What's the best videogame opening?

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— Diarhea_Bukake

I like the Borderlands and Borderlands 2 openings. They set the tone of the game incredibly well. The opening videos, not the intro parts. Also the Fallout 4 opening, but I think it would've been a better opener for Fallout 3. The history part, that is. Not the "My father" stuff.
— SuperKing0001

“On your feet, soldier! We are leaving!” “Since when does Shepard care about danger close?” The modern warfare series was so good
— ChildrenzAdvil

Fallout 3. From being born to those first steps outside the vault, loved that.
— CavemanFromSpace

I really like the opening of Mass Effect 2. Everything's going fine, then all of a sudden there is an attack, and then when Shepherd is blown out into space, I was shocked.
— jpterodactyl

Portal 2 “Now, say ‘apple’...now, what you’re doing there is jumping...”
— Consequentially

I enjoyed the opening of Far Cry 3. Pulled me right in. Vaas was an interesting character
— Acaedus

Fallout 4 had a pretty solid opening. With the intro monolog and then seeing the start of the war.
— QuasarDelta

Really enjoyed the opening scene of The Last Of Us. Goddamn was it sad though.
— CaptainReggie

Dragon Age: Inquisition. I played both DA:O and DA:II, expecting a war between mages and templars. Here comes DA:I's menu screen, Mages, and Templars are marching somewhere, huh? I press New Game and them boom, a freaking explosion, killed all of them. WTF?
— westlife2206

MGSV's seemingly endless opening left me saying "what the fuck is even going on?!" But I thought it was amazing.
— GordonSemen

Half Life 2. It was the first time I felt like I was immersed in a dystopia.
— rayven1lk

The opening heist of Saints Row 3 set the tone of the game so incredibly well. The rest of the game was maybe hit or miss, but damn that intro sequence was amazing.
— illyume

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