Your favorite game intros
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ElPoco
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Non-Interactive Intros
UT99: It's not that good, but it sets the mood and I've seen the start so many times...
Fallouts: "War, war never changes"
Pathologic : Sets the mood, and especially one of them which suddenly makes sooooo much sense once you've finished the game (at least in one ending)
Syndicate and Syndicate Wars: Sets the mood with a "show don't tell" mentality.
Flashback: It looked so cool back then
Ultima 7: The guardian coming to speak to "you", the player behind the Avatar, its enigmatic character...
Day of The Tentacle : Fun, really feels like a cartoon
Generally speaking, I find the intros of the SNK fighting games to be pretty nice. Makes you really want to start a game.
Interactive Intros
Advent Rising: Watching the video doesn't do the same effect it did when I played it, but I found the transition from the intro video to the game to be nice. It shows you the impressive stuff, and then it let you take over and see it "for yourself". It's also nice to have this little part of spaceship driving in what is a third person shooter, makes it take a bigger scale.
Unreal: The first level could be seen as a kind of intro, and I think it has a very nice ambiance.
UT99: It's not that good, but it sets the mood and I've seen the start so many times...
Fallouts: "War, war never changes"
Pathologic : Sets the mood, and especially one of them which suddenly makes sooooo much sense once you've finished the game (at least in one ending)
Syndicate and Syndicate Wars: Sets the mood with a "show don't tell" mentality.
Flashback: It looked so cool back then
Ultima 7: The guardian coming to speak to "you", the player behind the Avatar, its enigmatic character...
Day of The Tentacle : Fun, really feels like a cartoon
Generally speaking, I find the intros of the SNK fighting games to be pretty nice. Makes you really want to start a game.
Interactive Intros
Advent Rising: Watching the video doesn't do the same effect it did when I played it, but I found the transition from the intro video to the game to be nice. It shows you the impressive stuff, and then it let you take over and see it "for yourself". It's also nice to have this little part of spaceship driving in what is a third person shooter, makes it take a bigger scale.
Unreal: The first level could be seen as a kind of intro, and I think it has a very nice ambiance.
kuru
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My vote for best intro must go to Three Dirty Dwarves on Saturn. Title music is also great. Damn that person who stole my copy.
More entertaining intro stuff
More entertaining intro stuff
Edit: And House of the Dead Overkill, NSFW, there's more of those funny sequences during the game
Edit: Burning Rangers has a pretty awesome, anime style intro
And more funky sega pop in Daytona USA
Star Fox intro on SNES is etched into my brain. Short but epic.
Another world, have to second that. Love Rotoscoping.
Case of the Serrated Scalpel, too
Edit: Burning Rangers has a pretty awesome, anime style intro
Star Fox intro on SNES is etched into my brain. Short but epic.
Another world, have to second that. Love Rotoscoping.
Case of the Serrated Scalpel, too
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I've seen a lot of good things here - but definitely missing is SuperFrog for the Amiga (the Erik Schwartz - Intro).
It was awesome back then
The Kingdom Hearts-Series usually also has good intros, but nothing that memorizable.
It was awesome back then
The Kingdom Hearts-Series usually also has good intros, but nothing that memorizable.
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Rolling Thunder 2 Arcade. BTW if you never listened to its whole soundtrack, you should as it's par with fine art like Ghouls'n Ghosts or Strider OST. Megadrive/Genesis version OST is a bit different but interesting too :
Musha :
Rolling Thunder 2 Arcade. BTW if you never listened to its whole soundtrack, you should as it's par with fine art like Ghouls'n Ghosts or Strider OST. Megadrive/Genesis version OST is a bit different but interesting too :
Musha :
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The F1 Grand Prix series for the Super Famicom has wonderful intro music:
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Last Ninja 3's intro (I think I prefer the C64 intro over the Amiga, but they're both very similar)
Creatures 2...
Interestingly, I like Monkey Island 1's intro - as in, you cut straight to the chase "I'm Guybrush Threepwood, I want to be a Pirate"
MI2's intro is pretty nice too
Creatures 2...
Interestingly, I like Monkey Island 1's intro - as in, you cut straight to the chase "I'm Guybrush Threepwood, I want to be a Pirate"
MI2's intro is pretty nice too
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Not very art, but still one of my fave.
ElPoco
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I forgot one (well probably more, but one I just remembered) in my list: Outcast. But I'm not linking it here, because I'd rather keep the memories I have of it.
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Half Life - the tram ride into work. Back when the game came out that, in itself, was awe inspiring.
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I always liked the intro to Prince of Persia myself. (Specifically from the PC version I played as a kid)
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Look ma, no FMV!
Soukyugurentai (a.k.a. Terra Driver), here running on Sega ST-V hardware.
Soukyugurentai (a.k.a. Terra Driver), here running on Sega ST-V hardware.
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It's "diver" actually ;^)
Impressive shoot, never heard of it !
Impressive shoot, never heard of it !
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I've always loved the "Premiere" intro for the Amiga. I think it was the first proper full intro I'd seen (other than Dragon's Lair)