What is your best RPG moment?

[AliciaDurge]

Hey just asking out of curiosity, what is your best RPG moment? Here's mine:

Disclaimer: This is from BG3 Act 3, so SPOILERS ahead!

My beautiful experience in BG3 honor mode against

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Ansur

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Okay, so I had Wyll, Karlach, Shart and my Durge in my party. Previously, I had done the investigate the firework shop quest and I made Astarion steal all the good stuff to cheese the Ansur fight. I stacked the explosives near Ansur and started the dialogue after casting Sanctuary on my Durge). She ran away to take cover by the Globe of Invulnerability (I had few scrolls with me). I put Shadowheart to shoot a fire arrow to explosives.

Well, I had calculated it wrong and the explosion took only half of the damage. Well, ****. I put all of my summons to fight Ansur, they all died first. Then I run out of the Globe of Invulnerability scrolls. **** again. At this point, Ansur had 100 hp.

I decided to flee and wish good luck to my companions, so I put my Durge into camp. Back to the fight, Ansur makes the Stormheart Nova attack, and somehow Shart and Karlach survived. Wyll died, so I revived him by Withers and send him back to the fight (I only discovered this now that you can revive your dead companions mid fight if you have a character in camp, which was cool).

For the end fight, I used my health potions, lighting resistance potions and Sanctuary to keep my characters alive, which worked. Shart and Wyll were downed again, but Karlach was still standing due to large hp of 174 + 15 temporary hit points from raging. She finished the job and I sighed in relief, and then revived Shart and Wyll. Wyll's quest came to end and all was well in the end.

This is why I love the game, the randomness makes it so good. Tho I need to prepare more for the next honor run (I haven't lost my save fortunately, but I started another honor mode save just in case this fails).

[1998]

First time entering Baldur's Gate

[fkirenicus]

First time opening the bronze sphere in PS:T and ... learning ny name. And later, forcing the other half of me to re-join me, as we were meant to be. With probably my absolutely favorite OST playing in the background. Still gives me goosebumps.
And the prize for not being at war with myself and the multiverse? Serving in the Blood War.

[fkirenicus]

First time entering Baldur's Gate

Assume we're talking Baldur's Gate - the first game - now?

[1998]

First time entering Baldur's Gate

Assume we're talking Baldur's Gate - the first game - now?

Obviously

[AliciaDurge]

That's nice to hear. ^^

[ArcaneLurker]

Hey just asking out of curiosity, what is your best RPG moment? Here's mine:

Disclaimer: This is from BG3 Act 3, so SPOILERS ahead!

My beautiful experience in BG3 honor mode against

► Show Spoiler

Ansur

► Show Spoiler

Okay, so I had Wyll, Karlach, Shart and my Durge in my party. Previously, I had done the investigate the firework shop quest and I made Astarion steal all the good stuff to cheese the Ansur fight. I stacked the explosives near Ansur and started the dialogue after casting Sanctuary on Celaena (my Durge). She ran away to take cover by the Globe of Invulnerability (I had few scrolls with me). I put Shadowheart to shoot a fire arrow to explosives.

Well, I had calculated it wrong and the explosion took only half of the damage. Well, ****. I put all of my summons to fight Ansur, they all died first. Then I run out of the Globe of Invulnerability scrolls. **** again. At this point, Ansur had 100 hp.

I decided to flee and wish good luck to my companions, so I put Celaena into camp. Back to the fight, Ansur makes the Stormheart Nova attack, and somehow Shart and Karlach survived. Wyll died, so I revived him by Withers and send him back to the fight (I only discovered this now that you can revive your dead companions mid fight if you have a character in camp, which was cool).

For the end fight, I used my health potions, lighting resistance potions and Sanctuary to keep my characters alive, which worked. Shart and Wyll were downed again, but Karlach was still standing due to large hp of 174 + 15 temporary hit points from raging. She finished the job and I sighed in relief, and then revived Shart and Wyll. Wyll's quest came to end and all was well in the end.

This is why I love the game, the randomness makes it so good. Tho I need to prepare more for the next honor run (I haven't lost my save fortunately, but I started another honor mode save just in case this fails).

I remember many close shaves like that, where something random helped me pull off a victory. At some point, I do remember fighting two of the robots after blowing up that firework shop. I had like two, almost dead characters left, Gale and another, and I managed to win by flying onto the rooftops with Gale, drawing the aggro of the surviving robot, whilst the other character hid in smoke/ invisibility and dealt with the other surviving NPCs.

Although I think the BG3 best experiences were playing with @Vergil, @loregamer, @Makirige, @Silver, @orinEsque
Even though playing co op harms the experience in many ways, you don't pay attention to the story as much, and trying to get that many mods to work with that many people can be excruciating.

[orinEsque]

Hey just asking out of curiosity, what is your best RPG moment? Here's mine:

Disclaimer: This is from BG3 Act 3, so SPOILERS ahead!

My beautiful experience in BG3 honor mode against

► Show Spoiler

Ansur

► Show Spoiler

Okay, so I had Wyll, Karlach, Shart and my Durge in my party. Previously, I had done the investigate the firework shop quest and I made Astarion steal all the good stuff to cheese the Ansur fight. I stacked the explosives near Ansur and started the dialogue after casting Sanctuary on Celaena (my Durge). She ran away to take cover by the Globe of Invulnerability (I had few scrolls with me). I put Shadowheart to shoot a fire arrow to explosives.

Well, I had calculated it wrong and the explosion took only half of the damage. Well, ****. I put all of my summons to fight Ansur, they all died first. Then I run out of the Globe of Invulnerability scrolls. **** again. At this point, Ansur had 100 hp.

I decided to flee and wish good luck to my companions, so I put Celaena into camp. Back to the fight, Ansur makes the Stormheart Nova attack, and somehow Shart and Karlach survived. Wyll died, so I revived him by Withers and send him back to the fight (I only discovered this now that you can revive your dead companions mid fight if you have a character in camp, which was cool).

For the end fight, I used my health potions, lighting resistance potions and Sanctuary to keep my characters alive, which worked. Shart and Wyll were downed again, but Karlach was still standing due to large hp of 174 + 15 temporary hit points from raging. She finished the job and I sighed in relief, and then revived Shart and Wyll. Wyll's quest came to end and all was well in the end.

This is why I love the game, the randomness makes it so good. Tho I need to prepare more for the next honor run (I haven't lost my save fortunately, but I started another honor mode save just in case this fails).

I remember many close shaves like that, where something random helped me pull off a victory. At some point, I do remember fighting two of the robots after blowing up that firework shop. I had like two, almost dead characters left, Gale and another, and I managed to win by flying onto the rooftops with Gale, drawing the aggro of the surviving robot, whilst the other character hid in smoke/ invisibility and dealt with the other surviving NPCs.

Although I think the BG3 best experiences were playing with @Vergil, @loregamer, @Makirige, @Silver, @orinEsque
Even though playing co op harms the experience in many ways, you don't pay attention to the story as much, and trying to get that many mods to work with that many people can be excruciating.

I have to agree with this. It was a lot of fun playing Multiplayer. Will try and get it back up again once BBE is done.

[TKVNC]

When I encountered John RPG and he said "It's RPGing time"

[AliciaDurge]

Hey just asking out of curiosity, what is your best RPG moment? Here's mine:

Disclaimer: This is from BG3 Act 3, so SPOILERS ahead!

My beautiful experience in BG3 honor mode against

► Show Spoiler

Ansur

► Show Spoiler

Okay, so I had Wyll, Karlach, Shart and my Durge in my party. Previously, I had done the investigate the firework shop quest and I made Astarion steal all the good stuff to cheese the Ansur fight. I stacked the explosives near Ansur and started the dialogue after casting Sanctuary on Celaena (my Durge). She ran away to take cover by the Globe of Invulnerability (I had few scrolls with me). I put Shadowheart to shoot a fire arrow to explosives.

Well, I had calculated it wrong and the explosion took only half of the damage. Well, ****. I put all of my summons to fight Ansur, they all died first. Then I run out of the Globe of Invulnerability scrolls. **** again. At this point, Ansur had 100 hp.

I decided to flee and wish good luck to my companions, so I put Celaena into camp. Back to the fight, Ansur makes the Stormheart Nova attack, and somehow Shart and Karlach survived. Wyll died, so I revived him by Withers and send him back to the fight (I only discovered this now that you can revive your dead companions mid fight if you have a character in camp, which was cool).

For the end fight, I used my health potions, lighting resistance potions and Sanctuary to keep my characters alive, which worked. Shart and Wyll were downed again, but Karlach was still standing due to large hp of 174 + 15 temporary hit points from raging. She finished the job and I sighed in relief, and then revived Shart and Wyll. Wyll's quest came to end and all was well in the end.

This is why I love the game, the randomness makes it so good. Tho I need to prepare more for the next honor run (I haven't lost my save fortunately, but I started another honor mode save just in case this fails).

I remember many close shaves like that, where something random helped me pull off a victory. At some point, I do remember fighting two of the robots after blowing up that firework shop. I had like two, almost dead characters left, Gale and another, and I managed to win by flying onto the rooftops with Gale, drawing the aggro of the surviving robot, whilst the other character hid in smoke/ invisibility and dealt with the other surviving NPCs.

Although I think the BG3 best experiences were playing with @Vergil, @loregamer, @Makirige, @Silver, @orinEsque
Even though playing co op harms the experience in many ways, you don't pay attention to the story as much, and trying to get that many mods to work with that many people can be excruciating.

I have to agree with this. It was a lot of fun playing Multiplayer. Will try and get it back up again once BBE is done.

That's nice! ^^

[AliciaDurge]

Hey just asking out of curiosity, what is your best RPG moment? Here's mine:

Disclaimer: This is from BG3 Act 3, so SPOILERS ahead!

My beautiful experience in BG3 honor mode against

► Show Spoiler

Ansur

► Show Spoiler

Okay, so I had Wyll, Karlach, Shart and my Durge in my party. Previously, I had done the investigate the firework shop quest and I made Astarion steal all the good stuff to cheese the Ansur fight. I stacked the explosives near Ansur and started the dialogue after casting Sanctuary on Celaena (my Durge). She ran away to take cover by the Globe of Invulnerability (I had few scrolls with me). I put Shadowheart to shoot a fire arrow to explosives.

Well, I had calculated it wrong and the explosion took only half of the damage. Well, ****. I put all of my summons to fight Ansur, they all died first. Then I run out of the Globe of Invulnerability scrolls. **** again. At this point, Ansur had 100 hp.

I decided to flee and wish good luck to my companions, so I put Celaena into camp. Back to the fight, Ansur makes the Stormheart Nova attack, and somehow Shart and Karlach survived. Wyll died, so I revived him by Withers and send him back to the fight (I only discovered this now that you can revive your dead companions mid fight if you have a character in camp, which was cool).

For the end fight, I used my health potions, lighting resistance potions and Sanctuary to keep my characters alive, which worked. Shart and Wyll were downed again, but Karlach was still standing due to large hp of 174 + 15 temporary hit points from raging. She finished the job and I sighed in relief, and then revived Shart and Wyll. Wyll's quest came to end and all was well in the end.

This is why I love the game, the randomness makes it so good. Tho I need to prepare more for the next honor run (I haven't lost my save fortunately, but I started another honor mode save just in case this fails).

I remember many close shaves like that, where something random helped me pull off a victory. At some point, I do remember fighting two of the robots after blowing up that firework shop. I had like two, almost dead characters left, Gale and another, and I managed to win by flying onto the rooftops with Gale, drawing the aggro of the surviving robot, whilst the other character hid in smoke/ invisibility and dealt with the other surviving NPCs.

Although I think the BG3 best experiences were playing with @Vergil, @loregamer, @Makirige, @Silver, @orinEsque
Even though playing co op harms the experience in many ways, you don't pay attention to the story as much, and trying to get that many mods to work with that many people can be excruciating.

Oof yeah, I'm having a multiplayer run going on with my boyfriend, and we only have party adjustment limit mod on bc of the hassle of multiple mods.

I remember also those guys in the firework shop, but I just trolled them by putting Astarion sniping them by other roof (it was really funny when they were so confused by who was it while I hid Astarion) and then I put the other chars to finish the job.

[Ranselknulf]

One time I beat the final boss of an rpg with only 1 hp remaining.

It was super epic as you can imagine.

[Jordy]

KOTOR SPOILER! KOTOR SPOILER! KOTOR SPOILER! KOTOR SPOILER!

KOTOR SPOILER! KOTOR SPOILER! KOTOR SPOILER! KOTOR SPOILER!

When I found out that I was Revan all along!

[Element]

Fortress of regrets in PST
Maiden Astraea boss fight in DeS, and the whole Tower of Latria from the same, one of the most unpleasantly atmospheric settings I've played in any genre

[rusty_shackleford]

Probably exploring Tarant in Arcanum. It felt a lot bigger when you had a small resolution, especially if you weren't using a walkthru. When playing games from this era I'd recommend playing at a max of 1280x720 and upscaling rather than using 'HD patches' that let you see the entire map at once, as it was never intended to be viewed like that.
Exploring the Citadel in Mass Effect is close. I'd play a game set entirely on the Citadel.

[Irenaeus]

Having my dreams of a perfect Vault City wrecked by Lynette.

[Nooneatall]

When I found every non white or LGBTQ character in bg3 and brutally murdered them

[Vaako]

sacrificing townsfolk in fable1 for the best bow in the game, close second sacrificing wyll to booooal in bg3. Shame rimworld and stellaris are mostly top down and menu type games or I probably had lots of fun there too. Unlocking cheats in shadows of the empire once you got all challenge points on hard difficulty. Which were ridiculous well hidden. And the game was hard. (but bad controls)

[Irenaeus]

Defeating Lord Bela in Wizardy 6 with a party of 2 Fighters, a Valkyrie, a Ninja, a Mage and a Bard. Claiming the Cosmic Forge then importing the save to Wizardry 7, seeing the beginning and the rest of the game affected by it.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I have a few.

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Vantage Master: the level late in the campaign where you start at the bottom of a hill with only one ley line within range and it would take several turns climbing up the hill to get to more ley lines, while the enemy summoner starts at the top of the hill and has half a dozen ley lines within a leisurely quick sprint downhill. He quickly summons lots of monsters and is raining projectiles down on me and my pitifully small army of summons. Several times during the battle I thought I was going to lose and should start over, but I didn't restart and instead persevering to the end. I climbed that hill, captured each ley line one by one, dismantled his army one by one, and eventually caught up to him and killed him.

Sakura Wars V: the level on the airship where you have to defend the two engines from a large incoming enemy force. Had to split my party into two teams guarding each engine, but I lost half of my team and the airship hadn't yet escaped yet. I thought I was going to get a gameover, or at the very least lose an engine and not S-rank the mission, but I kept going and persevered. I had Shinjiro flying back and forth fending off hoards of enemies while Kohei Tanaka's music was playing. We barely escaped by the skin of our teeth with no engines lost. Felt like a true hero.

Beating the final climatic mech battle of each Trails of Cold Steel game, which are the hardest battles in the series because you can't overlevel and your gearing options are limited. Watching my boy Jusis pop his S-craft and hurl the Holy Sword of Ishnard into the true final bosses of CS4 and Reverie on the highest difficulty. Beating the final mech battle in Trails into Reverie on Abyss difficulty.








Finally beating that one mission in chapter 3 of Aselia the Spirit of Eternity Sword after having spent two weeks stuck on it. The one where you have to invade the Republic and the road splits into three highways with several towns and cities you have to capture, at least two dozen enemy squads coming down those highways, and you also have the missable side objectives of capturing a magic crystal and killing a dragon superboss on the otherside of the map. And to achieve S-rank, you have to do all of this within the turn limit. S-ranking every mission in that game was a pain, but I was so powerful by the end that was kinda fun roflstomping the final level.




Finally beating Highlord Kruul - the tank mage tower challenge boss - in World of Warcraft after having spent a day wiping on the phase 1 boss Variss. Then I tried again the next morning and on my 3rd attempt I beat Variss and killed Kruul and got my artifact weapon.




Tactics Ogre PSP One Vision mod: Beating the final mission of Chaos route chapter 3 with two of my guys having died to kill the evil Lodis dark knights. Had that heavy feel after.

[maidenhaver]

I took one company far enough in Battle Brothers that when I retired, they didn't know what to do with their lives, so they became bandits. I thought that was endearing.

[Tweed]

You've

Got

Your

Balls

To

The

Wall!

[Zothique]

My greatest RPG moment was realizing, after I had won the main campaign in Skyrim, just how sinister Bethesda was at conning shittons of people into buying their "game" huehue.

EDIT: Myself including. Slick move 10/10

[J1M]

As I neared the end of Dragon Age, I was playing it near the start of a solar year and had forgotten the window was open. As I engaged the final boss, it rained down a purple breath weapon on my character. At that moment some wind kicked up and a flurry of snow entered the room for some perfectly timed haptic feedback.

Finished the fight before I closed the window.

[Zothique]

As I neared the end of Dragon Age, I was playing it near the start of a solar year and had forgotten the window was open. As I engaged the final boss, it rained down a purple breath weapon on my character. At that moment some wind kicked up and a flurry of snow entered the room for some perfectly timed haptic feedback.

Finished the fight before I closed the window.

That's actually really ******* cool, ngl.

[Zothique]

Hey just asking out of curiosity, what is your best RPG moment? Here's mine:

Disclaimer: This is from BG3 Act 3, so SPOILERS ahead!

My beautiful experience in BG3 honor mode against

► Show Spoiler

Ansur

► Show Spoiler

Okay, so I had Wyll, Karlach, Shart and my Durge in my party. Previously, I had done the investigate the firework shop quest and I made Astarion steal all the good stuff to cheese the Ansur fight. I stacked the explosives near Ansur and started the dialogue after casting Sanctuary on Celaena (my Durge). She ran away to take cover by the Globe of Invulnerability (I had few scrolls with me). I put Shadowheart to shoot a fire arrow to explosives.

Well, I had calculated it wrong and the explosion took only half of the damage. Well, ****. I put all of my summons to fight Ansur, they all died first. Then I run out of the Globe of Invulnerability scrolls. **** again. At this point, Ansur had 100 hp.

I decided to flee and wish good luck to my companions, so I put Celaena into camp. Back to the fight, Ansur makes the Stormheart Nova attack, and somehow Shart and Karlach survived. Wyll died, so I revived him by Withers and send him back to the fight (I only discovered this now that you can revive your dead companions mid fight if you have a character in camp, which was cool).

For the end fight, I used my health potions, lighting resistance potions and Sanctuary to keep my characters alive, which worked. Shart and Wyll were downed again, but Karlach was still standing due to large hp of 174 + 15 temporary hit points from raging. She finished the job and I sighed in relief, and then revived Shart and Wyll. Wyll's quest came to end and all was well in the end.

This is why I love the game, the randomness makes it so good. Tho I need to prepare more for the next honor run (I haven't lost my save fortunately, but I started another honor mode save just in case this fails).

Hey, are you one of them there "TRANSGENDERED INDIVIDUALS" or what have you? It seems to be implied in the other thread with you. Thanks tee hee!

[The_Mask]

Hey just asking out of curiosity, what is your best RPG moment?

One of the hardest things to beat in Dark Souls is The Four Kings, because it's a DPS race and their damage and HP scales with NG+. This means that a lot of people that don't really care about the mechanics, but that do try NG+ because they love the game, end up getting stumped at.

And so back when I played DS for the first time, I had made a character that was specifically designed to beat The 4 Kings. Perfect INT/DEX stats. Perfect slots for spells. Trident to buff the person that would summon me. Perfect items for defense. The works.

A guy on the Dark Souls Steam forums asks for help. I answer. I used the DSCM/Wulf's Mod to link with him. I come into his world.

I tell him what to do. Clear and concise instructions. He says: "I understand."

I proceed to eliminate the Kings in less than 10 minutes.

He calls me on Steam. Through sobs and tears he tells me he had been trying to beat them for over a week, and didn't know how. He asks me if he can buy me any game that I want. I told him that it's okay, and that he should just help other people instead.

He looked into my Wishlist and bought me Subnautica. I never had a chance to refuse.

[DDC]

The most brutal challenge in Dungeon of the Endless is the sanitary pod because you have extremely reduced resources, stronger enemies, and there is no realtime pause, meaning you have to micro 4 heroes at once against waves coming from multiple directions and any of them could die in less than a second if caught out of position. I had made a lot of attempts but could never beat it. It's a 2.1% achievement, so not easy at all.

One time I had a particularly promising run that all went to **** a past the halfway point (I don't remember how it happened but I know it was extremely cheap). Everyone was dead but Golgy, not exactly the best hero. I knew the run was completely ******, but I decided to keep on with it, and shockingly was able to clear the next several floors due to favorable layouts, and even accumulate a decent resource stash during that time. Eventually it was on to the final floor, which I knew I had no chance in hell of beating. I got absolutely brutally RNGed, ****** layouts, waves loaded with anti-module monsters when I was completely dependent on generators and modules to fight since all other heroes were dead. Every single wave saw massive resource attrition, generators and cannons being destroyed and rebuilt, desperate last-ditch fights with my hero kiting in and out of the crystal room trying to keep both the hero and crystal just barely alive, spamming heals on Golgy.

My resources were basically gone, with no exit point in sight and still tons of rooms to open on the massive floor, when I finally found a ray of hope. I opened a door and there was Gork--the biggest, chadliest, meatshield hero. I didn't even have the ******* food to recruit him, but surprisingly he survived through a couple more sets of waves, somewhat distracting them so that I didn't get hit by everything at once. At that point though, I was completely depleted and had nothing to rebuild defenses. It was time for a blind crystal run, still having large chunks of the floor unexplored and no idea where the exit was. I looked at the map for a while to plan potential routes, then grabbed the crystal.

At that point, all hell broke loose. Doors started opening, waves of monsters started crashing out, and eventually the exit door was exposed. I ran a little circular route that trained the monsters through Gork's room (since he wasn't "my" hero and I had no way to control or position him), and he sat there blasting the **** out of them like the chad that he is, while I ran through other waves of monsters for the exit. Gork made an epic last stand and died just as I made it out with a sliver of health, shitloads of monsters in tow.

[AliciaDurge]

One time I beat the final boss of an rpg with only 1 hp remaining.

It was super epic as you can imagine.

Yeah very epic, it's good you defeated the boss.

[AliciaDurge]

Fortress of regrets in PST
Maiden Astraea boss fight in DeS, and the whole Tower of Latria from the same, one of the most unpleasantly atmospheric settings I've played in any genre

Oof, do you mean like in an eerie way or?