• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

What happened to really cool CG intros? (also post your favorite CG intros)

M

MercuryLS

Banned
They were so prevalent in the PS1 days. My personal favs.

RR Type 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMZ872rsa90

GT2 US intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4M_G-UUDE8

Vagrant Story: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRQlMfyGtnM

A lot of the next-gen games don't have intros anymore, even many last gen games didn't have them either.

There isn't a lot of really cool intros anymore, but Motorstorm had one awesome one.

Motorstorm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOKiW893Cfw

It's weird that most of these are racing games, I don't even like the genre that much but they always seem to have awesome CG intros.
 
D

dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
This gen really IS lacking in this area. Ridge Racer 6 had a nice intro...but then they went and failed to create a new one for Ridge Racer 7. :(
 
C

Chemo

Member
There's no reason to do them anymore... games look great now.

Some people never did them, though, like Kojima... he used the game models in all the cutscenes for Metal Gear Solid because he felt it detracted from the game itself to treat people to gorgeous cutscenes and then thrust them back into ugly PSX-era graphics when it was time to play the game again. He's kept that up ever since, and I personally think it's worked out well.
 
J

Jan

Member
Specially Onimusha 3, woth a really great work of robot and Donnie Yen doing the stunts. Impressive.

Also Panzer Dragoon Azel and Resident Evil Code Veronica.
 
D

dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
I've sorted through every 360/PS3 game released thus far and the only other cool intro that I could find was Ninety-Nine Nights. I really do miss cool intros...
 
A

Avalon

Member
Chrono Cross had an amazing intro.

EDIT:

Not CG, but Persona 2: Eternal Punishment had an awesome trailer as well.
 
D

~Devil Trigger~

In favor of setting Muslim women on fire
*insert Onimusha 3 Intro here*

*insert any Tekken/Soul Calibur intro Here*

*insert Bioshock CG Trailer here*
 
A

anaron

Member
Great Thread. My personal favourites:

Final Fantasy VIII:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pZ2ibvZb2Q
Final Fantasy VII: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTkvKyl6ens

Chrono Cross http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDnPYoGzW78

Parasite Eve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Tcl6qvfy4

Resident Evil 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfRFfUDhsWM
Resident Evil CV :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqtgaJZiehk

Silent Hill 1+2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_BhLbB3M9A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tysvNGGFN3M
 
S

soco

Member
i think playable intros and in-game intros are being more favourable now. there's always gonna be some around though.
 
D

dark10x

Digital Foundry pixel pusher
Akala said:
Not CG, but the Wild Arms intro impressed the hell out of me at the time.
Click to expand...
Wild Arms games always have cool intros. WA5 was the first time they abandoned animation, but it was still very cool (sort of a Gundam intro tribute, if you ask me).
 
T

traveler

Not Wario
Outdoor Miner said:
Not a single Blizzard clip. You all am fail.
Click to expand...

Crazy japanophiles don't appreciate Western devs amirite? :lol

I kid. That said, I do notice a severe lack of the masters of CG. The Starcraft 2 CG intro I posted above is probably the best CG I've ever seen in a game.
 
G

GamerSoul

Member
SSBM, the music arrangement was superb and it never gets old.
Soul Calibr 2, it had that epic feel to it and a lot of action.
 
S

Son of Godzilla

Banned
dark10x said:
I've sorted through every 360/PS3 game released thus far and the only other cool intro that I could find was Ninety-Nine Nights. I really do miss cool intros...
Click to expand...
Dead Rising had an awesome intro, but wasn't CG.
 
SantaC

SantaC

Member
dark10x said:
I've sorted through every 360/PS3 game released thus far and the only other cool intro that I could find was Ninety-Nine Nights. I really do miss cool intros...
Click to expand...

as do I miss the cool endings
 
M

meltpotato

Member
let's hope they die... it's an unnecessary cost/time constraint from the build POV, doesn't really add much for the gamer, and is reasonably matched by in-engine w/ slight extra detail and cinematic filters at this point.

they are obsolete
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

GDC 2024 | Conf Schedules for Unreal & other Game Tech
2
765
CamHostage replied
  • Locked
Resident Evil has such a bad and outdated feature it doesn't fly anymore in present day and Capcom should really stop it already
2
69
5K
justiceiro replied
Atlas Fallen | Review Thread
Analysis Review
40
4K
Filben replied
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty | Review Thread
Analysis Review 5 6 7 8 9
424
29K
ChoosableOne replied
Death of the Game System boot up screen
Analysis
30
2K
Jubenhimer replied
Top Bottom