Best Game Intro?

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-07-25 03:45am

Durran Korr wrote:Final Fantasy VIII

YES! Another acceptable answer would be Toe Jam and Earl

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-07-25 06:07am

Robert Treder wrote:The train ride from Half-Life is still the best.

It's good the first time, but every time I started a new game after the first time I found myself wishing I'd made a save game file right after the train ride ended.

I can't rate it very high because it simply lacks replay value.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2003-07-25 06:23am

Uraniun235 wrote:
Robert Treder wrote:The train ride from Half-Life is still the best.
It's good the first time, but every time I started a new game after the first time I found myself wishing I'd made a save game file right after the train ride ended.

I can't rate it very high because it simply lacks replay value.

You could just remember the mapname of the part right after the trainride and type that into the console. Really the entire first part of that game lacks replay value, but that doesn't make it ass-kicking good.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-07-25 10:07am

Force Commander. It was amazing to watch. Pity about the game itself. You have an ISD on orbit sending you stuff, i can accept that, i can even accept the dumb bunker thing but if you have an ISD in orbit why can't you call for bombardment? I'm not talking BDZ just a little indiscriminate turbolaser fire on the enemy camp.

Post by **Steve** » 2003-07-27 06:46pm

lux wrote:I loved FFVIII's intro. That song r0x.

Ah yes. Liberi Fatali. I listen to it and Duel of the Fates for the ultimate operatic fightin' music.

Post by **Steve** » 2003-07-27 06:49pm

LadyTevar wrote: But my personal favorite is FFX's opening scenes in Zanarkand ... especially the hard-rocking music as the BlitzBall game starts.

"Otherworld" by Alexander Smith and Arranged by Nobuo Uematsu.

I've got the full 4CD soundtrack to FFX.

Post by **Steve** » 2003-07-27 06:51pm

Durandal wrote:Chrono Cross' music was unbelievable. I just wish I had good MP3's of it; the ones I have now are shitty sounding.

Indeed.

Yasunori Mitsuda is an excellent composer, worthy of working in the same gaming company as the Great One himself, Nobuo Uematsu. The John Williams of Japan Videogaming.

Post by **Steve** » 2003-07-27 07:08pm

Okay, my favorite intro?

MechWarrior 3. It was fucking awesome. Beats MechWarrior 4's like a bitch. Even without live actors, it seemed far more realistic, and had a good subdued music track to go with the carnage of war. Ground troops running for their lives and getting lasered, vaporized by ER PPC shots, and in one case, stepped on; big fucking robots stomping their way through a burned out city; a shot through abandoned living apartment windows at a Thor stomping by; a Mad Cat's fusion reactor going up and taking an Atlas with it....

And of course, the best line: "Die Clanner!"

That, and I love the intro lines and the smoke effect, and the narrator has a voice perfect for them. "It is the 31st Century, and Mankind is once again at War. The battlefields of the future are dominated by huge robotic war machines known as BattleMechs...." It ends and immediately we hear military comm chatter before getting to the good part.

MechCommander's intro was not bad, but it lacked the punch.

The three MW2 intros were all cool for their own reasons. Particularly Mercs. "Look on the bright side, kid. You get to keep all the money."

Outside of those? First off, the CGI intro to the PS release of Final Fantasy VI. The rehashed music was cool, Vector looks fucking sweet, and they did a good job with Terra and Kefka. That and the Magitek Armor. Good Magitek Armor!

Kingdom Hearts' credits video (not the intro for beginning the game) has an excellent music score to go with the imagery of the game's various events. It's hard to believe a game so heavily-centered on Disney characters could kick that much ass. Chrono Cross also did a good job in that department.

As for video game soundtracks, since last September I've bought the scores to Ace Combat 4, Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid 2, and Kingdom Hearts, and have not been disappointed.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-07-27 08:30pm

I-War,
Fallout (all of them)
Freespace 2.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-07-30 04:22pm

The openings for the Comand & Conquer games have always been very good. They get me hyped to the point where i can't wait to play.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-07-30 04:41pm

Steve wrote:Outside of those? First off, the CGI intro to the PS release of Final Fantasy VI. The rehashed music was cool, Vector looks fucking sweet, and they did a good job with Terra and Kefka. That and the Magitek Armor. Good Magitek Armor!

Yeah, that was a pretty sweet open. Shame that the game itself is fucking slow on the PS (AND requires an old PSX memory card so that I can't use the PS2 8MB cards).

Luckily I have the SNES cart and a lovely ROM I can use instead.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-30 04:47pm

I loved all the CnC intros, and the 2 StarCraft ones were pretty nice too.

Hasler · Post by **Hasler** » 2003-07-30 05:26pm

Freespace1&2
Starlancer
Mech warrior 3
Fallout

aphexmonster · Post by **aphexmonster** » 2003-07-30 06:40pm

Dragon warrior 4 for nintendo

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Golden sun for game boy advance

Slayen · Post by **Slayen** » 2003-07-30 07:15pm

Diablo 2
Starcraft: Brood War
Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Baldur's Gate
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Planescape: Torment
Fallout

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-07-30 07:47pm

*Points at avatar* I like it when Manny picked up a newly dead guy. With the part.
"I want to go back home" *dead guy*
"Haha You can't go back YOUR DEAD"
Edit: from Grim Fandango.

Cyaround,
Jason

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-07-31 09:36pm

Pablo Sanchez wrote:Fallout.

"War, war never changes..."

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2003-07-31 09:42pm

I'm gonna go way back with mine, so most of you probably won't know what I'm talking about, but the intro to Might and Magic: Darkside of Xeen could be the best I've ever seen. I don't know what it was about it, it's not like anything spectacular happened in it. It just grabbed me and made me want to watch it over and over.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2003-07-31 10:10pm

I like Half-Life's intro. Ya, I know, it's not the same as a movie, but the part where you're riding on that tram like it's "just another day at work", when you know something WILL go wrong really builds up suspense, for me at least. Also, it shows off all the (once pretty) graphics and stuff.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-07-31 10:48pm

The first Starcraft intro is not that great, but Brood War's is terrific.

"Studying Zerg in a lab is one thing; unleashing them upon men is another!"

The whole thing is done very noir-ish and dramatic; Alexei lighting and stamping out the cigar, the battleship pulling out of orbit while the marine stares, DuGalle condenming the colony to annhilation...

Very, very stylish.