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MGS2 and FF VIII are my favourites by now in terms of song and animation

I like tales of abyss opening as well but i don't think its anywhere near the 2 above i mentioned >.<

Pokemon red/blue as well ^.^ lol just for a laugh :3

I always get chills at 0:50

White Glint, the only thing you cant see.. but Can hurt you...

Oh, there's one that really got me when I first saw it. One, that chilled me to the bone, made me burst with anticipation. One that has shown me the power of cooperation between Blizzard entertainment and Blur studio.

No single opening has ever impressed me again as much as this back in 2000. Of course, 10 years is 10 years...it's lacking in visual quality now, but back then something like this was unthinkable (well, outside Japan, that is XD)

But then again, they sure know how to keep up...

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War. War never changes.

The Romans waged war to gather slaves and wealth. Spain built an empire from its lust for gold and territory. Hitler shaped a battered Germany into an economic superpower.

But war never changes.

In the 21st century, war was still waged over the resources that could be acquired. Only this time, the spoils of war were also its weapons: Petroleum and Uranium. For these resources, China would invade Alaska, the US would annex Canada, and the European Commonwealth would dissolve into quarreling, bickering nation-states, bent on controlling the last remaining resources on Earth.

In 2077, the storm of world war had come again. In two brief hours, most of the planet was reduced to cinders. And from the ashes of nuclear devastation, a new civilization would struggle to arise.

A few were able to reach the relative safety of the large underground Vaults. Your family was part of that group that entered Vault Thirteen. Imprisoned safely behind the large Vault door, under a mountain of stone, a generation has lived without knowledge of the outside world.

Life in the Vault is about to change.

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War. War never changes.

The end of the world occurred pretty much as we had predicted. Too many humans, not enough space or resources to go around. The details are trivial and pointless, the reasons, as always, purely human ones.

The earth was nearly wiped clean of life. A great cleansing, an atomic spark struck by human hands, quickly raged out of control. Spears of nuclear fire rained from the skies. Continents were swallowed in flames and fell beneath the boiling oceans. Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth.

A quiet darkness fell across the planet, lasting many years. Few survived the devastation. Some had been fortunate enough to reach safety, taking shelter in great underground vaults. When the great darkness passed, these vaults opened, and their inhabitants emerged to begin their lives again.

One of the northern tribes claims they are descended from one such Vault. They hold that their founder and ancestor, one known the "Vault Dweller," once saved the world from a great evil. According to their legend, this evil arose in the far south. It corrupted all it touched, twisting men inside, turning them into beasts. Only through the bravery of this Vault Dweller was the evil destroyed. But in so doing, he lost many of his friends and suffered greatly, sacrificing much of himself to save the world.

When at last he returned to the home he had fought so hard to protect, he was cast out. Exiled. In confronting that which they feared, he had become something else in their eyes...and no longer their champion.

Forsaken by his people, he strode into the wasteland. He traveled far to the north, until he came to the great canyons. There, he founded a small village, Arroyo, where he lived out the rest of his years. And so, for a generation since its founding, Arroyo has lived in peace, its canyons sheltering it from the outside world. It is home. Your home.

But the scars left by the war have not yet healed. And the Earth has not forgotten.

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War. War never changes.

Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything, from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.

In the year 2077, after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation. But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes.

In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as vaults. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them - all except those in Vault 101. For on the fateful day, when fire rained from the sky, the giant steel door of Vault 101 slid closed... and never reopened. It was here you were born. It is here you will die. Because, in Vault 101: no one ever enters and no one ever leaves.

*cuddles her Fallout series*

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Originally Posted by synaesthetic (Post 3078560)

*cuddles her Fallout series*

*cuddles his* Cant wait for New Vegas

but to counter that "War.. war never changes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVdGE7W2cA

Hell to the yes, I am shitting myself in anticipation for FONV. :D

I agree with a lot of people on the MGS2 and MGS3 openings.~

Simply epic.~

this is the 3rd part to the opening of Gaiares and one of my favorite old school tunes

the full opening sequence I just love the music

Xenogears (posted earlier)

Shadow of the Colossus (also posted)

RETROGAMING WARNING Another World (when you realize it's done by a signle french guy in his basement...)

Homeworld 1 (because Barber's adagio makes awesome things even more awesome)

Fallout 1

Persona 3

Y's I & II Eternal Openings, Origins, and Y's VI hit the home run for me. Others would have to be various openings in the Metal Gear verse, Epica Stella/Vanguard Bandits, Growlanser III/IV/VI, and the original Wild Arms and the original two openings of the second wild arms. But I won't be digging for all that, just some passable quality Y's ones.

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Originally Posted by Kyero Fox (Post 3078671)

*cuddles his* Cant wait for New Vegas

but to counter that "War.. war never changes"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtVdGE7W2cA

Heh, every time I see an AK-102 I have to say "War has changed..."

This is my favorite opening. ever.

Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Opening , also Parasite Eve 2.

Seconding Homeworld 1 and Fallout series above. In addition:

EVE

SupCom

STALKER

STALKER: Call of Pripyat

It saddens me that no one nominated the animated intro from Suikoden III, arguably one of the best JRPGs to grace the PS2.

The manga of the game has long since been completed and even translated into English. Makes me wonder why it was never adapated into an anime. :(

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Originally Posted by Arbitres (Post 3080576)

This is my favorite opening. ever.

besides the fact that Rai hardly fuckin shows AT ALL! XD

Let's see.

- Devil may Cry 4
- Tales of the Abyss
- Persona 3/4/1 (PSP remake)
- BlazBlue Calamity trigger
- Kingdom Hearts 2
- Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
- The World Ends With You
- .Hack//G.U. Reminisce

"Gotta get more candy cane!"

How has this thread gone for so long without the Chrono Cross OP?

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