Favorite levels in video games ever?

[Ramor]

Diablo 2 - Act 5

Absolute best act, coolest story and quests to do plus I'm a huge sucker for snowy levels, aside from the place where Baal is (where you fight his minions, not the Worldstone Chamber) was sorta lame, but the chamber at the very very end made up for it.

edit: also final destination and green greens, green greens for the awesome snoop dogg remix that was done

[drwaffles]

Ahh, the challenges on Timesplitters 2... those were the days. I remember when I was off school sick for a week and spent most of my waking hours sat in bed trying to get Platinum on all of them. A lot of those were fiendishly difficult.

Anyway they don't really count as "levels" so I'll propose the snow-based set of courses in Diddy Kong Racing, the world with the Walrus boss. Best racing game ever.

[Ronfar]

Beating Zelda for the NES in like 1980something, shit was epic back then. Didn't have the internet to look shit up if you got lost. Also getting the whistle from castle 5 was Jesus.

[Afrohatch]

Resident Evil - When the Hunters were first introduced, you saw a CS of something racing to the door you just went through, then it slams shut, and you hear this tapping sound of it walking to you. Scared the shit out of me, I'll never forget it lol

I'm sure I'll think of more

[Correction]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmszsJWeG5w

Definitely one of my 'aw yeah I'm good at vidya games' when I was younger.

[ronin sparthos]

FZero - Fire Field (Epic Music)
FFT - Velius/Belias Battle
Ace Combat 4 - Shattered Skies
Super Mario 64 - Dire Dire Docks
LoZ OOT: Shadow Temple
LoZ MM: Stone Tower Temple
Sonic 3/S+K: Icecap Zone Act 2 and Sky Sanctuary Zone
UN Squadron: Front Line Base
DK64: Frantic Factory
Banjo Kazooie: Click-Clock Wood
Banjo-Tooie: Witchyworld
Kirby: Halberd

.....just to name a few.

[Ramor]

always loved Yoshi's level on MK64 and Delfino Plaza/Coconut Mall in the Wii one (although I think one of those is from the DS or something)

[drwaffles]

Banjo-Tooie: Witchyworld

Oh God yes, but why did you like Dire Dire Docks? That was one of the least memorable worlds in my opinion, felt like complete filler to me.

[Xajii]

Banjo Kazooie: Click-Clock Wood

oh good call. Loved that whole game but that is the best level.

Another few I thought of...

The Frigate in GoldenEye, where you get the best guns deutsches or w/e
But to play on, Aztec level, hell yeah

Penitentiary in Arkham Asylum just cause of how creepy it is and all the series lore involved

when you get your suit back after losing it in Metroid Zero Mission, so satisfying.

whichever stages in the MM series where Proto Man is encountered

The Mine Cart level in Donkey Kong Country

MGS2 naked w/ sword sequence (same as I need scissors! 61! yes?)

[Ohemgee]

MGS-Psycho Mantis fight (i thought it was the coolest thing ever)
MGS2-Opening chapter
MGS3-Fighting the boss
MGS4-That crawl...and of course return to shadow moses.

FF7-Temple of the ancients
FF8-Something about the parade on disk 1 that always triggers my mind
FF10-The first time you fight Sin on the boat to kilika
FF12-The giant lighthouse, and escaping after seeing Reddas hit the thing

KotR-The end..lol

[SwaggerlikeKillquick]

FF11: Divine might everything about that was epic.

Super metroid, Metroid Prime, Metoid prime 2: every level in those three games.

Golden eye: Aztec

Halo 1: Battle creek/blood gulch

Halo 2: Midship/lockout/Sanctuary

Super smash bro melee Final destination

FFX sin battle

FFVII Unraveling what actually happened the day at clouds home town

COD MW sneak/sniper mission

Castlevania symphony of the night Inverted castle

Prince of persia sands of time everything

Portal all the missions

Half life 2 the final level

[SwaggerlikeKillquick]

not absolute favorite, but the first time you play through the ending of Braid is pretty intense

Yes! We should be friends!

[Dead Phoenix]

MGS2 naked w/ sword sequence (same as I need scissors! 61! yes?)

Can't believe i forgot this, the whole naked Radian scene was so out there with all this weird shit happening at the same time. it was so crazy and i loved all of it.

[SamanosukeShiva]

definitely MGS1 psycho mantis fight, that shit was epic when 1st came out. brilliant work.

[Jurgen]

Crysis - The Mothership
MGS1 - 2nd Encounter with Sniper Wolf
MGS3 - Snake vs. The Boss
MGS4 - Return to Shadow Moses
Half Life 2 - The Citadel
FF7 - Golden Saucer
FF8 - Space Station / Ragnarok in Space
FF11 - Sky
Shadow of Colossus - The Entire Game

[Indalecia]

FFXI...first time in Zi'tah

Xenogears, final stage/fight

[Recaldy]

Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth

Mission 5 "Terrible"

Star Ocean: The Last Hope

First Phantom Fight
(5 ambushes at once...yes, please)

[The Stig]

F-Zero GX: Chapter 4 FUCK YEAH BIG BLUE REMIX
Chapter 7 was fun too

And a repost of my previous about FF7:

Since we're talking about cool FF7 moments, one thing that I thoroughly enjoyed and have memories of is the Shinra HQ "level" when I was young. Exploring the building was fun, chasing the staff around was fun, getting into the fights were fun. Sneaking around was fun.

Then you have Hojo trying to sex Aerith and Red13, then you fight some monster boss, get captured, then set free mysteriously, you then get into 2 tough boss fights (tough at that time when I played as I was underlevelled/no idea what to do) on a fucking moving ELEVATOR (not to mention it opens the battle by shooting down the glass, that was bad ass). After you kill Hunded Gunner, PHEW! you think, but wait, wha? no victory??? HELI Gunner pops from no where and you commence battle with that. After you kill that, you cheer!

The scene jumps back to Cloud who then has a 1on1 against Rufus, which was fun as it was a duel, somewhat. After Rufus pussies out, you meet up with your Tifa and head down. The other crew has already gone to the ground floor but found the entrance apparently swarmed by police. Tifa arrives and then tells them to go upstairs. FMV + COOL MUSIC starts, Cloud come down in a fucking bike, tells the others to get on some truck, and Cloud drives fast and out some window. This scene was a bit too badass for the emo Cloud at the time in my opinion thinking back, but still badass. Then of course, the motorcycle "minigame" which was fast paced and fun, and then you're faced againt with yet ONE tough boss.

Lots of stuff packed into one bit of the game.

Then the game kinda got boring and dull from there

[JigglyJam]

Mass Effect 2 - Playing as joker. "SHIT SHIT SHIT"

I can't remember other non recent games.

[Conrad]

In no particular order:

Shadow of the Collossus - every boss
God of War 3 - Chronos
Twilight Princess - the first horseback battle against the pigmen in the fields
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark - Facility/Felicity
Mario Kart 64 - Toad Turnpike, Wario Raceway
Super Mario Bros. 3 - The level with Kuribo's Shoe (it's in World 5), 4-1

I'm sure I'll think of others.