Quest: Leavin' Me In The Trenches

Quest hint thread is go!

...Yep!

I'll just leave this here:

@xanavi said:

Aww, I was going to make a hint thread but you already made the topic! Anyways, here are some hints!

Don't Bother With Textbooks

• Dinosaurs with frickin' artillery cannons attached to their heads.
• There are jet-packs, and aliens and you fight up walls using something called "vertical cover"!
• We fight, not for tyranny, but for freedom!

Not that Brad

• This guy's been everywhere in GB coverage these past few weeks, including a hilarious QLEX which may or may not be the focus of this quest!

No Country For Old Gundams?

• It's got mech right in the name!
• You thought a mobile trench was a weird name for a mech? Check out my Blingdog!

Tip of the Hat

• GAAAAAAAABE!
• If the game mechanics weren't so different I'd think this was a Professor Layton knock-off! Funny, this game features mechs too!
• Man, this princess has really let herself go.

so mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4 aren't mech games according to this quest :\

Stuck on the changing history one. Tried so many that seemed obvious to me, but nada.

Ugh, this quest is frustrating. The limited answers they look for completely throw it off since so many games include alternate history and don't work. Also, I would argue majora's mask is a game that should count towards the hat one (along with SMG).

#3!

Not really easy to give hints. I'll just leave it at: They are very concept heavy.

Textbook:

• The name of a certain double agent's town.
• This Russian ruler fights little green men.
• Cronosphere. That is all.

@Marz said:

so mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4 aren't mech games according to this quest :\

I was upset over WarTech not working. That's one of the best mech games!

How in the world does Assassin's Creed not count for playing fast and loose with history?

Can't get "Don't Bother With Textbooks." I have two of the three, but a ton of ones that should work for the third (such as Day of the Tentacle, Darkest of Days, TimeSplitters, and more) don't work. :(

@Marz: neither is steel batallion or metal gears solid or armored core...

Verticality is something you should have in mind when working on the historical one.

There are also some concept pages that can get very helpful for this whole quest.

#30

By far my best showing ever.

@takua108: here's a hint.... when you call someone a terrorist there's a chance someone might call them something else. Game from last generation.

@Marz said:

so mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4 aren't mech games according to this quest :\

Mu thoughts exactly???

I remember one of the answers as being Stalin versus "some aliens," possibly from another planet. I forgot the other ones though, since I just middle-clicked everything.

@Marz said:

so mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4 aren't mech games according to this quest :\

Seriously. Who the fuck makes these quests?!

How the hell are the Kefling games not a part of the Hats one. ugh, these get more infuriating every time.

This is one of the worst quests as far as answers go, which makes the whole thing frustrating instead of fun. I say forget about giving hints and just give the answers.

The alternate reality concept page is your friend.

I've got cake and sappers, can't figure out the third hat game.

Edit: D'oh, that was obvious.

I'm sorry, but whoever wrote the history quest did an awful job....

Darkest of Days

Resistance

Resistance 2

Assassins Creed 1&2

Bionic Commando

Wolfenstein

all better candidates than 2/3 that I found

The fact that Metal Gear Solid, a game revolving ENTIRELY around a literal walking tank doesn't count for this quest means I probably won't bother completing it.

I only found one in Tip of the Hat so far. The fact Kid Chameleon isn't one of them astounds me.

Edit: And suddenly found them. Kind of felt like needle in the haystack to do that to be honest.

48, pretty stupid that half the mech games didn't work, and Bioshock counts for the rewritten history and Resistance doesn't?

@theMockingNoob said:

I've got cake and sappers, can't figure out the third hat game.

Maybe a launch title for the Nintendo 64? Or maybe a game that involves feeding cake to a princess? Or maybe one that has a storefront for buying hats?

For "Don't Bother With Textbooks"

...go back in time and kill one of the greatest scientific minds in history...

A couple of games I picked didn't work, and then did work a minute later, like one about a pudgy girl which a need to be hauled around.

#59

Not too hard, just went through a bunch of Mech games and alternate history games to find the last few I needed.

How about Black Ops, can't believe it.

Alright I got second who the heck beat me?

@s7evn said:

Ugh, this quest is frustrating. The limited answers they look for completely throw it off since so many games include alternate history and don't work. Also, I would argue majora's mask is a game that should count towards the hat one (along with SMG).

Quoted for truth. I realize it would be no fun if everything was as simple as the first 3 keyword searches, but the bummer about game-quests is that they inherently do not reward knowledge because so many games fit those clues.

My advice is always to use the wiki pages themselves rather than the search box. Sadly it always comes down to middle-clicking a whole slew of new tabs and seeing if I hit something, but it works more often than not.

Quests are about using the site well. Trivia is about knowing trivia. ;)

(edit: #203, I stopped to fix some random wikis)

I'm sorry, but whoever wrote the history quest did an awful job....

Darkest of Days

Resistance

Resistance 2

Assassins Creed 1&2

Bionic Commando

Wolfenstein

all better candidates than 2/3 that I found

I'm missing one hat  
 
already gotten the obvious ones

Aww, I was going to make a hint thread but you already made the topic! Anyways, here are some hints!

Don't Bother With Textbooks

• Dinosaurs with frickin' artillery cannons attached to their heads.
• There are jet-packs, and aliens and you fight up walls using something called "vertical cover"!
• We fight, not for tyranny, but for freedom!

Not that Brad

• This guy's been everywhere in GB coverage these past few weeks, including a hilarious QLEX which may or may not be the focus of this quest!

No Country For Old Gundams?

• It's got mech right in the name!
• You thought a mobile trench was a weird name for a mech? Check out my Blingdog!

Tip of the Hat

• GAAAAAAAABE!
• If the game mechanics weren't so different I'd think this was a Professor Layton knock-off! Funny, this game features mechs too!
• Man, this princess has really let herself go.

I dont know what games gave me this. I went trough like 20 pages on the mech page before i got it. Well. Thats logical.

For the hat one I hear that Tetris with hats is pretty awesome.

This is why the Quest system is broken. It's like playing an old school Adventure game, if you don't think the same way the developer designed the puzzles you're never going to solve them, even if your way of answering them is totally right.   
 
Have gone through about 10 games in the mech variety from this database and none are coming up. 

#92 - I suck....

Still need 2 games for tip of the hat.

For anyone stuck on Don't Bother With Textbooks, try looking for:

1) a game about some Liberty Warriors

2) a game that takes place somewhere under the sea

3) an old prequel to a series of rts games.

There should only be 1 answer for Hats.

Pretty easy so far, having a little trouble with the Hats one. 

#111
 
that hat one had me stuck for awhile.

@ElectricBoogaloo said:

The alternate reality concept page is your friend.

Guess what's in there? RESISTANCE!! ugh

Yeah, I'm with those grumpy about the history one. Heck, Civilization is about as loose as history gets.

Still, for all the bad things that qualify and better ones that don't, I'm a bit ashamed for how long it took me to remember that time Einstein went back in time to kill Hitler. I guess THAT counts as pretty loose with history.

Man that took me way to long... A LOT of obvious choices being missed out >.>

Kind of annoying...

That one with the Mechs is complete BS. Some of the most obvious titles don't work.

I have gone through at least half the games listed under the mech page.. and still only have ONE D:

For what it's worth, I think the choices they've got in there are fine. >.>

@Marz said:

so mechwarrior 2, 3, and 4 aren't mech games according to this quest :\

Seriously. Who the fuck makes these quests?!

Oh gosh, thanks for the hints, dudes. They were helpful. #159

Command and Conquer: Red Alert you would think is the easiest and best example of historical inaccuracies, but no. :(

#170. Geez that was messed up.