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S.Peelman said:
Mnementh said:

Ni no Kuni is wrong too.

But you are right about Majoras Mask. Obviously, with your avatar. I think you guessed MM in the past years too.

Gah I remembered wrong. It's Child of Light then.

And yeah probably lol, maybe I have an antenna for MM.

Child of Light is correct!



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S.Peelman said:

Alright next batch.

35: Ya Ya Ya Ya Yaa!

34: This peculiar game oozes pop culture references in its minor vehicles. 

33: The Expanded Universe was great. A treasure trove of cool stories and of course video games. This game was the start of a subseries consisting of the game, obviously, and comic books.

32: This game and its only successor is heavily inspired by a famous series of spy movies. So much so, that the creators changed their male protagonist to a female, because they were afraid of getting accused of ripping it off.

31: Most games in this series feature game worlds that are a maze, a series of varied areas strung together to form a seamless universe, but not this one. This one more story oriented and therefore more linear than usual.

#32: Perfect Dark?



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Still no correct guesses here, so here's the 5th hint.

#34

-A retelling/a loose adaptation of the novel Journey to the West

-Set in a post-apocalyptic earth

-Monkey

-Trip

-The main character is voiced by Andy Serkis



Darashiva said:

Still no correct guesses here, so here's the 5th hint.

#34

-A retelling/a loose adaptation of the novel Journey to the West

-Set in a post-apocalyptic earth

-Monkey

-Trip

-The main character is voiced by Andy Serkis

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (would have got this after the first clue but didn't see it)



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Kantor said:
Darashiva said:

Still no correct guesses here, so here's the 5th hint.

#34

-A retelling/a loose adaptation of the novel Journey to the West

-Set in a post-apocalyptic earth

-Monkey

-Trip

-The main character is voiced by Andy Serkis

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (would have got this after the first clue but didn't see it)

Yes, that's the one.



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Bofferbrauer2 said:

35: Crazy Taxi

33: Knight of the Old Repubic?

32: Damn, the name is on the tip of my tongue. I know the heroine is called Kate Archer, is set in the 70's and everybody is dressed the part - but I can't find the name of the game! Edit: No One Loves Forever!

Crazy Taxi is right. Easy hint I guess, as everyone who played it will probably remember this being shouted at you by The Offspring.

Knights of the Old Republic isn’t. That’ll be much higher on the list, but you are on the right track. Kind of a mean hint, because indeed KotOR fits it, but another series also does. Unlike KotOR though, there weren’t more video games (and no current talk of series and movies either).

No One Lives Forever is also correct, one of the most fun shooters I ever played.

Mnementh said:

#32: Perfect Dark?

Actually never played that, a sin I know. Bofferbrauer was right; it is No One Lives Forever.

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S.Peelman said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

35: Crazy Taxi

33: Knight of the Old Repubic?

32: Damn, the name is on the tip of my tongue. I know the heroine is called Kate Archer, is set in the 70's and everybody is dressed the part - but I can't find the name of the game! Edit: No One Loves Forever!

Crazy Taxi is right. Easy hint I guess, as everyone who played it will probably remember this being shouted at you by The Offspring.

Knights of the Old Republic isn’t. That’ll be much higher on the list, but you are on the right track. Kind of a mean hint, because indeed KotOR fits it, but another series also does. Unlike KotOR though, there weren’t more video games (and no current talk of series and movies either).

No One Lives Forever is also correct, one of the most fun shooters I ever played.

Mnementh said:

#32: Perfect Dark?

Actually never played that, Bofferbrauer was right; it is No One Lives Forever.

I loved Crazy Taxi, we had an arcade cabinet of it in our favorite bar next to a Star Wars flipper, and always competed for the highest score on the board. Too bad the re-releases changed to music to to their rights to the music expired...

NOLF was great, it just got squashed between Quake, Unreal, Half-Life and Serious Sam



#38

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (PS3)

Change YoY: -2

Some of the biggest changes in my top 50 over the last 5 years has happened due to The Legend of Heroes series of games, as I only really found out about it in around 2015, and yet now there are five games from the series on my list, the second most represented series in it. They have quickly become some of my all-time favourite games, and the series as a whole is among the best I've ever played.

Trails of Cold Steel II was an excellent continuation to the first game in the sub-series, picking up a month after the story of the previous title, and featuring quite a few callbacks to the Trails in the Sky games as well. The battle system is still a lot of fun, the characters are very well written and seeing the keep growing is very compelling, and the political, magically tinged story that runs across the whole Trails sub-series is excellent and surprisingly involved and complex. I am very much a fan of the series now, and every new game that comes along is going to be one of my most anticipated games of any particular year.



Bofferbrauer2 said:

I loved Crazy Taxi, we had an arcade cabinet of it in our favorite bar next to a Star Wars flipper, and always competed for the highest score on the board. Too bad the re-releases changed to music to to their rights to the music expired...

NOLF was great, it just got squashed between Quake, Unreal, Half-Life and Serious Sam

Yeah music rights is a thing. I personally played the Dreamcast version, which I believe wasn’t released that long after the arcade, so luckily everything was still good at that point. I was quite into shooters during the first half of the 2000s, as you’ll see most of them on my list are from around that era. There was just so much variety; from realistic WWII shooters like CoD 1 and 2 to sci-fi shooters like Jedi Outcast to cool quick arena shooters like Unreal Tournament to story-driven silly spy shooters like No One Lives Forever. In my experience that really just vanished overnight to be replaced by dreary brown and dull military shooters after Modern Warfare hit the scene. I was sadly done with the genre pretty much immediately at that point. 



S.Peelman said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

I loved Crazy Taxi, we had an arcade cabinet of it in our favorite bar next to a Star Wars flipper, and always competed for the highest score on the board. Too bad the re-releases changed to music to to their rights to the music expired...

NOLF was great, it just got squashed between Quake, Unreal, Half-Life and Serious Sam

Yeah music rights is a thing. I personally played the Dreamcast version, which I believe wasn’t released that long after the arcade, so luckily everything was still good at that point. I was quite into shooters during the first half of the 2000s, as you’ll see most of them on my list are from around that era. There was just so much variety; from realistic WWII shooters like CoD 1 and 2 to sci-fi shooters like Jedi Outcast to cool quick arena shooters like Unreal Tournament to story-driven silly spy shooters like No One Lives Forever. In my experience that really just vanished overnight to be replaced by dreary brown and dull military shooters after Modern Warfare hit the scene. I was sadly done with the genre pretty much immediately at that point. 

Same for me, though I think it's Halo who turned the genre upside down and everybody followed suit down a road I didn't like. Just Serious Sam really stayed the same, and that's why I still play those games to this day.