Coolest game intros ever!

[Rincewind]

Discworld 2.
Partly because it was my very first adventure game, partly because it really is great, for real.
And yeah, lots of others too, as well.

[Baron]

Well, it's just an AGS game, but I never laughed harder than when I watched the intro to the first Barn Runner.  Classic.

[Blackthorne]

I mean, it seems tame now - but the NES version of Ninja Gaiden.... it had this cool opening scene with Ninja's dueling.  At the time, I thought it was the coolest thing.

Bt

[Haddas]

Zmobies naturally. And Zak McCracken and the alien mindbenders. I loved the intro music. I also loved the intro music in No Exit for the amiga.

[InCreator]

I mean, it seems tame now - but the NES version of Ninja Gaiden.... it had this cool opening scene with Ninja's dueling.  At the time, I thought it was the coolest thing.

Bt

Seconded.

On NES, there was many cool intros.
I also liked very much...

Robocop 3
Power Blade 2

[space boy]

Another World

[BOYD1981]

Zmobies naturally.

i second that.

[tube]

Another World

+1

Seriously, that was the most beautiful and movie-like intro I had ever seen on my Amiga 500. I positively drooled, the sci-fi loving early teen nerd I was. Never got very far in the game though.

[Paper Carnival]

How about Half-Life 1? Not just the train wagon thing, but even further ahead, and especially when everything went crazy. It was the best intro I've ever seen.

[BOYD1981]

yeh, it really was great being able to 'interact' with the intro so to speak, it made the whole intro experience more personal because you're not just watching a video, and it made for a more enjoyable almost movie like playing experience as movies often do have their own little intros of sorts which sets the movie up.
it's a shame that the half-life 2 introduction wasn't as long as intended.

[Stupot]

Cheesy as it is, I always loved the intro for Deathtrap Dungeon. 

[m0ds]

Intros and outros rule. Too hard to name one for me  Too many stand out as being fantastic!!! For the console I like the original Halo intro...the graphics were a bit crude but it brought back starship trooper memories, hehe. I think it was the spacey choral music getting me in the mood too, a bit like The Dig intro (kudos bill tiller!) does which is probably my favourite intro of all adventure games. I do love the DOTT intro too, but it was just a bit too zany for me when I was a kid & didn't have the same impact as a lot of other game intros. For me it's the earlier game intros/outros etc that stand out for me. Can't say I've played many of the games everyone else has listed though, but i definitely agree with LBA2. When I first watched/played that it was a very good feeling! As was Fate of Atlantis, I still like the intro, but it'll never have the same impact it did for the first time as a young Indy fan back in the 90's. That early generation of 3D (mostly rendered) intros and stuff was cool, I liked Theme Park's intro a lot lol & Kingdom O Magic, but never got to play more than the demo of that! DD2 was the first computer game I ever bought & that intro really inspired me for quite a long time. The number of crap QB racing games I tried to make after that lol!!!  : Anyway I generally like rendered intros rather than ones that harness the 3D engine itself. I liked Grim Fandango for that reason, I thought they'd go overboard on relying on the 3d characters but they rendered a lot of the cut-scenes very nicely! For a cheap sim game I enjoyed the Operation Genesis intro. Anyway, I don't think any of my intros necessarily count as the "coolest" in any sense hehe just old time favourites Another great intro is this one... LOL

[Ponch]

Well, it's just an AGS game, but I never laughed harder than when I watched the intro to the first Barn Runner.  Classic.

BaRoN, you absolutely made my day, dude! Thanks so much!

My favorite opening remains Full Throttle, which, by the way, is probably my favorite adventure game ever. Also, it's the only adventure game that I've played more than twice. That certainly explains why my Barn Runner games are (especially in later chapters) are heavy on cutscenes and fairly easy in the puzzle department.

Close runner up, the very moody opening to the first Gabriel Knight. Loved the poem and how it was expanded as the game went on.

- Ponch

[ThreeOhFour]

Heh, I have to add that the first Barn Runner's has to be one of my favourites as well. I've actually tried replicating the technique of the out loud thinking from this game in real life, to much hilarity (on my part) and much confusion (on everyone else's).

[OneDollar]

I second Beyond Good and Evil. Here's a nine-and-a-half minute Youtube link, but if anyone's interested they should download the demo. It's got a lot of things going for it but the interactive sections really make it.

Empire Earth II is nice and epic. Good tone setter.

Oh yeah, and I know the Sam and Max intro pretty much word for word (here, if anyone needs a link). That's pretty funny.

Theme Hospital anyone?

[jetxl]

A few shocking intros that come to mind.

Carmageddon
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Hell: a Cyberpunk Thriller
Quarantine
M.A.X.
Shadow of the Comet

[Mr.T]

Sam and Max: Hit the road
I laughed a lot with this one ^^

Full Throttle and DOTT intro are amazing too 

As for Farenheit I loved the way the intro immerse the player, the soundtrack is great.
(I'm still playing this one on ps2..)

[Blackthorne]

I mean, it seems tame now - but the NES version of Ninja Gaiden.... it had this cool opening scene with Ninja's dueling.  At the time, I thought it was the coolest thing.

Bt

Seconded.

That was cool to see again - but then I found THIS on YouTube.  Basically, someone remade the intro and it's really cool.

Bt

[veryweirdguy]

Sam and Max: Hit the road
I laughed a lot with this one ^^

I may get pummeled to custard for this, but nonetheless:

Is that what the voices sounded like? For realsies? I never played it with sound and thus only know the voices from the newer games. Max seems so much more......human? than I would expect. It's odd.

Good intro though.

[Mr.T]

Sam and Max: Hit the road
I laughed a lot with this one ^^

I may get pummeled to custard for this, but nonetheless:

Is that what the voices sounded like? For realsies? I never played it with sound and thus only know the voices from the newer games. Max seems so much more......human? than I would expect. It's odd.

Good intro though.

I bought it in French so I couldn't help with english voices,
the french acting voices were amazing tho