Video Gamers Podcast - Greatest Gaming Moments We'll Never Forget – Gaming Podcast

Episode Date: June 29, 2026

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Gaming is filled with absolutely incredible moments that stick with us long past the end credits, whether it's the Great Plains of Hyrule, leaving Vault 111, becoming Eldon Lord, or crying over the loss of a beloved character. On today's episode, we're breaking down some of our personal favorite moments in gaming. But first, some introductions are in order.

I am your host, Josh, and joining me, his greatest moments include dressing up as Batman, dressing up as a French maid, dressing up as me, and proclaiming Redfall as Game of the Year. It's Ryan. Oh, why'd you have to throw that last one in there? Come on. I mean, you think you're getting through a whole intro with that a tiny little jab? I will never live that down. It makes me feel so uncomfortable when you bring it up.

I know. That's why I keep doing it. I go back and look at it and I'm like, what was I thinking? Hi, everybody. That's all. And joining us, his greatest moments are when he bribed us to cover Terraria, giving us a tour of his kitchen, joking on his soda after I cursed him,

and leaving us a one-star review. It's ace. And that's the moment I'll never live down, right? It's that one-star review. It'll never ever do so. As you shouldn't. We wouldn't have known if Ryan hadn't started actually going through one-star reviews one-star reviews one-night.

That's why I decided to point it out to him specifically. I was like, who are these hobos leaving us one-star? star reviews and I'm just scrolling on the couch. And I'm like, this looks like a good review. And then I look and I see ACE's shame. I was like, what? I'll never win this. I'll never win there.

Never. Those were fun times, man. Fun times. I feel like I need to check every few months just to make sure that. I check every few months. Ace has nightmares now where he just like wakes up in the middle of night. He's like, oh, I got to check my phone. There are a one star by accident.

There are a few things I've done on this podcast. that have given me paranoia about things like that. And one of those things is that one star of you. The other is making sure I read my numbers, right? Yeah. Oh, that millions. Yeah. Well, I mean, Ace, if it ever makes you feel better, there were, there was a time where

Ryan consistently forgot to publish episodes for like, for like weeks on end where it would just be like, hey, dude, uh, there's no episode. That was like two months of just like, I kept forgetting like every third episode. You can't put all that on me. That's too much. It was hilarious because it got to the point where, like, I would be going to bed at night and then, like, barely drifting off to sleep. And then I'd be like, oh, I got to, I got a check. And it'd be like 11 o'clock at night.

I'd be texting Ryan going, bro, did you forget to upload the episode? Ryan's in bed. He's not responding. It's like, oh, come on, man. What happens? You work 80 hours a week. That's fair. That's fair.

Well, welcome in, everybody. This is going to be an awesome episode. We are, we each have come up with five. of our personal favorite moments in gaming that just stick with us, whether it is, you know, like I said, an incredible cinematic, a cutscene, a quest, a boss fight, just these absolutely, absolutely peak moments in gaming that we consider some of our personal favorites. This is not us trying to proclaim the greatest moments of all time.

Maybe that'll be a future episode. So, you know, these are just some of those ones that stand out. I'm going to say this too. If in some of these moments that we're talking about, if you have not played these games, you should probably think about playing these games because if it has moments that have stuck with us forever, there's probably some magic to be had there

and you might want to think about picking these up and trying them and experiencing those moments as well. And then I'm also going to give the obligatory because these are some of the greatest moments in gaming, that means that there's going to be some spoilers. We will try to mention the game that we are going to talk about or the moment that's in that game before we actually completely spoil the moment for you.

But by nature, we're going to be talking about some awesome things that happen in video games and if you don't like spoilers. Now, I will say, I don't think any of these games are super duper current. I think my most current one is from last year. As it last year is as current as it gets for me. None of these are from this year.

Exactly. So, and some of them, there's not really spoilery. We'll just kind of describe what the moment is and why it's freaking awesome. And Aces are all just rats, so you probably not skip this. It's rats in Metroivania's. So if you want to skip ahead a little bit, you can, you kind of already know. All right. I'll go last guys.

I've got to rewrite my list. That's not the first time we've sent Ace back to the John. It is not. It will never be. I'll never get to write the first. time. Let's try again, buddy. You did good. You did good. Yeah. That's a good. That's a good start, Ace. Let's try to be a little bit more on topic and maybe mention a game or two that people would know. That's usually what I get is I don't know any of these. Yeah, these are a little too deep, Ace. We're going to need you to go up just a level of relevancy. Deep cuts with Ace. To the average listener. Guys, you know what is an awesome moment in some of our episodes? is where we thank new supporters of the show.

Oh, yeah. You talk about awesome moments, boys. We have, not one, but two new supporters of the show to thank. So a huge shout out to Mark for signing up for rare status. Oh, right. Thank you, Mark. Rocky, like Mark. I just want to, I don't know why, but I want to do it with like a Boston accent and be like,

Mac. Mac. Mac. What? Mark Wahlberg? Mark. I don't know. Hey, Mac.

Thanks for signing up. Yeah. Mark. Yeah, you're a real champ, Mark, for signing up for rare status and supporting the pod. You can't say they are. You got to sue Mac. I'm just imagining Josh now as the wet bandit. Bro, I would know how to rob a house, Ace.

Okay. You mean you wouldn't get beat by an 11-year-old, 12-year-old child? No. You can't get me with booby trash. I'm too much. By the way, the worst criminals ever. They had to be the worst, absolute worst criminals of all time. They got beat by the same little kid, the child in two different states across the country.

Like, come on. They broke out of jail and the kids still beat them. They named themselves the wet bandits, first of all. Then they were the sticky bandits. They were the sticky bandits. Oh, man. And then, We have another one.

Awesome member of the community. This guy showed up, started just jumping right into talking games with everybody. And then got rare status as well. So a huge shout out to Jeroscope. Woo. For signing up for rare status, supporting the podcast. So Jeroscope, thank you. We see you in the Discord chatting with everybody all the time.

We're glad you're here, buddy. Mark, get your butt in the Discord. Yeah, come on in, Mark. Shout us up. Jared. Get them in. Derek, get mock. The discard.

Discard. I hate that. I hate that. I join a discard, Sava. Discats, because of my cockies. Now you're going to like almost an African tribal. What? Whoa.

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I would never. Are we going on like a. Okay, buddy. You're going to get his cancel, Josh. He is going to get us canceled. Move on.

You put that through your Google translator. I actually learned a phrase. It's like, you don't know how authentic that is. Yeah. If you don't believe me, you put that through your Google Translate and you see what it is. That was absolutely authentic Swahili. Why do you speak Swahili? You don't just like to know like a phrase in different weird languages?

No, I can barely speak English. Well, all right. This is true. I will agree with you there. Yeah. Also, that's not, I just made all that up. I really wanted somebody to be like, I'm testing this out.

Oh, man. Somebody's going to isolate those vocals, maybe me. Who knows? And we're going to throw it in and see what you actually said. Yeah. Watch, I probably said something really profound. Like, let's get into these gaming moments, boy. There you go.

Moving on. Yeah. Oh, man. All right. So we each have five incredible moments that we have. have picked out. Who wants to go first? You know, I'll start.

Let's do it. All right. I'm going to take a bed on if anybody's heard of this moment or not. Over under on over under on like 20%, I would say. I'd set the line at. All right. 20%? All right.

I'll take the over. I think Ace is going to, this got to be like, there's got to be an Assassin's Creed or something. Yeah. In this list. All right, Ace. hit us I think this list actually has quite a few people will know.

All right, to my credit, this has a lot of, like, well-known games and one not well-known game. But this will be for the game Liza P. This is the ending. This is your spoiler warning right here.

Listen, good. Got it, everyone. All right? Nobody calling out in the comments for... You've been warned people. Twice. Wait, I haven't played it. this game. Yeah.

Oh, I guess you should leave, right? You're just pushing their headphones. That's how you plug your ears when you're a giant hoodphones. It's not working. But at the end of Liza P, after the supposed final boss, there is a secret boss, which is the true final boss of the game. You get down into a basement where Geppetto is sitting, and he asks P back for the heart for

his pee organ, which is actually his dead son's heart. Hold on. A pee organ. Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's called the pee organ. Wait, what? You play the game. What game were we talking about here? You can't be calling nothing. It's called the pee organ.

That's a family show, Ais. Google that right now. It is called the P. Org. You had to know we weren't going to let that slide. I was going to say, you had to know. I looked at Ryan, Ryan looked at me right away. both their eyes got big and it was like, well, okay, we know where this is going. All right.

So where's, speaking to where it's going, where'd the P. organ go? Yeah. Well, the P. organ is in the puppet's chest, which we never get a name for him. That's a different way to do it, I guess. Okay. It's, it's, uh, you guys have thrown my entire story off the rails. Um, damn it. I'm sorry, buddy.

I know, I know it was so epic and so beautiful. It was. and now it's all about pee organs. You're the one that said it. You could have just said they put his heart. You could have just said they needed his heart. They put his heart in something like. It's called the pee organ.

What if I'm being accurate. Stop saying it. It's not making it better. Google P. No. No, I'm not going to Google that, dude. Just call it. Just call it his organ.

Nope, don't do that either. You know what? It's Carlos heart. All right. Okay. Hey, we did it. Hey, look at that. Oh, now I know what you're talking about.

The puppet has Carlo's heart. Oh, okay. Jepetto wants the heart back because he has Carlos body that he has put back together with scraps and pieces, and he believes that he has carried the heart around long enough to basically bring it humanity again. You can. Wait, who's Carlo? Carlo is Jepetto's dead son.

Oh. Yeah. Like, he's trying to Frankie sign that thing. Kind of made out of. Yeah. So you are the. puppet carrying his son's heart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.

Jepetto has his body and he is going to puppet around as the final boss to take that heart from you because he is more attached to the body than the heart of his son. And he is convinced that if he gets that heart and puts it into this flesh amalgamation that he will get his son back. So you just have an epic battle against this puppet that is Carlo's body. That's pretty sick. As Jepetto puppets it around with the magic gloves, the strings. Does, uh, does P go like, I got no strings to hold me down?

No. No, P is pretty boring. He doesn't stop. He doesn't talk at all. Oh, that's lame. Yeah. He just gets down to business. The game is really good.

Really good. If you guys play Liza P. Yeah. I actually remember that moment because Liza P is one of those games that I actually beat, because that's how good it is. So, yeah, that, that was a wow kind of. a moment there in an incredible game too Liza P might be the best Soulslike game that's not a souls game

I would say so yeah yeah does that that has like a lot of gore to it right somebody was asking for a hard game today that was kind of challenging but didn't have like gore or anything and then I was like I'm pretty sure those are not a lot of people yeah but didn't they murder a bunch of people like don't you see like dead humans on the street what are you just like woodchips I mean occasionally but you didn't do it yeah and when you hit the puppets they sprout out oil, not

blood, so. Oil can. All right. All right. Ryan, what do you got for us, buddy? What's your first one? Well, um, it's hard to follow up the P-organ.

I hate you so much. I love. I'm going to go with one that. Again, like we said, a bunch of spoilers. Um, I'm doing God of War, and it's the God of War Ragnarok, the Odin and Teer, like, mix up reveal. What an epic kind of climax to this thing you've been going on over and over and over again.

Fighting, you've been, you know, you've seen Atreus, like, kind of used Odin as like a father figure, and then all of a sudden you find out, you know, the whole time, tear, this guy, you know, you wonder why he's been such a kind of a lame weirdo that hasn't been wanted to do anything. It was just one of the, I was like, no way, what? And you see it the whole time and then all the stuff with Brock and everything else. Like, there's so much that happens within it. But it was one of those definitely, it's going to stick with me for a very, very long time. Epic gaming moment.

Absolutely. I love this because it was such a twist in a game that really wasn't about twist. you know, God of War is such a like straightforward kind of game that you don't expect this like gotcha moment in it, you know? And so it's like to have that and have this character that is such a major part of the game and who is kind of in your party and, you know, helping you throughout everything to be revealed as being Odin is like just mind blowing. And then the like what happens after that since we're talking spoilers here, people, this is probably even the bigger. spoiler is that he freaking kills Brock. Yeah. You know?

And then that's like, oh my gosh. Like I freaking hate this guy. Yeah. You know, like it, yeah, that's one of those moments where you are filled with like rage over the betrayal and then like sorrow because my boy Brock. A boy Brock. Yeah. Oh, man.

You don't see it coming at all. You have no idea it's coming. No. You do not see it coming at all. This is not like you have like deduce it. You have a feeling that something's off with here and maybe it's just that he sucks. Like you think he sucks. Yeah, he sucks.

He's been in prison. He's just given up. He's just a shell of a man. Yeah, he's got nothing left in him. And then all of a sudden you realize why. You know, and you're like, oh, oh, okay. Oh, all right. You never wanted to help.

Yeah. Yeah. I love that one. That's a good one. I may or may not have a god of war one of my list too. Maybe. And it's not the Blades of Chaos people just before anybody's like, oh, we've heard Josh talk about this before.

It's something different. All right. So. But I'm saving. that one for later. All right. Mine is a, I'm just going to kind of group this together because this is to me where this game absolutely takes off. This is, the game is Cyberpunk 2077. It is basically, I'm just going to call it the entire heist. When you go to Arasaka Tower, I think it's Arasaka Tower, right, to get the biochip basically, to steal the biochip. You have to

infiltrate your way in, which is this whole, process to hack your way in and, you know, remote robot pilot this little spider bot into stuff to turn off the security system and all that. It's, it's incredible. It's one of the best heist quest in any video game ever, in my opinion. You know, you're spying on things. You're with your boy, Jackie, and then all of a sudden things go wrong. And when they go wrong, they go terribly wrong. And this is what sets the stage for the entire rest of the game. It happens within probably the first four to five hours of cyberpunk. The you trying to escape.

Jackie gets shot. He's dying. You have to figure out, do you send him home? Like, do you leave them? That kind of thing. So you have to make these choices. But the entire heist mission in

cyberpunk 2077 is one of the best missions in a video game ever. And it is so memorable to me. Like anytime I think cyberpunk, that's the very first thing that comes to mind. Like Johnny Silverhand's cool. pin-am you know great all that stuff but like you know there's definitely some moments yeah there's definitely some moments in cyberpunk but uh you know the heist mission is the absolute first thing like my brain goes to because it is unbelievably good man from start to finish that's such a good one dude

that was that's one of those just there's something in a game sometimes that um you know a lot of times you can play and you can pause and you can set it down or you can go do something else like when you're in the moment in in certain missions or certain quests or whatever it may be like there's certain ones that you're not you're not breaking away like it's you're not leaving you're not going to do anything else you're going to finish this until the end and that's one of those um man what a that's a good pick that one that one is really really good god there's so many good moments too yeah there's so many i mean you don't even get a minute of reprieve out of after that.

Like, after you send Jackie's body away, you have to return and, you know, report to Dexter. And he just turns around and shoots you in the freaking face. Yeah. Boom. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I freaking love that game. I've beaten that game twice now.

And it's like, I actually get the itch to play through again, which is crazy. That's more than like most games you've ever ever ever. Dude, you never get to play a game. I mean, Remnant 2 and Cyberpunk, I think are the two games that I have replayed multiple times. And it's the only, well, and God of War. They got a war twice. And now Eldon Ring. But that's just with Ryan.

Yeah, I didn't play that on my own. All right, Ace, what's up for you? What's your next one? My next one. This is probably the most recent one and the one you will need the spoilers for the most. This is in Expedition 33, the second to last fight. We have discovered that the whole world is not only just a painting. There's only like three real people in this entire world.

Everyone else is figments of your imagination. And Myel is actually Alicia. a daughter of the painter's and Renoir. And she doesn't want to leave the painting because Renoir will destroy it. So you have to face off with him one last time. And of course, that epic music plays as you go to face him again. He has a giant like, what is he like a lion or something at this point? He's like a massive paint lion behind him.

Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, that thing's trippy, dude. Yeah, it was crazy. And just as you're like getting halfway through the fight, it looks like he's going to defeat you when all of the sudden you get back up from the painters and the accents that you fought

earlier. Oh, yeah, yeah. And it all just turns in your favor because you are just decimating him. And the whole time, like, if you're investing the story, he is begging his family to stop doing this and tearing themselves apart because every time someone reinteres this painting,

it does, like, terrible damage to them. I thought it was just an epic way. to not quite conclude the game because there's one other part after that. But I thought it was epic. I thought it was sweet. Dude, the Renoir boss fight is one of the coolest

most memorable boss fights in a game ever. And the reason for that is, is the freaking music that goes along with that is unbelievably good, dude. Like, unbelievably good. I was actually trying to look it up because I wanted to

like blare it through my laptop. um... Temier is what the boss name is called. Unvae a pendere. Isn't that the one? No, you're looking for Renoir's boss theme, right?

Yeah, the fight. Yeah. You nerds. Where it just blows up like, encheon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so good. It's equitable French, by the way.

Yes, thank you. That was pretty good French, yes. It rivals my sweet. Wahili, by the way. Now you need to combine the two. I can't tell you how many times I blared that song, like at work when everybody was just playing that game, dude, and everybody would just start like, oh, yes. One of the most epic intros to a boss fight I have ever seen in my entire existence, dude. Like, Renois standing there, the music play, and the axons, like, everything about that was absolute perfection, dude.

I am going to jump in with another expedition 33-1 since we're kind of going along anyway. And so this is your spoiler warning there. But for me, the end of chapter one or act one, Gustav's death was one of those moments where it was like, I cannot believe that this is happening. And this is also the point in the game where I went, oh my gosh, like, I think we are onto something very special here. like this was the moment where I think like I went like I there is something incredibly special about Expedition 33 with the way that they handled it the suddenness of it like the blood splattering across male you know like just all of that the fallout I was just like oh my gosh like they're going here this game is not afraid to to you know to do what they need to do to tell this story and that was one of those moments for me as well it's on my list with Gustav's dad Man, what a freaking good game, dude. For those who come after, right? Yeah.

Oh, man. It's brutal. It's so bad, too. Right there in front of her. Yeah, that's Renoir. Renoir is one of the coolest characters. Like, I actually, like, okay, so this, I had this conversation. I might try to cosplay Renwar at the next fan fusion because I'm retiring my God of War costume.

I can get a wig, ace. I see you playing with your hair. Okay, I get it. I already have the gray beard. You know what I mean? So it's like all I need is like a renmire. I thought about doing Monaco. I thought Josh just doesn't want to keep doing keto.

He's got. Yeah, that's true too. I had to lose like 20 pounds, be able to pull up and go out of war outfit this year too. So, yeah. All right, Ryan, why don't you give us one more? We'll take a quick break and then we'll come back to a couple more of these. What's you got next on your list?

Sweet. I'm going to do one that speaking of music, I think that's a big theme with a lot of these epic scenes or epic moments. gaming. I think music is such a huge factor, and it makes us feel something. It gives us emotions. It ties us to the scene. And I'm going to go with a scene that's totally bland and really repetitive.

And it's just, it's Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake Eater, climbing up the ladder. But you're just, you're, yeah. We were singing this before we started by the way. You posted a video of this because I've not played these games and I just see it's literally called ladder scene. And I'm like, and I joked around saying, is this just him climbing a ladder for like three minutes? Yes. Yes, it is. And yet at the same time, it is the most epic scene because of the freaking song, dude.

Yeah. Like, I don't know what it is about a really, really incredible song that fits a scene perfectly that could just make it so epic. It feels almost like James Bondesque. That's, it's very like 70s noir, like, you know, it's, you know, like a smoky broom. Like, that's what it felt like as you're climbing the ladder and you're like, yeah, you know, you felt like you were, you know, almost like a secret agent or something in it. But, um, you were way cooler than that. but yeah it's it's it's such a good scene i love even though you're just climbing the ladder for two minutes i connected with it and i felt something and once you get to the top you're like

let's do this i'm in you know you're committed you're ready to rock you're you're in into it so uh yeah that's that's a big one for me that's always stuck with me um there's obviously the latter scene on youtube so it's stuck with some other people as well i love it's just called the ladder scene. Yeah, it's a ladder scene. I love that I, like, asked and you guys were like, yep, and then I watched it, and I was like, oh my gosh, this is great.

I mean, this is so good. I mean, it tells you something that I haven't played any MGS games, and I knew the latter scene. Yeah. Like, I knew, like, Ryan mentioned he picked a moment from MGS. I was like, oh, yep. I know exactly. The latter scene, yeah. I just really went,

not for a... Very reminiscent. This one almost made my list. but the John Marston riding to Mexico and Red Dead Redemption, the first one, the song is called Far Away by Jose Gonzalez, but that scene is very similar.

Like, you know, there's not really much going on, but you just feel the music. And you're like, oh my gosh, like, I don't know what this is, man, but it works so well. That's the same with Arthur's last ride, man. Yeah, there you go. They all just feel so good. In the moment, you feel those emotions.

through the music. We just need a soundtrack of like these, these songs, you know? And then just put that out. Gamers would lose their minds over a compilation. Maybe I'll make a Spotify list. There you go. That's not a bad idea.

Yeah. Halo theme song on there. Like greatest songs from video. Oh, I might have to do that, dude. All right. Let's do it. While I try to talk myself out of all this, doing this work for this,

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Is it my turn? I think I'm up because. Is it ACE's turn? That's right. That's right. Yeah, I tagged along after. Yeah, he kind of tagged in. It worked perfectly.

I am going back way far to Assassin's Creed 2 to. to when we find out that Etsio's family has been framed for treason he has gone in the night he has donned his father's robes given the information to who he thinks he can trust to get them off the hook low and behold he shows up

to the execution platform the next day to find almost every member of his family hanging from the gallows and swears revenge upon them oh boy does that revenge come sweet soon after where you go to the party stalking this guy and you have the most brutal assassination in the series as the guy turns around he goes it's you and then just yeah he just stabs him multiple times of that hidden blade and then it as almost a rebellion to the world he stands in

that crowd and announces to all of them that i am still here me it's your auditor as if to let No, he is not backing down from this and not going to go hide. It's just such an epic moment. I missed the old Assassin's Creed so much. Old Assassin's Creed was so good. It was so good. Although I am very excited for Black Flagg. Black Flag is Old Assassin's Creed.

Soon, I know. And that's why I'm actually really excited for that, especially because I never played the original either. In a world without gold, we could have been heroes. Hey, you guys like our old games? We'll make a new one like the old. No, oh, no, actually, we'll just give you an old one. Yeah, we'll just give you an old game again.

be an old one again. Hey, if they remade from the ground up, Assassin's Creed 2 through Revelation, take my money, genuinely. Like, as long as Roger Craig Smith is Etsio again. There's, there's also something about the assassin that's like this cool, calm collected, you know, kind of John Wick kind of thing. And then it's like, dude, when you tick them off, oh, he was not. Yeah. Yes, that's what I mean. There's something like where it just, it hits way harder at that point. All right I guess you're up Ryan what's up for you?

For me I am going to do Ooh this one Hit me hard So Everybody knows how much I am With cinematics and long Gameplay and stories and all these things

And when you connect with the character You bond with them And you play through a whole dang game with them And then in the sequel Again spoilers Last of Us spoilers for the game and the show. I'm going with Last of Us 2,

Joel's death. Yes. That was one of the most unexpected, epic, crazy things I've ever seen. I'm going through the snow. I'm like, all right, we're back at it. I'm playing this new Last of this game. I'm stoked to go kill some zombies.

And I get my head smashed in with a golf club. So, was it a golf club or a bat? It was a golf club. Golf club? I thought it was a golf club. They change it, I think, for the TV show. It's not a golf club in the TV show. Nobody wanted to watch that.

But, yeah, Joel's death was one of those. This one, for me, not super tied to any sort of music or anything with it. It was just the scene itself was just so raw and real and devastated. And you felt the emotion. And if you played the first game, you kind of understood why. Like, I get it. but I didn't like it, but I get it, you know. I think you kind of wanted him to go out with some dignity

in some kind of heroic way and this, this isn't that. This is karma, basically. This is what that was. It was karma for what he did in the first game. And it's how the world of the last just works. Like people will kill people. I knew that this was in part two. Because you guys remember, I did not play part two for the longest time.

I mean, it's only been what, like four months? You know what I mean? You were forced to do so. Because I kept going, I know Joel dies, and I don't want to have to see that. You know what I mean? I understand like why he made the decision he made in the first one. You know, what he's been through, like, I can sympathize with it. And I just remember saying, like, I don't want to play a second one.

It's dumb. I don't want to watch Joel die. I hate it. I'm not playing this game. Yeah. And even if you know that it's there, when it happens, it is a kick in the gut, dude. Like, it sticks with you.

That is an absolute fantastic pick, Ryan, because it is legitimately like one of those moments in gaming where you get a lump in your throat, you don't, you hate it. You just hate every moment of it. And Epic doesn't always mean good. Like, it's not, it's a crazy moment. No, yeah, you know, it doesn't have to mean good.

Yeah. Right. Well, half the time it's bad, but it's those moments that we remember. It's what sticks with you. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So. Um, all right. So for me, I'm going with a moment that is just truly epic in the sense that, I mean, visually speaking, this is incredible. The boss, the, this boss fight is a bud, nanas. The screaming that is going on from the character Egon or Igon or whatever his name is. I am talking shadow of the erd tree. Bail the dread boss fight. Dude. Spoiler. Bail the dread.

I mean, this isn't really spoiler. There's no spoilers in this dumb game. Bail the Dred is like the dragon that has taken out like all the other dragons. This dude's bad. And you come across this character, Igon, who has been stalking and trying to fight Bail. Bail, I forget, like Bail. Yeah, he has no limbs at all. He has a torso on the road.

It's just a torso. But when you start fighting Bail, he's there. And he is just screaming at bail. The entire fight with the most epic, like, voice lines. The other part is bail is massive. And he is like, he controls lightning, I guess. So this fight is just insane, dude. There is yellow, like yellowish red lightning striking freaking everywhere.

Bail is huge. He's roaring and he's screaming at you. I gone screaming in the. background, dude. And you were just like, is this really about to happen? And the visuals in that fight are absolutely stunning, dude, stunning. And that fight as a whole is just incredible. I mean, Bail's missing a leg, dude. This dragon's been through it. And it's like nothing has taken him down. And you're like, is it going to be me? One of the most insane boss fights I have ever witnessed. all you got to do if you don't care is watch the video for this and you will understand in a heartbeat

why this sticks with you and the visuals behind it the screaming the audio all that dude i cannot think of like another boss fight that is just quite so epic man well it's something people really latched onto with uh shadow virtue too was this moment because it was such a good like reading the curse you bail dude hearing him screaming in the background and he's like, I will fill your body with holes. He's just trying to touch lightning. You're just trying to not get murdered by

Yeah, you're trying to make a dream. He's giving off a whole monologue behind you. It's so good, dude. Watch the video, people. Like, it's incredible when you come across the fight, but if you're not ever going to get there, just watch it, you will understand, man. I freaking loved that moment so much.

And every time you die, you get to start over the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, just hear him screaming all over again, man. Oh, dude, it's such a good boss fight. Speaking of good boss fights. Oh, segue. This is the game no one's going to really know because nobody listened to me when I said just how good abysses is. But in abysis, once you have made it down every single layer, it is a hard fought fight. You will go through some incredible bosses just to make it to this guy once to have a chance at him.

You will enter the abyss and there will be a king. on a throne. He's like an Aztec king guy. And that's your final boss. You think, oh, this is easy. This guy's nothing. You get him halfway. He jumps up in the air with his spear. Goes, hook, and then slices the air, creating a massive event horizon. And the terms of things have changed now. There are spears coming out of the ground. You've got these

orbs shooting like fireballs at you. You can't stand anywhere for too long or this guy will get you. it becomes an intense moment. You guys remember the first time we made it down to the abyss. We were all three just like, that whole game is epic. Yeah.

Abisis, my goodness, people, listen, we put games out there all the time. If you have not played abysses, grab a friend. I mean, it is very fun solo, but it is on another level with like a buddy to run through it with. Abysusis is utterly fantastic, dude.

And that final level, like, if you remember Ace, because it's all like whitewash with like a little bit of red. Oh, yeah. color scheme going up to that boss fight is insane. Abystis is so good. That boss fight was incredible, dude. I remember getting to that and being like, what is this guy? Uh, you know, since we're doing a little bit of spoilers, the cool part is that after you beat him, like, you take his place.

You become him. Yeah, which means like you kind of become him and sit on the throne. And then like, when you play through again, you're like, wait, is this me? So yeah, awesome visuals. Really, really good boss fight. Uh, don't, don't miss out on Abysis people. That game's really good. Major update coming in what like a week or three days actually i guess it'll be out it'll be out by now yeah showed off face let's see it come on the fish oh come on let's see it look at that yeah the abyssa tattoo he's gotten i'm probably the only person in the world with uh only person the world with an abyssus tattoo bro you could be in the Guinness bro world records yeah doubtful someone will see largest abyst tattoo yeah someone will see that immediately go get an abyssus tattoo right here and cover their entire body now yeah all right

Ryan, what's up next for you, man? I'm going to go. Is this going to be my last one? Yeah, we'll make this last. And then we'll do some quick hits after this. Okay. Yeah, there's another one I want to mention. But this one is definitely, I would say probably the most emotionally impactful scene for me and part of a game. And that is from the best game ever made. Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2, Arthur's last ride. I was going to say, Lenny.

Lenny. Oh, the bar scene's incredible. Dude, there's so many. That one, that scene is so amazing, too. There's so many good clips there, but, but, um, the Arthur's last ride is just an accumulation of everything you did. And it keeps going to cut scenes and back and like, you're a good man, Arthur, you know, with Mary Beth or

whatever her name is. And, uh, and, and just, it's, It's all of it coming together in one crazy scene that is not like instant. It's drawn out and it just makes you feel. And it's cool. It's something that, uh, that you don't get too often with video games. A lot of times you, you'll feel stuff. You get emotional.

But this is one that really, really always impacts me. Even just listening to the song, we were just talking about it in pre-show. And I got goosebumps like three times thinking of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like it just, it's one of those all timers for sure. it's one of the best scenes or parts of gaming ever for me.

And that only happens like twice in the game, that you get like a ride with the music that like tries to set the tone. Like you get the one we get back from the island. Yeah. That's the way it is. Yeah. RIP both of them, I guess. Yeah.

Dude, I, I, I, I, because I had seen that, but it's been a minute since I played Red Dead too. And so I went to watch it. And within like five seconds, dude, I started getting chill bumps on my arms, man. Brings you back, man. Oh my gosh, I remember this, dude. Yeah.

That one's great. To collect money for Air Strauss. Yeah. Especially with everything you've been through in that game, man. It's just that one hits. That one hits home, man. All right, Ace, hit us with your last one. We'll make these quick because I know we each got.

Yep. All right. So Persona 5. Everyone knows Persona 5. Don't know how you couldn't at this point. So here's your spoilers, Prona 5. Persona 5 starts with a massive casino heist. It is one of the biggest set pieces in the whole thing.

You are running through this casino through like the chandeliers and stuff. And someone in your party has betrayed you and given you up to the cops. So when you leap through the glass pane, all of the cops are waiting there for you and they take you in for interrogation. And that's where the game starts as the game is just a retelling of your story up to then to the police officers. However, the guy who betrayed you is coming to execute you in that room. So as the game goes on, she leaves after her interrogation is completed, and in he comes. And he just puts a gun to Joker's Temple and shoots him right there and then in that room, puts the gun in his hand and leaves and is like, everyone thinks it's a suicide.

You see people reporting it on the news that's a suicide. Everyone believes you are dead. Your teammates are believing you're dead. The game is trying its hardest to convince you that Joker is dead. Lo and behold, he has been like 10 steps ahead of this guy. the whole time. And by being interviewed by this police officer, he has been building a cognition of what he is to her

so that when this guy comes into the room, his phone has gone off and sent them to, this is going to be hard to understand, to the metaverse, where you will only experience basically cognition. And the only thing he killed was basically a clone of him. He didn't kill the real guy because he doesn't go into the real world and into the real cell and kill him.

it's one of the coolest twist in the entire game that you think your protagonist has been murdered in this interrogation room lo and behold he is sitting there sitting pretty and everyone thinks you're dead at that point so you get to have that epic return moment when you take down the bad guy

persona's weird with the like you said the metaverses and the different psychological states and you're going into people's psyche and battling them there and stuff like that I'm not going to spoil who you're the traitor is and all that because I do want people to play persona 5 Prisota 5 is really good bro Facebook got even into persona that's weird

yeah I know freaking Facebook having to call everything meta all right Ryan what's what's one for you uh last one for me is gonna be uh I'm gonna do the wow old school we're going way back uh probably gosh what is it now 20 some 23 four years ago something like that but i'm going to do the wow opening cutscene when you start a new character and you're playing this epic epic one probably in my opinion probably one of the best mimos ever made um and it and it describes the world and it like zooms in and you're you're it's like a sky view throughout the the area and then it comes to you as your character and describes what

you're going to do and then you're able to just kind of go off and start the world and i i i to me that was like one of the most amazing moments ever in gaming. It was so awesome. I felt like yeah, I'm going to conquer the world now. You know, I'm ready to go and I'd hop off and get on to it. Dang. Something about like

being able to sell an opening like that it's so good. If you nail the opening, you've pretty much nailed the entire game. You set the stage right from the get-go man. That counts for a lot in a game. Skyro did it awesome.

Skyron. It was a great job with that. of games we could mention that. Eldon ring. Eldon ring does a great job of that. Well, we just, I mean, look back a few weeks. We just did our games that hooked you instantly. That's true. That's true. That was the whole point of that. There you go. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So, um, last one for me very quick, because people are sick of hearing me talk about God of War. But when you summon the world serpent in God of War

2018, I remember, I was playing this on my PS4 in my living room. I have a really good sound system in my living room. And when that serpent gets summoned in the way that he's starts to talk was literally like shaking the walls of my house. And like my kids came in the room and they were like, what is that? And I was like, it's the world serpent. And he's doing that super deep, like rumbly voice that he does. And even my kids who had no idea what the heck was going on were just like, whoa. And I was like, yeah, exactly.

Whoa. Just wait until Podracer and we can crank up the sound. Oh, dude. It's going to be so good. So good. That's such a good one though, dude. The World Serpent is, and like, he comes up and all the water's dripping off and everything. And, yeah.

Even Cretos is like, I don't think I want to mess with this guy, man. I've been some big stuff, but I don't know. I don't know about this guy. I'm not fooling with the guy. No way. All right. Do you guys have any honorable mentions you want to quick fire? Yeah.

Spoilers for Karen. But the end of Karen where you make it up Mount Kami and you start climbing into the stars. Yep. Yeah. The music hits and she's, it's obvious like this is in allegory. she has died on the mountain and her soul is climbing into the heavens. Like, it is, it hits. It is so good.

That, that's very. Any others for you, Ace? Uh, no. Go ahead, Ryan. No. No. Ryan. Ace is getting choked up again.

He's like, man. Think about climbing into the stars. Uh, I don't know, I don't know how, um, excuse me, um, how much exactly this is like a specific thing, but I just think capturing, uh, uh, uh, really hard to find stuff in games is like, like creates these epic moments. And this is more a little bit more of a personal one. And I kind of just want to brag

of my son. He's nine years old and he's been just grinding. It's summer. He's grinding Fortnite like crazy. He got the gummy zero point sprite for the new season. They're doing these sprite things. It is a drop rate

of 0.006%. That's insane. And he got one. And he was so stoked. And we took it. After he got it, we took it back in two different times to try to level it up. And when it got little spicy, we just sent the thing back out. So we didn't have to worry about losing it. But just the epic nature of getting these crazy, crazy drops.

This is one that we'll never forget because he's like, do, do, do, dad, dad. I was sitting right there. And he, he, like, slid behind a rock. And I'm like, get it out, get it out. And he puts it in a tube. And then, like, it takes like three and a half, four seconds. And he sends it off. it was just a really really cool moment

that's definitely more of a personal one but anytime you got something in a game that you've been haunting for or you get that platy or you some some sort of achievement I think those always deserve recognition yeah oh yeah dude I I have so many times in

EverQuest like with raid loot dropping for like your class and then winning it or something like that or getting awarded and it's like dude there is no feeling like that some quick hits for me I have Remnant 2 and get to talk about it but There are two boss fights in Remnant 2 that are two of the coolest boss fights I've ever seen. I will just leave it there.

Senwa Saga, a game that we talk about occasionally, the giant reveal in that game where you see the first giant come out and you're like, wait, what? And then, of course, that fire murder ritual scene will stick with me forever. That one was nuts. So crazy. Balthorsgate 3. Volo, the eye removal scene. I don't know if Ace, if you came across that in your play through. but that one is crazy where the guy is like,

I can get that thing out of your, your face, and then he starts just digging through your eyeball. Yeah, he cannot. It's like, do you talk about an uncomfortable moment in a gay man? Yeah, so with a great reward, by the way. And then I've mentioned this one before,

but the freaking creepy baby down at the bottom of house, Beniviento in Resident Evil Village, that you are trapped in the basement with is one of the most terrifying scenes I think I've ever seen in a video. game. So, uh, there you go. There's some quick hits from us as well. All right, listen, there's a gillian moments, guys. There's a good, we could easily do like 10 episodes on this topic. Maybe we'll revisit it. Um, but we want to know what you think are some of the most epic moments in a video game. If they are, you know, your personal moments, let us know. Leave us a comment on

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supporting the show as well. Again, there's a link in the episode description. That's going to it for this epic episode. Thank you for joining us, everybody. Until next time, happy gaming. See ya. All right, I got to pull up on the wiki right here. It says the P orchid is a gameplay mechanic and Liza P that access Pinocchio's literal heart. All right.

It says it right there. Peace out.