18 Video Game Moments That Gave You Memories For Life

3. Avenging Your Father - Red Dead Redemption

Going off the opening idea of games eliciting responses that no movie, book or TV show ever could, Red Dead actually managed to make you want to track down the killer of your in-game father, but by your own accord.

Following the brutal slaughter of John Marston (who to this point, you'd been playing as for 60-plus hours), we suddenly flashed forward and saw his son standing over the grave. Picking up where the old man left off, you could - completely optionally - travel to Blackwater, and the town where the person who betrayed your father, Edgar Ross, was last seen.

Sure enough, talking to random people leads you down a road to interacting with each member of Ross' family, until you eventually find him fishing out by a small river. Time has aged him, but you approach and announce who you are, only for a standoff to ensue, and for you to empty the entire contents of your revolver into his chest, sending him floating off down the creek.

It's then that the game pops up with its title card; "Red Dead Redemption" - a perfect accompaniment to your actions, and one that sealed Rockstar's status as one of the premiere developers in the industry.