Coint and Plick 2013 - The Sixth Annual ILX Video Game Poll

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Pixel Defenders Puzzle is fun! a dece matching mechanic + strategic combat. nothing too brainy but a fun kick nonetheless

Euler, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link

#91 (Tie): The Simpsons: Tapped Out – iOS – 5 pts – 1 vote

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/the_simpsons_tapped_out.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://web-vassets.ea.com/Assets/Richmedia/Image/Screenshots/the-simpsons-tapped-out-iphone-screen03_656x369.jpg?cb=1341252656

jjusten: First off, fuck you. I get it, The Simpsons hasn't been funny for a decade, and this is sort of a glorified farmville (or I think so? idk ive never played farmville and i don't understand it, but i am awesome at assuming stuff), but that hasn't kept me from sinking dumb amounts of time into this little yellow people simulator. it probably actually sucks, but fuck it, i spent weeks hiring and firing people in tiny tower and building them fake apartments and shit, so what kind of paragon am i really. its free. it makes noises, and reminds me to do stuff at regular intervals, which appears to give me feelings of "achievement" and "progression" and "fun". Let's just call it the "I am a rat pushing a button to get a food pellet simulation" of 2012.

http://s.pro-gmedia.com/videogamer/media/images/iphone/the_simpsons_tapped_out/screens/the_simpsons_tapped_out_2_605x.jpg

it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:34 (eleven years ago) link

more tomorrow!

it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link

does anyone else want to vouch for the simpsons game??

Mordy, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link

A buddy of mine says he loves the Simpsons game, it's definitely a "this'll be done building in a wihle, but you can pay to speed it up" type game but it seems like it's pretty much the best one, sooo

Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link

pretty sure that link for "play online" for pixel defenders puzzle is wrong. its a game called "pixel defenders" instead, which appears to be a tower defense game, while pixel defenders is a merge-3 triple-town style thing.ed. note: right you are. i pulled the link

s.clover, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 02:12 (eleven years ago) link

MCPIXEL. my vote!

yes yes i admit i am totally a third-grader but that nut-kicking animation gets me every time

Nhex, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link

#91 (Tie): Sleeping Dogs – PS3, X360 – 5 pts – 1 vote

http://almostnerdy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/sleeping-dogs-game-play-preview-0.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://leviathyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sleeping-dogs-04-700x3931.jpg

Zero Punctuation

Quarter to Three

Brainy Gamer: Me, My Avatar and The Space Between

California Literary Review

Popmatters

Three part Siliconera Dev Interview

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist

Gamasutra: How Sleeping Dogs Tackles Open World Design

http://www.abload.de/img/untitled-104-faster9ss4z.gif

SLEEPING DOGS

if: This is not so much a vote for the game (although that didn't do a whole lot wrong, being even worse than LA Noire for supposed good guy in reality being a terrible psycho aside), as for the setting. Even more than Driver San Francisco appealed to me because of its realisation of San Francisco, for me Sleeping Dogs was all about the massive and involving version of Hong Kong that it takes place in and how fun it was just to run/drive around. Also while I'm not going to stand up for every aspect of its portrayals, it's kind of cool that the UK's biggest selling new IP of 2012 was a game with a majority Chinese main cast of characters/actors.

it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link

#89 (Tie): New Style Boutique – 3DS – 6 pts – 1 vote

http://media.nintendo-gamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/style-feat.jpg

Official Game Site

Gameplay Video

http://cdn3.spong.com/screen-shot/n/i/nintendopr381253l/_-Nintendo-Presents-New-Style-Boutique-3DS-_.jpg

Gay Gamer Discusses Style Savvy

Tumblr

”Skyrim Writ Small and Accessorized”

Neogaf Forum

http://www.cubed3.com/media/2012/October/Style_Savvy_813_Screen_05.jpg

if: Like a slightly more in depth Game Dev Story/F1 Story/whatever with a different sense of humour, a Nintendo polish and a self-defined difficulty level. No interest in fashion even required to enjoy the gradual accumulation of cash/options and fixing things up for the succession of customers and other interested parties. Also flat out assumes that you are female without ever tipping you off that it's going to do so when you're putting in your name, but it's not like there aren't plenty of games doing the opposite.

it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link

Whooooooaaaaaaa I really expected Sleeping Dogs to place higher... it just just JUST fell off of my top 10 games this year. And even then I slightly would reconsider. The space felt intelligently designed... things that should be close together WERE close together, things that were far apart were connected by paths that were actually fun to drive, side missions were fun, beating friends' scores at various achievements was fun (aside from "clean drive" showing up on screen every 10 seconds, that was annoying as hell), the story was... you know, the psycho/hero disconnect was obviously there but I for some reason cared less than I did w/ eg. GTA IV (maybe the HK action trappings made this easier, because chow yun fat always shoots a ton of dudes)... the ambience was chewy and delicious... man, that was a good game. not an incredible game, but a darn fine game. 91 way too low.

Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:21 (eleven years ago) link

lol, gimpshit.

emil.y, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link

the demo for sleeping dogs was so s o bad that i never even thought of going back to play it - is the real game much better wrt the actual melee/shooting mechanics? because the demo was pretty lacking, esp the hit detection etc.

obv i am not opposed to changing my mind about a game after disliking the demo because BULLETSTORM

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link

JJJ - did you change your mind about Kingdoms of Amalur? Because that demo was hideous. Even worse than Sleeping Dugs.

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:52 (eleven years ago) link

Sleeping Dogs was awesome because street vendors sold you stat buffs in the form of dim sum, and for the 80's throwback comedy horror Halloween dlc.

I wish they would have beefed up the drunken master style a bit more tho. I'd like a deeper moveset.

Playing the game has the same effect as watching proper kung fu flicks. "Dude, I'm hungry, lets go get some pork bun."

The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link

Sleeping Dogs up on EU PS+ today, gonna try it out later on tonight

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link

i never actually bought kingdoms of amular, but yes, you are right, that might have been the worst demo of 2012.

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 16:58 (eleven years ago) link

how's the format sitting with everyone? I went link and info heavy; you should be able to learn a lot more about these games with minimal effort.

it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link

works for me.

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i am down

i am actually about to finish a game that i voted for (no spoilers) which i almost never do these days, which i find exciting. might have actually bumped it further up the list if i had spent more time with it before voting

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link

I didn't know the Simpsons had a game like that. I wish there was another puzzle element in it like Puzzlecraft had to offset the mindless timed tapping away

The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link

puzzlecraft was 99% puzzle! the timed tapping was just a dumb mechanic to stretch out the puzzling.

s.clover, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link

& to drive purchases of in-game money

dammit I wish they would update that game, would happily keep playing it but there's no more "progress" to be made

Euler, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link

i want 20000000000

zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link

yessssssss

Euler, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link

also want plants vs zombies 2 ffs

zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link

yessssssss

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Euler, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link

just played through the spellwood lite version and yeah, i could see this getting pretty fun, altho i have to rewire my scrabble brain not to plan ahead since they yank the words after play, but that does add an interesting mechanic. kinda cutesy to the point of semi-annoyance, and it seems mostly like single player scrabble with a wrap around it. not bad tho

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link

You can play it 2p, which is how I play it.

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link

puzzlecraft was so quick to beat, even with no iap. i have no idea why anyone would have actually spent for it.

s.clover, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link

so far all these games look like garbage

888 (Lamp), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link

Well, these are the one-vote, lowest possible points ties, so yeah, most of them will be 'a thing I played that passed the time and was relatively fun but certainly not the best game ever'.

emil.y, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:05 (eleven years ago) link

so far the lowest-rated games in this poll dont look good!!!

zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/48124_10151114325844649_2118752997_n.jpg

^^ also enjoy puzzles

888 (Lamp), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:08 (eleven years ago) link

Which one are you?

emil.y, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link

im the ocean

888 (Lamp), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link

is that...castlevania III?

Z S, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link

i think i checked out waking mars earlier this year but it was too pricey for an iphone game. i'm really interested in it tho.

Super Monsters Ate My Condo! > different game from normal monsters ate my condo?

Mordy, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link

btw enjoy your free tiki drinks while you can, kid - someday you're going to have to pay for those ingredients yourself, and good demerara is hard to find

Z S, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:20 (eleven years ago) link

That's Simons Quest, I think. 88-89 release. Played it too many times.

The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link

yeah its castlevania II iOS

888 (Lamp), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link

ah, i should have recognized that, because i just busted it out two nights ago for the first time in forever! i'm not a big fan of simon's quest! there are too many infinitely frustrating obstacles that have nothing to do with skill. for example, not just once but several times in the first 30 minutes of gameplay, there are fake ledges - you walk over them and just fall through them. there's no rhyme or reason to them, you just have to get punished and then remember they're there on your next attempt. when that happened the 10th time i turned off my nes in disgust. as a 29-year-old in 2013.

Z S, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:25 (eleven years ago) link

oh my god mcpixel

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link

thank you to whoever voted for this

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link

you mean to tell me i coulda put 8 points on the game party champions and it would have been TOP ILX C&P WII U GAME OF ALL TIME (for a year)????

FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU

Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link

why am i rooting so much for this system to bankrupt nintendo forever? i don't even understand it myself tbh.

sleepingbag, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:18 (eleven years ago) link

i would like to cosign that (lol)

Mordy, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link

Will...

#1: Spelunky
Problem here I think is that I played it ages ago, wasn't it a PC game/maybe freeware for a long time? Anyway I didn't feel it way back in the day. Maybe it deserved more time but tbh it's 2013 & I don't have time to be punished by a game. Roguelikes are for unemployed Will M.

It's really more of just a really weird (tough) platforming game that borrows some elements from roguelikes (random levels, permadeath). The XBLA is much improved from the old PC version, especially in the controls department (though maybe it loses a little of the freeware versions charm).

#9: Super Hexagon
The learning curve for this game appears to be entirely learning how to press left and right at the right times so that all of your brain power goes into looking at what's coming up. I can't bridge that gap and am far too aware of the controls at all times. Give me this on a controller or keyboard and maybe it's a different scene but as of now I find this exhausting and unplayable.

It also came out for PC with controller support. $3.00 US.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/221640/?snr=1_7_15__13

JCL, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link

Hotline Miami made this nice little innovation on roguelikes in that once you finish a level, you've finished it at whatever score you got for that level. So you can keep dying and dying and dying but you don't have to start over from the very first level unless you aren't satisfied with your score.

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link

haha ive been re-reading the old C&P and its fun as hell, but i really want to start putting all of my patented "lemme bitch about the wii in a sly and sideways way" pull quotes in one thread.

for example, from my madworld vote:

"Jjjusten: I make no attempt to hide how angry a Wii owner I am. I'm one of those guys that look at this particular console with a little more bile rising in my throat every week that a new fitness program or pet management simulator falls like a turd onto the new release list. So when MadWorld rolled out, I was very glad to see it. The game has its faults: there are times where the wiimote works against you rather than for you; songs are AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL and the game is SHORT. All those caveats fall away the first time you impale someone with a signpost, necklace them with a tire, jam firecrackers down their throat and THEN bisect them by slamming their body in a dumpster. Boss battles are even more insane. Anybody who whines like a baby about the lack of hardcore games on the wii that didn't buy this is a jerk and a traitor and I hope they realize that I will hold them directly responsible when "Wii Play Tamagochi Fitness 3" sells 40 billion copies."

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link

wii was awesome, madworld a turd of a game though

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link

OH HOLY SHIT MY GZEUS CHRONO TRIGGER XTRANORMAL STILL EXISTS! i was certain that had died, but a link in the chrono trigger thread still worked!

here for safekeeping http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/545351/wimps

xpost u monstar

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link

I have a friend that's really into min-maxing and used to be big into nethack and etc. and likes to find games with tough mechanics and just burn through them. Spelunky got him seriously hooked. I, on the other hand, played maybe three games, died quickly each time, got frustrated and decided to play something that hits my reward centers more directly.

super mamc has now got me totally hooked.

s.clover, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link

I would have voted for Chrono Trigger if I'd finished it

This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link

next year, instead of "biggest disappointment" can we have a -10 vote slot that can only be used if accompanied by an angry rant? then we could have amusing entries with negative point values

Well then you'll have people claiming that their game won a moral victory, because it would have been #34 instead of #39 but for the HATAS. So yes, I am totally behind this.

Haha that said I'm curious about why you're hating on Pandaria, I haven't played it yet but I'm quite looking forward. It seems to have a more coherent vibe than Cataclysm's "Oh we'll have a sand level and a rock level and a water level and an unspeakable evil level"

Games from this list I have played last year are:

10000000 - and then after going to sleep at 4am two nights in a row I thought "Maaaybe it's time to reconsider my relationship with videogames"

Though I did play the demos of Quantum Conundrum / Diablo III / Star Wars: The Old Republic / Sleeping Dogs / Magic: The Gathering 2013 - Duels of the Planeswalkers/ Rayman Origins, which is roughly the order in which I'd be interested in playing them (will play / won't play line is probably between Sleeping Dogs and MtG)

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link

omg listening to that xtranormal link without reading the thread in a while and i'm DYING

Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link

so like... did ni no kuni come out in 2013 or

zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 21 February 2013 04:23 (eleven years ago) link

yeah

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 21 February 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link

Get 30 diamonds in one game yah fuck u super monsters ate my condo

Any tips

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 06:00 (eleven years ago) link

the Peace tip that DJP gave me earlier totally changed my game, i always use that now

30 diamonds - you're gonna need some Blue power for time (as with any strategy really), more Green power for Double, but mostly you need to keep making Cat/Garbage condos most of all for the constant upgrades

annoyingly though, all the multiplier goals seem to be broken (reach 50x/100x in one game)

Nhex, Friday, 22 February 2013 06:38 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah I had to pay for both of the multiplier goals, but only after I tried to do them without boosts or hats. Fucking bullshit

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 07:31 (eleven years ago) link

However I have hit the 1 billion high score now, so I have scraped my way into the top 20000. ffs

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 22 February 2013 07:33 (eleven years ago) link

Can't hit 1 billion yet. Still at 800 million asjklfjskladfjkalsdf

Jeff, Friday, 22 February 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link

Pushed over 3 billion this morning but I'm still nowhere near Dan.

JimD, Friday, 22 February 2013 13:18 (eleven years ago) link

The multiplier goals are totally broken, don't know why

This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Friday, 22 February 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link

buy the hats, they'll slowly push your score up

Nhex, Friday, 22 February 2013 14:04 (eleven years ago) link

dled this but oh shit, is this a game I'm gonna have to shell out "real money" to do well at. b/c fuck that obi

Euler, Friday, 22 February 2013 14:07 (eleven years ago) link

nah you don't. i thought that at first too but you really don't have to

Nhex, Friday, 22 February 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago) link

yeah you don't have to at all

I grabbed the game before it was free (;_;) and that is the only money I've paid for it

This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Friday, 22 February 2013 14:37 (eleven years ago) link

sorry I failed to get a vote in.
woulda gone for:

1000000
Dishonored
Walking Dead - though this does suffer from some of the same QTE lag annoyances that happen in Witcher 2 which I am currently crawling through

did not like ME3 or Diablo 3 - got burnt out on both after a couple hours. still have not fired up sleeping dogs.

most of my gametime went to LoL and word games on ipad/iphone :-/

bnw, Friday, 22 February 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link

surprised Dyad isn't on here. I should've voted.

GM, Friday, 22 February 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link

it kinda flew under the radar here, even more than most PSN games

Nhex, Friday, 22 February 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link

four months pass...

hotline miami! amazing!

Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 4 July 2013 01:46 (eleven years ago) link


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