# Favorite video game cut scene? Also favorite game score? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803 "2003-02-22T17:51:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/21 "2003-02-23T03:07:18Z")
Wing Commander III and IV Warcraft 2 ending Human Saga One time my score was like 345.324,138,000.6 I beat my friend’s which was 57 ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/22 "2003-02-23T06:23:26Z")
Best music is from **Jet Set Radio** , followed by **Grim Fandango**. Close runners up are **Curse of Monkey Island** , **Final Fantasy Tactics** , and **SimCity 3000** and **SimCity 4**. My favorite cutscene is probably from **Final Fantasy X** , when Yuna does the dance to send the souls of the dead to the afterlife. All the cutscenes in that game are so astoundingly well-done, but that’s the scene that’s really moving and not just overpowering spectacle. Another favorite is in **Jet Set Radio** , when all the rival gangs in the city are being announced. You get a shot of each one, with their own dance moves – Poison Jam and the Noise Tanks are just bad-ass. For some reason, I’ll never forget the cutscene from **The Secret of Monkey Island** when the ghost LeChuck is in his ship’s cabin looking over the pits of hell and he has a conversation with a skeleton/ghost cabin boy about the whereabouts of Guybrush Threepwood. That scene is what got me into games in the first place; it was the first time I saw that videogames were capable of telling a real story. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/23 "2003-02-23T07:36:20Z")
I’ll nominate Sim City 3000 and Grand Theft Auto 3 (it’s original, unlike VC) for best music. Best cutscenes: Metal Gear Solid 2–near the end, the slow-motion walk of Raiden, Otacon, and Solid Snake. VERY emotional, very powerful. Metal Gear Solid–Sniper Wolf’s final scene, with Otacon and Solid Snake. Again, great music and very emotional. Also, pretty much all of “Sam and Max Hit the Road”. ---
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/24 "2003-02-23T07:57:13Z")
Even though I spent much of the game wanting to squeeze Squall’s neck till I heard the satisfying muffled wet crunch of his windpipe imploding and vertebrae snapping (he just wasn’t a terribly likeable character for some reason), the 20-odd minutes of ending cinematic after you beat FF8 really gripped me. The intro to \Syndicate\ was really nice. (Would have been nice to have an ending one.) For its time, the intro to \The Seventh Guest\ made me go, “whoa, I have to buy a cdrom drive now.” The ending to \Interstate '76\. THAT was a satisfying revenge moment. Speaking of satisfying revenge cutscenes, the closing bits of \Max Payne\ had me cackling from the amount of overkill inflicted. ---
**Author:** ![PublicBlast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/779978/32.png) [@PublicBlast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PublicBlast)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/25 "2003-02-23T09:17:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\* > The best soundtrack ever is the Vice City soundtrack. [Here I am raving about it.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=159473) Although it seems I’m one of the few who loves the heck out of it. \*\* It’s the best soundtrack ever, but it doesn’t count because it’s a compilation of other folks’ songs. It’s great, truly, but I don’t think you can compare it to scores/soundtracks actually written for a game. My votes there go to **Final Fantasy Tactics** and **Grim Fandango**. I own the soundtracks to both, and I think Square should fire !(( Nobuo Uematsu, who does the music for the flagship FF series, and replace him with the amazing duo that did the Tactics music. Best cutscene–even though it’s not the newest or prettiest, it’s the one that sold me on cutscenes in general. It’s in **Final Fantasy 7.** Tifa is trapped on the edge of a huge steel girder (actually a cannon, the Sister Cannon!) with nowhere to go, and the backround is a pre-rendered still. Suddenly one of your comrades tells you to run off the end of the cannon. As you run Tifa towards the end, the scene _ **seamlessly** _ switches to CG-animation, and your buddies come and whisk you away in their newly-acquired airship. It’s also (I think) the first time in FFVII that the _Highwind_ theme plays. Priceless, absolutely priceless. The end of FF8 was beautiful and moving, but it didn’t reach out and grab me the same way Tifa running off the Sister Cannon did. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2003, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/26 "2003-02-23T11:03:25Z")
Actually the intro to the morpg anachary online is pretty good I liked the fall out game intros pretty well also slight hijack … WAs anyone besides me mad that in wing commander 3 You didnt get to do the final planet run that ended up being a starwars ripoff ? After all the crap and base hopping ya had to do in a asteroid field you just got to watch it as the ending … ---
**Author:** ![bong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@bong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bong)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/27 "2003-02-24T01:40:49Z")
Best score: the altered beast theme Or the realm theme\* \*REALLY SUCKY SHOOTER. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/28 "2003-02-24T01:58:05Z")
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Porn star Candy Suxx head and shoulders bob left and right as Tommy Vercetti speaks with the director. When Tommy asks Candy a question she excitedly yells out “Yes…Yes…YES!” and Tommy doesn’t know if she’s just acting or answering his question. Best music would have to be Legend of Zelda. I still hum some of those tunes to myself after all these years. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/29 "2003-02-24T02:01:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MGibson \* > \*\*Grand Theft Auto: Vice City > > Porn star Candy Suxx head and shoulders bob left and right as Tommy Vercetti speaks with the director. When Tommy asks Candy a question she excitedly yells out “Yes…Yes…YES!” and Tommy doesn’t know if she’s just acting or answering his question. \*\* UH, for those who haven’t played the game the above scene is taking place in a studio during a porn movie shoot. Marc ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/30 "2003-02-24T07:07:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nightshadea \* > \*\*Actually the intro to the morpg anachary online is pretty good > > I liked the fall out game intros pretty well also > > slight hijack … WAs anyone besides me mad that in wing commander 3 You didnt get to do the final planet run that ended up being a starwars ripoff ? After all the crap and base hopping ya had to do in a asteroid field you just got to watch it as the ending … \*\* What? I remembered that I had to do rather long level(over a lava trench) to reach the final target on Kilrath. Were you playing a non-PC version or something. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/31 "2003-02-24T07:12:25Z")
hmmm i might be remebering wrong or mixing parts up … byt i played the 3do version ---
**Author:** ![High\_Priestess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ee7513/32.png) [@High\_Priestess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/High_Priestess)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/32 "2003-02-24T07:39:44Z")
For score, I’m tied with the FF VI soundtrack and the Guilty Gear X Heavy Rock album. For cutscene… the opera scene in FF VI. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/33 "2003-02-24T07:59:51Z")
The scene in Fallout in which the mutants find your base and you get dipped and your vault gets raided frightened the shit out of me. I restored my saved game and found my poor wanderer nervous as all get out and not knowing why. It was what I suddenly knew might happen that made the game immersive. ---
**Author:** ![Wyld\_Stallyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Wyld\_Stallyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wyld_Stallyn)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/34 "2003-02-24T15:45:29Z")
I dug (and still listen to) the tunes that accompanied the original Carmageddon. It was instrumental stuff, some techno-type which wasn’t that cool, but there was some instrumental industrial-type metal that is unparalleled as hard drivin’ music in the real world. Still haven’t found out who created those pieces of metal mastery… I think Carmageddon may have also been the first game where you could take out the game CD and put in your own music and it would be interspersed into the game (corrections expected if I’m incorrect) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/35 "2003-02-24T18:56:03Z")
Best Score: Final Fantasy VI Best Cutscene: Opera Scene in Final Fantasy VI(or the intro to the now off the market Suikoden III). ---
**Author:** ![BioHazard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3bc359/32.png) [@BioHazard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BioHazard)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/36 "2003-02-24T19:00:45Z")
Hmm, I seem to remember being able to cue commands in HW1…but it was a long time ago and I DLed and installed the patch before I played it. ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/37 "2003-02-24T21:16:02Z")
I second any mentions of **Grim Fandango** , I was so sad when that game ended… Also any **Monkey Island** mentions, I am a serious addict, especially I and II. One game I guess I’m pretty much the only one to enjoy the cutscenes on is **Gabriel Knight II**. I just loved the scenes in the opera house… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/38 "2003-02-24T21:24:21Z")
Personally, my favorite cutscene is “Battle on the _Amerigo_”, from Starcraft. Mostly just for the cold fusion line. For that matter, the final sequence at the end of the Terran campaign, and the Protoss scene above Aiur where you see Jimmy’s ship decloak, were also pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![blainer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a698b9/32.png) [@blainer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blainer)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/39 "2003-02-24T21:31:46Z")
The best cut scene is clearly the Mighty Bomb Jack Super Bowl Halftime Show in (the greatest game ever) **Tecmo Super Bowl**. ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803/40 "2003-02-24T21:50:16Z")
Favorite cut scene: the one in **Starcraft** where the Marines and Ghost go into the Science Facility and duke it out with the Zerg, then detonating the nuke. Favorite game score: **Grand Theft Auto: Vice City** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-video-game-cut-scene-also-favorite-game-score/156803.md?page=3)