#GuessTheGame #382
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I'm kind of curious about how everyone goes about with guessing the games. What are your strategies? Do you have any self-imposed rules such as not using Google to outright search? How long do you look at a screenshot before making an attempt or going to the next hint?
Personally I tend to try to look at the first screenshot and get a feel for the general time period the game looks to be made if I don't immediately recognize the art. I then usually make a wild guess I think the game might be. The second hit usually doesn't produce any better results and I don't look at this one too hard except to get the metacritic score which helps with the following console hints.
Third hint is where I usually start thinking a little harder since we will know whether a game is console exclusive or not. But PC only games are usually the most anxiety inducing as I wasn't much of a PC gamer for a big chunk of the mid 2000's onward. Hint 3 usually also gives a much bigger clue with the screenshot as well. Hints 4, 5 and 6 pretty much follow the same strategy.
I try not to look up anything and rely on my memory however I will give an exception in cases where I know the game but I don't know the name in that moment. For instance, I knew the Japanese name of a game but not the English one on a particular day.
This game guessing is real fun to me in that it's very interesting what little bits of a game are stored in our memory that a few pixels on a zoomed in screenshot will just spark something in the brain and the exhilaration after nailing that first hint answer. Or being able to guess a game you have never played nor seen any gameplay but were able to piece together the answer based on all the many hours of listening to the GB crew talk about it on the Bombcast or GOTY.
So yeah, wondering if anyone else has different strategies that will help with future questions.
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