Your Favorite game intro

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' timestamp='1363496287' post='326601']Ohhh good thread!

Still no love for MGS? MGS2 in particular has the best intro in the history of video games, Hands DOWN!! imho anyway!

That's a funny way to spell MGS3 Snake Eater and its very "James Bond" like intro:

I don't think any MGS has had a bad intro, but MGS2's was pretty killer. Being my first PS2-generation game I was blown away by how awesome that whole ship sequence looked, truly ground-breaking visuals at the time. MGS3's was brilliant too with the HALO jump and smashing through the trees, ending up in a quiet, isolated jungle — set the feel up so nicely.

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mafia 1 was such a mature game for its time

I enjoyed it so much, i never wanted to go back and play it a second time... I dunno, just for the fear of spoiling my good memories of it.

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I also enjoyed the intro of far cry 3 quite a damn bit. Just the way Vaas is talking/screaming to the player and his little actions he does was really well done in my opinion.

Do agree, but such a setup went to waste; Vaas had the potential to be one of the best villains in the last few years imo, but there was no real follow-through.

How cheesy is that

well yeah i'd say it's more of a movie intro than a game intro, but there was just so much more believability in it because of the characters seemed real. i'm not saying that wasn't the case for half life 1 either, but the train ride itself wasn't the most memorable part of the intro for me. the whole path downward to the experiment was what did it. it's between there and the trainride that you really pick up on the people working in such place. i'd say both sequences there had good acting between them, with half life's being more "free" in regards to optional exploration.

i don't think i really understood the scale of half life 1's complex before on a rail...

Command and Conquer, bitches.

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really? I felt like I was just watching a badly acted b-movie. Everything was scripted out for you, even the camera movement...

Well, practically all the intros are getting posted are non-interactive; that's something I was tempted to discuss: is it an intro something non-interactive, should it be interactive, but your actions limited, or it can be the full blown game, to awe the player? God Of War has been mentioned for the latter, and I was tempted to cite Deadlight: you get a short comic-book intro and you are in the game, you play a full tutorial-level before getting to the main titles... (very stylish presentation there imo)

Being able to choose, I definitely would like to leverage the interactivity of the medium, but also a non-interactive intro can do, it just comes down to a matter of pacing.

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System Shock 2

Let's not forget System Shock's:

dat music.

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Indeed, yes!!

I'll have to wait 8 days before I can say mine ;D

No love for Fallout? Really?

Not sure if this was eventually used as an intro in the game (can't remember). But it definitively fits into the intro category and still gives me goosebumps. You know, back in the day when the story didn't suck