Tallima: I recently got Sacred 3 for the XBOX with Games With Gold and although the game is only fair, the into is super-awesome. It's a beautifully rendered action sequence of a group of heroes taking out group of bad guys and rescuing a girl.

Elmofongo: For such a legendary CRPG it does give a terrible first impression with its intro cinematic. I mean what the hell is this cinematic is supposed to show me about the game?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoSqDtky0pU

Starts off with the Abyss quote from Nietzsche which I have no idea how it applies to the following scenes or the whole game in general.

Then some random guy appeares at the top of this tower who has a very dumb looking helmet. And then this Obviously evil character appears in evil looking armor and voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson in his bad guy voice.

"I will be the last" the last of what?

And then the other guy quotes "wait there are others I can show you" what are these 'others' are you talking about.

And then evil guy kills him and then the title logo "BALDUR'S GATE" appears.

The intro tells me nothing about the game. I mean this intro is certainly no Fallout 1 or Diablo 2 thats for sure :P

Elmofongo: Its been awhile since I have beaten the game.

timppu: Didn't you see the intro then, or why did it just now occur to you how you don't like the intro?

Tauto: Another brilliant thread about something that he doesn't understand.

Grogger: Well to be fair that Blizzard cinematic, you grew up on, is about 2 years after Baldur's Gate. That's 2 Years at a time when both hardware and software were progressing in leaps and bounds, so it's a long 2 years at that as tech goes. Take the links you've given as an example, the difference in quality between Diablo 2 and LoD (even if you check one of the old LoD videos the newer effects are all still there), and that was only 1 year of progress in the industry. If the newer one at that time didn't look better it would be because they were lazy or didn't consider it worthwhile or important etc.

Then there's also taking into account how much resources/funding a company is going to put into the cinematics, what priority they give it, keeping in mind the scope of the game itself, Baldur's Gate 1 dwarfs Diablo 2.

Sure, visually it hasn't help up that well but that's completely understandable and expected, especially as you go back to points in time when advancements were coming fast and furious.

Anyway you started this thread decrying the events of the video, not the graphical quality (something you didn't mention, and again it was perfectly acceptable for the time), once the events were explained (such how it's being informative while also getting one to ask questions thus getting interested, in ways commonly used for a good trailer/into) you suddenly fall back onto a the logical fallacy of moving the goal posts and making it about the graphics quality.

Elmofongo: No I always felt this intro was rather lackluster for years now.
Elmofongo: I have beaten this game a long time ago my friend and I have been on these forums long before you have :P

GR00T: The intro tells you everything about the game/story. But like any g̶o̶o̶d̶ shitty prelude or intro, it only makes sense when you play the game and discover how the plot unfolds.

Starmaker: FTFY. Elmofongo is right for once, thank FSM. A good prelude fills you in on the immediate situation. Arcanum, Planescape: Torment, Fallout, Primordia, Invisible Inc., Necrodancer, both D&D Krynn games (too bad there never was a 3), Spider and Web, Star Wars, A Song of Ice and Fire all have good ones. The one is Baldur's Gate is dumb, and the extremely corny in its overuse Nietzsche quote cinches it.

Starmaker: FTFY. Elmofongo is right for once, thank FSM. A good prelude fills you in on the immediate situation. Arcanum, Planescape: Torment, Fallout, Primordia, Invisible Inc., Necrodancer, both D&D Krynn games (too bad there never was a 3), Spider and Web, Star Wars, A Song of Ice and Fire all have good ones. The one is Baldur's Gate is dumb, and the extremely corny in its overuse Nietzsche quote cinches it.

Tauto: You made another mistake,I am not your friend!!!!!!

Kardwill: Obviously. I'm curious : Are you ever positive about anything? I every single one of your posts I saw, you were a dick, so I'm morbidly curious about the reason of your continued presence here.

l0rdtr3k: Ever heard of the GIFT or the Great Internet Fuckwad Theory?
Simple,he's pretty much anonymous here so he thinks he can as much of a dick as he want without consequenses.

Kardwill: Obviously. I'm curious : Are you ever positive about anything? I every single one of your posts I saw, you were a dick, so I'm morbidly curious about the reason of your continued presence here.

Tauto: Not all are negitive,so that would make you a dick also for not being on the ball.Reason for being here is none of your business,that is unless you own Gog.And then it would be STILL none of your business,best advice is butt out!!!