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[Solved] Tanks with (optional) anime girls Videogame
After being in the Xbox Insider program for a while, I got the chance to try some early versions of some games. This was one of them.
In the game you control a tank/APC of one of five countries (USA, USSR/Russia, Canada, France and Denmark, I think) and fight against bots, either in teams or solo in a wide variety of maps, which can be either day, night or rainy in some cases. Since it was in early development, it didnt have arcade or story mode. You just choose a tank, map, settings and started playing. You could also play in multiplayer, but only in one map that looks artificial (unlike the offline maps, who look like battlegrounds, either in nature or the middle of some cities).
A bit unrelated: I remember this guy who had its tank look like Pikachu and was the best between all the players. In half an hour, he died only once, while he alone killed me at least 6 times.
The anime part is completely optional: you can have anime voices, anime graphics, anime-looking tanks and a hud with an anime girl, or normal voices, real-ish looks and no hud.
The box art showed the title with a close-up of 4 girls, from head to shoulders/chest: one of them had a beret, another was smiling while next to her was one that looked bored and the last one had brown skin. They were fully dressed with military uniforms, either as a tank commander or some general that gives orders. Im not sure if one of them had an eyepatch.
The game is also on Steam (or was, I cant find it).
Edited by BraylovskySidescrolling Elf Platformer Videogame
This computer game was a platformer where you played as an elf-like character. The player character was very small on the screen, their face being maybe one or two pixels. I do remember the elf having a running animation, as well as an elf hat, but my memory when it comes to these childhood games is always a little spotty.
Pickups included gold pixels that made a noise whenever collected, and keys that would open doors. The game started outdoors, but quickly progressed from left-to-right into a castle or fort. I remember gameplay being smooth - not today's 60 fps or anything, but not like Treasure Mountain, either.
I've made this query before on this site, and gotten many helpful suggestions, including the aforementioned Treasure Mountain (which I also played a LOT as a kid), Elfland and Hocus Pocus (in both of which the player characters are too big) and Solomon's Key (too old). The game I'm looking for would have likely been released in the 90s, as my dad's collection was primarily DOS games like Monster Bash and Commander Keen.
Edited by FortyTwoFortyearly 2000's Scify fps Videogame
I remember someone playing a game as a kid on a computer that had better graphics than anything I've seen at the time. I remember metallic rooms and interesting looking gun designs. I don't remember there being any fighting in the rooms he traveled through, but I think he showed me a couple of the weapons on empty rooms he traveled through, maybe he cleared them before. I think there was some kind of gun that launched deadly disc blades. I think there were some windows in one of the rooms that had some Nevada-type desert landscape with mountains or something but it could have just been sunlight with no landscape visible underneath, could have filled in some blanks in my memory and assumed it involved aliens,but I don't really know for sure. I expected to experience a fun weapon like this in the Halo series, being a Scifi series with aliens, but it didn't have the interesting futuristic guns I remembered so it's not that. Anyone got any ideas? The main console out at the time that I knew of was the N64 and the reflections seemed beyond that system's capabilities from what I remember, and I had a couple games that required it that were out at the time too: Jet Force Gemini and Donkey Kong 64.
It could be possible that I remember the graphics being better than they were though, but I think it was probably a PC game.
Game that looks like Doom but with wizards Videogame
Been looking for this game I saw on Nintendo Switch eshop a couple monthes ago, my memory sucks.
It looks and plays like doom but you seem to be a wizard of some kind and pick up magic staves and stuff, I dont even recall the name at all...
Edited by AmiibearGame similar to that of g5 games Videogame
An adventure game similar to those of g5 or whatever. So we play as a character working in the child helpline phone service. One day a kid calls and we go out to help them and as long as i can remember the kid was a mutant, he had telekinetic powers. Im not sure if it's one of the G5 games, but the gameplay is similar to that.
Cancelled Alien Video Game Videogame
I remember watching a youtube video about this really interesting looking, but unfinished, video game about taking care of a lost alien woman. I think the game was being shown off on a smaller channel, just due to how obscure the game was, but it also could have been one of those ‘Internet Mysteries’ channel like Nexpo.
It was a real game, not an arg. Graphics looked like they could have been from the early 2010’s, but they were also unfinished. The alien woman had a long neck, and was bald. She was naive about the ways of the world and you had to look after her. I think it was made by the guys who made Heavy Rain? It had that sort of mechanic where you can influence the alien to be nice or mean depending on what you gave her. The video showed you giving her a bar of chocolate. You also had to hide from Area 51 (or some government agency) squad because they wanted to recapture your alien friend.
Quirky space pirates/cowboy/mercenary multiple-choice pixel art story game Videogame
If most of this sounds familiar but something doesn't match, PLEASE still tell me what's the game it made you think of.
This was possibly a browser game, I'm not fully sure - but it was at least free-to-play, I think. It had a pixel art artstyle, and was about this group of space pirates or cowboys or mercenaries - you played as a cowgirl. It was pretty silly and quirky, with some adult humor too. They had a mission to bring a bunch of cows to a planet. You could make choices along the way which could make this mission succeed or not. If I recall correctly, if you succeeded in delivering the cows, you'd find the people in the planet needed them to reproduce or do a weird sex ritual. One of the threads would also let you make out with one of your crewmates (also a woman), I think. At some point, you met another crew which was trying to stop you and had to talk your way through them, or fight them. There's vague memories of a weird alien thing being in your crew, but I can't recall it clearly.
This is about all I can remember. Hopefully it's enough!
Hindi Scott Pilgrim Game Videogame
So I remember this indie video game that looked like a Hindi version of Scott pilgrim, at least story wise… about a young woman fighting for love… I vaguely remember something about a coffee shop and an overbearing mother. I know it was very cartoony.
Visual Novel With Sentient Appliances Videogame
So, I was browsing the Web when I noticed this comment: "This was a few years ago, but I know that there is a visual novel about a guy who falls in love with his sentient home electronics. It didn't have an English translation at the time tho so I haven't played it myself." Does anyone know what they are referring to?
A Japanese Game on Apple Several Years Ago Videogame
I remember this one game where it teaches you Japanese, I'm pretty sure. I found this game in an iPad that I used to have - there's a person running like a 2D platformer as well as two buttons in the bottom, and there are these signs in the map where, if the player passes in front of it, you have to tap the right Hiragana (?) character. When that is succeeded, there's a voice that comes up and says it. I don't really know much about this game anymore as this is in the back of my constantly fuzzy and absent-minded head, but a little remembrance wouldn't be so bad. If you guys have any idea what it is, please hit me up with it.
Minigame Collection that Was on Steam I Believe Videogame
I remember one game included multiple minigames and one has a woman flying through space on some kind of space bike to deliver something requiring multiple trips with a really trippy background akin to the boss areas in the gba castlevanias. I remember a bunch of gamers in You Tube a couple of years ago playing it. Now I can't remember what it's called.
Online Flash game Videogame
Adventure game with a tone that stood out compared to others in the vicinity. Took place (at least as far as I got) on a boat in a river. Someone else gets hit with a blowdart from an unseen source and...
Could only get a few minutes in before I was stuck between the crewman I was trying to save having disappeared (but in a way that was clearly part of the game) and the heroine saying enigmatically, "I forgot something," as if I was that close to moving forward.
Seemed ambitious (maybe to the point of "is this actually going to tell a full story"). If it tied into anything I don't recall it.
Edited by CaswinMr Pencil and Mrs Brush Videogame
I remember playing a game with two characters named Mr Pencil and Mrs Brush. It had different minivans and one of them was about Mr Pencil hurting himself trying to make a circle and Mrs brush says “you better go put some ice on that.” Does anyone know the game?
French kids' flash game about a crew of robot Videogame
I remember playing this series of flash games when I was really young and taking Grade school French that were found on Radiocanada.ca in the Kids section. The games were about a crew of space robots but I can't tell you very much about the plot because I didn't know French very well (still don't). The gameplay though was basically like that of an adventure game, but each robot brought different abilities and mechanics that changed the emphasis slightly.
EDIT: I found it! The games were called "Widget's Oddyssey" (L'Odyssée de la Ferraille). There doesn't seem to be a way to play these games now online but ESRB claims that they were released for the PS 3, PSP, and Vita.
Edited by A_Really_Big_CatWhat game is this enemy from? [unsolved] Videogame
There's this old Doom mod called Aeons of Death. It takes a whole bunch of weapons and enemies from many different FPS games and dumps them in Doom with little rhyme or reason. The problem is, as far as I can tell, there is no complete list of monsters in the mod, so identifying a specific one can be quite difficult.
What i'm wondering is what game the green-winged enemy seen in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV_RZkGF8ls comes from. It appears around 4:58 mark and is killed at 5:22. I never encountered it in any of my playthroughs and only seen it in this one video.
Note that, although there are two mods used in the video, the second one (Oblige) is only a map generator and it doesn't add any monsters.
Sci-Fi Post Apocalyptic 3rd Person Game With Female Lead Videogame
Does anybody recall an announcement/trailer for a video game that:
- starred a female protagonist who was in some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario
- had the protagonist narrating the trailer
- was not Horizon Forbidden West
- was not Returnal
- was not Shadow of the Tomb Raider
- was not Recore but I think had a similar premise
Because I have been trying to retrace my steps through Youtube for a month now where I found the trailer and no luck.
I figure "female protagonist/third person/sci fi/post-apocalyptic" would give me some results but... no.
Motorcycle racing PC game (2000s or earlier) Videogame
I played this game somewhere in early 2000s, but obviously it could've been released earlier. Things I remember:
- The game was on a single CD.
- The vehicles were only motorcycles.
- The maps weren't realistic and weren't trying to be. The road twisted like a rollercoaster track and I distantly remember a map where a piece of the road was floating in a pool of lava or something.
- There were powerups. They were flat and round (or maybe octagonal) with different symbols on them, and you had to drive through them to activate them. Some of these powerups had arrow-shaped symbols on them, and they gave you weapons.
A Browser (I think) based RPG with toys Videogame
This was a futuristic themed (I remember bright white characters and dark worlds) that was mostly just the turn based combat that I remember
It was sorta paid, you only got one week character to start with, the big thing about the game was you could buy physical toys that drove around and interacted (somehow) with each other. You can link these to the game to unlock them in the actual game.
The characters were all sort of animal themed robots, and it was some time in the late 2000s, early 2010s
A sci fi topdown game about a multiverse? Videogame
It's an action/roguelike/RPG on pixel art that looks like Hyper Light Drifter but it's plot is about various worlds fusing and the gameplay its like Diablo, the protagnists are a bunch of aliens or something like that, thats all i remember, the game is pretty new so. Does someone knows the name or heard of the game?