The Fifth Annual Coint and Plick Poll for Best Video Games of 2011 - Part One: 74-109

If your PC is that old, you shouldn't be spending money on games anyway.

Other platforms be existin'.

xp Lots of people don't play games much on their computer, dude.

tbh I am happy forks does it this way if only because it seems to have gotten half of ILG on the MAMC bandwagon; I sort of don't care about the rest of the results now

I've just sprung for the full version fwiw

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Wrt older computers, checking "images off" in prefs should make that problem go away

Oh, heh, didn't mean "don't buy PC games", meant "don't buy any games, save up for a new PC". But hey, shit gag anyway.

you are not alone
i am here with you

new games plz

yessssss

i am waiting to give all of you my *considered and erudite opinions* on unpopular id game rage in case it shows up here so

jjj

did you get my gift of MAMC to u

I'm on tenterhooks waiting to say "ooh, I'll check that out" for more games that I will doubtless end up not checking out. COME ON, FORKS.

Part One

oh wait srsly!! no let me go check xpost to djp

I'll pay you 5 dollars to post the next game.

i have not received MAMC yet, but that might be because i dont know where to look for it - at work atm so i couldnt download it anyway

EXCITED

check yr email? they asked me to provide an email address so I used j---j----- @ gmail

those dashes probably f'd it up.

hmmm bastards denying me monsters eating condos so far, will check when i get home. also you are awesome

I'm in the office till 8; will be working on this from like 5 to 8 EST
you bastards

we <3 u forks

yay forks! if nothing else this might save everyone from continuing to watch me squabble w/shakey on the comedies nom thread

2 way tie for #107

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#107: Mass Effect 2: The Arrival DLC – PSN/XBLA – 6 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site
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Metacritic
Gametrailers
GameInformer
Jeff: Not as good as Overlord and nowhere near as good as Lair of the Shadow Broker, but it's still Mass Effect and therefore awesome.
Telephone Thing: I just finished Arrival and, though it isn't as half-assed as I'd expected, it's actively insulting, railroading your character into committing a war crime no matter what choices you make.

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#107: Radballs – iOS – 6 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site
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Touch Arcade
Metacritic
Interview with Radballs composer Neil Voss

polyphonic: Bejeweled + Lumines + DJ Hero + a dog wearing sunglasses / riding a skateboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWWvGcUn8U8
kingfish: The aesthetics are actually more the point than the gameplay.

Woah, arrival was fucking awful, and I'm one of the ones who pretty much enjoyed every other bit of ME2 dlc.

the fact that there is a game called radballs seems like some sort of self-aware cosmic gamer joke

deezballz

Was arrival that bad? It had some decent parts, I definitely liked it more than Overlord (aka timefiller firewalker RMXXXXXXX fuck a hammerhead) and I liked it WAAAAAAAY more than the previously mentioned firewalker (fuck fuck fuck a hammerhead). Yes plotwise it was a pile of ugly non-interactive war crime, but the semi-stealth bit was tolerable, and the five-wave fight was really great, and the help-to-not-help twist was pretty neat, and the map looked pretty great. I get the arrival love.

Shadow Broker DESTROYS it though.

yr not supposed to say "previously mentioned" when the previous mention was earlier in the sentence y/n english is tough

if i was subbing you i'd remove it but this is a message board so relax say i

Well, firewalker was free so I don't really count it (you're right though, it's rubbish). Overlord didn't have much going on gameplay-wise, but gameplay isn't what I want from Mass Effect anyway (I know, that sounds nuts) and I remember really liking the style of it. Arrival was just bland and tedious and perhaps also more disappointing just because it was hyped as a kind of bridge point or something between ME2 and ME3: I guess I wanted more and better story, and didn't get it.

so basically can we just 'call it' for radballs at this point?

3 way tie for #104

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#104: And Then, the Ghost Saw Hands: A Game I've Never Played (aka Hands Up) – PC – 7 pts – 1 vote - FREE!
Official Game Site
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bamcquern: A game about a ghost travelling through a pink underworld of disembodied hands while "Hands Up" by Ottawan plays in his head. It was programmed in two hours by using an app called LogMeIn that allows you to access your computer through your phone. I voted for this because I'm never sure if I play it because it's fun or because I like the song. What I mean is that it is (or was) a two-pronged addiction. And I realized tonight at dinner that it has this amniotic/gynecological thing going on.

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#104: Forget Me Not – iOS / PC – 7 pts – 1 vote - FREE on PC!
Official Game Site
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Touch Arcade
Metacritic
PC Version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuYAf-LVXWU
bamcquern: Endless Pacman with endless guns. Two players can blast each other at the same time. Includes self-destructing levels, large flapping ghosts, snacks, combos, abstractly cartoonish enemies, and wraparound levels that let you shoot your own butt (which will blow you up). The sound effects burble, burp and plop, often in motivationally ascending tones. Every game is different.

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#104: Lego Pirates of the Caribbean – 360 / PS3 – 7 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site
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Metacritic
Gametrailers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sS8hgKevl4

It's usually me who drops a lone vote for a Lego game each year, but I didn't this time round. 3 new titles came out in 2011 (too many!), POTC and Harry Potter 2 did nothing new at all, and the third Star Wars game tried something new (Er, lego RTS levels) but they just added big difficulty spikes wIthout adding any fun, which isn't what under-10s need.

fuuuuuuu-

sorry about the broken/incorrect title images for the Ghost Saw Hands and Lego Pirates! Will fix later tonight when I get home. :-/

no biggiez dude.

downloading Forget-Me-Not right now

It looks good, right?

bloop bloop bloop, I should play more after I get some work done/finish eating lunch before the cat steals it from me

I voted for Forget Me Not. Here was my blurb:

Forget Me Not takes unironic inspiration from games like Pac-Man or Centipede and makes something new and exciting. If this had been in the arcade in the early '80s people would be obsessed with it, and it makes good use of touch controls.

aw shit, i think there was an error there in that I didn't connect that Forget-Me-Not and Forget Me Not weren't two separate games. By that standard, let the record Forget me Not has 19 points and is in something like 50th place. However, I have hours logged in organizing this nonsense and am not quite willing to be a pedant about it. Mea culpa and it's a good game is all.

this is the first year i feel a little left out for not having access to any iOS platform

last year was mine. It definitely helped motivate me to get a pad.
BTW, Incoboto is AWESOME

Four way tie for #100.

(I am really slow at putting these together, sorry, but I will definitely make it through all 4 tonight, and possibly go beyond if you send me digital alcohol)

#100: Child of Eden – 360 Kinect – 8 pts – 1 vote
Official Game Site
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Metacritic
Gametrailers
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NYT
Ian F.: Playing this on Kinect felt like the future in a way that nothing else in 2011 came close to. It didn't last for long, but while it did it was total jaw-dropping sensory interaction overload. If they got Perfume to soundtrack it rather than Genki Rockets it would probably move up another few places.