video game edition

[kirinn]

Meme going around: Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/TV shows and put their summaries from Better than it sounds (warning: time-sucking TVTropes link) and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess. Replies temporarily screened to prevent spoilage.

Since some friends have covered a lot of anime ground, this edition is *entirely* video games.

Comments

[tiercel]

1. FF4
3. Suiko 3
4. Katamari
5. FF6
8. FF12
9. Kingdom Hearts?
11. Metroid
12. FF7
15. Okami (she's not a dog)
16. FF9
18. Vagrant Story? Wait, Sydney wasn't in chain mail. Argh.
19. Breath of Fire

I feel like I should know more of these.

[kirinn]

Those are all correct. I tweaked #18 'cause you're right.

Oh wait, #9 isn't what you said, but that game is in the list elsewhere.

[tiercel]

Oh, 17. I'm a dumbass. I'm gonna feel crazy stupid once they're all revealed, I know.

[akiko]

1. FF something. 1 or 6.

3. Suikoden 3

7. Valkyria Chronicles

8. FF 12

10. FF13

15. Okami

[madmanatw]

1 looks like a Final Fantasy or something.
4 is Katamari Damacy.
10 might be Curse of the Azure Bonds?

[kirinn]

1 - It's one of like six of those in the list, yes. ;)
4 - Yup
10 - Interesting, but no.

[madmanatw]

Arg, I'm reading through the TvTropes page now (not to cheat but to consider doing my own version of this) and realizing that I was right in my guess for #9 but was thrown off by the pig.

As for FF, I've never actually _played_ any of them, so I just recognized the theme. ;)

As for 10 I am amused that (a) it is exactly 6 people and matching tattoos in both games, and (b) that I just started a new game of Curse of the Azure Bonds last night so it was in my head anyway.

A lot of the games I would have wanted to use aren't on that page, but maybe I'll do my own version of this anyway. :)

[kirinn]

That is pretty funny on 10. I suppose it's not all that uncommon a trope.

Obviously you can just make up your own - I tweaked several of these to give either more or fewer hints as I deemed necessary.

[donaithnen]

1: FF4

2: Almost sounds like Xenogears, but not quite.

3: World War I? Oh wait, no ducks :)

4: Katamari Damacy

5: FF6

7: Valkyria Chronicles

8: FF12

9: Legend of Zelda

10: FF13 (geez, all the FF ones are easy, but is it really better than it sounds in this case? ;)

11: Metroid

12: FF7

13: Super Mario 2

15: Okami

16: FF9

17: ...Duckhunt? Oh, no wait, Kingdom Hearts ;)

19: The entire Breath of Fire series?

20: Sounds like it ought to be Half-Life, but that doesn't sound quite right.

I'll have to think about the rest some more.

[kirinn]

2 - Not quite, no. Right publisher, though.
3 - Indeed, ducks. I think you've played this but maybe not.
20 - No, but you're on the right track sort of. In that it's not console.

All the rest of those are correct, including 19.

You're only missing, what, three? Plus the three above. Pretty sure you played 18. And 2. Maybe not the others.

[donaithnen]

2: Wait, it's not Final Fantasy Tactics is it? I don't think i've ever heard the jesus comparison before, but the rest of it fits.

18: And now that i'm focusing on more obscure Square games, is this Vagrant Story?

20: Non-console game, AI-turned-evil, aliens, wait, this is you we're talking about, so Marathon? (I have no clue about the door opening thing, so i'm going with personal knowledge instead =)

[kirinn]

2 - It is. Maybe a bit of a stretch, but I didn't write it. You can certainly draw parallels, though.

Yes on 18 and yes (with good reasoning) on 20.

[corpsefairy]

The only ones I recognize are Katamari Damacy (#4) and Portal (#20).

[kirinn]

Yes on 4.

That's a fascinating answer I hadn't considered for 20 - seeing as I just got that game for free and haven't played it yet - but not what I was going for.

[corpsefairy]

Upon rereading the clue, Portal doesn't actually make sense because GlaDOS has very high job satisfaction.