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"This planet is ours, witch!"

 

It's technically not an intro, at least as of yet, but it beats most other cinematics out there.

They should stop making silly rts games and do a feature length movie instead :ermm:

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
 

Yeah, I watched the Dungeon Keeper intro a lot.

 

Privateer had a good one.

 

"Who are you that flies so well?!?"

I think we have a winner.

 

 

(I'm also really shocked at the lack of "All your base" jokes in this thread.)

Fallout 2. Awesome. Blast away those smucks with the mini guns when they opened the vault.

BG1. Great intro to Sarevok and what lies ahead for you.

VtM Bloodlines. O NOES! I've been turned!

Fallout 1.

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Hades was the life of the party. RIP You'll be missed.

I've watched very few intros which made me 100% sure that I was going to love it. Fallout 2, and Diablo 2.

 

FO2 needs no explanation; D2 simply knew what it was, a series of in-game FMVs, and performed that role to a level of perfection I have seen hardly matched. It has its own story so you want to keep watching, it has amazing voice acting, it had great graphics and animation for the time and it was well paced and never too long. Blizzard sure knows how to do things right for what they are.

BG and Fallout.

 

i also liked TOEE's - if only because it was great to see the battle of emridy meadows visualised. everything went downhill from there.

 

Oblivion's wasn't bad either - that sweeping shot of the imperial city worked well.

dumber than a bag of hammers

Old School Ninja Gaiden.

"Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin.

"P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos

 

Starcrat: Brood War

 

Dawn of War

 

Hellgate: London - if only the game was as good as all the media they produced

Using a gamepad to control an FPS is like trying to fight evil through maple syrup.

 

There is no better intro than this. Srsly.

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"it was a robot producing exploration planet like any other"

 

I love it. :thumbsup:

"An electric puddle is not what I need right now." (Nina Kalenkov)

DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.

Would have to say that when someone mentions best game intros, I automatically think NES Ninja Gaiden. I was 10 or so and I popped that cartridge in and got something totally unexpected.

 

This.

"Some men see things as they are and say why?"
"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

Half Life 2 #1

Half Life #2

Mass Effect #3

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I don't play WoW, but Wrath of the Lich King's intro is pretty awesome if you know the Warcraft lore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNuaPHs2jDE...feature=related.

 

"You gambled away our zep?!"

 

"Rendez-vous over Calco Bay, I'll fill you in the details... soon as I remember them..."

Edited by WILL THE ALMIGHTY

"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

I loved NWN2's intro. I thought it was pretty cool.

 

I still love BGII's intro as well as the Fallout's.

 

But if I HAD to pick "Which introduction to a game has left the biggest impression on you?" I'd have to say Fallout. In that for an RPG it completely set the mood, feel, look of the setting the player was about to embark on. (BGII I thought did this also very good).

 

Sadly most games lately just go for flash and coolness... but don't do anything to help set the mood\feel\look of the game.

Sadly most games lately just go for flash and coolness... but don't do anything to help set the mood\feel\look of the game.

 

Most games have always done that.

^Awesome, Bok.

 

But this is surely the best:

 

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"Some men see things as they are and say why?"
"I dream things that never were and say why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."

- Some guy 

 

While my love of SS2 knows no bounds, I always found its intro to fall a bit flat.

"My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian tourist
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I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.
Heja Sverige!!
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While my love of SS2 knows no bounds, I always found its intro to fall a bit flat.

Yeah, I was hoping this thread would show me some new intro's but do far it's mostly been people reciting their most favourite games.

 

Come on, people, I'm sure noone really thinks Fallout or Neverwinter Nights 2 has the best intro they've ever seen..

Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish!

"Come on, people, I'm sure noone really thinks Fallout or Neverwinter Nights 2 has the best intro they've ever seen.."

 

Perhaps they are. Perhaps, their favorite games are their favorites partly because the intros drew them in. Buyt, yeha, everyone should have the same opinions as you. -_-

 

P.S. NEVAR FORGET!:

DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.

The intro for Mass Effect is really good.

"Things are funny...are comedic, because they mix the real with the absurd." - Buzz Aldrin.

"P-O-T-A-T-O-E" - Dan Quayle

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