Best Game Openings...

[AlpineGuy]

The opening to Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening always leaves me with my mouth agape.
I mean, Dante makes eating pizza and badass demon-slaying go together so well!

 

[minispike47]

Bioshock, its so atmospheric

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

Saints Row 2 has the main character basically blow up a prison. That he is prisoner in.

 

[traceur_]

DON'T YOU GIVE UP ON IT, ANOTHER WORLD AWAITS YOU!


This one is freaking awesome, ultra badass sport, ultra badass metal, ultra badass SIN!



And the Dissidia opening is just one of the greatest fight scenes ever, my jaw dropped the first time I saw it, it is so fucking awesome.

 

[Jenova65]

Mass Effect 2.

Joker's god damned stubborn-ness got rid of two of years Shepard's life, though.

I hadn't thought of it that way *runs off to break Joker's legs*

 

[Mozza444]

Killzone 2 had a great intro

 

[Volafortis]

Mass Effect 2, for sure.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Mass Effect 2 or Call of Duty 4. Both of them were pretty damn good. Especially Mass Effect 2.

 

[mechanixis]

I AM ANDREW RYAN
and I'm here to ask you a question...

Is a man not entitled
to the sweat
of his brow?

NO, says the man in Washington, it belongs to the poor;
NO, says the man in the Vatican, it belongs to God;
NO, says the man in Moscow - it belongs to everyone...

I...rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different...I chose the impossible...I chose...

RAPTURE.

 

[Beatrix]

Beyond good and evil.

I don't actually remember it, although I'm sure it was absolutely fucking awesome.

Serious answer: I don't actually know, although I'll edit it if I think of something.

Actually, that was indeed a very strong opening. And a great game, now that we're talking about it.

Final Fantasy IX takes the cake for me though, shortly followed by the very cinematic Advent Rising and spiritual FF-sequel Lost Odyssey.

 

[Yossarian1507]

InFamous had an awesome opening. Pushing the start button to start the mayhem was a brilliant idea.

 

[RussetRanger]

Metal Gear Solid at least the Twin Snakes.

It does not go epic but more establishes the story at hand to get you interested.

 

[kahlzun]

Beyond good and evil.

I don't actually remember it, although I'm sure it was absolutely fucking awesome.

Serious answer: I don't actually know, although I'll edit it if I think of something.

"Loyal Hyllians!"

 

[Lost In The Void]

I love the Command and Conquer intros especially these three

Spoiler: Awesome

And this isn't exactly intro, but it's awesome so I'm adding it

Spoiler: Cutting Out the Poison

 

[caprisun]

It was far from my favourite final fantasy but ff8 had such a brilliant opening

 

[Gabanuka]

Civilisation Revelution has quite a cool one.

 

[Woodsey]

Mass Effect 2's opening scene.

I haven't seen anything quite like it in a game's opening sequence before; just incredible.

 

[Katana314]

Bioshock I'd agree. Also Half-Life 2, you could say the first few chapters are less gameplay and mostly exposition.
Tales of Monkey Island does it well; you're given a usually action-focused first puzzle right off the bat, and then once you solve it the opening credits and chapter title roll.

I do remember Starcraft's opening being very grand.

And of course WORST are all the games that open with a deep-voiced narrator relating 5,000 years of the game's history and what leads up to your involvement. This is how you FAIL to expose story. I would rant about it, but that'd be going off-topic.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

Kingdom Hearts 2, I love that intro, mainly because of Utada Hikaru.

Seriously? The six-hour tutorial comprised of boring, annoying, menial chores? The intro that acclimates the player to a group of characters that we will neither see nor hear from again over the next 30 hours of the game and who will have absolutely no impact on the game's events whatsoever? The one that takes the most hyped character in the series and writes him out as quickly as humanly possible? That intro?

I thought we were talking about the intro video, but still, I like the intro parts as well.