tetris Master series and that's really great level. I was there in the beginnings, but not up to today's challenges. In fact, for a while everything looked too easy, I guess I didn't stay for Tetris' evolution. But there's just a bit more related to that story.
As I said, that machine was in a difficult setting. I've got to +1000 at least once more there. But I've got to +1000 in several other places with the same game, just in a more easy setting. I remember a pub in the same town, my friend played and I fixed his mistakes. Once reached gravity 20 he left the game to me. And well, it was too slow, so after drinks were gone and I reached 1000, we left the machine and headed to the door. Then my friend turned to me and said "I bet you can't go back and fix the game as it is now." I ran to the machine and started to make lines while a tall tower, one piece width, stood in the middle. After the first lines it was easy. Some girls watched like "damn that's a good player, I wish he was more handsome" lol
But it was boring. It was a fun challenge but actually too easy. I left the machine again saying aloud that anyone could continue if they want.

TLDR: I had my glory moment with Tetris.

I feel old, comparing our accounts age 🤣
I had many good moments ages ago, but I am forgetful, so you can just take a look at few screenshots here 😅

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2061551753

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1856179197

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=78352334

So you got a necro and I just watched this. Congrats on the 1 year achievement on SG, time sure flies, I kinda remember some of your first threads here, It gave some freshness to the site.

I´ll try to be brief about one of my favorite games, I think this is the second time I talk about this, starting to sound like a parrot...

Back in the day I didn´t know a lot about Steam, I just knew you had to pay in dollars so that kept me out of the equation for a while. You and me have something in common before the Steam era. So, the first "powerful" graphics card was a GT240 (terrible card if you ask me), but It let me try some of the most immersive games that they´re still considered in the top 100. First experience with an online PvP MP was Blacklight Retribution, which was free and still outside of Steam, sure It was a good experience and kept playing like a filthy casual, but It wasn´t until 2012 when I saw on Gamespot a report on the "7 day FPS challenge" which I think It was at San Francisco that time and from all of the indie games the one that really pulled me in was the "Sub Rosa" demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHcOAcCtOAQ

It was one of the most hard learning curves in gaming for me because of the toxic player base, they took the mafia character very seriously sometimes, If you messed up and killed one of your teammates on a bad trade you would get killed by the team leader at the start of the next round, It was very discouraging but I kept playing because I love the premise, It was such a small and simple game with only 3 modes. Despite the super toxic players like for example "Furry Sex Roleplay Wins" which was one of the best marksmen there, there were other really good players that would tolerate and carry you, like Target Finder, Citizen Kane and Hitler (yes he called himself like that and he was feared just like the real one, even the Furry guy used to respect him). Criken, the now popular Twitch streamer was there and he probably role played with his buddies a lot and we didn´t even know about It, we just had a good laugh at all the crazy s*** they used to do or type, because every communication was through typing. They play or used to play the new version too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgpl-ZYkNI

I can´t really say how many hours I spent with the demo but when I upgraded the graphics card to a Radeon 7850 I kept playing the freaking unpolished demo now at 1080p.

I haven´t tried the new version of Sub Rosa on Steam for many reasons, I just hope Alex Austin polish the title and becomes popular to an extent (It is not a game for everyone mostly because of the toxic players).
Here is a video on how Alex Austin has improved the game physics:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu0JFCdF8cQ

THE END.

PS: Sorry for the bad grammar here and there, I´m really rusty atm.
Have a good one.

I got really into Super Cloudbuilt and I would compete on the in-game speedrun leaderboards. There is a glitch in the physics where the game considers you to be sliding down a slope or falling when actually you are stuck in place. While in a sliding or falling state you are constantly accelerating downwards due to gravity, and even though we are not moving the speed value keeps increasing. This was a known issue, and it would allow you to die from fall damage even at low heights because of the high downward speed, but the level geometry to allow this glitch is rare so it wasn't considered a big deal. One day I was playing as usual when I accidentally got stuck in one of those rare glitches, but this was next to a slide with a ramp at the end. I got unstuck, landed on the slide, and launched off the ramp with far more speed than normal. After testing I found a way to use the glitch to skip a large portion of this level: https://youtu.be/FHKAhkSR6ho

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Hi. My favourite gaming moment is a tie between the first time I completed Sid Meier's Civilization or playing Diablo with my son.

Joyeux jour du gâteau 🎂

my bets moment https://youtu.be/eFkJgof_KXo
My best experience played Vampire Survivors with soundtrack Doom 2016

So, you want a story, I have a story. You will probably consider it boring, but seems a bit funny for me.
So, back in days of my youth I've had a 386dx-40 PC (40 stands for 40MHz btw. That's how fast it was) with black&green display (it was some terminal from old soviet mainframe, that was re-made by my friend to be VGA-compatible). Oh, and not connected to this story, but while re-making this display to VGA it got sync lost once, whole screen collapsed to one dot in the middle and burned a black dot there. It very convenient to use this dot as a crosshair in doom and alike. But, back to the story. I was playing Another World (I still beleive this game is great even after all those years). And there is a place in this game, when you need to shoot down a chandelier on the head of the guard, when he is right below it, judging by the reflection in the chandelier. There is a video of how it should look on youtube. Buuut I did not know it back than. And game is designed that if you won't do it - you can't, or, rather, should not be able to pass this guard - if you try to fight he gets reinforcements, some of them coming from your back, that should not leave you any chance. Well, long story short, I spent a couple of days training, but I killed that guard, and all that came to help him. And proceed further with a game. And later, I think game required me to come back (but maybe I just got stuck so I was walking around), and when I came to that place again... there was a guard with a chandelier dropped on him... That's when I was "So thaaaats how I was supposed to pass here!". I wasn't very smart, yeah, but still a little proud that I managed to brute-force this place (even though probably there is a lot of hardcore gamers that can easily do this). And that's the end of this stupid story.

One of my favorite games is Final Fantasy 8. Back when i was a kid around 99'-01' i was playing the game in PS1. the game had a weird system that when you leveled up your main character then also the enemy monsters and bossed leveled up, of course as a kid i didn't know that(nobody did) and also there wasn't any youtube or site back then to see walkthroughs and tips. at some point around 3-4 hours in you are given an item called 'magic lamp' by an npc, that item should be used soon and when you use it you fight a summon called 'Diablos' and if you win the summon you can use it as your own. of course as a kid i didn't know that so i kept the item in my inventory for a long time. after a lot of hours of powerleveling and much further into the story i was checking my inventory and i saw the item still there so i decided to try and use it. the result was fighting an overpowered summon(due to my powerleveling till then) that kicked my butt and i had no idea how to beat. it took me several weeks and tries until i finally found a way to beat him, the satisfaction when he finally surrendered was amazing. i still remember that moment and i laught with myself because that boss is pretty easy if you fight him as soon as you get the 'magic lamp' but i accidentaly made it super tough 🤣

I suppose the most recent coolest moment (or rather a series of them) that I can think of is completing Omno. Seriously, I don't get what's wrong with that game, but for me it was a rage game all around.

Ok... this goes way back. I played the original Populous in 1990--such a blast to play the original god game.

In 1992, I was determined to get through all 120(?) levels. At one point deep in, I finally found a level that was unsolvable (too few lemming abilities); the game would not allow progress to the next level until solve. Impossible! After hours and hours, I somehow came up with the solution. It was so convoluted, I was still in shock that it worked.

I was a big fan of original Freecell. I was always determined to solve ALL levels. NO resigning and passing to the next level just because it was tough(see above). There are quite a few very tough sequences. One day for a couple hours, I worked through a level from many angles. Finally, I decided: "NOPE--it is impossible--it cannot be done!!" Then I googled the level and found a fan/enthusiast page which listed notable and difficult levels. There was 1 level out of them ALL that was actually impossible--and I had found it! Without publishing a rigorous mathematical proof, I was validated that my logic was solid.

When Diablo 1 first came out... (a long long looong time ago) I playd it a lot... my cousin always wanted to see what I was up to at that so I thought.. why not...

We started to play in the first dungeon (were The Butcher was hiding behind a door) and I knew it would happen.. but did not warn my cousin... and had loud sound on..

My cousin jumped scared so much that she felt off the chair and on the floor...

Cool moment in Baldur's Gate 1"

My Fighter/Rogue was using Dagger of Venom +2 so there were a few funny things. But I loved to kill mages the most as I hide and sneak and sometimes they exploded into bloody bits just because of my backstab attack and sometimes the poison from Dagger of Venom +2 got them and they were unable to cast any spells as the poison did damage them and interrupted their spell casting.

Cool moment in Mass Effect 1"

Me and Infiltrator, Garrus Vakarian and Ashley Williams landed on some random planet. We drive the M35 Mako and find a building surrounded by 2 watchtowers with enemies there and one enemy patrolling the entrance tot he building. We drive away from the front before they could see us and drive from the side and parked the MAKO on the mountain. We each get our sniper rifles ready and I issue commands and in the same second each one of us shot different enemy with sniper rifles and each shot is a headshot and instant kill. It was EPIC to see how 3 enemies die in the same second without even knowing who hit them and from where :)

When I was a young'un I played a lot of Red Alert on the PlayStation. The game came on two disks so effectively I had two copies of the game for multiplayer. I bought a link cable and frequently invited my friend over to play. That meant he had to bring his own PlayStation over and we would have to set up another (small) CRT TV for him to play on. 👍

And so we played skirmishes against each other, but we were both very defensive so games would go on for hours. xD
When the game went on for too long we started getting a strange bug where we would randomly lose units on the map. We would hear the sound queue of a lost unit and saw the wreckage, but no culprit. After a while we finally caught what happened: some kind of visual distortion would appear and slowly crawl across the map, destroying what it came into contact with, and then disappear again.

Many years later, we learned that it was not a bug/glitch but a feature called chrono vortexes, which occur from using the chronosphere ability too much. Canonically, that resulted in space-time rifts that would destroy whatever was around it.

What that looks like

I don’t know, I couldn’t even remember how many games I played so far, but if I have to pick the game, then they must be The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky and Skyrim, first introduced me to the JRPG and the game world, also made me stuck with RPG forever. The latter opened my eyes once more, because I never thought you could have such lively fantasy world, and its lore is like a cherry tops off an ice cream.