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

Excited about that one - will play it! Thanks.

Got through Ultra Business Tycoon III. (damn that readme biz) it's good work. I wish it was a LITTLE less random gameplay-wise, but I guess it works because I'm a softie (my emotions!).

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.

― emil.y, Wednesday, February 26, 2014 3:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but the one thing the dr who game has going for it is puzzles and dragons style you can drag the thing as much as you want and not just swap gameplay, which is a nice dynamic, and it has that without lots of free to play nonsense thrown in.

i beat the first set of worlds (season whatever) but the second one had a huge difficulty spike and i gave up.

#47 (tie): Mario & Luigi: Dream Team - 3DS - 20 pts - 1 votes

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The core gameplay remains the same between these two modes — exploring, solving puzzles and getting into turn-based battles — but the context changes entirely. The regular game exists in a fully realized cartoon fantasy world, with different shops and towns, multiple regions to explore and tons of random characters to provide flavor text. The dream world is more incorporeal and more directed. Most dream world locations only have two or three rooms and very little in the way of side quests or NPCs to distract you. By hopping back and forth from the dream world regularly, Dream Team successfully provides both the eager exploration of an RPG and the focused get-to-the-end challenge of 2D platformers. But the gameplay variety doesn't stop there. - Philip Kollar, Polygon

#46: Papa Louie 2: When Burgers Attack! - Browser - 20 pts - 1 votes - 1 top game votes

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Sarge and Radley Madish have kidnapped all of your customers in this long-awaited to sequel to Papa Louie: When Pizzas Attack! Marty and Rita will travel to the Land of Munchmore to rescue Papa Louie, and find other trapped customers along the way to help on your journey! Every customer you rescue becomes a new playable character, with unique weapons and a variety of special skills that can help you on your quest. Use your customers’ skills to complete challenges across multiple worlds, and unlock all 28 playable characters on your way to defeat the wild Radley Madish! - game copy

If you're a Kongregate badge junkie, the Papa's Pizzeria/Burgeria/Pancakeria franchise is an annoying glut of badges you get for playing basically the same game over and over again. So I was surprised when this game turned out to be a charming platformer with satisfying physics and a managable level of difficulty! 8 levels with 6 tasks to complete each, 28 unlockable characters with different abilities and weapons, and a bonus level that looks like the wallet section of a Hot Topic exploded. This was the game I came back to the most when I needed to chill out over the summer. - reddening

i found that one... very annoying

I enjoyed Bowser's Inside Story and I've had Dream Team on my eStore wishlist for ages, I don't know why I haven't bought it already. It's not like Mario games ever go down in price. And 20 points from one vote! Wow.

ugh, i started playing Fish Out of Water after it placed upthread and haven't been able to stop. level 22 fish thrower. i already threw a few perfect 10s. my life is...sad

Remember me, which I am now playing, is super on the rails but seriously awesome

I'm playing Dream Team now, because it came with the system and it's something to do while listening to music (I don't have any other game systems). Bowser's Inside Story was great but this game mostly recycles the same gameplay template, sometimes the exact same attacks, with a less interesting and less cute story. Lots of stupid little sequences that you have to waste time watching or clicking through too. But it's fine I guess.

#41 (tie): Paint it Back - iOS - 20 pts - 2 votes

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I love doing Nonograms, but as soon as the grid gets too big they're difficult to play on a smartphone. This is the first app I've used that makes the interface workable, and the surrounding conceit with the paintings and their clever titles is very cute. - reddening

Didn't know about Fish Out of Water - it's by the Jetpack Joyride/Fruit Ninja guys, I'll have to get it at some point (probably when it goes free)

Paint it Back looks good, but does it actually work on a phone (instead of iPad)?

The interface on PIB bugged me. Not sure why, but I'm just used to the way HD Color Cross does picross.

#41 (tie): Pikmin 3 - WiiU - 20 pts - 2 votes

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been playing Pikmin 3, sooo fuckin good. - Zappi

Cute game with beautiful graphics and a nice sense of humor. It's definitely a good fit for the Wii U. Marks off for lack of co-op in story-mode as the game seems made for it. And the timer part of the gameplay has been infuriating a few times. Interrupting a boss fight with "the sun's gone down so you have to stop fighting for your life and go home now" spiked my NERDRAGE. - bnw

I haven't played the Wii re-releases of either of the old two, so this was my first time playing Pikmin with controls that suited it, and it was a super charming breeze. - if

i've been playing Paint It Back on my ipod touch (4th gen). I do fat-finger the grid sometimes, but not enough to diminish my enjoyment of it. seriously i've played it so much over the last month that i've started dreaming in rows and columns.

Ok so how is it possible that in a game as literally gorgeous as remember me the main character animation is so terrible?!

Didn't know about Fish Out of Water - it's by the Jetpack Joyride/Fruit Ninja guys, I'll have to get it at some point (probably when it goes free)

― Nhex, Thursday, February 27, 2014 7:46 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

as far as i know it hasn't gone free even as a promo yet, and its been out a loong time. there's fairly minimal totally avoidable iap in it, so i don't know if they'll ever bother to go free with it, especially since it sadly didn't take off as much as their other stuff. for $1 its totally worth it.

I was the Pocket Mine voter. Sorry everyone.

Remember me, which I am now playing, is super on the rails but seriously awesome

― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Thursday, February 27, 2014 10:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought this was good to look at but really silly and the combat just wasn't slick enough. Fun though!

Re: Mario and Luigi Dream team, and "And 20 points from one vote! Wow".

Sorry, this was me :) I never got round to writing blurb for any of my votes either because I'm super lazy... I've liked all the Mario & Luigi RPGs so far, and while this is just recycled gameplay from previous iterations, that's pretty much all I wanted from it (and more Broque Monsieur because I'm weird and find him hilarious). On the whole I'm a big fan of RPGs where I don't have to grind, and the M&L games always seem pretty well balanced (or maybe that's just "easy").

wait i gave 10 points to pocket mine too, so the #s for it have gotta be wrong.

Never apologize! I always do a couple of 20pt votes every year

pocket mine should be a 20/2 rather than a 20/1, sorry sc

#41 (tie): Shin Megami Tensei IV - 3DS - 20 pts - 2 votes

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With its raw, horror-inspired settings, Shin Megami Tensei IV fits right in with other games in the series, yet in many ways it's unlike anything else in the current 3DS library. It's occasionally weak, held back by menial character development and a frustrating overworld, but it provides a challenging combat system made even more interesting through discussions and arguments with fantastically designed demons. Unfortunately, it's not a pillar of character development, or the best-looking game of its type. It's saved by the lure of the dark and mysterious world and the trials of fighting its inhabitants make Shin Megami Tensei IV a great role-playing game worth seeing through to the end. The excellent combat and the almost never-ending quest to explore the compendium of demons should keep you coming back for more, even if you have a fairly good assumption of what the other endings might entail. - Peter Brown, Gamespot

on shin megami tensei iv: sometimes process is more important than outcome. - Lamp

Pokémon for adults where you have to bribe monsters to join your party and, more often then not, they will just take your items and leave. Great JRPG with an excellent soundtrack - diamondave85

agh that gif! scary!

i'm not sure if Lamp and Diamondave85's comments are actually praise

certainly sounds interesting. there's a couple things here i would like to have a 3DS for. not enough tho. never enough.

3DS took a while to catch up, and i doubt it'll be as awesome as the DS was in terms of library, but it's certainly a worthwhile system at this point. Grab one!

i dont think i had any fun playing smt iv but i spent a lot of time organizing things which is rewarding in its own ways

also i voted for both pokemon and brothers not sure if those got counted? pokemon was really pretty fun, although theres a kind of despair involved in knowing that perfection is always out of reach i had a good couple of weeks down the rabbithole of perfect ivs, pokemon breeding and hunting shinys before giving it up as a lost cause

also i voted for both pokemon and brothers not sure if those got counted? pokemon was really pretty fun, although theres a kind of despair involved in knowing that perfection is always out of reach i had a good couple of weeks down the rabbithole of perfect ivs, pokemon breeding and hunting shinys before giving it up as a lost cause

lol @

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i counted your votes lamp

#41 (tie): Saints Row IV - PS3/X360/PC - 20 pts - 2 votes

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Saints Row: The Third

i had so much fun with the SR4 side missions that i wound up completing them all WAY before i was supposed to in storyline, which made some of the late game progress way too quickly. i imagine that after i'm done with GTA5, going back to this/playing around with whatever DLC comes out is gonna be a blast; i really like the crackdown-style physics

also feel like there's a halfway decent thinkpiece somewhere in the character creation/mass effect parody/crew romancing stuff - has a game like this ever treated gender and sexuality so fluidly? - govern yourself accordingly

The Singularity Gun is probably the coolest gun I've ever seen in any 3d game. Shoot it at an intersection and it sucks up people, cars, streetlights, etc. - Adam Bruneau

All the fanservice indulgence with the weapons and costumes is stellar. "Fuck it, we'll put phasers and han solo's blaster in here and fuggin' pulse rifles. Why not" - kingfish

love this game - almost 100%'d it. probably the most pure FUN game of the year - reminded me a bit of just cause 2 re just how enjoyable it was to traverse the city destroying shit

Great game, maybe my favorite of last year. Open world, lots of fun, great super-powers, light on the cutscenes, and the cool glitching graphical effects that distort the world around you was the icing on the cake. I suppose there have been earlier games where you leap from rooftop to rooftop while aliens throw cars at you, but I have never played them. The insurance fraud minigame w super powers is just the kind of insane surreal experience only a videogame could provide. Finally, the overall look of the city at the start, with everything starting out looking like the very first rays of light before sunrise, is a standout in an era that is producing gorgeous games that literally look like dreams.

otm re the insurance fraud minigame. spinning in the air across half the city, getting hit by trucks to pick up speed - very surreal

Re: Mario and Luigi Dream team, and "And 20 points from one vote! Wow".

Sorry, this was me :) I never got round to writing blurb for any of my votes either because I'm super lazy... I've liked all the Mario & Luigi RPGs so far, and while this is just recycled gameplay from previous iterations, that's pretty much all I wanted from it (and more Broque Monsieur because I'm weird and find him hilarious). On the whole I'm a big fan of RPGs where I don't have to grind, and the M&L games always seem pretty well balanced (or maybe that's just "easy").

Noooo as Nhex said, NEVER APOLOGISE! That was more of a 'gee this must be decent' than a 'who does that!?' sort of comment -- I also threw 20 points at a game that is sort of recycled gameplay from previous iterations because that was what I wanted from it (I guess it'll be later in the list..)

I am also a fan of minimal grinding/things other people probably consider 'easy'. I'm disappointed to learn that Fawful isn't in Dream Team, though.

I think I skipped Bowser's Inside Story, so I'm looking more forward to Dream Team than others have

You very well may enjoy it more. I never played Superstar Saga or Partners in Time, and I found Bowser's Inside Story a very novel game.

#41 (tie): State of Decay - X360/PC - 20 pts - 2 votes

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State of Decay - Anticipation

Janky, weird, busted, charming. I was lucky enough to finish this game without it screwing me with its terrible gameplay so maybe I'm rating it higher than I should but I had a lot of fun with it. Loved the concept, from the permadeath on characters to the weird basebuilding/material gathering to the support call-in mechanics to the "persistent" (aka: it checks your clock and makes things happen when you load the game again) world. Best B-game of 2013! - Will M.

Anyone else playing the SoD DLC, Breakdown? It's pretty great. I loved the original game, but once you learned the mechanics it grew to be pretty easy, and this sandbox dlc increases the diffuculty significantly, making it much more challenging. My game of the year. - musicfanatic

Next week I'm going to try to get 11-40 all wrapped up, and then top ten following week.

another one of my votes - never quite fulfills its promise but the closest thing yet to an immersive open world zombie game

never got around to SoD but i still like the idea. maybe someday.

Pom Gets Wifi was pretty hilarious

#39 (tie): Rogue Legacy - PS3/PS4/Vita/PC/Mac/Linux - 20 pts - 3 votes

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Took me a while to get into this, but once I did it was fantastic. I kinda wish that the genetics stuff was a bit more involved (like, breeding in/out skills, instead of just getting randomly handed flaws every generation) but the actual gp gets really fun once you get the best classes (aw yeah lich king) and some decent equipment/runes. I've beaten 2/5 bosses, hope to finish this game soon! - Will M.

oh i forgot about this game. i thought it sounded cool. imma check this out.

Ultimately I wanted to like Rogue Legacy more than I did, but it's a solid game. It suffers a little in comparison against recent games like Spelunky and FTL (which I couldn't fully get into either). I'm going to give it another try soon

#39 (tie): Card Hunter - Browser - 20 pts - 3 votes

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Dorky, lovable and deep, Card Hunter has an earnest love for its subject matter. Whether it’s in the little exclamations of “Adventure!” and “A-ha!” from its dungeon master, Gary, the complex systems that make up its turn-based, card collection design, or in its descriptions of caverns and sorcerers’ towers, this is a game that’s built on Dungeons & Dragons foundations and isn’t afraid to show it. - Edge

top fun - no lasting appeal and ran its course pretty quickly, but still top fun - Roberto Spiralli

NEEEEERRRRRRRRRDDDS