Outrun: tune the radio station with your steering wheel
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the first thing max does in max payne 3 is start his new life in sao paulo by crying to a photograph of his dead wife. the first thing you do is shoot the first person to come through the door
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Myst: touch a book
Riven: watch someone steal your book, who subsequently gets tranq’d and has the book stolen from him
Myst 3: hang out with your friend’s wife and rifle through his stuff for a bit before watching someone steal his book
i haven’t played the last 2 yet, i have to assume they both start with acts of book larceny
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Symphony of the Night: Play Rondo of Blood
Rondo of blood: Ride a carriage and fight the second to lass boss
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La-Mulana: go into a tent and speak with an elderly MSX fan
God Hand: punch a guy in the face
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the first thing you do in contra hard corps is PLOW THROUGH A BUNCH OF ROBOT MONSTERS IN A SUPER FAST TANK
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Uru: you talk to a guy listening to a radio who says cryptic shit.
Myst IV: You take a picture while you ride in a tram, then help a dude repair his multidimensional TV set.
Myst V: you watch some weird creatures, look at a bound up copy of the Myst linking book, and go through a door,
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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor – the first thing you do is spar with your son.
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then they teach stealth backstabs with ‘X to kiss your wife’
uh
at some point we talked about using that animation as a Valentine’s Day easter egg in Shadow of War– all stealth backstabs to be replaced with flowers + kisses. Then someone pointed out that’s actually really close to sexual violence and we went, oh yeah, I guess it’s not necessarily as funny as it was over lunch
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The first thing you do in FF7 is get off that train you’re on.
OK, technically you exit the rail station
Maniac Mansion: pick your team
Monkey Island: enter a town
Monkey Island II: get mugged
Monkey Island 3: escape captivity
Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis: fall a lot
Full Throttle: Punch your way out of a dumpster
Sam & Max Hit the Road: exit your office
Leisure Suit Larry 7: untie yourself from a bed you just set on fire.
Watch Dogs 2: Commit a high profile high tech heist to clear yourself of the low profile high tech heist you’re wrongfully accused of
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One for the history books
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Another World: Drown
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Dead Cells: Fall out of a pipe in a prison, crawl your amoebic/plant self over to a dead body AND ANIMATE IT
Enter the Gungeon: Chamber yourself
Risk of Rain 2: Fall out of the sky in an escape pod, unless you’re the robot in which case fall out of the sky
Cave Story: Rob a gunsmith
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King’s Quest V: ‘What snake? Where? … ah shit’
Shining Force II: Drink soapy water
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Subsurface Circular: Talk to someone on the train.
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Persona 2: Eternal Punishment - The first thing you do is talk to your boss and get told how little they think of and respect you.
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Spy vs Spy:
“Let’s not attack each other first, just let me explore a bit first”
PUNCH KICK KICK
“AHHH YOU PROMISED!! WAAAHH MUUUUUM!!”
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the first thing you do in gitaroo man is get chastised by your dog
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the first thing you do in call of duty is commit war crimes