Quiz: name that game

[Zloth]

X-COM or UFO Defense or whatever it was called where you are.

 

[McStabStab]

X-COM or UFO Defense or whatever it was called where you are.

Beat me to it! Although I’m sure several others know as well. Man I have a lot of hours in that game, I even replayed it leading up to the release of the new XCOM and I still cling to the opinion that its better than XCOM2.

 

[Pifanjr]

I tried playing it, but the interface is so horrible, I just gave up.

Ya, never would have gotten that! Will you post another? What's the rules on this? IS THERE ANY LAW HERE?!

The only rule is that the game must go on.

 

[FreezerBurn]

X-COM or UFO Defense or whatever it was called where you are.

Yup! See that one was too easy LoL

 

[Zloth]

Maybe we should do bidding like the old "Name that Tune" game show? I can name that game with 50,000 pixels!

OK, here's a cropped one I can expand if it's too hard.

 

[Zloth]

Not even a guess! OK, a little more of the image with some of the GUI in it...

 

[Rensje]

Is it Dark Age of Camelot?

Could be waaaaay off because I've never actually played the game, but it's the first thing that came to mind. I seem to remember looking at screenshots for the game in a magazine way back when and thinking it looked amazing. That was pre-WoW, of course.

 

[Johnway]

@Rensje yeah i think its dark age of camelot. heard good things from PCGuk about it back in the day. i think it was early 2000s.

 

[FreezerBurn]

hat was pre-WoW, of course.

The crazy thing is There is a whole generation of people that never experienced pre-wow.

 

[Pifanjr]

The crazy thing is There is a whole generation of people that never experienced pre-wow.

I don't think I played any MMO's before World of Warcraft was first released, but my first MMO (and the best, imo) was Tibia, which is from 1997.

Looking through the Wikipedia list of MMORPGs, I realized I have played a lot of the MMOs that were released around the same time as World of Warcraft (+/- 3 years).

 

[Zloth]

Is it Dark Age of Camelot?

That it is!

Came out late 2001. I think its initial big claim to fame was that the thing actually worked pretty well at release. After the release of Anarchy Online, that was a welcome "feature." That one had to actually close down after the first few days and re-launch it about a month later. Even then, it was in a pretty bad way for the first few months.

The game was fun at first but everything ended up too... not sure what term to use... MMO'ish? Instead of going on an adventure through a dungeon, you would go to the Most Optimal Farming Point in the dungeon and fight as things re-spawned. Eventually you would gain some levels and graduate to the next Optimal Point. All the rules of who was allowed to fight what that were established elsewhere (EverQuest?) were fully in force here. I can't say it was very fun.

 

[Rensje]

Alright! Let's see, what to challenge you with next..
Hope you don't mind spiders!

 

[Johnway]

For some reason it looks oh so familiar yet i can't put my finger on it.

I'll get the ball rolling with Dungeon siege 2?

 

[Frindis]

Legend of Grimrock 2?

 

[Zloth]

That glove for a pointer, I know I've seen that before...

Neverwinter Nights 2, maybe?

 

[Pifanjr]

That glove for a pointer, I know I've seen that before...

That's what I thought, but there are a ton of games that use a gauntlet as a cursor.

 

[Rensje]

All good guesses, but the genre you're thinking of isn't quite right.

Legend of Grimrock 2 has been the best guess so far because that game is viewed from the right perspective, but in this game the movement isn't quite so.. constrained.

The game is also not a sequel. A spiritual successor, maybe.

 

[Frindis]

I know for a fact I have seen that gauntlet before, grrrrr!

 

[invader]

Dungeon Siege?

 

[Mazer]

Arx Fatalis? That's first person like Grimrock and a spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld.

 

[Rensje]

Arx Fatalis? That's first person like Grimrock and a spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld.

Arx Fatalis it is!
This game flew under the radar for a lot of people, but it deserves a spot in the pantheon of the greats.

 

[Mazer]

Arx Fatalis it is!
This game flew under the radar for a lot of people, but it deserves a spot in the pantheon of the greats.

I never played it myself, no idea why not since it's squarely in my wheelhouse. The gesture-based spellcasting sounded cool.

Anyway, forgive the pixellated mess, its an old game and I cropped it with my phone:

http://imgur.com/a/ckGJ0pv

 

[FinalBossMusic]

hmm long shot of a guess but closest thing I can think of.. is it EarthSiege 2?

 

[Zloth]

I tried playing Arx Fatalis just recently! Never really got far into it, though. That game is hard!

 

[OsaX Nymloth]

This graphic style makes me thinks of voxels. Delta Force?