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…
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.
Bastion, near the end; can’t remember the names, but when you’re carrying the man that betrayed you, while being shot at by his former clan; and eventually they stop, in awe of your commitment.
One of the soldiers finally opens fire again, and the one next to him throws him to the ground.
Not so much a smile, more of a ‘WTF?! 🤣😂🤣😂’.
THAT quest in Kingdom Come Deliverance with the Priest.
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.
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.
Recently, Hi-Fi Rush made me smile (and laugh) more than once :)
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
:::spoiler The shootout? Or the old man on the island? Or the cryptid? :::
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The third one
Yeah, that moment was awesome.
Playing Mario Odyssey.
The segment right at the end where you
Mario Odyssey
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.
I was trying out the Portal RTX upgrade and found a QR code while messing with a radio. When I scanned it, it gave me a txt file “black mesa”. And I genuinely cackled physically. Wasn’t expecting something so silly, let alone a functioning QR code, to make me laugh like that.
I don’t particularly like the game, but the final mission in Mass Effect: Andromeda was wonderful and made me smile. It was gorgeous, great music, and gave me an adrenaline rush.
When you start the fight on the dam wall in BL2 after Roland is captured & the music starts. That was the borderlands moment for me that got me sucked into that universe
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
Mass Effect 2, Grunt’s loyalty mission on Tuchanka. Always, always take the renegade interrupt to headbutt Uvenk and cut off his rant.
The first time I beat the Cairo Station level in Halo 2, way back in 2005. The ending cutscene to that level is one of the best ever made, and was absolutely incredible to experience for the first time.
