Feral Interactive Are Teasing Us, Again

Bat**** insane theory #1:

A promise is a promise! Here’s a cryptic teaser for an unannounced Mac/Linux game. It’s tricky. Real tricky. Enjoy!

Tricky is the name of a classic Run DMC song, more importantly, it had a music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj0

At the beginning of the video there are a couple of guys scamming a woman with 3 Card Monte. You may recognize these two individuals as the famed magic/comedy duo Penn & Teller (long before the peak of their fame). Teller's act is that of a mime, he never speaks, which is reminiscent of Harpo Marx of the Marx Brothers who also was a mime as part of his comedy act. Marxism had a great influence on the molding and rise to power of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The game is Wolfenstein: The New Order or The Old Blood. :P

Oh man that was pure poetry. A masterpiece. Magnificent.

... And a great game too. So let's hope you nailed it!


Last edited by Beamboom on 22 July 2015 at 10:38 pm UTC

Waaaait a second: Could this be related to the recent finding in Birmingham? 'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021

Ergo this has more to do with Birmingham, or libraries, than the Koran or islam?

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The original image from Feral was a scan of "A Thousand and One Nights," which predates the advent of Islam, so it's not directly related to the Qur'an or Islam. If it is related to anything Arabic or Persian though, any game about the Middle East (including Assassin's Creed) or Central/South Asia is a possibility. Many say the original story came from India or Persia rather than Arabia. But that's probably too easy of a guess. I'm sticking with the Witcher 3 because I want it more. :)

This is not true. The image posted by Feral is from the Islamic era, well after the advent of Islam. Also, the "A Thousand and One Nights" book is a collection of folklore tales that predates Islam, but collecting them into one book with this specific name happened in the Islamic era. However, none of this has anything to do with the Koran. I am guessing the game in question is Prince of Persia.

Waaaait a second: Could this be related to the recent finding in Birmingham? 'Oldest' Koran fragments found in Birmingham University?

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021

Ergo this has more to do with Birmingham, or libraries, than the Koran or islam?

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The original image from Feral was a scan of "A Thousand and One Nights," which predates the advent of Islam, so it's not directly related to the Qur'an or Islam. If it is related to anything Arabic or Persian though, any game about the Middle East (including Assassin's Creed) or Central/South Asia is a possibility. Many say the original story came from India or Persia rather than Arabia. But that's probably too easy of a guess. I'm sticking with the Witcher 3 because I want it more. :)

This is not true. The image posted by Feral is from the Islamic era, well after the advent of Islam. Also, the "A Thousand and One Nights" book is a collection of folklore tales that predates Islam, but collecting them into one book with this specific name happened in the Islamic era. However, none of this has anything to do with the Koran. I am guessing the game in question is Prince of Persia.

I didn't say the manuscript predated the "Islamic era." I meant the stories from it did (many of them, anyway).

To be honest I'd really prefer they release something or at least give us a status about Shadow of Mordor. (technical issue ? ...) Hey Feral, don't tease, release !

How about teases and releases? :D See, it's not a case of "tease or release" it's a case of "tease or not tease". And this is really fun. One of you was getting sooooo close to unravelling the clue yesterday...

Ah, Sonic Adventure 2 then? :P

Following on from someone else in this thread's theory... is it the upcoming "Lara Croft: Rise of the Tomb Raider"?

@melkemind: May I remind you of Ferals own comment here:

"Somehow" is definitely the key word here. You're all so good at figuring these things out that we decided to make this one ridiculously tricky...6

So if anything, I'd say the safest guess of ALL is that this hint has nothing whatsoever to do with "A Thousand and One Nights" or theories directly related to that. We have to look wider!

... But where? Now that's anyones guess :)

The Elder Scrolls?

Sonic and the Secret Rings was based on "A thousand and One Nights", but it was on the Wii. So what about Sonic Generations?

Ok... 1001 as binary converted to decimal is 9.

It's Elder Scrolls: Oblivion! From the Steam page:
"included in the Game of the Year edition are Knights of the Nine..."
'Knights' sounds like 'nights' and 9 is 1001, so '1001 Nights' = 'Knights of the Nine'!
Please be true!


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'Knights' sounds like 'nights' and 9 is 1001, so '1001 Nights' = 'Knights of the Nine'!

... in binary! :D

It's Elder Scrolls: Oblivion! From the Steam page:
"included in the Game of the Year edition are Knights of the Nine..."
'Knights' sounds like 'nights' and 9 is 1001, so '1001 Nights' = 'Knights of the Nine'!

Another gorgeous theory!

... But I hope it's not Oblivion, I must admit.

Well unless if the manuscript is supposedly a SCROLL then

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim!!! Confirmed! :D

Night rhymes with might, but it's not Mighty No.9 as it has already been announced.

Knights would guard a princess and Blondie also had another song "Heart of Glass" which leads to the psp game "Glass Heart Princess"

Blondie's song "One way or another" was released in 1978 , the same year that brought us "Space Invaders", Aliens are space invaders so It could be an "Aliens" game.

There are Knights in Quake, never counted but maybe 1001 and Steam is releasing the Quakecon Bundle 2015 tomorrow, maybe they've all been ported. (It includes The Elder Scrolls)

We will never have Assassin's Creed games on Linux... Maybe the first game because it does not use Uplay but the next games, it's a dream sorry...

you obviously never saw how UPlay is implemented on consoles. same way is possible anywhere if they wanted, only question is if Valve would agree or not to get the same in SteamOS (and I sincerely think that whole problem is only who gets how much when game is bought trough one or another)

just short overview:
- each game ships with UPlay included and accessible trough game menu and only usable when game is running
- more or less, each game i saw only controlled content for that game
- there is no UPlay client on console it self

and since Steam uses digital content, not hard media like consoles. being able to add other games trough UPlay wouldn't be as hard as elsewhere. it could only add code to your library and you're done

"rise of the tomb raider" will see a 2016 PS4 release.


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Clearly we need to analyze the content of 1001 Nights. The clear answer is Magic Carpet, as one of the tales contains a depiction of just that object.

I know what it is, it's so easy it's not even funny!



Its a .........


Game

That was easy. There is a book called "1001: Video Games You Must Play Before You Die", on the back cover there is Lara Croft. It's a Tomb Raider!!!

The reboot? Ugh. I mean it would be a great get for Linux as it's a big name game and very popular, but I hated that game with a passion.

Hmm, don't think it has anything to do with Tomb Raider.

The upcoming Rise of the Tomb Raider is XBox exclusive (at least for quite some time) and the current one is already available for Mac and, thus, does not fit the hint related to an unannounced Linux and Mac port.

Just read that "Rise of the Tomb Raider" will see a spring release 2016 on PC.
So my argument does not hold.

I liked the current Tomb Raider. Would certainly buy RotTR if it gets a Linux/SteamOS release.

I can't imagine that Feral will release old or very old games... We want that Linux become a new platform for AAA's Video Games but you, you want these old games, it's a joke no ?

Who are interesting by these games, Sonic, Ruins or the must "Magic Carpet" which is a DOS games etc... stop to talk about these relic ... It's a nightmare for me.

This thread is not asking what we want - of course we all want the latest AAA games on Linux, and nobody has suggested otherwise. Feral already know what they are porting here.