Cut scenes, Bring Me Your Favorites

I remember the intro cinematic for Descent Freespace was amazing when it released in 1998 -

I like cutscenes but I also loved Half Life for its in-game exposition.

Final Fantasy 9 had some pretty great cutscenes. I wish that one was getting as much love with remakes at FF7.

kazooka wrote:

I've always loved this one from World in Conflict. I swear I've seen a few movies take some serious inspiration from it over the years.

Setup is that the Soviet Union has invaded New York in the 1980's, and the Army is about to fly into Ellis Island as part of the counterattack.

I'm with you, I loved this scene. It's one of the few cut scenes I can really remember liking.

When I heard "favorite cutscene" on the podcast, this sprang to mind:

The orchestral music, the sweeping opening, then the bomb goes off. It even aged pretty well, given I've played it almost 20 years ago. "Paris in the fall" has the same memory effect for me as "War. War never changes." Speaking of which: the intros to Fallout 1 and 2 are still awesome.

I didn't think of this one until they started talking on the CC, but in the orignal StarCraft - Demolition of the Amerigo:

And I remember rewatching this one from FFVII where they fire the massive canon at Midgar through one of the Weapons.

Warhammer 40K Dawn of War Opening Cinematic

Skiptron wrote:
kazooka wrote:

I've always loved this one from World in Conflict. I swear I've seen a few movies take some serious inspiration from it over the years.

Setup is that the Soviet Union has invaded New York in the 1980's, and the Army is about to fly into Ellis Island as part of the counterattack.

I'm with you, I loved this scene. It's one of the few cut scenes I can really remember liking.

That's what you get for going in without defeating the adversary IADS first. Silly OPLAN.

Would trailers count in this case? Probably not. Either way, the Dead Space 1 Launch Trailer featured a Sigur Ros song from their () album (Untitled 7) and I couldn't believe how ridiculously well it had fit.

When Mordin says: "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.", really hit me right in the feels on my first playthrough.

One of my all time favorites: Wild ARMs intro cutscene:

Damn, Bobby...I was *JUST* coming here to post that one. Absolutely loved that cutscene to the point where it kicked off my interest in picking up video game soundtracks.

I guess as a secondary option:

No intro to I-War you bastards? It's the BEST:

Man I wish they would give this an HD remake.

Veloxi wrote:

No intro to I-War you bastards? It's the BEST:

How bout I give you this as an apology:

I realized I never posted my favorite. OBVIOUS SPOILERS BELOW!

The Last Of Us final cut scene took me through the whole spectrum of emotions. In almost direct antithesis of my previous statements, I loved the lack of choice. Had this come down to the player deciding with "hit x to escape ot y to abandon Ellie" it would have lost all of the dramatic tension.

CptDomano wrote:
Veloxi wrote:

No intro to I-War you bastards? It's the BEST:

How bout I give you this as an apology:

HOW. f*ckING. DARE. YOU.

My favourites-
Arthas killing his father in Warcraft 3. I remember watching it with my mouth gaping..."did he just....?". Really brought home how the madness had taken hold.
End of the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2, with

Spoiler:

Shepherd running past (depending how you played it) his fallen crew members and leaping for the Normandy to be pulled up by [insert your savior name here (or don't, if you done f%cked it up)].

Not sure if that still needs spoilers.
I also love cdprojekt reds stuff, particularly the opening cut scene for Witcher 2 with the frozen boat death madness.

Veloxi wrote:

HOW. f*ckING. DARE. YOU.

Mwahahahahhah! You are very welcome! I thought you would appreciate that.

Watched this one soooo many times when it came out. Only ever played the PC demo, and even though I really liked what I played, still have never gotten anywhere in the full game.

I remember being amazed by the FFVIII intro as well. Although it has nothing on my favorite PS game of all time:

So many memories...