Favorite game intros!

[arch5]

Half-Life: Blue Shift (elevator scene)

I made that video, it's off of my YouTube account

 

[SamuraiKenji]

Not going to post vids, but
Dawn of War, Bioshock, WoW(all 3) and L4D

 

[stemot]

Curse Of Monkey Island:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL0086T-u6A

Dark Athena:- (skip to 6:43 for proper intro)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVFd0GWf9FM

 

[Sulkdodds]

Here's the fantastic intro for Hostile Waters, which also happens to be one of my favourite games ever made. Everyone with the slightest interest in the form should try and get hold of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwSJG_ZpikA

Man, this thread is great. It would be too many words to say 'oh wow you played that game' to all the people who posted obscure intros, but if you did just assume I love you.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Here's the fantastic intro for Hostile Waters, which also happens to be one of my favourite games ever made. Everyone with the slightest interest in the form should try and get hold of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwSJG_ZpikA

Man, this thread is great. It would be too many words to say 'oh wow you played that game' to all the people who posted obscure intros, but if you did just assume I love you.

 

[Sledgehammer]

Age of Mythology, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Bioshock, Left 4 Dead, World of Goo (the loading screen).

 

[Darkside55]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFQ7SaRcK4

Maki Kimura's beautiful chanting, the racing beats while the Orbital Frames are battling, the violin punctuating the scene between Ken and Dingo...I love this intro.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZAAW6Dxue4

Soaring through a futuristic city with DAVID BOWIE singing the intro song.

 

[Krynn72]

Sulk just ****ing loves to double post today.

 

[Sheepo]

I really wish I could watch some of these intros.

 

[Bob_Marley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II6r1K5bfXI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iZVjw7tAw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GrmzFk8v18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3GD0UnBCk

 

[theotherguy]

THE most beautiful and masterfully crafted introductory sequence in the history of gaming. Beautiful and absolutely touching. The launch sequence always sends a shiver down my spine... and this is the only game where I nearly cried at the end.

Yes, such beautiful cut scenes, such a wonderful story. I loved the use of adagio, especially in the cut scene where they show the colony ships dying one by one.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFQ7SaRcK4

Maki Kimura's beautiful chanting, the racing beats while the Orbital Frames are battling, the violin punctuating the scene between Ken and Dingo...I love this intro.

High five!

Although it means I have to post this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVIn9FWr6_E

 

[Blackthorn]

FFXII had a kickass intro, even though the game panned out to be a smidgeon less epic than it let on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GsmF4w6TbE

Oh wow I forgot about that. I used to press New Game so many times just to watch that cinematic.

Now for some Oddworld appreciation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2EDJbIyzpo
I have plenty of criticism to throw towards Mass Effect, but the opening was incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTIyywF4YQo
I have hardly any criticism towards Beyond Good & Evil AND the opening was incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_Dz4vLrMk
And here's a Final Fantasy that just doesn't get mentioned enough, but is my favourite of the series, and the intro is f***ing magnificent. All you FFVII fangirls hush a minute and appreciate these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyrfokOkvCU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBw_TX63TZQ
Plus of course Half-Life 2, BioShock and MGS are the obvious choices, but they've been mentioned elsewhere.

 

[Jintor]

Just watched the FFVIII intro again. Ah, man. Magic.

 

[Ravioli]

Mechwarrior 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxfKZZ4RNng

Also, HL intro x 1000.

Mechwarrior 3 cinematic was better i think

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm76b8tzzWI

 

[Jintor]

Witches don't know about my Fully Orchesteral Live Symphonic Red Alert 3 version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qPFFem6UU

 

[Loke]

A video I did a time ago.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6580700075250800747&ei=T_swSv2QKISv-Ab_tLWwCQ&q=fftf

Apart from those I'd also add Carmageddon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWFX0FPhOA

 

[barbarbarbarbar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvkZydL_0Bg

 

[G(ordon)-man]

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGyw_0IG5s0