Know what will cheer me up? A Name That Game!
Sometimes in a game, there’s a place where all the moving and shaking happens. This place has the best nightclubs, the most plot leads and the richest trading opportunities. Exception: if the whole game is set in one city, it’s obviously the seat of power and thus isn’t on this list.
So here are ten “seats of power”. Can you name each game they are from?
1. The Citadel
2. Muirthemne
3. Starport
4. Skara Brae
5. Denerim
6. The City
7. Hephaestus (note: actually a district in a larger city, but this is where the leaders hung out)
8. Vivec
9. Detroit
10. The Hub
Good luck and have fun! If you win, I’ll invite you to live in this incredible undeground city I’m making out of an old salt mine and a bunch of school busses.
1. Mass Effect
9. Deus Ex?
That’s a pretty difficult list, at least for me. I haven’t even played either of the games I named. #7 also sounded really familiar, and I was able to find it via Google. I won’t spoil it though.
8. Morrowind
All correct, so far!
1. Mass Effect (yeah someone else said but it’s a rare one I knew 🙂
4. Ultima… hm. I never remember much happening there? IV?
6. Syndicate?
10. It *sounds* like a club in Deus Ex: Human Revolution… 😀
I’m no good at this :’-(
1. Mass Effect
2. I think this is Myth or Myth 2?
3. I think this is Star Flight or Star Control?
4. I think this would be Bards Tale I or II
5. Dragon Age
6. The Tick? (Did he have a game? Spoon!)
7. No idea. Probably a Final Fantasy game or that ilk.
8. Pretty obviously Morrowwind.
9. Deus Ex (I would not have remembered ths if Pekuja had not said it first!)
10. is Fallout
Oooh, nice, Lysandus! Here’s the complete list:
1. Mass Effect series
2. Myth series
3. Starflight
4. The Bard’s Tale
5. Dragon Age: Origin
6. Thief series
7. Bioshock
8. Morrowind
9. Deus Ex: Human Revolution
10. Fallout 1
Speaking of great cities in great games, how about downtown Los Angeles in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines? What a masterpiece. They captured the perfect combo of general seedyness, post-industrial grittyness, and underground occultyness; and best of all, they retained a large amount of believability. It probably helped that downtown LA really is a seedy, kinky, scary place.
Thief! Of course!
I just re-bought Thief: Deadly Shadows on steam because I lost one of the install disks somewhere. I should totally have gotten that one…