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.
" Brutal Legend because it shows how far the music industry has fallen "
That was pretty damn good, too bad the game doesn't hold up after that. It's funny people rag on Darksiders for copying, but wanted Brutal Legend to just be a metal version of Zelda.
I'd say Fallout 3, running through your character growing up was pretty cool.
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.
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.
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
Jak 2 and 3 were pretty awesome aswell, having played the first one that was a colorful lightharded adventure with plenty of humor and then just ending up in Haven City through a time machine was shocking to say the last, but the second one is my favorite in the series. And as for the intro in Jak 3.....the destroyed the freaking city which blew my mind. Plus, hearing Jak talk for the first time was pretty cool in Jak 2
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.
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.
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!
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.
ffx's opening is so god damn boring, which is a shame, really. the rest of that game is golden. "
I'm not going to lie to you and try to say it's good, it's pretty bad. But it is still my favorite. Fucking Blitzball + Uematsu doing arena rock? Insanity
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. "
well, the blitzball cgi scene is awesome. the opening section of the game, however, is not.
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.
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.
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