Greatest Game Opening EVER!!!!

[Ironside]

The dawn of war cinematic is probably my favourite - its just so freaking awesome. I did rather like ME2's opening as well - it was certainly better than the opening of me3 anyway.

We have a winner here I think, but something that I realised recently concerning the very first scene that annoyed me...

Spoiler

In ME3, why the hell doesn't Miranda (assuming she's still alive) just tell you where Cerberus headquarters is when she's been there?! Seriously, she's stood in that very room in Cronos Station with The Illusive Man, but at no point in all you interactions with her after she's left Cerberus, who have now put a price on her head, does it occur to her to tell you where their mother-fucking base of operations is? Instead, you have to jump through a whole series of hoops, including her planting a tracer on Kai Leng so he'll lead you back to their base. Again, I have to ask why all that is necessary when she already knows where it is and could have just effing told you?! So I guess you could say everything Cerberus gets up to for the whole second half of the game is her fault. Fuck that *****!

If i remember correctly what it said in the books - the illusive mans base is a space station which is periodically moved to different sections of the galaxy, so that nobody knows where it is.

 

[Ascarus]

half-life wins this in my opinion as it was the first game to have you performing the introduction as the protagonist opposed to just watching it.

ME2 is a close second just because it was so well done in every aspect (although i do wish i could have skipped it after my third play through).

 

[SextusMaximus]

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how was this not up sooner
shame about the rest of the game though :/

oh well sequel soon

This, 'cept I happen to love the game!

 

[GameMaNiAC]

I say 'meh' to you all.

This blew my fucking mind the first time I saw it.

 

[GamerAddict7796]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HTC3UdS7s4

THe intro almost makes me cry and then you're born!

Best game ever!

 

[lRookiel]

I am obligated to say Baldurs gate because I am one hell of a biased person.

 

[Smeatza]

I'm going to support the Borderlands vote.
So much badassery.
That song should be the introduction song for every game

 

[ToAzT]

http://youtu.be/_rS_n3JVTPE

New to Forums, sorry for not being sure how to post videos correctly, but this was easily the first thing that came to mind when i read the title.

 

[JasonKaotic]

For me...
Nostalgia is awesome.
Notice a strange similarity between that and my avatar? I'm not a fanboy. Honest.

 

[Guffe]

Warcraft III Reign of Chaos and Warcraft III The Frozen Throne had very good intros.

Spoiler: Reign of Chaos

RoC= good animation concidering it was 2002?? and what's cooler than a duel between a green beast and a human and then a fire demon appears from the sky?

TFT= New race thrown in at starting movie and possibly the most liked / most mystical hero of the Franchise in the opening bringing the new race up from the bottom of the sea.

 

[anthony87]

For me it's a toss up between this:


or this:

 

[clockworkmonkey]

Even after not playing this game for 4 years, I could still recite all of this from memory along to the game when I bought the HD edition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-HhS4djBL4

Also, this is how you start a great series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cnw7-NEHWw

"And Kratos cast himself from the highest mountain in Greece"

 

[Mordekaien]

Spoiler: I came a little when I saw this as a kid

Spoiler: Stand up. There you go...

Both were awesome for it's time.

 

[Godhead]

Dungeon Siege by far. I still find the aesthetics amazing and just god damn Jeremy Soule.


Skip to 00:10

 

[Darknacht]

/thread.

This.
Also this is a good one.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

thats a hard one..its always the opening that stands out to me

id say Bioshock...or

[i/]what about shepard?[/i]

Is that the kind of person we want protecting the galaxy?

That's the only kind of person who can protect the galaxy.


For me it has to be one of the MW2 intros, which for the uninformed aren't Call of Duty Games...Oh and my absolute favorite, more than MW2 vanilla or Ghost Bear's Legacy would have to be Mercenaries...

It's pretty damned old by gaming standards, around 17 years old at this point, yet I still love this intro. Probably the first proper 'cinematic intro' I ever saw for a game and it absolutely blew my mind at the time.


So maybe it's just nostalgia speaking but I freakin love this little cinematic.

Proud to know there are still people on the Earth who know what MW2 actually stands for.
Bunch of cranky old internet people, we are...

 

[Saviordd1]

Spoiler

You effing die

I gotta go with this, it would have been even better if Bioware didn't talk about it so much.

HAI GAUIS! YOU DIE IN THE FIRST 5 MINUTES! HUGE TWIST RITEEE?

Umm yeah but you just ruined it.

HUGEEE TWISTTTT

 

[DJjaffacake]

Spoiler

You effing die

I gotta go with this, it would have been even better if Bioware didn't talk about it so much.

HAI GAUIS! YOU DIE IN THE FIRST 5 MINUTES! HUGE TWIST RITEEE?

Umm yeah but you just ruined it.

HUGEEE TWISTTTT

I managed to avoid any marketing of ME2 by being a PS3 pleb, so not knowing anything about it until it got a PS3 release, and this was my first impression, so that probably made it even better for me.

 

[Samantha Burt]

My immediate thought was the rendered part of Red Alert 2's intro. By that I mean this:


I get chills everytime.