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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[-] tal@olio.cafe 2 points 3 weeks ago

Some ones that I've been impressed with.

Relative to the technical limitations of the time, maybe the title music for Solstice for the NES, a Tim Follins creation. The sound hardware of the time imposed pretty severe limitations on what one could do, and Follins was famous for finding ways around them. I didn't hear this until many years after it was actually done, and it's decent even in absolute terms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gObHt1uZA
The music for the Civilization series has been pretty good. Here's "Baba Yetu" for Civilization IV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A

First video game piece to ever win a Grammy award, for "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)". Performed by the Grammy-winning Soweto Gospel Choir with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
In terms of openings that really do a pretty good job of building a lot of intensity and setting the stage for the rest of the game, I think I'd give credit to some Bethesda games, both of which involve attempts to execute the main character: Skyrim and Fallout: New Vegas:

Video

Skyrim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsRA5BG3N8E

Fallout: New Vegas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOiVxTB0KY

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