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

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

Dishonorable Mention: Anarchy Reigns – PS3/X360 – 0 pts – 0 votes

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C&Ped this from Wikipedia, it's the anarchy reigns plot summary as written by some deranged lunatic, currently under wiki review and is full of lols. Spoiler alert I guess, but it's so awesomely and appropriately incomprehensible that I didn't want it to vanish before the rollout.

"Maximillian Caxton suffers the pain of visions about killing anyone yells around the city of Altambra where Chaser Guild agent, Jack Cayman quits tobacco smoking because the girl named Stela Fitzgerald tells him that is unhealthy. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Public Safety agents Nikolai Dmitri Bulygin, Leonhardt Victorion and Sasha Ivanoff investigate there to learn where Max is located. After meeting the Blacker Baron and assistant Mathilda, Jack remembers at Milvallen that he is very nice to Stela who is shot and killed by the friendly fire during the rescue and is buried in the graveyard where Maximillian's daughter Jeannie tells Jack that Max drunk too much and had excess drugs and tells Jack to stop the Bureau from killing Max. At Port Valenda, Jack confronts Leo and fight until Max appears out of nowhere and leaves. With Jack forcing himself to kill Max before Baron stops him, Leo protects Max from Nikolai who tries to kill him. At Bari-Shur, Leo refuses Nikolai to kill Max, damaging Nikolai's first form. Jack beats and knocks Max unconscious for shooting Max's wife and killing anyone at the ruined gladiator coliseum, where after reuniting with Sasha, Mathilda and Baron, Jack and Leo having confused for fighting each other confronts Nikolai in his final form who sends his wasted army of drones to kill them. Nikolai knocks all agents unconscous to his own victory, but Jack skewers him in half with his chainsaw and leaves Bari-Shur taking Nikolai's head with him while the recovered Leo and Sasha brings Max back home." - jjjusten

that synopsis is surprisingly similar to the experience of trying to play the game

this fyi is the one i flaked on voting for that i was trying to sub out for *REDACTED* which will i suppose show up later in the poll

in case you can't glean much from that summary, here's what i said about it recently on the unplayable thread:

so its a sequel (kind of?) to madworld, closed world beat-em-up that is also apparently a 20ish character fighting game as well - im hot garbage with regards to fighters, so i am not a good judge. dumb as a brick in many ways, weird "why is this here" vehicle timed lap racing sections, no attempt at even vague coherency, interspersed with completely out of character and hamfisted "touching" dead kid storyline. its a glorious god damn mess so far, not as broken as ride to hell (which well jesus i dont know if anything in recent memory is that broken) but so bafflingly out of step with videogames of the modern day that it is quite refreshing. its no bulletstorm, but its cheap as dirt and solidly in the spirit of this thread.

― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten)

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

YES

it's crazy that Anarchy Reigns is as messy as it is, Platinum usually p consistent

#55: Deadly Premonition: Directors Cut - PS3/PC - 15 pts - 1 votes - 1 top game votes

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DEADLY PREMONITION livebloggin and community support group thread. | The Fourth Annual Coint and Plick Video Games Poll - Part Three: #53 - 79

take one of the greatest games of this generation for all the wrong reasons, fix just enough of it to keep people from bailing in the initially horrendous first section, but keep every fucked up charming in your own head weirdness intact, and i cant avoid voting for you. felt a little strange about putting this on my ballot, but dont believe the hype, its a legitimate game fix that makes playing full frenzied enjoyment instead of a chore with tremendous rewards, and the added scenes make the whole thing even more incomprehensible, if thats even possible. dont worry, its still just as broken, but in all the right ways, and even in some astonishing new ways. - jjjusten

i think i actually own this game on the 360 and have never played it. i should really put it in the docket.

#50 (tie): Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon - PS3/X360/PC - 15 pts - 2 votes

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Played the demo, hated it, but it stuck in my head. bought it when it was cheap, loved it. once you get that it isnt a 30 minute jokey diversion but a pretty fully realized game, it really comes into its own. easily the funniest game of the year, and if nothing else deserves points for the developer fully committing to something that no one believed was real, and was a fairly long shot for success as well. if nothing else, grab the demo and play it realizing that the cut scenes and the mood of the tutorial section are really actually going to be maintained through the entire campaign, and if that hooks you, buy that shit immediately. - jjjusten

Listening to the Blood Dragon soundtrack about as much as I play the game - kingfish

#50 (tie): Doctor Who: Legacy - iOS/Android - 15 pts - 2 votes

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Not only is Doctor Who: Legacy very nicely presented, with plenty of episodes to work through and lots of famous characters to add to your fighting team, the actual matching mechanics feel refreshingly different. You can move gems freely around the board to complete your turn, which allows you to build more complex strategies with ease. You'll face off against a wide range of foes from the Doctor Who universe, and each team member comes with their own attack bonuses for tackling certain enemies. So as well as adding a fresh twist to the typical match-three gameplay, Legacy also offers up considerably more strategic depth via its team combat system. - John Bedford, Modojo

I only played this because of the license. It's almost wholly personality-free and I didn't even recognize some of the characters until I read the bios that went along with them, which is really bad when talking about, say, the Doctor's current companion. The gameplay is just good enough to keep this from being useless but it really has nothing to do with Doctor Who. - DJP

i tried the doc who game and found it wholly inferior to marvel puzzle quest

I chucked it five points, it's a reasonable diversion. Just a minor variation on any match-3 game. The characters aren't drawn that well but they're recognisable. Also one of the few games on my Pod that actually allows me to play offline, which is a major plus in my book.

yeah, as much time as i spend in subways i REALLY wish MPQ had that option

#50 (tie): No One Has to Die - Browser - 15 pts - 2 votes

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No One Has To Die, ironically, sees all of its characters dying at one point. They’re all trapped within a huge corporate building, and there’s a fire raging. You were delivering stationery to the building when you noticed that the two security guards in the lobby were dead. Seeing that a monitor was flashing with a warning of a fire, you logged in as a visitor, and that’s when you end up speaking to the other four characters in the building. From your monitor you’re able to tap into the security system, locking doors to protect certain characters from the fire and instructing others to flood other parts, but in doing that, you have to be careful not to drown them as well. - Chris Priestman, Gamejolt

There are puzzles in this but they're not really the point. An interesting bit of speculative fiction in game form. - reddening

Oh yeahhhh that came was really cool. Play it!

Really liked this one. Basically interactive fiction with some minimal graphics, but a good story.

side note for MTL ILXors: first 2 seconds of far cry 3 blood dragon shows nouveau palais. be prepared because i got really confused and wondered if i might be dreaming abt playing the game and not actually playing the game.