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

Walking Dead on the iPhone was terrible for me, the controls were awkward. PSN was great, though.

Played Hexagon once for a minute. IDGI

not sure about psn or ipad but i would play walking dead on a computer personally... i can't imagine trying to point and click any other way. plus i think it's mac-compat?

i can confirm that it is mac compatible, tho if you have a retina macbook you have to do a full-screen > windowed > full-screen move to get text to display correctly

idg what is not tg about hexagon? it's so simple and intuitive - pure like tetris

It was boring?
Tetris ramps up, you have time to consider moves. Hexagon is just tap tap tap/hope you get the rhythm right.

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#8: Dishonored – PS3, X360, PC – 64 pts – 4 votes - 2 top game votes

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Metacritic

Gameplay Video

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Errant Signal

Zero Punctuation

Popmatters

Gamasutra: The Creative Team Behind Dishonored

Behind The Scenes

Dev Interview

Soundtrack

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Dishonored.

Jordan: The world is imaginative, and the gameplay is not only creative but it works. Missed opportunity: can't believe they didn't set one of the missions on a whaling ship. Or let you...possess a whale? It also provided my favorite gaming moment of the year, in the form of this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo4JH96KcgQ

Zora: Hand on heart, I have probably not played enough of this to rate it fairly, having bought it for the console. For various reasons, I've been gaming mainly on my laptop. However, what I have played of it was right up my flooded, rat-infested alley. Still - it's not quite the Thief 4 I'm looking for. Keep on jonesin'.

what is "super punch quest" and is it like normal punch quest?

the two objections to it i could see would be A) you didn't get into it and so just ran a bit, died a bit and got bored or B) you were really good at it (I'm not) and didn't find it challenging it at all.

on another note, people like to vote for _important_ things for their #1, so I could see spec ops placing really high.

PSN walking Dead controls are the two joysticks and four main buttons. Super simple.

i was not a fan of punch quest either. all the elements of that style of iphone game were there - gradually unlocking skill trees, semi-randomized levels, bite sized play periods perfect for sitting on the toilet the modern lifestyle - but somehow it was missing the FUN. punching through enemies never really felt satisfying. tiny wings had a similar structure (minus the unlocking skillz part), but the main thing it had going for it was that it felt really GOOD to fly way into the air and sail forever and then nail the landing and whooooooosh off again. Punch Quest didn't create any comparable moments, for me at least.

all about the combos, imho.some of he super skills are really satisfying on their own too. things like burning punch where you really feel the difference between a jab and a solid connecting blow. also, nailing the timing on punching torches was a really nice feeling for me.

people like to vote for _important_ things for their #1

Yes. Yes, they do.

Tetris ramps up, you have time to consider moves. Hexagon is just tap tap tap/hope you get the rhythm right.

this is so wrong. you have to consider moves, it does ramp up and it's not tap tap tap/hope, certainly not on the hardest levels. it's scan pattern / quickly input correct response

also i think my biggest complaint about super punch is how ugly it looked. very unappealing aesthetics.

Walking Dead on ipad is great. Prob the best game i've played on it.

if that frog thing wins this poll it'll be worse than anco or the dirty projectys taking the music poll

and I'll hold you, emil.y, personally responsible

controls on punch quest are really responsive and smooth. everything feels really tuned -- its the sort of game that you can tell was made by people who are good at making this exact sort of game.

If that frog thing wins this poll it'll be the same as that time Mr Blobby got the Christmas number one.

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#7: Xenoblade Chronicles – Wii – 65 pts – 4 vote (+30 points / 1 vote from 2011 which would actually boost this to #5, but fuggit) - Top Wii Game

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Quarter to Three

Brainy Gamer: Why We JRPG

Experience Points Podcast

Iwata Asks

The History of Xenogears and Xenosaga

YouTube Soundtrack Playlist

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diamonddave85:This game is going to go down in history as the last great Wii game and one of the finest JRPGS of this generation.

lamp: Carried through many nations and over many seas
I arrive, brother, for these wretched funeral rites,
so that I might present you with the last tribute of death
and speak in vain to silent Ash Ketchum
since Nintendo has carried away from me you in the flesh
Alas, poor brother, unfairly taken away from me,
now in the meantime, nevertheless, these things which in the ancient custom of analog controls
are handed over as a sad tribute to the rites
receive, coated with much Dorito's Cool Ranch dusting
And forever, brother, hail and farewell.

is there a way to play that if you don't have a britishes wii?

that game didn't even occur to me, damn

also, the gif for dishonored makes me want to play dishonored more than anything i've ever seen for the game

is there a way to play that if you don't have a britishes wii?

dolphin emulator

ah ok

man I just want to play big games like that on my tv, not on a pc

& guess dolphin emulator means some kinda hacky thing, blah blah

xenoblade is out in america. it's just not in HD which means i can't comfortably play it.

dolphin will play it in full HD but you need a pretty hardcore gaming rig

yeah I looked for xenoblade but like on amazon it costs > $100, what's the deal

and I'll hold you, emil.y, personally responsible

― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:03 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have no problem with being held responsible for the best game of the year being voted best game of the year.

xenoblade is, i think, out of print
my PROTIP on buying xenoblade chronicles is that you join gamefly, put that one game in your queue and buy it for thirty bucks when they send it

no other game this year included frog pornography lemonade stand style simulations

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#6: Journey – PSN – 67 pts – 4 votes - 2 top game votes - Top PSN Exclusive Game

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Metacritic

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Some thoughts and sounds on sound design

Nightmare Mode

World One Two - ‘Over the Precipice: An Essay on Journey’

The Atlantic - ‘A Portrait of the Artist as Game Studio’

Brainy Gamer - ‘All About the Journey’

Jenova Chen Interview

Dissenting opinion at Quarter to Three

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JOURNEY for PS3

forksclovetofu:Journey is NOT drastically different than Flower; it's just better looking, more ingeniously designed and with a Demons' Souls style multiplayer element. It's almost intrinsically not the most interesting game. The puzzles I beat were fairly easy and logical and not taxing; the kind of thing that’s good to beat with a new voiceless friend. So if you want a great game, this probably isn't it and if “how long the game is = how good it is”, you’re at the wrong station. But as an interesting EXPERIENCE this is a must play and probably the most profound time I had with something that thought it was a game since, wow, maybe ever.

kelpolaris: I’m gonna say it got *slightly* monotonous - yeah, even within it's near abysmal 2 hour timespan - but there were certain moments where i couldn't believe how beautiful the games shots were. I tagged along with a dude for near the entire game, almost never lost him.... only when the game ended did it tell me that i had actually spent all that time with 5 dudes O_o

EZSnappin: The best game of this generation on Playstation. Just the right length to play in one go, and a pleasure to go through again. Getting a chance to help a stranger discover the magic was the best gaming experience I've had in ages.

if: If I say that it is a lot like Fez but without a game to go with the beauty, I don't mean that entirely as a bad thing. The sweeping down the sandstream bit was stunning, and the ending was lovely too. Maybe if I had a connection with anyone I met on it I would be raving about it.

zappi: The year’s best walking simulator/non-game "experience".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgu76ql6FSo

how many times have I considered buying a PS3 just to play journey

i have a feeling i'd really like xenoblade. about the only thing that's seriously tempted me about a wii, but it feels way too late in the platforms' life to get it just for one jrpg.

whew so glad journey is not #1

xxp it's worth buying a ps3 cos it's the best system currently available and then getting journey, but it's prolly not worth buying a ps3 just for journey. it's a very cool game though, + it is the only video game my mom has ever commented on in her life as far as i can recall (she also thought it was cool)

just waiting on PS4 at this point tbrr

it's been said over and over but seriously this game has some of the most stunning images i've seen in the medium.. the cleaved mountain was a personal favorite, can't really put into words why but it seemed to be in some sort of sub-conscious jungian archetypal way

Flower is a better game

was going to vote for Xenoblade but then remembered that it was my number 1 vote last year
sorta enjoyed Journey for the 90 odd minutes it took, but even in that short timespan its ideas were stretched pretty thin

Flower was crap.

Here's my explanation of Super Hexagon's appeal from last year:

so is playing that game just a matter of memorizing the pattern and touching the screen appropriately? Could you write the winning passage as sheet music?

― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 5, 2012 3:04 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are patterns but they come out in an unpredictable order, so it's about practicing the mapping from patterns to touches to the point of being able to unconsciously execute them.

― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, October 5, 2012 3:06 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, i know those words make sense but I can't read them in a way that does

― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 5, 2012 3:34 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol it makes perfect sense to me

― Mordy, Friday, October 5, 2012 3:37 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll try again: it's distilled procedurally-generated rhythm mario

― www.toilet-guru.com (silby), Friday, October 5, 2012 4:09 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

super punch land just felt like every other l-r iOS runner and yeah the punching wasnt even that good

and as far as voting for important games goes, i didnt vote this year, but you are talking ot a guy who put drop7 at his #1 a couple years ago

important itt = big budget title?

important = "the vote makes a statement", not just "this was fun".

no other ios runners have nearly as much punching!

as much as i enjoyed dishonored it seemed more like a culmination/refining of a trend (very well designed open world RPG style game) and not a breakthrough in gaming. like idk ftl or walking dead feel like they could inaugurate a lot of similar games (small tightly designed gamey roguelikes and sharply written adventure narratives respectively). not that either of those are actually unique to the history of gaming but it's been a long time since either of those genres were popular or interesting. another COD4 style game (even a particularly good one) or another bethesda project (esp after the fallout 3 tour de force imho) just don't blow my mind in 2013

also terry cavanagh is a genius that goes without saying

Hold on, Dishonoured isn't open world, and it's not very RPG either.

yeah, i guess closer to deus ex / thief templates but it felt like a lot of other RPGs i've played lately and felt very 'open' maybe not in quest selection (tho plenty of optional stuff to do + places to explore) but in approaches/style development. it felt a little looser than bioware rpgs too, even if obv not quite as sprawling as skyrim/f3

i liked human revolution last year too but it also didn't feel particularly groundbreaking in the genre (and was also pseudo-open world, pseudo-RPG)

Punch Quest just felt right in the punching, timing and so forth, I dug the music, design and animation style too. Also I'll permanently associate it with getting me through the SUPERSTORM. I still haven't nailed a 200-hit combo though, maybe someday.

Ok enjoying 2 games that are still to place that have not been mentioned.

One of which is going to apparently blindside some peeps, but it is super badass