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Hinting time!

#34: Let's address the elephant in the room... it was WAY PAST past time they revamped the formula! They did and it worked wondefully.

#33: Introduced a lot of the series staples like an overworld map, flying and fighting the main vilain's children as bosses (them being his children as been retconned since).

#32: Since he can't talk, the title character of this game is referred to only by his initials by his sidekick.

#31: More family trouble in the underworld.

#30: An already fantastic 3D platformer that got a whole new side-game upon re-release.



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I suppose it's not always the obscure games that are hardest to guess. Skyrim is a modern fantasy classic that I haven't played in many many years, but when I did I had a blast with it. This is easily the lowest it's placed because it's so long ago, but well still an awesome game. And even 6 years after reveal I probably still have time to replay it before The Elder Scrolls VI.



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Guessed by @drbunnig 

The second REmake is just an all-around great game that basicly everyone can agree on. Great gameplay, great atmosphere, great puzzles, great remake. If it has any weakness it's only perhaps being a less unique game than most others in my Top 50, but hey great is great.



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TruckOSaurus said:

Hinting time!

#34: Let's address the elephant in the room... it was WAY PAST past time they revamped the formula! They did and it worked wondefully.

#33: Introduced a lot of the series staples like an overworld map, flying and fighting the main vilain's children as bosses (them being his children as been retconned since).

#32: Since he can't talk, the title character of this game is referred to only by his initials by his sidekick.

#31: More family trouble in the underworld.

#30: An already fantastic 3D platformer that got a whole new side-game upon re-release.

#33: Super Mario Bros 3

#31: Hades 2?

#30: Super Mario 3D World?



#35: Doublekill!

  1. Flak Monkey
  2. Adrenaline!
  3. Double Domination and Assault
  4. It's basically an enhanced version of the previous year's entry

#34: In this game, you steer a character from the womb until college graduation. 

  1. What you can learn depends on the stats you gain each year in the brain grid
  2. You meet several other children and students during your childhood, some of which you can make deep friendships (and more!) - but you can also be  bad to someone and have them end their friendship with you.
  3. The character you created grows up in the 80's, so activities like the arcade or board games are open and you can learn computer science in a computer club 
  4. You don't have to, and probably can't, learn everything that's possible to learn in this game, as the options grow bigger and wider with every step, from baby stage to preschool, to school to high school to college.

#33: A post-apocalyptic game with a bit of silliness included

  1. Part of a long-running series
  2. The last mainline entry from it's original creators
  3. There was a follow-up in the works, but it was largely unfinished, though most of it is still canon for the rest of the series.

#32: Your mission: To slowly terraform Mars into a habitable planet

  1. You are actually an AI who steers the terraforming effort, but after the early phase human scientists will move in and conduct research on your behalf.
  2. Along the game you come along some multiple choice questions that mold the behavior of the AI you are playing as
  3. Your two main characters that you are talking to are a scientist back on earth who checks on you and comes sometimes with new directives, and a scientist who came to Mars after you established the basics with a more direct approach to things.

#31: Often called the black sheep of this action-adventure series from Nintendo

  1. It just got a very enhanced remake on PC that vastly enlarges the game.
  2. In Japan, this game didn't come out on cartridges, but on the Disk drive.

#30: Your mission here is to build a specific kind of structure for a very specific kind of people.

  1. And you must ensure that the people stay in that structure, at least as long as they're supposed to

#28: A turn-based strategy game with Cities to strengthen and defend, structures that give some buffs, ressources lying around and Heroes to fight the monsters along the way.



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TruckOSaurus said:

Hinting time!

#32: Since he can't talk, the title character of this game is referred to only by his initials by his sidekick.

Donkey Kong Bananza?



Bofferbrauer2 said:
TruckOSaurus said:

Hinting time!

#34: Let's address the elephant in the room... it was WAY PAST past time they revamped the formula! They did and it worked wondefully.

#33: Introduced a lot of the series staples like an overworld map, flying and fighting the main vilain's children as bosses (them being his children as been retconned since).

#32: Since he can't talk, the title character of this game is referred to only by his initials by his sidekick.

#31: More family trouble in the underworld.

#30: An already fantastic 3D platformer that got a whole new side-game upon re-release.

#33: Super Mario Bros 3

#31: Hades 2?

#30: Super Mario 3D World?

All correct!

drbunnig said:
TruckOSaurus said:

Hinting time!

#32: Since he can't talk, the title character of this game is referred to only by his initials by his sidekick.

Donkey Kong Bananza?

Correct!



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Right, one more clue, let's make this really obvious now.

#35

  • Third of four in a series of 13 so far
  • The most recent release in the series is a remake of the first game
  • Set in the empire of Erebonia
  • Trails
  • Steel

#34 The Last of Us Part II

  • A game about revenge that only leads to worse outcomes for everyone involved
  • Features two playable characters
  • One of the characters seeks revenge for what the first game's main character did to her father

#33

  • A secret mission in the frozen north that takes place at the same time as the first game in the series
  • Set in a fictional version of Europe during a continent-wide war
  • A tactical RPG, the fourth in its series
  • The first game was originally a PS3 exclusive, while the next two were only on PSP, but this one came out on most platforms when it release in 2018.
  • Valkyries

#32

  • The origin of the Dragon and the Mad Dog
  • Organized crime in Japan
  • Run a host club, or a real estate agency
  • Kiryu and Majima
  • 0

#31 Persona 4

  • When it rains, the path to another world opens
  • Through a TV screen


Darashiva said:

Right, one more clue, let's make this really obvious now.

#35

  • Third of four in a series of 13 so far
  • The most recent release in the series is a remake of the first game
  • Set in the empire of Erebonia
  • Trails
  • Steel

#34 The Last of Us Part II

  • A game about revenge that only leads to worse outcomes for everyone involved
  • Features two playable characters
  • One of the characters seeks revenge for what the first game's main character did to her father

#33

  • A secret mission in the frozen north that takes place at the same time as the first game in the series
  • Set in a fictional version of Europe during a continent-wide war
  • A tactical RPG, the fourth in its series
  • The first game was originally a PS3 exclusive, while the next two were only on PSP, but this one came out on most platforms when it release in 2018.
  • Valkyries

#32

  • The origin of the Dragon and the Mad Dog
  • Organized crime in Japan
  • Run a host club, or a real estate agency
  • Kiryu and Majima
  • 0

#31 Persona 4

  • When it rains, the path to another world opens
  • Through a TV screen

#35: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Steel 3

#33: Valkyria Chronicles 4

#32: Yakuza 0



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TruckOSaurus said:
Darashiva said:

Right, one more clue, let's make this really obvious now.

#35

  • Third of four in a series of 13 so far
  • The most recent release in the series is a remake of the first game
  • Set in the empire of Erebonia
  • Trails
  • Steel

#34 The Last of Us Part II

  • A game about revenge that only leads to worse outcomes for everyone involved
  • Features two playable characters
  • One of the characters seeks revenge for what the first game's main character did to her father

#33

  • A secret mission in the frozen north that takes place at the same time as the first game in the series
  • Set in a fictional version of Europe during a continent-wide war
  • A tactical RPG, the fourth in its series
  • The first game was originally a PS3 exclusive, while the next two were only on PSP, but this one came out on most platforms when it release in 2018.
  • Valkyries

#32

  • The origin of the Dragon and the Mad Dog
  • Organized crime in Japan
  • Run a host club, or a real estate agency
  • Kiryu and Majima
  • 0

#31 Persona 4

  • When it rains, the path to another world opens
  • Through a TV screen

#35: The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Steel 3

#33: Valkyria Chronicles 4

#32: Yakuza 0

All correct