Coint and Plick 2014 - The Seventh Annual ILX Video Game Poll

#67 (tie): Pom Gets Wi-Fi – PC – 10 pts – 1 votes

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Pom is a crazy, internet obsessed pomerian with a too serious friend named Shibe. Pom is always seen carrying with her a purple laptop and is almost always heard talking in internet slang. - Pom Wiki

Tumblr in game form. I'm embarrassed to admit this game made me ship two cartoon dogs. - reddening

Hahaha, OMG

wtf

yessssss pom gets wifi! a loving tribute to the batshit livejournal/tumblr culture of years past, complete with a boss battle that occurs only because your opponent implies that your favorite slash pairing isn't legitimate.

O_O

this sounds awesome.

Downloading the mac version now.

omg this fanfic you linked to, polyphonic, bless your dedication to this rollout.

#67 (tie): Device 6 – iOS – 10 pts – 1 votes

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everyone should get device 6; it's great. try it for a great evening. - forksclovetofu

This beautiful puzzle game requires all of your senses, which is why I was unable to successfully complete the first chapter of it while baked. - polyphonic

apparently i only know one way to describe things and that's "great"
Device 6 posits the idea of written text as maze; learning to navigate and backtrack within the story itself is hypnotic and fascinating. the sound cues are supersmart and the puzzles are difficult but not (with one exception for me) "i have to look this up on the internet" difficult. it was close to my fave game of the year.

I say everything "rules" or "sucks". I'm 12.

I almost regret clicking over to the Knightmare Tower webgame. Two, maybe three hours ... now I'm smashing into the ceiling and thinking I don't care quite enough to do all the quests + get all the powerups. Thank god.

Pom Gets Wi-Fi is awesome, you guys.

loving this rollout. wish i wasn't at work so i could download/play all of these right now.

#67 (tie): Scurvy Scallywags – iOS – 10 pts – 1 votes

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match 3 but sliding from the sides! evade the baddies! use weapons! sorry I was clicking - Euler

Scurvy Scallywags has taken my soul! Make it stop... - hyggeligt

ha! i forgot about that game, but i played it all the way through, good stuff.

match 3s have completely ruled my world this year

scurvy was good for a while, but eventually you hit a point where you're just too good and there's no more difficulty or chance.

Device 6 was amazing at first but after a while you start to see through the unique interface and then you realise you're really just playing Myst.

#67 (tie): Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time – iOS/Android – 10 pts – 1 votes

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It's about time! The sequel to the hit action-strategy adventure is here. Join Crazy Dave on a quirky trip through time where you'll meet, greet and defeat legions of zombies from the dawn of time to the end of days. Amass an army of powerful new plants and power up your defenses with amazing new ways to protect your brain. And that's just the beginning! The future holds many mysteries . . . also zombies. Lots and lots of zombies. - EA Marketing Dept.

That looks like the street where I live hope the zombies not attack me. - scraftsf, 3 days ago

#67 (tie): Dungeon Plunder – iOS – 10 pts – 1 votes

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slept on? way better than Tower of Fortune or King Cashing, b/c you move around the world, lots of little fights, scales up nicely; LOOT! you can level; no plot thank goodness; slot combat actually pretty fun b/c of the mix & match choices on what to keep each spin - Euler

it is absolutely maddening how much i'm dying in dungeon plunder. i get that's the point, but still. - s.clover

i'm currently obsessed with dungeon plunder . it's a roguelike, but it has quasi-king cashing mechanics, but with way more skill involved - i.e., actual decisions about how to battle enemies, rather than trying to stop a wheel at the right moment ... the interface/graphics aren't as polished as king cashing 2, but the actual combat is so much more satisfying! - Karl Malone

PvZ2 should really have got my disappointment of the year vote, it was pretty dreadful.

#67 (tie): Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate – WiiU/3DS – 10 pts – 1 votes

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The basic idea is to venture out into the wilds, find an impressive monster, kill it, and then make hats and swords out of its entrails – but there’s a lot more to it than that. - Keza MacDonald, IGN

Otaku Dark Souls [This is the description for Monster Hunter 3?] - diamonddave85

oh sorry, that bracketed text was me asking. haha

#67 (tie): Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag – PS3/PS4/X360/Xbone – 10 pts – 1 votes

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I'm currently at 70% in Black Flag and, yeah, really enjoyed it so far. I've only played a tiny bit of the first AC, so the whole thing is quite fresh to me. There's been a few too many 'follow this person and don't get caught' missions, but the creeping around, knifing guards in the back stealth stuff never gets old. Mostly I'm just enjoying sailing to desert islands over choppy seas as the crew sings shanties, and pickling fights with big fuck off Spanish galleons loaded with booty. - DavidM

Finished 4. It kicked major ass. Still too many "follow that man - oops, you failed!" sections of the story, but everything outside the story was a blast. Now I'm wandering around with a group of thugs killing every guard in Havana. Good times. - EZ Snappin

pvz2 was a lotta fun while it lasted. i went thru all the levels except didn't unlock all the keys in later worlds.

then they updated and got rid of the keys, but i really am not excited about going back and playing the stuff that's opened up since.

the new linear worlds are sorta dumb too -- wish there was a middle ground.

king cashing 2 would have been another big disappointment for me -- the line between random enjoyment and random grind is sorta thin. ditto tower of fortune 2. or maybe i'm just through with that mechanic. got the space thing from the same devs -- war of the eclipse, and that also just felt somewhat brutal and dull (but then i'm terrible at twitch mechanics so...)

#67 (tie): Let's Play: Ancient Greek Geometry – Browser – 10 pts – 1 votes

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ℝolliℵg M∀th Thr∑a∂

ruler & compass constructions were the original video game. after masturbation maybe. just about as much fun too! - Euler

pom gets wi-fi looks so awesome!

ancient greek just missed my ballot. expected to play it for a few minutes, ended up spending the better part of a workday trying to hide it from my coworkers.

do you work at Cool Jock Studios or do they just prefer babylonian math

ironically the vg studio i work for doesnt like it when i play vgs instead of working which is weird right?

do u really work at a vg studio?

yes indeed and i am fully expecting the title i worked on for ~18mo to show up somewhere in the 40s on this list

if you made marvel puzzle quest i hate you and can i please have a blue spidey cover

I will lol if you suddenly get a flood of blue Bagman covers

fuck no i dont work for d3p but i saw job apps on their site and i was like fffffffffffffffffffffuuuuu i would get so many covers if i got that job$$$

(there was one job in specific i wouldve fully applied for if i were american)

Please tell me you worked on deadly premonition: the directors cut

#67 (tie): Nimble Quest – iOS/Android/PC/Ouya – 10 pts – 1 votes

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not a classic by any stretch but it was the perfect toilet game for me this year & so that's...a lot of time. also think of my vote as partly a vote for Tiny Tower, same company but I didn't start playing Tiny Tower until this year. - Euler

I had a spree on nimble quest this weekend, I got the demon and the forest freak and everybody has 2 stars and it is devastating. Until I get to graveyard 2 and shit gets completely out of hand - but that's how the depths felt, and the castle before that, so I know I can overcome once I get over the fact that all the other levels are totally boring now. Oops. - El Tomboto

i like the gameplay, but sort of wish there was more going on. - s.clover

oh shit I forgot about Nimble Quest

ha, another game I played a lot of but forgot about! it's pretty good, but I hit that wall too, I think around Graveyard 2 also. "perfect toilet game" indeed!

#67 (tie): The Last Door: Chapter 1 - The Letter – iOS/PC – 10 pts – 1 votes

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A horror point&click adventure, a little cheesy and trope-heavy at times, but overall I was surprised by how disquieting it managed to be! The intro alone was some heavy shit for something so pixelated and basic-looking. - reddening

Oh, yeah, that series is quite good.

i also forgot about nimble quest, despite sinking about 5-6 hours into it, at least. graveyard 2 was my stopping point as well. fucking graveyard 2.

i think that was the "all right, pay us NOW mwuahaha" gate that's not in Nimblebit games, but it's lot of other F2Pers

#67 (tie): The Room Two – iOS/Android – 10 pts – 1 votes

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Like the original, each level of The Room 2 locks you in a single location and tasks you with solving a series of connected puzzles. But this time around they're much more complex. Puzzle boxes are still in place, of course, and they're as intricate as ever, but the challenges now include everything from working typewriters and crossbows to model pirate ships and tarot card tables. Each room has multiple objects to interact with, and you'll be moving back and forth between them constantly — opening a panel on one object could have an effect on the other side of the room, and figuring out how these things interact with one another is immensely satisfying. When you solve a puzzle in The Room 2, it really makes you feel clever. - Andrew Webster, The Verge

I WISH I WORKED ON DEADLY PREM :(

i probably don't need to be as cagey as i am being. just having my irl name attached and talking abt stuff on """social media""" cd get me in trouble. it was batman. and by "worked on" i mean i wrote test cases. hah.

(xposts to jjj)

sometime i will hop on my sock puppet & let ppl ask me questions on ILG if there's interest.

every time i see something about these games i think it's referring to the 8bit game tribute to The Room, as in Tommy Wiseau: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307

I unlocked all the characters in Nimble Quest; is that past Graveyard 2? I suppose I could play it to see; is it ever a bad time to retreat to the toilet?