Top 10
Yes, I know it’s been awhile since we did a top 10. But here we have compiled a new Top 10 list. This week’s Top 10 is the top 10 WTF moments. These are the moments in gaming that made you either say “Oh shit” or “The fuck?”. So, without further ado, the Top 10 WTF moments: (Spoiler Alerts)
10. Crackdown/ Finding out that the people you work for are the cause of all the gang violence (Xbox 360): You played through the whole game. You’ve defeated every Gang leader. But did you ever once stop to ask who was behind all this? How did the gangs gain so much power? Well, you beat the game and you find the voice in your head (AKA Your boss) has been behind the chaos each and every step of the way. It was at this moment that you felt like someone shoved a grenade up your ass. One has never felt so used in gaming history then this game made you feel.
9. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/ Finding out that Sheik is actually Princess Zelda (N64): As if being sent forward in time wasn’t bad enough, you had to put up with the annoying, if not mysterious Sheik. Who was this a**hole? Why did he keep hounding you and showing up and the most annoying of times? It wasn’t till you got the last seal to break through Ganondorf’s force field that the person’s identity was revealed; none other then princess Zelda. Who knew that she was a complete ninja? Not only did it make your jaw drop, it made you feel very disturbed and confused.
8. The Suffering: Ties That Bind/ Finding out that you have split personalities and that you’re Blackmoore (Xbox, PS2): Anyone that has played the suffering knows it’s a fucked up game. Hideous enemies, insane hallucinations, and the fact that after conserving up enough rage you turn into a hulking behemoth of a beast is just a tip of the iceberg. No, where the game shines truly is the ending you get at the end of the second game. You’ve been plagued by your memories of your children’s and wife’s death and now you’ve come close to the person who caused all your pain and suffering, Blackmoore. He was a crime kingpin that not only set you up to take a fall because of you choosing your family over business, but also killed everyone and anyone even remotely close to you. He taunts you throughout the entire game and it isn’t till the very end that your able to finally get your hands on him, only to find out he can do everything you can, including turning into the giant behemoth (and he can also summon monsters for you to fight). Once you beat him, the truth is revealed, you both are one in the same. Here, the games protagonist has had split personalities and it isn’t till Blackmoore’s chilling last words that make you realize that you are partially responsible for everything. It truly fucked with your mind ending the game like this.
7. Fallout 3/ Your first encounter with a Deathclaw (Xbox 360, PS3, PC): Your walking through the wasteland of DC, minding your own business, thinking your pretty tough shit. You’ve taken down all the Behemoths, the Yaou Guai’s now run to fight with you, not against you. Then out of nowhere, you see something red on your radar. You smile to yourself, thinking it’s probably a Rad Scorpion, till you get hit by something really hard and it takes damn near half your health. You’re like WTF was that? Then you use the V.A.T.S. and see what it is. A Deathclaw. The damn thing looks like a fucking minotaur with reptile skin. Not only is it huge as fuck, it’s also fast. You use your V.A.T.S. to aim for the head. The damn thing shakes it off and keeps running for you. By the time you set up the next attack using V.A.T.S., its in your face and swinging at you. Any who has come across these monsters are wary to not to be seen by them. Only those who are truly brave will even think about entering the Deathclaw Sanctuary.
6. Ninja Gaiden 2/ When you fight the giant Mechanical Armadillo and it blows up when you beat, thus killing you (Xbox 360, PS3): You board a plane to go fight the next Greater Fiend, only for it to crash in the snowy mountains. As the plane crashes, out rolls a giant mechanical Armadillo (please hold your laughter). This thing is honestly no joke though. It is hard as hell to injure and only incendiary shurikens to its head harms it. Sure, you can get some hits in on it via your other weapons, but the shurikens are your best resort. But even after this, when you get its health down to nothing, it self destructs, taking you with it in the process. When it starts to glow, you stand there thinking, okay, he gonna blow up, so you back up a bit of a distance, what you don’t know is that the explosion engulfs the whole area, and it kills you. You sit there and stare at the screen (if you don’t have a talisman of rebirth) wondering what the fuck just happened. Simply put, the damn thing took you down with it. To make matters worst, later in the game, you fight two more of these things, at the same time!!!!!!!!!!
5.Final Fantasy X/ Finding out that not only does Lady Yunalesca have 3 different forms you must fight in a row, but she also has an attack that instantly kills your Summons (PS2): It wasn’t bad enough that Yunalesca was a complete bitch, but the fact when you first beat her, she goes to her next form. Then after barely beating her 2nd form, she goes to a 3rd form. Its at this point a lot of gamers who didn’t have a strategy guide was like WTF!?!? Is this an actual main story boss? Is she the final boss? What the hell is going on?!?!?! Then to make matters worse, the bitch has a movie that instantly gets rid of your summons. It’s like all your hard work and boss battles you’ve taken part in up to this point was all for naught, for within a mere 20 turns, she starts to own your entire party and its all you can do to stay alive. Simply put, you felt like a newb at this point and had to seriously sit back and rethink your whole game plan against the whore.
4. Pokemon Soul Silver & Heart Gold/ Getting owned by Ash’s Pikachu when it does Volt Tackle (DS): So, with the new version of Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver, you might of notice a few adjustments here and there for the upgrade from the original. The Elite 4 change up their line up after you defeat the Kanto Gym Leaders, they’re pokemon become stronger, all this not a problem. See, it wasn’t till you got all the way through Mt. Silver/Gold (which wasn’t as hard as I remember it being on the original version) and finally got to fighting Ash. Yeah, if you beat the original game all the way through, this was one fight you didn’t want to miss out on and was anticipating. So you get there, you’ve leveled up your pokemon pretty high (not lvl. 100, but they should be strong enough to be Ketchum’s bitch ass, right?). So you throw out your first pokemon. Of course Ash throws out Pikachu. Its lvl. 88, so you’re probably like WTF?!!?!? But no, it doesn’t end there. The little shit does Volt Tackle. The move looks awesome, but damn near kills your first pokemon unless it’s a ground, rock, steel type. All you can do is sit there and watch as your pokemon’s life bar go down ever so slowly. You sit there thinking what the hell just happened. Then he does it again and again and just when you finally wipe the little shit out, Ash pulls out his other pokemon. At this point, you probably only have like 3 or 2 of your party alive and can do nothing but watch as he finishes you off. Let it be known, Ash is not to be fucked with. Period.
3. The Thing/ The first time your whole squad turns into aliens (Xbox, PS2, GC): The Thing was a crazy movie. The game was crazier. There are so many moments that made me say “Oh shit or “What the fuck?!?!?”, its kind of hard to pick just one for this list. There’s the moment towards the end of the game when your going through the companies (the guys who have you out there in the first place) quarantine facility and save some guy only for him to blow his brains out when he see’s a room soaked in blood and guts (yeah, I left the guy in the room cause he wouldn’t move due to his fear, heard a gunshot go off, came back in the room, he’s slumped over in the corner, gun in hand), to the first time when you do the test to see who’s still human and find out that one of your team has become an alien. But I think what takes the cake is halfway through the game, you find yourself having a squad consisting of you and 3 other survivors. You get to a safe room and you decide now would be a good time to do a test on your teammates. You shoot the first one with the syringe and it explodes. You know he’s about to transform, but you’ll be ok, you got 2 other guys to help you kill him. Then you turn around and realize that they too are changing into aliens. You start to blast them with what little ammo you have left, but soon you realize you don’t have enough to take on all three of them and either are forced to run or stay and hope you survive.
2. Gears of War 2/ The first time you see the Rift Worm (Xbox 360): You know, in the first GOW, you fought not only the Berserker, but also the Corpser (think giant mechanical spider from hell if you haven’t played the game), so at this point your thinking what can GOW 2 throw at me? At first though, one would think of the Kraken. Nope, that’s not the reason GOW 2 is on this list. The Hydra? Nope, not that either. Riding the Brumak? That would be on the Top 10 Bad Ass moments in games (might be next week’s Top 10). Nope, it’s the first time you see the Rift Worm. Why? Because you don’t realize your even looking at the damn thing till you play the game back through. As your progressing through the Locust Caverns the first time round, you notice vibrations here and there. You figure its whatever the Locust are using to sink whole cities. What you don’t notice is that the walls of the cavern are moving. And that they have little claws. You think to yourself, what in the hell is that? Then you get to the end of the level and you see Skurge flying on his Hydra. He starts screaming that Kantus Monk scream, and then it shows up. The Rift Worm. Huge is an understatement for this thing. It sinks a whole city right in front of your eyes. You think to yourself how in the hell are you going to kill this damn thing? Better yet, do you have anything that can kill it? Then you get eaten by the damn thing. The insanity goes up even higher as you have to fight your way through the thing have cut its arteries to its hearts to kill it once and for all.
1. Resident Evil 4/ The first time you fight the Reanimator (GC, PS2, Wii): You know, I can not think of a more deserving place for #1 on this list then this moment. It truly had me going WTF!?!?! I mean, I’ve played all the Resident Evil’s for the most part, so I’m pretty use to dealing with some off the wall enemies. From the Lickers in Resident Evil, the Brain Demos in Nemesis, and hell even the damn Giant Cicada/Mantis/Cockroach shit that reminds me of the shit from Mimic in RE 5. But despite all of these fuckers, it’s the mother fucking Reanimator that takes the cake. I mean, your walking down a corner and bam! The fuckers just right there shambling down the hall. Just by looking at it, your gaming sense is telling you its not something to fuck with, take it down. So, you take out your biggest, most powerful gun (for me it was my Black Tail handgun, I had maxed it out and even got the extra damage boost for it) and plugged three in its head till it blew off. I started to walk towards it after it fell, figuring that was that, then it started to grow its head back. Hold the fuck up, what?!?!?!?! I just shot the damn things head off. There are only two types of enemies who survive having there heads blown off, those who are about to blow up and those that just wont die unless you incinerate it or blow it to ashes. This thing wasn’t about to do the first of the two, but I damn sure at this point in the game had nothing to turn it to dust. So I ran. And then found myself in a room with 3 more. It isn’t till you find out that you need a infra-red scope for one of your guns to see the larvae in the bodies of the things that you realized they could be killed. Other then that, it made you feel very scared every time you saw one of these fuckers and didn’t have that add-on attached to your gun. Sure shooting off its legs and arms slowed it down, but then the damn thing would just stop hopping towards you. What made these damn things even worst was when they opened their mouths and revealed a mouth full of razor sharp teeth that would make a piranha look cuddly. So yeah, you not only would say WTF, but oh shit as well, so it comes in as #1.
