Hey all; it's end of the year and here we go again!
For 2009's Coint and Plick we had thirty + voters; this time I'd love to aim for fifty! I'd like to request that folks who even just played one or a very few games this year put in a ballot with us; if you're only voting for one or two games, that's just fine. We like casual gamers too and we'll happily take lurkers or off site readers! Everybody is welcome.
Some history:
The First Annual Coint and Plick: The ILG Best Game of 2007 Poll
The Second Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2008
The Second Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2008 - Part 2: The Top Forty!
The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part One: #77 through #93
The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Two: #52 through #75
The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Three: #21 through #51
Concluding The Third Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2009 - Part Four: #1 through #20
Please submit your ballot via email to me at
forksclovetofu at gmail dot com
in Pazz and Jop style vote/point format: You'll have 100 points to divide among your Top 10 games released in 2008, 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 '08 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 2009 poll will have their numbers rolled onto the 2010 poll, so no need to vote for them twice.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRY IS JANUARY 25th; I'll try to have the final results posted by February 1st.
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) Flash games, art games, MMORPGs, videogame versions of card and party games, online fantasy sports, social network games and cellphone games are all entirely valid choices as long as they were versions released and played in '09.
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 2010. That means World of Warcraft Cataclysm, any of the Borderlands modules and any classic NES games released as Wiiware are legit picks. 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... in other words, I won't vote for Plants vs. Zombies on 360i, even though I liked PvZ a lot, because I didn't play it on the 360. Similarly, if you played an emulation of Sam and Max: Beyond Time this year on your PC, don't vote for the Wii DLC version. If you played a ton of World of Warcraft but not this year, don't vote for it. If you played Borderlands for the first time this year, don't vote for the game unless you're voting solely for the new content. If you got Planescape for the PC from GOG, it's not a 2010 game. And so on.
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 '10 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!
2010 FIFA World Cup: South Africa (PS3/360)
3D Dot Game Heroes (PS3)
9 Innings 2011 (iPhone)
A Shadows Tale / Lost In Shadow (Wii)
Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (DS)
Achievement Unlocked 2 (Flash)
Alan Wake (360)
Alien Swarm (PC)
Alpha Protocol (PS3/360/PC)
Altitude (PC)
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (PC/Mac)
Angry Birds/Angry Birds Halloween/Angry Birds Xmas(iPhone/Android)
Aralon (iPhone)
Art Style: Light Trax (Wii)
Assassins Creed Brotherhood (PC/PS3/360)
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC/360/PS3)
Bayonetta (PS3/360)
Bejeweled 3 (PC/Mac)
Bioshock 2(360/PS3/PC)
bit.trip.runner (Wii)
Blur (360/PS3/PC)
Call Of Duty: Black Ops (PS3/360/PC)
Carcassonne (iPhone)
Castle Crashers (PS3)
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (PS3/360)
Castlevania: Rondo of Blood (Wii)
Cave Story (DSiWare)
Chaos Rings (iPhone)
Chime (360/PC)
Civilization 5 (PC/Mac)
Costume Quest (PS3/360)
Crackdown 2 (260)
Cut the Rope (iPhone)
Dance Central (360)
Dantes Inferno (360/PS3/PC)
Dark Void Zero (DSiWare)
Darksiders (360/PS3)
Dead Nation (PS3)
Dead Rising 2 / DR2: Case Zero (360)
Dead Space: Ignition (Wii)
Dead to Rights: Retribution (360/PS3/PC)
Deadly Premonition (360)
Deathspank (360/PS3/PC)
Dizzypad (iPhone)
DJ Hero 2 (PS3/360)
Do-Don-Pachi Dai-Fukkatsu (360)
Donkey Kong Country 4 (Wii)
Dragon Quest IX (DS)
Dungeons and Dragons Online (PC, ongoing)
Enslaved (PS3/360)
Epic Citadel (iPhone)
Epic Mickey (Wii)
Espgaluda II (360)
Etrian Odyssey III (DS)
Fable III (360)
Fallout: New Vegas (PC/Mac/360/PS3)
FIFA 11 (360/PS3/PC)
Final Fantasy XIII (360/PS3)
Football Manager 2011 (PC/Mac)
Fruit Ninja (iPhone)
Galaxy On Fire 2 (iPhone)
Game Dev Story (iPhone/Android)
God of War III (PS3)
Golden Sun: Dark Dawn (DS)
Goldeneye (Wii)
Gran Turismo 5 (PS3)
GunGirl 2 (PC)
Guwange (360)
Halo Reach (360)
Heavy Rain (PS3)
Hook Worlds (iPhone)
Infinity Blade (iPhone)
Ivy The Kiwi? (DS/Wii)
Joe Danger (PS3)
Just Cause 2 (360/PS3)
Ketsui: Kizuna Jigoku Tachi (360)
Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep (PSP)
Kirby's Epic Yarn (Wii)
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (PC/PS3/360)
Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (360/PS3/PC/Wii)
Limbo (360)
Little Big Planet (PSP)
Lost Planet 2 (360/PS3/PC)
Madden 2011 (PS3/Wii/360)
Mafia II (360/PS3/PC)
Majin and The Foresaken Kingdom (PS3/360)
Mass Effect 2 (360)
Mega Man 10 (PS3/360/Wii)
Metal Gear Solid - Peace Walker (PSP)
Metro 2033 (PS3/360/PC)
Metroid: Other M (Wii)
Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes (DS)
Minecraft (PC)
Mirror's Edge (iPhone)
MLB 10: The Show (PS3/PSP)
ModNation Racers (PS3)
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition (PS3/360)
Monster Hunter Tri (Wii)
Mr. AahH! (iOS)
Naughty Bear (360/PS3)
NBA Jam (Wii)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (PS3/360/PC)
NHL 2011 (PS3/360/Wii/PC)
Nier (PS3/360)
No More Heroes 2 (Wii)
Pac Man Championship Edition DX (PS3/360)
Persona 3 (PSP)
PES 2011 (360/PS3/PC)
Picross 3D (DS)
Pix'n Love Rush (iPhone)
Plants Vs. Zombies (iPhone)
Pokemon Heart Gold/Silver (DS)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future (DS)
Puzzle Agent (PC)
Puzzle Quest 2 (PC/DS/360)
Puzzle Quest HD (iPhone)
Qrank (iPhone)
Ragdoll Blaster 2 (iPhone)
Rage HD (iPhone)
Real Racing 2 (iPhone)
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale (PC)
Red Dead Redemption / Red Dead Redemption: Undead Rising (PS3/360)
Red Steel 2 (Wii)
Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition (PS3/360)
Resonance of Fate (PS3)
Robot Unicorn Attack (Flash)
Rock Band 3 (PS3/Wii/360)
Saboteur (360/PS3/PC)
Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space (Wii)
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse (PC/Mac/PS3/iPhone)
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (PS3/360)
Shantae: Risky's Revenge (DS)
Shatter (PC/PS3)
Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (DS)
Sid Meier's Pirates! (Wii)
Sigma (iPhone)
SimCity DX HD (iPhone)
Sin & Punishment: Star Successor (Wii)
Singularity (PS3/360)
Sleep Is Death (PC/Mac)
Slingo Supreme (iPhone)
Sly Cooper Collection (PS3)
Snoopy Flying Ace (360)
Solomon's Keep (iPhone)
Sonic Colors (Wii)
Space Funeral (PC)
space Invaders Infinity Gene (iPhone)
Space Miner (iPhone)
Specter Spelunker Shrinks (Flash)
Spelunker HD (PS3)
Spider: Secret of Bryce Manor (iPhone)
Splinter Cell: Conviction (360)
Split/Second (360/PS3/PC)
Starcraft 2 (PC/Mac)
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
Super Meat Boy (PC/360)
Super QuickHook (iPhone)
Super Scribblenauts (DS)
Super Street Fighter 4 (PS3/360)
Sushi Cat (Flash)
Taberinos (Flash)
Texting of the Bread (iPhone)
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom (360/PC)
The Tower (iPhone)
Tilt To Live (iPhone)
Tom Clancys H.A.W.X. 2 (360/PS3/PC)
Trainyard (iPhone)
Trauma Team (Wii)
Ufouria (Wii)
Valkyria Chronicles II (PSP)
Vanquish (PS3)
Victorian BMX (Flash)
VVVVVV (PC)
World of Goo (iPhone)
World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm (PC)
Yakuza 3 (PS3)
Ys 7 (PSP)
Zen Bound 2 (iPhone)
three weeks pass...
eleven months pass...