Coz, i'm having to log in anonymously to read the thread. Try that and tell me if it's the same problem you're having.
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
great work btw, sorry wasn't bitching ^^;
― cozwn, Thursday, 5 February 2009 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Not at all; it looks hella crappy unless I'm logged out... in some cases, a lot of the post simply doesn't show!
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
It looks fine for me - it's just slow to load because it's pulling in so many large images from different places and youtube videos & slow to scroll because images don't have height and width tags so as they load in they change the formatting of the thread.
― Jeff LeVine, Thursday, 5 February 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
yah it was loading slow for me last nite but i have img off at work and it loads quickly - altho i think with img off some of the comments are lost e.g the boom blox entry which had like four or five and has none now. either that or forx has been editing for brevity?
― Lamp, Thursday, 5 February 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope. Just general board weirdness.
― the stanhattan project (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 February 2009 16:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Two way tie for #53.
― loheigl (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2009 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link
#53: Etrian Odyssey II: Heroes of Lagaard (DS) – 10 points – 2 votes
Official game site
http://www.ripten.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/etodd2-header.jpg
Forksclovetofu : Awesomely hardcore; I got killed a dozen times before I realized that there are baddies in this cart that you simply should not fuck with unless you've got major hours logged. Typical Atlas: it asks so much from you, delivers a thin opiate gruel and demands that you step up to the plate hard if you wanna suckle. The mapping element and obsessive grinding really reminded me of bygone epic junior high Basic D&D campaigns. Definitively the opposite of “casual gaming”; requires you to devote way too much energy to ciphers and care far more than you should about showing the game who’s boss.
Lamp: I had a pretty good time with the dungeon mapping element that allows you to graph out the dungeons on the DS touchscreen instead of forcing you to remember layouts or keep a hand-drawn map of your own. It's a pretty narrow and obsessive little game, but it can get engrossing.
The first level of Etrian's labyrinth is filled with a number of beasts that don't appear too tough, though once you reach the first boss and realize that this over-sized dinosaur can kill any of your party members with a single swipe, you're forced to spend literally hours killing the snails and hedgehogs you so recently took for granted, just to crank up your experience points enough to survive the dragon. And it only gets worse from there.
Abbott: Freaking impossible.
http://www.gamingnexus.com/Images/News/8853/3.jpg
Will M : You have to, like, try.
― loheigl (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2009 04:13 (fifteen years ago) link
#53: World of Goo (MAC OSX/Wii) – 10– 2Official game site
http://timothyzhu.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/large.jpg
If: Best game on WiiWare, though I wish it was twice as long as it is.
World of Goo designer Ron Carmel mentioned the game had a staggering 90% piracy rate
Braid, as told by World of Goo
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/sept08/goo/wog2.jpg
Gravel Puzzleworth : I liked it! Interesting how they packed so much so content in; every level had new ideas. I do sort of resent that I was never stuck. Maybe a bit too easy.
Forksclovetofu: Clever design and execution, comparable in some ways to Katamari. My downstairs neighbor is a mechanical engineer who knocked out the first fifteen boards in under an hour; he says this should be called “Building a Bridge”. But it’s an AWESOME bridge.
― loheigl (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2009 04:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Two way tie for #51.
― loheigl (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2009 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
#51: Trauma Center 2: Under the Knife (DS) – 11 – 2Official game site
CraigG: Ridiculous storylines, great overacting and frantic action. I totally think I could do a real operation after playing this.
Abbott: Trauma Center has given me the habit of dynamically posing while shouting "Let's begin the operation!" to my dog.
http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/article/885/885044/trauma-center-under-the-knife-2-20080627040541691.jpg
Nhex: Oh god, not Trauma Center. It's a pretty cool game at first, but the difficulty curve is awful. Despite the stylus control it really doesn't embody the great accessible stuff on the DS (stuff like Phoenix Wright, Mario Kart, EBA, etc.) and ends up as a noble experiment. I know, I'm saying this despite it being successful enough to get franchised out for 3 sequels - but it is simply too hardcore.
lol at almost none of my ten cracking the top 50
― Lamp, Friday, 6 February 2009 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
#51: Resistance 2 (PS3) – 11 – 2Official game site
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S1ocki: Pretty good! Seems like an improvement on the original in every way--controls, graphics, weapons, enemies, plus a totally different co-op campaign and sixty person battles online! Shoot dudes in the face! U should buy!
GM: R2's a pretty generic shooter. I enjoyed playing a sixty-dude team deathmatch the other night, but you have to cope with an almost endless series of sniper headshots immediately upon respawn.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2094/2185266011_618d9970ac_b.jpg
Jeff Levine: In some ways, there's lots of single player improvements over the first game, but Resistance 2 has lots of annoying and at times horrible gameplay design decisions that really bring the whole experience down. It doesn't make sense that I can destroy a 100 foot tall alien with a few well placed rockets, but can't harm an eight foot fish alien just because it's swimming in the water. I'm also not too fond of the way difficulty is increased by simply throwing way too many enemies against you.
― loheigl (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
#50: Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Wii) – 12 – 2Official game site
http://skattertech.com/media/2008/03/super-smash-bros-brawl.jpg
Captain Lorax : Single player mode was fun while it lasted. It's more fun to play with friends. Map creation was a good idea but it could have used more parts and pallets. Online wasn't bad when I tried it against strangers but you have to wait about three minutes for each individual brawl. Playing a friend with a friend code is where it's at. I had my phone of speaker while we played each other.
Forksclovetofu: If this was on XBLA, it might easily be my favorite game of the year; the online component is utterly hamstrung by the useless “friend code” debacle and the single player gets tiresome after awhile. Still, playing this with four people is fuckin' bananas. Good times; even for button mashers. Really disappointed this charted so low.
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/01/super_smash_bros_brawl_wii_07.jpg
S1ocki : Aren't you guys worried about pedophiles getting your friend codes and molesting you?
Tombot : I don't get the hate for the single player. This is a blast.
http://games.gearlive.com/blogimages/miyamoto_mario_luigi.jpg
― loheigl (forksclovetofu), Friday, 6 February 2009 05:00 (fifteen years ago) link
More tomorrow.
Did i vote in this? I don't think I voted in this.
Either way, good job so far.
― kingfish, Friday, 6 February 2009 06:47 (fifteen years ago) link
as a result of this poll, I have finally decided to nut up and buy World of Goo in the near future
also nthing the praise for Forks, who is doing the Lord's work here
also also I am eager to see if my first-place game got any other votes
― jamescobo, Friday, 6 February 2009 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
no street fighter yet, I did give it a lot of points tho
― ^once had to actually to listen to this post in my head (cozwn), Friday, 6 February 2009 10:02 (fifteen years ago) link
― abanana, Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
the spore ez-chair people are amazing, wow.
what i meant about world of goo - at college writing essays i would think of something clever, but follow and mull and read around the thought till it seemed trivial and obvious, something that must have occurred to everyone - then i'd write a sentence or two of super compressed academese, summing and dismissing the whole thing, totally inpenetrable to professors or anyone else. goo is a little like that with its delights - it presents them to you as if you are already bored with them?
it is also a really satisfying way to spend money - to buy it almost pays for itself in pride.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
#49: FIFA ’09 (XBLA/PS3) – 14 point – 2 votesOfficial game site
Polyphonic: I don't understand socc... I mean, football. I've never played it; I never watch it apart from the World Cup and I have a shaky understanding of its rules. But I love sports video games, and when a good one comes along, I will play it until I puke.
http://sportvideogames.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/fifa09_rooney01optimised.jpg
Roberto Spiralli : Yet again, this is fucking terrible. The biggest problem is the movement of the players which is unnatural, clumsy and very axis-bound. Turning is sluggish and gives the feel of dragging oil tankers around the pitch. When I went to pass, what happened onscreen was frequently not quite what I intended. Tackling is very weird, partly automated and I couldn't get the hang of it at all. I don't know how they keep getting it so wrong, except for the fact that people keep buying this shit and it gets the same lazy ass decent reviews every time, so maybe the developers don't even know that their product sucks.
Cozwyn: I never thought I'd say anything positive about FIFA in my life but this game is meaty and physical and deep and FUN!! The shooting is definitely the best bit; it feels crunchy and heavy compared to PES' floaty and light kicks. The animation is, as ever, impeccable but there was some horrid slowdown during replays.
MPx4A: It is a disgrace that there is no training mode, but it is quite good that the soundtrack has Cut Copy and Gonzalez EA really appear to have brought their A-game with regards to the online possibilities in this; just as long as you have the means to play with people who will pass the ball in co-op games and not just pick Man United all the time, you’re likely to find a good match.
AleXTC: The level of detail in the gameplay and moves/combinations you can do is just great.
http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/images/community/fifa09/fifa0901.jpg
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
we won the war!!!
― FADCFTMFW (cozwn), Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
lol say no to racism
http://sportvideogames.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/fifa09_rooney01optimised.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/af/Cave_troll.jpg
― my heigl-lohan girl (who's also latina and half-jewish) (cankles), Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Five way tie for #44.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
# 44: Singstar (PS3) – 15 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
http://www.gameguru.in/images/singstar-90s.jpg
Daniel RF : Singstar must be the best party game ever. Sadly, my friends and I have yet to get it together to actually HAVE a party so instead I've been playing on my own, which I realize makes me a very major saddo... but it's fun! It's funny that the game doesn't care about lyrics, so you can stutter your way through a song and if you're in tune it doesn't really matter. Also the attempts at judging rapping are some bullshit; I let the Eric B and Rakim track play while I chatted with a friend and it really didn't matter, as long as there were audible sounds (even laughter) the rap-o-meter thought I was doing okay!
http://www.acegamez.co.uk/screenshots_ps2/PS2_Singstar_Pop_Hits_Screenshot_001.jpg
Noodle Vague : What I didn't give Sony credit for are the Eye-Toy and SingStar games, which must give the PS3 a hell of a lot more mass-market appeal than 360. I guess Sony themselves don't make a big deal of those titles to hardcore gamers, but they sure do seem to make a big difference in console sales.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
# 44: Crash Commando (PSN) – 15 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
http://static1.filefront.com/images/bgfwkkubaa.jpg
Jeff LeVine: Basically a competitive multiplayer shooter take on a Contra / Metal Slug / Bionic Commando game with maybe a dash of N+. The online component seems to work fine (no lag in the few games I had time for) and uses really good AI bots to fill up extra slots. As frantic and fun as Call of Duty deathmatch but in awesome 2-D! Seems easily worth the ten bucks they are asking.
Jamescobo: I knew it was love the first time I banked a grenade perfectly. This game needs open-mic chatter badly; this push-to-talk nonsense is preventing people who kill me from having their sexual orientation loudly impugned in hilarious fashion.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
# 44: Final Fantasy Tactics A2: Grimoire of the Rift (DS) – 15 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/rdonlyres/22D908FF-4556-4B5C-94D3-9832F57408F4/15867/tactics1.jpg
Dy: My reactions are becoming more positive the more I play but it’s quite slow and certainly no match for Tactics on the PS.
Webber: It's better than FFTA1, but still somewhat infuriating. It’s a good choice if you’re looking for a game to sink a ridiculous amount of time into. I played through about twenty hours but since I didn't like the way I was leveling (and because I am ridiculously anal), I restarted and put in _another_ twenty or so hours into it. I found and used a fourth thief dagger relatively early on this time so my team is well on their way to becoming dual-wielding killing machines.
Will M: Really enjoying it. This game is absurdly slow but it makes my terrible commute relatively fast by comparison so I don't mind. Apparently I've played forty hours now? I think I'm technically 2/3 through the game but I am really fucking dicking around a LOT; I feel sure I could have easily beaten it by now.
http://spong.com/artwork/f/i/finalfanta97917.jpg
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
# 44: Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden - Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa (PC) – 15 points – 1 vote – FREE GAMEOfficial game site – Download Here
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j161/kevinsblogger/barkley1.png
Nhex: Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden is a ridiculous farce that's actually pretty fun (it uses the RPG Maker engine and basically plays like Super Mario RPG). Even though story-wise it's an ironic fan-wank of Space Jam and Sir Charles, like Super Columbine RPG it uses the medium and its nostalgia to poke fun at the genre in really amusing ways specific to fans of SNES RPGs of the mid 90s.
http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb//GamesRadar/us/Other/News%20Stories/2008/Charles%20Barkley%20Shut%20up%20and%20Jam%20Gaiden/ART/RAW/backley--screenshot_large.jpg
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
# 44: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble (PC)– 15 points – 1 voteOfficial game site
Mordy : One sleeper pick for me is Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! It's this really neat pack of minigames set in a 1920s boarding school. It's very Dorothy Parker'esque.
http://www.macgamefiles.com/imgs_screen/19990.jpg
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
FINALLY at the halfway mark. More tomorrow.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I considered voting for Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble. I definitely liked a lot of things about it.
I love that our poll has Shut up and Jam Gaiden on it.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Saturday, 7 February 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
The tension is killing me!
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
hah i was just coming here to post that
― LVL 12 rigorous chaotic normalcy cleric (jjjusten), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, okay; more tonight at the latest.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for all your work on this; I've been enjoying it as much as (or more so) the music polls.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
yah thanks dude, my urging is made out of excitement and anticipation, not bitching
― LVL 12 rigorous chaotic normalcy cleric (jjjusten), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
It's cool; I've been annoyed at myself for not getting this finished up too.
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah this list more than the music lists makes me want to go back and discover a bunch of good stuff
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
(if the second half would be presented in a new thread I wouldnt mind, this one slows my computer terribly as it is. didnt help logging out either)
― sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a reasonable point. Continued here: The Second Annual Coint and Plick Poll: ILG’s Best Video Games of 2008 - Part 2: The Top Forty!
― This is a serious inquiry and there may be reprecussions (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I am currently porting these results over to the blog and this set of games was so wacky I had to revive this ancient-ass thread. Valkyria Chronicles getting one pity vote! a seventeen-way tie for last! the White Wolf of Icicle Creek cover! et al.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh cool, totally forgot about the blog, I'll stick that in my RSS reader. I admit, I'm still proud of my IF YER NOT INDIE FUK U votes for You Have to Burn the Rope, You Found the Grappling Hook, Iji and Barkley: Shut Up and Jam.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Gears of War locked in a 10-way tie for 55th is some pretty next-level challops even by ILX standards
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link
gears is trash tho/// but i mean lol i voted for nancy drew and wld do so again
valkyria chronicles wld place much higher if we had polled this after more than 1 person had played it. same w/persona 4 probably a bunch others
― F → F−F++F−F (Lamp), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Persona 4 actually did! it went from #70 in 2008 to #25 in last year's poll (on the ballot due to the Euro release)
Valkyria Chronicles probably would have been top 3 for me if I'd played it in the time period. that game fucking owns, flying pig be damned.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 February 2010 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda wish i had added the persona votes from 08 to last years poll
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 23 February 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
another classic C&P moment:
http://cointandplick.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/coint-plick-2008-11-fable-ii/
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 04:41 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck that game fuck that game fuck that game.
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Every time I read that I wonder if I am actually G-Zeus and maybe I hit my head and had a coma but SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE AND UI JUST PLAYED FABLE II FOR OVER 2 HOURS
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:06 (fourteen years ago) link
exhibit a: "had a coma"
― Paradise can't mean straddling felled treetrunks in dentalfloss thongs (Will M.), Wednesday, 24 February 2010 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link