What is your best story to tell about your experience playing an online game? In other words, what was your favorite moment you've had playing a game with other people?
Question stolen from reddit. I figure you guys will have some good answers.
In case you don't understand my question (I get the feeling that I'm not very clear), here are some examples of answers.
"I can almost promise that I'll be the only one to mention this game here, but The Matrix Online. (crickets)
My friend and I beta tested and eventually played it for a couple months before getting too bored to even try. That game had a few fun mechanics to it but it just wasn't good in the long run, combat was shit. Anyway, we were doing a mission where you go to a very high floor in a skyscraper and download information from a terminal, then leave the building again. We fought our way to the top, really easy low level stuff, got to the terminal and started the download process. When that finished, as soon as we left that room, there was some random npc just standing there. We were staring at it in a "wtf" manner when it started twitching and freaking out, then it turned into an agent. We had never seen an agent before, ever. we were level 15, this thing was level 99. We started hauling ass with more effort than I've ever put into a video game, and he was actually chasing us the whole way. That was my favorite moment.
TL;DR: My first encounter with a top-level agent in The Matrix Online, surprised/scared the crap outta me. good times."
My favorite happened to just happen yesterday actually. Playing battlefield bad company 2, I was having a shitty match on the harvest day map, and my team was getting a serious schalacking.
The other team had acquired two tanks and were pounding my team, so I respawned at the base, picked the recon class and loaded up a four wheeler with 3 c4 packs. Suddenly, a wild team mate appears, and throws me down an ammo pack. I loaded up the 4 wheeler several times and hoped on.
I blazed across the map and to my delight, I see both tanks sitting side by side in the field getting ready to take the radio tower base. I flew up and jumped off the four wheeler and let it coast right in between the tanks and hit the c4 button.
I blew up 2 tanks, killed 6 people in the process, and had the most awesome "holy shit!!" Moment I had ever had playing that game. We still lost, but it was worth it just for that moment.
Umiman's story here is a good example too:
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=2699.msg44661