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

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#33 (Tie): Motorstorm: RC – PSVita – 20 pts - 1 vote - Top PSVita Game

http://beefjack.com/files/2012/02/motorstorm-RC-review.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://roxarmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/motorstorm-rc-vita1.jpg

Dev Interview

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JCL: Top-down, remote control car racer with tons of content and challenge. For some reason, I feel like this game has been over-looked, but damn, it’s really good. If only it had online multiplayer, it could have been perfect.

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link

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#33 (Tie): Star Wars: The Old Republic – PC – 20 pts - 1 vote

http://www.universostarwars.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/star-wars-the-old-republic-gameplay.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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How I Got Through SW:TOR

Zero Punctuation

Gamasutra: The Burning of SW: TOR

Darth Hater

Late 2012 Dev Interview

Soundtrack

Dev Blogs

Tanking the Old Republic

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Zora: I know this has been out a while, but you said MMOs were ok, and I only started playing it in 2012. What can I say about it? It's an MMO, it's star wars, it's exactly what you'd expect, but... just a little better. Well written, well voiced, nicely balanced. The PvP lets it down something fierce, because it all takes place in instanced scenarios, and they are really, really well designed but there's only so many of them, so it suffers from that paintball problem all instanced PvP is subject to. Coming from years of open-world PvP in Dark Age of Camelot and EVE Online, the instances are repetitive, frenetic, and ultimately feel a bit silly. Think of this as a multiplayer adventure game, however, and it's not going to disappoint.

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link

so basically this list is making me feel bad about how few games i played this year.

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link

u totally wasted your life not playing games dude

zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:53 (eleven years ago) link

Amazed that nobody else gave Dear Esther a vote! Best thing I played all year. By dropping everything else gamey and just letting itself be a journey through a landscape, it really achieved what in truth I think lots of games aim for but then fall short of, because they then trip up over their own combat or menus or levelling or whatever - it felt a real visit to a real place.

I really enjoyed the writing and voice acting and experimental story structure too. But they all felt secondary to that sense of place.

JimD, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

xp they're all out there and readily available and MUCH CHEAPER now, so rejoice!

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link

it was a pretty solid year, more than i realized, as i often feel during these yearly recaps

JCL votes in character, nice

SSX was a lot of fun, and didn't overstay its welcome. wish it had a better soundtrack, better multiplayer and a little more variance in the levels, but i really appreciate what was there for a "fresh" start

I would've rated Hotline Miami higher if I'd played a little more before voting, it's fucking great btw. i mean really great, easily on par with the best stuff I played this year. deserves to be a LOT higher in this list.

recommended review: http://hardcoregaming101.net/hotlinemiami/hotlinemiami.htm

Nhex, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link

haha forx did you just link a couple of random XSEED-related blog posts in the 'unchained blades' entry??

kill yuppies (Lamp), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link

seemed appropriate. i like what they do but it's all of one color, isn't it?

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:08 (eleven years ago) link

i think theres probably a greater aesthetic/cultural consistency than there is in gameplay

kill yuppies (Lamp), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link

Infectonator and Rebuild are ace.

I've just installed Super Monsters Ate My Condo on my iPod, but it looks like the sort of thing I'll enjoy for a while despite being absolutely shit at it, then give up in the not-so-distant future. I can't even imagine how you guys are getting such high scores.

Dear Esther looks AMAZING and right up my alley, I might spend some of my birthday money on it.

emil.y, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:24 (eleven years ago) link

Sine Mora OMG I waaaant it
I always forget about 2D space shooters and then they appear

flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:29 (eleven years ago) link

emil.y: Super MAMC is all about appropriate boost selection once you've unlocked all of them. There are a few that look like they will be indispensable at first that turn out to be kind of terrible and others whose possibilities explode once you start using the monsters' powers more effectively. Scoring high in the game is all dependent upon extending the gameplay time and raising your multiplier; once you unlock enough of the starting boosts where you can begin focusing on that (and making chain combos) you'll find it very hard to score less than a billion points in a game.

For example, a strategy I like is choosing the "double pink condo" boost, where every time, pig and multiplier condo you create for the first 15 seconds creates a double and then creating and feeding bronzes and silvers to the blue monster, who doubles the value of all pink condos matched, right at the beginning of the game. If you can get your matches right and you are lucky with chains, you can end up with 5 minutes of time on the clock and a multiplier that's pushing 300 after the first 15 seconds of play. If you can then balance between making matches with time condos while blue's power is active and activating yellow before going into Megazone, you will find that every time you launch Megazone you can rack up over a billion points. Then it becomes a game of "how long can I keep this going" wrt combos and keeping blue active as long as possible.

Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link

xxp yeah, that's what i mean by color i guess

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:44 (eleven years ago) link

My high is 376 million. And I thought I was doing good.

Jeff, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:48 (eleven years ago) link

I've settled on using the peace, long combo and double pink boosts as my go-tos; I think if I swapped out the peace boost for either the dog or the cat I could probably take my baseline score up to the next level

also I play this game compulsively

Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link

how do you "afford" to use the boosts though? seems like you'd only be able to use them once every few games, and the rest of the time save up money

Nhex, Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:53 (eleven years ago) link

My money management strategy for the first 30 "levels" of the game was to only use the peace boost and to avoid events until I had over 10,000 gold; then I added another cheap boost and kept playing until I could reliably make 1000 gold per game, at which point I added a third cheap boost. I would also take whatever free boost I won on the wheel.

So, for a while until I built up my bank, I only played with peace, yellow, and +10 multiplier and would regularly end the game with 1000+ gold, which when added to the incidental gold you make during the game and the bonus gold you can win on the wheel, meant that I was always coming out positive in the coins. I recently switched to long combo/peace/double pink, which is 2000 gold, and have been reliably scoring 1800-2100 gold at the end of the game which has kept me at about the break even point while I work on figuring out how to get to the trillion mark. If I get too low in funds due to a string of bad games, I just go back down to the peace boost and play some games to get my bank back up.

Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 14 February 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link

in mamc i always am held back by not wanting to feed my bronze/silver/gold/etc to the monsters because i want to build more of them

zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link

its like i kinda keep refusing to play it correctly

zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:34 (eleven years ago) link

haha yeah, I understand that; the realization that I could make more points by feeding bronzes to blue rather than hoarding them was a long time coming, mostly because in the original MAMC blue was useless except for in very specific situations where I was likely to not even have him swapped in

Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:40 (eleven years ago) link

doesnt the blue do the same thing?

zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

keep the tower straight no matter what?

zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link

in the original, blue keeps the tower from falling and that's it
in super MAMC, blue keeps the tower from falling AND doubles any time bonus, coin bonus or multiplier bonus you get from matching pink condos

he basically went from being the least useful monster to the most useful IMO; he's the only one that radically boosts your ability to extend the time limit on the game, giving you more of an opportunity to score points

Ima R.A.E.D. (DJP), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link

ohhhhhhh

zero dark (s1ocki), Thursday, 14 February 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link

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#32: Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland – PS3 – 20 pts - 1 vote - 1 top game votes

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Localization Interview

RPGamer

Coming to Vita

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zappi: If you can get past the ubertwee cutesy graphics (and switch off the English dub, ugh nobody needs to hear that garbage) there is a really fun worldbuilding JPRG underneath. Oh and half the game is spent tooling around in menus combining items to create new ones through alchemy.

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:19 (eleven years ago) link

that was the worst gif, right there

Z S, Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:22 (eleven years ago) link

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#30 (Tie): Far Cry 3 – PS3, X360, PC – 20 pts – 2 votes

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02413/Far-Cry-3-cover_2413312b.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Zero Punctuation

Quarter to Three

I Broke Far Cry 3

California Literary Review

Author Interview

Producer Interview

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist

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The Crysis/Far Cry/Crytek-in-general thread

Jordan: The best hang-gliding sim of the year.

jjjusten: YES THE STORY IS STUPID PROBABLY. NO I DIDN'T ASK FOR A GAME WHERE MY PROGRESS IS MEASURED BY A TRIBAL TATTOO.
Okay, now that that's out of the way, FC3 a much more enjoyable followup to FC2, with the nice changes as listed here:
1. Your character might be a jerk, but he isn't actually an inherently evil and terrible person.
2. Sound and visual design is as good as it gets. Seriously.
3. Respawning murderous animals makes a lot more sense than respawning guard posts, probably.
4. Lots of diversity in mission design.
5. Great use of vertical space. In a lot of ways, the map feels like Just Cause 2, but with less abject stupidity (dont get me wrong, love that game but wow is it dumb).

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:24 (eleven years ago) link

serious questoin: is the tribal tattoo/progress bar symmetrical and located directly above the butt?

Z S, Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link

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#30 (Tie): Wargames: WOPR – iOS – 20 pts – 2 votes

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Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://www.gametrailers.com/side-mission/files/2012/12/wargames.jpg

Developer Interview

A Brief History of Match Three

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S. Clover: Wargames certainly profited from a retro tie-in, officially franchised no less! But the story is mainly confined to some clips and dialogue between levels. The rpg-puzzling itself is where the action is at. More than other draw-a-line matchers, there's both scarcity and time constraints in the wargames world. The field is basically littered with ticking bombs, and against a sufficiently powerful opponent you'll always, eventually lose. So play is strategic, but also over quickly. And unlike the steady grind of some other similar games, you can just jump into a level of your choice.

Forksclovetofu: Late to the game on this one but I think it's not unfair to say this is nearly as good as 10000000. http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-colbert.gif

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:27 (eleven years ago) link

tribal tattoo is on the arm because main character IS A TOUGH GUY MAN GODDAMNIT

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link

ok to be fair, the game is actually weirdly good at defeating that same mythos as much as celebrating it, but still, dudertown tribal armband thing is dumb as shit

O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link

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#27 (Tie): Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 – PS3 – 25 pts – 1 vote

http://cdn.pocket-lint.com/images/4S5W/pes-2013-pro-evolution-soccer-2013-review-1.jpg?20120923-193438

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://www.ubergizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/pes-ps3.jpg

Dev Video Interview

”Brand Manager” Interview

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist

http://screenshots.nl.sftcdn.net/nl/scrn/3342000/3342271/pro-evolution-soccer-2013-02-700x393.png

EZSnappin: The best soccer game got better, primarily through better AI. Remember when we all wanted some of the processing power to go towards better AI? At least one group of developers got the message.

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:35 (eleven years ago) link

Top 25 to come.
Can a fella hear a little enthusiasm?

Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:38 (eleven years ago) link

I know nothing about video games of the 21st century, but I am v much enjoying the rollout and imagining in my head what the games might be.

brogue element (seandalai), Thursday, 14 February 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link

are any of these games available for free in browser or are all those types of games only on iOS now

Alice 2 Chainz - "I Luv Dem Bones" (zachlyon), Friday, 15 February 2013 00:03 (eleven years ago) link

Rebuild, Burrito Bison, Infectonator, Fairway Solitaire - all definitely available for free in browser. I played them all as browser games first, but I think most/all were last year or before, hence it being iOS versions that are in this poll.

emil.y, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link

I cannot even comprehend what would compel anyone to vote for these community sim games. Like, fine, waste your precious hours playing them, I get it. Life is meaningless. But to recommend that practice to others is cruel.

pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Friday, 15 February 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link

oh thanks xp. i noticed there were a lot more iOS games this year, and i usually use these threads to find new distractions. played Rebuild a while ago, was a fun hour or two.

Alice 2 Chainz - "I Luv Dem Bones" (zachlyon), Friday, 15 February 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link

puzzle craft is another one that i probably would've voted for w/ a bigger ballot but just too small and inconsequential to feel like one of the 10 best games of the year. the 'puzzle' element is practically non-existent too.

Mordy, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:23 (eleven years ago) link

I just started far cry 3. Probably would have voted for it if I had played it earlier.

Jeff, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:25 (eleven years ago) link

the first truly millennial video game! or so some idiot game reviewer told me

Mordy, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/12/behold-the-first-video-game-about-the-millennials/266039/#

atlantic game coverage is truly horrific

Mordy, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link

xpost
i think i remember that idiot reviewer! where was that?

Z S, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link

whoops, you already posted it before i could ask :)

Z S, Friday, 15 February 2013 00:28 (eleven years ago) link


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