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Sarah Jaernecke <nightfi...@arcor.de> wrote:
> Morrowind: Discovering the Cavern of the Incarnate and listening to
> Azura's speech. It's one of the all-too-rare moments when the story
> actually kicks off and sucks you in.

I'll second that one.

Also, in MOHAA, the level right after you raid the rifle factory and pick
up the assault rifle; the first time I played that level, I'd spent
something like three hours in the factory, moving from cover to cover and
killing everything that moved in the hopes that the tide of enemy soldiers
attacking me might someday come to an end... finally I fought my way out of
the factory, into the snowy woods beyond, got my orders to destroy the
commo facility in the town up ahead, entered the town, had to start
fighting again...

... and clearing out that one big house overlooking the base, moving room
to room killing Nazis, until finally the last one was dead and the sounds
of combat faded momentarily... I found the piano and the bass in the
drawing room, and played them... those forlorn notes, sounds from a happier
time... I thought about the family whose house I'd just taken from the
people who had taken it from them, and where they might be... and I just
wanted this damnable war to be *over* so everybody could go home and live
the rest of their lives in peace...

... but no, it was cold and snowing outside, and in a few minutes I'd be
back out there, killing and maybe being killed, in the frigid darkness.
This moment of light and warmth and music was the illusion, and reality was
the blood-freezing cold and struggle outside the door.

THAT was my greatest gaming moment ever.  Corny as it was, it damn near
made me cry; I have no idea if the designers intended for any of that stuff
to happen, but it was majestic.

Steve Tilson

-- 
The cybernetic army that took over the Earth, says the film, was solar
powered. The human resistance responded by _blotting out the sky_. A
desperate measure, but surely the only choice they had. It was that, or, I
don't know, _postpone their counterattack until evening_.
                  - 50 Reasons to Reject The Matrix: Reloaded (reason 35)