Greatest Game Opening EVER!!!!
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Maybe not the best ever made, but the bit after the portal always gives me goosebumps.
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I'm going to go with Bioshock, because we are talking about games and the best intro award should go to a game with an intro made of actual gameplay, not cinematics.
That or Portal 2. Because it was funny.
That or Portal 2. Because it was funny.
On an epic scale, I'd have to go with Gears of War 2 or Gears of War 3, even though that was kind of a rehash or 1 and 2. God of War is also fucking epic, but I haven't played the series enough tbh. My PS2 is getting dusty...
As for my personal preference...
As for my personal preference...
The Greatest "Game Opening" ever was Prey - regardless of how the rest of the game plays (I've quit twice right after getting a Bow & Arrow) - the first half hour of that game is art.
I personally liked farcry2 a lot, mass effect 1 and 2 of course, (haven't played 3 yet too scared). Penumbra is great, Oblivion though... Oh shit man, I watched that monologue by Capt. Picard and all those daedra marching through oblivion and I was like: "Awww yeah, that's the stuff I'm going to pummel some dulap dangling daedroths."
Super Mario Galaxy. You start all strolling along, "oh, there will be some lead up before the shit hits the fan" is your thought, then BAM, Airship attack, Shit's on! Great juxtaposition of peace and chaos, followed by a feeling of helplessness and powerlessness. Talk about kicking things off right.
That or God of War 3. You start off storming Olympus, and before you even have time to catch a breath, you're fighting gods and titans in spectacular ways. Wonderfully done.
That or God of War 3. You start off storming Olympus, and before you even have time to catch a breath, you're fighting gods and titans in spectacular ways. Wonderfully done.
My favorite.
And a bonus, simply because it blew my mind back when I first saw it, I still remember those goosebumps.
And a bonus, simply because it blew my mind back when I first saw it, I still remember those goosebumps.
Is that the kind of person we want protecting the galaxy?Vault101 said:
That's the only kind of person who can protect the galaxy.
For me it has to be one of the MW2 intros, which for the uninformed aren't Call of Duty Games...Oh and my absolute favorite, more than MW2 vanilla or Ghost Bear's Legacy would have to be Mercenaries...
Unfortunately, fiction doesn't work that way anymore. You can blame the comics industry and their spreading influence for that.GiantRaven said:
If ME1 had ended with Shepard's death, you would have one half of the fanbase proclaiming that it was the "greatest ending ever" because of the way the game's bold anti-sequel statement. Cue the sequel. Oops.
Even if on the day of ME's release Bioware came out with a public statement on every page of the internet to say that "there will be a sequel, the end of this game isn't an end but a sequel hook," fans still wouldn't know what to make of the resurrection. Was it always planned that way from the start? Was Shepard going to be replayable, was Shepard not as dead as we thought, was Shepard supposed to get resurrected precisely the way it happened? So on and so forth.
Resurrection at the beginning isn't there to build tension, it's to make a statement. "We don't take death lightly. When it happens, we know exactly what we're doing. We don't cross our fingers and hope that eventually we'll come up with a good follow through." It's simply an essential part of the plot, NOT the blind grab for controversy and attention that it would have been as an ending.
That doesn't mean you have to like it as a beginning. But as an ending for a part of a trilogy, it'd be pretty cheap.
As for my own picks,
1. Bioshock.
2. Mass Effect 2.
3. Wrath of the Lich King.
Honorable mention: it looks like shit, but really, really atmospheric shit with some amazing music and voice acting.
But didn't the kid come back as the Deus Ex Machina Exposition Mouthpiece?rekabdarb said:
I prefer Fallout: New Vegas
It's pretty damned old by gaming standards, around 17 years old at this point, yet I still love this intro. Probably the first proper 'cinematic intro' I ever saw for a game and it absolutely blew my mind at the time.
So maybe it's just nostalgia speaking but I freakin love this little cinematic.
So maybe it's just nostalgia speaking but I freakin love this little cinematic.
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I can't decide between them, but I think the second one has a slight edge for being so restrained (no pun intended) -
Rather than go all out with flashy action, it sets the scene, tone and atmosphere for the entire game. Plus a cooler fictional language is hard to find in games.
Rather than go all out with flashy action, it sets the scene, tone and atmosphere for the entire game. Plus a cooler fictional language is hard to find in games.