# 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