So, you got yourself a new game!

[DragonMasterX]

What do you do then? I myself always wait to see if it has any extra Intros you can watch that are triggered when you leave your Title Screen idle for a minute or two. Then I go browse through Options before selecting New Game. JUST THEN I decide to start with a game! What about you all? Give examples of your favorite games too if you want!

[Erethzium]

I just start playing :P

[Guilmon and a shotgun]

I'm with AWL, i hit the ground running with no knowledge of controls or story. I like plundering into the unknown, it's like married sex only without the whiny excuses about headaches.

[Bee]

It all depends on the intro for me. Most games, I'll just mash buttons to get to the main screen so I can play, but, if the intro is exceptionally badass, I'll watch it all and see if there's more. Two examples are Gran Turismo 4 and Shellshock: 'Nam 67.

GT4 had the exceptional walk-around of the GT4-Spec Ford GT LM-Race Car, set to the song Moon Over The Castle(check that song out, man. It kicks so much ass for a classical song.), that fades into gameplay shots, and the song Panama by Van Halen. Really cool intro.

SSN67, has this cool, historically-accurate intro, explaining what happened during Vietnam, with pictures of B-52 Bombers bombing, and it fades into the start screen playing the song Who Do You Love, by some obscure band. I really dig it.

Most of the time, though, I'm too impatient and I just wanna start playing.

[DragonMasterX]

lol, trust me, I've dealt with 'people being impatient' all the time when I test out a new game. And most of the times it annoys me, I mean, sure, I respect they wanna start with the game already, but man, some intros are really well worked! For example, I remember when I was a kid and my cousin, as impatient as he was, disliked intros heartily, but when we saw MegaMan X6's intro after I asked, we were held with our jaws drop at its awesomeness.

That's somewhere where I can relate with you Cowboy, it depends on the game, but I generally watch any intro at least once before beggining a game :P

[Frisk E. Coyote]

I tend to watch intros. I'm a sucker for intros! Mostly because I want to get into the plot and well... a LOT of those intros are the best part of the games!

[UnknownH]

All and read the book first. I say this so much.

[The Reclaimer]

Watch any intro and then game on.

[blueeyedgabulvo0o]

Well first I would watch the full length of the intro, sometimes let it play twice to see if the intro changes (Have seen some games do that). I watch all of them if they have more then one, tweak all my options for screen and sound. If its a game that requires a run through tutorial, I do that, and then its game on.

[Gol22]

I like to check the options and settings, then start the game, watching all cut-scenes and such and just going through the game without skipping anything. Keeps me in the mood to keep playing.