SUBMIT YOUR BALLOT: The Seventh Annual Coint and Plick Poll is NOW OPEN - Vote for ILX’s Best Video Games of 2013 - VOTES DUE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9th.

Here we go again!

Here's last year's results for your reference:
Coint and Plick 2013 - The Sixth Annual ILX Video Game Poll

Please submit your ballot via email to me at ilgames2014 at gmail dot com

As always we'll be using the Pazz and Jop style vote/point format: You'll have 100 points to divide among your Top 10 games released in 2013, with each entry receiving no more than 30 points and no less than 5 points (seriously, for my sanity this year I need you to keep it to a MINIMUM of five points please). If you'd rather not rank individually, just assign 10 points per game. I'll list the top 50 games of '13 in the final results, presuming I get enough entries.

Additionally, please include the single game released this year that was your biggest disappointment. This can mean it didn't live up to your expectations, flat out sucked, didn't quite get it right... whatever "biggest disappointment" means to you. I'll list the top ten biggest disappointments.

Please note your ILX username on the ballot and the system you personally played each game on. PLEASE WRITE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHY YOU'RE CASTING YOUR VOTES AS YOU ARE; I'll include many of the best comments with the winners. I may ask for additional people to write brief comments once the ball gets rolling; if you'd like to volunteer to write a longer essay/appreciation/critical beatdown of a specific game or games, regardless of where they place on the poll, just let me know. Games that received votes in the 2013 poll will have their numbers rolled onto the 2014 poll, so no need to vote for them twice.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRY IS JANUARY 31st; I'll try to have the final results starting on February 10th. Note: If you want to send an early ballot but revise it later, I don't mind. Also, if you only played a couple games this year, vote anyway! Life doesn't have to be so dang serious.

Pointless obsessive rules:

1) One entry per person.

2) If you don't assign points to your picks, I'll assess each vote at ten points per game. If you do assign points but they add up as either more or less than a hundred, I'll assess each vote at ten points per game. If you assign over 30 or under 5 points to any individual game, I'll assess each vote at ten points per game. If you list more than ten games, I'll just take the top ten on your list. If you include a game that clearly didn't come out in 2009, it won't be counted. Ask on this thread if you want to check to see if your pick is valid. If you're listing an obscure import-only title, flash game, social network or phone game, please include a URL for the game's fan/homepage so I can figure out what you're raving about.

3) Though I'd like you to note what system you've played a game on, I'll be considering votes for a game that's been released on different systems (i.e. PS3/360/PC Fallout New Vegas) as all counting toward one nomination... unless there's a clear difference due to systems that affects gameplay (i.e. Madden for Wii vs Madden for 360). In a case like Mafia II PC vs console, I'll likely not be splitting hairs, but if you want to make the point that you ONLY like the PC version in your ballot, I'll take that into account.

4) In addition to your own thoughts, I would be thrilled if you'd include links to some articles/blogs/vlogs/clogs about your favorites. I'll include as many as possible in the rollout.

5) Flash games, art games, MMORPGs, videogame versions of card and party games, social network games, and mobile phone games are all entirely valid choices as long as they were versions released and played in '13.

I will also accept any game that has been re-released this year in a new format/console, any game that is in a continuous state of change (basically MMORPGs) or downloadable content for a game made prior to 2013. Here's the catch though: I do ask that you keep in the spirit of the thing and only vote for reissues/new content/ongoing games if you played them THIS YEAR and (when applicable) only on the new system in question. If you played Borderlands 2 for the first time this year, don't vote for the game unless you're voting solely for the DLC content released this year. If you're voting for Agricola that means you enjoyed the iOS version, not that you like the board game itself. That sort of thing.

Things that shouldn't be nominated: board games, card games, puzzles, table rpgs, etc. Good rule of thumb is that if it has a screen, it's valid.

A list of some of the best known games released in '13 follows; your ballot will not be limited to these games but they're certainly the front runners and a good place to start your list from. Make sense? Then VOTE!

868-HACK (iOS)
A Dark Room (Browser)
A Valley Without Wind 2 (PC/Mac)
Agricola (iOS)
Angry Birds Star Wars II (iOS/Android/PC)
Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS)
Anomaly 2 (iOS/Android/PC)
Antichamber (PC)
Asphalt 8: Airborne (iOS/Android)
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (PS3/PS4/X360/Xbone)
Attack Of The Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale (3DS)
Badland (iOS)
Batman: Arkham Origins (PS3/X360/WiiU/PC)
Battle of the Bulge (iOS)
BattleBlock Theater (X360)
Battlefield 4 (PS4)
Beyond: Two Souls (PS3)
BioShock Infinite (PS3/X360/PC)
Bit.Trip Presents...Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien (PS3/X360/WiiU/PC)
Black Crown Project (Browser)
Blip Blup (iOS/Android)
Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep (PS3/X360/PC/Mac)
Boson X (iOS/Android/Vita/PC)
Bravely Default (3DS)
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (PS3/X360/PC)
Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective (Browser)
Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS3/PS4/X360/Xbone/WiiU/PC)
Candy Box (Browser)
Candy Box 2 (Browser)
Card Hunter (Browser)
CastleStorm (Vita)
Clockwork Cat (Browser)
Colossatron (iOS/Android)
Cookie Clicker (Browser)
Counterfeit Monkey (Interactive Fiction)
Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods (PC)
Crysis 3 (PS3/X360/PC)
Cursed Treasure 2 (Browser)
Darkstalkers Resurrection (PS3/X360)
Dead Island: Riptide (PS3/X360/PC)
Dead or Alive 5 Plus (Vita)
Dead Rising 3 (Xbone)
Dead Space 3 (PS3/X360/PC)
Deadly Premonition: Directors Cut (PS3/PC)
Defiance (PS3/X360/PC)
Depression Quest (PC)
Desktop Dungeons (PC/Mac)
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut (WiiU)
Device 6 (iOS)
Diablo III (PS3/X360)
Dishonored DLC: The Knife of Dunwall and The Brigmore Witches (PS3/X360/PC)
Divekick (PS3/Vita/PC)
DmC: Devil May Cry (PS3/X360/PC)
Doctor Who: Legacy (iOS/Android)
Do-Don-Pachi Saidaioujou (X360)
Doki-Doki Universe (PS3/PS4)
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS/Wii)
Don't Starve (PC/Mac/Linux)
Dota 2 (PC/Mac/Linux)
Dots: A Game About Connecting (iOS/Android)
Dragon's Crown (PS3/Vita)
Drive on Moscow (iOS)
DuckTales Remastered (PS3/X360/WiiU/PC)
Dungeon Plunder (iOS)
Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara (PS3/X360/WiiU/PC)
Dust: An Elysian Tail (PC/Mac/Linux)
Eclipse: New Dawn for the Galaxy (iOS)
Edge (WiiU/3DS)
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West - Directors Cut (PS3/PC)
Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan (3DS)
Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millenium Girl (3DS)
Euro Truck Simulator 2 (PC/Linux)
Europa Universalis IV (PC/Mac/Linux)
Expedition Conquistador (PC)
Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon (PS3/X360/PC)
Fez (PC/Mac/Linux)
FIFA 14 (PS3/PS4/X360/Xbone/iOS/Android)
Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn (PS3/PC)
Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS)
Fist of Awesome (PC/Mac/iOS/Android/Ouya)
Fiz: The Brewery Management Game (iOS)
flower (PS4/Vita)
Football Chairman (iOS/Android)
Football Manager 2014 (PC/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android/Vita)
Forza Motorsport 5 (Xbone)
Frozen Synapse (iOS)
Gears of War: Judgment (X360)
Gemini Rue (iOS/PC)
God of War: Ascension (PS3)
Gone Home (PC/Mac/Linux)
Gran Turismo 6 (PS3)
Grand Theft Auto V (PS3/X360)
Grand Theft Auto V (X360)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (iOS/Android)
GRID 2 (PS3/X360/PC)
Guacamelee! (including Gold Edition) (PS3/PS4/Vita/Xbone/PC)
Gunman Clive (3DS)
Gunpoint (PC)
Hotline Miami (PS3/Vita/Mac/Linux)
Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing (Browser)
Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage (iOS)
Impossible Road (iOS)
Injustice: Gods Among Us - Ultimate Edition (PS3/PS4/Vita/X360/Xbone/WiiU/iOS/Android/PC)
Joe Danger (iOS/PC)
Kentucky Route Zero (PC/Mac/Linux)
Killer Instinct (Xbone)
Killer is Dead (PS3/X360)
Killzone: Mercenary (Vita)
Killzone: Shadow Fall (PS4)
King Cashing 2 (iOS)
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD Remix (PS3)
Knights of Pen and Paper + 1 Edition (iOS/Android/PC)
Kokuga (3DS)
Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes (WiiU)
Lego City Undercover (WiiU)
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (PS3/PS4/Vita/X360/Xbone/WiiU/3DS/DS/PC)
Let’s Play: Ancient Greek Geometry (Browser)
Limbo (iOS)
Lone Survivor: The Director's Cut (PS3/Vita)
Lords of Waterdeep (iOS)
Lost Planet 3 (PS3/X360/PC)
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (3DS)
Magic: The Gathering – Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014 (PS3/X360/PC/iOS/Android)
Magicka - Wizards of the Square Tablet (iOS/Android/PC)
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (3DS)
Mario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move (3DS)
Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign (iOS/Android/PC)
Mass Effect 3: Citadel (PS3/X360/PC)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (PS3/X360/PC)
Metro: Last Light (PS3/PS4/X360/PC/Mac/Linux)
Mikey Hooks (iOS)
MLB 13: The Show (PS3/Vita)
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine (X360/PC/Mac/Linux)
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (WiiU/3DS)
Muramasa Rebirth (Vita)
Mutant Mudds Deluxe (PS3/WiiU)
NBA 2K14 (PS3/PS4/X360/Xbone/PC/iOS/Android)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted U (WiiU)
Need for Speed: Rivals (PS3/PS4/X360/Xbone/PC)
New Super Luigi U (WiiU)
Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3)
Nimble Quest (iOS/Android/PC/Ouya)
No One Has to Die (Browser)
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free (Interactive Fiction)
Out of the Park Baseball 14 (PC/Mac/Android)
Outlast (PS4/PC)
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX + (PC)
Paint it Back (iOS)
Papa Louie 2: When Burgers Attack! (Browser)
Papa Sangre II (iOS)
Papers, Please (PC/Mac)
Path of Exile (PC)
Payday 2 (PS3/X360/PC)
Peggle 2 (Xbone)
People (Browser)
Persona 4 Arena (PS3/X360)
Persona 4: Golden (Vita)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (3DS)
Pikmin 3 (WiiU)
PixelJunk Monsters: Ultimate HD (Vita/PC)
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (iOS/Android)
Pocket Mine (iOS/Android)
Pocket Trains (iOS/Android)
Pokemon X & Y (3DS)
Poker Night 2 (PS3/X360/PC/Mac/iOS)
Pom Gets Wi-Fi (PC)
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (3DS)
Puppeteer (PS3)
Puzzle & Dragons (iOS/Android)
Quadropus Rampage (iOS/Android)
Quell Memento (iOS/Android/Vita)
Rain (PS3)
Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus (PS3)
Rayman Fiesta Run (iOS/Android)
Rayman Legends (PS3/PS4/Vita/X360/Xbone/WiiU/PC)
Real Racing 3 (iOS/Android)
Receiver (PC)
Remember Me (PS3/X360/PC)
Republique (iOS)
Resident Evil: Revelations (PS3/X360/WiiU/PC)
Resogun (PS4)
Reus (PC)
Ride to Hell: Retribution (PS3/X360/PC)
Ridiculous Fishing - A Tale of Redemption (iOS/Android)
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken (Vita/Mac/Linux)
Rocksmith 2014 Edition (PS3/X360/PC/Mac)
Rogue Legacy (PS3/PS4/Vita/PC/Mac/Linux)
Rune Factory 4 (3DS)
Rymdkapsel (iOS/Android/Vita)
Saints Row IV (PS3/X360/PC)
Scurvy Scallywags (iOS)
Shadowrun Returns (iOS/Android/PC/Mac/Linux)
Shin Megami Tensei IV (3DS)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers (3DS)
Sid Meier's Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies (iOS)
Sid Meier's Civilization V: Brave New World (PC/Mac)
Skylanders: Swap Force (PS3/PS4/X360/Xbone/WiiU/Wii/3DS)
Slayin' (iOS)
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time (PS3/Vita)
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (PC/3DS/iOS/Android)
Sorcery! 2 (iOS)
Soul Sacrifice (Vita)
Spaceteam (iOS/Android)
Spelunky (PS3/Vita/PC)
Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party (WiiU)
Star Trek (PS3/X360/PC)
Star Wars Pinball: Balance of the Force (PS3/X360/Vita/PC/)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (iOS)
Star Wars: Tiny Death Star (iOS/Android)
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm (PC/Mac)
State of Decay (X360/PC)
Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark (PS3/Vita)
SteamWorld Dig/PC (3DS)
Stickets (iOS)
Strike Suit Infinity (PC)
Super House of Dead Ninjas (PC)
Super Little Acorns 3D Turbo (3DS)
Super Mario 3D World (WiiU)
Super Stickman Golf 2 (iOS/Android)
Surgeon Simulator 2013 (PC/Mac/Linux)
Tearaway (Vita)
Temple Run 2 (iOS/Android)
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (PS3/X360/PC/Mac)
The Cave (PS3/X360/WiiU/PC/Mac/Linux/iOS/Android/Ouya)
The Dream Machine: Chapter 4 (PC)
The Last Door: Chapter 1 - The Letter (iOS/PC)
The Last of Us (PS3)
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS)
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD (WiiU)
The Room Two (iOS/Android)
The Stanley Parable (PC/Mac)
The Swapper (PC)
The Walking Dead: A Telltale Games Series - The Complete First Season (Vita)
The Wolf Among Us: Episode 1 - Faith (PS3/X360/Vita/PC/Mac/iOS)
The Wonderful 101 (WiiU)
Thomas Was Alone (PS3/Vita/Linux)
Time Surfer (iOS/Android)
Tiny Thief (PC/Mac/iOS/Android)
Toki Tori 2 (WiiU/Windows/Mac)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (PS3/X360/WiiU/PC)
Tomb Raider (PS3/X360/PC)
Towelfight 2 (iOS/Android)
Tower of Fortune 2 (iOS)
TownCraft (iOS)
Trine 2: Complete Story (PS4/WiiU)
Type:Rider (iOS/Android/PC)
Velocity Ultra (Vita/PC)
Warhammer Quest (iOS)
Where's My Mickey? (iOS/Android)
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (iOS)
XCOM: Enemy Within (PS3/X360/PC/Mac)
Year Walk (iOS/PC)
Ys: Memories of Celceta (Vita)

voted

If you include a game that clearly didn't come out in 2009, it won't be counted.

Haha, I tried to get all the 2009/10 stuff out but I missed one I guess.

PLAGIARISM!

just kidding, you're a good egg for running this on this goround

I am the Shia LaBeouf of ILX

I wonder if Mordy will have the only ballot, hmmmmmm

I will vote, just got to finish my ILM EoY ballot first...

Oh I will vote, playing/replaying some stuff first

I still have a stack of five 2013 games that I haven't even started :( I really wish publishers would release stuff in months other than October and November.

def will vote, iOS means I've played waaaaay more than 10 games; whereas on the music poll I always struggle to find 25 albums from a given year that I've heard

can we combine candy box votes? can't spend two votes on the both of em but vote splitting would be besides the point I think

split your votes

that'll teach the guy for not managing his portfolio and making sure he maximizes profit by releasing his weird free text based browser games far enough apart to maximize profit

his shareholders are gonna be pissed

click click click

weekend bump. vote!

Good afternoon...

Bump

late nomination for Fish Out Of Water -- seemed dull as rocks at first, but I went back to it recently, figured out a few mechanics, and its addictive now.

so far I have received two ballots. Can't wait to reveal the top 5 games of 2013!

hahaha this is why i stepped out

The results would be really fun if I only used these two ballots to be honest.

i'll do my usual ballot that's really, really shitty. working on it now!

and of course i'll submit a ballot. it may be all ios!

i'm def submitting a ballot but i'm playing/replaying a few things first. i don't have any consoles because lol poor, but I DO have some strong opinions about PC games.

take your time, but don't forget to vote!

ok, just sent

Right. Doing this tonight.

I can't vote for Frog Fractions again this year, can I?

Is is available in a new platform, or does it have new content for 2013?

Haha, no, I was being silly.

I just want an excuse to vote for it again tbh

Submitted! Pretty easy, really. I didn't include any write-ups or anything, if I get round to that should I send them to you or just keep them for the results thread?

Send them later.

My ballot is ready, I just haven't finished my blurbs. Should be sent by Friday. My #1 pick surprised me!

weekend bump

I'll put a ballot together in the week...

bump

voted!

Finally sent! Sorry it took so long!

working on this right now - any worry that the distraction of the 2013 album rollout will sandbag the number of ballots that come in?

If there aren't enough votes by the 31st I'll just postpone a week. We're not even close at this point imo

i will, as always, submit at the very last minute

mine is in, with blurbs, hate rant to follow

I keep forgetting to submit

i'll get this out tomorrow i guess

http://public.media.smithsonianmag.com/legacy_blog/I-voted.jpeg

haha wow, I played 0 new games this year. I think that may be my personal record

you have the rest of the week to play all the games

I voted. It was a sad ballot

Yo Voté

sent. let me know if you want more notes on stuff I didn't vote for

i sent you a ballot yesterday btw

oh hey, I voted

okay, i've sent ballot confirmations to everyone, so if you didn't get one I didn't receive your ballot.

i didn't get a ballot confirmation but i'm pretty sure you got mine

i said "much obliged"

we forgot to nominate flappy bird

that's... a tragedy

year of impact 2014 surely?

i don't think we do year of impact for c+p but forks can correct me if I'm wrong

We keep it lax, so sure, it should be live for '14

24 hours

voted, huzzah!

Deadline in 2.5 hours!

Ok Ok I'm doing it now!

Time's up. Send it in now or learn to live with the regret.

Sent!

Okay, no more ballots. Time to do some math.

If I include 5's, there are 114 games that received votes. If I exclude them, there are 93 games. So I'm thinking of doing an honorable mention list for the 5's, and then I'll roll out the rest in four batches. Okay?

sounds like a good plan.

how many ballots did you end up receiving? and do you have an idea of when you might start rolling out the results? also wooooooooo

aw, i love seeing the single votes, but i don't blame you, that's an extra assload of work

yeah the one thing is i'd appreciate comments for the single votes as well, if there are any, out of curiosity, etc.

I'm showing all the votes, but I think I'll do the five-score games in small batches instead of individual posts.

and do you have an idea of when you might start rolling out the results?

Tomorrow!

how many ballots did you end up receiving?

27

after this is over, maybe we should discuss outreach on this thing

Totally failed to nom or vote for Disney Infinity, oops.

outreach?

larger voter base. I've long maintained it's worth it.

I'm showing all the votes, but I think I'll do the five-score games in small batches instead of individual posts.

Sounds reasonable to me, the games I scored five were more 'I played these, they were reasonably entertaining for a short period of time' than anything else. Don't really require major dissection.

maybe we should discuss outreach on this thing

I'm not really sure how one would go about this? I mean, the voter base is the number of people who post to ilx and have played ten games they would feel comfortable about voting for - I'm not sure if there is a much larger number of these people out there who haven't voted.

what would napoleon do?

can't wait for the rollout, btw - favorite poll, every year

i don't want to put more weight on forks/poly, but i believe forks used to email some bloggers and such for comments which gave us good stuff

but, OTOH, i'm fine with it just being insular and exclusively ILX opines. i don't know if it's worth it to add more work on this to make the existing work more justified, but hey, i ain't doin' it. i wish i had the programming chops to do some kind of web form magic to make it easier for y'all

honestly, the way i was doing it (with multiple links to essays, developer blogs, reviews, thoughtpieces; video of gameplay; quotes from ilxors; a few choice photos or animations) it took MINIMUM twenty minutes per entry to make. Seeing as there were 100+ nominees last year, you can do the math. the actual polling was really fairly easy and totally scalable from 50 people to 500. my feeling was that if i was going to spend that much time working on this, it had to find a bigger audience or else i was just being crazy.

STOKED STOKED STOKED STOKED

eep. you did a great job and everyone loved it, but realistically, i don't think ILG's audience will ever be big enough to justify those kind of man-hours

co-sign (the gif-making was also pretty pointless and time-consuming)

but awesome

this year, roll out the results in a single text file, all lowercase, no spaces!

it was fun as a weird obsessive thing to do but we'd need to engage a reddit subgroup or a video game blog with some following to make it worth taking back on again at that level. still and all, the threads themselves are something i return to for info on games from a given year and are useful and interesting artifacts. but even so
http://images.sodahead.com/polls/003257673/1540635093_lethal_weapon_im_too_old_for_this_shit_answer_2_xlarge.jpeg

the nice thing about liking games that no one else does is that i am guaranteed to see some of my faves in the early rundown

or to sound less l33t dick, liking games for reasons that no right minded individual would choose as reasons to like games

oh shit speaking of which i still owe polyphonic my hate rant, shit. do you need that from me today or can i let it stew up to a lather first

one reason i like this poll is the weird casual ilx hivemind aspect. any outreach that made it more predictable would take out all the fun. like i can see the big ticket studio games i'll never play all ranked from 1-10 on any given site.

i could see maybe soliciting on quarter-to-three forums?

also, yeah, google docs lets you make real simple surveys that people can fill out to improve the webform aspect with virtually no work.

but in the end, someone still needs to normalize the names, package up the rollout, etc.

eh, following Tom Chick's lead ain't much better than going w/the mainstream outlets

maybe there's a logical way we can divide up the work to ease the burden - i wouldn't mind putting in a few hours to help

Coint and Plick 2014 - The Seventh Annual ILX Video Game Poll

the other place i could imagine connecting to would be toucharcade and/or forums therein. but that would overweight the mobile side even further. what i like about the ilx poll is cookie clicker sitting next to whatever big budget moviegame experience thing sitting next to like tiny tower, without anyone pontificating about what a "real game" is or isn't.

i hear ya