[Starks]

I was scared ****less when I heard these words while playing Descent Freespace: Darkness Risibg (Demo)

Beta 2: A Shivan Cain class cruiser just jumped in! It's the Taranis!!!!

Alpha 1 (To myself): Aww ****...

Command: Alpha 1 do not engage the Taranis!

[Bri_Dog]

The intro movie was a great Oh Crap moment on its own.

[Starks]

This is Lt. Ash of Gamma-Three-Niner... The face of death and bringer of doom to the GTA Riviera!



Poor copilot... He died when a SF Manticore clipped the missile casing of the Medusa bomber...

[Goober5000]

The first time I heard the flyby sound of a Shivan fighter.  Very creepy - much more so than in FS2.

[Nuclear1]

There weren't a whole lot of those moments in FS1, with the absence of the nebula. Only thing I saw like that was the ending cutscene when the subspace node opens (I had the sound at warp nine fer cryin' out loud) and the Lucy blows up.

[Goober5000]

Oh yeah...

Terran Command: "Oh my God -- it's the Lucifer!"

Then when I finally managed to scan everything, I was on the edge of my seat waiting for the "Return to Base" directive to appear.  I nearly freaked at the order to enter the docking bay.

[Knight Templar]

And then the dragon fighter takes it's sweet 6 seconds to jump into subspace...

[Trivial Psychic]

The mission when you're retrieving the vasudan scientists after they've discovered the Ancient's records.  The scientists aboard the Elysiums (Omega 1 and 2 if I remember right) are on they're way to the local Jump Node after docking with the GTSC Rosetta and they the Lucifer jumps in.  I look at the distance that the transports need to travel, and the number of fighters that seem to be coming from the Lucifer and thought "There's no way I'm gonna be able to cover these things for that long."  I had half a mind to hit my jump drive and get da hell out of there!

Later!

[Falcon X]

The mission where you had to get the scanners/shields/weapons.  That was crazy in the beginning.

[SuperCoolAl]

1. 'Alpha 1, see if you can get into the Lucifers docking bay!'

2. Seeing a wing of manticores fly out of the docking bay when i am really close to it

3. Protecting the Galatea for 5 mins then 'The Lucifer just arrived, we're getting pounded hard!' I just felt my work had been wasted.

4. Those massive flux cannons! Compared to everything else in FS1, when i saw the Galatea had lost 30 health after one volley, wow!

[Hippo]

Originally posted by LLivingLarge

Poor copilot... He died when a SF Manticore clipped the missile casing of the Medusa bomber...

The copilot was dead through the whole movie, the manticores shot , didn't collide with the ship, and thats not a medusa...

Anyway... Clash of the Titans: "This looks like an ambush!"

[Woolie Wool]

Encountering Shivan fighters with no means of defending myself and no shields (I had chosen MX-50s for the mission)...I thought I was gonna die...

But it turned out, the Shivans seemed to ignore me.

[Galemp]

ooh, so many wonderful moments...
"A Failure to Communicate." Seeing the second-largest ship in the game being crushed by the largest ship in the game was just breathtaking back in the day.

Oh, and when you're making your run for the jump node in the second-to-last mission and the Prophecy jumps in right in front of you, making a huge turreted wall of HoL Death between you and Sol. Then it launches Horuses after you...

[Trivial Psychic]

I've always managed to outmaneover the HoL destroyer and jump before it can launch anything at me.  Granted, its a little disconcerting when I see a subspace bilp on my screen, flick the stick hat left to get a look, and see that huge Typhon bearing down on me.  I'm like, "Hmm, that could pose a problem... I guess I should try to pull up."  

Later!

[SuperCoolAl]

seeing a few basilisks bear down on me, all launching 8 hornets each, and me in a medusa bomber

[Starks]

When I first saw the Dragon and Manticore during the Depot Recon Mission...

[Akalabeth Angel]

I don't remember vividly any moments from the first time around through the campaign. But when I  just replayed it a few days ago, one of my "oh crap" moments was the part where you defend the Galatea in Deneb. Not because the Lucifer jumps in or anything, but because I realised that I had to fight a bunch of Shivan fighters with a Medusa armed with Stillettos, Tsunamis and MX-50s (the first two being nearly useless).

[Starks]

Alpha 2: VASUDAN ACE IN THE AREA

(Lockon sirens blare as she is saying it.)

(A second later the PVF Seth unloads it's entire arsenal on my poor Apolo)

[Bobboau]

the other day, I was testing some stuff and playing the last FS2 mission, I had system of a downs's innervision playing and the timeing was such that the super nova hit just as the realy quiet part of the song came to the realy loud ending, that was one of the coolest feeling moments ever

FS2 had more of a general "OH, ****!" feel to it, I'd get the feeling more in comand breifings, specificly, in the whole "there are 80 Sathanas Jugernaughts, and there doing something weird to capella" when I herd that I knew something bad was going down, and then you look to the sun and see a swarm of massive ships that you know only one of wich could easily spell doom for all humanity, and there are so many of them they block out the sun, that was a creepy feeling the first time I saw it, and the second time I saw it, and the thrid, and every time I looked there seemed to be more of them

[Petrarch of the VBB]

It's a long time since I played FS1, and I can't remember much of it, but the greatest moment from FS2 has to be:

DIVE DIVE DIVE! HIT YOUR BURNERS PILOT!