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Zippy6 on 11 November 2021
Darashiva said:

#46: Before a new game came out in the series just a while ago, this game from 27 years ago was the last 2D home console entry in the series.

Super Metroid?



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S.Peelman on 11 November 2021
Darashiva said:
S.Peelman said:

Okay, maybe it's indeed better to name a couple for some more guessing time per game. I'll do five, and swap in new ones when one's guessed or has to be revealed. So here's five games;

#50: This game was rushed to release, which sadly caused much planned content to be cut or left unfinished, especially near the end-game. Fans however, made many mods, which restored much of this content.
#49: A black-box game of a sport that has the wrong name in Europe.
#48: You actually want to shoot the character you can't shoot.
#47: It looks like you stranded on a lovely island, if it weren't for that bird.
#46: After you seemingly died in your sleep, you find that you can return to your own world through a mirror after first finding the sun, moon and the stars.

#49 Soccer on NES is the only one that comes to mind

#48 Duckhunt

These are both correct!

Both are probably not really two of the greatest games ever made, but with these it's more about what they mean in my personal development as a kid.

So with these two guessed here's a little update. Three of these five are now guessed, I'll put up a couple new hints for those that remain, and new games so there's five again tomorrow.

#50: This game was rushed to release, which sadly caused much planned content to be cut or left unfinished, especially near the end-game. Fans however, made many mods, which restored much of this content.
#49: A black-box game of a sport that has the wrong name in Europe. Soccer NES - guessed by Darashiva
#48: You actually want to shoot the character you can't shoot. Duck Hunt - guessed by Darashiva
#47: It looks like you stranded on a lovely island, if it weren't for that bird.
#46: After you seemingly died in your sleep, you find that you can return to your own world through a mirror after first finding the sun, moon and the stars. Child of Light - guessed by Mnementh



TruckOSaurus on 11 November 2021

Gotta finalize my list tonight and start posting hints!



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Darashiva on 11 November 2021
Zippy6 said:
Darashiva said:

#46: Before a new game came out in the series just a while ago, this game from 27 years ago was the last 2D home console entry in the series.

Super Metroid?

Correct.

Machina said:
Darashiva said:

Alright, I finally had some time to think of some hints, so let's start with these.

#50: The asylum thing wasn't quite working, so instead we walled off a part of the city to keep them in instead.

#49: A very angry man becomes slightly less angry and learns to get along with others.

#48: A potato can generate just barely enough power.

#47: The most recent big cross-over punch-up in this series.

#46: Before a new game came out in the series just a while ago, this game from 27 years ago was the last 2D home console entry in the series.

48 = Portal 2.

Edit - and is 46 Super Metroid?

Correct on both, but someone else got Super Metroid a bit earlier.



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Metallox on 11 November 2021

Can I ask questions here? I have made my list, and I'm listing the platform in which I played first each game, but I have a couple that I played first on emulators. Should I clarify that?



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Kakadu18 on 11 November 2021
Kakadu18 said:

Ok, here are my hints:
#50: TRAINS (and other stuff, gods, demons, alternate dimensions, ghosts, possesion, magic and what not)

That one's probably very hard to guess, so here's another hint:

The protagonist is known to be lazy and always oversleeps.

Now it's probably easy.



Farsala on 11 November 2021
mZuzek said:

Okay, gonna put just one more hint there for today, I think it'll help.

#50 - This game's protagonist enters a group of hackers to try and recover an account that was stolen from him.
Hint 2 - While it has never been named by anyone here, it is a sort-of sequel to a game that has been named in 2016 and 2017.
Hint 3 - Since then, these two games have been released as a collection and ported to more platforms.
Hint 4 - Between all their releases combined, these two are the best-selling games in this franchise, but that isn't saying much.
Hint 5 - These games are often compared to an extremely popular JRPG franchise, but they're more similar to another JRPG series.

#49 - It's an open-world game made by a really small team.

I feel like #50 reminds me of Digimon Cyber Sleuth.



Farsala on 11 November 2021

#48 The main focus of this game is building a castle and getting your economy rolling. When that happens, all you need to do is kill the enemy king to win. This particular game is a little bit of an off shoot from the main franchise, but might be more popular.

In this game you can hire a bunch of mercenaries like horse archers or arabic swordsmen. They are best used for some sort of rush because they cost too much for their value.



Farsala on 11 November 2021
mZuzek said:
Farsala said:

I feel like #50 reminds me of Digimon Cyber Sleuth.

You're not far off.

Hacker's Memory then.



Zippy6 on 11 November 2021
Farsala said:

#48 The main focus of this game is building a castle and getting your economy rolling. When that happens, all you need to do is kill the enemy king to win. This particular game is a little bit of an off shoot from the main franchise, but might be more popular.

In this game you can hire a bunch of mercenaries like horse archers or arabic swordsmen. They are best used for some sort of rush because they cost too much for their value.

Stronghold Crusader?



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