What are your favorite video game openings?

[flyboy84]

BF1942 and Homeworld

 

[Elcs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MQPWE_M_EM

Who forgot Mech Commander 1?

 

[Anomaly1964]

Borderlands!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai7pMPCDHpo

Cage the Elephant song is PERFECT for that game!

 

[Anubis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27-DsLJ76aA

 

[Udgnim]

Brood War opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GMOTrIjVao

 

[Possessed Freak]

I still have that tune stuck in my head after 20 years. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2XMzgKw04w You know... swans.

 

[techwanabe]

The original Baulders Gate had a decent opening for it's time way back around 1999

 

[frozentundra123456]

My favorite is KOTOR I. Loved the music and sense of urgency to escape the ship.
Actually, the music (and the rest of the game) was great all the way through KOTOR I.

Too bad they never finished up the franchise and went the MMO route instead.

 

[Via]

And, of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkBNKa2KXZE

Still takes me back to the first time I ever played it.

 

[shortylickens]

My favorite is KOTOR I. Loved the music and sense of urgency to escape the ship.
Actually, the music (and the rest of the game) was great all the way through KOTOR I.

Too bad they never finished up the franchise and went the MMO route instead.

Thats what I was thinking. KOTOR actually managed to tell a decent story where Phantom Menace failed.
KOTOR 2 had a less stellar intro. And ending. And everything in between.

 

[eLiu]

starcraft: ghost opening! man this thing looked awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVsTrLW_04U&feature=related

 

[stahlhart]

Do the game installers from the original Westwood C&C games count?

 

[stahlhart]

I thought Return to Castle Wolfenstein's was good, too.

 

[HeXen]

Ninja Gaiden on NES

 

[Raduque]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQCLZjyg07M

I think back to when I first played this game on my Pentium 66, and the first time I booted it up and watched the intro and I remember saying to myself "It's like the opening to a movie!"

 

[MustangSVT]

Nothing tops METAL GEAR SOLID imo.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Mine would be this.

Typical Square nonsense - really it makes no sense - I just like it because it's one of my all-time favorite games.

Of course, here's a sub-intro (that kicks in when you leave the game on) that makes far more sense.

 

[datalink7]

A lot of good ones. Freespace 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIWdolT9xY

 

[dennilfloss]

Final Fantasy 3 (6)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDMWp1oLoA0

 

[riteshshergill]

Black and White..

 

[PrayForDeath]

Not sure if the "Prologue" act in the Witcher 2 can be considered an intro, but it was cool as hell.

 

[murphy55d]

NHL 98 PC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBHWQX2VrKY

 

[DrunkenSano]

Mechwarrior 2 opening was pretty bad ass at the time.

So is the opening for the new MW game that is mired in legal matters.

 

[BrownShoes]

I always liked to intro to the original Resident Evil - it was so campy.

 

[El Guaraguao]

Ninja Gaiden on NES

thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis.


I remember as a kid, I used to recreate the beginning part of the intro with a friend....good times.