Name the Game - Part 5 - Page 6

child of Thor · March 18, 2004, 17:07

Pirates? like at the end when you retire?

Buck Birdseed · March 18, 2004, 17:27

I don't remember the "Slave Driver" career path in The Sims... Must have been in one of the expansions.

Guynemer · March 18, 2004, 17:47

Both good, but incorrect, guesses.

Standup · March 18, 2004, 19:00

SOunds a bit like one of the Traveller games where you pick your history as part of your stat rolling.

Guynemer · March 19, 2004, 00:10

Nope.

Clue #2: the game's title is used in a poem in the game.

duke o' york · March 19, 2004, 05:36

Broken Sword?

Buck Birdseed · March 19, 2004, 05:56

In the beginning,
the Earth was without form,
and void.

But the Sun shone upon the sleeping Earth
and deep inside the brittle crust
massive forces waited to be unleashed.

The seas parted
and great continents were formed.
The continents shifted, mountains arose.
Earthquakes spawned massive tidal waves.
Volcanoes erupted
and spewed forth fiery lava
and charged the atmosphere
with strange gases.

Into this swirling maelstrom
of Fire and Air and Water
the first stirrings of Life appeared:
tiny organisms, cells, and amoeba,
clinging to tiny sheltered habitats.

But the seeds of Life grew,
and strengthened, and spread,

and diversified, and prospered,
and soon every continent and climate
teemed with Life.

And with Life came instinct,
and specialization, natural selection,
Reptiles, Dinosaurs, and Mammals
and finally there evolved a species
known as Man
and there appeared
the first faint glimmers of
Intelligence.

The fruits of intelligence were many:
fire, tools, and weapons,
the hunt, farming, and the sharing of food,
the family, the village, and the tribe.
Now it required but one more ingredient:
a great Leader
to unite the quarreling tribes
to harness the power of the land
to build a legacy
that would stand the test of time:

a CIVILIZATION!

DrSpike · March 19, 2004, 07:23

Guynemer · March 19, 2004, 14:35

No.

#3: nearly everyone in this game smokes, but nobody seems to care about the effects on their health.

Buck Birdseed · March 19, 2004, 14:38

(standard guess when we don't know the answer)

Grim Fandango

?

Guynemer · March 19, 2004, 14:42

Yup. Ain't that a hoot?

Best.
Adventure.
Ever.

child of Thor · March 19, 2004, 14:43

Its Civilization?

I used to love that game on my Amiga - it was the Aga version and it looked beautiful

I'd forgottenabout this one

Buck Birdseed · March 19, 2004, 14:50

I think we should skip the "No games after 1993" rule. It's becoming too limiting. Grim is a later game that worked perfectly anyway...

That said:

New game is the game I'm playing at the moment. Unfortunately, unlike most emulated console games, it's not really suited for keyboard control.

Guynemer · March 19, 2004, 14:54

Yipes. Wasn't even aware that there was a 1993 rule.

DrSpike · March 19, 2004, 14:59

Noooooooooo. I missed GF!

Buck Birdseed · March 19, 2004, 15:04

Clue #2: (I know it's too soon but #1 was really obtuse). The reason it's difficult to control with a keyboard is because you use the diagonals more than the "normal" directions.

Adagio · March 19, 2004, 15:27

I'm all in for removing the '93 rule, since we've had almost (yeah right!

) all games before that

child of Thor · March 19, 2004, 15:40

Grim fu**in Fandango! who'd have thought it.......

Well we could extend it a little to 97?(2000 and its a bit recent

) What people think?

As for my guess im going with 'Starfox' that snes game i thinkit was - with the anime cartoon chars( a fox was one of them).

Spaced Cowboy · March 19, 2004, 15:41

Sonic,

Yeah ditch the '93 rule, that will open this up a bit. I'm not sure I like the inclusion of consol games though. Never owned one of those.

Vlad Antlerkov · March 19, 2004, 15:52

Quote:

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Clue #2: (I know it's too soon but #1 was really obtuse). The reason it's difficult to control with a keyboard is because you use the diagonals more than the "normal" directions.

Street Fighter II.

Adagio · March 19, 2004, 16:48

Mortal Kombat II?

Buck Birdseed · March 19, 2004, 16:56

Clue #3: "I paid all my money to that strange big bird!"

Buck Birdseed · March 19, 2004, 19:45

I'm doing loads of small clues this time around, since I'm playing the game and it's fresh in my memory. This is the last one for tonight though.

Clue #4: It's not "Jak and Daxter" but there is a "Zak" and a "Dexter" that act as your rivals during a certain portion of the game. Zak is an obsessively dedicated knight, Dexter is a giganting scaly bewinged "Drakkonian" Bounty Hunter whose diet consists of raw meat and who has a penchant for buying expensive art.

Buck Birdseed · March 20, 2004, 05:51

Clue #5: You can stand on top of practically everything in this game, including furniture, people, animals, objects that harm you... In fact near the beginning there's a secret "Life Stock" (extra hit point/strength thingy) that you can get by jumping from a dog to a guard to a statue.

Buck Birdseed · March 20, 2004, 12:39

I'm sorry, I messed up which one was Zak and which one was Dexter. It's the other way around, not that it matters.

Clue #6: The entire game is set on an island. During the wars of an earlier era a king came to hide there.

Buck Birdseed · March 21, 2004, 06:26

Right, **** this ****. I'll start dropping big clues.

#1: Isometric Action RPG.

Adagio · March 21, 2004, 06:37

Doesn't sound familiar to me

DrSpike · March 21, 2004, 07:14

Dragon Quest?

Vlad Antlerkov · March 21, 2004, 07:44

Bahamut Lagoon?

Buck Birdseed · March 21, 2004, 07:49

#2: On the Genesis/Megadrive. Breakthrough and in some ways only good game of a japanese developer.