Are there any game openings/introductions that really wowed you when you first played?
Are there any game openings/introductions that really wowed you when you first played?
I'll get the obvious out of the way: FFVII
Also, I won't lie, FFX-2 opening still wows me. Albeit for different reasons...
Both Muv-Luv Alternative's Opening and Ever17's Opening really stood out to me when I read them. I think I watched them every time I started up the games.
Honorable mention to Little Busters' Opening, which didn't really wow me initially but grew on me gradually as I read through it, and now it's my overall favorite opening.
Vagrant Story has a fantastic mix of opening cinematic + opening tutorial combo that gets me super pumped to play it every time I boot a new game.
FFX because metal music and big monster destroys everything and Auron and epic.
At first I was really confused about Dark Souls' opening, but the fact that you meet every mythical figure presented in the opening CG as either NPC's or bosses made in mindblowing afterwards.
Suikoden III's intro immediately comes to mind. I mean, I was already hyped beyond belief when I got the game, then that song ~~. It is still one of my favorite intros.
The openings for Chrono Cross and Wild Arms also come to mind.
I don't know if I could say I 'loved" it because it was horribly traumatic but The Last of Us is probably the best opening to a videogame I can think of.
I also like the beginnings of both the Kingdom Hearts console games.
My favourite opening to any game is Uncharted 2. Shall we give you a nice Nintendo-style hand-holding hour before something tricky happens? No. You start the game hanging off the back of a train car, which itself is hanging off the end of a cliff. On you go then!
After that then probably FFVIII for an amazing intro. The Last of Us was indeed heart-breaking and actually gets worse each time I play it. That's probably the most emotional intro to a game that I've played.
Last edited by Bubba; 05-28-2015 at 01:26 PM.
God of War III had probably the most insane opening of any game. You battle enemies on top of a Titan, as it climbs Mount Olympus to kill Zeus. You're swinging upside down and dodging these water horse spider tentacle things that just looks unbelievable.
FFVII has my favorite opening of any game but GoWIII was the most intense.
Ys Origin, it was the first thing I saw of anything Ys related. And the music sucked me in right away.
The Hebijo side of Senran Kagura Burst does a good job of showing what this game is before the first mission. As soon as you start, you're thrust into a fight with Orochi. Which looks like that. And then after that fight you're treated to an animated opening of what you probably were expecting.
Orochi
Tutorial mission of MGR: Revengeance is smurfing INSANE in the best ways possible.
Every Saints Row from 2 onwards.