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What's your favorite main menu and/or start screen?
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SenkiDala
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Yoko Shimomura is the most talented game composer since decades. She's unbelievable.
MiguelItUp
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Danjin44
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Wow, thank you so much for sharing this one! The atmosphere and the ambient sound is so spot on here. The devs really put their the heart into creating this game!
VAVA Mk2
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These kinda remind me of eye catches from anime.
MiguelItUp
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Very welcome! Right?! The vibe and aesthetic is SO perfect for the IP IMO. I'm a huge Alien fan, and the first time I fired this up was probably the first time I sat and watched a title screen for awhile before hopping in.
_Idea_of_Evil_
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Judgement has a great title/main menu screen.
NecrosaroIII
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FFXIV - Endwalker. The way the moon becomes the logo is pretty cool.
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DryvBy
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Honestly this is the best. I actually had a blast playing with this as a kid. My kid did too when I introduced him to SM64.
the best ever
Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Another special one that really sets the tone well is Outer Wilds. Booting this game at night on an oled tv is quite the experience due to the infinite contrast between the pitch black sky and those tiny (but large in number) bright stars. Oh and the music in also dope!
Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Very stylish main menu and dope accompanying music as well! RGG did very good work here. That said, I really need to pick it back up as I really enjoyed my time with it, but for some reason or another got sidetracked into the sidequests a bit too much then moved on to something else..
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Brigandier
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I dunno if it's nostalgia but the Shenmue menu theme makes me feel all fuzzy.
Xenoblade 1 and 2 main themes are so good, The GOATs imo.
Brilliant menu theme.
Xenoblade 1 and 2 main themes are so good, The GOATs imo.
Brilliant menu theme.
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Video is a bit blurry but this is probably my favorite Halo start screen. Ofc the music is also top tier.
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Brigandier
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Oh wow how could I forget these:
Michael McCann did a seriously good job with Deus Ex !!
Michael McCann did a seriously good job with Deus Ex !!
_Idea_of_Evil_
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Same! I got about 55-60% into the game and got distracted by other stuff. Need to finish Judgement 1; the Kaito Files in Lost Judgement is supposed to be peak Judgement.
GetInTheRobot
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Man, signalis is such a masterpiece.
Love Deus Ex, Perfect Dark and tons more, really, but these really rolled of my tongue, I guess amazing music is half of success. Or silence, love how minimalistic FF7 is, like its keeping all that bombastic energy locked up just for a little while, just few more seconds...
Basically, menus are for two things to me. Either for moving as swiftly and gracefully as possibile to the game, or to stare ar them in awe, preferably both.
I might appreciate some creative ones that want me to do a little bit more to reach where I want, like Psychonauts, but I wouldnt consider them the greatest. These days menus all to often feel sluggish and unimpressive.
Basically, menus are for two things to me. Either for moving as swiftly and gracefully as possibile to the game, or to stare ar them in awe, preferably both.
I might appreciate some creative ones that want me to do a little bit more to reach where I want, like Psychonauts, but I wouldnt consider them the greatest. These days menus all to often feel sluggish and unimpressive.
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Thick Thighs Save Lives
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Bumping this one a bit since this old KH3 video with the main menu theme came in my YouTube feed just now. I'm not really a big Kingdom Hearts fan, but I'll have to admit that it hit me pretty hard the first time I boot the game up on my console back in 2019 and heard this rendition of Dearly Beloved. Fucking Square Enix... 
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FoxMcChief
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Metroid Prime
kvltus lvlzvs
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When it hit me with "whole different planet" it took me a week to work out my feelings, and then another week to process "uuuh yeah"
nifty game though