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

i swear i liked some stuff too this year guys!

You were too kind, John. This game was negative fun.

seems like that was kind of a theme this year. critics overrating sensitive games. the sandy hook effect? /gross-generalization

In fairness, I played about ten minutes of it and haven't gone back to it since. Are there other games that have you performing different actions simultaneously with the two sticks? Because that's the bit I liked best. It felt like solid brain exercise.

To me it didn't seem especially sensitive or mushy. A couple of brothers wandering out into the world to solve puzzles to save their village/elders/whatever, not unlike Link or Fez or Nier or a thousand other platformers. And the lack of dialog was a huge selling point for me.

I dig gentle, subdued games and wish there were more quality ones to choose from. Like, ones that aren't necessarily geared towards eight-year-olds, maybe.

btw i am over level 100 on fishy throw game (that's over 300 mini quests completed). it is perfect for the train. i also have maybe 3 perfect 10 scores.

trying to remember the dual stick dual shooter thing on XBLA from years ago but drawing a blank

#56 (tie): Farming Simulator 2013 Titanium Edition - PC - 15 pts - 1 votes

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Gameplay consists largely of driving slowly up and down in straight lines. You plough the field this way, you sow the seeds this way, you harvest the crop by doing the same thing, and then you cultivate the soil back into a sowable state by driving up and down once more. - Dan Whitehead, Eurogamer

ok who voted for the farm game

trying to remember the dual stick dual shooter thing on XBLA from years ago but drawing a blank

Okay, maybe not quite that gentle and subdued.

Sunbathing Simulator 2015. Watch for it.

oops, got the points wrong on that image :(

nah it wasnt geometry wars, you controlled two ships one with each stick. was named something that referenced the mechanic.

i may have sarcastically told polyphonic to donate my leftover points to farming simulator 2013

#56 (tie): Darkstalkers Resurrection - PS3/X360 - 15 pts - 1 votes

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Your favorite 2D fighter (a thinly-veiled Darkstalkers thread)

This is, without a doubt, the greatest 2D fighting game ever. The Darkstalker character roster is my favorite in all of fightdom and it's based on the same fighting engine as Street Fighter 2. It's not horribly over-complicated but it rewards in-depth study and frame-rate interruption to chain combos. - DJP

i may have sarcastically told polyphonic to donate my leftover points to farming simulator 2013

That's what sarcasm'll getcha

thanks for muckin' it up bnw

darkstalkers! i forgot that got rereleased. i loved that crap

hah, never realized there was a fighting thread on ILE either

had never heard of Darkstalkers and as a Street Fighter stan I will be checking it out I think

Wish I knew what Salsa Shark was saying there - I plan to pick up X or Y next month, it'll be my first pokeymans ever. Well, not counting that boss GB rumble-pak pinball game.

― Nhex, Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:24 AM (17 hours ago)

X/Y or even black/white are good as first pokemon games, all the stuff I rambled about will be obvious once you start playing (aside from stuff about EVs but really that has little bearing on your ability to complete the game). Just be prepared for the stupidest 'storylines' imaginable.

I want everyone to go grab Darkstalkers Resurrection NOW

It is so much FUN and it will make your thumbs fall off

#56 (tie): Spelunky - PS3/Vita/PC - 15 pts - 1 votes

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Coint and Plick 2013 - The Sixth Annual ILX Video Game Poll | spelunky (rogue-like platformer for pc mac xbla etc)

Spelunky is either the most compelling 2D platformer I've played since Cave Story (since I don't own a console, I haven't been able to play any of the post-SNES Marios), or I have Stockholm Syndrome from constantly dying in the Ice Caverns. - one way street

it's stockholm syndrome

xp to DJP yessir!

#56 (tie): Rocksmith 2014 Edition - PS3/X360/PC/Mac - 15 pts - 1 votes

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Everything I hated about the original Rocksmith (which wasn't very much) was removed and replaced with sheer unadulterated awesome. This game is single-handedly teaching me how to play the guitar; the only reason I don't play it more is because my wife keeps bogarting the television. - DJP

i may have sarcastically told polyphonic to donate my leftover points to farming simulator 2013

quick, reallocate them to jjj's missing game

or just give it a post-rollout blurb. that is fine too

I'm not seeing any images, is it just my internet which is broken?

I'll post jjj's thing as a honorable mention once I finish the other 56's

DJP, are you on Xbox or PS3? (either way, I'll wait for the DS:R to go on sale again)

great Spelunky gif!

PS3/4

salsa shark: yeah, my expectations are low in that regard haha

Oh I had no idea this happened, if I did Monster Hunter would've got another top vote.

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

Not that otaku-y - for example someone completely green to rpgs in general like me thinks it's the greatest thing ever and the universe is not anime-like or filled with any of the jrpg story/worldbuilding elements -- it's a pretty grounded, 'realistic' world with no real magic that just happens to have out of this world dinosaurs in it

Except for talking cats and stuff, but yknow. Its mechanics are reminiscent of dark souls though which is why I always hope a little of the hype for that series could spill over. It's slowly getting more popular and the fanbase is devoted but not like that.

Spelunky image reminded me of a NES game I had fond but vague memories of, searching around I found that it was Digger T. Rock. Looks pretty bad from the videos of it on youtube. I was a stupid child.

3rd year in a row that spelunky placed?

every community has its traditions

chrono trigger yet to place tho

I approve unreservedly of spelunky but was never able to extract the slightest pleasure from playing it.

Nice to see Ultimate Business Tycoon make it - I almost voted for that but I love Understanding more, porp is the best.

#56 (tie): Puppeteer - PS3 - 15 pts - 1 votes

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Gorgeous looking, plays like a dream, great score, constantly inventive and well written and weird without ever becoming kitschy. It's a game that really lives comfortably in its own skin, it knows exactly what it wants to be and does that without ever really slipping the gears. How this released as a semi-budget title and still failed is a complete and total mystery to me. - jjjusten

This one got kind of lost during the holiday shuffle, it didn't really get much mainstream play at all IMO. Looking forward to playing it, though.

Puppeteer is probably my biggest "I wish I'd gotten around to that" game from last year

That looks great. Sadly will never have a chance to play it, oh well.

#56 (tie): Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time - PS3/Vita - 15 pts - 1 votes

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If 3d platforming can really ever be called "old-school", this probably fits the bill. Looks great, plays great, unrepentantly uninterested in innovation. the bad: load times, characters and script are painfully old-school as well (read: cutesy and annoying). - jjjusten

something gently hilarious about linking to a review of farming simulator at the cape cod times

hey wake me up when you get to the tentpole xbox shooters right guys

DJP making a very compelling case above for me to get rocksmith. do u still love it?

#56 (tie): Ride to Hell: Retribution - PS3/X360/PC - 15 pts - 1 votes

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Retribution wipes out hardest, though, by delivering gameplay that’s incompetent across the board. Motorcycle riding is super-skittish, combining annoying obstacle avoidance with super-frustrating button-prompt combat. Tricks require next to nothing in the way of balance or skill: unlike a wheelie or a drift in decent racers, a trick lasts as long as you hold down the button and avoid hitting something. Combat’s even worse, with hand-to-hand fights winnable through mindless button-mashing and super-simple button prompts, plus gunplay that ranges from unfair fights against supremely accurate A.I. to shooting sitting-duck enemies standing together motionless.

The game also harbors a staggering level of bugginess that makes you wonder how it passed certification. At one point, roughly half of our post-death restarts would lead to a hanging load screen, requiring us to quit out to the 360 dashboard. Less frequent (but more baffling) were scenes where we received a new objective but were unable to access the new area, and others where we encountered a debug error message when a new wave of enemies couldn’t properly load.

Even if Eutechnyx patches Retribution’s numerous glitches, there’s no fix for its inherent awfulness. If anything, the game should stay the way it is right now, so the bottom of the barrel is firmly established. - Official XBox Magazine

joining the pantheon of 50 cent blood on the sand and deadly premonition, but with a level of incompetence that honestly has to be seen to be believed. this is the last great mistake of this console generation, and in many ways it backslides further than i could have dreamed of. The script is howlingly terrible, the gameplay seems halfway randomized, plot is incomprehensible, TERRIBLE sexy scenes - hands down the B or maybe Z movie experience of the year, and since its got to be amazingly dirt cheap at this point, you really owe it to yourself to pick it up. - jjjusten