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

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#76: Kingdom Rush – iOS / In Browser – 10 pts – 1 vote
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agent hibachi: awesome, cartoony little tower defense game; in a market festered with them, this one stands out by being perfectly balanced, adorable, free, and just mysteriously addictive. i probably played this more than anything in 2011, just to rerun and three-star every level.

i played a lot of this until, as with all TD games, i reached the level of the difficulty curve i just couldnt get past

(which was like 95% through the game, but it still chafes that i havent finished it)

(all i want to do on my ipad is play TD games, basically.)

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#76: Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky – PSP – 10 pts – 1 vote

not much chatter on this on ilx, so if anyone has any thoughts...

I was the dodonpachi vote, and fyi, the euro release will play on a US x-box

i'll chat when you post games i've played :/

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#76: Mage Gauntlet – iOS – 10 pts – 1 vote
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no quotes on this one, either. i did actually buy and play this - for about 2 hours. i didn't even really get out of the beginning castle because i was so fucking bored. the controls were weak, and i just remember pointless hallways with nothing to do.

however, it's possible that the game got way better after that. maybe the pointless hallways near the beginning were a confidence-booster for beginning gamers - "look how good you are at walking down these hallways and then talking to another guy! keep playing!"

so, who voted legend of heroes? lamp? wanted to play that but didn't get around to it.

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#76: Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers – XBLA / PSN / PC – 10 pts – 1 vote
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agent hibachi: the best way to play a relentlessly nerdy, expensive, socially disabling game: in ten minute bursts on the xbox, zapping computer generated fools with awesome cards. the cheapest time machine to 1993 you can get. dork catnip.

xpost yep, it was lamp

I actually played this! It's - um - well, the matches are brief and not terribly unfun, but really all the good stuff about playing MTG is playing with the actual cards, with an actual human sitting across from you. Considering the fact that this game has neither of those two essential things, it does okay.

I never got into playing this multiplayer fwiw, only did some of the single player campaign, so it could be better then.

Also, I may have abandoned this early because as nerdy as you think MTG is? It's pretty much doubly nerdy playing it on your 360.

waiting for TiTs to pricedrop on PSN

^i tried the demo looking for a socially acceptable M:tG nostalgia fix, but really the whole fun for me was putting a deck together, and trying to puzzle through the timing & mechanics of a turn with someone else.

waiting for TiTs to turn up on Steam

gonna be waiting a while for that

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#76: Mortal Kombat – 360 / PS3 – 10 pts – 1 vote
Nhex: The last several iterations of this series haven't been particularly interesting, with Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe being a downright disappointment in countless respects. So, with a new studio under Warner Bros., Ed Boon did an effective franchise reboot. It shamelessly ripped off Street Fighter IV's strategy - returning to the 2D plane as well the feel and mechanics of - well, let's be frank, the last time the series was actually pretty good - Mortal Kombat II. They deserve massive credit for doing this even better than Capcom in many ways. The story mode has the tone of Saturday Morning Watchmen, but with all seriousness, deserves huge credit for the presentation in tying every character into an epic story mode that's raised the bar for every AAA fighting game (not to mention the Kombat Tower). Bonus points for Freddy Krueger as DLC, too, that made me smile.

i liked Mortal Kombat vs Dc

xxpost

not that long, xseed are bringing Falcom PC games over, already announced 2 Ys games & heavily hinted TiTs is next

see I was just making an easy joke about that acronym

oh you

tbh I have no idea why I haven't already purchased Legend of Heroes: TITS

so, who voted legend of heroes? lamp? wanted to play that but didn't get around to it.

yeah... twas me... i thought i wrote a little thing about it for forx idk its pretty much good in exactly the way you would expect it to be and tiresome in the same.

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#76: Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets – 360 – 10 pts – 1 vote
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another shmup. btw, it seems to be impossible to find any high resolution images of this game on the internet.

i loved mortal kombat for several days, but then realized that fighting games just arent really my thing, and i am slow and old, so it went back to gamestop

anybody who is into fighting game stuff tho should pick it up for sure, it is crazy huge and FULL of content

i forgot that mortal kombat even came out

i remember a time when a new mortal kombat game was a huge deal. now it's like one step above shovelware

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#76: Okamiden – DS – 10 pts – 1 vote
Salsa Shark: Cutest game of the year by far. The art style is almost exactly the same as Okami and a lot of the scenery is taken from the Wii version (with some removals and some additions) so even though it's a completely different platform the two games still feel very, very similar. As for the differences: the paintbrush mechanism works much, much better on DS than it ever could on Wii or PS2, but despite this enemy battles were one of the biggest downsides to Okamiden. It's too easy and tempting to just do 'pause-slash' over and over to defeat bosses, and in fact in a lot of cases it seems to be the most effective option. It's a shame because most of the bosses are enjoyable at first... and then they become a bit of a slog. The other downside is that the DS feels way too restrictive for an open-world style game with large landscapes; as much as I enjoyed Okamiden overall, I really wished I could be playing it on a proper television, even if it meant sacrificing the stylus for the wiimote.

never sacrifice anything for the wiimote

i would rather use the POWERGLOVE than the goddamn wiimote

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#76: Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 – PS3 – 10 pts – 1 vote
EZ Snappin: Another PES, another batch of small refinements to keep me engaged. This time it is the much better AI scripting, and, as I only play single player "be a pro" modes in sports games anymore, that makes all the difference. Not perfect (not with these floaty shots), but good enough.

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#76: Scribblenauts Remix – iOS – 10 pts – 1 vote
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I really want TiTs

i have tried so hard to enjoy scribblenauts but it just doesnt click with me - i am glad to finally get the chance to try it thx to iphone port tho

It worked great on the iPad but I don't know, maybe the iPhone would be too small?

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#76: World Cruise Story – Android – 10 pts – 1 vote – Top Android exclusive
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agent hibachi: really, pick whichever game dev-style sim you feel like playing and drop a few bucks on it. i chose to herd doofy little pixelated tourists around a spreadsheet-driven world. i don't think it's possible to run your ship aground but a sick part of me wishes they would patch that in.

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#76: Zen Pinball – 360 / PS3 – 10 pts – 1 vote

#76: Muchi Muchi Pork & Pink Sweets

another shmup. btw, it seems to be impossible to find any high resolution images of this game on the internet.

― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:38 PM

There are no high resolution images because those games have no high resolution assets. Their native resolution is 240 x 320.

My zen pinball vote was partly for the iPhone version, and partly for the 3DS version, and partly for the new tables in the 360 version. Between them they've eaten up hours of my time this year (without me ever managing to rack up any half decent scores). It's just pinball done incredibly well.

#76: World Cruise Story – Android – 10 pts – 1 vote – Top Android exclusive

lol something so sad about that

sorry, I fell asleep! now I'm that I'm back in this other world of the living, let me finish up with the last two for today.

Two way tie for #74

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#74: ICO & Shadow of the Colossus Collection HD – PS3 – 10 pts – 2 votes
CraigG: Shadow of the Colossus is one of my all time favourite games, and one of only a handful of games where I find myself wandering around humming the music (even in the years and years between when I completed it a couple of times on PS2 and buying this on PS3, and I never played it in between). Ico I only ever played the demo on PS2, so was glad when they HD'ed it too. It's a beautiful game, too. Again, I don't think there's much to say that wasn't said when it came out 10 years ago, or whenever that was!

polyphonic: The most artistic uses of 3D in a video game that I've seen. Two great games that are much improved in this edition.

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#74: Wonderputt – In Browser – 10 pts – 2 votes
forks: everybody should try this, it is fucking great

I completely forgot Wonderputt! Great game.

i liked it when i played it but the fact i haven't thought about it since says something