35) This game which had more than 50 million players no longer exists

• Because this game was just entirely replaced by it's less well recieved sequel

34) The second spin-off of this franchise that became more succesful than the original trilogy

• The franchise just had a 30 year anniversary

31) The first two games in this series were the only ones in normal chronological order. This is the second of them.

• Conspiracy theories, mechs, crazy backstories, breaking the 4th wall, you know which director I'm talking about don't you?

30) Stay back, I have a Wii Remote!

29) Subtract 1 from a thousand

28) The original of the sequel of the remake

27) As I predicted the adaptation did not turn out well

26) The sequel to this game might have set new record for being announced too early

Some guesses:

34 - DKC: Tropical Freeze

30 - LOZ: Skyward Sword

29 - 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors

26 - Beyond Good and Evil (although given the sequel isn't out yet, maybe not...)

35- starcraft?

34- Persona 2?

31- Mechassault 2?

28- FF7?

27- Borderlands?

26- Elder scrolls skyrim?

#35: Overwatch?

#27: Halo?

#26: Duke Nukem 3D?

Wow, lots of guesses!

999 is correct! The others are not.

The first three are wrong, but FF7 and Skyrim are both correct! 27 is actually Borderlands 2, but I'll count it since the hint could have been either one.

Overwatch is correct! The other two were guessed by Farsala

So in summary that was 5 correct guesses, only 34, 31 and 30 are left.

31: Metal Gear Solid 2

Correct!

#30

Change YoY: -1   My Rating: 9.2 / 10

Proof positive that open world games don't have to be obscenely massive to be great or memorable. Yakuza 0 presented the player with a much more compact open world compared to most other modern games in the genre, and then simply filled its concise and intricately designed world with a wide variety of different engaging things to do, from absolutely ridiculous side quests to side activities that have no reason to be as deep or elaborate as they are. And yet they are, and the game is all the better for it. It also features two playable protagonists, Kiryu and Majima, who have impressively different gameplay styles, both having multiple unique fighting styles and side quests. Both characters also have their own side business they can run, Kiryu with his real estate company, and Majima running a cabaret club, both of which the player can sink dozens of hours into over the course of the game.

Yakuza 0 balances the ridiculous with the serious amazingly well, as the player might go from a life and death battle with a yakuza boss to a side quest about teaching a dominatrix how to be better at her job. It's quite the balancing act, and the game somehow pulls it off near-perfectly. It's this strange mix of tones that have no problem jumping from one extreme to another with little to no warning that gives the game its unique charm and style. There's just nothing else quite like this series, and I would take Yakuza 0's well-designed, compact world over most of the massive and repetitive open worlds filled with hundreds of indistinct markers denoting another pointless collectible which have crowded much of the video game industry for the last decade and a half. Some do it well, and there are a few examples of that coming up on my list as well, but as Yakuza 0 shows the constant rush by certain developers to create increasingly massive worlds for their otherwise bland settings isn't the only way to do open world games well.

Got busy and missed a few days, guess it's time to hint a bunch of games at once. Here goes:

#30 - There is no escape.
#29 - For some reason, the remake of this game has a lot of eyeballs.
#28 - Owls get very angry when their eggs are (for some reason) killed by light.
#27 - This game remained the latest in its series' timeline for almost two decades.
#26 - Probably the only game to ever have the player fling a rope at a dragon's tail to swing around.

28: Ori and the Blind Forest?