Favorite game cutscenes?

[Fragony]

Thief: Everything about this game is above everything else best game ever made

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oh fanboys

[pevergreen]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_rS_n3...eature=related

AoE2 is great as well!

Warcraft 2 for that matter as well! I watched this over and over when i played it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU-n8UZM5Cc

[ICantSpellDawg]

Gabriel Knight 3

Full Throttle

Adventure games have the best cut scenes.

[Martok]

I'll second Red Alert and Shogun Total War -- both had some excellent scenes.

As a Star Trek aficionado, I would also tip my hat to Birth of the Federation and Klingon Academy. The intro movie for BOTF had both excellent music & narration and felt very atmospheric, and the campaign intro movies for each of the 5 playable races were fairly well-done as well. As for KA, I have just five words for you: David Werner and Christopher Plummer. Nothing more needs to be said there.

[caravel]

The closing cutscene from Shogun.

I didn't want to mention that one because it's so clearly in a league of it's own. The in game assassination movies, the throne room diplomatic visits, the end game movies, it's all first class.

-Edit: STW is quite simply art.

[Pannonian]

Call me soppy, but I loved the cutscenes in Final Fantasy 8.

[Togakure]

I didn't want to mention that one because it's so clearly in a league of it's own. The in game assassination movies, the throne room diplomatic visits, the end game movies, it's all first class.

-Edit: STW is quite simply art.

The ninja taking out two guards with one spear toss, the ninja dual-dagger throw, the sword kata in the dojo, and sword practice in the fields are my favorite mini-scenes of all time. I love the music in the modern-day trailer at the very end of a game. Hell, you already said it: to this day--it all rocks.

[Baby Boomer]

My number one favourite was in World in Conflict. The whole game was simply stunning but the one mission... with all the Black Hawks in the city, blew me away. Copied it onto my PSP to watch on the go.

Several others would be ones from Company of Heroes, though weren't as good as WiC and the COD series. There are probably others I liked, but these ones jump out at me currently.

[Quirinus]

Age of Empires. That has always stuck in my mind.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQ-WsquMwE

Back in the day, that looked utterly amazing.

That reminds me, the intro for the first Empire Earth was awesome, always made me want to play the periods and units depicted in the cutscene.

[FesterShinetop]

Yeah, the cutscenes in WiC are very good!

I always loved the intro to Mafia, very cinematic with great music. Also very well done how it blended in with the start of the game:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jKsaJe2zKSo

[Mikeus Caesar]

My number one favourite was in World in Conflict. The whole game was simply stunning but the one mission... with all the Black Hawks in the city, blew me away. Copied it onto my PSP to watch on the go.

Several others would be ones from Company of Heroes, though weren't as good as WiC and the COD series. There are probably others I liked, but these ones jump out at me currently.

I completely forgot about WiC. That definitely had some amazing cinematics. The New York scene was of movie quality, as was the opening cinematic 'Сиэтл-89' showing the invasion of Seattle.

Hell, even the loading sequences were good cinematics. The pictures, the narration...quality.

[Praxil]

Too many favorite cutscenes out there. How about all from Metal Gear Solid series?

Anyway, Fallout 2 intro. Classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3PXiV95kwA

Hello...

I never saw that coming.

Age of Empires. That has always stuck in my mind.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3bQ-WsquMwE

Back in the day, that looked utterly amazing.

Indeed. I think that it still looks utterly amazing.

[Ferret]

The Dawn of War intro.

ditto

[Justiciar]

Though by no means the best, I still find the Dungeon Keeper intro most memorable.