16. Metal Gear Solid?

14. KotOR?

13. Half-Life something

Since nobody has tried to guess any of the last dozen hints I've posted here, I figured I'd make the next one easy.

17. The first mainline home console game in the series in over a decade to bring back the series' traditional style of gameplay. Also the first mainline entry to feature four-player multiplayer.

#14

'SoulCalibur'

for the SEGA Dreamcast released in 1999.

When you had this game, nothing else was impressive anymore. When it was released 'SoulCalibur' was out of this world, with unbelievable graphics, the most realistic physics and effects and an epic score. It had pitch-perfect gameplay too. In fact, I think, if one were to play this game today, they'd still be impressed by it. Personally, after having played this game, it didn't took until the more powerful XBox and GameCube before another game amazed me again. It's probably the sole reason why I was never interested in the PlayStation 2, what did it offer above this game?

Anyway, in the fighting genre, there's no game that comes close. Not even it's own sequels. I have 'SoulCalibur 2' on GameCube and '4' on the PlayStation 3, and while they're both very good, they both seem to mess something up. I do like other fighting games, like the 'Mortal Kombats' on Mega Drive or 'Street Fighter II' on the SNES, but they aren't SoulCalibur. We used to have complete tournaments of this game, right after we were done with our 'Virtua Tennis' (#38) tournaments.

What makes it so good is the perfectly balanced characters, they are all easy enough to pick up and play, have easy yet satisfying combos, but are each quite deep and can be used in widly different ways if one cares to learn the game's mechanics a little deeper. Cool stages and a quick yet challenging arcade-mode complement the amazing mission-mode, where the player completes fights on a map earning money for new costumes and the like.

#13 Hint:

I like to think this game is about the glory days of the country I live in, given the year the game takes place in, the architecture of most buildings and the overal theme it in fact probably is, though it's developed by a company based in our neighbour. Some sequels were made, and interestingly the European titles always add up to '9'.

Too bad I see this too late... I knew that, I hope you believe me .

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I know it's kind of cheating... But I think it's one of these three then:

Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D or Doom.

I hope it's the first one, because I think that's the best one of those three, but I don't think so since that one didn't redefine it, but rather made the FPS genre. So... I'm gonna say, Doom.

Correct on all accounts (No. 13 was Half Life 1... seriously, no one else thought Half-Life 1 redefined FPS campaigns?).

As for yours, New Super Mario Bros. Wii?

Nope, Korppi got it. It's the original Half-Life.

Before Half-Life all FPS copied the formula of the 3 games you mentioned above. Then Half-Life came along and suddenly characters, believable AI and storybuilding all became staples of SP FPS campaigns.

14. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Korppi beat you to it

No less correct though.

Hints

15. Platformer where different modes were unlocked after beating the game. They altered the characters stats sort of like a different class type. The other modes were warrior, magician, thief, and shooter.

14. This story heavy game has a lot of platforming despite it's genre. It's not a Nintendo game, but the developer is Nintendo owned.

13. The first game in this very large franchise that was completely different from the rest.

I fully admit that I made the hint with the malicious intention of misleading the first guesser into thinking that it is New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

Not far off the mark, though.