| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest have distinctive character designs, with similar art style to a certain uber-popular manga and anime series. Which one? | Dragon Ball | 60%
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| On which Nintendo platform was the original Super Mario Bros released? | NES | 60%
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| Which of these is a hallmark of the "rogue-like" genre? | Permadeath | 52%
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| What is the best selling home console of all time? | PlayStation 2 | 52%
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| Which of these is NOT a hallmark of Ubisoft's open world design, which has bled into other open world games over the years? | Companions to accompany you, usually after a sidequest | 44%
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| What was the first Need for Speed game to introduce extensive car customization? | Underground | 44%
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| What sets Final Fantasy XI and XIV apart from the rest of the series? | They're MMOs, rather than single player | 43%
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| 4X refers to strategy titles where you can "Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate", and are centered around micromanagement and empire building. Which of these strategy titles is NOT 4X? | XCOM | 39%
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| What aspect of gameplay did the 2018 reboot of God of War leave behind from the original games? | Jumping | 38%
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| The Last of Us: Part 2 recently (as of early 2021) broke the record for most Game of the Year awards. Which game held the record before this? | The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 33%
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| Which of these video game studios is NOT Japanese? | IO Interactive | 32%
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| In the Devil May Cry games, Dante has four "styles" to choose from: Swordmaster, Gunslinger, Royal Guard, and...? | Trickster | 31%
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| The fighting game franchise King of Fighters, is a crossover between characters from which two other fighting game franchises? | Fatal Fury & Art of Fighting | 26%
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| Though Maze War is often credited as the first true FPS (first person shooter), which game franchise is the first to have established the genre as we know it today? | Wolfenstein | 26%
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| Which Souls game was series creator Hidetaka Miyazaki not heading the development for? | Dark Souls 2 | 24%
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| Which competitive video game has the highest payouts of any eSport? | Dota 2 | 21%
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| What was the first Halo game (besides Halo Wars) where you play as someone other than Master Chief? | Halo 3: ODST | 20%
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| RPG stands for Role Playing Game. What does the C in CRPG stand for? | Computer | 15%
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| Who coined the term "Immersive Sim", regarding games with systems encouraging creative problem solving, and emergent gameplay? | Warren Spector | 14%
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| Before Bethesda's Fallout 3, Black Isle studios was working on their own version. What was the codename? | Fallout: Van Buren | 10%
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