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

ha this origin interface is kind of a shitshow huh

#83 (Tie): Assassin’s Creed III – PS3, X360 – 8 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zero Punctuation

Nightmare Mode

Quarter to Three

Experience Points

I Broke Assassin’s Creed III

Canon?

California Literary Review

Everybody Loves IAP

Gamasutra: An Assassin’s Revolution

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Assassin's Creed

EZSnappin: I posted my ongoing frustrations with this tower of disappointment and regret to ILX on what seemed like a daily basis. Coulda been amazing, but sure as fuck wasn't.

Zora: Oh, it got a few things right. The core climb-up-stuff-and-jump-off-it-again mechanic is still superb. Sadly, I had to stop playing it after I watched the Zero Punctuation review, and realised that the review was bang on, a lot more fun than the game and didn't take nearly as long to get through. It's just as well because playing AC games compels me to gorge on Toblerones and my arse is fat enough already.

#83 (Tie): F1 Race Stars – X360 – 8 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Art Director Interview

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if: Do you like Formula 1? Do you like Mario Kart? Do you like surprisingly well thought out single player career campaigns? Well, probably not many people are going to answer yes to all three of those to the same extent as me, but if you did, then you may well love this game. It carries through on its absurd mash-up ideas with gusto, and while I was initially disappointed to realise that it had only 11 out of 20 tracks on the F1 calendar, I got a lot of fun out of it regardless.

I loved the demo from Race Stars but haven't picked it up yet.

#83 (Tie): Football Manager 2013 – PC – 8 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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The Managing

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Which football manager would you bring in to sort your love life out?

Hahahaha I forgot to send my ACIII hate rant in but seeing it down here is worth more than a thousand swears

#83 (Tie): Shen Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 – DS – 8 pts – 1 vote - Top DS Game

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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everything rad is good for you: a persona/shin megami thread

lamp: The Savior must have been / A silent Gentleman

Please rant now, jjjusten. It totally deserves it.

I will touch up the screed tomorrow and either send it to forks or post it here, w/e he prefers

#83 (Tie): Torchlight II – PC – 8 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

Versus Diablo III

Nightmare Mode

PC Gamer Interview with Max Schaefer

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torchlight - a baby diablo

I'm good either way jjj!
more tomorrow.

I enjoyed the heck out of Torchlight. I expect I'll dig the second once it's on Mac.

^ditto

F1 Race Stars is another one that popped up on UK PS+ this week, the fact it's codemasters is enough to make it worth a try I guess, it's a very odd idea though.

hmm, i guess i was the only person who voted for fm2013 and torchlight 2? i feel bad for not having written something up now. um...fm2013 was the only sport-related game i played this year that i didn't hate? torchlight 2 i am surprised didn't get any more votes, maybe ppl are waiting for it to be bundled; i waited to pick it up 50% off. it's just a well-balanced, well-designed, good looking, fun to play game. retrospectively made me realize how little i actually enjoyed playing dIII.

f1 race stars is new to me, looks like fun

This is the first year in a few that I didn't buy the new FM, for some reason 2012 I fell completely off the wagon and only played it a tiny bit.

#60 (Tie): Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator – iOS, PC – 10 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Dev Interview

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WillM: Six of us got together and played this. We had two decent laptops, two not-so-decent laptops (supplied to public school teachers by a public school board, to give you an idea of the quality); an iPad; a fairly powerful PC, and an iPhone which didn't really work out as well as the iPad and was subbed for one of the bad laptops later in. Installing, setting up, all of that was painless. Learning to play was harder for some stations than others, and some required more upkeep than others, but six of us with varying levels of gaming "ability" and urge to play managed to have an absolute ball. I want to play this again -- a lot. This game makes me want to build a pretend space station bridge and put PCs in it. God. BUY THIS GAME. GET 5 MATES. PLAY IT AND PRETEND YOU'RE CAPTAIN KIRK. IT'S AWESOME. And it's nowhere near as hard as everyone says it looks.

#60: Baldur’s Gate – iOS – 10 pts – 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Dev Interview

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diamonddave85: iPad UI and stability issues aside, this is one of the most fun and engrossing RPGs i've played in many years.

#60 (Tie): Black Knight Sword – PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zero Punctuation

Is This the First VideoGame About Battling Old Age?

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Rolling guaranteed commercial failure Grasshopper Manufacture/suda 51 thread

jjjusten: It's a Suda platformer with all the batshit qualities that you would expect from such a beast, but missing the trademark "wait the actual game part of this sucks" us fans have come to expect. Why am I buying things from a wheel of mouths? WTF are these cat plants about anyway? What the fuck is that thing for? Yep, that's all here too. Great use of 2-d theatrical shift tricks, playable but by no means easy, weird as fuck. If you don't get sucked in by the demo, don't bother going any further and just go back playing BLOPS until your dumb brain slops out of your ears.

did they ever patch Baldur's Gate? I heard it had a bunch of problems but haven't kept up with the news.

i just can't conceive of how baldurs gate could be fun on a tablet

holy shit that star trek bridge guy game

#60 (Tie): Crusader Kings II – PC – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

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lamp: "My name is slutbanger2K, king of kings:
Look on my unlocked achievements, ye Mighty, and despair!"

#60 (Tie): Dikembe Mutombo 4 ½ Weeks to Save the World – Browser – 10 pts - 1 vote - FREE

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Play Online

Gameplay Video

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Wieden and Kennedy Blog

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Whaaaaaat? You just made that Dikembe game up.

Nah, it existed, but was offline by the time I tried to play it.

check out the gameplay video!

truly twas a thing of wonderment

My vote. I guess it makes sense that a game so dependent on being topical (every episode was created the week it was released) was removed after a few months.

#60 (Tie): Doom 3: BFG Edition – PS3 – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Creative Director Interview

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DOOM 3 - does it own, pwn, or both?

diamonddave85: Back in the early to mid-nineties, my dad would take me to a ham radio convention every year where they would have booth after booth of shareware floppies that you could buy. My dad had heard about Doom from a coworker or something and decided to pick up Doom 1 & 2 so we could play together, much to my mom's horror. Playing doom with my dad is one of my earliest computer related memories and as someone who is now in computers professionally, it is one of my fondest.
I had gotten my dad a ps3 a couple years back for xmas (mostly for blu-ray and netflix) but he really didn't play many games on it. It would seem that most videogames these days don't really appeal to a 60 year old man (the exception being Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X, which he played quite a bit). This year, I picked him up the BFG edition mainly because it came packaged with Doom 1 & 2. playing Doom again with my dad on xmas morning was well worth the price. Between that and playing Flower with my mom and sister for about 4 hours in one sitting, this xmas was one of the first times my family had bonded over videogames for a good 15+ years

Playing doom with my dad is one of my earliest computer related memories and as someone who is now in computers professionally, it is one of my fondest.

irl aw just now

JUMP TO 60? ARE YOU SERIOUS? THIS IS GONNA BE A SLOG

ALSO, S1OCKI, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED I OWN ARTEMIS AND WANT TO PLAY AGAIN. DO YOU KNOW TREK NERDS IRL?

btw the linked "gameplay video" on artemis is pretty good at representing how a bunch of kind of drunk people end up playing this game

i have watched this video 3-4 times and lived quite vicariously

because i don't want those tubes to EVER be empty

hahaha, yeah that actually looks pretty awesome!

ALSO, S1OCKI, IF YOU ARE INTERESTED I OWN ARTEMIS AND WANT TO PLAY AGAIN. DO YOU KNOW TREK NERDS IRL?

― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Saturday, February 9, 2013 12:55 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

we gotta do this

my friend has a projector and a big screen in his loft... THINK ABOUT IT IMO!!!

http://kbhgames.com/8790/old-spice-%7C-dikembe-mutombos-4-1-2-weeks-to-save-the-world/

so far i appear to be stuck at the loading screen but maybe someone will be able to play it?

works for me, thanks for the link!

Good catch Will; I've altered the entry.
Couldn't find that damn thing anywhere!

I will touch up the screed tomorrow and either send it to forks or post it here, w/e he prefers

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, February 7, 2013 10:33 PM (2 days ago)

Still waiting on the ACIII rant...

in the form of ASCII art

#60 (Tie): Double Dragon Neon – PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Composer Interview

Dev PostMortem Podcast

Nightmare Mode

Original Dev, Yoshihisa Kishimoto, Interview

Soundtrack

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#60 (Tie): Final Fantasy XIII-2 – PS3 – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Quarter to Three

Nightmare Mode

Hills and Lines in FFXIII- 1

Producer Interview

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist

”Final Fantasy XIII-2 is the opposite of Ernest Hemmingway”

Further Deep Thoughts (“The player must then have a fluency with the narrative as experienced and seek to find the moments when the game could end and then try to see if it might.”)

Farroncest, some quirky kink, and one-sided Alyssa/Serah

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S. Clover: The biggest gaming disappointment of the year for me was reaching the end of Final Fantasy XIII-2, and discovering yet again that I was underpowered / underskilled to defeat the final boss. I'm sick of fun, plot driven RPGs with arbitrary difficulty spikes.

#60 (Tie): Halo 4 – X360 – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zero Punctuation

Nightmare Mode

Quarter to Three

Brainy Gamer: High Noon for Shooters

Experience Points Podcast

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HALO 4

#60 (Tie): Jet Set Radio HD – iOS, PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Devs Look Back

Where Are They Now?

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#60 (Tie): LEGO Lord of the Rings – PS3, X360 – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video (lol whatta maroon)

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Executive Producer Interview

Rock Paper Shotgun

Gay Gamer

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WARNING Lego Man Pedophile on the Loose

Final Fantasy XIII-2 worst video game name of the year

should have called it Final Fantasy XI