What are game intros you associate with staying up past the sunrise?

Guild wars 1

Command and conquer : red alert

Diablo (the original)

Minecraft, though it's because I usually open it after sunrise if I'm still awake. most of the time if I'm up all night I'm really deep into surfing the web to the point of like, obscure sites about aliens or something.

Starcraft 1 & Warcraft 2

Civ 3,4,5 for one ...more... turn. Or for the PlayStation boot sequence loading into MG:S for the 14th play-through.

A Cobra Mark III rotating on the screen as a green wireframe model on black background.

Resident Evil

For me, the Civilization V intro, lots of lan parties and online sessions where we suddenly found ourselves playing while the birds were waking up to the mørning sun outside our window.

I don't even remember the name of the game, but it was a gba game where you played as a blacksmith and you had to craft your own weapons and go down some mine to collect materials and progress the story. I was 18yo at the time, had just started living alone, didn't have internet or TV or anything to do. Downloaded that game at work then went home to play it and suddenly I had to leave for work again. It was the first time I stayed up all night playing something. I remember dozing off that next day and even writing stuff about swords in the middle of some work documents.

Halo CE, BF2 and WoW

Civilization IV

Spent sooooo many hours as a kid playing Wing Commander: Prophecy. I still have dreams about the missions and the video cut scenes. Picked it up on GOG about a year ago and the controls sceme was still in my muscle memory.

For me it was the Star Wars Rebellion main menu. I played that game tons back in the day on a PC that couldn't handle much more. Starting it up locked me into just wanting to finish a game in one night.

Definitely tf2

Usually community servers are empty but pub players are practically infinite

Definitely the Ocarina of Time intro for me. It was the first game to give me a real sense of adventure as a kid, and that theme song remains forever burned into my memory.

Breath of the Wild.. so many nights were spent lying in bed playing that game until I heard birdsong! 😅

Minecraft, satisfactory, factorio are ones that come to mind that keep me up too late as an adult. The TES games are ones I remember from my childhood. Morrowind was my jam back in the day, as was NWN.

Nier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8XTbluLDyE

The opening rant of Kaine refers to something in the late game and it's soulcrushing, but I love it and how they chose to scream at you on the first launch of the game when you don't even know who's speaking. That sets the tone.

Devil May Cry

Whenever I hear any sound from that game, I am immediately triggered in remembering the from dusk till dawn game nights me and a friend had. Hearing the birds sing was a sign we had to maybe stop and get some sleep. Biking home through the city while the sun rises after a game binge night was surreal.

Crossposted to !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

First Gran Turismo.

None. I get hit hard by melatonin and can’t stay up no matter how jazzed I am playing a game. Latest for me was probably like 1:30a and Resident Evil or Tomb Raider. I do remember sleep overs where a friend was still playing when I woke up. Don’t remember the game though … probably Final Fantasy VII.