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

Interesting that Ni No Kuni showed up highly here, I got the feeling that it eventually fizzled for many people on this board.

yeah, only 2 left from my ballot.

unless i am failing at ctrl+f and/or failing at having a memory, i have 4 left and one of them is really O_o

i think i have p good guesses for the other two, as well... shutting up now

are we finishing today?

Ha, love your comment on Ni No Kuni, Will

are we finishing today?

I have a lot of work left to do on them but I can keep grinding. Or we can do 1-5 tomorrow. What do you think?

past the FF on snes (however you number it officially) i've never played a jrpg

Take your time, poly, we're in the home stretch.

goole: FFVI (III in the US) was a great one to stop with tbh

Ni No Kuni is just so beautiful. It really reminds me of the first time I ever saw a Dragon's Lair arcade cabinet and couldn't even believe that WOAH IT'S A MOVIE YOU CAN PLAY! Course in that case it turned out not to be. But this time it really is! Also welsh sidekicks deserve recognition.

(I also played, enjoyed, didn't vote for GTA. Just too many other games that deserved the votes this year).

#6: 868-HACK - iOS - 65 pts - 4 votes - 1 first place votes - Top iOS Exlusive

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Your objective is to pass through eight data sectors. Each houses two siphons: collect these and you can deploy them to earn cash and energy from the surrounding squares, or to gain abilities, used by expending said resources, from data nodes. Activating these, however, releases more enemies. Viruses move two spaces for every turn you take; glitches can pass through nodes to get to you. You can zap them, but each attack uses up a turn, and without judicious use of your limited resources, you’ll soon be surrounded. - Edge

I like the way the theme matched up with the pleasure of it. I liked that it felt like the apex of an awful lot of thinking about games. - Gravel

it's the classic 868-HACK dilemma - do you just start going for points and try to beat your record, or do you play cautiously, get fewer points, but have a chance to increase your streak? *bites your nails* - Karl Malone

woo - just scored a 66 single run alive in 868-hack. i parlayed an antivirus into an early game score - used score judiciously until around sector 5 when i was able to grab a debug (plus a reset) and then started popping the big score boxes + left score alone. grabbed a step before the final sector, siphoned a 8-pt box on sector 8, and then stepped all the way over to the exit. - Mordy

two weeks after announcing i disliked 868 hack i am still playing it every day - thomp

my #1

i need to grab this

is it landscape orientation?

yes, although that image is cropped

ha wow did not expect gta to be that low, DEFINITELY did not expect ni no kuni to beat it

i hadnt played either by the time voting came around, still havent played NNK, would have thrown some points to gta for sure

please dont take this the wrong way but before i take the plunge on ni no kuni, is it actually far less "cute" than the promos would lend me to believe? i got the dreaded chocobo fears from it

It's very cute, sorry.

what are the dreaded chocobo fears?

yeah isn't it a story about an eight year old trying to save his mom or something

An eight year old trying to save his mum after she apparently dies of a heart attack. Which actually was a massively difficult cut scene to sit through with an 8 year old whose grandad had a heart attack the week before, really wished I'd had some pre-warning about the content tbh. But hey, everything turned out fine in the end (in game and irl).

dreaded chocobo fears is just my own private shorthand for all the times FF games would cram some cutesy stupidity in my way and make adorable animals talk in babytalk for my "amusement"

like i have no problem with heartfelt or even vaguely saccharine storylines, just dont make me spend half my time wandering the game with some fucking half bunny that talks like henrietta pussycat from mr. rogers and wont ever stfu

in this game the half bunny talks in a deep welsh brogue

so this game is a broguelike

...

haha

slots five through one all to be taken by marvel puzzle quest then is it

ugh, i forgot about marvel puzzle quest

you guuuuuuys

plz don't let a match 3 game be #1 overall

i shouldn't judge, i guess. i've probably sunk a dozen hours into Ted Ginn Kick Return over the past month, and that is objectively one of the worst games of all time

i spent 95-145 minutes this week playing final fantasy: all the bravest and i still comfortably look down on anyone playing marvel puzzle quest

punks

haters

well keep looking down because WE'RE ALL HAVING A VERY MILDLY FUN TIME DOWN HERE

no we aren't

FF: ATB is pretty fun at times

it might not be fun but it's god's work

Love the presentation of it.

I was playing FF:ATB doing the magic finger dance over 30-or-so mages, knights, scouts, warriors, etc. and then decided what if I just lay my entire hand flat against the screen will that still work? And YES it does work!

Can't go wrong w 16-bit FF music though. I would love it if it was just a screen saver.

Ok you dicks, I bought ni no kuni after work today so if it sucks it's on you

i gave it my top vote so blame me

but on that note

fuiud

ok at least now i know who im gunning for

ha to be clear that isnt a comment on the game, i didnt even have a chance to pop it in yet

#5: Papers, Please - PC/Mac - 68 pts - 8 votes

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Papers, Please is a game that roughs you up, grinds you to a pulp, and crushes the spirit. It makes you rationalize awful behavior. It is an incredibly stressful, dissonant, upsetting game. It's the kind of game that makes you stare ahead with dead eyes, rather than smile. It's a game that you avoid talking about with your friends, except maybe to discuss how sick it makes you, because you realize just how shameful your actions were. More games need to be this way. - The Mittani

Papers, Please is actively unpleasant to play, but I'm a sucker for games with such expressive mechanics. - one way street

Fits in well in the recent trend of depressing drudgery as Serious Message Game (see the tonally and visually similar Cart Life, but very creative as a permutation of '80s edutainment games, as well sometimes genuinely chilling and effective in its depiction of a fictional communist state from the same era. - Nhex

Why did I like PP so much? It's tough to explain. It bummed me out for all of the right reasons. I haven't even gotten that far yet, either, so I bet it'll blow me even further away soon. - Will M.

this game really got in my head. sort of powerful for something that is essentially so simple. a good game but also an "experience" - Roberto Spiralli

unless i am failing at ctrl+f and/or failing at having a memory, i have 4 left and one of them is really O_o

this the was o_O i was talknig about, very shocked it made the top 5!

played this for the first time for an hour and a half a couple days ago and I can totally understand why it made top 5, the mechanics feel really tightly designed to induce that feeling of paranoia/desperation

fascinating game. Causes me high levels of anxiety. I guess that's it's aim.

I loved my first couple of hours with it but haven't been able to bring myself to go back to it yet.

Might be wrong but I feel like it's unusual for a game to place this highly in a P+C while still averaging less than 10 points per vote?