What are your favourite cutscene-to-gameplay transitions?

[vestan]

Inspired by the PotC KH3 thread on here, what are your favourite cutscene-to-gameplay transitions? KH3 has a whole host of these and I honestly can't pick between all of them because they're so good.










Fuck these are cleaaaaan. Such a step up from KH and KH2.

Overall though, my absolute favourite one has got to be Marvel's Spider-Man's intro cutscene to gameplay. It works so well to get player's accustomed to the game's web-swinging mechanics as soon as you get in and is just soooooo fucking seamless.

 

[Oregano]

Aside from the obvious Lost Odyssey mention there's this great Xenoblade 2 example:

 

[Massicot]

Aside from the obvious Lost Odyssey mention there's this great Xenoblade 2 example:

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Still gonna mention it anyway!

 

[Dan Thunder]

From around 2:48. Can't tell you how many times I got dragged down before I realised it wasn't a cutscene!

 

[Oregano]

Still gonna mention it anyway!

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Still so damn good.

 

[Deleted member 15428]

Metal Gear Solid V

 

[Guru_Godzilla]

Aside from the obvious Lost Odyssey mention there's this great Xenoblade 2 example:

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I loved this one, especially since it's so different from the rest in the game.

 

[vestan]

Still gonna mention it anyway!

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This is still so fucking good, jesus. Great pick.

 

[Agent_J]

Bioshock's intro will always stand out for me.

 

[shadowman16]

Yakuza has a great record of doing some awesome dynamic boss intros that go directly into the fight (rather than fade to black). Too many to show, but if I had to pick one, it'd have to be Ishin's final boss fight (spoilers obviously)

Spoiler

 

[Deleted member 420]

The Kingdom Hearts 3 cutscene to gameplay transitions I found to be super distracting. There's a second or so after the transition where the camera is place but you have no control over the character. I do remember being wow'd by the effect until I got to the Tangled world where it felt like they did the transition after every cutscene.

 

[Deleted member 864]

Still gonna mention it anyway!

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Forgot about this one.

 

[mute]

FFVIII's garden battle on Disc 2 jumps into my head. I think it continued to play in the background at times while you ran around.

 

[Chrust]

Beginning of MGS4.

 

[Jenea]

GoW the whole game

 

[Dan Thunder]

God of War 3 was always a great one at the start.

 

[Deleted member 6263]

Edit: dammit, beaten. Just had to make a gif.

 

[TheBaldwin]

Beginning of MGS4.

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Came to say this. The fact that the camera in one shit goes from cutscene to gameplay at multiple points, espcially with how good the game looks.

Unbelievable

 

[MistahS]

I liked Max Payne 3's. GTA V used similar techniques.

 

[IsThatHP]

The entirety of Dead Space 2.

 

[Lukemia SL]

God of War the whole game, Metal Gear Solid V/GZ and Uncharted 4. In that order.

 

[Mindfreak191]

I remember being blown away by the intro and seamless transition in the first Company of Heroes.

 

[Memento]

God of War is probably the most technically advanced.

But MGS4 is the one I was most impressed when I played it back on last gen. The intro was wooow.

 

[WestEgg]

Not a specific example, but Octopath Traveler does a great job of transitioning from the cutscenes and boss fights with character specific musical build ups and bridges. Here's a great video that spells out how it's done:

 

[Ed.]

Lost Odyssey is the first one I thought of. It's the earliest example I can think of where I noticed it and thought it looked cool.

 

[Perzeval]

FFVIII and God of War

 

[ClickyCal']

 

[AlexinChains87]

3:00 min in

 

[DaciaJC]

I remember being blown away by the intro and seamless transition in the first Company of Heroes.

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Good mention, I had the same reaction.

 

[Phediuk]

I thought the transitions from film-footage to in-game assets in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (PS2) were amazing at the time:

 

[Deleted member 34949]

The one at the very beginning of MGSV: Ground Zeroes blew me the fuck away. It was the first game I played on PS4, and boy did that bit leave an impression. Didn't even realize I could move until a minute later. The Spider-Man one is great, too.

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This is another good one.

 

[Deadpool_X]

Bioshock after the plane goes down. I sat there for 3 minutes before I realized the beautiful flames and water was gameplay.

 

[mjc]

Still gonna mention it anyway!

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I came here to post this. I thought when they revealed LO with this it would be cut from the final game...mindblowing stuff on the 360.

 

[Raide]

The Goldeneye/Perfect Dark style. Love the twisty style.

 

[Legacy]

Max Payne 3: The thread

Also, the beginning of MGSV

 

[Dracoonian]

Yeah, yeah. But, hey, "transition" is actually good there.

 

[Deleted member 29682]

I liked Max Payne 3's. GTA V used similar techniques.

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This was the exact scene I thought of.

 

[BillFromAccounting]

MGS4 did it unbelievably well, definitely had the most memorable transitions for me. That lost Odyssey one that is posted above is amazing though, wow.

 

[Blade Wolf]

 

[SuperBoss]

MGS4 blew my mind when it did it back in 2008

 

[Deimos]

MGS4: The thread.

 

[ZudaPop]

Don't have the gif handy but that scene from UC4 where Nate crashes through a window then slides to cover during that auction.

 

[Patrick Bateman]

Bioshock's intro will always stand out for me.

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This.
Bioshock really blew my mind like no other game.

 

[criteriondog]

Aside from the obvious Lost Odyssey mention there's this great Xenoblade 2 example:

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Ha, this one was so funny when I was playing through the game. It's so out of context compared to the whole game. I loved it.

 

[BAD]

Don't have the gif handy but that scene from UC4 where Nate crashes through a window then slides to cover during that auction.

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[capitalCORN]

The mother of in media res openings?

Edit: Bah, can't get the timestamp right. It's 6:39.

 

[The Iron Yuppie]

Every. Single. Fight. In MK9's story mode.

 

[Dutch Masters]

This has more to do with the graphics but waking up in the beginning of PT then realizing that I'm not in a cutscene anymore blew me away.

 

[Kasai]

I never really thought it was possible till I played God of War, Spiderman, and Kingdom Hearts 3 all within like 5 months of each other.

I used to always put my controller down when a cutscene played, now I dony trust any games enough.

 

[Nairume]

It's an oldie but the transition from the attract mode cutscene to title screen to menu to story mode gameplay in Super Butoden is so cool