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38) Dragon Age: Origins (PC / 2009 / RPG)

One of the best RPGs of the generation. A huge overarching story, excellent characters and relationships, combat which is engaging if a little bit repetitive, and plenty of playtime. I don't much like the whole silent protagonist thing, but I can see why they went for it. My big problem with this is the linearity. You do have some sort of choice as to the order in which you explore different areas, but the areas themselves follow narrow corridor-like paths. Hopefully Dragon Age 3 can add some more exploration.




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Clue for Game 37: Incredible single player experience, highly lackluster and peculiarly designed online. Derided by many for reasons that have nothing to do with the gameplay.



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Kantor said:

Clue for Game 37: Incredible single player experience, highly lackluster and peculiarly designed online. Derided by many for reasons that have nothing to do with the gameplay.

Mass Effect 3?



38th - Final Fantasy XII (PS2, 2007)
The first of two final fantasy games on my list, FFXII is also my second favourite Final Fantasy of all time. While shunned and disliked by a lot of fans, this iteration of the series stands on a lot of amazing accomplishments, like it's great battle system, character development (in terms of controlling how your character develops, the License Board is the best system on any FF), a pretty broad and well thought story (sadly tarnished by the departure of Matsuno. It had the potential to be so much more) and so much content to put most other RPGs to shame.
While a pretty great game, it does have it's share of flaws, with a big glaring one: It's completely weak main character, Vaan. Everything about the game screams "Basch is the main character!" or "Vaan is just a late-patched sucker!" because the entire game was indeed planned around Basch (one of the reasons I said that the game could have been so much more). 
It also features one of the best sidequest in any RPG I've ever played: The Hunt quests. While some are pretty meek fights, the later hunts are some pretty hard fights if you play the game entirely without the Gambit system (and yes, this system is OPTIONAL).

      



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Number 37 will shout the hell out of you.



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lestatdark said:
Number 37 will shout the hell out of you.

Skyrim?



Scoobes said:
lestatdark said:
Number 37 will shout the hell out of you.

Skyrim?

Yeah, this one's pretty easy no matter what hint you use .



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Mr Khan said:
Conegamer said:
So 39 is New Super Mario Bros. 2. A good game, yes. But the added mechanic did nothing for me and I would have liked a little more variety in stage design...

38 is an early Wii title involving schoolgirls, grannies, footballers and rockstars as your enemies.

No More Heroes.

Did No More Heroes have a footballer in it? NMH2 did (handegg, anyway) but now i'm trying to think

Death Metal, Doctor Peace, Shinobu, Destroyman, Holly Summers, Letz Shake, Harvey Moisevitch Volodarskii, Speed Buster, Bad Girl, and ______ (knowing you and how you hate your spoilers)

None of them played either kind of football, iirc. Bad Girl was just mean with her bat and her alcoholism.


Yeah I meant bad girl...but you're right.



 

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Scoobes said:
Kantor said:

Clue for Game 37: Incredible single player experience, highly lackluster and peculiarly designed online. Derided by many for reasons that have nothing to do with the gameplay.

Mass Effect 3?

Nope; I love ME3's online.

You are close in that people deride this game because of something to do with storytelling, but in this case it is nothing to do with the ending.



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axumblade said:
Cheddarchet said:

And now I realize I never gave a hint for my number 39, ah well, here it is!

#39: Age of Empires II: Age of Kings (PC)

Truth be told, I started playing this game completely by chance when my dad heard about it from a friend at work. He decided it might be something fun for the two of us to play together, so he picked it up for me on my birthday. In the spirit of Thanksgiving (though I suppose that's technically over here... or not even celebrated, but whatever), I'd like to say that I'm infinitely grateful for his decision that day, as it provided me with one of the most fun gaming experiences I've ever had. Admittedly, I was never all that great at the game, but that never stopped me from having a good time. I really wish I'd thought to bring it with me when I left the States, but ah well. Probably would've been too distracting anyway, haha.

#38 Hint: A time-honored hero returns in this early Wii game.

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess?

Haha, right you are! That hint might've been a bit too easy.

Anyway, my number 38 is --> Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess!

I'd be lying if I said it was my favorite Zelda game, but that didn't make it any less fun once I really got going in the game. It looked great, and Midna was an awesome partner through and through. The ending to this one genuinely made me sad, too, which isn't something I often expect out of Zelda. Just a fun game overall.

Hint for 37: Mario's a popular guy.



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