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No one? I will post a screenshot in a couple of hours then.

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File: someplace 24.png (64.6 KB)
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No hints necessary for this one:



Edit: It happens to be the game I'm currently playing.

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Star Ocean: Second Story?

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Snacko wrote:
Star Ocean: Second Story?

Nope. That game is still on the "probably not going to play"-list, as I still want to play other RPGs first like Mother 2/3, FFVII, Skies of Arcadia, Superstar Saga, or Chrono Cross.

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If you haven't played FFVII yet, skip it. It's one true redeeming factor is nostalgia, which you don't have.

Populous: A New Beginning?

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This screenshot (without the status bar) should do it.



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Castlevania:SOTN


I am not going to post any screenshot if I am right so anyone else can do it for me.

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skell wrote:
Castlevania:SOTN

That wasn't really difficult, was it?

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Let's end this trend of at least halfway decent games.



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Now for a more iconic screenshot. Yes, that song playing through your head is part of a repressed memory.



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Reservoir Dogs
So the game—unlike the movie—wasn't any good, huh?

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The game had some interesting ideas, but they were all wasted due to, among other things, a blatant disrespect for the source material.

First of all, almost all of the cutscenes were badly done reproductions of the warehouse scenes in the movie, but they use only the bare minimum amount of content to progress the story. Tarentino's dialogue was constructed to sound natural, to develop characters in a believable way, in the game the dialogue is simply chosen to present the movie's rather thin plot in as as bare-bones a way as possible.

After each short cutscene, the action switches jarringly to a loading screen that features one quote from the movie (although in the final level the quote is invented, as Mr. Blue has no dialogue aside from the opening sequence in the film). Then you have a choice to play it as a buggy, boring shooter or just take a hostage and slowly tell each enemy to face the wall, a position they will not stray from, ever. The other half of the levels involve nearly unplayable driving sequences, which are the low point of one of the low points of licensed games. Out of necessity, most of the levels depict events only mentioned in the film, and in doing so the movie's structure, pacing and soul are irrevocably destroyed.

Oh yeah, and the entire first two thirds of Mr. Orange's chapter (which I believe to include a great deal of the movie's best scenes) are gone. No wonder no one but the struggling Madsen signed on.

So, yeah, your turn.

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The entire commode story scene is simply outstanding and is easily one of my favorites from any film, ever. (For the record, my all-time favorite would have to be the slow-motion sequence in A Clockwork Orange where Alex 'scraps' with Georgie and Dim.)

The next one is only a partial screenshot:

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I may be very wrong here, but is it Heretic? The one from id Software?

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Nope, but you're very close.
(I'll wait another day or so to see if someone correctly guesses it, otherwise I'll give you a point and you can go.)

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Hexen?

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It's not Hexen. I'm leaning more and more towards giving eb0ny a point for getting as close as he did, as this one is (apparently) too obscure. Sorry about that, but I was thinking that I'd give this one a try since a couple of people had pretty easily guessed my last obscure id shot.

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The only obscure id game I can think of is Spear of Destiny.

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I'm honestly not sure if the game itself is that obscure; I think a few of our forumites might have played this, but I'm beginning to think it's doubtful that they would remember spotting that little mosaic. (Okay, so the mosaic isn't that small, but the player doesn't need to get that close to it in order to proceed with the rest of the game. Also, it's not like you see the thing at every turn.)

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Could be Shadowcaster since it also had pixellated walls, but it's not dark enough.

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Maurog wrote:
Could be Shadowcaster since it also had pixellated walls, but it's not dark enough.

That was the name of the game that I was trying to think of. I played all the way through that game back when it was first released. Good times. (Is that what this image is?)

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It's not Shadowcaster, either.
Here's another screenshot:

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Hexen 2?

EDIT: Or Heretic 2? I think the two both use some incarnation of the Quake engine.

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Nope, and no, respectively.
Quake engine, you say? Undoubtedly.

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Actually, I'll just give eb0ny a point for getting really close. Both screenshots were taken from Quake Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity. (And I apologize for using only partial screenshots, but it would have been way too easy, I think, if I hadn't.)

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Heh, I was gonna guess quake or doom, but then I thought, hang on, they dont' have art.

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Hmm, that would be id Tech 2, actually.

Those were great expansion packs, though. Quake II was and is an amazing game.

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Anybody who wants to can go, I guess.

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Heh, I was gonna guess quake or doom, but then I thought, hang on, they dont' have art.

Well, some of the art, of course, comes to life and attacks you.

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SPOILER!!!

I mean, some more aesthetically inclined person might come across quake and be shocked and amazed by the art, but now that you've posted it, they're just going to expect it. How could you be so cruel?

(Er... caffeine without sleep, if you were wondering)

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Oh no! What have I done?