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Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Diablus on September 16, 2004, 12:07:40 PM
Whats your Favorite Video game (computer or consol) Intro?


Guidelines: Not really any, just explain why it's your favorite :)



For mine, I would have to say Starcraft: Broodwar's Intro


It's my favorite because of it's amazing and smooth graphics along with it's intense situation the movie takes place in. The animation is amazing and beautiful. I also love the dramatic opera music at the end.

After watching it for the first time, it pumped me up to play the game which is always a plus to a good intro. And the ending to the intro almost seemed to give me a tear because it was so dramatic and strong :)


well there's mine, now go on and post!
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Clashen on September 16, 2004, 12:13:43 PM
The Half-Life intro, of course :)
I love it when you're sitting there in that train, watching everything around you and listening to that woman.  <3
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: bacon_flaps on September 16, 2004, 01:04:14 PM
Battlefield 1942

omgwtfpwn music and I dunno, I just liked it.  Mustangs flying low over a city, paras dropping into Arnhem with flak everywhere, it was a cool intro.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Uranium - 235 on September 16, 2004, 01:07:16 PM
Mechwarrior 1, 2, 2:Mercenaries, 3, 3:Pirates Moon, 4:Vengeance, 4:Mercenaries, 4:Black Knight


In other words, Mechwarrior has the coolest most badassery video game movies.

For example, the MW3 intro - a panoramic of a ruined battlefield... retreating forces crest the hill and light mechs get cut down by an unknown foe's PPC. Radio chatter is getting more frantic, and out of the smoke and haze come both a Thor and a MadCat. They get closer to the city and you see targetting perspectives from inside a Vulture hidden in a ruined building, scanning the targets. The Thor and the MadCat break group and head different ways... shortly after the Thor begins pulverizing the city, the MadCat gets a face full of Gladiator Pwn.

TBH I thought the Brood War one was a little too haphazardly put together. It was like 30 random-ass short cuts of battle thrown together, 3 minutes of actual plot, a marine using a gun that doesn't even exist in-game, and more random footage.

Actually something that really annoyed me about the SC movies was that they seemed to be made by people that never even played the actual game. According to the Starcraft movies, Marines aim as well as Stormtroopers and Zerglings are covered with 8 inches of steel plate. Seriously, if you can't even the continuity right in your MOVIES...
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: -Lancer- on September 16, 2004, 01:10:04 PM
call me corny, but I'm gonna have to go with final fantasy 8-9. Both of these game had some of the best intro's ive seen. The FF8 intro is what got me into rpg's.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Diablus on September 16, 2004, 01:13:16 PM
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In other words, Mechwarrior has the coolest most badassery video game movies.

TBH I thought the Brood War one was a little too haphazardly put together. It was like 30 random-ass short cuts of battle thrown together, 3 minutes of actual plot, a marine using a gun that doesn't even exist in-game, and more random footage.

Actually something that really annoyed me about the SC movies was that they seemed to be made by people that never even played the actual game. According to the Starcraft movies, Marines aim as well as Stormtroopers and Zerglings are covered with 8 inches of steel plate. Seriously, if you can't even the continuity right in your MOVIES...
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I definetly agree with you on the zergling deal, they seem like the only thing that kills them are damn explosives <_<. But, that was a gauss rifle, and the rocket launcher was aan attachment on the bottom of the Black guy's.


I actually seemed to notice, why did the Zerglings have Hydralisk heads and zergling bodies :huh:

but still, It's my favorite
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Isamil on September 16, 2004, 01:22:31 PM
The Battlezone(Not the arcade version) intro was cool.
It started out as a picture of the arcade version of Battlezone(green tanks and stuff), then it zooms out and you find that it was your minimap.  Then general explosions and stuff.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Malevolent on September 16, 2004, 01:45:11 PM
I like the Brood War intro. I also was surprised at the Dawn of War intro. Pretty good. I can't remember what version of MechWarrior I played, but it was pretty good, especially for being a little older. Warcraft III's was okay, although ones later in the game were better. I also liked the Tribes 2 intro quite a bit when I first saw it.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on September 16, 2004, 02:40:05 PM
I really like the Warcraft 3 vids, especially the intro to the human campaign.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Satiagraha on September 16, 2004, 04:02:44 PM
BattleField 1942 Intro. Gets my heart pumping and ready for some generic WWII explodagigithonics.


I also like the Total Annihilation intro ^_^
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Anarki3x6 on September 16, 2004, 04:43:56 PM
max payne/mp2 intros/cutscenes were my favs :)
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Evangelion_2 on September 16, 2004, 05:06:30 PM
HL 2 intro cause it rocks me already :p but yea I liked the HL intro espically if you use cheats and you can snipe scientists on the way (the loading thing tho was not cool).
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: bacon_flaps on September 16, 2004, 07:08:21 PM
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HL 2 intro cause it rocks me already :p
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Explain please.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Uranium - 235 on September 16, 2004, 07:28:12 PM
Explanation: "I'm a sheep who buys into crappy hype"
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: bacon_flaps on September 16, 2004, 08:54:54 PM
Your bitter negativity warms my heart Uranium.  <3<3  MGS2 had a pretty badass intro too.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: fatty on September 16, 2004, 11:18:56 PM
anything by blizzard
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Avs on September 17, 2004, 12:08:44 AM
Actually they did release a video of the introduction to HL2 (contained about 2 minutes of the introduction), so I wouldnt be surprised if a few spent the time digging for it to find it.

It was awesome.

Its like HL's introduction, except without the monorail system (which was also cool). The reason why I like HL's introduction is because everything you saw in the intro movie you actually played through. Like the generator part, or the desert opening, it also included the opening for HL: Blue Shift where the guard is banging on the door. Also in HL: Opposing Force, you go through the shaft that the mono-rail passes. Pretty sweet.

I also like BW's intro. Yeah the zergling took about 180 rounds...and they had grenade launchers. But eh, cool nevertheless.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Ulatoh on September 17, 2004, 01:25:20 AM
wacky wheels pwns all. The way the game works is you run over hedgehogs, and shoot them at your opponents to knock them off the track, then you drive your gocart by them, an try to get first.

the intro just follows one particularly gifted shot as he aims his way through the course, FOER TEH WIN!
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Avs on September 17, 2004, 02:02:48 AM
Rofl I remember that game. Pwn.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Slink on September 17, 2004, 02:10:33 AM
Baldur's Gate.  Cuz teh way the |31()()]) drib&leD down the (obble$7()n3 was 3><7|24-(00|.


sorry, it just kinda crept in...
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Cartman2b on September 17, 2004, 03:47:51 AM
MGS2.

It has a great theme tune that well.. is truely awesome.

The video in the trailer also fits the part well.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: SgtFury on September 17, 2004, 04:23:01 AM
Mechcommander......

Using the Raven as a decoy to set up the Madcat was top. Reallly got you into the fact you could outthink in mechcommander rather than just outgun.

Wish they had a newer version of it than 2. The idea of having a squad of mechs at your command rocks.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: BlaqWolf on September 17, 2004, 12:12:27 PM
i really loved tribes 2's intro....

it was really short, yet to the point. you could hear the battle and those guys run by, and then the dude grabs the flag and is all like, "the flag is secure!" and slams it down. i always loved it...

of course, all the ones mentioned above were sweet too. esp DOWs
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: That Annoying Kid on September 17, 2004, 02:01:17 PM
The Specialist has a decent intro
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Necrosis on September 17, 2004, 03:57:06 PM
I dunno, different intros for different reasons.

MGS2 - up yours, film industry.

RtCW - two fingers to you, mr film producer.

FF-the-one-with-fithos-lusec-wecos-vinosec for drama.

Soulblade/Soul Calibur/Soul Calibur II for everything

Brood War for the "oh f..."

X Com, for the cheesy music.

SW:Galactic Battlegrounds because its basically a SW trailer, gg.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: DruBo on September 17, 2004, 04:11:13 PM
Descent:Freespace. That movie gave me t3h g00s3bumps back in the day.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Lito on September 17, 2004, 06:34:22 PM
The better market of Hentai games (ie, Hentai games that are actually more story oriented...the hentai is more like a bonus.  Some games are actually released in hentai and non-hentai versions).

Much lurve to Canvas 2 intro~

Hentai games are games too :(
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Malevolent on September 17, 2004, 08:59:37 PM
Ahh yes, now that people mention the MGS2, I remember its awesomeness.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Seth on September 18, 2004, 04:24:54 AM
SHELLSHOCK NAM '67

you wont be able to blink, and then there's the girls too... Mamma San luv u long time >:D
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Dubbilex on September 18, 2004, 06:39:26 AM
I actually really like the intro that was in the Warhammer: Dawn of War beta.  I'd assume it's the official intro.

But jesus is it great!
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: lolfighter on September 18, 2004, 08:35:23 AM
*points at Dubb's avatar*

The Myth 2 intro. You relive the final moments of Myth 1, quotes abounding:
"Soulblighter is here! Our scouts are dead!"
"Indeed Alric. I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me."
"Kill him! KILL HIM!"

And then, as the brave, doomed dwarf hurls the severed head of Balor into the great devoid, and everything in the vicinity is obliterated by the ensuing eruption of energy, Alric wakes up from his nightmare - and on his bedpost, a solitary crow sits, staring at him with a single, glowing red eye. Cut to the Myth 2 main theme. Goosebumps all the way up and down my arms and back. And I love crows. They're such cool birds.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: X-S-Z on September 18, 2004, 08:39:24 AM
*Points to Dubb's postcount*  :blink: zomg 666!!!1

The only intro I can remember off the top of my head that gave me goosebumps was the original C&C Red Alert. Hell March FTW.  ^_^
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: lolfighter on September 18, 2004, 08:41:16 AM
Oh yes, that one was cool too. Mammoth Tank smashing through a concrete wall? I had to suppress the urge to yell out with glee.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Black Mage on September 18, 2004, 08:43:06 AM
metal gear solid and metal gear solid: sons of liberty (tanker intro ownt me, shell intro made me cry)
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Jefe on September 18, 2004, 11:09:23 AM
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metal gear solid and metal gear solid: sons of liberty (tanker intro ownt me, shell intro made me cry)
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you know they're going to do something like that in mgs 3, right?
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Post by: -Lancer- on September 18, 2004, 12:40:37 PM
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Baldur's Gate.  Cuz teh way the |31()()]) drib&leD down the (obble$7()n3 was 3><7|24-(00|.
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Heh?? can you re-say that in english and not uber-nerd form??
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Post by: Dirty Harry Potter on September 18, 2004, 01:01:23 PM
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Baldur's Gate.  Cuz teh way the |31()()]) drib&leD down the (obble$7()n3 was 3><7|24-(00|.
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Heh?? can you re-say that in english and not uber-nerd form??
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Baldur's Gate.  because the way the blood dribled down the cobblestone was extra-cool.
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Post by: Dark on September 18, 2004, 01:32:38 PM
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Baldur's Gate.  Cuz teh way the |31()()]) drib&leD down the (obble$7()n3 was 3><7|24-(00|.
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Heh?? can you re-say that in english and not uber-nerd form??
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Baldur's Gate.  because the way the blood dribled down the cobblestone was extra-cool.
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OMJ DHP must be an uber-nerd since he understood it :p <3
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Athena on September 19, 2004, 01:40:20 AM
There's a lot for me, but I'd probably say FF8 - the music is incredible and the flashed imagery was done very well I think, especially as a preview of what's to come later in the game (though I didn't like the game itself much at all).
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Loke The Sleek Peruvian on September 19, 2004, 02:58:57 PM
Battlefield, i just love to see the tanks, the mustang, the 1000 guys parachuting over that town and that Russian dude with an anti-tank weapon ready to blow that tank away.

Red Alert 1, dunno why, probably because its the first game I bought.

*takes cover.*
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Dubbilex on September 19, 2004, 04:11:31 PM
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*points at Dubb's avatar*

The Myth 2 intro. You relive the final moments of Myth 1, quotes abounding:
"Soulblighter is here! Our scouts are dead!"
"Indeed Alric. I bet you thought you'd seen the last of me."
"Kill him! KILL HIM!"

And then, as the brave, doomed dwarf hurls the severed head of Balor into the great devoid, and everything in the vicinity is obliterated by the ensuing eruption of energy, Alric wakes up from his nightmare - and on his bedpost, a solitary crow sits, staring at him with a single, glowing red eye. Cut to the Myth 2 main theme. Goosebumps all the way up and down my arms and back. And I love crows. They're such cool birds.
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Dear god yes.  I am humbled by your bungie fanboyism  :(
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Avs on September 20, 2004, 12:30:10 AM
Yes Soulblighter. Myth had a great great story line. And then Myth2 and the rest had a better one!
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Niteowl on September 20, 2004, 02:20:10 PM
homeworld : the music was just awesome
NWN : minotaur falls, gets boo boo
pac-man : that marriage intermission. because it meant you holy crap owned at that game.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Diablus on September 20, 2004, 03:26:44 PM
I thought Pacman never ended?
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Black Mage on September 20, 2004, 08:43:39 PM
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metal gear solid and metal gear solid: sons of liberty (tanker intro ownt me, shell intro made me cry)
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you know they're going to do something like that in mgs 3, right?
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you know snake halo jumping into the jungle in the mgs3 trailer looks a lot like snake halo jumping into the jungle in the original metal gear?
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Post by: Jefe on September 21, 2004, 07:33:12 AM
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metal gear solid and metal gear solid: sons of liberty (tanker intro ownt me, shell intro made me cry)
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you know they're going to do something like that in mgs 3, right?
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you know snake halo jumping into the jungle in the mgs3 trailer looks a lot like snake halo jumping into the jungle in the original metal gear?
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When I said "something like that" I meant some weird twist involving some place other than the jungle and someone other than snake.

It's entirely possible
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: BobTheJanitor on September 21, 2004, 11:47:26 AM
Intro to Dawn of War is pretty freaking awesome. Anyone who ever played warhammer 40k, or who just like RTS, I suggest checking this one out.
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Post by: Necrosis on September 21, 2004, 04:21:20 PM
It really didn't push my buttons, and I've been in the hobby for 17 years.
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Post by: Malevolent on September 21, 2004, 07:15:18 PM
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Intro to Dawn of War is pretty freaking awesome. Anyone who ever played warhammer 40k, or who just like RTS, I suggest checking this one out.
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Yeah, it came out today too. My friend bought it, so I'm gonna check it out (I did play the beta a bit, but didn't get too into it).
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Post by: Reasa on September 21, 2004, 07:42:15 PM
Empire Earth has the best intro by far.

You got that cool scene right off the bat with the Captain of the English ship just owning the French ship.

Then there’s an awesome ambush scene with WWII tanks.

And that scene from the future is awesome to.

All around awesomeness.
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Post by: Doobie Dan on September 22, 2004, 08:39:46 AM
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wacky wheels pwns all. The way the game works is you run over hedgehogs, and shoot them at your opponents to knock them off the track, then you drive your gocart by them, an try to get first.

the intro just follows one particularly gifted shot as he aims his way through the course, FOER TEH WIN!
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Biggest.  MarioKart ripoff.  Ever.

I'd have to agree with FF8, but you all forgot ZERO WING!   :lol:
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Post by: lolfighter on September 22, 2004, 09:48:46 AM
Zero Wing is not "cool" per se, but definitely a classic. Before you throw a tantrum, let me elaborate: The intro is so campy that it's actually good. Had it been LESS campy, it'd just have sucked and nobody would've given a damn.
And to my surprise, the game's not half bad.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: -Lancer- on September 22, 2004, 01:32:38 PM
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There's a lot for me, but I'd probably say FF8 - the music is incredible and the flashed imagery was done very well I think, especially as a preview of what's to come later in the game (though I didn't like the game itself much at all).
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Yay athena, we have teh same tastes!

Best part of the FF8 intro was the fight betweeen squall and seifer <3
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Malevolent on September 22, 2004, 01:53:19 PM
Yes the FF8 intro was pretty sweet and showed a significant jump in quality I might add.
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Doobie Dan on September 23, 2004, 10:22:50 AM
Yep, another Square game which started amazing then dropped off towards the end...
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Seth on September 23, 2004, 11:50:00 AM
Rome Total War!
Title: Whats Your Favorite Video Game Intro
Post by: Malevolent on September 23, 2004, 07:40:10 PM
I was wondering about that game Seth. It seem like it could be good, although I wasn't a huge fan of Shogun.