History MundaneMadeAwesome / VideoGames

* The girls of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'''s Scarlet Devil Mansion playing [[http://safebooru.donmai.us/pool/show/1529 The best game of Jenga EVER!]]

** The fangame ''Touhou Soccer''. This is a series with little girls having uber destructive powers. And they're using to play soccer. Trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnkQ3kozyhw here]].
* In ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'', everything the Prince does is awesome. Even a relatively mundane act, such as taking a drink of water, is accompanied by a dramatic bullet-time camera rotozoom closeup, heroic music, and whooshing sound effects. It's the coolest water-drinking animation ever devised.
** Similar to the potion-drinking in the 3D ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' games, where the camera closes on Link, who quickly "draws" the bottle, and after drinking, does an heroic lip-cleaning (sometimes breathing a fog colored as the potion). Only lacks different music and slow motion (though TimeStandsStill as you drink) to try being more awesome.
** Taken even further in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Melee,'' where Young Link's single-player victory montage consists entirely of shots of him drinking milk, and the final triumphant chord coincides with a mouth-wipe in slow motion.
** In the same vein, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Toon Link's]] Baton-taunt is so incredibly overdone that it makes his game-self look humble and modest in comparison. He waves that thing like the fate of the world would depend on it (OK, it once did, but that's not the case ''here'').
** Well he is running around in the hot desert sun, he's epicly thirsty!

** In his particular case, its because Ocelot is good with his six shooter that he barely needs to reload it during combat. He is excited because Snake is a big enough challenge that he actually needs more than just six bullets.

** Ditto (pun semi-intended) for the ''Pokémon'' theme remixes in the ''VideoGAME/PokemonStadium'' series.
** ''Brawl'' is ''made'' of this trope.
** The battle scenes in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' could be seen as this due to the way the camera moves around almost constantly.
*** ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum''/''Pokemon XD'' did it first.

** ''Mario Strikers'' has nothing on ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Soccer'', as exemplified in [[KamehameHadouken this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc clip]]. And [[BeamSpam this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBWNGq72DY one]]... and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFIafpVMh4 one,]] [[MegatonPunch this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYq-nEdBFoA one,]] [[BulletHell this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u823w5GI24 one]]... To name a few. What do you mean, [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9PqLlMgG4 it's not soccer?]]
** ''Touhou Soccer'' is a clone of the ''VideoGame/CaptainTsubasa'' game, which is just as much as MundaneMadeAwesome as its parody.

-->'''Joe:''' "Go go phat-hat!" \\

** Which has continually been outdone year after year, with performances from [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/Zedd Zedd]], Music/AgainstTheCurrent, Music/TheWordAlive, and [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Music/GIDLE GIDLE]].

-->'''Nurse''': There are deep lacerations along the sternum--WHERE ALIENS HAVE TAKEN OVER HIS BODY!!
-->'''Doctor''': HUWHAAAAAAAAAAAAT???
-->'''Nurse''': THEY'RE SHOOTING X-RAY BEAMS OUT OF THEIR RADIOACTIVE SUPERCORES! USE YOUR ZAPPY GUN TO STOP THEM!

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer: Red Alert 3'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRPcICB-iY Just... well, just this.]]
** Oh snap!

* VideoGame/MetroidPrime: No, Samus, you should not be using your badass ArmCannon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opf1NKFTVRs to weld a transistor]].

* Complete any level in ''Videogame/{{Peggle}}'' (''ANY'' level) and the game goes into slow-mo, cranks up ''Music/OdeToJoy'', and draws a trail of rainbows behind your ball.

* Taking the Daredevil trait in ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'' allows you to go EXTREME versions of mundane things. 'Read something EXTREME' or 'Take EXTREME shower', for example.

* Peeking at {{hot springs|Episode}} is SeriousBusiness for [[VideoGame/AgarestSenki Winfield.]] With the most dramatic speech ever.

* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7YI2NXTiyc trailer]] which promised the game to be huge and full of never before seen footage from the game... of someone being punched in the nuts to truly epic music. As one Youtube comment claims, VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto raises the bar, ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' holds it to its crotch and pretends it's a cock.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros. Brawl'' took [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2cVc1I1qCY "Gourmet Race"]] from ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'', probably one of the most remixed video game tunes ever, and decided that it should be '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FZBNPg_rhE FUCKIN METAL.]]'''

* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'' has this. Not so much the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' characters in any sense, but the creators had to place the ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' characters, with the majority having nothing more than simple and mundane martial arts proficiency, into the rather frantic and outrageous ''Street Fighter'' style, with super moves and all the rest. The end result really plays up their capabilities, with no shortage of special effects.

* The fourth expansion for ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings II'', ''The Old Gods'', opens up various pagan factions as playable, such as the Norse and the Baltics. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y53_GV2aAg8 The trailer]] is a lot of maps and units and armies being directed around, with death metal and a load of words in bold type.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' and its sequels are pretty much the most ''utterly terrifying'' version of "Red Light, Green Light" ever made.

* The [[LaResistance New Conglomerate]] in ''VideoGame/PlanetSide 1'' take this approach to weapon design. Rather than using boring old gunpowder guns, they shoot a gunpowder bullet and then accelerate it down the [[MagneticWeapon railgun's]] barrel. Instead of using a chaingun or something big as their assault weapon, they instead put together a triple-barreled rotary shotgun with a range of 6 inches. Their sidearm is of course, the Magscatter '''SHOTGUN PISTOL'''! Their unhealthy obsession with shotguns continues into the sequel where their gunship has an ''[[RuleOfCool automatic nose-mounted shotgun cannon]]''.

* Kaz Hirai's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBUeINW_3s ecstatic reveal]] of ''VideoGame/RidgeRacer'' on the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable at E3 2006, which has become a MemeticMutation.

** During the ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo UsefulNotes/WiiU'' 50-Fact Extravaganza, the announcer made even the simplest aspects of the game sound epic: "On the Game Pad, there's a MICROPHONE!!"

-->'''[[HornyVikings PAGANS! VIKINGS!!]] BOATS!! MAPS! [[RapePillageAndBurn PILLAGE! LOOT! SACRIFICE!]] [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers BEARD!]]'''

** And that's not even counting the other versions of ''Super Dodge Ball''. The UsefulNotes/NeoGeo version could be mistaken for an SNK game, or another Pocket Fighter.

* During ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4's'' Microwave scene, there's a slow-mo shot of Sunny successfully finishing her eggs and jumping jubilantly. The rest of that scene IS actually epic, and Sunny's moment is emotional when taken in context, but out of context it seems really silly.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}''
** ''[[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Yakuza 3]]'' whenever Kazuma is having a revelation and tapping away on his phone to update his blog.
** And in the sequel, ''Yakuza 4'', the other playable characters take this up to eleven. Saejima doesn't cotton to all that newfangled technology, so he makes his Revelations with a ''wood-carving set'', cutting an image from a piece of wood in the most epic fashion imaginable. Tanimura, while perfectly capable of using a cellphone, prefers to create his Revelations by sketchbook, demonstrating in the process that he apparently graduated from the [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami School of Notebook Writing]]. Akiyama and Kiryu are epic as ever with EXTREEEEEME texting and blog-updating.
** Also, arguably, the Karaoke-sequences qualify. At first, you (or your date) is just singing in front of a screen, but halfway through the song, an appropriate stage materializes out of nowhere, and the singer starts rocking out with a full stage-show, including lights, pyrotechnics, dancing and microphone-spinning. Karaoke to the MAX!

-->''Tanomu dase...ore no '''GOREMU TAIGA'''!''