#70: You Found the Grappling Hook! – PC – 5 points – 1 vote - FREE GAMEOfficial game site
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D6ke5CRInek/R6qqG2btDpI/AAAAAAAAAG0/I6MShInVCYQ/s400/screen.PNG
“When developer Mark Essen discovered that Business Week posted a direct link to the game file for his game You Found the Grappling Hook, he replaced it with an alternate version. Players need to climb and enter the Business Week building that has been infiltrated with terrorists. All suspicious people need to be taken out. At the same time, the main character has to prove his legitimacy by answering questions of real editors. When all terrorists are gone and the trust has been proven, the main character can exit the building.”
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, I didn't know about the Business Week thing! Awesome.
The guy who did that video seems to be a fool or a jackass, since it doesn't look like he figured out you're supposed to SWING with the grappling hook, Bionic Commando-style. You can probably run through the whole game in 20 minutes, this guy didn't even get through half of it.
Keep it up, forkers!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: LEGO Batman (36) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
http://www.stuffwelike.com/stuffwelike/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/lego_batman_logo_min.jpg
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:27 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: KORG DS-10 Synthesizer (DS) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
Webinar: It's funnnnnnnnnn
Tombot: I just know I will officially look like the biggest genius in town when I sit in front of my iMac with the big powered monitor speakers and plug my Nintendo into it with a dinky headphone cable so I can make loops with a stylus on a tiny touchscreen.
Jeff LeVine: I imported, fooled around with it for about an hour and then thought, “What the hell am I going to do with this thing?” It's cool that they made a KORG you can mess around with on a DS, but it's exactly as useful to me if I'd bought a real KORG... i.e. good for sitting in a corner collecting dust :(
http://www.originalsoundversion.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/korg_ds_image.jpg
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: Dokapon Kingdom (Wii) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/images/gallery/9/2008/06/medium_2548905428_a62187cc43_o.jpg
Lamp: It looks pretty retarded but it also seems like a better version of Munchkin with more depth and hopefully just as much replayability. Only allowing four players is kind of a drag as we're used to playing with as many as seven but OMG this is gonna be awesome.
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon (DS) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
Brilliam: The battles, while difficult, are not hair-pulling maddening meat grinders. Each is a well-thought out set piece, unlike the decidedly mediocre GameCube and especially dull Wii installment. While it might not stand quite up to the GBA incarnation, it is a genuinely great handheld turn-based strategy game.
Lamp: This is probably the hardest Fire Emblem game, though Sacred Stones is probably the best of the portable ones. I think I still have some disgustingly nerdy chart I made graphing leveling potential in order to choose the best class promotions.
http://o.aolcdn.com/gd-media/games/fire-emblem-shadow-dragon/ds/tn_565_1.jpg
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: A Kingdom for Keflings – (XBLA) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
http://gamingshenanigans.com/images/keflings-press-generic06.jpg
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: Pack Rat (Online: Facebook Only) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
http://toddjordan.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/hanascreensnapz002.jpg%3Fw%3D666%26h%3D662
It's the perfect example of a good use of the Facebook application platform - the game contains all the right elements needed for keeping people coming back. Namely - a competitive element (compete with your friends, scoreboards etc); regular updates (in this case, adding new items to collect); beautifully designed graphics; not-reliant on inviting your friends; and most of all, great fun!
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
Online Flash Demo!
http://th01.deviantart.com/fs26/300W/i/2008/069/6/7/The_Apollo_Justice_Test_by_Lizninja.jpg
FanFic!: Apollo blinked at Klavier’s comparison for a few moments, consequently not realizing when the guitarist carefully plied Apollo’s hands away from his face. Smirking, Klavier brushed his fingers across the brunette’s tinged cheeks, causing them to go even redder. The prosecutor then laughed to himself as he turned away, striding out of the room and leaving behind a very confused Apollo.
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:57 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: Deadly Rooms Of Death RPG (PC) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: NHL 2009 (PS3) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
Will M: This game is pretty great, although it still has some issues IMO… namely, I don't like aiming shots in ANY sports game with the movement stick.
GM: This is the first non-baseball sports game I've played in over a decade. Flicking the right stick is so much more satisfying then just mashing triangle, or whatever. This is a lot of fun, even though (for the most part) I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing.
http://sportvideogames.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/nhl091.jpg
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: Civilization IV: Colonization (PC) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
CraigG: I voted for this just because it's the first Civ game I've played a lot since the original when I got it on my old Amiga 600. While I'd still rather play the original (and often still do), I can't vote for that... so here's a vote for a Civ IV expansion.
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
#70: Spore Creature Creator (PC) – 5 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
Nhex: Even using the free version with few parts, I'm surprised how fun it is. Damn you Maxis! I might have to get the full game after all... maybe. The online stuff seems incredibly well integrated.
BIG HOOS: It’s the greatest game ever gave.
Libcrypt: This is kinda fun… but it's not a game! There’s nothing you can do with the guys once you make 'em besides stare at your kids. I suppose everyone who does this makes a guy with a fireball-shooting penis, eh?
http://grumpygamer.com/images/SPOREyaddlemonster.jpg
Forksclovetofu: It's like working with living Play-doh or sketching with a magic pen. Endlessly fascinating and innovative; I spent hours creating a zoo of lil' buddies. God help me if they give you the option to physically produce these guys as sculptures or action figures; I'll have to get another job to support my menagerie.
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
More tomorrow. Any sitewide mods got any idea why this looks so bad from an Admin's perspective? Ah well.
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't wait until we get out of one vote land!
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 05:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i never voted on this (for which i'm sorry), and i know i busted your balls about it forks, but seriously... fine work.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 05:49 (fifteen years ago) link
We're just gettin' started!
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 06:01 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ lolled at this inexplicable comment
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 06:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i never voted on this (for which i'm sorry)
lol u never actually listed your best games in the thread u started back in July
― Lamp, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
:D
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
is super smash gonna place in this? easily my fav game OTY
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Gonna be awhile, but I actually like the one shots! Given the number of games that charted and the number of people who voted, the average is that each person nominated four unique games and then picked six that others had nominated. What I glean from that is we recognize a good game when we see one and, by and large, have surprisingly similar tastes. Stands to reason to me that means that these one shots are probably an excellent way to discover overlooked gems.
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
super smash is totally going to place, but might get dragged down by non-wii ownership
― born of nililism and iconoclasm (John Justen), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:27 (fifteen years ago) link
predict it still doing pretty well though.
great job with this forks! kind of weird nhl only got one vote.
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Two way tie for #68 here:
68: Iji (PC) – 6 points – 1 vote – FREE GAMEOfficial game site – Download Here
http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/104397-/iji_screen3-noscale.jpg
Nhex: Iji is a freeware 2D platform shooter inspired by Amiga era games and action titles like 'Flashback' and 'Out of this World'. With its great music and long story mode, this could easily have been a commercial title in the late 80s. It’s clearly a project of passion and it shows in the details of the menu interfaces and cutscene dialogue.
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Two of those #70s were mine - both things I thought would have other support. Weird.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
68: Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer (DS) – 6 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
Iroquois Pliskin: What's remarkable about Shiren is how much unlearning it foists the player inured to the conventions of traditional-RPGs. All the trappings of the game bespeak RPG standbys: there's an inventory full of swords and spell scrolls, recovery herbs, and the like. There's experience points and levels and so on. But Shiren the Wanderer swiftly undercuts this expectation; all the elements of the RPG language are there, but the basic syntax of the game is radically different. It all turns on the game's attitude towards progression. In the classic Role-Playing Game, core appeal of the genre is the progressive empowerment of your player-characters over the course of the game. Whatever the setting, you expect to continually gain levels acquire better weapons. When you die in Shiren, there is no progress-saving resurrection item on offer. Every time you fall, you irretrievably lose all of your levels and items. You start again from level one in the starting town. There are persistent elements of the game, which progress and improve between playthroughs, but your character isn't one of them.
http://dsmedia.gamespy.com/ds/image/article/850/850522/mystery-dungeon-shiren-the-wanderer-20080207031039179-000.jpg
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha btw i do not remember like half of the stupid things i sd about games lol drunk posting
i can only think of two maybe three games that someone else might have voted for that i voted for ;_;
― Lamp, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't play enough games this year to think I oughta vote but I will just say Shiren the Wanderer is bloody fantastic
― thomp, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Forks, didn't mean to diss the one-votes - it's cool. Just curious to see the games where more than one random person was interested in enough to put on their poll
― Jeff LeVine, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
shiren sounds bizarre!
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
do you level up in it (only to lose the levels?)
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I can diggit Jeff; just warning you that we're looking at another day or two of single votes ahead. I also really wanna play Shiren.
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
67: Dyson – (PC) – 8 points – 1 vote – FREE GAMEOfficial game site – Download Here
http://www.indiegames.com/blog/images/timw/dyson2a.png
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoa Dyson looks cool.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
indeed, does look AWESOME
― &U HAEV MY AXE LOL (Will M.), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
66: Guitar Hero: World Tour (360/Wii) – 9 points – 2 votesOfficial game site
CraigG: Simply put, I'm just really good at Guitar Hero! Ironically, it also improved my speed and given me a renewed vigor for playing the "real" guitar.
Forksclovetofu: Man, I gotta say I don't know if I can buy another fucking C-Note plastic Fisher Price instrument for another system without beginning to feel badly about myself as a person but I do kinda want this for my 360. Online play that works would make this a whole new game.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/bill-gates-with-slash.jpg
― angry pro-microwave vegetarian (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
more later tonight; my work internet is buh-roken
I abstained from this just because there are 3 or 4 08 games I expect to be contenders which I've not finished (or even started) yet. Which, in retrospect, was a bit daft really. Regretting not getting my votes in now, but hey.
gg forks!
― JimD, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice work forks, looking forward to the following installments!
― CraigG, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
forks if i submit now can you completely do over the whole thing
― s1ocki, Thursday, 5 February 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
why is there no #69????
― Lamp, Thursday, 5 February 2009 02:05 (fifteen years ago) link
No sixty-nine, cause of a two way tie for sixty-eight.S1ocks, you're obliged to be the first ballot for when I do this next year.
There's a log jam of twelve ten-point-one-vote games tied for #55 and here they are.
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
55: Space Invaders Extreme (PSP) – 10 points - 1 voteOfficial game site
Brilliam: This game is like a Basement Jaxx record: familiar, but so over-the-top noisy and fun and colorful and explosive that you can't help but shake your ass with excitement every time you put it on. Space Invaders Extreme, perhaps even moreso than Pac-Man Championship Edition of last year, nails updated retro gaming.
cozwyn: Distracting and fun!
jamescobo: 2008 might be an even better year for remakes than for "new" games. http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/space-invaders-fractal-big.jpg
JimD: It's fantastic! Space Invaders in a Rez style with a complex and addictive combo system and fun weapon power ups. Bizarrely addictive and highly recommended.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v0fV15P7uQo/RmQCWGSr1PI/AAAAAAAAAsg/EiyBbnWrPy8/s400/EARTH+1.JPG
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 03:53 (fifteen years ago) link
55: Karoshi 2.0 (PC) – 10 points - 1 vote – FREE GAMEOfficial game site
Karoshi is a Japanese word and means 'death by overwork'. In this game many things are not what you'd expect and the goal of each level is counter-intuitive: you need to die.
http://www.vertigogaming.net/PSP/Karoshi0.png
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
55: Boom Blox (Wii) – 10 points - 1 voteOfficial game site
Iroquois Pliskin: It's the finest Wii game since Wii sports and maybe even better.
Tombot: Boom Blox is pretty fun! I thought the music was the worst part, as the loops are too short and obvious but I do like being able to pick off the animals if I'm doing badly.
Forksclovetofu : Surely a great game although you will feel like a dork for playing electronic Jenga with a glorified remote even if it is THE FUTURE OF FUN!!!!! I only wish the developers had the courage to stop trying to make me get involved in some totally arbitrary anthropomorphic storyline. Great, you are chickens fighting in the old west and monkeys defending a citadel. Guess what? NO ONE CARES. WE JUST WANNA BLOW SHIT UP.
http://www.gameguru.in/images/boom-blox-1.jpg
Lamp: Not only is this addictive and awesome but it also has a great soundtrack from Mark Mothersbaugh. One of the levels has this jazz groove track that sounds like WTF Nintendevo and it is really rad. Overall though, it's no Dokapon Kingdom.
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link
55: Trackmania United Forever (PC) – 10 points - 1 voteOfficial game site
JeffLevine: I finally got into this game and what sold me was the fun, crazy community levels online. Internet play is really smooth and it's a great way to sample all kinds of user made tracks. The only downside is that sometimes those tracks are kind of broken or just too confusing for a quick jump in and try out race against fifty (or whatever) other people. Great fun though when you find a good server. Trying to improve your line and move up the leaderboard is really satisfying but awful hard; I'm currently in 638,374 place in the world rankings. The free version of the game (online mode + 65 offline tracks) should be able to be run fine on most people's PCs, I think. Just saying.
Cozwyn : This game is great: the N+ of racing games. Damn if it isn't addicting. I'm happy with the DS 'port; the handling is a bit twitchy but the unlock structure and instant restarts makes it compulsively playable.
http://blogs.dailyrecord.co.uk/gaming/upload/2008/05/TrackMania%20United%20Forever%202.jpg
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link
55: Peggle Nights (PC) – 10 points - 1 voteOfficial game site
http://www.spendtimeonline.com/gamepics/p/peggle-nights/peggle-nights_sc2.jpg
http://rockpapershotgun.com/images/sept07/gmanlovespegglelarge.jpg
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:05 (fifteen years ago) link
55: Gears of War 2 (360 ) – 10 points - 1 voteOfficial game site
CraigG: A perfect bit of mindless entertainment, with a storyline (and acting) on a par with Walking Tall.
The novelist Nathan Englander, a fan of the game, cites its third-person viewpoint, in which the player looks over the shoulder of the character being controlled, as a key to its success. 'In literary terms,' Englander told me, 'it’s a close-second-person shooter. It’s Jay McInerney and Lorrie Moore territory. You’re both totally involved and totally watching.' As for the collapsed architecture and blown-open spaces of the Gears world, Englander said, 'There’s the hospital from Blindness and the house from The Ghost Writer, and I know that beautiful, ruined world of Gears as well as either of those.'
http://www.xbox.com/NR/rdonlyres/71A0F56C-2037-41A7-B8C4-746BF90E5D07/0/gowguy.jpg
Jim: It's an improvement on the previous game but the only reservation I have about it is that there's too much non-shooting orientated gameplay. They obviously tried to switch things up a little and so you end up doing platformer type shit for about 45 minutes. Climax of this game is weak-sauce; no tough boss or anything. All in all, decent game but too many vehicle sections and not focused enough on the usual combat. I still enjoyed it.
Forksclovetofu : I think we can all agree that GoWII is not going to be remembered as this generation's Bleak House.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2008/20080811.jpg
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:08 (fifteen years ago) link
# 44: Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (DS) – 15 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/rdonlyres/22D908FF-4556-4B5C-94D3-9832F57408F4/15867/tactics1.jpg
Dy: My reactions are becoming more positive the more I play but it’s quite slow and certainly no match for Tactics on the PS.
Webber: It's better than FFTA1, but still somewhat infuriating. It’s a good choice if you’re looking for a game to sink a ridiculous amount of time into. I played through about twenty hours but since I didn't like the way I was leveling (and because I am ridiculously anal), I restarted and put in _another_ twenty or so hours into it. I found and used a fourth thief dagger relatively early on this time so my team is well on their way to becoming dual-wielding killing machines.
Will M: Really enjoying it. This game is absurdly slow but it makes my terrible commute relatively fast by comparison so I don't mind. Apparently I've played forty hours now? I think I'm technically 2/3 through the game but I am really fucking dicking around a LOT; I feel sure I could have easily beaten it by now.
http://spong.com/artwork/f/i/finalfanta97917.jpg
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
# 44: Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden - Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa (PC) – 15 points – 1 vote – FREE GAMEOfficial game site – Download Here
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j161/kevinsblogger/barkley1.png
Nhex: Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden is a ridiculous farce that's actually pretty fun (it uses the RPG Maker engine and basically plays like Super Mario RPG). Even though story-wise it's an ironic fan-wank of Space Jam and Sir Charles, like Super Columbine RPG it uses the medium and its nostalgia to poke fun at the genre in really amusing ways specific to fans of SNES RPGs of the mid 90s.
http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb//GamesRadar/us/Other/News%20Stories/2008/Charles%20Barkley%20Shut%20up%20and%20Jam%20Gaiden/ART/RAW/backley--screenshot_large.jpg
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
# 44: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble (PC)– 15 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
Mordy : One sleeper pick for me is Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! It's this really neat pack of minigames set in a 1920s boarding school. It's very Dorothy Parker'esque.
http://www.macgamefiles.com/imgs_screen/19990.jpg
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
FINALLY at the halfway mark. More tomorrow.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I considered voting for Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble. I definitely liked a lot of things about it.
I love that our poll has Shut up and Jam Gaiden on it.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
The tension is killing me!
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
hah i was just coming here to post that
― LVL 12 rigorous chaotic normalcy cleric (jjjusten), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, okay; more tonight at the latest.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for all your work on this; I've been enjoying it as much as (or more so) the music polls.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yah thanks dude, my urging is made out of excitement and anticipation, not bitching
― LVL 12 rigorous chaotic normalcy cleric (jjjusten), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
It's cool; I've been annoyed at myself for not getting this finished up too.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah this list more than the music lists makes me want to go back and discover a bunch of good stuff
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
(if the second half would be presented in a new thread I wouldnt mind, this one slows my computer terribly as it is. didnt help logging out either)
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a reasonable point. Continued here: The Second Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2008 - Part 2: The Top Forty!
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I am currently porting these results over to the blog and this set of games was so wacky I had to revive this ancient-ass thread. Valkyria Chronicles getting one pity vote! a seventeen-way tie for last! the White Wolf of Icicle Creek cover! et al.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh cool, totally forgot about the blog, I'll stick that in my RSS reader. I admit, I'm still proud of my IF YER NOT INDIE FUK U votes for You Have to Burn the Rope, You Found the Grappling Hook, Iji and Barkley: Shut Up and Jam.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Gears of War locked in a 10-way tie for 55th is some pretty next-level challops even by ILX standards
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
gears is trash tho/// but i mean lol i voted for nancy drew and wld do so again
valkyria chronicles wld place much higher if we had polled this after more than 1 person had played it. same w/persona 4 probably a bunch others
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Persona 4 actually did! it went from #70 in 2008 to #25 in last year's poll (on the ballot due to the Euro release)
Valkyria Chronicles probably would have been top 3 for me if I'd played it in the time period. that game fucking owns, flying pig be damned.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda wish i had added the persona votes from 08 to last years poll
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
another classic C&P moment:
http://cointandplick.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/coint-plick-2008-11-fable-ii/
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck that game fuck that game fuck that game.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Every time I read that I wonder if I am actually G-Zeus and maybe I hit my head and had a coma but SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE AND UI JUST PLAYED FABLE II FOR OVER 2 HOURS
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
exhibit a: "had a coma"
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Not to slight the hard work you've been doing, but for the compiled list of all games, you should probably hyperlink all the games on the list to their respective entry pages... I don't even want to think about how annoying that would be to do!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
that was actually on my to-do list after I get the 2007 results up. you ppl better thank your lucky stars that no woman would ever have me.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
oh right, the 2007 results were just a straight-up ILX poll result. they're up now, so I'll get started on this rn since I'm miraculously free at work today.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, that was much less onerous than expected - both 2008 and 2009 are fully indexed.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
thumbs up brother
― Nhex, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link