Author Topic: Post hilariously cheesy 32 bit era fmv intros (Read 4377 times)

Himu · « **on:** July 24, 2014, 02:43:09 AM »

my fave

be sure to listen with music ON.

Rufus · « **Reply #1 on:** July 24, 2014, 02:48:34 AM »

Tekken 2

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Nina's dead eyes are the best part.

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Himu · « **Reply #2 on:** July 24, 2014, 02:54:20 AM »

i just watched tekken 2's and it's still hilarious.

It's amazing how far we came between T2 and T3:

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Tekken 1:

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Kazuya's neck!

Rufus · « **Reply #3 on:** July 24, 2014, 02:58:27 AM »

Yeah, the jumps in quality are amazing. They go from looking like segmented action figures to mannequins to something resembling actual human beings.

Himu · « **Reply #4 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:00:09 AM »

Himu · « **Reply #5 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:01:00 AM »

Quote from: Rufus on July 24, 2014, 02:58:27 AM

Yeah, the jumps in quality are amazing. They go from looking like segmented action figures to mannequins to something resembling actual human beings.

That's just a 3 year difference too.

Rufus · « **Reply #6 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:04:47 AM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on July 24, 2014, 03:00:09 AM

Oh no, they stole your ball. Time to retreat into your nightmarish dream world.

Himu · « **Reply #7 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:04:58 AM »

Not cheesy but awesome:

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Rufus · « **Reply #8 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:06:15 AM »

Yeees, Ghost in the Shell was amazing. The game is pretty good too.

Silent Hill

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Ride Racer Type 4

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Himu · « **Reply #9 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:07:52 AM »

Fuck yeah. I wonder if it still holds up?

Another good one.

GIANT CLOWN. The prototype to the King in Katamari.

Himu · « **Reply #10 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:10:40 AM »

The sad part when you look at old game intros from the 90's is that most of these companies don't even exist anymore.

Like Takara, the publisher for BAT3, went defunct wayyyy back in 2006. I had to look up to see if Tamsoft still makes games and apparently they make the Oneechanbara line of games, which I never knew before today!

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:11:56 AM »

Himu · « **Reply #12 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:17:45 AM »

Gex:

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Bug:

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Clockwork Knight:

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Die Hard 2 Viva Las Vegas:

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Dude, the RR4 intro rocks so much.

Himu · « **Reply #13 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:34:06 AM »

Not 3d or fmv or 32 bit to be exact, but I wanna talk about intros in general for a sec. I feel like they are now a lost art in games. I'm not talking about what starts when you start the game, I'm talking about an intro that starts immediately after booting the game up and the dev/pub credits pop up. Something to pull you in and make you go,"fuck ya, I'm pumped for this shit"

Samples of this in action:

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To be fair, the whole intro before start screen thing was always more of a Japanese thing, but I always felt they enhanced the game for some reason, if it was good, of course.

doctavius bonbon · « **Reply #14 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:46:11 AM »

Quote from: Queen of Ice on July 24, 2014, 03:34:06 AM

Not 3d or fmv or 32 bit to be exact, but I wanna talk about intros in general for a sec. I feel like they are now a lost art in games. I'm not talking about what starts when you start the game, I'm talking about an intro that starts immediately after booting the game up and the dev/pub credits pop up. Something to pull you in and make you go,"fuck ya, I'm pumped for this shit"

Samples of this in action:

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To be fair, the whole intro before start screen thing was always more of a Japanese thing, but I always felt they enhanced the game for some reason, if it was good, of course.

Intro's like 5 seconds long but never failed to get me pumped.

Browny.

Also totally off-topic, but I wonder if those sega / snes emulators have decent netplay nowdays.

Himu · « **Reply #15 on:** July 24, 2014, 03:48:12 AM »

Street fighter II's intro is like 8 seconds long and is iconic and memorable as fuck.

doctavius bonbon · « **Reply #16 on:** July 24, 2014, 04:00:50 AM »

Dropping Gun Hazard's intro here too just because

And yes, that's Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda with the proto-FF7 futuristic soundtrack.

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #17 on:** July 24, 2014, 04:02:56 AM »

Intros and attract screens are a lost art. I love to leave PS2 and PS1 games just running in the background as they play thier videos. Editing videos is an art in itself and a lot of these games use to have nicely edited videos that were just kind of there for the heck of it.

Thats why I have an over 12 hour video(and growing) compilation of this kind of stuff.

StealthFan · « **Reply #18 on:** July 24, 2014, 04:23:28 AM »

what was that RE ripoff set on the train?

Also smh at Silent Hill being in this thread.

Rufus · « **Reply #19 on:** July 24, 2014, 04:32:30 AM »

Quote from: They Called Me Stealthfan on July 24, 2014, 04:23:28 AM

Also smh at Silent Hill being in this thread.

We're ignoring the thread title at this point. I think it's cool, fwiw.

magus · « **Reply #20 on:** July 24, 2014, 06:57:05 AM »

thread might as well have been called "street fighter ex plus alpha endings"

bork · « **Reply #21 on:** July 24, 2014, 07:47:49 AM »

That Tekken 2 intro used to sell import copies of the game like crazy at the shop I worked at.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #22 on:** July 24, 2014, 08:16:49 AM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #23 on:** July 24, 2014, 08:58:42 AM »

Himu · « **Reply #24 on:** July 24, 2014, 10:31:02 AM »

Quote from: bork laser on July 24, 2014, 07:47:49 AM

That Tekken 2 intro used to sell import copies of the game like crazy at the shop I worked at.

Lower game software sales : less intros and attract screens

Correlation?

toku · « **Reply #25 on:** July 24, 2014, 11:08:16 AM »

tiesto · « **Reply #26 on:** July 24, 2014, 06:33:46 PM »

GOAT intro

DCharlieJP · « **Reply #27 on:** July 25, 2014, 04:09:10 AM »

never to be beaten - requires sound. It's in English.

"Az a resalt the Earthes environment was improve"

etiolate · « **Reply #28 on:** July 25, 2014, 05:16:24 AM »

I think intro scenes changed because videogames are far less a solitary experience in a dark bedroom these days. The console is out in the living room and connected to the internet. Do you want to load up that epic intro and have "Your Friend Bong_Jeremy95 has signed on." pop up along with about three other pop-ups, a game update, and yada yada.

You also have cinematics more often throughout the game, so the intro cinematic isn't that special an ordeal anymore.

Himu · « **Reply #29 on:** July 25, 2014, 06:56:35 AM »

That reasoning doesn't make sense to me. For one, most intros are skipped after the first watch. But sometimes a great intro draws you in and you watch it every time you load the game up. Those are rare, but awesome. Games aren't the solitary experiences they used to be, but there are still lots of solitary experiences.

Also, there have been numerous games with classic intros that take place in story based games, especially RPGs.

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GTAIV and V didn't have a customary, traditional intro btw.

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Himu · « **Reply #30 on:** July 25, 2014, 07:16:06 AM »

Atlus intros

The hallmark of a great rpg is one that gets you pumped every time you load that damn game up.

http://m.

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HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #31 on:** July 25, 2014, 05:48:02 PM »

hey, willya lookit that, its my new favorite thread.

No One Can Stop Mr. Domino!

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Incredible Crisis (and its actually representative of the game)

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WCW/nWo Revenge

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recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #32 on:** July 27, 2014, 08:43:35 AM »

I remember everyone being amazed by the Soul Blade intro at the time, IIRC a lot of the people behind it ended up at Square shortly after.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #33 on:** July 28, 2014, 05:52:40 PM »

This is hot poop right here

Back when I was at 17-Bit I made this as a tribute to 32 bit intros, I remember stealing the "PRETTY GIRL IN CHERRY BLOSSOM WOODS" from uhhh pretty much everything.

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Ironically I don't think this plays on boot, you have to idle at the main screen for 30 seconds. It also doesn't exist in the mobile versions because of download size

Himu · « **Reply #34 on:** July 28, 2014, 06:29:21 PM »

shonuf thoughts on BAT3's intro? It has pretty girl in cherry blossom

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #35 on:** July 28, 2014, 06:42:17 PM »

HOTT CG
HOTT JAMS

Himu · « **Reply #36 on:** July 28, 2014, 06:46:51 PM »

the last minute of BAT3's intro music-wise, is gaming bliss. Why don't I hear stuff like that anymore?

Just instantly transports me to 97, and I'm playing it on my psx, drinking egg nog.

This was almost twenty years ago. Nooooooooo

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #37 on:** July 28, 2014, 06:54:29 PM »

We are old now and everything sucks

Himu · « **Reply #38 on:** July 28, 2014, 06:56:12 PM »

everything doesn't suck i just want music like bat3 intro

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #39 on:** July 28, 2014, 08:22:33 PM »

Not PS1, but PS2.

I just love things that play if you leave the game running at the menu.

a slime appears · « **Reply #40 on:** July 28, 2014, 08:44:18 PM »

And we're done here:

Command & Conquer: Red Alert

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Oh wait this is a "cheesy fmv" thread. WHATEVER, RED ALERT INTRO IS KING OF THE INTROS.

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