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[–] PianoScientist 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Well, not a moment, but I play offline due to the lack of internet where I live. After I first met Solaire, I went back up to the balcony above him, and began sorting through my items. Firebomb selected, by chance. Then I bumped the "use item" button and threw my firebomb with accidentally unrivaled accuracy, aggroing Solaire below. I didn't know what exactly I was about to miss out on, it being my first time, and I ended up luring him out onto the drake's bridge and getting him killed by the fire. I never used a summon sign my entire first playthrough, forgetting about them after a few bosses and only learning later that I could have had allies for every single grueling boss fight. The single most heartpounding moment of that playthrough was beating the Ornstein and Smough after nearly 4 HOURS of throwing myself against them.

But hands-down, my most memorable moment from Dark Souls (and from any video game) came from the Painted World of Ariamis. From the edge of the cliff on the graveyard, I realized I could hear a strange noise coming from the forest below. It was a song, like this dark, ominous chant. It was the most eerily atmospheric, the most enveloping, beautiful moment I have ever had in any video game, imagining the things that could be singing in the forest. I tried to look up what the fuck it was on the internet, but I found no other accounts whatsoever of this. Closest thing I learned was that the Painted World is where the developers used to test certain sound effects, so I'm guessing it was that. A friend of mine also said he encountered the singing, but only for a few seconds as he was immediately killed, and then couldn't hear it after that.