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What are your favorite video game openings? (olio.cafe)
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Video game openings help set the stage for the game itself. What are your favorite video game openings? Could be the title screen, or the first bit in-game before the play starts. Could be that you like the music, or that they have a clever twist, or that they're technically impressive. Bonus points if you can link to a PeerTube or YouTube clip of them to let other people here who haven't yet seen them watch them!

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver intro is top-notch writing and direction. Everything from the intro cinematic feeds into the feel of the game and builds excitement that never lets up until the game is over.

If this is your first time seeing this masterpiece, I envy you.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think it's hard for modern audiences to imagine just how hard Amy Hennig and her team knocked it out of the park with that one.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not to mention all the cut content, like a human priestess worshipping vampires, Turel, the 3rd and final fight against Kain and the realization that Raziel was a useful pawn in the tentacles of Tony Jay

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I replayed it via the remaster a couple of months back, and there are so many places that just seem completely optional, like a lot of the shrines and the human citadel.

    For some reason they'd reintroduced a cut day/night cycle and it made the bit outside the cathedral completely unplayable as it was pitch black.

    Turel at least made it back for Defiance, along with more Elder God stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This intro cinematic goes so hard it’s still not been dethroned and no one has the balls to do it

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