18 Video Game Moments That Gave You Memories For Life
From avenging lost loves, to surviving in rundown Spanish villages...
Every now and then, it's worth indulging in just how awesome video games can be. That might seem like a strangely basic thing to say - but consider how far they've come as a medium, how graphical capabilities have evolved to let people design entire worlds for you to explore, how a constantly interactive medium makes for the most engaging content, and how we can do and perform things completely impossible in the real world - for hours upon hours at a time. Yeah, they can be pretty damn special.
That said, which gaming moments, scenes and memories do you treasure most? What would you talk about given the opportunity and which should everyone experience? What will you remember seeing or playing for the rest of your life?
Let us know in the comments what your favourites are, as although gaming may be the youngest of all the major entertainment mediums, it's already outdone itself by providing several lifetimes' worth of incredible content.
18. Attempting The Suicide Mission - Mass Effect 2
Nothing will ever have this much weight again - at least not until Mass Effect: Andromeda is out, anyway. The second Mass Effect remains one of the greatest games of all time, precisely because it twinned the expansive world-building of the original, with just enough action so as to not be overbearing.
It all culminated in the appropriately-named 'Suicide Mission', an endgame climax open from the beginning of the game, but that tasked you with exploring deep space to find a merry band of hoodlums prepared to fling themselves at an unstoppable opposing force, all in the name of saving the galaxy.
Many of your compadres would die if you didn't all allocate them specific tasks, and no matter which provisions you'd sought out in the hundreds of previous hours, chances are right now you're already remembering which friendly face perished in the onslaught (poor Mordin).No matter if your team made it through or you tried and failed to protect any of them, ME2's 'all or nothing' final mission is one that all of us have a unique take on.