First Achievement: Finishing Alpine Village terrorist hunt with only one other person on Rainbow Six 3, highest difficulty. I didn't need gamerpoints to validate that one.
Best Moment: Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow. Versus Mode. Vertigo Plaza. Extraction. Reached the drop off point with one second remaining after a mad rush to pick up the canister in a room patrolled by two angry mercs. 
Worst Moment: People who I used to count as friends showing their true colours.
How long: Since Feb 2004. Cancelled it earlier this year.

Webbins wrote:

Happy Birthday Live.

Thank you but you are 6 months and a day early and this is the wrong thread.

n0face wrote:

Vela wrote:

Worst Moment: People who I used to count as friends showing their true colours.

How so?

Wasn't anything on xbl, just their general attitude on forums. Harassment, sectarianism along console fanboy lines, exclusion of anyone not towing their official line. Was pretty much an insular Australian forum with a decade long history of trolling and hostility.

Best moment
Gears of war: Having run off to source Rizlas or something, I surprised to see the game had already started without me upon my return. I'm on that graveyard level, which was never one of my best, and evidently my team mates- whose identities are deservedly forgotten- had let me down. A quick press of the backup button reveals all had perished within the opening 2 or 3 minutes that I was absent. All I remember is that Gonzo and Destrier were part of the opposition, and that's all the motivation I needed. 

The headset is totally silent, and as soon as I've finished absorbing the enormity of the task that faced me, a member of the enemy team jumps around the corner. It's destrier. I know he can see my motionless character still standing at the spawn point. I know he thinks I'm not there. I know he thinks this is an easy kill. As he walks toward me, slowly firing off rounds provocatively into my torso, i hold my nerve. I wait. And then just as he's lining up a pointblank shotgun execution, on turns my chainsaw. 1 man down. 

Off I run to seek out the others. The best bit is that I'd swear I could hear the tone in Gonzo's voice. "Lockdown! Don't let that greasy Greek cunt anywhere near boomshot!". But it's too late, because I'm already at boomshot, and again I can feel the anxiety on the opposition airwaves as they enter the central choke point to see that glorious weapon absent. 1 more shot fired and two more deaths. All that remains is the team leader. But with nobody left to bark orders at, he makes the rational choice to flee. Both of us are forever taking the racing line. I can only ever get a brief glimpse of him as I round the corner before he's disappeared around the next one. 2, 3, maybe even 4 corners are navigated, and not a single shot is fired. But then a brief, fleeting moment of opportunity arises; a split second where the obstacles of the landscape and my line of sight align to offer a direct hit on Gonzo's next projected position. It's distant, and he hasn't even arrived there yet, but I can't wait until he does. I fire the shot in anticipation. The trajectory is perfect. The timing is perfect. The glorious impact leads to body parts flying everywhere. 

We return to the lobby and a wall of sound awaits. Screaming, cheering, cursing and hysterics ensue. It was only the first round, and I can't remember how the rest of the game played out, but it was a golden moment, and one I think I gloated about for the rest of the evening.

How could I forget Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, and G's legendary commandment of a HGV that saw us flip on two wheels whilst caning it down a hill with the entire PLA after us. The slo-mo realisation that physics was against us as the truck crunched onto its side and the panicking cries of "Get the fuck out of here!", as G, Frantic, Voodoo and I pick ourselves up and continue the flee to the evac on foot, our hearts pounding as hard as the poor guys we were piloting. Classic moments in gaming.

Me and Grem abandoning our team and running away for the win in L4D, grabbing the boat to get away in the big Edge GTAIV night and yes, running for the chopper in OF. Basically, I've nailed where modern FPS are going wrong, not enough running away bits.

NEVA 4GET.

I remember Mr Benjam killing me on Gears. That was definitely a low point. As was playing with randoms on just about anything. And seeing a penis on Uno. Are there any games where the randoms are on average tolerable?

equinox_code wrote:

I remember Mr Benjam killing me on Gears. That was definitely a low point. As was playing with randoms on just about anything. And seeing a penis on Uno. Are there any games where the randoms are on average tolerable?

Worms.

ODST Firefight Get Tiger Recon Mission.

Me, Nexx, Shyam, BlueSwirl. 3 hours of Halo goodness. BlueSwirl hid in a corner so the Covies couldn't find him and fucked off down the pub for almost the entire game. The rest of us took it in turns to have dinner while watching our team mates fight on to glory. 

Apart from Nexx. Shyam and I weren't the most solid of partnerships once the difficulty has skyrocketed and he had to keep putting down his food and come and save us. "Neeexx, help us!" we cried. And he came, the shining white Knight of Halol Power, to smite the Brute hordes and chastise us for ruining his egg and chips. I'm more important than egg and chips. Nexx understands this now.

And I got the Recon Armour, and looked the fucking tits. I salute you, TGTR. A monument to all the awesome.

Left 4 Dead is a good call for greatest gaming moments ever.

Ahhh, the Halo 3 Demo game. That was a cracker that one.

I do hope Ruffian are working on a Crackdown 3 for nextbox.

adkm1979 wrote:

Worst Moment:  Coming back from the loo between rounds of Left 4 Dead to hear two team-mates discussing ditching me wasn't very nice.  Deleting my entire friends list wasn't great, as I've never really gotten anyone back, and as a result have barely played online multiplayer since, but that was my own fault.

How long:  Four years and three weeks, apparently.

How did you manage to delete everyone?

I can't find out my first achievement as it was on my sadly defunct account. Fairly sure it would be something on dead rising or more insanely, table toptennis!

Best moment? The creation of team:awesum has to go down as a watershed moment in the whole of gaming, let alone Live. Sooo many great nights from halo, gears, talking to peeps here and generally, well, being awesum!

Skondo, that is hilarous!

L4D, how it went from hottest ticket to bad AIDS just like that still escapes me. Surely it wasn't solely the doing of the too soon sequel? Split fanbase, netcode, exploits?