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

[Bofferbrauer2]

Seems to be too difficult for you guys, even though some are pretty well-known titles 

#39 - Stealth, Sniping or big guns, whatever approach floats your boat in this game is possible. Deus Ex, found out by @Darashiva 

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lauded for it's story and storytelling, and it's only real gripe among reviewers was that the graphics were a bit outdated.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.
5. The main character is named J.C. and he's part of a police force, and while the game is the first that came out in the series, it's actually one of the last in the timeline, taking place in 2052 (though only one of the sequels confirms the date). Interestingly, the World Trade Center twin towers are missing in the New York skyline despite the game coming out before 9/11.

#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.
5. The soldiers wear blue uniforms at first, making them wonder why they don't wear any camo (according to the description, it's due to the aliens seeing on a different color spectrum as humans do, camo doesn't influence their sights at all)

#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.
4. the mediaeval part plays in Prague and Vienna and the modern part plays in London and New York

#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.
4. You can design all troops yourself, provided you have researched the equipment that they would then wear, though there is an option to automatically upgrade the design with newly researched armor and weapons. 

#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.
3. The came is packed with charactera and cameos from the video game company that produced the game, punny recreations of games from other companies and if they couldn't get around them legally, pixelated the references.

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

1. "Elliot, you Idiot!" *slap* *slap*
2. You can hire your mercs from two sources, the second one run by guys from it's predecessor.

#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.
2. Speaking about those races, the orc counterpart is a race of peaceful vegetarians, the elven counterpart  bloodthirsty tree huggers and cannibals, humans are very intelligent but prone to crimes, dwarfs cannot be born as they exist since forever, death-worshipping insectoids, and so on

#28 - "Game Over, Yeah!" Sega Rally Championship, found out by @Darashiva 

1. By today's standards, this racing game is very short and simplistic, but was pretty much revolutionary back then.
2. The game came first out in the arcades, but we're talking about the Sega Saturn port.

#27 - Heroes lead armies in turn-based combats over a large world map to dominate their opponents and conquer their cities. Heroes of Might & Magic IV, found out by @Darashiva 

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.
2. In the predecessor, there were 8 (or 9 with an expansion) different towns. In this one, there are only 6: Life, Death, Nature, Chaos, Order and Might. 

#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.
2. The game starts as a peaceful base-building game, but after a while you get attacked and must then also build some defenses

#25 - An early 90's PC adventure game where the number of a specific letter in the title tells you how many characters you're manoeuvring through the scenario.

#24 - A God game that released (or rather came out of early access) this year.

#23 - A long time ago in a galaxy far far away *Cue synopsis text crawl with theme music*

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 12 December 2024