#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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― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
#60 (Tie): Rock Band Blitz – PSN – 10 pts - 1 vote
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Audio Lead Interview
Soundtrack List
PopMatters
Gay Gamer
New York Post Interview
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ROCK BAND
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
#60 (Tie): Saturday Morning RPG – iOS – 10 pts - 1 vote
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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.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 February 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Mordy, Monday, 11 February 2013 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
#60 (Tie): Sound Shapes – PSN – 10 pts - 1 vote
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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.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:31 (eleven years ago) link
#60 (Tie): The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote
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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.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
#60 (Tie): WipEout 2048 – PSVita – 10 pts - 1 vote
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WIPEOUT
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
#57 (Tie): Angry Birds: Star Wars – iOS – 10 pts – 2 votes
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Touch Arcade Review
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― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
#57 (Tie): Burrito Bison – iOS – 10 pts – 2 votes
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Play Online for Free
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S. Clover: Like a slot machine. Stupid, mechanical, addictive, effective.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
#57 (Tie): QatQi – iOS – 10 pts – 2 votes
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Quarter to Three
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jjjusten: If you ever wanted to get beat up by leaderboard inadequacy, this is the game for you. If you lived in a bubble and didn't know that other people were playing, this would be a 5 minute yawn delete download, but when that first leaderboard populates and you see just how lame your score is, suddenly you are replaying and replaying and now you hate yourself. Especially when you realize that all that internal monologue about how "hey it's just lucky breaks" is just the sound of you lying to yourself. 2012's game most likely to make you want to murder your friends.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
word games + slot machine games =
gaming in 2012
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
I hate word games. I think I hate words in general. Giving up on life.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
also hard games but i suspect they're mostly still to come
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
#56: Minecraft – XBLA – 11 pts – 1 vote (+83 points / 7 votes from 2011 poll, which would put this at #5 technically, but fuggit)
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Nightmare Mode
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Gamasutra: Minecraft, Intellectual Property and The Future of Copyright
California Literary Review
Put some cheese on that burger
Notch Interview
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itt we minecraft
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
#55: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy – 3DS, iOS – 13 pts – 1 vote
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Songlist
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if: Ouendan with classic Final Fantasy music, a couple of extra gameplay touches, and levels upon levels of RPG complications which are mostly there to take or leave as the mood goes - all good things. It gets the difficulty curve just right as well, from initial introduction through to full on concentration and desperation. The point when I realised that this game had really got to me was when I was watching a Paralympic medal ceremony and started picturing the Brazilian national anthem as a series of taps and swishes.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
#54: New Star Soccer – iOS – 14 pts – 2 votes
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Play Free Online
NSS’ Unlikely Success
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cozen: 'Pandemic. Got that pandemic.'
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
lol minecraft isn't a fun game
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:47 (eleven years ago) link
new star soccer! my first vote. guilty admission - i played a whole career w/ beitar club (incidentally) long before this ever happened
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
i have played so much new star soccer...it makes me sad
― Z S, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:49 (eleven years ago) link
STAR MAN!~!
We're about at the halfway point, so here's a recap:
#54: New Star Soccer – iOS – 14 pts – 2 votes#55: Theatrhythm Final Fantasy – 3DS, iOS – 13 pts – 1 vote#56: Minecraft – XBLA – 11 pts – 1 vote (+83 points / 7 votes from 2011 poll, which would put this at #5 technically, but fuggit)#57 (Tie): Angry Birds: Star Wars – iOS – 10 pts – 2 votes#57 (Tie): Burrito Bison – iOS – 10 pts – 2 votes#57 (Tie): QatQi – iOS – 10 pts – 2 votes#60 (Tie): Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator – iOS, PC – 10 pts – 1 vote#60 (Tie): Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition - iOS - 10pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Black Knight Sword – PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Crusader Kings II – PC – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Dikembe Mutombo 4 ½ Weeks to Save the World – Browser – 10 pts - 1 vote - FREE#60 (Tie): Doom 3: BFG Edition – PS3 – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Double Dragon Neon – PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Final Fantasy XIII-2 – PS3 – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Halo 4 – X360 – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Jet Set Radio HD – iOS, PSN, XBLA – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): LEGO Lord of the Rings – PS3, X360 – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Letterpress – iOS – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Little Inferno – PC – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Machinarium – PS3 – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): New Super Mario Bros. 2 – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Picross E – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Professor Layton and The Miracle Mask – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Rayman Origins – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Rock Band Blitz – PSN – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Saturday Morning RPG – iOS – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): Sound Shapes – PSN – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): The Denpa Men: They Came By Wave – 3DS – 10 pts - 1 vote#60 (Tie): WipEout 2048 – PSVita – 10 pts - 1 vote#83 (Tie): Assassin’s Creed III – PS3, X360 – 8 pts – 1 vote#83 (Tie): F1 Race Stars – X360 – 8 pts – 1 vote#83 (Tie): Football Manager 2013 – PC – 8 pts – 1 vote#83 (Tie): Shen Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 – DS – 8 pts – 1 vote - Top DS Game#83 (Tie): Torchlight II – PC – 8 pts – 1 vote#88: Nintendo Land – WiiU – 7 pts – 1 vote - Top WiiU Game (lol)#89 (Tie): New Style Boutique – 3DS – 6 pts – 1 vote#89 (Tie): Spellwood – iOS – 6 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): 9 Innings Pro Baseball 2013 – iOS – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): Battleheart – iOS – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): DayZ – PC – 5 pts – 1 vote - FREE#91 (Tie): Fortune Summoners: Secret of The Elemental Stone – PC – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): Gunman Clive – 3DS – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): Knytt Underground – PSN – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): McPixel – iOS, PC, Mac – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): MLB 12: The Show – PS3 – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): Pixel Defenders Puzzle – iOS – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): The Simpsons: Tapped Out – iOS – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): Sleeping Dogs – PS3, X360 – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): Super Monsters Ate My Condo! – iOS – 5 pts – 1 vote#91 (Tie): Waking Mars – iOS – 5 pts – 1 vote
From here on in, I'm proud to say that ZS' great animations will accompany the rest of the games on the countdown. Basically everyone on this board probably already knows his work, but if you don't, check out http://weinventyou.net/
More tomorrow!
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't get the minecraft release date wrong did I? Pretty sure it did come out in 2012, can't remember the rules on incorporating last year's votes though. Anyway I agree that it's not a fun game, but it lets you turn off the game parts, and then it's a very fun play set to hang out in with kids.
― JimD, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 07:11 (eleven years ago) link
it would break some kind of gamers' honour code i am sure, but i would love to see some combined ilxor hours logged #s for all these games
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
I'm actually sort of surprised waking mars didn't get more votes -- it did pretty well among a segment of critics. Maybe just not a lot of room for long-form games on ios?
― s.clover, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/dxR8Yif.gif#45 (Tie): Analogue: A Hate Story – PC – 15 pts – 1 vote
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Dire Critic
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― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
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#45 (Tie): Gridrunner - iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote
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Cerebral Pop
Play Online Free
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JCL: A great, remixed version of Gridrunner for iOS. It almost made me buy an iCade.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
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#45 (Tie): NBA 2K13 – PS3, X360 – 15 pts – 1 vote
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Producer Interview
The Not-So-Secret RPG History of NBA2K
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― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
analogue a hate story is much better than the last one but still not as good as digital.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
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#45 (Tie): Pinball Arcade – iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote
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― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
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#45 (Tie): Pocket Planes – iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote
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http://assets.ilounge.com/images/mac/nimblebit/pocket-planes.jpg
Nimblebit Talks
KillScreen: A Series of Uninteresting Decisions
Gamechurch
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― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh man, I had no idea 2K couldn't get the rights to use John Stockton's likeness and had to settle for Chris Kattan.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
So I was the only vote for Analogue, huh? I was somewhat disappointed (think I've said on every possible thread that it's nowhere near as good as Digital) but I still thought it was worth a reasonable vote. It's much much better than most 'Visual Novel' type things.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
wow, nobody else played NBA 2K13? that game kinda blew my mind! of course, I haven't played an NBA game in like ten years, so... but still!
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
I played the demo for NBA 2K13 and thought it was their best in years. But I haven't seen it for cheap -- missed the Black Friday deals -- so I haven't picked it up yet.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
lovin the gifs
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:54 (eleven years ago) link
i felt like digital was the perfect amount of gameplay to storytelling. analogue was just a giant text dump at times. she needs an editor.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
POCKET PLANES that was gaming to me in 2K12 for better & mostly for worse
― Euler, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
these animations are great.
really glad i got off the pocket planes early on when an idevice died. at least with the other time-waster pellet dispensers you can run out of things to do pretty quick. pocket planes quickly ramped up to where you could be managing yr. planes all day nonstop.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
my life this term has been Pocket Planes IRL so I appreciated the mappiness of it. I am basically a sucker for games that have real world maps involved essentially in the game play (cf. Plague Inc)
― Euler, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
its a game that invites min/maxing but at the same time makes you ask why you're reallly bothering. that article linked is pretty good on the topic, i guess, but more positive about it.
― s.clover, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
...yeah, i am at a loss at how i spent so much time on Pocket Planes and Tiny Tower. don't really regret it, but i'm kinda glad to be out of the addiction cycle as well
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
someday i'll get around to playing Analogue just so i can yell at you guys for overrating Digital
i could see myself (regretting) getting lost in pocket planes so i will steer wide of that.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
c+p has by far the best production values of any poll, nice work forks and zs
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
the gifs are really nice
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:50 (eleven years ago) link
graphics 5/5story 5/5 sound 4/5 because it doesnt have any
― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
Pinball Arcade was my vote, and I'm surprised I was the only vote. All of the pinball machines in the game are simulations of real machines, using the actual layouts, sounds, and animations.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
huh I could have sworn I voted for that
― Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
just doublechecked, you didn't.
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
btw the gifs are, one and all, amazing; lots to look forward to
― it was very clear that it's a sarcastic song (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 19:03 (eleven years ago) link