Sublime Moments - an IFDB Poll
by Sam Kabo Ashwell
RSS FeedI've been thinking about games that provide really brilliant moments. This is not about the overall quality of the game: there are plenty of excellent games that never deliver a clear, standout moment of unalloyed excellence. And surely there are plenty of second-tier games that briefly pull off something spectacular. Share yours? *** WARNING *** : by its nature this is likely to get spoilery.
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin 7 votes "The solution to That Puzzle, obviously." [+]... "IF's Crowning Moment of Awesome." [+]... "That Puzzle and the moment of shocked clarity that followed" [+]... "The frame-story..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]...  Vote for this game | |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre 7 votes "The maze!" [+]... "The impact of..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... "'Solving' the..." [+]... "Finding my way..." [+]... "The maze, so very..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Make It Good, by Jon Ingold 4 votes "The moment of realizing what you are *really* trying to accomplish." [+]... "This has a..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre 3 votes "As I Died" [+]... "At the very end,..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold 3 votes "For me, there..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry 3 votes "Before you go to..." [+]... (No comment) [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto 2 votes "The moment you realize what needs to be done to 'win'." [+]... "But where's the "good" ending... oh! Ah. I see." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed 2 votes "The blue flashes in the later part of the first chapter" [+]... "The reassessment..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Christminster, by Gareth Rees 2 votes "Overhearing the villains conversing while you hide." [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin 2 votes "**SPOILER ALERT!!!!** The subtle moment when the door suddenly appears made me literally snap my head back and sit straight up in my chair. My girlfriend thought something had physically happened to me. Brilliantly done." [+]... (No comment) [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton 1 vote "Healing Lia's and connecting with Lyric's minds" [+]... Vote for this game | |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin 1 vote "Learning to use the hot and cold berries." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Violet, by Jeremy Freese 1 vote "You shove the key..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross 1 vote "Allowing yourself to fall into the clutches of the doxy when she's ...not really a doxy." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp 1 vote "Discovering the Cyclops speaks Latin and has a long memory." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs 1 vote "The correct application of the laudanum, which is gratifying and gets a great NPC reaction." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold 1 vote "The automated apothecary was superb." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima 1 vote "The realization..." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| The End Means Escape, by Steve Kodat 1 vote "The passage involving the personality of inanimate objects." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin 1 vote "Realizing how your character screwed up, in the endgame." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin 1 vote "The intervention of the sun." [+]... Vote for this game | |
| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin 1 vote ">OUT ..." [+]... Vote for this game | |