The Fourth Annual Coint and Plick Video Games Poll - Part Two: #80 - 105

Space Invaders Infinity Gene is now the first mobile handheld game to ever make me walk into a wall.

#84: Veggie Tales 3D – PC – 10 pts – 1 vote- FREE!
Download Hub
http://i1-games.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Veggie-Tales-3D_1.jpg

Dev interview

http://i1-games.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Veggie-Tales-3D_3.jpg

Bamcquern: A mock punk scribbly adventure game so nihilistic that it crashes when you win.

http://i1-games.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/Veggie-Tales-3D_2.jpg

I have no idea what I'm supposed to do in that game.

BUMP

lol

fwiw, forks, all of the pictures and youtubes and blurbs are awesome, but if stripping it down to just a single picture and maybe a link makes things easier, I'm sure no one would be pissed!

I'm actually finding this rate of unveiling to be pretty great, because it means I get time to try these games out as we go. Unlike previous years, where the sheer volume of stuff to play gets quickly overwhelming and I end up never get round to most of them.

this is a valid point; I've been playing Desktop Dungeons relentlessly ever since its entry. definitely would have made my ballot if I'd played it last year!

ditto! that game is fab

yyyyyyeah, it's all part of a plan

#84: Victorian BMX – Flash – 10 pts – 1 vote – FREE!
Official Game Site
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mgyYTW2w19c/TF3uWnEHyCI/AAAAAAAAJEs/MCdRCLf0n3Y/s1600/Victorian+BMX.gif

Nhex: I played A LOT of Flash games this year, even more than usual. It seemed like there was inventive, fresh stuff coming out every week in 2011 from every corner of the web. Victorian BMX was easily one of my favorites. This game had wonderful art, tight controls, addictive score chasing and an amusing, stupid metal riff that plays nonstop in the background to pump you up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G98YevAJQxg

jjjusten: AWESOME

http://media.kotaku.com.au/wp//2010/08/victorian-bmx.jpg

Gamasutra

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/08/14/bmx.JPG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSsjsHnFOsA]

forksclovetofu: Joe Danger/Excitebike lite but good for whiling away an hour or two. Price is right!

#84: World of Goo – iPad – 10 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site

http://theappera.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/world-of-goo-ipad-announcement-1.png

Dev Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEdo-C5dfe8

By the Numbers

http://img.slidetoplay.com/screenshots/world-of-goo-2a.PNG

Braid as told by World of Goo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpf55Sin-jo

Forksclovetofu: Clever design and execution, comparable in some ways to Katamari. My downstairs neighbor is a mechanical engineer who knocked out the first fifteen boards in under an hour; he says this should be called “Building a Bridge”. But it’s an AWESOME bridge.

http://theappera.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/world-of-goo-ipad-announcement-2.jpg

Gravel Puzzleworth: Interesting how they packed so much so content in; every level had new ideas. I do sort of resent that I was never stuck. Maybe a bit too easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLI0H--9gsc

http://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/worldofgooiphone-thumb-640xauto-9094.jpg

Durrr Durrr Durrrrr: OMG, that level with the balloons and the windmills, is probably the most graceful thing ever shown by monitor! Holy fucking shit! Who's with me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bNsaK-M77g

2d Boy Website

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/artwork/imgthumbs/na-wqpd/world_of_goo_iphone_art.jpg

are you splitting up the same game for different systems? coulda sworn i voted for Goo... or was this my vote?

your vote dude.

ah okay, i voted for the iPhone version, not iPad... hence the confusion :/

i don't think there IS an iphone world of goo yet? has it released?

Search "world of goo" on iphone app store gives me "did you mean word of god?"

2D Boy won’t put a specific date on World of Goo's iPhone debut, but it's currently targeting March 2011

http://tinyurl.com/cez93k

*sigh*

#84: World of Goo – jailbroken iPhone – 10 pts – 1 vote

hahaha <3

i mean it's essentially the iPad version but w/e

btw- iPod touch, to be specific

and now i realize i fucked it up the first time when i voted. meant IPOD TOUCH. i dont even have a fuckin iPhone ;_;

I think we need to repoll to make up for this critical error

#84: Yakuza 3 – PS3 – 10 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site
http://www.dpadmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Yakuza-3-01.jpg

Metacritic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lctqX1SrAQo

Matt D: Underworld melodramatic soap opera and karaoke simulator. It's an old-fashioned action-RPG, sending you wandering around its massive world searching for some arbitrary trigger to advance the story with depressing regularity but the environment is so fantastically well rendered that you walk away from the story at any time and find something to do, and it's charm / presentation is more than enough to overcome its deliberate anachronisms. The NA version apparently has a pile of cut content and I'm hoping for more localized development in #4.
http://www.cheatcc.com/imagesps2e/yakuza_3a.jpg
Eurogamer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL6kzPYJ0Ho

Dev Interview

http://www.psu.com/media/yakuza-3/site_yakuza-3-ss-8.jpg
Daniel_Rf: The most fun I've had doing chores for children ever.

Hysterical Impossibly Badly Dubbed Video Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9L2pButdCU

Jamescobo: It sucks that they're removing content, but I never got as much into the hostess stuff as other Yakuzatards so I'm not slitting my wrists over it or anything. As long as I can still win a fight with a tiger by sticking a cigarette in its eye, I'll be good. Anyone who doesn't buy this game should be reincarnated as Amy Winehouse's taint.

Composer Interview

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/07/yakuza_005.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo8YoAS2XZE

Yak Tested
http://gamestyle.com/media/images/games/screenshots/large/ps3-yakuza3-240310-04.jpg
Cozen: Massive, despite the cuts.

Sega claims to know what’s up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5EW6fq07_c

Four way tie for #80

#80: Halo Reach – 360 – 10 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site
http://www.everybodyplays.co.uk/images/screenshots/picsforarticles/Halo-Reach-Jetpack.jpg

Metacritic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeDW4tHlVU

Polyphonic: My favorite Halo is Pretty Hate Machine.

http://www.shoppingblog.com/pics/halo_reach_ss1.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMYrKTU8Hmc

Zero Punctuation

http://nogamenotalk.com/files/2010/09/Halo-Reach-Funan-14-Sep-b-1.jpg

Over 200 Mil in sales for day one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQwXVgNHLo

bnw: One nice thing about Halo games: colors and light as opposed to all the drab, rusted out worlds most FPS games put us in!

http://turbo.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2010/04/halo-reach-advert.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttaL_7tGl7c

On an “M” Rating

http://www.teamteabag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/HaloReachSpartanSkull.png

Mitch Krpata: Bungie's best effort to date, Reach is an incredibly polished, multifaceted offering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs2TPo7z0sM

The Beta Story

http://www.softsailor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Halo-Reach-012.jpg

Four way tie for #80

the Minutemens lost prog epic

Haha, I just laughed out loud at my own joke.

#80: Infinity Blade – iPhone – 10 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site
http://nerdreactor.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/500x_infinity_blade.jpg

Autumn Almanac: Run to glowing spot, hit knight, run to glowing spot, hit knight. Dull. But pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvPIhCd8N4

Metacritic

http://timenerdworld.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/586_infinity-blade.png

Eurogamer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uySr31INttM

Jim D: Probably voting for the engine more than the game here, but dude it's GORGEOUS.

http://gamersleak.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/infinity_blade.jpg

Even better on iPad2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssd4P0bgSM

Dev Interview

http://gigaom2.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/05-infinity-blade.png?w=610

A beautiful garden with very high walls

http://touchreviews.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Infinity-Blade-God-King.png

#80: Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 – Wii/DS/PC/PS3/360/PSP/iPhone – 10 pts – 2 votes
Official Game Site
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2757/4478873931_67b1f48ff9.jpg

Metacritic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbDu_0TxQLM

2.7 Million sold

http://www.gaminglives.com/wp-content/uploads/lego_harry_potter_hermione_enlrg.jpg

Producer Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv4KZhi_GMU

Gametrailers

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_hOEkcXiPJVM/TFApR4On-qI/AAAAAAAAAeU/vxbpMXuvGfk/s1600/Lego-Harry-Potter-Years-1-4-01.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nv9p4tbcbI

http://wireninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/lego-harry-potter-emma-watson.jpg

Euler: My son is playing the heck out of it, so I voted for him.

http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/baby-lego-harry-potter.jpg

Dev Interview

http://www.marriedwithvideogames.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LegoHarryPotter-SS5.jpg

#80: Ys 7 – PSP – 10 pts – 2 vote
Official Game Site
http://admintell.napco.com/ee/images/uploads/gamertell/ys_7_psp.jpg

Metacritic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpbwTNORntk

Captain Lorax: I'll rep for any Ys game from Oath in Felghana onward. Ys has basically nailed the winning formula for top-down action-RPGs… and it’s more action than RPG. If you enjoyed the gameplay for A Link to The Past then you will like Ys games.

http://www.rpgland.com/content/media/2009/07/7thys01.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QHR-azBa4w

Dev Interview

http://www.japanator.com/elephant//ul/17465-japanator-recommends-ys-the-oath-in-felghana/Ys%207-620x.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnHt0-GfMhg

Localization Interview

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7nkd65kq31qd4q8ao1_500.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGFrVdoq3WY

aaaaand that's finally it for this thread.
New thread for 53-79 is forthcoming sometime this year.

i can see why you kept putting this off now

Just going to rep for Lego Harry Potter for a minute (I gave it its other vote and, like Euler's, it was really a vote on behalf of our junior household gamer).

The original lego star wars was pretty solid in 2005, and this is what, the fifth or sixth iteration now? So it's a) great that TT are even bothering to continue making improvements to the core game (they could very easily just be re-skinning the same idea over and over), and b) even more great that they're making really intelligent improvements, which are aware of and focussed on their core audience of under-10s.

Basically it seems Travellers' Tales are the only people making kids' games that don't insult kids at this point.

(The improvements, btw, come down to more puzzles, less fighting, smoother co-op experience. All good stuff).

^^^ yes; I've been watching my son play this a bunch & I agree with this take on the improvements, though I oughta try playing co-op with him.

I've read that Toy Story 3 is a pretty good kids game but I haven't picked it up yet, gonna let my boy drain the Harry Potter game first.

I periodically check the Ys Forum for Ys Origin (Ys Six for the pc) fan-made translation patch. Ys fans have been waiting years for that patch. If you don't feel bad about torrenting Japanese games then I say go ahead and get Ys The Oath in Felghana (Ys Five for the pc) and the translation patch for that one (some low end PCs can play it just fine).

Ys = fast smooth hack'n'slah action that isn't as simpleminded as many hack'n'slash games since there is more emphasis on dodging, memorizing boss patterns and not all enemies can be powered through with a flurry of sword strikes -- many have unique patterns and attributes that will change up the way you approach combat with them. Ys hack'and'slash is rewarding because it's fast, like I already mentioned, and there is a variety of attacks/combos. Plus the graphics are always good looking. There isn't really many puzzles or as many kinds of items as A Link to the Past but I still think that's a good game to compare Ys to.

I can't believe someone else voted for ys 7! all of the town/plot/dialogue stuff is incredibly dull but the hackin' and slashin' is the heart of it and it just feels so right.

Whoa, another PSP game to play? Awesome! It is pretty much all I have been playing all year, I figured after Tactics Ogre I'd have to pu it down.

yeah, the first hour or so is insanely dull. I wouldn't fault anyone for putting the game down because dull and overlong introductions to a story i don't care about/endless training tutorials RIGHT AT THE START OF A GAME are my number one pet peeves with game design. it amazes me that games still do this to people. my time is limited and I want to actually PLAY SOMETHING, people!!

but if you can soldier through, you'll be rewarded with a very fun hack n slash rpg.

playing the PSP remake of ys 1 & 2 right now. highly recommended if you've never played these games before in one of their thousands of other reincarnations.

the Settlers 7 post is the most highly-trafficked post in the history of the blog by like a factor of ten

Which what where? Linky?

http://cointandplick.wordpress.com

the Settlers 7 post in question: http://cointandplick.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/coint-plick-2010-84e-settlers-7/

wow, i honestly didn't know you had caught up. fuck, now i feel extra guilty. will post more tonight.

also james: i can provide you with the raw html if that would make doing the blog easier?

no problem! with Wordpress it's basically just a matter of cutting everything straight from the posts & pasting it straight in; the biggest hassle is grabbing the YouTube links and that ain't no thang. at this point the tagging probably takes longer than pulling the info from the post.

james, any idea why it's so trafficked? is it getting hit on GIS?

just GIS'ed it: answer is YES. I run a SNES blog and the pages that get the most hits are accidentally SEO'd into getting mad hitz.

What's with you guys running these awesome game blogs and not sharing the links? Post em here! :)

i think i have pimped it on this site before but it's everygame.wordpress.com and it's not v good anymore

givf part threeeeeee

okay, i'll take a stab at this today/tomorrow.