Thanks Mordy. I guess I have a bit of self-doubt caused by slippery slope arguments, like, would you watch a Let's Play video and still vote for the game? That seems dubious to me.
Also: HONK
― emil.y, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
i voted for 2 of the top 3, and i have a good guess at the third (which i'm waiting for a good sale on).
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
number 3...
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/nWgwHTZ.png3 - The Outer Wilds - 93 points / 1.33 First-place votes / 6 VotesPlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows
walking sims are definitely games, visual novels are the frontier where things get messy
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
i never finished this but what a cool and ambitious thing it is for an indie game
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:17 (four years ago) link
I was VERY concerned about playing this, because games in first-person give me bad motion sickness, and then this game also has some zero-g navigation. But it never became an issue for me!
Furthermore, I'm not a big fan of puzzle games, and for the endgame I had to look up guides and walkthroughs, but for a lot of it I managed to figure out most of the solutions.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
Ha wow given how many points I would have awarded death stranding my dumb non-voting actually really changed these results.
― jjjusten, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
i am greatly looking forward to playing this game
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
xxp Good to know! Lots of first-person games give me motion sickness too.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link
i am glad death stranding did not win coint and plick
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
definitely the most impressive exploration/puzzle game to me since the witness
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
unless hypnospace outlaw counts as an exploration game which i guess it kinda does
ppl are very cagey about what this game even is, so I have no idea what it is!
― silby, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:24 (four years ago) link
I was concerned that Outer Wilds might have permadeath, but it doesn't really.
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
jjjusten how many wuld you have given it? :O 30?
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
ppl are very cagey about what this game even is, so I have no idea what it is!― silby, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 2:24 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― silby, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 2:24 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i think the reason people are cagey is because the more you explain, the less you are surprised by it. i'll say this: it's a non-combat, walking/space-flying simulator where you have to figure out why a big tragedy is going to happen, and you get lots of tries to do so
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
it's kind without being cloying, its meditative without being boring, it's perplexing without being alienating, it just rules
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
ANYWAY, WHO'S READY FOR WHAT ARE DEFINITELY THE REAL TOP 2 GAMES
https://i.imgur.com/y2cP2Ys.png1 - Goose Of War 5 - 101 Points / 9 VotesBandai Wonderswan
https://i.imgur.com/NvPqVFv.png1 - Call Is Duty: Modern Is Warfare - 101 Points / 9 Votesidk Ouya or something
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
rip and tear good buddy
― silby, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
i'm surprised astral chain didn't place at all is it just that none of us got around to it?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
im very very very proud of these btw lol
wow is that order right??
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
i would never spoil anything with the psychout
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
I had to look several times to see the goose lol
― silby, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
ok... it is time for the reveal of the top 2 games... and i cannot stress enough, these are the REAL points/firsts/votes
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
no psych outs left
only games
SEMPER GAMES
https://i.imgur.com/VhzWTmf.png2 - Baba Is You - 109 points / 1 First-place vote / 7 VotesNintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, Macintosh operating systems, Linux
https://i.imgur.com/bgVQHaY.png1 - Untitled Goose Game - 109 points / 1.33 First-place votes / 9 VotesNintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Macintosh operating systems, Microsoft Windows
omg
― silby, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
HAHA WOW. I gave UGG one point so uhhh blame me for the tie!
― Triceratops Vowell (Leee), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
Untitled Goose Game: I understand the feelings of those let down by it, but I enjoyed my time with it. Maybe slightly less than I expected, but it was a joyful time with only a few deranged and unnecessary annoyances.
I gave 30 points to Baba Is You. I'm so mad at this game right now. It's a good video game.
― silby, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
oooh outer wilds is on the Games Pass...
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
HONK
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
with 30 from jjj it would have been death stranding in 1, that's how close it was
if the one voter who gave baba 30 points and UGG 9 points had instead given 8 points...
etc etc etc
WHAT A CLOSE YEAR
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
i'm surprised astral chain didn't place at all is it just that none of us got around to it?― Mordy, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 2:32 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Mordy, Wednesday, April 8, 2020 2:32 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
same with devil may cry 5, i don't think anyone on the board played either of these yet
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
YES! HONK MOTHERFUCKERS HONK!
Will, those fake ones are awesome, I salute you.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link
oooh outer wilds is on the Games Pass...― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, April 8, 2020 2:37 PM (fourteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Wednesday, April 8, 2020 2:37 PM (fourteen seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
WHAT
WHEN I JOINED GAME PASS IT WAS FOR THIS OUTER WILDS BUT I ACCIDENTALLY PLAYED OUTER WORLDS
IF IT'S ON THERE NOW THIS IS THE ULTIMATE INSULT
(important note about playing on PC: there is a certain part of the game where analog control helps quite a bit, you may not wanna kbm this game -- plug in a controller)
― Hackers (1995) (Will M.), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
xp thank u :):)
fun poll, great fakes. thanks will m
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:41 (four years ago) link
i think i put goose game as my disappointment for the outrage clicks but it's fine, i didn't manage to play anything truly disappointing last year
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
yes, thanks for the poll, Will M!
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
three houses was sorta disappointing or just so much stuff in it that was disappointing. combat rarely fun. running around returning lost objects rarely fun. rumination on nature of authoritarianism? great!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
I said in the goose game thread I was surprised by people who said they were disappointed with the actual game, I thought it was rock solid. Maybe a level too short but that would be my only complaint.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
now that we've settled this, i just bought my first 2020-released game
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
wait, its the second i forgot about animal crossing lol
well played will, thanks! will buy some of these for sure where I wouldn't have otherwise!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
(animal crossing is less a game and more of a remote lifestyle)