may the start menu posting begin

[Broco]

@BustedAstromech

like Shadow of the Colossus, you’ll understand the entire arc of the story a few hours in and can duck out then if you’d like

Wow, direct hit on SotC coming out of left field there

(I ducked out myself after the third boss)

[vodselbt]

What are some games you think have a strong art direction but a disappointing start menu? I keep imagining the menu for Death Stranding is way cooler than it actually is just cause the rest of that game looks so nice.

[Broco]

The only thing resembling a start menu that I can possibly find “disappointing” is games that make you select, like, your screen resolution in a little Windows gray window before entering the game UI proper. Feels wrong somehow.

[BustedAstromech]

Shadow of the Colossus is my favorite Team Ico game (I need those open spaces and quiet/dreadful in-betweens), but I think I like the story most when I leave Wanda marching inexorably towards his Doom, not to see it myself. They execute it well, but it’s impossible to live up to the foreboding they set from the getgo.

It’s myth; I already know their message just from the packaging

[Felix]

that was the unity standard from like 2013-2017

[DaleNixon]

Me when you hand me a guitar:

SILENT HILL 4 menu

SH: Origins had a nice start menu from what I remember. I used to let it sit so I could hear this:

Silent Hill Origins Ost: Menu theme

[rubbertherapy]

some doom engine classics

and a build engine game bc the cover is so badass

[dementia]

[captainlove]

A recent atmospheric example. Has a really nice filter change to the music once the player actually presses start around 32 seconds in.

- YouTube

[DaleNixon]

Any WipEout menu is cheating because they’re all so :chefkiss:

WipEout HD Fury new menu

[VastleCania]

Sonic Adventure (Dreamcast) Intro

Timestamped for the start menu that is permanently etched into my brain

[aislesgrises]

sonic adventure title screen somehow triggered this memory

Skies of Arcadia Legends, title screen/écran titre

[lonelyfrontier]

MGS4 Start Menu title screen in HD

[username]

I don’t think I saw this site posted in here earlier (if I missed it my bad) but this site has uploaded screenshots of a few hundred games’ UIs and most of them include the title screen/start menu as well.

Game UI Database

[Broco]

[username]

I got a bunch of these from the gigantic bundle again so let me clear them out, warning there’s too many of them.

[harikari]

Max Payne 3 Main Menu Theme; Most Melancholic Part

A bullet never lies

[ellaguro]

@username

this one is my favorite. i haven’t played this game and now i don’t think i need to because i’ve gotten enough enjoyment from this title screen. “GERMFOOD”

[vodselbt]

I actually love that game. Recommend giving it a shot cause it carries that art style through everything.

[vodselbt]

There is a mosquito that buzzes around on this menu, and when you change menu screens the book flips pages rapidly. I wonder if the mosquito is some kind of mouse cursor-like element because it should have been captured by my screenshot, but like my mouse cursor it wasn’t.