Ninth Coint & Plick: Best Games of 2015 NOMINATION THREAD

Hi everyone! Now begins the nomination process for games to be included in the ninth Coint and Plick thread, showcasing ILX's favorite video games from the year 2015. I'm making a few tweaks this year, so I'll try to make is as clear as possible below.

No longer is it necessary to post every damn platform a game comes out on. This year, please use these as the "platforms":
1. Console (PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360)
2. Handheld (3DS, VITA)
3. Mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Phone, idk Blackberry?)
4. Computer (Mac, PC, Linux / executable)
5. Browser
6. Other (idk, vr? vr's usually computer anyway)

This will make it clear the nature of how it's played. It might not tell you if it's on Mac or PC but you can look that up once you read about it. I think this'll just make the whole thing more readable. Also make a note if it's free.

As always: games released in 2015 only. If it's a re-release, it's up for debate (I wanna KNOW that you played the re-release, and aren't just voting for e.g. Nathan Drake Collection because you played it on PS3 years ago and didn't play anything this year). No limit on number of nominations per person. If it's a released game with new content, you can nominate the content (e.g. Destiny the Taken King) unless it's not really a notable amount of content (e.g. they added Galactus to Marvel Puzzle Quest). My point here is that if it's on an old nomination list, it's probably not on this nomination list.

If it's obscure, please include a link or something.

Happy nominating!

Sunless Sea
Destiny: The Taken King
Invisible, Inc.
Renowned Explorers
NEO Scavenger*
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
Fallout 4
The Curious Expedition
Prison Architect
Gods Will Be Watching
Hand of Fate
Ironcast

* Came out Dec 15, 2014 - year of impact rule?

Cities: Skylines
Her Story
Heroes of the Storm
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void
Undertale
Armello
Massive Chalice
Vietnam 65
Steven Universe: Attack the Light!
Fallout Shelter
Alto
Pocket Mine 2
Does not Commute
The Jackbox Party Pack 2

Amazing year for games imho

what if they added Galactus AND Ghost Rider to Marvel Puzzle Quest

Bloodborne
Talos Principle
The Swapper (technically fall of '14 I guess)
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

ios games:

Downfall (multiple platforms)
Lara Croft GO
Landsliders
Alto's Adventure
The Executive
You Must Build A Boat
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions
Tales from the Borderlands (multiple platforms)
Radical Rappelling
Blades of Brim

Leon's Cool Game (Twitter)
https://twitter.com/leonscoolgame

what if they added Galactus AND Ghost Rider to Marvel Puzzle Quest

let's talk when it's not a 7-color match-3 game featuring marvel superheroes and villains using powers based on built up gems of those colours or something

no frog-fractions style leftfield games this year that i ran into and recall -- maybe i'm just not paying sufficient attention? would welcome any suggestions along those lines.

We had a separate listing for IF [interactive fiction] on some previous years' lists, as those games often require an interpreter. I'd quite like to keep IF as a category in its own right, but I think most new inform/z-code/glulx/whatever they are games are available to play in-browser through Parchment these days, so should I nominate them as browser games?

(And this is the reason why it was IF and not anything else - pretty sure I just conflated script, file type and platform in my examples there.)

For something like that it makes sense to put computer and browser (as some games will have to be computer and mobile, or computer and console), since both are valid ways to access them. I'm mostly only including the platforms to show people how they're accessed.

OK. Will sort my noms shortly.

z-code was designed by inform. iirc last i checked in on it emily short corroborated on a 'natural language' update of that i used after i gave up on tads. speaking of which does anyone still make games in tads? there were also a lot of avant games (i think that's what it was called) when i was writing if that were super simple to use (and generally produced inferior quality pieces ime ymmv) i wonder if it has fallen out of use since.

tads 3 came out after i had switched over to z-code but i got the feeling it was maybe more useful for extensive multimedia integration? and i was not so interested in including music + video and stuff

Rocket League
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Witcher 3 - Console / PC

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

oh man jordan did you get to play this? i love the sound of it but it seems like a lot of work to arrange

You can apparently play with a PC (no VR) and tablets/phones/other copmuters (for the manual), iirc

haha yeah sure but that still means explaining to at least two friends 'so there's this game, it's, er, it's a VR game, but it's not, mostly you look at pdfs on your phone ...'

Wow, I'm realizing that it's entirely possible that Jackbox Party Pack 2 is the only 2015 release that I've played. I might need to submit the stuff I own and haven't played as nominations just to get my ass in gear.

pillars of eternity
darkest dungeon
chrono trigger

...chrono trigger???

it's a tradition

I personally played more Chrono Trigger in 2015 than I did any actual 2015 release.

Hotline Miami 2
Downwell
Life is Strange
Beginner's Guide
Cibele
Sylvio
Read Only Memories
Castle in the Darkness
Grow Home

Helldivers (PS3, PS4, PS Vita)

Most of these are just browser anyway, actually, so yeah...

Brain Guzzlers From Beyond!
Bus Station Unbound
Midnight. Swordfight.
Toby's Nose

Also, mobile:

Neko Atsume

All of these games are free, but Bus Station Unbound has a 'pay what you want' option.

Ori and the Blind Forest (console, computer)
The Room 3 (mobile)
Crank (browser)
Trimps (browser)

oops, Ori is computer-only.

brain guzzlers is funny

>talk to goat
You bleat at him. He bleats back louder. You've been bleaten.

ori is on xbone

marvel puzzle quest : I will vote for it, whether it's allowed or not, so why not just allow it

I played some very shitty "games" too that I won't nominate unless we're doing a shit ballot.

my new year's resolution this year is to play better games, but given current financial realities plus backlogs that won't mean 2016 games

can we just disqualify all ballots including marvel puzzle quest

only if we can also disqualify all ballots that don't include it

hey then i guess we can get coint and plick done early

Goat Simulator (2015 release on PS3)

Goat Simulator came in #2 last year!

Perhaps we can correct that injustice this year.

only if the PS3 version has an unlockable minigame where you can make the goat play Marvel Puzzle Quest

otm

There will be a regular ballot per previous years (with points allotted to games etc)
+ there will be a line to put 1-3 games not released in 2015 which will get a separate mini-rollout, this is where mpq and chrono trigger belong
+ there will be a line to put biggest disappointment/worst game of 2015

there will not be mpq or chrono trigger on the main ballot
goat simulator can be nominated if you want to vote for the PORT TO CONSOLE anyone who votes for it because they played the pc version in 2015 is a poxy fule

an honest ballot for me has to include MPQ and P&D for 2015. don't see why they don't fall under MMO rules because they are being updated literally every week

"guys can i vote for no flex zone in this year's tracks poll? i mean sremmlife technically came out in 2015 soooo"

see i have no idea what you're talking about there

in 2015 we are all filthy casuals let's just own up to it

It's not really the same thing though - I'd be interested on the distinction between say Warlords of Draenor (WoW's fifth expansion, a lot of content for levelling to 100) and Patch 6.2 (some new mechanics and a 13-boss raid). Are they both eligible (or rather would they be if they came out the same year)?

I will vote for MPQ no matter what. if it's not allowed I'll send a ballot with just MPQ. ride or die.

cool i love it when ppl go hardline for dumb shit like voting for a game that came #1 in 2013

Despite being a Marvel Zombie of the highest order, I've never touched MPQ. Kinda feel like that's the correct decision for me.

Maybe MPQ can be its own category

maybe we can have a c+p hall of fame where we retire games to the rafters with the highest of honour, one game a year

this year surprise it is mpq now stop voting for it, it has the lifetime achievement award

I'll handle the MPQ poll. Voters are allowed one vote and can only vote for MPQ. I'll start a nominations thread soon.

It's time for members of this community to tell the truth - MPQ has stolen the lives of our loved ones, MPQ has kicked out the parents in some homes and assumed legal parental guardian status, MPQ has taken from Secret Santa without contributing to it, MPQ is illegal in other tri-county areas but not our own.

btw I'm traveling for the next few days but I'll submit my Noma when I get back.

noms autocorrects to Noma for some reason.

the fear of mpq here is indicative of something important...of truth, light, justice, and the american way.

I mean I thought shit like world of warcraft and madden was supposed to be eligible year in, year out, how is mpq different? (except for its awesomeness)

Let people vote for it, publish the handles of everyone who does, that we can deride them for not finding a better game in 2015.

I'll own that one

word

they're all already owning it in here

also, madden and wow and whatever else haven't placed significantly in years, so how is that even a response?

the argument is this: are we voting for the best game OF 2015, or the best game IN 2015? bc if we let in mpq why not literally chrono trigger

then why do the whole thing

wait so your reasoning is that mpq shouldn't be eligible because it would place well, while wow or madden are eligible b/c they won't place well?

I'm being a little child in thinking that my ballot will include wow and madden then, but then we are talking about video games

man can we just skip c+p and go straight to my 4th gen (snes, genesis) poll?

or are you going to vote for mpq in that too

lol

you really haven't lived until you've experienced MPQ on Sega Genesis

Hey Mordy & s.clover & others i have questions & comments

are "alto" and "alto's adventure" different games or the same thing?

is downfall a diff game from downwell?

mpq is on the stupid nom list now because everything is awful

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

oh man jordan did you get to play this? i love the sound of it but it seems like a lot of work to arrange

― carly rae jetson (thomp), Monday, January 4, 2016 5:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, I just enjoyed watching videos of it, but my gf & I are planning to play it at some point (once I download it on her laptop and print out the manual)! Didn't know it was designed as a VR game tbh, but that makes sense.

xp alto and alto's adventure are the same thing

adding before i forget

Dying Light (console, computer)

is downfall a diff game from downwell?

whoops yeah by downfall i meant downwell.

i'm not qualified to vote in this thread but i nominate flywrench and nuclear throne for your consideration ty

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Will, but I just noticed that MPQ was released on PSN for the first time a couple of months ago, so it would appear to be a legit nomination. If it's any consolation, I may wind up paying the price now that I'm privy to this information.

i call bullshit on anyone who says they played it on ps4 and are voting for the port

i will require a photograph with tomorrow's paper and a daily reward on-screen

I haven't touched the accursed thing yet, but fwiw the PS3 version will probably be the one I play when I ultimately lose my self-control.

Started playing some of my 2015 Vita backlog last night (Woah Dave!, Nihilumbra, Kick & Fennick, htoL#NiQ: My Cat Just Walked On The Keyboard). Nothing's knocking me out yet, unfortunately.

@Jordan are you electing the Xbx One port of Swapper? bc it placed last yr for every other console

bloodborne
xenoblade chronicles x (seriously, this game is pretty awesome u guys)

Broken Age (every platform but browser, I think)

Haven't played it yet (in the queue) but it's one I've heard good things about.

i cut binding of isaac, it didn't come out on anything this yr & also ranked 6th last year
i didn't cut swapper, it came out on wii u & xb1 so i'm willing to give benefit of the doubt
goat sim & MPQ are port-votes only
i'm still going over what we have for little edits

Ooh, Broken Age was this year? I thought I was behind on that. Very much enjoyed it.

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth came out this year, Will.

Oh I see I accidentally called it Rebirth. Please nom it as:

Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

(The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth is the expansion to The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. The DLC was released on October 30th, 2015.)

@Jordan are you electing the Xbx One port of Swapper? bc it placed last yr for every other console

oh, nevermind then. i only found out about it in 2015 (on PS4).

Just checked and Broken Age definitely counts - the first part was released in 2014 but it only really became a whole game on the release of the second part in 2015.

Wow, my ballot might have quite a lot of 'real' games on it this year.

broken age got nommed last year since it was a january release (in 2k15) but didn't make the list so i re-included it.
gods will be watching was nommed last year too but got no votes and was also re-released for ios this year so it's on too.

Agar.io (Browser)

yay i actually played a 2015 game

i forgot to nominate Dropsy

+ yes afterbirth is ok?

Yes, it's full of nutrients iirc.

Really should Broken Age, given that I kickstarted it. Same with Pillars of Eternity...

Some games that might be worth including that I don't see in this thread:

A Good Snowman is Hard to Build
Apotheon
Audiosurf 2
Axiom Verge
Badland 2
Batman: Arkham Knight
Broforce
Capitals
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
Dust: An Elysian Tail
Elite: Dangerous
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Evolve
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
Forza 6
Galak-Z: The Dimensional
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions
Guitar Hero Live
Halo 5
Hatoful Boyfriend
Horizon Chase
Jotun
Kerbal Space Program
Lara Croft GO
Leo's Fortune
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Lumino City
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate
Mortal Kombat X
Mushroom 11
N++
Need for Speed
Nuclear Throne
Oddworld: new 'n' tasty
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood
Operation Dracula
PixWing
Prune
Resogun: Defenders
Rock Band 4
Shovel Knight
Soma
Sorcery! 3
Splatoon
Steamworld Heist
Sunset
Super Mario Maker
Super Mega Baseball (2014, but did it get a vote last year?)
Tembo the Badass Elephant
This War of Mine
Tower of Guns
Transformers Devastation
Until Dawn
Yet It Moves
Yo-kai Watch
Ziggurat

Pretty sure Hatoful Boyfriend is years old, unless it got ported somewhere?

PS4/Vita but we can remove it

Surprised at Dust mention, didn't realize it got an iOS port in October

We can remove it.

@mordy, afterbirth is ok. its entered as that.

@poly we ignored super mega baseball last year i think? we'll include it this yr

i'll start trawling your list soon

Black Closet

what is "Capitals"?

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/capitals-free-word-battle/id968456900?mt=8

is "yet it moves" the same as And Yet It Moves? bc that game came out like 6 years ago

Not sure but maybe not

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yet-it-moves-puzzle-platformer/id919968656?mt=8

Oh wait, yes. it's an ios port

this war of mine was on my ballot last year
Shovel Knight ranked pretty high last year too
Leo's Fortune is a console port, does anyone want this? don't think it was even nommed last yer on ios/droid
i thikn that's the only other ones i have questions about, rest check out on cursory glance!

this thread reminded me that i forgot to fucking nominate some tracks for the year end music list, SHIT

a few more (some of the aspirational i haven't played yet variety):

Convoy
Hard West
Kingdom
Knights of Pen and Paper 2
CRYPTARK
80 Days
Stranded Deep
Offworld Trading Company
Interstelleria
Satellite Reign

will you can get rid of all of those if you want. I'm not voting for any of em

i'll leave em up, there was at least one that i completely forgot about & intended to vote for! good to have a little rigour in our nom process. some real "duh" moments when i saw arkham knight and mk x, considering shhhhhhhh my names in the credits (for BAK for sure, not sure on MKX since i was never on ir directly) and olliolli2 is AWESOME and was on my early EOY ballot, and wow yeah super mega baseball

BAK and MKX will probably go on my ballot just because I actually played them in 2015

jsut checked the credits for both, i guess i had left that department before mkx rolled around

BAK on the other hand has my latest job in it (even if they listed me as part of a team i am not a part of lol)

http://i.imgur.com/XUpKDD5.png

v cool :)

to avoid any conflict of interest i won't vote for it (lol)

also if anyone has it and enjoyed it but didn't play the dlc, please do! especially batgirl!!!

hahahaha i forgot to nominate ANOTHER GAME I WORKED ON THIS YEAR (last game i worked on when i was still in qa) (this one i might even vote for tho)

Mad Max

and I just found my list of early noms from a month ago that I forgot I had, some games here I aspire to play before voting (obv i won't but I ASPIRE TO)

Republique Remastered
steins;gate
Danganronpa Another Episode
Actual Sunlight

Grim Fandango Remastered

We Know the Devil (browser)

https://datenighto.com/game/we-know-the-devil

Writeups: http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2015/11/we_know_the_dev.shtml
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/258439/The_Fragility_and_Pain_of_Friendship_in_We_Know_the_Devil.php
http://feministing.com/2015/09/24/review-we-know-the-devil-is-a-horror-game-about-community-and-survival/ (really spoiler-y, in case that bothers you)

[Or my capsule description from another thread: The essayist and games critic Aevee Bee's first visual novel, We Know the Devil, which takes place at a religious summer camp with strange exorcism rituals and crystal radio-based defense systems, captures the claustrophobia of being trapped among Midwestern straight people, the varieties of teenage self-loathing, and the casual cruelty of exclusion among the marginalized with great vividness and wit.]

i'll definitely get the Arkham Knight season pass once it's discounted enough

noms (haven't played)

The Order: 1886
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood

I think every other 2015 release i played or bought was already mentioned up thread

Wasteland 2: Director's Cut

GAME Platforms
80 Days MOBI / COMP
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build COMP
Actual Sunlight HAND / COMP
Agar.io BWSR
Alto's Adventure MOBI
Apotheon CONS / COMP
Armello CONS / MOBI / COMP
Audiosurf 2 COMP
Axiom Verge CONS / HAND / COMP
Badland 2 MOBI
Batman: Arkham Knight CONS / COMP
Beginner's Guide COMP
Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Black Closet COMP
Blades of Brim MOBI
Bloodborne CONS
Brain Guzzlers From Beyond! BWSR
Broforce CONS / COMP
Broken Age CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Bus Station Unbound BWSR
Capitals MOBI
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker CONS
Castle in the Darkness COMP
Cibele COMP
Cities: Skylines COMP
Convoy COMP
Crank BWSR
CRYPTARK COMP
Danganronpa Another Episode HAND
darkest dungeon COMP
Destiny: The Taken King CONS
Does not Commute MOBI
Downwell CONS / MOBI / COMP
Dropsy HAND
Dying Light CONS / COMP
Elite: Dangerous CONS / COMP
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture CONS
Evolve CONS / COMP
Fallout 4 CONS / COMP
Fallout Shelter MOBI
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward CONS / COMP
Flywrench COMP
Forza 6 CONS
Galak-Z: The Dimensional CONS / COMP
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions HAND / MOBI
Goat Simulator (PORT) CONS
Gods Will Be Watching HAND / COMP
Grim Fandango Remastered COMP
Grow Home CONS / COMP
Guitar Hero Live CONS / MOBI
Halo 5 CONS
Hand of Fate CONS / COMP
Hard West COMP
Helldivers CONS / COMP
Her Story COMP
Heroes of the Storm COMP
Horizon Chase MOBI
Hotline Miami 2 CONS / HAND / COMP
htoL#NiQ: My Cat Just Walked On The Keyboard HAND
Interstellaria COMP
Invisible, Inc. COMP
Ironcast COMP
Jotun COMP
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes COMP
Kerbal Space Program COMP
Kick & Fennick HAND
Kingdom COMP
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 CONS / MOBI
Landsliders MOBI
Lara Croft GO MOBI
Leon's Cool Game COMP
Life is Strange CONS / COMP
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime CONS / COMP
Lumino City COMP
Mad Max CONS / COMP
Marvel Puzzle Quest (PORT) CONS
Massive Chalice COMP
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain CONS / COMP
Midnight. Swordfight. BWSR
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate HAND
Mortal Kombat X CONS / COMP
Mushroom 11 COMP
N++ CONS
Need for Speed CONS / COMP
Neko Atsume MOBI
NEO Scavenger COMP
Nihilumbra HAND
nuclear throne CONS / COMP
Oddworld: new 'n' tasty CONS / COMP
Offworld Trading Company COMP
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood CONS / HAND / COMP
Operation Dracula MOBI
Ori and the Blind Forest CONS / COMP
pillars of eternity COMP
PixWing MOBI
Pocket Mine 2 MOBI
Prison Architect COMP
Prune MOBI
Radical Rappelling MOBI
Read Only Memories CONS / HAND / COMP
Renowned Explorers COMP
Republique Remastered COMP
Resogun: Defenders CONS
Rock Band 4 CONS
Rocket League CONS / COMP
Satellite Reign COMP
Soma CONS / COMP
Sorcery! 3 MOBI
Splatoon CONS
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void COMP
Steamworld Heist CONS / HAND / COMP
steins;gate HAND
Steven Universe: Attack the Light! MOBI
Stranded Deep COMP
Sunless Sea COMP
Sunset COMP
Super Mario Maker CONS
Super Mega Baseball CONS / COMP
Sylvio COMP
Tales from the Borderlands CONS / COMP
Talos Principle COMP
Tembo the Badass Elephant CONS / COMP
The Curious Expedition MOBI
The Executive MOBI
The Jackbox Party Pack 2 CONS / COMP
The Order: 1886 CONS
The Room 3 MOBI
Toby's Nose BWSR
Tower of Guns CONS
Transformers Devastation CONS
Trimps BWSR
Undertale COMP
Until Dawn CONS
Vietnam 65 COMP
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut COMP
We Know the Devil BWSR
Witcher 3 CONS / COMP
Woah Dave! HAND
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood CONS / COMP
xenoblade chronicles x CONS
Yo-kai Watch HAND
You Must Build A Boat MOBI
Ziggurat COMP

Games 143
CONS 58
HAND 19
MOBI 29
COMP 84
BWSR 8

Might be the lightest mobile year in a few years. I guess MPQ is sucking up everyone's phone-game time.

Ha. I wasn't officially nominating it (although I have no problem doing so officially), but the actual title is 'htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary' not 'htoL#NiQ: My Cat Just Walked On The Keyboard'.

Or just the original Japanese title 'Hotaru no Nikki', which I vastly prefer.

Minkomora (browser)

Eh, what the hell. Here are some other backlogged Vita games I'm going to try to get to before voting starts:

La-Mulana EX
The Bridge
Dragon Fin Soup
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones
Whispering Willows
VVVVVV
Teslagrad
Superbeat: Xonic

xp, re merritt kopas's exploration game Minkomora:
http://a-dire-fawn.itch.io/minkomora

Writeups: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/04/14/minkomora-free-game/
http://softchambers.com/post/112264325242/minkomora [merritt's comment about her intentions]

Lost Constellation (computer)

Keep reading 'BWSR' as 'Bowser'.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/32d4869cef0feb5640e4e1dc1d5adaa8/tumblr_mqtfrs9Xbu1rrftcdo1_500.gif

http://finji.itch.io/lost-constellation

Comments:
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/05/lost-constellation/#more-260523
Xp
http://youtu.be/MNKHng_sykU [half sad let's play video, half speculations on mourning and mental health in queer communities]

all added except VVVVVV, that one has been out for a while

Might be the lightest mobile year in a few years. I guess MPQ is sucking up everyone's phone-game time.

― nerd shit (Will M.), Thursday, January 7, 2016 12:57 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not anything really interesting or genre busting for me, which is the fun I have on mobile. just sort of some nice "a-list" titles that play it a bit safe. and of course microtransactions really sucking the "pure fun" out of everything.

xpost I think it was just released for Vita this year, but I'm not crying any tears since it's at the bottom of my 'to play' list.

Borderlands presequel: claptastic voyage dlc

Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell

o rite claptastic voyage is allowed!

Never Alone (released late last year on a couple of platforms but just recently on others)

couple browser games:

There Is No Game
Ennuigi

anyone play any of the three telltale series this year? i've heard good things about tales from the borderlands, but next to nothing about minecraft story mode/game of thrones.

i thought tales was pretty great, but i have no idea how much of that is due to telltale, and how much of that is due to me enjoying borderlands stuff. any recs on if i liked that one which others i'd like?

(best tales stuff was imho all the franchise-specific gags -- especially playing off the loot & shoot mechanics, either denying the opportunity to collect and use cool guns, or having characters obsessed with the collecting of cool guns in inappropriate situations)

Walking Dead would be your obvious first choice.

Definitely. Never got around to season 2 (sigh someday) but that first season was great.

will i like it if i've never seen the show

the show and comic could only work to ruin the game, the game stands alone & is better than both

I Am Bread (mobile, computer, console)

I just realized I never put a deadline on nominations... would a week today work for everyone (Jan 20)?

then i can focus on making people enter ballots, hopefully we can break 25 this year!

That works for me.

New nominations:

Back To Bed
Velocibox

Fran Bow (computer/mobile)
King's Quest: Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember (computer/console)
Hook (computer/mobile) (browser demo here)

i don't know if i'll end up voting for it, but:

Cluck Yegger in Escape From the Planet of the Poultroid (computer/mobile)

i'm just tickled that the guys who made Space Quest back in the eighties have released a Five Nights At Freddy's parody, of all things.

added em! two more days of nominations, and then voting time!

Oh, haven't got around to playing it yet but

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist

good god, these hyper-long names stretchin' out my damn excel sheet

King's Quest: Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember (computer/console)

is this fun if you have fond (and not-so-fond) memories of the original?

if you have PS Plus, I think it's free to find out right now! (unless that was last month)

I was thinking of closing the floor for nominations today.

Anyone else? Going once...?

Couldn't think of anything else, am ready to vote (if a little sidetracked by ILM EoY results).

i think you've got everything i'd vote for there.

80 Days - MOBI / COMP
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build - COMP
Actual Sunlight - HAND / COMP
Agar.io - BWSR
Alto's Adventure - MOBI
Apotheon - CONS / COMP
Armello - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Audiosurf 2 - COMP
Axiom Verge - CONS / HAND / COMP
Back To Bed - MOBI / COMP
Badland 2 - MOBI
Batman: Arkham Knight - CONS / COMP
Beginner's Guide - COMP
Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth - CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Black Closet - COMP
Blades of Brim - MOBI
Bloodborne - CONS
Borderlands Pre-Sequel: Claptastic Voyage DLC - CONS / COMP
Brain Guzzlers From Beyond! - BWSR
Broforce - CONS / COMP
Broken Age - CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Bus Station Unbound - BWSR
Capitals - MOBI
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker - CONS
Castle in the Darkness - COMP
Cibele - COMP
Cities: Skylines - COMP
Cluck Yegger in Escape From the Planet of the Poultroid - MOBI / COMP
Convoy - COMP
Crank - BWSR
CRYPTARK - COMP
Danganronpa Another Episode - HAND
darkest dungeon - COMP
Destiny: The Taken King - CONS
Does not Commute - MOBI
Downwell - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist - COMP
Dragon Fin Soup - CONS / HAND / COMP
Dropsy - HAND
Dying Light - CONS / COMP
Elite: Dangerous - CONS / COMP
Ennuigi - BWSR
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - CONS
Evolve - CONS / COMP
Fallout 4 - CONS / COMP
Fallout Shelter - MOBI
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - CONS / COMP
Flywrench - COMP
Forza 6 - CONS
Fran Bow - MOBI / COMP
Galak-Z: The Dimensional - CONS / COMP
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions - HAND / MOBI
Goat Simulator (PORT) - CONS
Gods Will Be Watching - HAND / COMP
Grim Fandango Remastered - COMP
Grow Home - CONS / COMP
Guitar Hero Live - CONS / MOBI
Halo 5 - CONS
Hand of Fate - CONS / COMP
Hard West - COMP
Helldivers - CONS / COMP
Her Story - COMP
Heroes of the Storm - COMP
Hook - MOBI / COMP
Horizon Chase - MOBI
Hotline Miami 2 - CONS / HAND / COMP
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary - HAND
I Am Bread - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Interstellaria - COMP
Invisible, Inc. - COMP
Ironcast - COMP
Jotun - COMP
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - COMP
Kerbal Space Program - COMP
Kick & Fennick - HAND
Kingdom - COMP
King's Quest: Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember - CONS / COMP
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - CONS / MOBI
La-Mulana EX - CONS / HAND
Landsliders - MOBI
Lara Croft GO - MOBI
Leon's Cool Game - COMP
Life is Strange - CONS / COMP
Lost Constellation - COMP
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - CONS / COMP
Lumino City - COMP
Mad Max - CONS / COMP
Marvel Puzzle Quest (PORT) - CONS
Massive Chalice - COMP
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - CONS / COMP
Midnight. Swordfight. - BWSR
Minkomora - BWSR
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate - HAND
Mortal Kombat X - CONS / COMP
Mushroom 11 - COMP
N++ - CONS
Need for Speed - CONS / COMP
Neko Atsume - MOBI
NEO Scavenger - COMP
Never Alone - CONS / COMP
Nihilumbra - HAND
nuclear throne - CONS / COMP
Oddworld: new 'n' tasty - CONS / COMP
Offworld Trading Company - COMP
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood - CONS / HAND / COMP
Operation Dracula - MOBI
Ori and the Blind Forest - CONS / COMP
pillars of eternity - COMP
PixWing - MOBI
Pocket Mine 2 - MOBI
Prison Architect - COMP
Prune - MOBI
Radical Rappelling - MOBI
Read Only Memories - CONS / HAND / COMP
Renowned Explorers - COMP
Republique Remastered - COMP
Resogun: Defenders - CONS
Rock Band 4 - CONS
Rocket League - CONS / COMP
Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell - CONS / COMP
Satellite Reign - COMP
Soma - CONS / COMP
Sorcery! 3 - MOBI
Splatoon - CONS
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void - COMP
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones - CONS / HAND / COMP
Steamworld Heist - CONS / HAND / COMP
steins;gate - HAND
Steven Universe: Attack the Light! - MOBI
Stranded Deep - COMP
Sunless Sea - COMP
Sunset - COMP
Super Mario Maker - CONS
Super Mega Baseball - CONS / COMP
Superbeat: Xonic - HAND
Sylvio - COMP
Tales from the Borderlands - CONS / COMP
Talos Principle - COMP
Tembo the Badass Elephant - CONS / COMP
Teslagrad - CONS / HAND / COMP
The Bridge - CONS / HAND / COMP
The Curious Expedition - MOBI
The Executive - MOBI
The Jackbox Party Pack 2 - CONS / COMP
The Order: 1886 - CONS
The Room 3 - MOBI
There Is No Game - BWSR
Toby's Nose - BWSR
Tower of Guns - CONS
Transformers Devastation - CONS
Trimps - BWSR
Undertale - COMP
Until Dawn - CONS
Velocibox - CONS / COMP
Vietnam 65 - COMP
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut - COMP
We Know the Devil - BWSR
Whispering Willows - CONS / HAND / COMP
Witcher 3 - CONS / COMP
Woah Dave! - HAND
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - CONS / COMP
xenoblade chronicles x - CONS
Yo-kai Watch - HAND
You Must Build A Boat - MOBI
Ziggurat - COMP

This will be the nomination list assuming there's nothing I missed, going to start making a form like last year. Let me know if I am missing anything.

i am gonna vote the hell outta MPQ because i played it so much on my... CONSOLE... last year

i'm about to go r|t|c on you in this thread my dude

lol oh the purists

hey i could've pushed Puzzle and Dragons Z, be glad I didn't!

How many votes do people generally submit? I've only recently started playing video games again, having bought a PS4, and I've probably played about 12 eligible games (though noticing that AC: Syndicate wasn't nommed so 11, I guess) and I feel like my participation would tilt this in favour of AAA titles which is mostly what I've played (save, I think, 4 titles). I don't want to swing into the hardcore gamers world and muck things up with yet another vote for x or y.

and fair warning, despite the fact that I know it has many, many problems I would probably rank Mad Max pretty high.

imho the joy of the list is that we roll out [almost?] all of it and you have AAA titles next to little indie studio or even hobbyist stuff. idk if f4 is my favorite game of the year but i'll vote v highly for it and my guess is it'll do v well in this poll

even if you rate mad max high, i doubt it will make the top 20 unless we get like NO ballots this year. i am always worried that we won't.

i think last year i rolled out everything with at least 6 points, lol.

Oh wow, AC Syndicate should totally be on the noms list. Also, don't hate me but I've been playing a lot of Pokemon Picross on 3DS the last couple of days and that should probably be on there too.

Oh and Black Ops 3. Not that I've played it, but that should be included surely?

Battlefield Hardline and Star Wars Battlefront both missing! It's probably worth just auto including the top 30 best sellers of the year really because we seem to have forgotten about a lot of them.

Oh and Bastion came out for Vita this year, I might get around get to playing that before voting.

If no-one's thought about them enough to nominate them, what's the point though?

(regarding the manshooties - no beef with Bastion or Pokemon Picross!)

if bastion is one of the best 77 games to come out this year including everything released for everything let's call off the coint and plick and all kill ourselves

And with those ones (syndicate, picross, black ops, hardline, battlefront, bastion port) the floor is closed for nominations. Ballot thread shortly.

80 Days - MOBI / COMP
A Good Snowman is Hard to Build - COMP
Actual Sunlight - HAND / COMP
Agar.io - BWSR
Alto's Adventure - MOBI
Apotheon - CONS / COMP
Armello - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Assassin's Creed Syndicate - CONS / COMP
Audiosurf 2 - COMP
Axiom Verge - CONS / HAND / COMP
Back To Bed - MOBI / COMP
Badland 2 - MOBI
Bastion (PORT) - HAND
Batman: Arkham Knight - CONS / COMP
Battlefield Hardline - CONS / COMP
Beginner's Guide - COMP
Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth - CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Black Closet - COMP
Blades of Brim - MOBI
Bloodborne - CONS
Borderlands Pre-Sequel: Claptastic Voyage DLC - CONS / COMP
Brain Guzzlers From Beyond! - BWSR
Broforce - CONS / COMP
Broken Age - CONS / HAND / MOBI / COMP
Bus Station Unbound - BWSR
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 - CONS / COMP
Capitals - MOBI
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker - CONS
Castle in the Darkness - COMP
Cibele - COMP
Cities: Skylines - COMP
Cluck Yegger in Escape From the Planet of the Poultroid - MOBI / COMP
Convoy - COMP
Crank - BWSR
CRYPTARK - COMP
Danganronpa Another Episode - HAND
darkest dungeon - COMP
Destiny: The Taken King - CONS
Does not Commute - MOBI
Downwell - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist - COMP
Dragon Fin Soup - CONS / HAND / COMP
Dropsy - HAND
Dying Light - CONS / COMP
Elite: Dangerous - CONS / COMP
Ennuigi - BWSR
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture - CONS
Evolve - CONS / COMP
Fallout 4 - CONS / COMP
Fallout Shelter - MOBI
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - CONS / COMP
Flywrench - COMP
Forza 6 - CONS
Fran Bow - MOBI / COMP
Galak-Z: The Dimensional - CONS / COMP
Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions - HAND / MOBI
Goat Simulator (PORT) - CONS
Gods Will Be Watching - HAND / COMP
Grim Fandango Remastered - COMP
Grow Home - CONS / COMP
Guitar Hero Live - CONS / MOBI
Halo 5 - CONS
Hand of Fate - CONS / COMP
Hard West - COMP
Helldivers - CONS / COMP
Her Story - COMP
Heroes of the Storm - COMP
Hook - MOBI / COMP
Horizon Chase - MOBI
Hotline Miami 2 - CONS / HAND / COMP
htoL#NiQ: The Firefly Diary - HAND
I Am Bread - CONS / MOBI / COMP
Interstellaria - COMP
Invisible, Inc. - COMP
Ironcast - COMP
Jotun - COMP
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes - COMP
Kerbal Space Program - COMP
Kick & Fennick - HAND
Kingdom - COMP
King's Quest: Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember - CONS / COMP
Knights of Pen and Paper 2 - CONS / MOBI
La-Mulana EX - CONS / HAND
Landsliders - MOBI
Lara Croft GO - MOBI
Leon's Cool Game - COMP
Life is Strange - CONS / COMP
Lost Constellation - COMP
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime - CONS / COMP
Lumino City - COMP
Mad Max - CONS / COMP
Marvel Puzzle Quest (PORT) - CONS
Massive Chalice - COMP
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - CONS / COMP
Midnight. Swordfight. - BWSR
Minkomora - BWSR
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate - HAND
Mortal Kombat X - CONS / COMP
Mushroom 11 - COMP
N++ - CONS
Need for Speed - CONS / COMP
Neko Atsume - MOBI
NEO Scavenger - COMP
Never Alone - CONS / COMP
Nihilumbra - HAND
nuclear throne - CONS / COMP
Oddworld: new 'n' tasty - CONS / COMP
Offworld Trading Company - COMP
OlliOlli 2: Welcome to Olliwood - CONS / HAND / COMP
Operation Dracula - MOBI
Ori and the Blind Forest - CONS / COMP
pillars of eternity - COMP
PixWing - MOBI
Pocket Mine 2 - MOBI
Pokemon Picross - HAND
Prison Architect - COMP
Prune - MOBI
Radical Rappelling - MOBI
Read Only Memories - CONS / HAND / COMP
Renowned Explorers - COMP
Republique Remastered - COMP
Resogun: Defenders - CONS
Rock Band 4 - CONS
Rocket League - CONS / COMP
Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell - CONS / COMP
Satellite Reign - COMP
Soma - CONS / COMP
Sorcery! 3 - MOBI
Splatoon - CONS
Star Wars Battlefront - CONS / COMP
Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void - COMP
Stealth Inc. 2: A Game of Clones - CONS / HAND / COMP
Steamworld Heist - CONS / HAND / COMP
steins;gate - HAND
Steven Universe: Attack the Light! - MOBI
Stranded Deep - COMP
Sunless Sea - COMP
Sunset - COMP
Super Mario Maker - CONS
Super Mega Baseball - CONS / COMP
Superbeat: Xonic - HAND
Sylvio - COMP
Tales from the Borderlands - CONS / COMP
Talos Principle - COMP
Tembo the Badass Elephant - CONS / COMP
Teslagrad - CONS / HAND / COMP
The Bridge - CONS / HAND / COMP
The Curious Expedition - MOBI
The Executive - MOBI
The Jackbox Party Pack 2 - CONS / COMP
The Order: 1886 - CONS
The Room 3 - MOBI
There Is No Game - BWSR
Toby's Nose - BWSR
Tower of Guns - CONS
Transformers Devastation - CONS
Trimps - BWSR
Undertale - COMP
Until Dawn - CONS
Velocibox - CONS / COMP
Vietnam 65 - COMP
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut - COMP
We Know the Devil - BWSR
Whispering Willows - CONS / HAND / COMP
Witcher 3 - CONS / COMP
Woah Dave! - HAND
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood - CONS / COMP
xenoblade chronicles x - CONS
Yo-kai Watch - HAND
You Must Build A Boat - MOBI
Ziggurat - COMP

Ninth annual Point & Click, for 2015 games - BALLOT TIME (due Feb. 12) - Start your stumping!

If no-one's thought about them enough to nominate them, what's the point though?

Yeah, well I'll admit I'm a bit unsure of the intended purpose behind a noms list anyway, but in the past it's definitely worked for me as a good source of "oh wow, yeah I did play that, and it was great" memory jogging. If that's what it's meant to do then it makes sense to keep it pretty comprehensive, no? Presumably we want more ballots than nominators, in which case the list should try to take into account stuff the nominators haven't played but other people might want to vote for.

I do indeed want a comprehensive list but not at the expense of readability in the end. Which is why I don't find lists of every eligible game of the year. I could come at it with a like of 500 or 1000 or whatever games, with hundreds probably being ports, but that just makes it harder to actually sort through and go "oh yeah, that!"

I'm also not going to discount a write-in.

Yeah that's fair.

So under those criteria I don't think it's a foul to suggest we include the first and fourth best selling games of the year, heh.

(xp) oh good because I also forgot Disney Infinity 3.0, oops.

And Lego Dimensions, and Lego Jurassic World.

I hope the new Lego Marvel game will be eligible next year since it came out at the end of 2015. I'm sure it's fantastic but there's no way I'm paying new game prices to find out.

this game? says it isn't out yet

Ohhhh, duh. I'd seen it for sale online and didn't realize it was for preorders.