I decided to make a video game counterpart to this thread:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/favorite_movie_scenes

So lets get to it.

Cutscenes that left an eternal impression on me is:

Pretty much all the cinematics for Warcraft 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfkiJXnSRM8

Cutscenes of games that I played recently that impressed me was the cutscenes of the Warhammer Dawn of War games, especially the ones that have these 2 on screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5b62RFLvdRk

This is definitely my favorite of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ-xcgBL1mY

This.


All others pale in comparison.

Bioshock's good ending comes to mind. It's definitely one of my favorite endings to a game.

Any cutscene from Armed & Dangerous.

Two of my favourites are the intros to Independence War 1 and 2:

Independence War Intro

I-War 2: Edge of Chaos intro

Opening to Brutal Legend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woxW1GZnAAA

The intro to Battlefield 1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb8PQXPOkCc

There's nothing that is as cool as that.

That's one that I immediately thought of. Freespace was awesome

Diablo 2 had the most stunning cutscenes to me. It blew me away. Best graphics I saw for a long time. (I hardly played the game but watched all the cutscenes).

the ones i can skip

I have a soft spot for Ron Perlman's gravelly "War. War never changes" narration, so I like the Fallout intros. But I think the intro for New Vegas was really excellent, because it introduced everything you needed to know about the game world without spoiling anything, and the scene of you coming to next to your own grave with Benny and the Khans there, that's a really good character intro, too.

It's not fine cinema or anything, but I do think the whole intro sequence to New Vegas is quite good, and others have already mentioned Descent and Homeworld, so those are out ;)

MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT, Don't Watch if you ever want to play it at any time in the future... it will truly ruin everything...

Epilogue to Enslaved Odyssey to the West

completely screwed with my head... makes no damn sense unless you played it, rather it is missing a lot of its meaning..

But its also something more than just an ending movie, its something that should move you, something to make you question your everything...

Singularly the best game i ever ever experienced...

I went into that game with no expectations at all (I had heard it was originally a tech demo and was essentially a 3D Mario-type platformer with fighting) and was very surprised at how much I liked it. Probably wouldn't call it my favorite or the best I've played, but a very good game.

Oh, and on sale this weekend for $5 on Steam, in case anyone sees your mention of it and wonders if they want to give it a try.

[url= I suspect that if I weren't so old that I've seen the story play out so many times, I'd have loved the game even more, but, you know, plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. Which, you know, preceded Joseph Campbells' Hero With A Thousand Faces by exactly 100 years. >.> Also, I read the translation a few decades ago of the source story for the game so I sort of had spoilers, after a fashion. ][/url]

Hipster. :P