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This is a list of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-games-of-all-time?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">best cutscenes</a> in the history of video games. Great cutscenes don't just interrupt the gameplay. They deliver truly cinematic storytelling, helping create immersive and complex narratives unique to gaming. These scenes don't just move the plot along; they can take throwaway characters and turn them into the target of a thousand cosplayers.There's always a plenty of dissent amongst gamers about the real purpose of a cutscene. Naysayers will argue that <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/worst-video-game-cutscenes/adam-dorsey">bad video game cutscenes</a> just make the player jam buttons until they skip them and get back to the gameplay.&nbsp;Ideally, a video game intro video should introduce the player to the world of the game and cutscenes should even out the pacing of a game, strengthening the player's connection to the narrative, as well as their enjoyment of the gameplay. A rad final cinematic is always nice too.In the future, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/top-american-game-developers/el-gamer-grande?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">video game developers</a> may make cutscenes so good that they won't even have to be skippable, because no one would ever want to skip them. But they'd still be skippable because everyone hates unskippable cutscenes.Until then, we have this list of the finest cutscenes in video game history, from Pac-Man's main squeeze to Mass Effect mega-controversy. Vote up your favorites, the ones that truly elevated their games and proved what cutscenes can really do.

Resident Evil 2

The Best Video Game Cutscenes Ever

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Best Video Game Cutscenes | List of the Most Cinematic Moments in Gaming 

Adam Dorsey

This is a list of the Worst <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-videogame-cutscenes/adam-dorsey?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Video Game Cutscenes</a>. There have been a lot of bad video game cutscenes in the history of videogames, but to qualify for this list, you need to have a little extra something. Horrendous voice-over. High-school-play-quality acting in your full motion video. Writing that takes your characters from believable heroes to fantasy alien monsters who speak only in exposition.Storytelling has come a long way since 1982 and the first videogame cutscene, when a circle met a circle with a bow in Ms. Pac-Man. Now we have voice-acting, full motion video, motion-capture, and -gasp- button-mashing quicktime events. The road to the truly cinematic video game cutscene future is full of awkward half-formed cutscene potholes. When brave, not-so-talented souls were first given the gifts of CD-ROMs and polygons, they tried and failed to make cinematic video game history. This list is full of those half-formed monsters, along with the results of decisions like &quot;We don't need to hire real actors, we can just hire our friends,&quot; and &quot;Maybe we should cast a playboy playmate in a role where she speaks.&quot;When motion pictures finally added sound to their moving images, there were many mistakes made as artists struggled with this new technology. Video games are no different, except that they have huge fundamental changes in their technology every few years. Unfortunately for gamers (but fortunately for this list), that means there are going to continue to be terrible mistakes in storytelling and cutscenes as creators accustom themselves to these new technologies.Game on, I guess.

Hotel Mario

The Worst Video Game Cutscenes

They're on your TV! And in every magazine! And all over the radio! What are you supposed to do? Just ignore them??

Celebs We Love to Hate

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This list of the most extravagant celebrity on-set demands is all about the most spoiled stars and their most ridiculous requests backstage or at various events. Wishlist? Ridiculous requests? Maybe &quot;completely unreasonable famous-person demands&quot; is apter.

Million-dollar buses? Weird food demands? Specific candy color requests? Toilet seats? They&#39;re all here.

A lot of the stars on this list are musicians,&nbsp;rock stars, and divas. It&#39;s hard to say exactly why this is, but it may be more about image than anything else. Rock stars are known for making crazy demands and trashing hotel rooms if they don&#39;t get their way, so if a guy who sings well while holding a guitar doesn&#39;t also do those <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/things-celebrities-have-done-drunk/celebrity-lists?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword" target="_blank">eccentric things</a>, is he truly a rock star?&nbsp;

Maybe everyone should start a list of their own personal&nbsp;outrageous demands (maybe even use Ranker to make the list?). People get famous fast, like sometimes for no reason at all, so you should be ready for when the time comes that you need these demands met. You don&#39;t want to be that <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/famous-people-with-ocd/celebrity-lists?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword" target="_blank">famous person</a> who doesn&#39;t ask for stupid stuff all the time.&nbsp;

Look over this list, be amazed at the most extravagant celebrity demands, and then use them as inspirado for your own.&nbsp;

14 Celebrities with Ridiculous On-Set Demands

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Spoiled Celebrities | Craziest Celebrity Demands

Lists about the levels and scenes you'll never forget.

Great Moments in Gaming

This is a list of the best first levels in video game history. What makes a great initial level in a video game? A first stage in a video game is your introduction to that game's world, story, and mechanics. It needs to be exciting and thrilling and give the player a good taste of what awesomeness is to come.Newer video games can get stuck in too many tutorials at the start of the game, holding the player's hand for too long instead of letting them experience the world for themselves. Older video games can do the opposite, throwing the player into an experience they don't understand at all, which can be just as frustrating. The greatest starting levels are somewhere in between these two extremes.It's no coincidence that some of the best introductory stages in video games also come from the most groundbreaking games in history. These critically-acclaimed games knew that they couldn't keep the player's interest in the rest of their game without an equally amazing starting stage. In some cases, these opening introductions were so good that they set the expectations for the rest of the game too high, and they were never ever to surpass that initial excitement.Did your personal best initial starting level make the list? If not, make your own!

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