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

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

It's a sequel to Final Fantasy XIII - what else are you going to call it?

Also it isn't even the worst name in this thread so far (Black! Knight! Sword!) and we're only at #60

oh i dont know, final fantasy FOURTEEN maybe

But none of the main-series games are sequels to each other?

they should have called it final fantasy 13: chronicles of the windsweeper or something. it just looks like it's final fantasy 13's second disc or something!

But none of the main-series games are sequels to each other?

― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, February 9, 2013 3:42 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nope.

This list is already pretty bizarre!

bro-five to whoever voted for Double Dragon Neon. I had to double check my ballot to make sure I didn't vote for it, but I was pretty entertained by it. the ending song alone! (Thx for those links, forks, some good reading)

Chronicles of the pee pee ding ding

FF13-2 was my vote (eep). The story is still nonsense but the characters were a lot better. (In the first game the characters encounter a no-win situation, and then you get a lot of cutscenes about courage and family and all that Disney shit, ending with them choosing the no-win path which involves killing a lot of people.)

Double Dragon Neon was also mine. Not sure about the tapes mechanism -- it's a bit too much like cow-clicking -- but otherwise it's a lot of fun. Here's a playthrough from a big Double Dragon fan: http://youtu.be/In917B12R_Q

the previous FF was better in my book, not least because I could actually _beat_ it. the story was also less dark, and less weird.

#60 (Tie): Letterpress – iOS – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Dev Interview

Business Insider Tells You How to Win

So What Is This Again?

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#60 (Tie): Little Inferno – PC – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Blue Screen of Awesome - Playthru

Free Soundtrack

Developer Interview

Errant Signal

Quarter to Three

Now on iPad

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Little Inferno

Forksclovetofu: Another game about games in a year where these were everywhere to be found, Little Inferno (along with 10000000 and Spec Ops) asks you if you really want to play at all. Fairly short but surprisingly twisted, with a depth that’s difficult to explain as (maybe just this once) the spoilers really are spoilers. All my DEEP THOUGHTS on completion were neatly echoed by Errant Signal's excellent video essay linked up top. This is a near close call as my favorite game of the year; now that it’s out on iOS, you really owe it to yourself to give it a whirl. Dream bigger!

#60 (Tie): Machinarium – PS3 – 10 pts - 1 vote

http://www.nskonzole.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Machinarium-PS3-igrica.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zora: A beautifully drawn, fairly fiendish, amusing little p&c adventure game. It harked back to the best kind of children's TV and books; the non-patronising kind. I'd have scored it higher but it was -gasp- too hard for me. Pure spite.

#60 (Tie): New Super Mario Bros. 2 – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Iwata Asks

YouTube Soundtrack Listing

PopMatters

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diamonddave85:Back in college, my roommate, a guy down the hall and I would get stoned and take turns playing a level from SMW to see who could finish the level the fastest. We realized that part of the genius of Mario games was that almost every level was impeccably designed to be run through at top speed: jumps and enemy placement were just in the right place so you could run through a level with an unbroken flow. Ever since then, my preferred style of playing Mario games is to run through as fast as I can and try to achieve that flow. Although I'm still getting used to the levels, this style of play seems to be encouraged in NSMB2 (the coin block head powerup should make this obvious). Because it seems like this was a focal design consideration, this has been one of the more enjoyable of the newer 2d Mario games for me.

We realized that part of the genius of Mario games was that almost every level was impeccably designed to be run through at top speed: jumps and enemy placement were just in the right place so you could run through a level with an unbroken flow.

YES, so true. watching youtube speed runs of SMB3 can make it seem like the entire game was designed so some genius kid could chain together a bunch of jumps and bounces off of enemies in one, perfect way that all other playthroughs pale next to

did machinarium place on coint + plick 3 years in a row on 3 different systems?

but it was -gasp- too hard for me. Pure spite.

Wow, Letterpress just swallowed (swallow wallowed, sallowed) my Sunday. Like SpellTower but actually fun.

#60 (Tie): Picross E – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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#60 (Tie): Professor Layton and The Miracle Mask – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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YouTube Soundtrack

Gay Gamer

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I haven't played a professor layton in a while. Do they come up w/ new feeling puzzles or is mostly retreads at this point? And when does the Layton/Justice crossover happen?

#60 (Tie): Rayman Origins – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zero Punctuation

Gamasutra: The Core of Rayman Origins

Soundtrack

Creator Interview

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#60 (Tie): Rock Band Blitz – PSN – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Audio Lead Interview

Soundtrack List

PopMatters

Gay Gamer

New York Post Interview

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ROCK BAND

#60 (Tie): Saturday Morning RPG – iOS – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Soundtrack Sampler

Dev Interview and Concept Sketches

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S. Clover: SMRPG is a retromania game, but doesn't trade in transgression so much as wish-fulfillment. The genre parody is modest and affectionate. The worst you'll find are that the GI Joes are credit-hogs. The combat system is pretty varied, but once I'd acquired my best weapons I found I stuck with them to the exclusion of others, which meant things got fairly repetitive. Which is a shame, because there are branching choice paths that would reward multiple playthroughs if certain sections of enemies weren't such a slog. Nonetheless, the plot of the episodes released thus far is enjoyable enough, and there are enough fun surprises for at least one playthrough.

Simpsons game is pretty good for a Farmville clone type thing, and the first one of these that I actually feel tempted to buy premium stuff for (I still won't bc spending money on a non-game is a ridiculous prospect). But still - kudos to them.

#60 (Tie): Sound Shapes – PSN – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Dev Interview

Gamasutra Postmortem

Tumblr

Beck’s Soundtrack on Youtube

Ten Great Community Levels

”How Sound Shapes Shines”

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Forksclovetofu: Another game I love that is less a game and more a concept realized in game format. The community is really key here; there's loads of interesting levels to explore.

#60 (Tie): The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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A Beginner’s Guide

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zappi: Charming DQ-style dungeon crawler, your party is gathered via wifi signals. An expanded sequel is on its way soon.

#60 (Tie): WipEout 2048 – PSVita – 10 pts - 1 vote

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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WIPEOUT