I'm a huge fan of the excavation mechanic that is frequently used in games that feature archeology/paleontology. You know, the one where you have a piece of rock/soil and you have to use tools to delicately uncover the fossil hidden beneath without damagin

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Anonymous 12/31/17 (Sun) 19:01:34 224056 No.14075141

I'm a huge fan of the excavation mechanic that is frequently used in games that feature archeology/paleontology. You know, the one where you have a piece of rock/soil and you have to use tools to delicately uncover the fossil hidden beneath without damaging it, or collapsing the wall, etc.

Some examples I can think of are

>It's one of the main mechanics in Fossil Hunters

>It's necessary to obtain fossil pokemon in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

>It's a minor side-activity in Starbound

Now, I'm trying to find some more games that feature it, or preferably - are based all around it. Does /v/ know any? It's not exactly something that's easy to search for.

Anonymous 12/31/17 (Sun) 19:31:05 613b36 No.14075239

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>>14075141

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/84307/

Anonymous 12/31/17 (Sun) 20:07:40 224056 No.14075424

>>14075239

I know that literally every game in the history of game development has been ported into a Skyrim mod, but could I pretty please ask for a standalone game, and not a skyrim mod?

Anonymous 12/31/17 (Sun) 22:38:25 224056 No.14076252

sad bump

Anonymous 12/31/17 (Sun) 22:49:47 1041be No.14076311

>>14075141

The only things I have are autismblocks and it's probably not what you want.

Anonymous 12/31/17 (Sun) 22:53:47 17f77a No.14076328

Spectrobes, look it up.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 01:23:58 224056 No.14077057

>>14076328

Kay, gonna check this one out.

Seems to me like it plays about as much role in the game as Fossil Hunters

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 01:44:04 3b9b16 No.14077183

I know it's not quite archeology, but right now all I can think of is that the first Mario Picross for the SNES had an archeology theme going on, what with the chisel and hammer for a cursor, every picture being on an ancient stone tablet.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 02:01:21 a3ec3b No.14077279

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>It's a minor side-activity in Starbound

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 02:11:16 224056 No.14077312

>>14077279

what's the funny thing

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 02:15:25 d72e2d No.14077331

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Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 02:49:27 abb29d No.14077455

Oh fuck is that the pokemon Diamond/Pearl underground?

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 03:01:55 e36067 No.14077500

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>>14075141

Yo, buddy, the game in that screenshot is "Fossil Fighters". Fossil Hunters is the upcoming game that you're trying to "subtly" build interest for. And if they're dumping their budget on low-quality advertisement like this, it can't be a good game. (A pity; the Fossil Fighters games were awesome.)

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 03:17:16 224056 No.14077556

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>>14077500

Oh boy. My mistake, no shill intended. I had 0 idea that this game existed until you mentioned it just now. I just remembered that the NDS dino-mon game had some really generic name with 'fossil' in it, typed 'fossil hunters' into jewgle and lo and behold, all the top screenshots are from the game I had in mind.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 08:10:08 224056 No.14078494

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pathetic bump

I've been trying to figure out if those minigames are based on some pre-existing arcade game or something, but all I got was that bulpapedia claims sinnoh underground is "similar to minesweeper or battleships"

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 08:48:38 a402c6 No.14078602

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>>14078494

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 10:22:06 2cd468 No.14078996

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>14077500

>implying pajeet chink telemarketers are this smart, let alone determined

>being this isolated and autistic

Be sure to buy the latest RG30222 game!

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 10:39:09 1ea2a3 No.14079035

Spectrobes for the DS features this.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 11:47:11 6f298d No.14079119

Some SS13 codebases have some pretty autistic artifact excavation

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 12:05:06 92e633 No.14079149

File: 944ea6044069fa7⋯.gif (951.16 KB, 350x201, 350:201, aussie adventures.gif)

>>14078602

Crikey.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 12:09:23 d09c43 No.14079154

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>>14078996

>that clickbait thumbnail

Youtube truly is cancer of the modern age.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 22:57:08 e65ea5 No.14081678

>>14079154

If it works, it works, right?

I just wish that the video was all about CS:GO gambling, that would be the best.

Anonymous 01/01/18 (Mon) 23:05:22 beb482 No.14081728

>>14077312

miner

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 01:50:17 224056 No.14082435

>>14081728

what

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 02:22:18 b83f86 No.14082628

>>14078602

What game is that from?

>>14079149

Goddamn, I can hear the show's opening guitar riff in my mind from viewing that.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 06:00:47 ba5c88 No.14083454

>>14075141

Spectrobes, which was Disney's attempt at a monster collecting game

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 06:05:32 f2d4c8 No.14083467

>>14075141

Sounds like scratch & win tickets.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 06:08:33 a23a25 No.14083474

>>14077556

Fossil Fighters as a series is pretty okay. Not the greatest for monster battlan' but they'll definitely scratch your fossil cleaning mini-game needs.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 10:27:53 993c49 No.14084174

Oh man, when they finally get around to making a Made in Abyss videogame, this is SO going to be a part of it!

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 10:36:08 6f298d No.14084192

>>14084174

>Made in Abyss game

Well, the mangaka worked on games, and originally intended Made in Abyss to be a game, so it seems like a natural fit

But it didn't become a game, because nobody wanted to make it, and Nice Things don't happen, so it's likely that any games that come out of this will be your generic licensed anime shovelware with 90% of the length being a crappy VN

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 11:06:36 8b0d42 No.14084256

>>14084192

Made in Abyss could be turned into a great game, but only if you don't play as Reg or Riko. Maybe be some fucknut in one of the events from a thousand or two thousand years ago, assuming stuff just goes haywire when someone makes it to the bottom and everyone dies upstairs.

Of course that'd mean missing out on those sweet sweet weebbucks since your average otaku is going to want his crying loli and sweet smelling furball, and it'd probably be heavy spoilers for anyone who hasn't watched or read the source material. So pretty much no one is gonna want to make it yeah.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 11:46:45 6f298d No.14084319

>>14084256

>Made in Abyss could be turned into a great game, but only if you play as some random faggot instead of the author's explicitly designed banjo-kazooie style video game protagonists

What

See this is what I'm talking about, dude wanted to make his own video game and nobody actually wants to see his vision come to life, even if it was made into a game nobody would let it be made unfucked

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 12:00:36 8b0d42 No.14084328

>>14084319

Sure, the game would be great as a linear experience with predetermined events and skipping 80% of the world and without any archeology. I can't wait to follow a quest marker to that one Giant's Cup so I can watcha cutscene of Riko getting stabbed with poison.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 12:19:15 12e1b5 No.14084346

I don't want to but I will add SS13 to the short list of games with something like that. Some servers have or had xenoarchaeology. You can be a science man in space with a whole set of picks trying to unearth strange things buried in asteroids, all while attempting to not be murdered by your fellow science men. There is the problem though, you have to deal with other people, most of them horrible.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 12:25:45 6f298d No.14084354

>>14084328

Well, yeah

There's nothing wrong with linear games, anon

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 12:39:53 0cfcb3 No.14084377

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You can dig my 12 foot dick out of your ass after I bury it in.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 15:31:48 d9ec0e No.14084765

>>14082435

>(excavation) is a minor side-activity

>minor/miner

>(excavation) is a miner side-activity

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 16:50:48 a23a25 No.14085046

>>14084354

I think he's saying he wants to play a game where you explore the Abyss and live the exciting and dangerous life of a delver. Not simply playing out the exact events of a story as written by MiA's author with no freedom.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 17:29:49 8436bf No.14085216

>>14077556

>>14082628

The third fossil fighter game, which you should stay away from. The other two are worth playing.

Anonymous 01/02/18 (Tue) 18:03:27 0bf268 No.14085365

>>14084377

i remember wario land 2 had shit loads of arbitrary secret walls. it was good at wasting time if thats what youre after

Anonymous 01/03/18 (Wed) 05:35:00 224056 No.14088446

>>14084765

everything is a pun if you want it to be, I guess