The First Annual Coint and Plick: The ILG Best Game of 2007 Poll

I'm not voting til after Christmas, but of the few I've played so far I'd go with Puzzle Quest.

I crossposted it to ILE for maximum justice!

I should have specified WoW: Burning Crusade but still.

Abanana, are you not voting till after Christmas just in case Santa brings you the best game ever that's better than ten Puzzle Quests?

anyone voting for WoW probably knows they're voting for BC ;)

hahahahahaha true

Every Extend Extra Extreme
Artonelico
War Tech: Senko no Ronde
Bullet Witch
EXIT
^don't know any of these...?

I voted for something released in 2006

i give it to bioshock, it sold me on 360
most played: warcrack
most hated: warcrack

Oh holy crap. I can't decide between Bioshock and Zelda PH.

BTW I havent played Every Extend Extra Extreme but it looks pretty awesome, its one of those ultra-trippy puzzle games.

most awesomeness per dollar (thus best) has gotta be fire pro.

Super Mario Galaxy, but if I owned a 360 I'd be pretty tempted by both Orange Box and Bioshock.

gone for Zelda, but I haven't played any of the Xbox. Surprised not to see Pro Evolution?

Every Extend Extra Extreme: It's one of those trippy actiony games as mentioned above, except instead of shooting the other geometrical shapes, you blow yourself up near them... and try to cause chain reactions of their explosions hitting other explosions. Also, the music is omportant, as you get bigger explosions/points if you explode on the beat. It can also find the best of your own MP3s and build levels for them. I got billions of points playing that Robyn single, and an old Knife song.

Artonelico
It's a somewhat interesting jRPG for the PS2... I forget what its deal was, but it looks kinda like xenogers and has a pretty cool fighting system, and a lot of "item synthesis" stuff

War Tech: Senko no Ronde
It's like Virtual On, but top down, and more like a bullet hell shmup like ikaruga or something. If you don't know what I'm tlaking about you probably wouldn't like it :)

Bullet Witch
I dunno this game really.

EXIT
Forks I think you would love this game. Very stylish puzzle-platformer where you are a guy named "Mr. ESC" who needs to rescue people from burning/flooding/etc buildings.

there was really a game called grim grimoire?

besides the crossword game, the only games i played from that list are portal and rock band, exactly one time each. they were fun, though.

yeah, grim grimoire was an RTS fr the ps2 that looked like if disgaea was a 2d platformer. hard ot explain, fun ot play.

Hahaha Halo 3 is listed twice.

Bullet Witch is a third person shooter where you can also cast crazy weather spells, hence "Bullet Witch."
http://insomnia.ac/reviews/xbox360/bulletwitch/review.php

GrimGrimoire also has a story that's a cross between Groundhog Day and Harry Potter. It's by Vanillaware, who also did Odin Sphere.

I only joined the modern world in late 2007 by finally purchasing a Wii, so I've played exactly three of the games above: Super Mario Galaxy, Desktop TD, and Puzzle Quest.

Puzzle Quest was a lot of fun for awhile, but after about 20 hours of play the lack of anything else to do made me put it away for good.

Desktop TD was fun until you read a guide showing you how to most efficiently win.

Super Mario Galaxy - yaywoo!

Desktop TD was fun until you read a guide showing you how to most efficiently win.

I watched a few videos and yet I still can't beat Medium. I'm just really terrible at it or something. I'm not upgrading the right stuff at the right time.

i wont vote until i get a chance to play the orange box, but so far mario is winning by a landslide

I'm the anti webber, I've voted for the Orange Box but I won't be getting around to playing mario unti next year, and I'm expecting to adore it.

Peggle was a close second for me. Puzzle Quest, Picross DS and Bioshock were all great too.

OMG WAIT A MINUTE, WHERE THE FUCK IS CRYSIS???

is crysis out yet?

POKEMONS HELLO

Pokemons need a kick up the arse srsly.

i would have been far more likely to vote for metroid prime if i had been able to beat the final boss

I never beat the final boss in Banjo-Kazooie but it was still a great game. IMO you don't play a game just to get to the ending.

Crysis has been out about a month and it's very very good.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

OK I got to play a bunch of these (Portal, Halo 3, Mario Galaxy, NYT Crosswords, Zelda PH, Space Giraffe, Beautiful Katamari demo, Peggle). I vote for... Mario Galaxy!

Call of duty 4: CS killer.

Whatever the results of the poll, one has to admit, it was an awfully good year for video games. A lot of quality releases, but also a respectable amount of variety. Just from the list at the top - there's probably a year's worth of games I haven't had the chance to play yet (in particular, Mass Effect, God of War II, Uncharted and Persona 3 - all of which I hope to find time for in 2008 - as well as finding the time to finish Super Mario Galaxy, Zelda Phantom Hourglass and the Metroid Prime, perhaps). The scary thing is, 2008 looks like it may be at least just as good...

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

god you really are all mr. gay.

HURRAH.

I was going to try Mario Galaxy, but we couldn't find the disc at my buddy's house.

having now had the opportunity to play portal, i have to say it was robbed.

I am amused that a digital format of the New York Times Crossword Puzzle outranks Halo 3.

It has over 1000 puzzles and is awesome.

Not arguing! Just amused.
I want a "BELIEVE" commercial for the NYT Crossword DS...

I am weirdly tempted to repoll this in ballot format.
I will not do it, but I'm tempted.

Do it! I will vote and then complain when genres I don't play rate highly. I promise it'll be good times.

forks if anything u shd rerun 2009 in poll format~~

Don't do it.

I am weirdly tempted to repoll this in ballot format.
I will not do it, but I'm tempted.

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god 2007 ruled

I still haven't played Mario Galaxy, I should get around to that.

decade poll shurely

Holy holy what a good year for games. I still haven't played Mario Galaxy or even seen it played. Or in fact any game on Wii besides the minigames games.

Decade poll is a great idea if someone wants to do the work

decade poll makes no sense imo-- if you are going to take a massive xsection i would rather see "generation" poll-- ie. best of the ps2/xbox/gamecube era or something. Decades are arbitrary enough for movies, films, etc but for games it makes NO sense.

I would totally vote in best of platform awards.

oh yes, me too

feel free to take a fifteen minute break before starting that one up for us forks

dude, let me get a job first and then we can talk.
also, with this much work, i really wanna get at least fifty voters so it feels like this has the weight of groupthink behind it. Same amount of work if it's twenty or fifty!

Seriously forks if you have any tips you should email me and I can run a best-of PS2 or something!

I also could run one.

How would cross-platform games work however? Should it just be an all-encompassing sixth-generation home console best-of (DC, GC, PS2, XBOX)? Or is that too much of a clusterfuck? I think individual ones still makes the most sense, it's crazy when you think about how many games back then were on one console or the other vs. now where almost everything is on both!

I think going system-by-system would make the most sense; sometimes multi-platform games are better on one system than any others (Killer 7 & Beyond Good and Evil on GC come to mind) and would receive the most appropriate number of votes that way.

guys, go for it!
I would recommend breaking up the work so you have one person collating votes, organizing the entries and putting them on ilx (i might be willing to do this part; one person pulling ilx commentary, one person pulling youtubes, one person pulling links and one person pulling photos.

ooh system-by-system would be really fun! though the ps2 is still getting releases...