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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
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| Subject: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 10:03 | |
| With all the genre talking in the random thoughts thread, I thought we could play a game. Someone names a game then the next person has to put it in a genre and name a new game for the next person. We keep going till someone can totally disagree with a placement of the game into a genre. So putting Final Fantasy XIII in JRPG, RPG, Traditional RPG all fine but putting in racing is just plane stupid and that end the game. A slight change to the game, you out a game into a genre by it's box art. So I will go first with The Granstream Saga
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 13:23 | |
| Never heard of it, but a quick guess based on Google Images would make me say action RPG. Let's go with Jak II. |
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The_Jaster Din
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 20:31 | |
| I'd also would have said that for the game Mas put up, Jak 2 is an Action Platformer. (side note: how about we agree to only go off a games boxart?) My choice is: Great cameo by our own Drunka on that boxart too. |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 21:19 | |
| - The_Jaster wrote:
- (side note: how about we agree to only go off a games boxart?)
Oh, that would make this a properly brilliant forum game. I'm definitely for that - it's Mas's thread though so he can chime in. Based on your box art, Odama is obviously an LSD influenced pinball game. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 22:16 | |
| The box art thing sounds cool Sci Fi Action Game |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 23:08 | |
| Pornographic SOTC-esque adventure/ platformer. |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 23:10 | |
| Have I now replaced Stu as the go-to guy for bald jokes? |
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Jimbob Bargain Hunter
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 23:28 | |
| Calm down Drunkbald - that's an Origami-based puzzle game there. Heavy Rain's a bit of a pretentious name for a puzzler. Throwing a curveball |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Thu 18 Sep 2014 - 23:59 | |
| I kinda know what it is, It's a text based adventure (I think). |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Fri 19 Sep 2014 - 0:03 | |
| - Drunkalilly wrote:
- Have I now replaced Stu as the go-to guy for bald jokes?
Can't hear you over the sheen coming off your head mate. - Jimbob wrote:
- Calm down Drunkbald - that's an Origami-based puzzle game there. Heavy Rain's a bit of a pretentious name for a puzzler.
Throwing a curveball
Interested in what this is - a Google search helped nothing. Mas's game is obviously a fighter - you've got your Ryu, your Ken, your female cast of fighters, easy. Here's mine: |
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The_Jaster Din
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Fri 19 Sep 2014 - 9:46 | |
| UmJammer lammy is clearly a kids version of Guitar Hero. here's another: |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Fri 19 Sep 2014 - 13:56 | |
| Spot-the-items type game, liked you'd always see in NGamer's reviews round-up, where one collects severed heads. |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Fri 19 Sep 2014 - 14:00 | |
| Edutainment/horror. If you're not a clever boy, your face will end up like Snow White's! |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Fri 19 Sep 2014 - 16:58 | |
| Platformer, set in space based on Attack on Titan.
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Fri 19 Sep 2014 - 20:22 | |
| A GTA Clone where you play as Rats in a sewer |
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Jimbob Bargain Hunter
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Sat 20 Sep 2014 - 15:47 | |
| @JayMoyles - @masofdas is right, it is actually a text-only adventure. The big clue is that, on the page with the scans on, most of the boxart is a screenshot of the game; but for the text adventures, they used an illustration. Even in the mid 80s, British game companies had worked out that putting the words WHAT NOW? on the box cover wasn't a good idea, marketing wise. The above game is Microsoft trying to plagerise LittleBigPlanet. Lazy lazy lazy Microsoft. Lazy. |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Sun 21 Sep 2014 - 11:42 | |
| @Jimbob but Voodoo Vince came out first, So Sony copied M$ that time and your game is clearly going to be awesome as it's batman in a side-scrolling beat'em up Combing two threads, yesterday I bought |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Sun 21 Sep 2014 - 14:18 | |
| Party game sponsored by Pornhub. |
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Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Wed 24 Sep 2014 - 1:41 | |
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Buskalilly Galactic Nova
Posts : 15085 Points : 15263 Join date : 2013-02-25 Age : 34 Location : Nagano
| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Wed 24 Sep 2014 - 22:21 | |
| Fitness game, a la the shake weight. Jesus, this industry is misogynistic... |
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The_Jaster Din
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| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Wed 24 Sep 2014 - 22:27 | |
| Dating sim. (because it doesn't matter if they're dead or a live. ) |
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masofdas The Next Miyamoto
Posts : 24029 Points : 24430 Join date : 2013-01-18 Age : 34 Location : VITA Island
| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Wed 15 Oct 2014 - 10:51 | |
| Temple Run style game where your goal is to find a broken sword (I do actually know what Broken Sword is) |
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JayMoyles Galactic Nova
Posts : 15896 Points : 15061 Join date : 2013-01-21 Age : 31 Location : The Shibuya River
| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Wed 15 Oct 2014 - 13:48 | |
| Artsy platformer where you play as a zebra searching to find out how to properly spell "Africa". |
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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
Posts : 26479 Points : 25311 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 35 Location : Admintown
| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Wed 15 Oct 2014 - 13:53 | |
| Serial killer sim. for the under-10s. Gouge people's eyes out with a spoon - when you do, there's no blood, just sparkles! |
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Jimbob Bargain Hunter
Posts : 4640 Points : 4666 Join date : 2013-01-15 Age : 42 Location : Milton Keynes
| Subject: Re: Judge a game by its cover Wed 15 Oct 2014 - 23:01 | |
| That doesn't look like a videogame; that looks like a boring film, from that cover. #satire |
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