Best game opening

[Timmehexas]

Left 4 Dead I have to avoid watching it every time it starts up, otherwise I'm trapped until it finishes.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

i personally like the FFX opening, epic, beautiful, awsome.

also mass effect 2 was pretty fucking good, very sad though.

 

[Chaos Incarnate]

Damn this looks like it could be a futuristic Lord of the Rings

 

[Tsaba]

Kingdom Hearts 2 had a pretty good intro, imo.

 

[Yostbeef]

I'm gonna have to give an honorable mention to Bio Shock.

Resident Evil 4 is the definitive one for me It introduced some of the most intense game-play I ever experienced up to that point,it completely changed the notion of RE and led us into the 7th gen.

 

[The Shade]

Half-Life.

...

I LOVE TRAM RIDES!

 

[lionheart_1]

Baldur's Gate 2.

The mood it sets up, of mystery and suspense (and a little wonder) is still a master stroke in storytelling.

Mass Effect and BioShock get honourble mentions though.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

i'd say between:

PLANESCAPE TORMENT

or

BALDUR'S GATE 2: THRONE OF BHAAL


or one of the intros of
IMPERIUM GALACTICA II

Solarian Shinari Kra'hen

Those were Epic introductions ! compared to nowadays stuff... judge for yourselves.

 

[Dango]

It's a tie between the Guilty Gear XX opening:
and the BlazBlue Calamity Trigger opening:

 

[voetballeeuw]

I'll agree with Bioshock. Nice swim in the beginning and then a beautiful submarine ride to the wonderful city of Rapture.

 

[Fursnake]

Half-Life 2:


Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman: rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one's more deservin of a rest, and all the effort in the world would've gone to waste, until... well, let's just say your hour has come again.

(pause)

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman; wake up and, smell the ashes...

This is one of my favorite game openings and the tone of not really knowing what was going on was a great element to the beginning. I bought the game when it first came out and there was no manual or anything explaining the premise for the story. The trippy and sort of surreal opening and then being dumped into the strange new future really had me hooked from the beginning.

 

[-Seraph-]

Dissidia's intro, it's to ultimate fan service opening in the history of fan service

 

[irishdude]

anything within the first hour (or the hour itself) including cinematics
not search bar approved.
I thought ff8 had a great opening
Say what you will about the game but such a good setup.

the best ff game imo, play it once a year, every year since 1998, could play it blind folded now and not die once

 

[SleepyOtter]

 

[TriggerUnhappy]

Uncharted 2 had one hell of an opening.

Agreed. In fact, most of my favorite openings in games are of the cold variety, immediately putting you in the action.

 

[Jezzeh]

Why? Not really sure... Except that it makes me smile a lot. And the first time I watched it, I about died.

 

[daubie]

Half-Life 2:


Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman: rise and shine. Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one's more deservin of a rest, and all the effort in the world would've gone to waste, until... well, let's just say your hour has come again.

(pause)

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman; wake up and, smell the ashes...

This is one of my favorite game openings and the tone of not really knowing what was going on was a great element to the beginning. I bought the game when it first came out and there was no manual or anything explaining the premise for the story. The trippy and sort of surreal opening and then being dumped into the strange new future really had me hooked from the beginning.

Agreed, I actually ended up starting HL2 before playing the original. I did beat the original HL first, but I was really sucked into the series by the HL2 cinematic. I must admit that I like the voice acting for G-Man in the first game. It felt less...human I guess you could say.

 

[Tupolev]

Agreed, I actually ended up starting HL2 before playing the original. I did beat the original HL first, but I was really sucked into the series by the HL2 cinematic. I must admit that I like the voice acting for G-Man in the first game. It felt less...human I guess you could say.

I actually suspect this was intentional; it seems that over the course HL2 and the Episodes, Valve played with the Gman's humanity a lot.