Outside some of my better CS:S and DoD competitive moments (clutching, acing, winning tourneys, etc.) only a few single-player moments come to mind.

In Thief: The Dark Project, grabbing the eye and then running for my life in Return to Cathedral was a highlight. In KotOR, playing a darkside character that turns Bastila against her master and then slaying the lightside noob I brought along, is another highlight. I would've been so mad if I had to kill Bastila at that moment. In Morrowind, finally replacing Gentleman Jim Stacey as head of the Thieves Guild, was another proud moment.

The moments I finished Medal of Honour: Allied Assault, Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30, BiA: Earned in Blood. "Yes, we made it and we taught them bastards."

Going online with Phantasy Star Online. My first online rpg experience. I played almost daily and made a bunch of friends. Level capped a HUmar and had 3 or 4 others in the mid-high 100s.

Halo 2 multiplayer. Mostly becuase of the friends again. I'd be up until 5, 6am, not even in matchmaking, just messin around in customns with friends. Stuff like exploring maps, sword canceling, rocket lunging, all good times. Or we would go into Team Doubles and play "SMGs Only." Which is exaclty what it sounds like, we would only use the smgs. So much fun, especially when we win and in the postgame ask the other guys how they lost to smgs.

A couple of times I've tried to play through the whole of Rainbow Six Vegas 2 with a friend in pretty much one sitting. It's ridiculous fun, usually one of us would go long range with a sniper rifle or assault rifle with scope, while the other would take a shield and desert eagle or a shotgun. We usually got bored and gave up around the oil refinery level though, stealth svcks

Completely forgot about portal and should have listed my 3 favorites. Think http://jollyjack.deviantart.com/gallery/3609097#/d15uxzj pretty much sums up my experience with Portal 1. The second game was good, but it couldn't recapture the charm/magic of the first one with the "Cake is a Lie" quote and the ending song.

Christmas day 1998 and unwrapping Half-life.

1993 the release of D00M.

The release of Duke Nukem 3d.

The Wing Commander library.

Star Wars: Dark Forces.

Kings/Police Quest libraries.

Fallout library.

TES.

Getting to know the world of Morrowind was definitely #1 for me. It was a multiple year experience. I still play it every now and then and find new things.

Also, the last 2-3 hours of the first Mass Effect was ridiculously badass.

She was speaking Mandalorian with broken syntax, yet they used the same sound files as a female Twi'lek. Great game though, loved it. The "revelation" scene was amazing, and the sub-plot with Bastilla was good too. I have to say that I was extremely dissapointed with part 2. Glitchy, cut content, plot holes and ridiculously easy.

Loved the Baldur's Gate series. The "revelation" in part 1 was even better than in KotOR. Great storyline and gameplay, amazing villains. Few antagonists in any game I have played hold a candle to Sarevok or Irenicus.

When I came across the Fallout 1&2 bundle for only $11. I downloaded the game and I was a die hard Fallout fan from then on.

The first time I played Metal Gear Solid for the Playstation, the story was embracing and just awesome. The gameplay blew me away.

When I first played Red Faction. I loved how I could blow holes into the wall and make my own passages.

Morrowind made me a TES fan. I really enjoyed the exploration and depth.

The first time I played Half-life 2.

Edit: oh yeah, KOTOR was an incredible gaming experience for me. I put hundreds of hours into it.

And finally, the first time I played Skyrim.

Going solo in Might and Magic 8

Starship Titanic (Which I still have)

Morrowind

Right now I'm playing Dear Esther...
It's so immersive and atmospheric
Reminds me of Fallout 3, Metro 2033, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Underhell (hl2 mod), Amnesia and Morrowind.

Tips to play this game:
Forget about the outside world while you're playing.

..and as always I have to go with Suikoden II..

When I first uploaded Morrowind, I was kind of underwhelmed by the graphics I thought they could be better,back then graphics mattered to me some, but it was when I first stepped out into Seyda Neen that my mouth fell to the floor I was stunned and overwhelmed by the size of the world and the amazing story and lore svcked me, no game has made me feel that level of awe and being turned from disappointed to astonished in a matter of seconds.

Back in my university days. Home consoles were still unheard of. Playing Space Invaders in the pub on those old game thingys that doubled as tables and you had to keep feeding quarters into. I was on a roll, racking up a gazillion points. Strangers were buying me many beers and cheering me on, much to the chagrin of the Poetess who was doing a reading on the little raised platform in the corner.

I had to stop cuz my hands and wrists started to hurt too much. But I walked away a hero of sorts with many free beers in my bladder.

So many....

- Playing doom2 in LAN with my colleages at school...some teachers also joined the party

- Kicking all my friends butts in tekken 3 during university days

- strafing enemy infantry with a mig-17 in battlefield vietnam

- The first time I shot down an enemy aircraft online in Il-2 sturmovik

- The whole jedi outcast game

- Exiting the vault in Fallout 3 and wondering about, with no particular place to go.

- St Francis Folly level in the first Tomb Raider...

Battletoads

Oh absolutely this...I envy those just getting off the boat for the first time.

I was going to say the beginning of Morrowind as well but then I recalled that I hated Morrowind when I first started playing it. It wasn't until I realized the breadth and freedom of the gameworld that I came to enjoy it. That involved a lot of getting lost and arrested and dying.

I never get what a PSX is.. is it an orignal playstation? If it is, when did "PlayStation" get an 'X'?

Playing Age of Empires II online for the first time. I was new, I svcked, and I got steamrolled in the first few minutes.

But I didn't go down. I retreated into my ally's base and rebuilt from NOTHING. We traded with markets to keep gold flowing and my ally basically carried the whole match. The trouble was that it was a stalemate. Wave after wave of his paladins faced off against their scorpions, and each time both sides were decimated. This went on for an hour before my master plan was carried out, and I cut a secret path with a siege onager through the thick woods.

A secret path right into the heart of the enemy base.

While the two giants were having another paladin vs. scorpion battle on the killing field, I swept into the enemy base with a fresh contingent of troops and gutted it clean.

It was a sound victory indeed.

That's the code name for the console, and It sounds cooler than PS1.

There are a few standout moments... Most recent one was my first unspoilered playthrough of Dragon Age Origins. I had made choices and got an ending that I simply was not expecting. It was in the wee hours of the morning, I had just loved the entire game... and I got so choked up at the end. The game rolled into the epilogue and I was teary eyed. I went to bed, woke up thinking about it and started a new game immediately, which I enjoyed just as much as the first time, made some different choices and got a different ending.

One of my other great gaming moments was in the original Witcher, at the end of Chapter 3, The Unforgiven, where you think you are fighting the big bad boss, or at least finally going murder his oily nasty little sidekick in the face. There is a fight in a tavern with some possible allies depending on a choice you made earlier, there is being thrust into some cavern to go after Azar javed, there are allies coming through portals, there is the big boss you have been after, there is a twist, there is you as Geralt chasing down the Professor, who is a complete jerk that you want to kill, there is a cavern, there is a GIANT BUG, there is a satisfying end to the Professor... and then there is a race where you are being chased by a GIANT BUG, collapsing mine supports, and trying not to get yourself killed.

The reason that moment sticks for me is that it took me 7 tries, because I was not paying attention originally to a huge hint the game gives you. I was so frustrated, and ready to quit, but I was loving the game. So I took a deep breath, reloaded... and finally went *Forehead slap* Collapse the mine supports!! It still took another try because of course at first I was so frazzled, I collapsed them on my head at one point. But then, when it all came together, and the Kikkimore Queen was dead, and I looted parts of the Professor from her (heh)... I was actually exhilarated. And then the game tosses you into Chapter Four, which was an area I loved.

Discovering the goodness of role-playing game by playing Oblivion. Mind-blowing moment.

Both http://www.edge-online.com/features/making-playstation?page=5 refered the PS1 as PSX before the PS2, then the usage of PSX dropped rapidly, and even more so when Sony Japan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSX_(DVR).

Quest for Glory 4. I woke up in a strange cave, with dead people strewn about, without any tools with which to help myself out of the predicament. So I have to search the room to find a torch. And then I have to find some flint. And then I have to use them together to light the torch. On my journeys I see will'o'wisps, stumble upon a rusalka, discover a domovoi, interact with mad scientists and eccentric wizards, deal with talking rats and skulls, outwit Baba Yaga, romance a vampire, resurrect an undead child, delve into a long-gone sorceress's past, party with gypsies, meet Igor, lay ghosts to rest, reunite my estranged parents, stop an unspeakable evil, learn the ultimate joke and save an entire kingdom.

And then I bought Quest for Glory 1, 2 and 3 and experienced the same kind of magic all over again.

I do believe this has me a little emotional. Man, video games svck in comparison nowadays.