I stopped reading soon after I started. I haven't played RE4 yet but I dearly want to. Any spoiled surprises could ruin the experience. Could anyone tell me if it's spoiler-free or if reading it will prepare me for something? Anyway, even though I can't know precisely what you're talking about, I think I get the gist of it. Here's the most memorable gaming moment of mine this generation:
Playing F-Zero GX one night, I stayed up late with a few of my mates trying to finish a cup. I can't remember exactly what it was -- I think it was on hard mode and the fourth cup along from the left -- but I know it was the last one we knew about at the time, and that it was tense. On one run I almost started over because I lost too many of my craft early on, but I decided to keep going just for practice on the later tracks. I got to the last track (which was big blue) and to finally win the cup I had to avoid losing a life and come 11th place or better. It's a track with lots of right-angle corners and a very narrow strip just before the end, but I knew then that I could handle it all. I hovered in the middle of the pack -- around 15th, for those who don't know F-Zero -- throughout the whole race until the last lap when I was boosting like a maniac to keep up. I was sure those guys got faster as I lost my boost power. Anyway, maybe six or seven seconds before the finish I was still too far behind, so I used up the last of my energy on a final boost and got to 10th place. I was very excited and nervous but another car just grazed my vehicle as it passed me. Because I had no energy left, I died. I was pretty bummed out, but ready to try again despite the time of night because of all the excitement that had been generated. Then, just as I awaited for the damaged hull of my ship to be hauled off and the 'game over' screen to appear,
another vehicle crashed right into me from behind and flung my blackened ship over the finish line, to 11th place. To my surprise, everything else happened as usual, and a voice announced in a strangely down-trodden voice that I only came eleventh place. If I do recall correctly I was exactly one-hundredth of a second ahead of whoever came 12th place. That's my gaming moment of this generation. Sure, it arose form me and not the game specifically, but in the end I'm not too fussed about that.
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Ahh the Zone. Outside world vanishes. Your mind goes into a natural bullet time.
I play a sort of hand drum, called the djembe, and I find that that happens sometimes. If I'm playing a phrase I learned while I was begginninig but haven't played since my skill increased dramatically, then often everything will slow down in my mind and I"ll feel exactly how much faster I can go. I get the natural urge to improvise.
Edit: Thanks.