#40 | unguessed An underrated game if you asked me, especially within the wider Total War franchise. Rome II is a great sequel that brought a whole lot of good to the gameplay of the series, some of which was however cut again later. The campaign map for example is top notch. It feels enormous and the cities are unique. When I first got the game, an amazing looking special edition, my PC was still sporting a GeForce 9500. Great for some ten year old games I played but when I first started Rome II, the intro cutscene which featured some smoke effects turned out to be a slideshow. Time to get some upgrades. |  |
#39 | Guessed by drbunnig The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is a legendary game, as the name implies. It has rightfully earned its place within the gaming pantheon, but it is also legendary to me. It wasn't my first game, but it probably was the game that lead me on the path all the way here today. It made me a Nintendo fan, a Zelda fan, and a gamer. I have said this many times before, but the intro to this is etched into my mind. When my aunt showed it for the first time back then, I couldn't believe what I saw. It took a long while before I finally beat it, but luckily the rest of the game was just as good. |  |
#38 | Guessed by The_Liquid_Laser A bit of a unique game in the series, Empire: Total War covers the whole world, and is focussed on gunpowder, artillery and large ship battles instead of swords and spears and a more focussed regional map. This is good though, and it obviously fits the theme. As a Dutchman it is particularly interesting to be able to play my own country. Or at least my country's Republican predecessor. Playing as it, it's easy to become extremely wealthy and thereby very powerful due to the fact that you start with a region or trading post in every theatre, and you have access to a very good, unique trading unit. Surely just like real life! |  |
#37 | unguessed While Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds is not much more than a sprite swap of the famous Age of Empires II, it is actually one of my most played games of all times. Is it because it is good? It is as good as Age of Empires can be because it is exactly the same, which certainly is good, but that's not really it. It is because of convenience. It is one of the only games I'd play competitively with a friend, because one day we started playing it, and then just continued to do so for about a billion years. Its gameplay is simple, Star Wars is cool and games can be quick. Also, our skill is decently close. |  |
#36 | Guessed by Veknoid_Outcast One of the games I missed when it was new. Metroid Fusion came out when I had mostly turned my back on dedicated video game systems and I wasn't really in the mood to try anything new. Though I knew of Metroid, it wasn't a series that was on my radar at this point, nor did I really need or want it to be. That changed after it became available on 3DS when Nintendo ported a bunch of games to it as a thank you to those that bought the system before the infamous price-cut. At that point I was very much into dedicated video game systems again. It is funny, or not, that today there is a bit of a parallel going on, now I'm also getting turned off from gaming a bit. Maybe in ten years I'll again find out what I missed. |  |
