Most awe inspiring thing you've seen in games?

[Omegajak]

the opening scene in final fantasy seven is still pretty awe inspiring, because it sets the stage for a pretty large scale story, and even though the earlier games in the series are great, i still dont think they match up to the scale final fantasy seven had.

Gonna have to disagree with you there. Kefka is just better then Sephiroth in all ways because the worst Sephiroth does is kill a flower girl and the worst Kefka did was become a god and bring on the apocalypse to try and bring on the end of the world. (Yes I base my opinions on games over how great the villain was.)

Just gonna throw in here:

Nibelheim burnt to the ground?
Zacks death? ZACKS death!? Who kills the most charismatic young hero ever?!

I concede this: Kefka poisoned an entire river HIMSELF and killed an entire viallge in the slowest most painful way possible just to prove a point.

Both are kinda jaw dropping villains especially on a first play through.