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S.Peelman said:

Second hints. Bofferbrauer already guessed two games with just the single hint, so three remain;

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

Hint 2: These minor vehicles are usually used to transport your tiny character from one destructive vehicle to the next.

Damn, I thought it could be Blast Corps with the first hint but didn't feel confident enough. Now I'm 100% sure it is Blast Corps.

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TruckOSaurus said:
S.Peelman said:

Second hints. Bofferbrauer already guessed two games with just the single hint, so three remain;

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

Hint 2: These minor vehicles are usually used to transport your tiny character from one destructive vehicle to the next.

Damn, I thought it could be Blast Corps with the first hint but didn't feel confident enough. Now I'm 100% sure it is Blast Corps.

Of course this is also correct!

Well, these couple of hints were handled quite quickly after all.



UnderwaterFunktown said:
S.Peelman said:

33: Xenoblade Chronicles 2

31: Ocarina of Time, otherwise this hint is wrong

31 is right of course, but 33 is not.

Mmm.. Was pretty sure 33 would be it. Had more faith in that one than I did in 31 anyway lol.

Dark Souls 3 maybe?



Mnementh said:
Darashiva said:

Alright, time for the next set of hints.

#30:

-Many people's favourite place in the game is the giant world

#29:

-The only direction you get at the start is the light at the top of the mountain in the distance

#28:

-A cross-over franchise that really just shouldn't have worked, but somehow did. The second game in the series

#27:

-An RTS about a war between the last vestiges of humanity and an AI called the Core

#26

-A remake of the first part of a beloved game from the '90s

#28: Dragon Quest Heroes 2

#26: Final Fantasy VII Remake

26 is correct, 28 is not.

S.Peelman said:

30: Could be a lot I guess, but since I'm me I'll guess Breath of the Wild.

29: Journey

Breath of the Wild was earlier on my list, but Journey is correct.

TruckOSaurus said:

#30: Super Mario Bros. 3

#26: Final Fantasy VII:Remake

Correct on both, but FFVII remake was already guessed earlier.



#38: A PC-exclusive Pinball game with a horror theme.

Hint #1: Tables are a haunted Castle, a Dungeon, and Frankenstein's Laboratory, complete with the Monster in it's center.

Hint #2: It's the second game in that specific series, 3 more were to follow.

Hint#3: The predecessor had 3 tables in space, with buildings from Outpost, the successor had Dinosaurs, the next one had a NASCAR theme and the final one a rollercoaster theme.

Hint #4: They also made a Minigolf game with an identical naming scheme, just switching out the Pinball at the end for Minigolf.

Hint #5: The series was published by Sierra On-line

Looks like nobody found out about this one either, which is a bummer. I still find that 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night is the purely digital best pinball game ever made, and that's sad since it uses a 16-bit executable to launch, meaning it doesn't work on 64-bit OS anymore unless you virtualize.

#30: Capitalism, ho!

Hint #1: You have to pay back the debt accumulated by your father by selling stuff, most of them being adventuring related. 

Hint #2: You get the items to sell at your store either from the quartermaster who supplies most of the (unseen) stores in town, from the little stalls at the market, but mostly from the dungeon since those are of course free. For this end you hire a hero to fight for you while you transport the goods you find in chests or from monster drops, hidden under a shield and invisibility spell, so only your chosen warrior can get hit.

#27: Game over, yeaaaaaaaaaaaah!

#26: This game is from a series of turn-based strategy games where you lead entire armies into battle, stack by stack. Heroes of Might and Magic IV, @Mnementh found the right entry

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#33Valkyria Chronicles 4
guessed byThe_Liquid_Laser
platformSwitch
release year2018
developer/publisherSega
genreturn-based tactic RPG
linksWikipedia
past years2019: #44, 2018: #50

Valkyria Chronicles was a series I never tried, until it came with this entry to the Switch. Before release I started to take an interest and learned that it might be very well to my liking. And so it was!

I like deep tactical gameplay, which is why I prefer usually turn-based gameplay over action gameplay, as the faster paced variant has to be cooked down a bit to make it possible to make faster decisions. But Valkyria Chronicles is actually turn-based gameplay with a lot of deep decision making. The game only uses some tricks to hide the fact. So you can move freely - until you have eaten up your alloted movement for the turn. Also seemingly stuff happens in sound and visually - but if you take notice, this doesn't actually have any effect until the turn moves forward.

So yes, this is turn-based gameplay dressed up to look more like real time. And this is fun! I have the deep decision-making but with more adrenaline as the action seems to go forward.

Also the 3D-view is usually a thing that I would think brings less overview helping my decision. But I do have a map-overview too and the 3D-view give you many visual helpers to help make the right decisions. This is a well thought through interface.

The setting is a fictional setting, which is inspired by europe and World War One. The characters are likable and in their history and actions understandable and each has their own unique character.

Visually the game creates very beatiful images with the style of hand-drawn colored images. This is very nice and I do like a less realistic style very much, if it is done well with artistic intention, which is clearly the case here.

Overall this is a well-made package for a fan of tactical games like me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSmVJc88HxE



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S.Peelman said:
UnderwaterFunktown said:

31 is right of course, but 33 is not.

Mmm.. Was pretty sure 33 would be it. Had more faith in that one than I did in 31 anyway lol.

Dark Souls 3 maybe?

Nope, still not the one.

I'll give an extra hint though: The shared part of the title is not Souls, but it does start with S.



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Bofferbrauer2 said:

#26: This game is from a series of turn-based strategy games where you lead entire armies into battle, stack by stack.

Stack by stack makes me think of Heroes of Might and Magic. I'll guess HoMM III since that seems to be most people's favorite.



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20 of my games are guessed by now, so let's take a short look on who is crushing it with my hints. As last year it seems @The_Liquid_Laser takes the lead with 6 points. Closest is @Supermario28 with 3 correctly guessed games. Two points each for @UnderwaterFunktown , @Jpcc86 and @S.Peelman . The rest only has guessed one game so far. 30 games are still to guess, so a lot of chances to get ahead.

As the November has nearly ended it is time to break into my TOP 30. So let's add a bunch of hints. As I am lazy I will repeat sometimes hints from previous years, if that is any help for anyone. (-;

#30
Cast spells at your servants to make them fall down.

#29
Eat PCB (printed curcuit board).

#28
This game had for the last three years exactly the same position in my list, now it changed.



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UnderwaterFunktown said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

#26: This game is from a series of turn-based strategy games where you lead entire armies into battle, stack by stack.

Stack by stack makes me think of Heroes of Might and Magic. I'll guess HoMM III since that seems to be most people's favorite.

Correct series, right reasoning, but wrong game.

I actually prefer another game in the series, though I'm certainly in the minority here - by far!