What was the last game to put a smile on your face?

For me personally it had to be Uncharted 3. I got it on the 4th of July, and there were probably moments before this certain point that I enjoyed enough that made me smile, but I usually remember specific moments in games when I grin out of excitement, which usually means I'm loving the experience I'm having with a game. The section (and I guess spoiler alert), when you're chasing Talbot for some reason put a smile on my face. I wouldn't really go as far to say I have a definitive favorite part of the game, I just remember smiling at that part my first time through. So, how about you? What game, and maybe, if you want to say specifically, what part in the game made you smile? When I smile during games, it's not really a huge grin (I think), it's more like I raise my eye brows slightly and put a little smile on, I don't necessarily mean it has to be an overly excited smile, but it can be.

Batman Arkham City just earlier, the attention to detail is heartwarming.
It puts it in a real league above a lot of games just for that.

That was such a good game.  And I really liked the ending, it kinda reminded me of the first one.  The last game that made me smile was Saints Row the Third last week.  Its too bad the bombcast spoiled a lot of the good parts.......  But Im glad they didnt spoil this one part because I actually laughed so hard from it.   
 

That fucking X-Men Origins: Wolverine game. It's just every time you level up he does that tiger roar I'M SO ANGRY I'M YELLING AT THE SKYYYYYYY thing and I find it hilarious every time.

Asura's Wrath, when they play Dvorak's New World 4th movement when you fight on the moon. I smiled like a fucking goober, love that song, reminds me of One Piece every time.

Saints Row: The Third but that's too easy.

The one before that was Mass Effect 2. Fucking elcor Hamlet.

Games have a pretty good habit of making me smile, because.. well, they're fun. The last game that put a smile on my face for example was Half-Life for the PC which i just played again recently.. I started a new game and was going through the opening tram section and before i knew it the feeling of nostalgia overtook me and I began to smile.

Journey

Last I can actually recall is Portal 2's numerous moments. Like "press spacebar to jump", and the ending, and all of Cave Johnson.

@TaliciaDragonsong: I really wish I liked it more. I played that game a few months back for the first time, and I remember coming home with the game in hand and I was so excited, but once I got through it I was sadly disappointed, I've gone through it a third time now to see if I'd get over my dislike over it, and while playing on the new game plus (after my hard play through which was kind of worthless), it was a little bit better, but not much. I find that from both Uncharted 3 and Arkham games, I like it better when those hit indicators are off. That's a minor thing to point out, but still. I'm listening to the Dark Knight Rises soundtrack right now, and it's fantastic. I wish they get Hans Zimmer - even though by now it seems a bit cliche - to work on the soundtrack for the next Arkham game.

@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:

The last game that made me smile was Saints Row the Third last week. Its too bad the bombcast spoiled a lot of the good parts....... But Im glad they didnt spoil this one part because I actually laughed so hard from it.

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When youre wresting and shit and you get that chainsaw. Then "Youre the best around" starts playing. I always thought that song was so great and it was so amazing when it played during the part where I was just chopping people up with a giant chainsaw.

That was probably the last moment I had, too.

@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG said:

The last game that made me smile was Saints Row the Third last week. Its too bad the bombcast spoiled a lot of the good parts....... But Im glad they didnt spoil this one part because I actually laughed so hard from it.

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When youre wresting and shit and you get that chainsaw. Then "Youre the best around" starts playing. I always thought that song was so great and it was so amazing when it played during the part where I was just chopping people up with a giant chainsaw.

That was probably the last moment I had, too.

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It would have been better if the game didn't bug out on me and have Killbane get stuck outside of the ring with me inside, forcing me to play through it again. But the first time the music popped up, I was laughing pretty hard.

Lolipop Chainsaw. When I wasn't laughing I had a big stupid grin on my face.

Walking Dead episode 2. Clem is a cutie.

Binary Domain... and yes it was because of Cain. 

@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG: I was even getting annoyed with the last couple of missions on normal (difficulty spikes like hell for that last mission; had never died from anything other than a vehicle accident before that). Hard would ruin that game for me. The parts I liked were... most of the story missions. There was something totally new and insane every time. There were very few where I wasn't laughing, actually.

uh, chronologically? skyrim, cus i was playing it yesterday and i didnt play any other games yesterday and i smile alot when i play games? cus games a fun? what sorta question is this? lol

Saints Row: The Third, and before that Portal 2, for sure. For me, games that make me smile is a very particular category. One where something just oozes charm and fun and... a kind of warmth. I found The Third genuinely endearing, which is probably the last thing anyone expects to say about that game.

Offspring Fling :D

picked up rayman last night off the steam sale. such a happy game, had me smiling

Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Laughed through the entire thing...

@TaliciaDragonsong: I dislike things to a certain extent I'm sure most loved, like the atmosphere (or setting), a lot of the voice acting seemed a bit forced from a few actors or just sounded silly to me, and the story wasn't compelling to me one bit. It's just weird and somewhat ironic to me since I loved Asylum, but I was severely disappointed in this.

I even felt a bit melancholy when I looked over the bay in the game and saw the asylum. I've done everything in it though aside from all of the Riddler trophies, but I did look up on YouTube what happens when you get them all, and to me it's not even worth it. Nonetheless, I still have faith in the series and the everyone that was behind making the game, I just didn't enjoy this very much.

Watching a dude have his testicles explode from my sniper rifle shot in Sniper Elite V2 was pretty good.

@Clonedzero: Not every game you play is going to be fun.

Mass Effect 3 the part where my Shepard put an end to Kai Leng. Just a fucking badass moment that had me smiling lol for hours.

@the_OFFICIAL_jAPanese_teaBAG: I was even getting annoyed with the last couple of missions on normal (difficulty spikes like hell for that last mission; had never died from anything other than a vehicle accident before that). Hard would ruin that game for me. The parts I liked were... most of the story missions. There was something totally new and insane every time. There were very few where I wasn't laughing, actually.

Tales of Monkey Island.

Smiling the wholeway through. Still need to finish off Ep. 4 and get on to Ep. 5.

Mortal Kombat for the Vita put a big smile on my face when it froze within the first ten minutes of me booting it up. I just wanted to get a closer look at the character models, but no. Before that, it was Final Fantasy XIII-2, when the game fast-forwarded through Rise's inane reasoning for liking Kanji. Haven't played the game since, even though I "chose" that reply.

Mario 3D Land, but that's the last thing I played. Really if I don't sense that a game will have the ability to make me smile, among other things, I'll won't put more than an hour or so in and move on to something I actually enjoy.

Psychonauts. For some reason the "romance" between your character and Lily made me smile whenever they kissed. I usually have a soft spot for awkward romances, though, so that might be why.

Walking Dead episode 2. Clem is a cutie.

Mother 3
A smile and then an enormous frown.

@TaliciaDragonsong: I agree. As much as I didn't really enjoy my time with it, I won't deny the quality the game has and I do think it stands above all other comic book games, well save for Asylum. Also, I still think the combat looks awesome. I'd love it if they made a new Tron game and used the Arkham combat system for it.

I think Dead Space 2 - I've played game since that I've enjoyed but I can't recall a game that I was like WOW AWESOME. Was kinda hoping Max Payne 3 was gonna be like that but I kinda struggled with the controls for a long time.

Believe it or not The Gunstringer. That's a damn clever little game.

Resident Evil 3, Carlos never fails to entertain with his cheesy script. That and it's been a long time since I played that game and forgot how friggin amazing it is.

I just nabbed Saints Row 3 off steam sale. Co-op'd the start with a buddy.

I've never laughed so maniacally at the sheer insanity of a game. I now understand why it nearly won GotY on Giantbomb.

@Humanity: Glad Dead Space 2 was your choice, that's one of my favorite games. I haven't played Max Payne 3 yet, but I hope I will. It's too bad it was... disappointing?

Skyrim. I'm really glad they added killcams for magic and arrows.

The opening sequence of Batman AC, during which you play as someone (who I considered anyway) completely unexpected.

JC-MP.

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. Been playing it with some Giantbombers lately and it's been such a laugh.

Here's a video of us in 'action':

Saints Row: The Third when I got the jetbike thing and got to do barrel rolls to the Sports song from Tim and Eric and the ending of Journey.

And picking up Condemned 2 for like 5 bucks at a gamestop and went around throwing bottles of whiskey at bums and setting them on fire via tazer.

Probably Saints Row the Third. Originally, I was going to say Skyrim but that was so depressing I had to think about the question a bit harder. I easily forget all the games I play so if it doesn't really stand out, it quickly fades from memory. Not that SR3 didn't stand out, in this case, it's just that it's been so long. That's still depressing, though. I've played a number of games this year and while they may be entertaining, it would seem precious few made an impression.

Dead Island Decapitating a walker and watching his neck spill gallons of blood into the beautiful ocean.

Journey on ps3, made me smile from ear to ear like the cheshire cat whilst making crazy in game noises with a random player online ..

@NTM: In a way Max Payne 3 was disappointing but it also did some pretty new things in term of storytelling and direction. I think it was a solid game, good length, amazing variety in levels as well as great attention to detail - single handedly one of the stand out features of MP3 is that you're never playing in the same area twice, and things keep moving at a brisk pace.

My small complaints were just that I just wasn't meshing with the controls that great and it was because not a lot of the game mechanics are explained too well. Ironically in an era where we complain about games holding our hands too much, my big issue was that the tutorial was a little too brief for me to grasp the full gamut of movement that Max possesses in the game. I wrote a review for it and scored it pretty well.

Also yah, Dead Space is like one of my favorite, if not THE favorite new franchises of recent years. I love sci-fi and the old school aesthetic of big clunky machinery and all that stuff. Dead Space 1 was kind of like Event Horizon the game and the second game was just as good. I have some worries about Dead Space 3 but I'm still really looking forward to it.