Great Videogame Intros

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Great Videogame Intros

Postby OL » Sat Aug 02, 2014 1:48 pm

Been a while since we've had one of these. I'd look up the old topic, but new ones are more fun.

Anyway, I was just watching a random string of videos on PS1 games, and came to the intros for Re-Loaded. Most of the videos are kind of meh, but this one for Fwank was great (it only lasts until about 5:45). Gave a good chuckle.


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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby Henry Spencer » Sat Aug 02, 2014 6:57 pm

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This one just holds a nostalgic place for me, never forgotten it. I still think it has the best intro in the series, just the way the music, character intros and visuals just fall into place so well. I even realised as a kid that Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the T1000 were all obvious influences with those characters. Plus there was a cyborg samurai in it, so I remember thinking as a kid that just had to play it with all of those bad-asses put into one game. The game also has my favourite Tekken OST even all of these years later. Was my first Tekken and been a big fan ever since.

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby OL » Mon Aug 04, 2014 9:26 pm

This one is awesome mainly because of how close it is to the original opening for the show. The characters are 3D, and the scenes are a bit different, but it's really cool how perfectly they matched the original style, even down to using the original theme music.
(unfortunately the video quality is a bit shit)


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Re: Great Videogame Intros

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby Axm » Tue Aug 05, 2014 12:18 pm

^ <3
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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby OL » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:44 pm

Great song, great art design, and an amazing sense of loneliness. I may never know why, but for some reason that old atmosphere of solitude is endlessly appealing to me in videogames. This game had it in abundance, and the intro spells it out really well. The only problem with it is that the video always felt to me like it indicated a grander sense of exploration, which the actual game just doesn't really provide. Would have been amazing if it did.
Either way, a really beautiful intro.


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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby Raithos » Wed Aug 06, 2014 7:28 pm

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby SaM_4000 » Fri Aug 08, 2014 7:01 am

This is one of my favourite introductions to a video game ever and I think a very clever way to introduce the player to the Headhunter universe. Nothing beats over the top/cheesy acting!

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby OL » Sat Aug 09, 2014 12:01 pm

I can never stress enough how much I love this game. It's downright nutty to me that this is one of my favorite games ever, but... it is.
I'm really not usually one for racing games. I like them in a general sense, and I have fun every now and then playing a course or two, but they aren't generally the type of games that I go nuts for. They're really fun diversions, but I don't usually think more of them beyond that.
But R4 is different. The gameplay is all classic Ridge Racer-style sliding (if I have to pick a racing style, that's the one for me), the graphics are phenomenal for a PS1 game, the menu and presentation style of it all is incredibly attractive and slick, and goddayum, that soundtrack is heavenly.
And almost all of that appeal can be found front-row in the intro. So great.


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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby Barbarossa » Sat Aug 09, 2014 6:37 pm

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Literally my favorite part of the whole game.

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby OL » Sun Aug 10, 2014 2:31 am

Maybe a little silly, but this is easily one of my favorite fighting game intros. Admittedly it's all because of nostalgia. There was an Art of Fighting cabinet at a store my parents would take me to a lot in the early-90s, and even if I didn't have the coinage on-hand to actually play it every time, I remember seeing this intro over and over. Somehow that shot of the picture frame cracking is so classic and near-iconic to me personally.
Nothing complex, but it means something to me.

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby Henry Spencer » Sun Aug 10, 2014 6:40 am

I much prefer this version of the intro to the 3DS version's intro. This intro still plays in the 3DS version if you leave it on the title screen long enough anyway [90s anime art > 2010's anime art]. Just everything about this intro just screams the 90s to me. The entire game has that Saturday morning cartoon feel to it. Plus, it's cyberpunk and the music is essentially jazz mixed with synth, just sounds so nice to me. I only actually saw this intro a couple of years ago for the first time when I was first getting into MegaTen, but it instantly captured me.

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby Thief » Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:57 am

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God. Sonic Team used to be so fucking cool.

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby SaM_4000 » Fri Aug 15, 2014 11:10 pm

I can still remember when my older brother purchased Golden Axe II way back when, and the moment we switched our Mega Drive on and saw this intro our jaws just dropped; it was one of the coolest things we had ever seen.
The music is just unbelievably awesome and there were Minotaurs! freakin' Minotaurs!....

Anyway...This intro was, and still is EPIC.

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Re: Great Videogame Intros

Postby Cave Johnson » Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:32 pm

Turn up the volume for maximum impacto.

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One of the best, JPN>ENG intro.

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