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

god, honestly spec ops fits that category.

wow, so either Spec Ops or BLOPS II didn't place at all?

jjjusten: have you tried Asura's Wrath?

Okay, top three now in fast fashion. I seriously am working on that goddamn essay and will post when I'm done.
Thanks again to ZS for his help on this tempest in a fairly small teapot.
Without further ado:

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#3: Frog Fractions – Browser – 110 pts – 7 votes - 2 top game votes - Top Browser Game - FREE

http://indiegames.com/frog%20fractions%20title.png

Official Game Site

Gameplay Video (WARNING, SPOILERS)

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/12/oct/frogfractions.jpg

Experience Points Podcast

Dev Interview

Soundtrack

http://assets.thecreatorsproject.com/blog_article_images/images/000/037/751/FFdragon_detail_em.jpg?1352832014

Frog Fractions

jjjusten: Almost didn't vote for this because I know it's going to pound the votes home, but it's just too good to ignore. Totally insane, deeply satisfied with being as odd as possible, and despite being a one trick pony while still seeming like the exact opposite of that, it's the game that everybody should play (or maybe experience) this year.

WillM: Frog Fractions is unique in that it references a bunch of game genres without being what some might call "a love letter" to those genres. It is a send-up. It's like a good one-hour stand up special -- great jokes, relatable, but not just yelling "TEXT ADVENTURE!" and getting laughs just because you and I both recognize what a text adventure is. Well, okay, there's a bit of that. But there are some great gags in there. I really like seeing stuff like this. It's good to know that some people who make games still have a critical bone in their body and aren't afraid to lambast the medium.

S. Clover: iOS games, due to the limitations of the system, and I suppose the demographic most likely to be carrying it, are very strong at hitting nostalgia buttons. Bitmapped graphics, chiptunes, etc. In fact, all the games I've listed could have run on systems from at least ten years ago. Frog Fractions, the only browser game I've picked, is less a game to be played repeatedly than a détournement of retromania, a fantastic genre mash-up that takes childhood memories and adds twists. Every puzzle revolves around ignoring one or more long-held conventions/limitations of the genre in question, while the core gameplay of each stage mimics the genre perfectly. The basic premise -- what if the fake-fun of educational games that were supposed to spark our childhood imagination (as viewed through an adult PBS prism) was the actual-fun of our much-less-limited actual childhood imagination.

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#2: XCOM: Enemy Unknown – X360, PS3, PC – 126 pts – 7 votes - 3 top game votes - Top PS3 / X360 Game

http://i3.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article1377074.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/XCom:+Enemy+Unknown

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://cache.g4tv.com/ImageDb3/293318_S/xcom-enemy-unknown.jpg

Zero Punctuation

Quarter to Three

California Literary Review

Nightmare Mode

Soldier Progression

How to Save-Scum

Rock Paper Shotgun Post Mortem

Soundtrack

Polygon: The Making of XCOM’s Jake Solomon

http://timenerdworld.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/xcom-enemy-unknown.jpg?w=600&h=400&crop=1

is there an XCOM thread?

CraigG: This year it is far too easy for me to pick a no.1 game, and it has to be XCOM. I've spent more time on this that any other game this year. I think this is a great start to a new dawn of XCOM games, though that's not to say it isn't without it's failings.
I feel like it's missing a lot of the more intricate management stuff that was present in XCOM Apocalypse - the last one I played (and I played that to death) - and I miss the big grid that represented your backpack for loadout that I could fill with hundreds of clips for my various guns, piles of grenades, etc. That said, I do appreciate the 'Lite' aspect of it where armor is just armor, rather than having a dude running around in khaki's wearing a Marsec helmet because there was a spare helmet lying around but no armor, and guns just *have* ammo to reload rather than counting clips. It would have been nice to have the option of the old school over-the-top management.
That even the tutorial introduces you to the fact that your are going to lose scores of soldiers is a great touch, too. I bored my girlfriend, and confused my friends with tales of how one friend just shot another friend in the face and killed him when he freaked out because he's a pussy and got scared by a wee alien, and I must admit to the occasional reload cheatery when one of my 'good friends' died (though I was on CraigG the 4th or something by the end of it) - perhaps a bit of an eye opener when I lost a team mate, thought about reloading, and went "Meh, it's only Danny"...

WillM: Leading up to XCOM I was ready to hate it. Turn-based tactical games like the original X-COM are pretty much my favourite genre of all time. I've played some pretty awful ones, especially over the past few years, to get my fix. The genre has been a graveyard for some time. What was the last computer turn-based tactics game that was even mediocre? Silent Storm? Calling that game even mediocre is a stretch. So I already had my arms crossed when I heard about the new XCOM. Add to that the 2K Games label, whose name might as well be Ruiners of Games, and Firaxis, who, while okay, I guess, seemed like a weird fit for XCOM -- I was expecting a disappointment I'd be able to complain about for another few years.
It was probably for the best that they didn't stick to the original game's winning recipe too closely, in the end, because it wouldn't have compared favourably. This game makes its own mistakes, but it makes them on its own terms. Most franchise revivals these days feel too of-the-moment -- either frenetic and ADD and IF SOMETHING'S NOT HAPPENING EVERY TEN SECONDS WE'RE FAILING THE USER -- or too achievement-unlocky, too collecty, too IF THE USER DOESN'T HAVE EXPLICIT THINGS TO STRIVE FOR OUTSIDE OF THE MAIN GAME FLOW WE'RE FAILING THE USER. XCOM avoids both of these. It's slow, at times, but engaging. It's confident in its design, doesn't pile on hours of "fun" with collection (unless you WANT to research everything, which is entirely up to you). You can certainly play through the game with restrictions on yourself -- no reloads or whatever -- but it doesn't ask you to. If only every remake was this assured and cool.

i really should get asuras wrath, shouldnt i

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#1: Spelunky – XBLA, PC – 138 pts – 9 votes - 3 top game votes - Top Game 2013, Top PC Game, Top XBLA Game - FREE on PC

http://www.spelunkyworld.com/images/spelunky-friends.jpg

Official Game Site

Metacritic

Gameplay Video

http://killscreendaily.com/media/img/articles/spelunky.jpg

Free for PC Download

Creator Interview

Soundtrack

Sexism in Spelunky (and more discussion therein)

Gameshelf: Why I Still Play Spelunky

Necessary Games: Spelunky vs The Fate of Atlantis

”It started when my son told me that he had sacrificed his babysitter on the bloody altar of Kali.”

http://media.avclub.com/images/157/157203/16x9/627.jpg?7030

spelunky (rogue-like platformer for pc mac xbla etc)

if: Juuuust on the right side of too damn frustrating.

JCL: I played so much of this game during 2012 (over 800 tries) and I still haven't beaten it. For me, it's perfect. Different every time you play it, challenging, but balanced. Games generally last less than twenty minutes, sometime way less, which is great for me, as I usually don’t have the time or desire to play a game for hours and hours.

u people and your spelunky

i have never even heard of spelunky

just on some straight unperson shit itt, tempted to c/p the list with my rundown of 'x-bawks? am i even pronouncing this right?' type observations

ne way wii rpgs are the only games that are good, everything else is terrible

the best and only game worth playing on the wii is "stream netflix wirelessly to my bedroom tv"

so no votes for witcher 2?

your c+p 2013 list:

#1: Spelunky – XBLA, PC – 138 pts – 9 votes - 3 top game votes - Top Game 2013, Top PC Game, Top XBLA Game
#2: XCOM: Enemy Unknown – X360, PS3, PC – 126 pts – 7 votes - 3 top game votes - Top PS3 / X360 Game
#3: Frog Fractions – Browser – 110 pts – 7 votes - 2 top game votes - Top Browser Game
#4: Fez – XBLA – 103 pts – 8 votes - 1 top game votes - Top XBLA Exclusive Game
#5: Borderlands II – X360, PS3, PC – 73 pts – 6 votes - 1 top game vote
#6: Journey – PSN – 67 pts – 4 votes - 2 top game votes - Top PSN Exclusive Game
#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
#8: Dishonored – PS3, X360, PC – 64 pts – 4 votes - 2 top game votes
#9: Super Hexagon – iOS – 62 pts – 5 votes - 1 top game votes - Top iOS Game
#10: Trials Evolution – XBLA – 61 pts – 6 votes
#11: Punch Quest – iOS – 57 pts – 4 votes - 1 top game votes
#12: The Walking Dead: Episodes 1 through 5 – iOS, PC, Mac, PSN, XBLA – 55 pts – 4 votes - 2 top game votes
#13: FTL: Faster Than Light – PC, Mac – 55 pts – 3 votes - Top PC/Mac Exclusive
#14: 10000000 – iOS – 54 pts – 6 votes
#15: Tokyo Jungle – PSN – 46 pts – 5 votes - 1 top game votes
#16: Last Story – Wii – 45 pts – 2 votes - 1 top game votes
#17: Need For Speed: Most Wanted – PS3, X360 – 40 pts – 3 votes
#18: Fallen London – Browser – 37 pts – 4 votes
#19: Legend of Grimrock – PC – 35 pts – 3 votes
#20: Quantum Conundrum – PS3 – 34 pts – 2 votes
#21: Mass Effect 3 – PS3, X360 – 32 pts – 4 votes
#22 (Tie): Magic: The Gathering 2013 - Duels of the Planeswalkers – iOS, PC – 31 pts – 3 votes
#22 (Tie): Max Payne – PS3, X360 – 31 pts – 3 votes
#24: Diablo III – PC, Mac – 30 pts – 3 votes
#25: Botanicula – PC – 30 pts – 2 votes - 1 top game vote
#26: Puzzle Craft – iOS – 26 pts – 2 vote - X top game votes
#27 (Tie): I Am Alive – PS3 – 25 pts – 1 vote
#27 (Tie): Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 – PS3 – 25 pts – 1 vote
#29: Fairway Solitaire – iOS – 21 pts – 3 votes
#30 (Tie): Far Cry 3 – PS3, X360, PC – 20 pts – 2 votes
#30 (Tie): Wargames: WOPR – iOS – 20 pts – 2 votes
#32: Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland – PS3 – 20 pts - 1 vote - 1 top game votes
#33 (Tie): Motorstorm: RC – PSVita – 20 pts - 1 vote - Top PSVita Game
#33 (Tie): Sine Mora – PSN, XBLA – 20 pts - 1 vote
#33 (Tie): Star Wars: The Old Republic – PC – 20 pts - 1 vote
#33 (Tie): Unchained Blades – PSP – 20 pts - 1 vote - Top PSP Game
#37: Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward – 3DS – 18 pts – 2 votes - Top 3DS Game
#38: Hotline Miami – PC – 16 pts – 3 votes
#39: Dear Esther – PC – 16 pts – 1 vote - 1 top game votes
#40: SSX – X360, PS3 – 15 pts – 3 votes
#41 (Tie): Dungeon Village – iOS – 15 pts – 2 votes
#41 (Tie): Infectonator – iOS – 15 pts – 2 votes
#41 (Tie): Rebuild – iOS – 15 pts – 2 votes (+ 15 points / 1 vote for the in-browser version from last year which would boost this to 24, but fuggit)
#44: Plague Inc. – iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote - 1 top game votes
#45 (Tie): Analogue: A Hate Story – PC – 15 pts – 1 vote
#45 (Tie): Gridrunner - iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote
#45 (Tie): NBA 2K13 – PS3, X360 – 15 pts – 1 vote
#45 (Tie): Pinball Arcade – iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote
#45 (Tie): Pocket Planes – iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote
#45 (Tie): Resident Evil: Revelations – 3DS – 15 pts – 1 vote
#45 (Tie): Skullgirls – PSN – 15 pts – 1 vote
#45 (Tie): Soulcalibur V – PS3, X360 - 15 pts – 1 vote
#45 (Tie): Triple Town – iOS – 15 pts – 1 vote
#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

or kingdoms of amular or darksiders II

all of which i keep almost getting but dont

so no votes for witcher 2?

witcher 2 is p awesome but it also came out in 2011 which is when i voted for it

I could only play Splunky for about 2 minutes.

big hearty lols at non-placement of blops2 and low placement of AC3

xpost ahhh thats right, the 360 version is the only one that came out this year iirc

If it was iOS I'd probably like it more but that type of game where I have to start over and over and over doesn't work well on a console for me.

Frog Fractions ;_;

Why do people hate you so, when you are so perfectly formed?

also missing with codblops and spec ops are asura's wrath or syndicate or sf x tekken or kid icarus uprising or closure or any kinect game or tribes or sniper elite or ghost recon or tiny wings 2 or papo y yo or dust or counterstrike or guild wars 2 or madden or WOW or pokemon or skylanders or epic mickey or zombiu or persona or scribblenauts or lotsa stuff

Anyway, is it even vaguely worth playing the Flash Fez linked to up there, or will it be poor a mimicking as Portal: The Flash Game? Fez was definitely the #1 thing that showed up in my streams from games-minded friends, but I never got a chance to access it...

*as

3rd place is a weird place for something that people "hate so" tbf

holy shit spelunky AWESOME

also missing with codblops and spec ops are asura's wrath or syndicate or sf x tekken or kid icarus uprising or closure or any kinect game or tribes or sniper elite or ghost recon or tiny wings 2 or papo y yo or dust or counterstrike or guild wars 2 or madden or WOW or pokemon or skylanders or epic mickey or zombiu or persona or scribblenauts or lotsa stuff

― Even by Zales standards, that's sad. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or game party champions all-time wiiu masterpiece

as outside the ilm mainstream i feel during the end of year polling, i feel totally ilg mainstream <3 u guys 4eva

when's the board title changing to I Love Casual Games then?

xcom + spelunky are the least casual gaming experiences i can imagine!

this is a super gamey top 10!

better than than I Love The Impending Dinosaur-Like Meteoric Destruction That Will Be Console Games

3rd place is a weird place for something that people "hate so" tbf

― Bob-omb The Videogame Industry! (Will M.), Wednesday, February 20, 2013 5:42 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, it's true. I just wasn't around to make the obligatory "TOO LOW" posting when it came up, felt the need to express some sorrow that it wasn't recognised as the rightful number one.

absolutely nothing casual abt frog fractions either, highest ranked "casual" game probably punch quest at 11 or 10000000000 at 14
xp

i played Spelunky and it felt like a pointlessly nerded out version of Boulderdash or something, i just don't feel the magic. still playable in short attention-span bursts tho.

i'm not even moaning as such, i don't have much interest in what consoles are offering at the moment. more an observation that a lot of people who i assume have been gaming since they were kids obviously feel the same way.

spelunky = platform nethack

nethack feels a hundred times more surprising/absorbing

maybe i haven't spelunked enough but that's the game's fault imo

nice poll everybody! have played hardly any of this. and probably won't!

tbf forks the reason epic mickey 2 is missing is because it appears to be unplayable complete horeshit

yeah i've played 5 games off this list and probly wd've voted for 2 of them. and they both involve football surprise surprise.

i think i might scratch the C+P itch by reading through the previous lists

first one is 2007 iirc?

Thanks forks and z s! Excellent job, and those gifs really take it to the next level.

yeah these threads are always a treat, love the heavy linkage and the beautiful pics

as outside the ilm mainstream i feel during the end of year polling, i feel totally ilg mainstream <3 u guys 4eva

OTM

what i played this year:

#8: Dishonored – PS3, X360, PC – 64 pts – 4 votes - 2 top game votes
#10: Trials Evolution – XBLA – 61 pts – 6 votes
#22 (Tie): Max Payne – PS3, X360 – 31 pts – 3 votes
#30 (Tie): Far Cry 3 – PS3, X360, PC – 20 pts – 2 votes
#83 (Tie): Assassin’s Creed III – PS3, X360 – 8 pts – 1 vote

i like marquee xbox shooters that aren't military

also Forza: Horizon which wasn't great but was waaay better than AC3, so worth a tie for #85 or w/e the f

ok i guess i should try frog factions, i don't even remember hearing about it (or at least absorbing those two words together as a unit) until this thread.

http://howtonotsuckatgamedesign.com/?p=6419

^ so dumb my brain is on fire