Questions tagged [video-games]
For questions about the plot or backstory of a game with science-fiction/fantasy elements. Questions about playing the game or the mechanics are off-topic here, but may be on topic at Arqade (https://gaming.stackexchange.com/). Use to either identify the media on a [story-identification] question or disambiguate works where the tag covers the game and its form in other media.
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What does the phrase "Oh, he died an energetic you need more TV!" mean in this Ape Escape 3 cutscene?
On 5:48 in the above cutscene of Ape Escape 3, a character says:
Oh, he died an energetic you need more TV!
I don't understand. What does this phrase mean?
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Fantasy kids' game for Nintendo DS in which the occupants of a duck or chicken town are sucked into a book and you have to play minigames to save them
This game was out on Nintendo DS; I played it like seven years ago.
You live in a duck (or chicken?) town and this magician guy brings a book out to read a story to you and your friends, but the book ...
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What could be this 1990s MS-DOS (or maybe Windows) 3D FPS (Doom WAD maybe?) with floating gray spiky polyhedra that I think was set in cyberspace?
Wondering if you folks could work your magic to help me identify a 90s first-person shooter based on this list of my not-so great memories of it:
Timeframe, region, and technology:
I played this ...
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Why did they change the Worker of Secrets' voice actor in the "Infinity Blade" series?
Infinity Blade II was released on December 1, 2011. The character of Worker of Secrets was originally voiced by Simon Templeman but in the sequel this character is voiced by a different actor, John ...
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An early 2000s PC game in which you had to kill Smurfs and Care Bears
This was some kind of weird PC game which was very typical from the early 2000s.
From what little I remember, the game started out in a level in which you shot Gargamel dead, after which he blew off ...
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What is happening to Mario when he captures a creature in Super Mario Odyssey?
In the Super Mario Odyssey video game, early on in the play time Mario is able to "capture" a frog with his new companion Cappy. This game mechanic works on various creatures throughout the ...
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Sci-fi first-person shooter set in the future: father dies saving kid, kid is saved by a captain, final mission is to kill the president
I can't remember the name of this game, but it had to be between 2015–2017. The game was like an adventure sci-fi first-person shooter in a future world. The story was about a father who saved his kid ...
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Why would the Emperor Mindflayer suddenly choose to become a slave?
In Act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3, if you decide to free Orpheus the Emperor Mindflayer claims that "you leave me no option but to join the Netherbrain".
This seems extremely strange considering ...
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Shareware computer game where you play a starfighter pilot
For those who were born after the mid 90's, shareware games were games that the first chapter you got for free or real cheap and, if your curiosity was piqued, you bought the rest later.
In this game ...
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A top-down video game from early 2000s or earlier, in which you can absorb defeated foes with a straw to replenish your health
This is some kind of video game I barely saw being played on a computer between 1998 and 2004 (although it could have been released earlier).
The game featured a kind of top-down view, but not like ...
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NES video game similar to Wizards & Warriors [duplicate]
Some time in the second half of the 1980s, I remember playing a video game on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and for many years I had thought the game was Wizards & Warriors II. There had ...
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Who are the actors of the video game “Chess Wars: A Medieval Fantasy?”
For those of you who don’t know, “Chess Wars: A Medieval Fantasy” is a 1996 computer chess game similar to “Battle Chess.” One big difference is that “Chess Wars” has full-motion video sequences that ...
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How to make any sense of religion and dead gods in Baldur's Gate 3?
In the previous games of Baldur's Gate, the central main story is that the god Bhaal is dead and his powers are scattered among his semi-mortal children. This is central to the lore of those games. ...
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Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales; Explanation for bio-electrical energy system's chemical formula and link to NuForm [closed]
This is a screenshot from Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PS4. The chemical formula is captioned as "Bio-Electrical energy system; * chemicals that interact w/ nuform" and was found on ...
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Short story about MMORPG sweatshops
I read this short story in a Czech translation before the year 2010. It was included in a collection aimed at "younger readers", but sci-fi and fantasy collections in Czech and Slovak ...
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Old online fantasy board-game
I'm not sure if this site is the right place to ask.
I am looking to find an old video game I was playing as a teenager, about 20 years ago.
It was an online-only board game, similar to chess, but ...
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who was used as a model for the likeness of Marion Bosworth in Call of duty Black ops 2?
I know that the character is voiced by Cira Larkin, but I do not think that they used her likeness
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Game where you play as the Nutcracker and swat fairies
I remember playing, or at least spectating, a PC game in the mid-to-late 2000s set in the fantasy world of The Nutcracker. In it, you would play as the eponymous Nutcracker and swat/kill various ...
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How many nozzles do Spider-Man's web shooters have in Marvel Spider-Man PS4?
How many nozzles do Spider-Man's web shooters have in Marvel Spider-Man PS4?
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1990–2000 space shooter game with a mouse-controlled fighter and "stargates"
I am desperately seeking a space shooter game that I played when I was young (between 1990 and 2000). The game takes place in space. You have some kind of fighter that you control with the mouse. You ...
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Who are the video game dogs in this GIF by animator Paul Robertson?
Who are all the dogs in the GIF below by Paul Robertson (an animator involved in various video games and animated shows)? I believe they are all from various video games, but please correct me if I am ...
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German first-person pre-rendered 3D adventure puzzle game with a boy protagonist investigating an abandoned city that I played in 2003–2008
These are actually two games (possibly more) in a series of adventure games. I remember one more than the other, so I'll be talking about that one first.
I played both games sometime between 2003 and ...
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Flash game based on the 2004 TV series Lost about staying alive on the island
I'm looking for a flash game which I played on the Internet some time between 2004 and 2010, based on the events of the 2004 TV series Lost.
The idea was that we are one of the survivors of the plane ...
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Video game based around the Turing test where optional information says that you never interacted with any humans to begin with
A friend and I are looking for a video game based around the Turing test, where you can find or discover an audiolog or text or something (not sure) that reveals that the whole time there were no ...
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In what game do you play as a knight inside a ghost castle and you're supposed to save a girl
You're a knight fighting ghosts (white) in a ghost castle and you need to save a girl I think her hair is white and she is white too (kinda pale I think) It's probably in ps1 or ps2.
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Trying to identify early SNES fantasy game with a shape-changing blob boss
I remember playing (actually, mostly watching a friend play) a video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, pretty soon after the SNES was released in America. My friend who owned it was ...
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Help me identify 90s or early 2000s japanese 2D turn based PC game with RPG elements that has mech fighting
Between 1999 and 2007 I got multiple CDs with multiple games for my birthday. One of those games was "Mortimer and the Riddles of the Medallion," which came out in 1996. But I am interested ...
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Ps2 survival game I need the name!
Im trying to remember the name of this ps2 game I used to play as a kid it was a 2 player game and it had a fat white character and a skinny black character and we worked together killing skeletons in ...
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Who is Mario trying to rescue in Donkey Kong?
I've been watching playthroughs of the more primitive Donkey Kong games on YouTube and it occurred to me, if these games predate Super Mario Bros., the Mushroom Kingdom and Princess Peach, then who is ...
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1990s Hentai game involving characters based on traditional European fairy tales
I played this in early high school, around 1994-1998, on a Windows PC, and recently, I keep having it pop up in my memories, so I'm hoping putting a name to it will put my brain to rest. The ...
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What is the significance of Ruby Rhod appearing on the menu screen of "The Fifth Element" video game?
In The Fifth Element (1998 PS1 video game), why is Ruby Rhod on the menu screen? Why does he run away and where is he going? What even is the place where Ruby Rhod shows up?
Video of Ruby Rhod (...
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Video game where you play a miniature female demon with regular handgun (but large compared to her)
A few years back (around 2015-2017, I think), I ran into a game on Steam that sounded interesting, but not enough for me to spring for the full price. The gameplay shown in the video had a miniature ...
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Does this entity really exist?
I recently finished the game Night in the Woods, and I am very confused whether
actually exists or not. TV Tropes is surprisingly firm in their interpretation that this entity does not exist and ...
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In NieR Replicant, why don't replicants discover repetition in replicants?
As far as I understood, in Nier replicants are special clones, a physical copy of a human but emptied of their soul. They weren't supposed to gain sentience, but accidentally did. As we see in-game, ...
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I am looking for the name of a 1990's Windows turn-based strategy game in space
I'm looking for an old game. It probably ran on Windows 95 but maybe on Windows 3.11. As far as I can remember, it wasn't a DOS game. It might have been a free game from a magazine.
I remember the ...
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Time loop text-based adventure game about preventing a car crash
I'm trying to see if I can find an elusive game I've long wanted to play. It's a text-based adventure game, but not one from their commercial heyday back in the eighties or so. It was described to me ...
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who was the real-life model for Artem Ivanoff in Detroit: Become Human
Trying to find out who is the model of the Russian president Artem Ivanoff in the video game Detroit: Become Human
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2010s Point & Click Pc Game
I played this game on a netbook around 2008-2014. The layout is similar to Stranded Sails. The character is a warrior(?), and you point & click to move or interact. It involves various NPCs of ...
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Soldier vs. Warrior
I remember a conversation between two characters in an RPG a "Soldier"(Lawful good type) and a "Warrior" (neutral-evil type).
I don't know the exact dialog but:
Warrior:
Talks ...
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3D PC Game on Steam where you play a muscular jester in a magical medieval world
I was recently watching a compilation video of weird PC games, which included Jinx, a Europe-exclusive platforming title where you play as a jester. This suddenly reminded me of having played a game ...
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Fantasy Adventure game involving a puzzle with a man in a mirror
I played this on a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 or 3 somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s. It was one of those adventure games where you either typed commands in (e.g. "GO NORTH" "...
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What are the names of the voice actors of the video game "Cyberswine?"
I have seen playthroughs of the Cyberswine game on YouTube but there are no credits for the voice actors, which I think is really unfair to the voice talent involved.
The only voice actor who has (...
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Why does Amanda Ripley insert a key card into an emergency telephone when saving the game?
In Alien: Isolation, the player saves the game by interacting with an emergency telephone booth. The game save interaction consists of Amanda Ripley, the player character, inserting a key card into a ...
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Game identification Playstation alien FPS game in urban setting
I'm trying to find a game I used to play with a friend around ~2008 on a PS2 or PS3.
At first I was almost certain it was in the XCOM universe, but I couldn't find matching screenshots. Here are the ...
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Game identification: '90s futuristic combat vehicle game
I am looking for a '90s first-person shooter game, where you were inside some futuristic combat vehicle driving on a battlefield. Your armaments included twin machine guns, a flamethrower and some ...
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The Witcher 3: Who ate the living as well?
Vesemir: Wait -- hear that?
Geralt: I hear it, I smell it. Ghouls.
[They slay the hellish intruders.]
Vesemir: Of course, when armies pass, necrophages follow. Let's go before any more show up.
Geralt:...
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Old obscure 90s cartoon
There was a cartoon I used to watch as a kid in the 90s that had a featured two boys and I'm pretty sure a girl. They played a VR video game where an UFO would land and they'd go through waves of them....
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Old pc game featuring a pirate
A game from around 2012 or older where the player controlling a bulky-old pirate in 3rd person. The graphic is not cartoonish. I think its similar with RE 4. In the early gameplay the pirate is inside ...
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Warhammer 40K game
I saw a brief clip of a WH40k being played in a Youtube short clip. However, the uploader of the video did not say what game it was. The clip was of a FPS game and showed the player character engaging ...
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Did the power armour from the Fallout 4 intro cinematic exist?
In the intro cinematic for the Fallout 4 video game a real human is shown in a suit of power armour.
Did this power armour exist as a real world asset (instead of being a CGI element) and if so is its ...
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