Greatest Intro and Ending cinema in a video game?

[warcrow]

Greatest intro cinema = Warcraft III
Greatest ending cinema = Final Fantasty VII

What about you guys?

 

[blurredvision]

You nailed the greatest ending cinema right on the head. FFVII was by and far the best game I have ever played, bar none. The whole game was superb throughout, and the ending was icing on the cake.

Greatest intro cinema? It's kinda hard to say, but I absolutely loved Diablo II's opening movie. I hate to stay in the same Blizzard category, but they knew what they were doing.

 

[warcrow]

Oh, I forgot about D2, DOH!

Hrm, its tough to say though, but I think I'm sticking with WCIII.

 

[blurredvision]

You could include Half-Life as the best opening "cinema", even though you technically could move around the rail-car. Back in 1998, that was just the coolest opening ever for a video game.

 

[stnicralisk]

I didnt think the HL2 thing was that great.

Especially not the ending.

I would say Frozen Throne Opening Cinema or Diablo 2 Opening Cinema. I cannot fathom anything that has ever been such a badass opening as either of those.

Illidan>U.

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
You could include Half-Life as the best opening "cinema", even though you technically could move around the rail-car. Back in 1998, that was just the coolest opening ever for a video game.

That was a darned cool opening.

The opening of System Shock 2 when you first load the game (IIRC) was super scary if you ever played the original (OMG is it almost 10 years since it came out?!?). "L-L-Look at you, hacker...". <shudder>

 

[klah]

intro: MechWarrior 2
outro: FFVII

 

[slipONflange]

Greatest ending cinema: Mafia

 

[yoda291]

greatest beginning cinema: diablo 2 easily.
greatest ending cinema: warcraft 3, end of human campaign...little cheaty, but kinda counts.

 

[BFG10K]

DEIW, Warcraft III, Diablo II, Painkiller, RTCW.

 

[nageov3t]

intro: Suikoden 3
outro: FF7

 

[clicknext]

Metal Gear Solid ending.
Final Fantasy VIII's intro was pretty cool...

 

[THUGSROOK]

Descent II

 

[SickBeast]

The first Zelda game for N64.

 

[sparkyclarky]

I'm still a fan of the Metal Gear Solid intro and exit, but there are many other great ones too.

 

[blazer78]

Originally posted by: slipONflange
Greatest ending cinema: Mafia

 

[Sylvanas]

greatest opening: war3
greatest ending: starcraft BW
go blizzard!

 

[Czar]

not sure but I'm pretty sure its done by Blizzard

 

[Whitecloak]

greatest opening : halflife
greatest ending : BG2: SOA

 

[krackato]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
You could include Half-Life as the best opening "cinema", even though you technically could move around the rail-car. Back in 1998, that was just the coolest opening ever for a video game.

I'll toast to that. So amazingly classy at the time.

 

[jrphoenix]

Originally posted by: warcrow
Greatest intro cinema = Warcraft III
Greatest ending cinema = Final Fantasty VII

What about you guys?

Medieval Total War (Creative Assembly).... I imagine the new Rome Total War will pass this up (out today, go get it!!)

 

[Modeps]

you guys are gonna make me wanna play FF7 again, and I've got so many other NEW games to play. Jerks.

 

[ScrewFace]

C'mon, get real! Quake II, RTCW, Jedi Knight2: Jedi Outcast and Undying!

 

[Elcs]

Originally posted by: klah
intro: MechWarrior 2
outro: FFVII

Perhaps in-game FMV should be considered too OP.

Never been disappointed by FMV from the MW series. Although MW2 for its day and age was stunning and could quite frankly show up even the best games coming out now. MechCommander 1... now that intro was amazing. A tactical advisor helping a Centurion, Hunchback and Raven (I think) defeat a Mad Cat without much effort. It was an indication of how good the game was imo, commanding a force and watching them obliterate an enemy using your own tactics is enjoyable.

Diablo2 has been slated for being near plotless and quite frankly, the in-game storyline was crap but the FMV storyline was just so amazing it was unbelievable. That would be for me, the best FMV storyline.

Ending.... I dont know to be honest. I dont think Ive ever really enjoyed an outro. Not even FFVII's really made me think "wow, i really just did save that planet".

Undoubtedly, Westwood Studios created some of the best FMV. Using real actors and rather obscure storylines made it a bit corny but they showed a real effort in trying to immerse a player into the story and make them feel a part of the game.

Halflife's intro bored me. Yes it was innovative, showed that people thought outside the box to create something never done before but it wasnt the best. TBH they should have had some kind of mod where the railcar took you past dinosaur worlds, past/future ideas of worlds, would have been fun.

To be honest, if you gave the old Activision a load of money, I bet they'd make one hell of a Mechwarrior/Battletech movie.

 

[Sureshot324]

Originally posted by: blazer78

Originally posted by: slipONflange
Greatest ending cinema: Mafia

Mafia had the best cut scenes period.