Stark wrote:Was Fahrenheit that magic chroma murder thing? That intro was pretty neat.
The one you stab someone in the restroom of a diner? If that's the one you mean, yes.
It was the combination of the intro with the right mood setting music that did it for me.
Don't Move you're surrounded by Armed Bastards - Gene Hunt's attempt at Diplomacy
I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own - Number 6
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
Erik von Nein wrote:I thought it was called "Indigo Prophecy"?
Oh aye, it's called Indigo Prophecy in the US, Fahrenheit in the UK.
Don't Move you're surrounded by Armed Bastards - Gene Hunt's attempt at Diplomacy
I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own - Number 6
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
While a flawed game, the opening really set the seen well.
I wish they'd come out with another game in that universe that actually worked properly (one faction was fatally flawed and the game became unplayable after about turn 150 or so due to the sheer number of calculations and moves needed by the computer)
I've always liked Fallout's intro, along with Fallout 2's. Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, Chrystalis, and Phantasy Star IV all has a classic intros.
DoW's is rather cool, but Mark of Chaos's FMV trumps it like a thumb jammed in your eye socket. More purposeful stuff happens with better weight and style.
I really appreciated the fact that the openers of both Halo and Halo 2 were more than simple animated combat segments, as many FPS end up using. Of course, they were both also split up by the tutorial play sequences, but in both cases I think one could count each section as being part of the whole intro.
I also really enjoyed the intro animations for Starcraft: Brood War and Diablo 2.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
Augh, how could I mention Mech 2 and forget MechWarrior 4's?!
And yes, Spanky hit the nail on the head, Stark. And I would argue you have problems, so nyaaah.
DoW's is rather cool, but Mark of Chaos's FMV trumps it like a thumb jammed in your eye socket. More purposeful stuff happens with better weight and style.
If we're not limiting outselves to released games, and assuming the very likely possibility the trailer for MoC is also the intro, then MoC should win on account of being godlike. The first time I watched it I had to do a doubletake to make sure it was full CGI.
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I always liked the KOTOR 1 intro, mostly because it is a quintessential Star Wars-type intro. Opening crawl, pan down to a planet, ship being attacked flies in from offscreen, then takes a few direct hits and starts spinning out of control.
It's almost required for anything Star Wars-related.
Apparently Starcraft has the love but what about Diablo 2.
The wanderer walks into a tavern, people start laughing at him, and all hell breaks loose. Litteraly.
-Lord Insanity
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" -The Real Willy Wonka
Stark wrote:The I-war intro had the coolest Federation President ever. He makes secret decisions in super elevators and talks smack to his advisors!
"I'll have the most decorated officers in the fleet! I'll..."
"Listen, and listen well. This is a war. We don't need well decorated, well educated, or well connected. What we need are results."
Do not meddle in the affairs of insomniacs, for they are cranky and can do things to you while you sleep. The Realm of Confusion
"Every time you talk about Teal'c, I keep imagining Thor's ass. Thank you very much for that, you fucking fucker." -Marcao SG-14: Because in some cases, "Recon" means "Blow up a fucking planet or die trying." SilCore Wiki! Come take a look!
Style: Fallout 2
runner up: Fallout 1
Honorable Mention: Deus Ex (but only becasue its the best game in the history of games)
Bad Arsery: C&C: Generals, but only that one part where its like
Great Leaders resolve their conflicts with words... Words like *crappy, and yet rockin' at the same time music begins* Scud Launcher...Tomahawk Missile... etc.
runner up: Rise of Legends
Honorable Mention: the relatively unknown Conquest: Frontier Wars
Best Intro of All Time: Starcraft Brood Wars
Runner Up: RA2
Honorable Mention: Rise of Legends (again)
[img=right]http://www.geocities.com/jamealbeluvien/revolution.jpg[/img]"Nothing here is what it seems. You are not the plucky hero, the Alliance is not an evil empire, and this is not the grand arena."
- The Operative, Serenity "Everything they've ever "known" has been proven to be wrong. A thousand years ago everybody knew as a fact, that the earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew it was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
-Agent Kay, Men In Black
My favorite intro of all time is the one to Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen. Anyone remember that one?
"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark." - Muhammad Ali
"Dating is not supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be a heart-pounding, stomach-wrenching, gut-churning exercise in pitting your fear of rejection and public humiliation against your desire to find a mate. Enjoy." - Darth Wong
I must second Brood War, that was nice. And Metal Gear Solid Three, sure there was a lot of talk, but I love the whole bit of Snake HALO jumping out of that AC-130.
MGS:TTS
Metroid Prime 2
Full Throttle's 2D intro is still hilarious. When Ben rides over the limo, the music was perfect.
Battlefield intro's are the only thing I really enjoyed out of the series, but damned if 1942's music wasn't perfect.
Brains! "I would ask if the irony of starting a war to spread democracy while ignoring public opinion polls at home would occur to George W. Bush, but then I check myself and realize that
I'm talking about a trained monkey."-Darth Wong "All I ever got was "evil liberal commie-nazi". Yes, he called me a communist nazi."-DPDarkPrimus
Saying smaller engines are better is like saying you don't want huge muscles because you wouldn't fit through the door. So what? You can bench 500. Fuck doors. - MadCat360
- StarCraft: Brood War
- Warcraft III
- Diablo II
- Battlefield 1942
- Battlefield Vietnam
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
I ship Eino Ilmari Juutilainen x Lydia V. Litvyak.
Phantasee: Don't be a dick.
Stofsk: What are you, his mother?
The Yosemite Bear: Obviously, which means that he's grounded, and that she needs to go back to sucking Mr. Coffee's cock.
"d-did... did this thread just turn into Thanas/PeZook slash fiction?" - Ilya Muromets[/size]
oh wow, how could I forget Diablo 2? Maybe it's because I haven't played it in so long... yeah...
I always loved the Diablo2 movies. So real, and yet, so fake... And really REALLY scary when you're playing Diablo 2 at 1 AM and the only light source is your computer.
Diablo 2's movies were nice... up until you realise the whole Marius plot has absolutely NOTHING to do with what YOU'RE doing, and at the end it's all for naught anyway (meaning there's like 30 minutes of movies all up that serve no useful purpose).
