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

xp he makes some interesting points and raises some worthwhile arguments?

I freely admit that much of the joy I received from Letterpress yesterday was repeatedly pwning jjj while he failed to pay attention to his wife

also from winning a game by playing the word ENZYME and the ensuing rage that caused

games i played after seeing the poll results (while makings gifs), but after i already voted:

XCOM
Need for Speed: Most Wanted
FTL

I would have given XCOM and FTL a bunch of points, enough to push XCOM to #1 and FTL into the top ten.

my ballot:

Borderlands 2 - 15
Fez - 15
Need For Speed: Most Wanted - 15
Black Knight Sword - 10
Far Cry 3 - 10
Frog Fractions - 10
Max Payne 3 - 10
QatQi - 5
Fallen London - 5
Simpsons: Tapped Out - 5

would have added Lollipop Chainsaw on there if i played it in time, def my least bizarro ballot yet for which i feel great shame

great job poll team

i will try spelunky out of respect for yall plus it is free but it looks bum

5 pts

Angry Birds Star Wars Win, Mac, iOS, Droid

10 pts

Diablo III Win, Mac
Jet Set Radio HD iOS, Droid, PSN, PSVita, Win, XBLA
Rayman Origins 3DS, PSVita, Win
Wipeout 2048 PSVita

15 pts

Skullgirls PSN, XBLA
Soulcalibur V PS3, X360

20 pts
Tokyo Jungle PSN

Biggest disappointment:
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Win, Mac

my boring xbox ballot:

Dishonored (30 pts)
Quantum Conundrum (25 pts)
Far Cry 3 (10 pts)
I Am Alive (25 pts)
Trials Evolution (10 pts)

Biggest disappointment: Batman - Harley Quinn's Revenge

make yourself play it for longer than 10 minutes. i wasn't the biggest fan after 2 minutes but like most roguelikes, it gets really addicting quickly.

sorry, roguelikes rougelikes

next year, instead of "biggest disappointment" can we have a -10 vote slot that can only be used if accompanied by an angry rant? then we could have amusing entries with negative point values

yeah, def play it long enough where you start getting proficient at the mechanics. i also hated it in the very beginning (i think i complained about it on another thread actually!) but it quickly got very addictive and the longer i played the more fun i had playing it

@ DJP -- How do you challenge each other, through the Game Center? I'm DrPlasmon if you want to try me.

Spent way too much time on Letterpress last weekend. Really like it when the strategic demands of the board prompt you to find more obscure words. Dislike the way it can devolve into ~INGS ~ED ~ERS repetitiousness. I like it better when the board is mostly less common letters and combinations. Going out with GAUZY (unplayed U, Z, Y) to win 13-12 was my favorite moment so far.

I've only been playing random people, but hardly any of them grasp the basic strategy of controlling valuable tiles. I've been cancelling any game where I'm given first turn and only playing as the challenger, which is considerably harder especially if they start with a corner locked down. It'd be interesting to play a few games in a row against someone who knows what they're doing to see if the game design holds up.

can't believe no one voted for chrono trigger

oh man I have work to do, I will challenge you later

really want to challenge you NOW tho

here's my terrible ballot:

30 points - Spelunky XBLA, Win
15 points - Borderlands 2 Win, PS3, X360, Mac (i burned out on this game HARD immediately after voting for it)
10 points - Diablo III Win, Mac (played for 2 weeks, ever again)
10 points - 10000000 iOS
10 points - Dungeon Village iOS
5 points - Hexagon iOS
5 points - Punch Quest iOS (i complained about this game upthread and didn't even like it! what's wrong with me?
5 points - QatQi iOS (i seriously don't like this game)
5 points - Walking Dead: Episode 1 – 5 Win, PSN, XBLA, Mac, iOS
5 points - 9 Innings Pro Baseball 2013 iOS (whoops, i'm not sure i even played this!)

my ballot:

30 - 01 - last story - wii
20 - 02 - unchained blades - psVITA
15 - 03 - xenoblade chronicles - wii
10 - 04 - crusader kings ii - pc
08 - 05 - shin megami tensei: devil survivor 2
07 - 06 - zero escape: virtue's last reward 3DS

also i had some really good comments about all these games too

you really did!

yeah, they were pretty entertaining

ok, how did I not know about Spelunky when it looks like all the games I loved aged 14 rolled together?

otm

#1: Spelunky
Problem here I think is that I played it ages ago, wasn't it a PC game/maybe freeware for a long time? Anyway I didn't feel it way back in the day. Maybe it deserved more time but tbh it's 2013 & I don't have time to be punished by a game. Roguelikes are for unemployed Will M.

#2: XCOM: Enemy Unknown - My #2 (20 pts)
God what more is there to say, so chunky and clicky and satifying

#3: Frog Fractions - My #10 (5 pts)
Shocked to see it place that high since it's basically just a really funny joke but… well, the joke is really funny

#4: Fez - My #6 (5 pts)
Another shock high placement, but boy it is a gas

#9: Super Hexagon
The learning curve for this game appears to be entirely learning how to press left and right at the right times so that all of your brain power goes into looking at what's coming up. I can't bridge that gap and am far too aware of the controls at all times. Give me this on a controller or keyboard and maybe it's a different scene but as of now I find this exhausting and unplayable.

#12: The Walking Dead: Episodes 1 through 5 - My #1 (25 pts!)
A masterpiece. TOO LOW etc

#13: FTL: Faster Than Light
This one is appealing, will definitely spend more time with it at some point, but definitely disappointed that it doesn't rip off star trek more b/c star trek is the best you guys

#14: 10000000
This game is about as fun as working in a call centre and pays almost as much

#18: Fallen London
Playe3d it before they changed the name and mostly got mad that it fucked with my Twitter, fuck you games that fuck with my SOCIAL MEDIA BRAND

#21: Mass Effect 3 - My #8 (5 pts)
MP made it worth ranking, and I didn't mention before but the music way better than ME2/almost as good as ME1!

#26: Puzzle Craft
Got this after it placed. Wtf it's like Tiny Tower but with a game in it. If I had never played Tiny Tower I'd like this but since I DID and I deleted it because THAT IS NOT A FUCKING GAME AND IT IS SHIT, this game makes me mad

#29: Fairway Solitaire
Got after placing. Spent about 20 mins with it. ICDGI

#30 (Tie): Wargames: WOPR
I got through a whole bunch of this, now I find it boring. Why the fuck did a Wargames game come out in 2012 anyway?

#38: Hotline Miami - My #7 (5 pts)
Not sure this'd place for me on Feb 20 2013, but, hey, it is pretty goddamn cool & needs more ILXors to try imo.

#41 (Tie): Dungeon Village
I bought this and realized I had just spent money on my 5th or 6th Kairosoft game, which I enjoyed the first time but exponentially less w/ each game I bought so I didn't play long at all.

#41 (Tie): Infectonator
Fun enough, I guess? More fun than some of the other micro-trans games on this list, anyway.

#41 (Tie): Rebuild
Played it last year on the browser, liked it, beat it, forgot it existed.

#44: Plague Inc.
Not sure how to do anything in this game other than almost win.

#45 (Tie): Triple Town - My #3 (15 pts)
The only match 3 game on this list worth a fuck, everything else can jump in my recycle bin or w/e iOS has

#54: New Star Soccer
I had fun with this but I had more fun with GORILLA.EXE 20+ years ago

#56: Minecraft
I voted for this 2010, forgot, voted for it in 2011, so you know I like Minecraft

#57 (Tie): QatQi
This game, man. I dunno. The coins and shit feel so arbitrary. I don't feel rewarded for playing the way I deem "good"?

#60 (Tie): Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator - My #4 (10 pts)
S1ocki, wasn't kidding when I said we sohuld play this, see if your friend w/ the projector is on board.

#60 (Tie): Dikembe Mutombo 4 ½ Weeks to Save the World
Gonna play this more but based on what I saw when I found that link for forks, I am gonna liiiiiiiiiike it.

#60 (Tie): Letterpress
Thanks ILX, found this after you turned me on to it, do we have an ILG GameCenter name sharing thing? Wanna play this with non-randoms.

#91 (Tie): 9 Innings Pro Baseball 2013
Just doesn't grab me like 2011.

#91 (Tie): DayZ - My #9 (5 pts)
Bonkers, and broken, and magical.

#91 (Tie): McPixel
Another "thanks ILX", this is a great goofy game. Reminds me of Panic for the Sega CD (I think?).

#91 (Tie): MLB 12: The Show - My #5 (5 pts)
The sports game against which all other sports games should be measured, fuk u if u EA

#91 (Tie): Sleeping Dogs
Barely missed my ballot. Unfairly maligned, TOO LOW!, awesome game.

#91 (Tie): Super Monsters Ate My Condo!
Got after placing. Fun but god it makes my phone hot/die fast, gonna be hard to find a way to play this w/o burns & battery burnout

#91 (Tie): Waking Mars
Got after placing. Seems really interesting. Didn't even know it existed, love Spider, thank you ILX!!!

in case my ballot is hard to read in there and/or wrong, here:

#01 Walking Dead: Episode 1–5: 25 points
#02 XCOM: Enemy Unknown: 20 points
#03 Triple Town: 15 points
#04 Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator: 10 points
#05 MLB 12: The Show: 5 points
#06 Fez: 5 points
#07 Hotline Miami: 5 points
#08 Mass Effect 3: 5 points
#09 Day Z: 5 points
#10 Frog Fractions: 5 points

btw Lamp imo gets +30 points for comments, loved those... and forks get +100 points for putting it together and ZS gets +100 for dopest gifs in history

wow Plasmon, you are a beast

Thanks, you're no slouch yourself. Rematch later, I'm supposed to be doing paperwork. Can never put this down without playing just one more word.

Will...

#1: Spelunky
Problem here I think is that I played it ages ago, wasn't it a PC game/maybe freeware for a long time? Anyway I didn't feel it way back in the day. Maybe it deserved more time but tbh it's 2013 & I don't have time to be punished by a game. Roguelikes are for unemployed Will M.

It's really more of just a really weird (tough) platforming game that borrows some elements from roguelikes (random levels, permadeath). The XBLA is much improved from the old PC version, especially in the controls department (though maybe it loses a little of the freeware versions charm).

#9: Super Hexagon
The learning curve for this game appears to be entirely learning how to press left and right at the right times so that all of your brain power goes into looking at what's coming up. I can't bridge that gap and am far too aware of the controls at all times. Give me this on a controller or keyboard and maybe it's a different scene but as of now I find this exhausting and unplayable.

It also came out for PC with controller support. $3.00 US.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/221640/?snr=1_7_15__13

Hotline Miami made this nice little innovation on roguelikes in that once you finish a level, you've finished it at whatever score you got for that level. So you can keep dying and dying and dying but you don't have to start over from the very first level unless you aren't satisfied with your score.

haha ive been re-reading the old C&P and its fun as hell, but i really want to start putting all of my patented "lemme bitch about the wii in a sly and sideways way" pull quotes in one thread.

for example, from my madworld vote:

"Jjjusten: I make no attempt to hide how angry a Wii owner I am. I'm one of those guys that look at this particular console with a little more bile rising in my throat every week that a new fitness program or pet management simulator falls like a turd onto the new release list. So when MadWorld rolled out, I was very glad to see it. The game has its faults: there are times where the wiimote works against you rather than for you; songs are AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL and the game is SHORT. All those caveats fall away the first time you impale someone with a signpost, necklace them with a tire, jam firecrackers down their throat and THEN bisect them by slamming their body in a dumpster. Boss battles are even more insane. Anybody who whines like a baby about the lack of hardcore games on the wii that didn't buy this is a jerk and a traitor and I hope they realize that I will hold them directly responsible when "Wii Play Tamagochi Fitness 3" sells 40 billion copies."

wii was awesome, madworld a turd of a game though

OH HOLY SHIT MY GZEUS CHRONO TRIGGER XTRANORMAL STILL EXISTS! i was certain that had died, but a link in the chrono trigger thread still worked!

here for safekeeping http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/545351/wimps

xpost u monstar

I have a friend that's really into min-maxing and used to be big into nethack and etc. and likes to find games with tough mechanics and just burn through them. Spelunky got him seriously hooked. I, on the other hand, played maybe three games, died quickly each time, got frustrated and decided to play something that hits my reward centers more directly.

super mamc has now got me totally hooked.

I would have voted for Chrono Trigger if I'd finished it

next year, instead of "biggest disappointment" can we have a -10 vote slot that can only be used if accompanied by an angry rant? then we could have amusing entries with negative point values

Well then you'll have people claiming that their game won a moral victory, because it would have been #34 instead of #39 but for the HATAS. So yes, I am totally behind this.

Haha that said I'm curious about why you're hating on Pandaria, I haven't played it yet but I'm quite looking forward. It seems to have a more coherent vibe than Cataclysm's "Oh we'll have a sand level and a rock level and a water level and an unspeakable evil level"

Games from this list I have played last year are:

10000000 - and then after going to sleep at 4am two nights in a row I thought "Maaaybe it's time to reconsider my relationship with videogames"

Though I did play the demos of Quantum Conundrum / Diablo III / Star Wars: The Old Republic / Sleeping Dogs / Magic: The Gathering 2013 - Duels of the Planeswalkers/ Rayman Origins, which is roughly the order in which I'd be interested in playing them (will play / won't play line is probably between Sleeping Dogs and MtG)

omg listening to that xtranormal link without reading the thread in a while and i'm DYING

so like... did ni no kuni come out in 2013 or

yeah

Get 30 diamonds in one game yah fuck u super monsters ate my condo

Any tips

the Peace tip that DJP gave me earlier totally changed my game, i always use that now

30 diamonds - you're gonna need some Blue power for time (as with any strategy really), more Green power for Double, but mostly you need to keep making Cat/Garbage condos most of all for the constant upgrades

annoyingly though, all the multiplier goals seem to be broken (reach 50x/100x in one game)

Yeah I had to pay for both of the multiplier goals, but only after I tried to do them without boosts or hats. Fucking bullshit

However I have hit the 1 billion high score now, so I have scraped my way into the top 20000. ffs

Can't hit 1 billion yet. Still at 800 million asjklfjskladfjkalsdf

Pushed over 3 billion this morning but I'm still nowhere near Dan.

The multiplier goals are totally broken, don't know why

buy the hats, they'll slowly push your score up

dled this but oh shit, is this a game I'm gonna have to shell out "real money" to do well at. b/c fuck that obi

nah you don't. i thought that at first too but you really don't have to

yeah you don't have to at all

I grabbed the game before it was free (;_;) and that is the only money I've paid for it

sorry I failed to get a vote in.
woulda gone for:

1000000
Dishonored
Walking Dead - though this does suffer from some of the same QTE lag annoyances that happen in Witcher 2 which I am currently crawling through

did not like ME3 or Diablo 3 - got burnt out on both after a couple hours. still have not fired up sleeping dogs.

most of my gametime went to LoL and word games on ipad/iphone :-/

surprised Dyad isn't on here. I should've voted.

it kinda flew under the radar here, even more than most PSN games

hotline miami! amazing!