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Mnementh said:
The_Liquid_Laser said:

Neverwinter Nights is the ideal game for anyone who really loves tabletop D&D.  It is best played with friends via LAN or online.

Well, then I should try it out. Although I play the real thing (D&D). Well, gog has it, but it's only Windows, I have long kissed Windows goodbye and use Linux. Maybe it runs with Wine. I read up on it, too risky to buy it and then it will not run.

Hmmm...may or may not be worth it then.  I have to add that if you do play it, the included campaign is ok, but not the reason I loved the game.  Fans have made a bunch of adventures for this game though, and the best of these really blow away the included campaign, IMO.



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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Mnementh said:

Well, then I should try it out. Although I play the real thing (D&D). Well, gog has it, but it's only Windows, I have long kissed Windows goodbye and use Linux. Maybe it runs with Wine. I read up on it, too risky to buy it and then it will not run.

Hmmm...may or may not be worth it then.  I have to add that if you do play it, the included campaign is ok, but not the reason I loved the game.  Fans have made a bunch of adventures for this game though, and the best of these really blow away the included campaign, IMO.

Hmm, looking around it seems I can get custom campaigns from here. Any recommendations?



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Mnementh said:

game #35

Hint 1: In this game you travel into space. With a train? To have your music tourney? On a graveyard?

Hint 2: Make millions!

Hint 3: The company who made this game back then is now famous for one of the most successful shooters and the development of the engine used by the publisher who bought them.

Hint 4: Although the publisher who bought them destroyed many game companies it bought, the one that made that game thrives.

Hint 5: This Pinball game was the first in a series of the dev and the first game of this dev ever.

Hint 6: I prefer the dreams over the illusions or fantasies.

Sadly this game stayed unguessed too. Some Swedes from the Demo-scene founded in 1992 a game company. They made a bunch of more or less successful games. In 2002 they released an ego-shooter named Battlefield. Since then they developed a lot of Battlefield-games. Since 2005 EA owns the majority of the company. But back in the beginning, the first game they released in 1992 was a Pinball game named Pinball Dreams.

The game was successful and became sequels, named Pinball Fantasies and Pinball Illusions. In Pinball Fanatasies I like the tables OK and one (Stones and Bones) very much. In Pinball Illusions I think the tables are mediocre. But in Pinball Dreams I like all four tables, so Dreams is my favorite game out of the series.

On the table Ignition you travel into space, Steel Wheel gives you a train in Western times. In Beat Box you are a musician making tours and releasing music albums. My absolute favorite though is Nightmare, which has a "scary" theme.

All four offer pretty good made music and sound effects (especially considering that back then sound-cards weren't that sophisticated). The graphic was great, but also very fast. The team used their experience from the demoscene to optimize everything out of the VGA-cards of the time: palette rotation, usage of full video buffer and so on.

The game was classic 2D, but for a long time the later coming 3D-pinball games didn't do for me what Pinball Dreams achieved - until Zen Pinball which also made the TOP 50 a few days ago.

If you want the fun: GOG has the game still available - in a pack with Pinball Fantasies and Illusions (Pinball Gold Pack). If you own the old game, you can run it with Dosbox.

Wikipedia, MobyGames, OGDB, IGDB



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#35 Skyrim

I don't know what to say about this time. I pretty much covered it with Fallout 3. The same things apply here. Skyrim is bigger and more interesting than Oblivion, but graphically superior to Morrowwind. The expansion packs add most of the interesting things to this game. 



The_Liquid_Laser said:

My next few clues:

#33 An open world super hero game on the PS2.

#32 This NES game is not named after the main protagonist or the main antagonist, but it's named after a very tough type of enemy that appears near the end of the game.

#31 This PS2 RPG wowed people by introducing voice acting for the first time to the franchise.

#30 This is a game about normal people doing ordinary stuff, the first one.

30: The Sims?

I feel like I could and do know 32, but I don't know.



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theRepublic said:
S.Peelman said: 

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Besides playing her file, I started like a dozen new ones just to see the rain at the game's start again and again.

That opening sequence is awesome.

It is.

One of my favorite video-game openings.



The_Liquid_Laser said:

My next few clues:

#33 An open world super hero game on the PS2.

#32 This NES game is not named after the main protagonist or the main antagonist, but it's named after a very tough type of enemy that appears near the end of the game.

#31 This PS2 RPG wowed people by introducing voice acting for the first time to the franchise.

#30 This is a game about normal people doing ordinary stuff, the first one.

#33: Viewtiful Joe?

#32: Is this Metroid?

#31: Final Fantasy X

#30: Out of ideas...



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#33 Two mascots & former rivals, they're now good friends and in the same game. This time they're in Europe.
#32 Not Oracle of Ages.
#31 The second game from a popular mascot. It's often considered his best game.
#30 A recent game in an old franchise. This time with multiple story lines and a lot of weird Japanese stuff.



Flilix said:
#33 Two mascots & former rivals, they're now good friends and in the same game. This time they're in Europe.
#32 Not Oracle of Ages.
#31 The second game from a popular mascot. It's often considered his best game.
#30 A recent game in an old franchise. This time with multiple story lines and a lot of weird Japanese stuff.

#33: Mario&Sonic at the Olympic games in London

#32: Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

#31: Sonic The Hedgehog 2

#30: Fire Emblem: Fates



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10 years greatest game event!

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Mnementh said:
Flilix said:
#33 Two mascots & former rivals, they're now good friends and in the same game. This time they're in Europe.
#32 Not Oracle of Ages.
#31 The second game from a popular mascot. It's often considered his best game.
#30 A recent game in an old franchise. This time with multiple story lines and a lot of weird Japanese stuff.

#33: Mario&Sonic at the Olympic games in London

#32: Zelda: Oracle of Seasons

#31: Sonic The Hedgehog 2

#30: Fire Emblem: Fates

All correct. Maybe I should make my hints a little harder next time.