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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I'll start with highlighting the main menu from an indie game I've really enjoyed on both PC and Switch last year called Signalis.



I love how this big eyeball of our main protag follows every move you do with your mouse cursor lol.

What's yours? Please post either a screenshot or preferably a video or gif with the main menu and/or start screen you find most appealing.

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Portugeezer]

 

[Robb]

I’ve always enjoyed the Metroid Prime Trilogy one where everything is a view from within Samus arm-cannon:


And when you select the game in the trilogy you want to play it zooms out from the canon as she shoots:


Very cool concept overall.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Starfield.

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[diffusionx]

the best ever

 

[Lupin3]

 

[Leviathicus]

Too much nostalgia

 

[Saber]

Bloodborne, Silent Hill 2 and Shinning Force 3.

 

[Azelover]

Street Fighter II

I just go back to my childhood

 

[amigastar]

Zelda OoT

 

[Hawking Radiation]

I quite like the minimilist look.

Can't believe some are actually complaining about the start screen. People just moan about anything nowadays.

 

[swaffles23]

I love the spec ops the line menu and how it changes throughout your playthrough

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Got Dead Island 2 on PS5 just this week, booted it up and was really shook (in a good way) by the awesome opening cinematic that led straight into the main menu. It set the tone perfectly for the game.



The folks at Dambuster Studios really did an amazing job here!

 

[Vox Machina]

I quite like the minimilist look.

Can't believe some are actually complaining about the start screen. People just moan about anything nowadays.

I feel like it's going to give me Halo start screen vibes

 

[Icymanipulator]

Currently Star Rail, love this transition when you log in

 

[Luigi Mario]

 

[intbal]

JSRF
Don't know of any other start screens with this kind of energy

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Currently Star Rail, love this transition when you log in

Oh shit, that's fucking aweome :O

Thanks for sharing

 

[Raven117]

If not nostalgia… (Zelda and LttP, Metroid, street fighter 2, secret of mana, ffvi, and others)…. Then it’s the below.

 

[Kumomeme]

it also has relation with in game story. from beginning then at end.

 

[HTK]

 

[STARSBarry]

 

[Cashon]

The BioShock one doesn't show it, but I like how after you Press Start, every time you move up and down the menu, a different piano note plays.

 

[mrmustard]

World of Warcraft because of the epic music.

 

[bbeach123]

Dragon dogma (not the dlc) .

 

[Hemingwayoffbase]

I always thought what Detroit: Become Human did with its main menu was very cool and clever.

 

[existensmaximum]

 

[Aenima]

I always thought what Detroit: Become Human did with its main menu was very cool and clever.

Came to post this.
and FF7R for the nostalgia and music.

 

[Kakax11]

 

[drganon]

 

[killatopak]

Either this one



or this one



Reasons being they invoke nostlagia in me.

 

[Podge]

I wanted to post this one too. Xenoblade DE title track is so good I’ll sometimes just let it play itself through.

Absolutely befitting of one of the greatest games of all time.

 

[TidusYuna]

 

[skit_data]

Still the best one I can think of. Love the sound design too, that wierd noise that almost feels like a worm crawling its way into your brain (I'd really like to know how it's done... sounds like static noise and a series of bandpass filters that are being modulated).

 

[Podge]

 

[PropellerEar]

 

[salva]

 

[nowhat]

I always thought what Detroit: Become Human did with its main menu was very cool and clever.

Oh yeah, that was brilliant. Just gonna spoiler tag this in case, but I had a wonderful interaction with her first time playing the game:

Spoiler

At the very beginning of the game, there's a scene where Todd takes Alice upstairs and tells Kara not to follow. Obviously, the game wants you to follow, but I was waiting for a "press X to Alice" prompt, which never came, resulting in Todd killing both Alice and Kara. I pretty soon realized I had fucked up, so returned to the main menu. And the menu character was really letting me have it, like "how could you!". I restarted the game, but thought that was a very nice touch.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Another one that I love and is among my favorites:



I miss the first Destiny so much.

 

[tamago84]

Blizz in its prime when they made wc3. The move from 2d to 3d was surreal

 

[Kupfer]

The sound alone manages to capture and concentrate the atmosphere of the entire game, so that before you even start playing, you're already excited about what's to come.
Dark, intense, exciting, mysterious vibes.

 

[StueyDuck]

Og mgs



If that audio doesn't give you the dicky tingles then you aren't a gamer

 

[NeverYouMind]

Driv3r.

 

[Ferdimage]

 

[MarkyG]

Riddick's menu always impresses me:

 

[Gudji]

Starfield

 

[anthraticus]

Give people a break from all this Turdfield bullshit with some actual class...

 

[rodrigolfp]