Your favorite opening in a video games

Brutal Legend because it shows how far the music industry has fallen

The original Half-Life still isn't beat. 

i dont know man .. alot of good openings 

Resident Evil. The original one, not the remake.

The first time I saw the opening sequence for Final Fantasy II (aka IV) with the airships flying in formation and hearing the music blew my mind.

The Legends of Zelda: The ocarina of Time The deku tree introduces the game then you see dream of Links that has Zelda and Ganondorf in it then Navi flying around showcases the 3d world.

Final Fantasy X.

Mass Effect 2 had a pretty good one... 
 
But BioShock and Half-Life had really good ones too... 
 
 Hmm I pick those 3.

" Brutal Legend because it shows how far the music industry has fallen "

Shadow of The Colossus. Hearing the opening tunes of To The Ancient Land and seeing the gorgeous in game intro is nothing short of breathtaking.

My top 3 are Mass Effect 2, Back to the Future: the game and brütal legend. in no particular order.

Bioshock. Something about the beginning of that game really did it for me!

Bioshock is the one that springs to mind.  I sat looking at the flames reflecting off the water for a good two minutes before I realised the cut-scene had finished.

the original resident evil
 
its quite funny to watch it nowadays

Final Fantasy VIII is still the best for me with Soul Edge and Kingdom Hearts II as close seconds. 

Bioshock.  It was the first video game I had played in years and I had no idea what the game was about when I first started playing it - only knowing that I wanted to renew my interest in video games and this one was supposed to be "awesome."  When I heard Andrew Ryan's monologue in the bathysphere and suddenly realized, "Oh shit, a video game is taking on Ayn Rand," I realized how far video games had come.  Not to mention the way the little sisters were introduced as well.  Still creeps me out when I think about it.   

Vanquish

Bayonetta, I vividly remember getting to the end of the opening sequence, throwing up my arms and shouting, "YES!" despite the fact that I was alone.

" Final Fantasy X. "

Uncharted 2

Doesn't get much better then these two.  I also always really liked the Resident Evil 2 intro, buts pre-rendered graphics start to show their age.

What is your favourite videogame intro cutscene?

Probably Half-Life 2. I was so scared. :(

call of duty 4. 
 
50 thousand people use to live here, now it's a ghost town.

First time poster here. One of my old favourites was a game on the PS1 called Wild Arms. Great opening, gets me all nostalgic.

Bioshock 

The beginning of Indigo Prophesy is amazing.

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I have a couple of intro's that I love:
 
My most recent is Mass Effect 2, showing the Illusive Man in the room with Miranda was pretty damn cool, plus blowing up the ship and killing Shepard is pretty dramatic as an intro. The music that kicks in before the title card gave me chills 
  

" The original Half-Life still isn't beat.  "

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Bioshock is pretty great, it tells you exactly what to expect from the rest of the game. Red Dead Redemption's is also good, that train ride perfectly sets up what the atmosphere of the time period is going to be.

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" Final Fantasy X. "

ffx's opening is so god damn boring, which is a shame, really. the rest of that game is golden. "

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West. You crash into the god damn Statue of Liberty while on the side of a flying slave ship! That shit is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

Killzone 2 has a pretty awesome cinematic even before the start menu.

Mass Effect 2 had a pretty amazing opening and I'm also a big fan of the late opening to Escape from Butcher Bay. 
 Bayonetta may be my favorite though. Its really lets you know what exactly your getting yourself into. 
  

" @RecSpec said:

" Final Fantasy X. "

ffx's opening is so god damn boring, which is a shame, really. the rest of that game is golden. "

God of War's opening is fantastic.  
 
  

Soul Reaver was pretty awesome.  Mindblowing CG at the time, plus a cool sense of discovery when you realize how messed up everything became.

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" @RecSpec said:

" Final Fantasy X. "

ffx's opening is so god damn boring, which is a shame, really. the rest of that game is golden. "

True but that was the first time I saw CG in a cutscene which at the time was amazing to me...I'm sure now it wouldn't hold up but at the time I thought it was cool. "

Red Dead Redemption's opening scene is awesome
From walking through Blackwater to getting on the train and heading to Armadillo
The conversation on the train is really cool and puts you into that time period.

Back in the day, blaster master! The way the music built up and when it finally got to it's full-blown midi glory is when you actually got to play.  
 
  

I guess having "opening" be defined would help, but if we're going with overall opening sequence, regardless of length, the easy answer for me is BioShock.  I don't know if it's cheating giving it to BioShock since I consider the opening sequence of that game to be about the first 45 minutes, although Fallout 3's opening was about that long, however didn't impact me as much.  I'd give an honorable mention to Final Fantasy X.  Anything that makes me ask "What is going on?" and "What is about to happen?" is a winner to me.

I'm sticking with ME2 because it actually made me stop and say "Wow." Nothing like opening your game with the main character dying.

All the Half Life games have really good openings. I remember Lost Odyssey's being pretty good too. 
 
FF VII had a pretty impact full  intro for the time. I also personally liked the Kingdom Hearts intro video and gameplay.