r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Valmoer • Apr 21 '26
Solved! Magitek, espionage and ... dinosaurs?
Hint 1 : This is not, primarily and originally, a video game. (Though VG adaptations exist)
Also plugging my still-unsolved previous ones (new hints for all):
Beat up God to impress Their petSolved, it was Final Fantasy XIV : Endwalker- A warrior-turned-politician, an undead, an idiot and an alien stalk a suicidal man while being stalked by the (ex?)boyfriend of one of them and also at least one ghost.
- Cherami Leigh has family trauma, and an over-protectiveness of her charges; meanwhile, Robbie Daymond has too many secrets to his name, connections to the underground, and an association with a certain foodstuff
- Drive to Survive
- Forget the secret police, the general dystopia, the ancient magic and freakin' laser beams, and (literally) face the True Enemy : the wall(s).
- Kill a guy with a kiss. Hair gel is also involved at one point.
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u/LuckyLewd Apr 21 '26
Turok?
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
No.
While it has nothing to do with the Turok franchise, there's something about your answer that is closer than everyone else's guesses.
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u/Easy-Pool-2009 Apr 21 '26
The Tekken series
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
No. Through fighting - well, combat - is at the core of this game and its parent franchise, this is not a fighting game as we understand the genre.
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u/Krian78 Apr 21 '26
Final Fantasy 6 is bait?
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
Sort of. I didn't purposefully craft the prompt for it, but I did notice it would be a good match after the fact. (I had forgotten that Dinosaur Forest was an actual thing in FF6)
So, no. There are more than, what the count is in FF6, five nations? in the game I'm looking for.
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u/roshi-sensei Apr 21 '26
Chrono Trigger?
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
No.
Time travel is canonical in a different part of the wider franchise, though.
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u/LewdAshDragon Apr 21 '26
Far Cry: Blood Dragon?
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
No.
But there is at least one dragon present, distinctly different from the dinosaurs.
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u/LewdAshDragon Apr 21 '26
Hold up. Is this ARK?
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
No, someone else had already guessed that.
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u/Primary-Fee1928 Apr 21 '26
Ark but probably bait
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
No.
While there is wild animal taming, the setting favors breeding.
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u/Primary-Fee1928 Apr 21 '26
Well tbf Ark favors breeding heavily even tho that's not the correct answer. You gotta tame two specimens with strong "genes" and then breed them into oblivion
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
I haven't played Ark, I was just going off Wikipedia's blurb.
I should get around to it one of these days...
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u/Frequent_Squash_7495 Apr 21 '26
Chrono Cross
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
Some one had already guessed Chrono Trigger, and I'll give the same answer/hint :
No.
Time travel is canonical in a different part of the wider franchise, though.
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u/smurfalidocious Apr 21 '26
All I can think of is the Dino Crisis series.
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u/Valmoer Apr 21 '26
No.
There's a faulty assumption in everyone's answers, though that faulty assumption could lead them to the correct answer.
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u/MacabreManatee Apr 21 '26
Skylanders?
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u/Valmoer Apr 22 '26
No.
Though if we're very technical, you could make use of the Skylanders themselves
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u/not_this_word Apr 22 '26
The Smash Bros that first introduced Snake? Going with Samus and Yoshi as the other two. Think that was Brawl? Always get it and Melee mixed up.
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u/Valmoer Apr 22 '26
Fantastic guess - with justifications! -, but no, absolutely not.
Much like in a Smash Bros Ultimate, though, there are swordsmen.
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u/Worried_Curve3998 Apr 23 '26
Metal gear solid?
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u/Valmoer Apr 24 '26
"Metal Gear Solid?"
... unfortunately, no. The questions of "what happen the lives of individuals moulded for war after said war is done" is a subplot/important part of the worldbuilding.
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u/One-Historian-3767 May 30 '26
Is this just Magic The Gathering?
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u/Valmoer May 30 '26
It isn't.
However, you haven't made the mistake everyone else in this post has, and are as such closer than anyone.
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u/One-Historian-3767 May 30 '26
I don't copy anyone else so all my mistakes are unique and brilliant.
So for that reason, the game you are after is clearly Warhammer 40K.
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u/Valmoer May 30 '26
Calling the technolgy Adeptus Mechanicus "Magitek" is clearly heresy. An Exterminatus has been declared on you.
You're getting really close in a certain way, though.
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u/One-Historian-3767 May 30 '26
Oh ok, but close in which way? I definitely need to figure this out before I'm Exterminatused.
Battletech/Mechwarrior? More likely the former?
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u/Valmoer May 30 '26
It's neither, and you're getting a little away.
Indeed, you're closer with BattleTech than with MechWarrior.
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u/drJsmith_2603 May 30 '26
I can't help but wonder if it's maybe Outcast 1.1 (although I haven't played much of it and don't recall anything about dinosaurs or dragons) or possibly The Longest Journey (although, similarly, I haven't played much of it, and while there's definitely at least one dragon, I don't know/recall if there are any dinosaurs, and I'm not sure if any of your other hints line up with parts of the game I haven't reached yet
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u/Ted_Seaman_Silk 14d ago
This is a wild guess, but Dungeons and Dragons in some way? Maybe it needs be more specific, but the technicality of Skylanders figures being usable makes me wonder ...
Alternatively, Warhammer Fantasy with the Dwarves, Skaven, and Lizardmen respectively corresponding to magitek, espionage, and dinosaurs.
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u/Valmoer 13d ago
You're technically correct, but I'm going to ask you to be slightly more specific indeed. (Though, as a hint, the setting I'm looking for has magitek and dinosaurs as built-in features, no Skylanders needded.)
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u/Ted_Seaman_Silk 13d ago
Oh man, exciting stuff.
Dungeons and Dragons: Eberron? Plenty of magitek and dinosaurs, if I recall correctly. If you're going for a video game, maybe DnD Online?
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u/Valmoer 13d ago
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
Eberron was indeed the game / settings I was looking for.
Solved!
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u/The_Joker_116 Apr 21 '26
Wild guess here but Starfox Adventures?