The Discussion Thread -Day #9- The 15th Annual Greatest Games Event

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#39 - Stealth, Sniping or big guns, whatever approach floats your boat in this game is possible.

1. When it came out, the game was absolutely lauded for it's story and storytelling, and it's only real gripe among reviewers was that the graphics were a bit outdated.
2. It's a bit of a meme that people hearing about this game again makes them immediately re-install it on their PC.
3. The game got released just 2 days before Diablo 2 and 3 weeks before entry #37 - at least in the US. In Europe #37 released the same day as Diablo 2
4. It's the first one of a series of cyberpunk games, with much of the story being about conspiracy theories being true in that universe.

#38 - Thwart an Alien Invasion with a team of soldiers and some researchers trying to reverse-engineer the alien tech into something useable by humans.

1. You start in the late 1970's and with according tech and weaponry, just somewhat adapted for your specific needs. Later on, you'll research laser weaponry, plasma rifles and coilguns, but psionics won't do anything.
2. Your alien foes are made of Sebillians (a race of fasr-healing and very strong but short-sighted lizardmen), Caesan (basically the Greys, good sight but mediocre health), Reapers (turns your soldier into a zombie if he hits you in melee), Androns (robotic infantrymen with a total disregard for cover), Drones, and the Praetor who are leading the invasion. 
3. It got rereleased a year after it's release as the "Community Edition" with some community-suggested rebalancing and mod support.
4. As the Alien Invasion already alludes, it's like X-Com, but it's not an X-Com title.

#37 - "It is a world, of darkness"

1. The quest of this RPG plays over a timeframe of about thousand years, which is foreshadowed in a discussion early within the game.
2. As the thousand years alluded above suggest, you're playing a Vampire, but he's not yet one of them at the beginning of the game.
3. It's the first videogame that came out based on Vampire: The Masquerade.

#36 - This series is one of the most-cited successors to the classic DOS game Master of Magic.

1. The first game of the series was totally broken and got 6 patches within the first two days, but the core mechanics were not really good, so it got a successor that entirely replaced the first game, which itself got an expansion that replaced the previous replacement. We're talking about the last one in the line.
2. You play as the sovereign of one of the 10 nations, split between the good Kingdom faction and the fallen Empire faction.
3. If you play through the story, then you find out it's actually a stealth prequel to another 4X IP from the same developer and publisher, which itself is THE most-cited successor to Master of Orion.

#35 - You lead the development of new video games for a console manufacturer

1. The game only came out in Japan as it released just days before the console stopped being produced
2. At the end of the game, the Adventure-RPG suddenly turns into a Shoot'em up.

#33 - One of the most hailed tactical RPGs on PC - if not THE most one.

1. "Elliot, you Idiot!" *slap* *slap*

#32 - A medieval Fantasy city/city state builder.

1. This game is still in early access on Steam, though it's practically finished. It features counterparts to several of the usual fantasy races, though with some interesting twists and quirks.

#28 - "Game Over, Yeah!"

1. By today's standards, this racing game is very short and simplistic, but was pretty much revolutionary back then.

#27 - Heroes lead armies in turn-based combats over a large world map to dominate their opponents and conquer their cities.

1. Uniquely to this entry in the series, the Heroes don't just stand around and provide stat boosts and the occasional spell support to the troops, but can actively fight in the battles. In fact, you can have more than just one in each of your armies.

#26 - The goal of this game is to colonize Mars and make it habitable to humans without protective gear or oxygen masks.

1. You play as an AI, and what decisions that AI takes in discussions with researchers and colonists will develop your personality, rationale and how the game can progress in some ways.