Battlefield 1 - Prologue
Hard to say if this one makes the list in a few years, or if I’m just putting it in here because it’s fresh in my mind, but the Battlefield 1
I mean, I wasn’t worried. I play a lot of first-person shooter games, so I was confident that I’d survive and unlock an achievement for doing so. However, I did not survive, and the game made sure of it. Battlefield 1 was teaching me a lesson. This was not about skill and reflexes, it was about just how hopeless the situation was. How quickly and easily war could snatch the life out of you.
So, I died in the
By teaching me a lesson that I needed to learn, Battlefield 1 gave me one of the most shocking moments in my gaming history.
That’s it for this list, although I’m certain I’ve overlooked a dozen or more games that others would have put on their own. That’s the point, though. What shocks you might be different than what shocks me. It’s when we find games and moments that overlap that we can be sure that we have truly found one of
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