Mostly the orange and white, and I thought that could possibly be Neo Paris, or what ever they call it in the game.
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Yes State of Mind
Was just sorting a second picture out.
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It's not that it was too easy for me, but Guacamelee just stood out to me for the past couple years that I simply couldn't forget about it... so much so that it was bugging me lol
Anyway, I never even played this game or the sequel :/
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Let's see who can guess this one right away:
Hint: you can pull that curtain away.
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IF IT'S 95% DARKNESS THERE'S A REASONABLE CHANCE IT TO BE DOOM 3
jokes aside on my phone it was a BLACK picture even at max brightness, and couldn't open it in a new tab not to get flashbanged by the brightness of SG. Seen some silhouettes while I long pressed on it, but only for half a second before getting the context menu.
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Some screens are totally different. On my gaming pc's screen you can clearly see the contrast and different colors while on my steam deck this picture is just a black rectangle and you can barely see any details. I should've checked before.
Ok, note to self: no more screenshots of dark/black areas in games!
btw: now that the game was revealed, don't you think it's funny to have Luigi's Mansion confused with Doom 3? Imagining stuff is fun :D
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Yeah, on my computer screen at least I could see what was on the screen, just couldn't identify it :)
'+ a joke Doom 3 at least works as a bump as well, it's good to keep the topic active ^^
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Omg omg omg it's a ghost in the bathtub in Luigi's Mansion!
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I loved this game so much! That's crazy too cause I was gonna do Luigi's Mansion 3 for my screenshot yesterday :o
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Lucky coincidence :D
But sorry for taking you the chance to present the 3rd game now. I wonder if I could guess that correctly as I only have the first game on the GameCube.
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That is Neocron.
Did you play? It was one I was interested in but never tried.
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No, to be honest I learned of it today. I'm not much into MMOs.
I thought it was one of the Deus Ex sequels, the sword reminds me of Dragon's Tooth.
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2004 - in the same genre as Majesty
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I have it that my first idea was Majesty, but I know that the art doesn't fit, so can't be that :D
Had youtube recommendations about Diggles, but that's more sideways-looking
The Nations is too pixely... and it's too late right now to really look up games, then making everyone wait half a day before I could post a new one :P
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Ok since odinlowejr89 didn't respond in 2 days, I think it's save to assume we don't get a new game any time soon. Might as well take the chance to continue :D Sorry
Here ya go!
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No idea but this is the second picture in a row that I can't even open in a new tab because imgur just refuses to function. So no zoom for me D:
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IDK why but Banjo Kazooie/Tooie comes to mind when looking at this.
pretty sure its not it though
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It was a blind shot. The princess in the second screenshot doesn't look like much of a Persian. :)
As for the mystery game - I remembered that in the early 2000s a Prince of Persia 3D knock-off came out on PC (the full version was on a cover CD added to one of the Polish gaming magazines) under the title "Arabian Nights". I'm almost certain that's the game from the screenshots.
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I just discovered that the US release of Prince of Persia 3D for Dreamcast was titled "Arabian Nights: Prince of Persia".
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under the title "Arabian Nights".
I'm pretty sure I had a demo of it on a demo disc back in the day :D
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Sorry to keep you waiting.
HINT #1: The screenshots are from the arcade version of the game, which was eventually released on a whole bunch of home machines.
HINT #2: The protagonist of the mystery game is a rather hilarious character who, in some crazy way, has become the unofficial mascot of the company behind the arcade.
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One of the early Heroes of Might and Magic games?
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Nah, this game is from completely different genre.
(I've added yet another screenchot and a litte hint.)
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Nope.
I've added a new (probably conclusive) screenshot.
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Ok, I've uploaded a more obvious screenshot and another hint.
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I'm so sorry that you feel left alone, some topics really bump too often to notice the topic (and I was away whole saturday, but I'm not the only person on the forum :P )
Though personally I have no idea, but it annoys the fuck out of me because I'm sure I've seen the first picture somewhere.
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Ok, after a bit of research I found it. Not a game (or character) that I have heard of before. Do you want the answer now, or shall we wait for someone who actually played it?
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Since the beginning of this thread on Steamgifts, the rule has been - if you know the answer, you answer, regardless of how you discovered the identity of the mystery game.
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That's correct!
As someone who started his gaming adventure with arcades, C=64 and NES, I thought Karnov was more recognizable (especially the screenshot with the ladder seemed very obvious to me).
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Edit: Added 2 screenshots
Hint: found this game in community train :D
Hint 2: first word in the game name is a big kind of bird
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Either Owlboy or Starbound. I'm tipping more towards Starbound, cause those stairs look very much Starbound-like.
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I don't think it's Owlboy, it has a more detailed art style I think, as I checked it. Starbound is possible - I'm sure I've seen that screen and very likely in one of my games :D
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The only reason I'm not 100% sure that it's really Starbound is because I've played it with more than 500 mods, each with extra player/fan made content xD It didn't only feel like a new game, it felt like 5 new games lol
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Hint : Free fan game, not on steam.
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Damn there are a lot of Sonic fan games, thought that hint might have made it easy.
Don't know if your fan game is in 3D, but that tiling in the first picture looks it.
Will try Sonic Robo Blast 2?
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Really close, but that isn't this one, new picture added, must help, really specific to this game.
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No idea how easy or hard this game is to get.
Just see it on someone's profile the other day and feel like I have seen the key art 1000 times without knowing what the game was like.
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SPRAWL ?
Remind me someone hologram earler in the game, and the background could fit it ...
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Sort of reminds me of Sins of a Solar Empire. I had a few buddies who played that game religiously lol
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Freelancer looks nothing like that. Neither does Starlancer. Nor any of the Wing Commanders. And sure as hell not Tachyon.
And absolutely definitely not any of the X games. And most certainly not Evochron. And very assuredly not Descent/FreeSpace.
And totally not Homeplanet. And never ever Battlecruiser 3000 A.D. And this has nothing in common whatsoever with Star Citizen.
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Seems like we got an overabundance of games set in space. At this point it's like finding a single rice corn in a desert. So why don't we create a new genre of games? How about... a car game where you illegaly race across well driven roads? Surely nobody has ever thought about that, as we're all behaving, law abiding citizens. Oh! Or how about a game where you shoot others? This never existed before!
Silly jokes aside, nice Lina Inverse profile pic.
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Nah, it's just me personally being a total space-sim freak. I played it all (ALL). I could've go on and on for hours, if I wished. But I'm currently way too weak/lazy, due to all the medication after the stomach surgery I had to undergo recently (still recovering, so far).
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Well, since you told me you played all these games, I kind of want to know which one of them you would recommend to someone like me, who has played only Freelancer and Everspace. I enjoyed both of those but I can't decide for any other game. I've had Elite Dangerous and No Man's Sky on my radar since both are playable in VR as well. Maybe you can help a little bit?
Get well soon, though. Being sick sucks.
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DarkStar One is literally full-on "German Freelancer". It's much more quirkier and comedic in tone, though. Le "German humor" et al.
Also, obviously and naturally, do Starlancer (available on PC and Dreamcast) eventually, for lore/plot enrichment purposes. No Man's Sky is an absolute must-have, a definite default requirement nowadays, after all the updates, fixes, and patches it had. It's topdog.
If you wish to enrich your gaming knowledge and accumulate more experience overall, also try doing "Tachyon - The Fringe", because Bruce Campbell (yes, THE chinman) rules. Just don't consume it in it's vanilla state, since it has bugs, memory leaks, and doesn't support modern mice or resolutions by default. Run it strictly with nGlide wrapper, as it's the only way to play it nowadays.
Also try Homeplanet (it's a SUPER-hardcore REAL Newtonian physics-based space-sim'esque shooter from early 2000's, similar to Wing Commander in gameplay, but with real physics. It's initially a Russian-made product, but was released in US at some point, if I recall correctly. I don't think it's expansion/add-on "Playing With Fire" was ever out in westerner countries, however) if you're feeling like you want to have "Dark Souls of space sims"-like experience, as it's very hard, but extremely satisfying at the same time.
There are also slightly-less obvious games, such as Space Rangers (a initially-Russian series as well, though way more well known than Homeplanet ever got to be), FTL (the "Darkest Dungeon or space sims"), Flatspace duology. Also do Evochron and X games.
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I would've also suggested (NOT recommended, though) trying Russian-made space-sim product called "Tomorrow War", released in 2006 (available on Steam since 2009), which is a video game adaptation of a very popular series of sci-fi space opera books by a famous duo of writers going under the pen name "Alexander Zorich", but, unfortunately, the game's production was botched quite heavily and it's rife with inconsistencies in plot lines, glitches, and it's also one of the very first cases of blatant and very unapologetic "product placement" in video gaming industry's history (characters of the game advertise "Shock" chocolate bar and other popular-at-the-time snacks, through the entire game, constantly consuming that junk on camera and etc., it's been a long-running meme in CIS' gamer circles for decades). The only reason to play this game nowadays, is for streaming memery, and also because it has 3 endings, so there's at least some "replayability value" to it. The vanilla source material books are vastly superior, however, obviously.
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Now that's what I call a wall to text. Much more than I had hoped for. Thanks for your input.
I'll try Homeplanet later today. And maybe DarkStar One after that. Man, these graphics scream "early 2000s" and I love it! Hope the difficulty of Homeplanet is as hard as you say.
And as for No Man's Sky: I religiously want to avoid this game as much as possible because its devs advertised it to be so much more and when they finally released it, it was broken and nothing like what they promised. They basically LIED to get more sales. But I think you know all about that catastrophic release.
I might not be able to play all of these games because of time reasons, but at least one of them can fill this hole. Thanks again :D
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Sean never lied. He just tried to bite more than he could chew on, at the time. He was also heavily pressured by Soyny. Nowadays, however, No Man's Sky is absolutely flawless, just a real total perfection. It's literally one of the best space sims and open-world games ever made, period. Ignoring/dissing it in these current days makes no reasonable sense whatsoever at all, as they delivered on everything (literally every single last thing) Sean Murray promised and envisioned initially, eventually, and then greatly expanded and upgraded upon all of that so much further that even the initial promises pale in comparison. The game is a very solid 10/10 now.
You should really go and watch these two videos in full (if you haven't done so already before):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ (notice the upload date...the game improved drastically further, since then).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijnomy9iN1M (it's current latest state, if you don't count this fresh video from the developers, which was released just a couple days ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu-OxnMETY0). The game is very healthy right now.
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Don't mistake Homeplanet with "Homeworld" series. This is a very common mistake many people make. Homeplanet is a hardcore real Newtonian physics-based space sim, while games from the Homeworld franchise are all 3D (as in plane) real-time strategies.
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Alright, you convinced me to look into it. But, he did lie in this video in an interview where he said "ye..." and kind of made a "no" notion to a question whether it's going to have multiplayer or not. This issue may be fixed now but it doesn't change the fact that he chose to not say the truth at that time. Also, at least I gotta give them credit for not including any money grab scheme (paid dlcs) in it. There's currently a sale with 60% off in my region until next sunday. Might check it out next weekend then.
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He didn't "lie", he simply genuinely didn't know if they could pull it off at launch, but they sincerely tried to. A big difference.
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Sorry for the late reply, work stacked which made me forget about this for a couple minutes (or hours lol)
You're correct, this is the game.
Here is the last screenshot that I've prepared for you guys:
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Btw, just wanting to make sure you get this comment formatting right when adding screenshots.
You add a separate line like this:
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Type in the square brackets whatever text you want, which will appear when hovering over the picture with your mouse.
In the round brackets, add the URL to the direct image source on imgur, which looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/... .png
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I'd actually like to pass my turn if that's alright - I've got a busy weekend and don't know when I'll next be on here.
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Since NightWingMistHawk wanted to pass, I'll post one
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Bard's Tale - the 2005 (on PC) one ?
"The Bard's Tale ARPG"
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Goblin Commander, you made me remember I found it while browsing PS2 roms :D
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Think he has forgot to confirm your guess.
You should probably just post the next one if you confident.
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I am!
https://youtu.be/-i6pglOaH28?t=331
I'll get a pic in a few
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I somehow managed to miss the guys face in the bottom left corner of that screenshot.
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Haah, yeah, this one was great!
Glad you determined to post another game, I totally forgot I check this one bwhha
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Aksually Mafia Definitive Edition :P
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I would have picked a specific edition, but didn't know if I was right.
Just had a vibe from the house.
Think it is the rich area you get some of the real fancy cars driving about.
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Yep, the northern side of the east half of Lost Heaven, around the museum and hospital I think
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So the worse one. No wonder I didn't recognize it.
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Bruh...I ain't even gonna. I'll let others to "guess" this very obvious 0/10 bait. Just a warning: if you're trying to "find" it by reverse image-searching, because you actually never played it even once by this point...you'd better leave the gaming scene altogether.
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https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Ragnarok_(Final_Fantasy_VIII) => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQM1tQwKfv4 ~ https://images3.imagebam.com/1f/5b/77/900d2d466226177.PNG, just because I can.
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I may not have been able to decide what game to do, so thought I might as well get this one out of the way 😎
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If you search this thread for "Freelancer" you can see how many times you tried to guess this game :D
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Maybe add another screenshot?
I'm pretty sure I've seen this before. I can't think of anything else other than Heretic or Hexen, but I know it's neither of those.
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Sorry I should've uploaded another screenshot last night but I came down with a bit of a headache. It's not Hexen or Heretic.
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Ah, it's Anvil of Dawn! https://youtu.be/Bq4xkmiwbRE?si=8CIenhKm5T1WRAHn&t=34
Thank you, that second screenshot confirmed to me that this game was some kind of Dungeon Crawler either like the Eye of the Beholder series or the early Heroes of Might and Magic games. Finding out the rest was easy :D
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