The Greatest Opening Sentence of any game/movie

[Amarok]

"In my restless dreams, I see that town: Silent Hill."

If I can have two sentences, then I add "You promised you'd take me there again someday... but you never did.", which makes it more powerful.


Although James might say something in scene in the bathroom before that... which would ruin everything.

Haven't checked to see if anyone has replied so apologies if they have, but he says "Mary... Could you really be in this town?"

Doesn't ruin everything tooooo much.

 

[thahat]

"Round 1! Ready? Fight!"

You know its true.

ive never heared this one before :O i must have been destracted by the spherical objects attached to my character when playing the game

 

[omicron1]

If books were included I would say:

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. Leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age long past, an Age yet to come, a wind rose...

In terms of movies or games though, definitely Bastion's or Fallout's.

Actually, it is in a game. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time_%28video_game%29]

On topic:

"Fleet command, online." and its accompanying spiel certainly fit the bill. Beautiful stuff, esp. with what comes later.

 

[ThePuzzldPirate]

"There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is: How do we arm the other 11?"

One of my favorite movies, XD.

"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth."

 

[spartandude]

In the grim darkness of the future, there is only war.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Welcome... To the Velvet Room.

this.

also, as much as i hated the sequales, God of War 1, that whole first level.

 

[PeterD23]

"L-l-l-look at you hacker. A p-p-pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you r-run through my corridors. H-how can you challenge a perfect immortal machine?"

Bricks. Many bricks were shat during this moment.

 

[spartandude]

if books are allowed


?I was there, the day that Horus killed the Emperor? The opening line to one of the biggest series of novels ever, the series is no where no finished yet

 

[kinapuffar]

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


Soon followed, of course, by:

"Citizen... Pick up that can."

Was going to say this too.
Except, "Wake up, and smell the ashes..." is followed more closely by *Train sound* "I didn't see you get on."

 

[Samus Aran but a man]

I believe in America

 

[Espl]

"Die Monster. You don't belong in this world!"

A simple phrase, yet I see it as a powerful one.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Not a word but a sound... [http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/sounds/scream.mp3]

Tell me you don't already twitch in anticipation.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

The Allied Master Computer's speech on hate is pretty damn awesome!

What's more awesome is that it's Harlan Ellison's (writer, producer) voice as AM.

 

[CaptainKoala]

A lot of people don't agree with me, but I think that CoD4 had an excellent intro.

 

[Jaeke]

"Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of time, and I can tell you: they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I am or why I say this. Sit down and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard." - Prince of Persia - Sands of time.

The only game intro that stood out to me, and thus the one I think was best.

In terms of overall intros though, I'd have to say tops for me is the prelude to Homeland by Salvatore. Say what you will about him, but I think that prelude is orgasmic.

Spoiler

Never does a star grace this land with a poet's light of twinkling mysteries, nor does the sun send to here its rays of warmth and life. This is the Underdark, the secret world beneath the bustling surface of the Forgotten Realms, whose sky is a ceiling of heartless stone and whose walls show the gray blandness of death in the torchlight of the foolish surface-dwellers that stumble here. This is not their world, not the world of light. Most who come here uninvited do not return.
Those who do escape to the safety of their surface homes return changed. Their eyes have seen the shadows and the gloom, the inevitable doom of the Underdark.
Dark corridors meander throughout the dark realm in winding courses, connecting caverns great and small, with ceilings high and low. Mounds of stone as pointed as the teeth of a sleeping dragon leer down in silent threat or rise up to block the way of intruders.
There is a silence here, profound and foreboding, the crouched hush of a predator at work. Too often the only sound, the only reminder to travelers in the Underdark that they have not lost their sense of hearing altogether, is a distant and echoing drip of water, beating like the heart of a beast, slipping through the silent stones to the deep Underdark pools of chilled water. What lies beneath the still onyx surface of these pools one can only guess. What secrets await the brave, what horrors await the foolish, only the imagination can reveal - until the stillness is disturbed.
This is the Underdark.
- - - - -
There are pockets of life here, cities as great as many of those on the surface. Around any of the countless bends and turns in the gray stone a traveler might stumble suddenly into the perimeter of such a city, a stark contrast to the emptiness of the corridors. These places are not safe havens, though; only the foolish traveler would assume so. They are the homes of the most evil races in all the Realms, most notably the Duergar, the kuo-roa, and the drow.
In one such cavern, two miles wide and a thousand feet high, looms Menzoberranzan, a monument to the other worldly and - ultimately - deadly grace that marks the race of drow elves. Menzoberranzan is not a large city by drow standards; only twenty thousand dark elves reside there. Where, in ages past, there had been an empty cavern of roughly shaped stalactites and stalagmites now stands artistry, row after row of carved castles thrumming in a quiet glow of magic. The city is perfection in form, where not a stone has been left to its natural shape. This sense of order and control, however, is but a cruel facade, a deception hiding the chaos and vileness that rule the dark elves' hearts. Like their cities, they are a beautiful, slender, and delicate people, with features sharp and haunting.
Yet the drow are the rulers of this unruled world, the deadliest of the deadly, and all other races take cautious note of their passing. Beauty itself pales at the end of a dark elf's sword. The drow are the survivors, and this is the Underdark, the valley of death - the land of nameless nightmares.

/fist bump Do'Urden style

 

[AlbinoAaron]

All build up for the greatest line ever.

 

[teh lurker]

"Where can we put this bomb where it won't hurt anyone we know or care about?"
"Out the window Sam, there's nothing but strangers out there."
San and Max hit the road

 

[OblivionSoul]

"The president has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"

 

[Ix Rebound]

Medal of honor 2011
"you SEALs are fucking crazy"

You KNOW shit is about to go down!

 

[Majorlagger]

no talking but i think best starting scene, Pirates of the Caribbean, floats in to the port shit totally sunk and steps off to the dock as it goes under....