Ninth annual Coint & Plick, for 2015 games - BALLOT TIME (due Feb. 12) - Start your stumping!

The time has come to pick your favourite games of 2015 in ILX's ninth Coint & Plick poll, sponsored by I Love Games! Ballots work similar to Pazz & Jop; you have 100 points to allocate, and may give as few as 5 or as many as 30 points to any game. Ballots are due in three weeks (Friday, Feb. 12th) and the rollout will begin the following Tuesday (Feb. 15 - Feb. 18).

There are three ways to vote!

a) Make a copy of this spreadsheet, fill it out, and e-mail me the spreadsheet (ps2ilxⓐgmail.com)
b) Use the spreadsheet (above) and enter the "copy/paste" line into this Google Form.
c) Manually make your ballot, spacing your number of points and your game with " /// " (e.g. 30 /// Agar.io), each game on a new line, and e-mail it to me (ps2ilxⓐgmail.com)

You can find the complete list of titles at this permalink or in the second tab of the spreadsheet.

Please also include, if you choose, your disappointment of 2015 and your non-2015 game of 2015.

Begin your stumping now! There is still time to play things!

To whoever just requested share of the spreadsheet: are you not able to make a copy of the sheet w/o edit access? That could make things complicated if not

I couldn't view it at all, Google said I had to request access before viewing it.

So what are the best indie PS4 games I should try before Feb. 12

Oh weird... I think I fixed it tho. Next person to have a look, let me know.

xp how are we defining indie tho

got a PS3 this year, am gradually catching up, only things I've played on here are browser-based tho I think

Agar.io was a lot of stupid fun for a while there

We don't copy paste the 'HAND' 'CONSOLE' bits right?

Dude, just fyi, the thread title says 'Point and Click'. Took me forever to figure out why searches for 'coint' weren't leading me here.

Naturally, there's currently a big PSN flash sale on recent indie games and I bought a ton of 2015 stuff that wasn't nominated. And I realized that Q.U.B.E. was just ported to PS3 last year and that's easily one of my recent favorites aaaaaand it wasn't nominated either. Boo.

Shall I change the title for you guys?

What's in the flash sale that's been nommed that I should check out?

Quickly cross-referencing with ones I've heard good things about, Actual Sunlight and Steins;gate. And, as I say, lots that weren't nominated. And lots of good older ones that I'm glad I already had so I could save at least a little bit of money.

I've gone ahead and changed the title to 'Coint & Plick'. Can't see why anyone would have an issue with that but let me know if you do.

Awesome, sorry about the fuck up in the title and thanks for editing it :)

Eeeh, I'm going to have to wait until I'm less hungover to do my ballot but I should be able to do it in the next couple of days - having played fewer games than listened to records it's a bit easier.

massive chalice is -80% on steam for $3.99 - it was tom chick's #1 game of the year. i thought it was only okay.

100 pts isn't enough :(

voted!

btw everyone should consider voting using weird numbers, not just multiples of 5 and 10, that way we can avoid the dreaded thirty-way tie

that's gonna happen for entries #700 through #50 anyway

Ooh ooh ooh! Something that would be neat!

Instead of me endlessly GISing for screens for the final product, what if you all used your devices (all of which are readily capable of taking screenshots now) to send me some pics? Any you can send, ideally at least 800x300, can just go to me via webmail or the email address above. Saves me a little bit of time, plus you get to help make the rollout look less agreesively shitty, especially for some of those weirdo games like Blades of Brim or whatever

http://i0.wp.com/wilwheaton.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/that-stupid-drudge-siren-lol.gif In celebration, Sunless Sea is FREE to try on Steam until 1pm PST on 31st January. The full game is also 40% off until 10am on 1st February! http://i0.wp.com/wilwheaton.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/that-stupid-drudge-siren-lol.gif

lol 3 ballots so far. i hope that rises

Shit, forgot about mine. Will try to get it sorted ASAP.

still 12 days to go and lots left i wanted to play before voting. but my ballot is pretty much in place and ready to be sent.

I didn't play much new this year but I still plan to vote. I'm delaying my ballot in case I play another 2015 game in the next week.

I'm still looking for (cheap) PS4 available indies to try. So far only Broken Age is eligible. Also having a go at Arkham Knight and Battlefield Hardline.

My ballot is gonna be last-minute because a) I haven't played much from 2015, b) I probably wouldn't seriously vote for most of the 2015 stuff I've played, and c) I hope to play at least one or two more 2015 releases that tickle my fancy, but d) it's really hard for me to make myself play new stuff when I'm all into playing unexplored old stuff on my new Vita. Short version: I hope to get a ballot in even if that ballot is only like two games long.

Did anyone play Sunless Sea while it was free? I'm giving it a decent number of pts.

Boy, I sure hope there are a lot of you planning to submit, because haha there are four ballots submitted haha
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i'll submit mine today!

I guess, realistically, I'm not going to get around to much of the stuff that I wanted to get around to, so I may just go ahead and submit the three or four 2015 games I've actually played.

I will submit mine today too. Though in trying to sort it I have realised that this voting system punishes people who liked a lot of games in a year. Had to drop a few that I would have liked to give points to as I wanted to give stronger votes to my absolute favourites.

^ this 100%. my list could/should be twice as large. maybe [if not this year than the next] we could have a system where if you vote for 10 games you get X pts but if you vote for 20 games you get double the amount? that way we could encourage larger ballots without giving ppl who only vote for 1 game the same number of points as someone voting for 20?

done. voted max points for the game that i was recently shocked to realize i've spent over 6 full days of my life playing this year, then 10 pts each to the games i've had fun watching other people play and hope to play in the future.

Yeah, I know what you mean--I don't really want to change it at this point since it's fun to compare to previous years but I definitely had to drop some stuff I liked. Good news is solo 5-point votes usually get in because nobody votes
(xp@ emil.y)

Maybe we can look at adding more points in future years, but maintaining the 5-30 range per individual title

I'm not going to complain too much, as it makes deciding what to cut part of the process too, but definitely something to think about. I didn't quite have 20 games to rep for but I can imagine if I had it would have been very very hard.

Anyway, sent. Haven't included any pics, will do so if I get time but no promises.

I was only able to play a handful of new games this past year, but I've sent in a ballot.

I tried out two short nominees this week and one will be getting a lot of points.

Going to vote soon but i havent played that many games that came out last year, so everything is on it.

Is there a nomination list? I can't find one.

There are two ways to find it linked in the OP of this thread.

bit the bullet and sent in my ballot - doubt i'll have the chance to do any revisions before deadline

i'm happy to replace anyone's ballto fi they do want to revise before the deadline, fyi

trying to remember if i vote for ballto's adventure now

this is gonna be great!

we're up to ten now. i'm not confident that we'll get 30 :(

hopefully we at least get enough to even HAVE a top 77? right now only ~50 games have received votes because lol

I will vote last minute

trying to play at least one more 2015 game so that my ballot can have more than 3 games on it but I dunno

I guess this decisively proves that the SJWs killed gaming.

Almost done with Arkham Knight. Ballot will be determined by its ending.

But which ending? You need to 100% it for the full one.

Ugh no. All that riddler shit.

you better watch the credits and cheer when my name pops up

Haha I forced my family to sit through them for that reason and, um, then I forgot your surname so couldn't tell whether we'd missed you or what.

just voted -- liking the new spreadsheet & form ballots

i should probably write up some comments too right

how many ballots did we have last year

I voted Metal Gear Solid V at the top. I know it has gotten a lot of negative press but it is nearly flawless to play. I picked up GOTY Witcher 3 for a bit and it was an absolute struggle to deal with the controls and camera. I also think MGSV's story is highly underrated.

I played way too much MGSV, like over 500 hours. So it's sort of an overwhelming presence for 2015 for me. Looking forward to finding out about some cool stuff I missed last year!

Did MGSV get bad reviews? I thought it was universally loved.

I mean the drama surrounding Kojima and Konami. It has been weird to see everyone dogpile on this company who has been making games for 3 decades.

i should probably write up some comments too right

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This year people can just post them in the thread, I think

how many ballots did we have last year

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Apparently 23? i thought we had 29 but i must have looked at another poll. really hope we can at least match if not beat 23 this year... we're not even halfway lol

voted, hope I get some command points for doing so

I'm going to try to remember to throw together a ballot tonight. Unfortunately, there are going to be at least a couple of write-ins that I played after the nominations closed (or that I maybe forgot to nominate).

oh weird, email forwarding fully didn't work, so i missed 4 ballots! up to 15!

trying to figure out how much of the image work i can do before friday now

i'll try to get my ballot in tonight. i was trying to finish a game first, but i think i'm just going to vote for it and repent later if it turns out to absolutely tank during the last 1/4th.

feel horrible about my ballot. honestly have barely played anything this year other than rocket league and mpq

Alright, I just sent in my ballot even though I didn't get around to playing half of the games I nominated yet. Oh well!

I submitted mine. My disappointment was also on by best list. I didn't notice this until I pressed submit, but it's true -- the game was a let down but was still OK.

Submitted! So sorry, but like a third of them are write-ins that I only recently played or remembered were from 2015. Let me know if you need console info or whatever.

no sweat on the write-ins.

my spreadsheet is at work, but with two more ballots, i think that officially puts us at 77 games with votes!

My disappointment was also on by best list.

same, my biggest disappointment was the ending of my #1 game. it's still my favorite, it just could've been MORE my favorite

Alright, I've got 20 ballots. I'm going to finish the image template and start generating them in probably an hour or two.

If you wanted to submit a ballot but are late, you've got til 12:00 Eastern.

Also for a little bit of drama, the cutoff for the rollout is 10 points, so everything that got 5 you wonder if it might show up in the top X during the rollout. So it'll be a top ~60 games in 2015 (full list will come after)

If you want to pad it out I literally have 10 more entries I desperately wanted to vote for but didn't have any more points to give out - I'd be happy to give them 5 pts each and send them along ;)

nah but after the rollout you should post your extended ballot!

Unfortunately I got my ps4 just too late to vote for...anything on the mom list. Next year I'm all over it though.

I think I said the rollout was starting today, but on account of I'm an idiot, it's starting tmrw (and I'll do a 3-day rollout instead of 4). Sorry for the delay!

so psyched

No need to compress to 3 days, if they roll out slower and that leaves more room for discussion as we go then that's a good thing, no? Unless of course you just don't want to give over even more of your life to it, which would be completely justified obviously.

i just don't like doing it over a weekend, or splitting it over 2 different weeks, plus mondays are difficult for me... i'll get started soon tho :) just need to get the uploads ready

Ninth Coint & Plick: The ~60 best games of 2015 according to ILX