Your favorite video game opening.
Gary-Oak
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With some games, before you get to the start menu or after you actually click the start button, a cutscene starts, mostly setting the stage for the game. I would like to ask everybody, what is your favorite video game opening?
Mine would have to be the opening to Kingdom Hearts 3D. It provides a nice recap to the series, while also showing you what's to come.
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Fallout 3 comes to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_xQdnyTcio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqFjUfUcDs8
Soul Blade . All time fav..
With Final Fantasy 8's opening being 2nd
You took my favorite opening, lol. I can't think of any other one other than Shadow the Hedgehog's opening. I loved that opening as a kid, and would watch it at least 5 times before playing the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPWrHPNekvE
and I also remembered this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpDMuoEdJ2w
I swear this is the last one..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCSgNakvlo
"It is a good life we lead, brother."
"The best. May it never change."
"And may it never change us."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EoOojQkwOw
Cue goosebumps.
Isaac is love, Isaac is life
Link
I always loved all the music in this game
All the Mass Effect games had great intros, but Mass Effect 2 specifically. One of my favorite game intros ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hia_m36pEpA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glIozOsape4
I really liked this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w09yYmqEu0E&feature=iv&src_vid=pI_Wybd82V8&annotation_id=annotation_1539798703
It's Half-Life 2. Why must everyone post a video my computer almost caked it's pants.
Haven't seen a lot of 'em and some got posted before I got here. I will post this though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jx3ldJtYC4
all 3 of the mass effect openings
Not everyone, i didn't post one.
Has one of the best endings as well in my memory.
Borderlands 2. Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_EUoi3iEMo
The Last Of Us. My favorite part of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgHeUdIS-eQ
The campaign of Battlefield 4 isn't very good but this cutscene is the bomb lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ0TBS8ycv4
Borderlands 2 opening. Everything about it made me know I was in for a great ride
https://youtu.be/J_EUoi3iEMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHjtg7cZqY
"Perhaps you've seen it, maybe in a dream. A murky, forgotten land..."
Dark Souls 2 intro. For me, it's gloomy perfection. And it potrays the whole world of Dark Souls quite well, dark, ambiguous, lonely and fatalistic but here and there you see a glimmer of hope... Wait, no, not really.
Also the intro of the first Witcher, it was a fantastic introduction of Geralt with a great fighting scene.
All of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uumf9anB7Hk
And all of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB1gExtKJJI
Irrational Games (now extinct) makes superb introductions.
EDIT: Apparently people don't like Bioshock in here.
There's a disturbing lack of Deus Ex in this thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIqJaT3cvf8
This is the only thing you posted in here. You trying to confuse me?
Not really a big fan of any of the Deus Ex intros. The original is still my favorite game ever though.
Kingdom Hearts
Wow, no one said these yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnFNVojAgc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZe7VeIc1JA
I was going to post this, but you already had. Definitely a good one.
lol no.
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I can't really think of anything.
This way this game starts and finishes are awesome ;_;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GHCJJXqneU
Resident Evil 2 has an game introduction I really like too for both Leon and Claire's scenarios. I liked how the first cutscene actually changes depending on who you are and crosses over once the pair meet up until they're separated again. It was mind blowing to me at the time, that and this was the first time Capcom used IGI like this in a Resident Evil title through and through [because the first one had actual actors playing the characters.] but yup T_T still one of my favorite RE titles to date along with Resident Evil 3 and Code Veronica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHdtqIL340
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVO_RgntFDk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4umidcc_8rU
Also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQZrZUo6mj8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9U_sXsKAg
TLOU opening was awesome
i couldn't get into this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svy0Ih77fuc
Does anyone else not love this series but me?
I LOVE Dark Souls.
Silent Hill, Splinter Cell 3, and Silent Hill 3 have my Vote here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eds1ivwq1oc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjTjKMADKE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz3ufaZCoVw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kVnJ52R-F0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWoJLdXJt0E
Another Kingdom Hearts fan?
Another fan here. When I was a kid, I was rather obsessed with the game. The years of waiting for KH3 has lessened my interest somewhat, but I am still interested to see the end of Xehanort Saga
I really like this one too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuuJjS0ivHA
Xenoblade X seems to be a lot darker than the first Xenoblade.
I'm a big fan of the opening to Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30. It helps to drive home the "Brothers" aspect of it when after the short intro sequence of defending a hill from German troops your character gets knocked out and the camera slowly pans over a bunch of pictures of your squadmates hanging out before D-Day, doing stuff like playing cards and all that. Then the final one which is a shot of all 13-14 characters posing for the camera just before going into battle.
Gets even better (Worse?) after beating the game and watching it again, when you can see just how many of them died during the 7 days in which the game takes place.
Still one of my two favorite game openings to this day. Absolutely phenomenal.